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we have on our show today Dana danne cook a familiar name than my name d n
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and I am d for all you fans out
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there you put the DNA in d n a this one's interesting because his
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journey I he was the first person to really use social media to create a fan
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base with with a platform called my space from the early knots my space I
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like and uh and then he he had so much to talk about because there's so many
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things going on he did a ton of movies he's still doing movies he's sort of
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gotten to the place now where he had ups and downs and he's like I'm good with everything and I just want to try to do
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the stuff I really really want to do and he puts his own money into stuff and he's doing he's really it was super uh
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interesting to talk to I didn't know a lot of what he was telling us yeah I mean he really made the leap pretty
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quickly to stadiums you know people are doing a lot now you know Arena giant he
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was one of the first to go it was dice I remember was big and then yeah dice earlier than him and then he he came out
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new and he was just like a uh huge and uh he goes he's a very open real person
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because he's had some ups and downs he had some legal issues that he'll he'll address in terms of family members and
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uh it's very very uh interesting interview he's very um he's a smart
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clever person I'm just say it's kind of similar to the Matt R where good-look
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dude comes out blows up in comedy and has a big career and uh so here hear his
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story stick around listen to this here he is Dane [Music]
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Cook hey wow The Nutty Professor is our guest today and he is now Dane is
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surrounded by incredibly he's got a stormtrooper I'm just painting a picture
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man Mass you are are you a science fiction guy like me or fantasy Marvel what do you when I see this I look like
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an intern at Bad Robot but at least they have a restaurant in Bad Robot has a fullscale
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restaurant you've been there right you're just you're just walking along yeah I've seen it you know it wasn't
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until I looked at your benign background that I look like I'm Miss Magorium's uh magical Emporium over here so it's a
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little too busy yeah well look at Dane and I is pretty blank but unclosed Hotel I'm I'm
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in a hotel in New York City you guys look like you're in like one of those like off off the grid doctor's
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office yeah Dana is in an undisclosed uh holiday in uh green ribbon I'm in a yeah
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I'm near a bouet it's 10 minute it's 10 feet away but you're not going to see it but uh uh let's cook it up cook is our
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gu I want to have a phrase I just thought of it let's cook it up let's get it cooking what I I I'll ask you later
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like how do we blow up this podcast I mean we need we're doing really well but I want to know because you're the master
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of that the original we can start there if you want or your childhood but the
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first first comedian that I know of that identifi social media before Broadband
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Myspace and then decided instead of hanging out after the show would go back
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and work social media and then became the biggest comedian on planet
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Earth right I you know I I was a I was a I was a dork basically I was a dork that
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loved comedy and I felt like on stage at night there was this great opportunity to kind of be whoever you wanted to be
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right you could create this Persona you could you know have this kind of uh rambunctious facade and then I would go
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home and for 23 hours of the day through the entire terrible 90s of road work I
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was just miserable I was really really like languishing miserable and like how
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can you make this other time of the day work and how could my my geekdom work for me somehow I love computers I saw
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the internet as kind of like I don't know like some kind of portal you know to to college kids that were you know
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online late at night downloading porn or whatever they were looking for and it's like Facebook or something you start to
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go I got to get to these guys but dial up the energy of dialup in those days
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waiting that's just my wife good night that's all I got I don't have anything else that's it good night that's not bad
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that's her yelling at you no that's her just talking about dinner Yes dear but anyway so that was
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uh you're a worker be then you're a nerd and and not willing you're willing to put the work in because that is with
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pre- Broadband you got to really work it Hey listen by 98 everybody made it
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pretty clear to me if you didn't have like a Saturday Night Live or an HBO you
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know young comedian special if you didn't have one of those two things you you you know you weren't GNA Zeitgeist
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you you weren't invited to the party and I it's funny because I had an SNL moment
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where they wanted me to come in it was right after Adam had left the show and
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I'm sure you guys you know remember right around that transition and they were they were looking at me they were coming down seeing me in the village I
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was just doing gigs down there going back and and forth from Boston and on my way to my audition at SNL I had a fullon
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panic attack I sat on a bench outside of Rockefeller Plaza shut the [ __ ] up and I didn't go in I actually called my
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manager I said I I'm I'm not I can't do it and he's like why they're all waiting for you they want to see you they're
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looking for something to fill that you know that void void yeah and I I blew it
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on the day because I was like too uh I also I also knew from a few friends that
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had been on the show that it was that it was more confrontational and I was very beta at that time and I was like I'm not
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going to be able to fight for skits I can barely you know get my food order out at a at a you know for a waiter at
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lunch I'm not going to be able to survive at SNL so enter one you see I
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just want for who's ever listening young men or whatever how do you go from a
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beta to at least your stage Persona became alpha alpha you know yeah yeah it
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was interesting because so my my dad was a BC graduate and an all-around athlete
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you know he played every sport he boxed he was just a stud and my mom was like
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uh you know there wasn't an allenon meeting that she didn't want to sit in you know she was just like real super
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sensitive very like introvert I got a lot of that I was I was kind of like an introvert but inside I was very
