WEBVTT 00:00:04.359 --> 00:00:07.639 All right. Welcome to the latest episode of the 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.900 Dan Time Podcast. I'm your host, Dan McCardle. 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:15.900 I'm so glad you're here and happy almost Halloween. 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.100 Don't you love having these holidays that we 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:22.339 run through in full effect on the weekend before 00:00:22.339 --> 00:00:25.440 or even the whole week before? And then we have 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.420 it again on the actual day. And then on Wednesday, 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.039 we act like it never happened and we're marching 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.780 onto Thanksgiving. Hey, you'll have all those 00:00:33.780 --> 00:00:36.159 yellow starbursts and the orange starbursts and 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.060 all those little strawberry bonbons in a bucket 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:42.700 on top of your fridge till New Year's. Okay, 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.060 last week we heard from a man of many talents, 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.240 Sean Henniger. If you've missed a few weeks, 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.740 go back and throw a dart. Catch up on any of 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:56.359 these episodes. DJ Simms, singer -songwriter 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.750 Dan Harrison. Dan Cabelka, one of my favorite 00:00:59.750 --> 00:01:03.609 episodes. Dan is a champion of special needs 00:01:03.609 --> 00:01:07.590 ball players in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Vic 00:01:07.590 --> 00:01:10.930 Penn, Chris Furmeister. See, it's not all Dan's 00:01:10.930 --> 00:01:15.150 all the time. And today, I'm ecstatic to bring 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:18.969 to you Long Beach, California, comedian Daniel 00:01:18.969 --> 00:01:22.090 Iches. Daniel was born and raised in Fresno, 00:01:22.090 --> 00:01:24.870 California. He graduated from Cal State Long 00:01:24.870 --> 00:01:27.969 Beach. and he became the youngest finalist ever 00:01:27.969 --> 00:01:31.750 of the Funniest Comic in LA Comedy Contest at 00:01:31.750 --> 00:01:35.689 the John Lovitz Comedy Club in 2010. Check out 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:39.349 his website at danieleachus .com, that's E -A 00:01:39.349 --> 00:01:43.269 -C -H -U -S. His latest stand -up album, Where's 00:01:43.269 --> 00:01:45.989 Daniel, is available for download on all music 00:01:45.989 --> 00:01:49.469 platforms. Folks, it is a perfectly good idea 00:01:49.469 --> 00:01:52.890 to jump off this episode right now. Go download 00:01:52.890 --> 00:01:55.810 that album. and then come back to Dan Time. It's 00:01:55.810 --> 00:01:59.409 a few finger taps away. You can find Daniel on 00:01:59.409 --> 00:02:03.510 Twitch TV, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, 00:02:03.890 --> 00:02:08.069 X. Daniel even recorded podcast episodes. Your 00:02:08.069 --> 00:02:11.789 worst favorite podcast, which I highly recommend. 00:02:11.930 --> 00:02:14.689 So look that one up. He's got a book out, A Day 00:02:14.689 --> 00:02:18.370 at the Zoo in 2062. You're going to love his 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:22.979 take on Beer at the Movie Theater. angry dads 00:02:22.979 --> 00:02:27.300 at Disneyland, and nobody needs french fries. 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:31.360 You've gotta check out on YouTube, Don't Be Skinny, 00:02:31.659 --> 00:02:35.599 Daniel Iches. Some of the comments, Wow, what 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.259 a set. This guy is on his way to greater success. 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:42.120 The whole set had me rolling. Gotta keep a lookout 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.659 for more of this guy. Another commenter, His 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:48.599 jokes are so multi -layered, I spent more time 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.939 laughing at his wordplay than anything. Wow, 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.879 most comedians only make me laugh three or four 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.360 times during their set, but this guy had me laughing 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.280 so hard through his entire set. So funny. Now 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.680 I'll have to search YouTube for more of his videos. 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.439 I am also thin and afraid of the wind because 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.159 it can literally blow me away. You're gonna love 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.639 this conversation. We talk about what it's really 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:17.060 like to work as a comic around the clock. How 00:03:17.060 --> 00:03:20.060 the book came together. his other projects, how 00:03:20.060 --> 00:03:23.180 Daniel perseveres, and what he likes to do for 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:25.879 fun when he's not constantly working on new material. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.620 Daniel is a huge football fan and loves the Fresno 00:03:29.620 --> 00:03:32.639 State Bulldogs and Minnesota Vikings. If you've 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.139 got a Carnival Cruise vacation booked for early 00:03:35.139 --> 00:03:37.139 next year, there's a great chance that you'll 00:03:37.139 --> 00:03:39.719 see Daniel perform. He'll also be appearing this 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:43.139 Saturday at Comedy Row in Visalia, California, 00:03:43.500 --> 00:03:47.189 and Sunday at Anime Pasadena. then dates later 00:03:47.189 --> 00:03:49.689 this month in Cave Junction and Grants Pass, 00:03:49.689 --> 00:03:52.650 Oregon. All right, let's get to the conversation. 00:03:53.050 --> 00:03:56.830 Folks, it is Daniel Iches time. Daniel, I just 00:03:56.830 --> 00:03:58.949 want to say that this kind of connects to the 00:03:58.949 --> 00:04:02.009 theme of Dan Time, the podcast of Dan talking 00:04:02.009 --> 00:04:04.090 to other Dan's and rooting for people that had 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:08.349 the same name. Daniel, the lankiness, the skinniness, 00:04:08.569 --> 00:04:11.990 I lived in this world my whole life and to see 00:04:11.990 --> 00:04:15.439 a guy that... resembles my body, I guess I'll 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:20.019 be endomorphs. I just naturally root for you. 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:22.259 And so I just want to kind of throw that out 00:04:22.259 --> 00:04:25.079 there at the start. How are you doing today? 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.120 Good. Still, still lanky, still skinny. It's 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.300 all it's just all it's all for the comedy. You 00:04:31.300 --> 00:04:35.339 know, I mean, I did this for the joke. No, no. 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.019 Yeah, I've always been like this. I was like 00:04:38.019 --> 00:04:42.759 the the additive gangly. Yeah, well you like 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.720 it until it comes across in like a tinder message 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.500 or something and you're like, I don't know about 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:51.819 that Well, Daniel, you're a pretty busy guy. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.000 You're not one -dimensional Some people have 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.959 heard about you through your comedy album or 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.839 things that you've done on stage A lot of people 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:01.779 don't know that you're also a writer and producer 00:05:01.779 --> 00:05:05.000 So I wasn't quite sure where I wanted to start 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.420 off But for people who have just never heard 00:05:07.420 --> 00:05:11.569 of you, I guess give me a little on how you got 00:05:11.569 --> 00:05:14.589 started in the business and maybe flash forward 00:05:14.589 --> 00:05:18.730 to where you are right now. Yeah, well spoiler 00:05:18.730 --> 00:05:21.430 alert right now I'm in my room in front of a 00:05:21.430 --> 00:05:25.149 closet, but we'll go back and I guess talk about 00:05:25.149 --> 00:05:28.040 the beginning I. you know it's funny if you're 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:32.399 in LA or SoCal at all you know every person your 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.139 mailman is also a writer and producer you know 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:38.040 I mean like everyone has that title so I just 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.180 feel weird even just like saying it because it's 00:05:40.180 --> 00:05:43.420 like of course you are you know what I mean like 00:05:43.420 --> 00:05:46.399 I joked about dating apps earlier but that's 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.259 like sort of a running joke on there like anytime 00:05:49.259 --> 00:05:51.560 like somebody asks you what like what do you 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.199 do and you tell her like oh this is you know 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.100 i'm on this and this it's always like of course 00:05:57.100 --> 00:05:59.399 you are of course you're an actor everyone is 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.939 apparently um but it is true i do a lot of acting 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:05.839 stuff for commercials mostly i think i've been 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:10.519 in i think like 22 nationals right now big stuff 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.819 uh google belvita breakfast bars fruit of the 00:06:13.819 --> 00:06:17.339 loom Oh my god, I lose the track of Virgin Mobile. 00:06:17.699 --> 00:06:21.399 It's the Amazon. There's been a lot of them. 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.779 HP, that's a new one that's coming out like any 00:06:24.779 --> 00:06:27.310 day now. Do you ever get some offers where you 00:06:27.310 --> 00:06:29.930 just say let me think about that one for a second 00:06:29.930 --> 00:06:35.230 I really hate that product I Wish I was in that 00:06:35.230 --> 00:06:38.990 position to turn stuff down Never like oh, I 00:06:38.990 --> 00:06:42.769 hate that product, but there have been ones where 00:06:42.769 --> 00:06:46.490 I'm like, do we need a commercial for this? I 00:06:46.490 --> 00:06:50.889 guess I don't want to cut there's a certain Not 00:06:50.889 --> 00:06:52.629 that anything there was it was a great commercial 00:06:53.170 --> 00:06:55.730 great people to work with, but I guess without 00:06:55.730 --> 00:06:59.610 naming names, there's a certain state that is 00:06:59.610 --> 00:07:03.110 especially known for having the best potatoes. 00:07:03.370 --> 00:07:06.329 And we all know that this state makes the best 00:07:06.329 --> 00:07:08.529 potatoes. And for some reason they decided they 00:07:08.529 --> 00:07:11.790 needed national advertisement for this recently. 00:07:12.029 --> 00:07:14.170 I don't know why. I haven't seen these commercials 00:07:14.170 --> 00:07:17.670 yet, but I don't even know who number two is. 00:07:17.870 --> 00:07:20.120 You know what I mean? That's the state where 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.980 you're at fourth grade and you're like, what's 00:07:22.980 --> 00:07:24.920 the one thing that everybody knows about Nebraska? 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.399 And I don't really remember, but when you got 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.600 to, uh, to Idaho, sorry, I spoiled it, but I 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.279 don't think anybody knew what else it's sorry 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.639 for anybody listening and I, and Idaho, cause 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.399 there's a lot there, but. Well, yeah, it's potatoes 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:41.800 and that Boise state has a blue football field. 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:43.360 That's it. That's the only thing anyone ever 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.100 knows about it. Um, but yeah, anyway, there's 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:48.120 been so many random commercials. They're always. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.500 They're always fun roles. They're always, it's 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:52.899 more, it's not about the product being weird, 00:07:53.379 --> 00:07:57.000 but usually what I'm asked to do, a good example 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.839 of that was I did a commercial for Dollar Shave 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.160 Club. And it was, I don't know what you call 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.420 them, but I kind of call them like ensemble commercials. 00:08:05.540 --> 00:08:06.980 It's like the commercial where there's just like 00:08:06.980 --> 00:08:10.360 a lot of different lead actors in it, not one 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.959 single person. And so we all kind of got cast 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:15.819 together and we all auditioned for many different 00:08:15.819 --> 00:08:18.540 roles. So we didn't know. exactly which role 00:08:18.540 --> 00:08:20.379 we were going to be playing, or if we'd even 00:08:20.379 --> 00:08:23.500 auditioned for the role that we ended up ultimately 00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:26.959 getting. And this one was filmed at the Universal 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.759 Studios backlot. And as someone who grew up in 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.440 California my whole life, I had gone to Universal 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.679 Studios, the theme park, so many times. And that 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.779 backlot tour, if you've ever been, that's like 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:40.840 the biggest, best thing there. And it was something 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:43.710 that I always liked. just dreamed about being 00:08:43.710 --> 00:08:45.970 able to like film a movie or film something in 00:08:45.970 --> 00:08:48.409 the Universal Studios backlot so sure enough 00:08:48.409 --> 00:08:50.690 I get cast in this Dollar Shave Club commercial 00:08:50.690 --> 00:08:53.649 and they're like we're filming in the Universal 00:08:53.649 --> 00:08:56.730 Studios backlot oh my god this is gonna be amazing 00:08:56.730 --> 00:08:59.009 I get there on set they're like we're gonna do 00:08:59.009 --> 00:09:00.730 our costume fitting there it's gonna be great 00:09:00.730 --> 00:09:02.870 you'll find out what role you're gonna play perfect 00:09:03.149 --> 00:09:05.269 So I'm with all these like, I mean, it's all 00:09:05.269 --> 00:09:08.090 dudes in there. It's all Dollar Shave Club people. 00:09:08.649 --> 00:09:10.690 So it's like a bunch of guys in there and one 00:09:10.690 --> 00:09:12.710 at a time people are going in and then they're 00:09:12.710 --> 00:09:14.950 coming out in their costume. And it's, you know, 00:09:15.090 --> 00:09:16.970 it's, if you've seen a Dollar Shave Club commercial, 00:09:17.049 --> 00:09:19.490 they're always funny. So, you know, guys were 00:09:19.490 --> 00:09:21.750 coming out just wearing like, oh yeah, I'm like. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.000 You know, nothing crazy, just like, Oh, I guess 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.620 I'm like a sports guy and his hair is crazy. 00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:30.059 And he's in like, you know, a half a Jersey with 00:09:30.059 --> 00:09:32.980 his stomach exposed and we're all laughing and 00:09:32.980 --> 00:09:34.659 high fiving each other and having a good time. 00:09:34.980 --> 00:09:37.500 I just happened to be last. And so they're all 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:39.200 like, Oh, I wonder what you're going to be Daniel. 