126: Adult Field Trips with Justin Stagner | Soder Podcast | EP 124

Summary

Soder Podcast #126: Adult Field Trips with Justin Stagner

Release Date: March 24, 2026
Host: Dan Soder
Guest: Justin Stagner (comedian/viral video creator)

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Episode Overview

In this high-energy, nostalgic, and hilarious conversation, Dan Soder sits down with comedian and viral content creator Justin Stagner to riff on the weirdness and joy of adult field trips, childhood memories, comedy, sports fandom, and the changing landscape of social media and entertainment. The two share stories about their blue-collar work experiences, the role of sports in family life, and the way media (from wrestling to sitcoms) shaped their senses of humor.

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Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. Field Trips & Nostalgia (02:36–06:47)

• They start by remembering the quintessential Southern childhood field trip to the Huntsville, AL science center (“It’s not like you could make the joke of like ‘the Science center of Alabama’–which I think I was making that joke, which I thought was just a Burger King off the highway, but it's actually where NASA is and like rockets.” – Dan, 01:00) and sliding down WWII battleship cannons.
• Justin reflects on how the old battleship is unchanged, except for the modern vending machines awkwardly placed among historic exhibits. Dan riffs:
  “Field trips should be snacks from the World War II era in the vending machine.” – Dan (03:22)
• Both agree: “True field trips are wasted on children.” – Dan (04:32)

2. Comedy, Impressions, and Blue Collar Roots (06:47–22:59)

• Discussion of how ball-busting humor is part of their roots—making coworkers laugh in blue-collar jobs set the stage for careers in comedy.
• Dan recalls: “You should find the thing in your life you like doing that gets you in trouble at other jobs...push your life in that direction.” (19:34)
• Justin: “The only blue collar work I ever did was this summer I worked at a cannery in Alaska...the bit that murdered was me doing an impression of the processing boss.” (18:14)
• On adult interactions with fans, Justin notes, “People yell a Southern grandpa thing or they'll come up, like, square up with me.” (06:18)
• On internet culture and sensitivity: “The fun part of doing this show is it’s just straight up where I play video games all the time. So it really is my couch.” – Dan (07:54)

3. Generational Humor & Language (09:10–14:03)

• They reminisce on feeling “old,” the weirdness of interacting with teens, and not understanding or saying things like “dead ass.”
• Dan shares the moment his mom earnestly said “that’s the bomb” ("That was my 9/11...my mom goes, ‘that’s the bomb’, and I went like, what the lady?” – Dan, 13:16)
• Justin: “Alabama's like 10 years late for everything. We kept the mullet too long and all that.” (13:49)

4. The Evolution of Making It in Comedy & Social Media (16:41–22:59)

• Justin’s origin story: Made videos of (and about) his wife’s Southern sayings; “old Southern men are way funnier… so I just started doing jokes from my grandpa.” (48:49)
• Dissecting how the removal of gatekeepers and technology changed comedy: “You can sit and complain about there's no industry...but what it does is it gives creative people an immediate, like, platform.” – Dan (49:21)

5. Wrestling: From Childhood Awe to Adult Appreciation (23:00–47:49)

• Deep dive into wrestling as storytelling, the communal fandom, and the role of sports entertainment in childhood and adulthood.
  • Dan: "Every wrestling fan will tell you...there's an unspoken agreement when you walk into that arena that we're all gonna treat this like it's real." (26:10)
  • They each share stories of family members mimicking wrestlers (Stone Cold, Macho Man).
  • Justin: “My grandpa shaved his head because of Stone Cold Steve Austin.” (26:42)
• Dan recounts experiencing “real heat” from wrestling fans after a misunderstood joke in a documentary (“They edited the documentary in a way where it looked like I took the death of Macho Man very lightly.” – 44:07)
• Memorable Moment: Eric Bischoff defended Dan, saying, “He put [Macho Man] over. He made him look tougher.” (45:26)
• They geek out over 90s/2000s wrestling, impressions, and the magic of live events with children and adults alike.

6. Sitcoms, Stand-Up Heroes & Cultural References (35:18–42:49)

• How shows like Martin, Golden Girls, and The Simpsons influenced their humor growing up.
  • “Martin, funny-wise, gets overlooked so much.” – Dan (36:25)
  • Golden Girls as universal comfort TV.
• The importance of dads letting them watch “stuff above your age grade,” sharpening their wit through Mel Brooks movies and Rodney Dangerfield specials.
• The art of doing impressions—trading tips and nerding out over Frank Caliendo and voiceover technique.

7. Sports Fandom: Family, Identity, and the Madness of Loyalty (51:01–66:36)

• Sporting rivalries and the odd tribalism of being a fan.
  • Justin: “Sports will teach you how to hate people.” (53:06)
  • Dan: “That is interesting about sports hate because, like, I'm a San Francisco Giants fan, and the Dodgers are just on a generational tear with that.” (53:40)
• Discussion on fair-weather fans, college football fanaticism in Alabama, sports heartbreak (“I never thought the Nuggets were going to win a world championship.” – Dan, 57:12), and the passionate women in their lives (“one of the only times I've ever seen Nate Bargatze’s wife angry...” – Dan, 60:31).
• Debate over NIL (name, image, likeness) payments to college athletes and how it's changed the game in the South.

8. Unintentional Comedy & Accidentally Hurting Kids (63:24–65:00)

• Both share self-deprecating stories of accidentally wounding kids when wrestling or playing, ending with, “Accidentally hurting a child...My bad, little buddy.” – Dan (64:57)
• Full circle back to “my bad” as the ultimate de-escalator in both life and comedy (09:10).

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Notable Quotes & Standout Moments

Dan Soder:

• “True field trips are wasted on children.” (04:32)
• “You should find the thing in your life that you like doing that gets you in trouble at other jobs...push your life in that direction.” (19:34)
• “That's the fun part of wrestling. Just going like, nah, man, you got one.” (30:36)
• “The art of comedy is ball-busting, but you forget some people are sensitive. Not everyone thinks it’s just fun.” (08:34)
• “My bad. It’s just a two-word parachute for bailing out of stupid situations.” (09:36)
• “Sports will teach you how to hate people.” (53:06)

Justin Stagner:

• “The only blue collar work I ever did was this summer I worked at a cannery in Alaska...The bit that murdered was me doing an impression of the processing boss.” (18:14)
• “Alabama's like 10 years late for everything. We kept the mullet too long…” (13:49)
• “My grandpa shaved his head because of Stone Cold Steve Austin.” (26:42)
• “You see somebody in the same T shirt, just hit them as hard as you can.” (53:30)
• “The only part of Alabama that’s got a beach and a bay.” (50:39)

Special Mentions:

• Impression of the Alabama pronunciation of “Mobile” v. “Mobile.”
• Both recall being starstruck as adults (Dan with Seinfeld and Stone Cold; Justin with Ken Griffey Jr. liking his reel).
• Earnest sports heartbreak and the dynamics of divided sports loyalties within families.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:36 – Field trips, battleship cannons, WWII museum nostalgia
• 06:47 – Becoming the “office comic”; making people laugh on the job
• 09:10 – Generational rifts, "my bad," language gaps with youth
• 16:41 – Justin explains starting videos, making the jump to comedy
• 23:00 – Wrestling fandom, storytelling, uniting generations
• 35:18 – Childhood TV (“Martin,” “Golden Girls,” “The Simpsons”); jokes for adults
• 42:49 – Comedy impressions deep-dive
• 51:01 – College football, state rivalries, and sports loyalty
• 63:24 – “Hurting” kids while playing; “my bad, little buddy”
• 66:36 – Closing shoutouts; Justin’s Instagram; thanks and sign-off

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced, full of recallable bits, snappy banter, and layered with warmth, self-deprecation, and honest nostalgia. Dan and Justin riff as old friends, naturally blending cultural references, Southern quirks, and big-hearted ball-busting. The conversation jumps between personal stories and cultural phenomena, always seasoned with punchlines and genuine respect.

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Takeaways

If you ever wondered what would happen if two comedians who grew up as working class sports nerds and wrestling fans just shot the shit for an hour about childhood, comedy origins, and every American TV touchstone, this episode is your golden ticket. Both rep their roots, dig into what shapes funny people, and make it clear that the things that used to get you in trouble at work may just be your true calling.

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Guest Plugs:

• Justin Stagner: Follow on Instagram; see him on tour; check out his viral Southern Grandpa videos.
• Dan Soder: Stand-up tour dates at dansoder.com.

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For fans of nostalgia, inside-comedy baseball, and the never-ending debate over the best wrestling pop of all time, this is a can’t-miss hang.

