Pope Francis' Critical Condition May Lead to a Conclave Ft. Kelsey Cook - Episode + Interview

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Podcast Summary: KFC Radio - "Pope Francis' Critical Condition May Lead to a Conclave Ft. Kelsey Cook - Episode + Interview"

Introduction and Initial Promotions [00:00 - 03:19] The episode begins with the hosts, Kevin Clancy and John Feidelberg, promoting various sponsors and upcoming content. Advertisements for Chevrolet's all-electric Equinox EV and Jackpocket, America's number one lottery app, are prominently featured. These segments set the stage for the casual and interactive nature of KFC Radio, emphasizing listener engagement through "Stoolie Voicemails."

Gym Antics and On-Air Challenges [03:20 - 08:07] The conversation shifts to personal anecdotes, with Jackie and Nate sharing humorous experiences from their recent SiriusXM appearance. They discuss the challenges of maintaining professionalism during live podcasts and recount a chaotic encounter in an elevator involving paparazzi and an entourage:

• Nate Clancy [04:02]: "I was just like, how am I gonna survive one day... We had the elevator on my way up... cameras, boom mics all."

This segment highlights the hosts' lighthearted banter and ability to navigate unexpected on-air disruptions.

Ski Trips and Media Experiences [07:11 - 11:23] Jackie recounts her ski trip to Aspen, where she attempted to interview snowboarders but ultimately deleted the footage due to discomfort:

• Jackie [07:31]: "I knew I wasn't gonna be good at it... they sniffed me out right away."

Meanwhile, Nate shares his experiences with Jackpocket's scratch-off tickets, promoting the app while engaging in playful skepticism about its functionality.

Congestion Pricing in New York [11:24 - 15:00] A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing New York City's congestion pricing initiative. The hosts analyze its impact on traffic, small businesses, and public perception:

• John Feidelberg [11:23]: "Congestion pricing is here to stay... traffic is down, business is fine, accidents are down. It's like all good things."
• John Feidelberg [14:00]: "I really am reaching a point where I truly just don't like traffic. This is not political."

They debate the political ramifications, citing how congestion pricing has been politicized, with President Trump positioning himself as a supporter despite regulations typically aligning with liberal policies.

Social Media, Fashion, and Pop Culture [15:01 - 27:00] The conversation veers into critiques of celebrity culture and social media trends. The hosts discuss backlash against public figures like Kendrick Lamar and Drake for their fashion choices and performances:

• John Feidelberg [15:15]: "Everybody's saying Kendrick said, like, the big three. It's just me. And he came in third place."
• John Feidelberg [21:02]: "You're finally getting your credit, bro. You're finally getting your credit."

They humorously dissect exaggerated reactions to on-screen performances and the often superficial nature of online critiques.

Comedy Industry Insights with Kelsey Cook [76:00 - 87:14] Kelsey Cook joins the conversation to promote her new comedy special available on Hulu and YouTube. She shares insights into the challenges of touring, balancing personal life, and the evolving landscape of comedy distribution:

• Kelsey Cook [83:07]: "The pros are that if you have something come out on a streamer... you can book bigger press things."
• Kelsey Cook [86:39]: "This fits in so well with us being like, oh, it'd be fun to retire someday with our pickleball... we're just having mini Olympics with each other."

Kelsey emphasizes the importance of leveraging multiple platforms to reach wider audiences while maintaining the integrity of her comedic content.

Recreational Activities: Foosball and Pickleball [27:00 - 87:00] The hosts delve into discussions about recreational sports, particularly foosball and pickleball. They explore the cultural significance, personal experiences, and the competitive nature of these games:

• Kevin Clancy [112:13]: "I cannot do anything on a foosball table."
• Kelsey Cook [113:58]: "It's an enraging sport. But it does feel really good once you get good at it."

These segments showcase the hosts' camaraderie and the role of games in fostering social interactions.

Health Trends and Misinformation [88:00 - 95:44] A critical discussion arises around health trends, misinformation on social media, and the influence of influencers:

• Kevin Clancy [130:54]: "Water is not good for you... it's dissolving your body."
• Kelsey Cook [131:25]: "We have to trust Andrew Huberman's education a little bit more than what I learned."

The hosts express concern over the proliferation of unfounded health claims online and advocate for evidence-based information dissemination.

Conclave and Pope Francis' Condition [63:33 - 74:17] The focal point of the episode centers on the health of Pope Francis and the potential for a conclave should his condition worsen:

• John Feidelberg [63:31]: "Chances I don't want to bury Pope Francis just yet. You know, he is..."
• Nate [68:21]: "But, like, it's curtains, right? They said that he had a good night and he's joking around."

The hosts speculate on the implications of a conclave, discussing geopolitical influences and the procedural aspects within the Catholic Church:

• John Feidelberg [70:08]: "Pietro Parolin is the odds on favorite. He is the Vatican Secretary of State."
• John Feidelberg [71:56]: "I believe there's probably a lot of that goes on in conclave."

They humorously anthropomorphize the conclave process, blending factual insights with comedic exaggeration.

Final Topics and Closing Remarks [95:45 - End] Wrapping up, the hosts reflect on generational shifts, the evolution of sports fandom, and personal anecdotes related to aging and lifestyle changes:

• Kevin Clancy [115:00]: "It's the ultimate, like, two truths and a lie."
• Kelsey Cook [122:19]: "I'm pretty sure wherever and everything else good with you? Yeah, man, thank you, bro."

The episode concludes with light-hearted banter about personal growth, relationships, and the enduring bond among the hosts.

Notable Quotes:

• Nate Clancy [04:02]: "I was just like, how am I gonna survive one day... cameras, boom mics all."
• Kelsey Cook [83:07]: "You can turn a 60-minute special into 60-minute long clips."
• John Feidelberg [63:31]: "Chances I don't want to bury Pope Francis just yet. You know, he is..."
• Kevin Clancy [130:54]: "Water is not good for you... it's dissolving your body."

Conclusion This episode of KFC Radio blends a mix of humor, personal stories, and topical discussions, anchored by the intriguing premise of Pope Francis' health and the ensuing conclave. The hosts adeptly navigate through diverse subjects, maintaining an engaging and entertaining dialogue that resonates with both regular listeners and newcomers.

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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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[Kelsey Cook]

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[Jackie]

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[Kelsey Cook]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Jackie]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

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[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

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[Nate]

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[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

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[Nate]

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[Kevin Clancy]

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[John Feidelberg]

See [e-mail] tos free/ticket promo scratch tickets subject to availability sponsored by jackpocket. Based on 2024 iOS download data collected by Sensor Tower. It's another edition of KFC Radio on the barstool sports network. We got cat burglar Jackie in the building.

[Nate]

What? What? Jackie's a ninja.

[John Feidelberg]

We just came from a 10am appearance at, at SiriusXM which almost broke Feidelberg.

[Nate]

I was just like, I was like, like all weekend. I was like, I don't know how I'm gonna survive one day.

[Jackie]

Why.

[Nate]

Except to do one extra thing.

[Jackie]

And we always start at 11:30.

[Nate]

It turns out it's crazy easy to do one extra thing.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, we popped up to Sam's show. We did an hour there that like blew by and was like, oh, that was easy.

[Nate]

That was. I mean, I, I didn't, like, I, I literally thought we were there 15 minutes.

[John Feidelberg]

If you haven't, if you, if you haven't seen that. Sam Roberts is, is basically holding down the, the remainder of the Opie and Anthony universe from on Sirius, which.

[Jackie]

How did you lose your voice?

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know. I got, I got a little bit of. I know I got a little bit of a cough over the weekend and it just went.

[Nate]

We, we had the, the elevator on my way up. We had the craziest thing. Not the craziest thing. It wasn't that crazy.

[John Feidelberg]

No, this always happens. It's serious.

[Nate]

I was in elevator with 10 people. They pulled out the elevator. Kevin was waiting in the lobby already. Cameras, boom, mics all. We have no, no clue who. Every time, who was the person in the group. We like, like no one was pointing the cameras at anyone.

[John Feidelberg]

The harness, the boom. Yeah, like every time we go to serious. There are people who roll in there with an entourage and I'm like, Bro, you, entourage level to me is like a list.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, even if you're like, B list, like, you can show up somewhere without.

[Nate]

Your hand, there are, like, 10 people alive.

[John Feidelberg]

Right. That's what I mean. You better be, like, famous. When maybe you have, like, a publicist. Maybe you have, like, a social media person. Once you have, like, a cameraman, a boom mic, three handlers, and, like, a agent. You better be Brad Pitt. You better be famous.

[Nate]

And then they had, like. They're like, can you sign it? They told one person to go sign them all in.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And the signing process is not easy.

[John Feidelberg]

Holy moly. You think getting into, like, Guantanamo or some there. You got to take pictures and write your company name and all that.

[Nate]

I use all fake stuff.

[John Feidelberg]

Did Really?

[Nate]

I had my. My email. I just had a typo on purpose. And then my phone number was my childhood landline. So I always do that. There's. You just get so many. I got out. I had two texts, like, from spam.

[John Feidelberg]

100%.

[Nate]

Everyone just can. You can buy my information wherever you need it.

[John Feidelberg]

It's out there.

[Nate]

I don't need to give it to you. If you want it, go buy it from one of the 10,000 people. Sell.

[Jackie]

I used to always use the name Chase Daniels as, like, a fake before.

[Nate]

I want. It's a very famous quarterback.

[Jackie]

Yeah, yeah, no, I know.

[Nate]

He's, like, actually very famous for being not.

[John Feidelberg]

Not that good.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, Chase Daniels, anyways. Are you pretending to be a dude?

[Nate]

University Southern miss. I've been southern Missouri.

[John Feidelberg]

I'd be very impressed if that's the case. Missouri.

[Nate]

Missouri. Missouri. Damn.

[John Feidelberg]

Chase. Daniel.

[Jackie]

She says, no, I just wanted, like, something neutral or you couldn't tell who I. Because the whole point was, like, I was like, Starbucks. I don't want Starbucks to take my, you know, identity. So I'd be like, something they would like. Then I would, like, forget to respond to Chase. Like, they'd be like, oh, no order for Chase. And I'd be like, why do they do this?

[John Feidelberg]

That is so stupid. That is the dumbest thing you did.

[Nate]

No, that's me. That's me. You were probably expecting a southern man.

[John Feidelberg]

How was your ski bomb weekend?

[Jackie]

It was good.

[John Feidelberg]

Jackie was interviewing snowboarders out in. Where? Aspen.

[Nate]

Boston.

[John Feidelberg]

Boston.

[Nate]

Similar.

[Jackie]

It was Aspen, although Boston. So cool city.

[Nate]

Yeah. What you do?

[Jackie]

Like, I mean, not even anything. Like, I was just barely there. Like, literally, like, I. I don't know why.

[Nate]

It was just.

[Jackie]

There was snowboards, but, like, I have to. So I didn't actually interview the snowboarders, because like, like we were just there. But I did, I'm sorry, I did interview two of them but like I have to delete the footage because it's like I knew I wasn't gonna be good at it. Like I knew I didn't want to.

[Kevin Clancy]

Do it and sure, it's totally fine.

[Jackie]

No, it's like they, they sniffed me out right away.

[John Feidelberg]

Do you know how much she edits herself out of the podcast?

[Jackie]

Like so much.

[John Feidelberg]

So much.

[Nate]

Why stop?

[Jackie]

Yeah, I know.

[John Feidelberg]

I talked, I talked to her about like getting her off, like, like doing the main edit and she was like, I don't know. I don't have control over what goes out.

[Nate]

We've never walked out of here after recording it. And I thought, Jackie Blank.

[Jackie]

I'm always like, that was a disaster. That was a disaster.

[John Feidelberg]

People want more Jackie, not less.

[Jackie]

No, no. But anyways, it was good. How was your guys weekend?

[John Feidelberg]

I told her next, next winter if I see her From November 1st to March 1st, I'm going to be mad at her.

[Nate]

I love that.

[John Feidelberg]

I want full ski bum. No, I mean I'm also just content creator. Go live in Aspen for three months.

[Jackie]

I mean I would love that, but I'm also.

[John Feidelberg]

It's just like, it's clearly what she wants to do. She talks about it so much and I just said to her, you have a job where you can go do that. Yeah, don't. Don't not do it.

[Jackie]

I also think we should legitimately do like winter house Barstow winter.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, sure. Go do it. Run the. Run the. Run the.

[Jackie]

Big plans for next winter.

[John Feidelberg]

Start now because it's gonna come quick.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Gotta get the house and everything. Urbanists unite. Urbanists unite for my me, Nate and a whole bunch of urbanists are going to continue to fight for congestion pricing. The. The Feidelberg sent me today. The. The governor made a PowerPoint for Donald Trump and it's hilarious because it is like legitimately a PowerPoint for like middle school.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Picture fact. That's it.

[Nate]

You can tell it's made for like a child.

[John Feidelberg]

But it's effective. It is effective. Like, like it is.

[Nate]

It's like literally just takes Trump's language. Like we're going to build a big beautiful city. We're use a big safe. This. It's like just like myth.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, this is not true. But the numbers are in. Traffic is down, business is up. We're raising money. Congestion pricing is here to stay.

[Nate]

I. I don't know why anyone cares. Like outside the city yes. Like, it's a, it's a national platform. It seems that we're arguing about, well.

[John Feidelberg]

It is turned traffic political. I said to you, if, if somehow it was reversed, if congestion pricing was in place and New York reversed it, Trump would swoop in to reinstate it and people would just buy that side of it.

[Nate]

Right.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, it. Somehow people now think that in order to continue to be conservative and support Trump, you need to be against congestion pricing. When I'm pretty sure. And I don't know. And so if you are like a small business that's getting hurt or a average commuter who is like, getting wiped out, I'm sure there's a few people and that sucks. But I'm pretty sure, like, most people on all sides are into this.

[Nate]

Yeah, I mean, obviously I've just spoken to my bubble, but.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, that's what I mean.

[Nate]

Like, but I, I, I since, you know, I take the subway, I don't really care what it, how it works, but the, like, I forgot what I was saying.

[John Feidelberg]

But I, I did think that, I think the business thing was going to.

[Nate]

Be, oh, I mean, it's like 100 of my circle is positive.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, right. Which is like a small sample, but usually a pretty good indicator. Like, average people are all gonna buy into this. I, I did think the one thing I was like, yeah, people are gonna stop driving into the city, but they're. And so business will be down. And I guess the numbers are proving out that people walking on the streets, more is better for small businesses and less time just sitting in gridlock actually has more people doing where it's like, I can, I can drive in now and it won't take an hour and a half. So let's go to that show.

[Nate]

Right, Right.

[John Feidelberg]

So they said, Broadway is not suffering. Small businesses are not suffering. Now, you always got, who knows? Every number is fake. All these stats, fake news on all sides, who knows? But the numbers that are coming out are like they're raising money. Traffic is down, business is fine, accidents are down. It's like all good things. And is it literally just New York.

[Nate]

That is being not even just New York? It's like, it's like, it's just one zone of 50th down, 60th now.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. And so I would love to really figure out the numbers because I still don't understand how it works so. Well, they said hundreds of thousands of cars are off the street and the, everyone's like, oh, the average working person is getting taxed. I don't think they Are because the average working person takes mass transit. The average person does not own a car, pay a lease, pay for parking and all the, all insurance, all that associated with living in the most expensive city in the world. They take the subway, they take Metro north, they take the bus. So I don't know really who. If you pay $1,000 a month for parking, you probably can afford the $9. So the only thing I can think is that it just wiped out like a billion Ubers and lifts, which I'm okay with. Yeah, that was already to begin with. A bunch of people and their dirty ass Honda Civics just becoming ride share drivers who suck at it and are, you know what I mean? Like, let it be yellow cabs. Let it be the people who really run like a business of ride share and the rest of the people get the out. I had people today saying, what about the parking lots? The parking lots? Parking lots have been jacking their up and eating off of the average person because it's a premium to drive in the city for decades if they take a hit. Good.

[Nate]

I mean, are we, are we really saying what about the parking lot?

[John Feidelberg]

That's what I mean is like people. It has become so political that it's like business is down. No, it's not. Okay, well, what about the market lines? You know what I mean? It's like they have to latch on to something because this has been now posed as Trump versus left versus right. Pro Trump versus not Trump. You know, guys calling me.

[Nate]

What? Answer that.

[Jackie]

Yeah, answer that.

[John Feidelberg]

Hello.

[Nate]

How are you?

[John Feidelberg]

Good, how you doing? My friend, My friend who like I'm.

[Nate]

Really close with, he worked for the governor and I saw you like tweeted about something.

[John Feidelberg]

He wanted to be introduced to you.

[Nate]

So I wanted to see if it was cool to, to put you on text.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, sure. Yeah, absolutely.

[Nate]

Cool.

[John Feidelberg]

Everything else good with you? Yeah, man, thank you, bro.

[Nate]

All right, cool, Got you.

[John Feidelberg]

All right, thanks.

[Nate]

All right, we're going to the governor's house. Let's go.

[John Feidelberg]

I really am reaching a point where like, I truly just don't like traffic. Like, this is not political. I said Stalin could, I was going to say Hitler, but Hitler's a touch topic. Stalin could come up with congestion pricing and I would support it. It's not Trump, it is not left, it's not right. But I was like, I'm getting a lot of heat for this. Like I'm getting a lot of, you know, it's split. But I'm just saying heat in general and I'm like, I'm over that. I don't like heat anymore, but I gotta fight for the urbanist rise up. So now I'm going to the governor's house. Let's go. That is hilarious. Did you see npr, like, plate? Yeah, they play my clip, but they mentioned me. It's like, there's got to be a more legitimate news source talking about this.

[Nate]

No.

[John Feidelberg]

Am I the only. Maybe they're just latching onto me because I'm the only one who's blatantly willing to be like, fuck yeah, let's go tax people.

[Nate]

You're the face of this.

[Kevin Clancy]

And Kendra in the halftime show.

[Nate]

But.

[John Feidelberg]

That'S another one, dude. I can't. The. The amount of videos that I am still to this day being fed that are just like old white people and white women and like, corny people who are like, this is a Kendrick was amazing. I'm like, I don't. I don't think I would want that if I was a rapper.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, I, like, I'm sure you've seen a bump and everything. It's like, but if that's my bump, no, thank you.