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.620 Cause I saw the people who the roles I had auditioned 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:44.100 for, they would, they already came out. So I 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:45.840 was like, I guess I didn't audition for the role 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.399 I got because I don't, I don't, I've seen them 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.639 all in this room already. So I go into the costume, 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.679 the wardrobe room, and the lady just goes, well, 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.500 um, here it is. And she just hands me, it's basically 00:09:59.500 --> 00:10:03.600 a speedo, skin tight speedo, the same color as 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.240 my skin. And I was like, okay, so what, what 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.620 else? And she's like, that's it. And I'm like, 00:10:09.779 --> 00:10:12.720 that's what's so like, but I just wear my shirt 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.700 and she's like, no, no, no, nothing else. Just 00:10:14.700 --> 00:10:17.940 that. And I was like, what's my role? And she's 00:10:17.940 --> 00:10:19.740 like, uh, she looks at a paper. She goes, you 00:10:19.740 --> 00:10:23.220 are, uh, your man seeing how high you can pee 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:27.059 in the shower. I was like, okay. All right. So 00:10:27.059 --> 00:10:28.679 I guess I'm supposed to be naked. They're like, 00:10:28.700 --> 00:10:30.740 yeah, you're supposed to be naked, I guess for 00:10:30.740 --> 00:10:34.639 the commercial. So I just go out there in a speedo 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.220 and, uh, I'm like, I guess I can't get any weird 00:10:38.220 --> 00:10:41.639 in this. I go on the set, we go to film and, 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:46.090 uh, it's a backlog. It's not a real. house. So 00:10:46.090 --> 00:10:49.330 they created a bathroom in there for me to film 00:10:49.330 --> 00:10:53.029 in, like just in the movie studio. Side note, 00:10:53.110 --> 00:10:55.370 we were randomly in the studio. They're filming 00:10:55.370 --> 00:10:58.350 all the new, like some reboot episodes of Will 00:10:58.350 --> 00:11:00.970 and Grace or something. But anyway, they emptied 00:11:00.970 --> 00:11:03.129 it and they created this bathroom in there for 00:11:03.129 --> 00:11:06.649 me to film in. And what I didn't think about 00:11:06.649 --> 00:11:08.870 until the water turned on was that because it's 00:11:08.870 --> 00:11:11.409 not a real bathroom, it doesn't have hot water. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.980 It's just a hose. This is freezing water coming 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:18.580 out of there. Also, there's no actual drain. 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.080 I mean, it's a tub, but it's just like concrete 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:22.759 under, so the water's not going anywhere. So 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.340 they had to fill the drain with concrete. So 00:11:25.340 --> 00:11:28.100 the water's just building up to my ankles. I'm 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:32.399 like, oh, this is early onset frostbite is what 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.379 I'm feeling right now, I'm pretty sure. I'm freezing 00:11:35.379 --> 00:11:41.009 cold in a thong or in a speedo. And then they 00:11:41.009 --> 00:11:44.230 give me this hose that's filled with fake pee 00:11:44.230 --> 00:11:46.490 and they're like, yeah, so this is what you're 00:11:46.490 --> 00:11:48.610 going to hold and you're going to do this motion. 00:11:48.830 --> 00:11:50.149 They give me the action, you know, like you're 00:11:50.149 --> 00:11:52.409 just going to pee is going to come out and there's 00:11:52.409 --> 00:11:55.529 going to be pee all over the wall. And like that's, 00:11:55.669 --> 00:11:57.750 we're going to do a bunch of takes doing a bunch 00:11:57.750 --> 00:12:00.470 of different things. I'm freezing. I'm like, 00:12:00.490 --> 00:12:03.649 this is so weird. I don't have any lines. This 00:12:03.649 --> 00:12:06.389 is kind of crazy. They stopped me after the first 00:12:06.389 --> 00:12:08.570 take. And they're like, sorry, this is a long 00:12:08.570 --> 00:12:12.610 story. And they're like, uh, Daniel, sorry, we, 00:12:12.809 --> 00:12:16.149 we can, every time your speedo is getting pink 00:12:16.149 --> 00:12:18.649 when it gets wet. So, and we can tell you're 00:12:18.649 --> 00:12:20.250 wearing a speedo, which you're obviously not 00:12:20.250 --> 00:12:22.929 supposed to be. So we're going to have to give 00:12:22.929 --> 00:12:26.350 you something smaller and smaller. I mean, I 00:12:26.350 --> 00:12:29.110 was like smaller and this lady just comes out 00:12:29.110 --> 00:12:32.649 with a literal song and goes, you're yeah, you 00:12:32.649 --> 00:12:34.870 got to put this on. I was like, right now? They're 00:12:34.870 --> 00:12:38.049 like, yeah. And I was like, I was not. Mentally 00:12:38.049 --> 00:12:41.029 prepared for this day at all. It's like six in 00:12:41.029 --> 00:12:42.830 the morning, too. I'd already been up for like 00:12:42.830 --> 00:12:47.529 three hours Okay, so I put on this song we filmed 00:12:47.529 --> 00:12:50.110 this commercial honestly one of the hardest acting 00:12:50.110 --> 00:12:52.450 things I've ever done in my life. I know a lot 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:54.009 of times we kind of click through commercials 00:12:54.009 --> 00:12:57.029 We don't really pay attention to but we're usually 00:12:57.029 --> 00:13:00.809 asked to do so many things of such a small Shot 00:13:00.809 --> 00:13:04.120 and this was one that was like especially difficult 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.759 because, because of how freezing I was, they're 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:10.960 pumping fogs and make it look steamy. And the 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:12.659 director just kept telling me, Hey, just remember 00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:15.360 it's hot. It feels great. It's warm. It's like 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.080 40 degree water. I'm sitting here. It's anything 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.740 but hot. It's everything but hot. My nipples 00:13:20.740 --> 00:13:24.240 are hard. It's like not a good feeling. I'm wearing 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.620 a thong. And I, there was this like sort of moment 00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:30.519 of clarity that I had at one point where they, 00:13:30.580 --> 00:13:31.820 they were, they were laughing. They're like, 00:13:31.940 --> 00:13:35.120 it was great. They say cut. Yeah, they were having 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.320 a great time. They cut it and they're like, hold 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:38.720 on. We're going to take a look at some stuff. 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.820 And I had this moment of clarity where there's 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:43.940 like fake pee all over the wall. I'm up to my 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:48.220 ankles in water. I'm wearing a thong and there's 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:50.379 cameras all around me. And I was like, never 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:54.269 in my life did I ever think. that this would 00:13:54.269 --> 00:13:59.470 be my Universal Studios backlot experience. I, 00:13:59.529 --> 00:14:02.009 you know, I'm sure the average person didn't 00:14:02.009 --> 00:14:04.990 realize that there could possibly be that much 00:14:04.990 --> 00:14:07.929 mystery that goes into an experience like that 00:14:07.929 --> 00:14:10.730 of, you know, half an hour before you had no, 00:14:11.169 --> 00:14:14.230 you couldn't have dreamed up this scenario, this 00:14:14.230 --> 00:14:17.340 outfit that you're in, and here you are. They 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:20.100 don't tell us what our role is going to be or 00:14:20.100 --> 00:14:22.340 exactly what we're doing. I mean, I've had it 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:24.779 happen multiple times where, you know, you're 00:14:24.779 --> 00:14:26.799 being sort of chauffeured around everywhere by 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.559 all these different people. Oh, meet so and so. 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:30.419 And this is the actor. OK, great. But hold on. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:31.559 We're going to take you. You're going to sign 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.860 this thing. OK. And then you get on set and you're 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:36.980 like, OK, ready and action. And you're like, 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.700 what is what am I doing? I don't even know what 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:42.120 I'm doing with a cut. OK. Did anyone give them 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.740 a script? I'm like, there's a script like that's 00:14:44.740 --> 00:14:48.779 happened. So many times I did one for a company 00:14:48.779 --> 00:14:52.580 called honey Which is like a web I guess it's 00:14:52.580 --> 00:14:54.259 like a thing that goes on your browser and you 00:14:54.259 --> 00:14:56.779 get like it finds you coupons for like online 00:14:56.779 --> 00:15:00.340 shopping and They're doing a big Christmas promotion 00:15:00.340 --> 00:15:05.360 and I was with someone else in the scene Who 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.039 we didn't know which of the two roles which were 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.240 very different roles with very different lines. 00:15:10.340 --> 00:15:14.179 We didn't know which one we were doing and sort 00:15:14.179 --> 00:15:16.419 of based off context clues and what we're wearing 00:15:16.419 --> 00:15:18.440 we're like I'm pretty sure these in mind so we're 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.639 back there memorizing our parts and our parts 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.419 only we get onto the set they say action and 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:26.740 we had had the roles wrong and neither of us 00:15:26.740 --> 00:15:30.200 knew the other lines so they're like scrambling 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.080 to figure out how do we okay get them the scripts 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:33.879 let's hurry this is like right there in the middle 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.799 of covid which had all these protocols and it's 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:40.659 we had to be quick on set and it's It's a lot 00:15:40.659 --> 00:15:45.320 less organized than you would think. I was going 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:46.879 to say, it has nothing to do with the companies, 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:49.220 by the way. It could be the biggest, best companies 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:52.399 in the world. And it's just, every commercial 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.860 shoot is always insanely unorganized. Wow. Yeah. 00:15:56.860 --> 00:16:00.860 So it could be near calamity multiple times over 00:16:00.860 --> 00:16:06.480 just to film a Swifter commercial. I mean, a 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:10.139 young mother sweeping her kitchen. Or showing 00:16:10.139 --> 00:16:11.759 off the new vacuum or something. I mean that 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.559 could have been just a hellacious How many hours 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.080 do you sometimes spend trying to to cut a 30 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.700 minute tv ad like that? Yeah, 30 seconds. I honestly 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:26.179 Yeah days that dollar shave club one was Uh, 00:16:26.179 --> 00:16:28.259 it was over. I wasn't there every day, but it 00:16:28.259 --> 00:16:30.980 was two weeks I think I was there for five days 00:16:30.980 --> 00:16:33.820 doing that which was fun because I got to eat 00:16:33.820 --> 00:16:35.799 lunch on the If you've ever been to the back 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.120 lot, there's a there's a famous the new york 00:16:38.250 --> 00:16:41.610 City Street that they've done Seinfeld on they 00:16:41.610 --> 00:16:43.590 do a million movies and commercials on this street 00:16:43.590 --> 00:16:45.649 and we got to eat on that but it was especially 00:16:45.649 --> 00:16:48.230 fun for me because all the tram tours were going 00:16:48.230 --> 00:16:51.509 by and People kind of figured out quickly like 00:16:51.509 --> 00:16:54.090 god. These must be extras. I don't know any, 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:55.789 you know, I don't see Chris Pratt I don't know 00:16:55.789 --> 00:16:57.789 any of these people or whatever, but they would 00:16:57.789 --> 00:17:01.850 see me The one guy who had to wear a robe because 00:17:01.850 --> 00:17:06.730 I was 99 % naked underneath And you see a guy 00:17:06.730 --> 00:17:08.950 on a rope eating a sandwich on the back lot. 00:17:09.069 --> 00:17:10.789 You're like, I don't know who that is, but he's 00:17:10.789 --> 00:17:13.509 famous. Why else would he be in a rope right 00:17:13.509 --> 00:17:16.690 now? So I had so many people taking pictures 00:17:16.690 --> 00:17:20.049 of me back there. Little did they know I was 00:17:20.049 --> 00:17:23.990 in a thong, but yeah, it's wild. Every experience 00:17:23.990 --> 00:17:27.789 is just completely different. And the amount 00:17:27.789 --> 00:17:30.589 of stories and the amount of, I know I did a 00:17:30.589 --> 00:17:33.599 Virgin mobile. one where I played a meat smoker. 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:35.440 I'll let you figure out how those two things 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:39.160 are connected. And they, I thought for sure I 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.059 was, they're like, yeah, yeah, you're in this 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:43.400 garage, but we're going to make it look like 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:46.420 a butcher's locker layer. I don't know what you 00:17:46.420 --> 00:17:51.200 call a butcher work. And, uh, they use real meat, 00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:54.720 like giant. I don't know what those things weigh 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.559 40 pounds each, like hunks. meat hanging everywhere 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.259 and then they didn't use fog they used actual 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:07.799 barbecue smoke which I'm like how is this any 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.299 of this I don't know legal or something I feel 00:18:10.299 --> 00:18:12.819 like we're all getting high off fumes right now 00:18:12.819 --> 00:18:16.720 and people that that were there that morning 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.579 or part of the week and they just never came 00:18:18.579 --> 00:18:22.299 back and said I'm done with this no I've seen 00:18:22.299 --> 00:18:25.259 people get cut out never from anything I've never 00:18:25.259 --> 00:18:27.990 seen any like dramatic you know, Christian Bale 00:18:27.990 --> 00:18:31.170 blow ups or anything, but I've seen people sadly 00:18:31.170 --> 00:18:34.490 get cut out where, you know, a lot of times the 00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:37.710 director, they don't always know exactly what 00:18:37.710 --> 00:18:39.490 the scene's going to be or what they want because 00:18:39.490 --> 00:18:42.369 commercial directors have a tough job. They're 00:18:42.369 --> 00:18:44.769 usually, I mean, to be honest, not to stereotype, 00:18:44.869 --> 00:18:47.630 but they're usually very creative people who 00:18:47.630 --> 00:18:50.769 are trying to make their name as directors who 00:18:50.769 --> 00:18:52.869 are just doing this for the money, you know, 00:18:52.930 --> 00:18:55.430 because it's not much of a They don't even have 00:18:55.430 --> 00:18:57.769 a credit. You don't know who directs any of these 00:18:57.769 --> 00:19:00.829 commercials and I've seen some I've had some 00:19:00.829 --> 00:19:04.450 directors that directed I did a Topgolf commercial 00:19:04.450 --> 00:19:07.529 that was directed by I'm forgetting his name 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:10.549 but the director who directed all of the Eric 00:19:10.549 --> 00:19:13.609 Andre show and there's a prank movie Eric Andre 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:16.170 came out with that he directed it was just in 00:19:16.170 --> 00:19:18.789 theaters and he's doing a Topgolf commercial 00:19:18.789 --> 00:19:20.910 so they usually do it because it's great money 00:19:20.910 --> 00:19:24.759 and And you know, but a lot of them are very, 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.940 very qualified at what they do. And now they're 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:31.680 on this set where at the end of the day, it's 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.720 the, the company has the last word, you know? 00:19:34.980 --> 00:19:37.460 So the director might be the, uh, you know, quote 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:41.440 unquote, like expert on the film stuff. And it'll 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.279 be like, cut. This is the best version of that 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:45.099 scene. That's the funniest version. It's great. 