Transcript

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[C]

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[B]

all of us took field trips. Huntsville.

[C]

That was it. That was a field trip.

[B]

The field trip.

[C]

That.

[B]

And we have a battleship from World War II where we were at. So those are two. They let you slide down the cannons and that's awesome.

[C]

Yeah, that's awes Stagner. I my fans give me for not introing people off the top. Follow him on Instagram. He makes hilarious videos. I love him. And I was like, dude, you know, we were talking, and I was like, come on the podcast. But back to a cannon slide.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Was that the finale of the field trip?

[B]

Yeah, dude. It's so crazy because nothing in there is updated. They left everything how it is, but then they've got vending machines in it.

[C]

Really? Like what? Kind of like.

[B]

Like Coke snack machines, Like Frito Lay snack machines. The works. Inside of a World War II where nothing's much except for that it should be.

[C]

And this is just me curating for field trips. Should be snacks from the World War II era in the vending machine.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, that would be great.

[C]

You know what I mean? Great.

[B]

Like. Like a Pepsi. Can you open with a can opener?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. You get lead poisoning from eating some of the snacks.

[B]

They shoot them out of the cannons.

[C]

Watching the unathletic kids just miss.

[B]

It's so crazy because they slide you down it. You go in first grade. That's when you go in first grade and at. No, I guess you're young enough to, like. They slide you down, and everybody's just thinking, like, we killed people with these. You just. You know.

[C]

Yeah, dude. There's a guy that grew up without a dad because of that cannon.

[B]

Exactly. And now it's just parked out there. You can just slide.

[C]

There's a German guy taking his family after he moves here. He's like, I just feel like this isn't the right place. I just. This caused our family a lot of grief. Colorado, Growing up in Colorado, field trips are all either nature or settling. Like, nature like hikes, like Cave of the Winds. There's an episode. Cool, though, you know? But it's wasted on children.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

True field trips are wasted on children.

[B]

Parents get to go, and the parents are most of the time being like, what the fuck?

[C]

But now that I'm an adult and my friends have kids and I know what parents truly are, which are people. Now I know those parents are like, probably got into a fight of who's going to go with them.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Because they're not enjoying the museum. They're not enjoying the battleship. They're watching kids. So they can't go like, oh, this kid, like, read a plaque. They can't read one.

[B]

Dude, I'm the dad. So I'm sitting there at the World War II thing, and I was getting to the vending. Machines. I'm like, when the. They invent these.

[C]

You did the. You did the. The line from Cable Guy when Matthew Broderick is at Medieval Times and he's

[B]

like, oh, yeah, can I get a fork?

[C]

There were no utensils at Medieval Times. Hence there are new utensils at Medieval Times. But they had Pepsi.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Dude, I had a lot of tables. I quote that to Janine Garofalo too much like the.

[B]

The cable guy.

[C]

The Pepsi line.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

To the point where it's like, man, I think I'm that guy with her.

[B]

No, dude, it's. It's one of those things where like, ah, I hate you started out fun and then eventually you're like, oh, I think I've crossed the line.

[C]

But I think the Internet has blurred that for a lot of, like, Especially being friends with someone as big as, like, Shane or Nate or Bert. People feel like they can just yell out. Like they're on this shorthand with you and you see some crazy. I don't really have that. I have like a very low. But guys at the top. Because you want to yell.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You've been waiting your entire life to see Tom Hanks and scream Wilson down the street.

[C]

Exactly. Do you have people yell at you from your videos?

[B]

Of course.

[C]

Southern grandpa.

[B]

It's. It's. Dude, it's usually that people have their thing. And I guess that's the cool thing is, like, finding out what their thing is.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So, like, people yell a Southern grandpa thing or they'll come up, like, square up with me. Or a lot of people like, like the bushy stuff, like, they love the

[C]

whistling s. Dude, wh. You can do it so good.

[B]

Oh, I've got that. My Herbert is like, off the charts.

[C]

Yes. The whistle thing is like, I used to do it on the bonfire and it would take me a while to get there because you really have to, like. It's a.

[B]

It's a learning skill. My son already can do it at seven. I was like, you're going to be amazing.

[C]

That's crazy. That's. You're a baseball dad, but with voices. Yeah. So here's. You go whistle talk, practice in the garage.

[B]

Yeah. And he said there's. It's a certain song that he can sing and get it going. You gotta do that. Rep it.

[C]

That's the. When did you show him the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh? Because that's.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

The gopher.

[B]

The gopher. Yeah. Forget his name. But the people. Ever since I started doing the Bushes Thing like, people tag, you know, they comment. Like, you sound like the Winnie the Pooh gopher.

[C]

Jimmy. Yeah. Jim Cummings is the guy that does. I think he does the voice. He does the voice for Pooh, but I think he does the voice and he does. He does a run of voices that

[B]

you're like, oh, yeah, it's like that guy for the Looney Tunes that did all of them.

[C]

Yeah. Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc, yeah. They. But Jim Cummings did, like, Darkwing Duck and all these. There was a video we made fun of him on the bonfire, so I think he hates me because he was going through some shit. We made fun of it. And I did a character of dark.

[B]

You ever feel like. I mean, when you're sitting here and you bring something up and then you make fun of it? Like, back in the day, it was just you and your friends on the couch. Bullshit. And now you're like, oh, 10 million people could see this tomorrow.

[C]

I'm gonna tell you right now. Yes.

[B]

Yeah, that's.

[C]

No one has. He has to deal with that the most. Because what he deals with is me at like 8 in the morning going, should I talk about someone on that podcast? I can't go out. And then I'm like, yo, Mike, I made fun of someone. Can you take that? Because, like, the fun part of doing this show is it's just straight up where I play video games all the time. Yeah. So it really is my couch. People think this is a set. And you're like, no, I'm excited to take the lights down and play. Yeah, exactly. Run my dynasty on college football.

[B]

Damn right.

[C]

But you. You get too comfortable, and then it's like you do. You start talking and then you go,

[B]

yeah, and then you cut it off and you're like, that was a little much.

[C]

But that is, like, one of the things that I've always liked about comedy is it is ball busty. But then you forget that this. It's. It's entertainment. So you have artists. So there's also sensitivity.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Where you go. They're not taking it, like, back of the bus, ball busting, like a lot of my friends do. And a lot of comics I'm friends with, there are people who are like. That really upset me, I'm sure, dude.

[B]

Because, like, I love it. It's. It's the way our minds work, though, because I'll see somebody get arrested, and I'm like, oh, this is fucking hilarious. Right? This real quick. Then you post a video about it, and you start seeing the comments. You're Like, I fucked up. I think

[C]

a lot of it is we've lost the ability just to go. We need to bring back my bad.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

Like, my bad. Like, I'm talking about all my bad. All levels of society, people need to start being better at going, like, my bad. Yeah. Because in real life when someone says my bad, it de escalates immediately.

[B]

You're calm.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You're like, oh, dude. I thought Dan was getting wild, but he was like, my bad.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's just my bad.

[C]

It is my bad. It's just a two word. It's like, it's just like you popping your seat out of the jet before it crashes. My bad.

[B]

Yeah. You ever said something and the last word, you're like, my bad. Like, it's not even. You don't have time to think about it.

[C]

I was walking. I was going to the Cellar last night and I was walking down to the subway and there was a group of like teenagers and, you know. How old are you?

[B]

35.

[C]

So I'm 42. So we're in the same. We're all. We're old, right?

[B]

Yeah, we're old for sure.

[C]

Now we're not like real old, but teenagers look at us and they go, dudes and jeans.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

They know this. They know I'm dressed up like a. Like a heroin addict going to court.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's his best sweatshirt.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But I also get that old man feeling when like teenagers are all the time in groups. I don't even.

[B]

You don't realize when it happened.

[C]

And you. What year did that?

[B]

I don't know, dude. I remember one time my brother called me. He's way younger than me because it's like a. My dad and my stepmom.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So he's way younger.

[C]

So your first marriage, kid, Right.

[B]

Me and my brother are locked in. First marriage, kids. Then I got a brother, sister from the. And it.

[C]

Dude, you're the tribunal of the elders.

[B]

I tell this joke on stage because I don't know when it happened. My brother called me one day and it was like noon. And I was like, what are you doing? He said, I just woke up. I said, you're sleeping your life away, son. I was like, what the. I remember used to get so mad at mom. I was like, what do you care if I get up? I have nothing to do today.

[C]

Yeah. Or when I go home for Thanksgiving and just get black out the night before Thanksgiving and then wake up and

[B]

you're back at 17.

