Ed Bassmaster's first podcast | History Hyenas

Summary

Podcast Summary: History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas Episode: Ed Bassmaster's First Podcast
Release Date: July 24, 2025

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Introduction

Welcome to another electrifying episode of History Hyenas with your hosts, Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas. In this episode, they are joined by the multifaceted comedian and YouTuber, Ed Bassmaster, to delve into the world of character-driven comedy, content creation, and the balancing act between personal life and viral fame.

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Introducing Ed Bassmaster

At [01:55], Yannis introduces Ed Bassmaster as the creative force behind numerous memorable characters.

Yannis Pappas [01:55]: "We are sitting here with the man behind many characters."

Ed playfully responds, setting a humorous tone for the episode.

Ed Bassmaster [02:00]: "I'm a retard. How you doing?"

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The Art of Character Creation

The conversation progresses to the intricacies of developing and embodying various comedic characters.

Chris Distefano [02:10]: "You need a minority character. You need to be able to transform out."

Ed emphasizes the importance of commitment to make characters believable.

Ed Bassmaster [02:03]: "I'm kidding. I just want to say that."

They discuss the challenges and dedication required to transform into different personas, highlighting Ed's commitment to his craft.

Chris Distefano [03:11]: "I was medicated like eight years ago by my doctor and then I just said, you know this. I'm just gonna take control of my life."

YouTube and Viral Content

Ed shares his journey on YouTube, discussing how his characters like Chip Diamond garnered millions of views and influenced other content creators.

Chris Distefano [09:25]: "But I think we should do a 20 part series on Demeo because he was a sick fuck."

Yannis and Ed reflect on the evolution of prank content and the fine line between humor and controversy.

Ed Bassmaster [29:54]: "What are you saying? Borat? Why are you giving it, like a French accent?"

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Balancing Fame and Personal Life

The hosts and Ed delve into the impact of online fame on personal relationships and family dynamics. Ed discusses his four children and how his son's rise on Instagram has affected his family.

Chris Distefano [13:21]: "I have four kids and my son's doing pretty good, got 8 million followers already."

They also touch upon the pressures of content creation and the importance of maintaining authenticity.

Ed Bassmaster [37:35]: "You realize like this it's not going to end well."

Challenges in Content Creation

The trio discusses the difficulties of producing consistent content without compromising creative freedom. Chris shares his struggles with maintaining a regular upload schedule due to personal commitments.

Chris Distefano [12:00]: "There’s just so many opportunities that I don't do and the regular continuity."

Ed compares the relentless nature of modern content creation to a "hamster wheel," advocating for periods of creative rest.

Ed Bassmaster [22:44]: "We are just content machines now. It's not going to end well."

Collaborations and Influence

Ed highlights his collaborations with other YouTubers and comedians, such as Jack Vale and Tony Deboss, discussing how these partnerships have shaped his content.

Chris Distefano [39:57]: "He was a random guy that I stumbled upon and got this viral video."

Yannis and Ed commend Chris for inspiring a new generation of pranksters.

Ed Bassmaster [33:57]: "I've done stuff with them. Hit me up like back in, maybe five, six years ago."

Touring and Live Performances

The conversation shifts to live performances, with Chris elaborating on his touring schedule and experiences performing both in character and as himself.

Chris Distefano [42:24]: "I'm on a run with Tony Deboss right now, and he's hilarious."

Ed shares insights on managing live shows and ensuring fair treatment with venue owners.

Ed Bassmaster [43:13]: "He's grilling the owner like, yeah, this ain't what I agreed to."

Reflecting on Comedy and Controversy

The hosts discuss the thin line between edgy comedy and offense, addressing backlash received for certain characters.

Chris Distefano [46:16]: "People are constantly yelling out, I work. I work."

They debate the responsibility of comedians to represent communities respectfully while maintaining their comedic edge.

Ed Bassmaster [47:47]: "We're like, yeah, okay. And I'm not exactly."

Community Engagement and Patreon

Towards the end, Yannis and Ed promote their Patreon community, encouraging listeners to join for exclusive content and rewards.

Ed Bassmaster [48:25]: "Patreon.com/historyhyenas, as always."

They also engage in a humorous segment reading out listener-submitted funny names, fostering a sense of community and interaction.

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with heartfelt thanks to Ed Bassmaster for his contributions and a reminder for listeners to check out upcoming shows and exclusive Patreon content.

Chris Distefano [48:25]: "Thank you, thank you. Thank you."

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Notable Quotes:

• Chris Distefano [03:11]: "I was medicated like eight years ago by my doctor and then I just said, you know this. I'm just gonna take control of my life."
• Ed Bassmaster [29:54]: "What are you saying? Borat? Why are you giving it, like a French accent?"
• Ed Bassmaster [37:35]: "You realize like this it's not going to end well."
• Chris Distefano [46:16]: "People are constantly yelling out, I work. I work."
• Ed Bassmaster [47:47]: "We're like, yeah, okay. And I'm not exactly."

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Key Takeaways:

1. Character Development: Successful comedic characters require deep commitment and nuanced portrayal to resonate with audiences.

2. Content Creation Challenges: Balancing consistent content production with personal life demands is a significant hurdle for modern creators.

3. Influence and Collaboration: Collaborations with other content creators can amplify reach and inspire new generations.

4. Handling Controversy: Ed and the hosts emphasize the importance of respectful representation in comedy while pushing creative boundaries.

5. Community Building: Engaging with listeners through platforms like Patreon fosters a loyal and interactive fanbase.

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For those interested in the intersection of history, humor, and viral content creation, this episode offers an insightful and entertaining exploration of Ed Bassmaster's journey and the broader landscape of modern comedy.

Transcript

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

We got merch coming out. Our store is about to be built. Patreon.com history Hyenas for all the goodies. What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. We are sitting here with the man behind many characters.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's right. Another one of these YouTube retards, hearts ed Bassmaster, sir.

[Chris Distefano]

I'm a retard. How you doing?

[Giannis Papas]

How you doing?

[Chris Distefano]

How you doing? I'm a retard. Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I'm kidding. I just want to say that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. You're a funny guy.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you.

[Giannis Papas]

You're a funny, funny guy. I've been following you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Loves you.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you.

[Giannis Papas]

For a long time, I love the characters. I do characters myself. And it's very nice when you can hide behind a character and just say a lot of wild things.

[Chris Distefano]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And you go out in the world.

[Chris Distefano]

And you do it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But what Ed. What I like about Ed Bass at Bassmaster is he said before, that's his real name. Yeah. Changed your name and became a trans woman. Ed went on as Ed.

[Giannis Papas]

I did. I started living as her for a long time.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Ed is Ed.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. When you're doing the characters, are you thinking as them as well?

[Chris Distefano]

Absolutely. Yeah, Absolutely.

[Giannis Papas]

You do full. That's why they so believe. Well, you commit, dude.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And I got to be honest, you look fantastic. You're a 53 year old kid and look at how. I mean you look. Literally 25 years old.

[Chris Distefano]

I know. Yeah, thanks.

[Giannis Papas]

It's you know who, right?

[Chris Distefano]

52.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. I'm sorry about that.

[Giannis Papas]

Your matters.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I didn't mean that.

[Giannis Papas]

I wouldn't.

[Chris Distefano]

After 50 every year matters for sure.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You look really now. How's your cholesterol, blood pressure? How we doing?

[Chris Distefano]

Very good. On top of it. I. I was medicated like eight years ago by my doctor and then I just said, you know this. I'm just gonna take control of my life. And I did. And ever since then everything's normal.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Dude. Wait, so you on pills though?

[Chris Distefano]

I was. Not anymore. I stopped. Oh yeah? Yeah. I started just. I cut out processed meat and all this. That causes high cholesterol and went back. I've been. I go back for blood work once a year and I'm good. I'm a good healthy 50, 52 year old guy.

[Giannis Papas]

You gotta. There comes to a certain point where you just start developing a relationship with your dad. Doctors.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just a check in. You got it. You got, you get, you get to about 40 or 50, there just comes a point where you got to do regular check ins to make sure you don't die.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Right now we could die.