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:47.519 And it'll be like, okay, do you have any notes 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:50.220 company? And the company will have some absurd 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:53.559 thing. Usually that's like, Oh yeah, yeah, we 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.019 want them to say this word instead. And it makes 00:19:56.019 --> 00:19:59.160 no sense, but they want it because it's their 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:02.240 product and it's their money. And I've seen so 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:07.319 many like directors fight with the brand to try 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:09.779 to get their ideas in and all that. And sometimes 00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:12.200 that means at the last second being like, well, 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.759 I guess, I guess we don't need that actor, I 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:16.980 guess, then coming in and saying that line. So 00:20:16.980 --> 00:20:19.900 yeah, you can go home. Fortunately, that's never 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:22.579 happened to me. Would have been extra sad to 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:25.380 be sent home wearing a thong after all that work 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:28.859 But I've seen it happen and it's always sad because 00:20:28.859 --> 00:20:30.460 everyone's excited to be there and then it's 00:20:30.460 --> 00:20:34.119 like well Okay, Steve you can leave now. We don't 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:35.839 need you anymore. You're not in a commercial 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.220 Well, Daniel, I want to real quick just before 00:20:39.220 --> 00:20:41.539 we get too far ahead I want to talk about your 00:20:41.539 --> 00:20:44.539 your current album your comic album Probably 00:20:44.539 --> 00:20:47.339 saying that all wrong your stand -up album. Where's 00:20:47.339 --> 00:20:49.839 Daniel? And I've been listening to this thing 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.140 for the past couple of weeks and front to back 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:55.460 track by track. It can almost skip around if 00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:57.579 you have to do it randomly, which I had that 00:20:57.579 --> 00:20:59.539 setting accidentally when I was listening to 00:20:59.539 --> 00:21:02.240 it. But that's funny. Like, why do you introduce 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.339 himself in the middle? That was weird. This thing 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:08.940 is a riot, Daniel. And I want to also get ahead 00:21:08.940 --> 00:21:11.819 of something here to your approach to stand up 00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:14.740 comedy. And you're in nightclubs. You're talking 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:18.119 to adults who are having adult beverages. But 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.380 your comedy is not profanity laced and and it's 00:21:21.380 --> 00:21:24.380 hilarious and I think there are I don't I wouldn't 00:21:24.380 --> 00:21:26.519 Even say most people but I think there's some 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:28.619 people that think that you got to be a little 00:21:28.619 --> 00:21:33.019 bit Vulgar to really come over the top and be 00:21:33.019 --> 00:21:36.819 be hilarious I disagree but I wanted to comment 00:21:36.819 --> 00:21:39.920 on that approach and How you find success with 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.880 that and how you enjoy writing like that. Is 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.799 it more challenging? Yeah, I've always It's funny. 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.269 I've always hated the word clean you know, when 00:21:48.269 --> 00:21:52.109 people say, oh, you clean comic and it's like 00:21:52.109 --> 00:21:55.529 a, not a pet peeve, but I just, it always sounds 00:21:55.529 --> 00:21:57.950 so boring to me. You know what I mean? If someone 00:21:57.950 --> 00:21:59.910 was like, let's go see a clean comedy show, I'd 00:21:59.910 --> 00:22:01.410 be like, oh, this is going to be the worst, you 00:22:01.410 --> 00:22:04.029 know? And I've always just done what I thought 00:22:04.029 --> 00:22:07.430 was funny. And to me, most of the time, like 00:22:07.430 --> 00:22:10.710 all like dirty material at all, it all involves 00:22:10.710 --> 00:22:14.190 around sex basically. And to me in my head, that's 00:22:14.190 --> 00:22:17.380 always just been one subject. That's it. I'm 00:22:17.380 --> 00:22:19.140 not against talking about it, but it's like, 00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:21.000 why would you make your whole career talking 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:25.039 about one subject? Some pretty well -worn paths, 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.759 I think. If a guy gets up there and does a sex 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:30.799 routine, and you're thinking, okay, I heard whoever 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.900 in the 70s or 80s do this and do it pretty well. 00:22:34.619 --> 00:22:36.859 Right. Yeah, because it's just one thing. There's 00:22:36.859 --> 00:22:39.240 only so many stories out there, and you're like, 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:41.960 all right, I'm not... It's never been like a 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:44.180 moral high ground thing or anything like that. 00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:46.019 It's always just like, there's so much more out 00:22:46.019 --> 00:22:48.660 there to explore. And I feel like I always tried 00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:52.920 to stick to more universal subjects, just to 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.079 one, try to bring everybody in, but two, just 00:22:55.079 --> 00:23:00.160 to try to be uniquely me or whatever that means, 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.440 and talk about everything that I wanted to talk 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.160 about. And the opening track, and I won't give 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.039 away any details here, but just the title, if 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:11.329 anybody had some doubts. Like you said, clean 00:23:11.329 --> 00:23:14.789 comedy is not really the best catch -all. Drunk 00:23:14.789 --> 00:23:18.250 at a movie theater is the way this album kicks 00:23:18.250 --> 00:23:22.549 off. You're speaking my language there. What 00:23:22.549 --> 00:23:24.650 really got me rolling though, because I am a 00:23:24.650 --> 00:23:27.670 dad, was there's a bit there in the middle of 00:23:27.670 --> 00:23:33.650 the return of Disneyland. If you want to go into 00:23:33.650 --> 00:23:35.970 any detail here, I'm not going to do it, but 00:23:35.970 --> 00:23:37.990 there's a line there that is just hilarious. 00:23:38.430 --> 00:23:42.089 I've been there in some other situation. Yeah, 00:23:42.690 --> 00:23:45.230 yeah, I have a I live pretty close to Disneyland. 00:23:45.369 --> 00:23:48.789 My friends convinced me to get a Disney Pass, 00:23:48.869 --> 00:23:52.829 which is all another story. But, you know, so 00:23:52.829 --> 00:23:55.049 I've been there pretty regularly, maybe once 00:23:55.049 --> 00:23:57.910 a month and once every couple of months, whatever. 00:23:58.230 --> 00:24:02.869 But I could not help but notice, especially when 00:24:02.869 --> 00:24:06.480 you have a pass, the money part of it. you know, 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:08.180 it's done, you already paid for it, it's out 00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:10.720 the window. So you can kind of just sit back 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:13.180 and enjoy yourself now, you know, we'll sometimes 00:24:13.180 --> 00:24:15.720 we'll go to Starbucks, we won't worry about like, 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:17.220 you know, we're at Disneyland, let's get the 00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:18.859 most out of our money, let's ride every ride, 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.200 which is the way I, you know, always approach 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.940 it as a kid with my family, because it was like, 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:25.920 we're here for one day, do everything, you know, 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:28.099 it's been a lot to be here. But now that I have 00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:30.279 a pass, I can actually just, you know, sort of 00:24:30.349 --> 00:24:32.990 Okay, we can take a break and go eat lunch and 00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:36.329 hang out and you know You know sit on sit over 00:24:36.329 --> 00:24:38.849 here and eat a churro or drink coffee and then 00:24:38.849 --> 00:24:42.329 go on a ride and When you do that, you can't 00:24:42.329 --> 00:24:46.390 help but notice all of the just the angriest 00:24:46.390 --> 00:24:52.390 dads Who did who I've my dad's been there, you 00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:54.390 know, I've seen in a million two We're just you 00:24:54.390 --> 00:24:57.730 know, it's 2 p .m. It's 1 p .m. And they're just 00:24:57.730 --> 00:25:01.480 over it already over All of the money they spent, 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:03.819 the family, everybody wants to ride different 00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:06.480 rides and it's probably not funny to them but 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.480 it's absolutely hilarious to me sitting back 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:13.240 and watching that while eating a churro and I 00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:15.579 enjoyed it so I had to talk about it and that's 00:25:15.579 --> 00:25:20.019 made it on the second track of the album. Another 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:23.279 track on here, Nobody Needs French Fries. I wanted 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:26.740 to talk about your affinity for Taco Bell and 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:31.539 just the... overabundance of french fries every 00:25:31.539 --> 00:25:34.940 other place you go you get the sandwich and the 00:25:34.940 --> 00:25:38.220 fries the burger and the fries the Whatever the 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:41.859 nuggets and the fries and the fries and how many 00:25:41.859 --> 00:25:46.940 fries do we have to eat? It's refreshing going 00:25:46.940 --> 00:25:50.420 to Taco Bell and There's nothing you just don't 00:25:50.420 --> 00:25:54.119 get tots or fries you just get something wrapped 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.440 up with the with the meat and the cheese and 00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.549 the lettuce and And the oozy stuff and but it's 00:25:59.549 --> 00:26:02.869 not exactly it's only entrees, you know, I mean, 00:26:02.869 --> 00:26:04.509 yeah, they don't even they don't even really 00:26:04.509 --> 00:26:07.369 make sides Yeah, I mean ironically now they have 00:26:07.369 --> 00:26:09.769 the nacho fries there too But most people don't 00:26:09.769 --> 00:26:12.109 get those and I guess you can get chips if you 00:26:12.109 --> 00:26:15.450 want But yeah, I got I yeah shout out to Taco 00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:17.930 Bell who by the way accident or not accidentally 00:26:17.930 --> 00:26:21.170 Maybe it was an accident. They sent me Coupons 00:26:21.170 --> 00:26:23.769 for the first time ever. I don't even know that 00:26:23.769 --> 00:26:26.359 was needed But then when I saw them, I was like, 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.839 oh my God, this is definitely needed. Daniel, 00:26:30.940 --> 00:26:33.720 I got to ask you this. I've got some questions 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:35.559 on these episodes that I usually say for the 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:37.680 end, but every once in a while I'll pepper one 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.980 in in the middle of the episode. OK, have you 00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:44.480 ever yourself or have you ever known somebody 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:47.880 who has who has won? one of those back of the 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:50.680 receipt sweepstakes where you call in the survey, 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.339 you tell them what about your experience and 00:26:52.339 --> 00:26:55.640 you win the 500 bucks. I have never in my life 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:57.380 that they've been printing those things on the 00:26:57.380 --> 00:27:00.720 dollar general receipts or the taco. Do these 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:05.559 things actually get doled out? I don't think 00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.059 anyone takes them up on it. I think you'd probably 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:09.720 win immediately if you called because they'd 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:12.700 be like, oh my God, you called. The funniest 00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:14.460 one to me is you go to Taco Bell and I don't 00:27:14.460 --> 00:27:16.559 know if they all have this, but definitely a 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:18.220 few of the ones that I've been to. Have you ever 00:27:18.220 --> 00:27:20.640 gone to the ones where they'll say, would you 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:23.759 like to like round up or would you like to donate 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:27.660 your change for education? It's just education. 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:30.880 I'm like, who's that? Who's education is this? 00:27:31.259 --> 00:27:33.900 And how come I've never in my life gone to a 00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:35.359 school and be like, how did you guys get such 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:38.200 nice desks? And they're like, well, because of 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.660 the cheesy, cheesy Gordita crunch, baby that 00:27:40.660 --> 00:27:44.410 paid for all this. Who's where's this money actually 00:27:44.410 --> 00:27:47.269 going Taco Bell schools don't exist. Where's 00:27:47.269 --> 00:27:50.490 this money going right? Yeah, I feel like you 00:27:50.490 --> 00:27:54.250 could just call in right now and probably win 00:27:54.250 --> 00:27:56.690 Automatically, I've always just wanted to call 00:27:56.690 --> 00:27:58.390 and be like I think you guys are doing great 00:27:58.390 --> 00:28:00.450 I have nothing more to say. I don't want anything 00:28:00.450 --> 00:28:02.430 from this. Just keep doing what you're doing 00:28:02.430 --> 00:28:05.809 I actually I ran through a Taco Bell today in 00:28:05.809 --> 00:28:09.450 honor of this episode And the customer service 00:28:09.450 --> 00:28:11.990 at least the one that I went to and if I do go 00:28:11.990 --> 00:28:14.890 it's superb It's head and shoulders above the 00:28:14.890 --> 00:28:16.809 other guy the burger guys where they used to 00:28:16.809 --> 00:28:20.089 call them It's just a very underwhelming experience 00:28:20.089 --> 00:28:22.730 a lot of places but Taco Bell is that's another 00:28:22.730 --> 00:28:25.589 thing that people don't when they take selfies 00:28:25.589 --> 00:28:27.490 and they take pictures their food at the nice 00:28:27.490 --> 00:28:30.269 restaurant and they post it people never take 00:28:30.269 --> 00:28:32.930 a picture of a double cheeseburger and I mean, 00:28:32.930 --> 00:28:34.849 there's some delicious sandwiches out there, 00:28:34.950 --> 00:28:39.829 but Nobody really promotes the awesome $7 and 00:28:39.829 --> 00:28:44.089 whatever lunch that they had. Yeah. Why do we 00:28:44.089 --> 00:28:48.990 act like we don't do this? I think, you know, 00:28:49.289 --> 00:28:52.109 the reason I respect Taco Bell so much, it's 00:28:52.109 --> 00:28:55.269 because what everyone else isn't doing. Taco 00:28:55.269 --> 00:28:59.029 Bell has never promised us to be anything more 00:28:59.029 --> 00:29:02.809 than it is. Taco Bell has never sat there and 00:29:02.809 --> 00:29:05.390 been like, we have the greatest, most authentic, 00:29:05.690 --> 00:29:07.990 never. They've never said those words. They would 00:29:07.990 --> 00:29:11.410 never try to. You know what you're getting. And 00:29:11.410 --> 00:29:14.369 that's that, where I feel like every burger chain 00:29:14.369 --> 00:29:19.180 claims to have the best burgers. Ours are grilled. 