[C]

Yeah. And everybody would hit you with a Like, oh, thought you were going to sleep all day. And you're like, well, I was drinking till five in the morning, right. Technically, I, I, I pulled it overnight.

[B]

I should have just powered through.

[C]

Yeah, but the, I wonder what age it is that you're like, dude, these kids.

[B]

I know, but it just happens.

[C]

Yeah. And I'm walking behind a group of like seven teenagers and they're laughing and they're having fun, but they're like kind of slow. And I'm like getting old man, old white guy mad. I'm like, you know, the sidewalk is the right sides for walking in the left start to sound like Lewis Black. There's a thing. You're walking. But I am walking down the sidewalk and they break apart to get like street meat or whatever, like getting food. And they go to the park and what? And one of the kids goes, oh, my bad to me like that. You want my fault like that that they were walking. And I went, thanks. I was out of it.

[B]

This kid's got self awareness.

[C]

Shook his hand. You're gonna be something someday.

[B]

Damn right.

[C]

That self, that awareness is really gonna take it.

[B]

I hate when you're talking to one of them and they say something and you're like, God damn, dude. Like, I remember I was talking to a guy last night. I did a set at the stand, and he's way younger. He's asking me how to get into comedy. And I was like, I don't. Yeah, do it, you know?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And I said something. I was like, you need to just like find if you're, if you want to get on the road, find another comic that thinks you're good.

[C]

Me.

[B]

He's like, dead ass, man.

[C]

I was like, oh, yeah.

[B]

Oh, man.

[C]

You know what's weird? It's weird to be on the other side because to this day I vividly remember where I was. Not for 911, not, not for Columbine. But when my mom said, oh, that's the bomb. Oh yeah, I remember my mom said it sincerely. That was my 911, where I was like in my head at that moment, just in faded video, the two bill the buildings are collapsing. That plume cooking shits hitting my kitchen. My mom goes, oh, that's the bomb. And I went like, what the lady. Yeah, the are you doing?

[B]

She's trying, man.

[C]

Dude, that's like she brandished a firearm.

[B]

That's actually a great video that you should make.

[C]

But it was just like she pulled and then I. So it's weird to be on the other side when someone's like to be

[B]

like if you said dead ass right now.

[C]

If I was like. But they say it to me and I go like, I. You even know, you go, I couldn't say that. I could never go like that. Dead ass. No, I'm dead ass because that was a real. That was a New York thing. That's like a super New York thing.

[B]

Oh, it started up here.

[C]

Yeah. Dead ass is absolutely New York.

[B]

Well, it's. Dude, you know, Alabama's like 10 years late for everything. Yeah, we kept the mullet too long and all that.

[C]

You guys are like in the 90s when Russia was getting our rock from the 80s, right?

[B]

That's exactly right. So now like our classic rock stations playing 10 years too late.

[C]

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[B]

Yeah, I had to. I was doing the videos and they took off. And I've been writing stand up for, like, 10 years. Just never had the balls to do it type of thing. And somebody tagged a local guy and he was like, actually, run some mics in town if you want to ever come try.

[C]

Had you ever done stand up before?

[B]

No, but I tell people it's like, I worked at a steel mill and I'm telling jokes to a room full of strangers. That type of thing.

[C]

You just crack the code.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, it's.

[C]

Anybody that's had a real job and, like, worked with their hands.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Done, like, real.

[B]

Because, you know, those are some of the funniest people in the world.

[C]

That's what I mean. You go, none of these. None of these nerds are gonna.

[B]

They don't know real ball break.

[C]

It really was, like, insane. That's such a thing. It's weird because it's like, remember when MMA found out that if you had a wrestling background, you were just gonna be better?

[B]

Exactly. Like, that's a perfect analogy.

[C]

They're like, oh, you're just gonna. You're gonna control the. The match. You're gonna have the wind. Your. Your wind's gonna be up. That's what it's like with people that worked blue collar jobs. When I find out someone worked a blue collar job and they do stand up, I go, you're fine.

[B]

Yeah, you're going to be all right. That makes sense.

[C]

It's just reps at this point.

[B]

It is.

[C]

It's like a lot of standup is reps. And you. I remember older comics telling me that, and when I moved here in my 20s, being like. And then you see it pay off, and you're like, it was, dude, it's.

[B]

It's Literally, like. And as you know, working a blue collar job, as soon as you show them, you could do impressions or, like, have a joke or something. You're like a dog with a trick. I'm gonna just go get everybody else.

[C]

The only blue collar work I ever did was this summer I worked at cannery in Alaska.

[B]

I remember. I remember seeing this on a pod.

[C]

And the bit that murdered with you saying that was me doing an impression of the. Of the processing boss.

[B]

Oh, that's. You're right to the top with that. If you can make. If you can do the ball spirit, dude.

[C]

Then I would put him in situations that would make these guys laugh. Exactly. I think one of the bits I did his name was. Now people try to argue with me with us online. His name was Aladdin. That's how they pronounced it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Filipino Aladdin. But then they told me it was Aladdin and he was with me. But I'm telling you right now, his cousin would call him Aladdin.

[B]

Right.

[C]

But I do this thing called Aladdin in the processors. Like, he was like a 50s band. And he was like, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good. That card is no good. These guys would be like, Justin, I

[B]

would be killing, of course.

[C]

And that was the moment where I was like, oh, I think I'm gonna do stand up when I get back to Arizona. That really was the moment.

[B]

Did those guys out there ever tell you, just from like, my experience, those guys out there be like, dude, you missed your calling. You should not be here with me.

[C]

Yeah, they're like that type of thing. They would say two things to me. They would either go, you should do stand up, or they would go, man, I like working with you.

[B]

Right? That's the same thing. Yeah, they told you the same thing.

[C]

And you go, like, we're not getting good work done here.

[B]

No, not at all.

[C]

Like, running behind.

[B]

I'm here for the comedic relief.

[C]

That's it. But I always felt like you should find the thing in your life that you like doing that gets you in trouble at other jobs. Like a job that you're bad at. Whatever you do to kill time, push your life in that direction.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

Just go. Like, for me, it was always. Because, like I said, the Alaska thing was. But I was a waiter. That was the thing I did. I was always a waiter, always working at restaurants. And my favorite thing were smoke breaks or being at the hutch, making people laugh. And I was like, that's just my energy.

[B]

And then podcast stand up and.

[C]

Yeah, and podcasting is the smoke break.

[B]

Yeah. Well, dude, even when I was bartended and waited, table, same exact thing. Like, that's the favorite part of that, is making all your co workers laugh. I would go to sometimes and be like. I'd be Irish all night.

[C]

Yeah, you're good.

[B]

All your tables Irish. Be like, yeah. And I'd go there, and people would pick up on it, and I'd be like, well, I've been in the States a little while. It's not, you know, getting a little Southern rubbing off there.

[C]

That's so funny, you falling back into a Southern accent. Someone's like, I'm drunk, man. I can't.

[B]

I remember one time my friends came in and I didn't have their table, and I'm over there, I'm like, can I get you anything to drink? Some sweet tea or some Coke? And I just remember looking at. My friends were just going like, what the is he doing?

[C]

Changing your voice or. With tables. I got to a point where, you know this. I worked at a restaurant in midtown, and the cafe was like, cool.

[B]

This is.

[C]

This is 07. The cafe was like, cool. People would come in on Thursday nights, and they would want to be cool, and they want to drink Patron, and they want to be on 3rd Avenue and 50th. 50th and 3rd. And being like, you make good money, you know, because the bills were high, but they were dicks. And I started doing bits to make me and my friends laugh, and I. Depending on who the manager was, I would get away with it. But in the summer, we'd have to put napkins because we had metal water pitchers.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So we'd have to put napkins over the water so it wouldn't melt the ice in the pitcher.

[B]

Right.

[C]

So you'd have these pitchers on the hutches with napkins over them and then water pitchers. And I would do shit to make the other waiters laugh. Like, I would. I would wait till a guy would pull, and then I'd pull the napkin off. Like it was a trick. Like, I was a magician, and I was revealing the pitcher of water. So they would walk by, and I'd go, like. And I go, like that. But they'd be walking by me, and another waiter would be. I'd be doing it for the other waiter, of course. Let me do it for that guy. But you come by, and I go, like that. Or I would. If I knew a waiter, because the tables were pretty close. I would water tables, but I would do it like I Was a rock star. So I'd go, table 340. It's been a while since I've seen you pour the water. And it was in 0708, after the housing market collapsed.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So most of the time, all euros. That cafe was Spaniards, Italians.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So I could say that they wouldn't even. Yeah, they go home. Right. But say whatever you want, but the other way, you know, like, they're dying.

