Derrick Stroup & Gary Vider

Summary

We Might Be Drunk – Episode: "Derrick Stroup & Gary Vider"
Date: April 13, 2026
Hosts: Mark Normand & Sam Morril
Guests: Derrick Stroup & Gary Vider

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Episode Overview

This episode brings together NYC comedians Mark Normand and Sam Morril with guests Derrick Stroup and Gary Vider for a lively, whiskey-laced hangout. The crew riffs on the realities of comedy careers, reflect on the perils of road life, share wild border crossing stories, dig into the process of writing new material, and toss around their signature “peeves.” Derrick’s new Netflix special “Nostalgic” is a centerpiece, and the comics get candid about the hard resets after filming a special, staying clean onstage, the culture of comedy, and what makes a city good for stand-up.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Derrick Stroup’s Netflix Special & Southern Roots

Timestamps: 00:12 – 12:11

• Derrick’s Special “Nostalgic”:
  • Shot in Birmingham, AL at The Lyric Theater (00:44).
  • Derrick jokes about getting knocked off Netflix’s trending list by "Bridgerton".
  • The crew reflects on Birmingham and Alabama as interesting, often overlooked, comedy cities.
• Derrick’s Start in Comedy:
  • Began as a bar manager in Jacksonville, AL, ranting onstage while slinging pitchers for $1.
  • “Nobody talks publicly without a song. Nobody’s on stage, you know, with a microphone giving thoughts or takes.” – Derrick (05:13)
  • Ran the bar, did impromptu sets, but never imagined a professional path in stand-up (05:49).
• DUIs & Life Choices:
  • Derrick got two DUIs in rapid succession, which pushed him into comedy more seriously (06:02 – 10:45).
  • Jokes about "maybe don’t start comedy till you’ve drunk-driven twice" (06:12).
  • Reflections on Alabama vs. big city police and judiciary differences.

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2. Comedy On The Road & Border Stories

Timestamps: 10:57 – 15:41

• International Travel Complications:
  • Derrick shares near misses with border agents due to his DUIs (11:15).
  • Canadian border security’s reputation for strictness, sometimes even over a marijuana seed (12:16).
• Gary’s Coke Smuggling Story:
  • Gary admits to foolishly bringing coke over the border in his college days: “In my pocket.” (13:32)
  • Talks about nerves and luck at the border and a separate near-siege incident caused by inattentive driving (15:25).
• Mark’s Drug Stash Scheme Gone Awry:
  • Mark tried hiding his drugs on the US side during a Canada trip, only to be double-crossed by an opener who stole them all (14:18).

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3. The Post-Special Doldrums & Joke Writing Process

Timestamps: 16:34 – 21:48

• The Struggle to Refill Material:
  • Derrick and the hosts discuss how vulnerable it feels after releasing a special, starting from scratch on new jokes.
  • “Sometimes when you’re up on stage, you feel like an unarmed man.” – Derrick (16:50)
  • Using old material to give new bits “a running start” and combating “ego” that wants to retire old jokes instantly.
  • The audience dynamic: polling the crowd on whether they watched the special affects performer confidence and set selection (17:42).
• Stand-up vs. Other Performance Arts:
  • Comedians can’t play old bits like musicians, nor borrow others’ material to rally a flailing crowd (19:19).
  • Acknowledgement of the mental inventory of old bits, the process of bringing back and reworking premises, and actor/comedian differences in presenting new work.
  • Derrick notes that his Alabama accent was a minor obstacle, then became a tool as he learned how to use it for comedic effect in places like New York (21:31).

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4. The "Peeves" Segment – Modern Day Grievances

Timestamps: 22:29 – 34:09

• Recurring Bit: Each comic shares their current everyday frustrations.
  • The “Ask Then Tell” Trap (25:17): Sam’s peeve—when people ask for your availability without explaining why.
  • "Double-shaming" Friends (26:22): Mark gripes about friends who respond to confession of a screw-up with, “Yeah, you can’t do that.”
  • Restaurant Chips Injustice (27:39): Gary’s ire at being sold guac with no chips, and charged extra to fix it.
  • Airport Food Chains (29:56): Derrick’s take that airports should be dominated by chain restaurants—local artisanal joints exploit captive travelers and aren’t worth the upcharge.
  • Sweatpants & Hands (33:13): Mark observes the trend of men shoving hands into waistband (not pockets) in public.
• Standout Quote:
  • “Just give me the check, and I’ll tip you and I’ll pay you, but please don’t make me watch you…” – Derrick on airport restaurants (31:44)

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5. Best By Dates & Clean vs. Dirty Comedy

Timestamps: 38:25 – 44:59

• Best By vs. Expiration Dates:
  • Sam and Mark riff on misleading language on food packages (“Best By” vs “Expires”), the anxiety of “wet ham,” and relying on smell tests (39:20).
• Derrick Discusses Going Clean:
  • Shifted to clean comedy for career and business reasons, on management’s advice; doesn’t like the box of being labeled "clean," but sees it as strategic (41:39).
  • “You don’t write dark or dirty, you just are vulgar in how you say [it]... so we just took [swear words] out.” – Derrick (42:00)
  • Mark assures: “We love Regan and Gaffigan and Seinfeld and Nate and all that... The most famous ones to ever live.” (42:31)

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6. Parenting & Memories of Childhood Food

Timestamps: 44:27 – 68:43

• Derrick and Mark on Fatherhood:
  • Derrick welcomes his six-month-old son, Seth, born in Manhattan; Mark reflects on the joys (and exhaustion) of new parenthood (44:27 – 45:38).
  • Mark looks forward to his son being a Knicks fan by birthright.
• Snacks, Food, and Generational Perspective:
  • Extended riff on “Uncrustables,” PB&J affinity, the generational divide on lunch/snack culture (63:08).
  • “Baby Derek would be like, I dreamed of an uncrustable world. And now look what we’ve got.” – Derrick (63:49)
  • Kids today don’t “earn” their snacks the way the comics felt they did.
  • Discussion on parental food choices: minimizing processed foods, balancing healthiness with convenience, and childhood deprivations (65:52 – 68:43).

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7. Cities & the Culture of Stand-Up

Timestamps: 69:03 – 73:41

• Comedy City Rankings:
  • What makes a good comedy city (Birmingham, Huntsville, New Orleans, Nashville, Miami, Vegas, Cleveland, etc.)
  • "Comedy thrives in a dark, depressing basement.” – Mark (72:54)
  • Miami and other entertainment-centric cities are “tough for comedy” because there’s always something more glamorous competing for attention (72:02)
  • Unique demographics discussed, e.g., Huntsville’s high engineer/rocket scientist population but zero local press for homegrown comedy.
• Clubs & Road Gigs:
  • Shoutout to traveling the “comedy club circuit,” what cities support the craft, and standouts like Hilarities in Cleveland.

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8. Bits in Progress & Meta Discussion

Timestamps: 57:01 – 62:45

• Bits in Progress:
  • Sam: Mad Men disclaimers about blackface vs. rape; notes on when warnings are deemed necessary (57:01).
  • Mark: Method actors doing “research” vs. contrast with porn actors not needing to “train” as pizza guys first (59:19).
  • Derrick: Trying to start running as a big guy—the comedy and discomfort of it all (61:15).
  • Open exchange of tags and suggested directions for jokes, showcasing an insider’s look into joke development.

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9. Notable Quotes

• “Sometimes when you’re up on stage, you feel like an unarmed man.”
  – Derrick Stroup (16:50), on set vulnerability post-special.

• “We don’t get to play the hits when we come back. We don’t get to go out there, you know... [people] don’t get mad if you do one [old bit].”
  – Sam Morril & Derrick (19:19)

• “Comedy thrives in a dark, depressing basement.”
  – Mark Normand (72:54)

• “Baby Derek would be like, I dreamed of an uncrustable world. And now look what we’ve got.”
  – Derrick Stroup (63:49)

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Important Timestamps

• Derrick’s Netflix Special Start: 00:12 – 00:48
• Entering Comedy via Alabama Bars: 04:11 – 06:10
• Life-changing DUIs: 08:17 – 10:24
• Canada Border Crossings: 10:57 – 15:41
• Writing New Material After a Special: 16:34 – 21:48
• Peeves Section Begins: 22:29
• Hands in Sweatpants at Airports: 33:13 – 34:09
• Clean vs. Dirty Comedy: 41:39 – 44:27
• Parenting, Snacks, and the Uncrustables Debate: 63:02 – 68:43
• Comedy Cities & Club Life: 69:03 – 73:41
• Upcoming Dates Plugs: 73:42 – end

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Memorable Moments

• Gary’s Coke Confession: Gary shares, deadpan, “I actually brought coke over the border before. In my pocket.” (13:30)
• “Best Buy” vs. “Expiration Date” Riff: Extended absurdity on whether “wet ham” is edible and how dates function on food packs (39:20).
• Uncrustables Generational Divide: “Baby Derek would be like, I dreamed of an uncrustable world.” (63:49)
• Meta Joke Writing: Comics actively build on each other’s half-baked premises in real time.

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Final Thoughts

• Derrick’s special “Nostalgic” is out on Netflix.
• The comics underscore the neverending grind and self-doubt that comes with churning out new material post-special—and the community’s dark humor about everything from food to failed gigs.
• The “peeves” segment delivers pitch-perfect modern gripes, proving that for comics, the little things are always the funniest.

Watch Derrick’s special, catch Mark and Sam’s Netflix releases, see Gary’s YouTube hour—and support live stand-up.

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Transcript

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, everybody, we're here, we're here, we're back. We got Gary Veer and Derek Stroop.

[Derek Stroop]

What's going on?

[Sam Morril]

Derek's got a new special on Netflix right now called Nostalgic.

[Derek Stroop]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Give it a watch.

[Gary Veer]

That's.

[Sam Morril]

That's awesome, man.

[Derek Stroop]

Thank you, man. It's been a lot of. It's been a lot of fun. First one I've put out, we hung on for the first week, and then boy Mark over here bumped me out, but, well, wwe.

[Mark Normand]

All of us in the ass.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

You got knocked out by Bridgerton. Let's be honest.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, let's be honest. My wife told me that was coming. She goes, bridgerton's coming for your ass.

[Mark Normand]

My wife told Bridgerton coming. But, yeah, it's. It looked great. Would you shoot it here?

[Derek Stroop]

Birmingham, Alabama?

[Mark Normand]

The Lyric Theater. I was way off.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah, you were way off.

[Gary Veer]

I think we did that. Yeah, we did that one.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, Birmingham's good.

[Derek Stroop]

Birmingham. Yeah. Yeah. Birmingham's a. A great comedy city. And you say that about cities that you don't stay in for a long time, and that's very much a Birmingham city. That was a bus city.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, no, Birmingham was. Birmingham was fun. But are you.

[Sam Morril]

You're from.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm from right outside of Huntsville, Alabama.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Like Von Braun.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

The Jews always latch onto the Nazi museum.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but they were. They used him. He was a smart Nazi, and they used him for good. Sure. That's what you need to do that more.

[Sam Morril]

You can always tell. A museum is interesting when they have a papa shot there. They have a basketball, and you're like, this doesn't have anything to do with the museum.

[Derek Stroop]

Loosen them up.

[Mark Normand]

That's the Atlanta part.

[Derek Stroop]

We'll round the edges with a papa shot.

[Mark Normand]

We should use bad guys for good, like Frank Abagnale, the guy from Catch Me if youf Can. The FBI took him and said, help us.

[Sam Morril]

That's what they think.

[Mark Normand]

Maybe, but he's playing them. Dude, look at Derek Chauvin. Put him in ufc. I'm just saying.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, maybe anti Semitism, you could ask him first. But are you smart? And then you bring them over.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Gary Veer]

The SATs.

[Mark Normand]

There you go.

[Sam Morril]

That would start. It turns out they're all really smart.

[Gary Veer]

They nailed it.

[Sam Morril]

This is bad.

[Derek Stroop]

We have a whole department now.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. We should get suicide bombers on our side. Just, you know, throw them at. Back in Iran.

[Sam Morril]

Have them. Have them on Air Canada. That'll shorten the trip.

[Mark Normand]

That airline sucks.

[Sam Morril]

I don't think it was their fault.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

It wasn't their fault.

