KNICKS IN 5 ft. Nimesh Patel

Summary

Podcast Summary: KFC Radio – Episode "KNICKS IN 5 ft. Nimesh Patel"

Release Date: May 13, 2025
Host: KFC and John Feidelberg
Guest: Nimesh Patel

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1. Jury Duty and Legal Discussions

[00:00 – 03:40]

The episode kicks off with a casual conversation between hosts Kevin Clancy and John Feidelberg about jury duty experiences. Jackie humorously mentions being at jury duty, leading to a discussion on how frequently they are called:

• Kevin Clancy: "I throw out a lot of mail... I've never been asked to do jury duty." [02:15]

They delve into the specifics of prominent cases, notably Diddy's trial being postponed due to jurors having seen incriminating videos:

• John Feidelberg: "Dave was dismissed because he missed three days of work." [02:52]
• Kevin Clancy: "Everybody saw that video, so it's gonna be hard to find jurors." [03:20]

The hosts express skepticism about the fairness of the trial, discussing the complexity of the charges against Diddy and comparing them to past cases like Robert Kraft's false accusations.

2. Controversial Topics: Kanye's "Heil Hitler" Song

[04:08 – 08:05]

The conversation shifts to Kanye West's provocative new song titled "Heil Hitler":

• Kevin Clancy: "He didn't promote or enjoy a song called Heil Hitler beats Fire." [06:26]

Jackie and John express their inability to take Kanye's controversial content seriously, highlighting the tension between artistic expression and offensive messaging.

3. Introduction to "The Chicken Show"

[08:05 – 13:07]

Kevin introduces an upcoming project called "The Chicken Show," a scripted series featuring three older Jewish gentlemen:

• Kevin Clancy: "It's three Jewish guys... doing an Eric Andre late-night talk show thing." [08:31]

The hosts discuss their experiences filming the show, including interactions with celebrities like Anthony Weiner, and the unique humor that arises from blending traditional Jewish elements with absurdist comedy.

4. Knicks Game Experience and Analysis

[13:07 – 26:27]

A substantial portion of the episode centers around the hosts' recent experience attending a New York Knicks playoff game:

• Kevin Clancy: "It took me one hour to just get out of the garage, and I saw Dave laughing about the Knicks." [18:47]

They dissect the game's performance, criticizing players like Mitchell Robinson for poor free-throw shooting while praising others. The hosts share their frustrations about the Knicks' inability to maintain leads, comparing them to strategies employed by other sports teams. They also discuss the emotional rollercoaster of being Knicks fans and the challenges of attending high-stakes games with their families.

5. Promotion for Game Time App

[52:08 – 62:11]

Midway through the episode, the hosts promote the Game Time app, highlighting its benefits for purchasing Knicks tickets:

• Kevin Clancy: "Game Time provides you with the best prices... use promo code KFC for $20 off." [52:52]

They emphasize the app's user-friendly interface, variety of seating options, and the potential for significant discounts on last-minute purchases, making it an essential tool for fans.

6. Guest Segment: Nimesh Patel's Comedy Journey

[95:29 – 120:56]

Introduction of Nimesh Patel
[95:29 – 96:24]

The hosts welcome comedian Nimesh Patel, highlighting his recent Netflix special and his experience writing for high-profile figures like Chris Rock:

• John Feidelberg: "Nimesh, go watch him on Netflix. Very, very funny." [95:52]

Nimesh's Career Path
[96:24 – 104:12]

Nimesh shares his journey from working at a hedge fund and a boutique investment bank to pursuing stand-up comedy. He discusses the challenges of balancing day jobs with his passion for comedy:

• Nimesh Patel: "I felt compelled to like make people laugh... and ended up being fired." [137:08]

He recounts pivotal moments, such as performing at the Knitting Factory and securing opportunities through networking with industry figures like Chris Rock. Nimesh emphasizes the importance of perseverance and continuous self-improvement in the comedy scene.

Comedy and Cultural Representation
[104:13 – 157:43]

The discussion evolves into the significance of cultural representation in comedy. Nimesh talks about the responsibility of reflecting the Indian American experience without making it the sole focus of his acts:

• Nimesh Patel: "I never felt compelled to bring up specifically Indian things unless I was learning something new." [155:04]

John praises comedic specials like Ari Shaffir's "Jew" for their authentic portrayal of cultural nuances, fostering relatability among diverse audiences.

Challenges in Content Creation and Social Media
[157:43 – 172:00]

Nimesh and the hosts delve into the difficulties of promoting content in the age of social media algorithms, discussing the influx of followers and the impact of platform policies:

• Kevin Clancy: "People think I'm super political, but I'm not." [108:28]
• Nimesh Patel: "It's a lot of analytics... which is nonsense, bro." [106:36]

They share personal anecdotes about managing online presence, dealing with bots, and the importance of genuine audience engagement.

7. Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

[172:00 – End]

The episode concludes with reflections on the interconnectedness of comedy, personal growth, and professional endeavors. The hosts encourage listeners to support Nimesh Patel's work and reiterate the value of authenticity in content creation.

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Notable Quotes:

• Kevin Clancy: "Longevity is what matters." [64:43]
• John Feidelberg: "If you liked it, you should keep watching it. If you don't like it, don't watch it." [92:55]
• Nimesh Patel: "Humility is a hard-learned lesson that keeps me in check." [154:03]

Key Takeaways:

• Balancing Passions and Profesions: Nimesh Patel's journey underscores the challenges of pursuing a passion like comedy while maintaining day jobs, highlighting the importance of resilience and networking.

• Cultural Representation: Effective comedy often involves representing one's cultural background authentically without being limited to it, fostering broader relatability.

• Navigating Social Media: Understanding and adapting to social media algorithms is crucial for content creators to reach and retain their audience effectively.

• Fan Engagement: Tools like the Game Time app enhance fan experiences by providing accessible and affordable ticket options, emphasizing the role of technology in modern fandom.

• Perseverance in Sports Fandom: The hosts' detailed analysis of the Knicks game reflects the emotional investment and hope inherent in being dedicated sports fans, despite repeated setbacks.

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Note: This summary excludes advertisement segments and focuses solely on the core content of the episode, providing an engaging overview for listeners who may not have tuned in.

Transcript

[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Kevin Clancy]

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[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Kevin Clancy]

It'S another edition of KFC Radio on the Barstool Sports Network. Your girl Jackie is at jury duty, which is a funny thought.

[John Feidelberg]

She gets jury duty more than any. I don't think I either the government doesn't know where I live or I've never gotten jury duty.

[Kevin Clancy]

I can't figure this out either. I have just taken. I mean I throw out a lot of mail. I I have some sort of super childish, immature procrastination, whatever you want to like fear. Like, like if I see the mail I'm like this is something I have to address. But not right now. I mean I throw out everything. So when it's like you know we sent you a a notice of this, I'm like no you didn't. Like if I didn't open it, you didn't send it to me.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, so I throw out a lot.

[Kevin Clancy]

Of so I don't know if that's the case, if they just have not requested me or part of me has at least heard or maybe I concocted this in my own mind that if you haven't registered to vote, they don't get you. Oh, and I never registered, so whatever it is, I have never and to my best of my knowledge, I've even been asked to do.

[John Feidelberg]

I think I got one in Massachusetts years ago.

[Kevin Clancy]

Did you go?

[John Feidelberg]

No, no. Like it went to like my parents house.

[Kevin Clancy]

The notice.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. And I was like, just ignore it.

[Kevin Clancy]

I also wonder, like, would, would we get on a jury? Would it be like your job is like precludes you or some like that?

[John Feidelberg]

I don't think because I always hear definitively dismissed because I like, I know Dave's been on it and he wasn't dismissed because of Porcel. He was Dave Portnoy. He was dismissed because like I, I, I, I think if I remember correctly, this is like we were still in Milan and I think he went and it was something along the lines of that were like, if you miss three days of work, like, will your business remain? And he was like, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, that it's interesting because they just.

[John Feidelberg]

It was something along those lines.

[Kevin Clancy]

I forget they pushed back Diddy's trial because like 16 of the prospective jurors said that they saw the video and that taints them, which A, everybody saw that video, so it's gonna be hard to find.

[John Feidelberg]

Cassie1 yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And B, I think they should see the video.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

That seems like a pretty important piece of information that like, it's almost like if you haven't seen the video, you gotta go. I mean, I guess that whole case is weird, man. There's a, there, there is, I've heard some rumblings, but they're from like podcasters and influencers who I think are a little bit pro Diddy, who are like from the hip hop world and I think want him to get off. So I don't know whether it's reliable or not, but there's like rumblings who.

[John Feidelberg]

Want him to get off. Like, that's different than you believe he's innocent. Who wants him to get off?

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, well. So I guess their point was, I think their point was like, it's one of those, like, what the charges actually are. And like all that shit is really not a slam. Like if it was like, if it was an abuse, like you hit her case, there's a video, like, I think you're done.

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

But all that other shit, like, like I think Diddy's defense is, like, when they're talking about human trafficking, he's like, I do a lot of freaky, weird sex stuff, but, like, these people, like. And so I fly people in, I fly them out, but, like, I'm not trafficking. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

So, like, that's what I mean.

[Kevin Clancy]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending him. He's. I think he all. I think everything is true, and I think he's a liar. But, like, it's not as slam dunk as people think it is because it's all about the other, you know, the intricacies of it all.

[John Feidelberg]

It's the same thing as the craft thing. Like when, When Kraft got caught and the headline was, robert Kraft involved in sex trafficking ring, it's like, no, he got a hand job from someone who might be illegal.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

I'm wearing a pair of Adidas. I'm not a part of child slave labor. I don't even know if Adidas is. But I thought you were going to.

[Kevin Clancy]

Go the Nazi route with Adidas.

[John Feidelberg]

Nike, with the, you know, most of the things we wear are made by people in poor conditions. I'm not part of that ring. I'm just purchasing what they made.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right. Speaking of that, I texted Pavs and I texted you as well. I mean.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know what we're talking about it.

[Kevin Clancy]

The beat of Kanye's new song is fire. Oh, and I, I, I don't know. I guess, I guess this song, I don't even like to even talk about it, but Kanye's latest song, Heil Hitler, I don't even know if it's. I can't imagine it's actually on Spotify and DSPS and all that. Right.

[Jackie]

They're not gonna allow that.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's no way. But it's on, I guess, YouTube or he tweeted or whatever. And I didn't even listen to it at first because I was like, I am not even. Like, I. I've had this ongoing thing with Kanye. Like, do I take the bait? Do I not? And then I told myself, I'm gonna take it for entertainment value. But then I still have a line where I'm like, I am not going to promote or listen to or enjoy a song called Heil Hitler beats Fire.

[John Feidelberg]

I have, I haven't heard it. I'm sure he's a great producer.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. But. But I feel like Kanye even said, like, in his mind, I think he was like, I'm gonna put out a Kanye beat because I don't even think a lot of his new has been that good. This, this beat I think is his like his best beat since like all the lights or some.

[Jackie]

This is his best troll yet because Is this the same song as about him singing about sucking his cousin?

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't think so because that's a.

[Jackie]

Different one that I heard. So in like a very famous producer is producing it live with him and I'm like, I'm gonna stop and watch this and like, it's tough.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know what? I, I honestly.

[John Feidelberg]

Look, dude, Fantasia was good, right? Yeah. Was that so Walt Disney?

[Kevin Clancy]

This is the classic.

[John Feidelberg]

Fantasia was good. The Mercedes is a well built machine.

[Jackie]

But this is his best troll yet because of course he's like, now I'm gonna give him exactly what the want.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, that, that is what is like, it's all such scumbaggery. But like, you know what? There is an element of interesting of like, I wish it wasn't so obviously hateful or whatever. If it was something else that was like, I'm gonna make a topic that makes people uncomfortable, but I'm gonna put like my musical genius behind it and with people. But it's like so far that, you know, I'm not gonna like play this. Yeah. But I'm just like, the music of it is, is like, I was like, oh man, he, he did it there. This, the words are like trash. And, and like the lyrics are bad. Not on top of being offensive, they're also like, not very good. But the beat is sick. But it's, I was like, I'm not doing, I'm not. You know what somebody should do is like a Jewish person should, should make like a pro Jewish song over that beat.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I, I, I would do it if I, I, you can't. You gotta be Jewish. I would, I would like, I'm gonna go do like some AI. I'll have like a rapper voice and I'll like, you know, write about all the awesome things about Jewish people over that beat. It'll be to the top.

[John Feidelberg]

What is your list of awesome speakers? I'll write a list about how awesome Judy is.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, bro. You'll see me this week on the chicken show.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yo, the chicken show is next, bro. It is next up. I have not done a show that fun maybe ever. And since, since the Are you garbage? My first are you garbage? Appearance.

[John Feidelberg]

What is the. Sorry, how.

[Kevin Clancy]

Why would you talk? Get it out.

[John Feidelberg]

I thought I was gonna lose it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

What is the premise of the show?

[Kevin Clancy]

No breakfast, no Premise it's three older Jewish gentlemen and one, two, three. And just about the.

[John Feidelberg]

Just about the Kevin over the Hollow Hitler being just like the Jew. The chicken Show's awesome.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's three Jewish guys who are probably 80 and probably the most attractive female I've ever seen in real life. And they're doing like an Eric Andre late night talk show thing. I was on episode number seven. The one I saw was Anthony Weiner was episode one. And I was like, this is like a fever dream, dude.

[John Feidelberg]

I actually saw Wiener recently. I'm sure it was on this. I just never like investigated it further. I was just like, oh, wieners back out there.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. I did a one minute man on it because I was like, this is where. This is Wieners. Like you know, return to the media. And then I know Grill Guy did an episode. That's how I got plugged in. Grill Guy was friends with the producer. So the producer who in. He. He helped create Bob Does Sports, Robbie Burger's thing and then another show as well, which are, you know, obviously they're thriving. Right. And like his latest one is like, I don't know how he linked up with three Jewish guys. So the, the, the. The host looks exactly like Albert Einstein. And he, he had, he. He's the star of the Instagram account. Old Jewish Men. And it started out just kind of like old Jewish men. Like, here's an awesome old Jewish guy. Here's Kat's deli. All this old, like all this awesome Jewish. That's what I would just. I would just make my rap song about the old Jewish. And then it's like his two buddies and they just like. I walk in and they served me. It's the chicken show. So you get served a rotisserie chicken.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And then they just like pepper you with like inappropriate questions and with you. And I obviously was like, you know, with them right back. They took my blood pressure at one point.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know why.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just like true madness that like, I don't think there's enough of that, like where it's just like, let's actually have fun.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. But I will say this at the same time, the, the Jews Mokon story came up and like th. They were honest questions. So I was like. Like half of it was me being like talking about like legitimate anti Semitism.

[John Feidelberg]

And then they'd be like, blow a.

[Kevin Clancy]

Whistle and bring me a chicken madness. But those guys were.

[John Feidelberg]

That comes out, I believe.

[Kevin Clancy]

So they told me, I think it's for this week.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm Gonna watch that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, bro, I want. It's reminiscent to me of Ari garbage when it was like, I think Kate did it and then Roan did it, and. And, like, then it kind of made its way through barstool. I hope. I want everybody to go on this, because it was like, the world needs more of this. Like, truly not taking it serious, just around doing whatever. And this girl, her name's Emily Jane. Emily Janes. I mean, I. I walked in, I was like, what is going on? I, like, stopped the show, and I was like, blink twice if you need to get out of here. Like, what is happening? I'm. I. I'm sure she has, you know, some billionaire boyfriend who's probably like, like, what you do today?

[John Feidelberg]

What? Emily?

[Kevin Clancy]

What? Emily Janes. J A N E S Australian accent, like, just bombshell. Looks like Adriana Lima, but also was, like, around me and these three old, old men, so. So she. She was. She was a highlight of it. And then these guys just. I told him. I was like, listen, I know you probably think this is the first time I've done this, but cousin Mike and cousin Murray have stayed away. Those guys walk so you could run. So I've been. I've done. I've done content with all Jewish men before. So that. That show comes out this week, and that was like. I was like, this is the Internet. Like, as we stray more and more away from that. Let's get back. I need. We need some people out there just with you. And, you know, they had, like, a list of questions that just, like, none of it made sense. Just ridiculous. And then, you know, what's funny was after the show, because I was giving it back to them pretty well, and so it didn't get, like, testy, but it was definitely like. Like, at one point, like, he had his feet up on the desk, and I, like, put my feet up and kicked his off around. And then afterwards, they definitely were like, hey, you were a great sport. That was good. But it wasn't like a. Like, okay, now we can be normal. Like, it was still kind of madness afterwards. And I was like, this is. This is actually real.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like, you guys are keeping kayfabe up pretty. Pretty well. So, yeah, that. That'll be out this week. The. The producer of it was at the midnight Bean launch party, which was last week, which ended up, by the way, I, I. I closed the party out with me, and a couple other guys were the only ones left for the Knicks game, which down the stretch was unbelievable.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I, I woke up the next morning, I was like, oh, Celtics blew it. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, it was like we had the upstairs of American whiskey. Everybody partied up there, and then everybody left at like, it was from 6 to 8, which is like a happy hour party. And then so the game was ending around 9. So I was like, you know, the only person left there just going bonkers, man. That was. But then that, that, that game three changed the tone a little bit.

[Jackie]

I think. Crazy as a Knicks fan to think that they were going to do it again. Like, you're out of your mind.

[Kevin Clancy]

I, I definitely, I, So I got tickets from game time to go to game three because it was 3:30 matinee playoff game in New York up to. But in a weird way, I almost was like, I wish they weren't up to because you're not winning three in a row. I didn't think they, you know, I, I, I was hoping they weren't going to get their dicks blown off the way that they did, but I was like, you know, you're not winning three in a row on this team. And then the way that they did lose makes you be like, you might lose three in a row right now.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, that's what I was saying in the gambling cave. I was like, I was kind of busting everyone's balls at first because the Celtics went up 10 quick or whatever it was. And I was like, do you guys just not even pay attention until you're down 20?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. And they, well, felt like, I want, you know, the jokes started. Everyone around me in my section was like, as soon as we were down by 20 in the third, it was like, all right, it was earlier than that in this case, but it was like, we got him right where we want them. Like the 20 point lead. Here we go. And then it went to like 30, and then it went to like 35.

[John Feidelberg]

And I was like, I think this one's over. Well, there was, because there is a part of that that is like Patriots fans where it was like, we just don't even pay attention to the AFC Championship. It's like, we're not even going to pay attention till we're down 20. That's when we lock in.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, but, but, but, you know, Tom Brady is, but like, and Jalen Brunson really is like a superstar. A superstar who like, could at any moment bring you back down from 20 against anybody, anytime, anywhere. But the rest of that team is not exactly like, you can't, you can't rest on your Lord you know. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

The. The part that seems to be. Is going to be repetitive is the part of going down 20, whether or not you can. The part of coming back from down 20 regular, who knows?

[Kevin Clancy]

But the thing is, I mean, when they shot like 65 from three, they.