[Nate]

I don't need someone finally crossed into suburban moms. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

It's crazy to me. That's. It's a very. Did you see Drake was the number one rapper with 8 million records?

[Nate]

I saw that. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Put on an album this year. Imagine the worst year of your life. You're number one and you went eight platinum. That's crazy.

[Nate]

Sexy songs for you.

[John Feidelberg]

Everybody's saying Kendrick said, like, the big three. It's just me. And he came in third place.

[Nate]

That's funny.

[Jackie]

Like, now kind of seeing the, like, how viral. Like, I feel like, at least on Tick tock, like, it's like so many audios. Like, everything is based around the performance right now.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. I mean, like, maybe so. I mean, I think there's those. There's a difference between being like, change.

[Jackie]

Your tude, I guess.

[John Feidelberg]

No, like, I don't think it was ever not going to be talked about, you know, Like, I guess if you do something that's provocative enough where everyone's talking about it, like, you, you did a good job. I. I still just think the songs and the performance was not good, but I. There was never a world where I was gonna say, like, that's gonna not be a big story, you know? Yeah, but. But the fact that it is, like, become a Tick Tock trend and. And everyone's doing the dance and all that, like, that part was well done. They, they, they tweaked the song a little bit and made an easy dance. Like, I'm sure that was probably thought of.

[Nate]

What was that? Kendrick did that or Drake.

[Jackie]

It's kind of like scoot.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, yeah. Kendrick just do like a little two step this way in that way. And it's like, I'm tripping. Everybody can do it.

[Jackie]

Like, with the big jeans, people put.

[John Feidelberg]

On, like the big bell, yo. I. That to me was like a. A moment of like. So we have a celebrity problem. Like, the fact that, like, those jeans were not universally made fun of is crazy.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

If a. If anybody else. If a little man walked in here right now, like, if a salesperson who's 5 foot 5 walked in with bell bottoms underneath his foot, we would make fun of him mercilessly.

[Nate]

Yeah, but that. That doesn't apply.

[John Feidelberg]

I. I know, but like. But some things are inherently like, that's lame.

[Jackie]

Realize how short he was until the super bowl show.

[John Feidelberg]

He was literally wearing women's size 29 jeans. They were like, the actual pair of jeans are women.

[Jackie]

Oh, really?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Wow.

[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

Dude, you see Jeremy Allen White last night? He looked good at the SAG Awards. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I did not.

[Nate]

The reason I say is because he had flared pants on.

[John Feidelberg]

I. I also think there's a difference between, like, you know, when you were wearing your red bell bottoms versus, like, the jeans that are, like, underneath his foot. Did you see Timothy Chalamet speech?

[Nate]

Yeah, dude, he's catching heat for that. Why?

[John Feidelberg]

Well, I shouldn't say I. One. I saw one Twitter, one Instagram account that was like a. Like a Hollywood reporter type thing, you know? And this is.

[Nate]

This is.

[John Feidelberg]

You're doing, by the way. Jeremy Allen White. All these people is Fidelberg in. In Amsterdam. Slot bucket.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Feidelberg is a taste maker. And the day, like, listen, I've been riding this wave as long as I could. The day that the rest of the world figured this figures out, you're. You're gone. You're going to Hollywood. What Feidelberg does, the culture follows. And. And, you know, he gets zero.

[Nate]

Right? I know.

[John Feidelberg]

But eventually, like, somebody who's at a fashion brand or a network is going to be like, just follow this guy around and let's just pay him money to exist. Because the. The. The. We know for a fact that the red bell bottoms in Amsterdam led to Ralph Lauren being like, this is our mood.

[Nate]

Right?

[John Feidelberg]

And then mood board. And like. And that was a direct one. But, like, that. That is like, you are fashionable. You were wearing something like, aggressive and. And provocative in fashion. So it kind of all makes sense that, like, somebody would jump on board with that. This latest one, GQ saying that a slop bowl is the way that real men feed themselves.

[Nate]

Right, baby?

[John Feidelberg]

This is directly Freidalberg101.

[Nate]

GQ being like this morning, salmon and rice from, like a week ago.

[John Feidelberg]

And the video is just a guy eating out of his bucket.

[Nate]

The slot bowl. That's crazy. I mean, slot buckets.

[Jackie]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like. Like, just gq go all the way, call the bucket and give. My man, they're covering their ass. So when you sue them, they can say, that's a slot bowl.

[Nate]

That's.

[John Feidelberg]

But I mean, that is directly, directly Feitalberg inspired. Like, what's next? GQ being like, eat, eat. Palm your chicken in front of the refrigerator.

[Nate]

But I'm happy about, like, more people should know. Yes, it is a completely acceptable reason to. Or way to eat. AI has it.

[John Feidelberg]

Look.

[Jackie]

Is it?

[John Feidelberg]

You're finally getting your credit, bro. You're finally getting your credit. I'm telling you, dude, look at that. The top tweets. Yeah. Fidalberg the slop bucket junior are disgusting. Or both.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

At. At. At some point, somebody is going to realize this, and they're just gonna be like, we pay this man to live. And what he wears, we sell. What he eats, we make what he says, we. We follow. You're like a cult leader without being the leader.

[Nate]

It's incredible. Bang. All the ugly ladies who come along with that.

[Jackie]

Have we Looked up the writer of the article and see if that.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's.

[John Feidelberg]

That's good investigation. The. I. I, when I posted that, and I said, like, feidalberg, you know, is going to take over the world. I got a lot of. A lot of mentions, a lot of replies to that on Instagram. Being like, it's scary how much I, like, I align with him and agree with him, and you truly are the everyman.

[Nate]

Emily Lawrence. You. No, she knows she's right. She. She's correct. The slop bowl is a completely viable way to eat.

[John Feidelberg]

I also don't like it.

[Nate]

Me alive for two years now.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't like that it was written by a woman, because now it makes me feel like it was written in jest.

[Kevin Clancy]

Now it makes me feel like you're.

[John Feidelberg]

Making fun of me. And I like my sloppy Emily. You.

[Nate]

It is. Yeah. No, it's. It's. It's crazy to me that anyone eats any other way.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay, now we got to do a test, though. You can't fake it. So I, you know, I don't want you to, like, just come up with something like, whatever your latest thing is, we gotta test. You gotta say it and, like, see who follows suit.

[Nate]

I don't. I don't have to do it right now.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm just saying, like, like, come up. You know, whatever you're. Whatever you've got, you've always got a take that's like, this is out or this is in, or just a weird thing that you do.

[Nate]

You do hit. Like, you know what I've been doing lately, like. You do?

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Nate]

Yeah. Very subtle.

[John Feidelberg]

You should have, like, a series called, you know what I've been doing. Like, I'm waiting for, like, jump roping to, like, become something else that you do that's pretty uniquely you is next.

[Nate]

I went rock climbing this weekend.

[John Feidelberg]

Maybe it's rock climbing.

[Nate]

No, I wouldn't recommend it.

[John Feidelberg]

You were indoors, just, like, going to a ceiling. And I was.

[Nate]

It was. I was at Stratton, and I skied the morning yesterday with my dad, and then he finished the day, and he's like, I gotta get back home, like, back to Massachusetts. And I was like, all right, I'm gonna stick around a little bit. And so I like.

[Kevin Clancy]

By yourself?

[Nate]

Yeah, I see. A little more. And then I was like, ah, there's that. It's called climb. And I was like, there's that rock climbing thing down, like, in the Stratton Village. Maybe we'll check that out.

[John Feidelberg]

You're not a good rock climber, though.

[Nate]

Terrible.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, like, like, it's a very. You're like the best at it. Are very lean and like flexible. Like you're a. You're a rock trying to rock climb. It's like if the mountain tried to climb itself.

[Nate]

There was. There was a time within the last year we were at this bar in Hell's kitchen called Scruffy McDuffs or something like that. And they have a game at the bar where, like, you. They have a bar at the bar. And hey, if you hang for a minute, you get a free beer and a T shirt. And everyone, we were like, fights. You got to do it. You gotta do it.

[John Feidelberg]

And I don't know, you can put your arms above your head.

[Nate]

I was like, I can't do that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And the bartender was like, him, no chance. And they're like, the guys like him think they can do it. And it's. It's 150 pound hipsters.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Because, yeah, it's hard to hold up as fat as I am, like the whole time. It takes a lot of strength.

[John Feidelberg]

So it's so funny, by the way, that that's the thing that, that they do that at Rye Playland, which is like a music park in Westchester for, like, children.

[Nate]

Yeah. Yeah. And.

[John Feidelberg]

And I. I mean, I guess the weight thing is there, but like, you know when I told you I've been hanging.

[Nate]

I'm getting really, really good. I'm trying to get a minute I'm gonna get so it's so hard.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, I remember Keegan trying to do it. He was like six years old. He, like, did it for like five seconds.

[Jackie]

What are you hanging from?

[Nate]

I'm hanging from a bar.

[Jackie]

Well, I figured that, but like, where's the bar?

[Nate]

At the gym?

[John Feidelberg]

No, and you just go just like this. You put your like, knees up.

[Nate]

Or when they start getting tired, I start lifting them a little bit to like distribute the weight differently. But yeah, I mean, at first it was like 10 seconds. We're like six months in, seven months.

[Kevin Clancy]

In, we're up to like 45 seconds.

[John Feidelberg]

Wow, that's progress.

[Kevin Clancy]

I've been hanging.

[John Feidelberg]

I've been hanging.

[Nate]

Have I gotten any taller? But we. I go to this. I go to this climbing place and I. I had visions in my head of it being like this. Like, I don't. I don't know what I thought a climbing place looked like. It's a room the size of this room with just one high schooler sitting in it. And then he was like, what's up? I was like, I don't know, man. You tell me. What's the deal with this place? That's the worst.

[John Feidelberg]

Because they're watching you too.

[Nate]

Yeah. So then it just ended up being me and him.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, no.

[Nate]

In a room while I climb in total silence, going. Just.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, usually those things, there's a million walls, so there's like, no one's watching you.

[Nate]

So I finally, I got down, I put on like some music and I put my. From my phone to try and offset the grunts coming from me because it's like. So this. This what?

[Jackie]

Really didn't have music playing in the.

[Nate]

No, there was. It was dead.

[John Feidelberg]

That is so.

[Nate]

It's dead silent. It was literally so me and a high school aged kid and I was like. I was like, so what's the deal with these? Like, how does it work? He's like, you never done it? Oh, man. I'm just trying checking it out. And he goes, all right. Yeah. He shows me how to, like, strap in. And he's like, yeah. And then you just climb. And I was like, well, but what, like, what if I fall? And he's like, it was an automatic belay. And he goes, it'll activate. It catches you. And I was like, so I just have to trust it. And he's like, yeah, I mean, like, you know, he's obviously explaining to me someone who's worked with it for months, however long he's been there. He's like, yeah, it'll. It'll catch you. And so I get to the top and I'm just falling. And I'm like, I'm gonna fall because you're. The really hard part about it is that your body, at least this is my one time ever doing it. Just understanding. I did not realize, like, my muscles did not realize I wasn't hanging on for dear life. Like, like my muscles, my brain wouldn't. I was squeezing everything so hard so, like, if I slip, I die.

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Nate]

And my body just couldn't get the fact that, like, you're okay.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate]

But the thing that sucks about the automatic belay is that takes a second to activate.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes. You get a free fall.

[Nate]

So. But like, free falling from up top is easy because it'll catch me. But when I fell from like eight feet up.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, you just like, hit the ground.

[Nate]

You just know it would catch me right at the last second. Yeah, that's tough. I'm just like making these guttural noises echoing through this empty room as I keep trying to climb a children's wall. This kid's in the corner. Like, what the fuck is going on over. Because he was. He couldn't really see me. He could just.

[John Feidelberg]

That's one of your best, bro.

[Nate]

Just like a.

[John Feidelberg]

A guy around the corner. You all right?

[Nate]

What the is wrong with this guy?

[Jackie]

I can only notice you make a lot of noise.

[Nate]

It makes so much noise.

[John Feidelberg]

Trying to lift, like, 200 pounds. But you got to the top, though.

[Nate]

I just hop, but not of all the wall. I. I honestly, I did it for like, a half hour, and then I was like, all right.

[John Feidelberg]

And how so are you now?

[Nate]

I'm done. It's just my forearms, because I don't think you work those out a lot and stuff like that. And, like, again, they were grabbing, like, if I fall, I die.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, I had. I had one of my more like, shocking. You gotta. You gotta clean it up moments. I probably. I probably shot about 30 hockey pucks the other day. What wrecked my body, really. Matt Molson, former Islander and former NHL player, came to my house. The guys we were doing the renovation with sponsor his, like, juniors hockey team. So they were talking to him, and he was like, oh, I know kfc. He was a big stoolie when he was on the Islanders. We hung out a few times when. When that was, like, a big thing. So he came by the house and we did, like, a hockey challenge and. Which was ridiculous. They were like, let's see who's gonna win. I was like. I was like, do you guys know who I am? Were you under the impression I played for, like. Like, D1 hockey or something like that? Like, I don't think I've ever shot an actual hockey puck in my life.

[Nate]

Really?

[John Feidelberg]

I don't think so. I probably, you know, a roll. Like a rollerball or. Yeah. Like. Right. What would we have done if you're not a hockey guy?

[Nate]

That makes sense.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

I was, like, shocked.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean, I guess gym class, we. We played with, like, a. Orange, like, plastic. I don't think I've ever shot a real hockey puck. And it was like, who's gonna. He. He put up these. You know when they put those signs. Signs in your. On your lawn that says, like, gunner Roofing is here. He put up, like, five of those. And the. The closest one was, like, 20ft away. And the furthest one was probably, like, a hundred feet away. And he was like, you gotta try to see, like, which one you're gonna hit. I was like, which one? Like, first of all, it's none. And I'm only shooting for that one, bro. But. But like, you know, it's like when you go bowling and you wear, like, my obliques of like.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

It's a weird movement that I've literally. I guess maybe when I swung a baseball bat or something similar, but other than that, I've never done it. And the next day I was like, oh, man, I can't even shoot a puck a few times. And then the worst part was. So we do. We do like, three different hockey challenges. It was like, try to hit the sign. Then it was like a long distance thing with a fucking goal that was like 300 yards away. And then we did, like, we hung slate that. We're taking slate off my roof. And we hung it. You try to hit the. Hit it with the puck and break the slate, which, oddly enough, I did do that.

[Nate]

Really? That's sick.

[John Feidelberg]

I was like, what? So. But then he brought Connect four, I think, to try to, like, even the playing field. And I just got smoked, like, a bit. Like a big one. Yeah. And I was, like, around with him, like, oh, you're gonna be able to use your brain now, jock. And he just rocked me three times. I was. It was like eating at me. I was like, I can't believe I lost Connect four three times in a row.

[Nate]

It's one.

[John Feidelberg]

One time. I just. You know when you're just, like, not using your brain? I was just, like, putting him in and he. He got like four in a row on, like, his first four tries. So I was like, oh, that one. That was stupid. But I wasn't really trying the other two. I was like, he got me both times. It's like, man. But yeah, soar from that. Kind of is like, oh, man, that's.

[Nate]

That's tough. Yeah. I remember I had the. When we went to, like, MGM bowling, and we, like, we bowled for, like.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

A game.

[John Feidelberg]

Yep.

[Nate]

And I was like, my shoulders hurt.

[John Feidelberg]

It's just if you don't use those things for any. Any like, stability or quick motion where when you do use it, your body's like, no, no, no, no, don't do that.

[Jackie]

Squeezing lemons. I just did that the other day. And then, like, my wrists.

[John Feidelberg]

How many lemons did you squeeze?

[Jackie]

Like four.

[John Feidelberg]

That's worse than me. Don't you work out?

[Kelsey Cook]

What?

[Nate]

Don't you work out? Yeah.

[Jackie]

I don't know why the lemon took me out.

[John Feidelberg]

What's your workout? Tell the people. Drop your. Drop your routine.

[Jackie]

I mean, it's just like, I don't like you. Like I said, I've worked out a few times. And you've said multiple times, like, oh, she works out every day. I don't work out every day.

[Nate]

I thought you, like, worked. Well, you walk to Pilates, like, every day? Yeah.

[Jackie]

Yeah. Twice a week.

[Nate]

Oh, okay.

[Kevin Clancy]

Three times a week.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

That's a lot more than the average person.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You have to understand, most people do nothing.

[Jackie]

Okay.

[John Feidelberg]

You go somewhere for three times a week, and you would take long walks.

[Jackie]

And I'm developing one app. I have one singular app.

[John Feidelberg]

One pack.

[Jackie]

It's like a fake ab.

[Nate]

Do you.

[John Feidelberg]

Do you lift it all?

[Jackie]

No. No.

[John Feidelberg]

That'd be funny if Jackie was just.

[Jackie]

There was a phase where, like, I did. I got kind of, like, kind of jacked, really.

[John Feidelberg]

Lifting.

[Jackie]

Not. But it was like. It was like fat overjacked. So, like, it wasn't like a good kind of.

[Nate]

It was what.

[Jackie]

It was just kind of like, it wasn't the best kind of jacked. Like, it was like.

[Nate]

It was just you. You were like a softball catcher.

[Jackie]

Exactly.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You want to be like a. Like a softball. Like.

[Nate]

A soccer player. Second baseball catcher.

[John Feidelberg]

Running your own business and. And being, you know, being heavily involved in your work means that you're always on your phone, you're always taking work calls. Some people have their work phone, their. Their play phone, and you got to keep everything organized. You got to keep everything transparent, Everything.

[Kevin Clancy]

Otherwise, you're gonna.

[John Feidelberg]

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[Nate]

Was at the gym this weekend and I almost got in my first fight in a very long time.

[Jackie]

Whoa.

[Nate]

Yeah, Jealous. Like, I like, it didn't get to like any kind of like pushing or anything like that, but it was one of those like, like I was mentally ready. I was like, okay, we're gonna fight.

[John Feidelberg]

And I was like, that's pretty far to get there.

[Nate]

It was, it was like to be.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, all right, hands will be thrown.

[Nate]

It was like I was, I was willing to put my toes over the edge, but he had to push me.

[John Feidelberg]

Were you at a bar?

[Nate]

No, I was at the gym of the gym and it was gym fight.

[John Feidelberg]

Real meathead, dude.

