Dave Williamson Comic Pit-Master and Old Guy on Campus!

Dave Williamson joins the show. Talking Comedy, BBQ,and shooting guns with itenerant workers

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey man, grab a stool, belly up, and get overserved. Okay. That's the preview. Okay, I'm looking at camera four. All right, we're up. This is Overserved. Uh the podcast for people who serve, people who have served, uh, people who've been served. Uh I got Caleb. Uh if you don't know, um I've had a lot of technical difficulties, which you may have seen from the previous episodes. Caleb is the producing show now, and uh he's gonna help things root run smoothly. Uh we got a great guest. Uh you may have seen him with uh if you weren't to the University of Auburn. You may have seen him. Auburn University. Auburn University. Whatever. Come on, man. Uh you may have seen him uh if you live in El Segundo, he's got a barbecue place. Have you are you full in on that?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Are you part of the I'm I'm uh I'm in. I uh I am earning my sweat equity.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

There you go, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Yeah, it's uh it's called the Old Town Patio. It's been in um Elsa Gundo since like the 80s, and you know, I'm sure we'll get into it. But as you know, over the past decade I've kind of built a little bit of a reputation in the world of barbecues, specifically in my neighborhood, because I'm always cooking for my neighbors, cooking for parties, you know, doing a little bit of catering here and there. And um a couple of uh local dads who own the bar down the street had the opportunity to buy this bar, and so they went for it, and um, you know, they gave it a huge facelift, but they weren't sure what they were gonna do with the kitchen. So all the other dads in town were like, dude, you should bring in Dave, let Dave do his, you know, do his meat and his barbecue out of here. So we met a couple times, looked at like what that would look like, and these guys are just great dudes, man. They're just awesome partners to have because I don't think a lot of people would have taken the chance that they took, because I've never been in the restaurant business before, like I I know barbecue, I know good food, I know marketing, I know, I mean, I I throw a great party, but you know, running a kitchen is a whole different ball game, you know? And when you gotta look at, you know, your overhead and your labor costs and your food costs and minimizing food waste and all that stuff, I mean it's and these guys were like, hey man, we we think you can do it. We're gonna we're gonna gamble on you. And they made me a partner and uh off we went. And um, that was almost exactly a year ago. And when I get the things popping up on my Facebook memories, like one year ago that we were doing this and that. Right, right. Oh my god, that feels like a lifetime ago. And we just this past three weeks um flipped to an uh full-time barbecue menu. Before that, we were just kind of going in phases, like it's my barbecue full time, but it was like brisket sandwiches and pork melts and things that like a line cook could could warm up and and and pump out, you know. Uh, but we were just doing like actual barbecue plates on Wednesday, because I'm you know on the road a lot there in the weekends, and I'm like, I'll commit to being there on Wednesdays and um and and slicing brisket and doing ribs fresh and all that kind of stuff. And our numbers were just so much better on Wednesdays. And so the guys were like, man, this is the gold. Like, what are we waiting for? Let's go for it. So thank God I got my buddy Uncle Chico, who's one of my barbecue buddies, who we hired to be my um my my uh kitchen manager there. Right. So between the both of us, we were like, all right, man, let's do it. We'll we'll if we're not ready, when will we be? So we flipped it, and the first week was great, everyone was loving it, but you know, we didn't know how much we should make from day to day. And then by the second week, word was out, and it didn't matter how much we made, we were running out by dinner time. So we went the past three weeks, we've just been trying to keep up with the demand. It's been packed.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Great, man. Old town uh patio. Yeah, I wore all the branding for you. He's got it all on. And uh he donates uh a couple of butt butts to our annual Toys for Tots party, and it it was the hit of the party. Everybody was like, Where'd you get this barbecue? I said you gotta go to Old Town Patio.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yeah phenomenal. Uh also I took a few toys. I thought that was the exchange. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

Uh what was the what what was the thing you were talking about? The uh the new gift idea that all barbecue people had to have.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

