Crack Rock Mountain w/ Matt Dameron!

Summary

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DOPE AS USUAL Podcast

Episode: "Crack Rock Mountain w/ Matt Dameron!"

Hosts: Marty O’Neill & Thomas Araujo
Guest: Matt Dameron
Date: November 11, 2025

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Overview

This episode of the DOPE AS USUAL Podcast features comedian Matt Dameron, known for his unique Southern upbringing, his late arrival into the world of stand-up, and his ties to viral comedy, music, and even a secret appearance on a MrBeast video. Together with hosts Marty and Thomas, Matt delves into topics ranging from growing up in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (“Crack Rock Mountain”), Southern culture, sketch versus stand-up comedy, run-ins with wild crowds, the modern comedy scene, internet fame, and the realities of being a road comic. The tone bounces from hilarious and irreverent to thoughtful and introspective, enriched with stories from Matt’s life, the Southern U.S., and hard-won lessons in comedy and community.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

Rocky Mount, NC: “Crack Rock Mountain”

• [00:41] Matt describes his hometown as one of the most dangerous places to live (top 20 in the U.S. for crime per capita)
  • “At one point, Rocky Mount was deemed top 20 most dangerous season to live in America. Why? I don’t know, dude. Gang violence. Hood gangs.” – Matt Dameron (00:41)
  • The city is split between two counties—Nash & Edgecombe—with “other side of the tracks” culture and a lot of crime, drugs, and home invasions.
• [01:17] Crime details: “Last year was a state of emergency. A lot of people murdered.”

Southern Life & Upbringing

• [05:17] Matt grew up “out in the country”—four-wheelers, fishing, digging holes (“trying to get to China”), mowing acreage with a John Deere, and a transition from the city to rural living.
• [07:20] Southern stereotypes, plantations, and race are touched upon; hosts joke about “racism and trees” as their image of North Carolina, but Matt provides nuanced perspective and some tough truths.
  • “When I imagine North Carolina, that’s all I imagine is just like, racism and trees.” – Marty (07:36)

Family Dynamics: The Straight-Laced, the Religious, and the Comic

• [09:17] Matt has two older brothers—a preacher (4.0 business degree, seminary in Anaheim) and a teacher (East Carolina University, Catholic school)—while Matt’s the black sheep, telling “fentanyl jokes.”
• [10:04] “I’m going to work for the Lord." – Matt, about his preacher brother.

The Comedy Road & Surviving Wild Crowds

• [13:32] Touring: Matt’s a working road comic, often opening for wild acts.
• [11:37] Vile crowds: “My jokes, my set’s like a rape. The harder you fight it, the worse it is.” – On following the notorious David Lucas.
• [12:51] Matt enjoys watching audiences confront wild material—sometimes people storm out or cause a scene: “That’s the most fun—for me, it’s watching them leave and then we follow them out because sometimes they’ll cause a scene… I want to see the manager. He’s talking about this, and that, and that. I’m like, ‘yeah, well, it’s a comedy show….’”

Getting Into Comedy: From Bands to Vine to Stand-up

• [13:53] Matt started comedy “about seven years ago.”
• [13:56] Before that, he played in a band called The Avengers (“We broke up—too many personalities in a van.”), eating Goober peanut butter and jelly out of the jar.
• [16:41] Matt shifted from sketch comedy/Vine/Snapchat (grew a sizeable following, later found it “cringe” and left due to its inauthenticity and weirdness).
• [17:23] “Going back and looking at some of that stuff, I was like, I thought this was funny?”
• [17:48] “I was growing—I think I’d get, like, 25,000 opens per snap on story…but I just left everything. I was like, dude, this is just gross.”

Life Choices: Late to the Party, Sober & Southern Values

• [28:00] Matt didn’t drink alcohol until a week after turning 21; didn’t try weed until age 33 (with a 5mg gummy!).
  • “I’m an adult. I don’t like being told what to do. And I also want to control what I can control.” – Matt (34:45)
• [30:32] Replacements for drugs: sports, music, “I was always doing something…if the energy’s right, dude, I’m having fun.”
• [31:02] “I’ve had sex with a total of two women, and one of them was my wife.” (31:05)

Internet Culture & MrBeast

• [24:31] Matt was in a secret MrBeast video filmed near his hometown. Though it brought him huge notoriety, he’s shy about it, preferring not to promote it:
  • “It was the first time I’m talking about it publicly…People from my preschool DM’d me. It’s a big deal.”
  • “I just felt weird running around like, ‘Hey, you see me on MrBeast?’ Because literally, their demographic—you know why we’re shying away…” (26:14)

Small Town Oddities: Racism, School, and The South

• [67:13] Matt describes poor private school in North Carolina, a “Grand Wizard” visiting to talk about race, being one of very few white students, teachers lacking degrees (“Art history teacher was just some guy who’d been in the war.”), and living in a class of only 25 seniors.
• [69:24] “Grand wizard comes and goes, ‘It’s wrong to hate guys like him.’” – Marty, joking about absurd school assemblies in the South.

Sports Passion & Family Legacy

• [43:32] Big on sports—especially football and soccer. (“I’m a state champ. Scored the game-winning goal. 2004, put some respect on it.”)
• [53:25] Matt played in local Mexican soccer leagues in North Carolina: “Crushing boundaries, dude—spoke soccer, not Spanish.”
• [77:02] His dad played for the Houston Oilers in the 1970s:
  • “Your dad was a receiver back when white receivers were…smoking cigs on the sideline.” – Marty (77:44)
  • “He found out he got drafted in the paper…” (77:13)
• [80:00] After the NFL: dad worked at a tobacco factory, eventually became a financial advisor, taught fiscal responsibility at home.

“Late Bloomer” & Comedy Philosophy

• [85:07] Matt is open about being a late bloomer:
  • “16, I was five-two. I was a late bloomer…My dick hasn’t even—I look like an Olympic swimmer.”
• [86:36] Dyslexia, ADD, “a little tism” – but Matt found power in authenticity, leaning into his accent and owning his worldview onstage.

Adventures, Country Living & Stereotypes

• [122:42] Matt recalls childhood days ghost-hunting, killing muskrats (thought it was a beaver), “pranking the church youth group by pretending to be a Confederate soldier.”
• [118:11] “Chefs” (meth cooks) and “riding four-wheelers, fishing…killing animals…hunting squirrels (‘tree rats’).”

Road Comedy, Growth, and Mentorship

• [92:17] Matt’s rise: After running independent shows, he persistently asked David Lucas for spots—eventually becoming a trusted opener and producing Lucas’s special.
• [101:46] “We’re so different—almost three years now, been on the road with him,” discussing road bonds and the pressure to feel “good enough.”
• [102:25] Realizing comfort: “I don’t have to pretend to be someone else on stage. Now say what I think is funny.”

The Modern Comedy Scene

• [104:58] “Kill Tony” and the current path for comics; Matt’s experiences signing up, the atmosphere, and industry realities.
• [106:08] Gig economy: “Biggest thing in comedy is the difference—the chasm—between super ballin’ and average comedians.”

Perspectives on Offense, Internet & Society

• [142:23] “Being offended is a choice. Just don’t care about it.” – Matt (142:43)
• Balance between crafting edgy jokes and being thoughtful: “If I’m writing something edgy, I’ll pick up the phone—make a barometer call to a black lesbian comic friend. If she hangs up, it’s too much.” (141:59)
• [139:28] “The Social Dilemma” and rising polarization—AI/algorithm shaping our feeds and perspectives.
• [137:32] Political, religious, and cultural beliefs: Matt is “in the middle,” tries not to force beliefs (“I still read the Bible every day…but reluctant to say ‘Christian’ because people assume Joel Osteen-megachurch-type.”)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Rocky Mount’s reputation:
  “A lot of mischief goes on Crack Rock Mountain.” – Matt Dameron (01:07)
• On authenticity:
  “I just felt I was being what I thought was funny and not being myself…just imitating everyone else…” (17:30)
• On comics vs. musicians:
  “…Comedians, yeah, like we’re peers. Like I have to tell myself, they’re just like you, man…” – Matt (03:04)
• On audience reactions:
  “The best is watching them leave, and then we follow them out. Sometimes they’ll cause a scene—‘I want to see the manager!’…It’s a comedy show.” (11:51)
• On inclusion in sports:
  “Is there DEI in sports? No. You gotta be the best at what you do…” (44:51)
• On Southern accents:
  “I tried to change the way I talk…nobody wants to hear a dude that sounds like a redneck all the time.”
• On family:
  “I have had sex with a total of two women, and one was my wife.” (31:05)
• On the late start in comedy:
  “I was mad getting started late, at 32. Mark Norman said: ‘You got what they don’t have—life experience.’” (112:23)
• On seeing yourself in the South:
  “If I got reincarnated, I want to come back as a Mexican dude.” (56:13)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Rocky Mount / Hometown origins: 00:41–02:17
• Family dynamics & southern values: 09:17–10:12, 69:24–70:51
• Comedy career journey: 13:53–17:00, 92:17–94:24
• MrBeast cameo experience: 24:31–27:15
• On not drinking/smoking until adulthood: 28:00–34:45
• Comedy on the road, wild crowds & tour stories: 11:37, 12:51, 98:03–100:55
• Matt’s NFL heritage: 77:02–80:00
• Southern high jinks, hunting & local culture: 118:11–124:25
• Perspectives on political/social division and being offended: 137:32–143:38

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Takeaways & Tone

This episode is as much a portrait of Southern eccentricity as it is a meditation on authenticity and perseverance in the comedy grind. Matt Dameron shines with frankness, honesty, and an underlying warmth that contrasts with the often-wild content. The conversation is raw, funny, and full of the sideways, sometimes biting humor the DOPE AS USUAL Podcast is known for.

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Guest Links & Plugs

• Instagram: @mattdameroncomedy
• Twitter/X: @MaddieDVines (pending update)
• T-shirts: “Everybody’s Got a Little Tism” (find at shows, merch link returning soon!)
• Upcoming Headline Show: Playhouse, Jacksonville, NC – November 15th
• Featuring for David Lucas Tour: Tickets at DavidFunny.com

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Final Word

“Being offended is a choice. Just don’t care about it.” – Matt Dameron (142:43)

“Time flies when you’re having fun.” (144:24)

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Have a dope ass day!

Transcript

[Marty]

Oh, you can.

[Matt Dameron]

Perfect. Perfect.

[Marty]

Perfect, perfect. Hello. I don't know about.

[Matt Dameron]

See, y' all don't have to worry about hurricanes over here. You just got to worry about somebody smoking a cigarette and flicking out a window.

[Marty]

I was talking about home invasions. You gotta worry about home invasions.

[Matt Dameron]

Home invasions? Oh, yeah. I've had somebody broke in my house before when I was home.

[Marty]

Didn't you just tell me about this? Please? You said you were.

[Matt Dameron]

There's always something going on.

[Marty]

All right, Matt, tell us about where you're from.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, I'm from Rocky Mountain, North Carolina, man. Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. At one point, Rocky Mountain was deemed top 20 most dangerous season to live in America. Crime per capita. Why? I don't know, dude.

[Marty]

What is it? What goes on?

[Matt Dameron]

Gang violence. Hood gangs. Yeah.

[Marty]

Is it a city or is it.

[Matt Dameron]

It's like a. It's. It's a big. It's a city that splits two counties. It's like a railroad. You know, something about the railroad tracks. What is that about? Railroad tracks?

[Daniel Costas]

Other side of the track.

[Matt Dameron]

Other side of the tracks. Always bad kind of splits, you know? Nash County, Edgecombe County. Yeah. I don't know. A lot. A lot of mischief goes on Crack Rock Mountain.

[Marty]

Is it really bad there? Like, for pills and drugs and whatnot? Like, what is the crime rate? What is it? What are you guys doing? Home invasions. There's gang fighting.

[Matt Dameron]

There's violent crimes. Not. Not too well. Like, last year was a state of emergency. It's like a lot of people are getting murdered.

[Marty]

What the is you talking?

[Matt Dameron]

And declare a state of emergency.

[Marty]

I've never heard about, you know, you guys aren't on the news.

[Matt Dameron]

What?

[Daniel Costas]

You guys don't show up on your Tommy G. And.

[Marty]

Yeah, it stays within, like, a little pocket. So you guys think that the news is going, oh, yeah, but nobody's ever heard of crime from North Carolina.

[Matt Dameron]

No. Yeah.

[Marty]

All we said, Petey Pablo. That's all we've ever known.

[Matt Dameron]

Pete Pablo.

[Marty]

That's it.

[Matt Dameron]

J. Cole. Oh, he's from North Carolina, dude. Yeah. J. Cole got me. I think you're familiar with, like, Griselda and stuff like that. Yeah. J. Cole got me into being the butcher.

[Daniel Costas]

Let's go and just.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I. I like that kind of rap. It sounds weird because I listen to, like, bluegrass and, like, a Billy String shirt.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Listen to bluegrass. Outlaw country. And it's like. I like hard brick music. Yeah. It was a stove God Cooks came to one of our shows.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Matt Dameron]

That was so fun. That was so funny because I'm like, I. I don't know how to act around these kind of. Right. So I go to the green room. Dude's got, like, big sunglasses on a massive chain. I was like, he doesn't do comedy. I was like. I was like, what do you do? And he was like, cocaine rap. And I was like, whoa. I was like, so you know Benny? And he was like, yeah, beating my boy. And I was like, okay.

[Marty]

And stove God cooks. We start.

[Matt Dameron]

Can you imagine that? Me talking to a cocaine rapper?

[Marty]

Yeah. You're doing it right now. Could you imagine? No. Yeah, of course. Hey, man, as long as you're yourself, I don't care if you're a nerd. Yeah, that's even cooler.

[Matt Dameron]

Well, I've nerd out, like. Yeah. I nerd out around, like, musicians. Like comedians. Yeah. Like, we're peers. Like, I have to tell myself, they're just like, you, man. You know, for sure. I love music. When I get around musicians, I'm like, wow. You know, it's not like I started, like, nerding out our mutual friend Daniel. Daniel Costas shout out presented by Daniel.

[Marty]

Daniel's taking shits in every state.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, dude. Yeah. He was like. He turned around and was like, you're being gay right now. I was like. I was like, what? It's not every day I'm in a cocaine rapper pulled his pants down a little North Carolina. He literally turned all the way around in this chair and was like, you're being gay right now. Okay.

[Marty]

What are you trying to.

[Matt Dameron]

And then. But there's another rapper in Chicago named Rocky fresh. He was big, and you know Rocky fresh? No big in the early 2000s, I think, but everything. His videographer has a lot of crazy stuff, and Daniel met him that same night, and he wicked out. And I was like, you're being gay.

[Marty]

Right now as he's dicking his hand. I'm not being gay right now.

[Matt Dameron]

You can't be excited around your boys without them being like, you're being gay. I'm like, I'm just having fun. Okay.

[Marty]

Hey, man, Daniel doesn't even. Daniel doesn't even come out of. Of the darkness. He just eats burgers and goes straight to sleep. I've never seen him do that. He ate shake shack in Miami, Went to bed four seconds later, like, ate this much food and didn't say good, Just slept.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Wow. I wish I had that in my body. I want to fall asleep at a park so bad. I just want to wake up being molested. Like, it's your fault.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

I fell asleep at a public park.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah.

[Marty]

But I would like to.

[Matt Dameron]

Your fault.

[Marty]

It'd be fun. I would like to catch the breeze and wake up and go, oh, my God. Nature. That'd be. I'm sure you experience that sometimes.

[Matt Dameron]

What?

[Marty]

In North Carolina, you got green grass everywhere.

[Matt Dameron]

Green grass.

[Daniel Costas]

Dude, are you on a mountain or is that just the name?

[Matt Dameron]

No, it's just, it's. It's funny because the city got the name, cuz there's rocks in the river.

[Marty]

Stop.

[Matt Dameron]

Just big rocks in the river.

[Marty]

Crack rock Los Angeles. Crack rock, California. That'd be insane. Like, there's a lot of meth here. So we just call it home.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, Like, I grew up in the country though. Like. Yeah. Out in the country. Pond, four wheelers. Fishing. Yeah. But I didn't want to go lecture because I was in the city as a kid and everyone's there and my mom and dad, like, we're moving out to the country. I was like, there's nothing out there but pills. So then you gotta, like, create your fun. Like, go.

[Daniel Costas]

You're gonna do drugs. Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Did you ever dig a hole? Dug holes?

[Marty]

I've dug a hole many times. Bored.

[Matt Dameron]

Because you want to get to China.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, I did that, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

I always did that. I was. I'm gonna go to China.

[Daniel Costas]

I was like, you hit some concrete after a little bit, you're like, I'm there.

[Matt Dameron]

That's the Great Wall of China right there. We made it.

[Marty]

Oh, I never made it that far. You guys are athletes. You made it past the five feet. I never went past where.

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, it's like stupid stuff you did.

[Marty]

Yeah, yeah. You know, there's no.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, I. I would go to the neighbor's house, knock on the door, is Alex home? You know, now I'm out in the middle of nowhere. You know, my dad said, oh, we. We move out there, we're gonna get you a four wheeler. And I was like, yeah. He gave me a John Deere four wheeler.

[Marty]

Oh, a tractor.

[Daniel Costas]

A lawnmower.

[Matt Dameron]

A lawnmower. I felt betrayed. So then I was just mowing the grass.

[Daniel Costas]

Go ride it.

[Matt Dameron]

Have fun, dude. It was like 12 acres, man.

[Marty]

I'm gonna get my kid a car. And the first one's like, it's a tow truck. Just tow and get a job. But that's your car. That's. That's. That. That was for him. That was for him.

[Daniel Costas]

It's actually kind of genius.

[Marty]

It is genius, but I'd be mad. It's a water boy kind of lawnmower.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, it was like. It was. It was an old one. It was an old one.

[Marty]

Never mind.

[Matt Dameron]

Go like 12 acres. And like, later I got. We got a big tractor, like a big Ford tractor. And then it's like three hours cutting the grass, man. Oh, like six foot, like cutter on the back. It was a lot, but yeah, I'll go fishing all the time, those beaver dams down there and just go, damn.

[Marty]

You live in America?

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah. Is this, like, where they had hella plantations and back?

[Marty]

Oh, yeah. You hear this accent? You think there's not plantations and porches wrapped around houses?

[Matt Dameron]

Like, my parents didn't have a big.

[Marty]

Porch and a broom and a shotgun.

[Matt Dameron]

Broom and a shotgun.

[Marty]

For real. When I see. When I imagine North Carolina, that's all I imagine is just like, racism and trees. Right.

[Daniel Costas]

College.

[Marty]

He's like, yeah, that's real.

[Matt Dameron]

It is. College basketball.

[Marty]

Isn't that where Jordan came out of?

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, unc.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, UNC all.

[Marty]

Yeah. That slave trader come out of North Carolina.

[Daniel Costas]

He doesn't. Nobody else.

[Marty]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Wilmington, North Carolina.

[Marty]

Doesn't he look like a. Like an African slave trader now with a puffy face and he's always sweating?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know if I can speak on that.

[Marty]

You can't. You can.

[Matt Dameron]

Maybe Michael Jordan.

[Marty]

It's like, he doesn't look like one of ours. That's what he's thinking right now in. In the. In the family picture with our help.

[Daniel Costas]

He.

[Marty]

They didn't. I didn't see Michael Jordan. That's why I think of. I think of Paula Dean behind closed doors when I think of the south, like, dropping that end ball.

[Matt Dameron]

Hard to make your teeth. Dude, I would. Dude, I. I never heard it in my house because my mom and dad, like, were like, very, like, conservative Christian people. So I would hear it going to other people's houses and be like, what is that? Then they come home like, hey, mom, what's that? And they're like, you don't say that in this house. You know. You know the saying where you. You knock and run?

[Marty]

Oh, yeah. That's where you heard the first time.

[Matt Dameron]

Well, brother said it. He got in big trouble.

[Marty]

Your brother? Yeah, one brother older.

[Matt Dameron]

I got two. I got two older brothers.

[Marty]

Okay. You're dropping and bombs. All right.

[Matt Dameron]

A teacher, a preacher.

[Marty]

You heard a teacher and me.

[Matt Dameron]

No, those are my brothers.

[Marty]

Oh, God. I heard a teacher say it and.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I'm talking about my family. Yeah, your teacher a preacher and tie with a book. You don't. Really don't know. Not very. Tie, college shirt. Khakis. Yeah. Cool.

[Marty]

That's.

[Matt Dameron]

Your brother does. Yeah, he's a preacher.

[Marty]

And you're over here telling Fentanyl jokes.

[Matt Dameron]

Fentol.

[Marty]

Hey, that's cool. And then you said the one's a. A teacher.

[Matt Dameron]

Teacher?

[Marty]

What kind of teacher?

[Matt Dameron]

He was a high school teacher for a while. And there's like, teached at East Carolina University.

[Marty]

Oh, so he's.

[Matt Dameron]

And he does like a.

[Marty]

An adult.

[Matt Dameron]

He does something at a Catholic school too. He's like. Yeah, he's pretty.

[Marty]

He does some at a Catholic school after hours. I don't know what it is.

[Matt Dameron]

He's freelance at a Catholic school. Yeah.

[Marty]

Isn't that weird? I'm a teacher. My brother's a preacher, so I just help out at the church sometimes.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, the. The preacher's like, very intellectual. Very, very smart. 4.0 all four years in. In college with a business degree, then goes to seminary, I think in Anaheim. Here. Yeah.

[Marty]

Goes to school for that long just to go, hey, actually I don't want money. Just work for the God.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm going to work for the Lord.

[Marty]

That's cool.

[Matt Dameron]

And then my. Yeah, my older brothers. Yeah, very smart guy as well.

[Daniel Costas]

Thank you, sir.

[Marty]

Yeah. I know you're not smoking right now, but when you do, I wrote you a little one. Hey, why not? Hey, man. Yeah, whatever you feel like smoking.

[Daniel Costas]

Did we say on air what you got going on tonight? I don't know if you're working. Recording by them for what about your shows you're doing.

[Marty]

Well, I mean, this comes out Tuesday. On Friday and Saturday, Matt, David and I had shows at the. The Covina Laugh Factory. Four shows and they're gone. It's Tuesday.