[B]

Your buddies are dying.

[C]

My friend Sarah's, like, laughing at her table, giving the specials. And I'm going, like, 3:42, it looks like you need water.

[B]

No gas.

[C]

And they'd be like, what? And it is like, being then. That's why when I see comics complain about the road or complain about anything, I go, dude, I should be. I should be at a restaurant right now.

[B]

Yeah, it's true.

[C]

I should be going through the specials. Appreciate. Yeah, I shouldn't be able to set my own schedule.

[B]

Dude. I remember whenever I was in. I was. I grew up a wrestling kid, just like you did.

[C]

Yeah, dude, check it out. People send me action figures about it.

[B]

Oh, that's awesome.

[C]

Yeah, dude. And I'm like, dad, don't stop.

[B]

Yeah, don't stop now. I used to give. I used to give people sweet chin music in the restaurant. Like, my managers and. And, dude, this one day, you remember, like, at the end of the day when they just poured buckets of water on the floor to mop it. Yeah, dude, I gave him some sweet music and soaked his white. Like, it was all on my foot. When I.

[C]

So you do the full kick up.

[B]

Oh, yeah. And slap my leg. It sounds like it.

[C]

Yeah, it's the leg slap for all you wrestling fans. Turn heel. So that's what I do. That's what I do on the road. Ask Sagalo. We were in Cleveland. My phone's in my pocket, so I can't do it. But we were in Cleveland. And the way the green room is at Hilarities is, you come out the back, and it's like two hallways like this. So people would come around the hallway. If they'd go to the bar, and it'd be like, Jimmy Graham would be emceeing, and he'd come around. I'd go like, oh, my God, dad, soda just turned heel. Or like, Sagala would come around and I'd go, like. And I do the kick. You know, dude, we went to Raw and I showed Katie that she didn't know that's how they did it.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

And I said that to her, and she Went, I wish she wouldn't have told me that, dude.

[B]

I got a buddy, like my best friend got really into it, like hardcore Holly and a few of those other guys are from Mobile and they started like a little wrestling school down there and he went to it like when we were in high school. So he learned all these drinks to tell me about.

[C]

I love that.

[B]

Yeah. So I got to know, dude, I would do this to all the little like 90 pound girls and all the dudes would be laughing, they'd be like, what the fuck is your problem? I was like, that was that close

[C]

to your chin, dude. My buddy, one of my closest friends, Vic, he was like my old roommate. Big Mexican dude, huge wrestling fan. He got me back in when I was out from 18 to 23. He was like my guy that brought me in back into wrestling. But we were at our friend Greg's house and this is in Tucson and we're just chilling there and Vic could do the open palm thing.

[B]

Oh wow.

[C]

And he just, he just chopped Greg out of nowhere. And Greg was like, what the fuck? Caused a real problem. We were talking about that a couple months ago and I saw both of them in Tucson on and it was like hilarious because he just went like, he did the Andre the Giant, the Big Paul.

[B]

Like a bear ball.

[C]

Yeah. And getting a chop like that.

[B]

So. So you're back into it now?

[C]

I mean, I've been back into it since I was 23. So I've been like. It's been 20 years. I've been back in.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

Since, since 06 though.

[B]

So I recently I got invited to go to like SummerSlam like two years ago. So I went. It was in Cleveland.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And I was watching it and it's so crazy because like when I was a kid and I realized it wasn't real, I was like, oh, God damn it. My whole childhood's a lie. I would say usually like the probably 10 right in there. 1011 range.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Somewhere in there.

[C]

And that's great. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

And then I came back to watch this and the funniest part about it to me was like now you're appreciating the athleticism, the movements, right? All of it. That's what you're watching.

[C]

You go, I can't move.

[B]

But it's so funny to watch another guy who's 40 something years old and he's like, turn around, Ralph. And you're like, dude, give me a break.

[C]

But that is, and every wrestling fan will tell you is that there's an unspoken Agreement when you walk into that arena that we're all gonna treat this like it's real. And I think that's why it's such a great environment for kids.

[B]

Oh, it's a great.

[C]

Because they go in and they go. Like they see adults pretending without telling each other or making each other feel bad for it. Because I think that's what non wrestling fans don't understand is we know it's fake.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Don't, don't piss on us. I will say we're just trying to have fun.

[B]

I will say people in Alabama didn't like my grandpa was shaved his head because of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[C]

Like badass.

[B]

I mean, he would literally be watching RAW with us and be like that. Like if somebody talks to Stone Cold Steve Austin, my grandpa would be like, he couldn't whoop a picture. Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[C]

That's a cool ass sentence. He couldn't whoop a picture of Stone Cold Steve Austin's a badass. That's. But you know why is. Because we're a different generation now. Now we're the adults that understand what marketing and work is.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

I think like, I think your grandpa, my parents generation was the last generation to go like, you know, Ric Flair is incredibly wealthy.

[B]

Yeah, maybe so.

[C]

Yeah, sure. But I think he also probably owes a lot of money to the tax. You know, the real thing of it, like they would go like it. You know what? I think it all comes down to that story of Iron Chic and Hacksaw Jim Duggan getting caught smoking weed together in a car.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And they were doing like a big feud and they said like that was the thing that killed like wrestling being real to adults.

[B]

Well, that and the, the curtain call.

[C]

Right, dx?

[B]

Yep, exactly. Exactly. But like, you could have told my grandpa that and he would have been like, I don't know, I'm pretty damn. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because everybody in Alabama thought everybody on TV was a millionaire. Like, if you were on tv, you're, you're rich, you've made it.

[C]

I don't think they're wrong. I think at a certain point, like up until like the 60, when there was like four channels before.

[B]

Oh, maybe that if you were on

[C]

TV, you're like, that guy's probably got money. And you're like. But you know what's interesting about that? As we get older and we look back to like how the. Because like you just making videos, you just going like, oh, that's funny, I'm gonna do that. And then Making it and having it up within. How long has it been? Like a week to make a video? Sometimes.

[B]

It depends. So like if, if it's just like a regular skit, I can get it done pretty quick. So the whole thing, editing and all, might take me an hour.

[C]

See that used to be like, you had to go to a television station.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

You had to set, you had to go get. Well, who's gonna build the set?

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Are we gonna film this?

[B]

Somebody's got to get audio.

[C]

This is all money. This is all money. And then you realize all those people on tv, I was talking about this recently, an episode. They have like contracts with studios. So it's like that big house they live in. That's the studio's house. Yeah, that's not their house. They're getting paid a salary from the studio. And you're like, oh, it's way different now. So wrestling, wrestling back in the day, they were like, junkyard dog, beat up anybody. And you go, yeah, probably in the south, but if he went to like Minnesota, I bet they'd make him lose to like whoever their, whoever their champ was.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Or he goes to North Carolina, he's probably going to lose. The flare, of course. And they had to like protect that. And then now you're kind of like, now we're all going to choose to pretend take it.

[B]

Yeah, well, they should. I mean, that's what keeps it alive.

[C]

It's the best. It's the best. I got into an argument with a nine year old that I didn't know at SummerSlam 2016.

[B]

I probably know what you're gonna say. Good. What were you arguing about?

[C]

It was Cena versus AJ Styles.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And Cena's music hit and that's when the crowd. Because now they act like everybody loved them.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

But in 2016, the chant was, john Cena sucks. John Cena sucks. And then the counter chant that happens in wrestling where they go, john Cena. And so there you go. John Cena sucks. John and me and this kid were

[B]

doing it back and forth because he

[C]

turned around and saw me and he was like, I've had multiple sporting events for talk to children. So he was like, he was like, john Cena. And then I was like, john Cena sucks. Just doing like that older you turn heel.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

And then John Cena won the match. And the kid looked back and I went like. And he was like, you saw this kid have this moment where he's like, yeah.

[B]

He told all his friends that.

[C]

He was like, yeah, dude, this guy was cheering for AJ Styles, but you know what I mean?

[B]

Oh, yeah. Yes.

[C]

That's the fun part of wrestling.

[B]

It is.

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[B]

Dude. What I get into arguments with kids with about wrestling is like they don't understand. And they try to tell like there's no I can say it all day long. There's no way to convince them of the pandemonium that would happen when the glass would break and Stone Cold Steve Austin would come out.

[C]

And I will see, I was like,

[B]

if he had an Instagram, then he'd have a billion followers.

[C]

I will see your glass breaking, Stone Cold. Which is true. Yeah. Number one pop moment in the world. But being eight years older than you, you don't know what it was like when Hogan's theme.