[Sam Morril]

It was an air traffic control thing.

[Mark Normand]

Oh. I'm just saying in general.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, it does suck.

[Mark Normand]

It's not great.

[Sam Morril]

It's not great.

[Mark Normand]

It's up there with West Jet. West Jet. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. They hit the fire truck. Yeah. Yeah. The guy confessed. He said it was my. His fault.

[Sam Morril]

That's how, you know the airlines are bad right now. Mark. There's a plane crash yesterday. Mark's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Pretty casual.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. I hit a fire truck. And the guy did. I mean, he, like, immediately he goes, that's my fault. Like, like. No, no, Rick, you're good, buddy. We've all done this, right?

[Sam Morril]

40 in the hospital.

[Derek Stroop]

It's insane.

[Mark Normand]

Death. Any death.

[Gary Veer]

Two deaths. Two pilots, but. And there was a. The stewardess.

[Mark Normand]

Two is not horrible, right?

[Gary Veer]

Two is that.

[Sam Morril]

It was just.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, just the two pilots.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, it's just all the pilots.

[Mark Normand]

That's it. 100% of the pilots died. All right, well, RIP. Sorry.

[Gary Veer]

As I say, the fire truck was on its way, I think, to another plane. No. And then. Then that's when it collided with this. So they're probably. I guess we got to put out this one.

[Mark Normand]

The irony. It's like a priest stopping a kid rape or something.

[Gary Veer]

Right, Right.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a perfect example. It wasn't making sense.

[Mark Normand]

And I go, wow, that's what I'm here for. I explain things.

[Gary Veer]

But there was a flight attendant that was in a jump seat in the cockpit, and then she got tossed out of it and still survived.

[Mark Normand]

All right. In the seat.

[Sam Morril]

She got thrown in the seat 300ft down the. And she managed to still yell at someone, make sure your plane's in airplane mode. Your phone. God damn it.

[Mark Normand]

It's been a long time.

[Sam Morril]

You got the point.

[Mark Normand]

Yes. So, yeah. What have you been doing? Comedy. Eight minutes.

[Derek Stroop]

No, eight minutes I've been doing it, probably. I've got a weird history with comedy. 10. About 10 or 11 years of, like, actual, like, open mics in a scene.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Before that, it was like three years of me just running a bar, getting blackout, and doing 45 minutes just for fun.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Sam Morril]

I would do it, like, in Alabama.

[Derek Stroop]

In Alabama?

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

There was a bar that I ran in Jacksonville, Alabama, and there was like. It was crazy. All these country singers that are big now kind of were coming through. Riley Green, Sam Hunt, Drake White. And I was like, if I hear Wagon Wheel one more time, I'm kill myself. So I just as running the bar. I just made pictures A dollar, and I got up and just rambled for an hour. Never met another comedian, never been to a mic. I wasn't doing it. Like chasing a dream,

[Sam Morril]

Spring fest is

[Derek Stroop]

heating up at Lowe's. And for a limited time, we have

[Sam Morril]

the extra big deals you need to impress guests.

[Derek Stroop]

Get your outdoor space ready and save $50 on a select Cobalt 24 volt blower kit. Now $79. Plus save $80 on a Char Bro Performance four burner grill, now $199.

[Sam Morril]

It's springtime, and our best lineup is here at Lowe's.

[Derek Stroop]

Valid to 413 while supplies last selection varies by location. I was like, maybe this will be.

[Sam Morril]

You know, it sounds like the worst bar ever.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, it was the best.

[Sam Morril]

The bartender's ranting again.

[Gary Veer]

What the hell?

[Derek Stroop]

It is the best. Well, in the middle of Alabama, nobody has seen anything like this because nobody talks publicly without a song. Like, nobody's on stage, you know, with a microphone giving thoughts or takes. So I was up there just, you know, ripping on our. Our buddy sitting in the front row, you know, talking about the cops that were waiting on us outside of the door, you know, just. Just real local stuff. But it was a wild way to get into it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but did you go, hey, buddy, come watch me? Like, how did you get a crowd going?

[Derek Stroop]

Well, I mean, you know, I was always holding court, telling stories, being a jokester, and so a bunch of times my friends would be like, man, you should do comedy. You should do kind. It's like, that doesn't exist in our world.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

So eventually, I. I just watched Robin Williams live on Broadway, and I go, okay. I think I got a decent read on this. And so I just went up there and. And. And I was just doing it for fun, like, for three, three, four years.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Derek Stroop]

About five, probably five to seven times a year. It was truly, like, just a fun little. Little hobby. And then I got a couple DUIs, and I made it my job.

[Mark Normand]

Hell, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Let that be a lesson to you, kids. Don't get started till at least you drink and drive twice.

[Derek Stroop]

That's exactly right.

[Sam Morril]

Two times.

[Mark Normand]

You're about to start comedy. Yeah, he.

[Derek Stroop]

He's one away from having an hour. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, but I heard.

[Sam Morril]

Why would you not just Uber at this point?

[Mark Normand]

Well, he runs the world. He can do whatever he wants. So he's like, I'm not gonna get busted.

[Sam Morril]

I guess.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, he probably gets out of it. He probably got it out of it before.

[Sam Morril]

I mean.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, but this is.

[Sam Morril]

It's not worth this yeah, well, he

[Derek Stroop]

told the police officer when he got pulled over that he was on a world tour.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Like, I understand wanting to tell him you're Justin Timberlake. Maybe that works. But I'm on a world tour. The cop goes, what is a world tour?

[Gary Veer]

He was shitface, but he was probably like, there. He's like, sees a cop behind him. He's like, gotta see the world tour.

[Mark Normand]

Plug.

[Sam Morril]

There is a body cam.

[Mark Normand]

Plug it, plug it.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm in Edinburgh just telling you.

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Sam Morril]

But he also, at one point, they were like, what do you do? And he goes, I don't know how to explain this. I'm Justin Timberlake. I'm like, just same musician.

[Gary Veer]

I was thinking the same normal conversation he's had with a regular.

[Mark Normand]

That's true. And there's one point where he goes, how long am I going to be here? The guy goes, you're going to stay. Stay the night. He goes the whole night. Like, oh, he's never done anything unpleasant for a while.

[Derek Stroop]

That's how jail works.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. One night is nothing. He should be like, oh, great. One night. All right.

[Gary Veer]

It's a Hamptons jail, too.

[Sam Morril]

It was in the Hamptons. Everyone drinks and drives in the Hamptons.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah.

[Gary Veer]

And that's why, you know, usually these guys will be.

[Mark Normand]

That's true.

[Derek Stroop]

Can you imagine how bad he was driving to get pulled up? I bet the cop was like, my. I don't even want to do. He's in the yard again. Right. You know, I mean, because in the Hamptons, I bet they're not just knocking people down. Too much money in that community. Be a headache.

[Mark Normand]

Good point.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Billy Joel, like, that was his whole doc. It was like he was just drinking it. That was the whole song. You may be right. I may be crazy, but I just might be the lunatic you're looking for. Cause he was. I think he rode a motorcycle home drunk.

[Mark Normand]

That's it.

[Sam Morril]

And she was like, you're a lunatic. And he was like, all right. The wheels are going. Even when he's in a blackout, he's like, I think I got something.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's great. Yeah. He had a house. You got to be drunk to hit a house.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, man, that is tough.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

So you got two DUIs?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I got two DUI's after the first one.

[Sam Morril]

How do you get a second one?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I say six months because it sounds better than four, but. Yeah, I. I just got on a heater, man. Back to back. The first one was like a classic. I got in a vehicle that had a Light out. Wasn't my car, but they were real cool about it. I got it in Alabama. It was like Mayberry. They, like, gave me a slice of pie. They were like, you can't drive drunk. You gonna kill somebody. Right? And, like, you know, we're, like, playing dominoes, hanging out. The second one was outside of Atlanta, and they were pissed.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, that's a real city.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, it was in Cartersville. And the judge just really, really went after me. He found out that I ran a college bar, and he found out it was my second dui. So even though I got it in a. In a parking lot, parked car. Wedding. Wedding. Come on. I know. It keeps getting worse. I had a decent case when the police. But, I mean, I blew it from the get go. You ought to see the camera. She walks up and I lead with this. I wasn't going to drive, but I lead with, oh, I'm not driving. I just got a dui. I don't even have a license. And she was like, you got to come out because the. The key was in the ignition. And I was truly just heating it up.

[Mark Normand]

That's how they get you, the key in the ignition.

[Derek Stroop]

That's it. But I was cooked immediately. And then we were going to take it to a jury. My. My lawyer, he liked the case that we had. There was a lot of loopholes. She would. She admitted on tape. I go, I'm at my buddy's wedding. And she goes, we know you're at a wedding. We've been out here all night. And so, you know, there was some things. But when it came down to it, when we told them that we would take it to a jury, they put our feet to the fire. You know, the DA was like, well, we want max consequences, so five years prison, you know, all these other things. Or you can just take the two DUIs and we'll call it even.

[Gary Veer]

Fight. I'll do the time.

[Derek Stroop]

No, no, no. I was outside of the courthouse. My lawyer was like, no. I mean, he was fired up. And I was like, you get the worst possible lawyer.

[Sam Morril]

He's like, I can do this. He was young.

[Derek Stroop]

He was like, 25. All I could afford. Yeah. And he was like, no, we are prepared for this case. I go, I. You're not doing the. The time.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

I go, I just watched Locked up for three days in a row. The last thing I'm doing. The last thing I'm doing is going to jail. So I just took the DUIs. And you could have been white.

[Sam Morril]

Ali Sadiq. Oh, my God.

[Derek Stroop]

Close call.

[Mark Normand]

So what is.

[Gary Veer]

It's on your record now? Like, I mean, you're not gonna have a seat?

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, the crazy thing is, is I'm really an outlaw because I never finished my probation O. I just never went back. I, I, I did it like three or four times.

[Sam Morril]

It's good to say this publicly on a podcast. I mean, technically, I am a fugitive.

[Derek Stroop]

I had to. Well, I had to eventually, you know, you got to pay money to, to, to fix this thing. But I, I quit going for a little bit, and then I had to tie my loose ends and, and, and fix it. But, yeah, I, I was on the run.

[Mark Normand]

I thought you moved here to get better at comedy. It's just. Cause you don't need a car.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I went to Denver first for 10 years without a car. Yeah. Cause I haven't drove in 15 years.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Damn city bike. We're gonna have a talk.

[Gary Veer]

That could screw you going to Canada. You know, we, People get stopped.

[Mark Normand]

That's right.

[Sam Morril]

All the time.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Can you do Canada?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, I've been to Canada. I mean, countless times. I mean, there's one, I got two Canadian DUIs. Well, there was one time they took me back to the office. They have, like a long conversation, hour long. And they eventually come out and, and they, you know, let me go. And in the comedian's head, I go, I bet they watch some of my material. And they go, you know what? I like it. Let him through. Let him through. Because it was an hour of me sitting in that office. So that's the close call that I've had.

[Sam Morril]

And what did they say when they came out?

[Derek Stroop]

No, nothing. There was no, like, real conversation about anything. I mean, now when I'm doing, like, big gigs, like when I'm doing like that, the, the, the festival that they have every summer, you know, you've got a piece of paper that kind of. There's no questions asked. I'm kind of shoot through.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, that. When you work. Great outdoors.

[Derek Stroop]

Great outdoors. When you're doing the comedy clubs, it becomes a little bit, you know, I don't really have the paperwork that just shoes me in.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right.

[Derek Stroop]

It's a little bit more of a conversation.

[Mark Normand]

Damn.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Let's see. Everybody gives us for the boy. Every, every border that Canada's border is wild.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

They found a marijuana seed in my friend's car and he couldn't get in. Yeah, that's a seed.

[Derek Stroop]

A seed is. Who doesn't.

[Sam Morril]

Your friend's a liar.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, he is a pot dealer. He's a drug addict.

[Sam Morril]

But it was just one seed. They're like, dude, it was. It was four pounds of marijuana.

[Mark Normand]

Good seed.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

He's a bad seed. Look at that. Hey, I love that. He's a pro. That's great.

[Sam Morril]

That's a good Photoshop Peters, that is.