Oh, they were talking about this barbecue bot. I don't know if you heard of this. A bot? It's like the can do gift of the summer. It's getting in the grill season. It's uh well, I don't know too much about it, but I just know that everybody wants to have this because people have apparently have gotten too lazy to wire brush off the grill. So they're like, I want a robot that can do that these days. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

Like 126. Like one of those swimming pool cleaners is trying to always clean and try to take my job.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Exactly, man. It's a it's a little it's a Roku for inside your stomach. I didn't know we even needed that, but it's I mean, uh you just open up the lid and the robots in there, like I mean, it makes sense, dude. I just played this really nice golf course in Miami. It's like it's it's a public course, but it's like a $300 public course. They just put like $16 million, mind me like golf course down in Miami. And they have these like giant Roombas that just are uh mowing the grass. Like they were all over the course and they're just out there all day long, just slowly grooming the course. And I'm just like were you banging balls at it all day? I hit three or four of them.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

You always try to hit the the the guy at the driving range. The teenager and the little did you pay for $300 worth of golf?

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Uh I actually got comped.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Um I was telling somebody, man, when you're a stand-up comic and you were on the road, and then you come off the robe, you're surprised at how much golf costs. And when they make you pay for a movie or something like that, man.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Man, it was even like my wife and I went to go hit balls last night, actually, at the Top Golf now. And back in the day, like if you had an else to gun to a resident card, you could play golf there for like nine bucks. And even that you went in, and usually the kid knew you, and he was like, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

And Topgolf or when it was the legs before before.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

I loved it when it was like, but now that Top Golf runs it, it was like 32 bucks. And I was like, golly, dude. So I was like, all right, let's just go play. And then luckily I asked uh, you know, I didn't just assume that it was outside the hours, and I was like, dude, do we get a discount for being else kind of resonates? Oh yeah, it's only 16. I'm like, all right. I mean, it's not like 30 30 bucks a person is not gonna kill me, but it's just like the the principle of it, though. This feels like a lot to play, you know?

SPEAKER_03 6:26

It's an executive course. You can't even pull out uh uh anything other than a uh a nine on.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

When we were in Miami, we because I I went back from my high school reunion and I did some shows while I was there too. So that's why we me and my buddy, all my buddies were in town for the reunion. So we we played two days of golf, one at that course I was just telling you about, and then we played our old home course, right? Just like, oh, that'd be fun, nostalgic. And when I when I was a kid, we used to play that course all the time. It was like maybe 25 bucks. It's over a hundred bucks. It's true. And it has not been improved. It's like it's only gotten where it's only it's over a hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yeah, man. Bang and bug. It's gotta be how much how much like the temperature when you play golf in the in in the summer. Oh, it's brutal enough. Down there? Yeah, brutal. She's done it.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Yeah. I mean, Florida's like, it's one of the things I actually like about or love about LA is that like I I love Miami, like they're both tropical climates, but in the summer, it's unbearable. Oh, yeah. It's like it's not even like but hot's one thing, but it's like, yeah, the humid hot. Oh yeah. So you can't just hop in your car and get in the AC. Like, just the time to go from your air-conditioned house to your air-conditioned car, you your pores open up, and now a nice shirt you you put on to go somewhere. You're just drip and sweat, your hair's all fucked up. Like it, it it's the AC brakes in the car, you're using it.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

That happened all the time. Your AC brakes in your house, you better have a neighbor and you can go hang out and the guy can come out and fix your AC, bro. It's like out here we just open the windows and and uh get the fan to blow some breeze through, you know.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

