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Hey and welcome to the latest episode number

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14 of the Dan Time podcast. I'm your host, Dan

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McArdle. It's great to have you back. How's the

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time change treating you? You know, one thing

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I like, nobody ever mentions this, I don't think,

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but that strobe effect of the early morning sun

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flickering at you through the trees as you drive

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to work, that's gone. That's gone, for most of

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us, for a little while. Then when you're heading

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home, there's no squinting. No trying to watch

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that light change from red to green while you

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look straight into the low setting sun. I sincerely

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hope you enjoyed last week's episode with our

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first female guest on Dan Time, Ms. Jeannie Cook

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from the Danville Dan's Prospect League baseball

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team in Danville, Illinois. What a wonderful

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perspective we received from someone who is in

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part responsible. for saving a baseball stadium

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many decades ago and helping to create lasting

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memories for fans of all ages. I truly hope you're

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enjoying the variety on Dan Time. If there's

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a guest for the show who you know about, who

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you think the rest of the world needs to hear

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about, maybe it's you. Maybe it's you. Drop me

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a line at dantimepod at gmail .com. I'd love

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to hear from you. Or maybe you just got a garbage

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time question that you'd like me to toss out

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there at the end of an episode. Folks, today

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we're getting right back to the comedy well.

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We heard from West Coast based comic Daniel Ichus

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a couple of weeks ago. Hey, be sure to follow

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him. Follow Dan Ichus on all the socials for

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his upcoming dates. Today, Dan Altano is my guest.

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This was such a blast to connect with Dan and

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I can't wait to wrap up these remarks. so that

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you can see what I'm talking about. Like Dan,

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I'm also a middle brother of three boys. We bonded

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on that front and he really opened up about what

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it's like to build your brand and handle all

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the obstacles that come your way as a comedian,

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as a husband, as a father. Dan recorded his new

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album, Stand Up Dad, at the brand new New York

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Comedy Club in Stamford, Connecticut. Stand Up

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Dad debuted at number one on the iTunes Comedy

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Charts. I highly recommend you download this

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album wherever you download music or comedy.

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You're going to love it. Dan Altano was born

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in New Jersey, longtime resident of New York

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City and is now based out of New Haven, Connecticut.

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He headlines clubs and theaters across the country.

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Listen to this episode for a little teaser on

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some upcoming tour dates and follow him at danaltano

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.com as more dates are released for December

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and into the next year. Dan was recently named

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one of New York City's Breakout Artists of the

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Year by Caroline's on Broadway. He appeared in

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the New York Comedy Festival for three straight

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years. He also co -produced Just a Jersey Guy

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and His Son, a comedic storytelling show with

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his father, Brian Altano. Okay, there's so much

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to sink into on this conversation, so let's get

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right to it. Folks, it is Dan Altano time. Great

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to be speaking to you today, Dan. Hi Dan, thanks

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for having me on. This is a thrill. I'm really

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excited. Awesome. Well, I have been checking

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out your new stand -up album or your new comedy

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album, Stand Up Dad. I think that men of all

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ages, women of all ages too, but particularly

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dads around our age will be basically, if you're

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anything like me, be grinning, have a fixed grin

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throughout the entire album. You hit on some

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of the challenges that we face, some of the ridiculous

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things that we have to go through. Oh my gosh,

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Dan, the terrible twos track. I had to play it.

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I had to play it again and again. It is spot

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on. Oh man, thanks. How are your audiences reacting

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to this material when you're out there on your

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headlining tour? It's been really fun. It's been

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really exciting to see how it plays out. You

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know, until this album, this is my debut album,

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right? So until this moment, everything's always

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been live. And so you get those immediate reactions.

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What's been really fun is when I get a message

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from someone or you saying that it resonated

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where you were. So it's cool as a dad to not

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have to go out and do stand -up now for some

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people to hear me do stand -up. I'm still doing

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shows constantly, but it's also nice to have

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the work being done for me out there while you're

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listening to it. But yeah, it's interesting.

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There's a lot of comedy out there bashing being

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a parent or bashing your own kids. And I've always

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thought of it as like, you know, if you wanted

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kids, why are you ripping on it? Like, this would

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be something that you, that you like. And so

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for like the terrible twos, it is a funny thing

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because it'd be parents complaining to me after

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a show. It's like, oh, they're the worst. I'm

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like, they're 24 months old. How could they already

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be awful? You know? So it's the idea of like,

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can you take a little bit of ownership of like,

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maybe, maybe we're terrible. and then we made

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more of us, right? So it's like, there's never

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any ownership of like, hey, maybe we made annoying

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people. It's always like, oh, they just showed

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up like aliens and started crying, you know?

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You know, all these behavior characteristics,

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we were there at one point. Yeah, I was on a

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plane once and I had my two year old with me.

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And I remember a woman was annoyed that he was

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kicking the seat. She was like, could you please,

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could you please tell him to act? a little bit

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older and I was like, he's two. Like, do you

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want him to like, do you want him to be reading

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poetry right now? You know what I mean? Like

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should he do a crossword puzzle? He's two years

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old. Like, he's acting exactly how a two -year

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-old acts. I'm like, yeah, like I'll tell him

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to stop kicking the seat, but he's not going

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to suddenly put on eyeglasses. You know what

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I mean? And just start like, oh, you're sorry.

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Let me get back to my Kindle. I apologize for

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how I behaved here today. One of the funniest

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things I experienced because I have a two and

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a half year old when he was 18 months we got

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him into a preschool and I remember the first

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note that he got sent home and it and I think

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it started out saying please have a conversation

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with Wyatt about not sticking toys up his pants

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or like have a talk What do you think you're

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going to be like sipping your coffee on the porch

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and be like, Hey buddy, I think we should discuss

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this thing. Like I had a daycare. We need to

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talk about boundaries. Yeah. And they're like,

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what? I don't, I don't even know how to put pants

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on. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know

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how to do anything, but yeah, let me do, let

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me think about boundaries at this point in my

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life. Like, no, no, but I had, I had a teacher

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once like he was like a year and a half and I

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walked in and it was like a daycare person and

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she was like, he hit a kid and I was like oh

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my god the terror was like yeah he hit a kid

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and I was like okay I'm like thinking like that

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day like do I have like a like a serial killer

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on my hands and whatever went back in the next

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day and I asked the other teacher I'm like what

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happened she was like oh some kid took his toy

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and he like tapped him on the shoulder and I

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was like that's way different Than hitting a

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kid like she acted like he battered a kid around,

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you know You know what I mean? Like he just came

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home from a hard day of work and just started

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hitting a kid But no that's he's being a little

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kid. We we do that We do have that like you said

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that that short -term memory and we forget that

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we were ever kids We just expect them to act

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like 40 year olds, you know out of the gate.

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Yeah, it is I will admit it is frustrating at

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times I'm sure you can relate when you're trying

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to maybe write or get you got a great idea you

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want to get it down and Talked about this on

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the last episode I think or a couple episodes

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back and you kind of stop what you're doing either

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to just change a diaper or for two hours because

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your wife's got to run out and now you've just

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got to be a dad and You got you got to do it,

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but it it's not like it's always easy You know,

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I don't know how you experienced the pandemic,

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but I was in New York City So we were in a one

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bedroom closed off from everything and I heard

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all my friends being like work has been crazy

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Work has been insane the ones without kids. And

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I'm like, really? It was insane because I was

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doing a Zoom comedy show, which those are fun.

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And I'm in the middle of I'm headlining and I'm

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in the middle of like my big closer. And my son

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just walked in and just closed my laptop. Oh,

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man, just closed it. And I'm like, I don't want

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to hear that work has been saved when at any

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point my son could just literally just end what

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I'm doing. No one that kid had to deal with that

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kind of that kind of threat. And those Zoom shows

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were crazy, by the way, because you'd get hired

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in the pandemic by an office that wanted to keep

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the camaraderie going, so they'd hire a comedian.

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But they always start with a report about how

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the company's doing. And I have this one company

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that they started off, they're like, listen,

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we've had a good year, but there will be layoffs.

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And we're not going to be able to keep everyone,

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and our sales are down. And the death toll has

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risen and things are really rough out there.

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And now for comedy, please welcome Dan Altano.

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And I'm like, what? I just followed layoffs?

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And so everyone's just, I'm seeing their faces.

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They just literally like their whole world shattered.

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And I have to come in and be like, God, what's

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going on? Yeah. How do you walk into that? it's

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yeah you just you just have to be like well that

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was the grim reaper and now it's uh now it's

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time for some some jokes it's gonna be really

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fun this album dan and it when it debuted on

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itunes it was at the top of the itunes charts

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how much fun did you have putting this together

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the the artwork had me rolling or you got thanks

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you got the mic you're trying to uh hold the

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mic but it's the milk bottle There's this amazing

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artist, her name is Liddy Corbin and what she

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would do is she would sit in the back of comedy

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clubs and she would draw in real time like fast

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like what was being talked about and then she'd

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go up at the end of the comedy show and she would

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show the audience like here's a recap of everything

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you saw and it was mind -blowing. So I knew when

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I wanted to do my album cover I wanted to use

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her and she did such a great job and the concept

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I basically was like I'm holding my baby on stage

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I'm feeding my baby the microphone by accident

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and talking into a bottle. And that's all I gave

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her. And then she just made this amazing graphic

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and I was so excited about it. Yeah, I mean,

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honestly, the process of putting together the

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album was thrilling and scary and so much fun.

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A record label reached out to me to sign me,

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which was like such a beautiful moment. And it's

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funny because everyone thinks comedians are like

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these hardened people and stuff. And I'm on a

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call with this record label and they're like,

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yeah, we want to sign you and make an album.

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And I was like, I actually said, I was like,

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I'm getting teary. I'm like, I'm so excited.

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And they all kind of looked at me like, all right,

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tone it down. Like, relax. Too much. Too much

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emotion. And then we picked a venue, which was

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New York Comedy Club in Stanford, Connecticut.

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They just opened a new club. I thought when I

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signed the contract, I figured, all right, there's

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probably like 80 people that it fits. So I can

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do two shows and I can probably sell 160, like

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no problem. I can try to make that work. When

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you do an album, you do two shows in one night.