[Matt Dameron]

They were wild. Somebody got stabbed. It was the whole thing.

[Marty]

Did you watch the last time he was there?

[Matt Dameron]

I was told.

[Marty]

I watched on.

[Matt Dameron]

I was out of commission like last year for like.

[Marty]

For your back, right?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, back surgery. I was just laying on a couch. I was getting text messages like, this place is a zoo. It's crazy.

[Marty]

Every time I've gone there, it's been so fun. But Preacher Teacher, you're touring with one of the most vile comics on earth.

[Matt Dameron]

Brave.

[Marty]

I like it. Brave, some of the. He says. I wince.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, it's wild.

[Marty]

There's just one thing he says where I'm like, oh, we're on. We're on fucking. We're on Spotify. We say whatever the. We want the one when Miami is David standing there, saw fucking just plopped all sweating because he was all shitty. Remember, he's all up that Night.

[Daniel Costas]

He's just sitting there.

[Marty]

You don't like this. He's like, my jokes. My set's like a rape. The harder you fight it, the worse it is.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Sit back and try to enjoy it. Oh, God. When the girl left.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah. The best is when, like, club get out, give out comp tickets, right? So it's like, oh, they send you, like, they already got your information through, like, you know. Yeah. And they send a text out, oh, you won free tickets to a show, David. Look like, you better watch the trailer before you go watch that movie. You know what I'm saying? For real. I've been in the back of rooms. Like, sometimes I'll sit and watch the sets, try to write tags and, you know, do what a feature does. And I was sitting there, and it's like, you see, like, tables talking to each other during it. And you're like, oh, this is going to be a problem. Yeah, they'll get up and that's the best. That's the most fun for me. It's watching them leave and then we follow them out. Because you. Sometimes they'll cause a scene. Like, I want to talk about. I want to see the manager. And they're like, he's talking about this and that and that. I'm like, yeah, well, it's a comedy show, but it's. He's. He's a wild boy.

[Marty]

So you follow him out.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Marty]

I just to hear him talk.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

All like, alec, I'm going to the bathroom or something. Like, tinker around in the lobby just.

[Marty]

To hear him complain.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah. I was in Lexington, Kentucky, and that table left, and dude, they were raising hell in the lobby. We want to see the manager. He's talking about, blah, blah, blah in there. I'm like, yeah, you just don't go to a comedy show without.

[Marty]

I think it's a type of person, though. Like, if you eat your food and you don't like it, are you like, yo, I want all my money back. I'm just gonna leave. I don't like this.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

I won't come back. That's the same for a comedy show. I just go, yeah, right. What are you gonna gain after going, you know what? I didn't like that.

[Daniel Costas]

Is there, like, certain jokes or topics that sends people out of the room every time or.

[Marty]

It's just usually just the set. It's usually David.

[Daniel Costas]

Just the whole set in general.

[Marty]

Pretty vile, but good.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's wild. It. I mean, it's fun to watch, but. Yeah, it is. Fun to watch. Yeah.

[Marty]

Okay, real quick. You have three older, bro. You're the youngest?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Do you have younger siblings or you're the youngest?

[Matt Dameron]

I'm the youngest one, Yep.

[Marty]

Okay. You got into comedy, you said. How long ago?

[Matt Dameron]

About seven years ago.

[Marty]

Seven years ago. Before that you were playing in a band?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I played in a band. Yep. Did that for a couple years on a couple east coast tours.

[Marty]

What was band called?

[Matt Dameron]

It was called the Avengers.

[Marty]

Oh, no.

[Matt Dameron]

You could have sold before the movies and everything came out.

[Marty]

Got that website.

[Matt Dameron]

There's like one. One album on Spotify. And then. Yeah, we broke up. Well, what happened? Dude, it's a lot. It's like five different personalities. You're in a van. Everybody stinks. You know, you're torn. City to city.

[Marty]

Everybody stinks.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, like smells. Yeah, they're like. Like our guitar player was like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna take a shower this whole tour. I'm like, why?

[Daniel Costas]

It's good luck.

[Matt Dameron]

Hey, why. Why are you doing that?

[Marty]

What's this excuse?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I don't know. He's on a warp tour or something. I don't know. Dude, just like take a shower.

[Marty]

This is logic, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

We had no money. Like. Yeah, before, you know, just like anything, you know, like, you don't have any money. We're touring, obviously. You know what goober is? Goober, like the jelly. Peanut butter.

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Eating that non stop.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. I'd have a big, big thing of that. Right? And a thing of wonder bread.

[Daniel Costas]

Come on.

[Matt Dameron]

And that was dinner, man. And I didn't have a knife.

[Marty]

I just scooped it.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, I was with you up until you.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, I'm the back of the van.

[Marty]

Poor.

[Matt Dameron]

We had like a 96 conversion van, I think, and like TV in there. We could play Tekken.

[Marty]

You tell me this was bad. You're eating peanut butter, jelly smelling smells and playing Tekken, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's a lot. It's just.

[Marty]

Who's your favorite second player?

[Matt Dameron]

Ah, dude, I don't know. Wasn't there a Hawaiian dude in there for some reason? Wasn't there like a Samoan?

[Marty]

I don't remember that Samoan.

[Matt Dameron]

Maybe, maybe not.

[Marty]

You're talking about Eddie Guardo, the one that is like capoeira. That guy's from like Jamaica, I believe.

[Matt Dameron]

Might have been Jamaica.

[Marty]

I just used fake Bruce Lee. Martial law.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't even remember any of the characters.

[Marty]

The guy that was just a leopard king. He had a head.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a head of a jaguar. He's like, what Is this.

[Marty]

Or the guy made of wood that I can't beat. Yeah. With all that fun. So you had a great time is what I hear.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, we had. It was, like, great. It was like. And then I went through, like, the dark period of, like, oh, what do I do with my life now that I'm not doing what I thought I was called to do? So it's like, no meaning. So I had a warehouse job, like, loading trucks for, like, the longest.

[Daniel Costas]

Been there. How old were you?

[Matt Dameron]

18 to.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, you're still a teenager here. Fine.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. 18 to 20. I don't know. I was there 15 years.

[Marty]

Oh, @ the warehouse?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Well, I was doing, like, sketch. I started sketch comedy, like, in my mid-20s. I started, like, tinkering around with, like, sketch comedy.

[Marty]

And then you had to run on vine that you're embarrassed about.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude.

[Marty]

Yeah, we couldn't find it. We couldn't find good.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, my gosh.

[Marty]

Somebody's gonna find it.

[Matt Dameron]

I have, like, not dammer in. It was growing. I was, like, getting thousand. Thousand. I think it was thousand followers a week or two to, you know, one to 2,000 followers a week. And it had, like 98, 000 followers before everything, like, collapsed. And I was like, dude, dude. Going back and looking at some of that stuff. I was like, I thought this was funny. Maybe. Maybe at the time, it was. Now that. This is cringe sounds bad. It's horrible.

[Marty]

I mean, when you put on blackface, it's kind of gonna be kind.

[Matt Dameron]

That's a Tuesday.

[Marty]

Yeah, Tuesday, North Carolina.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. And then I got into, like, Snapchat, like, vomit under. I went to Snapchat and I was growing a lot of followers and, like, Snapchat. It was just weird. It was like I was just. I just felt I was being what I thought was funny and not being myself, just imitating everyone else that we saw.

[Marty]

Gotcha.

[Matt Dameron]

The Logan Pauls and, like, the Curtis Lepores and, like, those people ever. I started on Vine. I was, like, doing that. Not being yourself. Authentic, you know, that carried over into Snapchat and, like, just weird stuff on Snapchat. And I was telling my wife some of the stuff I was being sent.

[Marty]

Like, what?

[Matt Dameron]

Just graphic female stuff.

[Marty]

Oh.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm like, dude, I'm. I. She didn't believe me. And I'd be like, all right.

[Marty]

The best part about it, I don't believe that girl's like, you.

[Matt Dameron]

She has a gross. She's not jealous. She's like. She know. I think she knows that I would be an idiot. To cheat on her kind of deal.

[Marty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

But, like, she's freaking amazing. But, yeah, she didn't do. And I finally, like, showed her. I. I saw a familiar name come up that I've seen some stuff before, clicked on it and showed her, and she was like, ew, gross. I was like, I tried to tell.

[Marty]

You she has a dick. Exactly what happened?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, it was this why I felt weird about it. I felt really weird. Like, is this what the. The generation's moving to? Like, you need validation from a complete stranger? And I was getting a lot of that. I just. I. I just left Snapchat all and all. All together. I was like. I was like. I was growing. I think I get, like, 25, 000 opens per snap on story. I'll do a decent. And, yeah, I just left everything. I was like, dude, this. This is just gross.

[Marty]

Weird. Christ.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Like, they'll be going on tour with somebody just like me. That. Ew, gross. That's what you did?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Now you're like, yeah, dude, he hates girls. He hates dick pictures.

[Matt Dameron]

I got. I'll get them, too. What are we doing here?

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, I got a bunch of you guys that DM me constantly. It's so funny. But, like, over the course of years, because you could scroll up. Oh, it's been two years. I'm married. Also, don't like dudes, right?

[Matt Dameron]

Don't like dudes. Hey, man, don't do that. I.

[Marty]

Have I given you that vibe?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's just like, yeah, I don't know.

[Marty]

What did I do for you to go, you know what? He's right. Now let me DM every week.

[Matt Dameron]

Every week. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

No, dude, I'm enough YouTubers. Somebody's gonna go for it.

[Marty]

You D. Do you DM enough YouTubers, they all turn into pedophiles, apparently. Did you know that Almost all the YouTubers just turn out to be creeps?

[Matt Dameron]

Really?

[Daniel Costas]

Slash.

[Marty]

Really?

[Matt Dameron]

Who?

[Marty]

Slash comedians. What's the lady's name that sang a ukulele song saying, sorry, I try to have sex with a child?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, what she did. She was a thing. I don't know.

[Marty]

I don't know. YouTuber, you know?

[Matt Dameron]

You.

[Marty]

Okay, hold on.

[Matt Dameron]

I know what he's talking about.

[Marty]

Did you know Mr. Beast set up as a North Carolina.

[Daniel Costas]

I have heard that before. Because remember. Remember Dap.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, that's right. Got daps out there, too. Dad's against predators. They were doing Mr. Beast. They were doing Mr. Beast stuff, too.

[Daniel Costas]

Well, that's where they got shot. They're From Ohio.

[Marty]

Yeah, they got shot out north.

[Matt Dameron]

They got shot. Yeah.

[Marty]

Some fool was like, I want to. Kids don't catch me. Ah, high speed chasing high speed. Like, it was.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, so they chased.

[Marty]

Oh, they guy was chasing them.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, oh, boy.

[Marty]

Oh, boy.

[Matt Dameron]

Y' all love that stuff too, right?

[Marty]

I love seeing a pedophile get beat the out of. I can't get enough of it. It's so. Because I like fights, but I don't like fights when someone's getting the dog check. I'm like, oh, come on, man. Chill out, bro. It's getting. But it's like, what do you do? Get him. That's how I feel.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, yeah, I've seen, like, a couple clips. I just can't. I just. It's just. It's too creepy to me, dude.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, It's.

[Daniel Costas]

It's the darkest on our level.

[Marty]

The. The one is like, I just wanted to help him. That's my favorite one. I was coming here to tell them no so I could help them.

[Matt Dameron]

Right?

[Marty]

It's like every time they go, right, dude? And it's like, dude, you're about to get worked over, right? Do you not understand? Ric Flair chops are coming. You do. You want Ric Flair chops? You want slack in the face? You know, Ric Flair chop these.

[Daniel Costas]

That's like the. On Cops. As common as you heard. Like, these ain't my pants. That's the.

[Matt Dameron]

I was trying to help them.

[Marty]

I love.

[Daniel Costas]

You're gonna hear it at least one every episode.

[Marty]

I don't love it with dude. An attitude.

[Matt Dameron]

We had some shows in Tampa, right?

[Marty]

Speaking of pedophilia, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. And we were. We were at some restaurant, and this dude was a fan of David came over and was like, hey, blah, blah, buy y' all shots. And we were asking what he did, and he was a SWAT guy. Oh, swat. So we're like, oh, man, there's a SWAT dude. I'm gonna ask him questions. Like, I was like, what's the main thing? He was like, like, heroin, whatever, Stuff like that, and child pornography to bust. And I said, there's no way that that is the top thing. He was like, yeah, why, dude? He was like, it's. It's a lot. He said, that's the main things. We swap.

[Daniel Costas]

I'm glad to hear their.

[Marty]

Yeah, but why are they swatting a child predator? Like, is this one.

[Matt Dameron]

No, like, it was. It's like IP addresses that come in.

[Marty]

Oh, it might be a ring of.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah. Could you imagine the content, dude? So dark, and he was like, dude, it's a lot. There's no way.

[Daniel Costas]

Well, that's the shocking thing about DAP is they go city to city and there's like, six.

[Marty]

They never not catch fools.

[Daniel Costas]

They never. There's always, like, creeps incoming.

[Matt Dameron]

He was saying, like, if there's a hundred houses, there's a hundred houses. He said four of them in there are getting content through the house. He said. He said, as soon as we get into the house, boom. Go and breach. Clear. Get the dude. Get him out. He said, always two. Always two computer screens. Always two computer screens. I was like, dude, that's weird. You got three of them.

[Marty]

Four, five, six.

[Daniel Costas]

God damn it.

[Matt Dameron]

They're breaking down the door right now, dude. You never know.

[Marty]

We won't even hear him.

[Matt Dameron]

It was wild. The stuff, like, people you meet on the road, it's like. It's crazy. But, yeah, that was a very creepy conversation. I didn't think it was like that rampant, but evidently.

[Marty]

Have you ever been to a GameStop?

[Daniel Costas]

Huh?

[Marty]

Have you ever been to a GameStop? I'm not saying all gamers are creeps. There's some creeps that go into GameStop.

[Daniel Costas]

Think about all the people you met at Meet and Greets. How many creeps and killers have you?

[Marty]

I hope none.

[Daniel Costas]

I hope not one.

[Marty]

I hope not one of us.

[Daniel Costas]

But I'm just saying the law averages.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, sorry.

[Marty]

Speaking of. Anyway, hold ON Back to Mr.

[Matt Dameron]

Beast.

[Marty]

Why the Are they in North Carolina? And you said you had to go do an episode with.

[Matt Dameron]

I did an episode. Yeah.

[Marty]

That's.

[Matt Dameron]

I was on there.

[Marty]

So is it an episode like, hey, sit in this hot car, Whoever dies first. Infant Death Syndrome challenge.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. This is the first time I'm talking about it publicly. Like, even when it came out, I never let anybody know.

[Marty]

Oh, really?

[Matt Dameron]

And it was. It was that moment right there real. I realized, like, this was there. This is a big thing. I had people hitting me up, like, I went to preschool with, like, dming me. I just saw you on Mr. Beast. I'm like, whoa, I don't even know who you are. And we would have tons of mutual friends. And maybe I did go to first grade with them. I don't know. But, yeah, it's a big.

[Marty]

What was the. What was the video? What's the talents? What are you doing?

[Matt Dameron]

I just leave it up to mystery. You can find. You can find it because I told Daniel about it. He was like. And I shook. I showed him the video. I fast forwarded it to my part, and then I cut it off and we were on the road, so it was no. No library to say, you gotta find this.

[Marty]

Yeah, you're telling me I have to watch Mr. Beast for years to make sure he's just lying this whole time. He's like, actually, I just wanted you to waste your time.

[Matt Dameron]

That'd be incredible. You just search it. You search for years.

[Marty]

Why not?

[Matt Dameron]

You don't find it.

[Daniel Costas]

I feel like is very AI able.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, your face. Has he ever been in Mr. Beast video? Actually, he had time stamp. Like, all right, then.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Blackface. That's why he doesn't want to tell us he was in blackface again.

[Daniel Costas]

So it was just not a good time.

[Matt Dameron]

No, it was great. It was a great time. It's just like, I. Like, I'm. I'm an adult.

[Daniel Costas]

I feel you, you know, So I would feel.

[Matt Dameron]

Personally, I would feel weird running around like, hey, you see me on Mr.

[Marty]

Beast?

[Matt Dameron]

Because literally, I. That dude, I'm sorry. And I'm not trying. I'm not. I don't want to talk about it in a negative manner because it was great. They did. They. They're great. Yeah. Friends. I work for them get like, yeah, tons of friends. I've worked for him in the previous past. Still working for them today. They're great people. But I'm an adult and I know that was on a. We know the demographic. Why don't we shine away from it.

[Marty]

Makes perfect, you know, adults.

[Matt Dameron]

I would have people's kids. Daddy, Daddy, come in here. Your friends on tv.

[Daniel Costas]

That's cool, though.

[Matt Dameron]

That is. But I never. I never posted about it on social media.

[Marty]

Like, embarrassed. Like, I was on children's.

[Matt Dameron]

I wasn't embarrassed. I'm just. I think it's weird, but I feel like people. I think it's weird for a dude be like, I was up there.

[Daniel Costas]

People on Earth know that that's one of the biggest channels on Earth.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, oh, yeah. Yeah, I guess that is cool. I just felt weird.

[Daniel Costas]

I love you.

[Matt Dameron]

I'd fear we'd be like, look at me. Oh, Mr. Beast. There's.

[Marty]

You know, I get that, like, was.

[Daniel Costas]

It like some athletic you're doing or like some endurance sexual.

[Marty]

It was like.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a. It was a challenge thing they were doing.

[Marty]

He doesn't want to. We gotta find it. We're gonna find it. By the time we leave this building. Watch. It's gonna be the episode of the episode. That would be funny zooming in on Matt's face now.

[Matt Dameron]

But, yeah, the whole, like, Greenville, like, 45 minutes from where I live and so, yeah, their whole warehouse. No, I'll find it. It wasn't that bad.

[Marty]

It was the date.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Okay. Speaking of children's things, it's the first time you ever did drugs. Not weed.

[Matt Dameron]

Not weed.

[Marty]

Weed is not really drug. I feel.

[Matt Dameron]

Never.

[Marty]

Then you never done any drugs. Incredible.

[Matt Dameron]

Ever. 33, I think when I tried that.

[Marty]

Stop it.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't like. I don't like people telling me what to do.

[Marty]

What are you doing? What are you doing?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't.

[Marty]

With your life.

[Matt Dameron]

Hey, do this. I'm like, no, I'm not.

[Marty]

What have you done, though? Like, ready? You're sober, right? Oh, you swish whiskey in your mouth, you're an adult.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, I love whiskey.

[Marty]

Never mind. I love tastes liquor.

[Daniel Costas]

Gotcha.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm down and back a lot. But yeah, it's. I'm an adult.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's what it is. That's really what it is. If you could cross your leg and drink a liquor. You're grown, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's great.

[Daniel Costas]

You got the smell. You can do what you want. You can smoke some weed.

[Marty]

The 133 is the first time you.

[Matt Dameron]

Ever go, marty, leave me alone.

[Marty]

For real. The first time ever?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Growing up in a drug town.

[Matt Dameron]

Wow. No, I wouldn't say drug town is there, but it's like. Yeah, I don't. I don't like.

[Marty]

But like, never in high school like anything.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I love.

[Marty]

No, I want to know what's life like?

[Matt Dameron]

I didn't drink alcohol until like a week after I was 21.

[Marty]

Matt, what did you do?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know. I don't, like, play sports.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, what did you. You're. We all have the friends. Like, he don't drink. You don't smoke. But, you know, he's our fucking homie. That's awesome. He's a one.

[Matt Dameron]

I would go to parties. I would go to parties.

[Marty]

That's what I mean. But sitting there with, like a empty cup.

[Matt Dameron]

Red Bull doesn't freaking. Yeah, I just drink some Red Bull. I'm worried, like, if I'm not drinking, I might act like I'm like, oh, he's had a couple. Like, no, I'm just having fun. Like, if the energy's right. Dude, I'm having fun. Right.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

No, I get it.

[Daniel Costas]

Are you like a big sports freak or like a huge.

[Matt Dameron]

I do like sports. I love sports.

[Marty]

So there's your truck.

[Matt Dameron]

Comedy. I mean, it.

[Marty]

Stuff like talking about in high school, like, what did. Oh, high school sports. Up to 25 years. I'm just asking, cuz, like, ready? It's Friday. You're with your friend. Like, yeah, I'm. I don't try stuff like, wow. Never smoked weed.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, wow.

[Marty]

What do you entertain yourself? That's what I want to know. Like, what do you entertain? Because I would love to do that. I'm. I just. Every time I have to smoke a joints, I'm like, yeah, why not? Awesome. It would be sick if I'm like, no, I love rock climbing, you know?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, like a replacement.

[Marty]

Yeah. What's the replacement to? Boredom of life. Because life, it's a big boy. Well, you. You obviously weren't bored. You were doing something.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I was always doing something. I mean, I played music. I was always around stuff. Like, even now I'm around it.

[Marty]

Like, yeah, it.

[Matt Dameron]

You're not. You can get anything you want. I just don't. I just don't. I don't. I don't seem like I'm that guy.

[Daniel Costas]

Saying he had hella.

[Matt Dameron]

I wasn't even that guy. They're like, dude, I've had. I've had sex. Let me finish.

[Marty]

That's what she said.

[Matt Dameron]

I've had sex with a total of two women.

[Marty]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Dameron]

And one of them. One of them was my wife.

[Daniel Costas]

Wow.

[Marty]

If it wasn't, that'd be nuts.

[Matt Dameron]

1.

[Marty]

If one of them wasn't your wife, it'd be crazy.

[Matt Dameron]

Including my wife. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, I'm an adult.

[Marty]

I'm an adult. Well, how many men you say? 63, but I've only entered two women.

[Matt Dameron]

More than fingers and toes with fingers. No, no, no, no, no, not that either.

[Marty]

No dick, no coke.

[Matt Dameron]

I love it.

[Marty]

So at 33, who's the first person to get you high? Wow. 33 years. You were. Jesus.

[Matt Dameron]

I was on a boat in Lake Powell, I think in the middle of. No, Antelope Canyon.