[Mark Normand]

We had to scrap the Paul Walker one.

[Sam Morril]

Turns out it wasn't moving products.

[Mark Normand]

Well, Gary used to sell coke. If we're really getting into vices.

[Gary Veer]

I did, and I actually brought coke over the border before.

[Mark Normand]

Really?

[Gary Veer]

I was an idiot.

[Mark Normand]

It was Venezuelan. Drug boat?

[Gary Veer]

No. Sophomore in college. My buddy and I were going over because they had the casino over there. You could gamble at 19 to get. Niagara Falls Casino. So a few of our friends were there. They called us up. They're like, hey, we didn't bring any coke. Do you want to come here? We have the whole. This big hotel room. Could come here? I'm like, sure, I'll bring the coke.

[Derek Stroop]

And then.

[Gary Veer]

I didn't think twice of it. And then we go through the border. And then as soon as you get to the border, that's when you start sweating bullets.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, of course. You're right there.

[Gary Veer]

You're like, oh, shit. Like, if we get stopped or they start, like, you know, patting us down,

[Mark Normand]

yeah, they're going to get the, you

[Gary Veer]

know, find the coke, but they just let us right through.

[Sam Morril]

Where was the coke?

[Gary Veer]

In my pocket.

[Sam Morril]

What?

[Derek Stroop]

That is insane.

[Mark Normand]

That's crazy.

[Gary Veer]

It wasn't like, you know, it wasn't like a huge amount. It was like maybe five bags of, like, five grams. Yeah, that was it.

[Mark Normand]

Well, you're unassuming. No one would expect you to be smuggling. Yeah, that's what.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, exactly. That's what I went with a lot. I was just like, nobody would expect this. You could have me, though.

[Mark Normand]

Well, I got a funny but.

[Sam Morril]

Jesus.

[Mark Normand]

A Canadian border story. I did Buffalo helium, and the next day I had a gig in Canada. And it's like, I don't know, an hour drive. So the opener was like, I'll drive you, but do you have any drugs in your bag? Just so we don't get stopped. And I was like, oh, let me check. I opened the bag. It's full of drugs I'd accumulated over the years. It's shrooms and pills and weed and all this shit. Gummies. So I go, ah, I don't want to get rid of all this. Is a lot of money worth it? This is good stuff. So he goes, why don't you plant it somewhere? We'll hide it.

[Sam Morril]

What Is this Fargo?

[Mark Normand]

He's like, well, hide it in the. Right at the border of New York somewhere. Well, nobody will see it. And then when you're done with the gig, we'll drive back and get it. And I was like, hey, that's pretty good. So we hide it next to this guy's house, and we put, like, some leaves over it and shit and, you know, a branch, and we go do the gig. And I came back the next day with a different opener to go fly out of Buffalo. The guy went and stole it. My other opener, he took all the drugs. He went back.

[Derek Stroop]

Wow.

[Sam Morril]

Should have had Andy Dick open for you that time.

[Mark Normand]

He blew me, though. Yeah. Yeah, the guy stole all my drugs. So, you know, you are. We hear this.

[Sam Morril]

I remember when we were going through customs, I think we were coming back through Vancouver to Seattle, and the guy was a fan. And my tour manager, Brian, didn't know that. So the guy was like, oh, shit, Sam, what's up? How was it? And I go. Just. As Brian, the tour manager who always worries, walks in, I go, oh, we're just like human trafficking some chicks back there. And I got a good laugh from the border people. But Brian was like, what the fuck is happening? But there was nothing. They were. They liked it.

[Mark Normand]

I thought you were going to jail for it.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah. So I know what happens. Just because my friend was an idiot. This is the same friend that I drove the drugs with. We went through to the border another time because I went to school at University of Buffalo. So we would go through the border, then like, go up to Toronto, like, every so often. But we're going through one time, and he didn't hear the guy say, pull over, and. Because they wanted to inspect our car, and he just kept driving. And what happens when you do that and you go through the border? A siren goes off and we had four guys pointing rifles at the car. And then they inspected the car for, like, the next two hours.

[Mark Normand]

You had coke there?

[Gary Veer]

No, I didn't have any coke.

[Derek Stroop]

Thank God.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, no coke. We were just going up to Toronto.

[Sam Morril]

But that was.

[Gary Veer]

And that was the same friend who was driving. And that was maybe a few months

[Mark Normand]

after time we brought up coke, but.

[Gary Veer]

So that's what goes on when, after you.

[Sam Morril]

He's like, I didn't hear the cops. He starts firing back in the car.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, I mean. I mean, we got lucky. Yeah, it was. It was us. And actually there was, like, two other guys in the car, too.

[Mark Normand]

Jesus.

[Gary Veer]

But, yeah, that was it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Wow.

[Sam Morril]

Gary's Cartel.

[Gary Veer]

Gary Cartel.

[Mark Normand]

Sounds like a cartel.

[Derek Stroop]

You could, like, rent Henry's Cartel. We got Hitman there early.

[Gary Veer]

Very unassuming.

[Mark Normand]

You put an hour out a month ago. Yeah. How you doing with new stuff?

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, man, it's the. It's a nightmare.

[Mark Normand]

It's a nightmare, right? Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

He bought back the bar. Just a rant.

[Derek Stroop]

It truly is. It's. It's tough. I mean, it's fun. Sometimes when you start to figure it out, I enjoy the sting, the process. But sometimes when you're up on stage, you feel like an unarmed man.

[Mark Normand]

Totally.

[Derek Stroop]

And also, you ride those. Those few. Those last few months where you've got this hot hour you're running every night. You're just like, I'm about to put my whole foot in their ass.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And you have no doubt in any of your jokes, and it's as tight as it could be. And then now you're from the top, and you're up there, and you're like. And then it's just hard for me sometimes in the middle of the show to not be like, yeah, this is all pretty new. It's pretty new.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, because sometimes, you know, you can feel the crowd, and it's like.

[Sam Morril]

But they call you ego, too, though. But I think some of sometimes, like, I see you do a couple old ones, and it's like, you do that to give the new one a running start. You need to. And it's like, I think sometimes we get in our head like, the special's done. I'm never towing that joke ever again. It's insane.

[Derek Stroop]

You're right.

[Sam Morril]

You gotta give the new one a

[Mark Normand]

fighting chance, momentum, a little Runway.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, but we do that. It's ego. It's like, I'm done. But you're giving them a better show, and you're giving the jokes a better chance.

[Derek Stroop]

Here's something I've been doing at the beginning of the show. I don't know if this is something that y' all would do, but I'll ask the crowd right now. I'll go, how many of y' all have seen this?

[Mark Normand]

I do the same thing.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay? And let me tell you, I love it. And, you know, the. The further you get away from it. Now, mine's been out for a couple weeks. The first 10 days, a lot of smart people out there were holding off and waiting to watch. And when you feel that in the room, either way, I'm probably gonna do the same set work, the same new stuff. But the confidence you get when the room acts like they haven't seen your special. You're like, my God. Even though you're still gonna go out on the ledge and try to, you just don't feel as vulnerable.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Because you just don't feel as naked. But I've been asking people and.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And you know, room to room, it's a little different, but.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. But when they all cheer, I'm like, oh, yeah, Phoenix.

[Derek Stroop]

I was like, oh, way to go. You watch the whole thing. You think, I've got a whole new hour.

[Mark Normand]

Like, you watched it twice. Yeah. So just know out there, folks, we're not less funny because they go, jeez, he wasn't that good. You know, we're not. It's not that we're less funny. We're just working on something. Give us a chance.

[Sam Morril]

You're a cripple for a couple more years.

[Derek Stroop]

No, you really are.

[Sam Morril]

You.

[Derek Stroop]

You really are.

[Sam Morril]

If you want to keep turning over.

[Gary Veer]

But they also get to see the organic experience of developing the material to, like, when it gets this special.

[Mark Normand]

Everybody says that, but in the real. That sounds cool. We get to watch him work out and try new stuff and see where his brain goes. But then it's really going. Cushions are weird. You know, they. They, like, they're soft, but they're kind of hard.

[Sam Morril]

This ticket was $50. The organic experience.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly.

[Gary Veer]

I was trying to help it out.

[Mark Normand]

I know, I know everybody says that, but that's cool. For eight minutes. But an hour minute 51, we're saying,

[Gary Veer]

you know, I mean, Seinfeld talked about this. I mean, we always reference comedian, but, like, you get the big pop, like, right off the bat. But then it's like, all right, time to make me laugh.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. Yo, prove it.

[Derek Stroop]

You can feel that. Because, I mean, my first. I've got, like, right now, the first maybe 15 minutes are, like, really new and really fresh. And the drop off I feel after that. And it's just in me, too, because my confidence in this stuff. I'm like, this is great. This is new. Not a person in the room has heard the. And then I get to this, you know, 15, 20 minute mark, and I'm

[Sam Morril]

like, it's daunting because we're not actors. Like, we're not fit.

[Derek Stroop]

We.

[Sam Morril]

We know that it's not funny yet. So we're delivering, like, is this.

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Derek Stroop]

You're so right. You're so right. Compared to when you know you've got a bit down and tight. And we deliver it like. I mean, it's not even like, I'm

[Sam Morril]

going to give this to You.

[Derek Stroop]

How about.

[Sam Morril]

Yes.

[Mark Normand]

Sifo calls it boleros. When you go out there with, like, all that ammo. Yeah. That's when you have an hour, you know? And now we're out there with a fucking slingshot with no rocks.

[Sam Morril]

It's always so dramatic with comedians.

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Sam Morril]

I have a whole of all these guns.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. But I mean, unlike musicians, though, they. We don't get to play the hits when we come back. We don't get to go out there, you know, I'm sure y', all, people

[Sam Morril]

don't get mad if you do one.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. And you can't do other people's hits either, though, which is, you know, in music, every once in a while, you can be like, ah, they're getting kind of weird. But how about a little Fleetwood Mac to get back on our feet again?

[Mark Normand]

I love that song.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, exactly. I can't go, well, here's.

[Gary Veer]

Or have them sing along with it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

When you forget. When you forget an old bit.

[Mark Normand]

Let's all do Hot Pockets together.

[Derek Stroop]

I can't lose the crowd at the Cellar and go, okay, I'm gonna follow it up with a George Carlin bit, and then I'll go back to my.

[Sam Morril]

I do a little Carlos Mencia. Yes. You know, he did it from someone else.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Whose bit is it really, anyway?

[Sam Morril]

Who knows?

[Gary Veer]

But also, it's like, all of us have jokes. It's like when we stop. Like, when you have to stop to think about something new, it completely kills your momentum also, so.

[Mark Normand]

That's true.

[Sam Morril]

Like, you.

[Gary Veer]

You don't take a breath. Sometimes you're going. So it's.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Gary Veer]

So when you're trying to think of, like, all right, how does this one go?

[Sam Morril]

This new one?

[Gary Veer]

It's got to. You know, it's. I mean, it's tough for everybody, but it's hard.

[Mark Normand]

It is. And I get jealous of guys like you because you're. You're an Alabama guy. Like, I'm from Louisiana, but I don't really sound different, and you sound different. So you kind of have a thing.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, the further I go along, the more I learn how to use that accent. In the beginning, when I was in Colorado, it wasn't cool. I didn't get on stage. When you're not funny and you sound like this.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

It just sounds. I mean, people don't love it. But when you get. Yeah, yeah. When you get a little edge and you find some punch lines and some jokes, people are like, man, that pairs well with some good comedy. But it took a While for me to get to the point to where and I talk about on stage. New York City is the toughest city in the country for this accent.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And I love it because it creates leverage on stage because there's always tension for me. Right. There's always something for me to. I can be a little smarter, a little faster. That's my favorite thing about doing comedy in this city is people are so assuming.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

And I can, I can kind of put them on their head and that's my favorite. Sometimes in the South, I feel like they don't even know that it's a joke. They're like, where's the punchline? Well, in other places. That's really funny that we do that, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's a good point. Shit. Do we got, we got any peeves?

[Sam Morril]

I got some peeves.

[Mark Normand]

I got peeve. Oh, you got a peeve.

[Derek Stroop]

That's not a peeve.

[Sam Morril]

I had something I want to talk

[Mark Normand]

about, so he's pointing at me, which is a good start.