I did a week at the punchline and Houston, Texas, man, and my air conditioner went out my old Volvo. And I had like those sheepskin seat clubs. I was dying, pitching and sweating and dying. I did television with this girl, like the noon show, and they asked her how she liked it. She goes, Well, it's a little humid. Like it was only April, wait till August. It's gonna be like you're walking into a tongue or something, man.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Well, that's like uh I like going once a year down to QS. I worked that club down there. It's one of the funnest clubs in the country. Like, not just for the club itself, but also just because you're in Key West, and the people who run it are really cool, and um, you know, I've made friends there. So it's just a fun, fun week, you know, to go do comedy. But um it I've learned about like I know it's a little taboo to wear shorts on stage, but one, the vibe in Key West because they do not care. It's just for people down in here, yeah. And two, just the heat, you know. Like, I'm like, dude, I'm wearing shorts and a tank top on stage. Or I I think one time I performed and I had a Hawaiian shirt that I didn't even button. Like I was just on stage. Like, you gotta go for like the Jimmy Buffett and the dive bar when he was like 24 years old, the kind of vibe when you're doing art in QS. Because dude, uh, if you want to just wear jeans to be professional, everyone's gotta watch you melt on your top on stage, you know? Speaking of QS band, why don't we crack one of those beers normally? I brought over some topics. Pick what you want.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Yeah, I brought a couple hazy. I'm having a uh a West Coast IPAs.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Yeah, West Coast IPAs and uh hazy IPAs are good day drinking beers in my in my book.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

And uh Caleb is already loaded over there with a ranch quad with a ranch quad.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

I haven't got ranch boys.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

I'm going cowboy.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

So uh so June, so we're beer and wine right now. June, uh somewhere around June, we're gonna have our liquor license in full effect, man. Really?

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah. What pairs well with your barbecue? Oh man. Great question. I don't know if I'm prepared to give a good answer to.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Is it a red wine kind of barbecue? No, I mean, I don't know if barbecue in general is really a red wine kind of you know. I mean, anything's possible. But I mean, obviously, um I I think barbecue pairs good with a nice uh domestic beer. Oh, you know? PBR. It's kind of like when you go to the movie theater. I don't, I'm not a big soda guy, but when I'm eating like uh a pepperoni pizza, or if I'm eating uh buttered popcorn in a movie theater, there's something about having an ice cold Coca-Cola where I'm just like, this is this is this tastes like America. You know? That's what you know, I'm I'm an IPA guy all day. I love craft beer, but I think the time that I would find like an ice cold bud light or something along those lines, like most refreshing, is if it was while I was just down in a bunch of just good old Texas style barbecue, you know? Especially, you know, our place is called the Old Town Patio for a reason. We have this big, awesome, beautiful patio in the back. So it's just the outdoor Southern California weather vibes back there. We have live music Thursday through Sunday, and we have these mugs called big dogs. So they're big 32-ounce mugs with a handle. So uh so you know, you got that filled up with an ice cold, you know, domestic beer. I think that's what pairs good with barbecue. And then a lot of barbecue guys also really like bourbon. So you'll see a lot of the I'm going to Memphis in May this weekend. Um, it's one of the biggest barbecue competitions in the world. And at the end of the night, ever everyone will sit down. No one sleeps because we've got to watch the barbecue overnight, but all the hustle and bustle is not going on like you know, like it is during the day. So all the Pitmasters will sit down with a bourbon on ice and add a cigar. Like that's that's the Pitmaster done.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

I saw Stevie Ray Von and Ray Charles together at Memphis and May. Really? One of the great rock and roll shows in my life, man.

unknown 11:48

It was great.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Not not cooking barbecue. They were they were there. They were cooking the music. Memphis and May is like a month-long thing, right? Like one weekend's music, one weekend's barbecue, and it's like, yeah, kind of like the Houston Rodeo. There's a lot of elements to it.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

Now, will you go to all the will you go to Corky's, will you go to the rendezvous, or is it just at the festival?

SPEAKER_01 12:05

I I've been to those places before um on different weekends when I was there for events, but um when you're there for for Memes and May, you're pr especially if you're competing, which I am speaking of. Oh, cool. You're you're pretty just enveloped by being there at the festival, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Will you be drinking the 33 ouncers while you're cooking?