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So you do five o 'clock and seven o 'clock or

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seven o 'clock and nine o 'clock. And then you

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take the best moments of both and you put it

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together. So I signed the contract and I said,

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yes, Sanford, that's a great place. By the way,

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how many tickets does it hold? Like how many

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seats does it hold? And they said 250. And I

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was like, oh my God. because now you've gone

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from trying to sell maybe 160 tickets to 500

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tickets. And so that was I was terrified that

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no one would show up. You know, you have those

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like nightmares, right? Where you just like show

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up to do your album and it's just it's just like

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tumbleweeds and like, you know, some wait waiters

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or something. And I just got so lucky that it

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just was packed out. So just just because there

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were people there, I instantly was like, I'm

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happy no matter what happens. And then the second

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show. It was going so well that I forgot that

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I was recording an album and I would say that's

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the best sign because the first show I was like

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in my head. I'm like, okay, this joke and that

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joke and I say that and say this right and say

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that right by the second show. I was just like

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having fun. It was like a blackout moment. I

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just blacked out got off stage and I was just

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like, I think I think that was it. I think that

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went well and I'm really proud of it. It's I

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don't know how you feel like editing a podcast,

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but I hate hearing my own voice and when you

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go through editing a an album, you have to hear

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yourself over and over again. So I think that

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was the hardest part in the editing was like,

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why do I say that? Or why do I sound like that?

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But once it once it was done, I'm super proud

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of it. I've been really excited by the response.

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And it's just been it's been thrilling, like

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I said, to hear someone across the country. I'm

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in the New York area to hear someone, you know,

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across the country say this resonated or I love

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this this joke. That's a real true compliment.

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And it feels good. Well, it is just, I mean,

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you go right out the gate, pedal to the metal.

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And for me, just speaking for myself, you had

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me from beginning to end. I love when you go

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back to the middle school days. That's something

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that I talked about a couple of podcasts, a couple

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of episodes ago and the locker and everything

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and just the the Dan Altano persona at, say,

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13 years old. I won't give it away, but just

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like that. grown man but look but the look but

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the boy oh yes i think you did a great job girl

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said to me i i asked a girl for a dance and she

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said um i know who you are you're that short

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guy with a mature face and the line i say in

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the album which is exactly what i was thinking

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was like i couldn't quite tell what she meant

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but i had a feeling she meant no i will not dance

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with you and I remember being in seventh grade

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and a girl saying that to me, you're the short

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guy with a mature face. And it like, I didn't

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know that I was going to be a comedian one day.

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And one of the best parts about being a comic

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is like, you can take those moments that at the

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time were painful, or really embarrassing, and

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you can turn it into something and get a laugh

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out of it. So it makes that memory nice now.

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Whereas before it might have been like, oh that

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was brutal but the fact that I could turn it

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into a laugh and I could turn it into a story

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that people resonate with is such a joy it's

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such an exciting thing and so like that actually

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that joke motivated me in a lot of ways to look

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at other moments in my life or painful things

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or or stressful things and turn them into jokes

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because it almost was like no let me take my

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history or the things that I'm embarrassed by

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or stressed out by and let me turn that into

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Something that's relatable that we can laugh

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about and suddenly those those memories kind

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of drift away Or they they don't feel as big.

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I think the way you delivered it may be helpful

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for other people listening Who thought yeah,

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I was kind of a an odd character at 12 13 years

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old I had a weird shaped head or big feet or

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you know, I had everything I was such a I mean

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looking back in the moment is not fun and you're

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like, what is this? Why why do I? look so bizarre

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and you don't realize you're gonna fill out stretch

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out a little bit but when you get older you can

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have some fun with those old periods. Oh my god

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yeah and I think and I say it in the album where

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like I was the shortest kid in my entire school

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but I mean maybe it's because I'm Italian but

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I was the first one who could grow a mustache

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and I'm like what is that like what can I do

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with that like What can I do as a short kid with

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a mustache? And I like kept the mustache thinking

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like, this will make me seem cool. But I just

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look like Super Mario. You know what I mean?

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It's just the funniest thing. You must have had

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enough charm even back then to take some attention

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off just only the appearance and have some of

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your friends laughing and kind of charm your

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way out of some things. That was always what

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it was. I definitely charmed my way out of everything,

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out of every fight. Anytime that there was any

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kind of friction, I was the, I was the comic

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relief. I definitely wasn't like a class clown.

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Like I wasn't jumping in front of the room, jumping

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around and stuff, but I was that person that

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would diffuse the tension. I'm a middle child.

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I got an older brother and a younger brother.

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I've got, you know, have to kind of be the funny

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guy. So I was always the kind of wise ass, make

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the little wise ass comment, but then not get

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punched in the face somehow. like slip, slip

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out of this situation. The guy's like, I don't

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really want to hurt this dude anymore. He's actually

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pretty cool. Yeah. Or just like, just like to

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be honest in that moment and not be the tough

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guy. Cause I knew I wasn't like, I remember that

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once there was this huge guy, like Jack guy.

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And he started an argument with my girlfriend

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at the time in high school. And he's like, we're

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going to fight. It's like, we're going to fight.

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And this is like, you know, you know, when the

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kids like circle around you. Right. And I was

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like, I'm not gonna fight you." And he's like,

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why? I'm like, "'Cause you're gonna win." You

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already won. And now I already feel bad because

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I'm saying, no, I'm not gonna fight you. But

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I don't have a black eye. I'm like, let's just

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pretend you beat me up. I'm like, do you need

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me to like lay down and cry? Like, we'll try

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that. And he just starts laughing. And he's like,

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all right. And then we like, we're hanging out.

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And it was the idea of like, there is that feeling

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in high school, middle school, like, no, you

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gotta fight this guy. And it's like, No, I'm

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five foot flat and he's six foot two and he gave

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another friend a black eye Like what are we doing

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here? You know, so yeah There was always that

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like I'm gonna diffuse the moment and just kind

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of like I'm gonna make the bully laugh and then

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we're okay You know, you mentioned being the

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middle child. I was also I am the middle of two

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I'm sorry of three boys with with his dad. So

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it was like, you know and my dad still a huge

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part of my life. He was gone a good bit, but

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when he was around, he made a point to make those

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moments count. He always kept me and my brothers

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together. He'd make pancakes for us to come over

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when we were already grown and doing stuff. When

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I read about you and your relationship with your

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father, and I want to touch on that too, the

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Just a Jersey Guy and Son show. How did that

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come about? Yeah, I guess I also want to ask

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about just your relationship with your brothers

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and your dad. Yeah, my dad is an amazing person.

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He's a he's a storyteller. And so he's also a

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professor. But growing up, he would do these

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like one man shows where he would just go on

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stage and tell stories about growing up in Jersey

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City and all these these characters. And we're

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different is that I write my stuff out like I

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really I look line by line and that kind of thing.

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And my dad just riffs it, freestyles it, but

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I watched him growing up like killing. I watched

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him going on stage in theaters and just annihilating

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the room. And so to me and in my house, the currency

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was never money. We never cared about money.

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We didn't have it, but we also didn't care about

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it. There wasn't any prestige around money. It

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was who has the best story today or like who

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had the funniest moment at school or what's something

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you're creating. My mom was very artistic. and

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a painter, and everything in our house was just

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creativity. So my dad was, he's not like the

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person that's gonna give you the hug or the great

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job, but he always kind of just pushed me in

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the right direction. Like I was in a band for

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many years, the band fell apart and I was kind

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of lost. And for my birthday, for Christmas one

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year, he got me a comedy class at the comic strip

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in New York City. And he knew deep down, I was

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obsessed with standup. I always wanted to do

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it, but I didn't have the courage to do it. And

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he's like, all right, I signed you up for this

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class. It's like 10 blocks from where you live.

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And I was like, I don't want to do it dad. Like,

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I'm not ready. He goes, well, it starts in five

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days, write a joke. And I started it and just

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became addicted. And it also made me feel connected

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with him. And we had something to talk about,

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I think in a deeper way, because now we're both

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performers. And so we had this bond. that started

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kind of in my 30s, where we could talk about,

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hey, when you do a joke like this, what reaction

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do you get? Or what do you do when you don't

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have a line for this? We have this other language.

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And I think maybe you can relate to this, but

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as a middle child, you're always kind of vying

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for attention, right? Because the older one gets

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the attention. My older brother always got all

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the attention because he was very rebellious,

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very talented. My younger brother, they're the

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baby. So they're like, oh, isn't everything they

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do cute? And the middle one, they're like, what's

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his name? Dan? That's exactly how it was. Yeah,

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right. My brother's a musician. My older brother.

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Oh, talented, right? Super talented. Yeah. Right.

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It's how we end up in comedy or in doing a podcast.

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You know, it's like someone's got to listen to

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me. Right. But yeah, I had a joke that I actually

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didn't put it in the album, but essentially my

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brother, Brian, always got all the attention

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and I was looked up to him. And when I first

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started doing stand up, I was like, getting a

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little bit confident for once. And I Googled

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my own name and I put it Dan Altano. And I'm

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not making this up. Google said, did you mean

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Brian Altano? It's like, Oh God, Google's playing

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favorites too. But I think growing up, it was

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a very funny household. It was a, everything

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was jokes. Everything was storytelling. Everything

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was like, again, like the, the excitement in

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our house is like. something cool that you're

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working on and doing. And yeah, my dad, my dad's

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amazing. Like he just super talented. And I really

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look up to him. But like I said, when I think

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one of the probably the best moments, one of

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the best moments of my life is he had been doing

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those shows, those theater shows. And I watched

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him my whole life as I was a kid growing up.

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And I was probably four years into standup. And

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he said, would you like to do it with me? And

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I was like, I don't know, like, I don't know

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if I'm worthy of that. But He said, no, no, you

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do 45 minutes and then intermission and then

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I'll do 45 minutes. And instead of calling it

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the Jersey guy, which it always was, he goes,

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we'll call it like Jersey guy and son. Like it's

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one of those hardware stores, you know, and we've

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done it a couple of times now and it's just been

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so exciting and cool. And yeah, it's just really

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special. I think your dad and maybe now as a

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dad, you can see this. He could see that it was

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in the DNA with you. Like when you go back to.

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We'll just write it. You got a couple of days

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to deliver this performance. And you're like,

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I don't know if I can do this, but he knew you

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could do it. And I think maybe like he saw that

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my boy is going to be all right. He can handle

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this. I think that's what it is. And it's also,

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someone said this to me recently. They're like,

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you know, your job as a parent is not to teach

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your kid everything or be like in their lives

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so much, like a helicopter, you know, you know,

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those helicopter parents who obsess over every

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little thing. they said your job is to be a shepherd

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basically like you see a direction your kid could

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go in and you just kind of move them along and

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you bump them along and so like I said my dad

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wasn't like an overpraiser he wasn't you know

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so effusive with praise all the time and not

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the most emotional person but little parts of

00:24:06.490 --> 00:24:08.609
my life he was just like oh you know what I think

00:24:08.609 --> 00:24:10.289
you'd be pretty good at that you should try that

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and he would just encourage me like give that

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a shot and that's been a tremendous gift to have

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and it makes me think as a parent like that's

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what I want to do with my son like my son's very

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musical he wants he's six years old he wants

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to be in theater he wants that he loves acting

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already and so I just want to kind of push him

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like oh here's a theater camp like go do that

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for a summer and do these little things that

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just kind of move them along towards the thing

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you know and I think that's yeah that was a true

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gift that I got from my dad my dad did such a

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good job growing up of just kind of uh I think

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setting the tone of what matters in life and

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I think all those things really show themselves

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years later. Like if you ask any comedian why

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they do stand up, no one has ever said the money

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because I've been doing this now for eight years

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and for the first four or five, you're a failing

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business in the sense that like you go to a show

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five hours away for 20 minutes. for 50 bucks,

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:15.759
which you spent on gas on the way there. And

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.119
then you come home and you're like, you've lost

00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:20.920
money. And if you explain that to any rational

00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.960
person, they're like, that sounds like insane.