[Chris Distefano]

Absolutely.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Middle aged kids with three middle aged guys right here.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I'm a middle aged kid. I'm going to be 41. But I am middle aged.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. We are three middle aged white guys. Now the thing that me and Ed could do is we could become not middle aged guys and we can skirt by. You're always going to just be a middle aged guy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

What do you mean?

[Giannis Papas]

You need a trans character.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, that's right. Yes.

[Chris Distefano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

You need a minority character. You need to be able to transform out.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Now, because ed, because you're 52 year old. 52 year old, honey. With a body. What was the highest your cholesterol was?

[Chris Distefano]

I don't, I don't remember the numbers. My doctor told me, you know, it was high. He read me the numbers. I don't know the numbers.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Now you a Jewish kid?

[Chris Distefano]

I'm Italian, Puerto Rican and Russian Joe.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Wow.

[Chris Distefano]

My mom.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It's Bassmaster.

[Chris Distefano]

The archmaster is Italian actually. Yeah, I don't know. Yep. Yeah, that's.

[Giannis Papas]

No, it's just how you pronounce it. Bassmaster.

[Chris Distefano]

No, it's Rodriguez is my birth name. So half Puerto Rican, half Italian, half part Russian Joe.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And my mom was Italian. Russian Jew. My father was Puerto Rican.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Are they, are they with us still?

[Chris Distefano]

No longer with my mom. No longer my dad. Don't know. He's. He took off.

[Ed Bassmaster]

He left Bob Kensington, Fentanyl or.

[Chris Distefano]

Probably. Yeah, probably.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Or if it happens to a lot.

[Giannis Papas]

Of Florida and these. Listen, that's what happened. Dad's not in the picture. Sometimes you got to create dads to talk to. That's maybe where the characters.

[Chris Distefano]

That's where the character started. I had to fill that void. So. Yeah, the first one was always testy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Dude, what I like about you. What I like about you too is, is every video that I watch you, I. I laugh like hard. Because sometimes, you know, like, especially like with the Internet, what it is sometimes, like as comics, as us coming from, like the stand up background, you're like, okay, I know what this one's doing. This is hack shit. People like it. But would you. I'm like, oh, no, dude, this guy's like fudgeing. When a couple of the videos we watched before was like, oh, this is like legitimately great, like writing. This is like what SNL was like in the 90s, right?

[Chris Distefano]

Your stuff, you just take the character to the streets. And more psych than just, you know, the cookie cutter pranks that you always say.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, when you do it in the streets too. When the one that we showed me from that office when. From like 14 years ago.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, you've been doing it for a long time.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That was hilarious with the one when, you know, you're like on an actual job interview and they have no idea. Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

What's. What's that guy's name? That dude?

[Chris Distefano]

Chip Diamond.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Chip Diamond. Sick Mullet. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And the Cosby sweater.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, the knockoff Cosby sweater.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's awesome.

[Giannis Papas]

He's the one that really took off at first, Right. Like, was Chip.

[Chris Distefano]

The look at it video was way before Chip Diamond. So just look at it. I don't know if you've seen that. It's. Oh, would you look at that?

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, that guy.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah, he didn't see it, so I got it.

[Giannis Papas]

No, yeah, he just caught so many of them.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Like, he's just like.

[Chris Distefano]

You just look at it was like way, way, way viral. Like everybody.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, Chip diamond was the one where I caught. I caught you.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, that was a little bit later on.

[Giannis Papas]

And then you had the Southern guy, like the Bumbles Bar and yeah, the guy. You can't even understand what he's saying. And so he'll talk to people and they'll be like, what?

[Chris Distefano]

How do you do it again here? When New York City might take out Montage of podcast, you just got to throw in real words every once in a while.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Do you? But like, so when you're doing that with the real people, is there like a, like a feeling of like, anxiety before it, or do you feel like kind of just calm the whole.

[Chris Distefano]

It's anxiety. So like, anytime the camera starts rolling and even before and we're driving around trying to find somebody to engage with, it's. It's like diarrhea, cramps.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Not wanting to get out of the car and face the.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But that motivates you? Like, you want to go towards that?

[Chris Distefano]

No, it doesn't motivate me, man. I'm just like, it's, it's very, gives you high anxiety and it's like, it's like, it's way harder than going on stage in front of three, 400 people.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Because they know what they're coming.

[Ed Bassmaster]

They know I know.

[Giannis Papas]

You know, I, I, I only did it once. I only did. Because I'm, I can't do it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I can't do it either. That's why it's a crazy skill he has because I couldn't do it either.

[Giannis Papas]

I did it one time when we did the Maurice of video. The, the rap video.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And I was just, I felt ridiculous walking around the streets.

[Chris Distefano]

That's the thing. It's so embarrassing. But you have to. That's like the hardest hurdle to overcome is just. Yeah, yeah. I'm embarrassed anytime I'm in that character. It's embarrassing to walk around in the hood in Philly like a cowboy. Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And you see, you got, you got the hood character testing with the lazy.

[Chris Distefano]

Eye on the strength from Philly and shit.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah, that's the guy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I saw the interview. That's I love in the interview.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. But the problem was they wanted me to work eight hours a day and I had time to stick around.

[Giannis Papas]

He's like. But I don't fall asleep. I work pretty hard. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, that's what I liked about it too, is the dialog within the characters is. Well, you're not. I mean, I know there's riffing involved, but you're writing that a little bit, at least before some of the, I mean, well, you're going in with an idea.

[Chris Distefano]

With the idea of you're doing a job interview and bringing a 40 ounce and that's it. And then everything else is just improv. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

How does it, how do you set it up? Like, how do you.

[Chris Distefano]

So that particular one with the job interview was a pet store local To Philly. And the owner hit me up and just asked me to prank one of his employees. So I said, well, let's do a fake interview with my character, who's fresh out of prison and his parole officer, which was played by another YouTube guy, Jack Vale, and set up their hiring manager. And we went. He had seven stores or something like that. So we went to the one where he wasn't set up cameras and had it set up where he was coming in to interview me. And he was led to believe that, like, for, like, I don't know, with the state and the parole and, like, they had to interview this guy. It's part of, you know, it's part of the program, the work release program. So there was no question, like, why his probation officers, they just knew he was a hood.

[Giannis Papas]

Right, right, right. Yeah. And do you ever. Do you ever have times when you do it and it doesn't work?

[Chris Distefano]

Sure, yeah. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, do you get recognized now? Because that's. I know that's the problem. Borat had a lot, too. Or like, I'm sure even the jokers at some point. It's like, everyone knows who you are when you try to.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Every time we're shooting, we get stopped, but it usually doesn't ruin the moment that we're trying to achieve. So. But, you know, sometimes we put it in the videos. Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Who's the biggest dudes, like, who've. Because Chip Diamond, I know, has done some, like, collaboration stuff. Like, you know, and you've done like, some mainstream videos with Chip Diamond.

[Chris Distefano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Like you did. I mean, sports thing.

[Chris Distefano]

I did a choke. John Jones choked me out.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's right.

[Ed Bassmaster]

No, really, I don't know how that's. That's like the most impressive.

[Chris Distefano]

No, I've heard of that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Sprayed him, dude.

[Giannis Papas]

Because the thing is, Chip diamond is like a little. He's a. He's a dismissive dude.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Like, he's. He's kind of, like, arrogant. But it's funny because he's like a loser kind of.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

But in doing that prank, some people must get pissed.

[Chris Distefano]

Well, that's the thing. That's why I designed that costume to look like the guy that everybody else would go to and pay no mind to. And then he turns it around and just walks around like this. Yeah. Just looks at people and unhappy with everything.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Amazing.

[Chris Distefano]

And I figured looking like this will be hard to get beat up versus doing it as myself to. It's more confrontational. It's like, this is real.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Even that character like adding like the. Like the sweater and the jeans and everything's funny in the glasses, but adding the mullet is like the cherry on top that a lot of people would just not do that.