[Marty]

What state? Because you said Lake Utah. Like, we're gonna go, oh, Lake Bow, Utah. Maybe you went to Utah to visit you. Wait, you got high and it's the only place.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a small 5 milligram gummy.

[Marty]

Oh, not smoking.

[Daniel Costas]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Edibles. Your first experience. That must have been terrible.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a good time.

[Marty]

It was fun.

[Daniel Costas]

Five milligrams.

[Matt Dameron]

That's like freaking. I don't know, Flintstone vitamin to you, but.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, But. But like, y'.

[Matt Dameron]

All.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah. All right.

[Marty]

You take the vibe.

[Matt Dameron]

You take a little dummy. Yeah.

[Marty]

What? Chilling, man, for 33 years of sobriety and then you take a gummy edible. What was the first moment you realized, like, oh, this is different.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, I was out. Oh, shoot. I started. We went out on land. We walked out on land where you.

[Marty]

Usually walk but keep going.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. And we. And we built a fire. And we were talking. It was me, my wife, two of our other friends. And we were talking. They were, like, built, like, out of sticks. Something came up about, like, what's a rock? Like in. On the moon. I said, we're probably just calling a moon rock, right? It's a moon rock.

[Marty]

This is sober.

[Matt Dameron]

Because, like, we have, like. We have, like, granite here or that's, like, you know, names for rocks.

[Marty]

That's what you do when you don't get high. You know, the name is a rock.

[Matt Dameron]

That's probably just a moon rock. And it became a whole thing. And I was being very passionate about what we call stuff on the moon. And my wife was, like, literally looking.

[Marty]

At me like, oh, he feels it.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah. Everybody was looking at me. I was like. I just thought I was being normal.

[Marty]

But let's talk about moon rocks. You know, moon rocks, the type of weed. So I'm like, talking about weed.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. I was like, it's prophetic.

[Marty]

Okay, so what's the first time you actually smoked weed? I didn't know that. I'm corrupting you.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm so sorry. No, you're not corrupting me, man.

[Marty]

That's incredible.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. I don't like being told what to do, man. But just like, I'm going to all these parties and stuff. Do it, do it, do it.

[Marty]

No, I would just say. Do you want some?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I just like.

[Daniel Costas]

Have you ever listened to music off some nice weed, though? That might do it.

[Matt Dameron]

Music.

[Marty]

Wow. You haven't experienced anything yet about it. You're like, it. He's all fucking artistic with it without the R, and he fucking sees colors and shit.

[Matt Dameron]

And.

[Marty]

When I got high, I could see the sound. But I've heard multiple people say that before.

[Daniel Costas]

When I first started, for sure.

[Marty]

Isn't that crazy? It's not the first person I've heard.

[Daniel Costas]

I've been chasing that dragon this whole time.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I want to see music that sounds incredible.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah. See it as colors.

[Marty]

Yeah, there's a couple people.

[Matt Dameron]

Why?

[Marty]

What's the. What's the.

[Matt Dameron]

The.

[Daniel Costas]

I should remember the name of this.

[Marty]

There's a disorder where you see it's.

[Daniel Costas]

An enhancement, it's not a disorder.

[Marty]

Synesthesia. Yeah, synesthesia.

[Matt Dameron]

Synesthesia, yeah.

[Marty]

So you can see colors, sound music as color. So, like, certain clothes.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

What The.

[Matt Dameron]

I think another reason why, like, psychologically I think, like there's so much I can't control. Yeah, right. I got add. I'm kind of learning disabled. Like, if I can control what I can control what I eat, what I drink, what I consume. I don't like losing control, Right. Like I was like, like when I started drinking bourbon, I'm like, oh, I really love bourbon. I get really into bourbon, right? Then I get to thinking, oh, shoot, there's people who can't do this, right? They're like, I can't get enough of this. I need more of this. And now they're sitting on the street corner because they. You know what I'm saying? They lost their house, their family, everything. I think for me, it's like I want to control what I can control. I don't want to seem out of the ordinary.

[Marty]

So no cocaine is what you're saying?

[Matt Dameron]

No fentanyl.

[Marty]

Exactly. Because you'd be.

[Matt Dameron]

No cocaine.

[Marty]

Straight over.

[Matt Dameron]

No. No drugs. Is that. No. I love.

[Daniel Costas]

What about hell, like fitness and nutrition.

[Marty]

And he's like, yeah, under this shirt, I'm just really rough.

[Matt Dameron]

I used to work out a lot. I don't. I want to get back into it. It's just good for you.

[Marty]

Hey, you just had back surgery.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, Back surgery, yeah. Wow.

[Daniel Costas]

Did you get into an accident or something or. It just happened.

[Matt Dameron]

I think it was a years of like physical labor. And then I was putting a keg or lifting a keg out of my car. Like a small pony cake for like a. My brother in law's baby shower.

[Marty]

Weed would have never did.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I was like, this was something different. And then I did not. I went on the road a couple times. I would wake up and couldn't walk and like put. I'd struggle like rolling over sideways, putting my shoes on.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude. People look at me like, you're not doing well.

[Marty]

Did you walk crooked? Yeah, you can't stand straight.

[Matt Dameron]

I got home from the road and like when you get home from the road and get see your wife, it's, you know, you're gonna. Yeah, you're gonna tumble in the sheets.

[Marty]

I like that. I was waiting to see how you were gonna say it, but keep going.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, you're gonna do sex.

[Marty]

There you go. Do sex.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I. It was a fantastic time, but I was in extreme pain. And when I got up out of the bed to like put some clothes on, she was like, you're walking like a sasquatch or something crazy like that. And she couldn't stop Laughing. And she. Then she was realizing, oh, he's. He's not doing good. And I got home from work one day, and she couldn't. I stood up. I couldn't move. I was screaming her name. She come running upstairs. Oh, dude, it was bad.

[Marty]

Which?

[Matt Dameron]

Four months.

[Marty]

The L. What?

[Matt Dameron]

Huh?

[Marty]

What disc L. Five.

[Matt Dameron]

Four.

[Marty]

Five, baby. When it shoots to your hips and down your legs, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Yeah, that one sucks.

[Matt Dameron]

Excruciating.

[Marty]

Yeah. How far was it out? Did they tell you how millimeters it was out?

[Matt Dameron]

No, because it was just a.

[Marty]

Spoiling this, right?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Herniated. Yeah, that was. Man, that's a. That's a dark dude. That's the crazy thing about, like, that, right? You go to the doctor, you fill out the same paperwork all the time, and they said, are you suicidal? And I'm like, no. And then by the sixth time, I'm feeling the same paperwork out. I'm like, maybe I am okay.

[Marty]

Yo.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm not doing well.

[Marty]

It's the worst thing on earth.

[Matt Dameron]

You're in pain. I think Rob Williams had some kind of disease, right? Where he just kind of The.

[Marty]

He had a disease. What are you talking about?

[Matt Dameron]

Didn't he have, like, an ailment? Robin Williams. I thought he had some kind of ailment.

[Marty]

From extreme back pain to. Robin Williams killed himself because he was hurting?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I think so.

[Marty]

I think his brain was hurting. I don't know if he had a physical.

[Matt Dameron]

I thought it was something. I don't know. I thought it was. He had an ailment and he was dealing with it.

[Marty]

It was all the years in the. In the lamp as the genie. No, come on, dude. No, he didn't have an ailment. He was just like.

[Matt Dameron]

I thought he had an ailment.

[Marty]

And then he. You. No, no, no. I don't think so, man.

[Matt Dameron]

I know if he did.

[Marty]

That's depressing.

[Matt Dameron]

Being hurt is depressing. That's it.

[Marty]

I get it. When people like, I'm gonna start taking pills or I'll kill myself.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, dude. You see it?

[Marty]

I get it.

[Matt Dameron]

You see how it happens? Like, pharmaceutical injury gets.

[Marty]

Oh, man.

[Matt Dameron]

Industry gets involved.

[Marty]

I was like, moments away from like, take this. What do I do? I don't like pills. That's the only reason I don't take it. My back is not. It was. It was horrible, right?

[Matt Dameron]

I still have, like, a whole bottle of Moxley just at the house.

[Marty]

That's just cuz you. Everybody born with that.

[Matt Dameron]

This is the Boone county mating call.

[Marty]

Here's a. Here's.

[Matt Dameron]

Do you remember that show, the movie. Wild and Wonderful West. Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.

[Marty]

Those guys. The guys are like, no, no, no.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a documentary made by Dickhouse. The same people who did Jackass.

[Marty]

Yeah, you're talking about. You're talking about the family. That's.

[Matt Dameron]

No, not the family. The. They might have been, you know, you would know if they were movie. I think it was like, it was on Netflix.

[Marty]

You're talking about the. The Whitaker family or whatever. Yeah, we're there.

[Matt Dameron]

Something like that.

[Marty]

Matt, do you not know if they're not retarded?

[Matt Dameron]

They had to be inbred probably.

[Marty]

No, I don't know. No. If you're looking at the people I'm speaking of and you don't know the.

[Matt Dameron]

One where they're like, they're at Taco Bell and I'm like, CPS took my baby.

[Marty]

Oh, my God. That's not who I'm talking about. I'm talking about. That's.

[Matt Dameron]

I know who you're talking about. You don't know what I'm talking.

[Marty]

You didn't know that those guys.

[Matt Dameron]

No, it was.

[Marty]

You can't talk.

[Matt Dameron]

He just screams right here. Somebody took them in. They like have them.

[Marty]

That's a different family.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was a documentary made by the people who produced Jackass.

[Marty]

But the. The family that has no teeth. The guy can't see and he points. That's a different family, what you're talking about.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, this was. This family was. This family was responsible for the majority of the crime in that the city.

[Marty]

Oh, no. These ones can't even talk. The ones you're talking about, right?

[Matt Dameron]

There's a dude in there, he's got pain pills and he's got his shirt off. He's like sitting in, like in the trailer on the chair. He starts shaking them because this is the Boone county mating call. He starts shaking it. Dude. The girl has a baby in the hospital, then rolls over and then crushes up pills in the hospital and snorts it. And so CBS took. Took the baby.

[Marty]

She did it.

[Matt Dameron]

And they're going through drive through at Taco Bell and they see somebody they know inside Taco Bell sitting inside eating, and they're screaming from the car trying to communicate that CPS took her baby. CPS took her baby. And they're like, CPS took her baby.

[Marty]

Through the drive through, past the cashier.

[Matt Dameron]

It's wild.

[Marty]

Love this.

[Matt Dameron]

It's like the first 21st, 25 minutes to 30 minutes of this documentary.

[Marty]

What's the name?

[Matt Dameron]

Wild and Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia.

[Marty]

Can you type it in? The Wild and Wonderful Whites. Oh, it sounds like a trailer album.

[Matt Dameron]

The trailer has to be freaking.

[Marty]

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. I need to see what they look like. Yeah, I don't know who they are. That's not the family I was speaking of. That's why I'm like, yeah, that's a couple.

[Matt Dameron]

That's not a girl. That's one of the dudes. There's the COVID right there.

[Marty]

That's a guy.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude. There's a guy giving a tattoo in that show, and it's freaking hilarious. He keeps on.

[Marty]

Those guys, the ones I'm talking about, go down.

[Matt Dameron]

See, that's the girl right there that took her baby.

[Marty]

Those are the guys I'm talking. Yeah, I know. Yeah, those guys are visible. Yeah, he just barks. I was like, you didn't know? He's retarded.

[Daniel Costas]

And just to confirm, Robin Williams did have a severe brain disease.

[Marty]

Oh, he did.

[Daniel Costas]

Lewy body dementia, which they misdiagnosed as Parkinson's a few months before he died. But his autopsy revealed the Lewy body's dementia, along with signs of Alzheimer's, paranoia, delusions and cognitive decline.

[Marty]

I'm trying not to be insensitive here.

[Matt Dameron]

What?

[Marty]

But can you imagine a world with dementia ridden Robin Williams just turning into different characters every couple minutes?

[Matt Dameron]

Maybe it was early onset right now.

[Marty]

Oh, my God. Could you imagine Robin Williams podcast half of it. He just misses Doubtfire because he's. He thinks he's Mrs. Doubtfire.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, that'd be so horrific in my.

[Marty]

Book to be incredible. Because you have moments of clarity and go, hey, I don't remember getting in a studio. Like, damn, this sucks. But also, you're so funny. I'm for it. Can we just reanimate his ass Aim. No, no. AI reanimate against God is what I want. I don't want. AI nerd.

[Matt Dameron]

You're gonna go in and clone them. Found some DNA.

[Marty]

The ship. Sure there is somewhere.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Or, you know, he has children.

[Daniel Costas]

They could do it.

[Marty]

They could do it. They just clone. Did you see who's this dumbass came out Tom Brady. See, Tom Brady's new. Not because of football. Oh, ready? You love football. Marty is from Buffalo, New York.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, boy.

[Marty]

A Bills fan. Fan. Everyone else.

[Daniel Costas]

A casual.

[Marty]

Everyone else sucks because they're not the Bills. Even if they have the number one record. They're dog. Right. I can't wait to talk. Because you like sports.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

And you know what? Oh, team.

[Daniel Costas]

I'm just. Yeah, I'm a hater to everything else.

[Marty]

The Bills.

[Matt Dameron]

He. Well, anybody. Not the Bills, anybody. Y' all freaking killed the Carolina Panthers a couple weeks ago.

[Marty]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

That was a homicide.

[Marty]

That's a good game.

[Daniel Costas]

You guys got cool.

[Marty]

You guys got full jerseys.

[Matt Dameron]

That was. That was him saying, you're cute. Yeah. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

No, because I. I go hard on every facet, every team. But I like the Panthers. They got a cool look. Yeah. I mean, I don't like how they go with the black logo on the black helmet, though. We got to switch that. I need that blue Panther on the black helmet. I can't see it.

[Marty]

That's true, that's true.

[Daniel Costas]

The.

[Marty]

What you're saying is you don't like more black stuff. Yes. We got less. Less black, more blue.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

We need my football team segregated.

[Marty]

Only the line is white. Because everyone else. And it's segregated now. Only the line is white, basically. Right now.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

All the guys that can run fast.

[Matt Dameron]

That was my whole argument. Like, I'm not trying to get political, but this whole DEI thing.

[Marty]

Yes. I just.

[Matt Dameron]

I would always have, like, discussions with my friends about it, and they're like, well, we need de. I'm like, is there DEI in sports?

[Marty]

And if there was.

[Matt Dameron]

Cuz there's not. You got to be the best at what you do to have that job and that. That's everywhere. Right. I was like, I would always use that. They're like, yeah, there isn't like, yeah. Cuz no one's gonna be looking at a spreadsheet. Me, I don't like a Carolina Panthers or Buffalo Bills. I mean, like, yeah, we need an agent snapping the ball. Can we find an agent snapping the ball? You know, no one's doing that.

[Marty]

Be incredible.

[Matt Dameron]

You just find the best.

[Marty]

No one ever do the job Asians do. What in dei, they remember, like, we need an Asian. That's never been said. If it really should call it black and white people problem.

[Matt Dameron]

There's not a lot of Asians playing football.

[Marty]

There's dat Nugent when I was growing up, Remember the linebacker for the Cowboys, number 54, that Nugent. That's all I remember was like, wow, an Asian.

[Matt Dameron]

It's kind of like white cornerbacks, like, you don't see, like, hardly ever that ever. Oh, white corner.

[Marty]

What about strong safeties like Mark McCann or McCaffrey?

[Matt Dameron]

A running back?

[Marty]

No. Strong safety? McAfee. No. McAffrey's dad. Oh, yeah, Broncos. And then you got John lynch out there, free safety, taking heads off. Does everybody forget about John Lynch? You don't know Who? John Lynch.

[Matt Dameron]

You're a Buffalo fan. So you know Zay Jones.

[Daniel Costas]

That's some deep reference. Zay Jones.

[Matt Dameron]

Zay Jones. He was a wide receiver from East Carolina.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Dameron]

That played around Buffalo. He was the one that could like stand up off the ground and they made like memes. Oh, the one coming off the ground. Yeah, yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

What. What years was that? We had some obscurity, Rob Johnson years. That bootleg cab called out.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a couple years ago. I think he. They went, played for the Raiders for a little bit. I don't know where he landed at now, but yeah, he, he broke the all time receiving record for like most receptions in a season.

[Daniel Costas]

Josh or after Josh.

[Matt Dameron]

It was in college.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, gosh.

[Matt Dameron]

In college. Yeah. And then. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Do you see Josh's commercials with Peyton Manning? They're pretty funny.

[Marty]

And this is why you didn't have to do drugs growing up. Look how entertained you are by sports.

[Daniel Costas]

Right.

[Marty]

You have a talk for all day and my else is have a drink. I get it. No, I get it.

[Matt Dameron]

But I definitely don't like. I don't know much about what's going on now. It's like, like with the sports. With the sports, with the travel schedule and everything you missed. I missed the majority. I literally watched my first football game. Like back to first weekends are finished. Yeah, yeah. On the plane. I was watching them kick the game winning field goal right before we took off last week, which was Green Bay. We upset Green Bay Packers.

[Marty]

Hey, man, it's okay. Brett Favre's gone. He's over there stealing welfare money.

[Daniel Costas]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, that was wild.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, him and Caitlyn Jenner got the best attorneys on the.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, they get off. He won.

[Daniel Costas]

No, he should have fully got a chance. Nothing happened.

[Marty]

He stored $4 million from, from poor people.

[Matt Dameron]

Like famous people don't go to jail unless you do what Bill Cosby did.

[Marty]

Be black, because you know how many white do that?

[Matt Dameron]

Put them pop.

[Marty]

Only Bill Cosby is going to jail for this shit. Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Dameron]

Like rich and famous people, they don't go to jail.

[Marty]

Or if they do go to jail. I've seen some of those jails. They look pretty baller. They just look like very organized tennis clubs.

[Matt Dameron]

What about like Pete? What? Pablo Escobar.

[Marty]

What about him?

[Matt Dameron]

He built his own jail because he owns whatever he's. He had to go to jail, right?

[Marty]

So he built it.

[Matt Dameron]

He built his own jail. What? Oh, there's Pablo. Little Pablo.

[Marty]

Yes. Somebody who gave us that.

[Matt Dameron]

That was wild. That was wild to Me?

[Marty]

Yeah. Why? Why not? Who did you see? What was it? He was on the FBI's most wanted list. They take a picture in front of the White House. You ever see that? With his kids?

[Matt Dameron]

What?

[Marty]

Traveled and took the pictures in front of the White House as the most wanted man and they just went home.

[Matt Dameron]

That's crazy.

[Marty]

Was. He spent like 38 bands a week on rubber bands.

[Matt Dameron]

He was making 4 mil a day, right?

[Marty]

Yeah. For the money he was spending like $38,000 or some obscene. I remember it ended in an 8. So 28 or 38 bands on rubber bands.

[Daniel Costas]

Don't they make those little money bands?

[Marty]

This is in 1970 something, you know.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

And I'm sure he's like, I can buy rubber bands easier than from the bank.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

You know what I mean?

[Marty]

They didn't have Etsy back then.

[Matt Dameron]

Stuff insane to me.

[Marty]

No, it's fucking cool. Remember we did the math earlier about Apple?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

You know, Apple, I think makes. Is it. You look it up real quick. I think it was $12 million a minute or $12 million an hour. I can't remember which one. How much does Apple make per hour? It's. It's disgusting. Let's see. No, that's an Apple employee.

[Matt Dameron]

They're poor, damn it. The corporation. Per hour?

[Marty]

Yeah. They're still just. You know how much they pay their. Their athletes.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm high and it's an Apple computer.

[Marty]

Can't even get it right.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, they're not trying to give it up.

[Marty]

Oh, I. I found it once. How much they make a year? That shit's disgusting. Oh, no, no, It's. It's. It's unbelievable, actually.

[Daniel Costas]

Hey, Google, don't make me chat.

[Marty]

$416 billion.

[Matt Dameron]

Billion dollars. That's wild.

[Marty]

Can you divide 416 by 365?

[Matt Dameron]

That's a massive jump between 2024 and 2025.

[Marty]

It is.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

What's 416 billion divided by 365?

[Matt Dameron]

That's crazy.

[Marty]

I would just put Billy in the word. That's a lot of zeros, man. Divided by 365. I don't know what that number is, man. I don't know what that number is.

[Daniel Costas]

A lot of digits in that one.

[Marty]

So over a hundred mil a day.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, we were talking about. Remember, you're like, you make a quarter mil a month.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, we did the math. We talked about it this morning.

[Daniel Costas]

How much? It seems like you would be if you made a quarter million a month.

[Matt Dameron]

You.

[Daniel Costas]

You're like, oh, my God.

[Marty]

What that's insane.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, but you're like, I wouldn't know it. I want to know what that feels.

[Marty]

I would.

[Matt Dameron]

I want to know.

[Daniel Costas]

Of course. But I'm saying you're only really bringing in, what is it, like two and a half million a year?

[Marty]

2.8 a year, or like three million years? Like, wow, that's a lot of money. Some of these are like, yeah, Yeah, I make 18, 20 million a year. Like, wow, you're rich. You're making like $2 million.

[Matt Dameron]

I can't wrap my head. I can't see, like, sports contracts and stuff like that.

[Marty]

I'm like, it is hard, dude. Like, you said, the. What's it. What's the baseball player from the.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, oh, Ohtani.

[Marty]

You said they had the little ticker.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it was a guy from East Carolina University. The picture, Trey, you savage. Like, I'm a big East Carolina fan. And like, he got called up from the Miners and then the playoffs hit and he's had an amazing run, like when he was playing, and then he struck out 12 batters in the World Series. So no one's ever heard about this guy. And they had like a little ticker above his head, like, running how slow it was. And then it showed. Ohtani.

[Marty]

It's how much money he's making per second. Yeah, this guy's.

[Matt Dameron]

This guy was. Is carrying you through the World Series and, like, stickers, like, slowly moving just because you just got caught up from the Miners. Incredible, incredible story, though. Like, that's like you were just playing minors and that you just get a call and come and like, you're just. You're in the world. You're starting the World Series. He started. He said he was the first rookie to, like, start or one of two rookies to ever play in the first game in a World Series.