00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:26.839
Like, what is wrong with you? But you just love

00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.680
it so much. And you know that it's progressing

00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.319
and you know that each time is an opportunity

00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:35.339
to get better. And eventually, all of a sudden,

00:25:35.779 --> 00:25:38.259
these opportunities open up and it all seems

00:25:38.259 --> 00:25:41.170
like it happened easily, but it It doesn't. And

00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:43.549
it really, if the goal isn't money, the goal

00:25:43.549 --> 00:25:46.789
is just to get better and funnier, you'll succeed.

00:25:46.789 --> 00:25:50.230
And if the goal is to get on a sitcom or a show

00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:52.690
or whatever it is, which is so difficult nowadays,

00:25:52.890 --> 00:25:56.349
you're going to fail. So for me, I'm very lucky.

00:25:56.410 --> 00:25:58.910
I have a wife that is super supportive. She's

00:25:58.910 --> 00:26:02.950
like, go do it. You know, go take that gig. It

00:26:02.950 --> 00:26:05.829
makes it that much more exciting because you

00:26:05.829 --> 00:26:07.349
know, you're doing it for the love of it, not

00:26:07.349 --> 00:26:10.460
for the paycheck, because trust me, Like I said,

00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:13.779
for the first five years, it is the most insane

00:26:13.779 --> 00:26:16.160
business to explain to someone. There's so many

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:20.119
reasons to get out of it or not even get involved.

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:22.720
Do you, um, some of those experiences early on

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:24.859
where you'd, uh, like you said, drive an hour

00:26:24.859 --> 00:26:28.140
or two or longer away and play to a small crowd

00:26:28.140 --> 00:26:31.539
and not really make much money, but you, you

00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:33.339
get back home and you thought, man, that's really

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:35.799
cool that I got to meet that guy or I made that

00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:39.789
I've now made a new connection or Hey, I would

00:26:39.789 --> 00:26:42.250
have rather played in front of several hundred

00:26:42.250 --> 00:26:45.349
people, but those 12 people that were there,

00:26:45.569 --> 00:26:47.089
they looked like they were having a good time.

00:26:47.529 --> 00:26:49.369
Yeah. And I'll tell you, I'll tell you one of

00:26:49.369 --> 00:26:51.269
my favorite stories with standup. I was probably

00:26:51.269 --> 00:26:53.509
three years into standup. I was staying with

00:26:53.509 --> 00:26:57.730
my wife's family in Connecticut. And so I got

00:26:57.730 --> 00:27:01.470
a call from this this Booker who I really wanted

00:27:01.470 --> 00:27:03.529
to get in with because he owned a lot of different

00:27:03.529 --> 00:27:05.789
clubs and things like that. And he said, can

00:27:05.789 --> 00:27:09.920
you host a show tonight? in Atlantic City, New

00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:13.539
Jersey. I look at the GPS, it's five hours away.

00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:16.740
That night opening, so you're hosting. Hosting

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:19.480
is hard because people think you just work there,

00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:21.460
like you sweep up and then you go up on stage

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:23.500
and, you know, they think you're like the bar

00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:25.460
manager and they give you a mic to start the

00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:29.279
show. So it's not a great position to be in.

00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:33.119
So I'm five hours away and I said yes. And my

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:35.599
wife's like, really? You're going to go five

00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:37.359
hours to host? I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go

00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.230
do it. I went, drove five hours, had a really

00:27:40.230 --> 00:27:42.809
great set. And the next weekend, the manager

00:27:42.809 --> 00:27:47.170
said, can you come host in Atlantic City? So

00:27:47.170 --> 00:27:48.730
at this point, I was in New York City. I got

00:27:48.730 --> 00:27:51.809
on a Greyhound bus. I sat on the bus for hours

00:27:51.809 --> 00:27:54.109
in traffic, did the show, came back middle of

00:27:54.109 --> 00:27:55.910
the night. Next weekend, do you want to come

00:27:55.910 --> 00:27:58.390
back to Atlantic City? Sure. I kept saying yes.

00:27:58.730 --> 00:28:01.029
Probably the fifth weekend in a row. He said,

00:28:01.109 --> 00:28:03.549
hey, the host just backed out. Could you be here

00:28:03.549 --> 00:28:06.740
in 10 minutes? And I said, no i'm i'm in new

00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.779
york city he goes wait a minute you don't live

00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:13.420
in atlantic city and i go no i've i've been driving

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:16.180
you know crazy he's like you keep saying yes

00:28:16.180 --> 00:28:18.660
and i was like yeah this is a good opportunity

00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:22.319
and ever since then he has been this is guys

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.619
his name is emilio savon he owns new york comedy

00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:27.420
club he owns stanford comedy club he owns pinch

00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:30.039
records which signed me he knew right there he's

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:32.519
like oh this is someone who loves this so much

00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:35.039
they're willing to just drop everything and do

00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:37.660
it and so most people would have said I'm not

00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:40.259
driving five hours to do 15 minutes on stage

00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:43.519
for however much money but because I did that

00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.940
he saw something he saw how like dedicated I

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:49.039
was although now when he tells the story he'll

00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:50.980
say something like oh I love Dan he's always

00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:56.640
so available some people look at the short -term

00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:01.299
discomfort inconvenience expense pain and uh

00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:03.819
however you want to package it and say no I'm

00:29:03.819 --> 00:29:06.380
I'm not going to make that drive. Let me wait

00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:09.920
for the next offer. Yeah, it's so easy to say

00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.839
no to that. It sounds insane. And I think the

00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:15.019
best part of it is I could say like stand up

00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:16.740
and you can relate it to a lot of things, right?

00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:20.460
A lot of different things where I needed to learn

00:29:20.460 --> 00:29:23.200
how to perform in front of an audience like that.

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.460
And I could say that with so many shows that

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:27.700
I took that I probably shouldn't have taken on

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:31.019
paper. But like, no, I got to go do a show at

00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:33.759
a firehouse in front of a bunch of alpha firemen.

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:37.400
Or I have to do a show at this, this Italian

00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.140
place. It's only Italians or a PTA meeting that

00:29:41.140 --> 00:29:43.579
they bring a comedian for some reason. And you,

00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:46.599
none of it sounds glamorous, but you learn how

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:49.579
to adapt to those situations and get better so

00:29:49.579 --> 00:29:51.559
that when you're in front of a big audience,

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:55.259
you almost feel like you're not fazed by it as

00:29:55.259 --> 00:29:57.579
much. Because you've gone through so much, like

00:29:57.579 --> 00:29:59.880
you've gone through all the hell gigs. And if

00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.400
you look at the stand up comedians that really

00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.220
make it, the ones that you know, their names,

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:08.519
usually it happens like in their 40s, right?

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:10.680
It happens when they're a little bit older because

00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:12.119
they've gotten to a point where they've been

00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:14.039
through so much with stand up that they're like,

00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:16.799
what can you do to me at this point? You know,

00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:18.799
I'm not going to be nervous about the situation.

00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.859
I've gone through 10 situations like this. And

00:30:21.859 --> 00:30:26.200
so you need to go through. hell gigs, which by

00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.220
the way, become the funniest stories after. But

00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:31.740
you need to go through those to then actually,

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:34.700
you know, have the skin, the tough skin to make

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:37.599
it. How did you respond when you were younger

00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:39.440
and you get up there and you're like, I know

00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.740
these jokes are good. I mean, they're funny to

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:44.960
me. That's what Daniel Iches, my guest last week

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.380
was saying is like, if you believe that the material

00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:50.819
is funny to you, for most people, it should be

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:52.940
funny. But how did you respond when you'd go

00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:57.019
up? and not get any laughs after a series of

00:30:57.019 --> 00:30:58.799
bits, and you're just standing up there, and

00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:00.240
the room is pretty quiet, and you're thinking,

00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.059
what is happening? And did you struggle any of

00:31:04.059 --> 00:31:06.359
those moments, or did it happen much? Maybe your

00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:09.220
stuff is, I think it's great, so I can't imagine

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:11.119
it falling flat, but were there some nights,

00:31:11.140 --> 00:31:12.880
some crowds, and you're like, I just can't do

00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:14.619
anything with this crowd? Oh yeah, it happens

00:31:14.619 --> 00:31:17.640
all the time. I mean, the numbers game gets better

00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.740
after a while. You know, you'll have 20 good

00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:22.259
shows, and then one show that, for whatever reason,

00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.630
misfires. There's a lot of elements in stand

00:31:24.630 --> 00:31:27.150
up that people don't really fully realize. Like

00:31:27.150 --> 00:31:30.210
if you're in a room with high ceilings and they

00:31:30.210 --> 00:31:33.130
can't hear it that well or if it's a certain

00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:35.349
audience that just doesn't connect with you.

00:31:35.569 --> 00:31:38.769
But yeah, I remember the first time I didn't

00:31:38.769 --> 00:31:41.430
get last, which is I did three shows, but each

00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:43.289
time I brought all my friends to those shows.

00:31:43.630 --> 00:31:46.410
So it seemed like to me, like, where's my HBO

00:31:46.410 --> 00:31:48.690
special? Like, I got this like everyone's laughing.

00:31:49.289 --> 00:31:52.180
And then the fourth show was. probably eight

00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:53.980
people in the audience. It was a small audience

00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:57.400
at the comic strip in New York City. My wife's

00:31:57.400 --> 00:31:59.599
parents came to see me for the first time. It

00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.680
was a small room. And I did my first joke expecting

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:06.579
laughs and nothing. And went to the next one,

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:10.599
nothing. And I start stuttering and my face turns

00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:13.619
red and I started getting, you know, clammy hands

00:32:13.619 --> 00:32:17.180
and I'm making things up and just trying and

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:20.769
it's getting worse and worse and worse. And I

00:32:20.769 --> 00:32:22.750
got off stage and this comedian was like, so

00:32:22.750 --> 00:32:25.390
that wasn't good. And I'm like, that was horrible.