00:29:19.299 --> 00:29:21.920 Ours are restaurant quality. Ours are like so 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:25.140 many promises. And Taco Bell is like their whole 00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:26.880 catchphrase. Like, why did you just not have 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.559 a burger? Like they didn't even say their food 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:31.619 was good. They were like, we're not burgers. 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:33.599 And you're like, that's right. You aren't Taco 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.940 Bell. It's a respect thing. I feel like that, 00:29:36.940 --> 00:29:38.640 you know, I know what I'm getting. I know what 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.480 I'm paying. And if they do mess up, you kind 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:43.140 of give it to them because you're like, yeah, 00:29:43.259 --> 00:29:45.220 you didn't tell me you wouldn't mess up. So. 00:29:46.949 --> 00:29:51.089 It's a win -win. All right. We could talk about 00:29:51.089 --> 00:29:53.049 that for a while, but I don't want to get too 00:29:53.049 --> 00:29:55.250 far along without mentioning the book that you 00:29:55.250 --> 00:30:00.190 released, A Day at the Zoo in 2062. Yeah. It 00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:05.170 was a lot of fun to do. The two weeks of mandatory 00:30:05.170 --> 00:30:09.289 quarantine happened back in 2020. I was like, 00:30:09.369 --> 00:30:11.049 okay, what am I going to do right now? I was 00:30:11.049 --> 00:30:12.990 like, you know what I'll do. I've been meaning 00:30:12.990 --> 00:30:16.299 to reorganize and clean out. one of the closets 00:30:16.299 --> 00:30:19.119 in my room and a couple of like cabinets. And 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:20.980 so I was kind of going through stuff and I found 00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:23.799 this notebook that I had written labeled back 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:28.220 in 2010. So exactly 10 years before that. And 00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:31.279 it was a bunch of short stories. I forgot that 00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:34.819 I had challenged myself to a 30 day challenge 00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:39.119 to write a short story every day. And it could 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:40.960 be whatever I like. It's been five minutes doing 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:42.660 it. I could spend an hour doing it. I just had 00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:45.420 to do one that day. And I liked it so much, I 00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:47.940 ended up doing two of those. So I had something 00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:52.900 like 60 short stories in this notebook. And they're 00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:55.720 fun, but I sort of forgot about it. I didn't 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.460 have anything to do with it. It was 2010. I don't 00:30:58.460 --> 00:31:01.079 know. I was doing comedy, but I was pretty new. 00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.180 So that was kind of that. And so in 2020, when 00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:06.660 I found this notebook, it was basically like 00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:08.839 reading it for the first time. It had been 10 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.140 years. I'd forgotten about most of them. And 00:31:11.140 --> 00:31:14.480 so Bunch of them like genuinely caught me by 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.859 surprise where I was like, Oh, this is actually 00:31:16.859 --> 00:31:19.700 funny. And I was starting to, you know, 10 years 00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:21.880 had gone by. So I was like, Oh, I can, you know, 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.039 I'm good enough now where I can, I can fix this 00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:25.920 and make a new punchline here. I was coming up 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:28.759 with new ideas. And so I just, because I had 00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.180 the time, uh, started rewriting a bunch of them 00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:33.940 and then picking my favorites and all that. Next 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:38.009 thing I knew I had 50. Short stories that I really 00:31:38.009 --> 00:31:40.509 liked that I thought were really funny and well 00:31:40.509 --> 00:31:43.069 written and I kind of just didn't know Okay, 00:31:43.069 --> 00:31:44.490 that was fun. I don't know what I'm gonna do 00:31:44.490 --> 00:31:46.890 with this. I can't really these don't really 00:31:46.890 --> 00:31:49.029 translate into stand -up bits So I'm not really 00:31:49.029 --> 00:31:52.210 sure What I'm gonna do with 50 short stories 00:31:52.210 --> 00:31:55.549 and then one of my best friends he is like it's 00:31:55.549 --> 00:31:59.029 this great illustrator just for fun and he showed 00:31:59.029 --> 00:32:01.630 me this new piece of like technology they had 00:32:01.630 --> 00:32:05.359 gotten where he can basically draw digitally 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.220 now, like with this pad and the special pen. 00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.859 And I was like, oh, that's really cool. What 00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:11.140 are you going to do with it? He's like, I'm not 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:13.859 sure, but I have it now. And I was like, you 00:32:13.859 --> 00:32:15.720 know what, what if we just made a book? What 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.079 if you drew a drawing for every one of my short 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:23.160 stories and we should have enough for like 120, 00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:26.220 150 page book. Like let's make a book. And he 00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:27.579 was like, how do you make a book? And I was like, 00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:29.660 I have no idea, but it looks like we have nothing 00:32:29.660 --> 00:32:33.609 but time right now. So let's Google it. So I 00:32:33.609 --> 00:32:36.809 did, I did it the hard way. I started just researching 00:32:36.809 --> 00:32:39.710 like, okay, what are the dimensions? What kind 00:32:39.710 --> 00:32:42.529 of fonts do I use? You know, there's this whole 00:32:42.529 --> 00:32:44.650 rabbit hole of like, well, this fonts for this 00:32:44.650 --> 00:32:48.390 genre and this fonts for this. And, uh, it took 00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:51.390 a long time, but I was determined to make it 00:32:51.390 --> 00:32:55.049 sort of a 2020 goal of mine. Uh, so much so that 00:32:55.049 --> 00:33:00.490 I literally pressed the confirm button minutes 00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:04.000 before midnight. uh, at the end of 2020, right 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.579 before 2021 and ordered the books from the publishing 00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:11.480 company to be printed. And, uh, I'm like really 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:14.339 happy with it. It's also surprisingly easy to 00:33:14.339 --> 00:33:18.799 write a book. It's just four million steps. I 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.819 think that's the, there's so many stupid little 00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:24.000 things where you're just like, how do I get numbers 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.960 on one side of the page on that one and numbers 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.579 on the other side of the page on that one? It's 00:33:29.579 --> 00:33:32.140 like dumb stuff like that. uh that took forever 00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:34.519 to figure out but a lot of formatting yeah it's 00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:39.700 out now yeah a lot of formatting and just i don't 00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:41.900 know the whole font thing was like a big thing 00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:43.559 they're like well you don't want to use this 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:45.720 font for this genre and you're like is anyone 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:48.920 paying attention to this uh but yeah it's on 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:52.059 amazon now uh day at the zoo in 2062 uh you can 00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:54.660 probably also just search daniel eaches and find 00:33:54.660 --> 00:33:57.940 it that way yeah when i first visited your website 00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:00.369 i want people to realize that You can kind of 00:34:00.369 --> 00:34:02.630 find your favorite little corner with Daniel 00:34:02.630 --> 00:34:06.109 Iches, whether you like the stand -up albums, 00:34:06.470 --> 00:34:08.789 if you want to watch some separate YouTube videos, 00:34:09.230 --> 00:34:11.989 if you want to order the book. Daniel, one other 00:34:11.989 --> 00:34:13.809 thing that you did, you know, people do this 00:34:13.809 --> 00:34:16.050 with podcasts where, I mean, who knows, even 00:34:16.050 --> 00:34:18.570 with Dan Time, I mean, are there going to be 00:34:18.570 --> 00:34:23.809 new episodes in 2032? I don't know yet, but the 00:34:23.809 --> 00:34:26.650 fact that you actually strung together a couple 00:34:26.650 --> 00:34:29.360 dozen episodes, And even alluded, I think, in 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.260 the last couple that you were saying, this might 00:34:32.260 --> 00:34:34.139 be the end, but that's not such a bad thing. 00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:37.599 Guys, if you just want to start burning away 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.219 at some of these podcast episodes and get started, 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:43.880 get a little taste of Daniel's material, that's 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.860 the first thing that I did. Because I'm driving 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.980 around a lot. I don't have time to really stop 00:34:48.980 --> 00:34:52.300 and watch things during the day. So I got a kick 00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:56.119 out of some of these. Oh, thanks. Honestly, they 00:34:56.119 --> 00:35:00.099 were all... your worst favorite podcast? Hell 00:35:00.099 --> 00:35:05.519 yeah. I'm a planner. I don't know if you can 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:09.579 tell that, but I write a lot of stuff out. All 00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:13.039 my jokes, I meticulously go over them over and 00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.539 over and over before I end up doing them or putting 00:35:15.539 --> 00:35:18.820 them on an album or anything. This was the first 00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:20.579 thing that I ever gotten to do publicly that 00:35:20.579 --> 00:35:27.369 was just sporadic. a theme idea and kind of chose, 00:35:27.369 --> 00:35:30.170 you know, the, the, the two things for the theme, 00:35:30.170 --> 00:35:32.750 um, in the beginning. So for those of you not 00:35:32.750 --> 00:35:34.610 familiar yet, it's called your worst favorite 00:35:34.610 --> 00:35:38.110 podcast. And I will take a theme, you know, something 00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:41.389 like theme parks, for instance, that will be 00:35:41.389 --> 00:35:44.289 the theme of the episode. And, uh, and, and so 00:35:44.289 --> 00:35:45.929 the episode would work like this. I would talk 00:35:45.929 --> 00:35:49.750 about the worst ride at my favorite theme park. 00:35:50.010 --> 00:35:52.369 And then I would talk about my favorite ride. 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.400 at what I think is the worst hate park, which 00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.739 is sort of a positive spin on a negative thing 00:35:57.739 --> 00:35:59.579 and a negative spin on a positive thing. And 00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:01.539 I thought that was just fun to look at it from 00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:04.599 different angles. And it was a lot of fun to 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.019 do and a lot of fun to just sort of talk and 00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:10.780 not be. So in my head about what exactly I was 00:36:10.780 --> 00:36:13.340 going to say about that thing. And I'm proud 00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:15.320 of a lot of the episodes. I think they turned 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:18.599 out really fun. The dating stories really had 00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:22.139 me go in there and fast food. I mean, if you 00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:25.320 need a starting point, fast food, please everybody 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:28.300 just throw a dart and play one of these and get 00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:32.000 started on some Daniel Eaches. And I think that 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.449 you'll want to listen to more. and explore more 00:36:34.449 --> 00:36:37.409 and download the albums as well. Now, Carry the 00:36:37.409 --> 00:36:40.389 Pillows was your first stand -up release. Was 00:36:40.389 --> 00:36:42.309 that a long time coming? Were you working on 00:36:42.309 --> 00:36:44.329 that for a while, thinking about it for a while? 00:36:45.010 --> 00:36:49.409 Yeah, I had pretty much worked on that. I think 00:36:49.409 --> 00:36:52.710 it was somewhere between eight, nine years to 00:36:52.710 --> 00:36:55.269 maybe ten. It was coming up on ten years, which 00:36:55.269 --> 00:36:58.440 is pretty, I don't know, sort of... standard 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:00.719 if there is a standard for stand -up comics the 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.860 first album it usually takes forever to get to 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:04.980 that point and then after that it's like every 00:37:04.980 --> 00:37:06.440 two or three years you're coming out with a new 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.179 one but yeah it it was basically a culmination 00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:12.960 of everything that I had come up with up until 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.760 that point although that makes it sound much 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:18.280 more grand than it actually is because you know 00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:21.309 the first five years of stuff wasn't good enough 00:37:21.309 --> 00:37:23.929 to make it on the album. So it's probably more 00:37:23.929 --> 00:37:26.550 like the last two years of that eight year run 00:37:26.550 --> 00:37:29.730 or whatever it was. What was it like in just 00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:33.429 your first few times up on a stage and talking 00:37:33.429 --> 00:37:35.610 to just a handful of people? Were there some 00:37:35.610 --> 00:37:37.210 nights where you got off stage? You're like, 00:37:37.269 --> 00:37:40.690 that did not land very well. I don't know what 00:37:40.690 --> 00:37:42.909 happened there, but you seem to kind of had this 00:37:42.909 --> 00:37:45.909 quality about you where the next day is like, 00:37:46.030 --> 00:37:49.949 well, let's do that again. like yeah did you 00:37:49.949 --> 00:37:52.869 let that bother you or were nights kind of fell 00:37:52.869 --> 00:37:57.429 flat or you felt great about the gig and then 00:37:57.429 --> 00:37:59.929 you felt maybe not terrible but just like oh 00:37:59.929 --> 00:38:02.349 well that's what was that like in the very beginning 00:38:02.349 --> 00:38:05.090 well I could tell you what it was like last week 00:38:05.090 --> 00:38:09.969 and a bad show that no yeah you know it is it 00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:12.949 that stuff always happens you always have you 00:38:12.949 --> 00:38:15.789 know bad shows here and there you hope that that 00:38:15.789 --> 00:38:18.849 happens much less frequently as time goes on, 00:38:19.110 --> 00:38:23.469 which thankfully it has. I've always been, yeah, 00:38:23.769 --> 00:38:26.030 very, I don't know if driven's the right word, 00:38:26.809 --> 00:38:28.469 but as cheesy as this sounds, I've always been 00:38:28.469 --> 00:38:31.849 like a big football fan. And that's sort of the 00:38:31.849 --> 00:38:33.510 attitude there where it's like you have a bad 00:38:33.510 --> 00:38:36.559 game or you throw an interception. Like I said, 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:38.840 I know this sounds corny, but you do something 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.840 wrong and it's like well too bad You got to have 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:42.460 a short memory you go back out there and you 00:38:42.460 --> 00:38:44.840 do it again You figure out what went wrong and 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:47.739 and you fix it So I feel like I was just naturally 00:38:47.739 --> 00:38:51.239 had that attitude and I definitely subconsciously 00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.360 or not apply that to comedy all the time But 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.239 you know, sometimes you just I did a show last 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:58.480 week. I won't say words that because I'll probably 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.780 end up doing it again Sometimes you're just like 00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:04.949 I don't want to blame the crowd but I have to 00:39:04.949 --> 00:39:07.730 blame the crowd. There's something wrong with 00:39:07.730 --> 00:39:12.130 how you guys perceive laughter or just if you 00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:16.369 have humor, I'm not sure. But it happens where 00:39:16.369 --> 00:39:18.210 you just don't have an answer. And you're like, 00:39:18.309 --> 00:39:20.750 well, you know what? I'll just let me just rewrite. 