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competitive because of my dad's side so it wasn't until I got on stage and started feeling like oh wait what if I
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what if I took this version of myself and just kind of brought that into the
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the the meek shell inherit the earth 23 hours of the day and see if I can live in the middle so that's kind of where it
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all got built up from well it wasn't getting you anywhere I mean especially that SNL thing is such an interesting
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story that I was there I mean I was still I stayed a year after Sandler so I
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would have been probably someone you would have seen there of my final year but wow and how and don't your people
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turn their back on you a little after that your management agents or no yeah they were not H they were not happy I
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definitely felt like I let myself down because you got to realize two years later I'm you know I'm somewhere in you
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know Tampa at a dle gig and I'm watching Fallon who you know uh you know got the
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doing what you could have been doing you were right there with him you would have been maybe a castmate with him I don't
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knowe right I was just I was out there going oh no I oh wow I think I I think I
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missed up that opportunity and of course at that point there was there was nothing else there was just there was
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just the next uh gig where at that point they didn't care that I was coming and they didn't care when I left it was
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those gigs just a flash in my head did you ever play the rib Tickler in Minneapolis no I did not that's a real
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Club it was kind of a fun Club but it's pretty Grim out there when you're I mean but at that point at least in your head
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you're going to be a professional you we're making a living you're not leaving you're just going to find a way right
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you're not one of those people who quit for a month or something I'm doing I'm doing a lot of college G gigs yeah so at
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the time I'm out there I'm I'm doing a lot of gigs I remember the the kind of The Gang That was out there at the time
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it was like I do gigs with Chappelle uh Tracy Morgan uh uh uh who else was out
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there at that time um just a flock of like you know great upand cominging comedians that were killing it but I
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felt like everybody else sort of had a trajectory and mine was already like you know every time I walked by that bench
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at Rockell app Plaza I was like ah I can't believe I screwed it you're like I had mental problems before it was cool
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you were way ahead of the game there with ADD if you were now you'd Instagram that
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or you'd live stream it I'm right outside rocker Center my dream's right there I can't open the door gang
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fullblown panic attack that would have blown up globally that probably would personal day I blame SNL and I'm gonna
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come in there they owe me you would get that day back somehow because it is tricky to do that I mean it's hard
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because I'm sorry I'm going to be answering all your questions for you what it is is you do that and now you're
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going to do rib ticklers and all these gigs which we've all done and you're going where am I what is my goal now
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because I just kind of missed one goal so it must be tough oh yeah it it definitely was I
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mean it was like there was I never wanted to stop you know I always was like okay I guess there's some other
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Avenue but it wasn't until like the end of the '90s s into you know Myspace and
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social media that quite literally long story short I was sitting in front of the computer one day I start posting
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stuff on MySpace and I just was putting up clips and talking to fans and really
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like just nerding out all day like eating Froot Loops and just responding to people full that were uh you know in
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between classes and then finally I remember I saw it go from a few hundred people to like 2,000 followers in in
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like uh matter of days and uh I was sitting in my office uh or I say my
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office but I was sitting on a futon which was also in my kitchen which was also in in in a basement we all had a
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futon at some point right the dreaded your kitchen yeah and then I finally
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looked and I was like damn dude I just hit 2,000 followers and I'm I'm serious when I say I'm like I think this is it I
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was like I think I could build like a little you know Army through this and I
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just didn't let up for four years I answered every that anybody sent me I
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would send them links and you name it I like I was friends with everybody for a while who wrote me and what was how big
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did that first wave get where did you get to in four years I mean this is early early social media 100,000 or it
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was seven it was 7 million followers by the time you know Myspace was say
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defunct but in that time million like 2004 five yes yeah and so what was crazy
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that's a billion today it it right it really it's almost like being like uh you know on the Celtics in the 80s and
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realizing right those guys probably only made $40,000 a year versus like uh but I
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could click one button and sell out you know you name at that point like a a
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Fieldhouse at a college or even a small Arena back in 0304 I could click one
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click and the algorithm just did it J you say tickets for sale going on sale
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right now done no radio no uh good morning Cincinnati like nothing just
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click no zuk crew no zuk crew you got I'm I'm G use the word Oracle Pioneer I
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think young people listening understand the first maybe the first human being I
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don't know who your peers were but I know in the world of Comedy you started this so some of the toxicity of social
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media I kind of put on you um yeah let's turn this around a little bit you're a
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problem but that's extraordinary in the meanwhile I'm just interested in the process of the lane of becoming great
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not just good as a standup you know what I mean just that work ethic and all that
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those reps yeah well you if you start knowing I can click one button and get everybody's attention I better be
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delivering something that's worthy because if you have that many people walking away from your shitty thing
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they're going to tell everybody so yeah you have to be good there's no way you're doing those gigs and not having
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satisfied customers because it would it wouldn't last a minute you know of course everything es and flows but a
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great mindset is I have to kill and so that means the weaker bits go overboard I have to kill and they're all coming to
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see me and they're my friends like so I get this to do I would be at the I would
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be in the village every night and I would try to book six to upwards of 10 gigs in a night so