SPEAKER_01 12:23

I I personally can drink and be productive. So I'll I'll have a couple I'll have a couple cold beers throughout the day as a treat. Like, hey man, good job on that particular thing. But um, you know, you're not you're you're there to party, but you're there to get a job done. So you're not you're not getting sloppy while you're, you know, present presenting judges or when you're in the so it just depends. Like, but then there's certain categories that are maybe a little less serious, or you know, it's a big cook team. Like the team's about 15 to 20 people. So a couple people are like, um, like, hey, you guys are gonna focus on ribs, you guys are gonna focus on this ancillary. So if you're like, you know, responsibility is a little and we go shifts too. So we were cooking on the same team in uh Hondo, Texas, which became in top five, and that's how we earned um our our bid here to cook at Memphis.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

So it's like the Boston Marathon. You you step your way up to the to the competitions.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

Yeah, you yeah, you exactly. Well well, we since we we finished top five, we got a um golden ticket into Memphis in May to to cook here. But you know, we were cooking overnight, and so like I kind of like it was all hands on deck throughout the evening, and people were cooking, and then you could tell people are fading, and I was like, dude, I'm I got energy. So I'm like, dude, I'll watch the fire, you guys go get a couple hours of sleep, so then I take over that shift, and then you know, I go to bed at three or four in the morning, and some other guys come, you know, so we take turns, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

So now you drown in your big you hauling the big pit?

SPEAKER_01 13:48

No, that was a question I had. How's that some guys do that? A lot of those guys live in the middle of the country, so they'll drag their pit. I mean, somebody's got to drag their pit for that, you know. But I think I'm cooking on Team Canada for this. So our main dude's uh from Edmonton, and uh we we borrowed a smoker in Texas from a guy, one of the guys on our team that lived local brought the smoker. But um from Memphis, I think we're we just borrowed some smokers. And actually, this is pretty cool. I don't know. I think I can say this because this is gonna air out this is online, right? Right. Okay. So it's gonna air after the thing.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

But um apparently recorded. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

So we we uh we're in the live fire competition. That's it. Is that online car that I've got an along well, I think in the street sweeper. I thought it's I already got a ticket. Okay, I saw I saw tickets on cars, so I thought I was like it's safe to park. No, yeah, I already got a ticket. So um the the main the main thing that we're competing at is live fire. Uh huh. So we had a Viking ship made. It's a big Viking ship with sails. So the fire is in the hull of the Viking ship, and all the meat is hanging from the sails and the masts. Uh and and uh so just visually it's gonna be so dope. I'll send you a picture of it so you can cut it into this if you want. Meat sails. It's all about look, you eat with your eyes before you eat with your mouth. So, like all that presentation and the storytelling, that's how you uh set yourself apart, you know? Yeah, yeah, so now switch to the drink apart.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Let's go. What's your um how old were you the first time you had a drink? I was probably pretty young.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

I would say that probably when I was in like junior high, I I honestly didn't party too hard as a kid because um I didn't have to. Like me and my friend I had such a great group of friends, and we um at the time that a lot I Miami, Florida, like there weren't a lot of sheltered people, you know. Like there was a lot of a lot of stuff around us. Like we could have found any trouble we wanted to get into, you know. It's not like I grew up in some small town somewhere. But um with that said, me and my friends were so active. We liked sports. I lived on a lake. We would go um wakeboarding and and knee boarding like every day after school. Like uh, you know, I played water polo and I played in the basketball leagues and tennis and all the things. So I mean I I didn't have a lot of idle time to find trouble. With that said, my parents liked to go boating. We went to the Bahamas a lot, right? And there's basically no drinking age there.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Um, so you know, they had this light beer called Click that was the beer of the Bahamas. Oh, yeah. And you I you could just walk up to the bar. I was probably like 14 and just order one and they'd serve you, you know. So I'm sure I had, or my dad would leave a Budweiser on. I'm sure I snuck a few sips or whatever. So I mean I had, but the first time, I can tell you the first time I got like wasted. Overserved? Yeah. The first time I overserved myself. Um it was it was right after Hurricane Andrew. So this was the summer in between my eighth and ninth grade year. It's like 95? 92. 92. Yeah, August 92. Right before school was about to start, uh, in between my eighth and ninth grade year. And um, you know, nobody had power for like two weeks at least. All the streets were shut down, phone lines barely worked, trying to call, you know, our friends to check on them. So it was just from dust till dawn. You were just cleaning up your street and cleaning up your house, helping your parents move trees, move debris. I mean, there was just a lot of work to be done. People's roofs were collapsed. Um some of our family members uh and friends like moved in and were like camping on our floor because like we had a big hole in our roof, but the rest of our house was alright. So um so, anyways, it was like after like a week and a half, two weeks in, um, two of my uh three of my other buddies who lived on our lake uh were like, hey man, we're gonna do a sleepover in uh Mike's backyard. Like, come over. I'm like, alright, that's fine. I asked my mom, my mom's like, Yeah, you need to feel like a kid and go hang out with your friends. And so we go over and we we do this sleepover on the on on Mike's uh dock. And there was these other dudes who were like, you know, guys in their 20s, their thirties, just you know, vagrants who like came down to look for work, you know. And I mean there was a lot of shit going on. Like there was rude like uh looters and um, you know, scam artists and all kinds of people just taking advantage of the chaos going on. Right, of course, yeah coming down from from Louisiana and Georgia and all over. So um these guys were patching Mike's um family's roof. So his dad told them that they could camp in the backyard while they were doing two or three days of work on their house. So now we're camping in the backyard with these these dudes. Not good guys.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