00:32:25.589 --> 00:32:27.710
And he goes, do you still want to do it? And

00:32:27.710 --> 00:32:29.710
I said, yeah, of course. And he's like, okay,

00:32:29.730 --> 00:32:32.130
you're a comedian. He goes, if you can go through

00:32:32.130 --> 00:32:34.009
that, most people will be like, I'd love to be

00:32:34.009 --> 00:32:35.490
a comedian because you go up there and get all

00:32:35.490 --> 00:32:38.869
these laughs. But the real question is can you

00:32:38.869 --> 00:32:43.150
deal with embarrassment and shame of just not

00:32:43.150 --> 00:32:45.549
connecting and wake up the next day and want

00:32:45.549 --> 00:32:48.619
to keep going? But I think what was even worse

00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:50.880
about that moment was my in -laws came as I mentioned

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:52.539
my wife's parents were there first time they

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:55.960
saw me I completely bummed we then had to drive

00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:59.359
to Connecticut two hours after that gig and we

00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.000
all sat in the car in silence because like what

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.940
do you say your mother -in -law is like uh yeah

00:33:04.940 --> 00:33:06.819
you sure you made a good choice here with Dan

00:33:06.819 --> 00:33:10.339
yeah and I had just gotten married and I saw

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:11.920
my father -in -law he's an old school Italian

00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:13.680
guy and he's like looking in the rear view mirror

00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:17.690
and he's like just keeps staring at me like What

00:33:17.690 --> 00:33:19.730
am I gonna do to my daughter? Is this what you're

00:33:19.730 --> 00:33:25.009
gonna do? Yeah, but I think as you get more into

00:33:25.009 --> 00:33:28.109
it, like I even had a show last night where I

00:33:28.109 --> 00:33:30.730
was opening the show and they weren't kind of

00:33:30.730 --> 00:33:33.450
ready yet. They weren't warmed up yet. And I

00:33:33.450 --> 00:33:37.930
just stopped for a second and made fun of myself.

00:33:38.210 --> 00:33:39.569
I'm like, oh man, I really thought that last

00:33:39.569 --> 00:33:43.150
one would get applause. I'm like, you clap, but

00:33:43.150 --> 00:33:46.640
one clap is so much worse. Then a bunch of claps.

00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.859
It's always I'd rather not have that one clap

00:33:48.859 --> 00:33:51.700
because that just feels like you know and then

00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:54.240
they started laughing but how I was Making fun

00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.799
of myself and they got them back and then I was

00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:00.480
fine so I think it's you get better at being

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:03.900
honest and acknowledging Acknowledging the moment

00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:06.579
when it's not going well and also It's part of

00:34:06.579 --> 00:34:08.960
the gig like you're gonna try new jokes and in

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:11.599
your head that joke is gonna kill you're driving

00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:13.639
there You're like this is gonna get They're going

00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:16.679
to go crazy and then it's nothing. Uh, and you

00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:19.219
have to dig yourself out and that's, that becomes

00:34:19.219 --> 00:34:22.059
the fun. Like, can I get out of this if it's

00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:24.780
not working well? Can you describe the feeling

00:34:24.780 --> 00:34:27.920
of having an audience in the palm of your hand

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.780
and it's just electric and everything is firing?

00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:36.199
It is. It's equal parts joy and relief because

00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.900
I think about my shows all day. Like I'm headlining

00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:43.449
tonight in Derby, Connecticut and It's on my

00:34:43.449 --> 00:34:45.989
mind all day. I'll be eating and thinking about

00:34:45.989 --> 00:34:48.030
the jokes and I'll be driving and thinking about

00:34:48.030 --> 00:34:50.210
the jokes. And then I start going, all right,

00:34:50.210 --> 00:34:51.449
I think it's going to go well. And then I go,

00:34:51.769 --> 00:34:53.730
Oh, that joke might not go well. And you're thinking

00:34:53.730 --> 00:34:56.090
you're overthinking. Like if you've ever overthought

00:34:56.090 --> 00:34:58.389
something, and then we get to that moment, it

00:34:58.389 --> 00:35:02.010
starts going well. You see me the happiest. I've

00:35:02.010 --> 00:35:04.630
been all day on stage if it's working because

00:35:04.630 --> 00:35:07.130
I've thought of every worst case scenario and

00:35:07.130 --> 00:35:09.349
it starts working and then you just start feeling

00:35:09.349 --> 00:35:12.030
free. You're like, I got this. I got it. Yeah.

00:35:12.030 --> 00:35:14.190
And you get into the zone. It's almost like,

00:35:14.190 --> 00:35:16.949
uh, I've heard, I've heard surfers describe it.

00:35:16.949 --> 00:35:18.710
When you get into the zone, you catch the perfect

00:35:18.710 --> 00:35:22.070
wave. It's that feeling of like, you actually,

00:35:22.070 --> 00:35:24.769
for a moment, you're like, I can't miss. You

00:35:24.769 --> 00:35:26.530
know, everything I'm saying is going to work.

00:35:26.989 --> 00:35:28.670
And it really is. You're one with the crowd.

00:35:28.789 --> 00:35:31.630
They get you. they get your sense of humor and

00:35:31.630 --> 00:35:34.349
you're connected in that moment and it really

00:35:34.349 --> 00:35:37.309
is just it's the thing it's the dragon you chase

00:35:37.309 --> 00:35:40.690
you know it's that like it's that high so once

00:35:40.690 --> 00:35:42.449
you've had moments like that where you really

00:35:42.449 --> 00:35:46.269
kill you spend so much time wanting to get back

00:35:46.269 --> 00:35:48.769
to that moment right that becomes the drug so

00:35:48.769 --> 00:35:51.489
when it happens you're just so relieved but you're

00:35:51.489 --> 00:35:54.809
also like it's almost like you're not there you're

00:35:54.809 --> 00:35:57.940
you're so present And I think all of us, we get

00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:00.940
distracted so much. I'm a very distracted person.

00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:03.780
And in that moment, I'm not distracted by anything.

00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:06.719
I'm locked in. And how many moments in a day

00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:08.940
do we get that? How many moments do any of us

00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:11.559
get those like true moments of being present?

00:36:11.860 --> 00:36:13.599
We talk about it all the time, right? Got to

00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.739
be present in the moment. But when you're killing,

00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:20.380
everyone's laughing, everything's working, it's

00:36:20.380 --> 00:36:22.099
that moment of being like, I'm very present.

00:36:22.179 --> 00:36:25.789
And also from the egotistical standpoint, It's

00:36:25.789 --> 00:36:27.690
that feeling of a middle child which you might

00:36:27.690 --> 00:36:31.710
relate to Dan. It's like, oh they get me Right,

00:36:31.710 --> 00:36:34.429
you know they hear me they get me they get who

00:36:34.429 --> 00:36:39.230
I am What a feeling to have your existence validated

00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:41.590
in that moment because they're laughing at your

00:36:41.590 --> 00:36:45.170
life So therefore you feel like oh like they

00:36:45.170 --> 00:36:49.130
hear me they get me like this is you know, I'm

00:36:49.130 --> 00:36:52.349
connected with them and so Yeah, it's such a

00:36:52.349 --> 00:36:54.570
good feeling. Especially if you're you're killing

00:36:54.570 --> 00:36:56.789
with new stuff with stuff that you just wrote

00:36:56.789 --> 00:36:59.849
because there's that excitement of like what

00:36:59.849 --> 00:37:02.530
this joke could be as I, as I keep working on

00:37:02.530 --> 00:37:04.630
it and getting it better and better. Now with

00:37:04.630 --> 00:37:08.289
this career, you're not taking the typical vacation

00:37:08.289 --> 00:37:10.889
that someone working an office job or another

00:37:10.889 --> 00:37:13.670
profession might be taking in a few months. How

00:37:13.670 --> 00:37:16.369
do you slow it down? Do you ever have a stretch

00:37:16.369 --> 00:37:18.289
of a few days where you're like, I'm not going

00:37:18.289 --> 00:37:20.719
to do anything comedy related. I'm just going

00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.599
to lay on a beach or I'm just going to go skiing.

00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.159
Dan, I have tried. I've tried so many times.

00:37:28.539 --> 00:37:32.559
After I did my album, I had this thing in my

00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:35.699
head of like, I'm just going to relax for a month.

00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.139
It's just going to be... It's going to be great.

00:37:38.139 --> 00:37:40.199
I'm just going to sit on the beach and just chill.

00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:44.800
I think it was three days and I was like, I got

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.389
to write new jokes. Now my album is done. I have

00:37:47.389 --> 00:37:49.750
nothing now I've recorded everything I need to

00:37:49.750 --> 00:37:53.250
I need to slow it down or you know I need to

00:37:53.250 --> 00:37:54.690
slow down but then the other voice is like no

00:37:54.690 --> 00:37:57.849
you got to keep going keep writing so I guess

00:37:57.849 --> 00:38:00.449
the answer is I'll tell you where my relaxation

00:38:00.449 --> 00:38:05.869
comes from it's after I've done a show after

00:38:05.869 --> 00:38:10.130
it's gone well I come home and I'm like maybe

00:38:10.130 --> 00:38:13.409
my wife and kid are sleeping and I'll like eat

00:38:13.409 --> 00:38:16.780
something that I shouldn't eat and watch a movie

00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:20.260
and go like I did it and there's that like there's

00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:23.579
that it's momentary after I've done something

00:38:23.579 --> 00:38:26.820
I'm proud of where I can really feel relaxed

00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:30.260
but extended relaxation I have a lot of trouble

00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:34.440
with it like if you it's also when relaxation

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.239
is not your decision do you know what I mean

00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.820
like summertime I struggle with the summer because

00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:42.429
it's like You're supposed to be outside. You're

00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:44.329
supposed to be relaxed. It feels like too much

00:38:44.329 --> 00:38:46.710
pressure. When you go on a beach vacation, it's

00:38:46.710 --> 00:38:48.469
like, all right, hurry up and go, be relaxed,

00:38:48.469 --> 00:38:51.269
go. And that's where my mind starts racing the

00:38:51.269 --> 00:38:54.650
most. So I like stealing moments of relaxation.

00:38:55.630 --> 00:38:59.829
But to take a month off, I can't imagine it.

00:39:00.150 --> 00:39:02.289
But I also know my mind would be racing with

00:39:02.289 --> 00:39:05.389
ideas. So that never stops. I don't know. Are

00:39:05.389 --> 00:39:07.190
you able to shut it down? Are you able to do

00:39:07.190 --> 00:39:10.829
that? Not for long stretches. Speaking of like

00:39:10.829 --> 00:39:13.329
a week vacation. I'm really good with a long

00:39:13.329 --> 00:39:17.610
weekend type deal or maybe even a Four -day thing

00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:20.789
or like you're saying if I just get half a day

00:39:20.789 --> 00:39:25.010
or or an open evening to just watch a ballgame

00:39:25.010 --> 00:39:28.590
Flip around watch some documentary. That's enough.