00:39:20.989 --> 00:39:22.969 Let me just come back in three years when I have 00:39:22.969 --> 00:39:26.429 all this stuff and try this over again. But yeah, 00:39:26.429 --> 00:39:28.429 you just got to have a short memory. You know, 00:39:28.510 --> 00:39:32.500 if. If, as long as you're writing stuff that 00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:36.019 you find, that you find funny, then there's something 00:39:36.019 --> 00:39:38.219 there. You know, and maybe in the beginning, 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:42.039 you're not skilled enough to like be able to 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:44.139 figure out the right wording or where things 00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:46.800 should go or how exactly you should say it. But 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:48.940 there's something there. And I guess having that 00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:53.019 trust, that confidence in that goes a long way 00:39:53.019 --> 00:39:56.019 because you know, okay, well, I genuinely find 00:39:56.019 --> 00:39:59.280 this very funny. That means there's something 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.880 I can do to fix it. And it's very rare that you 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:05.679 genuinely find something funny and there's just 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.760 nothing you can do, no matter how funny you are, 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.420 how skilled you are at doing it to get it to 00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:14.360 work. But it's a long game, man. Everyone just 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.280 thinks we go up there and just talk about airplane 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.670 food and fart on stage and call it a day. There's 00:40:20.670 --> 00:40:22.849 so much that goes into it. It's such a long game. 00:40:23.969 --> 00:40:26.489 We're basically mad scientists up there just 00:40:26.489 --> 00:40:28.869 trying to figure stuff out. Sometimes I look 00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:31.010 at it like you almost have to be the type of 00:40:31.010 --> 00:40:33.969 person that could carry a conversation at just 00:40:33.969 --> 00:40:36.250 a dead party where people are watching a ball 00:40:36.250 --> 00:40:38.989 game. Nobody's talking. Nobody's laughing. You're 00:40:38.989 --> 00:40:40.909 like, well, I guess I'll bring up the next subject 00:40:40.909 --> 00:40:45.889 and the next one. I mean, it's different with 00:40:45.889 --> 00:40:47.469 people that come to see you, but they're just 00:40:47.469 --> 00:40:49.719 not. interacting with you. I've always thought 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.519 that that's got to be a huge challenge to just 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:56.059 write the jokes, make them transition well, and 00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:58.420 do it the next night and the next night in the 00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:01.079 next city. Yeah, I think the biggest challenge 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:02.739 is I definitely don't want to speak for every 00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:05.739 comic, but a lot of us, myself included, tend 00:41:05.739 --> 00:41:09.000 to be like sort of introverts in real life. We're 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:10.920 very quiet. I'm always quiet. I guess I'll just 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.500 talk about me. I'm always quiet because I'm always 00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.809 listening and sort of like always analyzing Like 00:41:16.809 --> 00:41:19.610 what's actually happening here? And you know, 00:41:19.710 --> 00:41:22.650 is there drama over in the corner and figure 00:41:22.650 --> 00:41:25.949 out what is what's actually happening here that 00:41:25.949 --> 00:41:28.710 most people aren't seeing. And because of that, 00:41:28.710 --> 00:41:31.530 I feel like I'm always like very quiet. And then 00:41:31.530 --> 00:41:34.250 the challenge is now you have to get on a stage 00:41:34.250 --> 00:41:37.070 with a room full of, you know, sometimes hundreds 00:41:37.070 --> 00:41:41.869 of thousands of people and be an extrovert. And 00:41:41.869 --> 00:41:46.170 it's like you just you have to be like. is sort 00:41:46.170 --> 00:41:49.369 of this A personality and B personality and just 00:41:49.369 --> 00:41:51.949 be able to turn them off and on constantly. I 00:41:51.949 --> 00:41:54.849 think that's probably the biggest challenge of 00:41:54.849 --> 00:41:58.429 comedy is that sometimes your onstage personality 00:41:58.429 --> 00:42:02.889 isn't exactly who you are in real life publicly. 00:42:03.110 --> 00:42:05.110 I mean, it's always who you are in your mind. 00:42:05.389 --> 00:42:07.670 You have to bring who you are in your mind out. 00:42:09.059 --> 00:42:11.760 Physically and I think that takes a while to 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:14.460 learn sometimes is what they like. People always 00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:16.599 say like, oh, this person found their voice and 00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:19.320 it's really just them going. Oh yeah, that's 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.239 that person in my head is finally now coming 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.519 out of my mouth, right? Do you do you have any 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:28.079 rituals or anything that you do before a show 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.659 like alright? I'm not going to eat after 4 o 00:42:30.659 --> 00:42:33.360 'clock today or I need to make sure I go to bed 00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:36.360 at this time before this gig or whatever. Do 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.489 you do things like that? It's a spoonful of mayonnaise, 00:42:39.489 --> 00:42:44.190 uh, right before, uh, no, not really. I'm a pacer. 00:42:44.670 --> 00:42:46.710 I'll say that much. And a lot of people think 00:42:46.710 --> 00:42:48.929 that like, Oh, you, you pace cause you're nervous, 00:42:48.929 --> 00:42:51.690 which might be true for most people, but I pace 00:42:51.690 --> 00:42:54.389 because I naturally have such low energy that 00:42:54.389 --> 00:42:58.170 if I didn't pace, I think I would just die. Uh, 00:42:58.469 --> 00:43:01.269 my heart would stop working. I'm just, I'm like 00:43:01.269 --> 00:43:03.409 anxious to get on there. Like, ah, I just want 00:43:03.409 --> 00:43:05.369 to go up there and say that not it's definitely 00:43:05.369 --> 00:43:08.760 not. my mind is the opposite of nervous. I'm 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:10.840 like, I know I want to get up there now and just 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.059 do all this stuff that's in my head because I've 00:43:13.059 --> 00:43:15.760 been, you know, going over this all day or for 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:18.159 the last few hours or whatever it's been. So 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:20.139 I definitely pace before every one of my shows. 00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.159 I always write my set out on a piece of paper 00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:25.440 that's in my back pocket. I never look at it. 00:43:25.539 --> 00:43:28.699 I never use it. But I just like knowing that 00:43:28.699 --> 00:43:32.570 there's a plan. Because a lot of times the plane 00:43:32.570 --> 00:43:35.150 gets derailed not in something like a special 00:43:35.150 --> 00:43:37.829 or something that you're filming but on a typical 00:43:37.829 --> 00:43:41.250 show something will happen and whether that screws 00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:45.670 up one joke or or Excuse me whether that derails 00:43:45.670 --> 00:43:48.710 you into this whole tangent of things that you 00:43:48.710 --> 00:43:50.690 weren't even planning on talking about that night 00:43:50.690 --> 00:43:53.170 Something will throw you and so I like knowing 00:43:53.170 --> 00:43:58.030 that like well at least there was a script At 00:43:58.030 --> 00:44:01.619 some point But yeah, I don't know nothing nothing 00:44:01.619 --> 00:44:05.739 too weird now so yeah right now you're you're 00:44:05.739 --> 00:44:08.179 doing a run of dates to Southern California right 00:44:08.179 --> 00:44:10.280 or I guess for anybody listening I've got some 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:12.980 people out on the west coast. Where are you gonna 00:44:12.980 --> 00:44:16.500 be the next couple weeks or so? Yeah, I've been 00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:19.659 I kind of had a really busy I was gonna say really 00:44:19.659 --> 00:44:22.400 busy summer, but it's really been a busy 12 years 00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:27.139 It was the summer, I was out of state a lot and 00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:29.940 so I kind of wanted to scale back this fall and 00:44:29.940 --> 00:44:32.579 do a lot more SoCal stuff and West Coast things. 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.400 So I do have a few more Central California. uh 00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:40.340 in early november mid november i do head to southern 00:44:40.340 --> 00:44:43.860 oregon to do some uh headline some shows in in 00:44:43.860 --> 00:44:46.920 grants pass and cave junction and the following 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.280 weekend is uh headlining stir crazy comic club 00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:52.539 that's one of my favorite comic clubs honestly 00:44:52.539 --> 00:44:55.530 in the whole u .s And that is in Glendale, Arizona, 00:44:55.809 --> 00:44:58.469 which is in Phoenix. That is November 17th and 00:44:58.469 --> 00:45:02.510 18th. And then in early first weekend of December, 00:45:03.110 --> 00:45:04.929 I headline another one of my favorite clubs, 00:45:05.809 --> 00:45:07.610 Laughs Comedy Club in Tucson, which is actually 00:45:07.610 --> 00:45:10.380 where I recorded the Where's Daniel? the album. 00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:12.639 So there's a lot of West Coast stuff right now, 00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:17.260 San Francisco, San Diego, a lot of California 00:45:17.260 --> 00:45:20.880 for the rest of the year. And then I'm actually 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.420 hopping on a bunch of, headlining a bunch of 00:45:23.420 --> 00:45:27.619 Carnival Cruises the first six months of this 00:45:27.619 --> 00:45:29.380 next year. There's going to be a lot of other 00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:32.719 club dates that I'll put out on my website, but 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:35.059 if you happen to be on a Carnival Cruise, there's 00:45:35.059 --> 00:45:37.059 a good chance you might see me on one of those. 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.050 So if you do hear this, Feel free to message 00:45:40.050 --> 00:45:44.070 me on any of the platforms, whatever you want, 00:45:44.349 --> 00:45:47.269 Craigslist, whatever you got, and tell me if 00:45:47.269 --> 00:45:48.929 you're gonna be on one of those cruises and I'll 00:45:48.929 --> 00:45:50.949 let you know if I'm gonna be on that one. And 00:45:50.949 --> 00:45:52.969 that's a great way to reach people who heard 00:45:52.969 --> 00:45:56.849 about you and they live in West Virginia or Maine 00:45:56.849 --> 00:45:59.650 or Nebraska, but they go on a cruise once a year. 00:46:00.010 --> 00:46:05.440 Or Idaho. Or Idaho. Daniel, just a couple other 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.280 questions and we'll wrap up here. I could keep 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:11.760 talking, but when you have just some wide open 00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:13.960 days, you don't have anything booked, do you 00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:18.139 do okay with those types of stretches where you're 00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:21.860 like, well, I guess I'll just watch some TV for 00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:24.920 37 minutes, or do you always need to be kind 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:27.420 of doing something at this time and then at this 00:46:27.420 --> 00:46:30.780 time? What does that mean, having nothing on 00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:33.420 a schedule? Well, I don't understand what that 00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:37.199 means. Honestly, yeah. You know what's funny? 00:46:37.420 --> 00:46:40.679 On the days, it's always the day before is the 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:44.739 most important day. If I'm really busy, the day 00:46:44.739 --> 00:46:48.880 before sucks so much. I'm just like, oh my God, 00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:52.010 I get it. I do this. I just go over my schedule 00:46:52.010 --> 00:46:54.489 over and over. Okay, fly here and off on the 00:46:54.489 --> 00:46:56.030 plane there and go there and then I'm driving 00:46:56.030 --> 00:46:58.289 there and I got this and I have no time to sleep 00:46:58.289 --> 00:46:59.929 because I'm going to that club and straight to 00:46:59.929 --> 00:47:02.449 that club. Fly to the next place and the day 00:47:02.449 --> 00:47:04.730 before is absolutely the worst thing ever and 00:47:04.730 --> 00:47:07.429 then when it actually starts happening, I love 00:47:07.429 --> 00:47:10.449 it. It's great. I'm like I'm on the plane. I'm 00:47:10.449 --> 00:47:13.559 like One of those weirdos on the plane who's 00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:15.820 excited to be there while everyone else is tired 00:47:15.820 --> 00:47:19.280 and cranky and the baby next to him to shut up 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:21.320 and the sweaty guy next to them to get off their 00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:24.599 armrest. I'm that guy who's like super excited 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:26.760 to be there. I love traveling when I'm actually 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:29.900 doing it. But beforehand, it's daunting. It's 00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:33.170 extremely daunting. And on the opposite. On the 00:47:33.170 --> 00:47:35.789 opposite side of things, the day before I know 00:47:35.789 --> 00:47:38.710 I finally get rest, it just happened to me recently 00:47:38.710 --> 00:47:41.789 once I got off the road for the fall where I 00:47:41.789 --> 00:47:44.530 was like, oh man, I have two weeks where I just 00:47:44.530 --> 00:47:48.130 have local LA gigs. This is going to be the most 00:47:48.130 --> 00:47:50.130 amazing thing ever. I couldn't wait for it. Then 00:47:50.130 --> 00:47:51.849 when it was actually happening, I was like, this 00:47:51.849 --> 00:47:56.690 is boring. I miss flying. I think at the end 00:47:56.690 --> 00:47:58.170 of the day, I just don't know what I want until 00:47:58.170 --> 00:48:01.289 I'm actually doing it, but it is a struggle. 