[Nate]

It was. I honestly still thinking about it, I was just like, I'm like, I hated this guy. I hated this guy. It was, I was at the gym at Stratton and I was in the bathroom beforehand and he, he came into the bathroom and I just didn't like the cut of his jib. Like the second, the second he came in, I was just like, there's something about this.

[John Feidelberg]

Give me a description. How old are we talking? What are we?

[Nate]

Like, probably 45.

[John Feidelberg]

White guy.

[Nate]

White guy, 45 to 50. Hair gelled, which I don't like at the gym.

[John Feidelberg]

That pissed me off.

[Kevin Clancy]

Off.

[Nate]

He. I didn't like his outfit. He had a cut sleeve shirt on. He was in shape. He's in good shape.

[Jackie]

Yeah, I feel like I know the type.

[Nate]

And then he got into the stall and I, I was washing my hands and I could see his feet and they were facing, they were facing sideways my whole time. Washing my hands and that pissed me off. Like, what was he doing? That's what I was thinking, Kevin, pissing sideways. What is this guy doing? It really bothered me.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, I would love this. Somewhere in an alternate universe universe, this guy's on a podcast going. I was blowing my nose in the stall and this guy wanted to fight me.

[Nate]

No, it's 100. I was also being a cunt, but I noticed him being kind. I was like, what? Better turn my meter up. Like, so then we get into the gym and it's, you know, you know, the gym is where like you got all the dumbbells on the rack right there.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And typically the way I've learned you go to the gym is like, like you get the weights, you Need. And then you go off to your little section and you don't keep everyone's way. And he kept. He was just standing there and, like, doing his workout. Yeah. And so, like, he just kept being in my way, like, non stop in my way to the point where I would move benches. I'd be like, okay, he's sitting in front of this bench. Now I'll move to this one. And okay, he's gonna sit in front of this bench. Now I'll move to Jesus. I'm going well out of my way.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And then it keeps happening, keeps happening. So I'm like, okay, fine, time to turn my meter up. And what I do when I'm trying to get under someone's.

[Jackie]

The girlies would love that.

[Nate]

Just a little. Let me twist that a little bit up.

[John Feidelberg]

Where would you say your cut meter stays at? Is it a zero?

[Nate]

I'm pretty close to it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. The other thing about this is, like, you're pretty kind of non confrontational.

[Nate]

Pretty much.

[John Feidelberg]

To get to this level, I'm as.

[Nate]

Close to a zero as I think you can be. And. But when I, when I, when I activate it, my. My modus operandi is. I.

[Jackie]

Okay, now you're getting too technical.

[Nate]

I, like, I. I just start looking like I'm having a lot more fun than you. So, like, I'm walking on the gym, I'm laughing, I'm dancing, I'm like, I'm doing weights that I'm like, oh, that's a hard one for you. That's easy. You know what you're really trying at? It's a literal joke to me. Like, like, like, literally, I was just popping around the gym. I was like, really? And then we, we start. I'm coming back to my weights, a bench. I've moved like three times. Yeah. And I'm. I'm in. I'm in between. You know when you're in between two benches and there's like, not a lot of room to move? I'm in. I'm in. I'm in the tunnel now. Yeah. And he starts coming into it, and I realized, I'm like, oh, he's not even gonna move. So I jam my shoulder into his chest. No way.

[John Feidelberg]

No.

[Nate]

And I, I look back and I'm like, you motherfucker. I didn't even realize I got the tunes. I'm bopping. You know how it is, bro. And that's great. He fucking. He finally I. So then I start doing another workout, a different part of the gym. I come back and my weights Are still at the desk. I was doing, like, a superset thing, and my weights and water bottle are there. And he's like, his calves are on my bench. They're touched. You couldn't. Couldn't.

[John Feidelberg]

I respect both of you. This is a good battle.

[Nate]

You guys would be friends. And I finally took my headphones. Yo, you following me? And he said that? Yeah. And he was like, what? No, no. I was like, you're on my bench. I've moved bench three times. Like, everywhere I go, you're there.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And he's like, dude, just say sorry and I'll move. I was like, why the would I say sorry?

[John Feidelberg]

Yo, this is like, the most I've ever heard you.

[Nate]

And then that's how it ended. And then.

[John Feidelberg]

But that. That's enough. Where I would be like, we are going to fight you.

[Nate]

Yeah. I was 100, fully prepared.

[John Feidelberg]

I also think this is where you don't realize this. We've had this conversation before. That guy wanted no smoke.

[Nate]

I don't care how good a shape he was in. Good shape.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, there's. You're a Boulder dude.

[Jackie]

Like, this is like a really meathead version of, like, the armrest.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Boiling blood.

[Jackie]

But you're both silent.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I do love that, though. Like, I'm gonna go put my feet on this guy's bench.

[Nate]

No, we were. My shoulders, 100. We're both being cunts.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

But I love it. I.

[John Feidelberg]

Good old.

[Nate]

If you ask me, he started it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, well, that. I believe you don't go looking for it, but, I mean, you know, if Heidelberg makes the choice to. It's go time. It's. It's over. It's a wrap.

[Nate]

I. I was like, luckily, like, the. The. The guy who was working at the gym, like, the front desk was a stoolie. So I was like, he's got my. Yeah, he'll lie to the cops for me. Let's go. Dude, I will turn you into. What's the guy's name? The. The guy who eats people. Dahmer. I'll Dahmer you right now, dude. I will bat your skull in with a 25.5 weight. I don't care.

[John Feidelberg]

Final word. Just killed somebody.

[Nate]

Like, meet final break for the first time.

[Kevin Clancy]

And then 20 minutes later, you just.

[John Feidelberg]

Hear, like, after all of hearing how he's like, I don't want any problems. Wholesome guy.

[Nate]

Look, dude, I've always said I wanted to go to jail.

[John Feidelberg]

I'll test it out for you. Speaking of cunts to go back to what we were talking about that. That one Instagram account I saw that posted Chalamet's speech. Every comment was like, how pretentious, how arrogant. I was stunned because, Because I, Because I watched. I had not seen it yet. I saw the comments first, and I said, oh, is this. I. You know, I'm always interested when guys who are like, the golden boy, you know, I'm always looking for the rock to get in trouble. I'm always interested to see, like, oh, maybe he's gonna adversity now. Like, people are not all over his dick because he's so beloved. And then I listened to the speech, and I thought it was amazing.

[Nate]

Great speech. I, I haven't seen anyone who didn't like it. That might just be, like, dorks on the Internet. But the, like, he has even addressed it where he's like, I know you're not supposed to talk like this, but, yeah, I'm trying to be great.

[John Feidelberg]

And, And I thought that what was going to come was worse. I thought he was gonna say, I know you're not supposed to speak like this. I'm great.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right?

[John Feidelberg]

To say, I want to be great.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And I, and I compare it to Daniel Day Lewis and, And Anthony Hopkins or Marlon Brando, and I compare them to LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Like, what?

[Nate]

That's totally fine. No, I, I, I love.

[John Feidelberg]

I. This kind of happened to him. I, I said this a couple weeks ago where I said, I don't even like that. He says the disclaimers.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, that.

[John Feidelberg]

He says, I know this comes off.

[Nate]

That, dude, I'm nominated for best actor. I should be nominated for best actor twice this year.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude. He was like, that was five and a half years of my life that I poured into this. And, like, and I'm being recognized for it.

[Nate]

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

He's the youngest to ever win the SAG Award.

[Nate]

Really? How old is he? 29. He would be the youngest best actor ever.

[Kevin Clancy]

Tie with Brody.

[John Feidelberg]

I was gonna say, bro, he's got to be young, right?

[Nate]

What if a pianist.

[Kevin Clancy]

For a pianist.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

Who do you think has the most, like, pressure on them? Like, I think Meghan Markle, in terms of. You have, like, the race stuff. You have the whole Royal Family against you. You have, like, all of England against you. You broke off from the Royal Family, which is not.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

When that girl, like, sneezes, people are on top of it.

[Nate]

Yeah, Marco's a good get.

[Jackie]

I think that she might be.

[Nate]

It's pretty hard, but it also Feels.

[John Feidelberg]

Very self, self imposed, self inflicted. I, like, she kind of signed up for it. Oh, you are?

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You're probably Markle. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, you and my mom would not get along.

[Jackie]

I, I guess it's like a hot.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it's kind of political for the royal family.

[Nate]

I don't really have an opinion on Megan Marle.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, I, I, I can understand it. I think it's a little unfair, but she does kind of embody like, the elitist attitude.

[Nate]

How so?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

Oh, I see it as kind of the opposite. I, I feel like she's underdog and like, I see it as like, you think so?

[John Feidelberg]

I mean, I think, I think she signed up to be a princess and then was like, this is crazy. We got to get out of here. And it's like, I don't know, I feel like you got to know what you're signing up for.

[Nate]

Yeah, there's definitely an argument of that.

[Jackie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate]

But like, like, you know, I, I think we can speak on it a little bit. Like there, you know what you're signing up for.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, you might be like, I was ready for the press. I wasn't ready for like, the hate or whatever. Yeah, yeah, but, but that's what I mean, though. Like, you got to be ready for that. Don't, you know, don't just think like, oh, we're gonna Richard famous.

[Nate]

It's like when we sign up for an Uber ride and a five car shows up. It's like, I got an XL and I knew what I was getting, but.

[John Feidelberg]

This isn't, this is not what I. Yeah, there was an agreement here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean.

[Jackie]

Like, I, I don't know.

[John Feidelberg]

Fully about, but like, she, she did some the other day that was like, it, she just does like, transparent. She got like, Billie Eilish merch sent to her for, like, a fan. She ran into a fan who said, I like Billie Eilish. And she was like, I don't even know who Billie Eilish is, but I got this girl, this merch. And I was just like, I think you're doing this for the press.

[Nate]

I don't really follow. She, she bought someone.

[John Feidelberg]

She bought like, she met a fan and the fan this girl, and for.

[Jackie]

All I know, everything in the fires.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay, that's what it was.

[Jackie]

And yeah, she had just gotten Billy.

[John Feidelberg]

So, so it's ultimately a nice gesture, but it felt very like you're putting this on Instagram.

[Nate]

But that's the point. Like, like once you get to a certain position, like, everything is like, I don't know. I.

[John Feidelberg]

There I was trying to do something.

[Nate]

99.99 of people can do that. And they're like, wow, what a great gesture.

[John Feidelberg]

Totally.

[Nate]

And she.

[John Feidelberg]

But. But. And that's where sometimes it's. It's. It's unfair. And sometimes you really gotta, like, check the way you are moving because every. Everything she does is met with, like, you're a. Yeah. And some of that's probably unfair, but some of it's probably, like, a little bit earned, you know, where. If you're gonna be in that spot, I mean, like, you know, what's her face? Queen Catherine is, like, miserable and hates her life, but she doesn't have the heat because she, like, did it all.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

The proper way. The whole. Every step of the way.

[Nate]

I'll be Ms. Quietly Miserable.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

One, like, I'm not gonna be miserable.

[John Feidelberg]

And I respect the next girl who, like. Like, whoever is next up. What's the little boy's name? Is he William? I don't know. The next, like, hot chick who. The prince is like, you want to marry me? They better be like, no, no. Because it's one thing to be queen and princess in, like, basically every other year prior to 2000, before the Internet and social media and.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Because. Yeah, you have. You. You like. You have to, like, be a royal, but, like, for the most part, it's probably awesome when you're scrutinized in the public eye. Being a royal, it's like. It's like being president. It's like, if you're. If you're like, why would you go do that job? You know, like, go. Go just marry a Hollywood guy instead of the prince. You know, you got.

[Nate]

You've seen her in her FedEx costume. It's so funny. What movie was I watching recently? She's Google. Meghan Markle, FedEx. She was. She was just like a throwaway character who, like, quickly comes in to deliver a FedEx package. And I'm like, that's. Oh, it's horrible, Bosses. It's like, that's the Queen of England. No way.

[John Feidelberg]

That's crazy.

[Jackie]

You guys know that. But my college essay was about FedEx trucks.

[John Feidelberg]

First of all, I love that you posed that like.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I read that.

[John Feidelberg]

No, you scan that. What do you say about FedEx trucks? Oh, wait, is it the. Go ahead. What is it?

[Jackie]

Yeah, it's a lot.

[John Feidelberg]

The logo.

[Jackie]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

And how people have noticed the arrow and.

[Jackie]

Yeah, yeah. It's like a whole, like, now looking back on. It was like. But it was a whole symbolic thing. Like, I learned about the world through FedEx trucks.

[John Feidelberg]

You think that college professors read those things? Like, like, this is so bad. Before, like, a college level. Like, it's an A I got.

[Jackie]

But I had multiple schools tell me it's the best college essay they've ever read.

[John Feidelberg]

What was the idea is that you notice now you can't look at FedEx.

[Jackie]

It's going to sound dumb when I explain, but basically, when I was younger, like, I noticed the arrow and I, like, thought it was so cool, right? And then I started, like, counting FedEx trucks. Then it was kind of like an autistic thing where.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, that sounds very autistic.

[Jackie]

So then it was always like three to four on the way to school, five to six on the way back. And then like. Like during Christmas time, since I was counting, I started noticing it was six or seven on the way to school. And I was like, wait, mom, why? Like, or am I seeing more Fed extraction? She's like, first of all, what the is wrong? And second of all, like, it's because it's Christmas time. You know, like.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

So then it, like, I started, you know, I learned about, like, markets and whatever. And then there was. Then I saw that it was like the green is ground and orange is home delivery. And then like, blues custom critical. And then I learned about, like, logistics, and I got interested in logistics and then like, the logo, and then I got interested in logos and then negative space, and then it shows you. And then it's like. And then it was like the symbolic part where it's like negative space. Like, you know, it's. It's what's formed around the. Your insecure. Which actually, I do believe I stand by to this day. I think that the key to self love is taking your insecurities but then just being like, okay, that's it. But everything else that I formed around it, like the FedEx logo that's around it is there because of, you know, whatever insecurity is.

[John Feidelberg]

That's profound.

[Nate]

Yeah, that's a good spot. That's a good call.

[Jackie]

Yeah, thanks. But I do believe that and I think that it's like, if you. If you can like, make the arrow in the negative space part of the beauty of the whole logo.

[John Feidelberg]

There you go.

[Jackie]

That's self love.

[Nate]

No, that's. That's. Yeah, I'd admit you.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

Anyway, so that's how I got into usa. If you guys are wondering why I'm such a fucking idiot, that's why.

[Nate]

What was your college Essay about.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't, I was just trying to remember. I don't know if I know. I. Maybe I think my grandma died, like right then. I think I wrote about her.

[Jackie]

Oh, sorry.

[Nate]

Nice.

[John Feidelberg]

As I, as I remembered. If it is something, I think it's that. And I was like, corny, your grandma's dead. Big deal. Guess what? She was old. She was a normal grandma. What did you write about?

[Nate]

I did.

[John Feidelberg]

I left it blank. And I said, this is what.

[Nate]

Gus, this is a risk.

[John Feidelberg]

You guys know that, that, is that like an urban legend for your generation. Yeah, well, you always used to hear that. Harvard would say, tell me about a time when you showed guts and the person turned it in blank and said, this is what guts is. And they got accepted because I left. Oh, yeah, that never happens.

[Nate]

I wrote about how I used to make out with an 80 year old woman.

[Jackie]

Cool.

[John Feidelberg]

Cool.

[Jackie]

Can you explain?

[Nate]

It's, it's. I mean, that's an aggressive way to phrase it, but I was really good friends with the lunch lady and she'd kiss me a lot. And like, more sexual abuse. Man was raped.

[John Feidelberg]

Woman in his life. Babysitters, teachers, lunch ladies, classmates, Everybody raped.

[Nate]

If you're weirdly older than me, you're attracted to me. That's just the way the cookie crumbles, baby. But no, it's actually the saddest college essay all the time because it was like, it was basically like, look, I know the grade's not great and I know the SATs not great, and I know the extracurriculars aren't ideal and the sports. Yeah, I wish I was better too. But I was like, it was like, like I, I, I embrace the community where I was like, I'm friends with the lunch lady, this person. Okay, that's pretty good.

[Jackie]

Yeah, that is good.

[Nate]

It honestly got a lot of my friends into college. I just gave them. Yeah. Everyone was like, dude, they love the essay.

[John Feidelberg]

Wow, that's great. That's awesome, everybody.

[Nate]

I think, I think we counted once. It was somewhere between four and six of my friends use that essay. Everyone got in.

[John Feidelberg]

My, My brother once wrote a short story. It was very, like, it was very deep. I think it was like a homeless person. It was like, it was just like a story, made up story that he wrote really, really well. And he like got like an award at school or whatever. And I just yoinked that and I submitted it like a year later. And it got put into like a Westchester, like short stories, like contest. And I had to like go. Not had to, but I Went to like, like a hotel conference or something where they like announce winners and I don't think I wanted or anything. I don't remember.

[Nate]

Wait, was it yours or you took your friends?

[John Feidelberg]

No, it was my brother's.

[Nate]

It was your brother's? Yeah. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

But he, he got like a good grade and like recognized by the school. I got like submitted to like Westchester Young Writers association or some. He's like, what the is this? Omaha Steaks is the world's best steak experience and brings together people with more than a hundred years of family owned expertise as America's original butcher. The OG Butcher. Omaha Steaks.

[Kevin Clancy]

What's going on right now?

[John Feidelberg]

Usually it's Christmas and Father's Day. What's happening? Yeah, baseball's back, baby.

[Nate]

Steak time, baby.

[John Feidelberg]

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[Jackie]

No.

[John Feidelberg]

Do you. You have not watched it?

[Jackie]

I do, but I just have not time.

[John Feidelberg]

And you haven't watched it yet?

[Nate]

I have not seen it yet, no.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean, I know White Lotus is the show to be weird and make you go like. But usually it's just a whole bunch of dick, you know. This year we're. We're dabbling in some incest, I think. And it's weird. I'm starting to think that White Lotus is written by someone who I think might just be like homophobic.

[Nate]

White's gay.

[John Feidelberg]

But okay, is. Is he like a self loathing gay guy? Because all of, all of the gay relationships are pretty dark and like.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

For money or like weird.

[Nate]

It's. It's Ned Schneebly.

[John Feidelberg]

He's the writer.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, wow. Yeah, I know that.