[B]

See, But I won't argue that. I will agree with you.

[C]

And I mean, after everything, Hulk Hogan

[B]

would have also had a billion followers on Instagram.

[C]

Hulk Hogan shit hitting that.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

I can only imagine as a child, it made me understand Pentecostal churches because it would lift me, the spirit would lift me. Hulk Hogan on Saturday night, main event. And some shit's going down, especially the mega powers. Listen, when you're a kid, you love Hulk Hogan. You grow up to love Macho Man Randy Savage. Because you realize Savage was the one that was selling it, that was doing the in ring work, Right. He was the reason that mega powers thing was perfect.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Hogan just had to be the all out good guy, right?

[B]

Exactly. All the time.

[C]

Oh, brother, I'm just trying to help you. Macho man was jealous. You got jealousy in those eyes. But it was like that. As an adult, you understand way more true. You go, dude, if my buddy was hanging out with my girl and touching her small back, I go, what are you doing?

[B]

Exactly. I'm a macho fan.

[C]

Yeah. But as a kid, Hulk Hogan's a good guy and you just leave him alone. Turns out he wasn't. Everybody like, he's just a good guy and all he does is care about.

[B]

Turns out there's all these stories.

[C]

Turns out it's. Let's just not bring him up to Johnny Jones talking about your black friends. Bring them up around. But it is like you see that and you go, oh, that's storytelling for adults. I always liked cartoons that when you watch them, they were like the Simpsons. Yeah, the Simpsons. You could get into it as a kid, but you also realize it's making your sense of humor better because the jokes are for adults.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Storylines like the mega powers colliding is like. Oh, you get that as an adult, you're like, I've been jealous.

[B]

Right. Well, dude, it's a bunch. All that that you watch as a kid. Like, I. I watch stuff way above my age grade. Like when I was growing up.

[C]

Like, does that happen anymore?

[B]

That's what I was going to say. I think that really sharpens all your. Because you. Even the jokes you don't understand, you're like, my dad laughed at that. What the.

[C]

That was the biggest thing for me.

[B]

Right. And you're just sitting there like, so that's funny. I got to figure out what the that means.

[C]

I remember watching my dad laugh to Rodney Dangerfield.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I didn't understand the jokes, but I understood that he was funny and watching how hard he made my dad laugh. It was that HBO special where he had the young comics up. We'd watch that all the time where he has like Young Bill Hicks, Young Kinison. It's like you can watch him. There was a series they did on HBO with Dangerfield hosting.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

At Dangerfields in New York. And it's like, it's just him at the club and he's like, just killing. And I watch my dad be like, yo, he's laughing, dude.

[B]

That's how I felt when we watched Martin. Like we used to watch Martin with my. They'd be rolling off the couch laughing. I was like, this is the funniest dude alive.

[C]

Martin, funny wise, gets overlooked so much.

[B]

Oh my God, it's hilarious. And go back and watch it. It's still funny.

[C]

Yeah, they play it. It's that and Golden Girls are the two most re watchable shows. Martin.

[B]

My wife's favorite show is Golden Girls.

[C]

We go to bed to it every night.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's on Hallmark every night.

[B]

She puts it on her phone to go to sleep to.

[C]

That's really. We do the same thing. And then every night, without fail, Katie will go, God, the fits. She's like, she's. Every time that. Because whenever they're in night wear, they're always like, they got like three layers. Yeah, dude, they look good. All of them have different but good looking outfits. Because the Golden Girls was the thing I would watch with my grandma that we both could appreciate.

[B]

Right, Exactly.

[C]

Because it was just so funny. It was, it was joke riding on that, dude.

[B]

The bloopers that I watch that you can watch now, they're telling each other dirty jokes. Hilarious.

[C]

Betty White telling that joke to Blanche. I call her Blanche. No disrespect. I usually call them all by their names. Yeah. By their show names, I mean like Dorothy's on One today, but I don't know if. If they do that anymore. I think that's a disservice to children is make them.

[B]

I agree.

[C]

My dad used to let me watch Mel Brooks movies because he was like, you probably won't get the jokes now, but when you get older.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like Young Frankenstein. I didn't get three fourths of the joke when I first started watching.

[B]

No. Even shows that were kind of like in the middle, like watching Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, or like When Nature Calls.

[C]

I mean, that blew up. I was 11 years old when that came out in movie theater. And I'm gonna tell you that phenomenon. Two things that get that weren't the Internet wasn't around to watch people overkill or three was Rick. I'm Rick James. Because as a huge Chappelle fan, the first time I heard someone scream, Rick, I'm Rick James, we're at a bowling alley, drinking beers, bowling, and I heard it and I was like, idiots found out about Dave Chappelle.

[B]

Yeah, he was about him.

[C]

He was our best kept secret.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It felt like a band. Ace Ventura coming out in sixth grade. And kids talk, trying to talk. Like, Ace Ventura was a. It was an epidemic. I bet it was at middle schools.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Kids going like, oh, see, I caught

[B]

the second one first.

[C]

Great. It holds up.

[B]

It was amazing.

[C]

And then the one that really, really, really shook the world was Beavis and Butthead.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And when I was in sixth grade, it came out.

[B]

Have you ever heard. Is it Mike Judge?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Have you ever heard him talking about the old voicemail he got of how he got the voice for Butthead? I can't remember, but it's got a voicemail from this guy. No, I think he's talking about how he got the voice for Boom Hour and it's this guy. No, it is a Beavis.

[C]

And.

[B]

But he's calling how he don't like. He doesn't like Beavis and Butthead. He's complaining about it, but it gives him the voice for Boomhauer.

[C]

Oh. Because really?

[B]

Yeah. So he calls and he's like, every time that dangle Porky's Butthole comes on, man, I just can't stand it. He thought Beavis and. But it was called Porky's Butthole for whatever reason. So then he saved that voicemail and turned that into Boomhauer's voice on King of the Hill.

[C]

Yeah. I think Mike Judge is a guy that. I put him at my. If you could have dinner with five people.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

It'd be Matt Trey, Mike Judge would be three of them.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Well, that's. You've knocked it out of the park already.

[C]

Matt and Trey and Mike Judge.

[B]

Those are some of my favorite bloopers ever.

[C]

That's what's great about Instagram.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You get the reels of Trey doing the voiceover. Because the first time I saw them do that was the documentary Six Days to Air. And they're doing the Human Centipede episode,

[B]

which is probably the most famous one.

[C]

Yeah. And it shows them writing it. And like, Trey. I've watched that documentary so many times, but Trey, like, hates it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Or he doesn't think it's that good. He doesn't hate it. Like, doesn't think that's good. But it shows him doing the voiceover where he's doing the Japanese businessman. He's like. He's like, oh, Caillou, do you want me to eat vanilla paste or kodu fish? And then it's. It's Matt laughing, going as Kenny, and he goes, yeah, that makes me laugh.

[B]

Oh, dude, that one. And the one where it's him and Bill Hader and he's talking. He's also doing another Japanese voice. He's like, apparently China and Japan are separated by huge body water.

[C]

And then they cut to it. Yeah, that was always. I remember the Family Guy was like, a weird thing, because Family Guy, when it came out, it was on, then got canceled.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then it got brought back on.

[B]

But it made a lot of money.

[C]

It was the first Internet hit that brought it back because. Kaza. Kaza or Kazam. What was it?

[B]

It was Kaza.

[C]

Kaza. Yeah, Kaza. And like, those downloads you could.

[B]

Yeah. And all that.

[C]

Download full Family Guy episodes. We used to smoke swag my freshman year of college, shout out to the Aarons. We would go over to there. They had, like, off campus dorm where you could, like. We could smoke weed and we wouldn't get in trouble.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

And we'd go over there and they would. He would bring it up on his computer and he'd be like, you want to watch this cartoon Family Guy? And you're like, dude, this is the best.

[B]

Right.

[C]

And then the first time I saw Seth MacFarlane in the voiceover booth, I noticed he did his peter out of the side of his mouth, like, right.

[B]

Actually kind of looked like Peter when he was doing it.

[C]

Sheesh. I don't know, Lois. Yeah, and it's like over here, and you're like, oh, the way he moves his mouth. I think that your voice is, like, doing Accents. And you watch and you go, oh, that's how they do it.

[B]

Right? I love hearing people explain how they do it. Like, Frank Caliento.

[C]

That was just gonna bring him up. He's the best of. I mean, Caliento. I brought up Jay Pharrell on the Bobby Moyhan. I missed not saying Frank Caliendo is.