00:48:01.909 --> 00:48:04.969 Going, you know mentally through this like okay. 00:48:05.050 --> 00:48:07.130 I'm touring now. Okay. No, I'm not I'm working 00:48:07.130 --> 00:48:09.730 on a project and I I think I just like staying 00:48:09.730 --> 00:48:14.050 busy So if I'm not touring I am trying to like 00:48:14.050 --> 00:48:16.369 I'm I'm on to the next project. What am I gonna 00:48:16.369 --> 00:48:18.550 do next? Okay, am I gonna record a special? Am 00:48:18.550 --> 00:48:21.210 I gonna write another book? Is it you know, it's 00:48:21.210 --> 00:48:24.110 script writing thing like commercials I just 00:48:24.110 --> 00:48:25.869 you know, I've been doing a lot of commercial 00:48:27.309 --> 00:48:29.409 Stuff recently just had a call back for another 00:48:29.409 --> 00:48:32.909 one today. It was good. So I don't know I just 00:48:32.909 --> 00:48:34.570 always try to keep moving because I think at 00:48:34.570 --> 00:48:35.929 the end of the day I don't exactly know what 00:48:35.929 --> 00:48:38.949 I want. Yeah, but that's part of life. I figure 00:48:38.949 --> 00:48:42.409 it out That's a that's a great mindset and in 00:48:42.409 --> 00:48:45.070 the midst of all the madness and the planes and 00:48:45.070 --> 00:48:48.349 the travel Do you ever just look at your phone? 00:48:48.389 --> 00:48:50.170 Look at the clock. You're like, alright, it's 00:48:50.170 --> 00:48:53.900 shoot. It's 237. I got it I gotta call grandma. 00:48:54.300 --> 00:48:56.980 I gotta call somebody that's like stationary, 00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:59.920 that's a relative, that's in a house, that doesn't 00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:02.159 do what you do. And you're like, hey man, I haven't 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:04.639 talked to her. I haven't called him in like three 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.820 weeks, but maybe I need to do that. Do you have, 00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:10.480 do you have anybody in your circle where you're 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:12.659 like, I gotta place, I gotta, I'm gonna be on 00:49:12.659 --> 00:49:14.940 the phone for about 45 minutes, but I gotta do 00:49:14.940 --> 00:49:18.880 this. Yeah, I make sure to call grandma in prison 00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:28.050 once a week. I'm actually very good at time management 00:49:28.050 --> 00:49:31.110 stuff. It helps to travel a lot because so much 00:49:31.110 --> 00:49:33.750 of it is transportation. I've learned over the 00:49:33.750 --> 00:49:36.409 years to be like, okay, you're not just on a 00:49:36.409 --> 00:49:40.449 plane for three hours. You're sitting down doing 00:49:40.449 --> 00:49:43.170 something for three hours. So let's get stuff. 00:49:43.900 --> 00:49:46.539 And, you know, a lot of times, if it's a local, 00:49:46.780 --> 00:49:49.000 especially in LA, you're in traffic, you're driving 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.500 to shows. I try to go on a walk every day just 00:49:51.500 --> 00:49:54.079 to kind of like clear my mind. And I probably 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:56.480 call my mom. My dad's always there too in the 00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:59.500 background, in the call listening on speakerphone. 00:50:00.539 --> 00:50:03.360 I try to call my parents probably four or five 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:05.380 times a week, honestly. You know, it's usually 00:50:05.380 --> 00:50:08.380 when I'm out on a walk and I don't know, I think 00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:11.000 that's... Part of it, you know now now I'm in 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.940 my I'm in my 30s now don't tell Hollywood I think 00:50:13.940 --> 00:50:20.039 I'm 16 or 18 or whatever as long as you can I 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:23.760 feel like part of being in your 30s this I Feel 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:25.800 like when you start to get in your late 20s and 00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:27.960 you start maybe figuring out what you want to 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.800 do as a career you just start getting Actually 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.260 busy for the first time in your life and then 00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:35.780 you hit your 30s and I feel like you just go 00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:40.619 Oh wait, this isn't going away. It doesn't get 00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:42.139 easier. Cause then you start thinking about like, 00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:43.960 well, what happens when I have a family or like 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.260 I get married or that you're like, that's just 00:50:46.260 --> 00:50:48.920 more things to think about. This never goes away. 00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:51.679 So I think the thirties is all about just accepting 00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:54.659 and figuring out. You just have, you just better 00:50:54.659 --> 00:50:56.619 make this work. You don't have another option. 00:50:56.920 --> 00:51:00.139 And so I think you're sort of forced into. figuring 00:51:00.139 --> 00:51:02.260 out your time management, whether it's, you know, 00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:04.500 like, okay, podcasts is going to be what I do 00:51:04.500 --> 00:51:06.619 when I am in the car, you know, because I need 00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:08.840 to just get my mind off stuff or need to laugh 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:11.599 or need to learn something or whatever you listen 00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:15.980 to podcasts for. But yeah, I've always been good 00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:19.960 at just how do I fit everything into times that 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.360 seem like, you know, the things that people hate. 00:51:22.489 --> 00:51:25.010 which is usually being on planes and being transported 00:51:25.010 --> 00:51:28.409 from one thing to another. I try to be in the 00:51:28.409 --> 00:51:29.929 moment when I can. I don't want to be that guy 00:51:29.929 --> 00:51:33.730 who's on my phone constantly or whatever in conversations 00:51:33.730 --> 00:51:37.550 and I'm busy texting people. But in those times 00:51:37.550 --> 00:51:41.750 that are supposed to be boring or whatever, I 00:51:41.750 --> 00:51:44.349 try to get the most out of it, productive -wise. 00:51:45.170 --> 00:51:47.269 I like what you said right there, being in the 00:51:47.269 --> 00:51:50.269 moment, because I would think as a comedian, 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:53.300 You're always trying to capture things that are 00:51:53.300 --> 00:51:55.860 happening in that moment Because if you're not 00:51:55.860 --> 00:51:58.900 looking around you may have just missed a four 00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:00.460 -minute second I don't know how long it might 00:52:00.460 --> 00:52:02.179 be but you know something like that. You may 00:52:02.179 --> 00:52:05.599 just Something may have blown by you. Yeah, I 00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.920 mean I see stuff that happens like the day of 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:10.719 a show Do you ever see stuff and you're like, 00:52:10.860 --> 00:52:13.360 oh my gosh, I'm gonna work that in tonight Or 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.579 does it does it happen on the fly ever like that? 00:52:15.900 --> 00:52:18.440 Oh, definitely. I mean some of some of my favorite 00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:22.039 bits came from Yeah stuff that just happened 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.380 or I try to write beforehand for most of them, 00:52:25.380 --> 00:52:28.880 but it's a pretty it's a good chunk maybe 20 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.320 % 15 % of the stuff that I've done like I kind 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:35.019 of tried spontaneously or you know, there are 00:52:35.019 --> 00:52:38.679 shows It just happened sometimes especially in 00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:41.320 like a bigger city When you're like LA if you're 00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:42.960 trying to hit like three shows in a night or 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.219 four shows in a night Where you know at least 00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:47.280 one of those is not gonna be good. There's not 00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:48.900 gonna be that many people there Maybe it's just 00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:51.280 comics in the back of the room And you're like, 00:52:51.500 --> 00:52:54.000 I'm going to be so corny if I go up there and 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.380 start doing jokes to my four friends. And like, 00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:58.139 this is the dumbest thing ever and the biggest 00:52:58.139 --> 00:53:00.460 waste of time. And maybe it's just me again, 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:02.840 trying not to waste any time. But, you know, 00:53:02.860 --> 00:53:04.380 I don't want to do that. I'm like, how do I be 00:53:04.380 --> 00:53:06.239 productive here? Let me actually tell this story 00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:09.519 that I don't really have any written jokes for 00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:11.800 yet. But who cares if it bombs? Because I'm going 00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:15.820 to bomb anyway tonight. That's happened to me 00:53:15.820 --> 00:53:18.019 with several bits. In fact, a new bit that I've 00:53:18.019 --> 00:53:20.000 been doing a lot that's not on any of the albums 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.420 happened in that exact way where I was in a show 00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:24.940 that it was just comics in the crowd. There's 00:53:24.940 --> 00:53:28.179 only like five of us. And I was like, I actually 00:53:28.179 --> 00:53:30.440 have a funny story that happened to me at a comedy 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:33.460 show that the comedians will appreciate. And 00:53:33.460 --> 00:53:35.579 I did it and it just killed. They were just loving 00:53:35.579 --> 00:53:37.219 it. And I was like, okay, let me test this in 00:53:37.219 --> 00:53:39.699 front of a real crowd of like real people who 00:53:39.699 --> 00:53:43.250 aren't. comics who laugh at usually the darkest 00:53:43.250 --> 00:53:45.590 things and laugh when you're getting hurt usually 00:53:45.590 --> 00:53:49.110 and I tried in front of a crowd and again it 00:53:49.110 --> 00:53:51.750 just like it did super well and I was like oh 00:53:51.750 --> 00:53:55.090 man I'm so glad I like took that risk on it because 00:53:55.090 --> 00:53:57.269 I don't know I didn't think to tell this story 00:53:57.269 --> 00:54:01.349 to people so yeah I mean it happens we just sometimes 00:54:01.349 --> 00:54:04.429 just feel like I need to change that I feel too 00:54:04.429 --> 00:54:07.010 in my head I feel like I've been too robotic 00:54:07.010 --> 00:54:09.670 on stage the last couple of nights let me just 00:54:09.710 --> 00:54:11.809 Let me just open up with five minutes of just 00:54:11.809 --> 00:54:14.429 talking about what my day was like and then get 00:54:14.429 --> 00:54:17.170 into the set after I try not to do that all the 00:54:17.170 --> 00:54:19.590 time, but sometimes you need to just throw in 00:54:19.590 --> 00:54:23.429 a curveball, you know, keep it fresh. Yeah, it's 00:54:23.429 --> 00:54:27.809 like Taco Bell. Well, Daniel, I love what you're 00:54:27.809 --> 00:54:31.190 out there doing. I noticed that your Dan each 00:54:31.190 --> 00:54:33.829 is or there's that there's a tag date or do you 00:54:33.829 --> 00:54:36.530 sometimes go by Dan? It's the stupidest thing 00:54:36.530 --> 00:54:39.590 ever I've never in my life gone by Dan, but when 00:54:39.590 --> 00:54:42.630 social media first started I was like well Dan 00:54:42.630 --> 00:54:44.909 shorter and people are gonna get lazy and not 00:54:44.909 --> 00:54:47.610 want to spell out Daniel like as if that stopped 00:54:47.610 --> 00:54:51.309 anyone So I was like I gotta go by Dan on social 00:54:51.309 --> 00:54:53.730 media because it's shorter and now I'm just stuck 00:54:53.730 --> 00:54:56.809 with it Everything's Dan each is but yeah, Dan 00:54:56.809 --> 00:54:59.469 is when I was 15 because people started calling 00:54:59.469 --> 00:55:02.349 my brother My older brother Robert Rob, and I 00:55:02.349 --> 00:55:04.380 thought he came up with it And he said, you know, 00:55:04.500 --> 00:55:06.239 people gave him that name. So I was like, well, 00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:09.739 I'm going to go by Dan. But I wear it. I own 00:55:09.739 --> 00:55:13.519 it. I love it. But I think that's part of just 00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:16.260 going back to our body types. And, you know, 00:55:16.539 --> 00:55:19.599 do you remember being 13 or 14 and just getting 00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:21.360 out of the shower and looking at yourself and 00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:26.000 saying, what is this? God, what have you created 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:29.420 here? I did that earlier today. Yeah, well, I 00:55:29.420 --> 00:55:31.619 still wear that. Dollar Shave Club song around. 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:36.280 So that helps. There's probably, you know, I 00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:38.360 always try to look at the root of like things 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:40.820 of like, yeah, it is, it is weird why like Dan 00:55:40.820 --> 00:55:44.239 and Danny, especially Danny seems so, why does 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.960 it seem so much weirder than just going by Daniel, 00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:49.139 even though there's a million like Dan's and 00:55:49.139 --> 00:55:52.719 Danny's in the world. It probably, I would assume 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:54.659 has something to do with the fact that like Daniel's 00:55:54.659 --> 00:55:57.320 a biblical name that's been around for, you know, 00:55:57.559 --> 00:55:59.880 hundreds of thousands of years. and all of a 00:55:59.880 --> 00:56:02.219 sudden add a note within the last, I don't know, 00:56:02.340 --> 00:56:04.559 but I would assume within the last 100 or two 00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:06.280 years that people were just like, you know what, 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.840 I'm going to change that. I'm going to go by 00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:09.139 Dan. It's like, Rick, you're going to change 00:56:09.139 --> 00:56:11.079 this thing that's been around for thousands of 00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:13.840 years just because you felt like it. Oh yeah. 00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:16.780 And like, who's the savior of that? But jeez, 00:56:16.980 --> 00:56:20.880 is he going by jeez now? You know, he's going 00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:24.300 to start calling Moses Mo. Like, it just, it 00:56:24.300 --> 00:56:26.280 feels weird to take this thing that's been around 00:56:26.280 --> 00:56:28.960 forever and been like, yeah, I'm going to modernize 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.199 it. You know? There was a lot of resistance with 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:34.059 my family as a teenager, because like I said, 00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:36.900 it was about 15. My mom didn't like it. Nobody 00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:39.139 really liked it. They just accepted it over time. 00:56:39.260 --> 00:56:41.300 And then, you know, now I kind of got that old 00:56:41.300 --> 00:56:44.079 guy at the bowling alley's name and I'm okay. 00:56:44.809 --> 00:56:47.230 You probably get people, I don't know, like for 00:56:47.230 --> 00:56:49.369 me, I'm certain there's like two people, I know 00:56:49.369 --> 00:56:51.929 specifically two people that call me Dan. And 00:56:51.929 --> 00:56:54.349 I just don't question it because it's just, I 00:56:54.349 --> 00:56:55.869 don't know, it sounds right coming out of their 00:56:55.869 --> 00:56:58.170 mouth and they just, they've just always done. 00:56:58.170 --> 00:57:00.949 My dad will do that. He'll be like, Hey Dan, 00:57:01.210 --> 00:57:04.110 which I've never even questioned it. It just, 00:57:04.510 --> 00:57:07.230 that's just how he just gets to say that and 00:57:07.230 --> 00:57:10.070 no one else does. And then I got a comedian buddy, 00:57:10.750 --> 00:57:14.070 my buddy Sean Grant. if he happens to be listening. 