[Gary Veer]

I got a peeve. A guy who doesn't have a peeve.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, Guy with the blue bomber jacket.

[Mark Normand]

So I don't know if this popped

[Sam Morril]

up on your radar at all, but

[Derek Stroop]

we had a guest a couple weeks

[Sam Morril]

back who did a whole episode and then asked for it to be pulled because they were sort of a cleanish type of comic.

[Mark Normand]

I got a million texts about this.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, everyone wants to know who it is. Never guess it.

[Mark Normand]

Never guess.

[Sam Morril]

Internet thought it was you.

[Derek Stroop]

No, no, no, they were, they were positive it was me. And, and I don't know how much y' all pay attention to the threads.

[Gary Veer]

By the way, thanks for doing this episode again.

[Derek Stroop]

I was going to say that as a joke at first, and then I go, no. I realize that there's people so dumb on the Internet that if I joked about it, they would turn this episode off and go, I knew it was Derek before I could ever.

[Sam Morril]

For sure.

[Derek Stroop]

But no, no, I was in the thread, swinging on people.

[Mark Normand]

Good.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I don't, I don't.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm not like people assume wrong with me. They think cuz I'm a clean southern comedian, that I'm like this like super buttoned up guy. Like, I'll whoop your ass. Like I'm a little bit of a. I got a little bit of a.

[Sam Morril]

I'll kill you in my car.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, I'll find you and whoop your ass. But no, I, I, Everybody thought it was me, the whole Internet. And I tried to Defend myself. But it just kept snowballing, which, you know, it led to me being on here, which worked out.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, my first rumor, I felt like, yeah, yeah. They were like, who is this guy? And they were like, duty yells and they think it's him.

[Mark Normand]

Hey, press is press, baby. It was you and Dusty Slay. Everybody thought, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, both innocent.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I love the Internet. They go, it's Dusty. I know it. Yeah. All right. You don't know. Get out of here.

[Sam Morril]

I don't think they're gonna get it, cuz it's not a traditional standup.

[Mark Normand]

Not in a million years. But I've been telling everybody.

[Derek Stroop]

I was about to say, I know who it is now. And I. It's crazy, cuz. It's not on anybody's radar.

[Sam Morril]

No, dude, Judd Apatow. Text me who. I need to know.

[Mark Normand]

It's safe with me.

[Sam Morril]

I was like, this is really making the rounds.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Rogan has to be on the pod. And I was like, you got to cut that. Seriously.

[Derek Stroop]

Heard about it. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

It's out there, baby. And every. The Internet loves a mystery. They want to crack it, you know, Like Epstein.

[Sam Morril]

Can we lower Gary's face for this whole episode?

[Mark Normand]

They don't know who he is already. Guys really hurt

[Sam Morril]

after the pod. Hey, Mark, can I talk to you for a sec?

[Gary Veer]

Hey, can we cut that?

[Mark Normand]

Cut that out.

[Gary Veer]

I want to cut the episode.

[Sam Morril]

What was that?

[Mark Normand]

I was drinking at the time. Oh, yeah. Oh, the peeve. That's where we were going. But then he had the sensitive.

[Sam Morril]

The sensitive friend.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, Yeah, I got a peeve.

[Sam Morril]

The friend who asked what you're doing before telling you what the thing is. You free Thursday? And you're like, what's. What's going on? Because it's never good when they lead with the date 100. If it's good, you're like, dude, Knicks tickets, Thursday. You win.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. If it's.

[Sam Morril]

You're leading with the trap.

[Mark Normand]

So true. Great point. They do that. A lot of people do it. Like, clubs will be like, can I. Can you call me? I got something to ask. Can you call me? Is bad. That means they have a big question that you don't want to do. But it's easier to get you to say yes over the phone because if they just go, will you do this? I go, no. But if they call you, it's a trip.

[Sam Morril]

Hey, can you call me? What's your bank password?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Anybody who has something good will lead with the good information. Nothing else is going to put you out.

[Sam Morril]

And I should rephrase this. If it's a really close friend. Usually this is not an issue, but it's the non. Close friends.

[Mark Normand]

What are you doing?

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, if you text me, what are you doing Thursday? I'm assuming it's going to be good.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. We'll go to dinner or something.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, if Gary texts me, I'm buying dinner. Same thing.

[Gary Veer]

You know, it's fine. Yeah, yeah. By the way, you're freely.

[Sam Morril]

I knew he was coming. Of course.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. Okay, I got one. How about this guy? This is a friend thing, too. The friend. When you do something stupid that's actually happened to me, you do something stupid, you tell the guy what you did, and he goes, oh, yeah, you can't do that. And I'm like, I know. I'm just getting in trouble for it.

[Gary Veer]

Making me feel worse about it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Like, I'd be like, oh, I. I called my wife fat. And they're like, oh, yeah, you never want to do that. I'm like, yeah, ye in hot water already. I know to not do that. I'm in trouble about it.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a great peeve. Because now you. You bring it to this person, clearly that you just want a little security, that it's not the end of the world.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Just tell me you've done it. Tell me that you understand. We've all been there. Not all. Well, yeah, you're. You're in trouble now. It's like, well, yeah, no Sherlock. I. I thought that we were going to get through this together. I like that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Just agree with me that my wife is fat.

[Mark Normand]

That was just an example, honey. Yeah. You know, I should have gotten a dui. I shouldn't have drove drunk. They're like, yeah, you never want to drive drunk. I'm like, I know I'm in jail.

[Sam Morril]

I'm aware that you're my one phone call.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's done. The deed is done. Damn it. Stop double shaming me.

[Sam Morril]

The Double Shame.

[Mark Normand]

I'm already shamed.

[Sam Morril]

The Double Shame is the name. That's good. I like that.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

You don't pile on when something's bad.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, I got. I got another one. You guys want to.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

You guys got something?

[Gary Veer]

I'll go. So I got Mexican the other night. Ordered a torta, ordered a chicken quesadilla for the kids, and then we also had a steak quesadilla. And then we wanted some guacamole and chips. So I ordered the. It said, you know, on the menu Said guacamole. I ordered. That comes. No chips. Just eight ounces of guacamole.

[Mark Normand]

That's crazy.

[Gary Veer]

So I call up the place, I go, hey, there are no chips here. And they go, yeah, because we have a thing of guacamole on the menu. And we also have a thing of guacamole and chips. I didn't see the chips thing. Okay, but who wants just guacamole? You can't do anything. Am I wrong with this? You can't just.

[Sam Morril]

They should be sending chips even without. I like a Mexican place to send chips with salsa. Yeah. Regardless.

[Derek Stroop]

Regardless.

[Gary Veer]

There should always be default, but only. So my piece. How do you do that? How do you.

[Mark Normand]

I'm going to set fucking ice in there behavior.

[Gary Veer]

These restaurants, fucking taking them all out.

[Sam Morril]

Guy becomes a complete psycho on Facebook. These fucking pieces of shit.

[Mark Normand]

We got to close the border, but

[Gary Veer]

we're talking a half a pound of

[Mark Normand]

fucking Half a pound is crazy.

[Gary Veer]

Half a pound of guacamole, Molly. With nothing to dip in except my quesadilla, which I don't need. I don't have to.

[Mark Normand]

Did you use your old coke scales to measure it?

[Derek Stroop]

I've never even heard guac and weight metric.

[Mark Normand]

I've never either. That's like half a. I have a

[Derek Stroop]

quarter pound of guac in my.

[Sam Morril]

16 ounces of guac's, like, pretty good.

[Mark Normand]

It's pure. Jeez. He's doing this with the guac.

[Derek Stroop]

A kilo of guac on my table.

[Sam Morril]

The problem is. Yeah, it's like you. You got nothing to do with it.

[Gary Veer]

Exactly.

[Mark Normand]

It's.

[Sam Morril]

It's insane.

[Gary Veer]

So I went back. I was furious.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, you went there.

[Gary Veer]

I went back to get the chips, and then they charged me for the chips. But it's also.

[Mark Normand]

I calmed down a little bit on

[Gary Veer]

the drive back, and then. So I didn't say anything. I just bought the chips and I left. But I was pretty furious.

[Mark Normand]

I guess you could put guac. You could scoop it out and put it on a taco as, like, a

[Gary Veer]

garnish, but I didn't have a taco ad. A quesadilla and a torta you can

[Mark Normand]

put on a quesadilla. Yeah, but I get your point.

[Gary Veer]

What side are you on?

[Mark Normand]

Guac.

[Sam Morril]

You're piling on.

[Gary Veer]

This is what we're talking about.

[Sam Morril]

Double shave without chips is tough.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, that's crazy. You got to put chips.

[Gary Veer]

8 ounces.

[Mark Normand]

8 ounces, it's one thing.

[Sam Morril]

It's a lot of ounces.

[Mark Normand]

Like a ramekin.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I have My, my, my. Pete, my. I got a bunch of peeves. But I'll start off, I'll start off with. I think at airports Most of the 90% of the restaurants should be chains. I hate the, I hate the local.

[Sam Morril]

Damn your Nates tour.

[Mark Normand]

Jesus.

[Derek Stroop]

Sizzling acorn. That's over there where you charge me $64 because you act like this is real salmon. This is insane. And it's the most overpriced. The food is never good. Rarely. Not unless you're at an Elways in Denver which is also a chain because there's a couple. But, but when you're inside of an airport you can do a sweet greens. We could do potbelly chipotle. We can get these type of foods that are decent but they're on the move. I do not want your unique take on anything inside of an airport because I'm already getting my head busted on the regular chains now. You act like this is some Artesian joint. It's not. I can hear them. They're boarding group three for JetBlue right behind me. This is not a unique situation.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

And I hate pretending like it is. Airport Chili's. Some of the best chilies that you're

[Mark Normand]

going to get Chili's to Chili's too

[Derek Stroop]

because now they're too busy to be bad that there's nothing that's sitting back there that's not being there. All the seats are full. You're getting fresh food. So anyways, airports should just be a little bit. Because those are money grabbers. Those little unique places they try to sell you. But yeah, that's my. This isn't something I've thought about.

[Gary Veer]

It's kind worst service you'll ever get

[Mark Normand]

to in one of those places

[Gary Veer]

than there.

[Derek Stroop]

And I look down and 20% tip on this thing because it's $84. It's just right.

[Sam Morril]

Here's. Here's a follow up question. What if it's a bar?

[Derek Stroop]

Oh yeah. Total totally different.

[Sam Morril]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

That's a totally different. That's a totally different ball game. I love some. There's some great bars out there at different airports that you should belly up to get some decent bar food. It's these places that really try to, you know, act like that they're a unique, you know, restaurant and they got you know, the seafood on the men and it's $90. That's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And to tag onto that peeve, just give me once I've ordered all my food, you know, I have and I say no thanks to dessert. Just put the check on my table and let me be in charge of when I get out of this joint, because I hate being held hostage at the end of my. I start to, like, become like. I mean, it looks like there's, like, ants on. Just give me the check, and I'll tip you and I'll pay you, but please don't make me watch you. You walk around.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Universal, man. That's any restaurant.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. But especially in airport, because, like, you. You're clearly on the move.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, clearly. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Just give me the check. Ask me. I love when they have the check and they go, you're good On.

[Mark Normand]

We're good.

[Derek Stroop]

And I go, you know what, Susan? I think I'm perfect. And they lay it down. Now I'm in charge of when I exit. Yeah, that's a beautiful feeling, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I actually like when they have the iPad thing at, like.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, at the table.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, I love that. I kind of like it.

[Derek Stroop]

I do, too. I do, too.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. I used to open for some headliners. I'm not gonna say who, but they would order the meal and then just go, bring the check. So you get the check with the meal.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Which I think restaurants think that's, like, uncouth or some. But I'm like, hey, we want to just leave.

[Derek Stroop]

We just want to leave.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, you're right. This. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

It is a nightmare because they've moved on in their heads. It's not, like, malicious, but they've. This table is closed and done. They don't need. So they've kind of subconsciously gone to a different section, and now it looks like I'm drowning.

[Gary Veer]

Also, out of all the restaurants, they work at an airport, so they got their own problems.

[Derek Stroop]

True.

[Gary Veer]

You know.