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I could work work work I'd be going seller Boston comedy club The W come up to standup New York come back down to
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dangerfields back over to The Cellar for the midnight show just do that that
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Circle man all night long to try to you know figure out what works what's funny okay that's a uh lesson number two for
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young people listening that's just work what's your demographic here Dana when we say young people listening we're
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talking 40 no anything under 60 60 to 90 yeah most of most of the demographic is
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83 um I don't know why I come from the 80s we have a all you curly residents at
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mediplex Nursing Home in Lexington listen up any aspiring standups who've been in it 35 years or having trouble in
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their mid-50s Landing a pain gig you're you're getting truth to power here right now we are cooking it I like when we
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have Paul McCartney on and people like get somebody famous I'm like he is famous I know get some get somebody from
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Tik Tok it's like we try to do both but you know what I mean I we we're we're like old school the people that actually
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did something you know and I think Tik Tok is something and all that stuff is something but we sort of are more old
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school about it but listen we'll take whatever we're trying to bend a little bit on this uh so you do that uh so
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you're far from Burger King where you where you worked once and I [ __ ] still miss Burger King I love it so much
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did you grow up really just middle class basically or were you yeah yeah yeah we grew up uh I say in my act because I I
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thought we were lower middle class and I learned in my teens we were upper poor um my mom was just you know cleaning
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cleaning toilets and doing housekeeping and just doing anything she could to keep us in a you know in a pretty good
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spot but yeah souy you southy we were in Allington which I don't even know how we
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we uh managed that but you know we were in the system we were food stamps and salvation Army used to come over and
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have to you know fill our furnace up with you know with oil yeah drafted by you were lower middle
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class I'm just saying it's where you came from where you went is always startling you know yeah we we were like
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a week to week family but it was kind of also kind of really it was really Bonkers because you know we would my mom
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it took me a lot of years to realized like my mom just was you know Full Tilt committed to like even if you're
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desperate and you you're ass out you gotta like still go for your dreams so my mom even though here we are we're in
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the system and we're like trying to figure out week to week she come home with like a used Corvette and be like
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look what I bought and I was like how how how can we even do that Mom we can't
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she's like I know we're gonna have to work harder she would just be like we got to all work another job so I can have this this fun car and it was just
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like she set a precedent which obviously I took into my standup which is like you just got to you can have what you want
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even in the lean years the tough years but you got to work triple overtime you gota you gota right give it everything
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you gotta pay for it yeah gotta pay for we also found out I just looked up she did have an only fans she did have an
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only first person do she would have been doing like a Jane Fonda workout but like
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in a slinky outfit back in in my Barbarella outfit tonight I don't want to go on a Tang that's funny I can't get
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a handle on the money and only fans this Olympic Athlete I think it's a from some
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country and so she's got 320,000 followers you had 7 million but she's
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monetizing $20 a month and she it's not pornographic just cute stuff so it's 6.3
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million a year loves her new job so anyway that's kind of fascinating but uh
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let's go back to you let's go back to our grind of
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[Music] Comedy what was the biggest I mean retaliation was seemed in 200 five was
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sort of a rocket a Super Rocket yeah yeah yeah that was my that was my second
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album and it was kind of funny because when I put the first album out Comedy Central who did my record deal they were
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like the comedy album is dead so they gave me this great bad deal yeah where
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they because they were like it's just a calling card and no one's even they I remember they told me in the meeting if
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if 8 if you move 8,000 units you know pre-digital you know will be will be
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shocked and I was telling them you I got a lot of fans man I got colleges all over the country so I made a great deal
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with Comedy Central where I was like okay if I sell over 100,000 you'll give me like
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$2.50 per album and they were like okay but if you don't we keep everything and I was like deal and then retaliation I
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think sold like I don't know 102,000 copies in that first week and that oh my
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God that was like a big win for me and my fan because I was like okay now I'm putting a little bit of cash SCH away so
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I can really live this dream they got to listen that's crazy because that when you can play the play that like that
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where they don't believe in it you're like have almost a secret weapon going wait do you guys not I'm trying to let you in on that's a shrewd business move
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and that that went platinum right yeah yeah d double plaid man double plat but
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I did it as a double album because I knew I would go gold or maybe you know
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possibly please Platinum if you have two discs at a in a unit back then that
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counted as as two sales so I hit that 500,000 I kind it was like my little
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cheat way in by doing a double Comedy album oh I could hit that precedent uh
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you know sooner if I was going to hit it at all and was that I'm sorry interrupt was that because you did premium blend
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which is something I hear in a lot of intros to comics and uh I don't did I did half hour comedy hour then there's
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we've all done standup Spotlight you know evening at The Improv so it's all that kind of stuff but those can help
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you blow up a little bit so did premium blem move the needle or what was really the needle mover other than your just
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doing it on the road yeah it was it was premium Blends it was um you know they
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had like three or four of those kind of like not standup standup that was like early 90s but you know those things where they would cliify you and then you
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would end up interstitials or whatever on on their Network or shorty watching shorties and all these kinds of things
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but more than anything it I want that I want to be on that more than anything it was it was like it
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didn't occur to me until you know I was maybe 26 27 I was like I was like oh [ __ ] I'm I'm growing up with a new