[Daniel Costas]

Pretty fucking cool.

[Matt Dameron]

And then he played again and struck out 12 batters. No one's ever heard this guy. It was crazy. Let's go.

[Daniel Costas]

This week, I've been all hands on deck. My niece just finished her season at Syracuse and she's going pro, so I'm trying to get her with the right agent to get to the pro combine for December. Like, the. The is super exciting and super cool.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

I haven't been involved with sports like this before, but I'm, like, hitting up all the big agencies. I made her the sick ass info deck. Yeah, she's gonna go. Not only is she gonna go, I'm painting the picture. She going to redefine women's sports like you were Saying Mia ham, Ronda Rousey and a corn Coba.

[Matt Dameron]

That's how I was like trying to North Carolina too.

[Daniel Costas]

Let's go.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I'm.

[Marty]

Oh, wait, sorry. That's right.

[Matt Dameron]

Y.

[Marty]

Just a habit.

[Matt Dameron]

You would see.

[Marty]

Just a habit.

[Daniel Costas]

But yeah, I want to. I'm interested to see because it's like they don't make a lot of like, you know, they're not going to make a lot of money on your base salary as like a women's pro. But you Nike, so what she do? She's a goalie.

[Marty]

A goalie for soccer?

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Oh.

[Daniel Costas]

She set all the records she holds.

[Marty]

Oh, wow.

[Daniel Costas]

Like, she's going. So it's gonna be cool.

[Marty]

Pretty sick.

[Daniel Costas]

Super.

[Matt Dameron]

My cousin's gonna be a World cup champion. Yeah.

[Marty]

I gotta be honest.

[Matt Dameron]

That's more like Marty turn us on to it first.

[Marty]

You never know. He knew that'd be sick.

[Daniel Costas]

That's the thing about soccer. It's so global. It's like I don't even know all the leagues. Just like.

[Matt Dameron]

Right, right, right. I grew up playing soccer. Like travel, sports, all that.

[Marty]

Oh, you're good at soccer then.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I was pretty decent.

[Marty]

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[Matt Dameron]

I'm a state. I'm a state champ, dude.

[Marty]

Are you really?

[Matt Dameron]

I'm state champ. You're looking at a state champ.

[Marty]

For real of soccer.

[Matt Dameron]

Soccer.

[Marty]

Okay. Would you not play? Why are you giving me that face?

[Daniel Costas]

There's something.

[Matt Dameron]

I play. I scored the game winning goal.

[Marty]

Then why are you giving me the face?

[Matt Dameron]

Circa 2004, dude, let's go put some respect on it.

[Marty]

I thought you were about to say something dumb after, like, actually, I wasn't there, but that's my team.

[Matt Dameron]

No. Yeah, yeah, she really did. Yeah. And then, like, got. I got out. Got out. That and then, you know, after high school, warehouse job. I like. I still loved it. So I played in the Mexican leagues. Like local Mexican leagues.

[Marty]

Be Spanish.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I wish I did local Mexican.

[Daniel Costas]

Leagues in North Carolina.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, they're big. It's a big deal. It's a big deal.

[Daniel Costas]

Are you with us?

[Matt Dameron]

No, dude. Sundays.

[Daniel Costas]

Didn't know that. Mexican North Carolina.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah, they play soccer Sundays.

[Marty]

So you experienced what? Big deal.

[Matt Dameron]

Taco trucks, Jersey tents, the whole.

[Marty]

They loved your ass. Were you a forward, dude?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Yeah. They loved you.

[Matt Dameron]

It was great.

[Marty]

Past Matt.

[Matt Dameron]

I would say if I got reincarnated, I want to be reincarnated to a Mexican dude.

[Marty]

Mexican born in America.

[Matt Dameron]

And then I'm around a bunch of Mexicans having fun. I'm like, oh, I feel that. I want that.

[Marty]

I understand. Why are you laughing about nothing?

[Matt Dameron]

Like Mexican tease. The. Was it the El Mary, El Mariachi, whatever? They.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

I do that around my house all the time.

[Marty]

So I don't want to game.

[Matt Dameron]

Freaking love it, but I'm just gonna yell it. Yeah.

[Marty]

I think everybody would embrace you screaming like that.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I feel it. I told Daniel. I told. I told Daniel the other day. I said, dude, I want to come back as a Mexican.

[Marty]

That'd be cool.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

With that accent, though, what would you.

[Matt Dameron]

Want to come back as? What? Race.

[Marty]

Oh, a race. So I was thinking, what family do I want to be born into? As a race? Exactly what I am right now.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I don't want to change anything.

[Matt Dameron]

What about you, Morty?

[Marty]

Different problems?

[Daniel Costas]

Well, you know, Thomas has got a good position because he kind of crosses the boundaries of so many races. He can get away.

[Matt Dameron]

What are you.

[Marty]

I want to Spanish. No, you go first. What do you want to Be. I want to be.

[Daniel Costas]

I want to be like a. Yeah, a crossover. I'm like a hybrid where I can just freely talk about everything.

[Matt Dameron]

Hybrid. You want to be a lighty said. I want to be a ginger. That's a light spl. Black.

[Marty]

You're going to be.

[Matt Dameron]

Be a Blake Griffin.

[Daniel Costas]

No, no, no, no.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes. No, no, no, no.

[Daniel Costas]

I want to be one of those ginger Mexican dudes. All right.

[Marty]

Oh, the ones that you don't understand speak Spanish.

[Daniel Costas]

Then you throw in, like, you know, my dad's black or some. I mean, something like that.

[Marty]

I want to be half black, but speak Spanish is what I heard.

[Daniel Costas]

But I come with the blue eyes, though. But I'm power dunking on.

[Marty]

That is the power. Duncan, that's like a. A Mexican American woman's dream. Like, he has blue eyes, he's tall, but he's half black and he's white, and he has a good job, but he speaks Spanish.

[Matt Dameron]

Wow. Mexican on Sunday, Casanova.

[Marty]

For real. A Mexican on Sunday? You got on Sundays.

[Matt Dameron]

Sundays for. Yeah, it was drinking at 8.

[Marty]

8:30Am that's what that is.

[Matt Dameron]

They would be drinking out there. Bud lights. I know.

[Marty]

They were crushing bud lights immediately.

[Matt Dameron]

I loved it. Like, I couldn't understand what anyone's saying, but we spoke soccer. We spoke soccer. Crushing boundaries, dude. Oh, Russian boundaries.

[Marty]

I like it.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Okay. So you're out there playing soccer with the Mexicans. You want to come back as a Mexican. That sounds incredible.

[Matt Dameron]

I just feel it in me, dude. I feel it in me.

[Marty]

You gotta, like. You gotta, like, state the things before you say that. Like, I want to come back in Mexican. Over 5, 10. Well, you got to start saying, like, say things.

[Matt Dameron]

I want to be a tall Mexican. Yeah.

[Marty]

You got to believe the short ones.

[Matt Dameron]

Are the fun ones.

[Marty]

They're fun, but, you know, hard. Those fools. Five, three. You got to be a box. You better be a boxer. You better be a trained boxer, or you will never be able to fight anybody. Being a small, tiny Mexican is cool.

[Matt Dameron]

For, like, picking up, but getting the small places.

[Marty]

Yeah, but punching.

[Matt Dameron]

Hey, man.

[Marty]

Sucks.

[Matt Dameron]

I need to get in that crevice. I got you, dog.

[Marty]

Exactly. Exactly. Can you fix this? I was born to know electrician. I. It was programmed in me to do carpentry. But, yes, I got you.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

No, I'll be coming back as this. No, that.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know. I just felt it and I said it. I said it.

[Marty]

I felt it and I said it.

[Matt Dameron]

And Daniel was like, why?

[Marty]

Daniel looks like he's from China, but he's Mexican.

[Matt Dameron]

It's because he's so high.

[Marty]

Not even. No, it's.

[Matt Dameron]

He's so high.

[Marty]

And glasses.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, the hearing glasses. Yeah.

[Marty]

He has a perfect school boy, guy that lives in China, first year of college, and Japanese businessman glasses. And you can't tell from some parts. He has a beard. Like, are you one of those Vietnamese dudes with nice beards? You ever see those guys? Like the actors? But he's not. He's just a Mexican from.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Oh, no. Not even from Victorville. Sorry. Different.

[Matt Dameron]

AKA Victimville.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah. You ever drive?

[Marty]

Why?

[Daniel Costas]

I've driven through that.

[Matt Dameron]

That's the high desert, dude.

[Marty]

Oh, I don't know. I just go to all the cannabis cups. They're like a hundred times.

[Daniel Costas]

It's so Grammy.

[Marty]

It's grimy. It just wasn't merced to me. Anywhere. There's, like, mad amount of homeless drug addicts and, like, stay over here, right?

[Daniel Costas]

Yes.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

You know where to go?

[Marty]

Yeah, just go.

[Matt Dameron]

You live there. You know where to go?

[Marty]

Yeah, just cross. That's why when I see people like, skid row, like, full. Just don't go on skid row, right? Don't go over there after a weed event, my homie. You should make medicated chicken wings. And that's what he does for his booth. He's like, yo, I have like, 300 left. I didn't medicate. Let's go. Give them to the homeless people. Like, I'll go with you. And then he starts walking. Like, where are we walking? He goes to give him the homeless. Like, where are we? Five blocks later, I'm like, it is two in the morning on skid row, and we're walking with buckets of chicken and waters and these. I. I was like, like, no way. This guy's got scabs open on his face. I'm not handing him. Go take it. I'm not. No. And so many people were so mean to us. This is it. So mad. Oh, they were so mean. Not everybody. Like, 20 of the people. Thank you. 50. I'm like, this is all you got? And the other ones were just tweaking and walking by. I'm like, oh, God, get me the out.

[Matt Dameron]

It's like king with a king. Kensington Avenue.

[Marty]

Just like that. That's seven years.

[Matt Dameron]

The trank boys.

[Marty]

That looks fun. They all have good backs. They're always hungover.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah.

[Marty]

They all have good lower backs.

[Matt Dameron]

Then you see one.

[Marty]

I guarantee you.

[Matt Dameron]

I love those videos, the redemption videos, you know, like, they.

[Marty]

You can always tell they get clean.

[Matt Dameron]

You know, they always have new. You know what I'm talking?

[Marty]

Bright teeth. They all look like. Yeah, what's his name?

[Matt Dameron]

I love those videos. You never. You never in your head see somebody like that on the side of the road and be like, he'll turn it around, you know? No, like, in our head, we're like, dude, that sucks. He's. That's not good.

[Marty]

That's done.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, you see the videos where they get their life together. I'm like, dude, he was in the darkest shadows of his life. Now he's, like, doing something.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

He's got a story to tell. He can help somebody.

[Marty]

That's a lot of candy. Always eat hard candy. What the.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I saw one the other day. Dude was missing the arm. That's one of the.

[Marty]

Yeah. Baller. Who's one of them? What?

[Matt Dameron]

I guess the dudes that used to do the trank because, like, a lot of them lose their limbs. I don't ever want to imagine that feeling so good. You're like, I don't care if I lose my limb.

[Marty]

Talk to fat Mexicans and diabetes. It was so good. I lost a limb.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, damn, dog, stay off the tacos, man.

[Marty]

For real. Like, well, it's a tranq. Like, you're worse at the track. You just live inside, and it's more fun what you do. Like, yeah, I want to eat more candy. You just lost a leg. Like, this Trent guy lost a leg when he lives outside. There's a juxtaposition, but we're in the same result. I feel this Will should be a good preacher. Oh, back to what we were saying. Soccer. I can tell you were good at soccer. In this little skit you did about the mayor and you're bouncing soccer ball.

[Matt Dameron]

Around like tight jeans.

[Marty]

It was like, when you're doing. Like, this was really.

[Matt Dameron]

Because soccer.

[Marty]

Yeah, you're doing the thing. So I knew you played soccer somehow, but I didn't know North Carolina had Mexican.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, a lot of Mexicans do.

[Marty]

Do they have accents?

[Daniel Costas]

Southern accents?

[Matt Dameron]

That would be funny. No, no.

[Marty]

Come on. Some of them gotta have a Southern accent.

[Matt Dameron]

No, no, that would be funny.

[Marty]

Why wouldn't they?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know, man. That would be funny. If they learn. Learn how to talk English. And they would.

[Marty]

Yeah, they learned how to talk English, and then.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, and then they have a twang to it. You're like, oh, that's a Southern Mexican. That's the Southern American Mexican.

[Marty]

Oh, my God, that'd be so fun.

[Matt Dameron]

No, they would always have, like, the.

[Marty]

Same kind of like, yeah, we know what sounded. Yeah, he said kind of like I.

[Matt Dameron]

Was about to do it. I know I was going for it. Hey. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

So when you. If there's, like, Spanish street names, you fully go for the accent or you just, like, white it up?

[Marty]

I wide it up.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I talk how I talk.

[Matt Dameron]

I tried to change the way I talk before. I was like, no one wants to here. And, like, a dude that sounds like a redneck all the time.

[Marty]

So fun.

[Matt Dameron]

I've, like, tried to change it and just turned into Mark Norman. I was like, I can't.

[Marty]

Say, hi, my name is Matt. Not an accent.

[Matt Dameron]

Hi, my name is Matt.

[Marty]

You sound like, I'm gay. That's what you sound like.

[Matt Dameron]

Hi, I'm gay. You're gay. Thanks for coming out.

[Marty]

You still have an accent.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I don't know. I just. I just went with it. I was like, dude, whatever. It's like, this is who I am. This is. This is it.

[Marty]

Yeah, man.

[Matt Dameron]

My wife has literally told me, like, when she come to shows, when I first started off, she's like, dude, you got to slow down.

[Marty]

No one knows understand what you're saying.

[Matt Dameron]

You sound like Boomhauer. The first weekend I worked with David, he would, like, roast me on stage. As I got off, he'd be like. I was, boom. Howard is like, roast me. I'm that.

[Marty]

Yeah. Completely talking way too fast.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I wouldn't understand.

[Matt Dameron]

You said, yeah.

[Marty]

Like, the people speak Spanish, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

I've had some, like, friends. Like, my wife's friends came over, and they're like, dude, it took me a year to figure out what you're saying to figure out, like, now. I'm sorry, man. I don't know.

[Marty]

I can understand every word you're saying. Are they from the South?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, they'd be from the south, too. Look, I. I'm pretty tame. I can take you to some places where, like, people need some subtitles.

[Marty]

Oh, no.

[Matt Dameron]

They're fun. They're so fun.

[Marty]

See, that's how we feel.

[Matt Dameron]

Wild now.

[Marty]

You understand?

[Matt Dameron]

It's fun, dude. Yeah, I'm there. To getting crushing Budweisers and shooting things. It's. It's fun. It's Chris, a good time off the.

[Marty]

Whole porch that goes all the way around the house, shooting down, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Everybody has, like, a nice, like, barn. You know what I'm saying? Like a man cave. Like, yeah, like, a good redneck will have, like, a good man cave. You walk in the shop, you know, he's gonna.

[Marty]

A dorm for slaves turn into a man cave. Like, we all, for some reason, Have a. A dwelling unit in the back and has multiple beds and, I don't know, hard left turn. Hey, man, that's all I'm thinking is.

[Matt Dameron]

Trees, a man cave. Like, that's where we can.

[Marty]

Slaves. Hey, man, we're all thinking it. Even you, Marty.

[Matt Dameron]

No, no.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Good rednecks. Good rednecks will have a good. Like, you know, where they hang their racing flags and they raise hell, praise. Their what?

[Marty]

Flags.

[Matt Dameron]

Okay. Okay.

[Marty]

I wasn't sure.

[Matt Dameron]

Not the races. I mean, they'll have some of that in there, too.

[Marty]

I want to start calling things racing the rebel flags. You know, the rebel flag.

[Matt Dameron]

Hate not Heritage.

[Marty]

Not hate heritage. Okay, you're right.

[Matt Dameron]

They would there be like. Yeah, you see bumper stickers. But you lost in high school. Yeah, you lost.

[Marty]

And none of you were around back then. Yeah, nobody was around.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, no one's around.

[Marty]

Heritage. Not hate America.

[Matt Dameron]

There was bumper stickers in the south like that.

[Marty]

Yeah, no, they're out here.

[Matt Dameron]

Really?

[Marty]

Okay, so I'm from Merced, which is four hours north from here. It's in the middle of the Central Valley. Nothing but Mexicans 45 minutes up the mountain. This place, we're on the way to Yosemite.

[Matt Dameron]

Or they keep the whites or they.

[Marty]

Still have their own land. This place called Mariposa. And it is scary.

[Matt Dameron]

And racist.

[Marty]

Crosses on the lawn still racist Plan meetings.

[Matt Dameron]

That's crazy.

[Marty]

Mariposa and everybody.

[Matt Dameron]

I had the grand wizard come to my school one time.

[Marty]

Why didn't you leave with this stuff?

[Matt Dameron]

He did.

[Marty]

You were at elementary school?

[Matt Dameron]

No, I was in. I was in high school. He was worse. He got reformed or whatever.

[Marty]

Oh, that's fine.

[Matt Dameron]

He was the Grand Wizard.

[Marty]

I thought you meant, like, today. We have a local businessman coming in. He's looking for a record. That's what I'm saying.

[Matt Dameron]

No, dude, he used to be the Grand Wizard. He. They used to do, like, school tours and, like, speak to, like. I think. I think a black dude saved, like. Like, he was like a Christian dude. Having a black dude saved this guy, and he used. Like, they used to hang out. He was a Grand wizard and they used to hang out. He would have him over to the.

[Marty]

House and do magic. A Grand wizard is the. Is the. Is the head of the clan. I wasn't sure if you. Okay. I wasn't sure if you knew. He's like, do magic. Love magic. I knew it.

[Matt Dameron]

Say, Marty, this isn't Lord of the Rings.

[Marty]

All right, Guys, Black people love magic.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I went to a small Christmas school, and they had a yeah, they had a Grand wizard come preach next. Grand Wizard. It was the whole thing.

[Marty]

So grand wizard comes in and goes, it's wrong to hate guys like him.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Be nice to Gerard. Is that what happened?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, just come on up here.

[Marty]

Come on up here. Gerard's a good kiss. No, it's him squeezing his neck. Like, I love this kid. Now I'm reformed.

[Matt Dameron]

That's the whole thing.

[Marty]

Wipes his hand off.

[Matt Dameron]

I remember.

[Marty]

There's a racist out there, man.

[Matt Dameron]

I remember that.

[Marty]

David, did you learn anything?

[Matt Dameron]

I can't say. I can't remember anything he talked about. It was, like, positive freaking. Yeah, I guess.

[Marty]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Had to be a good.

[Marty]

What a weird thing to have an ex Grand Wizard.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, strange.

[Marty]

Doesn't really make sense. This guy used to be a Nazi. Come do school talks, right?

[Daniel Costas]

Come motivate these children.

[Marty]

Nah. What the.

[Matt Dameron]

This is a weird dare program. Like, what's going on?

[Marty]

We had the yo yo guy come to my school.

[Matt Dameron]

The yo yo guy?

[Marty]

Yeah, we had the yo yo guy come. He was coming. He was like a Yo yo master. You guys got grand wizards?

[Matt Dameron]

We got grand wizards.

[Marty]

South is different, dude. How many black kids are in your school, dude?

[Matt Dameron]

Not much. Oh, I think it was, like, at the. There was a girl named Kiki.

[Marty]

You remember the. There was one Kiki. I think her last name was Palmer.

[Matt Dameron]

And it was not many at all. It was a small. It was a poor private school. Like, the rich private school was, like, two blocks down the road, which is freaking hilarious. They were our rival school, and literally they're. But right there.

[Marty]

A rich private school. And you went to poor, private.

[Matt Dameron]

Poor private school.

[Marty]

Do you mean public school? And then there's public.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, there's a difference. Okay, so, yeah, Never heard of this. Poor private. I would say public, rich, private.

[Marty]

Why don't you just go to public school, man?

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, nobody had degrees to teach us like.

[Marty]

Like what?

[Matt Dameron]

Dude? Art history teacher was a dude that. It was just in the war.

[Marty]

Today we'll learn about the only thing I've been a part of.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, he was in the war. Yeah.

[Marty]

So wait, wait.

[Matt Dameron]

This is history teacher school. Poor private.

[Marty]

Why don't you just go to public? It's free.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know. I don't.

[Marty]

I don't know.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't make the rules.

[Marty]

I know, but if they're paying for private school, it's poor.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, my mom and dad did public.

[Marty]

That's great. No, that's.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Daniel Costas]

In your mind, you're thinking you're doing the better Choice. But in reality, you might be sending your kid to a shittier school is what I imagine.

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, I don't.

[Marty]

The explanation, right.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I really don't think it would matter where I was ended up. You know what I'm saying? Like, I do comedy. Like, I can hardly, like, read a sentence.

[Marty]

It's okay. Look at that picture. That guy can read. I know he can't.

[Matt Dameron]

I'm mildly dyslexic. It's like. Yeah, it's. It's a whole thing. Like, I can write if I'm writing jokes. Oh, I gotta put it on paper. I'll leave words out and I'll go back and read it. Oh, shoot. There's whole, like, chunks of words. This is like. It's wild. I don't think it would happen.

[Marty]

That's why I'd even write this if.

[Matt Dameron]

No words will be missing. But, yeah, went to poor private school.

[Marty]

Yeah, words missing. So I went to poor private school. I like that it did.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude. No one was qualified to be a teacher there. It was insane.

[Marty]

So did you learn? Maybe that's why you're missing out.

[Matt Dameron]

Words. Dude, 20. I think 25 people graduated in my class.

[Marty]

I don't know what that's like. I grew up playing basketball.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

It's like, 25 people.

[Marty]

This is horrible.

[Matt Dameron]

It was my senior class. I think I was, like, 20.

[Marty]

Oh, high school.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, high school. Yeah. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, my God.

[Marty]

You looked up. Well, that's incredible. Only, like, 25 people graduated with me. That's just because everybody was dumb and we had, like, 400 when.

[Daniel Costas]

I think it's.

[Matt Dameron]

Wow.