[Jackie]

Went 20 for 40.

[Kevin Clancy]

So, okay, at one point, I mean, for a while it was. It was like 65 for like a big chunk of that game. And I was like, I don't care what happened before or after what the matchups are. One seed, eight seed, 10 seed. If you shoot 50 from three, like, you're, you know you're gonna win that game. Yeah, but it is funny. There's a few buckets early on that like, literally, like, I've never seen NBA team have. It was like, like roll around and out, like two or three threes early on and that. It's like, it kind of just changes the whole complexion if, you know, there was three more threes that rolled in nine points right there. You, you know, it's a whole different battle. Right. But yeah, that was. I left the game. We left early because my kids were, you know, kind of running out of gas and they wanted to come to the office. They think that the office is Disney World. Like, can we go to your office? They kept going. You still have whiteboards at the office. I was like, I can get you whiteboards. I'm in the pro. I'm trying to figure out how to create a basketball court in my backyard. I'm like, do I just have to get you whiteboards?

[John Feidelberg]

Wait till we tell you about what's school was like, nuts.

[Kevin Clancy]

And like, I mean, I guess when you think about some of the dumb that's floating around, like, Keegan grabbed a football and a baseball bat, and I'm pretty sure there's that giant rubber arm, which I think is a fisting. He was playing with that.

[John Feidelberg]

That is a Riley Reed fisting.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And. And he was like, this is awesome. He put it on. I was like, yeah, no, he's right.

[John Feidelberg]

You got a good head on his shoulders. That thing is awesome.

[Kevin Clancy]

I have pictures of him doing like. I was like, I guess it's better to touch the inside than the outside. It's like, Pat, get your toys. Pat also has a pump action bug shooting dick gun that I like, quickly hid under the desk because I'm sure any gun, he was going to be like, what's this? Showed him Ken Jock's Ken Jack's katana. So, like, you know what, man, this place is pretty Cool.

[John Feidelberg]

This place does a rock.

[Kevin Clancy]

I I, I. There are moments where, you know, you feel like you've done a good job raising your kids, and there are moments where you feel you've done a bad job. I pulled out a sword and I told him, like, you have to be careful with this. And he immediately just went to grab the blade. I was like, maybe you're a idiot. Maybe we need to go back to school and figure some things out here. It's like, just don't grab the blade of a sword. Yeah, it'll chop your fingers right off. Man, I almost got us in trouble. I didn't even think of this. But, you know, when we walked in, I brought the kids over to say hello and I immediately got a text being like, DraftKings, no kids on stream allowed. I was like, oh, shit, my bad. But I thought that would have been funny to. I was hoping they were. We could all sit together for a little bit and have the kids on the electric chair. But no, legal. Not allowed. But yeah. So we leave. We come to the office. I stupidly did not time it. Like, if you're going to leave the game early, at least make sure you get out of there so you don't hit the traffic. I parked in the garage right next to the garden. We come to the office. I realize I look, by the time I look down, it's the end of the fourth. I'm like, we are leaving right now with the entire stadium. And it took me one hour to just get out of the garage. And as we were just sitting in stopped traffic to go down the ramps, I can see through the back window of the car in front of me to the front where you like where you put your phone if you have like a holder.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And it's Portnoy. Someone was scrolling through videos of Dave and I could see Dave being like. I was like, this is just. I was furious. Is the. The dad inside of me was so mad. Like, like the ultimate thing for dads is beating the traffic and parking the right way and making sure you get out on time. And I totally botched it. And the kids are getting cranky and I don't want to sit in the car. I was like, we're not going to get home for like two hours because I this up. And then I just see Portnoy laughing about the Knicks. God damn it. But yeah, so that was, it was cool. I'll go like, you know, we. They kids are such a cheat. Like, they. For the T shirt toss. They like, I point at My kids, they just throw them to them right away. All this was is a good time for kids. It was a dude who almost hit a 75,000half court shot. It was, you stand at half court and then there's like garbage cans probably 10ft away, 15ft away, 20ft away, 25ft away. And you had to hit three to qualify for a 75, 000 shot. I think it was a thousand bucks a bucket, really. And he went first bucket, second bucket, third bucket, fourth bucket, like, no problem. Missed like the very last one. But then they said, here's your half court shot. And it back rimmed it. And I mean the place would have gone like the game. Yeah, the place would have gone absolutely crazy. The only thing they cheered for more than that was Mitchell Robinson's free throw throws.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Jackie]

Did you see their tweet? NBA's tweet more than things are bigger than sports. Yeah. Bigger than basketball.

[Kevin Clancy]

They were like, is this, is he dying? Is he sick?

[John Feidelberg]

They said something's really important.

[Kevin Clancy]

ESPN said the Garden, like the Garden is supporting like, because we were cheering like every time we went to the line, we were like, come on, like standing ovation. You can do it. You can do it. And they said like, some things are bigger than sports. To pull the Rico Bosco.

[John Feidelberg]

It's literally sports.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's the definition. Was like, he's just playing the game. It's not bigger than sports. It is sports.

[John Feidelberg]

It's sports. Sometimes sports are just good. But it's just sports.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just sports. And, and he did make two at one point or maybe one place went bouncing.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, no, I, I think he had two.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I mean it was like the biggest pop of the night was that. And I'll give, you know, I want to give credit to, I, I, I think I'm gonna give him credit. I can't decide. It's one or the other. It's either fully performative and it's fake or he is the real deal. Timothy Chalamet was sitting courtside and I mean he was like in his seat the whole game. Standing up, yelling at ref, standing up, cheering for Mitchell Robinson. And between that and the college game day thing where he was like talking ball.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And people were like, is, does he really know or did he like get fed lines? I'm like, it's either like his best acting performance of all or he's just a die hard sports.

[John Feidelberg]

Because I think it's, of course, it's the real deal.

[Jackie]

There's pictures of him in like 06 07. He's like, right around my age of. He won like, a Landry Fields trivia contest.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, yeah, he's younger than that. He's like a kid.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, he's.

[John Feidelberg]

He's.

[Jackie]

No, yeah, he's like, he's like seven at the time. Or eight.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you were saying he's like your age now.

[Kevin Clancy]

No, no, no, no.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, no, he's like a Tr.

[Jackie]

Like Landry Fields. And then also during the Met gala, he was in the bathroom watching on his iPad.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, hell yeah. I love that. But that almost makes me think that the college football stuff is fake. Because if you're like a New York fan and a Knicks, you don't know about college football.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, you know, I. I agree. But like, like, also in the clips I watched, he knows like two names.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. That's what I mean, though.

[John Feidelberg]

It's not some insane, like, where, like, he's breaking down fucking.

[Kevin Clancy]

So wait, this was the other thing about Mitchell Robinson. They. They said this is really the difference between the. The NBA level of talent and non NBA talent. This is Mitchell Robinson over the summer. Because, you know, Mitchell Robinson, if you're not familiar, is like a junkyard dog lunch pail, rebounder, defender. And in this. These highlights of the summer league, or not even summer league, just him, like, shooting around during the summer. He's Kyrie, you know, And I get what they're trying to say, but that has nothing to do with free throws.

[John Feidelberg]

No, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like. Like during these exact workouts, when he went to the free throw line, he missed. Yeah, it has nothing to do with the NBA or the fans. Like, and I just. I. I will never. From everyone From Shaq to DeAndre Jordan to. Do you remember Chris Dudley? Were you. Are you young enough?

[Jackie]

I went there for. When he had a 25 assist game. First Knicks game ever. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

No, no, no. Chris Dudley.

[Jackie]

Chris. Oh, no, no, Chris.

[Kevin Clancy]

Chris Dudley was this big white guy who played for the Knicks who shot legitimately 40% from the line. And he used to have this routine. He would, without, like, with an imaginary ball, would dribble, dribble, dribble, and then put his L up and shoot and then brick the out of every shot. I will just never get it. I don't get it. Like, some people are like, well, the. The ball. Like, for Shaq, it's like shooting a tennis ball. And I'm like, all right, fine.

[John Feidelberg]

Shoot the tennis ball 2000 times and.

[Kevin Clancy]

Figure out how to shoot tennis balls in a Net, like, it just.

[John Feidelberg]

It.

[Kevin Clancy]

It will never compute. And. And one, like, Shaq used to miss a lot, but, like, they were like, Mitch Robinson is like, they're the worst shots. That. That one shot that last. Last Saturday was literally the worst I've ever seen in my life.

[John Feidelberg]

When he took his first shot, it was like, I. I get. I literally. Gas.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Dart like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I was like, what the fuck?

[Kevin Clancy]

That's the other thing is. Is like, Shaq. All of them shoot poorly. Like, if you're doing the right thing and you. But it's like, stop shooting it on a line drive. Yeah, yeah, I know you know how to do that. You're one of the most physically talented people ever. Like, figure out your fucking mechanics. I just. I'm sure I sound like the oldest white guy in the world, but it's like, I just do not get it. Look at that. 41%. Ben Wallace is another one. Shaq, 52%. I mean, Shaq would have. He missed 5,000 free throws. That's another 5,000 points. You could tackle his career.

[John Feidelberg]

It is like, just. I don't know. I. I obviously understand. I'm opining about a sport I don't understand, but, like, just go.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's.

[John Feidelberg]

Go practice. How about that, though?

[Kevin Clancy]

Antoine Walker. That's kind of surprising. All these other guys make sense. They're big men.

[John Feidelberg]

My guy, Twan.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Swan shot. You know, probably 40 from 3, but 60 from the line. Yeah. I will just never understand it. But made for, like, you know what the thing is, too, like, Mitchell Robinson, like, holds his head and like, yeah, like, he is.

[John Feidelberg]

I. I thought he was. He kind. It's not a hissy fit, but at one point when he was like, 0 for 12, he did, like, kind of collapse into his hand. And I thought he was laughing because I. I. What else. What other reaction could you possibly have other than, like, how the. What would this ball go into? Not even close.

[Jackie]

Apologizing.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm sorry.

[John Feidelberg]

I know how to do this. I don't know what's happening.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, it is. It is. It's got to be more. This is the worst shot. This is literally the worst shot in NBA history. I don't think I've ever seen a free throw worse than what we're about to watch right here. It's that bad. It's.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean, it's not even close. He walks away like, ah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I mean, like, just figure, man.

[John Feidelberg]

I thought I had that.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know how mortifying it is. I mean, every time he touched the ball, they just Yacked him, you know? And then he made a video afterwards, this video here. He goes, I only care about three things, man. And he points to his truck. He goes, that right there. And it's just a pickup truck, by the way. It's not like a Ferrari, where it's like, this is my life's dream. He goes, that. My. My. My daughter. And, like, look at that truck. That, like.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, it's, you know, a little bit tricked out. But he was like, don't get it twisted. Like, none of this affects me. Like, I don't know if that's the answer.

[John Feidelberg]

See, dude, I. I think that's. That's a terrible, terrible answer.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And I actually think Tatum had such a great answer the other day. Would you like the complete opposite end of this where Tatum was asked about, like, his struggles? And I'm gonna pull it up, because.

[Kevin Clancy]

It was well to. Just to throw him a little bit of bail. Like, he was kind of talking about the trolls. He was like, the trolls don't affect me.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay?

[Kevin Clancy]

So. So I. I don't think he was trying to say, like, I don't give a. That I. That I missed all those shots. I think he definitely is embarrassed by that. But. But speaking about, like, the Internet, you know, getting on him for. He was like, I'm not affected by this. I think. I think you said, like, I care about my team, my. My truck, and my daughter.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude. I see. I was always.

[Nimesh Patel]

I.

[John Feidelberg]

And I still am. I'm a Tatum guy. I'm sorry. J. Jaylen Brown guy. If I. If you're asking me who my favorite player on Celtics is, I like Jaylen Brown.

[Kevin Clancy]

Very hard to be a Tatum guy.

[John Feidelberg]

It's. It's hard to be a Tatum guy. Until I read this quote, and I was like, all right, he's a good dude.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, you just don't understand what comes with being that guy. I live a great life. I ain't gonna lie. I make a lot of money. I take care of my family. I've been able to experience a lot of things, but you also have to accept what comes with that, Right? I get a lot of praise. I get a lot of credit. I get a lot of accolades. But I'm not perfect. And there's times where I needed to play better, I needed to do more. And with that. And that comes with being that guy. So just understanding that, and people just. So just understanding that, and people just don't criticize me. There's a lot of people that came before me that they criticized and there's going to be people that come after me that they criticize. For me, it's just a sense of joy that I play with. Coming into a game with an angry face and mad at the world, that's just not who I am. It's not when I play my best. So I always say that you got to be the same person if things are going great, and when they're not going great, you can't switch up. That's the character of a good man. I agree with that, too. I mean, people, you know, I think I read that.

[John Feidelberg]

I was like, all right, I'm a Tatum guy. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think people, sports fans and probably athletes, I think you would prefer the Kobe, the killer instinct, the mj, like, cold blooded. But if you're not that, you're not that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, right.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know, and. And I. I guess I shouldn't say pre. I think there are plenty of people who, like, I don't know, like, Francisco Lindor plays the game with, like a smile on his face all the time, and he's fine, you know, like, as long as you perform, none of this matters. But if you're picking which personality you want, I think it's like, cooler or scarier, more intimidating for the opponents to be like, I'm a. I'm a tough, scary guy.

[John Feidelberg]

See, I disagree with that wholeheartedly. Yeah, I think, like, I. I see someone like that and I just laugh. You lose it. Well, you got all of it.

[Kevin Clancy]

You have to back up.

[John Feidelberg]

But, yeah, but like, like, anyone who's like, I will die for this. I'm like, I'll kill you for this, so good luck.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I think there's something to the, you know, I mean, Kobe is always the example, or mj, where it's like, And I took that personally and I fudgeing buried you and ruined your life afterwards. I think like a Max Scherzer is one who, like, stomps around the dugout all the time. It's like, that. I don't like, but the, the mentality of like, or Colby, like, job's not done or all that. You know, I think most fans, I think, would prefer that because they take it so goddamn seriously. But. But if you, if you're not that guy, the worst thing in the world is trying to fake that.

[John Feidelberg]

Right? Just. I mean, the obvious is just be who you are. But like, even if you're. If you're not that guy and you're trying to play that guy, you see through that, like, instantly, like a veil. Like, you're like, this is clearly clear performance. And Tatum probably has that to an extent where he's been such a Kobe guy that people make a connection.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, oh, well, he texted him that day. You know, I, I, I also, I don't really care about these things, but there's like a thousand examples of him now. Like, just stop copying people's celebrations. I don't even know what that is. Some, some soccer player did that one. Yeah, like, just don't do it.

[John Feidelberg]

I didn't even know that one of these guys.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's someone, it's like another, you know, like this after the game. And it's like a soccer players thing.

[Jackie]

He's the ultimate clip farmer if you know that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. Just like pump your face.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Not everything needs to be of performing. Like, I'm doing this for the camera. There is something weird about him though. Like, he is great, but even watching the, this series, like, even the, the game they won, he's not like, I don't know, even like those last possessions, he like lost his dribble. And like some of it, I was like, I kind of get where people, you know, people who say he's like, not great are stupid. But if you're, let's say he's already a top seven players of that. Within that realm, there's a little bit that like, leaves to be desired. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, but like, like, I, I, I, I, I don't know what I'm talking about. But like, I remember that being a thing with LeBron. Like, LeBron doesn't take over the game.

[Kevin Clancy]

The way he, I was gonna say.

[John Feidelberg]

It'S like it's, LeBron facilitated the game. So I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. And I mean, basketball is so, it's like, yeah. You know, the defense came over here for you and they collapsed on you, so kicked it out. All that, that may not show up in the in the box score, but.

[John Feidelberg]

I was saying the other day that I was reading. Go ahead.

[Kevin Clancy]

No, I was just gonna say, you know, in those two, like you blew 20 points leads and like, like it just feels like those, those are spots where you stop the bleeding. I take over the game and you just like, didn't.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. So, but the I, I remember the, I forgot I was gonna say now.

[Kevin Clancy]

Whatever. It's too much sports.

[Jackie]

Anyway, one last thing about game three. When I saw that you were in the cave and then I found out you were at the game, I was.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, we know, we know where this.

[Jackie]

Game'S going just based off of history.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just based off of reality logic. Isn't that crazy? I mean, I mean, 15 years, 15 years straight. Like, I'd be interested to really get inside the minds of other people. Like, I don't think I'm ever going to win. I really don't like people. People were kind of like, you know, I don't want to look past anybody because the Knicks are not that good of a team. But you think if you can get through the Celtics, like, you probably could beat the, the winner of the Pacers and, and Cavs. So people are like, we might like, you know, And I'm like, no, we're not going to, I'm still going to watch and I'll get excited. But, like, I do not in my heart, even, like, the Mets are playing well, right? Like, we're not going to win the World Series. I do not think it's going to happen. It's the same way that it's like, I, I, I want our podcast to be like, better than Joe number one, you know, it's not going to happen. I don't wake up every morning, be like, if we work at it, it's gonna happen. It's not gonna, it's not gonna. And then, yeah, like, it's very funny to be like, the fact that I've hitched my wagon to you, and it's just like, we have been on paths like this, and as time goes on, we just get further and further apart.

[John Feidelberg]

The Rico. Rico texted me and I was like, I was like, why? Why?

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, to be in the stream.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, And I was just like. And then, and then, like, schedules worked out. My dad was actually gonna come down and we were gonna go to the game, and then he didn't end up coming. So I, I texted Rico and I was like, wait, what? He, we had the funniest exchange because he hit me with such a Rico comment. Where it was, it was so funny.

[Kevin Clancy]

He's unbelievable.

[John Feidelberg]

Where it was. He goes, he goes, nick, stream tomorrow and Saturday if interested. And I said, oh, if I'm around Saturday, which I think I will be, I'll definitely stream. And then he hit me with a, hey, no problem. And I was like, no, you're not doing me a favor. Like, like, oh, I'll do the stream. Just to be clear, you're not doing me a favor. Yeah, no problem. What the does that mean, Dude?

[Kevin Clancy]

Did you see his appearance on Unnamed with that with his local neighborhood watch?

[John Feidelberg]

I heard about it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, the, like, one of the crazier lines off the rip. So for those who don't know. Rico has been posting on, like, his local, like, Staten Island Facebook group, like, Neighborhood Watch, being like, hey, people are breaking into my car. Like, lock your doors. And then everyone's response was like, why don't you lock your doors, you idiot? And then Rico went, rico. And so this woman, Carol, Dave, of course, like, finds her and has her on the show. So she's on unnamed show. Enrico starts off with, let. You were talking to me like a child, and you were condescending. And he goes, and when people do that to me, like, I would rather have aids. And Kirk was like, wait, what? What did you say about aids? Like, I don't think there's a correlation between AIDS and. And this. But yeah, Rico, like, he's such a nugget. He's such a nut. And that face the whole time, just like. Like, you really got to be looking at yourself sometimes when. When you get called on to, you know, one of the biggest podcasts at Barstool, and it's a local Neighborhood Watch woman, and you're just like, what is my life?