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generation of Comedy fans if I just stay here and expand with these premium Blends and stuff I'm I'm just going to
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build up that you know initial uh Squad of of familiarity and I didn't know I
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mean did I know it was going to go to you know Madison Square Gardens and all that no I hoped it was a dream but it
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was definitely like when it started happening I was like oh [ __ ] this is going to this is going to be uh and the
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never been done before business unbelievable Madison Square Garden is such a benchmark for comedians because it's very rare I think they said dice
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did it before you well it was incredibly rare when Dane did it because just dice and then you right Garden just you were
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the second and you did two shows in one night or two shows back to back yeah I think I think it was two shows yeah an
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eight and 10 somehow we managed to eight a 10 it's 20,000 takes 5 hours to load
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them out and in but oh you Al did you do TD Gardens I'm sure Boston you would have oh yeah wanted to do dude that was
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vicious so like Spade it was crazy because vicious circle that was the first Arena anything in uh HBO when they
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were like all right we want to give you your moment what do you want to do and I was like I I want to see if Marty culer
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who I was a fan of and I knew had directed Carlin's first special 1978 on location Carlin in the round and so I
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went and pitched HBO could I meet with Marty and could we do it in the round and we could we could do it at Boston
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Garden because that's my New England affiliate all my fans from now 15 years
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they somehow agreed to pay for that and do it and that was the first Arena that I ever played was that Vicious Circle
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show that was the first night I ever played an arena in the round like that wow and I watched that I watched that
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when it first came out and I was like damn yeah this guy who is this guy I mean the commitment there's the bit you
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is it the one where you do breaking and inuring and someone asked me to ask you this question is that a true story where
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you just say to your friends let's break an inner somewhere tonight or was an embellishment of a true story yeah no no it was it was it was cobbled together
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from two or three different times where what we do is there was always like construction sites and new homes being
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built around where we were so we'd sneak through the woods and then we would b& we'd get into these places and you know
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whatever you know just like you know literally just like hang out in these abandoned or being built homes and years
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later I remember in like Junior High School in my first you know notebook of like possible ideas for for for sketches
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I was like uh I gotta do something with the with the B and E and so that ended up in there you have something in common
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with David in that you don't lean on it neither neither does David but you both will use sound effect and you did a lot
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in that particular bit sneaking in opening the door all that stuff which is a very effective thing to paint a
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picture texture it's no it's great I do it everyone does it it's great yeah you're painting painting these verbal
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pictures and you're trying to use as many you know Johnny Carson once said
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you know you use everything as a comedian you use everything something you did when you were eight you know you
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use every element in standup and I guess you know that's what we try to do if you don't have sing I mean there's when you
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go on SNL or standup there's singing There's playing instruments all help in
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standup you know what I mean if you can put that into a bit it helps Some Noise helps some anything also jokes also the
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verbal it's all combined you're like [ __ ] this is a highly competitive business if I have one thing I can do
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use it to help a bit yeah that all use it that's is that right when you did SNL cuz you hosted twice is that in two
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years I I forget what someone told me it was like the end of one season and I think I'm either backtack host because I
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open the next season it was like I ended the season then maybe it was one and then I it was like almost like within
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three episodes I hosted twice [ __ ] get more famous my God I knew damn I mean that's rare and
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this year I mean Nate did it last year as a comedian Nate Bazi like I don't know maybe March I don't know when but then he came back this year so even
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under a year is pretty remarkable I think because when I was there
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you know because you could pick anybody so it's very hard to get a double invite like that just to be able to finally do
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it though after the the bench incident years earlier and to finally be asked to
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you know come on there and host man it was like and then to be able to even just share it with you guys like I don't want to geek out too much but it's very
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cool because growing up watching you guys and continue to and then there I was I missed my moment but I got a
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second chance at like being a part of your world in in a way you know that was the show in seventh grade that really
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for me it was a Martin Short moment I remember Watching Martin Short do Ed Grimley and I think that night that
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episode with you know all of you guys and all the shenanigans I was like I think I kind of belong around these
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people I think that's where I I gotta go how you get past the bench when you came
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and hosted did you hit the bench did you tell Lauren about the bench incident tell anyone about I told them because at
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the time when they first were looking at me you know from what I understood they
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he you know he was familiar I was on the radar and so you know I I reminded him and said I don't know I probably uh kept
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a slot available for you guys that day because I didn't come in when you guys wanted me to but he didn't he didn't care too much about that and who was who
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were your Playmates then was uh Tina F still there was Fallon there was sort of
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a cross when you were hosting yeah Andy was there and Bill Bill hater was on the
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come up and Christ I got to do some uh a Target sketch you know with her yeah man
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it was it was it was fun I you know Don Paro was still there for the first time I came through so I got pictures with
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him in the hall and got to hear him say yeah man it was it was it was I got to feel like I I
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was horrible in a couple of things I remember just coming off a couple of sketches being like whoa that was bad okay I hope the
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next one's better cuz that one I you talking about the air show that not not the practice show the air show yeah yeah
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the air show I was I remember something o something missed the mark and I how can we describe that that feeling in