The Joe family.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Yeah. So uh so they gave us a bottle of vodka. Oh, hell yeah. So we had a you know, like our moms had made us up like a cooler of um Gatorades and waters. Oh, okay. So we're mixing vodkas with Gatorades, and we're like going to town. We got hammered, you know? Like we didn't know what we were doing. So then uh we're we're like drunk and we're talking to this dude, and he's like, hey, you guys want to play with our gun? We're like, yeah, yeah, we do. Yeah. So a course. Yeah, so it's the middle of the night, and we we take this handgun, me and my other three buddies who are like eighth and ninth graders, and we go out in the middle of the lake, and uh there was a swallow course like like set up out in the middle of the lake. And uh we go out in the middle of the lake and it's all still and quiet. It was like during the pandemic when the planes stopped flying. Right, right, right. Everything felt eerie. Um and there, you know, you could see the night sky because there's no light pollution from downtown and everything. And we just we start shooting the the buoys. You know, with a you know, what was it, like a 45 or something, you know?

SPEAKER_02 19:52

Some plan. Hey, 14-year-old kids, you're gonna take this for 45.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

That's the 90s. The 90s were a different time. Yeah, I did. So so we're out there, so now we're like, all right, that fun's over, like, you know, and uh We knew all the girls were having a sleep over at our friend Jessica's house. So we're like, let's sneak over and see if we can hang out with the girls. So we take our little 13-foot Boston whaler over there and we sneak up. Well, we didn't put two and two together that we just like gunshots just rang through the neighborhood, right? So Jessica's dad had heard that, and he's on like like red alert, like you know, he's like awake. And so we sneak up to Jessica's bedroom window and we're talking to the girls. We're like, yo, come outside and come hang out with us on the beach. And they're like, Oh, I'm not allowed to, and and whatever. We're like, just sneak out, and they're like, All right, fine. And so the girls go to sneak out and they trip on a suitcase and make a big boom, boom, boom. And then the dad comes rushing in and we hear it, and we like jump in a bush, and then and then these girls pretended like they were asleep. So the dad's like, Did you guys hear something? And they were like, No, dad. And now the dad just thinks someone's breaking in their house. Because if the girls had just said, Yeah, I tripped, he would have been like, Alright, I'm going back to bed. Oh, there you go. So now the dad's got the gun, and he's like walking around the property, and we're out there like idiots. Like, you know?