00:39:28.929 --> 00:39:30.610
That's enough because when the next day starts

00:39:30.610 --> 00:39:33.929
I'm back to Let's not lose any momentum here

00:39:33.929 --> 00:39:37.090
or whatever. I'm working on Yeah, I can totally

00:39:37.090 --> 00:39:38.690
tell that you're like that. I mean you're doing

00:39:38.690 --> 00:39:41.750
a podcast in your car right now. It could be

00:39:41.750 --> 00:39:44.030
You can be on a lunch break. You know what I

00:39:44.030 --> 00:39:47.409
mean? You guys be Relaxing for a moment. Like

00:39:47.409 --> 00:39:50.710
there's that there's that drive You know someone

00:39:50.710 --> 00:39:53.610
asked me once as a friend of mine and he wasn't

00:39:53.610 --> 00:39:55.349
wrong We were just different and how we looked

00:39:55.349 --> 00:39:57.969
at things. He goes. Why do you do this? Why do

00:39:57.969 --> 00:39:59.809
you always do a million things like you're working

00:39:59.809 --> 00:40:02.670
you have a family you got the job like you have

00:40:02.670 --> 00:40:06.300
a stand -up and why and I said I know it sounds

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:09.739
morbid, but, you know, we're going to die. So

00:40:09.739 --> 00:40:12.139
I want to go do the things that I want to do.

00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:14.519
And I don't want to have any regrets. And he

00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:16.039
was like, well, if we're going to die, why not

00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:19.159
just relax? What's the point? And he wasn't wrong.

00:40:19.539 --> 00:40:22.800
It's just there's people that look at that. It's

00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.639
all the same thing. It's all that phrase is we're

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:28.300
going to die. So I might as well go out and do

00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:30.880
all the things I want to do. Or so who cares?

00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:34.119
Let's just relax and have a drink and take it

00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.269
easy. No one's wrong. I just think that there's

00:40:37.269 --> 00:40:39.730
people that are built differently. I wouldn't

00:40:39.730 --> 00:40:42.449
wish this plight on other people, like always

00:40:42.449 --> 00:40:46.210
needing to create and go and take on a new challenge.

00:40:47.170 --> 00:40:50.110
It's exhausting, but it's also, I don't know

00:40:50.110 --> 00:40:53.010
any other way. And I can't just sit and have

00:40:53.010 --> 00:40:56.369
a drink unless I feel like I earned it. That's

00:40:56.369 --> 00:40:58.670
just how I've always felt. Yeah. I think that

00:40:58.670 --> 00:41:01.630
my kids have helped me, like we were saying earlier,

00:41:01.869 --> 00:41:04.679
where you have to You gotta watch the kids. I

00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:06.179
always thought that was pretty funny. Oh, I gotta

00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:07.760
watch my kids this weekend. Well, yeah, aren't

00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.739
you one of their parents? But, you know, that

00:41:10.739 --> 00:41:13.519
whole day where you've got to suspend everything

00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.659
and just be a dad and watch PJ Masks with them

00:41:16.659 --> 00:41:19.519
or sit on the floor and do Legos. It's like,

00:41:19.579 --> 00:41:21.000
oh my gosh, I got a million things running through

00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.260
my head, but I just have to do Legos right now

00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:26.539
for 30 minutes. And I'm glad that my kids forced

00:41:26.539 --> 00:41:28.880
me into those moments where you just got to push

00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:32.539
it aside. You gotta do story. Story time. I really

00:41:32.539 --> 00:41:35.320
do. I like that I think it's important for children

00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.079
to hear their parents Speaking to them or reading

00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:40.800
to them and so I really get into stuff like that

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.840
now if I just have to sit it'd be a captive of

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.380
observer to blaze in the monster machines for

00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:50.880
four episodes that that's Almost torture, but

00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.460
well some of those shows are better than others

00:41:53.460 --> 00:41:55.960
It's borderline torture. No, I I'll tell you

00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:58.780
like when I when my son was three I remember

00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:02.000
I had been on the road for three nights And I

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.880
came in, and maybe he didn't mean it this way,

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:05.920
but it sounded passive aggressive from a three

00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.739
-year -old. He goes, hey dad, how you been? How

00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:12.280
you been? It wasn't like, how are you? How you

00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:16.139
been? Good to see you. I was like, oh. And so,

00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.260
I mean, there's been a lot of moments like that

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:22.000
where the deal I make with myself is, you know,

00:42:22.219 --> 00:42:25.559
I'm gone sometimes doing standup, but the deal

00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.800
I make with myself is when I'm home, I'm home.

00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.380
Like when I'm home, my phone is in the other

00:42:31.380 --> 00:42:35.679
room. I'm with my kid from morning, noon, night.

00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:37.420
If I don't have a show that night, I'm doing

00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:39.860
bedtime, I'm doing dinner, I'm doing everything.

00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:42.920
I'm never gonna be like the dad that's in the

00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:46.039
other room with the whiskey, just like by themselves,

00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:49.880
all like dark on the chair. When I'm home, I'm

00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:53.300
there. And so, cause I never want to, yeah, I

00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:56.039
never want him to feel that, that I'm not around.

00:42:56.250 --> 00:43:00.530
So I really, and maybe it's justifying or maybe

00:43:00.530 --> 00:43:04.269
it's overcompensating, but when I'm home, I'm

00:43:04.269 --> 00:43:07.309
all there. And you're right. It does help you

00:43:07.309 --> 00:43:10.010
be more present. It does help you be like, no,

00:43:10.170 --> 00:43:13.329
put away all the ambition, put away all the BS,

00:43:13.929 --> 00:43:17.690
and build these Legos. And then you have these

00:43:17.690 --> 00:43:20.730
little moments. And the other day, my son had

00:43:20.730 --> 00:43:22.369
never seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

00:43:22.369 --> 00:43:24.829
with Gene Wilder. Classic. And we're watching.

00:43:25.339 --> 00:43:26.639
Yeah, we're watching something. I'm like, you've

00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:28.280
never seen this. I've never shown this to you.

00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.099
So we decided we're going to put it on. I showed

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:33.300
him the trailer. I showed him a couple of things

00:43:33.300 --> 00:43:35.800
and he goes, oh, let's, let's dress up as them.

00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.639
So he was Willy Wonka and I was grandpa Joe,

00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:42.000
you know, and we got dressed and dressed up and

00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.000
then watched the movie together. And it was like

00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.039
this magical moment and we could like talk about

00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.260
it and hang out. And, uh, it's things like that,

00:43:50.260 --> 00:43:52.059
that you go like, all right, this is, this is

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:54.909
actually what matters. All the other ego stuff

00:43:54.909 --> 00:43:58.889
is ego stuff. Yeah, I remember being a kid and

00:43:58.889 --> 00:44:02.230
I knew how busy my dad was I mean if you if one

00:44:02.230 --> 00:44:05.590
of your parents is pretty busy Rest assured your

00:44:05.590 --> 00:44:07.849
kids know after a certain age that hey He's got

00:44:07.849 --> 00:44:10.630
a lot moving and shaking here and when you slow

00:44:10.630 --> 00:44:13.710
all that down and give them your undivided attention

00:44:13.710 --> 00:44:16.329
I think there's nothing better for that child

00:44:16.329 --> 00:44:18.869
and I see it with my kids because there's I do

00:44:18.869 --> 00:44:22.510
a lot of hang on a second Give me 30 minutes

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:24.829
I'll be there pretty soon. It's a lot of, Hey,

00:44:24.889 --> 00:44:27.769
hang on. And then when I finally get there, I'm

00:44:27.769 --> 00:44:30.989
working on that, but they're thrilled. No, I

00:44:30.989 --> 00:44:33.269
feel the same way. And I did that a lot. I think

00:44:33.269 --> 00:44:35.489
where I mentioned the pandemic before, when we

00:44:35.489 --> 00:44:37.710
were in a one bedroom, we were both working.

00:44:37.989 --> 00:44:39.670
He just wanted to play and I was like, I need

00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:41.250
five minutes, I need 10 minutes. And I started

00:44:41.250 --> 00:44:43.929
to see him not trust that and not believe me.

00:44:44.190 --> 00:44:45.929
And that was what was hard. It was that I needed

00:44:45.929 --> 00:44:48.530
to be like, no, I need to like say this and actually

00:44:48.530 --> 00:44:51.010
follow through. Yeah. And then realize like what,

00:44:51.329 --> 00:44:53.760
what actually matters. It's like his attention

00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:55.980
is much more important than that dumb email I

00:44:55.980 --> 00:44:58.539
have or you know what I mean or that other thing

00:44:58.539 --> 00:45:02.420
I need to do. I mean so much comedy comes out

00:45:02.420 --> 00:45:05.239
of those moments too. It's like just to just

00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:07.739
to be with them and uh and kind of like see the

00:45:07.739 --> 00:45:10.480
life see life through his eyes is so much fun.

00:45:11.219 --> 00:45:13.920
Yeah and I'll remind everybody again but check

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.880
out if you've been listening to this episode

00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.820
and you love it put it on pause real quick move

00:45:18.820 --> 00:45:21.480
over to Spotify, Apple Music, wherever you get

00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.619
your music. And comedy and download stand -up

00:45:25.619 --> 00:45:29.239
dad this thing is if you're a dad or if you're

00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:33.340
about to be a dad by the way, Dan I love I love

00:45:33.340 --> 00:45:37.159
the track on the expectant fathers and how useless

00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:42.059
we are and You guys got to listen to that but

00:45:42.059 --> 00:45:44.679
I think that You'll get a lot out of it. This

00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.380
is a hilarious album. It's easy to say that of

00:45:47.380 --> 00:45:49.159
course I'm gonna have a comic on the podcast.

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.179
I'm gonna say his stuff's hilarious. Trust me

00:45:51.179 --> 00:45:53.710
on this you're going to sink right in right out

00:45:53.710 --> 00:45:56.309
the gate. Thanks, Dan. I appreciate that. Can

00:45:56.309 --> 00:46:00.610
I ask you a Dan question? Absolutely. Is there

00:46:00.610 --> 00:46:05.250
a nickname with Dan that you don't like? Well,

00:46:05.250 --> 00:46:09.010
I've heard most of them. So Dan the man, there

00:46:09.010 --> 00:46:12.150
was the Dan man that was given to me for a short

00:46:12.150 --> 00:46:14.630
time when I was little. You didn't like those?