[Chris Distefano]

Right.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But it's that. Because I didn't realize because I don't really do characters. I've tried and all of mine suck, but I'm like, oh, it takes, like, such detail. Like, even when you do Maurice, it's like there's so many little details that you think are a little thing, but they turn out to be a big thing that people, like, subconsciously notice.

[Giannis Papas]

One time.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You know, when we were doing shows at Caroline's, Jesse was there and I forgot to shave a little bit. So I held the show up because I was like, you know, at that point I was, like, so committed to thinking like her and transforming that I was like, I had, like, a little stubble, so somebody had to run, go get a razor, and I shaved it down. But, like, if I do it now, which I still do once in a while, I don't give a fuck anymore. I've gone out in a five o' clock shadow.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

I have a training. I don't know if you've seen Taqwa. I have. Yeah. And I always have full beard. And that's. I would. I started by, you know, pulling up to drive throughs with my head turn, and when they open the window, ask, you know, can I help you? I would turn around in full beard. And yeah, in public, it's, you know, it's. It's one thing to do it the way you're doing it. Try pulling up to a drive thru in that costume.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Do you. Do you have, like, a schedule where you say, I want to get these videos out this week, like, or you just. When I'm inspired, I do it when.

[Chris Distefano]

I want to do it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So there'll be sometimes weeks where you're like, I'm not doing anything. I'm creatively just backing off.

[Chris Distefano]

It's. It's been held over my head for. Since day one. The more I create, the more money I make, and I'm just not really into it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Interesting.

[Chris Distefano]

I have to do it when I want to do it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, that's probably why you're doing so.

[Chris Distefano]

Well, because that's why I'm not doing so well.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, really?

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. If I was more aggressive with it, I'd be making way more money.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But you make enough to live a good life in South Jersey.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, I do all right. But, you know, there's just so many opportunities that I don't do and the regular continuity, and it's just, I can't have that over my head. Like a guy that helps manage my Facebook, for example, he's hit me up every single day for like last two weeks. Ed, I need that video. I need that video. It's going to go viral. And I'm like, I'll get it when I feel.

[Ed Bassmaster]

When I get it. Do you have kids? Wife, family?

[Chris Distefano]

Four kids.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So that's what I'm saying. So wife, Wife and kids. We all, we were all just talking about this. We all have kids here. And so like, we were saying that like, well, you know, maybe we're not, you know, selling out arenas or whatever, but like, our kids love us and we're like, we get to, we get so much opportunity with our children. So it's like that imaginary Facebook gun that the guy's holding your head, it's like that's all their problem. That's right. My thing is like, we're working today, but I got to spend like the whole morning with my daughter. So it's like, what, what's the problem here?

[Chris Distefano]

None.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You know, like, we just did a full episode. That was great. Right before you came in. That was great. And then we. And then there's no ads on it. So we realized, like, our ad company just didn't book it. So we did like an episode that's free and we're like, whatever. We had fun. We had in the moment. It sucks that we're not going to make the money that we thought we're going to make, but, like, we're just going to go home.

[Chris Distefano]

Don't worry. This one, this one's gonna. Yeah, this one's gonna do.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I hope. Jesus.

[Chris Distefano]

I hope too. Damn. God.

[Ed Bassmaster]

What the hell?

[Giannis Papas]

Wow.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Four kids, 52 years old. Four kids. Puerto Rican, Jew.

[Chris Distefano]

Yep.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's nice, dude.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Italian. Puerto Rican.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And characters for your kids, do you.

[Chris Distefano]

Like, they, they've grown up seeing it their whole life. Yeah. And now my 16 year old kid just broke through with Instagram, like getting millions of views of doing similar. Oh, really puts them all at wig on. And totally inspired by me, obviously. But he's his own. He's his own animal and he's like breaking out and it's really not so much to do with me. At first I helped, you know, bring him a few hundred or a few thousand followers, but then he just started one day he did a video, did like 8 million views or something. And it's funny. And everybody was Sharing it. So.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And he's on Instagram as Ed Troutmaster Cameron.

[Chris Distefano]

Bassmaster Cameron. Shout out. There you go. Trout sniffer. I've been called Ass Blast.

[Giannis Papas]

How old is 16?

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, 16. And then I have a 22 year old son who actually was just in Detroit with me. We came home last night. I had a couple shows out there and he'll go on the road with me sometimes.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I don't think I've ever met a guy 52 years old who looks as young as Ed Bassmaster. Yeah, he just looks young. Yeah, like we told you. Is that your oldest child?

[Chris Distefano]

22, 29.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Would you ever think he has a 29 year old child?

[Giannis Papas]

No, no.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Wild dude.

[Giannis Papas]

You can hang out with your kids and they look like brothers.

[Chris Distefano]

Yep. Yeah, yep.

[Ed Bassmaster]

All with the same woman.

[Chris Distefano]

Yes. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry.

[Ed Bassmaster]

No.

[Chris Distefano]

You want my 29 year. My 29 year old. Exactly. That's the four I know about. Anyways.

[Ed Bassmaster]

My 29 year old was with a different woman than the other.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah. All right.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, most of them.

[Chris Distefano]

Three boys with my wife.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, yeah, dude. And then one. And then your oldest is a girl.

[Chris Distefano]

Yep.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Right.

[Chris Distefano]

And she's like 10 minutes from my house, so it's tight. Tight family. And we. We're good. We're good to go.

[Giannis Papas]

That's good. Now, is Philly like the biggest you draw the most in Philly, or do you think the different characters draw differently in different areas? Because I ran into that situation where I'd go to some places and.

[Chris Distefano]

What do you mean? As far as the live shows or.

[Giannis Papas]

As far as live shows?

[Chris Distefano]

Live shows? No, I haven't. I've only done like a few in Philly.

[Giannis Papas]

They.

[Chris Distefano]

They drew more than, you know, most areas. But I've been to other areas more times than I have in Philly.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And you know, the draw is it seems about average. It seems pretty widespread. Like I went to Canada recently and did like 10 shows there. It was pretty widespread. I didn't realize I had, you know, what I'm show.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Is it like you characters, are you doing stand up?

[Chris Distefano]

So at first, speaking of hiding behind the characters, that's what I was doing for a while, was just coming out in character because I was comfortable with it, doing costume changes, having videos play in between. And the audience, they, they seem to love that, you know, watching my YouTube stuff in between. But recently in like the last, I'd say 30 to 40 shows, it's just been myself developing stand up, basically emulating the same stories I did in costume. But out of costume, channeling the characters, telling stories. Everybody that's been at even all these shows, they know who I am, so they want to hear about. But I also am doing my show now as if I'm in a fresh audience that has no idea who I am.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Have you ever walked into on tour yet? Just a nice fat bomb. Ever walked into Just a nice fat. Just of course, from the audience.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Zero sweat dripping down your back.

[Chris Distefano]

Kentucky was one. It was just like. The audience was like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Just.

[Chris Distefano]

All right. They didn't feel me. Do they not? There's plenty. Of course. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They want the characters when you could do yourself.

[Chris Distefano]

No, no. That's crazy. Is every single show that I've done, not one person asked, well, where was this guy? Because like I said, I bring them out and I channel them and. And it's it.

[Giannis Papas]

That makes it easier too, when you just way easier do them as you. Yeah, you don't have to.

[Chris Distefano]

So.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, and I also think too, like, you know, you. You've been on YouTube for so long, it's like they watch you on YouTube and then when the live experience, maybe they want something like a little different. Like YouTube gets in the buy ticket, but then they want. They see the real you. That's probably very interesting.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. And I've had a lot of feedback of people that were glad to see the real me and hear me come out and, you know, talk shit, you know. So, yeah, it's been working. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Did you always do that or did you do the first one by accident? Like he threw it up and it went viral?

[Chris Distefano]

No, I always want to do that since I was like seven years old. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Really?

[Chris Distefano]

Yep.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Be on YouTube since you were actually.

[Chris Distefano]

No. Be on SNL? No.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, really?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

We ever get an audition or anything?