[B]

And he explains how he does it. You'll be hearing him talk about going deeper in his throat and like that. I was like, ah, damn. I've never thought of it like that. Always just sit down and keep trying.

[C]

Yeah, he's cool as hell too.

[B]

Oh, is he Caliento? I can imagine.

[C]

Dud was doing a show at the Tempe Improv and he came by.

[B]

That's awesome. I love that place.

[C]

Fun room. Yeah. He came by and did a guest set. And I was like. I was like, I used to listen to your Opie and Anthony John Madden clip.

[B]

Oh, my God, so good.

[C]

When he used to call in his Madden to O anda. And he would also do. I mean, he was. He's just the best. He did. He does one of my favorite things where he does a video of voices doing Star wars and he does, like, Michael Keaton is Yoda.

[B]

That's great.

[C]

And it's perfect.

[B]

Yeah. And you're like, I bet it is.

[C]

How did you get there? But it does, like, the sniffle.

[B]

He goes, dude, do you ever have voices where you. You can say a few certain words, right? And you're like, I just cannot nail this. That's me with an Australian accent. I can do, like, rot and stuff, like. But when I go to talking, I'm like, dude, what is going on?

[C]

I. I've. You know, I think I've made a career out of being a fraud because I think I only can do, like, four or five sentences in each.

[B]

That's me. Yeah.

[C]

When you go to talk.

[B]

Unless it's like a Forrest Gump or something. Yeah. Or Sling Blade.

[C]

Yeah. Macho man. Paradise PD just let me cut promos in the voice booth.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So that was the one where I could stay in it. But every other thing I've tried. Yeah.

[B]

Your macho is the best I've ever heard.

[C]

That was that. Thanks, man. I don't know.

[B]

That was the best I've ever heard.

[C]

Truly. Boredom, my brother.

[B]

Look, my brother's not like, like, big into, like, watching stand up, like, the way I am.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But I told him I was doing your pod. And he's like. He's like, dude, get him to do Macho Man. He's like, hey, does he do anything else you do? Stand up?

[C]

I was like, yeah, but I'm fine with that. I like wrestling fans when I go to RAW, and I bet they'll be like, macho Man. You're like, yeah, and it's been cool. Like, I got put in that A. E. Biography because I'm such a big Macho man fan.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And the guy that made it made, like, the U he made. He's awesome. Billy Corrigan. He's like, an awesome director. And. But he. He edited the documentary in a way where it looked like I took the death of Macho man very lightly. Because if you watch the documentary, it's a very serious part of the documentary where they're like, we lost him. He died, or whatever. And then it cuts to me, and I'm like, dude, what a badass way to go out. Yeah. He had a heart attack and drove his Jeep into a tree. What a bad. Took two things to kill him. It took a car accident. They had a heart attack to kill him.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You couldn't just kill him with one in a tree. Dude. That documentary came out, and I had real heat with wrestling fans. Like, death threats, people. People up in my. People threatening to dox me. And I'm like, dude, I don't know. And then the coolest thing happened, which is the wrestling world responded with people like, Eric Bischoff was on his podcast being like, hey, a lot of you guys are mad at this guy.

[B]

Leave him alone.

[C]

He said the coolest thing in the world. He goes, I knew Macho man in real life, and I worked with him for years. He would have loved that. That guy.

[B]

That's the coolest.

[C]

Yeah, that. That guy put him over. That's what he said. He goes. He put him over. He made him look tougher. He goes, macho would have let his. He was like, randy would have let his documentary with that, because it. But it put him over.

[B]

And I was like, coolest compliment ever.

[C]

I was in a hotel across the street from the Columbus Funny Bone, and someone texted me that, and I listened to that episode, and I was like, I'm in the nwo.

[B]

Damn right.

[C]

That got me to join the nwo, dude.

[B]

The most hype I probably ever got was when Stone Cold liked one of my videos. Dude, coolest thing ever happened to me.

[C]

I'll tell you right now. He's the man. When we did Dan St. Germain and I wrote a cartoon that we sold, the peacock with Steve, so we would get on Zooms with him, and the first time he pops up in a zoom, it's like. It's the same way I felt the first time I saw Jerry Seinfeld in person, where it's like, I've watched you for so long, and you've been such. I've watched you and I was sick. I've watched you when I was happy. I've watched you and I was sad. I've watched you to all these different things. You've been a part of my life. The way old, like, Stone Cold matches are like the way that I watch Seinfeld.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Put it on and you lay back.

[B]

I watch an old Stone Cold documentary in a heartbeat.

[C]

Love it. Yeah. So the first time I see Seinfeld, I was like, holy.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

He was like. He was like, walking down the street up into the comedy club, and I was like, oh, my God. The Seinfeld was the first time that Stone Cold popped up in the zoom. It was during the pandemic. And I was like, yo, dude.

[B]

I'd have been transported back to being 8 years old.

[C]

It's the funniest thing. My mom said. We were on a notes call with him where he was, like, telling us what he liked and didn't like when we were writing the show.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And it was Christmas, and I was at my mom's house, and it was like two days before Christmas. And I'm on the phone with Steve and Dan and Steve, like, I know him. Stone Cold in Saint Germain. And he's giving us notes. And I get off the phone, and my mom's like, I swear to God, you were 12 years old again. She was like, watching Buzz around the house on the phone. Because I was just like, yes, sir. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

[B]

Because he's like, no argument here.

[C]

One of the things is, he was like, y' all got me driving a Jeep. Nah, I'll drive a Dodge. I'm gonna drive a Dodge. Big Dodge truck. And I go, okay.

[B]

Kawasaki. Side by side on the back of it.

[C]

Yeah. Like, stuff like that. We're like, okay. And you go. Like when you go, oh, yeah. Like, under his breath. It was very cool.

[B]

It was.

[C]

He was really. And then like, that's like the. The shitty part about, like, the entertainment industry is like, I got to talk to him for a little bit. And then the project. Yeah. As it dwindled away, you're like, he caught. He butt dialed me once. Because I'm in his phone.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And he's in my phone is Steve Austin.

[B]

That's exactly what he be in My

[C]

phone is how embarrassingly fast. I called him back.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Katie tried to stop me. I go, oh, Stone Cold.

[B]

Hey, you were breaking up. I couldn't hear you.

[C]

She was sitting next to me. And I go, stone Cold. Missed call from Stone Cold. And she goes, it might be she couldn't even finish butt Dial.

[B]

And I was like, hello?

[C]

Yeah, I hope he picks up. It is worth the voicemail.

[B]

And you're like, you don't even tell her it's Stone Cold Steve.

[C]

Hold on, hold on. It's the rattlesnake. Rattlesnake's calling me.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

She goes, louis J. Gomez. And you go, no, that's the Puerto Rican rattlesnake. Yeah, but I mean, when you started mate, what made you start making videos? Sketches? Were you just, like, watching them online? And you're like, I got an idea for one.

[B]

So I put up a video of my wife making fun of her one time. Because every now and then she'll say something like, really country out of nowhere.

[C]

Yeah, those videos are great.

[B]

Yeah. She sounds like everything she said's been deep fried first. And so I put it up, and it got, like, 10, 000 views. Which, when you have nothing is, like, crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You feel naked, Mom, I'm a star. And I was like, well, dude, old Southern men are way funnier. So I just started doing, like, jokes that my grandpa would say, and then once those took off, I was like, I'm gonna start doing skits. And I just started writing skits.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know what it is, man? Is it. It really is a thing where a lot of. I think you can sit and complain about, like, there's no industry, there's no gatekeepers or whatever. But what it does do is it gives creative people an immediate, like, platform.

[B]

Yeah. Mobile, Alabama.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's what I'm saying, by the way. You know, so funny is I feel like I have to say mobile. I have to say. Because when I go, mobile. Yeah. My Colorado accent going like, mobile, Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. I feel like I'm like, you know, when my mom orders wine, sometimes she'll do a. She'll be like, can I get this Sauvignon Blanc?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

You're like, don't do that.

[B]

I can't even try.

[C]

I feel like that's how I do. When you say mobile, I go, mobile. What am I doing?

[B]

No, that's right. I go, you're saying it 100 correct.

[C]

I know. But then I go.

[B]

And, you know. You know, the funniest part about that is you know, it was Mobile, and the people down there is like, we live in Mobile. And that just stuck.

[C]

New Yorkers do it with Houston street and they go, it's Houston. You go, don't do this to me.

[B]

Yeah, no, don't do this.

[C]

I've grown up my whole life calling it Houston, Texas.

[B]

It's so hard. That is the. Nobody says Mobile. That's not from Mobile.