00:46:15.110 --> 00:46:16.929
Those are fine. I think I'm pretty much good

00:46:16.929 --> 00:46:20.610
with all of them. The name Dan, I think for me,

00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.059
It's distinguished, but it can also, it's like

00:46:23.059 --> 00:46:24.860
you can play it in different directions. You

00:46:24.860 --> 00:46:27.420
can be, yeah, I got a classic name like Steve

00:46:27.420 --> 00:46:30.460
or Joe or Don or Ron. By the way, I love all

00:46:30.460 --> 00:46:32.519
the modern names that you run through on the

00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:37.559
album. Kid names it, get a little flowery, but

00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:41.940
Dan is also kind of a, you can caricature that

00:46:41.940 --> 00:46:44.940
name. And I like having fun with it. It sounds

00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:48.239
like it could be silly. It sounds like there's

00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:53.579
an ex boyfriends named Dan. There's, um, whoever.

00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:57.420
So like, I like having a name that's not so rigid.

00:46:57.639 --> 00:46:59.840
It sounds, it just sounds like a, I don't know.

00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:02.519
How do you feel about being a Dan? I think it's,

00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:05.500
it's a cool club to be in. I love being a Dan.

00:47:05.619 --> 00:47:08.820
I think it's great. I think I was Daniel only

00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:11.400
when my parents were mad. So it's just from the

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:13.760
other room. It was like, wake up, Dan, wake up,

00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:17.760
Dan, Daniel, you know? So I liked that. Um, the

00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:20.579
one that I have. that I don't like is Danny.

00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.119
For some reason, I don't know why it feels condescending

00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:24.840
a little bit, like, hey, Danny, how are you?

00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:27.960
And I had a soccer coach when I was a kid, like

00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.340
a British soccer coach. He was like, Danny, get

00:47:30.340 --> 00:47:33.840
to the bowl first, Danny. For some reason, to

00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:36.260
this day, when someone says Danny, I go, like,

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:39.179
I cringe. I don't know. That's the only variation

00:47:39.179 --> 00:47:41.199
that I don't, for some reason, I don't like,

00:47:41.219 --> 00:47:43.239
I don't know, do people call you Danny? I've

00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.920
never gotten it consistently. And that one didn't

00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:48.559
really bother me. I've had girlfriends, more

00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:50.820
than a few, that prefer Daniel. So they said,

00:47:50.940 --> 00:47:52.460
well, everyone's going to call you Dan. I'm going

00:47:52.460 --> 00:47:54.519
to call you Daniel. Like, OK, that's fine. Yeah,

00:47:54.539 --> 00:47:57.460
because it feels like the official name. You

00:47:57.460 --> 00:47:59.260
know what I mean? Like, they feel very connected.

00:47:59.380 --> 00:48:00.940
So it's like the official, I'm going to call

00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:03.059
you the official name. Hello, Daniel. But it

00:48:03.059 --> 00:48:05.460
feels very formal. Yeah, I think that they, in

00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:08.099
those cases, they felt like Dan seemed like what

00:48:08.099 --> 00:48:11.440
the guys call me. And they're like, well, I'm

00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:12.920
your girlfriend, so I'm going to call you Daniel,

00:48:13.099 --> 00:48:16.039
your given name. right right and then i know

00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:18.860
i like it i like it uh and then some people some

00:48:18.860 --> 00:48:21.119
older folks i remember a few occasions where

00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:23.900
they refused to call me dan they wanted to call

00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:27.340
me by the biblical daniel that has happened it's

00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:30.119
not very many times and they'll say they'll say

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.519
biblical daniel like they'll actually say it

00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:35.380
they'll just say daniel whether they whether

00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:38.300
i introduce myself i'll introduce myself as dan

00:48:38.300 --> 00:48:40.360
and then from there then on they'll just say

00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:44.480
daniel Yeah, it might be a respect thing I always

00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:46.840
thought it was weird that the biblical story

00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:49.300
like we're we're associated with the lion's den

00:48:49.300 --> 00:48:51.159
It's it was always just a we I'm like that's

00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.340
it. That's it That was a strange story to grow

00:48:53.340 --> 00:48:56.539
up with as a Daniel, but you know, Dan is one

00:48:56.539 --> 00:48:59.960
of the tribes or the 12 tribes of Israel Yeah,

00:49:00.099 --> 00:49:02.139
we're all over the place. We're taking over as

00:49:02.139 --> 00:49:05.320
this podcast is an indication of we are we are

00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.480
everywhere Dan would you recommend? if someone's

00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:12.019
got the itch and they've got some material and

00:49:12.019 --> 00:49:15.159
they're say 22 years old and they've never gotten

00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:17.420
on stage before and they're like they're thinking

00:49:17.420 --> 00:49:20.360
man i don't know if i got it i don't know if

00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:23.019
i could do this but i like my jokes i like my

00:49:23.019 --> 00:49:26.659
stuff would you encourage just anybody to give

00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:32.639
this a shot yes you have to be willing to write

00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:36.050
and you have to be willing to edit I think that's

00:49:36.050 --> 00:49:38.710
the common denominator of people that I think

00:49:38.710 --> 00:49:42.469
really continue with this. I mentioned it before.

00:49:42.530 --> 00:49:44.730
One, you have to have a high threshold for pain.

00:49:45.250 --> 00:49:47.610
You're going to fail. The best comedians fail

00:49:47.610 --> 00:49:51.010
constantly. You have to be loving the writing

00:49:51.010 --> 00:49:54.070
process. We all love getting a laugh, but where

00:49:54.070 --> 00:49:57.829
it really exists in comedy is in writing new

00:49:57.829 --> 00:50:00.289
jokes, coming up with fresh material, editing

00:50:00.289 --> 00:50:02.909
when a joke doesn't work, and being self -aware

00:50:02.909 --> 00:50:05.449
enough to say, hey, that's not working. What

00:50:05.449 --> 00:50:07.949
can I do to make that better? And if you don't

00:50:07.949 --> 00:50:11.849
have that, that editing mind where you go, I

00:50:11.849 --> 00:50:13.750
got to get that better. I got to get that better.

00:50:13.949 --> 00:50:16.570
It's going to be tough for you. It's hard to

00:50:16.570 --> 00:50:19.530
be self -aware and say that's not working or

00:50:19.530 --> 00:50:21.429
that didn't go well. It's easy for us to go,

00:50:21.630 --> 00:50:24.190
that was fine. It was fine. It was good. You

00:50:24.190 --> 00:50:26.269
have to own it and look in the mirror and say

00:50:26.269 --> 00:50:30.349
that joke isn't working. Um, so I encourage everyone

00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:33.630
who really has that drive to do it. Comedy is

00:50:33.630 --> 00:50:36.619
the one thing. I feel like it's one of the only

00:50:36.619 --> 00:50:38.059
professions where someone will come up to me

00:50:38.059 --> 00:50:40.940
and say, yeah, I could do that. I just don't

00:50:40.940 --> 00:50:44.099
have the time. It seems like it's, if you're

00:50:44.099 --> 00:50:45.880
doing it well, it seems like you're just making

00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:48.940
it up or it's effortless, right? So I understand

00:50:48.940 --> 00:50:51.699
how people feel about that, but I would say,

00:50:52.219 --> 00:50:54.099
I think Jerry Seinfeld said it. He said, all

00:50:54.099 --> 00:50:57.079
you have to do is do it once and then you're

00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.099
a comedian. So I think the biggest fear is like,

00:51:00.099 --> 00:51:02.199
I could never, I could never, you hear that all

00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:04.739
the time. but just do it once and you'll know

00:51:04.739 --> 00:51:07.780
right away whether you love it or not because

00:51:07.780 --> 00:51:09.360
some people go up there the first time they go

00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:11.840
I am never doing this again that was pure torture

00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.699
I don't know how people do this and then people

00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:17.900
like me the first time I did it I was like oh

00:51:17.900 --> 00:51:20.480
damn it this is going to be the rest of my life

00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:25.420
have you seen any comics that they've got great

00:51:25.420 --> 00:51:29.920
stuff but all the non -verbal stuff all the moving

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:33.550
around the stage and the connecting and the animation

00:51:33.550 --> 00:51:35.630
that they need to have. They just don't have

00:51:35.630 --> 00:51:38.150
all that extra stuff, but they've got good material.

00:51:38.449 --> 00:51:41.429
Do you ever see comments hit a snag there because

00:51:41.429 --> 00:51:44.769
they're not animated when they need to be? I

00:51:44.769 --> 00:51:49.289
think so. I think you're in sales. Comedy is

00:51:49.289 --> 00:51:51.650
also a sales job, right? You're selling the joke

00:51:51.650 --> 00:51:54.730
and you're selling the emotion behind it. And

00:51:54.730 --> 00:51:57.630
so I do think there's great writers who have

00:51:57.630 --> 00:51:59.550
great material, but they don't know how to really

00:51:59.550 --> 00:52:02.219
connect on a human level with the audience. And

00:52:02.219 --> 00:52:04.079
that sometimes comes with time. I think in the

00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:06.800
beginning, I was just getting the jokes out and

00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:11.699
then slowly learned that part of the job is to

00:52:11.699 --> 00:52:14.980
emote. It's to express the emotion behind the

00:52:14.980 --> 00:52:17.139
joke so that people can connect with the emotion.

00:52:17.420 --> 00:52:20.280
So if I'm talking about insomnia, which I talk

00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:24.179
about on the album, I have battled insomnia.

00:52:24.260 --> 00:52:27.679
And so I'm putting myself back in that moment

00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:30.469
of when I had it. and when it was at its worst

00:52:30.469 --> 00:52:32.690
so that I could really bring out the honesty

00:52:32.690 --> 00:52:35.829
behind it. So I think you have to remember where

00:52:35.829 --> 00:52:37.849
you were when you wrote it and how you were feeling

00:52:37.849 --> 00:52:40.429
and try to channel that and connect back with

00:52:40.429 --> 00:52:43.030
it. So, yeah, I have seen standups are a great

00:52:43.030 --> 00:52:47.269
joke, but the audience doesn't feel connected

00:52:47.269 --> 00:52:49.690
or like feel the emotion behind it, you know,

00:52:49.690 --> 00:52:51.550
and some people don't even need that. Some people

00:52:51.550 --> 00:52:54.170
are the jokes are so good that it doesn't even

00:52:54.170 --> 00:52:56.750
matter. But you do need to your point about the

00:52:56.750 --> 00:53:00.530
facial expressions and You do need to find your

00:53:00.530 --> 00:53:03.269
own timing, because comedy is timing, right?