[Chris Distefano]

No.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You're like the perfect SNL guy.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. I. No. Never had the opportunity. And I actually, believe it or not, started stand up in philly in about 99, 1999. And I did, you know, pretty decent. I actually did really well the first. First time I ever went up at an open mic and I. Then I ended up featuring in a couple shows, but I never pursued it. I started having kids and I just wasn't able to go to New York and audition or do shows. And Philly wasn't really, you know, nobody was getting discovered out of Philly.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Now they are.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Shit's changed now. Shane Gillis. I feel like the. Are you garbage guys the Phillies we were just talking about before? The Philly Delphi Philadelphia Comedy Scene is like, like probably right. One of the hottest right outside New York.

[Chris Distefano]

You know, Philadelphians have great sense of humor. That's.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

You know, they're just funny people, funny characters, you know, and. Yeah, pick up on that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Remember 2 Ray? Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

I did a show with 2 Ray in 1999.

[Ed Bassmaster]

One of the best comedians ever to watch live.

[Chris Distefano]

He hosted a show that I did on south street in Philly. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

I bombed on that one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

By the way, the black crowds in Philly, what I always loved and appreciate about them is they are just honest as honest could be.

[Chris Distefano]

If.

[Ed Bassmaster]

If it was funny, they laughed, it was not funny. They would just look at you and wouldn't even give you a sympathy laugh.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And I appreciated that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Well, black crowds in general do that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They did the old expression black crowds and dogs can smell fear. So it seems like a tinge. It means like a black crowd smells fear.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You're scared.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. You got to go up there.

[Giannis Papas]

They know if you're scared.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I think confidence is like. I don't even like, they respect it more even if your material is not good, as long as you come out there and fucking not scared.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Now do you remember? Are you old enough to remember? Or maybe your parents tell you stories about Mayor Frank Rizzo.

[Chris Distefano]

Sure.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Yeah. Because we have an obsession with Frank Rizzo. We call each other crumb bombs. I'll take both of you physically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

We did a full episode, it's one of our, like, classic episodes on Frank Rizzo because he was a pretty wild character.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So how, how is any in Philly right now?

[Chris Distefano]

I mean, everybody, everybody in Philly loves Frank Rizzo. You know, I'm. I'm non political, totally just off the top. I don't care about politics. I don't get involved with. I don't know who the vice president is. I don't care.

[Giannis Papas]

It's the best way to be, and.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It really is the best way to be.

[Chris Distefano]

So, you know, I was probably 8 or 9 years old when he was there and, you know, he was just always looked up to, regarded like, you know, like, kind of like Joey Merlino is now these days, you know?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Who's Joey Molino?

[Chris Distefano]

Joey Merlino, the mob guy from Philly. Skinny, Skinny Joey.

[Ed Bassmaster]

No.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Is he doing content too?

[Chris Distefano]

He's. Yeah, he's pretty funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Mob guys are doing content.

[Chris Distefano]

Pretty funny.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Like, yo, welcome to my podcast.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Hey.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, you gotta check out Joe Molino. He's funny one. He. They did like A Father's Day shout out. And he was like, yeah, Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there and to all you scumbag rats behind bars.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

He's just like, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

He's like, that's Colin. Quinn's got a good bit where he's like, you know, these Mafia podcast guys, they're like, you know, everyone's doing, like, content now, doing podcasts, you know, kind of talking about their crimes. They're like, you know, Joe, we remember about to kill that guy behind the park. Whatever, go. And then the Sal will be like, but, Joey, before we get to that, a word from Sherry's Berries.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, All I know from all the clips of the podcast guys, there was this guy, Dechico, some guy Dechico, who all the mobster guys were scared of. He was a. Some guy in New York. Can you look him up? DeCicco something. DeCicco.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Did she.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, every podcast I'm going like, you guys think I was bad? They were going like, you think we were bad? This guy, he was a sick fuck. Yeah, this guy was a sick. He's turned my stomach. I wouldn't have him watch my kids. I'd let these other killers watch my kids, but I wouldn't let this.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Not the chico. It was Murder Machine.

[Chris Distefano]

It was Anthony demeo.

[Giannis Papas]

Anthony Demeo. I'm sorry, Anthony.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Is he.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, they all talk about.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, I've seen an interview, and it's.

[Giannis Papas]

Funny just to watch guys who are stone cold murderers.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Morally judge this other guy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, the. The demeo gang. The Brooklyn. I think that was Bensonhurst. Like Bath Avenue Boys or something like that.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Brooklyn. Brooklyn guys. Canarsi. Oh, that's crazy, because Canarsi you think of as, like, not even having Italians.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Wow.

[Giannis Papas]

But supposedly this guy was, like, a twisted guy. He was, like, very twisted. So it's funny about it.

[Chris Distefano]

You mean.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, the funny thing about their content meetings, too, like. Yeah, we talk about today. Yesterday. We talked about the rape and murder. That family we did down at Bath Avenue. Yeah, yeah, we talked about.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Talked about the extortion case. We talked about how we beat up the federal office.

[Giannis Papas]

We talked about how we paid off the comps. We talked about how we extorted all those fucking bar owners. Yeah, we talked about when we hit bats. Yeah, we did that episode. You want to talk about.

[Ed Bassmaster]

How about for today, we'll talk about how. How the chicken palm at Louise's kind of sucks now.

[Giannis Papas]

We could do that one because. Did we do the Obama's a Muslim episode yet? No, we did.

[Ed Bassmaster]

No, we did the Michelle Obama's a man thing.

[Giannis Papas]

We did the Michelle Obama's. We did. We can't believe they elected a black Muslim. We did that episode.

[Ed Bassmaster]

We did episode.

[Giannis Papas]

I think the only thing left to talk about is fucking Demayo.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I think we should do a 20 part series on Demeo because he was a sick fuck.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And then after that we talk about fucking cold cuts and Selima bread and the deli that I love in Philly. I mean, those guys are going to run out of content at some point. I know they're going to have to go out and do more mob just so they can support their podcast.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I respect that. You know though, like, that this freaking hamster wheel, like, because I feel like it's starting to happen now amongst all. All of us is like this content machine, this hamster wheel. You realize like this it's not going to end well. Like you kind of realize, like, dude, I got to do this creatively. That every single show that we grew up loving, like now kids grow up loving the best master YouTube channel. That's like their content. We grew up watching whatever. Seinfeld. But even Seinfeld took breaks. Like everybody took breaks. Where now it's like we've kind of don't even realize, like every week has to be something. Every day I see something like, there's no way that's going to. There's no way you're going to win that.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, it's better that way too because I think you have, you, you gain longevity when you don't do too much because you've been doing it for as long as I was doing my. Yeah, my characters were 15 years ago or whatever. Years were same. Right. 14, 15 years ago. So you sometimes take breaks and you just let videos marinate. Right.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, that's crazy. So you actually started to get popular. That's interesting. So you.

[Giannis Papas]

For a long time.

[Ed Bassmaster]

No, but I'm saying. But you start to get popular later in life. Life. Mid-30s.

[Chris Distefano]

It's it, bro. It's like, like right now it's, it's. It's more. It's. I don't know, I keep having like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

These waves kind of thing.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. And. And I sit back and chill and I just continue to put content up. And mostly now I just film with my phone, you know.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Right.

[Chris Distefano]

POV. And, and those will go wild. Eight, 20 million views, whatever. And it's sort of like the popularity is growing kind of now. I guess.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So actually, you're thinking now at this point in your life is maybe the biggest you've.

[Chris Distefano]

I feel like. Yeah, yeah. I feel like now is like the most recognizable. I'm getting hit up by the do certain, you know, gigs, like actual now.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Like legitimate, like a list. Celebrities are like, oh, Ed, this is.

[Chris Distefano]

My first big podcast.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Is it really?

[Chris Distefano]

I mean, I did Trevor Wallace.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, it's a big one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, sure.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. So those are really, you know, I've done some smaller, you know, you know, smaller ones. But yeah, these are like my first two real, actual podcasts.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Because I know that you worked with them.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

No, they don't. And so what you're basically saying is there's no reason not to do this.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

I like it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Like it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Like it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

Because you know me.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

As long as you got a tool, it'll tune up the tool for you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

Get what?

[Giannis Papas]

A third pole cookie.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

Did you actually ever get hit?