SPEAKER_03 21:13

So finally, you should have brought the gun with you and got the drop on him.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Well, that would have had a belly. So it all came out. Like the guys, the parents all figured it out and called my mom. I think it was the first time in my life I was ever grounded, and uh, and and there was a lot of manual labor to be done. Oh, yeah, man. But I other than that, like I didn't really get into partying and drinking too much until like my senior year, my you know, my freshman year of college, it was on, you know. Yeah, of course. But um, I I always felt like we were having this conversation the other day just about like 'cause my son's a freshman of college now, and I was talking to one of my friends about it, and like there's there's a and my nephew's in college and a frat and everything. There's like these guys who who aren't exposed to it at all, and then they go away to college and they don't know how to behave or how to do it responsibly. Like there's a There's a um there's something to be said for being slowly exposed to it so you don't, you know, go crazy when you do that. I wish I would have done it.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

I got overly exposed too soon myself. Yeah. We uh we got I just were thinking that malt liquor is almost going out of business. But we wouldn't when we were we were in eighth grade, we would want we would go get some. We used to say nides, baby. Well, we were cult 45. Mad Dog. No, that's wine. Oh, yeah. That's wine. Uh what was the one? Moon's farm, wine's farm wine, mad dog.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Anything, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Anything. Dude, you remember uh the this like now it's like mass-produced, but we were like inventing our own like uh high noons and uh because we would get Zima Zima with the Jolly Rancher. It wasn't the first white class. Yeah, we invented white claws in the 90s. It was a Zima Jolly Rancher.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

You should go to the strand asking, I'd like a Zima, and could you please put an Apple Jolly Rancher? I think that's why they had to get rid of Zima. They were like, no, these kids are getting it. But they've gotten rid of uh the IPAs are killing uh Colt 45 and stuff. And that was the first thing we drank. We wait outside a convenience store. Hey, would you get us some beer? What do you want? Uh quarter colt 45. We each had a quarter colt 45.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Terrible, but dude, I specifically remember um my high school, my senior prom, uh we got a hotel room down on South Beach for like the after party, and then we all, you know, we got several hotel rooms, our whole crew is gonna crash for the night, you know? And uh we we went, we we went, we went, I can't remember whose brother or sister. We got to buy us a bunch of booze or whatever, and then we went to go put it in the room earlier in the day. And uh I got nat no was it natty ice? No, it wasn't natty ice. It was um it was like bud ice, or it was some short lived ice ice? It was some some short lived. Wasn't it like stronger though, right? It was oh no, but it was like yeah, it was like bud ice or something like that. It was some short-lived beer. I was like, this is cool. And so we get it, and it was warm, right? It was like 2 p.m. And I'm like, ah, I don't know if it's gonna be cold enough by like 9 p.m. tonight. So I put it in the freezer. Ah, there you go. So then we show out the party, and I had frozen all the beer. I'm understood. So the only choice was to drink booze at that point. And I was like, nah, it's fine. We can still drink it. And I was like, I was like breaking the cans in half and eating beer slash. Eating beer slash. Trying to put it in the microwave to defrost it. Yeah, the uh you learned, you know, you learn the lessons already.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

So were you drinking at spring break? If you grew up in Miami, did you go up to Lauderdale or was Lauderdale already dead by then? Oh, I mean, in college I was.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

Yeah, college or yeah, spring break was only we were we would go to Panama City with the MTV. Yeah. MTV would always be there, or down in uh Key West. Um Jesus, Miami in the 90s. That's must be crazy.

SPEAKER_03 24:50

We would go to Lauderdale, and it was nuts. It was the craziest thing you ever saw.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Yeah, Lauderdale at Los Oles and all that.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

Yeah, yeah, it was nutty. I mean, we would go the the button. There was a bar called the button, and supposedly it's like more tag beer than any place in America, and it was only from the end of February to the beginning of May. It was all there. And they had college competitions, and I remember being in I was in the kinky banana fantasy contest. It's like they had a fucking wet t-shirt contest, they had a beer chug, and I know I'm up there and with a bunch of rugby players, I got scrubs on, and I'm with this girl, and we're doing a we're supposed to eat a banana kinky, and I just dropped trial, man. I eat it with my but I remember the the guy at the BJ going, Western Kentucky, please put your clothes on until the contest starts. You were like, you don't have to peel it. So you had to go all the way, yeah, and then they just shot Waterdale down. Yeah, what happened?