[John Feidelberg]

Like, this is what I did this weekend. I spent my time arguing with Carol.

[Kevin Clancy]

What's so funny for us and horrible for Rico, I'm sure, is like, this is irreplaceable. Yeah, you cannot get this at Wawa. You can't get this anywhere. Like, we have this character who finds themselves in situations like arguing on Facebook with local people and will bring her on the show and he'll, you know, of course. She's like, yeah, your mother was my daughter's volleyball coach. He's like, oh, I didn't know that we were in the same circles. You know, all this that is, like, so genuine and real. And it's because of Rico. However, it's all unintentional, and you can't really capitalize on it. It's like the only way you get these moments is through your downfall where you're, you know, getting the short end of the stick and Dave is. Is whipping you. So in a weird, you know, you're all together the most, like, indispensable, irreplaceable, one of a kind Internet creator, and yet you can't really benefit from it at all. It's like a Twilight Zone. It's like a episode of Black Mirror.

[John Feidelberg]

And by the way, it makes you miserable.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, right. That's what I mean.

[John Feidelberg]

Like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, if you. He could somehow be like, yeah, but hey, like, the contract is good or whatever. But it's like he. He wants all this to stop. He just can't make it stop.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, at least they give you financial security, right? You have multi year contracts. Like, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

At least you're not negotiating every single six months. He is, he is one of a kind man. Absolutely one of a kind.

[Nimesh Patel]

He.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know why, but doing his, his like Italian voice reminded me of Eddie at the, at the, at Marty and Ria's wedding. Eddie sits down to me next to me at the end of the night and, and we're talking a little bit, having a nice conversation, and then congruent kind of just dies. And then Eddie just gets this smirk. You know, Eddie does that smirk where he's got like, yeah, and he just pops his smirk on. He just looks at me, he goes, you excited for Final Destination? I've been thinking about that. That's a valid question for you though. It's not that crazy. It's not that crazy. I've been thinking about that for three weeks now. I don't know how long it's been. It was just like, you know, it wasn't like an awkward silence. It was just like, hey, we were having a conversation. Conversation kind of slowed down.

[Kevin Clancy]

What you say?

[John Feidelberg]

I went, I, I forget what I said because I think I've only seen one or two of them. I am excited.

[Kevin Clancy]

This, I'm actually surprised by that. I feel like you, you would have seen all of them.

[John Feidelberg]

You know what, Honestly, I'm laughing at Eddie, but Eddie kind of helped me understand the movie where he was. Because I was like, I'm not really good, you understand. Like again, I've never really seen him, so I don't really know what the like point of them is. And I was just like, I don't know, you know, like, I'm not really a huge like horror gore guy. And he was like, nah, they're more like apocalyptic movies. And I was like, well, hang on. I love those. Okay.

[Kevin Clancy]

I wouldn't even say a pod. It's more like a fate thing. It's like.

[John Feidelberg]

But like, it's like things are crashing.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh yeah, like that. Have you seen the marketing they're doing? It's pretty cool.

[John Feidelberg]

That's what I mean. This finally bloodline, I actually have been like, I kind of want to see that.

[Kevin Clancy]

The truck is awesome. There's a giant one of the famous kills. Because if you're not familiar, it's all about these people have been like, touched by death and like, death will find a way to kill you. And the, I think the, the Badge of Honor that this movie series has Is that they've come up with like a thousand ways to kill people in movies. And one of them is a lumber truck. A tree falls off and smashes through the window and kills.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, no, I know that one.

[Kevin Clancy]

And so they have a big lumber truck driving around with the final destination like sign on it.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, it's in the real world.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes. And it looks like it's, you know, it looks like it's kind of over flowing with lumber. Kind of like. It doesn't look like.

[John Feidelberg]

See, like that's like apocalypse. That's not like.

[Kevin Clancy]

I see what you mean. Yeah, yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's.

[John Feidelberg]

It's not like, oh, this person died. This person died the worst possible.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. And it's always like a, you know, live wire finds this one puddle of water that like shoots through your house and electrocutes you.

[John Feidelberg]

Did the.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's so cool.

[John Feidelberg]

The brilliant man whatchamacallit. I lost it again.

[Kevin Clancy]

We should, we should start. Let's start a marketing company. I think we would be great at these things. It's. No, no, just like these advertising for movies in this way. I think if you, if you were to give us a budget and be like, promote this show, I think we can come out with like awesome ideas.

[John Feidelberg]

I think so.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like these, these things and, and nowadays like I used to see like clever billboards and it's kind of like whatever. I don't know. That's just like the billboards there, it's in your face. But now when everything goes viral. You know what I mean? Like this. We're going to put. We're going to drive this truck around and every single person drives by is going to take a picture of and post it.

[John Feidelberg]

I agree with that. I also think marketing is like the most thankless job you could possibly have because everyone who hires you assumes that you're going to make them go mega.

[Kevin Clancy]

All or not.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, and it's like none of.

[Kevin Clancy]

The credit and all the blame. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, I think these things are. I always get a kick out of them and I feel like I could like if you're.

[John Feidelberg]

If your marketing campaign for the local laundromat isn't as successful as that Final Destination thing. They're like, why did I even get you?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, I know. But like the smile was a good one. Having all the people at the games, like, it was annoying. But it worked. Everyone was always talking about it. I think, I think you could, you know, if, if money's not an issue, I think you can really. We could crush it. Being just like movie TV junkies at this point. See? Watch anything good? Recently, I feel like we were on like a hot streak and now I'm a little bit of a low.

[John Feidelberg]

I saw Friendship. Unbelievable.

[Kevin Clancy]

What's that one?

[John Feidelberg]

Tim Robinson. Tim Robinson. Paul Rudd's new movie.

[Kevin Clancy]

Good.

[John Feidelberg]

That was really, really good. Really good. And like, I haven't seen a comedy in a packed theater in God knows how long.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, Yeah. I haven't even heard about this.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm so much more the TV guy. I realized how much, how little I know about movies. But like, you guys, you always mention movies. I don't even know her about it.

[John Feidelberg]

It's, I think it was on six screens in the country. Okay, so like, it's not one that you would.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is it, is it funny? Oh, Tim Brown. I was thinking of Tim. Tim Meadows for some reason. Oh, yeah. This, this, this is a 24, right? Yeah, yeah. And this is like funny or it's like a drama? That's funny.

[John Feidelberg]

It's, it's, I think you should leave in movie form. So it's very funny. And there's also just some wackiness, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Has he done movies?

[John Feidelberg]

It's so funny. Are you seeing it?

[Jackie]

I'm, I just haven't had a chance.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, you know, it's gone tomorrow.

[Jackie]

What's gonna happen?

[John Feidelberg]

I think, I don't know. Beyond it's, it's like it was like a six day release.

[Jackie]

Between this and Sinners, I've spent about $75 on movies I haven't seen because I'll buy tickets and be like, oh, I have the Knicks tonight and then I'll buy tickets.

[Kevin Clancy]

It is tough when you're in sports mode. TV has been like a little bit of a dry dude.

[John Feidelberg]

You know what I did yesterday though? And this is one of the more embarrassing things I'll probably ever do.

[Kevin Clancy]

I, I, let's, this, let's, we'll, we'll, we'll decide. Okay, there's a statement when they will decide that. Saying a lot, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

Maybe not embarrassing. One of the more pathetic. How about that also, dude. So I, Yesterday I was just like, I don't know, I had nothing to do. I was bored. I was like, I'm hungry. And I was like, I got to go to the market. And I've seen a few recipes lately just like viral, like TikTok. Things just popped up on my Instagram and I was like, I guess I'll make. And for some reason when I see something online described as viral, I hate it instantly. Like, I It turns me off because again, like, that's how most of the marketing is on Instagram, where it's like this viral. This viral whatever. That. That marketing does not work on me. I hate. I hate. I hate that about me. That I instantly hate it. But I do. It's whatever. I'm. But I'm trying to work on it. So I was like, okay, let's try and make these two viral recipes, John. They're both like very little things.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, we'll be talking like a five.

[John Feidelberg]

Minute, like, chicken dish or some. No. Well, no. 1 was a tortilla cinnamon roll. Like, they're.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm listening.

[John Feidelberg]

And it's like a tortilla cinnamon roll. And then they're both like five minute recipes. They're both very quick. And then another was like this bowl that I actually saw Ria make before. Before their wedding where it was like sweet potato and beef and avocado and cottage cheese or whatever. And I was like, sure, I'll. That just happened to come up yesterday morning too. And I was like, sure, I'll just try that too. But then when I was at the market, like a fucking murderer collecting all his supplies, I was like, I can't buy it all in one place. The lady's gonna laugh at me.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, you're so crazy.

[John Feidelberg]

I was like, there's. I was like, I can't be another one of those, like, guy, like, person who the lady at the checkout just clearly knows, like, oh, here's a. Here's a viral trender. So I was like, so I bought half the stuff at west side Market. And then I went to Grist. 80s. You're pathetic. Now, to be fair, I was also. I was like, I'm not going outside again today. Might as well get some more, like, exercise and walk a little bit and enjoy the day. But I was like, you're pathetic.

[Kevin Clancy]

I gotta buy the Sudafed here. And the, like the ax destroy the.

[John Feidelberg]

Shovel and the duct tape all the same place. It was. It's funny again, it was a nice day.

[Kevin Clancy]

How were they. How were the viral things?

[John Feidelberg]

The bowl was really good. The. The tortillas were not as they. Not, not, not good, but they weren't what I expected. And they. But they ended up being really good. Because what I did was. This is kind of crazy. So it's not. I expected it to look like in that picture. I expected it to be like the size of a cinnamon roll. It's not. It's like this. It's a nickel, right? Because it's A rolled up tortilla. So what I ended up doing was I took them out of the oven, I put them in a bowl, I put a scoop of ice cream or two in there.

[Kevin Clancy]

Now we're cooking.

[John Feidelberg]

And then that, because they were so warm, it melted the ice cream and now it ended up being a soup. Kind of like adult cinnamon toast crunch.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Because inside of those had you. You put.

[Kevin Clancy]

You love that ice cream. Makes it adults, I was just gonna.

[John Feidelberg]

Say, you know, for big boys. But the before you roll up the tortilla, you. You put a bunch of butter on it and then you sprinkle cinnamon sugar and then you roll it up and cut it into pieces. And then the way that cooked the tortillas themselves ended up being like almost butter gushers. Oh, in there? Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Butter gusher.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. The more I'm talking about it, the more. These are pretty good. Viral, bro. Viral for a reason. But they just didn't. They weren't what I expected the package to be. Whereas the bowl was very aesthetically pleasing and looked delicious and tasted delicious.

[Kevin Clancy]

This was just people recently making a tray of cinnamon buns and then scooping it with an ice cream scooper. I don't know why, but it looks cool. You know, had the little thing. It's like, yeah, I'll do scoops of cinnamon buns. I don't know why you don't just eat it as a bun. But. Okay, there's that. That middle. The middle of a cinnamon bunny is like. To me, it's like the essence of life.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like where the big bang came from. Like when you unwrap. You know what I mean? Like, I'm talking like a mall Cinnabon, you know?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like the outsides, whatever. But when you get to that middle where it's got the black, like, goo and it's soft in the middle.

[Jackie]

I had one this morning. This morning. And I was like, bro, I used.

[Kevin Clancy]

To rip, after you eat it, full ass Cinnabuns. Like, no pro. I remember being a kid because they would have the mini and the big, and I would get the big. And even as a child, I was like, this is too many calories. Because they add the calories there. It was like 2, 000 calories for one bun. And I was like, this is a bit much at like the age of like 11, but I would. I would hammer those. Dude, nowadays that would put me. I mean, I would still hammer it, don't get me wrong. But I would at least be like, oh, man, like sluggish. Over that middle. Oh, I would have sex with that. I would. The middle of a honey bun.

[John Feidelberg]

I also did. Killing me a little experimenting. I, I don't know. I was doing some cooking this weekend and I did. On Saturday night, I did peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

[Kevin Clancy]

Got it.

[John Feidelberg]

Pretty basic stuff, right? No. I took a cup, cut the middle. Cut the middle, got it uncrustable into the oven, toasted within with the. Already sealed as an impression.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Toasted into a bowl. Ice cream, adult peanut butter and jelly.

[Kevin Clancy]

That sounds great. I think the only thing that would be better is if you deep fried it. Get some batter.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Deep fry it. Uncrustable.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Thinking about getting a deep fryer.

[John Feidelberg]

Deep fry, dude. Like, like a built in deep fryer in the kitchen.

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't know. Yeah, something. Yeah, just like next to the, next to this. The toasters. Also a deep fryer. That'd be pretty dope.

[John Feidelberg]

That would be very good. I would guess your hand ends up in it totally. Eventually on some final destination.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. That's inevitable. You're really tempting fate with the deep fryer. It's just like having a bomb in your kitchen. Yeah, that, that, that sounds good though.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was a good weekend. I didn't do anything. It was unbelievable.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I want to see Friendship Friday. Hung out Saturday, Hung out Sunday here today. Although I did see some. Can you do me a favor? Can you just google Air Force One?

[Kevin Clancy]

The movie?

[John Feidelberg]

No, the plane. Plane I keep seeing News can't be true.

[Kevin Clancy]

I was just going to ask, what do you think pops up on Google first? Because Air Force One's got a lot.

[Jackie]

Of things cross my mind.

[Kevin Clancy]

Go to.

[John Feidelberg]

No, go to like news.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

That keeps. This can't be true.

[Kevin Clancy]

Trump is supposed to accept. So Qatar is going to give him a new. New plane to be like, he's getting a new Air Force One.

[John Feidelberg]

But the, it's the in, in the thing. It's not for America. For him is like when he's done being president, it's his plan.

[Jackie]

Oh, he's not allowed to accept gifts. Like, it's been a thing for years now. It's against the law for him to.

[Kevin Clancy]

Accept that one though, says Trump administration.

[John Feidelberg]

This one, like, this one, I think.

[Kevin Clancy]

They'Re just like, as a donation, we're.

[John Feidelberg]

Taking the 400 million. That was just like, hang on, a Middle Eastern slave state is gifting us a $400 million plane that is not going to the country.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, that sounds a little.

[John Feidelberg]

I was like, that sounds like the craziest thing I've ever heard.

[Jackie]

It's meant for presidential duties. That's what they said. But I believe it's illegal, so I don't know.

[John Feidelberg]

But even click, click the article because I think they want, like, I think, like, I remember reading, like, they want to be clear, it's not for America, it's for Donald Trump. And he can keep it when he.

[Kevin Clancy]

Leaves, bro, Donald Trump is going to do so much damage because he's not president. Man, I can't believe he wanted to be president again. Because in my mind, I would imagine retiring, whatever you want to call it, like, your administration ending has got to be the dopest shit in the world because all those restrictions come off. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's probably a million things you could cash in on as a president that you're not allowed to. And then when you're not president, it's.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, But I don't think any president, I know we talk about it with Trump, but I don't think any president is worried about their net worth because.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, it's gonna be someone worried about their net worth. But everybody wants more, man.

[John Feidelberg]

But, like, like, I don't know what, I'm done with this. My speaking fee is a million dollars a year. I don't, I mean, a million dollars a speech.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's what I mean. Even that stuff is like, when I'm sure, you know, you can't really do that or cash in. And then it's like, now I can. I'm just gonna go to every little college, every little everything.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, but that's what I mean. Like, I, I, I don't know why you would be concerned with it while you're president. Because you're like, when I'm done, it's, I.

[Kevin Clancy]

So this says the plane would be donated to Trump's presidential library at the end of his term. It's like, that's just my airport now.

[John Feidelberg]

But, like, I think, again, I want to. It's all stuff I've read, so I don't know for sure, but, like, it was like, he can use it.

[Kevin Clancy]

And this is just like, that's, that's insane. And then, you know, all of a sudden, Qatar is going to get some, you know, beneficial, whatever legislation. Where did that come from? The plane's $40 million.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Oh, my God. And there's like, you know, differences in stuff. Like, a plane is the most, like, obvious, you can't, in your face thing I've ever seen.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You can have a plan Plane. What? And he's like. And get like, everyone's like, okay, all right. Yeah. Get the plane.

[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

They give you that the other day on the Game Time app.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

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[Kevin Clancy]

They do a good job of like, this is a good deal for this price range.

[Nimesh Patel]

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[Kevin Clancy]

You know what I mean? So like when here's all the available tickets, but they put like a little green star over, like there was one that was courtside and it was like $2,500 a ticket. But that's a lot. But there was other ones for 7000. So 2500 is a steal if you're ready to pay that. So it really has something for everybody. It was from nosebleeds all the way down to on the Wood. They had you covered. And I was able to bring my kids for like a core memory event. I got a lot of good footage. I'm actually going to put it together of, of them enjoying their day. And it was all made possible by Game Time. I don't even think, like, who even is it even possible to get, get tickets? Like, like I have not gotten a ticket or know anybody who got a ticket like from, from the box office.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, no, like it's, it's literally impossible.

[Kevin Clancy]

When you think about how many people are trying to get in the building for these events and how few tickets there are, relatively speaking. It's like what is for primary market.

[John Feidelberg]

I can't even imagine what the world used to be like when it was like, I guess we got to go camp out.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, right, right.

[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

The other crazy thing I saw this weekend, do you know meth? Like, the drug meth can just be prescribed. It's called desoxin D, E, S, O, X, Y, N. And, like, even. Even, like the. Like. No, it's meth. It's not like one of those things.

[Kevin Clancy]

With Adderall, amphetamine, or.

[John Feidelberg]

It's meth watch. Is that. Is that D E, S O, X, Y, N?

[Kevin Clancy]

Huh? I love that. The meta.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it's just. It's just methamphetamine.

[Jackie]

Yeah, I think methamphetamine. Is that also an Adderall?

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, yeah, it says to treat adhd.

[John Feidelberg]

It's a treat. But, like, Adderall, I feel like we always called it, like, legal crack or legal coke or whatever. This is just like. It's just meth.

[Kevin Clancy]

But all that. I mean, like. Like, painkillers are legal. Heroin, really? You know?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[Kevin Clancy]

I always thought that meth was like, chemicals, but I guess that's what drugs are. Yeah, but I always thought it was like Sudafed mixed with, like, bleach mixed with, like, ammonia. Like, none of these things should be piss. Good old meth. Yikes. Meth is a. Is a crazy one. I understand a lot of. A lot of the appeal of drugs. Don't get meth. Nothing about meth sounds enjoyable to me.

[John Feidelberg]

I know. I've never.

[Kevin Clancy]

He's like cocaine, even. I don't even really get the appeal of cocaine. I. I don't. I get the appeal. I don't like it. Like, the idea of partying all night and being awake and. And painkillers obviously numb you and hallucinogenics, you know, make you open your mind. Meth just seems like, no, thank you, man. That's got to be like you. You reach a level where you're like, I need. I just can't feel my real feelings and think my real thoughts. So I will put anything in.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's when life is not worth living. Just go and drink yourself some midnight bean, man. The midnight bean launch party. I think I was very nervous about the lunch party. On the one hand, I wasn't because I really do know how good the drink is. But I was like, this will be a real test, you know, to have a bunch of people drink it. And I feel the poor bartender. We had a two hour, two Hour window. How many martinis do you think she made?