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your body when you know you're missing and you just got to keep going yeah I know with standup you can call an
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audible mayday mayday and go do crowdwork or switch up your best bit well you're locked into a sketch and and
00:27:18
everybody's been in sketches that die there everybody how about when you're how about when you're in a sketch and
00:27:24
you know you're dying and then you lose the fake voice that you're trying to do
00:27:32
right you can't you Russian I can't [ __ ] what's happened to this guy hey what am
00:27:38
I doing here where do we go oh oh funny yeah terrifying it's like you know you're closing I was on the road you got
00:27:45
like a six minute closer and you needed to get to your time you start it they're not buying it you're like I I think I
00:27:52
have to do this whole [ __ ] bit because I have nothing left and I've got to do this and now I'm locked in and
00:27:58
you're scrambling for a way out it's a that's a sketch and you know everyone else is relying on you eyes are darting
00:28:04
you're like oh this is oh when you have your Ender what you think is your Ender to a five minute bit and it gets nothing
00:28:13
so and just like crickets Dana Dana I remember times I'd be on the road the
00:28:18
opening bit would miss so bad I I go to my end or
00:28:24
second oh you closer second cler second and if that [ __ ] the bed I was like what
00:28:31
do I do for the next 35 minutes holy [ __ ] [ __ ] I was thinking the other
00:28:36
day have you ever done this we always talk about when you're a standup and you're you're bombing and there's
00:28:43
something really rewarding about you slowly get them back it happens sometimes on corporate gigs you're not
00:28:48
really paying attention but then you slowly by the end you're getting them and it's really fun the all the thing
00:28:54
that's worse is you're killing and you're losing them somehow and you're like what's going on I was killing and
00:29:02
that's the sickest feeling cuz you're like you missed three bits in a row and you're like how I I cannot lose these
00:29:07
people there's no way so weird and it happens big room you know
00:29:13
Richard and be like honestly I sincerely what did I do where did you guys
00:29:18
exactly or I sometimes go guys you were the ones that laughed at the dog joke
00:29:24
where are you and they're like ah that was funny this stuff sucks I'm like but Richard prior said don't reflect the
00:29:31
energy of the audience if they're going down then you just get louder you just never sort of start to get into their
00:29:37
Rhythm and you know and I don't see Dane doing that but I did a gig with uh it was me Bill burp Tes O'Neal a you guys
00:29:43
it was like dinner theater gig 95 and a guy you hear the utensils
00:29:49
rattling people are eating all you hear is like you know thew right glasses being refilled with
00:29:55
way too much ice you're like do you need that much ice placing your water really you need Arctic level ice right now and
00:30:02
everything noisy bill on stage and you know bill whatever he's like trying to
00:30:08
he's trying to Wrangle him and a guy in the very back who wasn't having it threw a threw a Buttered Biscuit through the
00:30:14
air and The Buttered Biscuit hit butter side up and just stuck to Burr's head right here like a Buttered Biscuit
00:30:21
unicorn Bill Burr stuck stuck right
00:30:26
here getting him with a [ __ ] biscuit over here biscuit I got a biscuit dude stuck in my head
00:30:32
[Laughter] dude he's listening right now going [ __ ]
00:30:38
you guys hi Bill Bill never miss fun now to
00:30:45
talk about the I've been thinking I'd like to do like some kind of well I guess it is podcasting but it'd be fun to do like a documentary with just kind
00:30:51
like worst wor worst hell gig moment worst what's the worst thing that ever
00:30:57
happened on stage where you left and you were like why why am I doing this okay that's that was my next
00:31:03
question for you was that it for you or was there worse the most humiliating
00:31:09
worst I had I had a stage collapse I used to be like I was really like huge
00:31:16
high energy you know the first 10 years so I was like a whirling dervish I'm like I'm the Tasmanian devil of comedy
00:31:23
and I'm sweating within four minutes and it's just and I'm on a stage at the University uh Rhode Island and it and it
00:31:30
it was one of those makeshift ones that they kind of made for the show that you feel like it's always moving a little underneath you the legs collapsed and
00:31:38
the whole stage went and I slid into the people in the front row like under the
00:31:44
chairs I ended up under them and that was pretty humiliating because then I'm like how do I where do
00:31:50
I go from there 10 minutes in after I've start der swirling
00:31:55
again you might find this funny fix the stage legs anybody before but there was
00:32:02
a comedian Rick Reynolds who was he's great around Rick anyway and Rick would um he went up one night and sometimes
00:32:09
the audience would ra him so he went up he wanted to kill he was all fluffed and folded it was at the Improv in San Diego
00:32:16
or something and then within two minutes I looked out and he was waiting into the
00:32:21
audience fighting them a left a right he wanted them to love he's he's a big guy
00:32:27
he wanted to love him but within 90 seconds he was doing roundhouses to the front row I thought that was one of the
00:32:33
greatest turns in life he wore plants with flames on him that gu if you won't love me I'll beat the [ __ ] out of you
00:32:40
you don't like that joke how about now there was a there was a gig in there was a gig in downtown Boston where
00:32:46
somebody projectile vomited during the show okay into the back of the head of
00:32:52
the person in front of them I wasn't on stage but I was watching the comic and then the person who had thrown up was
00:32:58
the best because they throw up and everybody's like you just hear and then that drunk person who
00:33:03
threw up just went keep going keep going like like possible so still really nice
00:33:10
about it never they felt like let's get the attention off me it's all good it's okay I'm sorry I love you
00:33:17
Dane I did almost pass out live on air at Saturday Night Live though during my
00:33:22
first appearance I I um they did a sketch where I was wearing an oversized sweater holiday sweater and it had all
00:33:29
these I don't know how they made it but it had had all these real pieces of like you know lint the huge and uh yeah
00:33:36
during rehearsal they were they were like floating around like you could see them in the air and what happened during
00:33:41
rehearsal was I breathed in and one of these big lint balls went into my throat
00:33:46
and suddenly if you ever got like a thing of cotton in your throat I couldn't [ __ ] breathe oh my God I was terrified because I was like and I'm I'm
00:33:53
trying to you know get it out then during the live I see them all floating around me and I'm so scared that I'm
00:34:00
going to breathe one of these zing in that if you watch the sketch I'm just doing this randomly to keep I'm just let
00:34:06
me tell you just to keep lint balls from flying trying to do your German accent
00:34:13
for the sketch that is one thing about comedy and sat live in particular like I was doing a club once and uh I just bit
00:34:21
my tongue and I'm just bleeding and now Dana flaro you know stuff like that or a charlie horse or you slam your eyelash
00:34:28
and eye there's so many things you feel and then you got to go up there in pain I mean you have to take a dump right
00:34:33
when they're introducing you they're like giant boner yeah I always have a
00:34:39
[Laughter]
00:34:45
boner what about these movies I'm going to tell me if these movies sound familiar do you recognize any of these names employee the month Good Luck Chuck
00:34:52
my best so you're starting to get a ton of movies because I remember you were getting one almost probably every year they were coming out mhm any favorites
00:34:59
or any ones it was kind of cool because that was just it was like I came up with these directors producers that you know
00:35:06
were just fans had probably seen me years ago and like whatever shitty gigs but now they're you know fans and
00:35:11
they're like on the come up so they you know how it is they kind of like go like all right I'm GNA come up I wanna I want
00:35:16
to you know do something with you you know you're comic that I entertained me coming up so it was really fun
00:35:22
definitely felt like I had an Great era through it was really Lionsgate like eight lion eight films I think I did in
00:35:29
a row yeah [ __ ] yeah it was it was a blast man it I I will tell you like when
00:35:36
you hit that you know when you're hit hitting your stride and you're the bell of the ball in that moment before you
00:35:42
know haterade and the spanking machine you know has to knock at your door when you're at that that moment and you're
00:35:49
getting the agulation and you're not in Jers and TV Guide you're in cheers and TV Guide oh been both it's it's awesome
00:35:58
man it was a good run I had a good and cheers is so [ __ ] funny who was your
00:36:03
favorite director or favorite co-star you had Kate Hudson oh man Who's hotter Kate
00:36:12
Hudson or Jess Jessica Alba I got to work with all the jessicas I think that
00:36:17
I think uh working with Kevin Cosner on a drama I did called Mr Brooks I saw that movie in that the time of my life I
00:36:24
got to work stud I got to work with whis John Mahoney and a great gang of people