[Mark Normand]

Sure, sure. Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

Sorry about that.

[Sam Morril]

I want to see if I have more pee.

[Mark Normand]

I got an airport one. Now, this one's a little outside the box, and it might ruffle some feathers.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay.

[Mark Normand]

I saw it at the airport, but you see it around. You see this in, you know, hotels or whatever. The guy walking around in sweatpants with his hands in his pants, not in his pockets. Yeah, it's wild. Okay, I'll do it. Sweatpants is a big one. You see a guy walk around like this?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, the old Ted Bundy, right?

[Mark Normand]

No, no, no.

[Sam Morril]

It's like, oh, in there.

[Mark Normand]

Wow.

[Derek Stroop]

That's gross.

[Gary Veer]

Disgusting.

[Sam Morril]

That's. It's unsanitary.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Like, put your hands in your pockets. You got a pocket right here.

[Sam Morril]

He was the pilot, too, which made

[Mark Normand]

it Even worse, it was at the airport because everybody's wearing pajama pants at the airport now. I sound like a boomer, but I

[Derek Stroop]

was gonna say that. I mean, I agree with you, but that's definitely showing our age there. Yeah, that's like on our radar where we go. I remember when we used our pockets, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Who the hell wears pants without pockets?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah. It was just nobody. I clock everybody. I'm like, why does his hand in his pants? Oh, it's sweatpants, I guess, but it's like a cool guy thing. I've noticed. They'll put their hands in the pants.

[Sam Morril]

You see the V going down to his.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, get the hand out.

[Sam Morril]

I mean, I do, but I don't want to admit it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it's rare, but I've seen it multiple times. All right, who else got one?

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[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Is it pretty good on 317.

[Mark Normand]

I think it is.

[Sam Morril]

I don't think it is.

[Mark Normand]

Well, with milk. I saw a thing about this. Milk is still good, but it's Best Buy this time.

[Sam Morril]

So it's different.

[Mark Normand]

You're saying it's different, but it's still drinkable.

[Derek Stroop]

It started to turn. Just.

[Sam Morril]

No, that's not what I'm talking about.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, Jesus. What are you. He was going for a gag there.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, I thought you were, like, trying to help. You just.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, they said it's actually. It's edible.

[Sam Morril]

Edible.

[Gary Veer]

But then when does it expire?

[Mark Normand]

There's an expiration date.

[Sam Morril]

There wasn't.

[Mark Normand]

There wasn't. Okay, okay.

[Sam Morril]

There was no expiration. It was just the best.

[Mark Normand]

Okay, so fine, if they're different things.

[Sam Morril]

All right? If they are, in fact, different things. If it comes with an expiration, that's okay.

[Mark Normand]

That's better anyway, because. Just tell me when it's done. Don't give me, like, a rating of now it's a B. Now it's a C. How about wet ham? That's pretty gross, wet ham.

[Gary Veer]

Well, you can't buy ham like that in a package.

[Mark Normand]

Why not?

[Gary Veer]

That's disgusting.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, I buy that all the time.

[Derek Stroop]

How do you buy your ham?

[Sam Morril]

I don't. I'm Jewish. Oh, yeah, you eat it. You eat.

[Gary Veer]

I mean, everyone.

[Sam Morril]

Not till you were old, though.

[Gary Veer]

But you.

[Sam Morril]

You didn't eat it till you were old, right?

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Kosher.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, it does blow all day.

[Derek Stroop]

Thank. Thanks for helping me, Sam. He's like, no, no, you're not going to do that to Derek.

[Sam Morril]

You eat ham now.

[Gary Veer]

I buy 8 ounces of ham and my life's fine.

[Sam Morril]

No, you want it from the deli. You want it from the actual fresh deli.

[Gary Veer]

I get it.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Gary kills the cow. Or no, is it a pig?

[Gary Veer]

Rabbi. The rabbi.

[Mark Normand]

It's a pig. Sorry, I'm an idiot, but I tell you, the best. You didn't even do anything with the Best Buy. I'm telling you, Best Buy date and expiration date are different. But I hear you. I hear you. Just tell me when it's done. Don't tell me when it's getting worse.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, if you do it right, you don't ever worry about the dates at all.

[Gary Veer]

Okay, but it's kind of scary when you see the best by date and you're just in your past.

[Sam Morril]

Use by is good, too. Used by all.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah. Used by.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

I just had some pimento cheese last night that said Best Buy, and it was the day before, and it still was. It tasted delicious.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, I Swiss cheese like four days after. And I was. It smelled good.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The smell test is. Is really just like with milk. Sometimes you can use it three days after X ray. Sometimes it's a day.

[Gary Veer]

And yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And you're like, yo, hey, hey now. Yeah, you know, we got a little. We got a little action in there

[Sam Morril]

or vagina, you know, this is expired.

[Mark Normand]

It was Best Buy, and with pedophiles, it's the opposite.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

This is turn 17. 18.

[Derek Stroop]

Don't open until.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Best Buy is 11. It goes the other way now. Don't you miss doing a joke like that because you get. You're clean. Yeah, that would keep me alive. I would have that joke in my head and I go, ah, that's when you rape.

[Sam Morril]

He's clean. Unless he's behind a wheel, in which case he's.

[Gary Veer]

When you had ran in Alabama, would you have. You would say dirty stuff?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I became a clean comedian like probably three. About three years ago.

[Mark Normand]

What? Whoa. You went into clean Nate money.

[Sam Morril]

Nate money.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, it was some of Nate. I mean, my management that I got under three years ago, which love the guys, they helped turn me. They were like, you don't write dark or dirty. You just are kind of vulgar in how you say. You know, because what I write is always pretty observational, pretty clean. I would just add on my own swear words. So we just. We kind of took them out and

[Sam Morril]

you added a fisting chunk to this

[Derek Stroop]

grocery store material, and it just plays better. My energy and how I am on stage is. Is plenty. Like, I, I really don't need the. The extra words. It feels like I'm cussing. I mean, I'm downhill.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

You know, I'm, I'm. I'm working pretty hard up there. So I don't, you know, I don't think it's something that's super noticeable. I don't like. You know, when you get the clean comedian tag, it kind of puts you in a box.

[Mark Normand]

Sure, sure.

[Derek Stroop]

That I hate to. To be in sometimes. Because other comics look. Get kicked out of the cool kids club.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, we love Regan and Gavigan and Seinfeld and Nate and all that. So.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The most famous ones to ever live.

[Mark Normand]

But I.

[Derek Stroop]

But yeah.

[Sam Morril]

And so Ryan Hamilton's great.

[Mark Normand]

Hamilton, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Ryan. Ryan. Ryan's great. But yeah, it was a business decision for sure.

[Mark Normand]

Smart move. And it looks bad to just be going the. That the. Give me an airport chain. You, you know, you don't need that.

[Derek Stroop]

No. And as. I mean as a Southerner, I don't. I mean, I cuss some off stage, but like I'm not gonna refer to a woman as like a on stage. And I don't. It's not like I hate when somebody else. It's just. I'm not gonna. That's just not how I talk.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And so it's a little bit. You know, some of it's natural, but I mean, I'll cuss off stage some. I'm just not ripping and roaring.

[Sam Morril]

I feel like if you say cuss instead of curse you, you cuss less.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, but maybe that. Yeah, maybe that's right.

[Gary Veer]

My three year old's cursing now.

[Sam Morril]

Really?

[Gary Veer]

Oh, I know where he got it from. No, no, but he is cursing.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Weird. Were they picking up on the boat?

[Sam Morril]

No, seriously, it's a problem. He called my wife the C word. It was very unpleasant.

[Mark Normand]

The black neighbor's fury. Damn. Three year old girl. That's young for Chris.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, he just picks it up.

[Mark Normand]

I don't know, with tv, maybe. Movies.

[Sam Morril]

No, we showed him Pulp Fiction the other night.

[Gary Veer]

You say it a couple times and we have an old. Like the other one's almost six.

[Sam Morril]

So.

[Gary Veer]

So when. So he'll be like. Oh, yeah, yeah. Say like, like that. So he knows what?

[Sam Morril]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Then he gets him.

[Sam Morril]

There's always that bad kid growing up.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

You pass by even like the swing set, you, you see the kid like, you know, there's like tall bars. There's always kids like, let's go as high as possible later on. It's like drugs, let's get as high as possible. But I'm working on material anyway. No, but there's that kid that's always like, say the bad word.

[Mark Normand]

Yep, yep, yep. Get your dad's gun. You know, whatever. It's always that kid.

[Sam Morril]

Get revenge on the people who have wronged you. Go to school.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right. Bring coke, whatever it is. You got kids?

[Derek Stroop]

I do. I have a six month old.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Think of it, man.

[Derek Stroop]

You too though, right?

[Mark Normand]

One year.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. That's exciting.

[Mark Normand]

It's crazy. Six months. You're on. No sleep.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm hanging in there. He's got a pretty good sleep schedule.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Sam Morril]

But yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, Seth Stroop is in the world. It's exciting, man.

[Mark Normand]

The SS I. I mean, he has

[Derek Stroop]

a Jewish first name and you still found a way. I mean, that's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. But yeah, it's it's the best, man. I'm sure you know it.

[Mark Normand]

It's. It's great. And it gets better. I know everybody says that, but, like, now he's walking, he's saying a couple words, and he's. He's like, doing a dad, dad. I come off the road, I get a dad dad. There nothing better. The best.

[Sam Morril]

I get that from the girls I date, but, you know.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Good. Good times. Good times. But six months, boy, that's crazy. That's. That's brand new. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Born. He was born right here in Manhattan, you know, so gonna. I'm gonna ride kind of his coattail as a Knicks fan. I never got to have it in Alabama. We're in a free agent state, so I never got to claim. But I tell everybody, no matter where Seth lives, I'm gonna let him know. I go, you have a special pass. You can be a Knicks fan. Yeah, you were born on the island, my man. It's on your birth certificate. And so, like, I'm just gonna kind of ride that with him and just be like, no, I wear the stuff. Cause he. He's into it.

[Mark Normand]

I love it.

[Sam Morril]

I like it.

[Derek Stroop]

But. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a big I'. Fan. Big Nuggets fan, but.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah. Interesting. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Well, I lived in Denver for a long time, right, Jokic? I mean.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I saw him in the gym at this hotel. It's, like, unreal. It was just him and, like, three dudes, and he's stretching. He's 7 1. He's thick. You're like, what the. It's rare that I'm like, oh, my God, he's so thick. No, he. No, but he just has a presence about him. You're like, holy shit, he's the best. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Serbia. Wow. Serbia.

[Sam Morril]

They got him and Djokovic.

[Mark Normand]

That's right.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Get the best in two sports.

[Mark Normand]

There's a crazy montage, them pushing black guys around on the court, and it's like, get you a little pride.

[Derek Stroop]

Different algorithm. I watch a lot of NBA. I haven't seen that one.

[Mark Normand]

I'll send it to you.

[Derek Stroop]

Serbian dudes pushing black guys. Could you imagine if I would have said that the Internet would have and fell back in it.

[Sam Morril]

It was one play. It was one play where one of the Morris.

[Mark Normand]

There's a couple video. I mean, I. I made the video, so I know I did a lot of editing on that, but.

[Sam Morril]

No, he's just. He's unreal, dude.

[Mark Normand]

He's unreal. Yeah, there's so.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. It's crazy though, because he's just, he's insanely skilled. Not athletic. I mean, when he jumps, you couldn't slide paper under his feet. I mean, he's. But I mean, he's just the, the skill and the vision. It's really. That's what's great about the touch is insane. That's what's great about basketball is there's a few different ways to go about it. And he's like. He's like the biggest, goofiest ballerina I've ever seen.

[Gary Veer]

He's like top 10 in points and then assists, then rebounds. He leads the league.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Derek Stroop]

He's always, he's always up there. But it was. It's fun to watch him be emotional this season. He's usually a pretty, you know, just a knot on the log. But this year he's losing his mind a little bit.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, is that right?

[Derek Stroop]

Angry?

[Mark Normand]

Angry or sad or mad.

[Sam Morril]

They've had a lot of injuries, so I think he's. A lot's on him. And yeah, guys, you know, really Serbian

[Mark Normand]

guys are known for being pretty cool tempered.