[Nate]

I think he's the best in the world right now.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean he. Don't get me wrong, it's great. I'm just saying that every, Everybody I think who's been like gay in this show, it's. It's kind of not been like a very positive gay relationship.

[Nate]

But also everyone's negative in it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Well, everyone ever. Just a piece of. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jackie]

What was the second. Second the relationship in the second one.

[John Feidelberg]

The second season was the, the dude who said. He said this is my nephew. But it was just a guy that was like paying the. That was weird. That's right. And then the Armand in season one with like the.

[Jackie]

Yeah, the hotel guy.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. All of the sex. I mean it's all. Yeah. So it's not just gay, it's straight. It's straight people too with cheating and, and like sex addiction type weird stuff like that.

[Nate]

But you know what I was thinking about with sex scenes last night? I was watching a movie where they showed them very intensely sweating and stuff like that. I never had sweat having sex in my life.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean you, you gotta be going.

[Nate]

The only way I'm sweating until I break a sweat.

[John Feidelberg]

I had to be in a sauna. If it's in a steam room, then.

[Nate]

Maybe like, like they were dripping wet and I was like, this is just. I think I, I think I've sweat while attempting to declimax once and it was drug involved.

[John Feidelberg]

The only way that's happening is, is like temperature of the room not. I'm not in a comfortable room so hard. So long.

[Nate]

I started, I was watching Munich because I saw September 5th fairly recently and I just wanted to see the other side of the story. Not the other side of the story, but the other. What happens after. And you know the, it's a Spielberg movie about like how Israel responded to the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics. And it's basically. They had five guys who just went and killed everybody. Like they, it was like just go assassinate everyone. And they did fine. It's actually a really good movie because it's like about, you know, what do you lose? Seeking red vengeance and what, you know, what parts of your life do you have to sacrifice? And blah blah, blah, blah. Because they actually, I, I think the gist I get for the movies it wouldn't. Wasn't really considered a successful. Like they killed five guys but. But they were supposed to kill 11. And every guy they killed, six more popped up. Like how. You know how all that works. But at the end it's Eric Bana is the star. At the end Eric Bana is. And he intensely hard sweating. And it's. It's intercut with the scenes of like the final. If you know what happened, it's on in Munich. Like they got all the hostages to the airport and then there was a. A big gunfight and everyone died. Like hostages died, terrorists died, everyone died. So it's Eric Bana just banging hard. And then it would cut back to a gunfight at the airport. And it was like kind of like, I don't know, reaching the climax of those two situations. And then like when he comes, it's like. And then it cuts back and it's the helicopters exploding. I don't think these two really jive. I'll tell you this much.

[John Feidelberg]

No one's ever gonna call. Call me. Climaxing a helicopter exploding. I don't bring the noise like that.

[Nate]

A big terror. Like imagine if it was like the plane.

[John Feidelberg]

The towers are coming down.

[Nate]

Nine, 11's coming. What the hell? Like we started some kind of play like let's roll. And I'm like like what the. Why are these two tied together like this like forever that that horrible terrorist attack is gonna be in my head and was banging during it. Very weird thing.

[John Feidelberg]

There's a scene in.

[Nate]

In.

[John Feidelberg]

In this season of White Lotus that. It was jarring. I like gasped. My man Walton Goggins, who is the man. He's so good. One of our best interviews ever. He has one of the best catalogs ever. And White Lotus Season 3, Season 2. Three is only adding to his legend. But his girl pops the top and he just starts sucking on her tits.

[Nate]

Sucking tit. Don't love it.

[John Feidelberg]

It don't. I think I. I think. I think there's supposed to be some mother going on there, right?

[Nate]

Okay. Cuz that's his mother. But like there's a countdown like three seconds, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

She's. She's sitting on his lap. Kind of like they're kind of like intertwined. She pops the top. Great rack. Dadario. Like True Detective. Like pop out.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah. And.

[John Feidelberg]

And I was like, oh, whoa. And then he just like. I'm pretty sure just like sucked on her. Her nipple in real life, right Pavs. That. That scene is like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like there's no way To. I mean, I guess you could have like a prosthetic boob or some, but like, no.

[Nate]

Scroll down real quick. Up real quick to that tweet.

[John Feidelberg]

I can't be the only one who finds these weirdos adorably.

[Nate]

You had to throw a like on that one.

[John Feidelberg]

You tried to hold it off, didn't you?

[Nate]

I'll talk.

[John Feidelberg]

I think that they're the best part of the show.

[Nate]

I was like, they are adorable. I do. I find them adorable.

[John Feidelberg]

Horrible.

[Nate]

No, no. Julia Lynn Rubin. You're not the only one. Mikey Pavanelli. All right, so I don't know the difference between a like and a bookmark. I like things to make sure I.

[Kevin Clancy]

Can go back to them and show.

[John Feidelberg]

Okay.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, no, I, I'm, I'm. I, I'll throw a like on something like this. Like. Hey, I like that too, dog.

[John Feidelberg]

Is there any video of it?

[Kevin Clancy]

I would love.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know if they just. Yeah, like, I don't know if they, if she just said, go for it, but he's just like, I'm pretty sure just sucking on that nipple.

[Nate]

Yeah, of course you are.

[John Feidelberg]

Is that, is that for real, though? Like, I thought they usually don't do that kind of stuff. I, I think there's some nipple kissing in movies, but this was like a.

[Nate]

I would guess you talk it out. You're like, yo, you, you supposed to.

[Jackie]

Like, are you just assuming there's some weird mother stuff or just they talk?

[John Feidelberg]

No, he, he, he, he says his mother was murdered when he was younger. So I think, I think it's a, you know, an issue like that. But, but I'm just saying from a point of view of a sex scene, you know, there's usually like, you know, they have you wear what they call it a merkin or you tape it up or whatever.

[Nate]

You still got a kiss and like that.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, but that's, so that's where I was like, okay, you do kiss, so there's mouth stuff involved. But just mouth on titty is kind of.

[Nate]

I assume it's just like, so how do you want to play this?

[John Feidelberg]

One time I hooked up with a girl and I, I remember being like, I was really shit faced and it was like someone from high school who, like, we were friends in high school. We ended up kind of running into each other in the city. So the whole thing was weird in general. I remember being like, I'm down here too long. This is weird. That's a quick, quick stop.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

I have a question in one of the. What's his face. What's it? Montoya clips? Yeah, the. The guys are watching, and all the guys are, like, crouched like that. Is that for a reason? Like, are you. Cuz. If you're w. They're watching porn.

[Nate]

Oh, no.

[Jackie]

So are they, like, trying to hide.

[Nate]

Like a. I would be shocked. You got to be.

[John Feidelberg]

You got to be a real pervert to just watch a quick clip of some girl under the sheets getting clapped and be like, my dick's hard.

[Nate]

Yeah, well, I don't know.

[Jackie]

Like, yeah, they're all hunched over there.

[John Feidelberg]

If you're watching people make out in a. In a hot tub and you get hard year.

[Nate]

Yeah, I mean, I'm watching to make out right now. Soft as can be.

[John Feidelberg]

I will. I will say that show, man. People get on that show.

[Jackie]

I know.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's so, like, that's like.

[John Feidelberg]

They're sweating, John. They're sweating.

[Nate]

Dude. What does this guy. I. I don't know. What does he have to do to lose?

[John Feidelberg]

You just. You just don't have a girlfriend, Montoya.

[Nate]

It's a reality show, right?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I think. I think the. The house votes you out, and they just, like, he has to show up.

[Nate]

Like, hey, hey, Montoya, Inigo, we got another movie to show you. He's like, come on, can I go home? Can I go home, please?

[John Feidelberg]

Like, I mean, at this point, it's. It's cra. I think it's like. I think it was legitimately three episodes in a row. This girl was getting like, that's crazy.

[Nate]

I lost, right? I lost the game. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

The temptation was too much.

[Nate]

Yeah, we get it. We get it. How am I still playing this stupid game, dude? It's like when they used to roll Terrell Davis out there. Three concussions deep. It's like, come on, man. I don't even know where the I am anymore. So true.

[John Feidelberg]

It's so true. I mean, in shows like this, they want to keep it. They're probably like, you can't go home. You have to just keep watching this next episode.

[Nate]

My toys to be swimming out of that water.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm getting roof done on, work done on my roof. And so they're just banging all the time. And I made a video of the day being like, either I'm getting my roof done or Montoya's girlfriend's up there right now. I mean, they shake the house when they. Bro, they shake the whole room. It's crazy.

[Nate]

Picture this woman. Every time he's about to. His name's Montoya.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Nate]

Yeah. Every time Montoya Sees this woman, he's gonna be like, you gotta be kidding me, dude.

[John Feidelberg]

And she's the one who always says.

[Kevin Clancy]

We.

[John Feidelberg]

We got ourselves possibly some conclave.

[Nate]

Oh, yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Chances I don't want to bury. I don't want to bury Pope Francis just yet. You know, he is.

[Nate]

He's what, 85? Was he 85? 88.

[John Feidelberg]

88.

[Nate]

Double the critical condition. See you.

[John Feidelberg]

It's curtains, right? They said that, like, he had a good night and he's joking around. I'm like, bro, it's a rap, and if it's not, you should retire. Like, you know what I mean? I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like, you.

[John Feidelberg]

You gotta go.

[Nate]

Pope Francis, he was. He was the good one, too, right? Not even Catholic.

[John Feidelberg]

Is he not Catholic?

[Nate]

Of course he's Catholic, but, like, he's, like, not gay, man.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, yeah. He lets dogs go to heaven. Gays go to heaven. Gays can get married. You can use condoms, birth control. That's why there's a couple conservatives in the mix that might win, because I think some people are a little fed up with that.

[Nate]

Right?

[John Feidelberg]

The. The. The. The saying is, you follow a fat pulp with a skinny one. And I don't think that's true, because I think it's just been getting progressively more progressive.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

So I don't think that's happening. But we are at it in a climate, politically and everything else, where people are kind of swinging back where they might be, like. And kind of like the Yankees with the beards, like, I think they should be. I think you kind of should hate gay people. Like, you're still the Catholic Church, man. Like, you got to have some rules.

[Nate]

Don't get me wrong. You bang them all the time, but, like, Catholic Church does two things. Hates gay people and sexism.

[John Feidelberg]

Like. Like, I'm not about the hate, but I don't think the Pope needs to be out here celebrating it. Let's get back to a little bit of, you know, like, these guys want to go back to, like, the Latin.

[Nate]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

This poor bastard, Angelo Scola, he was. He was the favorite last time, and he.

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't know.

[John Feidelberg]

He just dropped the ball in there.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know what went on in conclave, but they. They. The phrase they use when this happens is they say you walked in the Pope and you. You came out of cardinal because he got. When white smoke hit, everyone emailed him and said, congratulations. That's how much of a lock he was supposed to be.

[Nate]

Dude, do me a favor. Throw me a Google on Father. See where his odds are at.

[John Feidelberg]

That's your guy who raped you.

[Nate]

No, no, he. We actually might end up bleeping this name. He's like, like, he's like my grandparents really good friend.

[John Feidelberg]

The. The.

[Nate]

And he has like a legit chance, does he? Yeah, he was. If it's an American, like he has the biggest.

[John Feidelberg]

I was gonna say. How old is he?

[Nate]

Pretty, not crazy old, but age of 80.

[Kevin Clancy]

He retired.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. Your curtains. Oh, you, you, you. You retire when you're 75 and you can't even be a part of conclave.

[Nate]

By Grammy mother die cuz he did her mass and he was like, I didn't think he looked old at all. I thought he was like the same thing.

[John Feidelberg]

Timothy Dolan was, was the, the New York Archbishop. And he was, he was always in the mix. But he's 75 this year, so he's out.

[Nate]

I really wanted my grandparents friend to be the like, yo, I'm coming over, dude. We're doing a vlog.

[John Feidelberg]

How crazy, how crazy is this? How crazy is this? The Catholic Church has an age limit on the Pope and we can't do it for the President like the Pope. 80.

[Jackie]

Oh, okay.

[John Feidelberg]

Actually, no. 75. 75. You can't be. You, you can't even be a Cardinal anymore. And 80, you're not even allowed to participate in the boat.

[Nate]

I think, I think we wouldn't have been able to have the 2020 election with those rules. Yeah, I think everybody definitely was the age. Trump was probably over 75.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, 73 maybe. Close, whatever it was. But like the, like priests are old and the Pope is the head priest. He's going to be old. And they're like, come on, we can't have a guy who's 80.

[Nate]

How old is he? 70. So he would. Right?

[John Feidelberg]

20, 20, but damn close, you know. So I, I really like the way.

[Jackie]

That they do the smoke.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, it's so. The pageantry is amazing, dude.

[Nate]

Seeing conclave, like, say what you want about the Catholic Church, they do pageantry.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is already jam, dude.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like we. Yes, they kids, yes, there's cover ups. Yes, it is a horrifically corrupt institution. But when the music gets going and the art gets going and the stained glass and the, the architecture and the smoke, it's. I mean, they made a whole goddamn movie out of it. Which, by the way, you, you did not spoil it for me. And you kept saying the ending, the ending, the ending. And then I found out the ending. What a dog.

[Nate]

Yeah. Did you watch it?

[John Feidelberg]

No, I just heard about it. Okay, now I'm not. I mean, when I wrote my blog, I was like, this ain't no movie. We're not gonna elect a hermaphrodite.

[Nate]

Okay?

[John Feidelberg]

We got. This is the real deal up in this.

[Nate]

The second time I watched the movie, I liked it a lot better.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, look at that shot.

[Jackie]

And it distracts everyone from, like. Like, if you were to just come out and be like, hey, still don't make a decision today. Everyone be, like, pissed because it's a smoke.

[Nate]

Like, that's cool.

[John Feidelberg]

So I'm thinking if it does go down, I think I'm gonna live stream the entire duration. The last two times, it's lasted, like, two days, which is a good amount of, like, this is going on too long. But I don't have to, like, be there for, like, a week.

[Nate]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

In.

[John Feidelberg]

In, like, the 1200s. It lasted three years.

[Nate]

Crazy.

[John Feidelberg]

But, dude, I remember when a couple days of that would be fun.

[Nate]

I went to the Vatican, and I was so surprised by, like, despite all that, like, the power, particularly that the Pope had back in the day, like, it wasn't really them who, like, set, like, they, they still answered to people. The Pope did, like, like, as far as, like, I, I. I found it interesting that, like, the artists still set culture, and artists would still tell the Pope, like, you off.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Like, like the. When Michelangelo painted the. The Assisting Chapel and the wall behind it, everyone was naked, and the Pope and the archbishops were like, you have to put clothes on them. And he's like, nah, I'm sad. I was like, oh, damn. Like, you just tell the Pope, like, I'm good.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And then they just waited till Michelangelo died, then put clothing on them. Really? Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Jackie]

You should do a Fast and furious stream and then see how many times to watch the whole Fast and Furious franchise over before, like, who wins?

[John Feidelberg]

How long were you in here for?

[Nate]

It's like 23 hours, I think maybe a little more.

[John Feidelberg]

I. I feel like there might be drama in this one, so it might go on long, which. Which could be good, could be bad. But there's Peter. Peter Turks is still in the mix. I really want Black Pope. I was so jacked up for Black Pope last time. I. I just want the headline, white smoke, Black Pope. That would be great, right?

[Jackie]

Real cool.

[John Feidelberg]

And then there's his other buddy is I'm Bongo from the Congo. So he's. He's gone, and he's from. From Ghana and the other guys. But, dude, I mean, it is so interesting. Like, there's A guy from Hungary. I always, I'm always tempted to say Hungaria. There's a guy from Hungary. And for whatever reason Hungary is. And, and his role is considered the bridge between Europe and Africa. So he's like good with those two continents and there's enough people in Europe and Africa that if he gets all that vote, he'll just win.

[Nate]

It's like Risk. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

It's like you don't even need the North American vote. I got, I got Europe and Africa. I'm good to go. And then that guy Peter Erdo is like, he will probably like, like send gay people to jail. He's hardcore. He's like Peter Pope Francis. Yeah, yeah, he's hardcore.

[Nate]

He's.

[John Feidelberg]

He's actually the Hungarian one. He's. He's the one who's like, I just need the Africans and the, and like. And we're all set.

[Kevin Clancy]

So.

[John Feidelberg]

But we'll see if it's, if it swings back the other way. It's going to be one of those guys.

[Kevin Clancy]

The, the, the, the.

[John Feidelberg]

You know what's interesting? Pietro Parolin is the, the odds on favorite. He is the Vatican Secretary of the State. Who's number two? He's like the number. Because I was, I always thought just like who's the number two guy? Don't they just like slide him in and not. 1939 was the last time like the number two guy got the gig.

[Nate]

Really?

[John Feidelberg]

You would think that happens like more often than not.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

But he's Italian Secretary of State. I just feel like the guineas are gonna like, we got it. We gotta get our Pope in there. You know, I, I really believe, I mean conclave is, was ended up being silly. But I really believe there's probably a lot of that goes on in conclave.

[Nate]

Like. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I, I mean it's just for. In their world it's still the most important thing. And there's. I'm conservative, you're liberal, you're. You're black, I'm white, you're. You're this ethnicity or that. Ethan. Like I think that they probably do some shady in there for sure.

[Nate]

I think we just assume everyone does shady. I think most of the people are doing fine.

[John Feidelberg]

I don't know, man. I think when you talk about these high power things there's.

[Nate]

But like no one has any idea what's ever happened in conclave. They might just be partying. Like that's like the most.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

The silent kept coming in the world.

[John Feidelberg]

There's two ways to look at that is like you look at it, it's like everyone's just having a good time, whereas I think other people are like, I'm gonna do some dirt in here because no one's watching. No one can catch it.

[Nate]

Maybe. I don't know. Like, I, I just, I, as I keep getting older, I'm always like, at one point, like, everyone's got to become an or something, right? And like everyone just kind of stays normal.

[John Feidelberg]

But don't you think that, like, I always think about just, I always look at it on like a day to day level where I'm like, I, I see like shady and, and like ego and drama. Like at this company.

[Nate]

I don't really, like, I did think.

[Jackie]

About that during like the brain gray stuff. Like, everyone kept being like, all right, what's really happening? I was like, you guys have all the information, right?

[John Feidelberg]

Anything else? Yeah.

[Nate]

Yeah. You probably know more than me.

[Jackie]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nate]

Literally.