00:36:29
on Dana real life uh Steve Carell LED that movie saw that too I got to do like
00:36:35
comedy stuff that was just like my version of vacation or my version of the comedies of stripes and then I got to do
00:36:41
some stuff that was um ancillary but to me just as rewarding because it was so
00:36:47
like unex different it was just stuff that was different from Comedy so it was cool yeah yeah of course who has that I
00:36:54
mean so so just pause for a second in your existence so you're doing these films you've got all these specials and
00:37:01
albums and millions and you're you're you're getting really wealthy and and really
00:37:07
famous um did it did it go to I mean how did you respond to that just work harder
00:37:13
were you kind of numb to it or were you sort of what do you yeah it was like all I ever wanted to do is take what I
00:37:19
earned and put it back into creativity so I didn't have like I was just a jeans and t-shirt guy I wasn't living you know
00:37:26
I leased my car I wasn't doing anything that was you know okay you know what I mean I wasn't trying to like uh live
00:37:33
this you know lavish lifestyle I just really wanted to go okay if I can take this money and make the stuff that I
00:37:39
want to make with my with with my you know gang coming up um but you know
00:37:44
unfortunately things sometimes get in the way I'm I've just finished a two-year documentary where I can't talk
00:37:50
too much about it but basically I I had to put my own brother in prison in ' 09 because pretty much the life savings
00:37:56
that I had up until then he had stolen him and his wife were basically like
00:38:02
behind the scenes taking everything that I'd earn all those movies all those Arena shows and they were godamn they
00:38:08
were investing it for me um in in terrible Investments but and that threw
00:38:14
off my plan a little bit because that went from me being able to self finance and kind of sustain outside of Hollywood
00:38:21
oh you're right and I'm back on the road you could put you literally went back to essentially zero I mean I'm saying
00:38:27
didn't have 10 bucks in your pocket but basically millions and millions of dollars goes missing and you can't get
00:38:33
it back I know you have a document but millions of dollars gone the doc will
00:38:39
come out next year and basically what I'm sharing in the doc is not only like what that year of court cases was like
00:38:44
going up against you know my brother of course but it was really like how can I I'm coming off of the I'm I'm I'm not
00:38:52
I'm no longer on that trajectory in fact I for that era it was a pretty it was a
00:38:57
pretty good run so now I'm coming down the other side things are cooling and we're just hitting 09 we're going to hit
00:39:04
this terrible economy housing crisis and and I now have a decision to make I could take the little bit of money that
00:39:10
I have remaining and I can invest it in renting Arenas myself because no
00:39:15
promoter in that era wanted to front because of the economy so I spent a year
00:39:20
taking anything I had in renting like I was renting Arenas like they were Elks
00:39:26
Lodges I was calling Arenas can I rent it on a Tuesday how much 60 Grand all
00:39:32
right and I would set the ticket price and then my goal was at the end of that year I want to be able to recoup what he
00:39:38
took so when I see him in court I'm not looking at him like feeling like I'm under his thumb
00:39:44
still so that was a wild couple of years man because I went from Rags riches rags
00:39:50
and then I had to figure out a way to kind of have my own little rocky two moment did they I I I'm sorry don't
00:39:57
don't answer these questions I know the doc's coming out but I'm just curious were they incompetent by investing it
00:40:02
and losing it or were they actually embezzling it and enhancing their you're just not aware they're doing anything
00:40:09
yeah it's like both Dana they were like doing some things that enhanced they were doing some things willly nilly that were when you see it you're gonna it the
00:40:15
let me tell you this is what I'm proudest about I will watch it the the doc if we did our job right it's like
00:40:23
it's it's going to be slaughtered in True Crime and comedy cuz there's a lot of funny [ __ ] but also it's it's pretty
00:40:30
harrowing the level of you know um sociopath and megal maniac and the guy
00:40:36
that I grew up with that I loved my best friend my older brother like when you see who this guy was in this dock you're
00:40:43
gonna you you won't believe where this goes you it it gets dark man yeah I
00:40:48
didn't even tell you the dark part that's just the that's just what happened to me everything that kind of was happening around a lot well also you
00:40:56
know it it when people get a little more money they get a little more Fame and
00:41:01
it's you get a tighter Circle because it's very hard because everyone's grabbing at you and so you really only
00:41:07
have a handful of people that you trust and when that happens that's
00:41:13
mentally that's such a kick in the ass because you're like wait I can't even turn to my family yeah yeah resentment
00:41:22
it from jealousy to actual resentment David had his own issues with that but it's kind of hit hiding in plain sight
00:41:28
and that would besides greed but resentment because now his little
00:41:34
brother this is just biblical is a superstar and so he I don't know is well
00:41:41
is he uh how's your relationship now is he in the documentary or um okay you'll
00:41:47
have to wait and see on that okay that's good I mean I don't want you to I'm gonna watch this good teaser already I'm
00:41:53
into it I've stayed close with my nephew his son I was was always close with him he was 15 when it happened I'm still
00:42:00
really close with my brother's son today um the the doc gets into kind of where
00:42:05
things are at now but realistically yes like in that moment of like Hull Crush
00:42:11
depth level of Despair this is the weird thing I the gigs are still the fans show
00:42:17
up the gigs are outstanding even though the the economy like people are trusting me with a couple of their last dollars
00:42:24
right now in this time but like I remember even though I was I was so busted up I still just loved comedy so
00:42:33
much that it I I it's this is gonna sound like so kind of hokey but it just
00:42:38
saved my life because I loved laughter in that time and I knew even in the that
00:42:44
moment I knew I was like someday I don't know if it's going to be in 10 or 20 years this story is awesome this story
00:42:52
because it's it's what happened it's like a downfall moment everybody loves down fall it's a comeback moment
00:42:59
everybody loves to comeback moment it's a how how did I do it on my own I'm
00:43:04
self-made but then this thing happens my brother's the devil I like and I remember sitting in it being like I
00:43:10
don't know when I'm going to talk about it but someday this will be the best story I ever tell so I can't wait to
00:43:16
talk about this next year with you we've heard stories around this idea like
00:43:21
door's Day's husband died she was doing sitcoms there is no money it's all gone but nothing quite like this so you have
00:43:28
two right now nobody no comedian went on MySpace and really kind of hacked the
00:43:33
idea of social media into 7 million followers and now this is your second one uh and now you're out there still
00:43:41
doing it I saw I saw day and a week ago at the Improv so yeah yeah you're still getting to do what you like to do this
00:43:47
is a story that happened and you have to just keep moving of course so nothing you can do but just keep moving and keep
00:43:53
making money and doing what you like yeah um it's and did you get more popular
00:43:59
because I was going to go to this like this idea of um like being handsome and
00:44:05
and Alpha like surate boyfriend David I'm talking to David now uh but you know
00:44:12
what you're you're brand you were you were and and um also a great standup and
00:44:17
a millionaire but and so comedians are easily jealous and stuff like that you
00:44:23
know like I I had a health issue in the 90 and I got more compliments and that
00:44:30
guy's great you know did people suddenly kind of you're awesome you know
00:44:35
because people that get these are just you know human emotions you mean when he's a little down are they finally
00:44:41
being cool about well you might find people going this is a brilliant standup and you get more stuff because it's you
00:44:48
know you're no longer you find out who your friends are so quick you know and and that well put and that everything
00:44:54
lead listen I I even knew when I was on the come up because it wasn't like it was overnight it was you know it was a
00:45:01
long kind of trajectory I I already had like my Boston cronies my friends who
00:45:07
are just regular folks away from the industry I've never felt like I'm really a I'm in
00:45:13
it but I'm not of it you know I'm out here because I like the clubs and but I've never quite felt that let down by
00:45:22
it because I knew it's that's the mechanism you know they build you up knock you down and then it's up to you
00:45:27
to figure out like what's really how do I own my own IP and how do I get to my
00:45:33
audience all that other stuff I I don't it didn't really rattle me to the core as much as stuff that happened with my
00:45:39
you know with my brother if you can remember that you're not quite as good as they say you are at the point when you're at the Zenith and then you're not
00:45:45