[Sam Morril]

A lot of great Hoopers though, out of that part of the world. It's wild. What was.

[Gary Veer]

Sir, There's a thing where like Luka and him would be on the same team if like it was at Yugoslavia.

[Mark Normand]

Whoa.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. They had the war.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah. If they didn't split.

[Sam Morril]

Great wreck for you. The 30 for 30 once brothers about the, the Yugoslavian civil war was Croatia and Serbia. It's. It's crazy. No, because he's. I think he's Slovenian opinion.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, there's something.

[Gary Veer]

But there's some connection.

[Sam Morril]

But yeah, because when the, when the

[Gary Veer]

Dream Team played Croatia, I think they played Croatia in like 92 or something.

[Mark Normand]

Like one more bar, man. Let's go to five, guys.

[Gary Veer]

There, there was something when I think, I think Croatia played the 92 Dream Team and then this was like. If they would have played com. Combine whatever countries together, that's what it would have been. It would have been very competitive.

[Mark Normand]

That's crazy.

[Gary Veer]

As opposed to what it, what the outcome was.

[Mark Normand]

Have you seen this meme going around of the. The 7 foot 8 guy? Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

That just looking like what the.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. He's like, holy. It's like a movie.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, that's like tall enough to where. I'm sure that's not great. Yeah, that's great.

[Mark Normand]

Nightmare.

[Derek Stroop]

Nightmare.

[Mark Normand]

Every flight. Every bus ride.

[Derek Stroop]

Gracious.

[Mark Normand]

Every restaurant.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Like first class on a plane. Sucks.

[Mark Normand]

Still sucks. Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

I don't think he doesn't play that much either.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, his knees are probably ruined already. Look at that.

[Derek Stroop]

I got six, eight beside him. That's insane.

[Mark Normand]

He's, like, talking to him. The guy's like, yeah. What? Shut up. I don't care.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I mean, that cannot feel good on your body.

[Mark Normand]

No.

[Sam Morril]

No way.

[Mark Normand]

And you just can't help but wonder about the hog.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, where do you go?

[Sam Morril]

But even if it's small, it's huge by normal standards, of course.

[Mark Normand]

Of course. Like a dinosaur dick.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

How is he an outside defender?

[Sam Morril]

How come he's not right under the basket? What the is going on here?

[Mark Normand]

He's still a hockey at the end of the day.

[Derek Stroop]

Why is he out here?

[Sam Morril]

Cuz it's. I don't.

[Gary Veer]

So Wemby is not that far away.

[Sam Morril]

Wemby's 74 and he's athletic, though. Wemby's got like. He's got like the KD type of.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Game. Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Like this guy.

[Mark Normand]

You know, do women even like. Because this is like, you know, when you. We all like big tits, but this is like size Z, you know?

[Sam Morril]

That's a good point.

[Mark Normand]

Like, how. How tall is too tall? Like you're, I think, ideal for a lady. And Veer's the exact oppos.

[Gary Veer]

Let's cut that one, too.

[Mark Normand]

Blur.

[Gary Veer]

Blur my face on that one.

[Sam Morril]

And Gary just has a PR team with him.

[Derek Stroop]

Like, Gary, you blur my face.

[Sam Morril]

Horrible financial decision to be paying these people.

[Mark Normand]

Gary Pharma calls me. You got to stop making fun of Gary.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mark Normand]

All right.

[Sam Morril]

You were on a tear today.

[Mark Normand]

We had a. A diner early. I had meatloaf.

[Sam Morril]

Meatloaf for breakfast?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. I got a problem.

[Sam Morril]

You're a savage.

[Derek Stroop]

Meatloaf for breakfast is wild.

[Mark Normand]

That sounds like a memoir

[Sam Morril]

of a man who did not live long.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah. Damn, dude. I like hearty food.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. How do you go for breakfast, though?

[Mark Normand]

Well, I mean, it technically was 11:30. It was late.

[Derek Stroop]

Nothing like meatloaf for brunch. You're right.

[Mark Normand]

That was Darius. Early days.

[Sam Morril]

Meatloaf.

[Derek Stroop]

Derek strips early days. Looks like Sam Kinison joined a band.

[Mark Normand]

Marcus, King and Kinnison.

[Sam Morril]

He died. He died. Yet pretty young, too. No.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, Meatloaf. He was in a fight club.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, he was Tits Bob.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, 74. I mean, I really was praying for that.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. That's good for a guy named Meatloaf. Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Jesus.

[Derek Stroop]

And look at him. Young and fat.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

He didn't run into it with age.

[Sam Morril]

Right? 74. Okay.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

So I was wrong. That's still pretty young.

[Mark Normand]

Now, are you doing the thing where you're back on the road, just trying to build?

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean. And next time, in hindsight, Mark, I'm gonna take off some time.

[Mark Normand]

I know. Same here.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, it's so wild. Same week, the special dropped. I was in doing clubs that weekend, and it made for, like, kind of a celebration feeling and that, but it was also like, what am I doing here?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Like, I should be just enjoying this and pushing it with press.

[Mark Normand]

Right?

[Derek Stroop]

Yada, yada. Now, hey, I'm out here.

[Sam Morril]

You got to let it come, man. I remember Chris Rock once, I saw him on the street, and he was like. He was like, I'm going away. I was like, oh, cool. I don't really do that. He goes, hey, man, even LeBron has an offseason.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I know.

[Sam Morril]

And I was like, damn. All right, we gotta. Yeah, you gotta reset.

[Derek Stroop]

You do. I. I regret that a little bit. But, I mean, you know, I've heard. I mean, how you live on stage, and I'm. I'm pretty similar. I mean, if I'm off for more than two days, I feel like I've probably lost it.

[Mark Normand]

I'm twitching.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

And I don't, like, post about it or talk about it a lot, but that just feels like, you know, eventually it felt like my secret sauce is like. I was like, the more I'm on stage, clearly the better that I'm getting.

[Sam Morril]

So you fall ass backwards in the jokes.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

You just. Even if you're not trying, you're like, oh, I riffed something.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yes.

[Derek Stroop]

But you're so right, Sam. You to learn when to take a break, though.

[Sam Morril]

Well, yeah. I mean, I took a couple weeks, and then. And then I started to be like. I took a couple weeks and then I drank every night very hard, and I was like, I think my body's fucked up. I have to go see a doctor. Turns out I need to be working.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, that's a good point, because I'm not working.

[Sam Morril]

I will drink until I can't speak.

[Mark Normand]

Same. Same. Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

And, yeah. No, it fucked my body up. And now I have to. Now I'm like, back in the clubs, and I'm, like, taking some. You know, you throw some shit at the wall, you pat it a little bit, but it was like, Feels good, man. Feels good to.

[Derek Stroop]

I always enjoy seeing you at the Cellar because I don't think there's anybody better at being topical. Like, you can take. You can take a news article and turn it Into a bit that day, which is really fun. Everybody wants to do that.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

And so it's always fun to see because it's like a true quick hot take. Like after. After a week we all have a thought on it. But that afternoon is always interesting to see what somebody is manufactured.

[Sam Morril]

I feel like I've cooled off. When they used to do that this week at the comedy seller show. Yeah, yeah, I was, I was. Yeah, it forced. We all had Comedy Central. It was like such a great exercise to be like, we have to have jokes.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

And then.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

You got to force it a little now. You got to, you got to. But man, I. I kind of miss.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I like a little homework.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

It makes you.

[Sam Morril]

It makes you like, I need a deadline sometimes for sure is just like,

[Gary Veer]

if you don't get it out that

[Mark Normand]

day, it's fucking old.

[Derek Stroop]

It is, it is. Because the. I mean, it's going to get ran through the algorithm and Everybody's seen it 10 times.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Sam Morril]

Speak for yourself. My Lorena Bobachonk is crushing right now.

[Mark Normand]

So it's time to cut that. Yeah, it's, it's, it's fun getting back out there, but it is scary. But my. This is what's good about your wife or. My wife is we went to on a vacation for New Year's because she pushes vacations. Yeah, all right, back off. I like to work. Yeah, but it's good. I go on vacation.

[Derek Stroop]

And you love it.

[Mark Normand]

And I love it. And I'm thinking of jokes again. Like, new ideas pop in. But she's miserable because I'm like, chairs are funny, right? Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Back off. Is the funniest thing to say to a vacation.

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Sam Morril]

Like, she's got a knife at your throat.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I just want to be with you in another place. You're like, you fucking bitch, Leave me alone.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

So we ever out like around normal people and they're like, you're so quiet.

[Mark Normand]

It's like.

[Gary Veer]

Well, because I'm thinking, you know?

[Mark Normand]

I know.

[Gary Veer]

Just trying to observe.

[Mark Normand]

And I'm bored.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, I am bored.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, no, but I. Did you take time off your brain because when you're doing stand up, it's just like, you just think about how that tag's not working where I want it. Okay. I gotta fix that joke. But when you're out, you're like, let new shit in.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, you're right.

[Mark Normand]

And you need to do that.

[Derek Stroop]

It is. And sometimes you have a fresh approach to the same jokes when you Leave them. You know, come back after taking some time off. Yeah, no, I. I agree. But it's funny, Mark, because of you, I'll be on the road. I can't tell you how many cities some open mic will hit me up that's under a Reptile Center. And they'll go, we have a mic here at midnight. And they'll go, mark Norman did it one time. And I want to be like, hey, let me tell you what Mark did. All of the shittiest mics in America. And I don't care if he's your. I'm not doing the mic under the reptile center.

[Mark Normand]

I remember that.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, every city, they're like, just to let you know, Mark Norman Foreman came to this mic that said, oh,

[Sam Morril]

you think you get it bad?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, you think you're too good? Mark did it. I'm like, I'm tired.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm the same thing. I'm like, I'm not coming. And it's like they try to guilt you with Mark. I'm like, yeah, of course he did. You wouldn't believe the rooms he's done.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

And it's always like a 1am show, like, after, like, two shows somewhere else. And you're like, how does he have the. How do you have.

[Mark Normand]

The fat chicks haven't come up to you. Hey, Mark, me. Some lady in a wheelchair. Come on. He did it.

[Derek Stroop]

Miss enough foot. Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

But I would say this.

[Gary Veer]

As you guys are all building up new material, you're going back to, like, I'm sure old bits that didn't work.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Gary Veer]

Oh, and now maybe this fits in this new act. And then you're like. And also the fact that you haven't said it in a while, maybe you'll have, like, something that.

[Mark Normand]

A new spin, the inventory.

[Sam Morril]

You go through those old word docs or whatever, and you're just like, oh, this should have worked. I should have said this instead. And then. Still doesn't work. But you're like, no, but you tweak it.

[Gary Veer]

And sometimes you get lucky. Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Some of them you're like, why'd I give up on this premise? This is a good premise. Or sometimes the premise was too ambitious and you're like, ugh, I can't figure this out right now. And then you come back and you're like, let me try to.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

And sometimes you've focused on the bit so much that it lost its meaning. So then when you take a break and you come back, you see the meaning again.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you working on any bits?

[Mark Normand]

Ah, I knew you were. You gotta tell us early.

[Sam Morril]

I got one. I'll try. Cause this. Got something the other night. I think there's something here. I was watching a Mad Men episode and it was on Amazon. So they do a disclaimer before the episode where they say that we do blackface. In this episode, the character's blackface, and we do not condone that. And then they just show the episode, which is kind of weird. And then there's another episode where a woman gets raped and there's no disclaimer. So it's like once you speak once, you kind of gotta speak for all of them, you know, it's like also these guys cheating their wives every 30 minutes. Maybe that's not the best thing to do either. I don't know.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Sam Morril]

So it's like that part, the rape park got a pretty good pop the other night.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I think there's some meat on that bone.

[Mark Normand]

Absolutely. Smoking, too. Is a disclaimer now. Smoking.

[Sam Morril]

I know.

[Mark Normand]

So like. Yeah, you think rape would pop up.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, but it's also like. You just don't really have to say anything. No, we can figure out.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Humans can figure out what's bad.

[Mark Normand]

Is there a guy applying blackface? He's like, oh, this is bad. All right, all right.