[Chris Distefano]

No, no. The closest I ever got to getting hit was here in New York city probably about 10 years ago. I was just. I was doing the chip diamond bit and I was just standing in the middle of sidewalk and I saw this black dude coming up the street. And I just looked and it was like. And he just goes, son, you want to get punched in the mouth? I'm having a up day.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And I just went, I don't give a. And in. Escalate a little bit. And then I told him it was a prank, and he smacked the glasses out of my hand and walked away.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, they're not too. That community's not into the pranks.

[Chris Distefano]

No, they don't.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You don't want to prank. No, no. The black community, like. You ever seen the Billy on the Street? Well, I've. Billy on the street is such a fun, funny TV show. You ever seen the one with Nas?

[Giannis Papas]

Wait, is Billy?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, it says name a white person for a dollar. Like, so funny. But then he did one with Nas and, like, Nas is like the special guest on. And Billy's doing all the things. And Nas, like, on camera on true tv is like, I ain't about any of this, bro. This is corny. Yeah. It ain't for me. And like, they put two Billy on the Streets credit. They put that out as the episode, which I respected that, but I was like, yeah, this is not. That's not. The community doesn't want that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. You're never going to see the impractical jokers in Brownsville. No, they're not going to do that. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Ye.

[Giannis Papas]

There's some YouTube kids who lean into it and they go in there and they get, like, hit.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. And then they then. Well, then they pay. They pay. You know, actors like. Or just approach. Absolutely. Hey, I give you 50 bucks. Act like you're stealing this bike. The seat's going to pop off, and.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You know, that's annoying.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Because I like that. But. But we could smell the inauthenticity now. Like, your stuff goes well. Authentic.

[Chris Distefano]

No. And that. Well, yeah. And theirs did so well because the young generation believes they're gullible. They believe anything. They're new to it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Interesting.

[Chris Distefano]

So that new generation, when all those fake pranksters came out. And that's why I don't consider myself a prankster, because I'm not just.

[Giannis Papas]

No, you do, like, a bit sketches.

[Chris Distefano]

Almost exactly. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's like. It's like. It's like Borat, kind of. You take the character.

[Ed Bassmaster]

What are you saying? Borat? Why are you giving it, like a French accent?

[Giannis Papas]

Is it Borat? Borat, Borat. I have made it a little Borat.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Because you know what it is, because he was in Long island all weekend, so he's trying to because he could feel like the Long Island. So he's trying to get a little bit more sophisticated. So he says, he's saying Borat, but I'm not a Long island scum. So he's going to say Borat.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Bora. It's like. Yeah. I'm talking about it like it's a wine. Have you ever thought about doing a movie?

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, for sure.

[Giannis Papas]

Producing your own movie, Putting your money behind the movie.

[Chris Distefano]

Love to.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Which characters would you put in there?

[Chris Distefano]

All of them. Yeah, I, I, I actually wrote a script, you know, probably about five years ago that has all my characters in it.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And it starts with my thug character, Testy.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Actually it starts with Chip diamond working on a car lot.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And then his boss tells him he's got to drive this convertible Cadillac pink Cad from Philly to Miami to deliver to Emilio. They just look at it, guy. And then it's just the travels along the way. The first stop is the gas station to gas up in Philly. And Testy's trying to hustle at the gas station. So Testy and Chip interact and it's pretty wild and it goes on and on.

[Giannis Papas]

Can you bring up what's the first character? Cuz that one Always testy. Always testy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You'd be great. First tires that show tires. Chains.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, dude, one of your characters tires would be awesome.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, I'll hit him up.

[Giannis Papas]

Right there.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Always test money for plasma. Always Testy.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Wait, no.

[Ed Bassmaster]

What?

[Giannis Papas]

No, I'm talking about the first character that you said that went viral because I know Emilio.

[Chris Distefano]

Just look at it. Is the. Just look at it. Just look at it.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's the one. Because I know. Testing right there.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Dude, look at how Jesse Google.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Just look a toy.

[Chris Distefano]

Just look a toy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Took a wrong turn, pal. Yeah, you're halfway there.

[Giannis Papas]

Just look a toy.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, that was good.

[Giannis Papas]

I know this guy.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, that's me.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I know.

[Chris Distefano]

Nose. Oh, look at that. That's nice and shiny. Well, it's a 78. Yeah, it's looking good. Looks really good.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, it's got original paint. Such a good hairstyle, bro.

[Chris Distefano]

This thing before me must have put the thing away and it's Long Island.

[Ed Bassmaster]

New York garage, every day of its life.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, go figure. Look at that. Oh, look at that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

For 700 bucks, it's real clean.

[Chris Distefano]

It can work on it. It's the things are not packed real. Right, right, right, right. Consideration, right. You know, I'll show that you'll still do it. Look at this, look at this, look at this. You know, when I see a car like this, first thing I do is I say, would you look at this?

[Giannis Papas]

You know what I mean?

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, would you look at this? Would you look at that?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, there's a few more blemishes on the car.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, my gosh. Just look at it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

The car is not perfect.

[Chris Distefano]

Just look at it. Just look at it.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Well, what the heck is that? That's John Slain. If I could commentate for a second. John Slain. This was totally random. And I'm friends with him to this day. Like, I was just texting him before.

[Ed Bassmaster]

The guy in the video.

[Chris Distefano]

I'm friends with him. Yeah, he was a random guy that I stumbled upon and got this viral video. And he's, you know, he's on the spectrum and he's just. He doesn't. You know, I'm one of his clo. I'm his closest friend. Yeah, put it that way. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So you became friends after this?

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So he heard about. Heard of it, bit, contacted me, we got in contact and, you know, I kind of look after him, you know, like, you know, he's. I mean, he looks after me too. He's. He's a good conversation.

[Giannis Papas]

And this ended up getting 44 million views.

[Chris Distefano]

Well, that's on YouTube. You know, it has over a billion views. That's crazy, because people were sending me this video with 300 million views on Facebook. That wasn't even my page.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, this was the first one.

[Giannis Papas]

This was the first.

[Chris Distefano]

This was the first original one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, dude. This. And so. So the first original. So your f. But no, but you didn't.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, but I already had. Yeah, I already had a million subscribers when I uploaded this, but nobody really knew who I was. Cuz in the beginning When I started YouTube, it was like only a handful of us and we took off.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And I had a million subscribers before I filmed this. But when I filmed this, just like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I feel like all, like the Nelk Boys and all those guys, like, they kind of. You inspired them.

[Chris Distefano]

Absolutely. Yeah. I've done stuff with them. Hit me up like back in the, like maybe five, six years ago or more. And I did some stuff with them and.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

My. A lot of it was just. We were early. I mean, when we did Maurice and panos. That was 15 years ago. More than that. More than that. There was no money in the game then. There was nothing.

[Chris Distefano]

No, there was nothing.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, see, that's the thing. What? But because now this gets 4 to 4 million views you uploaded today. I mean, you'll make so much money. But back then it wasn't monetized as well.

[Chris Distefano]

No, but I mean, do they.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Do they. Do they kind of retroactively, though? Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Good.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. I can go inactive for a few months and still, you know, collected a little check once a month. YouTube.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Good.

[Chris Distefano]

But I think that video probably made like 35k, 40k over the 14 years. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Because the AdSense came later.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Right. Where now, you know, I'm saying now, if you uploaded it today, over the course of the next 15 years, it would make much more money. Sure.

[Giannis Papas]

Huge. You'd be making. With 44 million views, you just 100 grand. He'd be making a hundred grand. Yeah, Huge. I mean, when we did more recent, it went viral. We. There was zero revenue. There was not. So we decided to do the live shows to make. To make the money. Because there was just. It was just a video that was popular online. There was no money. The whole Internet wasn't monetized.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I mean, look at the Internet now. The Ed Bassmaster, this great video. And then it's 11 year old's prank ends in felony charge. And that has 15. That's the best master.

[Chris Distefano]

Inspired by Ed Bassmaster.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. EWU body cam. This is a real footage of an 11 year old getting a felony charge for a prank. For doing what Ed Bassma. Ed Bassmaster did a couple of years ago.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is, you know, it's just kind of. It just. Sometimes the Internet sucks. But which is awesome.