as bad as they say you are you're like I've always been what I think is pretty good so if I they say I'm great I'm like
00:45:52
I don't buy and all that [ __ ] I had I had a friend that wasn't a yes man and he would keep telling me I'm not some
00:45:58
ass kisser you know I'm not I'm your friend I'll tell you when you're bad and I'm always going to tell you you're bad
00:46:03
that's what a good friend I am you're never good I go well you could be a sometimes maybe man or maybe a yes man
00:46:10
no no it's always a no man you're not good I'm like wow you're such a valuable person in my life I think go the other
00:46:18
way I feel bad about saying that I am that friend he's talking about I I apologize but I I kind of relate to you
00:46:25
in that way I'm feel I'm outside the thing I'm not in the party scene and I don't never really cared I'm mostly
00:46:31
possessed with doing something funny I truly it sounds self- congrats to I also was an introverted extrovert and also
00:46:38
had a lane of real competitiveness but plain fair about it but yeah just see a guy kill I want to kill like that you
00:46:45
know that kind of thing yeah it's it's what's so um you know there's no
00:46:50
Playbook and also too like then you make it and the I think the hardest part was like I made it and then the group of
00:46:56
guys that I was around at the time they they think you're different they want to make it they're not feeling so good
00:47:02
about where they're at you know what's so funny is like you you look like at a time when I broke through you know I
00:47:08
remember talking to you know billur outside the LA Factory he's like ah man when's my ship gonna come in it's like
00:47:14
look when his ship came in it came in it's like he had his moment he's still in his moment and you go like you don't
00:47:20
know man you got to hang in there you just got to keep duking it out and and you hope that on the other side of it
00:47:25
you just have great people around you that will'll give you [ __ ] when you have a great moment and we'll talk you up
00:47:31
when like you realistically need a little bit of help well obviously it's the err of the the personal career
00:47:37
outside of the mainstream Hollywood Tom sagur and Bill kryner and all these guys who are Nate brigatti they they try to
00:47:45
get him to do a sitcom he's like what's in it for me or whatever not Nate but a a game show or something but you just
00:47:51
it's kind of what you've done you know you've maintained Dan cook.com or just
00:47:57
ink do you think do you think do you think they pitched bori a game show of yatsi like bori yatsi what do you think
00:48:04
they brought Bor right Bor to get off the podcast and produce that I'll show you a text that was exactly what they
00:48:11
did I'll show you the textsi I think Nate is is not a bad idea
00:48:18
I don't remember they were pitching him something but he already is Nate Bazi Inc you know he he you you get to be a
00:48:24
brand he's like a clean brand which is very rare so I think that will keep working for him the game show they
00:48:31
pitched they pitched me you know they tried to get me in the game show uh at the time and it was I think it was called Mr W Mr Mr whiz I think was gonna
00:48:39
be the name of the game show Mr whz what about Dane Cooks in a
00:48:45
cooking show Dane Cooks how about got to take a pee the great cooking
00:48:51
show see well obviously they P you a cooking show cuz your name
00:48:57
they they they pitched me a car show cuz car vat you know can you drop the VY and
00:49:03
just be like can you just be Dana car it'll help the
00:49:11
[Music] show I I I do think um you know just
00:49:17
it's an interesting emotionally violent ride because because I'm doing some visits on SNL right now and seeing the
00:49:23
young people with big eyes you know trying to break sat Night Live you crushed it that was awesome man that was
00:49:31
and allow me to say I thought you were the best part of that whole opening I thought everybody was great but you just like it's that moment where you feel
00:49:36
like somebody just came in and took it to another level it was awesome to see that that cold opening when he came in at the end I was like this is great
00:49:42
because they don't know he's coming yeah everywhere they turn it's another celebrity they're like that guy and they're like oh [ __ ] here comes Dana and
00:49:50
you hit and you hit on every you know where I think I see like where you want to hit like I felt like you hit on every
00:49:56
line that you wanted to hit uh that one felt good first one was a little nerve-wracking but then I it's become a
00:50:02
character it's Mr meoo it's Tim Conway it's it's fanciful yeah there's
00:50:08
definitely you know hey you're not here I'll come right back she's standing there is great I'm just coming on to it
00:50:14
I did little YouTube clips on this show but nothing now it's really fun to do full uh three dimensional yeah and you
00:50:22
would probably appreciate this being a host is that we go out now and we shake Lauren's hands and in the Biden get up
00:50:27
that was for the second show so I do it just a giant hop skipping is whatever I
00:50:33
can get out of my body Sprint across the studio dressed as Biden because it it
00:50:38
gets my head space into laughing if they're looking at me as hyperactive Biden but anyway but that's um it's it's
00:50:45
it's a lot of fun thank you see when a comedian tells you gives you a compliment it really matters somebody
00:50:52
who who's been there knows what Biden training like Rocky to come back and run again and he just gets stronger and
00:50:58
stronger and he's running with a log on his back and just like yeah he's just punching a guy and guess what and by the
00:51:03
way punch guess what because you actually are very active you could you could pull that [ __ ] off I think that
00:51:10
what like a lot of people don't realize is that comedians in these moments that like you guys are sharing on this
00:51:16
podcast or even just the backstage at the store or wherever like that is kind of the it's like the best part of the
00:51:23
show is great show is like the frosting on the cake of the day but the correspondence with Comedians and
00:51:30
what what gets us off and what makes us really laugh about a set or what went wrong and nobody cares but other Comics
00:51:37
care like that minutia I'll tell you a quick thing about like Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis was my I became friends with Jerry
00:51:43
Lewis in the last eight years of his life he was my mentor he was a really good guy to me he definitely in that
00:51:50
dark moment coming out of like my brother you know the industry kind of doesn't care about me at that point I'm
00:51:55
my moment's over I'm coming off of this you know terrible and all of a sudden I get a phone call
00:52:00
out of the blue inviting me down to see Jerry Lewis documentary um method of the madness at down at paramont I'm
00:52:08
miserable I'm literally in like a rut but I'm like I grew up loving Jerry I never met him I don't know Jerry Le I go
00:52:14
brilliant absolute genius genius like you know he conquered the world for a
00:52:19
decade it was really you know you know Martin Le like Jerry Lewis is like the Bieber of Comedy uh the Jim Cary you
00:52:26
know Sandler Cary and uh Sandler Cary all in one Nutty Professor is one
00:52:33
of the greatest comedies ever made so I sit there and I you know I go and uh
00:52:38
after the presentation I didn't know Jerry Lewis was gonna be there he gets up in front of everybody at paramont the
00:52:44
first thing he says he I'm sitting in the fourth row with my buddy Richard we're just watching and he he goes uh
00:52:50
and he's 82 at the time and he gets up there and he goes where's Dane
00:52:58
cook first thing he says and I can't believe it I can't fathom it because I'm
00:53:04
hearing the voice that I grew up loving saying my name yeah yeah and then he
00:53:09
goes I want to know where Dane Cook is and I I'm like I don't even know how to
00:53:16
stand I'm half standing I'm like and I think I said Jerry I love you that's all I could think to Sag just Jerry I love
00:53:22
you and he goes I want to talk to you my boy after and so I go and I meet Jerry
00:53:28
Lewis after he takes my phone number he starts calling me every Sunday he calls
00:53:33
me hello it's the Jew in the desert calling Dane Cook my boy and I start this friendship and
00:53:40
Mentor you know Sundays with Jerry basically but I would go on the road with him because he's still touring 85
00:53:45
86 87 and I promise I'm getting to a point with this story which is about like no I'm loving every second of this story so so I'm and I'm and I'm seeing
00:53:54
just everything about Jerry I'm seeing him perform and every night Jerry would do a thing where at the end of his
00:53:59
performance he'd do the hper writer and he's [Music]
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doing he's just doing this for like a [ __ ] hour the
00:54:16
pan it's mental but after that he would do a Q&A you do a Q&A and the Q&A was
00:54:23
always 40 minutes and he'd sit in his chair uh and you could go up to the mic ask
00:54:29
Jerry Lewis uh a question and on this particular night two things that like
00:54:34
this is who I think we all are as comedians in our heart what Jerry what happened to and from Jerry this on this
00:54:40
night and it gave me permission for the rest of my career to be like I'm a Madman I'm convoluted I can be a lot of
00:54:46
things all at once and Jerry just proved that I'll never not be those things here's what happened so he's up there he
00:54:52