00:53:03.769 --> 00:53:06.869
So everyone has a different comedic timing. And

00:53:06.869 --> 00:53:10.449
so it is, I learned, I would go too fast. I would

00:53:10.449 --> 00:53:12.570
go, ba -ba -ba -ba -ba -ba -ba. Go to the next

00:53:12.570 --> 00:53:13.590
one, go to the next one, because I just want

00:53:13.590 --> 00:53:16.829
to like kill. And sometimes in New York City,

00:53:16.889 --> 00:53:18.449
you only got five minutes. So it's like, let

00:53:18.449 --> 00:53:21.730
me jam it all and go. And a couple of times I

00:53:21.730 --> 00:53:26.369
just paused and sat and the laughs got bigger

00:53:26.369 --> 00:53:28.840
and bigger because it... built a little bit and

00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.079
people could think about what I was saying. Cause

00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:34.059
we forget sometimes people have to hear it and

00:53:34.059 --> 00:53:36.320
think, and they're going through their own dialogue

00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:38.960
in their head as you're up there. So that was

00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:40.960
a great moment to go like, Oh, like my timing

00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:44.079
can be a little slower sometimes. Like if I know

00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:45.659
it's going to get a laugh or I hope it does,

00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:48.480
or it usually does, I'll just sit. And that's

00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.360
a very uncomfortable thing to just sit in silence

00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:54.599
for a second, but it pays off even more. And

00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:56.159
I think that's where you get better and better

00:53:56.159 --> 00:53:58.900
when you when you're not afraid To let something

00:53:58.900 --> 00:54:01.619
be quiet before you bring up the big the big

00:54:01.619 --> 00:54:04.900
line or hit the big punch You're letting they

00:54:04.900 --> 00:54:07.840
letting the audience catch their breath Take

00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.199
you in take all of you know, you're delivering

00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:13.019
everything and get comfortable with you Yeah,

00:54:13.019 --> 00:54:15.719
I think that's great Yeah, and it's also building

00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.179
tension like I have a joke on the album. You

00:54:18.179 --> 00:54:21.320
mentioned that joke about the soon -to -be dads

00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:25.150
being useless and we're at a Dad bootcamp class

00:54:25.150 --> 00:54:27.070
and my wife signed me up for it, which is real

00:54:27.070 --> 00:54:32.630
and the teacher asked me to go first like we're

00:54:32.630 --> 00:54:33.989
going around talking about what we're afraid

00:54:33.989 --> 00:54:37.570
of and I thought we were just sharing and So

00:54:37.570 --> 00:54:40.070
I said I'm afraid I'm not gonna do as much stand

00:54:40.070 --> 00:54:42.329
-up when I have a kid I won't be able to be on

00:54:42.329 --> 00:54:45.869
the road and my dreams will change all about

00:54:45.869 --> 00:54:49.349
you Yeah, all about me my ego and then the next

00:54:49.349 --> 00:54:53.210
guy went and he said I'm mostly scared of my

00:54:53.210 --> 00:54:56.409
baby choking on food. Like he's afraid of what's

00:54:56.409 --> 00:54:57.969
going to happen, like how I take care of a kid.

00:54:58.170 --> 00:55:01.389
And here I am worried about my career, my stupid

00:55:01.389 --> 00:55:04.949
little comedy career. But what I love about that

00:55:04.949 --> 00:55:08.550
joke is that when I give my answer, it's quiet

00:55:08.550 --> 00:55:11.949
because I'm giving a very sincere, ah, like I

00:55:11.949 --> 00:55:13.869
have a kid, I'm going to be able to pursue my

00:55:13.869 --> 00:55:16.190
passion and what's going to happen to my life.

00:55:16.269 --> 00:55:18.789
And it's quiet in the room. But then when the

00:55:18.789 --> 00:55:21.670
next guy goes and says, I'm afraid of my baby

00:55:21.670 --> 00:55:24.610
choking on food, then you get the big laugh.

00:55:24.710 --> 00:55:28.030
But it took me a while to have the guts to sit

00:55:28.030 --> 00:55:32.730
in that silence and trust in that silence. Because

00:55:32.730 --> 00:55:34.969
in the beginning, you're so afraid of anything

00:55:34.969 --> 00:55:38.269
silent because you think it's not going well.

00:55:38.690 --> 00:55:40.750
So it's that kind of thing you learn over time

00:55:40.750 --> 00:55:43.170
that actually the silence can help you. It can

00:55:43.170 --> 00:55:45.130
help you get that bigger laugh because you created

00:55:45.130 --> 00:55:47.730
a real moment. You built tension. And then the

00:55:47.730 --> 00:55:50.130
punchline releases the tension and gives the

00:55:50.130 --> 00:55:52.590
audience an opportunity to to realize what you

00:55:52.590 --> 00:55:55.909
were doing. Right. For our listeners, where are

00:55:55.909 --> 00:55:58.630
you going to be the next few weeks into December?

00:55:58.710 --> 00:56:00.730
Do you have any dates lined up if people are

00:56:00.730 --> 00:56:03.429
on the East Coast and want to want to check you

00:56:03.429 --> 00:56:07.769
out? Yeah, I'm going to be all over Connecticut.

00:56:08.030 --> 00:56:10.650
I'm going to be all over New York City. And then

00:56:10.650 --> 00:56:13.869
my tour really starts. It started in Denver,

00:56:13.949 --> 00:56:16.809
but we're continuing it. I'm going to be in Buffalo.

00:56:17.210 --> 00:56:20.190
New York, maybe in Washington D .C. That's right.

00:56:20.429 --> 00:56:24.630
My wife's from Buffalo. I love I love doing stand

00:56:24.630 --> 00:56:27.869
up in Buffalo. I love it. I went in there thinking,

00:56:27.869 --> 00:56:29.849
oh, it's all Bill's fans. And you just think

00:56:29.849 --> 00:56:32.869
of like people jumping through tables and stuff.

00:56:33.250 --> 00:56:36.409
And they're the coolest, nicest people. And they're

00:56:36.409 --> 00:56:39.349
happier there. And they love being from Buffalo.

00:56:39.750 --> 00:56:42.190
Yeah. I grew up in Jersey where there's not really

00:56:42.190 --> 00:56:44.449
Jersey pride. We make fun of ourselves more than

00:56:44.449 --> 00:56:46.960
anyone else makes fun of Jersey. And trust me,

00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:48.980
people make fun of Jersey and you probably know

00:56:48.980 --> 00:56:52.860
that. Um, but we were self -deprecating. Whereas

00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:55.219
in Buffalo, there's a pride. We're from here.

00:56:55.340 --> 00:56:57.980
We're Bill's fans. We, we love it. So there's

00:56:57.980 --> 00:57:01.179
a, there's just a good salt of the earth people.

00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.900
Like I love doing standup there. Yeah. So I'd

00:57:03.900 --> 00:57:05.619
be in Buffalo and then I'm actually in November.

00:57:05.619 --> 00:57:07.920
I'm also later this month I'll be in San Francisco.

00:57:08.139 --> 00:57:11.219
So kind of all over the place, but, uh, I have

00:57:11.219 --> 00:57:13.840
a website, it's danaltano .com where I'll be

00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:16.690
putting up all my tour dates soon. So I would

00:57:16.690 --> 00:57:18.170
definitely encourage people to check that out

00:57:18.170 --> 00:57:20.849
and definitely come see me. Great. Well, there's

00:57:20.849 --> 00:57:23.409
some Dan time listeners in most of those spots

00:57:23.409 --> 00:57:26.090
you mentioned. So folks, if you're, if you're

00:57:26.090 --> 00:57:28.170
listening to this and you're looking for a good

00:57:28.170 --> 00:57:30.449
date night, or if you just want to run out there

00:57:30.449 --> 00:57:32.650
solo, do you see a lot of people in your, in

00:57:32.650 --> 00:57:34.090
your audience? I mean, everybody assumes it's

00:57:34.090 --> 00:57:36.369
just couples and couples and just tables of,

00:57:36.769 --> 00:57:38.769
do you ever see just a dude sitting there just

00:57:38.769 --> 00:57:43.090
having a ball? All the time, all the time. And

00:57:43.090 --> 00:57:45.190
sometimes they're having a ball and sometimes

00:57:45.190 --> 00:57:48.210
it's that thing of like, I need this. Something

00:57:48.210 --> 00:57:50.130
went wrong and they're like, I'm going out on

00:57:50.130 --> 00:57:52.389
my own. I gotta go get some laughs. So there's,

00:57:52.590 --> 00:57:54.530
there's, you can see it in their eyes, you know?

00:57:55.110 --> 00:57:57.590
But no, I think that's like, I admire that so

00:57:57.590 --> 00:58:00.530
much. I admire anyone. I like, I did that a lot

00:58:00.530 --> 00:58:02.969
in New York city where I would just go to a diner

00:58:02.969 --> 00:58:06.630
by myself. I'd go to a movie by myself or even

00:58:06.630 --> 00:58:09.050
go to a comedy show by myself. I think there's

00:58:09.050 --> 00:58:11.320
a, There's something nice about that because

00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:14.400
it, it takes a lot to be like, Oh, this might

00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:17.420
be embarrassing or I'm by myself. Like what does

00:58:17.420 --> 00:58:20.119
that look like? But when I see people like that,

00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:21.500
I'm like, either they're going through something

00:58:21.500 --> 00:58:24.079
and they need these laughs. So I respect that.

00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:26.579
Or they're just like really confident in themselves

00:58:26.579 --> 00:58:29.159
and they, they want to go and have a good time.

00:58:29.340 --> 00:58:31.159
Or the third one, which is that no one can tolerate

00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:33.579
them or deal with them. And so they have to be

00:58:33.579 --> 00:58:36.619
alone, but there's less of those, I think. I

00:58:36.619 --> 00:58:38.539
did that a lot when I was still single before

00:58:38.539 --> 00:58:40.760
I met my wife and I was out of a relationship

00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:43.699
Maybe I had no problem going to lunch by myself

00:58:43.699 --> 00:58:47.739
Going to watch a ball game by myself It's a skill.

00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:49.960
It's a skill. I think people are afraid of that

00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.699
But when you stop caring about like the people

00:58:52.699 --> 00:58:53.980
in the diner, they're like, what's with that

00:58:53.980 --> 00:58:55.900
guy? You realize they are not thinking about

00:58:55.900 --> 00:59:00.019
you at all That's a really freeing moment. That's

00:59:00.019 --> 00:59:03.639
right Dan I could talk to you for another hour.

00:59:03.659 --> 00:59:06.679
I just have enjoyed this entire conversation

00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:09.800
and really excited for you out there and for

00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:12.460
your album. And we didn't touch on a few things

00:59:12.460 --> 00:59:14.619
like Dinner's Ready Live. Do you want to talk

00:59:14.619 --> 00:59:16.719
about anything or plug anything that we didn't

00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:19.360
mention here? Well, yeah, Dinner's Ready Live,

00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:21.639
it came out of the pandemic where I started doing

00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:24.739
a cooking show at home. And while things would

00:59:24.739 --> 00:59:27.840
simmer or bake, I would bring on comedians. So

00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:29.889
we have like an eight minute simmer. I bring

00:59:29.889 --> 00:59:32.110
on a comedian to do eight minutes of material.