[Giannis Papas]

Which one do you think is the most popular character, would you say? Like the one people love the most?

[Chris Distefano]

So if I walk down the street.

[Giannis Papas]

Because I thought it was Chip Diamond.

[Chris Distefano]

Chip diamond, hands down, that sweater is just.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's what I was gonna say. Chip Diamond's a guy.

[Chris Distefano]

I've seen people see it from. See me from a mile away, and it's like it shuts down. Like, we got to shut down so many times. We got to ask people to like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

So we always have somebody with us to kind of like, smart. Hold on. He's filming. Wait till. Wait till he's done filming, you know?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Right.

[Chris Distefano]

It happens every single time. But.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But who's. Who's the most famous, would you say? Oh, number one. Sorry.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. As far as the character, but as far as the video, I think the. Just look at it video is the most popular video of mine of all time, hands down. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Right, right.

[Chris Distefano]

Wow.

[Giannis Papas]

And the last one was a year ago. But you still film?

[Chris Distefano]

No, no, no. I've put out something recently.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And how many followers you got by.

[Chris Distefano]

This point on YouTube? Yeah. 2.8 million.

[Giannis Papas]

Damn.

[Chris Distefano]

Hell yeah, baby. My Facebook's like three and a half million, and damn. Couple other platforms.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Suck my ass. Yeah, tell everyone, dude. Yeah, suck your ass.

[Chris Distefano]

Suck it.

[Giannis Papas]

So you got to be making good money there. Just from YouTube now, I mean.

[Chris Distefano]

No, no. I mean, it's 4 or 5K a month, you know, but it's. It's consistent. It's like, just. But, you know, you're doing merch, you're doing shows, you're doing.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Hell, yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

Other things, too.

[Giannis Papas]

If you wanted more, you'd make more money.

[Chris Distefano]

Absolutely. And that's getting.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But that's what he's saying. But he's creatively being who he is.

[Chris Distefano]

If I put a prank up once a week on YouTube, I could quit everything else. Yeah. I can't commit to that because it's a commitment and it's not. It's like. It's like being like telling an artist, you have to paint this painting. I don't. I just want to paint when I want to paint.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Were you. Were you like this always, or did you kind of grow into that, like, as you've went through the Internet career?

[Chris Distefano]

No, I mean, I've gone in and out working with different people. Like, for example, my YouTube channel was acquired by a production company in, like, 2009, I think Maker Studios out in LA, where they would fly me out, they would film and produce content for me, and it was like, you had to. And then it was like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You didn't like the way that felt.

[Chris Distefano]

No, no. And it. And it cheapens your brand and it cheapens you, and. And it waters it down, and it's just, like, too much.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, we feel that way sometimes, to be honest, with podcasting, where you're like, every week you have to have an episode.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You know, so sometimes you're like. That's why I think you're starting to see a lot of podcasters, like, only do one or stop them all together or do seasons. That's why, you know, that's why there was never an episode of a television show every weekend for the. All of time. Because they knew you would overexpose themselves.

[Chris Distefano]

Sure.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It was 22 episodes. I mean, think about that. The best hit shows of your life, every TV show, the most they ever did was 22 weeks. 22 weeks in a row. And then they would take another 22.

[Chris Distefano]

Weeks off Gilligan's island three seasons.

[Giannis Papas]

That's it.

[Chris Distefano]

That's it.

[Giannis Papas]

The Honeymooners.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Wow. That's a good. I never thought of that.

[Chris Distefano]

Crazy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You think that it's got all this. No, three seasons.

[Giannis Papas]

Honeymooners was only three seasons, too.

[Chris Distefano]

One of the greatest comedy shows of all time.

[Giannis Papas]

And it was a bomb when it came out.

[Chris Distefano]

All in the family. How many?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, dude, I know that.

[Giannis Papas]

The Honeymooners was a bomb when it came out.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So how'd they save it? What happened?

[Giannis Papas]

No, it got. When they re released, took off.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, it got canceled, like, immediately. The honey.

[Giannis Papas]

Three seasons. It kind of bombed. It bombed. It wasn't popular. And then when they released it, like in the 70s or 80s and put.

[Chris Distefano]

It in, did you know that the Flintstones was based off of them?

[Giannis Papas]

I did know that. Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Those vitamins I take.

[Giannis Papas]

Have you been approached to do, like, cartoon character voices because.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. As a matter of fact, I pranked in that character mumbles. There. I was in Venice beach about a year and a half ago, and we were. I was just walking around with a guitar, playing guitar and mumbling, you know, busking kind of character thing. And somebody told me to go mess with this guy. That was his house was on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. Real long hair, hippie dude. He's got a long, large crystal staff out there. I don't know if you've seen that video. But I approached him and started with him, and here he is a voice actor. And, like, his name's Greg Sipes. He does Michelangelo Ninja Turtle voice. And he's always for Beast Boy from Teen Titans.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, wow.

[Chris Distefano]

So he was who. I pranked that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And he found out after who I was. He didn't know who I was. And he researched, and he was hitting me up. He's like, bro, we got to do something together. So long story short, we worked on a cartoon that never came to fruition, but we did a cartoon where they. Him and his sister and illustration team came up with my characters in cartoon form. I did some voiceover stuff, but then I don't know if they needed money to finish producing it or what. It just never, never, never happened. Wow. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

He's got a nice bag of money doing.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah. He wanted me.

[Giannis Papas]

Teenage Ninjas.

[Chris Distefano]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Teen Titans is huge. Like. Yeah, he's Beast Boy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. You know, we got. You got daughters, Yanni? Yeah, Teen Titans. You know, the kids. And they're little, too. Yeah, I got. I got daughters, too, but I also have a stepson, so he would watch Teen Titans and I Think one of them. Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

You know all that stuff. All that good.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Eddie Bassmasters, baby.

[Giannis Papas]

Cuz, let me just tell you something right now. Do you really think you have to spend big bucks or tons of time in the kitchen to make delicious food at home?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, I do.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, you don't.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, you don't.

[Giannis Papas]

Because with every plate you get restaurant level deliciousness week after week, day after day with recipes like crispy buffalo ranch chicken and cheesy Mexican street corn hat.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I like that. The cheesy Mexican street corn hash that could stay in this country.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. So whatever. If you're on a date, you got a Mexican girl, you impress her because you got a Mexican coming over, you go, whoa. How do you know? She goes, how do you know how to make cheesy Mexican street cornhaj say? Because I love Mexican people.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You'll spend less on these flavor packed homemade meals than you would on your normal groceries or at a restaurant. So you got a little more money to buy for booze to get her drunk.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It's what it is. And then do you want, you really want to just cook the same things over and over again? No. You can up your dinner game in 30 minutes. Minutes or less with every plate's clear, easy to follow recipes. Cuz I'm telling you, the Mexican street corn ash, it's nice. I like to eat it out of people's butts.

[Giannis Papas]

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[Ed Bassmaster]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, I just was in Canada over the weekend. I'll be. I'm doing a show. One show in North Carolina this Saturday. I don't even know the Name of the club. So I can't push it. But it's. It's actually.

[Giannis Papas]

You are not good at promotion.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, but that. But. But that means you are an artist, you know, Like.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, I guess, because Tony, the guy that I'm doing the shows with now, Tony Deboss, who's a New York comic.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, yeah. Tony D. Comedy.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm on a run with him right now, and he's hilarious, by the way. Like, he's great on the road. We're just like, We're a mess, dude. We're like a wrecking ball. But anyway, he's. He knows every single show, every dollar we're supposed to be making. Like, he's so on top of it. We're at these clubs, and after the show, when we're getting our checks, he's grilling the owner like, yeah, this ain't the. This. Nah, this isn't what I agreed to. And I'm, like, in the corner like, come on, Tony, let's go. I'm out in the car waiting for him, dude. Because I don't really, you know, I don't pay attention, bro. People have been ripping me off my whole career, and I don't really care.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, because look like. And look you have. Because some people will say, even me, I could be guilty of, like, well, I got to do this. I got a family, and they got to survive. And it's like, you're here with four kids. Your family's fine. Yeah, everything's fine. You're doing it. Everything. You know, sometimes, too. Somebody said to me, I forgot who said this. Or maybe I heard it. They said, you know, know, obviously, you know, we're in this career only going to live once. Like, do what you want to do. If you get really famous, you got really famous. But like, Sid, sometimes, like, when you have kids, like, and you get really famous, that puts a lot of pressure on your own children. Like, that may not be what's best for your kids, because then your kids may feel like, oh, I'm never going to live up to my famous mom or dad.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, it sounds like his son's doing pretty good. Got 8 million followers already.