SPEAKER_02 25:47

They just got rid of Springfield.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Well, you know, it it always happened, man. It was like such an influx of degenerates that um it was like, yeah, they wanted all that. First of all, when you have like five thousand kids who have fake IDs like descend upon an area. They're not really contributing to the local economy. Like, you know, they're all just buying beers from the 7-Eleven or doing drugs that they brought. It's not like they're going out to the restaurants and being respectful to property. They're just scaring off actual tourists that are gonna spend money and book hotels. They were the original homeless. Yeah, the the these spring breakers are putting like 12 people in a hotel room. Right, exactly. Yes. And so I just think really big tippers.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

Yeah. Oh yeah. The spring break isn't really throwing the cash around. Can I have that quarter, please?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

I think it just wreaks havoc on these like areas and like the residents get pissed, you know. So so then the the local politicians have to be like, all right, we have to ban spring break. So it just it just like migrates, like goes from like Fort Lauderdale to Daytona to Jacksonville to Panama City, back down to Miami, back up to Fort Lauderdale. You know, every couple years it rotates where they're gonna go. And out here it's Habisfoot, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:04

I don't think they'll let them into Alabama. They're like, you stay over there.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Yeah, Florama's like, we do this year round.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

Yeah, the Florida Bama. What a great bar, man. Uh yeah. Uh so comedy-wise, you are with Bert sometimes. Y'all are partyers, y'all learn.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Yeah, I toured with Bert really heavy for like five years. Um so lately I've just been doing more like the special event stuff for him. I just hosted their 5K this past weekend. I'm gonna do his cruise in November. But you know, five years is a long time to usually you bring like an opener on one tour with you, and then you have a new opener for the next tour, and you know, I'm very lucky I got the tour with Bert a bunch. So yeah, I haven't really been on many tour dates uh this past tour. Like this is kind of someone else's turn, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

So do you party with like you did with Bert when you're by yourself?

SPEAKER_01 27:55

No. I mean Yeah, saying no. I mean, there's uh Yeah, yeah, I would say like uh Bert and I have very aligned personalities why we get along so well, and like um Bert's very about um partying hard but working even harder, right? So, like, you know, when I was a younger comic and first started doing weekends with him at clubs, so like we would have some beers, but we would like sit and talk about our jokes and um and work, you know? Like so Bert didn't like to bring someone on the road with him for for many years when he was a headlining comic because he used to like to support the local comics and um and just like give them work. You don't want to take work away from them by bringing someone. But I think uh I don't want to speak for him, but uh I think um, you know, when as his podcast started getting bigger and his like, you know, visibility starting to get bigger, he was having a hard time uh knowing what he was getting from the local comics because a lot of them were like just fanboys who wanted to party with him. Right, right, right. So it was kind of like, you know, whereas he would have had someone normally like uh local, like open. Now it's like someone he's never met before, and they just want to get drunk with the machine, and they just want to uh go out to the but now you got some guy you don't know starting a bar fight, and now he that like it's attached to him. And he's like, dude, I just want to go out with the fans, have a few beers, show them appreciation, do an Irish goodbye, go back to the hotel, talk about jokes for another hour or two drinking beers, get some sleep, do it all over again the next day, you know? Right. Um, so I think that's when he started reaching out to a couple guys, Jesus Trejo and Shane Torres and me, and we started kind of working the road with him a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

So now you're going on the tour with uh on the cruise. Are you gonna is that a big drink? Because they're just Oh what line is it?

SPEAKER_01 29:44

What cruise line?

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Well cruise line.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Oh man, I'm gonna get if I get this wrong, I'm gonna be in trouble. Whoops. Um here. Let me look it up and then we can edit this part out.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

Well, I mean, that who was it? What cruise line? The Royal Caribbean line. Have you heard about the Royal Caribbean thing?