00:57:15.409 --> 00:57:18.929 He's always been like, what's up, Dan? And I've 00:57:18.929 --> 00:57:20.710 just never questioned it. I'm like, yeah, to 00:57:20.710 --> 00:57:23.190 him, I'm Dan. I do feel like if somebody called 00:57:23.190 --> 00:57:24.849 me Danny, though, I would just punch him in the 00:57:24.849 --> 00:57:26.769 face. I'd be like, no one does that. You don't 00:57:26.769 --> 00:57:29.949 need to do that. But do you have that where you 00:57:29.949 --> 00:57:32.250 just like certain people like will maybe call 00:57:32.250 --> 00:57:36.909 you Daniel or something? But it doesn't feel 00:57:36.909 --> 00:57:38.630 weird? You're like, no, that's just what they 00:57:38.630 --> 00:57:41.480 call me. It's it's pretty it's endearing I would 00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:45.059 say like the the guest of the last episode I've 00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:48.500 happened to I've known him so long that he he 00:57:48.500 --> 00:57:51.679 calls me Daniel and then a lot of family members 00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:53.840 do and that some people by choice will like you 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.139 said throw out Danny I'll answer to anything. 00:57:57.179 --> 00:57:59.659 I don't think I've had anything to to out there 00:57:59.659 --> 00:58:02.599 I mean boy I used to get Danny boy the pipes 00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:05.679 are calling Dan the man you got to imagine that 00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:09.309 happens constantly when I was little And I still, 00:58:09.369 --> 00:58:11.630 I got no problem with this one. People would 00:58:11.630 --> 00:58:13.909 sing the Elton John song to me, you know, Daniel, 00:58:13.969 --> 00:58:17.989 my brother, and go off on the melody there. With 00:58:17.989 --> 00:58:19.610 your parents, did you ever ask them, you know, 00:58:19.670 --> 00:58:21.809 what was the concept, what was the idea behind 00:58:21.809 --> 00:58:24.849 the name? My mom always said, well, I just liked 00:58:24.849 --> 00:58:28.269 the name, honey. So I just, yeah, I just liked 00:58:28.269 --> 00:58:31.679 the name. Was yours a family name? Uh, no, I 00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:33.840 don't know exactly where Daniel, I think was 00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:36.840 just on a list of names that they liked. I don't 00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:38.920 know exactly why. The only story I know about 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:41.659 my name is that they were, they were set on my 00:58:41.659 --> 00:58:45.380 middle name being Sean, uh, which it is. And 00:58:45.380 --> 00:58:49.000 they first wanted to name me Eric. And then my 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.820 dad said, Eric, Sean sounds too much like erection. 00:58:54.099 --> 00:58:56.960 So let's not name him that. And so like, well, 00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:58.960 we're not changing Sean, so let's change it to 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:02.579 Daniel. It's the only story I know about my name, 00:59:03.019 --> 00:59:05.559 but it's probably a good thing it's not erection. 00:59:05.900 --> 00:59:10.159 Thank God for your old man. I mean, yeah, he's 00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:12.039 like, wait a minute. I know you like this name, 00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:14.900 but let me think about that. Let me think about 00:59:14.900 --> 00:59:17.579 bullies in high school first before you go naming 00:59:17.579 --> 00:59:20.139 the kid. All right, folks. Well, hey, everybody 00:59:20.139 --> 00:59:23.599 listening. Check out a mild and skinny guy that's 00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:26.739 got over 1 million views. If you got Paramount 00:59:26.739 --> 00:59:29.619 Plus at home, cue up Amy and Peter are getting 00:59:29.619 --> 00:59:32.539 divorced. That's already been released, correct? 00:59:32.579 --> 00:59:34.699 That's already, yeah. I have a super small role 00:59:34.699 --> 00:59:38.739 in that. My buddy wrote a part of that and was 00:59:38.739 --> 00:59:42.179 in it. He was like, come by my house. I thought 00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:45.840 it was just my face being seen. Again, one of 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.460 those moments where he's like, here's 10 lines 00:59:48.460 --> 00:59:51.460 and I'm like, all right. But then all of a sudden, 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.440 next thing I know, it's on Paramount Plus. And 00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:57.440 yeah, so check that out. It's a full movie. I 00:59:57.440 --> 00:59:59.420 understand that you do like to watch dramas. 00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:02.719 Everybody thinks that comedians must just be, 01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:05.739 you know, around the clock, either writing jokes, 01:00:06.260 --> 01:00:09.059 laughing with their friends. Every day is just 01:00:09.059 --> 01:00:13.980 a riot. Do you have a favorite actor that's, 01:00:13.980 --> 01:00:16.219 you know, always doing dramas? And it's kind 01:00:16.219 --> 01:00:19.429 of a two part question. and later in your career, 01:00:19.789 --> 01:00:23.409 would you like to accept a role in a full -length 01:00:23.409 --> 01:00:27.070 film? Yeah, I don't know if I have a favorite 01:00:27.070 --> 01:00:31.570 actor, but I can tell you right now, genre -wise, 01:00:31.710 --> 01:00:35.070 when I come home, I want true crime, I want... 01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:37.760 I don't want dark gritty. If no one's getting 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:40.039 murdered, I'm not even, why am I even watching 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:43.639 it? Honestly, I think it's because it's just 01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:45.940 all day. It's this all comedy, comedy, acting 01:00:45.940 --> 01:00:47.820 comedy. And then you get home and you're like, 01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:51.639 can I just wind down and watch someone solve 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.239 a brutal murder tonight? Like, can I just, can 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:58.639 I just do that for once? And I know that sounds 01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:02.139 like a joke and it half is, but I've been really 01:01:02.139 --> 01:01:05.659 into like true crime. documentaries and like, 01:01:05.739 --> 01:01:08.780 I don't know, dark history stuff and just a lot 01:01:08.780 --> 01:01:11.400 of documentaries in general. I'm actually, I've 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:15.019 regotten into some of the Ken Burns stuff, which 01:01:15.019 --> 01:01:17.760 shout out if I know people tend to associate 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:20.260 Ken Burns with, ah, that's like an older thing, 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.099 blah, blah, blah. My grandparents watched that 01:01:22.099 --> 01:01:24.320 thing. Dude, he's still making stuff. And he 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:27.219 just came out with the American Buffalo, which 01:01:27.219 --> 01:01:29.739 is a two part series, like literally. A week 01:01:29.739 --> 01:01:31.280 ago or I don't know when this coming out, but 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:35.139 very very recently He's a national treasure Yeah, 01:01:35.139 --> 01:01:37.739 and that man i'm only halfway. I only finished 01:01:37.739 --> 01:01:41.320 the first of the two parts of that and it is 01:01:41.320 --> 01:01:44.980 Man, it's good. I mean by good. It's sad and 01:01:44.980 --> 01:01:48.159 depressing and you know, but like yeah, it's 01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:52.059 educational but at least once in every episode 01:01:52.059 --> 01:01:54.840 he'll just throw out this thing that you're like 01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:58.719 That literally blew my mind. I like I did not 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:02.719 know that thing was happening or happened. And 01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:04.639 I feel like that's so rare nowadays. We have 01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:06.880 so much information coming at us at all times. 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.260 And we see firsthand videos of so many crazy 01:02:11.260 --> 01:02:14.619 things in life that it's hard to be surprised 01:02:14.619 --> 01:02:18.420 by stuff anymore. And so for him to do that with 01:02:18.420 --> 01:02:22.539 facts and just pictures and videos that you didn't 01:02:22.539 --> 01:02:26.539 even know existed that It's pretty incredible 01:02:26.539 --> 01:02:29.539 and I really highly recommend it. I know that 01:02:29.539 --> 01:02:31.219 sounds so basic and you're like, why should I 01:02:31.219 --> 01:02:35.599 watch a stupid movie about bison? But I didn't 01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:37.360 realize, and I don't think most people realize, 01:02:37.780 --> 01:02:43.320 like how tied into America and just what happened 01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:46.099 with Native Americans and all that. The American 01:02:46.099 --> 01:02:49.619 Buffalo was like, it's all that. It's, man, it's 01:02:49.619 --> 01:02:51.679 super good. I have nothing funny to say about 01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:54.139 it. You should go watch that. It's very, very 01:02:54.139 --> 01:02:58.909 good. All in yeah anyway, yes, I don't know about 01:02:58.909 --> 01:03:02.789 favorite actor but genre wise definitely drama 01:03:02.789 --> 01:03:07.389 the darker the grittier the better and I have 01:03:07.389 --> 01:03:09.789 always wanted to be I would love like being in 01:03:09.789 --> 01:03:12.610 a comedy movie. Obviously I would take any role 01:03:12.610 --> 01:03:16.030 really I mean look I was in a thong in a commercial 01:03:16.030 --> 01:03:22.269 but My like as stupid as this sounds my ultimate 01:03:22.269 --> 01:03:25.050 dream. I just want to do I would love to be in 01:03:25.050 --> 01:03:28.170 like an epic movie like a lord of the rings or 01:03:28.170 --> 01:03:31.269 a star with like a like just an epic like wrong 01:03:31.269 --> 01:03:35.030 thing but even more than that stupid as this 01:03:35.030 --> 01:03:38.469 sounds I just want to do a movie where I'm forced 01:03:38.469 --> 01:03:42.150 to learn a skill uh like right if they're like 01:03:42.150 --> 01:03:44.449 hey buddy you're gonna have to learn to ride 01:03:44.449 --> 01:03:47.110 a donkey because that's what your character does 01:03:47.110 --> 01:03:50.480 and so we're gonna send you to the donkey riding 01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:53.159 expert for six months and you're gonna have to 01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:55.559 learn that. You know what I mean? Like that's 01:03:55.559 --> 01:03:58.539 like a dream of mine to be like you're like okay 01:03:58.539 --> 01:04:01.019 you're gonna have to learn to sword fight so 01:04:01.019 --> 01:04:04.460 Daniel like go you got one scene where skydiving 01:04:04.460 --> 01:04:06.880 off of a plane and having a sword fight so you're 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:10.199 gonna have to become a skydiving certified master 01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:13.760 and also learn the ways of the samurai or something 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:17.420 like that sounds amazing to me. I just want to 01:04:17.420 --> 01:04:20.940 learn a skill because of a movie that that is 01:04:20.940 --> 01:04:23.619 something else. I mean is there I don't want 01:04:23.619 --> 01:04:27.320 to get off way off on on another abstract question, 01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.400 but are you afraid of? Anything that's like I 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.199 mean people might be afraid of spiders But like 01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:35.019 as far as trying something just you jump out 01:04:35.019 --> 01:04:36.940 of an airplane if someone said hey You probably 01:04:36.940 --> 01:04:39.440 need to learn this for this role that we'd like 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.219 to have you play Well in terms of jumping out 01:04:42.219 --> 01:04:44.840 of an airplane, I wouldn't Look, I wouldn't jump 01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:47.199 off an airplane if it was still on the ground, 01:04:47.500 --> 01:04:50.659 okay? I'm like terrified of heights and I get 01:04:50.659 --> 01:04:52.860 so tired of people who are just like, what bro, 01:04:52.860 --> 01:04:55.059 you wouldn't skydive? Like, what's wrong with 01:04:55.059 --> 01:04:56.940 you? What's wrong with you? What's wrong with 01:04:56.940 --> 01:05:00.719 you? Like, I'm not doing that. This is the dumbest 01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:02.239 thing I've ever heard in my life. You're like, 01:05:02.300 --> 01:05:05.179 don't you want to live? I'm like, by taunting 01:05:05.179 --> 01:05:11.599 death? That's life to you? I have no desire to... 01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:17.440 Test my fears to the extreme, but I do like to 01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.880 know where that line is I'll give you an example. 01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:24.000 So like yeah, I'm terrified of heights, but I 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:26.659 did recently I got really into doing like indoor 01:05:26.659 --> 01:05:30.539 rock climbing and bouldering and I've been doing 01:05:30.539 --> 01:05:33.659 that for like almost a year now where I go regularly 01:05:33.659 --> 01:05:36.300 and even though those walls are only somewhere 01:05:36.300 --> 01:05:39.000 between like When you're bouldering not tethered 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.559 in to anything you have no ropes they're usually 01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:44.500 between like 10 and 15 feet it's really not that 01:05:44.500 --> 01:05:47.380 high up generally speaking two to three times 01:05:47.380 --> 01:05:52.380 your body length um that's terrifying still when 01:05:52.380 --> 01:05:55.139 you're afraid of heights that's like the worst 01:05:55.139 --> 01:05:57.219 ever i don't care about falling out of a off 01:05:57.219 --> 01:05:59.360 of a mountain i'm like because then i'm like 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:02.179 i would for sure die but falling from 12 feet 01:06:02.269 --> 01:06:05.130 where you're just like, I don't know. Now it's 01:06:05.130 --> 01:06:07.610 up to me how I fall. Do I do the rolly thing 01:06:07.610 --> 01:06:11.210 or like now I'm the idiot if I die in this situation. 01:06:11.469 --> 01:06:13.630 That's way more terrifying to me because it's 01:06:13.630 --> 01:06:18.849 up to my skills and if I die or not or what I 01:06:18.849 --> 01:06:21.409 break or if I break anything. So I've been trying 01:06:21.409 --> 01:06:23.809 to test my like fear of heights with that and 01:06:23.809 --> 01:06:25.750 be like, let's try to get over this part. What 01:06:25.750 --> 01:06:31.059 can I do to like? You've got this natural curiosity, 01:06:31.059 --> 01:06:34.360 I would say, about just seeing if you can pull 01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:36.619 it off. I feel like you've got that approach. 01:06:36.900 --> 01:06:40.559 Yeah. Yeah. See if I could do it. Yeah. And again, 01:06:40.579 --> 01:06:43.500 I want to come across like he's a daredevil, 01:06:43.579 --> 01:06:45.440 man. Like I wouldn't even I don't there's so 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:47.260 many things I wouldn't do because I'm like, that's 01:06:47.260 --> 01:06:50.300 stupid. I don't need to. I comedy definitely 01:06:50.300 --> 01:06:53.260 teaches you about yourself more than anything 01:06:53.260 --> 01:06:57.119 I've ever done in the world. Comedy. I know I'm 01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:01.000 biased, but like It is a giant self exploration. 