[John Feidelberg]

I'm gonna say.

[Kevin Clancy]

And there was, you know, how many people there.

[John Feidelberg]

It was probably like, you know, 126. Is that right?

[Jackie]

Way, way more.

[Kevin Clancy]

No, it's 126. To the number. To the number.

[John Feidelberg]

Obviously I did not know that.

[Kevin Clancy]

I was about to say when. I must have told him. When he, when he said 120, I was like, wow. And then he said 6. 126.

[John Feidelberg]

Crazy.

[Kevin Clancy]

Dude.

[John Feidelberg]

Damn, dude. I got a dozen match today too. I just used up. Yeah, there goes all your luck.

[Jackie]

I felt so bad for her though.

[Kevin Clancy]

So, I mean, I was thinking about that commercial day. I probably made 10 of those, right? And by the 10th one, I was like, I don't want to shake these anymore. The next morning I woke up and I was like, I'm sore. Yesterday I was like, oh, I just did a commercial for martinis. I mean, she was double barrel. Every time I turned around, she was shaking new ones. I was like, can we, can we like mass shake this somehow for you? Or. I wanted to go get her like a frother one of those and you don't have to shake it. Yeah, 126.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude. I actually, I. I can't. That's. I'm so good at drinking math. It's.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I was gonna say, did you think to yourself like, all right, 60 people times two or.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes. Yeah, Yeah. I was like, I can do you. You. You asked me how many beers do I need for party. I got you, I got you 126.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, I was like, I cannot. I. I looked at him like, you guys, like, I told you this already. That is bonkers.

[John Feidelberg]

Bargazi has a joke about how his wife asking him how much pizza his 40 year old friends are gonna eat is really embarrassing. Where she's like, we'll just call, figure it out. And I would not need to make those calls. I'd be like, I know how many.

[Jackie]

Pizzas are gonna.

[John Feidelberg]

Be drinking. I don't want any pizza. Gonna eat. I've done this 10,000 times.

[Kevin Clancy]

You're. That's your 10,000 hours. You're. You're a man on fire. You're crazy. A man can be an artist in any. Anything food, whatever. John's art is, is predicting how much alcohol you need. And he just painted his masterpiece. 126 martinis. That was nuts.

[John Feidelberg]

The office, when Kevin can't do math, but when they switch it to pies, he can.

[Kevin Clancy]

Same thing when I watch Dan and Dave operate with Gambling.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

You ask them a regular math question, they have no idea. You ask them to compute like a three leg parlay and they're like, yeah, so. But I was watching people drink them while I was not there, like watching them from a distance. And I watched everybody do the same thing. They were filming and they were getting ready and they would take a sip and they would go like that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And they would say something like, oh, it's actually good. Or like, Brianna made a video. She was like, I don't have to lie.

[John Feidelberg]

That is the. When your friend shows you something or shares with you, like in this line of work, like, or I'm sure it's any line of work, but like, particularly in this where it's going out to the public, you're like, please be good.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just please like it.

[John Feidelberg]

Let me have an honest, positive reaction.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes.

[John Feidelberg]

Be it a drink, be it clothing show, like, like, just please, like, that's literally if I get. If I had magic genie, I would be like, can you promise me that everything my friends show me is good? I want to not have that moment of like, how am I going to handle this? And midnight bean is for sure. Like, you have one Sabbath. Oh, thank God.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I didn't know what to like, I kept saying to people, give me an honest review. But I was also like, but there's nothing we can do about it. So don't.

[John Feidelberg]

You know what I mean?

[Kevin Clancy]

I can't be like, never mind. Take these bottles on the shelf, we're fixing the recipe.

[John Feidelberg]

You can give me an honest review if you want. Give your Twitter account a fucking. Exactly.

[Kevin Clancy]

But they all did the same thing. Everybody was like, this is, this is very legit. And like, people who I know drink them. The, the, the like influencer packs that we sent out, they look awesome. Awesome. Yeah. To the point that I got a lot of DMS of people looking for them and I might sell them. I don't know. I mean, it would be expensive because it's a, a shaker, A glass, a bottle and a thing of three beans in like a nice box. That's probably like $100.

[Jackie]

That's a great gift for a 25.

[Kevin Clancy]

Year old to make. So I'm thinking maybe if we put that in the works now, by the time the holidays come around, if you're a drinker, if you're an espresso martini fan, if you're a KFC radio fan, you know, you, bam. There you go. There's your Secret Santa, there's your gift for Your, your, you know, brother in law, whatever the it is, it probably would be a little bit expensive, but not too expensive. That's prohibitive. So I was like, a lot of people are like, where can I get these? And they're just, you know, I made like 50 of them to send around to influencers for promotion, but I was like, hm. But I. I think I'm starting to feel it, like move like it's, it's finally getting to places. But more importantly, like, every. It's one of those things. Everybody who has it likes it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

To me that's like. So the rest is just a matter of time. It's going to get, it's going to get out there. It's a nationwide release. Enough people are going to order it and everybody who has it. Some guy DM me the other day being like, I own a liquor store on the Cape. I can't remember the name now, but a bunch of people are like, oh, this is like the liquor store.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I actually, I, I don't even go to the Cape. I bet if you said it, it might be Cappies.

[Kevin Clancy]

Could have been.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, the. There's like, again, I don't go to the Cave much, but there's like two or three of them. There's a couple like. Yeah, it's like one of those warehouse type stuff.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right. And this guy was like, there's a few of these on the market. Yours is definitively the best. Yeah, I was like, I really.

[John Feidelberg]

That is when you have that moment where you're like, I know it's good. Then I have the confidence and then you're just like, okay, it'll happen.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Like it's just a matter of time. I gotta do it. I still gotta do some things. Right. But the hardest part of like the product.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Good.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is same thing with content, where it's like, if you know somebody is like, funny comics, I'm sure feel it too. It's like, you're gonna get there. Like you're just. I don't know when your break's gonna be and you do have to keep going up there every night. But, like, you'll get there, you know? And so I feel like we're at that with this because even like the.

[John Feidelberg]

Hard thing is like the tr. Almost like being in a boxing match when you're like, I know I'm better.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I just have to show up every round. Like, I'm, I'm. I'm better. So I'm good at this. Like, there's, it's so hard getting to that point in anything, I'm sure.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[John Feidelberg]

But like, particularly in content in this world, like, like, I, I, I'll be there. I'll get up. Yeah, I'm gonna take some, I'm gonna.

[Kevin Clancy]

Take some hits, but I'm here. I mean, that's my entire career is, I just keep coming back. I just keep on coming back. Like, longevity is, is really the name of the game. Just, just laugh, outlast the other people. The people who sort of the top are going to sort of the top and there's a bunch of people who are going to fall off and I'm just going to stay in the middle and I'll be there forever.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude, I, I remember this story my dad tell me when I was a kid. I obviously have no idea of its truth. It sounds like a parable now that I'm about to say it, but, like, he was talking about this middle school that we went to in my hometown where there was like this hills, Morton Middle School, and like this hill that all the kids would walk up afterwards. And my dad was talking about this kid who got in a fight in wood shop with like, the big tough guy at school. And he waited for him halfway up the hill and beat the shit out of him.

[Kevin Clancy]

The big kid.

[John Feidelberg]

Beat the big kid, beat the shit out of the little kid and was like, that's it. He's taking a new way home from school now. And the kid showed up every day and just got the shit kicked out of him jumping that hill every single fucking day. And was just getting. And eventually, honestly, the, the story, like, he didn't win a fight. The story. The big guy just got tired and was like, I'm done kicking the out of this kid.

[Kevin Clancy]

Eventually, I'll wear you down, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know why my dad would tell me. I saw, I guess it was like, you're not gonna win a lot of fights, but just keep, if you keep showing up, he'll eventually stop kicking the out of you.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I, I really do think that's like, I mean, especially in our line of work. Like, it's pretty easy to pack it up when the Internet starts making fun of you. Yeah, I don't blame anybody who does. It's just like, I'm not going to subject myself to this anymore. Like, the world, the world is.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm gonna go hide. Thank you.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, like, but there are people who really, you know, they don't do their podcast or they stop posting or whatever and, and yeah, I don't blame you. But also, if you can make it through that, like, once, Once you've been humiliated several times, you're like, all right, it wasn't that bad. It sucks. But if it happens again, like, because of a failure or something embarrassing or whatever, it's just like, but what? But the next one's gonna hit.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know my logic, though, because you're right. Like, like getting humiliating, stuff like that. Eventually I was like, I don't have to be part of this conversation.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, it's gonna get said whether I'm here or not.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'll just check out, guys.

[John Feidelberg]

I'll head to the other room. You guys, don't.

[Kevin Clancy]

You keep talking. I'm just gonna be able to do your thing.

[John Feidelberg]

But I'll just, I'm just gonna go up outside, I think.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, but it's like the fact that you're still willing to do it all, it's like, yeah, you don't have to be engaged in it. But, like, I'm, I'm not, you know, I'm not gonna let you win that. I'm still gonna do my job or whatever. So. Yeah, that longevity is what matters. But I, I, I think I, I heard kind of through the grapevine that they're selling more than they already thought they were at this stage, that they would be at this stage in the game.

[John Feidelberg]

What? Oh.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, the midnight being. So, like, I think it's.

[John Feidelberg]

That's great.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Yeah. And it's just a matter, like, everybody who has stocked it sells it out right away.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm like, I think they're gonna realize, like, if I buy two bottles, I sell two bottles. But I have two cases. I'm gonna sell two cases. Like, I think it's just gonna go. And I really think that the. I just don't think there's any. There's a couple other competitors out there. I don't think any that are as good as mine. A lot of them are like liqueur that you mix, but you have to have vodka.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Or, you know, a coffee flavored vodka. But it doesn't have, like the espresso part or whatever. I think I'm like one of the only ones that has it all. And there's just no, like, brand allegiance yet, I don't think. Yeah, so it's like, if you told me this one's better than this one, like, people are gonna buy that one. And I think if there was anybody that was gonna have any allegiance, I think it would be our fan base. So I'm kind Of like, I just think it's gonna happen.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I just, I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, it's, it's, it's. It's hard for me because like, the way we started the podcast, I'm just like, I don't think good things are gonna happen, you know, I mean, you know, barstool has definitively been a good thing that's happened in my life. I, I certainly can't discount that. That's a big one. But pretty much everything else doesn't work out. So oftentimes I'm just like, I'm here to just like another day at the dick sucking factory. Like, I gotta get through this. So it's pretty rare to be like, I think we got it. You know, I think I got it though. I think we got it. So, I mean, we'll see. I don't know what that means, you know, business wise or whatever, but just having a W would be a nice one. So go get your Midnight Bean. And people keep being like, oh, I tried and I couldn't find it. I'm like, you have to ask them to stock it. If you say, do you have it? And they say no and you just walk out. That doesn't do anything. Say, if you stock it, I will buy it. Yeah, they will stock it because they just want to sell shit. So just add it onto your business works. Just do it. So thanks to everybody who came out to the, the Midnight Bean party. It was a bunch of barstool people, bunch of fans came through. If you took pictures or anything, post it, tag it. Appreciate all that. So have you seen, there's this viral video.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, wait, before you say that, I'm going to say something. Have you seen the Four Seasons? I know, I texted you about it already, so I've seen it three times already. I'm.

[Kevin Clancy]

The whole show.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's eight episodes and it's 25 minutes. Right. I was going to say this earlier when we were talking content tv and it's just the amount of that is divorce and. And relationship related on television. Everything I tune to, I'm like. And I'm not like busted up about it to the point that I'm like.

[Nimesh Patel]

I can't watch these things.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm not like tr. I was gonna say I'm not triggered by it, but I think I'm triggered by it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. And it's. But like, yeah, no, we all have stuff we're triggered by and.

[Kevin Clancy]

But there's just so much of it. I'm like, it's One of those things, you know, they. You know, somebody points out a red car, then you see red cars.

[John Feidelberg]

It's like, we don't need representation for everything. Like, I'll speak for divorced dads. We're good with representation.

[Kevin Clancy]

Good. That whole, like, I've only. I turned it off. Off. I was. I was in the middle. I was watching that woman, you know, re. Redo their vows, and, like, he's coming home ready to break up. And. And she.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay, see, now I'm gonna. I'm gonna pitch you on a little harder then, because what I love about the show is that no one's a villain. Yeah, he was.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. It's all understandable. He was like, I'm just not happy.

[John Feidelberg]

He was unhappy.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

He gets in a new relationship. He's like, I know, it looks ridiculous. I'm happy, though. I don't know what to tell you. And like, no one in this show, none of the characters are like, piece of people. They're regular people, good people who sometimes up or sometimes try a white lie or this kind of. But like normal human. Normal humans. And I. I. For some reason, I found that so refreshing. Yeah, it was just like, it's eight or six. I forgot how many it is. Like, six, eight. Like, just good people who also. Life's hard and stuff's getting in the way and like that. But, like, they're.

[Kevin Clancy]

They're all trying their best monster names too. Tina Feed Carell.

[John Feidelberg]

Coleman Domingo. Will Forte is Coleman Domingo. The black guy?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

The best dress dude in the world.

[Kevin Clancy]

Great voice. That guy should do, like, voiceovers and books on tape and all that.

[John Feidelberg]

I like that. A lot of his stuff, he. He. Colman. Domingo himself is an excellent dresser, very stylish. And his characters, not. Not one way or the other. It's just their characters. They're not him.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And this is the first one where I'm like, ah. He's like, I'll dress myself.

[Nimesh Patel]

Thank you.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, he looks awesome. Every scene.

[Kevin Clancy]

That. That scene where. So this woman is renewing her vows and. And her hu. Is like, telling his friends, like, after this weekend, we're getting a divorce. And she gives that speech to Tina Fey about the. The old BMW.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And he's like, yeah, he loves cars and he tested out all these other ones, but he always comes back to that old BMW. And she's. You know, it's very obvious that she knows kind of what's going on. And I was like, like, I'm gonna put on Bob's burgers. Which that makes Me cry. These days, Bob's Burgers is all about. Everything's emotional.

[John Feidelberg]

It. The like, the character of Steve Carell could have been done as like this midlife crisis.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

But he's like, I'm just unhappy. He's like, I think he has a lot.

[Kevin Clancy]

He actually does need some representation.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Because honestly, I mean, when I was there, I was like, if I. You know when people say like, why. Why do you cheat? Just like break up with them? Like, that's. Yeah, of course.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But that's a pretty easy thing to just say. If I was just like, I'm leaving and I was, you know, pretty. Still newly married with a baby. You're still a. Yeah. That's like the right thing to do. But that PR is not great either. That reaction's not great either. You know what I mean? It's like, so. But I think that needs to be.

[John Feidelberg]

A little more than 25 years. That's well enough.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I was gonna say that's also. I shouldn't even really compare because that's a big difference. I think if you've. I don't know. I go back and forth on that. Like, it's like I look at my parents sometimes. I'm like, you know, maybe they. They would just be happier to go to their separate corners. But Also when you're 24, they're 40 years pot committed. It's probably just like, ah, I don't know. We're not gonna. We're not gonna shake the pot now.

[John Feidelberg]

But I don't even think it's still. I think it's more like. I don't even. I don't. It's. I think what I would have a hard time with myself is like, if I married someone for 20 years, I'm like, I don't know. Another life.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And it's not a. I don't. I'm not necessarily a grasses greener guy all the time. Like, this grass is pretty nice.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Pretty comfy with a scy. On my own grass. I don't know how that grass works. You know what I mean? Like, I gotta mow this lawn.

[Kevin Clancy]

This lawn is so thriving that I gotta take care of it. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's. That I. I can't figure that out. That. I don't know, like, when you. Sometimes I see it's like you're getting a divorce at like 70. It's like, what? But I don't know. It's also like if you have 20 more years to live or some.

[John Feidelberg]

That's not.

[Kevin Clancy]

You're on death's door.

[John Feidelberg]

What do they say the worst investment is? A bad investment. You stay invested in.

[Kevin Clancy]

I really, I really think there is no bigger decision than, than getting married. Like if you get married or really have kids with like the wrong person, you pay for, you know, you pay for forever. It's gonna be a problem forever. I can't stress enough how much it's like if I'm sure there are people like, you proposed, you bought the ring, you've, you know, the families are excited and you're like, I can't go back on it now.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, go back, go back on it.

[Kevin Clancy]

It will get so much more difficult. It, I mean, it's just a, just you can't ever undo it. You know what I mean? Once you've had kids with someone or whatever, it's just like you, this will be an issue till you're dead. But it's definitely a well done show. Like it's, it's, it's, it's nice to have a half hour show too. It's a quick, you know, easy.

[John Feidelberg]

Who's the last one? Carrie? Kenny Silver, she's from Reno 911. Oh, but Erica Henningsen or whatever the, the Ginny, the girlfriend who's like, she's like a 32 year old girlfriend who he starts dating.

[Kevin Clancy]

Her character, I've seen that part.

[John Feidelberg]

Yet her character so easily could have been like this. She's just a nice, she's younger, but she's just like, she's trying to.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Everyone's just. And I don't know, I, I found it to be so pleasant. I really, really liked it.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know what I think has been great this year is hacks.

[John Feidelberg]

I haven't, I have not started.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, it's so good, man. It's like them going through the Tonight show and, and they're like their relationships like super strained. I guess actually the beginning is a little bit ridiculous. The very first thing is a little. There's a power play from Ava that's a little bit like silly but like, whatever. But it's Gene Smart's me. Awesome.

[John Feidelberg]

Yo. It's crazy.

[Kevin Clancy]

She has some really good moments in the season.

[John Feidelberg]

What was I watching? Oh, I was watching the accountant. One gear up for the accountant too, you know, naturally. And she has like the smallest possible role in the accountant.

[Kevin Clancy]

Really.

[John Feidelberg]

And that was pre hacks and everything. I was like, damn. She, she was like 65, waiting at the middle of the hill.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Who else wants some? Who else wants some? Like it Was, you know, like it was a recognizable role but like she must have had two lines in the whole movie. Wow. And now she's like four times.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's awesome. That show is great. Yeah, there's definitely some Good. Look at that. 97 on Ron tomatoes. That's awesome. That's like they, you know, I just can't. It's gotta feel so good to have a hit show. Are you getting pumped to release yours?

[John Feidelberg]

No, for real. Like, like, I'm excited.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's gonna be a hit.

[John Feidelberg]

It. I'm excited.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean your first one, I think I've said this before, like whether it's a numbers hit, we don't know yet because you know your first one, you gotta grow. But like the, it's a lot like Midnight Bean. I think the people that watch it, I mean I haven't even seen it yet, so what am I talking about? But from what I've watched you guys and seen you guys operate, I would guess I think that people who watch it are going to be like, this is good. You know, and that's really all you can ask for in the beginning is.