[Daniel Costas]

25 people, I think, are, like, log cabins.

[Matt Dameron]

25 people were in the senior class.

[Marty]

Oh, total.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, total.

[Daniel Costas]

That's insane.

[Marty]

Oh, I thought you meant. Just so everybody passed, barely, but they passed.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Oh, I gave my.

[Matt Dameron]

I gave my diploma to my mom.

[Marty]

Above her as I was talking.

[Matt Dameron]

Just. Yeah, here I was like, you did this? She did a lot of, like, my project. She did a lot of, like, we would help together, but she was literally just typing.

[Marty]

What are your other brothers again? A preacher and a teacher.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Very smart.

[Marty]

See what happens to the third kid? They baby him. They're like, yo, I'll do your project. Skip that.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I. I ain't gonna lie. I was baby. For sure. Yeah. But, yeah, like, I was not. Stuff was gonna get done. I literally would be sitting right next to, like, my mom. She'd be, like, calling my other friend's.

[Marty]

Mom to do the work.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

What's your mom do for work?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, she was an audiologist at the time.

[Marty]

Stop.

[Matt Dameron]

What the is that mean in audio?

[Marty]

What?

[Daniel Costas]

You work at audio.

[Matt Dameron]

You test hearing.

[Marty]

Oh, man, you confused me because you said it was so much confidence. Okay, and then you're saying that she tests your ears.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. You're here.

[Marty]

She's the lady that goes. Oh, yeah, there's a name for that.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, Audiologist. Put you in that little sound decorating room. Like, raise your. Raise your right hand when you hear the beep, you know? Yeah, she would do that.

[Marty]

All right. What'd your dad do?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, she. She taught before that. Like, she taught like, she had, like, a deaf class. She would, like, teach.

[Marty]

Your mom throws up gang signs.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, dude. I found out recently that my mother got out of a speeding ticket because she acted deaf.

[Marty]

She went.

[Matt Dameron]

She went full deaf, like she did.

[Daniel Costas]

Are deaf people allowed to drive?

[Marty]

Why wouldn't they be?

[Daniel Costas]

Because you can't hear sirens.

[Matt Dameron]

Your.

[Daniel Costas]

Your eyesight, but you can't drive with two headphones on. They don't want you driving.

[Marty]

No, that's true, Marty.

[Matt Dameron]

But also, you can still try. Also, you. They don't have seat belts on motorcycles. That makes sense. Okay, ticket. Right.

[Daniel Costas]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

But you can be on a motorcycle, so why does it matter?

[Marty]

It's fair. What's your seatbelt?

[Matt Dameron]

I'm.

[Marty]

I got a real good grip on my wrist around.

[Matt Dameron]

Drove me crazy. That's drove me crazy. I don't know why motorcycles don't have seat belts.

[Marty]

Okay, this. This is what happens. You get contact time.

[Daniel Costas]

They don't.

[Marty]

No, I know, but you get a.

[Matt Dameron]

Ticket in a car not having a seat belt.

[Marty]

I agree.

[Matt Dameron]

Motorcycle just, hey, have it. And here. LA do way different here.

[Marty]

Yeah, like what, dude?

[Matt Dameron]

The motorcycles, they just do what they want here in LA.

[Marty]

Oh, you can go 110 as long as. No, you just to pull somebody over here, they go.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, they just go.

[Marty]

They don't give a.

[Matt Dameron]

And like, in the south, they don't do that.

[Marty]

That's because everybody.

[Matt Dameron]

Every now and then, you'll see like a. Like a. You're going between the car down the house like that.

[Marty]

Oh, you can see your lanes here. You can split the far left lane here.

[Matt Dameron]

Legal.

[Marty]

You're allowed to split the far left lane.

[Matt Dameron]

You're allowed to do that in between the cars.

[Marty]

Let's go.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, no one said that.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

You're like. They just do what they want.

[Marty]

Have you ever been to Mexico?

[Matt Dameron]

I would love to go.

[Marty]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

I got to go to my native lane.

[Marty]

Yeah, you do. You do. Where my spirit.

[Matt Dameron]

I got to go back.

[Marty]

You should see how they drive.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Oh, it's like people walking in a mall with no direction.

[Matt Dameron]

Just.

[Marty]

Oh, I hit you. Okay, let's keep going. Every bumper is up because you know how you park? You park like this. Touch?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

All right, I got it. And you pull up a little bit. Everybody in Mexico's bumper. Bumper parked.

[Daniel Costas]

When I see those motorcycles coming down, if I get over a little bit for you, I need to see that little. I like how they do that.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I think the same thing. Like, you didn't give me the wave. Huh?

[Matt Dameron]

They get mad if you do it in a car to them. Some of them get mad.

[Marty]

I've never done. You reach over.

[Matt Dameron]

Out the window.

[Daniel Costas]

I've never done it back. I always just look for it. You piece of. When they don't do it.

[Marty]

Oh, every time. Like, you, too, then, man. I've saved your life, right? Yeah. I'll hit the bumps for him.

[Daniel Costas]

I did that on the way here. Exactly. I hit these bumps for you.

[Marty]

Yep. That's why I have a paintball gun.

[Matt Dameron]

I just thought they were doing what they wanted to do. I was like, no one. No one said, oh, that's a.

[Daniel Costas]

That's a. I always assume that they're motorcycle police. Cops. So I get the over, and then.

[Marty]

Oh, you can tell which one it.

[Daniel Costas]

Is from a distance. It can be tricky.

[Marty]

Sure.

[Matt Dameron]

Where are we going with that conversation?

[Marty]

I don't know.

[Matt Dameron]

So confused.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, the seat belts that were.

[Matt Dameron]

No.

[Daniel Costas]

Annoying you that they didn't have the seat belts on.

[Marty]

It was right before that. Damn it.

[Daniel Costas]

Or something.

[Matt Dameron]

You were saying something. I cut you off. That was my bad.

[Daniel Costas]

I'm saying a bunch of nothing. Headphones, audiologist. Thank you.

[Matt Dameron]

My dad, he. He played college football, graduated, went to the Houston Oilers. Found out he got drafted in the paper.

[Marty]

Stop it. You're gonna tell me, huh? Your dad was in the NFL for the Houston Oilers, and you haven't brought that up once, Talking about sports. Yeah, my dad played for the NFL.

[Matt Dameron]

Is out now.

[Marty]

Are you messing with me?

[Matt Dameron]

It was 74. Maybe 19. 74. Maybe 75, he said. I woke up and found out in the newspaper he was drafted. Sign a bonus. Twelve hundred dollars.

[Marty]

What position?

[Matt Dameron]

Wide out, I think he called it. Oh, wide receiver. But like, yeah, damn.

[Marty]

Your dad was a receiver back when white receivers were.

[Matt Dameron]

That was. With one wrong. One wrong helmet.

[Marty]

Wow. Smoking cigs on the sideline.

[Matt Dameron]

That's.

[Daniel Costas]

That error.

[Marty]

You were allowed to smoke right there.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude. When the NFL started doing concussion protocol, my dad was losing his mind. Concussion Protocol. We didn't have that. How many fingers I got? Oh, all right. Get back out there. I'm like. But my dad's got it together. Like, He's. I don't know, 76, 77. He's like, he's. He's got it together.

[Marty]

Yo, it's real still kind of quick. The. That he will just keep inside. We're talking about. I like sports. Yeah, I like football. My dad, he didn't play football. Yeah, he played two.

[Matt Dameron]

Two preseason with them. And then my mom said he quit because he wanted to come home, get married. That's what she said. I don't know.

[Daniel Costas]

That's what you tell her.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, that's what you. Yeah, that's what you tell them.

[Marty]

It.

[Matt Dameron]

They wanted him to play tight end or something. He already. Yeah, like already separated his shoulder and I don't know, it's a whole thing.

[Marty]

So that's back when people got hurt and you didn't hear about it in. In the news. You're like, yeah, he's just not playing.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Daniel Costas]

Technology.

[Marty]

Yeah. Like I read in the paper, he split his Achilles. No, he doesn't get.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Houston Oilers.

[Marty]

No.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I have so many cards from back then. I can't wait to go look at my Houston owner section.

[Daniel Costas]

Do you have any sick ass, like throwbacks of his? They had some cool uniforms.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, he has a trunk with everything in it. Like a little treasure trunk full of this stuff in there. I think I've only seen it once. I need to go back and look through that thing. I don't know. I don't know where it has it hidden.

[Marty]

Stuff, drugs.

[Matt Dameron]

I think my older brother actually has his helmet from college at. At his house. That is awesome, dude.

[Marty]

Yeah, the one single.

[Matt Dameron]

One single.

[Marty]

So how late are we in this episode? You've just tell me your dad played for the Houston Oilers after retirement. Sports. I love it.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Marty]

That's why you're sober.

[Matt Dameron]

Hey, my bad. You didn't ask me about it.

[Marty]

I did. Hey, did your dad play for the NFL? No. Mlb. Oh, he does. Mlb.

[Matt Dameron]

You ask me what my dad did?

[Marty]

That's true.

[Matt Dameron]

No, he did that and then he worked for the. He worked for the tobacco factory for a long time. Got laid off at tobacco battery and became a financial advisor.

[Marty]

What a. What a backward ass life. Usually it's. I was a financial advisor and it went bad. I became a tobacco factory. The opposite. NFL tobacco factory. Financial advisor.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Financial matter. Retired during the pandemic.

[Daniel Costas]

Financial advisor means you know, you know like, yeah, dude.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

We, like, we live in a strict. But we thought. We thought we were so poor growing up, we're like, dude, we don't got anything. Literally. My dad just budgeted. Strict budget. Good. And then when we, like, got out of high school, two went to East Carolina University. I wasn't going to college. I went right in the workforce. And, dude, he just started buying things. And I was like, whoa. Car pay for house. Brand new house built, new construction pay for. Dude, I've met my wife. We were like two. One or two years in the marriage, and she looked out in the backyard, was like, man, a pool would look nice out there. Next week, go to the house. Blue point. Blueprints. Pool, pool. I just. Baller just. Everything's paid for. But we live like, we couldn't have any shoes over, like, $35, like, growing up. Yeah. If you wanted that, you had to, like, say that he would give you 35 bucks.

[Marty]

If you want more, go make it.

[Matt Dameron]

Go make it. So you get to watch the cars. To watch the cars, mow the grass, like, do all that kind of stuff. Yeah.

[Marty]

I never met an NFL kid. That's funny because you are that no matter what you are. But. Yeah, my dad was an NFL, but cool. It's like Deion Sanders, where his kids are like, I'm a rapper now.

[Matt Dameron]

No, no.

[Daniel Costas]

Do you got 12 brothers and sisters?

[Matt Dameron]

No.

[Marty]

You said that, too.

[Daniel Costas]

No, just two that you don't know about.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, he wasn't balling like that. He's not an NBA. He's not in the NBA. That's the NBA thing.

[Marty]

That is true. That is an NBA.

[Daniel Costas]

Do you have any thoughts on if the NFL is rigged or not?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, dude, I don't. I don't.

[Marty]

You'll talk sports with your dad.

[Matt Dameron]

I think he wouldn't do that. I don't think he would go for it. I know they're registered under Sports Entertainment. You know that.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw that.

[Matt Dameron]

They're not. The NFL is not registered as a sports league. It's sports entertainment, which. The wwe.

[Daniel Costas]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Is registered.

[Daniel Costas]

Interesting. I didn't know that.

[Marty]

Kind of makes you a little scared, but. No, he's real cool. But he is on the list. You know, he has to tell everybody where he. Where he lives. But he's cool. That's the same thing.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah. Okay.

[Marty]

I'm kidding.

[Matt Dameron]

But even, like, the sports gambling stuff's getting wild. Like. Well, the FBI did a sting. What, like, recently.

[Marty]

Who was it that just got in trouble? Which basketball? Paul Pierce?

[Daniel Costas]

Chauncey Billups.

[Marty]

Chauncey Billups.

[Matt Dameron]

Chauncey.

[Daniel Costas]

Gilbert Arenas.

[Marty]

Gilbert Arenas.

[Matt Dameron]

Thank you. Was it the poker stuff? Yeah, poker, yeah. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

But then there was another player who got. Who got arrested for like throwing games or some too.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Dude, there was a whole documentary that's on Netflix about two college basketball players that were doing it and making a lot of money. The FBI just like found like, yeah, run it up.

[Daniel Costas]

They find like irregular betting patterns or some, I guess pretty.

[Marty]

Who's winning off us too much illegal.

[Matt Dameron]

There was something happened with the UFC recently where.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, I saw that too.

[Matt Dameron]

200000 bit came in or something and Dana White saw it or like something got flagged. Dana White was contacted. Dana. Mike called the fighter and was like, you good? You hurt? We just had a large amount of money come in on a first round submission. Oh, no, I'm good. I'm gonna beat it. You know, I'm gonna win. I'm, you know, first round submission.

[Marty]

Whoa. Hey, man, let them make their money, Dana. Why? It's not letting people advertise. It's only like rebound wild, dude. Come on, man, let him have it.

[Matt Dameron]

Imagine all the people that just lose money though, like just freaking lose it and then they're. It's getting thrown.

[Marty]

I've. I've.

[Matt Dameron]

Where's the integrity?

[Marty]

There is none, man. Ready? Hey. I need you to go up there right now, tonight. But I need you to bomb like crazy. Even drop one slur. I got 50k for you right now, mate.

[Matt Dameron]

Fall down.

[Marty]

Pay me instantly. Right?

[Matt Dameron]

Fall down like, duh, done.

[Marty]

And I'd walk off stage.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, bomb. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

It's like Marcellus Wallace and Bruce Willis.

[Matt Dameron]

Pride.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, exactly.

[Marty]

Prize will get you up. Yeah. Come on, man.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Marty]

As I said before, do we start? I would be the most corrupt cop. Did we start that? Yeah, yeah. Back to what we're talking about.

[Matt Dameron]

Of course you'd just be taking the weed though.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

I can't see you doing anything dirtier than taking people's weed bricks and then.

[Marty]

Trading the bricks for mad weed.

[Daniel Costas]

Recycling.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, recycling.

[Marty]

Why not? Yeah, I don't want that. It's just nasty. I want the weed. I'd be the highest on the force. Why not? Oh, quick change up question. Ready? 16 year old version of you walks in the door and says, what's up? Let's fight. Are you gonna win? Are you gonna lose?

[Matt Dameron]

I totally win. I was a late bloomer, dude. 16, I was a late bloomer. I was like, When I was 15, I was 5 2. I think what the. It was on my, like, permit. Yeah, my driver's permit. I was a late bloomer.

[Marty]

Not badly, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Like pe, you know, people taking their shirts off for pe. I'm looking at people got armpit hair.

[Marty]

I'm like, my dick hasn't even.

[Matt Dameron]

I look like an Olympic swimmer. Like a seal. Like a seal, dude. Everybody's got hair.

[Marty]

I'm like, I could drive. I have not one hair.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it was weird. Yeah. Very late bloomer.

[Marty]

That's cool.

[Matt Dameron]

Probably late. Yeah, I was late. Late to a party on a lot of things.

[Marty]

Hey, man, you just want with you 33 years living life, verbal.

[Matt Dameron]

I didn't talk until, like, late. Like, my mom was.

[Marty]

I thought, you're with me right now.

[Matt Dameron]

14, dude. My mom would, like, take me, like, get psychological, like, testing and stuff. I couldn't never. I. I started to remember, like, later. I was like, old were you? I was like, mom, why were you taking me?

[Marty]

How old were you until you could.

[Matt Dameron]

She would never tell me. I knew. Yeah, I was definitely getting psychologically tested.

[Marty]

How old were you till you talk?

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I don't know.

[Marty]

I mean, you had to ask.

[Matt Dameron]

Maybe. I don't know. Two. Two, maybe. I don't know.

[Marty]

That's just. That's not that bad.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Marty]

I thought you'd be like, I was seven years old.

[Matt Dameron]

Obviously something was enough wrong where, like, Mom's like, we gotta get this guy tested.

[Marty]

Smack. The. He didn't call me a.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes. Looking at the pictures, like, what's missing in the picture? That's just over summer times. Like, I just thought I was like, you know, you definitely.

[Marty]

Yeah. You're dyslexic, man.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

That's all what it is.

[Matt Dameron]

Also, I got a little tism.

[Marty]

It exactly.

[Matt Dameron]

Little tismed up.

[Marty]

So now you talk on stage into a microphone.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Start out. This is a Forrest Gump. We've met Forrest Gump today, guys. Yeah, the.

[Matt Dameron]

This is a story.

[Marty]

Things broke off his legs and now.

[Matt Dameron]

He'S just on the mic.

[Marty]

I'm just screaming at people.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I love it. You are Forrest Gump. And it comes with the accent.

[Daniel Costas]

Unexpected little stories along the way.

[Marty]

Yeah. My dad. NFL. Like you were Forrest Gump.

[Matt Dameron]

Yep. Poor private school. The whole thing.

[Marty]

You are Forest company. You didn't talk, just like, Forest wouldn't talk. Just, hey, hey. He just makes noises. What's a vacation?

[Matt Dameron]

What's a vacation?

[Marty]

Damn. This just turned into Forest games.

[Matt Dameron]

So fun.

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Why did you even start? What made you start?

[Marty]

Me?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I've always wanted to do that.

[Matt Dameron]

But there's so much going on. Name the things you got going on a lot.

[Marty]

The papers are here. My channel.

[Matt Dameron]

Papers. YouTube channel.

[Marty]

The push Trees.

[Matt Dameron]

Push Trees.

[Marty]

Clothing podcast.

[Matt Dameron]

Podcast.

[Marty]

The weed company. The dopest.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Stand up comedy.

[Marty]

What else do we do? That's it, right?

[Daniel Costas]

That's the big ones.

[Marty]

Yeah. It's just running the things is the biggest thing. Like Marty handles all the back end of this dope is all the back into this Push Trees. We handle the back.

[Matt Dameron]

You show up, do this Marty, you carry the. Carry this load.

[Marty]

Yes. Goes and edits everything Dopest. They package everything well.

[Matt Dameron]

You know, it takes a good team.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

To do anything.

[Marty]

I have a team for two companies out of five though. So we're running all the rest of them. So I'm like, I don't have enough time together.

[Matt Dameron]

I had to quit. I had to quit a full time job when I started doing. It's too much comedy.

[Marty]

Yeah, it's too. It's impossible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I'm trying to do right now.

[Daniel Costas]

Dude, how did you link up with David Lucas and start.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I do shows and chat, man. Somebody told. I'm like, I. I got a pretty, like, pretty good work ethic and I want to get good. I want to be good at whatever I'm doing. So I work hard, whatever I'm doing. When I started standing up comedy, like there was like, you know, comedians in North North Carolina, like Mark Brady and Mike Mello and Eric Shells. Like killers. Like, they may not be mainstream. They. They freaking kill. Like, you're like, oh, like I saw Mike Miller for the first time and I was like, oh, there's levels to this, to comedy. But like they would give you advice. Like, you got to learn how to host, produce and stuff. Like have your own show. So at one time I was doing three a month. It was like. And I was working full time. So I was like. And it was, it was bleeding over into comedy because I'm so tired. I'm not being a good host. And they're giving me advice like, dude, it doesn't matter what you're going through during the day. Whatever happened that pissed you off or made you mad, like, get rid of it. You have to host the show. You gotta be the energy, you know, so doing that. So I cut down to like 2. 2amonth. And I run the show called Our Brewmasters Comedy in Wilson, North Carolina. And then Brewmasters Comedy in Goldsboro. I do them and yeah, I started like just reaching out to some of these, like, comedians, like, traveling through if they're going to be there the night before, going through, like the, you know, Raleigh Good Nights Comedy Club or Raleigh Improv. And David, I think it was the second biggest comedian I had come through at the time. He just popped on Kill Tony. He was doing well. He was Brendan Shops feature at the time, and they were coming through. I just shot him a DMs, like, hey, man, you'll come to my show? And you're like, yeah. I was like, yeah. But like, dude, David will. He'll just. He'll do stuff like that. Like he'll go fishing with a complete stranger. The other week we're. He's coordinating travel from the airport. The other week I'm in the airport, he text me, meet me here, blah, blah. This dude comes up in the car. He's in the car with the dude. I get in the back of the car, he takes us to the venue. Dudes in the venue. He leaves out of the room. I'm like, what's this guy? He was like, man, I was, I was lost in the airport and he came and said he was a big fan. And I said, man, I'm just trying to get to, you know, said, Sasqua hall, whatever. Sasqua Hall, Indiana, wherever it was. He's. I don't live very far from there. He just hops in a car with a stranger. We're just with the stranger. He's just taking us to the venue. He does like wild stuff like that.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, I'm good on that. Well, also, if you're that big, you don't got to worry that. That hard dude too.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, kidnap them without a gun.

[Daniel Costas]

Without.

[Marty]

Without a gun or six people.

[Matt Dameron]

So, like, he came and did my show and then a year later, he came and did my other show. And then he was like, hey, I need somebody to do open up for me in Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh Improv. Like, sold out. It's like a Sunday show. And at the time, like, you gotta. You gotta go. Like I told my wife, she's like, you gotta go. You gotta find a way to get there. So I ended up driving. Me and another comedian in Richmond went up, picked him up, went and did the show. And then I asked him. I was like, dude, I was talking to another comedian and he was like, dude, when you. When you get your foot in this industry and you start talking to people, don't be afraid to ask. And I hate asking, asking for anything. And I was like, dude, if I want to make this a living, and make a living doing this. I gotta, like, do everything I can. So I was literally just sitting with a text, like, I saw you just announced your new tour. If you need somebody, I'm here. His tour manager at the time hit me up and sent me all the dates.

[Marty]

Oh.