01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:05.219 And so I'm kind of on that journey with life. 01:07:05.500 --> 01:07:07.800 The same I am with, you know, I've accepted the 01:07:07.800 --> 01:07:10.340 things that absolutely terrify me and I've accepted 01:07:10.340 --> 01:07:12.260 the things that like, yeah, I'm never going to 01:07:12.260 --> 01:07:14.300 get over that fear. You know, that's never going 01:07:14.300 --> 01:07:17.920 to completely go away, but I could, I could know 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:21.099 where the line is. I could know what exactly 01:07:21.099 --> 01:07:24.630 I'm scared. I could know that maybe I can. Slowly 01:07:24.630 --> 01:07:26.730 get over that fear. Maybe I don't have to accept 01:07:26.730 --> 01:07:29.389 it and some things I do have to accept so I feel 01:07:29.389 --> 01:07:32.170 like it's all about just figuring out who you 01:07:32.170 --> 01:07:37.469 are and what terrifies you and It's all one big 01:07:37.469 --> 01:07:40.469 big journey with that in comedy There's really 01:07:40.469 --> 01:07:43.190 and this is me speaking to the listeners Talking 01:07:43.190 --> 01:07:45.250 about fear and really haven't approached this 01:07:45.250 --> 01:07:47.969 subject on another episode before but one thing 01:07:47.969 --> 01:07:50.110 that I've learned getting a little bit older 01:07:50.110 --> 01:07:54.440 is That you can conquer Not every fear, but a 01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:57.059 lot of fears and you can get through some things, 01:07:57.179 --> 01:08:00.639 some experiences, just by getting control of 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:03.139 your breathing. There's a lot of things that 01:08:03.139 --> 01:08:05.159 10 years ago you'd think, oh, I could never do 01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:08.320 that. And then sometimes you might just be almost 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:10.760 forced into a situation. You're like, oh my gosh, 01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:14.239 oh my gosh. And then you practice breathing exercises. 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:17.119 You could pull off a lot, whether you enjoy it 01:08:17.119 --> 01:08:19.520 or not. There are quite a few things that are 01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:23.289 possible out there if you just Get that oxygen 01:08:23.289 --> 01:08:27.409 intake going the correct way Yeah, I mean there's 01:08:27.409 --> 01:08:30.430 so many different tricks to certain things and 01:08:30.430 --> 01:08:34.470 and really having an open mind to just like Okay, 01:08:34.470 --> 01:08:37.529 maybe this thing sounds how is breathing supposed 01:08:37.529 --> 01:08:39.829 to help? You know, like having that attitude 01:08:39.829 --> 01:08:42.590 does not help you at all, you know Yeah, you 01:08:42.590 --> 01:08:44.310 have to have an open mind and be like, okay Well, 01:08:44.310 --> 01:08:47.229 let's actually try this thing and dive into it 01:08:47.229 --> 01:08:49.949 and and see how far I can go but at the same 01:08:49.949 --> 01:08:53.149 time to I think it's healthy to sometimes accept 01:08:53.149 --> 01:08:56.510 or most times accept where you fall in that. 01:08:56.609 --> 01:08:58.130 I mean, you should always try to do everything. 01:08:58.270 --> 01:09:00.949 I feel like absolutely as best that you can. 01:09:01.210 --> 01:09:04.430 And if you're not doing as well in certain things, 01:09:04.510 --> 01:09:06.909 find new ways to do it, find new perspectives. 01:09:07.270 --> 01:09:10.090 But at some point, you know, you can, it's okay 01:09:10.090 --> 01:09:12.510 to accept, you know, when it comes to like rock 01:09:12.510 --> 01:09:15.270 climbing and me and all that stuff, I'm, I've 01:09:15.270 --> 01:09:18.109 accepted, I'm not going to go free solo climb, 01:09:18.109 --> 01:09:22.659 you know, Half Dome or whatever, you know, I'm 01:09:22.659 --> 01:09:26.159 not gonna go do but like there's some cool bouldering 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:29.880 things in Joshua Tree and in Zion There's some 01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:32.359 cool hikes where like it kind of helps to know 01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:34.420 about bouldering and I'm like, yeah, I can do 01:09:34.420 --> 01:09:36.779 that You know, I can I although that would have 01:09:36.779 --> 01:09:40.279 been terrifying to me even a year ago Now I can 01:09:40.279 --> 01:09:42.439 do that and I've accepted that like that. That's 01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:44.819 actually what I want out of this I don't I don't 01:09:44.819 --> 01:09:48.020 need to climb Everest. I just want to look at 01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:52.949 this cool rock and Near Zion And that's not giving 01:09:52.949 --> 01:09:54.869 up because there is a difference between just 01:09:54.869 --> 01:09:56.970 you know being like oh, it's too hard. I give 01:09:56.970 --> 01:10:00.109 up and Really really trying everything the best 01:10:00.109 --> 01:10:02.590 of your ability and deciding like maybe I don't 01:10:02.590 --> 01:10:05.430 actually want What everyone else's final goal 01:10:05.430 --> 01:10:09.810 is maybe my goal is is more specific and and 01:10:09.810 --> 01:10:13.270 that's okay, too You know, that's right Did you 01:10:13.270 --> 01:10:16.090 have anybody growing up who I'm sure still supports 01:10:16.090 --> 01:10:19.430 you, but had just a much different plan, another 01:10:19.430 --> 01:10:21.869 profession that they imagined you to be in, that 01:10:21.869 --> 01:10:25.829 you kind of had to kind of disappoint their expectations 01:10:25.829 --> 01:10:29.550 and like, nah, I'm doing this now. Did that go 01:10:29.550 --> 01:10:33.109 on with anybody? Yeah, I was supposed to be in 01:10:33.109 --> 01:10:38.739 a traveling circus. Yeah, definitely. I was a 01:10:38.739 --> 01:10:42.960 very smart kid. I got straight A's, valedictorian, 01:10:43.260 --> 01:10:47.079 always a smart guy in school, and I think that 01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:51.340 helps a lot in comedy, honestly. But that's not 01:10:51.340 --> 01:10:57.020 so apparent. People just think, oh, you do comedy 01:10:57.020 --> 01:10:58.960 because you flunked out in school. This is actually 01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:01.260 the opposite. I know comedians are some of the 01:11:01.260 --> 01:11:03.560 smartest people I know, even if they weren't 01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:07.039 smart in school or whatever. Anyway, point is, 01:11:07.300 --> 01:11:09.300 because I always got good grades valedictorian, 01:11:09.500 --> 01:11:11.779 I feel like when you get A's in school, people 01:11:11.779 --> 01:11:14.500 just go to like the like, they just go straight 01:11:14.500 --> 01:11:16.960 to high money jobs, you know, like job, job, 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:19.880 you know, careers, like lawyer, doctor, you know, 01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:25.100 something like that. Right. And I was like, I 01:11:25.100 --> 01:11:28.359 don't want to do that. I want to be creative. 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.859 I want to do creative stuff. And so that was 01:11:30.859 --> 01:11:33.760 definitely hard for I would say family or parents 01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:35.520 at least to swallow in the beginning. It wasn't 01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:37.760 until I started getting booked doing commercials 01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:40.039 and I feel like they would see me on TV. They 01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:42.479 would go, Oh, wow. Okay. He's actually making 01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:45.479 money off this. Oh, Oh, go. He can actually do 01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:47.180 this. Oh, there isn't a thong. You know what 01:11:47.180 --> 01:11:50.720 I mean? Like it had helped take that out of their 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:53.100 mind that, you know, that maybe I didn't want 01:11:53.100 --> 01:11:56.279 to be a doctor, a lawyer, anything like that. 01:11:56.340 --> 01:11:59.479 No offense if you are, by the way, it's a solid 01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:04.439 jobs, but But yeah, with the creative mind, and 01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:08.060 I'm sure you had to figure out all the different 01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:11.579 processes of the day -to -day work that you had 01:12:11.579 --> 01:12:15.380 to put in to be successful, you had to win people 01:12:15.380 --> 01:12:18.260 over by showing them that you could tackle all 01:12:18.260 --> 01:12:21.340 that stuff behind the scenes too. Yeah, and that 01:12:21.340 --> 01:12:26.199 helps comedy as much as that kind of sucks. All 01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:28.039 of that kind of goes into it. I feel like if 01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:30.180 you go in thinking, I'm the funniest guy in this 01:12:30.180 --> 01:12:32.800 room, you're probably not that funny. You're 01:12:32.800 --> 01:12:34.739 probably not going to do that well. I mean, there's 01:12:34.739 --> 01:12:38.659 a lot of that sort of underdog quality that goes 01:12:38.659 --> 01:12:44.159 into doing comedy in general. You end up seeing 01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:47.159 a lot of smart people because I feel like a lot 01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:49.960 of times those people were in positions where 01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:53.079 people didn't think they were very smart. And 01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:54.779 I feel like a lot of comedians are out to prove 01:12:54.779 --> 01:12:57.239 that I'm actually probably more clever than you 01:12:57.239 --> 01:13:00.880 think I am. And that sort of feeds into the motivation 01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.319 I think in a lot of ways with most comics that 01:13:03.319 --> 01:13:06.720 you see. I really, I really like just now where 01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:10.340 you pointed out your background and being valedictorian 01:13:10.340 --> 01:13:13.399 of your class. And I'm glad we addressed that 01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:16.619 on this episode where maybe not my listeners, 01:13:16.819 --> 01:13:19.239 but a lot of people just, they don't imagine 01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:23.609 comics to have some other. or career that they 01:13:23.609 --> 01:13:26.250 probably could have just walked right into. They 01:13:26.250 --> 01:13:27.529 just kind of think that maybe this guy used to 01:13:27.529 --> 01:13:30.710 be a busboy, or it just knows how to tell jokes. 01:13:31.470 --> 01:13:34.729 So I'm glad you touched on that too. Yeah, it's 01:13:34.729 --> 01:13:37.229 it's a lot of work. I mean, you know this sort 01:13:37.229 --> 01:13:39.529 of kind of running joke with commies that we 01:13:39.529 --> 01:13:41.229 all get into it thinking like sweet. I don't 01:13:41.229 --> 01:13:43.149 want a desk job. I don't want it and you get 01:13:43.149 --> 01:13:45.170 into it. You're like this is so much more work 01:13:45.170 --> 01:13:48.890 than anything. You're just working. Constantly. 01:13:48.909 --> 01:13:50.649 And when you're not working, you're still thinking 01:13:50.649 --> 01:13:52.909 about where you're still thinking about just 01:13:52.909 --> 01:13:54.649 jokes. And how do I do you wake up in the middle 01:13:54.649 --> 01:13:56.729 of the night and be like, Oh, I could fix that 01:13:56.729 --> 01:13:58.909 thing. And I got to do this. And I got to promote 01:13:58.909 --> 01:14:01.789 myself at the same time. And I got to edit videos 01:14:01.789 --> 01:14:05.270 and learn how to do that and be a good public 01:14:05.270 --> 01:14:08.470 speaker and, you know, go on podcasts and promote 01:14:08.470 --> 01:14:11.210 myself that way. And there's just so many things 01:14:11.210 --> 01:14:14.090 that go into it. And then on top of all of that, 01:14:14.350 --> 01:14:16.850 you're literally pouring your heart out on stage. 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:21.359 doing something that is very vulnerable instead 01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:24.180 of put all that work into it and then sometimes 01:14:24.180 --> 01:14:26.380 have nights where it doesn't go well or people 01:14:26.380 --> 01:14:28.720 don't think you're funny or they hate you or 01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:30.680 you know they want to fight you or whatever it 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:33.380 is you're like oh my god i did all this work 01:14:33.380 --> 01:14:37.159 for that reaction and now i gotta you know get 01:14:37.159 --> 01:14:39.619 off stage and go to the next show and do it all 01:14:39.619 --> 01:14:42.619 over again and and ignore that and uh forget 01:14:42.619 --> 01:14:46.819 that i just threw an interception Love that you 01:14:46.819 --> 01:14:49.340 connected back there because I think you're equipped 01:14:49.340 --> 01:14:51.960 with the right mindset where you could get back 01:14:51.960 --> 01:14:54.739 to the hotel Look at the the calendar and say 01:14:54.739 --> 01:14:58.060 well that night's done and I'm on to tomorrow. 01:14:58.060 --> 01:15:00.880 I'm already thinking about tomorrow Yeah, you 01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:03.979 have to especially acting to actually got agents 01:15:03.979 --> 01:15:07.819 very early on tell me that that that you go in 01:15:07.819 --> 01:15:11.180 you do your you do the best audition you've ever 01:15:11.180 --> 01:15:13.100 had in your life and then you leave that room 01:15:13.100 --> 01:15:16.239 and then you Stop thinking about it immediately 01:15:16.239 --> 01:15:19.180 or you're gonna go crazy and I feel like that's 01:15:19.180 --> 01:15:22.039 always been a good philosophy with with not just 01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:24.699 comedy but with life in general, you know to 01:15:24.699 --> 01:15:27.920 try to be present and to try to like Focus on 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:31.180 this one thing do it the absolute best and then 01:15:31.180 --> 01:15:33.840 go live your life You know if you get called 01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:35.960 to do it again in some way or you have to do 01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:38.739 it again Then sweet go focus on it again get 01:15:38.739 --> 01:15:42.640 back into that mindset, but just sort of Toiling 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:45.859 over certain things or you know, it's different 01:15:45.859 --> 01:15:47.380 because I talked about like oh you're always 01:15:47.380 --> 01:15:49.000 thinking about how to make stuff better and I 01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.979 think that's healthy but thinking about like, 01:15:52.319 --> 01:15:54.359 you know, just I should have done that differently 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:56.600 and this went wrong and that went wrong and oh 01:15:56.600 --> 01:15:58.380 I'm so unlucky because I didn't shoot that's 01:15:58.380 --> 01:16:00.699 just gonna like you're just gonna go mad. That's 01:16:00.699 --> 01:16:03.800 not gonna help anybody or anything. All right, 01:16:04.140 --> 01:16:08.899 danieleachus .com E A C H U S on your streaming 01:16:08.899 --> 01:16:11.699 platform, whether that's Apple, Spotify, Google, 01:16:12.300 --> 01:16:15.279 you can find Where's Daniel? Man, I wish you 01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:18.079 nothing but the best. And can't wait to see your 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:20.600 new material as it comes out. Thank you. Thank 01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:22.140 you. Yeah, thanks for having me on. It's been 01:16:22.140 --> 01:16:25.340 fun. All right, guys. Well, that's it for this 01:16:25.340 --> 01:16:29.220 episode. And remember, when you're having a moment, 01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:33.100 a day, a week, and things aren't working, you're 01:16:33.100 --> 01:16:35.899 just throwing darts and nothing's sticking, Get 01:16:35.899 --> 01:16:39.579 over that day, get over that lunch hour, get 01:16:39.579 --> 01:16:42.279 whatever. Get rid of that girlfriend, get rid 01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:45.479 of that boyfriend that's dragging you down. Get 01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:47.520 all those people that you're collecting out of 01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.560 your life that are serving no purpose, if they 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:54.939 are, and take charge of your passion, whatever 01:16:54.939 --> 01:16:57.319 it is. I always throw something like that in 01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.000 there at the end, Daniel, so thanks for being 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:03.439 here and would love to have you back again sometime. 01:17:03.960 --> 01:17:11.100 Yeah, definitely. Hey, if you loved that episode, 01:17:11.579 --> 01:17:13.880 tell a friend about it. I think every show probably 01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:16.760 asks you to leave a review, leave a rating, and 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:19.260 I appreciate it if you do. But if nothing else, 01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:22.199 just talk about DanTime. 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