[John Feidelberg]

Like the, the I feel like what we've always said is like when we're like sitting here like working on it. Owen said it first actually and I was always like, that's right where he was like, I don't know who's gonna like it, but I know like the seven of us or ten of us or whoever it was.

[Kevin Clancy]

Litmus test, like a huge sample size.

[John Feidelberg]

We all like it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

So I hope everyone else does. You know, the. You can't predict what an audience likes. But like everything I've seen, I'm like, I don't know. That's funny.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's certain, few, certain things at barstool when like a whole bunch of people like it. You know, something for everybody at Barstool. But when like everybody with a like minded sense of humor all agrees on something, usually those are like the hits, you know.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, I feel like, like I guess I don't think. I try not to think about this a lot. Like people could hate it. They might like there's a chance. I, I would be very surprised.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think it's funny.

[John Feidelberg]

But there is the chance.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think hate it. I think there's something very different about scripted especially for us. I, I don't know about the general public. I think your first test is like your fans along the way.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I think like when you're doing a podcast, when you're doing like, content like that, I think it's easy to hate because it's kind of like you're not putting, like, your heart and soul into it necessarily. You're just kind of, like, talking. There's definitely a vibe of, like, I could do that better than you or whatever. You think people are making money and successful off of, like, some lazy. Basically. I don't know. I feel like, like, fans, which is.

[John Feidelberg]

The funniest thing, because if you think you can do it, you're the one being lazy.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Just.

[Kevin Clancy]

You go do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's something to be said for, like, I. I think at least that fans of us. Of you will be like, they worked at this. They did this, right? They scripted, they wrote it, they filmed it, they acted, they edited, like, all that. I think that, like, builds up some kind of equity a little bit. You know what I mean? Where, like, the.

[John Feidelberg]

It might. There's also the chance that, like, it's. It. I don't think it's a high chance, but it is a non zero that they go. Should have stuck the podcast.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, I guess so. I just. Yeah, I don't. I think there's too much talent involved that, like. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, I don't know, we put together a bunch of all stars and the team sucks. Like, it happens, but probably not, right? You know, it's.

[John Feidelberg]

It's. It's going well. I think. I so badly want to show them the. The cold open right now. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, let's go.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know what?

[Kevin Clancy]

You can't say that and not show it to me. You're showing it to me.

[John Feidelberg]

All right.

[Jackie]

Show it to him.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

On air or after?

[John Feidelberg]

No, no, no, you show it now. But, like, the. I'm just trying to think how much build up he needs.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, I think.

[Jackie]

I think you need to see episode one to see this.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Jackie]

Yeah, because you got to know the characters first.

[Kevin Clancy]

It was the cold open of episode two.

[Jackie]

Cold opens episode three of.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's. Of episode two.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, that's two.

[Jackie]

That's two.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, okay then. Yeah. You probably gotta.

[Jackie]

You gotta learn what.

[Kevin Clancy]

How.

[Jackie]

How stupid what these guys are first.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, I think I got. I get it.

[Nimesh Patel]

I get it.

[Kevin Clancy]

I get it. I understand. You don't want to, you know, like.

[Jackie]

You know, we're getting close to the point where episodes one through three are done, and I would like to start doing screenings first with those closest. And obviously, yeah, you. And I think there's a handful, so.

[Kevin Clancy]

Wait, so you would screen the first Couple in case. What. You got to change some things, you think for the later episodes or you.

[Jackie]

Just feel like, I just want notes from the public because, you know, you can look at it with me, Owen and fights and you know, they're very hands on with the edit and we can like things, but I just want to see how others react.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like.

[Kevin Clancy]

But like, would you consider changing? Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. I never thought of that. I always thought like, the season's. The season and then maybe you could change for season two. But if you could get a little impression halfway through and be like, yeah, maybe this one should be. Are you doing 21 minutes or 30?

[Jackie]

Like 20 minutes.

[Kevin Clancy]

20 minutes.

[Jackie]

So it's 20 minutes run time. And then with ads, like, it would work the way to sitcom. Whatever you like 25 to 30.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, right.

[John Feidelberg]

And it's all. I guess we never made this clear because they were asking about it in the gambling cave the other day. Like, it's all, it's all the same characters. They didn't know if it was like out of order.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, like a sketch.

[John Feidelberg]

It's a sitcom. Oh. And wrote a sitcom. And it is really funny. It reads funny. It looks. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, I can't wait. I think it's gonna be, you know, I, I think back to the podcasting. Like when we, we started the podcasting, like movement here and then it became something so much bigger than our show. Like, I. I don't know, I think it could really open the floodgates of like, people doing scripted and like. Or I don't know, people start to take note outside of Barstool streaming services, people invest in IT producers, I don't know, whatever. Like, that's how that starts. You know what I mean? Like, you don't, you don't do it because of that. But it's like when we started Casey Radio, I wasn't thinking about like, let's turn Barstool into a podcast network, but it just happened and it's cool to see that. It would be cool if like, you know, Caroline or whoever else does like scripted stuff, like jumps on and does their thing and, and like it becomes the new wave. Like, you might change, change things here.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, it would be cool again. It's. It's something I've all. I actually was talking to Nick Hamilton about it at the midnight being launch and I was like, I was like, I'm realizing that this isn't what everyone's hope was like like, my whole time at Barstool, I've always been like, I.

[Kevin Clancy]

Want to be watched. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I want to do scripted stuff.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And it's just, like, never materialized because, A, I didn't have the confidence to do it, or B, like, I think part of this.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's a lot of that was. Stopped us from doing that. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

But, like, nothing. Nothing ever expressly. No, it was always just, like, you kind of felt like we were more of this kind of company. So you didn't try and do it. Like, nothing. Nothing was ever told. Like, you can't do this. And. I don't know. It's just been fun and I've enjoyed it and I hope it's good, but. But it might not be.

[Kevin Clancy]

We're gonna have to work on your promotion game.

[John Feidelberg]

Anyone who's promoting a show and not acknowledging the possibility that you might hate it isn't promoting it right. You might. It might suck. I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think you're wrong. They're not promoting it maybe, honestly, but they're promoting it.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, I'm gonna promote it. Honestly. I don't know. I think it's fucking awesome. So far, I don't know what will happen, but so far, I really like it.

[Kevin Clancy]

It.

[John Feidelberg]

I can't speak again.

[Kevin Clancy]

We're going to work on the message. Can say that to us. We're going to send you on other shows and you're not going to say that.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude, I'm 100% going to say that. I don't know what anyone's going to.

[Nimesh Patel]

Think.

[John Feidelberg]

But if you like my sense of humor and I. I've enjoyed it.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think that's the biggest, like, thing to me is, like, I. I think in a weird way, it's all built to this where it's like, I don't know. When you do a podcast, especially a comedy podcast, and for the last 10 years, we recommended the best specials and the best comics and the best podcast, and we pretty much were right every time.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, there's also part of that that is true. I. I was thinking back on that recently. Just, like, how many smart, funny people we've gotten to talk to is insane. And. And I put up against anybody in the world, in, like, world, probably Rogan won us too, for, like, literally got to sit down, like, pick the brains of, like, really smart on camera, off camera.

[Kevin Clancy]

Became, like, legitimate friends with some of them, business associates, with others, talking to them, watching them, getting to even, like, I think about, like, how much I talk to, like, Peter from. From Bert's team. Like, the amount that I've just like, learned just listening to him and talking to him through osmosis, through watching them succeed, watching them fail, like pitfalls and things, what to do and not to do all that shit. Like, like, I almost wish we did more. There were times I'm like, I wish we like, capitalized on that even more because that, you know, that. That moment, we still know these people and we still associate with them and they'll be on the show and all that. But that moment of like, everything coming up was kind of coming gone, you know, I'm like, oh, had I known it was going to be that, like, fleeting, I would have maybe done things differently. I don't know. But yeah, like, the best of the best, the funniest of the funniest, the best businessmen, the most creative, all that have like, like all been.

[John Feidelberg]

It would be pretty foolish to not do anything with that knowledge.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[John Feidelberg]

So, like, hopefully we figure it out and hopefully something works. But it might not. That's the honest thing. It might not.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. You know, you might get hit by a bus, but probably not. Any. Any update on when we're thinking about dropping or still up near.

[Jackie]

I. I mean, I've released it in my head.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I haven't really say in my head.

[Jackie]

Say at the same time.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, I was gonna say 3, 3, 2, 1.

[John Feidelberg]

September 2nd.

[Kevin Clancy]

Go the dozen.

[John Feidelberg]

Go get lottery.

[Kevin Clancy]

Let's go to jackpocket right now.

[John Feidelberg]

Download the official announcement. That is just.

[Jackie]

That's what's put that I like pressure for like what I need to get done or else things will just. I'll just keep doing. I will just keep retreating. We'll keep reshooting. I'll just like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is that. Is that after Labor Day?

[Jackie]

That is before Labor Day.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think you should maybe come after Labor Day Day. No.

[Jackie]

Let me see what Labor Day is.

[John Feidelberg]

There. There was a reason that what that date was thrown out. It is also my sister's birthday. That's the only reason I remember it. But there's a reason that date was thrown out. I don't know exactly after.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think that works like give some. You can even hype it up. You know, we always used to do worst, worst weekends of the year. People say Labor Day is one of like the worst ones.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like you have something.

[John Feidelberg]

Something to come out of it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

We got some really funny promotion ideas that we're going to get cooking on late, late summer and promotion all throughout August and then September. September Release date confirmed.

[Kevin Clancy]

We also confirmed.

[Jackie]

Confirmed.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes, past Throwing out the con.

[Jackie]

I'll say. Confirmed.

[John Feidelberg]

Let's go.

[Kevin Clancy]

Breaking news. Tuesday, September. Is it gonna be weekly?

[Jackie]

It's gonna be what? Weekly?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

Are you gonna do one episode of the release or cut? Like, I always like the hybrid, but you're gonna do one, so I like.

[John Feidelberg]

The hybrid as well, but for YouTube, it's weird.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, that's right.

[John Feidelberg]

You'd have to premiere.

[Kevin Clancy]

Sure, sure, that's correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

The original plan was two, maybe even three, probably two episodes at first.

[Kevin Clancy]

Although, I don't know. You never know. I mean, YouTube, you can, you can do enough research and do confirmation bias for absolutely everything. I think what I'm starting to see now, though, is if you release two, it has something to feed you, like, if you know what I mean? Like, if you release one episode, the algorithms, like, watch more of this, but there's only one. It feeds you similar. But if it could feed you a second one.

[John Feidelberg]

Are you speaking to YouTube or are you speaking to, like, Apple TV? And that's Netflix and like. Well, I, I, you know the YouTube better than you both do, but the.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think YouTube, I don't know. I, this is kind of my latest, like, theory. I haven't tested it or anything, but I, I think there's some logic to, like, if there's gonna be a, like, click here to watch more, give it at least one more thing to do. You know, I, I, if it, if.

[John Feidelberg]

It up, the algorithm and all that, I don't think it's worth it. But I, I, I always, like, I think if you get them to like one, they like it. If you got, if they, like, if they watch the second after, and they like that too, the same night they're watching the rest.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, agreed.

[Jackie]

We got to figure out a way to get 1 and 2 out at the same time. I'm gonna hopefully talk to YouTube at some point with our connections here, but because you need to watch the first two, if that makes sense. Yeah, the first one explains.

[Kevin Clancy]

Are you, are you worried about, like, doing a premiere? I mean, you could just publish two.

[Jackie]

I'm just worried about. People are like, people accidentally watch this first, Second episode first, and they're like, what was that?

[Kevin Clancy]

Got it.

[Jackie]

We didn't explain anything.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, you have to also give, like, you can't be.

[John Feidelberg]

Some dumb. People are gonna be dumb.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, you could say that about, you know, Netflix. Like, I put on episode two instead of episode one. It says episode, but I, I hear what you mean. You know, it is like YouTube.

[John Feidelberg]

It'll also. Sorry Real quick. It'll also be on the out of order YouTube, so go subscribe.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes, please.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes, it is. YouTube is so annoying, man. It's like, all together the most, like, effective and important and big and all that. And then it's also, like, infuriating where it's like, if you don't play by, like, every single little goddamn rule, you might. The whole thing might be shot.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know, but so annoying.

[John Feidelberg]

I. I completely agree. But I. I also try and, like, I don't know, 10 years ago, you had to beg CBS to put your. 20 years ago.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. There's always been dumb rules.

[John Feidelberg]

Something else totally, totally there.

[Kevin Clancy]

But it, to me, it's just like, it kind of drives me crazy that it's like, this is not tv. This is more, like, for content. It's like, everything has to be the same theme and the same length. Like, every. Like that. To me, that's not creativity. You know what I mean? It's like, well, this one was eight minutes and this one's 15 minutes. Your whole thing's like, what?

[Nimesh Patel]

Why?

[Kevin Clancy]

You know, I really. I also am just super salty about the era we came up in. Being like, talk about everything is now that you're almost, like, penalized for that, you know? And I hate that because it's like, you know, I found success talking about Game of Thrones. People just do that. Like, I don't want to just talk about Game of Thrones, but, you know, everybody out there now. It's like, I watch some of these people who, like, figure out, like, a prank or a skit or an angle, and they just do that forever. And I'm like, there's part of me that watches them that I'm jealous of their success. And there's part of me that's like, yeah, Joey Swole is just out here talking about gyms again.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't understand how.

[Kevin Clancy]

How do you do that as a human with, like, any. Especially if you're doing this in your creat, that means you have some sort of, like, feelings and emotion behind it, and you just like, I'll just do it again. No, not me, man.

[John Feidelberg]

Even, like, when we did, like, you know, I think for a while we were, like, trying to figure out what out of order is and stuff like that. And we went through different iterations of, like, episodes with sketches, and then we went through just, like, single sketches, and then we went through topical sketches. And that topical sketches era was. Is the easiest to do, but the, like, most, like, least satisfying, like, like, who cares about this really? Yeah. I did not like doing those. I didn't hate it. I didn't.

[Kevin Clancy]

I didn't like the Jew tunnel skit, I think was so funny.

[John Feidelberg]

But that was Jew tunnel. That was, like, impromptu. That wasn't. We were sitting down trying to think of topical sketches. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

It becomes, it becomes a little like you're at the. The mercy of the news rather than what you want to be doing.

[John Feidelberg]

And it's just like, I don't want.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I don't know, there's so many times I'll hit pads with, like, a. That this would be great for a skit. And it's like, like, I, I, I. I've been begging him to do a hype tunnel one.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And, like, that would be really fun. But I can understand where it's like, you know, you don't sit around for years thinking about. You sit around for years trying to do a scripted TV show. You don't sit around thinking about doing hype tunnel sketches.

[John Feidelberg]

But it was like, like, you come in, like, I remember they were probably like, two or three weeks in a row because we had, like, a Monday meeting, and there would be, like, two or three weeks in a row where you come in with, like, just, like, 10 things that happened over the weekend.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And it was like, okay, how do we make this point? And, yeah, I don't dislike it.

[Kevin Clancy]

It.

[John Feidelberg]

I, I disliked that being the goal. I, I was like, I don't know. I don't want to.

[Kevin Clancy]

It feels a little chasing like, like views and, like, waves and whatever's viral. And it's like, I mean, what if that week is a bunch 10 topics that you do not give a about? Like, I gotta do one of these. That's where it becomes a little bit of a job. And that part sucks. Whereas if you're doing your show, it's like, this is just. I love every aspect of this.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Which is why that's the ultimate. That's, that's why everybody, you know, like, that's why you want to be a movie star or TV star. It's like, this is awesome that you get to do, like, that, which you love. You know, I'm pumped, man. I think it's gonna be great. I really can't wait for it.

[John Feidelberg]

We'll see. We'll see. Am I doing a bad job?

[Kevin Clancy]

No, no, no. Definitively a bad job.

[John Feidelberg]

I think, I think that's the way I think.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes. But I mean, just think about literally all advertising ever. It's not like, at the super bowl, you watch Someone crack a bud light and be like, you might like this, or, you might hate it. That's just not what people do. Hey, check out my new sneakers. Like. Like, they. You might think they're uncomfortable. I don't know.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't want you to watch it if you don't like it.

[Nimesh Patel]

Just.

[John Feidelberg]

If you like it, you should keep watching it. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, that's where maybe, you know, maybe you could be the honest pitch man and, like, that'll be your angle. Like, that guy doesn't jam things down my throat. He just. He just tells me I might hate it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it would be crazy.

[Kevin Clancy]

But also. Okay, here. Here's. Here's. Here's where you're wrong. You're only saying that because it's you. Because if, like, if DiStefano had a new special out right now, you would tell people, this is funny. Go watch it.

[John Feidelberg]

Correct. You got me.

[Kevin Clancy]

You would not be like. You might not like Chris. You would just say, this is awesome. Go watch it. You're only doing it because it's yourself.

[John Feidelberg]

Agreed. And I think that's. It's ultimately for other people to decide. So I'll be. Oh, I like it. You should watch it and see what you think.

[Kevin Clancy]

Agreed. But when you're promoting Chris, you wouldn't say that because you're just not gonna.

[John Feidelberg]

I think I would. I think.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think you have never. We've never had someone on the couch, and you've been like, I like it, but you guys might hate it.

[John Feidelberg]

But I said that I think if we're gonna keep using distefano, like, I think the Stefano should sit here and go, he should. I liked it. Well, you might hate it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Yes. Yes. But I'm saying when you are. When you're promoting a guest, you are. You're being polite about it, and you're like, I want to do the best job I can for you. Promoting.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

And that does not include being honest about the possibility that might not. The best promotion is just. I mean, people are dumb. Like, put it this way, the people who.

[John Feidelberg]

You are dumb people, you're gonna like this.

[Kevin Clancy]

Opposite.

[John Feidelberg]

Go into it with a Smart people.

[Kevin Clancy]

Smart people know that, like, if you are. If you watch a TV show and you're like. Like, I don't like this. And Feidelberg told me it was good. What the. Like, everybody knows there's an inherent level of, like, risk that you might not like something that's being promoted. The smart people get that. The Dumb people are dumb. And if you tell them it's good, they'll probably just believe you. I mean, the amount of people, everyone.

[John Feidelberg]

Who'S watched it thinks it's good.

[Kevin Clancy]

There you go. That's it. You might not.

[John Feidelberg]

You might not just.

[Kevin Clancy]

We're just gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna send you on a press tour and I'm gonna, I'm gonna be like, with the producer and I'm gonna be like, three, two, one. Cut off his mic. It's a really great show. You might. Talking to nobody. It's gonna be great. It's like, people sit down, watch the show and drink your midnight bean because everyone who has done those two things has liked those two things. That's it. We'll leave it at that.

[Nimesh Patel]

That.

[Kevin Clancy]

All right, get into the back half of our episode now. We got. We're joined by Nimesh Patel, who is, I think, one of the, one of the most really likable, enjoyable guys.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But we've had in a while.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, like, he's the man. I, I. And this sounds like I'm. You might not like him. Yeah, you might not like him, but there has been a big change since we filmed this interview.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, yes, that's right. That's right.