finishes all the stuff and first a woman comes up she goes she's so excited to
00:54:59
speak to Jerry Lewis and you know he's he's uh you know he's got all these you know spine problems at this point his
00:55:07
from doing the typewriter for so many years or just like little T-Rex hands
00:55:12
little T-Rex hands yeah he's always kind of like you know Surly and if you know anything or if you
00:55:18
ever had the chance to share space with him there's something kind of scary king of comedy about Jerry but also very like
00:55:25
just like [ __ ] boyish and beautiful but something kind of intimidating so he's in the chair and his tongue's
00:55:33
G he spinning like he's looking for the shark off the back of a boat Jack on
00:55:39
prazone we're uh Dane is doing a very interesting physical act out it's like
00:55:45
the hunchback and Notre Dame T-Rex typewriter Jerry Lewis okay continue so
00:55:51
the first thing that this was great so the woman comes up and she's so heartfelt and she goes goes Jerry I just
00:55:57
want to say that in 1972 you did a film called the beach cottage and when I watched the beach
00:56:04
cottage I was so moved and there's a scene on the beach and I'm watching Jerry and he's like he's just going back
00:56:10
and forth rocking I think he's going to like break the wood chair that the director's chair he sitting on cuz I can
00:56:16
hear it creaking cuz he's going back and he's turning it into a rocking chair even though it's a static chair and she
00:56:23
finishes her statement and Jerry goes like this she goes can you speak to
00:56:28
anything about that experience in this film that it moved me it it it really
00:56:33
enhanced my young life please anything you remember about the film and Jerry goes like guess he
00:56:40
goes that movie sucked and I sucked in
00:56:48
it her dreams are crushed mortified she's literally all like backs away from
00:56:55
wow oh my God so this this moment happens and and then all of a sudden the the liaison who after 40 minutes comes
00:57:03
out and we're like 23 minutes in or whatever and says ladies and gentlemen
00:57:09
one more time for Mr Jerry Lewis and Jerry looks at this person and then Jerry is taken off stage I go backstage
00:57:15
and Danielle his daughter is there and she's like he is he is fit to be tied
00:57:20
and he only wants to talk to you and he's in the back of a room where everybody wants to meet him and he's sitting alone at a table but nobody's
00:57:28
approaching Jerry where's Dane where's Dane Cook I grew up with a you know what it is I never was intimidated I grew up
00:57:34
with an alcoholic father and I think I always kind of liked that weird energy I
00:57:40
was never like scared energy yeah I walk up to Jerry and he's now he's 8 88 years
00:57:46
old and I'll never forget this man he just looked at me and he grabbed me really tight by the arm and he goes I
00:57:53
had 15 more minutes they lit me early and he was so upset that he didn't get
00:57:59
to finish his time I go I think your career is going to be fine Jerry you've
00:58:05
conquered the world you've done yeah everything and he just wanted 15 more
00:58:10
minutes of Q&A and he was robbed of it and it was like got the light early was
00:58:15
that a mistake or did they just want him all I don't know I don't know but he was so livid and it it was like it was a
00:58:21
gift cuz I'm like when we're talking and we're in these moments and for people listening like to me it was just like oh
00:58:27
we're all such unique creatures Comedians and we all have permission to
00:58:34
spin as much as we want as long as we get those little nuggets of Comedy you know gold when we're on
00:58:39
stage yeah yeah getting off early be also God the other night I was this is
00:58:45
not as good as that story of course it sucks great that's a good one but I had a corporate gig I think I told Dana and
00:58:50
they go we have a countdown clock out there for you you do 45 and I was like okay and uh that's kind of the typical
00:58:57
corporate it used to be an hour but 45 is believe me enough so it's always the end of their day we
00:59:05
Dan and I always laugh oh no they get up at 6 and and you could be a surprise they're like they're starting to leave they're like oh this guy so it's they're
00:59:12
usually pretty good but anyway so it's 45 and these things are like this one was 11,000 people and they got like
00:59:18
stopwatches headsets backstage all right they're going to get her off you're almost on you have 90 seconds to get up so they pushed me out there and I'm
00:59:26
getting my bearings and I Dart down to the clock and it goes 5958 I'm like wait is hour and then it's going
00:59:35
down and I'm like I thought it was counting up and then I go am I supposed to do 45 and you can't ask anyone now am
00:59:41
I go do they want an hour because it's a different set like I have to change yeah
00:59:46
and then I go I'm sticking to my 45 and it's not going 1 to 45 so now it's at like 28 I'm like you're going to
00:59:53
15 28 is supposed to be what would it because you know I'm glancing over
00:59:58
between my bit about falling out of window and my hilarious I don't want to give the whole act away but you know I
01:00:04
love that window bit so you know you're just going I don't want to do this math
01:00:09
am I even close to being I don't know anyway well I'll give it my the best thing you can hear at a corporate date
01:00:17
the CEO had a little too much to drink and he went over I'm supposed to do an hour could you do 35 I'm so sorry I'm
01:00:26
sorry are you okay with that and then you fake like you're mad I don't know maybe they could sweeten the pot I'm I'm
01:00:33
s pot it should be a little Fe carrot sticks in my you you don't live I'll
01:00:40
tell you what I'll land the plane at 28 minutes how about that is that I'll go even shorter yeah [ __ ] yeah because
01:00:47
you've been great do you mind if the CEO meets you for one photo I'm like I always hear a lot of comics won't do
01:00:54
this I go who the [ __ ] is saying no they paid you you're there like yeah oh can you take a picture of this daughter no
01:01:00
that's not my deal I'm like yeah get her back here get anyone back here I don't does it cut into your time if we did
01:01:05
this raffle it's 10 minutes like please I'll open with a ra like pleas yes make a Raff four hungry children and would
01:01:12
you mind staying on stage and picking the raffle really would help the no
01:01:18
should we do we have to call your agent why do people do corporate dates and then just angrily fight the whole
01:01:23
process process pick the ticket but once you are in there just say yes just say
01:01:29
yes cuz you say yes to 100 autographs and then you or pictures sorry 1940s and
01:01:34
you say no to 101 you're an [ __ ] so always go to the end and say yes oh
01:01:39
right yeah you get in there you know it's like I'll put on the Uber eat shirt whatever you need like yeah yeah let's go I'll wear ano can get me in a
01:01:46
headlock as church lady one we did a contest to see who one
01:01:52
of our employees of the month can kick you in the nuts is that fun I'm like get her up here uh you know uh anyway Dane
01:01:59
thank you for talking to us anything else Dan this guy's got a very interesting uhour I just the tour is on
01:02:07
now okay here we go fres new flavor fresh new Flavor Tour Dan Dan cook.com
01:02:14
and he's you're going out for a few months and you're going all over the place yeah fresh new flavor tour the
01:02:19
rest of the year all beautiful theaters only so we've been at the Beacon we got we did the Chicago theater
01:02:26
coming up beautiful theat across the country and then gritty and pink is my new special and that'll be out in the spring I like that gritty and pink what
01:02:34
a cool name David's doing a special we'll just end with this what have you picked a name yet or you're wait you
01:02:39
have no I'm waiting because I realiz obviously good at names David you need help I know let's brainstorm
01:02:47
because I I have a couple and then I go H I'll wait because you know what you you don't have to name it the day you
01:02:53
shoot it so I'm lucky because it's a week away I can wait till it's getting closer yeah but rackam is not going to
01:03:00
do it because that David loves to say that say rackam the way you do it oh if there's a joke you do a joke on someone
01:03:06
you go hey Dana I saw you and you're with your mom rack them it really puts people like they're
01:03:13
in their place they have nothing to do they it's such a funny observation of the alpha of of saying rackam after
01:03:18
you've cleared the De Jackie gleon Paul Newman Minnesota Fats put thatall in hey
01:03:26
before you guys uh uh disconnect me I got to say this sincerely cuz we've always sort of traveled in different
01:03:31
circles and I know David we've you know been on same stages but this really even though I I approached David I said I
01:03:38
hope if at some point if you guys ever you know need a a guest to fill in you have a Dropout uh it just meant a lot uh
01:03:44
for me to be able to come on here and say like you guys have brought me a lot of entertainment and you guys also uh
01:03:50
have been cool to work alongside even though we maybe didn't always end up in the same backstage so I appreciate you
01:03:55
guys well was always a fan and this podcast your energy the story is it you made our
01:04:02
job really easy very entertaining it was it was great people going to like it and uh I just had a great fun hour so thanks
01:04:09
bud awesome I'll see you backstage good luck out there all right buddy peace out
01:04:16
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