[Matt Dameron]

And I was like, oh. So I text my wife. I was like, hey, looks like I want to be in all these shows. And then we did all those shows. And I helped produce his special that's on YouTube. Uncancelable. He'll produce that. And then at that night, like, I don't know. It's like, such a bond you create, especially with. With, like, Daniel Costa is like, one of my best friends, right? He knows what the road is. He knows, like, what the entertainment, like, the comedy industry. And like, David, like, he plucked me from being an open micr to give me, like, a career. Like, I'm still paycheck to paycheck. Like, I'm still. I still bartend every now and then, you know, like, gosh dang it. Like, I do doordash. I do whatever I got to do because, like, I had back surgery. My refrigerator broke, My furnace went out. Real life all in the same time frame. Countryside never been. I've always lived very fiscal. Don't need much. And did all that stuff happen, but, like, long story longer, like, David like, kind of plugged me from that. Then he puts you in rooms, he introduces you to people like, he. He cares about. Like, you also progressing as a comedian because at one point, one time, he was doing the Killers of Kill Tony tour, and I was, what am I gonna do? Oh, to go up there, like, to make money.

[Marty]

Oh, so he was doing that.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. And I was like, dude, I, like, I got creative. It's already calling other comedians. They were giving me advice, and I was setting up my own shows where I would take 100 of the door, and I put on a hell of a show. I get like two or three upcoming comedians and find somebody to challenge me to go. Before I went up and, yeah, we'd ran these. Run these shows that helped me get through that month, but it was like, so much work. You're doing everything. You're calling the venues, you're setting it up, you're running ticket sales, you're on the door, then you're headlining the shit, dude. I was like, in a whirlwind. Yeah. But yeah, it's like, that's how I met him. And then through. Through that, I've had, like, I've worked with, like, Mark Norman's come through and did. Done my show. Joe List, Chris Porter, Casey Rocket. Like, a lot of these, you know, up and coming comedians have come through and done the show, and they're just. It's just a fun, independent show.

[Marty]

And where do you run that out?

[Matt Dameron]

That's Wilson, North Carolina.

[Marty]

Wilson.

[Matt Dameron]

So Dave was actually coming Tuesday, the weekend, the week of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. He's coming to the show again. He's going to be in North Carolina.

[Marty]

I think it's the 24th.

[Matt Dameron]

And, dude, they've been begging for him to come back. Bring them back. We know you work with him. You know, it ain't hard to get him over here. And I was like, dude, he's got a family, like, and everything he's got going on. But, yeah, he's coming through, doing Thanksgiving in North Carolina. And then like, yeah, hit me up. Yeah, it's going to be a blast. It's gonna be fun. Like, you meet so many. Like, I met you through comedy. You meet so many people. Yeah, it's in comedy, like, once you get your foot in the door, everybody knows a little bit. Everybody, like, very, you know, it's a.

[Marty]

Yeah, it's like going to school, like, oh, Mike. Mike. Which one? Oh, yeah, yeah, he's all right. You already know, like, the. The guys that run the improv or the Miami one they're talking about. A certain comedian won't say it, but, like, yeah, that sucks. He's so rude and mean. He asked for everything. Like, I don't know you. Why are you telling me this?

[Matt Dameron]

That's one of my favorite things to do. When you go to a venue, you start talking to staff.

[Marty]

I'm like, oh, they're the ones that know every.

[Matt Dameron]

Hey, who's. Who was the nightmare?

[Marty]

That's weird.

[Matt Dameron]

You want to remember. Yeah, you. You always want to know, you know, like, oh, said comedian. And they did all this.

[Marty]

I just sit there and go, oh, no, I'm good. Thank you. Goodbye. I'm done.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I'd never tell anybody they suck. Because, I mean, I.

[Marty]

No, I'm talking about, like, being in the back and being a nuisance.

[Daniel Costas]

Like, your drinks and I'm.

[Marty]

Water. Thank you. Not leaving a mess and asking for 200 worth of is insane, right? Like that guy told us that story about certain comedians. Yeah, it's. That's in. I don't ever want to be there to where I feel like I want this. Give me it. It's better to be here when I show up. That's crazy, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

I can't see. Yeah. I mean, there are people. There are people in this industry that are like that, but the majority of us are like, yeah, they're just down to earth people, man.

[Marty]

Yeah. They're up, go on stage and yeah. Like, hey, hope you like it. You can't be that. Like, I'm the. Like, yeah, you're going up there and hoping it works every time, even though you know it works. Like, I hope this crowd likes this.

[Matt Dameron]

As soon as you think you got to figure it out. You don't.

[Daniel Costas]

You don't.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, you're gonna go up there and.

[Daniel Costas]

Dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Oh, I haven't. Oh, no, no. I did the show right before I saw you last when we had racism show the other set at.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah.

[Marty]

At what city? With Torrance. Torrance. We had that break up a fight night.

[Matt Dameron]

That was wild.

[Marty]

That was wild. I had the worst I've ever. Not the worst, but the worst reaction ever the week before in a roomful. I think I told you about the old grandma.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

[Marty]

When you think like, damn, I just crushed at the Laugh Factory. Nollywood. I had a great, great set, dude, that night.

[Daniel Costas]

Go eat the next night.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, God, it's.

[Marty]

Oh, my God. Just looking up there going, you guys hate me, huh? I'm gonna finish this.

[Matt Dameron]

You know that?

[Marty]

Finish this.

[Matt Dameron]

There's been. There is a city that I went to last year wasn't doing great in the first three minutes, but wasn't doing bad. And something happened where it became a game. They turned on me so quick, and they were waiting for me to hit Punchline so they could scream at me. And I was like, I'm not going to let them get the best, dude. Yeah. They were yelling. They were quiet as a mouse. Premise set up punch. And they knew where the punch is because that's the joke. And they're like. This one dude's like, tomatoes. What? He said tomatoes, dude. One guy said, go back to. Go back to your Rolodex. Like, it was getting wild. And afterwards, after the show, the majority of those people came and talked to me. Oh, what's up, bro? We, you know, we.

[Marty]

We just wanted to Your up, man.

[Matt Dameron]

I was like, why? Psychologically? I'm like, I don't even know what I do. I even know how to do this. And then I talked to somebody that works at club that's a bigger name in that area. Okay. Like a lot of followers. Oh, that's my home club. Yeah. I've been rushed the stage three times. So one time and then two after that.

[Marty]

Yeah. 3 yeah, the first time didn't make you do this.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, it was wild.

[Marty]

Yeah. No, I hope to God no one ever does. That's why I would love to carry a suit.

[Matt Dameron]

Recently, dude, not going to say the club, but historically, it's been said on many podcasts, I'm up on stage in the table. I reset. Had to reset, you know, hey, what's up, guys? Glad you're here. You know, if you can, you know, chill out a little bit, go into the set, come back. Oh, yeah, buckets of beer and there's drinking. Okay. So I had to reset the room again. Go back. And then they just started sabotaging my set. I heard whistling. They're whistling. They're going like that. And I was like, I stopped and I roasted them a little bit and they came back into it and they were like. Like low boobs where I could hear them.

[Marty]

Just low enough.

[Matt Dameron]

The crowd's doing good, but they're. They're a problem. And, yeah, it was. And so I looked down and I saw my time. I was like, oh, it's time for me to go off stage. You know, as a guy's, you know, had a great time, blah, blah. That was a lot. And they put the mic in the mic stand. They were like, we made him quit. We made him quit. There were. We made him quit now. Like, I stopped and was like, security.

[Marty]

These guys gotta go.

[Matt Dameron]

You gotta go. They gotta go. I get off stage. GM comes in the room and green room was like, I'm so sorry. Blah, blah. We're short on security. I walk out. Security is just sitting. Just sitting there.

[Marty]

They didn't kick him out? No, after you said again.

[Matt Dameron]

So David goes on stage and, like, you know, shuts him down a little bit and comes in back and, like, he gets, like. He's furious. Like, this, like, ruins. Like, you gotta lay in your bed at night and you're replaying everything. You're just fuming, you know, like, why would. Like, why would you do that? Isn't that crazy? What a weird art form. Can you imagine going and see, like, the Lion King on Broadway and somebody's going, I'm like, dude, I'm performing. You be quiet.

[Marty]

How much fun would it be to be able to heckle sample? You're a suck. That's funny.

[Matt Dameron]

Beauty and the Beast. Like, hey, Chip.

[Marty]

Also, he just trespassing. Why is he getting thrown in jail? Why are you keeping in prison for the rest of his life, Beast? That's kidnapping. Yeah, Think about it.

[Matt Dameron]

So, yeah, what a weird art form, though. You can just do that.

[Marty]

It. It's funny to think about now.

[Matt Dameron]

It's a.

[Marty]

Performing live. The only time you're allowed to get away possibly with that. You can't do that anywhere else in life, dude. Well, maybe sports. Maybe sports, but that's different. Yeah, that's different. You're not talking to everybody.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. You're not. Yeah. You're not trying to entertain and having a table just ruin, like.

[Marty]

Oh, God.

[Matt Dameron]

A table will ruin a show. It'll ruin a show.

[Marty]

Oh, man. We're talking about. I have set and four hours. Sounds terrible now, I'm saying, just thinking about, like, God, I hope there's not.

[Matt Dameron]

None of them. Oh, God.

[Daniel Costas]

Great.

[Marty]

No, it's disgusting. So that's fun. That sounds great.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. It's a long story. Long. That's how I met David. Just came through comedy. Just kind of came to one of my shows. Yeah.

[Marty]

Sick.

[Matt Dameron]

And we're, like, so different, you know? We're so different, you know? Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, it's just funny.

[Marty]

Yeah. That house.

[Matt Dameron]

I've always wanted to ask him, like, why do you even like me? We're so different, you know? Like, how would you see me? Like, I like this guy. I'm gonna take him on the road. I've been on the road with him almost three years now.

[Marty]

Oh, no.

[Matt Dameron]

Almost three. Yeah. Going on. Going on three years. Hey, man, in the first. The first, like a couple months or maybe the first year, I was like, I'm not doing well. I'm not good. I'm not good enough to be like. I thought, man, I'm gonna get fired. And then something happened during the show, and I was like, oh. Oh, that's how I am on stage.

[Daniel Costas]

That.

[Matt Dameron]

That's it. Channel that. And then I had a weekend after that, and then, like, something kind of clicked. The comfortability clicked. I'm like, this is me on stage. I don't have to, like, pretend to be someone else on stage and say things that I think. Say things that you think that I think is funny, but say what I think is funny?

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Find what I think is funny. Now say it. You know, and as.

[Marty]

It's a huge difference.

[Matt Dameron]

Did I scrap so much material? I was like, I gotta get rid of all this. There's. There's still some jokes that I. I keep that work, but I'm like, I don't. It's not. It's not. I get, like, when you're talking about something and, you know it works. You get excited.

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Right. When you start Starting the joke, you're like, oh, yeah, this is it.

[Marty]

Oh, I fully understand. I've got it only, like, once where I'm like, oh, this is.

[Matt Dameron]

But then you chase. You chase.

[Marty]

Yeah. Because it's fun.

[Matt Dameron]

Because that's what.

[Marty]

That's funny to me.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

You might not like it, but this makes me laugh. And there's got to be some that think like me. That's how I think of everything. There's got to be someone out here that likes this. I think it's funny.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, well, you're like. You're not unrelatable.

[Marty]

That too.

[Matt Dameron]

Right. You got to be relatable.

[Marty]

Yeah. I am American. It's pretty much what my label.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

American.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Does all the American talks like us. And a surfer.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I get it.

[Marty]

I understand.

[Daniel Costas]

Do you go on Kill Tony?

[Matt Dameron]

I've signed up several times. Yeah.

[Marty]

That's the way you said that was insane. I signed up several times.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. It is like, it's. It's so. Like, it's crazy when you sign up and then you watch the show, it's almost worse. Oh, I'd rather just be like. Because, like, sometimes I'm in, like, a holding cell with the other people, and, like, you can distinguish comics and people who are just trying to get famous very quickly. You're gonna be in the same room. Just see somebody walking across the room, like, that's gonna be you. And you'll see somebody in that freaking prison jumpsuit. I'm like, what are you doing? Like, you're trying to do something. It's. Yeah, it's. The show's like, dude, the show is amazing. Like, the. What? Dude, if you ever see it live, you're like, this is. Yeah, you get it. You're like, wow. From the band. The band itself, dude, they are good. They are professional. I mean, they're just jamming out, and they really set the tone. And then you. Everybody has, like, their. Their own theme songs and they walk out. But, yeah, that.

[Marty]

No, it does sound fun.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, Tony knows how. Tony knows how to freaking run a show. He knows how to do it. He's.

[Daniel Costas]

He's got some experience. It's, like, damn near definitely over 10 years.

[Marty]

Yeah, I used to do it here. Right? At the Comedy Store.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I never saw it. I never saw.

[Marty]

Her friend used to sign up all the time.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, it blew up once. It. I mean, it was blowing up, but it was really blew up when I went to Austin.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Went on Netflix.

[Matt Dameron]

I still haven't been there, but now it's cool. Like, now, like, I go to, like, the events and stuff and like, I. I know like, a lot of the production guys, a lot of the backstage guys. I know them, they're. They're cool. And then, you know, like a lot of the golden ticket winners, like everybody's peers, man.

[Marty]

Yeah, you're.

[Matt Dameron]

You're in comedy. Everybody's doing the same thing. I mean, I mean, there's levels to it, you know, for sure, I can make 500 in a weekend where, you know, somebody makes $500,000 in a weekend.

[Marty]

Hey, man, just like, what's his name, the Japanese guy? Just like his little meter above his head. But we're doing the same. I might be doing it better, but you're making a lot of money. Hey, man, don't get bitters. Your time will come. That's how I think about everything. I'll get there.

[Matt Dameron]

That is. That is the biggest thing in comedy. The difference is the biggest thing in comedy.

[Daniel Costas]

The chasm between super, super ballin out of control people and just the average comedians.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's like Kill Tony is like the biggest thing.

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, it's like, it's Kill Tony and like, don't tell comedy and like, I don't know what else is after that.

[Marty]

There used to be a lot more, though, when I was growing up, like, Comedy Central presents. Remember, two different comedians have half an hour on Saturday night. You remember that, dude? Yeah, that was. That was a.

[Matt Dameron]

What was the first comedy special you ever watch?

[Marty]

First comedy special I ever watched was Eddie Murphy Raw.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah, me too.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Really? Mine was Afros and Bell Bottoms by Sinbad.

[Marty]

Oh, man. How bright was the colors he was wearing?

[Matt Dameron]

Yo, Sinbad. I think Bill Burr was probably the reason why I even started it.

[Marty]

Oh, for real.

[Matt Dameron]

I was like. I was the early, early 20s, like, 22, 23. I saw a Billboard special and I was like, what is that? I want to do that.

[Marty]

That, that moment is when I watched Chris Farley and Adam Sandler on Saturday Night Live. I was like, I like that. That guy's funny. That guy's playing a character and singing and that guy's falling through tables. They're both hilarious. That's what. That's my. That's why I was like, yeah, one day I would like to do stuff that makes people laugh. I was a little kid and that's. That's always.

[Matt Dameron]

Stuff's going. Well, when stuff's going, there's no. I don't know. First of all, it's like a sense of purpose. This is. I am a stand up Comedian. Like, I bust my ass to be here to do this. And then you go on stage and you do. Well, like, walking off the stage, going into the green room is like, oh, every time. You know, I feel like a punch.

[Marty]

In the air every time.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes. Stuff's going bad, not good. Yeah. I'm not. I'm quiet. I'm in the corner, head down. Like, what? Because you always got to be like, what did I do wrong?

[Marty]

Yeah, what happened?

[Matt Dameron]

Where happened?

[Marty]

But if you do this, how do you die?

[Matt Dameron]

Like, they just don't.

[Marty]

With me. They just do not like me because, like, I did the same. You just don't like me, and that's fine. Yeah, it's happened.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Happens.

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, there are bad crowds there.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Sometimes they are backgrounds. You can't. Yeah. You can't always blame them. But then again, sometimes you're like that there. They were just bad, bad crowd. Like, in my head, I'm. You always have to, like, tell yourself it's your job to make them laugh. If you're not doing. You're not doing your job.

[Marty]

Yeah. That's just.

[Matt Dameron]

So then. Then you have to look yourself in the mirror. It's me. It's my fault. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

[Marty]

But it's okay. There's always the next one.

[Daniel Costas]

That.

[Matt Dameron]

That's. Yeah.

[Marty]

That's why I do the two shows a night sometimes.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yes.

[Marty]

The second night is always more fun. I mean, the second show's always more.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, you're more comfortable. You're more familiar with the stage, I guess. Dude, Saturday shows.

[Marty]

Oh, man, that's. Yeah, this. That's what I'm stoked for this weekend, the Saturday show. The last one. I've never. I don't smoke. I don't drink before any sets. I'm like, you know what? I have this set down. I'm not worrying about do I remember anymore. That's why I'm not too sure. I'm not tripping about too much. Like, I'm high. I'll be all right, you know, like, to myself. I'll have fun tonight. It's gonna be fun. It's a bunch of, like, I don't even know who's on the bill on. On the lineup, but I just know I have 15 minutes. I'm like, yo, give me 12. 12's better. Because I want to do exactly what I know. I don't want to make up extra time. I don't want any of that. You asked me me this morning. I have been busy today. I did not write three extra Minutes or I have another three minutes I want to do. But what if it doesn't go good? Right. I'm gonna end it on a down. No, thank you. So I would be like, you give me 12 minutes, man. Yeah, that. But yeah, I think should be fine.

[Daniel Costas]

All right.

[Marty]

What's up, man? You gonna make more skits? You do more?

[Matt Dameron]

I want to so bad.

[Marty]

Just do them. They're fun.

[Matt Dameron]

I love, I love. I mean, I got some sketches I. I got written out. I haven't had time to do. Made time to do. Hey, man, you know, make a checklist.

[Marty]

That I just started doing. It helped.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

So much. And then somebody called me saying, like, do you have any sketches? Blah, blah. Like, yeah. I told him the ideas. Yeah. I can't say too. Is in connection to, like, a bigger network.

[Marty]

Got you. Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Like a TV network. And I was like, ah, I got one. Yeah. So if it does come to fruition, then what I thought could be on Instagram, could be on a network kind of deal.

[Marty]

Are you gonna tell anybody? There's like, no. I was on Mr. Beast. My dad's all, you know, I will talk about it in about 30 years. What the man?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I'd love to know. That's how I started sketch comedy.

[Marty]

Yeah. But let us know. Postmort skits.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Showed me were funny.

[Matt Dameron]

They're fun. I used to do them all by myself, man. And dude. Yeah.

[Marty]

Setting up cameras, making sure I'm in the shot. Oh. Watching back playback. Just Is the sound. All right. The headphones, dude. Oh, it's the word and it's hot.

[Matt Dameron]

Ah. See the. That character that I had? I had the political character. Carl. Carl. Cman. I had help on that. I was like, dude, you can just hold the camera. Zoom, zoom. Hold the camera, get the angles. I'll edit it. Just send me.

[Marty]

I loved it.

[Matt Dameron]

That's it. I like editing. But, yeah, sketch comedy was. Yeah. Kind of like my gateway drug into stand up comedy.

[Marty]

Oh. My gateway drug was I was literally.

[Matt Dameron]

Working in that warehouse job. I was working right next to a guy named Lavelle. You know, Lavelle working. We literally walk. It was 120 yards this way while picking up, like, waters and boxes of groceries, putting them on a conveyor belt.

[Marty]

Oh, for you. The job.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes. And then walking all the way back down, doing the same thing all day. And you don't know when you're getting off. You. You work till you get done. Oh, dude, it was awful. And he literally. He's like, what do you want to. What do you Want to be like, what do you want to do? And I was like, probably stand up comedy. He's out. See, I want to be a coach, dude. He's a coach. He's a high school coach.

[Marty]

Nice.

[Matt Dameron]

And I'm stand up comedian. I'm making it.

[Marty]

You know, the Southern white men can't jump. I like this. I like this because you didn't say he's a black guy, but you said lavelle.

[Matt Dameron]

That could be a movie.

[Marty]

So I'm. I know he's a black guy.

[Matt Dameron]

It could be the eighth mile.

[Marty]

Not eight mile. Eighth mile. So much drug activity.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. City. That's kind of crazy, though. It's like. Yeah, it was years after that, though. We still worked that job.

[Marty]

It's like the sandlot when they leave. And like, what is it doing now?

[Matt Dameron]

Guess it's all in the timing. It's sick because I was always mad, like, getting started late. In the comments. 32, when I first started comedy. And that's these young kids, like, early. Like 19. And I talked like, yeah, I thought I was talking to Mark Norman about it. Martin was like, you got what they don't have. And I was like, what? He was like, you got experience of life. Life. They don't have that. And now I see. But. But they conquered. There's their stage presence way earlier. Yeah, they started. They started early. It was like, what? This guy? Like, oh, yeah, he's been doing Common since he was 16. I'm like, what? But, like, the comfortability. I was still trying to get comfortable. They say, like, either writing's gonna come first or comfortability. Either or. And I was a decent writer at the time. And horrible. Like, very nervous. I had to watch every set and correct things.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

We fidgeting with something or like, it's like freaking, man.

[Marty]

Like, I just listen back to comedians. But, hey, you stop doing that. Like, what? Keep touching the cordial. Am I? Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

All right.

[Marty]

I don't support no more. Like, I won't touch it. Like, it makes you look nervous.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, have some.

[Marty]

Out of my way.

[Matt Dameron]

Somebody in your corner that wants you to do well is going to give you advice. Those are. Those are good friends.

[Marty]

Yes.

[Matt Dameron]

You know what I'm saying?

[Marty]

For sure.

[Matt Dameron]

They're not hurting you. They don't want to hurt you. They're like, hey, man, like, you know you're doing this because I used to, like, play with the freaking. The mic stand.

[Marty]

See what I'm saying?

[Matt Dameron]

Fiddle with it. And I watch back. Oh, my gosh.

[Marty]

I got it.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, my buddy's like, dude, you're messing with the mic stand. Leave it alone. That's why a lot of these guys, they take it out and put it to the side.

[Marty]

That's why I do.

[Matt Dameron]

And that. No, you can't do that no more. Now you focus. You know, I don't touch it anymore.

[Marty]

I put it away immediately. And he gives me one to two seconds to. All right, let's go. Like, the first time I got off stage with you guys, Dave's like, slow down. That's it. All right. I did feel rushed. I'm like, I did. I did actually feel rushed as actually. So, yeah, I get it, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

In my head. Yeah, your speed is, like, way faster. Like, you might be. Think your pacing is good. And then you go back and listen to something, you're like, dude, I am motor mouthing it.