[Derek Stroop]

Okay. If you say so.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Before, Malcolm X went like, you shouldn't kill people. You shouldn't kill people.

[Gary Veer]

So it is crazy that they could show an old episode of something, but they wouldn't make something new with some guy. Obviously, you don't want somebody in blackface, but they wouldn't make something new with somebody in blackface. But now, old stuff, it's okay. It just gets grandfathered in all this old stuff. Like old things on Seinfeld might not be appropriate.

[Mark Normand]

Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder.

[Gary Veer]

Right, Exactly.

[Mark Normand]

It's okay now, but now things are.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Sam Morril]

But there might be a disclaimer with that.

[Gary Veer]

No, there is a disclaimer.

[Mark Normand]

Is there? Yeah, yeah, probably.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, it's interesting. Where the line. You know.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, that's very interesting. For sure.

[Sam Morril]

I don't know.

[Mark Normand]

You gotta disclaimer everything if you gotta do something.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, but then you should just be

[Gary Veer]

able to make everything again. I mean, you can make everything. I think that's what it's gonna come to.

[Mark Normand]

I mean, it's just strange. Cause people did blackface. So we're doing a show about this time, you know, that's what people did.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. I don't think that. It's just weird that that's the one thing you zone in on.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Cause obviously it's bad.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Just like when somebody plays retarded pro person, right?

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. They get rewards. Someone.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Derek Stroop]

Leonardo DiCaprio. Gilbert grapes a lot for him.

[Mark Normand]

Killed it. Killed it there. Helped his career.

[Gary Veer]

Does that have a disclaimer? What's the best buy?

[Mark Normand]

Well, you can't be like, don't be too late. All right? I. I thought of this on the way here, so maybe it's stupid, so it's not worked out, but, you know, you got these. These method actors annoy the. Out of me. Like, they're all great. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing. But they annoy this. Like, hanging out with them, you know, where they're like, I'm gonna be a mailman for a year before I get ready to get ready for this role. Porn stars don't do that. They're not like, hey, I want to be a delivery guy, pizza delivery guy for a while. Just so I can get the. Just so I can, you know, nail it. No pun intended. Is that stupid? I thought it was away here.

[Sam Morril]

Well, the problem. The problem with the bit is that porn is bad acting.

[Mark Normand]

It's already bad acting, so no one do that.

[Sam Morril]

But maybe there's a way in still where you're just like, is there one method actor either? One guy who's just like, I gotta nail this.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. I'm gonna be a pool boy for six months.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But then you start doing porn jokes, and you can't do them in places like Texas anymore because they don't even know what it looks like.

[Sam Morril]

That was a great joke in your special.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, I love that.

[Sam Morril]

The.

[Gary Veer]

Buy a gun, right?

[Sam Morril]

Buy a gun. Great. So I can kill myself.

[Mark Normand]

Blow my brain. Yeah. Thanks. All right, well, that's nothing. That's what I'm.

[Sam Morril]

Disclaimer. Before that joke, though, you should not commit suicide.

[Derek Stroop]

You should not.

[Mark Normand]

Or unalive yourself.

[Sam Morril]

Unalive yourself.

[Mark Normand]

It's so stupid.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. And you guys got anything? I don't know. I don't know. It's.

[Derek Stroop]

I got some new stuff. I mean, not like my stuff's just so long form. You guys are actual joke tellers.

[Mark Normand]

I. You got.

[Derek Stroop]

I go on a. I go on a journey. I did try to get back into. Now I feel like we're on Comics Unleashed. Yeah. Let me naturally go into a bit. I've got balls. No, I. I did. I tried to get back into to running. I haven't Ran in like a decade and, and like, I'm a big guy and it was like. It's a lot tougher than I ever imagined. I'm 285 pounds. Okay. Wow.

[Sam Morril]

Well, you don't look it.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks to six two.

[Sam Morril]

That's what.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, no, I'm, I'm built like, you know, I'm built like a football player. You know, that's, that's how they breed them where I'm from.

[Mark Normand]

Sure.

[Derek Stroop]

But anyway, anyways, I tried to get back in the running. And the problem is when you haven't ran in so long and you're as big as I am, is you're breathing. It's not like a regular, like, labored breathing. It's like a panicked type breathing situation. It doesn't look like I'm on a jog. It looks like I'm coming to tell you that it's bad back there.

[Mark Normand]

Like the British are coming.

[Derek Stroop]

And so, you know, even in a place like New York City where nobody pays attention to any anybody, if come to find out, if you breathe hard enough here, people will ask you if you're all right. Yeah, but, yeah, that, that's just like a little premise that I've, that's funny.

[Mark Normand]

That's really, I like that. Maybe an angle could be like, you hate running so much, you have to get yourself in up situations to run away. Yeah, yeah. No, that's a force it.

[Derek Stroop]

I've been lighting a lot of fires, but anyways, boy, have I got quick.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right. Exactly. Exactly.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm on quite the run.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Why'd you steal that? You know, I need to jog. Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Something there you're trying to get down to. Just. Can we talk shape? Yeah, it's not that bad. 100. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

I would just say, like, you know, if you want. I mean, I don't know. Mine would be like, if you were everywhere, like, if you wanted a line, say you just worked out, you just breathe heavy in general.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gary Veer]

So be like, I just came from a workout.

[Derek Stroop]

I think this thing has some legs.

[Sam Morril]

There's some legs.

[Mark Normand]

Definitely got legs for sure.

[Derek Stroop]

Thighs. All right.

[Mark Normand]

Comedy. There we go.

[Sam Morril]

No one's ever farted on mark.

[Mark Normand]

Do whatever.

[Sam Morril]

No one's ever farted on mark.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I mean, I, I, I'm not nearly as gassy as he is today. I'm, I'm doing a little better.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I just started off my, I started off my day with an uncrustable and some bodega juice.

[Gary Veer]

I just got into uncrustables because the kids. I never had air gray year. It's unbelievable. I just get the. The jelly and the peanut butter one.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, this is more of a dream. This is the thing. Here you go. This is more of a dream come true for our generations than these kids coming up because they don't know the life of crust. They don't know we grew up eating peanut butter and jellies. That's still one of my favorite. At my brokest, after my two DUIs, I can remember thinking that I never got tired of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. One day I was poor. I was like, damn, these are still fire.

[Mark Normand]

I ate one today. I put it on a tortilla. Now that's my move.

[Derek Stroop]

That is okay. I like that. I'm gonna stick with potato bread.

[Sam Morril]

You can throw some. Some banana in there too.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, man.

[Derek Stroop]

But these kids, they didn't earn this. To us, it blows our mind. I'm 41 and I'm like, my God, baby Derek would be like, I dreamed of an uncrustable world. And now look what we've got. They act like it's normal. I saw a video.

[Sam Morril]

This is so funny that this is the thing that you hung up on that they. Not the Internet. They're like, you motherfucker. No, you don't know what it was like.

[Mark Normand]

Like, it's the uncrustable.

[Sam Morril]

We had to spread our own jelly.

[Derek Stroop]

We did. It was a nightmare.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. We had to cut our own off. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

But it was. I mean, are you guys.

[Mark Normand]

The MO did mine, but I'm a smooth man. I know that's controversial.

[Derek Stroop]

I'm crunchy.

[Sam Morril]

I'm crunchy all the way.

[Mark Normand]

Interesting.

[Sam Morril]

I like crunch.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I want some texture.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Like the abortion debate. Pro life. Pro crunch. Oh, look at that.

[Derek Stroop]

Now that's what I was going to bring up.

[Mark Normand]

He's pulling it off.

[Derek Stroop]

He's pulling off the. The uncrusted crust.

[Mark Normand]

Wow, look at these kids. That's craz.

[Derek Stroop]

They don't want to work.

[Mark Normand]

What a. Look at them. He can't even have the uncrust of crust.

[Derek Stroop]

That's. Isn't that wild? See, that's what I mean. They don't even live in the same.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, my God.

[Gary Veer]

That's crazy.

[Mark Normand]

He should be ashamed. That's bad upbringing. He's. His father should hit him.

[Sam Morril]

Easy, Mark.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

He's saying, we're in dangerous waters here, Mark.

[Derek Stroop]

This is a hot bit. Don't make him cut it.

[Sam Morril]

Mark's like, he should be Killed like Jesus.

[Mark Normand]

No, no, don't kill the man. He just needs to grow up a little. Yeah. Where's y. On his ass?

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, my goodness.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, don't pull it up.

[Gary Veer]

But I love the uncrossable.

[Mark Normand]

My.

[Gary Veer]

What were your snacks growing up as a kid? I mean, I had. I mean, Oreos. I loved. I still love Oreos.

[Mark Normand]

My parents wouldn't buy any of that.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, very same. Very healthy.

[Gary Veer]

I also drank so much apple juice as a kid.

[Sam Morril]

Really?

[Gary Veer]

We were told that.

[Sam Morril]

We were told that. Yeah, we were told that, but we didn't know. I thought orange juice was healthy. Yeah. I used to drink a glass of milk.

[Derek Stroop]

Same thing.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, true.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, orange juice same thing, though. I mean, it's still one of my favorite drinks. But it is so bad. I mean, there's so much sugar. But orange juice is one of my favorite.

[Gary Veer]

Are there any things you guys aren't gonna feed your kids? Because, I mean, now you're like. I mean, your kids is your kid.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, I try to keep them off sugar. No phones, obviously. But like, like.

[Gary Veer]

But food wise, would you have me goldfish or anything?

[Mark Normand]

I'll go. No. Fast food food. You know, like, I have a friend, he gives a lot of fast food to his kid, and it's like, it's

[Derek Stroop]

all hard to avoid that problem.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Ah, you can just not buy McDonald's. I don't know.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, no, I know.

[Gary Veer]

But sometimes, though, it gets to that

[Sam Morril]

hour, like, what could I not.

[Gary Veer]

Not like fast food, but like, other things. You're like, what could I get? Whatever I have in the house that's. I mean, uncrustables is processed, you know?

[Mark Normand]

That's true. That's true.

[Gary Veer]

Would you give your kid an uncrustable down the road?

[Mark Normand]

I guess I would, yeah.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, yeah, I would.

[Sam Morril]

Changing a panel.

[Mark Normand]

I want to be a horrible dad.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, I grew up in. That was kind of weird in the fact that we had a lot of Cokes, like, sodas. But the food that we ate, I wasn't allowed to just eat a bunch of bad snacks. Like, I remember to me, a cookie was a Fig Newton, which, you know now, I mean, I don't love Fig Newtons, but we had Fig Newtons growing up. A lot. Like, we had Ovaltine for our chocolate milk. Like, we were gonna do like ants on a log. As a snack would be something common. Peanut butter on celery with the raisins. But it wasn't like, a lot of, like, potato chips and fat meat.

[Mark Normand]

Same stuff.

[Derek Stroop]

Like, none of that. A lot of homemade food, too. I mean, I grew up out in the country, so, I mean, in New Orleans, I bet. I mean, I bet the eating was great.

[Mark Normand]

Eaton was good. My mom's a great cook, but she was very health conscious. So I'd be like, I'm hungry. I want a snack. And you're at your friend's house, you're eating Doritos. But at my house, she's like, let me slice up some tomatoes with oil and vinegar.

[Sam Morril]

My mom was the same way. Very health conscious.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, my grand. My grandmother was like that. And I would. I was just telling my wife about this. My grandmother would always kind of trick. Trick you because she would ask you what you wanted, as if we were gonna ever go get it. And whatever you said, she would make it home.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

You could say, I would go, I would love some Chinese food. Well, she would make orange chicken or sweet and sour chicken, just like, you know, nothing like crazy gourmet, like, with the packet and the skillet, cutting up her own chicken and her own vegetables, you know, that sort of thing. If you said you wanted cheeseburgers, my grandmother, she would make you a cheeseburger. You know, it was. We would never go get that thing.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right.

[Derek Stroop]

She would go, well, we can have the. That. You know, you had a healthier version

[Sam Morril]

of it, though, right?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, but a healthier version. Yeah, of it. It was always, you know, which was great. I mean, my mother wasn't quite, you know, quite like my grandmother. She was. That was like how she loved on you. What do you want to eat? No matter what it was pizza. She's making a homemade, not like a crazy, like making a pizza for you.