[John Feidelberg]

But isn't that kind of like, I mean, like, that there's an example of that where like, that was like a big deal. It's like we're talking about two podcasters. We're talking about the Pope. He runs a billion people.

[Nate]

Yeah, but I, I, I don't, I, I see how it applies outside world. I don't really see how it applies in.

[John Feidelberg]

What do you mean? Like, like, I'm just saying that like, there's, there drama arises from like any sort of power, fame, money.

[Nate]

Right, Okay, I see what you're saying.

[John Feidelberg]

And if this is the highest stakes, there's going to be people who are like, I do, like we're stopping that guy and we will, you know, smear him, threaten him, whatever, you know, I'm sure at least that does happen on some level. But all these conclave movie fans are going to be, you know, jumping on the Conclave bandwagon. Where were you last time?

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, whoever made it.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, what timing.

[Nate]

Dude.

[John Feidelberg]

You're probably just going to get a whole new wave. You know, it really was good in the beginning and it is great cast, but boy, I did not, not. I did not. When I, when you said it was a bad ending, I was like, like, how am I gonna be? It's just like one of these guys, you know? And then it was like intersex Pope. I was like, wow.

[Nate]

Yeah, it just, it just didn't hit for me at all.

[John Feidelberg]

My, my, my, like, old man, like, maybe like, I guess like my old man, like, conservative side is starting to come out. I guess. Like, I was thinking the other day about just every single show has a, a gay Element to it.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Which kind of doesn't make sense. Right. It's still a, a small amount of people, Smaller amount of people in the population.

[Nate]

Yeah, I guess.

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Nate]

But it's also, everyone just thinks it's happening now. Like if you watch shows from the 90s, it's happening like there's a gay guy in it. Like, yeah, 2000s. Like there's a gay guy in it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Like, like since we discovered gay people exist, there are gay people in television.

[John Feidelberg]

When did gay get invented?

[Nate]

Like, it's not that.

[John Feidelberg]

Who do you think was the first openly gay person?

[Nate]

I as my understanding of it. It was like in Greek times and it wasn't a thing. They were just. So you weren't openly gay. You just Guys.

[John Feidelberg]

Right, right, right. It's just like there's a hole we put it in. I wonder who the like modern.

[Kevin Clancy]

What is this?

[John Feidelberg]

Who's that?

[Kevin Clancy]

Ulrich Carl Heinrich Oryx.

[John Feidelberg]

A gay activist before the word homosexuality. Yeah, that's back when he used to say I dudes.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

I didn't have a fancy word for it.

[Nate]

18, 16, 64.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, that, that, that I think that about checks.

[Nate]

But also with those shows, I said it before, like they just want the biggest audience possible. So they want to appeal to everybody.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah. I was just watching a show the other day was. It's, that's how big prime target on, on Amazon. And it was just like he's kind of like a goodwill hunting type guy, knows math and, and then he like he's at the bar and the bartender just starts like giving him eyes and I'm like, he's got gay.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

Like I'm not, I'm not like this but I'm just like, that's another it. I don't know. I, I would be interested. I know what you're saying. There's Will and Grace and there's shows that have been around forever. But it feels like regular, quote unquote regular. Whether it would not be a gay guy. There's or, or a gay person. There's more of that.

[Nate]

I, I, there's probably more. But like I think people, we always think things are happening to us for the first time. They've been happening for a long time. Like it's, it's the way the world's been going forever.

[John Feidelberg]

It's like the plane crash where it's like, oh my God, plane crashes are up. It's like. No, it's just the reporting is.

[Nate]

They're actually down. Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

All right. The Internet does not work. At Barcelona Sports. The Computer doesn't work. The Internet doesn't work. Nothing works. So we're not gonna do myself, but we have an interview with Kelsey Cook, who is out promoting her new special. She's on Hulu and YouTube, so let's give it a listen. Kelsey Cook on KFC.

[Kevin Clancy]

Ready?

[Nate]

Call in. Leave some voicemails.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, we will get it fixed. And we do need the voicemails, so leave your videos. Season 8 of Love is Blind is finally cooking. We got some drama. We got the guy. We got the girl who had the boyfriend before going on the show.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's no good.

[Nate]

She had a boyfriend while she got on the show.

[John Feidelberg]

She. She, like. Like the day before she left for the pod, she was hooking up with this guy, and she was like, it wasn't a relationship. It was just friends with benefits. And he was like, that's kind of worse.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

You know, it's like, we weren't a thing.

[Nate]

Don't worry. He wasn't treating me nice.

[John Feidelberg]

He was just. Me. I was just getting dicked down. These are the people we're dealing with.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

They just have a knack for finding them. You got the guy who. Every girl in Minnesota has come out.

[Kevin Clancy]

And been like, yeah, he sucks.

[John Feidelberg]

He seems like a nice guy. People say that I look like him, so. And they're like, you're the douchebag. But there's. There's drama abound. You got the. It's one girl. She. She just made up that one of the other guys that the guy she matched with found her on Instagram prior to the show. She was like, I recognize you. It was a couple months back. I got a friend request, and it was you. And so you know what I look like, and, you know, it was in my bio. You've seen my pictures.

[Kevin Clancy]

Just wasn't true.

[Jackie]

She made that up.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, she didn't make it up. She thought it was true, but she was like. And she was like, I have an app. I have an app that shows me who followed me and who unfollowed me. So you will be in there if it happened. And he was like. Like, he was like, hank in. In pirate porn. He was like, I don't think I did, but, like, maybe I did follow you. Like, it's entirely possible, but I don't think I did. She gets the phone out. She's like, you better tell me now. And he's like, I think I'm good. And she scrolls through, and she's like, okay, never mind. And he's like, it's all good. I would be like, get the fuck out of here. I mean, you have to. You basically concocted your story that I am a, like, lunatic manipulator, right? And then he was like, you just needed to know. I mean, these people are absolutely, absolutely animals. It's unbelievable. The latest three episodes are out, and then three more coming this Friday before leading up to the big finale, the big reunion. So plenty of drama all, basically, after the show airs, the Internet comes out and starts telling all the dirt on these guys and girls. And so it's all coming to a head. So. All right, go check out Love is Blind, Season 8. Available on Netflix now. New episodes every Friday. Rocking the orange boots.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, they're filthy. I should clean them. But, yeah, you know, living in Minnesota now, it's like pure survival all the time.

[Nate]

So.

[Kevin Clancy]

But you can't like Washington. In my mind, those are, like, similar spots. Is it not? It's, it's, it's like, more brutal.

[Kelsey Cook]

It is more brutal. A couple weeks ago, it was minus 18. Feels like minus 26.

[Nate]

Oh, my God.

[Kelsey Cook]

So this is. Yeah, that doesn't happen in Washington. You'll drive on the freeway and there are electronic signs that say, if your car breaks down, down, stay inside to stay alive. It's like, holy, like horror movie. Like, you could just, like, walk outside and die in five minutes. It's crazy.

[Nate]

With, like, the boiling water. You just throw boiling water. You're like, look, it's snow already.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, dude, I, I would legitimately never leave the house.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, you just don't.

[Kevin Clancy]

Okay, good.

[Kelsey Cook]

You, like, just don't.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's just like, what, what could be so pressing that you have to leave the house in these conditions?

[Kelsey Cook]

No, nothing.

[Nate]

I completely disagree.

[Kevin Clancy]

Agree in negative 26, dog.

[Nate]

I, I, I have been spending a lot of time in Vermont this winter, and it gets really cold there. It's like minus 14, minus 18. That kind of.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

And like, I don't even wear a coat.

[Kelsey Cook]

See, there's some really sick individuals that. Yeah, you would do well in Minnesota.

[Nate]

It's not even that I don't get cold. I, I certainly get cold. But the, I just, just when you. Because I don't use a car a lot in the city, but when I have a car, I'm just, I know I'm just walking outside the house to get to the car. It's not that cold.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, yeah, that I understand.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I'm saying if you're doing anything, go for a walk, you're going.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, I'm not going for a walk.

[Nate]

Or If I am, I'm Bund.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I'm sure some people, you know.

[John Feidelberg]

If you have a dog, you got to walk your dog, right?

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

You also, I'm sure the dog's like that. I'm not going to.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh my God, our dog, it's like he takes the fastest shits you've ever seen in your life when he's like, he like sprints, poops.

[Kevin Clancy]

Unless you're like a husky or a wolf or some. This is, this is not good for. Anyway, what I like though, like, I've seen a lot of people posting like, like this, this message is from me in the summer, five months from now, when I'm complaining that it's hot. Like shut the up. But here's it, here's, here's where I still will pick the winter over, over brutal summers.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, everybody agrees.

[Kevin Clancy]

When it's negative 26, like we just said, you stay inside.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Whereas when it's hot, people want you to be outside.

[John Feidelberg]

Why aren't you at the beach?

[Kevin Clancy]

Why aren't you at the pool? Because it's oppressively hot out and I don't want to be like, to me, those are both extremes where you should be inside in the heat or you should be inside in the air conditioning. One of those things is, is like culturally acceptable. The other one is like, you're a freak who stays inside in the summer.

[Kelsey Cook]

Right. It's also not acceptable to walk around naked outside.

[Nate]

Right.

[Kelsey Cook]

In the winter. It's like you can bundle and bundle and bundle, but you can get to a point in the summer where you're like, I'm dying. You can't.

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't even like wearing shorts. I think I look weird wearing shorts.

[Nate]

But it's also like, like I, I was thinking about it very recently because I'm kind of, I'm kind of at the end of winter, I'm like, I'm pretty much with it, but that it's, it's like the last two weeks, so I should be about done with it. And then it's going to be spring and it's going to be nice and I'll be done with that. Like, I wish it was a little hotter. I don't get how you live in one climate forever. Cuz I'm like, I'm like, I don't know, like, I get sick of it. I get bored of it. I'm ready for the next one. And yeah, I think it's fun.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's unnatural. If you grew up in seasonal weather and you have like an actual four Seasons and then you move somewhere else. Because I lived in LA for six years. That's so weird to walk around in a tank top in January. You're like, something wrong. It's like you feel like you're supposed to go through that cycle.

[Nate]

Yeah, I remember I went to. I went to college in Florida for a bit and same thing, I'd be like, I don't like being in a T shirt in January. This doesn't make any sense to me.

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't think it's the way like humans are intended to live.

[Nate]

No.

[Kevin Clancy]

Even though there's plenty of places all across the world that are like that. But I'm like, no. Northeast.

[John Feidelberg]

Four Seasons.

[Nate]

Seasons.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's how it's supposed to be.

[Nate]

It's. I just get bored. So like I get. I just. You just get bored of it. Like I get bored of everything I do in that season. Of the clothes I wear, of the food I eat, like the movies, the kind of music I listen to. Like I need to switch it up. And if you have one climate, you just can't.

[Kevin Clancy]

It also makes the, the warm, like fun. You know, it's like Memorial Day hits.

[Kelsey Cook]

Appreciate it.

[Nate]

War.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

I've been full Home alone to Pigeon lady for six months now. I don't know if you saw the coat I wore when I wanted. It's like, it's an actual sleeping.

[Nate]

Sleeping bag.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like sleeping bag with sleeves.

[Kelsey Cook]

Cuz you just have.

[Nate]

But that's fun. It's fun to be the homeless lady for a bit. And then you'll. And then you'll have this summer. Like I like just being a new dude. Like, yeah, it.

[Kelsey Cook]

I listen.

[Nate]

I listen to winter country music now. Like in the summer I'll listen to Bieber, of course. But right now I got Beaver back in here.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. I was just saying as you came in here, you. So the new special's out and it's on both Hulu and YouTube, which I don't think I've seen from anybody, you know, any of the established comics yet, which is an interesting. How did that come about? Because I feel like usually, you know, whoever pays you or whatever streaming service takes it up wants like exclusivity.

[Kelsey Cook]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

And then I also feel like if you're trying to build your YouTube, you want everybody to go there, right? So I'm sure there's, you know, positives and negatives to both of it, but it was interesting to see it on both platforms.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, it's a new thing. They're trying and meaning the streaming services that Hulu is trying. Yeah, I don't, I don't think you would see that with Netflix, but Hulu is kind of like new to the stand up comedy thing. They're. They're trying some things out and like you said, there are definitely pros and cons. The pros are that if you have something come out on a streamer as opposed to just YouTube, you can book kind of bigger press things. Like certain TV shows. If you have just a YouTube special coming out, they're like, yeah, we can. It's like you're not cool enough. Right, right. But as soon as you're like, oh, Hulu, then they're like, yeah. So that's been nice to have some bigger press things. But the downside is that the only public views you see are YouTube. You don't get to see on Hulu what that's gotten. So like, compared to my special that came out two years ago on YouTube that has like almost 4 million views now. And that was exclusively where people were watching. So now the new one, it's doing. It's been out for a week. It has like 300,000 views in a week. Which like, this is great. But I, I think just my ego. I'm like, that's not like the true amount.

[Kevin Clancy]

You got to think also the amount of people who. New audience are reaching, people who are getting. They're seeing it on their Hulu and.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Is that 300K is out on Hulu or.

[Kelsey Cook]

Or on YouTube.

[Nate]

On YouTube. See, first of all, I watched it on Vimeo, so. Oh, wow. Add that hipster over here.

[Kelsey Cook]

You're not supporting either of.

[Nate]

No, I get.

[Kevin Clancy]

I watched it last night.

[Nate]

I. It was just like it was in the, the talent booking email. So like it had had a password. So I didn't realize it was out.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like a screener probably.

[Nate]

But the.

[Kelsey Cook]

I'm just kidding. Thank you for watching.

[Kevin Clancy]

So nice that you watched it.

[Nate]

It's. We're going to get to it. Really, really funny. Thank you. But the. Does Hulu tell you what your views are?

[Kelsey Cook]

I think they will get like.

[John Feidelberg]

They'll tell you a number.

[Kelsey Cook]

Doing great.

[Nate]

I remember when we did a serious show, like serious just we be like how many people listen to it? And they. But we can't tell you that. What do you mean? We can't know how many people listen.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, I mean, you lose all your leverage. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate]

Is it one or is it like, like, can I have a guess of.

[Kelsey Cook]

How many people I know I think they will give you like a monthly report or maybe a quarterly thing. I'll find out something at some point, but I don't know either way. I think ultimately for comics you want those numbers, wherever they are, to translate into do touring tickets. Like you want people to come see you live. So I just didn't tell myself like wherever people are seeing it is ultimately.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is that, I mean, that has been kind of the model. Do you think it'll stay that way or do you think I just, I mean, touring, there's so much money in and I get it, but it's also such a, it's such a great. Like, like if you, if, if, if you could parlay it more into Internet success. A podcast. Yeah. Views on YouTube or something like that. Like if you could just snap your fingers and pick one, would you still want it, want it to be tickets? Or if I told you, you could have like a super well established Internet personality or existence, whatever you want to call it.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Because that's me. Just seems a lot easier.

[Nate]

I know.

[Kelsey Cook]

You just gotta sit with your cat on your lap in your house in your pajamas. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a little bit of both. I. This is my coming up on 16 years of comedy. It's so hard to picture ever not loving doing stand up and touring. But it's like, I think it's the amount of touring that starts to make people mentally unwell.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

And physically unwell. It's like, it's just, it's so much to ask of your body to do. You think of the average person and they go on vacation maybe like once or twice a year on a plane and they come home, they're like, oh my God, I need six months to recover. And it's like, yeah, we do this like every week.

[Nate]

It's crazy.

[Kelsey Cook]

So I look at it, you know, like, like a your mom's house podcast where you're like, oh, that would be so nice to know that you had this like steady income when you're home, you're with your family, but then you can choose kind of how you want to tour on top of that. So I, I wish you could look at those people.

[Kevin Clancy]

And they're still going every time, you know. Yeah, I'm coming everywhere. He literally went all around the world.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

And like, yeah, sure. Arenas and stuff. But also some small time things that like, like you guys are just. You got a sickness, you're addicted.

[Kelsey Cook]

We're. Yeah, we're sick people. But yeah, I think the older like, you know, My boyfriend, Chad Daniels, also an amazing comic. Like, we're both getting more to an age where you start to think, like, okay, we actually enjoy, like, Pickle Ball on a Tuesday. Like, we get excited. Thought of, like, what would retirement look like at some point? So, yeah, I mean, I'm. I'm 35. It's different than even 28, 29. Like, the travel does start to. To be a lot, but I've noticed.

[Nate]

That I'm 36 now, and I.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

Like, I like to travel a lot, and I do. I'm not doing stand up, but, like, I go away for the weekend a lot. Yeah, I started to notice. I was like, I don't think I can do a weekend.

[Kevin Clancy]

You do stand up. Stop saying that, bro. You just stand up. But you stand up now.

[Nate]

But I'm not talking. I'm like, traveling. Like, okay, yeah, like. Like going away to. Like, we were in la. Like, I said, I did not sleep well. Like, when I go to Italy sometimes, like, I'm like, I'm. I can't sleep. I'm tired. Like, I. It's got to be a full week vacation now because I can't. I can't hammer it out right back around.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, we did LA for, like, 16 hours. It was crazy.

[Kelsey Cook]

It was like, oh, God.

[Kevin Clancy]

We were on the plane probably as long as we were there. And it was like, well, this was stupid.

[Kelsey Cook]

That's so brutal. And the time zone changes.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, that's the. Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Tick Tock has made us all way too aware of every health thing where now you're thinking about, like, circadian rhythms.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's my getting enough sunlight.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God, yes. Blue light. It's just. It's so much. And you realize how poorly we in general, I think, treat our health.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, man, I saw. Do you know who Gavin Mayo is? No, I don't know who this guy is, but he was on a podcast that I've. I've just seen, like, several clips from. From it. It's got to be literally the dumbest podcast that is ever in existence. He was saying that water is. Is not good for you, for the love. And that humans used to live to 900 because it says so in the Bible. And if you look at. If you look at obituaries in London in, like, the 15, 16, 1700s, there were people who lived to 200. But when he was. Every clip, I see him, like, this guy's getting progressively stupider. And he said he was like, water. When you put things into water, it dissolves. So water is dissolving your body. It's a solvent and not hydrating you. And I was just like, this makes.

[Kelsey Cook]

Me so sad that everybody has access to the Internet.

[John Feidelberg]

Well, right.