[Marty]

Yep. I've watched back one set. Finally, I'm like, oh, swinging the court.

[Matt Dameron]

But you've got, like, you're. You've gotten more comfortable. The last show, way more comfortable. Y' all talked about it on the podcast, too. The Torrance show. Yeah, that was wild.

[Marty]

Yeah, that was fun. That was more comfortable doing that one, for sure.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, I have a joke. Not gonna give it up. It's. I think it's on my Instagram. But I just say in the joke, if I shot a black guy. Oh, yeah, right. I haven't hit the punchline yet. I said, if I go outside and shoot a black guy. And the table went, oh, I like this one. And I was like.

[Marty]

I said it. I didn't hear before.

[Matt Dameron]

I. Yes.

[Marty]

I just heard people going, no, this.

[Matt Dameron]

Is after I said the punchline, but I said, if I go outside and shoot a black guy. Dude, that table was like, oh, I like this one. I haven't even said the punchline.

[Marty]

Their hearts went.

[Matt Dameron]

That's supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.

[Marty]

The whole point of it is.

[Matt Dameron]

And then the punchline comes, and, dude, they were like, oh, I like this one. I was like, oh, my gosh. This is.

[Marty]

Yeah, I was on the side watching that. And when you went like this, and the. The dudes toward the back, like, what the is happening in this room? And then you said the punchline. Then people laugh like, there it is. That's what we're looking for, man. Not the kill black people.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, dude, that was wild. I didn't know what to do. I was like, just continue with the bit. I wanted to stop and be like, hey, that's kind of wild. That's kind of crazy. Why? Just. Why'd you do that guy?

[Marty]

In 20 minutes, you're gonna fight a black guy. You're gonna try to fight a. Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Did he say the N word?

[Marty]

Yeah, I called him that. The drunk guy that I said that was doing this. The guy with the red shirt and the glasses, he's. David, when he was on stage, said that. He called him that from the stage.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, my gosh.

[Marty]

That's why I'm like, damn. He was on stage. Remember how up he was?

[Matt Dameron]

I've never witnessed that in real life either.

[Marty]

It was incredible.

[Matt Dameron]

Like a white dude saying that. I've never.

[Marty]

It was just crazy to see and go, you're so comfortable with this. This is you every day. You're just drugging a bar, calling people. What the. Amazing to see. I thought this was only in this where you're from. I thought it was only North Carolina. They do like this. Not in South. South. Or was South Carolina in Southern California? Right by the beach. Yeah. Didn't think that was going to happen.

[Matt Dameron]

It was wild.

[Marty]

It's good stuff. Good.

[Matt Dameron]

It's a fun show. But that was. Yeah, that was. That was alarming when I heard that in my set.

[Marty]

Okay. Yeah. They weren't like that for me. Thank God I went first, man. I was so excited.

[Matt Dameron]

It's a great show. What was the name of that show? Outlaws. Gotta give him a shout out. That's a great.

[Marty]

Mom said yes.

[Matt Dameron]

Mom said yes.

[Marty]

Mom said yes. That's all I remember.

[Matt Dameron]

I love a good indie show, dude. I love good indie show.

[Marty]

When I walked in, like, oh, no, there's a game on. We're doing live things at the games on. When I came out and everything was off, thank God, I really thought we'd have to compete with baseball. We can't, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah, sure. The show I do about as a sports bar, I got so many TVs, I cut all. Everything off. But everybody in the room knows, oh, this is comedy. We're doing comedy tonight. Everybody knows that already.

[Marty]

And when do you do that show? What's the dates like? Like every.

[Matt Dameron]

It can always change because I always try to. Yeah.

[Marty]

And what is the place called?

[Matt Dameron]

Brew Masters.

[Marty]

Brew Masters. And what'd you call Woody?

[Matt Dameron]

Wilson.

[Marty]

Wilson.

[Matt Dameron]

Wilson.

[Marty]

All the syllables over there. So different.

[Matt Dameron]

I95, dude.

[Marty]

I95. Huh?

[Matt Dameron]

I knife. I goes through Wilson and Rocky Mount.

[Marty]

Sounds drug infested.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Marty]

A lot of empty trailers that are burnt out. A lot of meth cooking. Why not? Chefs. You have a lot of chefs.

[Matt Dameron]

Chefs.

[Marty]

Hey, man, they cut something.

[Matt Dameron]

Make it more inclusive.

[Marty]

Why not chefs. They might wear some kind of white, but the. Usually their hats are more pointy, These guys. Kids, today I have the grand wizard coming in to give you guys a speech. I love where you grew up. Incredible, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's fun.

[Marty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

It's riding. Riding four wheelers. Fishing, dude, yet Killing animals. Oh, hunting.

[Marty]

You've been hunting?

[Matt Dameron]

Hunt. I did small game hunting. No, just a.22 or a 12 gauge with buckshot.

[Marty]

What are you shooting?

[Matt Dameron]

Squirrels.

[Marty]

Just squirrels.

[Matt Dameron]

Hunt squirrels, man.

[Marty]

You eat them?

[Matt Dameron]

Tree rats? Yeah, I wouldn't kill them. Not eat them.

[Marty]

Stop, stop. You call them a tree right now? Yeah, I eat them.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

What squirrel tastes like, dude?

[Matt Dameron]

It sounds cliche, but, like. Like chicken. Like, fry. We would fry it.

[Marty]

Like, with me.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I'm not.

[Marty]

Huh?

[Matt Dameron]

Not at all. No.

[Marty]

All right. You're out there.

[Matt Dameron]

I will go down there and murder.

[Marty]

The smallest animal you can.

[Matt Dameron]

But these were, like, country squirrels. Like, you go to, like, Raleigh, North Carolina, or Charlotte. Like, squirrels come to you.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Because they're so friendly and they're fat.

[Marty]

They're bringing you a little acorn.

[Matt Dameron]

Country squirrels are like, you know, they come, right. They're looking. They're looking. Country squirrels are, like, looking to get away. They want to live. Dude, if it's like. I remember, like, grabbing my fool and just seeing the owls, like, greyhorn owls, dude. They were massive. Just their wingspan. And they were going down the trail, like, right in front of me.

[Marty]

I'm like, oh, my God, he's gonna get my dinner.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, we killed a muskrat one time.

[Marty]

What does that even look like?

[Matt Dameron]

I thought it was a beaver. I went down and tore a beaver dam up. Probably illegal.

[Marty]

Why'd you do that? You know how long it took them?

[Matt Dameron]

No, it wasn't the hut. It was the damn. But if that's a difference, man, if they. Oh, the dam did. It was a creek.

[Marty]

You gotta say.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, they go across. You go across the creek.

[Marty]

Our creeks have homes.

[Matt Dameron]

Damn the water up. Okay, so the water gets bigger. Like a creek.

[Marty]

Yeah, yeah. So you wouldn't break it up. Why'd you break it up?

[Matt Dameron]

Because I wanted to kill a beaver. My dad was saying, I want a beaver pill. And I didn't know he was kidding around. I was like, I'm gonna get my dad a beaver pelt.

[Marty]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Dameron]

So I went, put my waders on. I walked out and started ripping the dam apart so the water would start rolling. Went and sat on a rock. My buddy's up there. He's at my house. He's like two or three acres away at my house. And I unloaded on this. This. It was just a big old furry head coming down the creek because it was going to repair the dam. I thought I was a said beaver. And I shot it right Mexican. And at this time, the sun's coming down, it's getting dark. Can't see anything.

[Marty]

It's a cop. Excuse me.

[Matt Dameron]

So I come back, I go back to the house. I'm like, man, we got to go. We got to go find this thing. Got to go. I shot a beaver. He's like, okay. So I had a boat. We tied it to the back of the four wheeler and drove it all the way down to where the location was. And we get into the boat and we're rowing down the creek. And I got a spotlight and it's. It's on this little island, dude, about the size of this table. It was on there. And I was like, I was like, get out in the movies, like poke it, make sure it's dead. Dude, he did, dude, he did that. And it was like, oh. And I was like, hit. Hit a boat oar. I was like, hit it, hit it, Tim, hit it. And he like freaking. He hit it and it started screaming. It sounded like a girl screaming. It was like. And dude, my, my. I had a black lab at the time. Cassie, we caught. I caught a bone crusher. But dude, she swam out there and grabbed a hold of that thing, was freaking shaking it. My mom's up there, don't know where we are. She's freaking out. I come up on the floor. There's me, my buddy Tim and just this nasty looking. It's like a neutral, I think it's called a nutrient. Nutria. Nutria? Yeah, nutrients. Giant rat, massive.

[Marty]

Mom can hear you so far because of her line of work.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, yeah. She was furious. And then we come out of the woods with like this four wheeler and this nutrient rat like on the front. Dude, those teeth were gnarly.

[Marty]

I'm going to say this now. This sounds like standby me or some. Yeah, we went down the creek on the railroad tracks. We thought we killed him.

[Daniel Costas]

Did you skin this thing and give your dad.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I ended up burying it. And then the dog dug it up. And it had a cool skull though. Dog dug it up. Man, it's the most country. Yeah.

[Marty]

Got a boat.

[Matt Dameron]

Where we live. Where we live where. Where I grew up, it was like a. The. It was a pond. It's an old meal pond. And they actually had like, like rifle trenches from the Civil War that would go through the woods.

[Daniel Costas]

Oh.

[Matt Dameron]

Out in Red Oak, North Carolina.

[Marty]

You ever seen some ghosts?

[Matt Dameron]

Ghosts? Dude, that's another thing we did. So that's why you don't need weed.

[Marty]

You're ghost hunting and killing beavers.

[Matt Dameron]

So my brother, that's the teacher, he was helping out with the church youth group, right? He was like, he's gonna take him out there. He was like, you know what would be crazy? If you were a Confederate soldier and you went down there and I told the story about this Confederate soldier roaming the premises. Dude, I went down there and sat by a tree and waited for him to carry the church youth group down. And he just kept on, like, paying in the flashlight. And I would move tree to tree until it hit me. And, dude, they saw me. Dude, they lost it. The preacher's kid was cussing all the way through the room. Everybody, there's a bunch of little church kids running through. And so I started chasing them because I knew where the trails were. And I would, like, snuck up behind the pastor's kid. The pastor's just like, ah. I, like, grab, and I start dragging him away. Dude, that went too far.

[Marty]

As soon as you grabbed him, he's like, a ghost has me.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

That's too much, man. Also, you just got a outfit on hand.

[Matt Dameron]

No, it was a peacock.

[Marty]

They were just. They thought you were gonna rape them. Like, look at this man in a jacket's gonna rape me. That's what. That's what that was. They didn't think you were a Confederate soldier. They were like, look at this man in a jacket.

[Matt Dameron]

You know the pica. Yeah.

[Marty]

Did you have a hat?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't think I had a hat.

[Marty]

Then you didn't. They didn't think you were Confederate. They thought you were just.

[Matt Dameron]

No, but they were being told ghost stories on the way there, so they were. Yeah.

[Marty]

A great 90s movie right here.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Wow.

[Matt Dameron]

Pranks I love. Yeah, that was big prank.

[Marty]

All I think of you is literally with all the. And then thinking, why do you even have that? Like, yeah, I'll be the Confederate soldier.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a peo. And I had a.22, and I just.

[Marty]

Had a gun and a jacket. They definitely thought you were going to kill him, dude. They definitely thought you were a madman. I love this. That was great. That's why you don't smoke weed. I get it now. You had fun. You had. You had fun. Yeah, I didn't have fun like that. That's. That's awesome. Everything. One of those. All of that sounded better. Than any time with my friends I've ever had.

[Matt Dameron]

Scaring the church youth group, dude. Yeah.

[Marty]

Incredible. That's a. That's a. That's a Nickelodeon.

[Matt Dameron]

It's literally. My brother called me. Hey, he's the pastor. I gotta tell you that. He was a used pastor.

[Marty]

Preacher.

[Matt Dameron]

That's my older brother. Yeah, my older brother. He's the preacher, but. Oh, so the older. The older brother was. Is the teacher, but he was helping out with the youth group and they were coming from Greenville, North Carolina, Rocky Mountain or Red Oak.

[Marty]

You never did nothing in. In Jesus dwellings?

[Matt Dameron]

No, I mean, I went to church. That's about it.

[Marty]

Damn you.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I mean, I still believe. Yeah, I still have my beliefs. I still read the Bible like every day and stuff like that.

[Marty]

Oh, you do? Yeah, but don't you know it by now?

[Matt Dameron]

That's funny, dude. That's funny for real, though. No, I said, yeah, I still read the Bible every day.

[Marty]

Pray you definitely have Alzheimer's. Like, I've never seen this chapter. Like. Well, you read that every day.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I don't know. It's a big book.

[Marty]

I've never read it.

[Matt Dameron]

I have the Bible app, you know, they just freaking read.

[Marty]

Bible app.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Who owns it, dude?

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know who the. They're not making money off of it.

[Marty]

Okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, that's the thing.

[Marty]

That's.

[Matt Dameron]

That's why I'm so reluctant to say I'm a Christian. I'm so reluctant to do that because, like, if I say I'm a Christian, they're gonna be like, oh, Joel Olstein. I'm like, nah, I know. That is Joel Olsteen. He's a mega church pastor. He bought creepy hair Houston Rockets. Creepy hair guy where the Houston Rockets used to play.

[Marty]

He bought that.

[Matt Dameron]

That's his church.

[Marty]

Is he the man that looks like.

[Matt Dameron]

God wants you to have it?

[Marty]

Is he. Is he young?

[Matt Dameron]

You know, he wants you to have.

[Marty]

Is he young with the big hair? Yeah, yeah. He looks like a. Like. Like a Simpsons character.

[Matt Dameron]

Like there's. There's this, there's the few.

[Marty]

I think I know he is.

[Matt Dameron]

There's a few that ruin the rest. Rest everybody's reputation kind of deal. You know what I'm saying? It's like these mega church guys. Like, what are we doing?

[Marty]

I don't know how accurate is. Is a righteous gemstones then to the south, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Church it, man. Yeah, it's so funny.

[Marty]

I mean, is it accurate?

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, some of the. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm asking Some of the stuff. Yeah. I like it because it's not like. It's not making fun of Jesus and.

[Marty]

They sound like you.

[Matt Dameron]

It's making fun of, like, the things that the people do.

[Marty]

Of course they're not making fun of.

[Matt Dameron]

There was a thing called Power Team, right? Yeah. I would. I freaking love the Power team. They came to rock him out, dude. They really, like. They have. They'll tell you the testimony. They were like, break handcuffs or.

[Daniel Costas]

Dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Well, you would lose your mind.

[Matt Dameron]

The Righteous Gemstones had that same thing. What was it?

[Marty]

Oh, the group that they had the. The guy with the chains put together. The little fun group.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's real.

[Matt Dameron]

What was that?

[Marty]

I don't know, but that's like.

[Matt Dameron]

It was a God. What was it? God something.

[Marty]

I know what you're talking. I can't remember the name of it. It was all the dudes that you would hang out. You guys have that. That's right.

[Matt Dameron]

No, I was called the Power team. Yeah, they would, like, bust, like, Coke cans and freaking, but for Jesus. Yeah, Called the Power Team. That's why that whole thing in the Righteous Gemstones was so funny.

[Marty]

I just thought, like, dude, Church, Kevin's Army, God's whatever. Yeah, the dudes.

[Matt Dameron]

That. That is the Power Team.

[Marty]

That's incredible, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

The power take. Dude, I was in middle school.

[Marty]

You thought they were the coolest.

[Matt Dameron]

We got to go to the power of. Oh, Parkwood Baptist Church. Dude, they're in there, like, freaking breaking handcuffs and.

[Marty]

But, like, for what?

[Matt Dameron]

Jesus, man.

[Marty]

That's what I'm saying.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, no, they would do all this kind of, like, stuff, and then they would tell you their story or whatever.

[Marty]

I used to be gay and now I'm not.

[Matt Dameron]

I was even delivered.

[Marty]

For real.

[Matt Dameron]

I ain't gay no more. I've been delivered and then break. Can you remember that video that's on my.

[Marty]

I'm not gays no more, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

That's one of my.

[Marty]

I don't like man no more. That is the. The gayest man on earth. Saying that is the funniest.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude.

[Marty]

He's shaking as he says it.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Out of here. But he must be holding a platter like this just stands like this and talks. That was the gayest man I've ever seen. I don't like me no more is the best gift.

[Matt Dameron]

Did you like Riser Gemstones?

[Marty]

Of course.

[Matt Dameron]

I think it was, like, one of the best. One of the best.

[Marty]

Better than vice principals. Vice principals was right. Funny, too.

[Matt Dameron]

I had a buddy that was in that show. Yeah, the buddy I told you that it's a stuntman.

[Marty]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Gupton. Nice dude. Jason. Solid guy. But he said he had. He had. I think it was a scene where. What's his name, the lead character?

[Marty]

Danny McBride.

[Matt Dameron]

Danny McBride. Where he's like beating the. Beating a kid up or something. He said he was the kid. And how does he play the kid? The improv. He said, dude, it was like so hard to keep a straight face when Danny Rye was just freaking ripping.

[Marty]

He should be the main character.

[Matt Dameron]

If you can play a child, dude, like he did. He's you stuntman.

[Marty]

Grown man can play a child. Is he tiny?

[Matt Dameron]

He's small.

[Marty]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Dameron]

Small guy.

[Marty]

Okay, that's fine. Never mind.

[Matt Dameron]

I think he played like. I don't know, he plays a bunch of kids. Carl and like Walking Dead. I think he did something with him. He can. Yeah, he's small. He's tiny. But anything with wheels. Anything with wheels, dude. Skateboard, bike, anything. Like his whole backyard's like a skate park.

[Marty]

It's crazy back there, dude, to be a stuntman. But yeah, yeah, I'm gonna break something. But like, I'll roll tonight. Like that AI this I tell like.

[Matt Dameron]

If you're around him and like, oh, yeah, it's stunt man. Like I just fall down.

[Marty]

I just fall down.

[Matt Dameron]

I fall down.

[Marty]

Real cool. Yeah, that sounds fun. I thought I was stunt man as a kid, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

The funny thing is he still. He still lives where I live. Yeah, he's like. He's in the new. The New Roof man movie. Like he's doing all this cool stuff. Like he's still. That's why our lives are kind of similar as well. Sometimes we'll try to get together like once a. Once a month and.

[Marty]

Just a bunch of entertainment. Coming out of North Carolina, huh?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Random. Cool. And Michael Jordan.

[Matt Dameron]

Michael Jordan. He still does the big rock fishing tournament every year.

[Marty]

Are you allowed to be near him?

[Matt Dameron]

No, no.

[Marty]

40 yards away.

[Matt Dameron]

It's like a big rock's like a million dollar like fishing tournament everybody goes to every year in Morehead City. And he's big hats dude. Big. No, it's like a bunch of white rednecks. A lot of Salt life gear. You have Salt Life out here?

[Marty]

I have.

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, what guy? Harvey Salt Life. These? Yeah.

[Marty]

Knives.

[Matt Dameron]

Everyone. Everyone looks the same.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

But yeah, he's at his sleeveless. A lot of sleeveless, massive fishing boat he goes out on. Everybody's trying to like catch pictures because like all the boats go out at the same time kind of deal. They all come Back and they weigh their fish brain keeps going straight to being horrible.

[Marty]

That's not good. I just wanted to say the most horrible. Like, everybody's trying to catch him. Like, he got away. Like, this is South.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, there's, like, people throwing cigars at his boat. You know, I'm not gonna touch that.

[Marty]

That's what he's thinking.

[Matt Dameron]

Probably.

[Marty]

Hell, yeah. He's not gonna touch some. This redneck through a cigar.

[Matt Dameron]

You know when you made it as an athlete, when you get people killing people for shoes? Yeah, I think you made it.

[Marty]

I gotta be honest, though. It could be, if I can. A dick on the back of those. People still kill each other for shoes, I don't think. I think it's just like, they have some sick Jordans. Are. Yeah, there's a dick on these ones, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

It. Like, I was with my buddy, and I found out that that was, like, the code word. Like, oh, you have some nice shoes. What do you think when somebody says, you have nice shrubbed? Yeah. Somebody said, you have New York.

[Marty]

That's New York.

[Matt Dameron]

It was actually in New York.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

And we're in a bow.

[Daniel Costas]

Like, somebody compliments you. Like, them shits are nice, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. And, like, I was like, I think that's not good. And I looked around. I was like, I think. And I walked outside because I thought he was behind me. He's still in there.

[Marty]

I think. That's not good.

[Matt Dameron]

I get a block away and, like, oh, he's still in the bodega. And I run back to the bodega, and they're still talking about his shoes. I'm literally like, I saw this, like, snow shovel hanging above my head. I was like. Well, because, like, the dude was like. One guy was complimenting the shoes, and the other guy next to him was, like, kind of like, I know him, but he's kind of acting up right now. So I was like, I'm gonna have to grab this shovel and beat this guy.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's a New York thing.

[Matt Dameron]

It wasn't. Yeah, yeah, we were in New York.

[Marty]

Yeah. Well, one of my friends from New York is like, only one. He told me about getting robbers. She's like, you get rob for your shoes? What are you talking about? Yeah, you know, come out of the apartment building. Bam, the stairway. There's two fools waiting for you already. Like, what are you saying? He's like, I got Rob for my Nikes ninth grade. Like, this is real. Not just like an hocus pocus where they take his shoes. I never see get robbed for their.

[Matt Dameron]

Shoes or did you get robbed for your shoes? No, no, I've never got rob.

[Daniel Costas]

I don't have anybody ass size twelves. And we want some shirts.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I don't.

[Marty]

They do. They do.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't have nice shoes either. I was like, man, don't say rob. My shoes. I don't like. I don't have my shoes.

[Marty]

Definitely not. But you want some DCs? You don't want no DCs or etney's. Get out of here.

[Matt Dameron]

That's how you get away for that.