[Ed Bassmaster]

There he is.

[Chris Distefano]

8 million views. But still.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Exactly so, son.

[Giannis Papas]

So good. But maybe he'll become the Steph Curry to your Del Curry.

[Chris Distefano]

Maybe. I mean, I don't ever push it or persuade them to do it. Like, if they want to do sports, do sports. None of my kids did sports. I wasn't into sports. Yeah. You know, but so, like, you go.

[Ed Bassmaster]

On the road and you're not like, I gotta film every second for content at behind the Scenes. You're not doing that.

[Chris Distefano]

No, it's, it's. And you know, getting back to Tony, who I love. Tony's like my guy. He's so hustling and he's doing a lot of like, when we're going into these cities, he's work, doing videos at these places, you know, and, and he's making, he's making out really well doing it. And he's telling me every day, he's like, ed, listen, you just go on your live and tell him and, and I'm like, tony, you know, I just, I can't work like that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I can't listen, Tony, you human cannoli. Why don't you just shut up?

[Giannis Papas]

Do you know Tony?

[Ed Bassmaster]

I do know Tony. Do you know Tony?

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I don't know Tony D. He's good. He's funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. You've seen him before. He was. You saw. You said hello to him at the stand a couple of weeks ago then.

[Giannis Papas]

I know him.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It's just what it is. Yanni's got Yanni's Sundowns. Yes. All early on. Said all.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah. Tony looks kind of Italian, kind of Mexican.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. What is the boss.

[Chris Distefano]

What's Palestinian?

[Giannis Papas]

Whoa.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

He doesn't want anybody to know, but look at that.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And you support that? No, I'm kidding. That's good.

[Chris Distefano]

But he's a Christian Palestinian, so he's not t. He, you know, he's not politic. He's just like me. We're like two. Two peas in a pot.

[Giannis Papas]

He's the best.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I'm done. Honestly, I. I'm done with the politics too. As long as you did the right thing. This.

[Chris Distefano]

Well, like 10 years ago, I. I decided and ever since then I've just been happy, dude. I'm happy every single day. And.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Well, you know what's good too about your career is like, you have your fans. So like there's. You have your, your fans that like really mess with you. You're not like, you're not like a. You're not like institutionally famous. So it's like there's really nothing to take from you. Your fans support you and love you and that. There's a freedom to that.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You know, because it's like you go the other route where it's like now you really got to be careful because if not, the New York Times will write an article about you because you, you know, you're on a television show and they. They have their money, and that's like. I don't know if that's the best.

[Giannis Papas]

Have they had any controversy, anything?

[Chris Distefano]

No, I mean, they haven't found out anything yet, but they will. They might.

[Giannis Papas]

On this podcast, have you got any hate for any of the characters or.

[Chris Distefano]

No, there's two characters. One is the. The Tequila character, Taquila Johnson and the black girl. Yeah, yeah. Latino. Latina. Latina, yeah. And, you know, just from, like, I've had. Had dudes hit me up like, yo, I was a fan. You hate you. I hope you die.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Distefano]

And then I do a character. His name's Timmy, and I play special needs. I. I impersonate a special needs guy. I don't make fun. I represent the community by going out dressed like one and like one. And I show up to construction sites and it's called I work. And like, every live show that I do, people are constantly yelling out, I work. I work. Because people love this retarded character that I play. And I show up to construction sites and just start with the dudes, like.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Hey, give me hammer, give me hammer. I work.

[Chris Distefano]

And the dudes are, like, freaking out. Like, no, no, no, no, no. You got to. To go. I'll start climbing ladders and. Yeah, yeah, filming this. You know, I had a guy that was up in a. Up in a. Up in a lift. Cherry picker. And I was, you know, this character go, hey, come down. And he. And he brought the thing down. I said, open up. Give me a ride. And he brought me up.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Wow.

[Chris Distefano]

And people had. I have a guy that's, like, been stalking me, threatening to kill me when he sees me for making fun of retarded people. I'm like, bro. My brother was. And he loves the eyewear character. So.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, it comes from a real place.

[Chris Distefano]

I'm representing the community, if anything, like, yeah, yeah, yes.

[Giannis Papas]

That comes with the territory. Do comedy. Absolutely. Everyone's always going to be upset.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

There's always going to be somebody upset.

[Chris Distefano]

If the world learned to just lighten up a little bit and laugh at everything and be able to make fun of each other. Yeah. You know, it's like, if you do an Indian voice, you're racist. No, I'm just impersonating. Somebody's not making fun of them or racist at all.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And it's like, I'm not doing Indian, I'm doing Pakistani.

[Chris Distefano]

That's right, buddy.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's why.

[Giannis Papas]

And even if you are making fun of them, it's like, yeah, you're making fun.

[Ed Bassmaster]

We're like, yeah, okay. And I'm not exactly.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Not Indiana.

[Giannis Papas]

There's worse things out there than making fun.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. And it is one of those things too, because when they say, like, don't make fun of voices, what they really mean is don't make fun of non white voices because you can make fun of white people.

[Giannis Papas]

Do Italian.

[Ed Bassmaster]

You could do the Italian or the Irish all day. But if one. The minute you do anything outside of that, that's a problem. Well, that's why my Indian voice, I only go with Pakistani because I say, I'm not Indian. I'm Pakistani. And I have nuke. I have nuclear weapon.

[Chris Distefano]

You are moose.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So, Ed Bassmaster, thanks for coming by.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you. I appreciate it, baby. Thank you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Thank you.

[Giannis Papas]

Check him out on the road.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Where can they find your tour [e-mail]?

[Chris Distefano]

There it is.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Tony D just texted me. It'[e-mail] you got to get Tony D paid.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you, man. Thank you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Thank you, Eddie B.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Patreon.com history Hyenas, as always. That's how you join the matriarch. Extra episodes there, the episodes that come out on YouTube, you get them earlier. The 25 tier is wild. The episode that we put out, the 25 tier, it's out of control. Nuts. Do not share that with your office. And it's fun, and we just feel it's our community, our cousin. And we really appreciate you being a part of it. As always, funniest name wins the ppw. The pseudo penis of the week, which you can see your name up in lights. Okay, here we go. Zach Miner. Then we got a native scalped my peen. Now Uncle Russell stuffs my UCF bean.

[Giannis Papas]

He tried.

[Ed Bassmaster]

He tried, but not there yet.

[Giannis Papas]

Not there yet. Not there. But it was a good try, but I like it.

[Ed Bassmaster]

A native scalped my penis. Funny. Yeah. Jerry Holloman, Audrey Barnes, Eric Tippett. Then we got Steffi Germs, the sauce monkey. Lorenzo Shannoni, Fumario Andretti. Which is funny, but we've had it.

[Giannis Papas]

We've had that one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Jared King, Gustavo Sanchez, Angel Godinez, Brandon Hay. Might makes Reich.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, Might makes Reich instead of right Mike. Mike makes right. Mike makes right Mike.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Clayton Demski, Scott Chambly. Blockhead, nyc. Oh, Blockhead, nyc, I think is a. Is a bar. So I think maybe they're screwed in.

[Giannis Papas]

I screwed in. Go check out that bar, wherever it is.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Nebraska. Cody, Christian Corb, Todd Schaefer NRW9BWJ NX I don't know what that is. Brandon Thompson. Joshua Jerson J. Father Bill's finger smells like dad. And then. Oh, and then I forgot there was one too that this kid said. This kid said that his name never got read and he was really upset. So I just want to honorary read it because it was a funny name.