[Kevin Clancy]

So my point being, like, I understand what you're saying, that, like, you know, you. You're like, you're my circadian rhythm and all that. But, like, all that half. That's probably because there are people like.

[John Feidelberg]

This guy telling his people water is.

[Kevin Clancy]

Not good for your body.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think you never know, you know?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, the circadian rhythm, it's like you have to just try to do the best you can and everything in moderation.

[Nate]

Are you saying we never know about Walter?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, I can't. I can't get on board with that stance where you're like, well, we got some other people saying stuff, so maybe it's all.

[Nate]

It's like when you're like, yeah, well, you never know. Like, are you. No, no, no.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm saying. I'm saying that people will. You'll be like, oh, I learned this on the Internet. And it's like, well, you listen to Gavin Mayo tell me that water is bad for you. So I'm saying that, like, you know.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Even things that you think, like, I don't know, circadian rhythm sounds like a good idea. You got to, like, get outside in the morning.

[John Feidelberg]

But also, that might not be a.

[Kevin Clancy]

Thing at all because I don't know, like, who. Who.

[Kelsey Cook]

You know, I think we have to trust Andrew Huberman's education a little bit more than, you know, what I learned.

[Kevin Clancy]

The other day that, like, the whole ice. Ice bath, like, you know, explosion was based on, like, one study where there was, like, 10 subjects.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Kevin Clancy]

And it was like, you know, this one person, like, I don't know, healed a little bit better. And now there's, like, this whole industry that these people, like, tracked it all the way back to one study that really doesn't like stuff.

[John Feidelberg]

Yes.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

Okay. Yeah, I. I actually saw that, too. It was, like, one study of 18 people, and, like, it wasn't like, four people. It wasn't bad. It, like, actually had benefits.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, it's like.

[Nate]

It's like dopesick when they trace all that back. Like, have you seen the show Dope Sick on Hulu? Very good. Check it out. If you. Kelsey special. The. It's about Purdue pharma and all that stuff.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

And, like, how they were. The invention of OxyContin and the opioid crisis and all that. And they trace back, like, how Purdue was saying that's it's non addictive because they had a study where it didn't. That's how they marketed OxyContin at first. Like, it's the first non addictive opioid. Blah, blah, blah. And one group. All that was based on it was. It was. It was. Dude, it's crazy. It's nuts. It was. It was all based on a letter to the editor in the New England Medical Journal. So, like, so they were citing, doing a medical journal, but then when. Then we'll. Medical journal didn't even know about it. And then when it was brought to their attention, they're like. They went and found it. And, like, that's a letter to the editor. And then they asked.

[Kevin Clancy]

I just said, like, I did not get addicted.

[Nate]

They asked the doctor who wrote the letter, and he's like. They're saying that. He's like, no, I was saying that, like, of the 100 page. I forget, you know, I don't want to say it because I don't remember exactly what it is. Yeah, but the doctor was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what I was saying. Like, that's not. This study doesn't prove that it launched.

[Kevin Clancy]

And it, like, 500,000 deaths.

[Nate]

That wasn't until, like, 15 years or 10 years after OxyContin had been invented. They're like, wait, this is the study?

[Kelsey Cook]

That's where it came from? Yeah. DOP sick.

[Nate]

Yeah. It's awesome. Michael Keaton.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

Caitlyn. Des. It's. Who's the other guy with the eyebrows?

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, Eugene Levy. Yes.

[Nate]

No, no, no, no, no, no. What?

[John Feidelberg]

You said they got the eyebrows.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's what I.

[Nate]

The kid I brought the cake for.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, Will Poulter.

[Nate]

Will Po. Yes. It's awesome. It's like one of my favorite shows. It's a really great show.

[Kelsey Cook]

I was picturing Michael Keaton and Eugene Lovey together. I was like, this feels like an unlikely.

[Kevin Clancy]

Cassie, but you said, let me talking. You know, like, opioid crisis.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah. I'm like, listen.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, yeah, there's just so much information that I think 90% of it is. Is probably, you know, there's a lot.

[Kelsey Cook]

Out there hard to sift through. We're going to keep the water keeping you alive. Yeah. In the right category.

[Kevin Clancy]

Water, oxygen, you know, those things I think you can bank. So wait, back to the special. You. Do you own the rights to your special?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

Okay.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And so there. It's almost like a licensing thing. Like, they get to put it up for a year or whatever. Or is it in perpetuity?

[Kelsey Cook]

Or they did that with the Hustler, my special that came out two years ago where it started on YouTube and then I think it was after maybe like a year or so, then they licensed it and added it to Hulu as well. But it had kind of had its initial like. Like big time on. On YouTube. So, yeah, this is new where it's like they both came out the same day on Hulu and YouTube.

[Kevin Clancy]

And dude, to get 300,000 views when there's probably a big chunk of people watching it on a streaming platform.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, it's still pretty good. Thank you. It's been a good week. I'm like, you know, this is nice. So that's awesome. Thank you.

[John Feidelberg]

What do you do?

[Kevin Clancy]

What was like the tipping point in your career? Do you feel like, do you have a set or a special or a viral video or something? Beating people's asses in football, it never hurts.

[Kelsey Cook]

Probably the biggest one, I think would be the Hustler coming out, because, you know, that's my first hour special. And I had gotten a touring agent a little before then, and that was the first time where I went from shows being, you know, not very well sold, like maybe half full or whatever, to the special coming out. And then all of a sudden shows were selling out and my following online got way bigger because we would just. We posted like pretty much every clip of that special online.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Because that's one of the.

[Nate]

You should.

[Kevin Clancy]

I know.

[Kelsey Cook]

That's one of the upsides.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, I'm an Internet guy, so I've always said this. I get comedians that want to burn material and all that, but it's like you got to reach a lot more people.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yes. It's crazy. I mean, some of the streamers, I think, put a limit on how much of the special you can and post as interesting. So that is an upside of YouTube is like you can turn a 60 minute special into 60 minute long clips.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

And if even 10 of those go into the algorithm, you're getting.

[John Feidelberg]

I mean, you honestly.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, if you get the right one, it can be. You know what I mean?

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, yeah, some of those clips from the Hustler on Facebook. And this is again, like when Facebook hadn't been fully oversaturated yet, but it was getting like 20 million views on some of those clips because it just wasn't quite flooded yet.

[John Feidelberg]

Even if you were to sell out.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like a big theater, you're talking like a couple thousand people versus 20 million.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's nuts. Yeah. So so that was a big turning point. And then even this year, like, I'm doing the Wilbur Theater in Boston tomorrow. That's like, a really big change for me to start to get to do some theaters. So it's all, you know, it's kind of like ebbs and flows, but. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And so you're living in Minnesota now.

[Nate]

You've been to gay 90s yet?

[Kelsey Cook]

No, but I. I just was talking with a friend about it who's from there originally, and she's like, oh, my God, we have to go there. It's, like, apparently legendary.

[Nate]

It's awesome.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

We went. No one was there that night.

[John Feidelberg]

Right?

[Kevin Clancy]

He had you hyped it up or someone?

[Nate]

I. No, I. I had gone, and I.

[Kevin Clancy]

Was like, the party of the century.

[Nate]

It was.

[Kevin Clancy]

And then we went.

[John Feidelberg]

There was nobody there.

[Nate]

It was. The night I was there. It was. It was like. I think it's every other Friday because we. We went. We did shows in Minnesota, and then we did the after party at Gay Night.

[John Feidelberg]

We told everyone, this is gonna be epic.

[Nate]

And it was just.

[Kevin Clancy]

The comedy club in a gay club.

[Nate]

Yeah. They were like, what the Is this?

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, I don't know, man. It almost made it, like.

[John Feidelberg]

It wasn't gonna be literally.

[Nate]

No, it was. There was. There were no gay men there. It was just our crowd that we brought there. But the night I'd gone, barstool takes over gay night.

[Kelsey Cook]

Funny.

[Nate]

But it was. The night I'd gone was kink night or something like that. And it was.

[Kevin Clancy]

I feel like every night's king night at the gay 90s.

[Nate]

But everyone was in. What's the text? Latex. And, like, people, I think, maybe walking around, I don't know, like, riding faces. Like, there was one with a guy, you know, like the. The. I don't know if you watch Game of Thrones, but, like, what reek gets tied to? Like, I forget what they're called.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, big.

[Nate]

Just a big. Like, the big thing.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And, like, someone's tied up.

[John Feidelberg]

Jesus.

[Nate]

Just getting his dick whipped. No way.

[Kevin Clancy]

I was like, are we talking, like, full blown?

[Nate]

Full blown? No, no. He was in, like, he was naked except for, like, a Speedo type deal. And then.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God.

[Nate]

And he was just getting whacked in the dick, bro.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm pretty open, but Jesus, this is so.

[Nate]

It was so funny, too. Like. Like, there were a lot of. Like, no one was attractive, first of all. And then there were a lot of, like. Like, bigger Midwestern looking people.

[Kelsey Cook]

Sure.

[Nate]

And. And, like, the woman would be, like, latexed. Out in this tight stuff, and a guy would just be in, like, a Minnesota Wild T shirt. Oh, my God.

[Kelsey Cook]

Full hockey jersey dipping. Oh, my God. So hilarious.

[Nate]

There were, like, five. Five to seven couples like that, where it's like, I can't tell who. I can tell who does not want to be here right now. He's like, babe, I really wish you had a different kink than this.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God. That's so funny to picture. We. When we first moved, Chad and I to Minnesota, we lived.

[Kevin Clancy]

Wait, he's not from Minnesota.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, I'm sorry. Minneapolis. He's from Minnesota. He wasn't living in, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Did you pick Minnesota together?

[Kelsey Cook]

That would be so wild to randomly both pick there. No, he is from there originally, but he wasn't living in Minneapolis. So when we first both moved to Minneapolis, we were living not far from K90s. And again, I've never been with. That's so funny to picture that. I was probably, like, walking my dog by Whole Foods and there was a guy getting his dick whipped, like, two blocks over. I had no idea.

[John Feidelberg]

Wow.

[Nate]

It was the. The buddy I went with left right away. Like, he. Like, we. Because it's in, like, a separate room. Like, you. Yeah. You walk through, like, the, like, curtains and, like, like, I walked through the curtains. I took five steps in, I turned around, and his. I was already. The back of his head. I saw walking out the curtain. Oh, my God. I was.

[John Feidelberg]

Stick around.

[Nate]

I'll stick around a little bit.

[Kelsey Cook]

God, the couple dynamic in there. That is so funny that there would be a guy who's just, like, begrudgingly, like, the.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, other guys get dragged to just, like, a nice Valentine's dinner or something. And I get dragged to the kink club.

[Nate]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, it's funko night. They're like, this is my nipple clamp night.

[Nate]

Why? You said you'd come.

[Kelsey Cook]

Weird.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, you forget, though. It's like, you know, you. You would like to imagine that you go to, like, a sex club or a swingers night, and everyone's hot and pretty and.

[Kelsey Cook]

Sure.

[Kevin Clancy]

That's not most of the world. You know, you're gonna see a lot of ugly people, a lot of big people, a lot of. You know, it's not a lot of cargo shorts.

[Nate]

More cargo shorts at the orgy than I expected, for sure.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, my God.

[Kelsey Cook]

Hysterical shorts.

[Kevin Clancy]

Had an orgy is great.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, Minnesota. I don't know if I want to go. This seems so sad in a way.

[Nate]

No, it's awesome.

[Kevin Clancy]

Even when I was there and it was empty, I Was like, I still see the potential this being awesome.

[Nate]

They had, like, cages. People just dancing cages. People were like. It wasn't outright, but people were pretty.

[John Feidelberg]

Damn.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think people were coming.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

They were happening one way or another.

[John Feidelberg]

They were getting there.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

God damn. All right, well, fine.

[Nate]

Fine.

[Kelsey Cook]

I'll go.

[Nate]

The. The special is so funny and is. It's great. I don't want to give away your stuff, but first of all, I'm very sorry to hear about your mother.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, thank you so much.

[Nate]

Second of all, the hall of fame and foosball is so funny. Thank you.

[John Feidelberg]

I appreciate.

[Nate]

Is such a funny thing where you're like, someone has dementia and they're going around telling people they're in the Foosball hall of Fame. You're like, well, they're experiencing an episode. Right.

[Kelsey Cook]

Nobody believes her anytime. She says it for background, for listeners. My mom, unfortunately has. Has this really, like, progressive, rare type of dementia that hits people a lot younger than Alzheimer's does. And she is also in the Foosball hall of Fame. She's like, a pro foosball player. And so, yeah, anytime she gets a new nurse in the home and they ask her about her life, she's always like, I'm in the Foosball hall of Fame. And they're always like, sure you are. And we just. We cannot get people there to believe her because, I mean, why would they? That sounds like the most made of.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's the ultimate, like, two truths and a lie.

[Nate]

Little.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God.

[Kevin Clancy]

That, you know, no one's gonna believe.

[Kelsey Cook]

Such a good way to put it.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. It's so weird how much foosball is, like, just a part of your whole family's life.

[Kelsey Cook]

I literally wouldn't exist. It's how my parents met. It's the. It's a real.

[Kevin Clancy]

I find foosball to be the hardest thing in the world. Like, I cannot do.

[Kelsey Cook]

Makes a lot of people really angry because there's, like, the bar version where people don't even know that there is a right way to play, where people are just spinning the rods insanely. But once you know that there are actual rules and a way to play and then you try to do that, it's so hard that I think dudes especially are like.

[Kevin Clancy]

But, like, you know, I. You can just hop on an air hockey table and around or grab a pool cue and, like, shoot a little bit of pool. But, like, to me, I'm just like, I can't do anything on a foosball table.

[Kelsey Cook]

It makes people feel deeply uncoordinated yes.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Because if you play someone like yourself, where it's just like, pass, shoot, boom. And you're just like, wait.

[Nate]

What the.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm used to waiting, you know, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Trying to get it when the. When your feet just can't really reach.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

And you're just like.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's an enraging sport. But it does feel really good once you get good at it, because it is, I think, more challenging than, like, you said, air hockey, Stuff like that.

[Nate]

Has Chad gotten better? Worse.

[Kelsey Cook]

He has gotten better. We. So this fits in so well with us being like, oh, it'd be fun to retire someday with our pickleball. We in our house, when it's like minus 18 and you don't want to go anywhere, we have a foosball table, a ping pong table, darts, and then, like, random other bar games, we'll just, like, do a little mini Olympics with each other and play against each other and all of them. And so he's definitely gotten better at foosball. It still is the one thing I can beat him at.

[Nate]

That's. That's what I was thinking of. Like, when I'm in a relationship, I'm. I'm pretty. I'm. I'm pretty good. I'm. I'm. I'm a pretty modern man. I'm okay not being a man at certain things and being the best of things and. But bar games, if you lose to the chicken bar games, you are a loser. Li.

[Kelsey Cook]

In this shuffleboard game all my life.

[Nate]

Even, like, like, like, like things like, you know, I've been to, like, arcades and, like, skee ball. Like, I'm supposed to win a skeeball, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

There's a carnival game, sort of caveman thing.

[John Feidelberg]

I'm supposed to win you the teddy bear.

[Kelsey Cook]

I win you the teddy bear. You don't win me the teddy. Yeah, there's something about a woman handing the man the teddy.

[Kevin Clancy]

If a chick steps up and can, like, knock over the milk cans with, like, a, like a ball. Can't.

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, Jesus Christ, someone's wearing a strap on, that's not going to be a typical night. Yeah, that's a change.

[Nate]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Chad has kids, right?

[Kelsey Cook]

Chad has two kids.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes. And they're a little bit older.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, they're. His daughter just turned 21. His son is 25.

[Kevin Clancy]

So you're not really old, like, doing stepmom type shit.

[Kelsey Cook]

You're just like, no, it's a weird age spread because they're not, like, young. And Chad had them Young. And then I'm kind of.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, he must have had him when he was like.

[Kelsey Cook]

He had him super, like, 22, like, very, very young. He's not that old, but yeah, I mean, I mentioned in the special how that's been kind of a weird part of this, like, stepmom dynamic is that you would think, oh, that would be cool to have a stepmom figure who's like, a comedian and. And, you know, has, like, a following on Tick Tock. Because that's what Gen Z thinks is cool.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right?

[Kelsey Cook]

But, like, unfortunately for her, a lot of the jokes I post, I don't.

[John Feidelberg]

Want to hear that.

[Kelsey Cook]

Or dad, you know, it's like the one that went super viral from the Hustler is about him having a vasectomy and me trying to figure out what that's gonna be like. And it's like, whatever I said, like, is it clear? Like, the white Gatorade flavor or whatever. And like, my dad's cup.

[Jackie]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, does it taste better when there aren't weren't kids in it? So she had followed me on Instagram, but I forgot she followed me. So I'm like, posting those clips to.

[Kevin Clancy]

Promote works work special.

[Kelsey Cook]

And she had texted shot. And I being like, just so you know, I definitely unfollowed your girlfriend today. I'm like, well, God damn it, Christmas is going to be so weird.

[Nate]

Have you got the follow back yet?

[Kelsey Cook]

No, no. I think if you put yourself in her position, like, if I saw my stepmom even make out with my dad, I'd be like, cut her tongue out like Handmaid's Tailor. Like, get her out of here. You never want to see your parents in a sort of sexual light at all. If she was like, oh, this is great, I'd be like, maybe let's get like, a therapy session going, because you shouldn't be.

[Kevin Clancy]

I even feel like step parents is not as much of a thing as it once was. Like, what do you mean calling somebody.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I feel like kids will just be like, that's so and so, and they're my mom's husband or my dad's girlfriend or whatever, rather than be like, that's my stepmom. And you could. Yeah, you can still have a good relationship with them, but just, just. I think it's weird. It feels weirder now than it did like, back then. I don't know if it's because of movies and, like, evil stepmother type like, things, you know, but to me, that almost has a bad connotation. I Feel like people don't really even, like, use it as much as they did in the past.

[Kelsey Cook]

I totally agree. I would understand if his kids never called me their stepmom. If they always call you by your name. Yeah. Yeah. It's like. It's a weird thing and, like, coming into their life so much later, too, where it's like, they don't need a stepmom. Like, they have a great relationship with their mom. I feel like I'm just this bonus figure who like. Like, buys her lip gloss at Christmas. You know what I mean?