[Daniel Costas]

I didn't get my Jordan took and vandalized one time. I didn't forget about that either. But it was in house.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Marty]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's different. That's different. Getting robbed for your shoes and walking home. I'm plotting on death.

[Daniel Costas]

No, I essentially had a younger foster brother who wrote pen on my twos one time.

[Matt Dameron]

And I.

[Daniel Costas]

But we had like shared clothes.

[Matt Dameron]

We'd like, remember you remember baseball cards for deck. Baseball cards.

[Marty]

Of course.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. My brothers had like a collection and I was like young and I crawled in their room and I ate one of their cards. It was like the most mantle card, like a 500 car. And I ate it.

[Marty]

Why did you eat.

[Matt Dameron]

They got back from school, they were not happy.

[Marty]

How old were you?

[Matt Dameron]

I was a child. How old yesterday? Look.

[Marty]

He can't talk and he's eating my baseball cards.

[Matt Dameron]

Look, he's not talking. He's eating paper. Somebody get him some help.

[Marty]

We gotta take it.

[Matt Dameron]

Does he have his tetanus shot? What's going on?

[Marty]

It was the hit. My dad took that me up. That's what happened. He got hit so hard. Your kids are gonna not.

[Matt Dameron]

And I forgot the name of that car. But they were. They. They don't remember. They don't forget that one.

[Marty]

What do you remember going?

[Matt Dameron]

I crawled in the room and I ate it. I don't remember it.

[Marty]

Oh, you don't remember?

[Matt Dameron]

No.

[Marty]

Oh, that's different. You're a kid.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

If you remember that. I just want to know what you were thinking, that's all.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, that'd be funny. It's very sadistic. If I did that on purpose, I'm just gonna eat there.

[Marty]

Oh, you did do it on purpose.

[Matt Dameron]

But yeah, I mean, no, you went.

[Daniel Costas]

In there with little Frank's hot sauce.

[Matt Dameron]

Lowry season salt.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah. You'd be cooking beef. This will just broke his vegetarian.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Why?

[Marty]

Oh, yeah. Marty's not a vegetarian no more.

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

How long you been doing it years too long.

[Marty]

His whole life.

[Daniel Costas]

Damn near basically my whole life, really?

[Matt Dameron]

You're still a vegan, right?

[Marty]

A vegetarian.

[Matt Dameron]

Vegetarian. You're gonna break it.

[Marty]

No, no, I'm cool right now.

[Matt Dameron]

Cool.

[Daniel Costas]

Let's go shoot me a beaver in the hat.

[Marty]

Turns out it's a big ass rat.

[Matt Dameron]

Welcome to New York, dude. I can't. I couldn't do it. I couldn't even do it for fun, being a vegetarian. I couldn't do it.

[Marty]

Just imagine this. Don't.

[Matt Dameron]

I love barbecue. Besides, that's my escape out of the comedy is like, yeah, ribs. Freaking eastern North Carolina barbecue. And, yeah, barbecue. I love barbecue.

[Marty]

That's why you don't need drugs. You have a hobby. It's cooking, sports, church. You read the Bible every. Do you keep a Bible in your pocket, like one?

[Matt Dameron]

I got the Bible app.

[Marty]

Oh, that's right. So you do.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, technically.

[Marty]

Damn it. I wanted it to be like, all marked up, like, true, true.

[Matt Dameron]

Little mark's like, yeah, have a notepad, pencil.

[Marty]

The only thing I know. And people are gonna get mad. I just know if I read him and go, that's not real. This is a metaphor. Say it's a metaphor. Don't. Don't say that. He's a giant. He didn't hit him with a rock. He just crushed him. And that was over. You think Bart Simpson's gonna take down Andre the Giant with a. No, it doesn't. Just because you have a slingshot doesn't mean that's what I think.

[Matt Dameron]

And the crazy thing is I don't forced to, you know, force my whatever, believe on anybody. You know what I'm saying?

[Marty]

He's kicking me right now.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't do that. Like, people believe whatever you want. A little thing in the planet the size of a pin cap exploded, and now we're here. Okay, maybe I don't believe that. Okay, if you do.

[Marty]

No, it's fine.

[Matt Dameron]

And who cares? But, like, we're like, different opinions as people. Like maybe a couple years ago, oh, you don't have the same opinion as I do now. I hate you.

[Marty]

Yeah, I just started.

[Matt Dameron]

Well, why did you do that?

[Marty]

I just started.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude, that's crazy to me.

[Marty]

It's just.

[Matt Dameron]

It's just because, like, me, politically, I'm. I'm in the. I sound like a conservative, but then I hang out with conservative friends. They call me liberal. I got my liberal friends. They call me conservative. I'm kind of in the middle. We get to talking, but where do the conversations go? Like. Like, why can't we Just disagree. That's cool. It's a good guy. We just disagree.

[Marty]

That's it exactly. Dude, doesn't. I think the world's turning into Reddit. Like, Reddit was on the Internet. Now it's like in life. And people from Reddit.

[Matt Dameron]

I mean, the social dilemma documentary was like, mind blowing for me. I was like, that is, dude, everyone needs to watch it. If you have anything. It was the people who invented like the like button for Facebook, the algorithm for YouTube. Like, all these people dicks. And they're talking pretty much. Like, some of them don't allow their children to be on it because they're like, the AI is more powerful than we know. You look at your Explore page on Instagram, that that's what you like.

[Marty]

Not all the time, because they'll be putting some on there. And I'm like, why is this allowed and why is this on my page?

[Matt Dameron]

Oh, like murder stuff.

[Marty]

No, no, murder stuff happens all the time. Like, why the is there a breastfeeding on my page? Remember, for like a week straight, I screenshotted, like, there's like seven in a row to show Rosie. Like, look.

[Matt Dameron]

I can't get rid of it.

[Marty]

Heart means. What? What does heart mean? Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't know.

[Marty]

No, it's some.

[Matt Dameron]

They're literally trying to figure out what you like, though.

[Marty]

Oh, no, no.

[Matt Dameron]

But that's the way they get away with it. Like, my wife, my wife sent me a meme today talking about, like, oh, I looked at Sydney Sweeney's like, dress on the Vanity Fair thing and look like, now it's just boobs.

[Marty]

I'm like, yeah, it's AIs. A little 14 year old horn little bastard.

[Matt Dameron]

Because I think, like, the thing is, like, there's echo chambers too, right? So when election period goes around, they push this election stuff on. Now it's on your feeds. So not everybody's thinking like, you, because this guy's over here has a whole different feed.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Dameron]

You know what I'm saying?

[Marty]

That's true.

[Matt Dameron]

And the social dilemma is kind of like, kind of like, yes, separated us more for sure.

[Marty]

Yeah. And then everybody in their house for.

[Matt Dameron]

Four years, like, no, not to get like, way too serious, but, like, I was listening. I was trying to formulate my thoughts about Charlie Kirk. You know, like, some people said, like, he was racist, some people said, like, really loved them. Blah, blah, like, and I think Andrew Schultz said it best. He was a victim of the algorithm. Whatever you thought about Charlie Kirk before he was murdered was what they were Going to show you.

[Marty]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Dameron]

So that they like, oh, there's a black person as a pilot. I'm gonna question. Like, that was cut and put everywhere.

[Marty]

Because I've seen that whole clip.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, the whole clip is not.

[Marty]

I've seen the whole clip.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, because he's talking about in the whole experience.

[Marty]

Not just.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes. Not that piece.

[Marty]

I've seen that piece before. Before too.

[Matt Dameron]

Not that piece.

[Marty]

I've seen that. Who the.

[Matt Dameron]

Because I never followed the guy.

[Marty]

I watch this on YouTube sometimes with Rosie at night. I. With debates.

[Matt Dameron]

Look, I like debates. Prove them wrong.

[Marty]

I like that aspect. I don't agree with everything.

[Matt Dameron]

This is the thing. When he got. When people started celebrating his death, that made me go say, okay, gross. I'm watching this stuff now.

[Marty]

Yep, that's his.

[Matt Dameron]

What? Why?

[Marty]

Yeah, it's gross.

[Matt Dameron]

Let me watch.

[Marty]

We talked about on here. It's gross that people just like stoked about it.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. When you're celebrating. No, you're celebrating. Yes.

[Marty]

R. Kelly was peeing on faces.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. 14 year olds put on remix.

[Marty]

Not enough.

[Matt Dameron]

Still gonna dance.

[Marty]

Thank you. Hey, man. He should be beat up.

[Matt Dameron]

You can disagree with like, he did have some really good points though. You be. Oh, that's. Yeah, that's.

[Marty]

We're talking about facts and debate and logic. 80% of the time that guy was pretty much on the head.

[Matt Dameron]

Go.

[Marty]

I mean, you are right. You're too harsh. That f. Things in black and white. That's the only thing I have about that guy. He's like, yeah, all immigrants go.

[Matt Dameron]

All.

[Marty]

What about schools that need to go, that need to live here or they die like you do. You're being too harsh.

[Matt Dameron]

I think it was a master of like, I'm going to say these trigger words now. You're listening.

[Marty]

That too. But most of the time, like.

[Matt Dameron]

But I don't think he was racist. I don't think he had a lot of black friends in his corner. But like, you know, most of the.

[Marty]

You're saying is true. Factually, sometimes with no empathy.

[Matt Dameron]

Even with comedy. If I'm writing something that's edgy with rice, pick up a phone, make a phone call.

[Marty]

I know it.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Just to see a barometer. Because I'm a white guy. I can't be up there like, do you know?

[Marty]

Oh, yeah. True, true.

[Matt Dameron]

So I'll call.

[Marty]

All right. That's different. That's different.

[Matt Dameron]

There's a very funny comedian out of North Carolina, Brandon Roberts, caller. Boom. Black lesbian, freaking hilarious caller. See where like and run the bit.

[Marty]

By if she Hangs up on me. I know. It's too much.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, she's not. She's. She's a comedian. She gets it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, she gets. You can say some wild, crazy stuff.

[Daniel Costas]

As a black comedian responding.

[Matt Dameron]

Would you be super pissed if I said no? Yeah, it's. There's a lot of soft people out there, too, waiting to be offended. Yeah, I was. This quote hit me. I forgot who said it, but they said being offended is a choice. Yeah, Think about this, think about that.

[Marty]

Of course it is.

[Matt Dameron]

Being offended is a choice.

[Marty]

Just don't care about it.

[Matt Dameron]

I can hear stuff that. Like, when I. When I first started comedy, there was this one joke that somebody told and my skin stung and I got mad and I was like, if I. If I'm going to be doing this, I can't let that bother me. I disagree. And that's it. And guess what? Me and that guy, we went to the bar that night and had a couple beers. Fun. He just said something I disagree with. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? There's. People just want to be.

[Marty]

They can't throw away the whole person because, like, oh, that's your belief. Well, if they believe that, they're a piece of. Maybe they're not enlightened enough yet, man. Maybe you used to think different things and now you don't. You're like, dad was ignorant. Why can't that be for everybody?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

I don't know.

[Matt Dameron]

I try not to be offensive, you know, but, like, hey, your whole goal is to make a room full of strangers laugh. But if there's two people in there, they get mad, but the rest are laughing. Who's wrong? Or one person out of 100 gets me.

[Marty]

I get it.

[Matt Dameron]

Who's wrong? Or like, 99 people are having fun. Should we change the way we talk and act because one person out of a hundred is offended or mad?

[Marty]

This is the speech that the grand wizard gave. But if one one gets mad, should we change the way we talk?

[Matt Dameron]

Gerard, quit being so soft, man.

[Marty]

Like, I gave you the lowercase n and the soft r. Oh, I said ah.

[Matt Dameron]

Anyone?

[Marty]

A h?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Yeah. I like it. I like where this is headed. I don't know.

[Matt Dameron]

I like that I'm all over the place. We're all over the place.

[Marty]

It's all good.

[Daniel Costas]

How long?

[Marty]

We've been here, like, three hours. Oh, my God. I'm kidding. We've been here for two hours and 45 minutes. It's a long time.

[Matt Dameron]

Dude. Time plots when you're Having fun.

[Marty]

It does.

[Matt Dameron]

See, that was a good time, being around you, dude.

[Marty]

I love it, man. It's always fun. Yeah, it's always fun. And now you guys are here.

[Matt Dameron]

I didn't know everything you did.

[Marty]

It's a lot of.

[Matt Dameron]

A lot. Yeah. I was like, oh, he's starting. Comedy does something with weed. Okay. And then, yeah, more. We hung out. We were like, dude, I don't know how you keep your life together.

[Marty]

Marty's helping me set up a Google Excel sheet or no Google sheets, Right?

[Daniel Costas]

What kinds of shit So I can.

[Marty]

Be organized, because I am not. It's bad. It's bad. It's, it's a lot, It's a lot of stuff piled under itself.

[Daniel Costas]

How the.

[Marty]

You're supposed to. And then I'm like, yeah, I'll perform tonight with. Dude, I got. I was supposed to film a video tonight, but now I'll do it after the sets, you know, tonight, late night. I'll figure it out.

[Matt Dameron]

You're busy, dude, we're busy.

[Marty]

But it's gonna be worth it.

[Matt Dameron]

I have a hard time just keeping up with my travel schedule, where I'm supposed to be, and then getting back home, taking care of the house.

[Marty]

Oh, I get it.

[Matt Dameron]

Being a husband, you know, like, and then right back on the road, just like. Yeah.

[Marty]

Being on the road like you are is different. I, I, that's, that's. You can't be almost, can't, almost can't be productive at all unless you have somebody back home physically doing it. It's hard. I get it.

[Matt Dameron]

I try to get it back, like, early as flat I can, man. Freaking get back. Get back to North Carolina. But the thing about hour away from the, you know, airport.

[Marty]

It's a lot, all that. And you're staying out there? Yeah, it's going to be a lot, but it'll be fun.

[Matt Dameron]

I stay like in, in the middle of the city. I mean, I don't have to go far from anywhere where I live. So it's like, it's fun. It's great. It's a good time.

[Marty]

What? Hold on real quick. What date does this come out?

[Daniel Costas]

I don't know.

[Marty]

It's like the 10th or 11th. Ish. Right. What's the next date for you?

[Matt Dameron]

Next shows I headline playhouse. Jacksonville, North Carolina.

[Marty]

When?

[Matt Dameron]

That'll be November 15th.

[Marty]

Oh. What? All right, so perfect. You say Jacksonville, North Carolina?

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, @ Playhouse.

[Marty]

Oh, headlining.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, it's the first. I think I did my first headline spot there. They hit me up, wanted me to come back. Dude. Yeah, it's fun when you get a headline. It's so much fun. It's just don't, you know, in my head and like, oh, 15, 20 minutes. Gotta stay here.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

You know, and even when you're riffing, you go off the cuff, you're like, come back. Yeah.

[Marty]

That's why I'm like, getting high as something like, oh, yeah, over there. I had that thing come back. I forgot about you. Yeah. Trying to remember a TV show and go, well, it's gone.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

30 minutes later it comes back. I don't have 30 minutes. Yeah, I said, remember right now?

[Matt Dameron]

But I'm with David Lucas, dude. A lot.

[Marty]

So where tickets on David Lucas, then?

[Matt Dameron]

David Lucas.

[Marty]

Funny.

[Matt Dameron]

Davidfunny.com I think.

[Marty]

And that's when you get all the tickets.

[Matt Dameron]

Right. Feature for him. Yeah. And sometimes even when I'm not on the road with him, I'm either working for him. So they. The killers will kill Tony. I'll be like, selling merch for him and stuff like that.

[Marty]

Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Marty]

Okay. So on online, because there's no website. So basically, Matt Dameron on Instagram.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. Matt Damon, comedy on Instagram.

[Marty]

And your Twitter, he's like, I just read politics, so don't do Twitter, dude.

[Matt Dameron]

My whole Twitter is just politics. Anyway.

[Marty]

It's okay. Do you. Do you actively post on there or.

[Matt Dameron]

No. No. Oh, no.

[Marty]

You should definitely start posting on Twitter as much as you post.

[Matt Dameron]

Yes.

[Marty]

I feel like Twitter's where the most were comedians live. Instagram is just where they post their. Their line. Their lineups and setups and tours. Twitter's where people live in comedy. That's why I think that's why I see them active as it's talking.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, that is true.

[Marty]

It's way more interesting.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't still have any followers on Twitter. It's like, almost like, where am I put my. Like, I. I usually try to post something once a week on my Instagram because that's a good pace.

[Marty]

Post more on the story. That's once a day on the story. Because then it keeps you active in people's feeds.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

So when you post, it's not like, well, he hasn't posted.

[Matt Dameron]

And I just started posting on Instagram like last year.

[Marty]

So post that. Whatever you post on Instagram, post on Twitter.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Daniel Costas]

Might go better.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah. It couldn't hurt, I guess.

[Marty]

No, it can't hurt. Can only.

[Matt Dameron]

Not at all. Yeah, yeah.

[Marty]

It can only help, dude.

[Daniel Costas]

Yeah.

[Matt Dameron]

Matt Damon, comedy Instagram. I think it's Matt Damon coming on Facebook too. Yeah.

[Marty]

All right. Anything else? Oh, wait, what's your. Don't you have your merch?

[Matt Dameron]

I took down the link.

[Marty]

No.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

What the.

[Matt Dameron]

I gotta figure it out. Yeah.

[Marty]

All right, well, never mind. Damn it.

[Matt Dameron]

I do get merch. I got like some pretty sweet tism tease is what I say.

[Marty]

Tism tease.

[Matt Dameron]

Tis and tease.

[Marty]

But you got to find it in person.

[Matt Dameron]

It says everyone has a little tism on it.

[Marty]

Oh, yeah, we talked about it on here. Yeah, I like the show.

[Matt Dameron]

Fun. It's good fun. I have a joke about it.

[Marty]

You have to find me in person. Put your link back up.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, I gotta put the link back up.

[Marty]

Just do it, man. Yeah, get you printing on YouTube or whatever and they'll just ship it for you. Yeah, just right. You'd be asleep. People buy a shirt. It.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, they said, I think I've sold over a thousand of them.

[Marty]

That's what I'm saying. You just sell them all. It's more of a viral click that you see on Instagram. Like sponsored ad.

[Matt Dameron]

Huh? Yeah, that's the kind of little tism in them.

[Marty]

See, that would sell real fast. In the back. Just put it. Dude, put your app. Put your Instagram on the tag. The. Because that. That's a. I'm just saying for somebody that sells clothes, that's.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah.

[Marty]

You see at Spencer's and Tilly's just like in the front in a girl's crop top and a sweater and a mug. Everybody thinks they're autistic now.

[Daniel Costas]

True.

[Marty]

Everybody.

[Daniel Costas]

It's in.

[Marty]

It's in.

[Matt Dameron]

It is autism. It's annoyingly in, isn't it not?

[Daniel Costas]

My wife assigns issues to everybody.

[Matt Dameron]

Like, oh, they want to put slap a label.

[Marty]

Yeah, I'm just lazy, not autistic. My autism causes me to not finish my eight hour shift. You. You're.

[Matt Dameron]

You're grasping at straws. You want to be labeled something to like. A lot of things were like, jerks, like, right. Oh, I'm just autistic. I'm like, no, you're not. You're just an ass.

[Marty]

Oh, he has Asperger's. He called me a spicy. That's just an Asperger's thing. Like. No, it's not. He's just an.

[Matt Dameron]

Right.

[Marty]

Yeah, we agree. Okay.

[Daniel Costas]

All right.

[Marty]

Matt Dameron on All on Instagram put it. Go on Twitter. Start posting more on Twitter. Is it.

[Matt Dameron]

Is that the name Something on Instagram? I don't know.

[Marty]

No, on Twitter.

[Matt Dameron]

I don't even know what is it on Twitter. Oh, my God, dude, I'm sorry. I gotta help you, dude. Yeah, I can find it. I'm on an X all the time.

[Marty]

I'm on X all the time. Reading people's political beliefs.

[Matt Dameron]

I am.

[Marty]

Do you follow any preachers?

[Matt Dameron]

Maddie D. Vines.

[Marty]

Maddie D. Vines. You hate Vine. Change it.

[Matt Dameron]

Because remember, Twitter bought Vine. So that was the handle. Yeah, I'd probably need to change that.

[Marty]

Twitter bought my. What do you mean?

[Matt Dameron]

Twitter bought Vine.

[Marty]

Oh, bought Vine. Yeah, it was your. I thought you said mine. I couldn't.

[Matt Dameron]

Yeah, Matt Damon.

[Marty]

Hey, man, just change his name anymore. Yeah, change the name. Anyway, the link will be there, guys, in the description. Marty, you got anything else?

[Daniel Costas]

Appreciate you. I'm excited for all the shows coming.

[Marty]

Up and it's gonna be sick. Yeah. Saturday.

[Matt Dameron]

Marty gonna come out?

[Daniel Costas]

Oh, yeah.

[Marty]

He's coming Saturday.

[Matt Dameron]

Hell, yeah.

[Marty]

Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

[Matt Dameron]

It's called Grand Old Time.

[Marty]

Same lineup. No. Nobody knew, right?

[Matt Dameron]

Nah, me and. Yeah, David.

[Marty]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, it just passed. It was super sick. It's Tuesday.

[Matt Dameron]

It was great.

[Marty]

It was tired.

[Matt Dameron]

Stories will be told.

[Marty]

A lot of them would be.

[Matt Dameron]

Drinking will be had.

[Marty]

Yes, sir. Someone's gonna eat wings. It's pretty much the comic shows.

[Matt Dameron]

Wings. Yeah.

[Marty]

Destroy blue cheese. Every show I've been to, there's a lot of chicken bones. Yeah, yeah. Somebody's eating chicken bones at all times. You ready, Marty? Marty. Yeah. Yeah, me too. Get it, dog. Oh, yeah. Now he is sucking on them bones.

[Matt Dameron]

Damn right.

[Marty]

All right, Matt. Thanks for being here, dude. Appreciate you.

[Matt Dameron]

Thank you.

[Marty]

Thank you, Marty.

[Matt Dameron]

Appreciate you, Marty.

[Marty]

Guys, this has been the dope, as usual podcast. Thank you for being here. Have a dope ass day.

[Matt Dameron]

Perfect, perfect, perfect.