[Mark Normand]

But it was never the same, you know, like my mom, I would go, give me some ranch dressing. And she'd go, we don't have any. I'll make some. She would make ranch dressing.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mark Normand]

And it was like. Like a kind of ranchy. You know, it wasn't the same. You want that processed horseshit. I want something that RFK is going to hate.

[Sam Morril]

You know, the poison's good.

[Mark Normand]

It's good.

[Derek Stroop]

It is, it is.

[Gary Veer]

That's.

[Sam Morril]

Literally everything good is poison. I mean, people used to. People used to, like, you know, drugs. It's all poison. It's like a little bit of poison going into your body, and you're like, that's. That's the meat getting up.

[Mark Normand]

Of course, of course.

[Gary Veer]

But everything, like, you have to do everything in moderation. I mean, if you have too much chicken, your cholesterol is going to go through the roof.

[Mark Normand]

Right, right, right.

[Sam Morril]

That's all we eat. I feel like.

[Gary Veer]

I know we eat a lot of chicken.

[Sam Morril]

Jerk chicken is like jerk chicken.

[Mark Normand]

That's like.

[Sam Morril]

I'm like Jamaican food.

[Gary Veer]

Jamaican is probably. I might go up there as my number one.

[Sam Morril]

It's so good.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

I do love jerk chicken if I'm on the road, though. I mean, I'm inherently. I'm a sandwich guy through and through. Yeah, I love, like, a pot belly. A pot belly. Firehouse subs. Like a local deli. Yeah, I love. I'm going local deli all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

I went to a great one in Birmingham, actually. I just went to a great. Like, they had a Jewish deli there.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, yeah. Got to love that. What?

[Mark Normand]

Damn.

[Derek Stroop]

I mean, the. There's. There's a small population of Jewish people, and it's in Birmingham. It's like in the Mountain Brook area.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, wow. What. What is Roy woods from there?

[Sam Morril]

Huh?

[Derek Stroop]

He's from Birmingham.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Derek Stroop]

He's not from Mountain Brook.

[Gary Veer]

Not a Jew.

[Mark Normand]

There you go. Is that Von Br. Damn. You got to use these bad guys for good. He's. Everything's got his name on it, like, the library, the synagogue, everything.

[Derek Stroop]

You know what's crazy? We didn't learn a ton about. About him in school. I learned about him in college afterwards, and I was like, oh, wow. I mean, it's not like something like in the local curriculum that they talked about a lot. Like, we talked a lot about, you know, NASA, the program, because it's in Huntsville.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

We talked a lot about missile defense, Redstone Arsenal, the Patriot missiles that are protecting this country. All that technology is from Huntsville, Alabama. It's a very smart, educated southern city.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, a lot of engineers.

[Derek Stroop]

A lot of engineers. Like, the most per capita in the. In the United States. Huntsville, Alabama. So it's like this unique area where, like, some of my friends, parents were rocket scientists. They would go to Houston. Wendy Williams, Jeremy Williams, my best friend, his mother, she would go to Houston once a week. She would fly there and back. It was. It's like. This is how I describe it. It's one of the very few places where there's lifted trucks and engineers.

[Mark Normand]

Right.

[Derek Stroop]

This guy's got a dip in. But he's going to get us back to Mars come hell or high water, you know?

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

That is hilarious.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

He's like, these numbers ain't adding up right now.

[Sam Morril]

Damn. Yeah. Those engineers and those rocket scientists, they

[Derek Stroop]

have that Alabama accent. Yeah, a lot of them. But I mean, also, you know, it's not like we got a homegrown program for this. They're from all over the country.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Because these are going to be a collection of the brightest minds.

[Sam Morril]

It's also ranked high as, like, a great cost of living city. Charlotte. There's always cities like that in the north.

[Derek Stroop]

Raleigh, Huntsville's not like I grew up in a. It's like, kind of boring, but it's a great place to grow up. Like, you know, family. There wasn't a lot of crime. It's a pretty straight laced joint. Bunch of nerds live there. Like, if I created like a robot out of Legos, I'd be on the local news. But nobody in Huntsville even knows I'm doing comedy.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Same in New Orleans. Comedy is not our thing.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

No, you're right. It's all jazz and food and partying and drinking.

[Derek Stroop]

If you were on Netflix with a tuba, they'd have a parade for you.

[Gary Veer]

Cities that have so much going on, it's real tough for a comedy. I mean, except for, you know, New York, but like, New Orleans, it's like

[Mark Normand]

other stuff going on. Yeah. It's like Miami.

[Gary Veer]

I feel like Nashville has so much going on now, too. So it's like Nashville's good for comedy, but it's like, not as great. It's so much stuff going on.

[Sam Morril]

Great theaters.

[Derek Stroop]

Miami's a great. Those are like two that are great examples of. People have too much shit going on to care about your story.

[Mark Normand]

Exactly. They want to laugh and have a good time, but they don't want to hear about us being in therapy.

[Gary Veer]

Vegas is good at the theaters, but not in the clubs.

[Sam Morril]

They spend their therapy money on a butt lift in Miami. Y. I don't give a. About your anxiety.

[Gary Veer]

It's probably one of the worst comedy cities.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. They always show up late. It's tough.

[Mark Normand]

Way late.

[Sam Morril]

Always way late.

[Gary Veer]

Yeah, way late.

[Sam Morril]

30 minutes late.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. You want to go to Buffalo?

[Derek Stroop]

That's. That's Buffalo.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Yes, exactly.

[Sam Morril]

Pittsburgh.

[Gary Veer]

Cleveland's great.

[Mark Normand]

Phoenix.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah, yeah. It's tough places also that have, like, pretty good weather year round. I know they have, like a bad hurricane season, but for the most part, Miami's got pretty good weather, too.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Everyone's kind of hot.

[Derek Stroop]

100%. Everybody's doing pretty well for themselves.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. And comedy thrives in a dark, depressing basement. Yeah. You know, they don't want to do that.

[Derek Stroop]

I've rode some lightning in Toledo in my life.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

The city of glass. I think that's what they bring? They're like, we make a lot of glass here. I'm like, oh, you guys need these. All right, hold on. Let me break up some jokes.

[Mark Normand]

Hartford is the insurance capital. You know, a bummer.

[Sam Morril]

You start punchline. Some guy takes a shotgun out of his mouth. He's like, all right, let me give this a shot real quick.

[Derek Stroop]

Takes it out of his mouth. It's great.

[Mark Normand]

That's a tough, funny boat. I've eaten some real.

[Sam Morril]

Same here, dude.

[Derek Stroop]

And Hartford, a lot of Bernie Mac and cheese in there.

[Gary Veer]

One of my favorites. I love Milwaukee.

[Mark Normand]

Milwaukee's great. Real town. Awesome place. Yeah. All right, well, where are you guys going to be? You guys plug some dates?

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Derek Stroop]

Cities I. April 2nd through the 4th, I will be in Cleveland.

[Sam Morril]

Hilarities.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, Hilarity. Just the best.

[Sam Morril]

Top five in the game.

[Derek Stroop]

Top five for sure. Love Hilarities.

[Sam Morril]

It's. It's one of my favorite.

[Mark Normand]

Sam, those are the guys.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, Nick and Sam, man, they're the best.

[Sam Morril]

They're the absolute best food, too.

[Mark Normand]

Very good food.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

You save money at that Club Y Gary.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, you think he's letting me off that easy?

[Mark Normand]

We're eating two meals, but it's hot now. Yeah.

[Gary Veer]

When we go to Cleveland and we're at hilarious, I'm like, come on, buddy.

[Sam Morril]

So we have something.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Derek, stay tier.

[Derek Stroop]

Oh, awesome. Thank you.

[Sam Morril]

And make sure you watch his new Netflix special, nostalgic.

[Derek Stroop]

Thank you, Sam. That. That's. That's out now. And then April 16th through the 18th, Grand Rapids.

[Mark Normand]

Nice.

[Derek Stroop]

Dr. Grins comedy club at the Bob. Yeah. May 1st and 2nd. I'm in Springfield, Missouri, Blue room. So, yeah, y' all come check me out. Thanks for letting me plug and comedy Off Broadway.

[Sam Morril]

And, man, that's. Oh, these are. These are good rooms.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, yeah, they're all. I love comedy Off Broadway and Lex.

[Mark Normand]

Same.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, and the Omaha Funny Bone.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Say what's up to Colleen.

[Derek Stroop]

I will. Colleen. I love it.

[Sam Morril]

She's the best, man.

[Mark Normand]

Did you feel a bump with the Netflix? Did you feel like I'm here and then here?

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah, I mean, I. I definitely. I was starting to get a little bit of momentum right before, which helped, but there's definitely a bump in sales and traction, which is what you want.

[Mark Normand]

Yeah. Good. Good for you. What do you got?

[Gary Veer]

Open up for set. Well, I guess that's. By the time this airs. I'm doing Zanies. When is this?

[Sam Morril]

Air 12. Oh, okay.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, hell, yeah. I'll be at the Ryman in the country.

[Sam Morril]

Yes.

[Gary Veer]

So I'll be there With Sal Vucano.

[Mark Normand]

Killer.

[Sam Morril]

Love him.

[Gary Veer]

Nashville, Tennessee.

[Mark Normand]

Sal's the man. Great, great. Where you at there? Oh, is this me?

[Sam Morril]

This is Sammy.

[Mark Normand]

Okay.

[Sam Morril]

No, you tell me. Louisiana.

[Mark Normand]

Verona, New York.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, Louisiana. May 7th for the Netflix Fest with Jordan Jensen, Joe List, and Rachel.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Sam Morril]

Come on. United Theater. That'll be really fun. Verona, New York. Gary, if you're available. June 6th at the Turning Stone Casino. That should be fun. Then I'm in Lisbon, Portugal, and then I'm adding some shit. I don't think it's announced yet, but it might be on the site right now. Athens, Greece, Budapest.

[Mark Normand]

Damn.

[Sam Morril]

Croatia, Vienna, Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, if

[Derek Stroop]

it's on the site.

[Gary Veer]

If not, it's.

[Sam Morril]

It's coming.

[Derek Stroop]

So I'll see.

[Mark Normand]

Doing the Straight of Hormuz next. Holy.

[Sam Morril]

Yeah. Not a lot of money in these cities, but it's going to be fun, so.

[Mark Normand]

Oh, you go for the.

[Sam Morril]

You go for the time, baby.

[Derek Stroop]

Yeah.

[Mark Normand]

Hell yeah. Chattanooga Choo Choo. We're coming back at the Walker Theater then. Then it's Raleigh, and Salaki's got his hands off the computer.

[Sam Morril]

Oh, sorry.

[Mark Normand]

And then we got Ontario, Louisiana, for the Netflix Festival. Nouveau Brunswick. Spoke in Philly, Milwaukee, Irvine, and Tempe, Royal Oak. We got Cleveland as well. Seattle.

[Sam Morril]

Also, Mark has a new documentary about

[Derek Stroop]

the run up to his Special in Boulder, Colorado. You can get [e-mail].

[Sam Morril]

that's the name of the doc. It's a one hour doc.

[Mark Normand]

One hour, all green room, funny bombing, working it out, traveling, put it together. It's very well done.

[Sam Morril]

Thank you, sir.

[Mark Normand]

All right. And watch our specials on Netflix, folks.

[Sam Morril]

Love it. And get some bodega cat whiskey as well.

[Derek Stroop]

Thanks for having me, fellas.

[Mark Normand]

You got it, sir.

[Sam Morril]

Me too.

[Mark Normand]

Comedy.

[Sam Morril]

And watch gary special on YouTube. It's a great special. Watch that right now.

[Mark Normand]

Buy Gary some chips, for Christ's sake. You need some chips. He's got a gallon of guac at the house. Sunday's the day for my next bender.

[Derek Stroop]

A bit of P. Your juice.

[Mark Normand]

Close.

[Derek Stroop]

I've had a little too much burping

[Mark Normand]

and Norman's talking shit about the fucking poke.

[Derek Stroop]

And I get down in the same

[Mark Normand]

way up on the roof like a

[Derek Stroop]

Cops coming and naked Samuel is feeling dangerous I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans this woman doesn't look like I remember her and I get down in the same way Might be true.