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like, well, that's what I mean. That's like, yeah, if you play like that, like, it's. It's an extra bonus for these kids.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah. It's just. I don't know.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like, you don't really. You're never gonna, like. Well, they're older, but it's like, in other cases, like, they're not really gonna discipline them. It's kind of like having, like, the fun aunt or uncle around, you know?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like, you can come to me. I'll buy a beer or whatever. I don't know. Like, that kind of.

[Kelsey Cook]

I think his son thinks I'm like, what I do is cool and is like, oh, that's cool. That's my dad's girlfriend. But. But I think sons, it's different. It's. They're not quite as territorial of a dad as the daughter is.

[John Feidelberg]

Sure.

[Kelsey Cook]

So, yeah, I knew that she was never going to be stoked about me posting jokes about blowing her dad.

[Nate]

It's like, it's.

[Kelsey Cook]

Why would she be. That's, like, a really weird thing.

[Nate]

So are you saying that the. The Chad's son thinks that, like, it's cool. It reminds me of a clip I saw Seinfeld recently talking about. About the 70s. I think he's talking about New York specifically, but just the world where he was talking about how then he's like, money. He's like, I don't know. He signed. It's funny to hear Seinfeld explaining this, but he was talking about he didn't know when money became important. And again, it's funny from a billionaire, but he's like. He's like. He's like. When he's like, coming up in the 70s, it was like, was your job cooler then? You won. He's like, money didn't really come up. It was just like, you have a cooler job job. You're doing cooler than me. You're doing better than me. And I was like, huh, That's a weird thing.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, that. I mean, we so were not in that time.

[Nate]

No, Right.

[Kelsey Cook]

I feel like it's always been about that pressure, especially from, like, parents of, like, are you gonna make enough money? Are you gonna be able to take care of yourself?

[Kevin Clancy]

And the spoiler alert? No. Like, hey, guys, no one can make enough money.

[Nate]

Everyone has four jobs. None of them make any money.

[Kelsey Cook]

When I first told my parents I was going to become a comedian, they weren't like, oh, my God, that's so cool. Good. Cool job. Like, what the are you doing? Like, it's fine now, but. Yeah, that was.

[Nate]

You let me be a creative writing major. Where did you think this. Where were you on that one? Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

You're professional foo players. What the did you think is going to happen? I may be a dental hygienist. Like, of course I'm going to be.

[Kevin Clancy]

Professional football players, they don't get to turn around and play the card of, like, why don't you have a real job for.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah. And my dad, I think he was like that. That initially, because he wanted better for, like, wanted me to have a more secure job. I was going to be a high school math teacher. And so he was, like, stoked about. He's like, great. That's a job that's always in demand. Like, love that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Was that your jam? Math? You're good at math.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, I. That was, like, what I was majoring in in college until I switched, but I got to, like, Cal 3. And like, this was. Yeah. I'm like, this cannot be my life's work.

[Nate]

This is.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. I remember doing. And I think in high school, there was what. There was like, a B calculus and BC calculus or something like that.

[Kelsey Cook]

Talking about maybe it was different. Yeah, sure.

[Kevin Clancy]

But it was like, there's like, hard calculus and then there's, like, really hard calculus.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I remember tapping out. I was like, I can't.

[Nate]

This is.

[Kevin Clancy]

Unless you're going to become, like, a goddamn engineer, architect, NASA major.

[John Feidelberg]

This.

[Kevin Clancy]

It starts to get a little bit like, I don't think we need to know this.

[Nate]

Pre calculus, senior year, last math class I ever took. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, even once you start getting into that differential equation, it's like, what are we doing here?

[Kelsey Cook]

And like you said, I get. When it's somebody who's going to become, you know, a structural engineer or whatever, I'm like, okay, you will actually apply that. I wanted to teach, like, algebra two. I was like, let me. I don't want to know all the rest of this. This is way too hard. But yeah, obviously I like, Dude, I180.

[Kevin Clancy]

I can't do my kids homework.

[Nate]

They.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, I know this is a little bit like hacky because it's been done before, but like the new man math that they do. Oh, I'm like, just. And my kids are young, we're talking addition, subtraction, like normal. I'm like, just put the numbers on top of each other and subtract them or carry the one like, and you're done. They're drawing these like dots and circling them. And like, I'm like, this cannot be easier.

[Kelsey Cook]

That's so crazy.

[Kevin Clancy]

It is. I get like where they're trying to go and it's like, I guess you can apply it to like larger numbers. But I'm like, bro, I promise you, it's easier to just like remember what four times three is. Like, just memorize it.

[Kelsey Cook]

Are we done with times tables?

[Kevin Clancy]

Kind of. Kind of. They're really like not just told to memorize them. They're like you, you do you break this out and do that and then add them together and it's like, that was five extra steps, dude.

[Kelsey Cook]

That feels so wrong.

[John Feidelberg]

And I can't.

[Kevin Clancy]

I also can't, like, can't help them. I don't know the, the, the terms they use. I'm like, I don't know what that means.

[John Feidelberg]

I can't hear homework for you.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm sorry.

[Nate]

Once. Once. You get it though. I saw a video the other day and maybe this kid's just a genius, obviously. Well, not maybe. He obviously is. It was a kid setting the new Guinness Book of World Records for adding up for the most four digit numbers in 60 seconds. It's one of the crazy I ever seen. Like these.

[Kelsey Cook]

He's doing new math to do it.

[Nate]

I also feel like that guy's probably like a savant for one. Like one again. He set the goodest world record for doing like. Like, it would be a nanosecond of like 4112 and a nanosecond of 8000, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then a nan of. And then it was a full minute of that. And then he just put in the answer at the end for like, oh yeah, that's crazy what all of that added up means.

[John Feidelberg]

That's crazy.

[Nate]

It was, it was.

[Kevin Clancy]

Those people are basically. They're like X Men. They're like mutants.

[Nate]

I think.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like they're, they're more evolved. Like, my God, that, that dude, he took a helicopter ride and he just looked at Manhattan and then drew the whole thing from memory.

[Nate]

Really?

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, that's right.

[Kevin Clancy]

I was like, this is.

[Kelsey Cook]

Some people are really built different.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's that German game show. You ever see that on Instagram?

[Nate]

No.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's this German game show that I follow. I think it's basically all just autistic kids on. On the show. But they'll like.

[John Feidelberg]

It's.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like a. It's like this circle that just has, like, a bunch of, like, random dots, right? And then there's like a little sliver that you can see that just kind of goes around like a clock. And she can, like, pick out which dot is, like, different something like so. And she just. Just goes around. She goes, stop. And it's there, like, every time. It's like, I don't even.

[John Feidelberg]

I can't even figure out what your.

[Kevin Clancy]

Won'T get it right, you know?

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, Those brains are just.

[Kelsey Cook]

Do you guys ever play darts where you play, like, 301 or 501 where you're hitting points and then subtracting from that is what I'm talking about.

[Nate]

I could barely follow those.

[Kelsey Cook]

Dude. I break out in, like, such a flop sweat trying to just do subtraction. Like, in, like, fast subtraction. I would die. It's a good thing I didn't become a high school.

[Nate]

I played darts, baseball, and I don't even know that's a real thing or something. Just like me and my dad.

[Kevin Clancy]

Single double.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I used to just think, like, try to hit the middle, right. Like, it's a bullseye. Learning that there was, like, a actual scoring to it was hard enough for me. We're subtracting and all that.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah. There. I don't know if there's a location here. Have you guys heard of flight club?

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay. No, sorry. This is a. Like a dart chain.

[Nate]

Okay, I know. I know what you're talking about too.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, it's like top golf, but for darts.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's like spin for P for fun.

[Nate]

Table tennis.

[Kelsey Cook]

I think there might. Yeah. Yeah, I think there might be one in New York. Chad and I played in London for the first time at the end of last year and then looked in their locations in the US if you see one, do it. It's the greatest time. So much fun. Yeah.

[Nate]

Yeah, it's great.

[Kevin Clancy]

They're doing that with basketball, too. They're making top golf for basketball. Oh, I. I don't know quite how that really works. If it's like. Yeah, playing, like. Are you playing with other people? Are you playing with like just. But I think it's just like court after court after court.

[Nate]

The way it's like, yeah, I, I, I haven't seen it, but like I see it as like those little stalls of just like half court.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And then you get to play half court.

[Kelsey Cook]

I love that. We need a foo fall one take over my life that will get my return retirement going.

[John Feidelberg]

Do you think?

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, is there enough of a market, like if there is any sort of business of foosball, you should probably be the person to do it.

[Kelsey Cook]

No. Well, there are so many more people who are way more involved in foosball now.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But how many people have a platform or like a following like you do?

[Kelsey Cook]

That's like, that's what you know, that is the one difference I have is like no foosball players are also.

[Kevin Clancy]

No foo players get 300,000 views.

[Kelsey Cook]

But yeah, those people, so many of them put the time into foosball that I have into comedy where they are, they're so good. But it's, I wish it was like a more well known world, but I feel like it's kind of still this niche thing a little bit. There's like tournaments do it, turn it, you know, open up the world.

[Kevin Clancy]

It'll be like the next pickleball.

[John Feidelberg]

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[Kelsey Cook]

That'd be great. Do you see I'm wearing a pickleball necklace? This is where my life is.

[Kevin Clancy]

No way.

[Kelsey Cook]

So you, you really drinking fully embraced.

[Nate]

I, I was someone who like saw the popularity of it and was like, I'm gonna hate that foosball. Oh, pickleball. It's so dumb. And I played one time, and I was like, this is the greatest game.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's the greatest.

[Kevin Clancy]

My theory is, like, the game is. Is perfect like, that. Like, everybody can do it. You can be really good at it, but also just be average and kind of. But I really think the name is really important, too. I think pickleball is a big part.

[John Feidelberg]

Of why it got popular.

[Kelsey Cook]

Really? Why?

[Kevin Clancy]

I don't know. I just think it's, like, a catchy name, and I think people.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

It was, like, part of the.

[Nate]

There's something about it. When you hear it, you're like, that's dumb. But what is. But tell me more.

[Kevin Clancy]

You find out. It's like, it's. You know, you can do it even if you're, like, not athletic. It's like, oh, okay.

[Kelsey Cook]

Do we know where that name comes from?

[Kevin Clancy]

So I. I played pickleball in high school, like, well before this. Right. And we were told. And I don't think it's necessarily. I don't think it's, like, fully true, but I do think there's an element that it was big in prison. There was, like, a. It was like a prison game. I don't know if it was invented there, but it was like, prisons played it. And there was.

[John Feidelberg]

We had.

[Kevin Clancy]

We did written tests on pickle ball in my high school. Our gym teachers were so obsessed with it. We had, like, a written test on it.

[Nate]

Whoa.

[Kevin Clancy]

But I. I don't remember. Pickle Boat rowing. Let's see. Okay. Which refers to a boat made up of left. I have no idea why that interesting.

[Kelsey Cook]

I know it started in Washington State, where I'm from.

[Nate]

I don't know if this is right.

[Kevin Clancy]

That doesn't make any sense.

[Kelsey Cook]

That feels like Google.

[Nate]

Google's AI is wrong 90 of the time.

[Kevin Clancy]

It really is.

[Kelsey Cook]

I can't believe it started potentially in prison because of what, like, how it looks now.

[Kevin Clancy]

I know it's so, like, bougie and, like, clubby old people, like, so midway.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's like these women named Nancy just like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Making their entire life. Pickle is a.

[Kevin Clancy]

None of these seem like it's.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah. Weird.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But so we were playing. We had, like, rankings in high school, like, our top players and like, the. The two gym teachers, Mr. Plunkett and Mr. Finnegan, they were awesome. And they used to be, like, watch this, kids. And they would just play each other.

[Nate]

This job's awesome, by the way.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. It was a fun way for inmates to socialize and build community.

[John Feidelberg]

It was a big prison game.

[Kelsey Cook]

They were Just showing a version of it on ESPN where it was like, Andre Agassi playing. What's the other big character's name? Like, massive tennis stars playing pickleball. And it's so cool to see those people play because they just rip it. That's very cool.

[Kevin Clancy]

I saw a video of Agassi the other day. He. He. I think it was. What's his name? Becker. There's a big tennis player named Becker, right?

[Nate]

No one does ring a bell, but I.

[Kevin Clancy]

It was like, Agassiz and the other guy.

[Nate]

And Sampras was the other guy.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

No, but I'm saying it was. It wasn't him. It was like, Bjorn Borg or Becker, one of those guys. And he picked up on, like, the. The littlest. He was like, when he. Like, when he moved his hand this way, he was serving to the left. And when he moved his hand that way, he was serving to the right. And he was the only one who knew about it. And he waited. I think it's Boris Becker. And he waited until he retired to.

[Nate]

Tell him about it.

[Kevin Clancy]

And he said he was like, I used to go home to my wife and be like, it's like, he's in my head. Like, he's the only guy I can't, like, beat. And it was just. It was something so subtle. I can't remember what the tick was, but it was like, it was something that you would. Would not think would impact your serve, like, at all in any way. And he somehow picked up on it. Like, those are. Those are. Those are brains that operate in a different way. You're across the court, like, just noticing, like, the way he scratches his nose or some.

[Nate]

You know, it's. That is a funny thing with sports where, like, I think because athletes are so incredibly, you know, fit and all that stuff, and, like, so all these better things than us that we have to assume they're dumb just because, like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, yeah.

[Nate]

Like, it's just like, they're dumb. They must be. Like, we have to be better than them at something, right? No, they're also.

[John Feidelberg]

They're better at you at everything.

[Nate]

Geniuses. Like, maybe. Maybe not at math, maybe not. But, like, they're geniuses at what they're doing.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right?

[Kelsey Cook]

It's crazy. I. I was not a big football fan until I moved to Minnesota, and Chad's been, like, lifelong Vikings fan. So I got more on board. And then they had the quarterback series come out on Netflix and that. I really. I had been so ignorant before then about everything that goes into being an NFL quarterback. I'M like, jesus, this is a lot.

[Nate]

Quarterback's nuts.

[Kevin Clancy]

Quarterback is. Is crazy. I feel like, yeah, you know, if you. If you put the commitment of being a quarterback into, like, almost any other field, you would be super successful in that, too.

[Nate]

There was a clip the other day, excuse me, like, two weeks ago, of Brady on Colin Coward show.

[Kevin Clancy]

We talking about the cheese?

[Nate]

No, he's about. He's just about like him. And it was. It was so sick where he was just like, I wasn't the fastest. I wasn't the. Whatever. He's like. But I did not snap the ball unless I knew where everyone on the other team was going. He's like. He's like. He's like, I wouldn't be there, wouldn't snap the ball. Like, if I. If they were in a formation I didn't understand, I'd call timeout. I did not put. I knew every formation.

[Kevin Clancy]

Crazy.

[Nate]

I knew everything. I knew where my guys would be because that's the benefit of knowing plays. I knew where their guys would be because I knew what they were doing. And if my guys weren't gonna be open, I just call timeout. And then he's like. He's like, that was my superpower. I knew what they were doing.

[John Feidelberg]

It's pretty easy.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's a much easier game when you know where everyone's going to be at all times.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's like, how do you keep track of that?

[Nate]

11 guys, 22 guys running all over the place. Like, I know where all of them will be.

[Kevin Clancy]

And you have other guys, you know, coordinators on the other side whose entire job is to figure out how to trick you.

[Nate]

Yes.

[Kevin Clancy]

They're not good enough at it.

[Kelsey Cook]

But, yeah, I mean, it's true.

[Kevin Clancy]

You do. Are you, like, full. Full blown Vikings Kool Aid now?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Skull Nation?

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, being from Washington, I was a Seahawks fan before, but not again. I didn't, like, watch consistently enough or even know enough about football to be super invested. But, I mean, it was a really exciting year, especially.

[Kevin Clancy]

It was a good year. But you are. Are signing up for one of the.

[John Feidelberg]

Worst sports cities in the world. They're the one.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, I. All my teams in New York suck. And. And so I'm pretty miserable. I'm always like, I think I have it the worst. And then Minnesota always chimes in, like.

[John Feidelberg]

We'D like a word.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I'm always like, yeah, you right.

[Kelsey Cook]

You're right. Holding. Hold my beer.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, it's. I've been told that this is a very heartbreaking city to move to for sports, but I had never been to a hockey game before moving. And so, like, that's a really fun thing.

[Nate]

They're better this year than they did. They should be. Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

They're like.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think because the Minnesota hockey is, you know, they're gonna be good at one thing.

[Kelsey Cook]

The hockey state. Yeah, the Timberwolves are fun.

[Nate]

Timberwolves.

[John Feidelberg]

The.

[Nate]

The. The. The Wild are like. I think that they're going through a thing right now where they're like, it was one of those, like, wait, are we good? Like, we're not supposed to be good. Why do we keep winning? Like, this was not in our plans this season to be a good team. What the. Like, do we have to buy the deadline now? Like, they're. They're. They're kind of a weird thing they had that time I went to gay 90s was. We had, like, a charity event with the Wild.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay.

[Nate]

And to this day, it's still one of the most disrespectful things ever said to me. The Matt Boldy who plays for the Wild and actually plays for Team usa, he'll be playing tomorrow tonight. But he's. I don't know if you know him, but he's, like, 21, 22. He's crazy young, but he's, like, a stud. He's already gotten his big contract. All the stuff. Stuff. And he invited me and one of the guys who work here out. He's like, oh, come to the bar with us tonight. Like, it'll be a good time.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And we're like, yeah, we'll come. He's like, it'll be mostly my guys my age, but, like, you guys will have fun, too. And I. And I was like, whoa. I didn't realize that.

[John Feidelberg]

Old enough.

[Nate]

It was one of those.

[Kevin Clancy]

I saw they. They declared 30. I don't know who they is. You know, whatever science or some. They declared 35 is called now. Called mid adulthood.

[Nate]

I'll take that.

[Kelsey Cook]

That's fine.

[Kevin Clancy]

That actually made me, like, feel better. I mean, I'm. I blew past that now. But, like, midlife, you know, midlife crisis, and I'm too young for that. But, like, mid adulthood.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, that feels right.

[Nate]

Yeah. You call me mid. Yeah, I'm fine being a mid adult for sure. Yeah. It sounds like I'm not even supposed to be there yet. Like, he's not even a fully an adult. He's a mid adult. Like, all right. Yeah, I'll take that.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my God.

[Kevin Clancy]

I'm 40 in, like, couple weeks. And it is wrecking me.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh my God.