[John Feidelberg]

The. So he was on to promote a Netflix special that he had recorded himself. And Netflix then bought. I guess with the hype around it or whatever. Netflix decided, you know what? We want to buy a whole new special. We want to buy. Not a whole new. We want to buy your new material. And so they're pushing back the release date, I guess. It's out now, I think. And it's. It's Nimash Patel. Go watch him on Netflix. Very, very, very, very, very funny. I loved his story about. With him and Chevy and Chris Rock.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes.

[John Feidelberg]

That was great.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. When you can start name dropping. Like, I knew he was talented and I knew he was successful. When you start talking about how you're writing for Chris Rock because he thinks you're funny, it's like, oh, yeah. Listen up. Another example of, like, that's just another guy who we take for granted that, like, he was. We're learning from him and talking to him.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, yeah. All right, Nimesh Patel on KFC radio. Let's talk to him.

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[Nimesh Patel]

I think I've had Poppy before and Ollie's the other one, right?

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes. Or maybe that's one of them sold.

[Nimesh Patel]

They're like, good, but they're probiotic.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right. So it's a little more than just.

[Nimesh Patel]

The apple cider vinegar is like the gimmick.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

And it's just like. It's all just marketing, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, it really is. Just like the can looks nice. The color, whatever it is.

[Nimesh Patel]

That's all it is. Where your shelf space is is the most important thing. And then totally.

[John Feidelberg]

It's so crazy because it's something that, like, I never would consider. And it's like. Like, it's not something I've thought about in my.

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't think I've ever walked into a like, especially a liquor store and just been like, that looks. I guess with wine, I've done that.

[John Feidelberg]

That's all I do.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, like, with.

[John Feidelberg]

No, I'm sorry. With wine, yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

But everything else is like, if I'm going for a bottle of whiskey, it's like, I'm getting the whiskey. I know. And like. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

But how it got.

[Kevin Clancy]

This wine is a good example.

[John Feidelberg]

How it got there to being the whiskey I like is probably. I'm like, I don't know. Yeah. Why do I like it?

[Nimesh Patel]

They buy. They buy the shelf space, and then whoever wins that shelf, do you have to compete to stay on that shelf? And whoever wins the shelf space is usually the win. The person that gets bought out for a billion bucks. Yeah. Whatever it is, it's great.

[John Feidelberg]

I remember watching, like, Coming to America, that show on hbo. They make the jeans.

[Nimesh Patel]

They're gonna talk about the movie.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. No, I'm sorry.

[Kevin Clancy]

Made in America.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

The one with God for Brian Austin.

[Nimesh Patel]

What was the name?

[John Feidelberg]

No, it's not Brian Austin Green, but Brian Greenbl.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, there it is.

[John Feidelberg]

And you know when that show starts, they're like, selling energy can. Energy drinks and some. It's some kind of like, Jamaican energy drink. And they're always arguing about shelf space. And I remember I was younger seeing it, and I was like, who cares? Just get it into everything.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's why they put all the kids low, too. All like, the sugary shit's like, way down low.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's all wizardry.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it is. It's kind of like. It's impressive. And it's also like. Well, you're kind of using this for evil, aren't you? Yeah, it's impressive knowledge.

[Kevin Clancy]

Everything's being used for evil. Everything.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's all evil.

[Kevin Clancy]

Dude, you. You actually. You give me hope.

[Nimesh Patel]

Really?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Because. Because for whatever reason, you're always motivation, I should say. You are like, front of my Tick tock every time I open.

[Nimesh Patel]

Sorry.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I don't know, I. I use tick tock to, like, make videos, and I. And I don't necessarily consume a lot on there, but I recently was like, I'm trying to get my numbers up, and I feel like if I use the app in general, they'll, like, reward me because I'm a slave to this platform. And so I started to follow more people, and you were one of the people in it, and I. I guess I watched it a couple times, and now it's just every time it's your.

[Nimesh Patel]

Sorry.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I'm like, this is the goal.

[John Feidelberg]

I need this. This is what I'm talking about.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's been like a gift and a curse in the sense of, like, I'm on it all the time.

[Kevin Clancy]

Meaning you're.

[Nimesh Patel]

I don't. I don't swipe at all. I'm just like, checking, like, how are people are watching?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah, right?

[Nimesh Patel]

And like, I've slowly learned, like, it's a beyond being addiction. It's like, it kind of messes with my brain in the sense of it being like, am I gonna sell this show out? Am I gonna. Like, I'm weary. Like, I try to see if I can think of a formula that means if this got this many views, how many tickets are converted to. I had to stop, like, doing all that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, that'll break you up.

[Nimesh Patel]

I can't do this. Yeah, it's nonsense, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, that's. That's. Honestly, from where I sit, incredibly impressive to even be like, I'm gonna do math and like. Because you were. You were like a science guy, right?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, I was a finance major. But it's all just. It's all just analytics. I was pre med too, but did.

[John Feidelberg]

You, like, cook coke or something like that once?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, no, no, no. Thank you. I know what you're Talking about that's a joke I had in my special that accidentally made some kind of narcotic derivative.

[Kevin Clancy]

Okay, bro, let's not split hands here.

[John Feidelberg]

Look, whether you cook coke in a lab or in a kitchen, like you cook coke.

[Nimesh Patel]

What, a game of telephone? You playing in your own head?

[John Feidelberg]

He's a.

[Kevin Clancy]

He's a drug dealer.

[John Feidelberg]

He works for the cartel?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, nothing like that.

[John Feidelberg]

I knew you had done it in a lab, like in a medical facility.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I was like, dude, you guys don't. There's never been anybody worse at selling tickets than me and this guy. We were the worst at it. Like, put it on sale and make like some half ass announcement and hope that it sells out then. Because if it didn't, we. And then like the day of, we'd be like, we got to move 350 tickets today, and that ain't happening.

[Nimesh Patel]

You guys do this live with.

[Kevin Clancy]

We did. We haven't done it in a while. It's been a couple years. But we. We used to do like one. We had probably like a two year stretch where we did like one a month, or like we would do like three, you know, in. In bunches every couple months in Houston, Austin, Dallas, like that. So, you know, things like that. And, and we were just, you know, it was. For us, it's like, it was an extra thing. So it was like we have this show and this sketch show and an Internet series and then live, you know, so it was never like front. Front of our mind to, to really push it. And we weren't moving enough tickets that, like, I'm sure once you start making real money, you do focus on.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. Did you get disheartened by the fact that you weren't moving tickets or was it just like.

[John Feidelberg]

Very end? I did, but in the beginning, like, not. Not at all in the beginning, we.

[Kevin Clancy]

Did sell well enough, but there was definitely a couple times where we. We got out over our skis a little bit and booked a place that was too big. And then we did stupid stuff. Like we did a. We did the Wilbur in Boston on like St. Patrick's Day or something like that, or March Madness. And it was like. And it sold well, but then nobody showed up and that sucked. And then by the end, it was like we were doing like a room in Pittsburgh for like a hundred people. I was like, what are we doing? So. But. But that. I. I really respect the ticket grind because I watch, you know, all you guys cutting promos and coming up with new ways to. That's why, I mean, I I hated doing it. And I remember thinking, and in my mind, you only have so many bullets on social media, you know, And I was like, I don't want to waste it just being like, buy these tickets, you know, because people just get sick of that. No, they gotta. Just the other thing too though is you realize how often you need to do that because we would have die hard fans be like, oh, we didn't even know you were in town.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

How much more could I say it?

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, only these, like, if you're listening, Mark Zuckerberg, if you could figure out how I could get to people who I've already gotten to, like, it would be such a game changer, right? Like, if I. If I could hook these people without having to make them pay or subscribe or where the fuck it is. Yeah, let me keep talking to these things.

[Kevin Clancy]

And that's which I understand you can't open up this algorithm to everybody every time to like, get new people. But all I'm asking is for like, the people who I. Who follow and like me to just see my.

[Nimesh Patel]

Exactly. Like, on Tick Tock, I have one and a half million followers, right? It's always new people that come to the shows.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Nimesh Patel]

Always. And it's. And I've been doing touring for like three years now, right? So like. And I don't think the shows are.

[Kevin Clancy]

So bad that people are like, no, no.

[Nimesh Patel]

I think a lot of times what happens is that the Tick Tock just serves to new people because it's a growth algorithm, it's not a retention algorithm.

[Kevin Clancy]

But that's. I think that's good.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's good, but you need. But like, if I could get to the. All the people that came out to the first shows, I'd be doing like arenas, three theaters. Yeah, I mean, like one and a half million followers is an insane number of followers to have. If I could get to all of them constantly, like, bro, I wouldn't need to do anything, right? But Tick, for whatever reason, the algorithm's like, no, just new. Just new. Just new.

[John Feidelberg]

I remember when we went to Denver and we were getting a car at Enterprise and the guy who worked at Enterprise was a huge fan. I think I was the one who happened to be checking out or give my license or whatever. And he's like, dude, massive, massive fan love. Is that Kevin? Is that Jackie? And I was like, yeah, yeah. He's like, what are you guys in town for? I'm like, how big a fan can you be? Like, how are we missing each other? How are we passing like ships in the night here, right? That like, you don't even know together, bro. That's all we talked about for a month, right?

[Nimesh Patel]

It's, it's, it's wild. That like. Yeah, the. I'm a big fan. Are you? Yeah, yeah, they are.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I mean, is like, you know, so, you know, you have 1.5 million followers, but probably what, a couple hundred thousand see that at any given post. So it, it is like, that's where I'm just like, if people would just. I say this all the time, but it's like just click the like button, click, subscribe, do the thing. Because it helps so goddamn much.

[Nimesh Patel]

Right?

[Kevin Clancy]

And we don't have to as much and we don't have to worry as, as you know, I had a call with, with, with Meta for the first time. So like Facebook, Instagram, all that.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And they basically were telling me that. They were like, I don't know if I say this, but it. They were saying how they're like, you can talk politics again, basically. And like they were saying in 2020, like, if you said the word Trump your got flagged.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And it would be suppressed. And now it's no longer. They're no longer will serve it to new people. But your current followers like you're talking about will see that content you make interesting. For some reason, they think I'm like super political. They were like, we had, we had to have this talk with you.

[Nimesh Patel]

I was like, really?

[Kevin Clancy]

Do you think I'm somebody else? I don't think of myself as overly political. But, but as I'm talking to them. So I, I have been doing pretty well on Instagram and I. Every single follower I get almost to the number is offset by a magical amount of unfollows every single day money for like two years.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I'm like, this is just not possible. And I'm explaining all the numbers to them and I'm like, you know, I'm up a billion percent here and million there and nothing on followers. And they were like, they basically admitted. They were like, let me check your account. And they're like, no, there's no, there's no like flags or, or anything on it. I'm like, so you do with people's accounts, you know what I mean? Because you just told me you're not doing that to me. So like, they were like, let me go make sure that we're not okay. Yeah, you're clean. I'm like, how many people are not though, right? So I was like, Just go back down there and pull the lever and push the button for me, please.

[John Feidelberg]

Just do it, bro.

[Kevin Clancy]

Come on. I use your. All day.

[John Feidelberg]

Please.

[Nimesh Patel]

All my, my. I've seen a huge influx recently, and unfortunately, I don't know how real they are because I also get a huge influx in, like, the hidden requests, like, DM section.

[Kevin Clancy]

So it's all, like, bots, where it's just like.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's just like, people with, like, 20 followers. It says new follower, and they're just sending me reels of just, like, random ass videos I have no interest in watching. They're all from India, and I'm just like, what? Like, okay, these numbers are fake.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Mark bought some numbers in India or something, Right? Like, they're all, like, coming to me for whatever reason.

[Kevin Clancy]

Sure. Like, send me all the bots you want as long as that number goes up.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. I'm like, yeah, this is great. But, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

But it's not. You know, it's not.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's not an actionable.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like, I don't.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'd rather have less ones that I know are all interacting.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Although I say that, but it's, like, based on the way people sell things and the way brands look at things. Like, you just need to have that number look big.

[Nimesh Patel]

So that's all it is.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, all the bots you want.

[Nimesh Patel]

I don't bring on the bots.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I. The. The latest one I had seen, I DM'd you when I saw it a couple weeks ago. You were doing crowd work, and. And this chick just goes, are you. Are you Red Dot or feather?

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

He was like, God damn.

[Nimesh Patel]

But that was. All right. So it wasn't crowd work. What had happened? That was Salt Lake City. It was earlier. This.

[Kevin Clancy]

This.

[Nimesh Patel]

It was a. It was last year. I was on stage literally three minutes into the show, and I'm trying to do. I'm warming up for the special taping, basically. I think it was a few months before I taped a special, and I was, like, figuring out what I wanted to open with, what kind of material, like what. Which set of jokes I was going to open with for the special. And I think I'd opened with, like, what. I ended up the special. It's like opening with, like, a very Indian heavy thing, asserting my Indianness, more or less. And this woman is, like, stage left, she's drunk, and she looks white, and she's like, I have a question. I'm like, bro, it's too early.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, we're not doing Q A yet.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's like, that's just like, are you red dot or feather? And I was like, what year is this?

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, how are we.

[Nimesh Patel]

How are. What year are you asking this?

[Kevin Clancy]

This?

[Nimesh Patel]

And I also a pretty ridiculous.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. You know all the Cherokees named Neesh Patel, Indians, there's other Indian people in the room. It's not like, I know Utah is a white ass place, but like there's other Indians around and they're all from India. Like Utah, Salt Lake City is quickly becoming one of these like towns where like.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, that's interesting. When you said Salt Lake City, I thought I was like, that's a pretty white crowd.

[Nimesh Patel]

No, Salt Lake City is, is. I think there's like a bunch of, of back office operations. Like Golden's back. One of Golden's back office operations over there. A lot of software companies do back office and engineering there. But the way she asked it, it was, it was kind of innocuous but also like she was too drunk too early in the show. And I was just like, what are you talking about?

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, you got to ease into that.

[Nimesh Patel]

Ease into that question. The whole crowd was like, God damn, we're racist. But not, not immediately.

[John Feidelberg]

45 minutes in, you can do that.

[Nimesh Patel]

And then, and then I think, think she was like, Sheila was like white and blonde, but like streaky blonde. And I think one of her friends, like, she's drunk and she's like, I'm native. I was like, well, I didn't want to make an insult. Like, well, obviously one of those, those go hand in hand. That's where my, my head was going. And then like, I for. I don't, I don't know how I disarmed her.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know how.

[Nimesh Patel]

I don't remember how I disarmed her. But she eventually got up like crying and like left.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. She was like, it was too early to be that drunk. It might have been the early show. Like, bro up.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, that, that reminds me of Akash's latest special when he. Have you seen that one?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, I haven't.

[John Feidelberg]

He has this woman, it's right in the front of the crowd.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's.

[John Feidelberg]

It's an Indian man and a white woman and he's like, where did you guys meet? Like white blonde haired woman and she's like, muzmatch.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And she just ended up being. I forget where she was from, but she was albino. Know I remember watching that special. I was like, this is insane.

[Kevin Clancy]

But those are the moments, man. Like, I'm Always Pakistani. I'm always impressed and stunned. It never ceases to amaze me how many of those moments you guys stumble into. Like, every time there's somebody who's like, wow, this is a moment.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, it's a. It's a law of large numbers. You know, you do enough things, enough.

[Kevin Clancy]

Things, you'll find an albino Pakistan.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, it just happens, you know, it's like, in the last three years, I've probably done, like, a thousand shows.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Just like, do you still have to deal.

[Nimesh Patel]

Crazy happens like.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, when you put Post something like that. Obviously, that's an extreme example, but, like, when you deal with. When you post crowd work, if it's crazy enough, are people, like, plant? Do people still say that kind of stuff?

[Nimesh Patel]

People will be like. Like, on Tik Tok. I see that a lot. This is planted. This is planted. I'm just like, first of all, it's not. Second of all, what do you think? Think, like, do you think a comedian is also running, like, some kind of weird production casting call?

[Kevin Clancy]

That happens us all the time, too. I'm like, are we. You think we're sitting around writing these scripts to come up with these storylines? I could do that. We would be doing that.

[Nimesh Patel]

Right? Like, I'm. It. The level of production required to have that dance happen that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, I was gonna say with a. Like, this girl is acting perfectly drunk and asking the most ridiculous question. The conversation is perfectly natural. Yeah. We're gonna.

[Nimesh Patel]

Never happens.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, yeah, it's.

[Nimesh Patel]

It's not. Even if I could do it well, I. Maybe I would, but it's an impossible task, and I'm barely doing the show.

[John Feidelberg]

Right, right, right, right.

[Nimesh Patel]

Jesus Christ. Like, thank you for thinking so highly of me.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

I could coordinate all this. Have it time perfectly.

[Kevin Clancy]

Are there people do. Do people do plants, though?

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know.

[Nimesh Patel]

There's. There's probably some comics and I won't name names on camera that are like, like, within the comedy community. Like. Like that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Every video. Every video is perfectly scripted. And you've never lost. Okay, bro? All right.

[John Feidelberg]

With random people, I always think where I'm like, how much do you need to see? Like, with what the world's giving you? What the Internet's giving you is like, look into the world. And I'm like, how much do you need to see to just see that the world's insane.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Truth.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, everything is like. Like, this is fake. This is fake. Just like. No, it's. It's real. And I couldn't have Faked this if I wanted.

[Kevin Clancy]

I hear you. I get that. But. But like he said, there are. Sometimes I just. I wouldn't put it past people. People will do anything to make it, you know, for sure.

[John Feidelberg]

But, like, at this stage in our lives, and. And I think most people who are on, like, you've done a lot.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And rarely have you ever run into a person who did.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I mean, we get it all.

[John Feidelberg]

There's one or two occasionally that you have a suspicion about all that stuff. But, like, we've talked to thousands of comedians that no one's ever done it.

[Nimesh Patel]

That felt like she lost a bet that, you know, I mean, like, she was like, I'm gonna do this.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Which is also, like, that could be. I'm sure there are people who, like, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna get on camera. But that's not a plan, you know?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, that's just something that happens. And it's the funniest to me is. Is the stuff that you. I've never put on tape. Some things that have happened, like, in an audience where, like, I'm like, damn, I wish I had that on camera.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, I was gonna say, why don't you.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, just like, missed it. Missed the moment. Like, didn' Going on sometimes I. Now I'm. From here on, I'm probably not gonna have camera ever again. I just, like, hate the whole clip process. And hopefully the special does enough where I can just sell tickets without having to put clips up constantly.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

But there's been moments where just, like, organically, something insane happened. I'm like, well, that was a beautiful moment. I wish I had that on camera, but I didn't capture it. And on the flip. But nine times out of 10, an interaction with an audience member is, like, the worst thing that's ever happened.

[Kevin Clancy]

Why am I doing this?