[Giannis Papas]

I think there's a few of those. Did we miss any list? No. We.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. I'm sorry. But this kid's name is. Father Bill held mass in my ass.

[Giannis Papas]

That's great. That's a great Drexler.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's a great Drexler. So Father Bill held mass in my ass. You. Because he said he's been around from the beginning.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's great.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Honorary.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a great one. That's a great one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Father Bill's finger smells like dad. We saw Rutger cologne. Not gay. But since it's that time of year. $20 for one, 15 for both. I'm a wholesale Drexler. Aiden Rooney. Joe Abu Cat Graham. Harriet Tug Men.

[Giannis Papas]

We've had some similar.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Then we got. This is just a horrible one that I actually don't even want to read. It's just. This is just disrespectful. But I will read it. And it's not even a walked into one. Dispatching a family. It's just. This is bad. Now I don't have to pay child support. It's just like not even funny or nice. It's just. Why would you even say that?

[Giannis Papas]

That is not right.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Michael Gallerardi. Then we got rubbing on Akashi's fumade piece for them 3 wishes.

[Giannis Papas]

Drexler.

[Ed Bassmaster]

If my bug was any bigger, it.

[Giannis Papas]

Would be a bigger chigger guy walked in.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I mean. Cuz I got to be honest with you.

[Giannis Papas]

And this May never had it with the trigger ones.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I've had it with the trigger ones. But I got to be honest with you.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And. And by the way, this is a list that fits the head Bassmaster episode. So it's fine. We're just a theme. But I will say this. We might be in danger of not having a list. Actually not having a list on this one because we only got two pages.

[Giannis Papas]

That's because we. It's.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It's now we've never had one where nobody makes the list.

[Giannis Papas]

We're in danger right now.

[Ed Bassmaster]

But we're in danger. But we still got names left. But I'm just saying it's interesting.

[Giannis Papas]

Thank God we got a great episode to follow. Up after this.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Tim Tinameyer. Then we got Yanni's long lost Graped brother in law. Okay. Cody Greger. Then we got the glory hole in Obama chef's casket.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a good one. We'll put that on the list. We got that with this list. It.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Okay. Benjamin Nutting your yahoo to make a new Jew. Okay. Then we got Beam Jam in Netanyahu. Okay. Christopher Ortega. Then we got God's mistake. Nothing. Right. Damon Knutson. Marcelo P. Sanford Justice Josh. Cody Fielder. Voila. Tired of all these shifty Frisbees. Okay. Can't do that.

[Giannis Papas]

Last 14.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Then we got Leroy with a Frisbee. You ain't gonna miss me.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Then we got half a Frisbee, half the ash.

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, Jesus Christ. Why are they getting so creative with the naughty ones?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Bad.

[Giannis Papas]

Why are the naughty ones the best ones? But they're dotty.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Luke Pinniger. Matt.

[Giannis Papas]

He got yet another one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Whenever there's a pigger or vinegar, I know they're trying to get you.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Austin Harman, Chad Riley, Sean Reynolds. Frisbees and muzzies. Need to chill out.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna give that one a chicken figure because I agree.

[Ed Bassmaster]

I agree.

[Chris Distefano]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Nick. Nick Nas. Nick Nisley. Wannabe Sauce monkey dog. This $5 is going to go to a Colombian cam model. Might as well learn something.

[Giannis Papas]

Put them on the list.

[Ed Bassmaster]

All right, great.

[Chris Distefano]

Put them on the list.

[Giannis Papas]

Dare I say, get the catapult out. We got a contender. Thank God.

[Chris Distefano]

Thank God.

[Ed Bassmaster]

We got it.

[Giannis Papas]

That is a good one.

[Chris Distefano]

One.

[Ed Bassmaster]

It's just. He's telling us the truth.

[Giannis Papas]

He's telling us the truth. And it's very funny.

[Ed Bassmaster]

John Stott. Chrissy D's comedy got me some poo C in ac. Sandra D is for the Streets. Okay, Nice. H. Kipley. Chrissy. Lawsuits. Corey Krantz. Lucas. Huge D. Potato monkey. Knocked up a kimchi monkey. But my daughter came out. Leroy. So he's saying he's Irish, had sex with the Korean, but his daughter's black. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Drexler.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Okay. Luke, Philip Allen, Jeff. Fuel doesn't melt steel beams, but Frisbees do.

[Giannis Papas]

Jews did not allow 14. I'll give. You know what? It's a funny jug of a Drexler.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Am I the only professional here? Question mark. You guys are acting like a bunch again. We're not doing. I'm not reading them anymore. Actually, yeah, it is a bug, but we're not reading it anymore. Andrew Jurgen, Dylan Howell, Trevor Mwale, Daniel Borman. And Then we got tucked back and rock hard for summer. So I gave my dick dysentery. I'm in the program.

[Giannis Papas]

Good.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Emma Crandall, Travis Miller. Emancipation impregnation. AKA Birth of a Leroy. Okay, quas, Corn, shark, sea bait, Frisbee on my hairy maggot.

[Giannis Papas]

What did what?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Nate Butler, Charlie Hathaway, Nate Young, Balls on the wall, now your face. Dot com. One word. Okay. Trevor Yates. Robert Steele. Opted for $10 sub because I'm no Frisbee. Daniel Jones, Shane Ferrier, Joel McArthur, Brent McCarron, Ashley Price, Marty Tanky, B's parents. Straight to the back. Brandon Cantu on the beam. But my flight attendants, AOC Ben Odessa. I had to paint it. But I have a brownie in my pants. James Palpable Penis. James. Mark Henney Jr. Persian cuz Persian. Because why not Persian cuz he not a muzzy? Only missiles shoot aura from my glue. Oh, Persian cuz he not a muscle, Not a muzzy. Only missiles I shoot are from my glue.

[Giannis Papas]

Right. It's pretty good. That's pretty good.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Sorry, bad read.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, bad read, but it's a pretty good one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Hey, Chrissy, Latinas are hard work. You got any tips?

[Chris Distefano]

It's just a dm. Me?

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Shallow do us Alazara. Just here for art school. Oops, it's Hitler.

[Giannis Papas]

Drexler.

[Ed Bassmaster]

That's funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Then we got Borough Park International Banking monkey who would have a big piece if not for an overzealous mole. Moel. I don't know what that means. Moel. Moyo. Oh, moyo. Overzealous Moyo. What do we think? Borough Park International Banking Monkey who would have a big piece if not for an overzealous molecule?

[Giannis Papas]

Well, he's a Jewish kid who's got a sense of humor, is calling himself a banking Banking monkey, which is very funny.

[Ed Bassmaster]

And he said he. He literally the. The Moyle clipped his dick off.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm gonna put him on the list.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Okay. Yeah, it was a victim of a battery. And you made those? That.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. That's a funny one.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Mark Varretto, Jonathan Near. Don Beechupon, Isaac Ortiz. George Stavroni did this. Bruce Genders, John Henry Cooper. And then we got Leroy's Love Grape Juice. So I changed my name to Welch's. And now my meat purse is for the table. And then Mark Vetto.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Ed Bassmaster]

All right, so the list.

[Giannis Papas]

Thin but good.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Thin but good.

[Giannis Papas]

But we have some wins.

[Ed Bassmaster]

Yeah. Okay, so here's are the three. The glory hole in Obama's chef's casket. Dog does $5 is going to Colombian cam model anyway. Might as well learn something. Or Burrow Park International Banking monkey who would have a big piece if not for an overzealous moil.

[Giannis Papas]

Three good ones, but two easy Drexlers for me. Yeah, I am. I'm pretty. I am pronouncing the win winner. The winner is five bucks. I was going to go to a matter, but he might as well learn something.

[Ed Bassmaster]

So if you go to history hyenas is back.com that's where you can find me and Giannis's tour dates. We're all over. And you can also see your name the winner of the Patreon's name up in lights. Congratulations to Dog. This $5 was going to a Colombian cam model anyway. Might as well learn something. You are the winner. Congratulations.