[C]

Yeah. That's why I feel like. It's like, almost po. I feel like a poser.

[B]

I'm like, dude, I tell people Mobile is the only part of Alabama that looks like that because it's on the bay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

A little. You know, Alabama's got a little, like, nutsack down there.

[C]

Yeah. That's like Alabama, Florida line.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. So, like, we're the only part of Alabama. It's got a beach in the bay and all this. So we look nothing like the rest of Alabama.

[C]

And it really is. You guys are more like a Florida look down, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. When we went down there for Burt's tour, we did the show down in, like, at Florida. Alabama.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Like, at the floor Memo.

[C]

We went to Florida Bama. We went to the bar. Marcus King did a show. He went up and did it. But I was like, this does feel just like Florida.

[B]

Yeah, it's the same. It's like that part of Alabama feels the same as the. As Florida.

[C]

What is the cutoff for Alabama? Auburn. Is Auburn. Is that geographical or is that just

[B]

choice all over the place? Like, my mom and brother, Auburn fans, the whole rest of the family, Bama fans.

[C]

What is that? Because I. I don't think people realize that. That is a. I could talk about Colorado. Colorado State all I want. Yeah, but you bring up, like, I went to Arizona. We hate asu.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

The state isn't really divided by it. It's more like that's.

[B]

That's us. It's not. It's not like a. Yeah. The schools are like an absolute. And I'm sure, like, the little circle around them is. But the rest of the state is just like, pick one.

[C]

Is that how you figure out. You go like. They'll go like War Eagle and they'll figure out who is.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Well, a roll tide, you'll either. If you give a roll Tide in a room, it'll be like. You'll see the faces. And then there's one guy just being like. You're like, ah, there he is.

[C]

That does have to.

[B]

Auburn fan.

[C]

If you're an Auburn fan, that does have to suck. That Your rival has the better catchphrase or the more known catchphrase.

[B]

And it's also. It really does suck also that, like, we've completely dominated, like. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I mean. I mean, saving.

[B]

Yeah. And even. But, like, people think that. And there are. There's a shitload of bandwagon feds down there. It's like, dude, I was there for all the Mike Shuley years. It was awful.

[C]

Shout out Mike Shula.

[B]

Yeah, I do. I do love Mike Shula.

[C]

It is weird.

[B]

I hung in there back then.

[C]

I like hating Alabama when you're good.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't like watching you suck because then you go, nobody does. It's. It's just poking you with a stick.

[B]

We're blaming it on everything.

[C]

Go. Get up. Get up. It's like when the Cowboys. It's like when the Cowboys suck.

[B]

I know.

[C]

I want to hate you.

[B]

Also Cowboys fan.

[C]

Oh, really?

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

But when you guys are good, you're so.

[B]

I had my invisible miss jersey on when I was a kid. I was.

[C]

I'll tell you right now, 1994. I had real heat for you as a 49ers fan. I was like, yeah, the Cowboys. And then I hated the Packers. It's weird how you go through, like, yeah, sports will teach you how to hate people.

[B]

It will pretty.

[C]

Pretty easily.

[B]

Just crazy. It's like that. It's. But it's like that. I think it's a Bill Barbit where he's like, this guy put on a different T shirt.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's crazy. But we do feel that way.

[C]

It unites sometimes hating against the same team. The way Eagles fans and 49ers fans can go the Cowboys. And everyone's like, yeah, dude, I have

[B]

a joke about a high five is the only thing you can do to a stranger at that velocity.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You see somebody in the same T shirt, just hit them as hard as you can.

[C]

Smack my hand just as hard as I'm gonna smack yours.

[B]

Yeah. It's like, you can only do that without. You can't return somebody's keys like that

[C]

that they drop one time. But it is. You know, that is interesting about sports hate because, like, I'm a San Francisco Giants fan, and the Dodgers are just on a generational tear with that.

[B]

I'm a Braves fan. So we hit the dog.

[C]

And we used to hate you Phillies. We hated you in the early 90s because the NL west, of course, NL west was up. It was Braves, Giants, Dodgers, Padres, Rocky. Why were you guys in there? The Braves were in the West. For too long. And then you guys shifted. I forget when you guys shifted, but growing up, the Braves, you guys had everybody.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, Maddox, when I was a kid, it was like, Cowboys, Braves. Because, you know, Alabama doesn't have any pro teams, so you pick the nearest ones. We got the Braves. So then Bulls fans, obviously did.

[C]

You are. You are the sports fan that I hated the most. That was Bulls. Cowboys.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Braves. Or a later version of it was Yankees.

[B]

Braves are the only ones that make sense because they're close to us Cowboys.

[C]

I would give you in the early 90s the way that I give 49ers to people in the late 80s, we were such a good team that people in the late 80s were like, I'm a Niners fan. They're on all the time.

[B]

Everybody left the Cowboys as soon as the Saints won a Super Bowl. There's black and gold everywhere in Mobile.

[C]

So that's what it is.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm wondering what the. Because.

[B]

Because you should be Saints fans down there. That's where that's what you should be. And nobody was. Because the Cowboy. The Cowboys were doing so well in the 90s, and I was born in 90. So cowboys were everywhere there. As soon as the Saints win, they're like black and gold everywhere. They're making. They're making T shirts that say, roll that.

[C]

No, you can't do that.

[B]

Yeah. It's kind of like a Florida Lee that turns into an Alabama don't.

[C]

Guy Fieri.

[B]

Yeah, they did double.

[C]

Don't put an awesome sauce on something.

[B]

Rolled out T shirts everywhere. I was like, where did this come from?

[C]

You know, when I lived in Tucson, what was interesting was watching people do anything but be Cardinals fans. Fans. Because the Cardinals have always stunk.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So they would go like, well, we're close enough to Denver that we could be the. And you're like, you're 16 hours away from Denver.

[B]

Come on.

[C]

Or they go. Or Cowboys. And you're like, you're 20 hours away.

[B]

It's even worse.

[C]

But they would just do anything but be Cardinals fans. Which I was always like, oh, imagine being a Cardinals fan. You're like, no one wants to hang out with us.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

That's gotta suck.

[B]

It's got to.

[C]

Yeah. That's why, as a 49ers fan, it was good for us to lose for. So from, like 02 to. To 2010, because you really saw who was a Niners fan and who wasn't.

[B]

Well, that's anything. It's. You just watch people do it with, like, I remember when. When Steph Curry got popular, everybody's like, dude, we're fucking huge. I was like, golden State fans. That's what you are. You've been. You've been a Golden State fan.

[C]

Can I tell you as someone that in 19, I think, 1993, my dad and my grandma, all. All Bay area, all huge warriors, giants 49ers. I'm giants 49ers. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna be a Nuggets fan. And I remember my dad's family being like. And I was like, yeah, I'm a. I'm a Denver Nuggets fan. And they're like, okay. And then watching the warriors go on that run.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Having my elderly grandmother go like, see the Dubs win? And you go,

[B]

that's crazy.

[C]

That's like. And then, because the Nuggets weren't. The Nuggets just didn't. And then when we won the championship, she was so old that she's like, I don't care. And you're like, no, I need this.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I invested in this for so long. But it is. It's like.

[B]

That is a big payoff, though.

[C]

Oh, my God. That championship in 2023. I was like, dude, what the. I never thought the Nuggets were going to win a world championship.

[B]

No, I mean, that's how I felt ever since 1998.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like with the Bulls. Like, I'm just sitting there like, what's this? It'll never happen again when you win

[C]

them when you're a kid. 49ers haven't won one since 94.

[B]

Yeah, dude, just imagine, like, when I was a kid, Braves, like, we were Braves fans first. Everybody's a Michael Jordan fan in the 90s.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We're still die hard Braves fans. So imagine how I felt when we won in 21. I was like, on cloud nine. I remember being at the steel mill and them being on night shift, watching the World Series and be like, hey, we got to go up top. And I was like, not now. Not thinning.

[C]

And then you guys gave everybody to the Dodgers. You let the Dodgers sign.

[B]

Well, that's the Braves main thing. They try to have, like, farm club. They don't want to pay anybody. So as soon as they're amazing, they just let them go. They're like, we want more money. And they're like, good, L. A. Will give it to you.

[C]

Only team worse than you guys are doing, that's Boston Red Sox, who I live with. And now I gotta watch that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Give away generational talents.

[B]

And dude, I just read today where the guy that's supposed to be our DH jerks and profile. This is his second year in a row. He's going to be out the whole season for PEDs.

[C]

Oh, yeah. 166, right?

[B]

Yeah, it was like two years in a row.

[C]

166 games for steroids.