[Nimesh Patel]

Well, this led nowhere.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, of course. It's like, yeah, I'm talking to a drunk amateur.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

The professional. You are a drunk idiot. Of course it's not going to go well.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like, my favorite. I did this joke on the 1st and thank you, China. But this is a true story. I was in Indianapolis, and it was during Halloween, so I was making fun of a few people. I made fun of Jesus Christ. Some guy, some literal priest got up and was like, like, very mad. I was like, every knee shall bow. And I just said, you know, it's like, Jesus gay ass dick or something. And he stormed out. He stormed out. And I was like, like, why did I have my camera at that point, there's so many moments. Like, for every moment you see that happens on, On a clip, like, there's probably a thousand that never happened.

[John Feidelberg]

That's exactly what I was gonna say. I bet more often than not, it's, you didn't get it on camera, rather than you got, like a fake thing on camera.

[Kevin Clancy]

But don't you, you, you, you like, just run the camera and then you don't, you don't have to make the clip. But if you get the, the, the big moment.

[Nimesh Patel]

Well, sometimes I don't have the camera. Sometimes the audio is up. Sometimes, like, like, it just doesn't make me look good.

[John Feidelberg]

Right?

[Nimesh Patel]

There's, there's. I've put up a few where I'm just like, the audience is clearly one.

[Kevin Clancy]

I like that too, though.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like, I laugh in the moment. I'm having a good time on stage.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I'm just like, that's more interesting to me. I remember Jim Norton had a series where he just posted his bombs and it was like, I like this too. You know, gotta, you know, you gotta be cool enough to post your L's as well.

[Nimesh Patel]

Just, I, I. If I take an L and it's funny, then I'll take the L. It'll be funny.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, what, what was that priest deal? Like, what was he.

[Nimesh Patel]

He was. I mean, if you walk into a.

[John Feidelberg]

Club as a priest, you're like, I'm probably gonna catch a straight here.

[Nimesh Patel]

I don't know. I mean, I didn't, I didn't see him as a priest. Like, I didn't see him, but I.

[John Feidelberg]

Just meant, like, his belief system.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Probably gonna come up.

[Nimesh Patel]

I was going, I was going pretty hard on Christianity at the time.

[Kevin Clancy]

We've earned that one.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. I was making fun of Hinduism, but I was like, well, Christianity is also a viable target, and if I'm gonna give it to my own people, then I'll give it to Christians, too. And he, he was very upset.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, I will never. I don't care what the topic is. If you go to a comedy show.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And you storm out of a comedy show, you are the biggest loser alive.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. What?

[Nimesh Patel]

Like, and also, like, bro, just turn the other cheek. That's your, that's your jam.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's your jam.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude.

[Nimesh Patel]

How, how priestly can you be if you're that upset about someone just saying something?

[John Feidelberg]

Was he in the frock?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, I think his, his people that he was with were like, oh, he's like a pastor or whatever.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Guess what are different if you're not.

[John Feidelberg]

If you're not in the collar.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You're not a real one if you're.

[Kevin Clancy]

Not wearing the collar.

[John Feidelberg]

24 7, dude, you're not real. You're. Wait, you're one of those cool preachers. Get the on that.

[Kevin Clancy]

What are you wearing, like a hoodie?

[John Feidelberg]

Get the out of here. That's crazy.

[Nimesh Patel]

He was mad.

[Kevin Clancy]

I saw a video of a chick on a plane the other day. It was. It was delayed. And she turned to the person behind her and said, can you film this? She stood up. She's like, I know this is. I know this is, like, terrible right now, but I just want to take this time to tell you to repent because Lord, Lord Jesus Christ is your savior. And there were just people, like, all across the plane going, no, no, no, no, stop. It was like watching people unite, like Jewish, black, white, Indian, whatever, being like, shut the up.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, if someone brings their. Their religion onto a plane and makes it known. Oh, man.

[John Feidelberg]

No, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. No, you better pray we don't crash.

[Nimesh Patel]

Lady, because that's what I'm about. Talking. Praying for.

[Kevin Clancy]

Shut the up.

[John Feidelberg]

There was that one a while ago, I want to say. Maybe it was two years ago. And it was like, I don't know, some kind of Jesus camp, whatever. Coming home on, like, a Southwest flight. And I think it was in the air when, like, one of the girls got her guitar.

[Kevin Clancy]

They started singing, and they started singing.

[John Feidelberg]

And I was like, I would lose my f. Like, like, I'm in the middle of Olympus is falling right here. You know what I mean? Like, I'm watching a action movie at 30,000ft. This is a.

[Kevin Clancy]

You're ruining my experience.

[John Feidelberg]

This is. This is like something my. My ancestors dreamed of. I'm flying. I'm moving 800 miles an hour right now, watching Gerard Butler stab a guy in the head, and I gotta deal with my vibe.

[Nimesh Patel]

You should have chartered your inner devil up.

[Kevin Clancy]

What is. What's that shirt you're wearing?

[Nimesh Patel]

This?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, this is. This. That's my dad. Two co workers. And that's Tretch from Naughty by Nature.

[Kevin Clancy]

I. Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

At his liquor store.

[John Feidelberg]

Hell yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. This is from. This is from 93 or 94.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's a great shirt, man.

[Nimesh Patel]

Thank you very much, man. My. It's my doing podcast hood.

[Kevin Clancy]

Nobody by nature rolls up in your. In your store in 93. That's like a big.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, they were. They were.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's like prime hip hop. H. Right?

[Nimesh Patel]

I mean, Tretch is from East Orange, and that's where my dad's Store was that was Hip Hop Parade, opp. All that. Yeah, that was that era. And he came through.

[John Feidelberg]

True.

[Nimesh Patel]

And I have a bit about this too, but I mean it's nonetheless true. He, my dad was like, came home was like, do you know opp? I'm like, do you know.

[Kevin Clancy]

How old were you then?

[Nimesh Patel]

93. I was seven.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I mean like right around there.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Which is, I always think funny because it's like he should know if you've been more than you should have known.

[Nimesh Patel]

I'm telling mom, bro. You shouldn't know other people's problems. Pussy.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think about the.

[John Feidelberg]

Is that what OP stands for?

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Other people.

[Nimesh Patel]

Other people. Other people.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like somebody's girlfriend.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. Other people.

[Kevin Clancy]

Other people's penis. I think about like cuz like 9:2:3 is like west coast gangster rap. Like bad lyrics for a 7 and 8 year old.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh yeah. NWA yeah. Right up right at the start of that. And we're luckily like my dad knew well enough not to bring home like every CD that came into the store.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

But I would get like hip hop compilation albums because he would bring them home and I'd be like, oh, this is hard right here.

[Kevin Clancy]

Seven years old. I remember. I, I, I. The first like rap CD I really ever got was legal drug money from Lost Boys. And I was like probably 8 years old.

[Nimesh Patel]

I got the first one. I got.

[Kevin Clancy]

What were my parents doing?

[Nimesh Patel]

I got my parents let me buy Dragons first album. I don't know if you remember Dragon.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh really?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, he's like DMX Junior.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. He was supposed to be the next like one.

[John Feidelberg]

I think that was my first was. I got.

[Kevin Clancy]

You got it at Easter, right?

[John Feidelberg]

I got for Easter, in my Easter basket I got Flesh, My Flesh, Blood.

[Nimesh Patel]

In My Blood and what a, what a Easter album.

[John Feidelberg]

You want to know how crazy it was? Like I was still, I probably wasn't still young enough to believe in the Easter Bunny, but my mom was still doing the stuff. Stuff that like the basket. She wasn't ready to accept the fact that I didn't. So like she would have, you know how like ladies have their powder and like that she would take her powder thing and she would make it look like, like a bunny print. So I had bunny prints leading to my GMX cover. My Easter basket which contained DMX Flesh, My Flesh.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh my.

[John Feidelberg]

And I was like, yeah, these two, it's probably about these and these, these two maturity levels line up.

[Kevin Clancy]

If you're old enough to be listening to that, that it's probably a rap for the Easter money.

[Nimesh Patel]

That is wild. I mean, I mean, I could. Flesh in my flesh, blood in my blood. And it's dark and hell is hot. Like, I can see how a mom would think these are probably good, strong Christian albums.

[Kevin Clancy]

I, I think about that all the time.

[Nimesh Patel]

He's coming to Jesus's blood.

[Kevin Clancy]

There was probably like a Christmas in the early 90s. And I remember, you know, at that point it was just CDs on CDs on CDs. And I probably got, you know, ranging from like a Tupac CD to like, like the Boys to Men album. And I, I, My parents supposed to be like, what the is wrong with this?

[Nimesh Patel]

Range got range. What?

[Kevin Clancy]

The clothes I was wearing.

[Nimesh Patel]

And like, oh, you were, you were all about the.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, that was like a little later, but by like, seventh, eighth grade, high school, I'm wearing, like, you know, Rockaware and Sha John and all this. It's like, at least you look at.

[John Feidelberg]

The part a little bit more, though.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, you know, when it came time, I was mostly buying that for myself. But when it came time for Christmas, it was a sweater or something that was too expensive. And I'm pretty sure, you know, I'm like, this. Even my mom having to go to those stores, she was probably like, what the.

[Nimesh Patel]

Is this Kevin's mom again?

[John Feidelberg]

Dude, I, I had a FUBU shirt. I wore one like a fu. Like, like jersey. Like football jersey. It was powder blue. It had, like yellow letters on it. Whatever. I was probably in seventh grade, wore it to school. My buddy who was black was like, I'm gonna buy that from you for $20. And I took it off and I was like, deal. And I gave it to him. And he was like, I'm not giving.

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[Nimesh Patel]

I had fake FUBU because they were my dad's store. They would come in and like, sell that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like, yeah, I'm get the fake food when I was. I didn't. I didn't know.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Then you see it on the back. They still got like the. The fake. What's it? Print part. They didn't. They didn't bother ripping the stuff off that embroidery part.

[Kevin Clancy]

I got a. I got a fake Tommy Hilfiger hoodie. And I made the mistake of telling what I thought was like a close friend. I was like. I didn't even understand. It was like bootleg. I was kind of like, oh, there's this place over in Co Op City that like sells them, like, cheaper, you know, whatever. My parents told me to be like, here's the fake, you know?

[Nimesh Patel]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

And. And he just went and told like, everybody. And I. That was. I. That's like a core memory for me being like, for like a split second, the only time in my life ever that I was like, oh, I'm like the poor kid. Like, everyone's making fun of. I was like, this sucks. This sucks, dude. I remember being like, you betrayed me.

[John Feidelberg]

Told you that in confidence.

[Nimesh Patel]

I had. No, no, I. No one knew what I was wearing. They were just like, oh, that's cool. Because I was just like. I was the kid whose dad worked in the black neighborhood. So I was getting all this Black.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

But I wear it to my white ass school for Indian kids and white kids like, oh, fb.

[Kevin Clancy]

But it was a liquor store. You died, you said. Yeah, yes, too.

[John Feidelberg]

Right?

[Nimesh Patel]

No, my parents did not let me. It was in an awful neighborhood. And I was also a teenager when my dad's. My dad's store's heyday. And then once I went to college, it was like, there's no reason for me to work there.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, and I'm thankful I didn't in that I probably.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, you still ended up cooking cracks.

[Nimesh Patel]

I went a few times. I was. I would spend like a Saturday or Sunday there.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

I wasn't working. I was just like hanging out, out bullshitting, like, talking to customers and stuff.

[Kevin Clancy]

Which is also probably bad.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. Yeah. They're all cool. But no, never. Never worked there consistently. My parents were also just like, you don't need a job. You. You shouldn't be working right now. You need to understand the value of school. Yeah, I wish I understood the value of money. Learning about money is much more important.

[Kevin Clancy]

How do they accept the comedy route?

[Nimesh Patel]

Well, I mean they were, you know, when I started in, in 09, comedy in the Indian community, at least at that time, was just Russell Peters. Aziz hadn't blown up yet. Hassan had. Was barely doing comedy. But so they were ignorant of what it meant to do stand up. Like, they were like, they knew what it as it was. It was like you go on stage and you make people laugh. But they were just like, do you make money doing this?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

I'm like, no, I'm paying to do open mics. And they were just like, why? I don't know why I'm doing it. Couldn't articulate. I felt compelled to like make people laugh. And I was going through a depression because I had high, very high expectations for myself as a pre med finance grad. And neither one of those things played out. And that's somehow subconsciously making me want to go on stage and, and let people know how I feel. That was never articulated. It was like, leave me alone, I'm gonna go do stand up comedy. But they were just like, okay, well if this is something you're doing, then pay rent. Like, you can't. You can live at home, but you were paying for your bus tickets to go to Jersey. Like, I mean, to go to New York. Like, why would. It's a lot of money. It's 3, 400 bucks a month. Plus you got to eat when you're in the city. Like your weight. Yeah, yeah, you're not, you're. We paid for, you go to school. Like, what the are you doing? And so once I got a job in finance, they were really like, okay, well this is something you're going to be doing. You know, just get good at it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Where'd you work? Finance?

[Nimesh Patel]

I worked three different jobs. I worked as a research assistant at a hedge fund for about eight months before they were like, well, he clearly doesn't want to do finance because I, I was. Who was I telling the story yesterday to? Somebody. Whereas it's like I remember very clearly when I was, I knew I was going to get fired from the hedge fund job because it was like a company outing at like a restaurant. And I had started a show on Monday nights that started at 8:30 and the company outing and the company was in Irvington, New York. So like it took me an hour and a half, two hours to get to Williamsburg. I was like, dinner got served. I Ate dinner. I was like, I'm out. All right, Ron, I gotta go. Everyone's looking at me like, what the are you doing? It's like a 10, 15 person shop. So they're like your absence was noticed.

[John Feidelberg]

Exactly.

[Nimesh Patel]

And he's looking at me like, like, all right. And within like a few weeks I was fired.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Nimesh Patel]

And that was my first, that was my first job I got outside of college. That was like a full time job. I was a research assistant at a hedge fund. And then from there I told myself, next place I end up, I'm going to let them know I do standup so that if I'm leaving at 6, they. They're not like pissed.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

And that would. The second shop was a boutique investment bank, which mind you, do I. The first company I told I do startup stand up in 2000, in 2021, they invited me to perform at their hell yeah. 20th anniversary.

[Kevin Clancy]

So like that back then, it's whatever. I, I could see it working against you. Maybe it's okay. I feel like now. Yeah, if you could do both, you could probably crush.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Because the comedy world, finance world like does love that now. And if you could, could be like, I work for these guys, but I'll also do these corporate events and you'll see me out for real. I mean like if, if, if it's a, if you're in a field of finance where it's like, you know, we can give our business here or there and there's a top comic over here who will like do a show and around. You should get back in the game, bro.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, I might, I might. You never know. So that, that job, that was like for a year and change, but that led to a lot of opportunities like even outside got from, directly from that job because the, the founder was a fan of comedy and a fan of like one of the comedians that I didn't know but was like you, you know this guy. I was like, sure. And that ended up this Mazda. Bronnie ended up like opening for him a few times, doing guest spots at Caroline's. That led to me, that led to me like going on the road with him first.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, so that, so that company is kind of part of your story.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, for sure.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's great.

[Nimesh Patel]

100 and then they, they had like a, I think a year and a half in. They had like a not great year and I was like the last person in. So I was the first person out. And then I went to a family office running. That was running money for two Billionaires to like invest in sub Saharan Africa. And I just joined as a executive assistant at the investment bank. I was an assistant at 26 years old to a bunch of 22 year old bankers. And so I was just like shut the fuck up, I'm not doing that. Or just like yeah sure, I'll just take your receipts and submit them to the accounting and all that kind of stuff. It was just like a fun dynamic that I had because the associates and the VPs are all my age.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

Like the, the new associates were all 26, 27 years of age and they were just like, I was just covering them too and they're just like what's going on bro? It was a fun vibe, you know.

[Kevin Clancy]

So wait, you were doing, were you ever like doing when you were doing like research, were you like making picks and like.

[Nimesh Patel]

No, no, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

You always just kind of doing like work? Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

No, at the hedge fund, the head pm I had lied to get the job. I told them that I helped invest in my family's motel. Like my dad at the time like was like a 1/5 partner in like this podunk ass town motel.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's a kernel of truth, bro.

[Nimesh Patel]

And, and that didn't do well at all. Should not have invested in that in the, in the first place. But, but I lied and said that you know, I helped evaluate the decision, all this kind of stuff. And so the head PM put me on covering Marriott, Hyatt hotels and like hil those hotel names like from a hedge fund perspective. And I'm like, I don't know what the I'm doing bro. You want me to build these models or like help the models and like pull data in, put the make predictions on what's going to happen to revenue like within months it was like it all kind of unraveled, traveled. Yeah. But the job was at that time the job was like to help print research and aggregate reports and all this kind of stuff for the analysts and stuff with the research with the investment bank it was just help PowerPoints literally like bind books, help like adjust PowerPoints, find some information if they needed it.

[Kevin Clancy]

All that dumb.

[Nimesh Patel]

Set up like rooms for pitches and all that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

At the family office that's when I was like, okay, well I think I could have some opportunity for growth here. It was like a six person shop. I joined as a executive assistant to the, the CEO. But I was also just like look, I think I, if I can do, if I can have a work life balance where I can still go do comedy and, and stand up and open mics and all that stuff. But, you know, help with actual, like, investment decisions and help, like, do.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's the dream. That's the best of both worlds. Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Even just from a point of view of, like, so many people at that point in their comedy career. Career is like sleeping on couches and.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yep.

[Kevin Clancy]

Can't afford food. It's like to have a regular life, basically.

[Nimesh Patel]

Exactly.

[Kevin Clancy]

While you fund your. I kind of did that with blogging, and it was a lot easier to, like, do that because I was like, I could just do this forever. I hope it goes differently. But if this money keeps coming in and I keep like, we're all good.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, there's nothing more freeing than having a day job.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

In a weird way, you're pursuing something else like that, like, doesn't. That. If your day job doesn't fully consume.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right. That's like the perfect, you know, setup. But if you get that.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I remember, like, I, I, you know, I respect anybody who will take their balls in their hand and make that leap and, like, no safety net. I'm gonna go for it.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, like, I kind of worked it so that I never had to do that. And I was like, I recommend that way.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. For sure.

[Kevin Clancy]

The stars have to align. But if you do, I was like, this is great.

[Nimesh Patel]

That was, that was, I was, it was like a dream role.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, in the sense, like, I was finally making, like, decent money. Nothing crazy, but not executive assistant money, but not like, I wasn't like, getting insane bonuses or anything like that, but I was, like, making decent money in.

[Kevin Clancy]

That world at all you're making.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. You know, and so I was, I was looking at investment decisions. I got to go to Africa a bunch of times. I went to Kenya twice. I went to Ghana once or twice. I went to South Africa twice to, like, kick the cans on potential investment decisions. It was just me and, like the CEO of a. Of a African startup, of a Kenyan startup, of a Nairobi, like, Instacart. You know, like all these kind of random things that I got to do and see the world in that way that, that's really. It was, it was dope. It was a lot to be like a 26 year old in business class.