[Kevin Clancy]

Never cared about an age ever. And I'm like, 40 is almost 60 and 60 is almost dead. That's what's going through my brain.

[Kelsey Cook]

40 is a pronounced 40 with two kids.

[Kevin Clancy]

Is, is 60.

[Kelsey Cook]

How old are your kids?

[Kevin Clancy]

Seven and nine.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay. This, I mean it's all normal and reasonable. You know what I think the problem is, is you live here.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

And it's just like they're just 20 year olds everywhere.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, yeah. Like I'm sure if I lived more in like a, a suburbie Midwestern. Oh, yeah, like whatever. It'd be like, oh, I'm like the coolest.

[Kelsey Cook]

You go to Minnesota, you're a teenager.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Nate]

But then moving to Minnesota, I feel like makes you feel like I, I kind of have the opposite. Like I love being around New York because I feel I'm like, oh, like I'm not hanging out in young bars, but I'm seeing young things and I'm like, yeah, yeah. I'm connected. Connected to it.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like being one eyed man in the, in the land of the blind.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[John Feidelberg]

If you move to Minnesota, it's not.

[Nate]

Even Minnesota specifically, but like, like just any suburb. You're like, oh, you're 32, but you've accepted that you're.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yes. The difference in, you know, when I would say it happens in your 30s, all throughout your 30s around here you can be 30 something and still be like single frat boy, party girl, have not changed like an ounce since you were 25. And it's nobody's, nobody thinks you're weird. Like, it's like maybe you should have settled down a little bit by now, but you're not like the freak, you know? Or you can be like cargo shorts, tucked in, polo shirt, completely bald, fat, driving.

[Nate]

Wait, you're 26?

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

How the did that happen?

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Kevin Clancy]

There's, you know, you go two different directions at that age where it's like, we're the same. Wait, what?

[Kelsey Cook]

No way. I mean, I have definitely in the last last few years hit that spurt of like aged faster, I think. But I think if you're in comedy, you can have a little bit of that like Peter Pan syndrome where you are living this younger lifestyle to just be traveling all the time and be in entertainment. But yeah, I mean, living in Minnesota. And also, you know, Chad's older than me, so when we hang out with his friends, they are his age.

[Kevin Clancy]

Right.

[Kelsey Cook]

They also have adult children. It's like you do just slowly start to feel a Little older.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But just worrying about weirder things and different things.

[Kelsey Cook]

You're like, yeah, we just got life insurance together.

[John Feidelberg]

Right.

[Kelsey Cook]

Like, actively thinking about what's going on.

[Kevin Clancy]

Cta.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

I think there's all sorts of association.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Kill me now.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And it is also something to like. I know I'm not, like, complaining about it, but like, the pandemic and everything. Like, when you, like, 20, 19, like six years ago, that's a long time. And it felt like for a while, like, we just didn't age or we, like, we were kind of living in this vacuum of like. And not. Not like, like, as a society, you know, people weren't going to work, so, like, they weren't really. It was like, like, time passing, wasn't registering. And I mean, like, I don't mean like the, the three month. Didn't leave the house. I mean, like, you know.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

For a long time, like.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

And I think we all just kind of like, locked into that. That. And then they came up for air and like, wait, it's been six. I've aged six years.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's a better part of a decade. Have you seen the. The shift in drinking? This, the.

[John Feidelberg]

The.

[Kevin Clancy]

This latest generation is. It's down like, 75.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

It's like every generation, like, the bar graph kind of goes up and then it's like, really not drinking at all.

[Kelsey Cook]

Okay. This is so. This is like, flipped, just. At least in my little world. So. Chad's daughter just turned 21. I feel like when I hear about that group of people in her life, it's like, very much drinking and partying still happening. And then Chad and I, we both have not had alcohol for 10 months, so we both are just like, watching her have her time and we just both retired. It's like a weird thing. I didn't know that most young people are not.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

It doesn't surprise me with, like, the legalization of weed and stuff like that.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, I guess so.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

People, they. Bartenders, like, hate that generation.

[Kelsey Cook]

They're like.

[Nate]

They all.

[Kevin Clancy]

They don't know how to tip. First of all, I didn't realize this. They will close out every time they order a drink. They don't, like, leave their card open. So they'll be like, two beers, close out, sign it, like. And they just keep going back and forth the whole time.

[John Feidelberg]

They don't run up.

[Nate]

I get. I get like, genuinely upset. Upset when they give it back to me. No, you keep it. Do I look like a guy who's gonna be here for 10 minutes. Hang on to that car.

[John Feidelberg]

You're gonna be. We're gonna know each other real well by the end of this.

[Kelsey Cook]

A hockey player just told me, I'm a thousand. Please keep my card. I will be here all night.

[John Feidelberg]

They do that.

[Kevin Clancy]

And they don't.

[John Feidelberg]

They.

[Kevin Clancy]

They will, like, sit at a bar. Like, sit physically at the bar, take up space, order, like, one beer, sit there for, like, an hour, and then. And they hate them. They're like, I seen a couple videos of bartenders being like, they're not even humans. Like, they don't know how to talk. They don't know how to joke.

[John Feidelberg]

They don't. They don't look me in the eyes. They don't speak to me. They don't tip me.

[Nate]

It's like, dude, when I. When I was drinking, drinking, I took it as a personal responsibility to, like, pay for that bartender's rent. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Oh, my God.

[Nate]

Like, not only in my tipping, like, I. I was a good tipper, but, like, in my drinking, where I was like, well, I got to get about 10 beers if this guy wants dinner tonight.

[Kelsey Cook]

Oh, my gosh, that's very nice of you. And, like, real bad for your health.

[Nate]

To be like, this bar is empty. It's a Tuesday afternoon. I'm. I. It's me. Keep him alive. I got to sustain this guy's life.

[Kelsey Cook]

How's this guy going to feed his cat? I don't get this whiskey.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, my God.

[Nate]

I, like, I. I, I. When I was drinking a lot, it was like, an act of philanthropy. I was like, no one's paying this guy. I. I'll sit down with you, bud.

[Kevin Clancy]

Dude, there was this bartender, Felipe. He was at this bar uptown in. On the Upper east side, and. And, like, he loved us, of course, because we gave him.

[Nate]

He.

[Kevin Clancy]

And he would give us, like, really cheap drinks, but he was definitely coming out. I was still spending more money with the amount I would tip him. Yeah, Just charge me regular price and don't make me feel beholding to you, you know, and we used to. We would follow him on social media, and we would see, like, his son got new turntables, and they're all wearing Jordans, and they bought, like, a new house. And I was like, I think we're tipping too much.

[Nate]

I bought that.

[Kelsey Cook]

I bought that for him.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, right.

[Nate]

Yeah. I'm subsidizing this guy's luck and all.

[Kevin Clancy]

Because I would love the feeling of, like, when you walk in, like, he would be like, get up, get up.

[Nate]

Move, move, move, move.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, here, here, you Go, sir. And I was like, yeah, that's worth it.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Like, I got.

[John Feidelberg]

The bartender knows me. Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, it's like, cheers, man.

[Kelsey Cook]

Do you think the younger generation isn't drinking because of the same stuff we were talking about earlier with, like, the health stuff on Tik Tok and just that it's more. I feel like more information has been coming out lately about alcohol and like, like its actual effects on you.

[Kevin Clancy]

Turns out it's bad to poison your body.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's like, so weird.

[Nate]

Yeah. I mean, that was. That was another thing I. I was too dumb to get. I didn't get it.

[Kevin Clancy]

What?

[Nate]

I didn't get. It was bad for you drinking. Yeah. Like, I. I would be like, I'd be like, well, yeah, and poisoning it right now. But then I'm going to pee, but then I'm done. It'll be gone. Like, it's. It's gone.

[Kelsey Cook]

To be fair, there's. Our generation had no education on this. There was no like, like.

[John Feidelberg]

But you know what?

[Kevin Clancy]

I also feel like, you know, I would rather find out that my kids are, like, sneaking around, drinking beer and like, doing some shots than, like, doing ketamine.

[Nate]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

You know, and like, I feel like everything I see on. On Tick Tock is like, oh, it's a great for like, it's an antidepressant and it's like opening your mind and it's like, I feel like steady doing.

[John Feidelberg]

Ketamine is not a good idea. Call me old fashioned.

[Nate]

If you're listening to this does rock kids. If you're on the fence, like, it's sick.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, my God.

[Nate]

Yeah, it'll be weird.

[Kevin Clancy]

I mean, by the time my kids are even like, you know, thinking about even sneaking around to underage drink, I feel like it'll be like, really gone. Like, I don't know.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Or maybe, I don't know, maybe the opposite. Maybe it has like a resurgence. I don't know. But my theory on it is just.

[Jackie]

Like you do what it. Whatever the opposite.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah. Your parents drank. You're lame. Yeah. Yeah. Our parents.

[Jackie]

Parents, like, they, they were all alcoholics, but, like, it was labeled.

[Kevin Clancy]

But that. But I win.

[Nate]

Our parents.

[John Feidelberg]

Oh, oh.

[Kevin Clancy]

The label of alcoholics team. Okay. Because I was gonna say every other generation there was really. No, because, you know, usually it is like, you don't want to be like your parents. But drinking held steady. It was like, I don't be my.

[John Feidelberg]

Parents, but let's booze.

[Kevin Clancy]

But that is interesting if they started to label it in a negative way or, and, Or Frown upon it. It's like, I don't want to do that.

[Nate]

Yeah, it was. It was a pro. Like, it was like, yeah, everyone's drinking every night. That's what.

[John Feidelberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

We're really not that far removed from all that smoking and drinking when you're pregnant or not knowing the effects of it.

[Nate]

And we're not. It's actually like.

[Kevin Clancy]

Like, we're not far removed from, like, anything.

[Nate]

Almost what we were talking about with Tommy, where, like. Like, we had a guest on recently who's a political analyst. I suppose we'll call him Tommy Veer, who does Pod Save America. And we were talking about how, like, America needs state tv, where it's just like, some guy whoever, like, everyone loves comes on every night and it's propaganda, just lists, like, some awesome that's happened. And he's like, look, it's not that bad out there. Like, there some good going on. And I was thinking about that the other night, actually, because I was like, you just. If you look back, like a generation, and it's like, everything we're mad about, like, it was way worse. Like, we're doing better.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

Even right now, they. They said the airlines are, like, safer than ever. Like, aircraft plane crashes are going down.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

But it's just being reported on, like, crazy right now because it gets you clicks and follows and views. So it's all, like, information bias. Because right now I. I would be like, if you get on a plane, you're dying. Like, you're gonna die according to the news.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Kevin Clancy]

And it's like. And even I started. I was thinking like, oh, it's probably just, you know, know, Twitter and. And social media. But I was like, man, another one, another one. Like, maybe something is going on. And they're like, no, it is safer than ever. But I don't know, maybe that stat's wrong. I don't know.

[Kelsey Cook]

I know.

[Nate]

Like, it's crazy. I forgot I was watching some TV show. I was watching Modern Family and, like, Cam and Mitchell can't get married because gay marriage isn't legal in California. And I was like, that show happened in six months ago. It feels like. Yeah, yeah. And, like, engaged, gay married wasn't legal in California.

[Kelsey Cook]

The title's Modern Family. It's supposed to be modern. It's supposed to be, like, of this time.

[Nate]

But there's, like, there's the part of it where you're surprised that so recently we were so bad. But, like, I. I feel like as a. As a people, we don't Give ourselves credit. Like, hey, that's pretty good of us.

[John Feidelberg]

That's a pretty good.

[Nate]

That's a pretty good step.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nate]

Some departments were going, we're losing this battle, but we won one, a pretty big one recently.

[Kevin Clancy]

We just lost the congestion battle, though. Congestion pricing in New York was the most important thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

[Kelsey Cook]

Wait, what is it?

[John Feidelberg]

They.

[Kevin Clancy]

They started charging more for people to drive into Manhattan, and it just wiped out traffic. It just really overnight, it was like, they said there were 200,000 less cars, like, a week on the road.

[Kelsey Cook]

That's a huge difference.

[Kevin Clancy]

And I'm. I'm happy to pay the extra money. So I'm still driving in, and it, like, radically changed my life like it was. And then Donald Trump has to swoop in and be the hero for a bunch of these people. Why is this.

[John Feidelberg]

Why is the President even worried about.

[Kevin Clancy]

The tolls in the city? Go dupe. You got bigger fish to fry.

[Nate]

But he also didn't do anything.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, well, is it happening or not?

[Nate]

No. I mean, you can't just tweet and change the laws. Like.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, things have to.

[Nate]

Like. Like, now they. I declare there will be process.

[Kelsey Cook]

It's like, you can't get that about him.

[Nate]

Like, just because he tweeted doesn't mean anything happened.

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, it's like.

[Nate]

It's like, we voted on. We did it. It's. We, like, it's our city. We like it.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah.

[Nate]

Like, I feel like for New Yorkers, it's actually one of the rare things I've seen that, like, I. I don't have a strong opinion on it because I don't really drive. But, like, everyone. Everyone.

[Kevin Clancy]

Nate was making a good point for, like, he doesn't drive, but he's, like, just even walking around the city and there's, like, people driving, like, and. And. And, like, there's. He was saying, like, we need more, like, space. Like, instead of parking spots, we could have more, like, garbage disposal. That it's like, oh, I think about it from a traffic point of view, but even if you're not driving, there's probably benefits. It does seem like everybody here, but I don't know. There's also a bunch of people, a bunch of poor people complaining about extra money.

[Nate]

I don't know.

[Kelsey Cook]

But do you guys feel like the stats and the news about the violence on the subway, do you feel like that is also, like, how you feel about the plane stuff? It's like, oh, this is just getting more attention or do you feel like there's actually been a significant uptick in that? Because I, like, I'm traveling here for the week and I was like, I don't want to ride the subway because I've seen so much crazy.

[Nate]

I, I, I think it's always been.

[Kevin Clancy]

A pretty violent place, to be honest.

[Nate]

See, I completely disagree. I, I take the subway every day.

[Kevin Clancy]

Well, no, I meant like I just met, like it's been steady, like, like whatever.

[Kelsey Cook]

Like there's a story of people getting.

[Kevin Clancy]

Crime pushed in front of the tracks and crazy, but when you see someone get set on fire, it's like, it's a big deal.

[Nate]

The, it's all such like, I don't know. I, I, I, I love New York and I, so I always feel like people wanna make it seem like a hole and so like big stories get worse. I don't know. I, I've never had. I, I get it's different that I.

[Kevin Clancy]

Think it's a little bit different for guys too, though.

[Nate]

That's what I was just gonna say. Yeah, I get it's different that I'm a man and all that stuff, but like, I've never for a second, I'm not going to the outer boroughs or like to dangerous areas. I've never for a second felt, I.

[Kevin Clancy]

Think if it's like late night, empty train even. That was part of what Kelly was tweeting this, that with congestion pricing pe more people were on the subways, which almost made it more safe because you didn't. It wasn't just like you alone in a car with one dude, like, where it's like, this is weird.

[Kelsey Cook]

Interesting.

[Nate]

There, there was, it's also like there. I read an article, I think it was New York Times where it's like all that uptick took place at five subway stations either in Harlem or in Brooklyn between the hours of 2 and 6am like, so happens at those hours.

[Kevin Clancy]

In all places all the time.

[Nate]

It's like, again, I, I don't want to tell you it's the safest place in the world.

[Kelsey Cook]

No, no, I get it.

[Nate]

But like, it's, I think it's, it's drastically overstated. I ride the subway twice a day at least. I've never been like, it's always, you.

[Kevin Clancy]

Know, you just put your head down and just, just get on and off.

[John Feidelberg]

Like, don't.

[Nate]

You know?

[Kevin Clancy]

Yeah, that's, you'll be fine. But thanks. I, I think that the, the, that fire thing was, that scared people a lot.

[Nate]

Yeah, but that was it. That was like 5am from two homeless people in Brooklyn. Right? Yeah, it's horrible. And don't.

[Kevin Clancy]

When you're on your commute at like, you know, six, six, six at night, like you're fine. Yeah, yeah, but, yeah, but yeah, it's, it's still a little bit different than Minnesota, but I know it's like really.

[Kelsey Cook]

Softened me out there. I'm like, like. Because again, I lived in LA for six years and during that time I used to come to New York like once a month for a long time. When I was opening for Jim Norton, I was here often and Yeah, I don't know. Now it's like you live in the suburbs and you buy a house and you're like, I'm afraid you're in the big city.

[Kevin Clancy]

You're like this all the time.

[Kelsey Cook]

You get in your little cozy cocoon.

[Kevin Clancy]

So are you, you think you're. You're Minnesota for life now.

[Kelsey Cook]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it's like once you buy a house there, we talk about maybe it would be nice if we could afford like a place to go in the winter. Yeah, that was, I don't know, Arizona or something like that. Help with the tax break because Minnesota is so expensive. But I don't know, I don't know, it's maybe in 20 years we'd live somewhere else. But he's definitely like, Chad's a die hard Minnesota through and through. So it makes sense for touring, which is weird. You would never think that that's like, that you should live in central. Yeah, very central. All of the flights are non stop essentially. Very minimal time zone change. And that airport is incredible. Like I've said this before, I never thought I would be like horny for an airport. I fucking love the Minneapolis airport so much because as a comic, the airport kind of becomes your work office, right? It's like where you are on a weekly basis. And so many airports are the most depressing, disgusting places in the country. And Minneapolis is like beautiful. The bathrooms are big. You can like poop at the airport and not feel like a bridge troll. You just feel like a human who had a smoothie and it's like, everything's great, great. I just love it. It's such a great place.

[Kevin Clancy]

So that's great. I'm happy to hear you're doing good.

[Kelsey Cook]

Thank you. Thanks for having me.

[Kevin Clancy]

Special is out. You can get it on YouTube, on Hulu or your, your YouTube custom Hulu.

[Kelsey Cook]

Or it's actually on 800 pound gorillas. YouTube. But if you just search my name or mark your territory, it will come up on YouTube.

[Kevin Clancy]

Awesome. Mark your territory. Go check it out. And go check out the Hustler as well.

[Kelsey Cook]

Thanks.

[Kevin Clancy]

Always a pleasure. Thank you.

[Nate]

Thank you so much, Kelsey.

[Kelsey Cook]

Thank you.