[B]

Can you see him being like, they'll never catch me this time.

[C]

You're talking to a Giants fan. Bring up Balco to me, I'll slap you in the mouth. I don't know what you're talking about. I really do. The thing where I do one of the things that I hate the most when someone's wrong, but they will refuse to admit it. It. That's how I am about Barry Bonds, where they go, steroids, they go, never got caught. Never got caught.

[B]

Oh, so you're on the side of arguing like that. It just didn't happen at all. Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying,

[C]

like, that's shrunk back to a normal

[B]

size, but he's still the greatest dude.

[C]

He would he.

[B]

If he would have died of baseball, man. Like, just. I remember. Do you remember the Maguire Sosa run?

[C]

Like, I remember being like, it was yesterday.

[B]

Pandemonium. You're buying Pepsi, seeing which one you get.

[C]

And I remember being. To this day, I was jealous of McDaniel having the Ken Griffey Juniors.

[B]

Ken Griffey Jr. Liked my reel the other day, and I almost fainted. I told my wife, I was like, this is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me.

[C]

That is the coolest. He has the sweetest.

[B]

Like, he followed me, and I was like, this is. This is my whole childhood, you understand? My wife's like, you know women, they're like, what the who?

[C]

Well, I'm lucky. I live with her because she's such a sports fan that she. She called baseball for Apple plus for a year, and she was calling a game. I forget who it was. Former player. He was like, sub it in because Hunter Pence was out for the game. Yeah, because that's who she worked with. And he came in and he was a former Met, but she said something about Ken Griffey Jr. And on air he goes, you want to FaceTime, Junior? And she goes, what? They're calling a game and he's bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. And then Ken Griffey Jr. Picks up the FaceTime. Hey, what's up, Junior? Crazy.

[B]

My wife knows football. Like, she's a She's had videos. I've had videos where I just recorded her during a football game and it go viral.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And everybody thinks she's faking it. I was like, I fucking wish. I wish.

[C]

Obviously a Bama fan.

[B]

Yes. So it's like she actually graduated from there, so.

[C]

Oh, that. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

It's actually her alumni.

[C]

One of the only times I've ever seen Nate Bargettzi's wife angry. And he's nodding right now. Lara Bargett. See who's the best.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Laura is. If you want to know why Nate's so funny, it's because Lara is equally as. She's hilarious. Her ball busting is top tier. Top tier. Joe List. Nate Bargetzi and I were watching the Texas Alabama national championship in 2010. Colt McCoy got hurt drinking beers at Nate's apartment in Queens. In Middle Village, we're drinking beers. You guys are Crushing Texas. Colt McCoy is injured.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Joe List half jokingly goes, all right, come on, Texas, do something. Make this a game. The stare that Laura gave Joe, I was like, dude, there is no bluffing about this. You're genuinely in trouble. And Joe used to get very anxious when he would drink, and he was like, is she fucking mad at me? I was like, very. I was like, she's not even a little married. She's very. And he was like, I'm really sorry. I think that moment, to this day, might have damaged their friendship, because that's how much she loves Bama.

[B]

That's my fucking wife. Like, she used to. And I used to tell her all the time, we'd be somewhere watching a game, and it would start getting close, and she'd be like, let's go. I can't watch this. And I'd be like, we're not going anywhere.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Or she'd be at home and she'd turn the TV off if we started losing. I'd go in the bedroom. Yeah, I want to see this.

[C]

I. She's watched me be too much of a sport. You know, it's happened to both of us, but she watched me be too much of a 49er fan. At a Seahawks game in Seattle with the Niners. And I don't know, I think I might have told the story before, but there was. Remember I was telling you about the cena.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

AJ Thing? So this family's in front of us, and they're super nice or whatever, and the kids in a Russell Wilson jersey. This is the last year Russell Wilson was quarterback for the Seahawks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Jimmy Garoppolo. Is the quarterback for the Niners, and they're beating us. And the kids like, turn around talking shit. And I'm like, okay, all right. And then he keeps going and he's like. And then we start losing. And I'm like, not right now. And the kids like, you know, turn around. This is embarrassing to admit, but the kid was like, hi, I. And I just matter of factly went, well, hey, enjoy. Enjoy, Russ, because this is his last season with your team. He's hitting the free agent market next year. And Katie went, damn. Like, in a way that I was like, my bad. Because you watched it. The kid went like, what? Russell Wilson would never leave the Seahawks. And that was the year he went to the Broncos.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I was like. He was like, remember when you couldn't handle your cool because that 8 year old got in your head?

[B]

And remember that? You just think about that kid when they announced it.

[C]

Oh, he went, that, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

How the did he know that future terrorist?

[B]

And you probably asking all his friends, like, Russell would never leave.

[C]

Right, guys?

[B]

Right.

[C]

Right, guys. But it was already. Maybe. I don't know, man, but it really did feel like. I don't know if you've ever, like. Have you ever wrestled with a kid and accidentally hurt him? Oh, yeah, that's what it felt like, dude. I remember, like, my friend's kids, where I throw them and they go, like, hit the couch.

[B]

I remember one time we were in Montana. It was one of the first years we ever went there. And my uncle's like my little cousin, he's probably six. And I pick up this thing of snow that's like this big. And I throw it at him, and it didn't break. Oh, dude. And I go lift it. I go lift it up all. Yeah. The inside of it was ice. And I was wondering why it was so heavy. When I threw it, I lifted up off of him and there's like blood on him under it.

[C]

I was like, oh, God, no, no.

[B]

And it's one of those things where you're just like, all right, I can think of a lot. Hit me back. Quit crying.

[C]

Oh, dude. When you hurt someone unintentionally, the reaction is always the funniest thing. One of my best friends, we both played football. He was. He was necessary. I was unnecessary. I was like a backup linebacker, special teams. He was like the captain starting. And we were playing some dumb game in the street like teenagers do.

[B]

Sure.

[C]

And I tripped him and he got injured. And then I faked my injury, too.

[B]

Like, oh, no.

[C]

I'm injured, too. I'm injured, too. So no one's mad at me. Right. That's how when you, like, do that, you go, oh, no. Oh, my wrist. Your kids bleeding. And you're like, no, I'm.

[B]

You're finding something else, but you don't want yours to be ice. You're like, this is a regular snowball. Hit me with this. But, yeah, I'll pretend it hurt.

[C]

Accidentally hurting a child. I went like, oh, dude, my bad, little buddy.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So for the rest of the game, I was like, yeah, you guys are winning. He's like, shut up, dude. You ruined Russell Wilson for me.

[B]

If she had been there, you'd have just kept bragging him.

[C]

Dude, I would have fought his dad.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

His dad would have been like, I gotta do something about this. I go all up saying this. Marshawn lynch was better with the bills. Kids, like, I hate you. Yeah, dude, that is. Sports will really make you an.

[B]

I know. I've. Dude, I'll tell you, I've started caring a little less and less, though. I don't know what it is.

[C]

Getting older and maybe.

[B]

But then. But then I see people way older than me that care still just as much. I think my. Our passion down there is college football. And I think NIL coming along has

[C]

been like, now everyone can get paid.

[B]

Well, yeah, exactly.

[C]

You guys were paying.

[B]

Did you hear Coach O's quote?

[C]

No.

[B]

Coach Ogeron for lsu.

[C]

Who's the best?

[B]

They asked him. They're like, what do you think about the nil and everybody getting paid or whatever? He said, I'll tell you, man. And, you know, he's talking like, he said, instead of bringing the money in the back door, now we just bring it in the front. Yeah, same thing.

[C]

It's the same thing. It's also funny because now it's like, you're seeing schools get good, that you're like, oh, they're rich. Alumni were like, I'll just give money.

[B]

That's exactly what happened.

[C]

Go get a corner, dude.

[B]

It's. You would think Texas would dominate everything with all this old money. Like, you think that they would just be like, they're.

[C]

They're too busy buying data centers. We gotta get back to corruption, to college football.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Keep it out of regular people's lives. Lives. Yeah. Just have, like.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

I want Sam Altman investing in, like, Stanford.

[B]

I want our teams to be good.

[C]

They got a corner. They got a corner that runs a 41. He was invented in a lab. It's crazy. Justin Stagner's hilarious. Follow him on Instagram, watch his videos his stand up if he's coming to your city. It was awesome meeting you, dude. I'm so glad you came by.

[B]

I'm such a fan. So this has been awesome.

[C]

Yeah, dude. Thanks for hanging.

[B]

Yeah, awesome.

[C]

I'm gonna go get mad about sports. Watch the baseball classic mask.

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