00:59:32.670 --> 00:59:35.150
And then we started doing that live. We started

00:59:35.150 --> 00:59:38.269
doing a show where we would eat dinner and then

00:59:38.269 --> 00:59:40.889
do the show afterwards. And I will be putting

00:59:40.889 --> 00:59:43.630
on an actual a show where it's going to be sketch

00:59:43.630 --> 00:59:46.889
comedy. So it's while I'm cooking, I'm going

00:59:46.889 --> 00:59:49.449
to be cooking and then I'll be cutting away to

00:59:49.449 --> 00:59:52.889
sketches like SNL style sketches. It's going

00:59:52.889 --> 00:59:55.190
to be called Dinner's Ready Live again. And it's

00:59:55.190 --> 00:59:58.289
going to be fake live. So it will. you know record

00:59:58.289 --> 01:00:01.769
it and pretend that it's live and uh yeah i'm

01:00:01.769 --> 01:00:03.269
really excited about it it's something i've been

01:00:03.269 --> 01:00:06.730
working on really hard on for a while so yeah

01:00:06.730 --> 01:00:09.909
dinner's ready live check it out okay dan any

01:00:09.909 --> 01:00:13.010
uh music that you're jamming to right now anybody

01:00:13.010 --> 01:00:17.530
you want to promote or talk about i love uh noah

01:00:17.530 --> 01:00:20.989
cajon nice uh he's got an album called stick

01:00:20.989 --> 01:00:24.369
season that uh that a good friend of mine told

01:00:24.369 --> 01:00:26.940
me about and it's Fantastic. It's kind of an

01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:30.659
indie, indie folk kind of rock. Um, but a good,

01:00:30.699 --> 01:00:33.940
a good, like long drive album, you know, it hits

01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:36.639
you in the feels a little bit. And, uh, it's

01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:39.119
just well written and, uh, yeah, Noah Khan stick

01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:41.260
season is a great album that I've been, uh, I've

01:00:41.260 --> 01:00:44.099
been loving lately. All right. Well, a couple

01:00:44.099 --> 01:00:46.559
of silly questions here and we'll wrap up. Are

01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:49.039
you a Skittles or M &Ms guy? Are you taking a

01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:52.380
pass on both of those? You know, I'm going to

01:00:52.380 --> 01:00:55.800
go M &Ms. I do love Skittles. Um, For some reason,

01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:58.820
as I get older, I've been enjoying chocolate

01:00:58.820 --> 01:01:03.139
more, and I have to be gluten -free now, which

01:01:03.139 --> 01:01:05.280
is terrible. As an Italian, that's horrible,

01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.719
but I just have to do it. And M &Ms are gluten

01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:10.659
-free, so I can eat them all day and pretend

01:01:10.659 --> 01:01:14.719
that I'm healthy. Nice. What is the one children's

01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:17.980
show that maybe just because you've had to watch

01:01:17.980 --> 01:01:20.239
it so many times that you're like, this isn't

01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.239
so bad. The rest of them are just annoying as

01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:25.559
they can be, but this one's all right. There's

01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:28.860
a show on Amazon Prime called Wild Kratz and

01:01:28.860 --> 01:01:30.860
there's these two nature guys and they turn into

01:01:30.860 --> 01:01:33.920
cartoons and they like have the powers of animals

01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:38.000
and I love it and my wife loves it, my son loves

01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:43.019
it. We went to see it live and instead of them

01:01:43.019 --> 01:01:45.159
turning from humans into cartoons, they were

01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.119
cartoons on the screen and all of a sudden the

01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:50.820
screen opens and they came out and maybe it's

01:01:50.820 --> 01:01:53.860
because I had like two martinis but I was actually

01:01:53.860 --> 01:01:58.670
like Really excited and I like turn to my wife

01:01:58.670 --> 01:02:02.170
like they reversed it. Usually they turn into

01:02:02.170 --> 01:02:06.969
the cartoon She was like, all right settle down

01:02:06.969 --> 01:02:10.409
So yeah Wild Kratts. It's a great show. It's

01:02:10.409 --> 01:02:12.989
like I actually learned stuff about animals That

01:02:12.989 --> 01:02:15.349
one's good. Can I tell you the one I can't stand

01:02:15.349 --> 01:02:20.429
that I can't stand please? Lippy I'm right there

01:02:20.429 --> 01:02:23.789
with you. I'm sorry if Lippy's listening or the

01:02:23.789 --> 01:02:26.239
guy who plays him Or if any of you guys love

01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:29.239
Blippi, I'm sorry, but I can't handle it. Blippi.

01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:31.840
Blippi. What are you doing, Blippi? First of

01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.199
all, he's not teaching us anything. He doesn't

01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:36.079
understand the different levels of a two -year

01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.699
-old versus a six -year -old. And he's just running

01:02:38.699 --> 01:02:41.019
around with his suspenders. And all I can think

01:02:41.019 --> 01:02:43.159
about when I watch is how much money he's making.

01:02:44.099 --> 01:02:49.179
And he knows it. And it's just that I'm not into

01:02:49.179 --> 01:02:51.659
him. But luckily, my son's six now. He's starting

01:02:51.659 --> 01:02:54.500
to like... Not be in a blippy and he's into other

01:02:54.500 --> 01:02:57.500
things and that that was a big moment Where he's

01:02:57.500 --> 01:02:58.840
just like I don't really like but the I'm like,

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oh Thank you There's a character he's I don't

01:03:03.639 --> 01:03:05.960
know if he's trying to be anti blippy but Danny

01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:10.380
go have you heard of or seen Danny go I've never

01:03:10.380 --> 01:03:12.599
heard of it, but I love the phrase anti blippy.

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Yeah He's really good. I've I'd love to have

01:03:16.019 --> 01:03:18.400
him on the show as well. You can find all his

01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:20.539
stuff on YouTube It's a lot of dancing. It's

01:03:20.539 --> 01:03:24.019
he encourages kids to Just get up and move with

01:03:24.019 --> 01:03:26.099
them, you know, so you'd like you'd be watching

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it on TV and just shaking and moving and Doing

01:03:29.659 --> 01:03:32.679
jumping jacks I'll check it out. I'll check it

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out Dan how many times a week? Do you have to

01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:41.239
apologize to your wife for something? Big or

01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.980
small and just say honey. Look, you're right.

01:03:43.980 --> 01:03:49.800
I'm wrong Let's um Let's move along here every

01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:55.019
day Daily. Me too. I think me too. Yeah. Every

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day. And I've gotten better at apologizing because

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I remember when I first got married, I called

01:04:00.820 --> 01:04:02.480
my dad and he said, how's it going? I'm like,

01:04:02.500 --> 01:04:05.599
ah, we bicker all the time, you know, cause I

01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:08.199
will, cause we both want to be right. And he's

01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:10.079
like, you're a moron. And I'm like, why? He's

01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:13.900
like, be wrong. He goes, you know how quickly

01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:16.000
you can go back to watching the hockey game when

01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.380
you're wrong? Be wrong. Who cares? And I was

01:04:19.380 --> 01:04:22.239
like, you're right. Cause if you're right and

01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:25.219
you prove that you're right, nobody wins. Cause

01:04:25.219 --> 01:04:27.539
you're right. She's mad about that. She doesn't

01:04:27.539 --> 01:04:30.820
want to be wrong. So if I'm just like, she'll

01:04:30.820 --> 01:04:32.579
be like, you know, you didn't clean that up.

01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:34.179
I'm like, you're right. Sorry. I'll take care

01:04:34.179 --> 01:04:36.760
of it. She's happy. Cause I heard her. Like I

01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:39.440
actually heard what she was saying and I'm happy.

01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:41.780
Cause I'm watching the game within 10 minutes.

01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:45.300
Um, so yeah, so I just, uh, sometimes I'll just

01:04:45.300 --> 01:04:46.940
apologize and I don't even know what I did yet.

01:04:47.179 --> 01:04:50.699
You know, that's just it get ahead of it Yeah,

01:04:50.699 --> 01:04:52.579
it's going on the bank. I got a couple apologies

01:04:52.579 --> 01:04:57.619
in Okay, Dan, I got like a keep going here, but

01:04:57.619 --> 01:05:01.019
you got a show tonight and I appreciate you making

01:05:01.019 --> 01:05:04.280
some time for Dan time and I'd love to have you

01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:07.079
back I'd love to be back. I love the podcast.

01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:09.559
This is a great idea It's been such a pleasure

01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:12.619
to talk with you and just you know, the middle

01:05:12.619 --> 01:05:16.679
child of brothers and we're both Dan and we're

01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:19.719
both You know, like holding microphones for our

01:05:19.719 --> 01:05:22.480
jobs. Like, let's do it. We're pals, man. We're

01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:25.179
pals for life here. It was meant to be. Yeah,

01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:28.940
absolutely. Okay, so danaltano .com. Pull up

01:05:28.940 --> 01:05:32.320
some clips on YouTube, but for sure, go to your

01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:35.920
favorite streaming platform and download Stand

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Up Dad. You're gonna love it. Thanks for listening

01:05:39.539 --> 01:05:41.639
to the album. I really appreciate it. You're

01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:43.780
great. I really appreciate it. I'm going right

01:05:43.780 --> 01:05:45.780
back to it after we wrap up this conversation.

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I love it. Thank you. Okay, folks, that's it

01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:53.420
for this episode of Dan Time. And remember, if

01:05:53.420 --> 01:05:56.400
you need a laugh, quit taking things so seriously.

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I know that's easier said than done, but times

01:05:59.559 --> 01:06:01.619
are still tough for a lot of you people. So if

01:06:01.619 --> 01:06:03.860
you're having a hard time, check into it and

01:06:03.860 --> 01:06:06.000
say, I'm going to, I'm going to take a break

01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.400
here and put on this album and give yourself

01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:13.300
a good belly laugh. We will see you guys next

01:06:13.300 --> 01:06:16.940
week. Go out there and make a difference in somebody's

01:06:16.940 --> 01:06:19.679
life. Thank you so much, Dan. Thank you, Dan.

01:06:19.780 --> 01:06:26.539
It's been a pleasure. Hey, if you loved that

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01:06:37.340 --> 01:06:40.320
really helps the visibility of the program. You

01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.340
can find Dan Time on all the social media pages.

01:06:43.599 --> 01:06:47.280
and you can also reach me at dantimepod at gmail

01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:49.880
.com. Thanks so much for listening. I'll see

01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:50.519
you next week.