[Kevin Clancy]

I remember what the.

[Nimesh Patel]

I was doing.

[Kevin Clancy]

I, I remember being in. I went to Fordham for my mba and I was. But I did it right out of undergrad, so I was very young and I was showing up in, like, flip flops and shorts, like, ticking around, and there were guys coming in you know, family men, what looking like Michael Berry. And they, you know, had not only were like, just came off like their job for 10 hours and then this for three hours. And then we're gonna go home to like, three kids and a wife and all this. And I was like, rolling. What's up, fellas?

[John Feidelberg]

Like, I still got a buzz on from last night.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, I'll blame Beer Bun. Like, all this dumb. I mean, they used to shoot daggers that. And it was like I found it easy. It was like I was in school mode. So, like.

[Nimesh Patel]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

I actually found grad school at Fordham to be easier than the undergrad. So I was like, cruising through things and they're trying to get back into academic mode. It's hard for them. And I was like, they hated it.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. Of course I'm in sweet sweats.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Oh, man. It was looking like a CIA guy on base. Yeah. Like, I don't have to do any of your. Man. I have graduated out of that.

[Nimesh Patel]

But that. That ended. Turns out, like, making investment decisions in. For Africa from New York City is a very difficult thing.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

And so once that. But that ended, I knew that was ending in July of 2015. And that was the same month I got rejected from Montreal for. For the festival for another time. That was the month that, like, Chris Rock saw me at Matchless. The show that I was running, that just started running when I was. Got my first internship. I'm not internship. My first job at that hedge fund. That show at that point had become like one of the best shows in New York. Michael J. And. And Mike Denny and myself, we ran that show. And. And we. It was a massive show by that point, by. By like independent show standards. Langston Kerman was coming performing, and Chris was coming to see Langston. And I was like, well, I'm going up.

[John Feidelberg]

Sorry, bud.

[Nimesh Patel]

Chris is going to leave after Langston goes up. So I'm going up before you. Sorry, brother. And I went up. And it did well enough that Chris found me funny. And that coincided with a. The rejection from Montreal. But also my. That family office, that Africa job ending. That job was ending within six months. The family office, like, we're closing down. This is not a money making venture for us. You guys flying to Africa too many times on business class.

[Kevin Clancy]

Trips to Nairobi. Apparently not like taking a Greyhound. Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

And that ended like. That ended in January of 2016, which is right when my. My first writing job by Chris was writing for the Oscars. Oh. And that was just like.

[Kevin Clancy]

So that set got you, like, he was like, yeah, that's handpicked you.

[Nimesh Patel]

One set, maybe even one joke. It was right after Cecil Lyon, like, had been killed or whatever. And I was like. I remember pissing in the bathroom thinking about, what can I say about Cecil? I was like, why do we care about lions? Like, I had four chickens today. Like, no one laughed except Chr. Chris Rock.

[John Feidelberg]

Really? And, you know, you can see him for you.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, like, yeah, you're wrong because he's laughing.

[Nimesh Patel]

And that was it.

[Kevin Clancy]

How did this show, when you say, like, it got massive. Like, how's that happen?

[Nimesh Patel]

So we started it. I was. Mike Denny started it. Mike Denny was a comedian now, producer for Griselda, Westside Gun, and Cowboy the Machine. Like. Like, he was like a musical savant even then.

[Kevin Clancy]

He.

[Nimesh Patel]

The Pepto.

[Kevin Clancy]

What path that is?

[Nimesh Patel]

You know the Pepto Bismol jingle?

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

He wrote that jingle.

[John Feidelberg]

No way.

[Nimesh Patel]

And the legend has it. Legend has it that he was just in the. The pitch room, and they were like, we need to turn Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset Stomach Diary into a jingle. And he just put it to a beat, like, in his head. It was like, nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. And that was it, Bro.

[Kevin Clancy]

That guy's probably gonna pay his, like, grandkids.

[Nimesh Patel]

I think he got, like, 50 grand.

[Kevin Clancy]

As a tape for that, man. That's one of those things. You could cash that in forever if you had the right business and that.

[Nimesh Patel]

If you could, you could pull up the original version of that jingle is like a hip hop version of that jingle.

[John Feidelberg]

Really?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. And so he started comedy. I forget when. Maybe, like, right around the same time I did 20 2009, 2010. But Che and I were at Knitting Factory one night, Hannibal show. And Denny saw. Denny used to help, like, produce, like, put flyers and all this kind of stuff.

[Kevin Clancy]

And you and Che were just, like, coming up at the same time?

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah. Chay and I started at the same time. He started like, three months or four months after me. But we were at Knit one night and we both did well, I guess. And Denny was like, like, yo, I like you guys. You guys are great. Like, you guys want to start a show together? I have this room and we're chatting up with, like. Yeah, I mean, free stage time. Like, what's better than that? Like, it's important to have your own place where you can just around constantly. And then. What's that?

[Kevin Clancy]

What? What close is that?

[Nimesh Patel]

Well, Knitting Factory is where he saw us, right? But Denny found, like, this lounge underneath a Place called the Sandbox, which is like this independent shipping center. And the basement had been converted to like an illegal like speakeasy hangout kind of spot. But you had to like bring your own booze and you could just chill. And we're like, let's start a show there. And Denny invited myself and Che to like be co host slash like regular comedians on the show. And once that venue kind of like went like was giving us too many problems, more or less. Denny found another spot called Matchless, which is now gone. But it was a bar at Nassau and Drake's that had a back room, like a beautiful venue for independent comedy. It's like a rock venue with like the best food.

[Kevin Clancy]

But so at that point people are just like, they like the three of you.

[Nimesh Patel]

And so like, sorry, I'm getting long winded response to your question. It's just like we just were very consistent when we started. Like five people would show up and four of them would be comedians, you know, like hoping to get stage time in front of the other comedians, the kind of thing. But eventually, because it was a free show, word spread and then chase like star rose within like two years of us having that show. Like 20, 2011 I guess is a good time to estimate that. We started that show show 2013. He did Letterman and a few months after that he was writing at snl. And that kind of was like word of mouth about him having the show kind of spread. And. And I'm sure you could tie it to his star rising in a large part was his star rising brought a lot of people to the show. But also like we were there consistently every Monday at 8 to 9 o' clock.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like any. Whatever it is, it's just about doing it.

[Nimesh Patel]

We just did it.

[Kevin Clancy]

It keep doing it. When you're getting like three views on your video, keep doing. When there's two people in the audience, keep doing.

[Nimesh Patel]

We built it and they came. It was literally that, you know, and in our heyday we were so many people give up.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, so it's like the people, even if it's not that good, it's like. But if you just keep going, 90% are not gonna. So you understand.

[Nimesh Patel]

Just kept going. Like there were shows that it was like seven people there and we would. I went up on it became a show where we started co hosting and then then triple hosting and then like one person hosting. And there was nights where it was like 10 people and it was like the best fucking show. Those 10 people had the greatest time.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

I remember one night I think Che was closing it out and there was a guy sitting stage left who looked like, like familiar, but like, kind of strange. Like a. Like a. Like a strung out kind of dude and chase. Like. Anyone ever tell you you look like Jesse K. Camp? It was Jesse Camp, the MTV VJ was just hanging out at the show, like, weird looking guy. And he went up him and him and Jesse went up and like, started bullshitting together. Nuts, dude. Like, what a show.

[Kevin Clancy]

This is a plant. That was a plan.

[Nimesh Patel]

It was. It was that kind of show.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

You know, and that was on a night was like 10, 15 people.

[Kevin Clancy]

That is. That's like the romantic side of like New York City comedy where I think about those things. It's like. And then this guy showed up and then that guy.

[John Feidelberg]

That guy.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, those are where those. Those things start.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Do you have a moment, like, when you sign this Netflix deal or whatever? Like, do you have a moment where you kind of like, take it all in where you're like. Like 2011. We were like, performing a Ford.

[Nimesh Patel]

I wish. I wish I were more nostalgic. And it's not even right, but it's.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just like, the Oscars must have been a pretty.

[Nimesh Patel]

That.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, right?

[Nimesh Patel]

That was by the. By the time I got the Netflix deal, the Netflix offer, I was kind of like, like, what took you so long? But when I got the. The. I remember that. I remember exactly where I was when I got the call that was doing the Oscars. That was writing for Chris for the Oscars. It was like I was walking down 4th Avenue in Brooklyn to my apartment and my phone call. My phone rang as my manager at the time, and she was like, I just got a call from Oscar Albert. Some. Some guy. The EP of the Oscars. Chris Rock wants you to write for the Oscars. Was like, the.

[Kevin Clancy]

This is the wrong number. They got me mixed up with another Patel or something.

[Nimesh Patel]

And she was like, no, I'm serious. Like, they're gonna send the offer in very soon. It should be in your email in the next few hours. I'm like, what the.

[John Feidelberg]

Dude?

[Kevin Clancy]

If you're lucky enough to have it happen, because not everybody is. If you're lucky enough to ever be in over your head with, like, something good in a good way, like, I am not qualified for this, or like, it's too early for that. It's pretty fun to, like, try to stumble your way through it. I'm gonna do this, but we'll figure it out.

[Nimesh Patel]

I remember I bolted home. I was already close. My wife's like, cooking dinner or some. Or making food or whatever. And I come out, open up, like, guess what? I am writing for the Oscar. Chris Rock said I'm playing and that, like, a few. A few days later was a New York comedy festival. Comedy Central after party, and myself, Michelle Wolf. Wolf, who also got the job, and Langston Kerman were all there. And we all, like, saw each other. And we had one of these, like, very clear. Remember thinking, what a moment for us. It was like, I remember there are moments where I'm, like, taking it all in, like, and I'm trying to get better at appreciating everything that I haven't been able to do. Like, my sister yelled at me because I sent her a preview of the special. And she like. And she was like, this is amazing. I was like, yeah, on to the next one. And she called me. She's like, you better appreciate.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

Where you're at. Do you understand your name is on Netflix.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's good. It's a good.

[Nimesh Patel]

I gotta get better.

[Kevin Clancy]

I actually think it's probably better to air on your side where it's like, don't rest on your laurels and just keep going. But there was something recently. I texted you. Do you remember? I was like, we. I was like, I take this job for granted.

[John Feidelberg]

I remember that.

[Kevin Clancy]

I was like, I was with this person at this place, talking about this thing. Thing. And I was just like, ah, it's just this day at work. And I was like, but I think, yeah, pretty cool.

[John Feidelberg]

I think that works. I think the three of us all have a similar mentality. And I think, like, that is also good to be. Like, I think we're. I think the three of us, again, are lucky to be surrounded by, like, extraordinarily successful people. So you're like, yeah, what I did is impressive. You're right. But, like, my best friend's doing better.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, exactly.

[John Feidelberg]

And I'm happy for them. And, like, their wins are my wins. But, like, I'm. That's still my goal, too.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, right.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, I still want to get you going.

[Nimesh Patel]

I think a lot of it, it's just like, you're. My expectations are so high for myself because a. Like, I. I. Who I am, but also, like, I've seen my peers and my friends, like, do incredible things.

[John Feidelberg]

Right, right, right.

[Nimesh Patel]

And I'm like, that means I know I. The part of me feels like I can also do this.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I'm also. I mean, I think there's kind of two different types of people. Like, I don't ever really want to be, be the smartest person in the room, the funniest person in the room. Like, I'd rather be surrounded by better.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know, and I feel like there's probably other people who would rather not and like, I want to be top dog, but I, I would always rather be like, I'm like the littlest guy here because, you know, you're learning more.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. I mean there's, I, I'm, I'm both. Like, I want to be the top dog, but I also want to be like surrounded by other top dogs.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to be there. But the way you get there though, though is, I mean, if you put yourself in a room with small dogs all the time, you don't get much bigger, you know. But yeah, a little healthy balance of like reminding yourself like, yeah, I'm that.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a hard thing to do because when I started comedy I already thought I was the top. I thought I'm on the, the world will humble you if that's, yeah, you have good years.

[Kevin Clancy]

The only thing that, you know, going back to the old life, I mean, I guess in finance you could have good years and bad you years, but you have your job. Whereas like, you know, one year your special kills and then maybe the offers dry up and you're like, well, this is a lot different, you know.

[Nimesh Patel]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, it's, it's, you know, your life can vary big time.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah. Humility is a hard learned lesson that I've learned many times and that keeps me in check. Like, oh, this is the greatest thing I've ever done.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, I, I had a question. You had said, you mentioned earlier how like when you were getting going, Russell was like the only guy.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, right.

[John Feidelberg]

Like he was, he was the Indian comic.

[Nimesh Patel]

Y.

[John Feidelberg]

When you were coming up, did you ever have like a thought like, like, is it my responsibility to explain the Indian American experience or you just like, I'm just going to do me.

[Nimesh Patel]

I never, I actually because like he.

[John Feidelberg]

Was a trailblazer but like there's still a lot of weeds hanging off.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, were you like, doesn't mind a chip top down or.

[Nimesh Patel]

Well, I mean, I, I intentionally stayed away from talking about specifically Indian stuff for a variety of reasons. One, I didn't think it was that special to be an Indian guy.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nimesh Patel]

I grew up in Jersey.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's a couple billion of you. It's literally not. It's like you're a Newport Pivonia.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yes, but that's exactly right. Like, I grew up in Jersey surrounded by many people like me.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

16 first cousins within 20 minutes of me. Like, gives a crazy. I didn't have the perception to be like, oh, this is, is. This is a.

[Kevin Clancy]

You're a novelty in middle America.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, right, Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

But also, I started in New York and I was seeing other people, and I'm not a student or historian of comedy. Like, I didn't, I didn't have a microphone in my hand when I was 4, I was. I'm gonna be Eddie Mur. No, it was just like, hey. Something I kind of fell into.

[Kevin Clancy]

So interesting.

[Nimesh Patel]

I. When I started comedy, I was seeing do comedy that, like a Chinese guy talking about, you know, having sex with a girl. Like, it wasn't. It wasn't. I'm Chinese is what I like to have Chinese parents is what it likes to be done. And I was like, yeah, like, there's more interesting things. And my POV is not necessarily all just Indian stuff. And then I think, subconsciously I had this feeling, and I only articulated a few years ago, like, literally everything I say is Indian. You know what I mean?

[Kevin Clancy]

So, like, like, I mean, like, like, like, what do you mean by that?

[Nimesh Patel]

What I mean is, like, you fell.

[Kevin Clancy]

Into that because you were avoiding it, but then.

[Nimesh Patel]

No, no, I, I, I, I said that on stage. But, like, I had this feeling, like, why do I need to specifically talk about Indian experiences or Indian things? Like, or have, like, this Indian guys, something. My point of view, by default, is an Indian guy's point of view of something.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right, right.

[Nimesh Patel]

And that kind of. That flipped the switch in my head in the sense, like. Well, yeah, I guess that's true. But there are also very uniquely Indian experiences that, like, you guys wouldn't understand unless I kind of explain them to you.

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Nimesh Patel]

And that is not necessarily responsibility to me. It's like, I'm also learning about this stuff.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Nimesh Patel]

For the first time ever. Yeah. So if it requires me to ed you, if I'm learning something, then I'll tell you about it. But if I'm not learning something, just making fun of something, then I don't feel any responsibility to tell you about it. It's something. Sorry you don't get to know this or figure it out on your own. You know what I mean?

[John Feidelberg]

Like, dude, that's honestly one of my favorite specials of the last five years or so was Ari's Jew. And I love that because I didn't know. Yeah, I knew the, the Cliff Notes of Judaism, but I didn't really know, like, what it meant to go to rabbi school and all that kind of. And I was like, oh, this is interesting. And he's making it really funny.

[Nimesh Patel]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

That I'm.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's something, too, though, like. Like, I've seen, like, when Joe Coy will do something that's not even specifically, like, Asian. It's, like, Filipino. You know, I mean, like, he's getting down to the nitty gritty, and I don't know what the he's talking about.

[Nimesh Patel]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

But watching the audience go nuts for it because it is such a shared experience, I think is cool, where it's like, I don't know what's going on, but I can tell that this hit the same way that if you made some, like, dumb Irish Catholic joke, you'd be like, yup, that's how it is for us. So I, I, you know, it might be. I get what you're saying, and maybe, you know, in some ways, like, it could be a crutch or hacky or something like that, but I think there's something cool about that where it is, like, I'm one of you, and. And, like, especially if it's not as represented, like, certain. Certain types of humor and certain ethnicities are, like, everybody knows them. But when you get to, like, the. That only us know, I think that's cool.

[Nimesh Patel]

But that's why Russell was such a. A instant hit with people that watched that first special, because he was like, it was. You could tell it was. I don't know if you've seen this first special that leaked on YouTube in 2004 or whatever, but if you haven't watched it and you're not an Indian person, you're like, this is very funny just on its own, but as an Indian person and you watch it. I showed it to my parents.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, it's like times 10.

[Nimesh Patel]

Oh, you do it, like. And it's just a shared thing. That relatability, you know, it's just a cool thing. But I never felt compelled to. To bring up specifically Indian things until I learned about them on my own, you know, and until I learned that.

[Kevin Clancy]

There'S so many of you. And if you all watch my specials.

[John Feidelberg]

That'S what I'd be thinking.

[Nimesh Patel]

Also that. Also that for sure. Like, man, if every Patel watches this special.

[John Feidelberg]

You're good.

[Nimesh Patel]

I'm good. Money, dude.

[Kevin Clancy]

If a Patel. Patel's a Patel. About this, I'm. Yeah, I was watching.

[John Feidelberg]

I was gonna say, I, I. In high school, one of my best friends was this Kid named Patel. Rohan Patel. Shout out, Rohan. And I. I didn't. You know, he. He was the only Indian kid or him and his brother. The only indie kids in my school.

[Nimesh Patel]

Where'd you go?

[John Feidelberg]

I went to, like, a boarding school in Rhode Island.

[Nimesh Patel]

Okay.

[John Feidelberg]

He's. He was from England, but he was Indian. And I just thought, like. Like, I just started learning about how many Patels there are very recently. Wait, I didn't. I thought I knew the Patel.

[Kevin Clancy]

I didn't realize it's.

[Nimesh Patel]

We run the FBI now. Don't forget what you say. Cash with a K. That's goddamn right.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's. I just saw it for the first time. I think it's something that happens every year. It goes viral is at graduations where there's. Versus. It was Patels for the Indians and then, like, Lou for Asian people or something like that. And it was like, you know, 30 of them.

[Nimesh Patel]

That's probably like 40 in my high school. Yeah, I think I'm. I'm certain I had 40 in my high school. It might have been 40 in my graduating class, but it was some obscene number. Yeah, we were. We were up there and that was early. That was 2004 when I graduated.

[Kevin Clancy]

Forget it.

[Nimesh Patel]

You need your own yearbook. You know, we. This is what it is.

[John Feidelberg]

It's just what it is.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's funny. All right, man. We appreciate it, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

Thanks for having me so much.

[Nimesh Patel]

Thank you so much for having me again.