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Tell me about it. They served this guy 33 drinks, and then he just I mean, unfortunately, he passed away. Oh my god. This was recently? It was recently. It's like the talk of the town about cruises and what's going on. 33. Oh. They served him 33 drinks, and the idea is like, well, maybe at 17 somebody should have been a little bit aware to not serve this guy. But there's video.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

When your bar is somewhere that someone could like fall overboard. 32. You might want to be like super um, you might want to be super trained up on uh what's the most drinks you think in my own.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Well, these people aren't trained. I've been on a cruise recently. They're not stupid. I mean, they're good, they're they're good, but they're not like bartender bartenders. Yeah. They're serving like a sp like a cocktail list that they don't really even per se know what exactly.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

If you want to make an alteration to it, it's like when you got the when you got the um when you got the the drink package, you want to get your money's worth. That's the unfortunate thing.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

When you get the drink package and you got the platinum drink package, you're gonna try and get as many of these, you know, high-on liquor drinks as you can.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

You got it all in one day, man. Unfortunately, as it is.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Alright, here we go. It's uh Norwegian. Uh nice.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

I'm sure they'll only serve you 32.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

And where's that going when you gotta take off? So uh the last one we did went to um the Bahamas. This one is going to Mexico. From from Miami to Mexico. Um it it's it's a blast. Yes, there's definitely a lot of drinking. But I'll tell you, man, I I thought that the last cruise, people were very maybe it's because Bert's fans are good drinkers, you know. Um there was uh I didn't experience any like over-the-topness as far as like people being just I mean, I everyone was partying hard, but nobody was like fighting or being like uh disrespectful of boundaries or causing scenes. Like dude, it was like the most supportive, like just sense of community of everyone just I think everyone was so happy to be there with this like group of comedians that Bert curated that nobody wanted to be the guy who ruined everyone else's good time, you know? So everyone just knew how to fit in, you know. Oh man. It was it was a blast. Like care, even like the non-comedy sale, like just karaoke and whatever just one day we were supposed to go to the that island in the Bahamas where the crew ship owns the island and stop and party all day. The weather wasn't good, so we couldn't debark the boat, so they just you know, they just skipped it and we're out to sea for an extra day. So the production team had to scramble and create things for people to do during the day. And so uh, you know, I sleep a couple extra hours when I see we're not getting off the boat, and then when I wake up, I got a text message like, Dave, can you um can you report to um production office when when you wake up? And I'm like, oh shit, what did I do last night? Like, I pissed off, what did I say, you know? So I get down there and they're like, hey man, we need a favor. And I'm like, what? To like can you host the drink the ship dry pre-party today? And I was like, oh my, I was a little hungover, and I was like, I was just about to hit the gym, try to sweat it out, and I'm just like, I'm like, yeah, of course, I'll do whatever you guys need. Uh, what time does it start? And they're like, ten minutes ago. Oh boy. So I go I go straight to the the the you know the main deck wearing my gym shorts and a tank top. And uh I grab a mic and Cypher Sounds is already playing music, there's already people out there having drinks, you know, it's like mid-morning. And I'm like, all right, guys, guess this is our day, let's do it, right? And the first 10 or 20 minutes, I kind of had this attitude where I was just like, oh man, this is gonna be brutal. What am I doing? Whatever. And then Miss Pat shows up with her, she had like 20 family members and friends with her, and they just come in and they're just they just rush the stage and they're like, Dave, we're here to party, and everyone's going crazy, and everyone ran up to the stage, and then Miss Pat teaches me how to torque. She's like, Dave, you need to you need to loosen up. Smack my ass, Dave. You know, and and they just posted the video of it, actually. You can see it on my Instagram if you go to Dave W comedy. They just posted it, and uh, and it's me up there just awkwardly like smacking Miss Pat. And so then uh so I had this moment where I look out and I was like, dude, I need to embrace like the fun that that like this opportunity that's been giving me. And I was like, I go, all right, I go, I'm awake now. I go, you guys ready to party today? And everyone was like, yeah, and I realized that people genuinely were ready to go on this like ride with me, right? And I go, I'm gonna take 10 minutes, I'll be right back. I ran back to my my uh cabin, I put on like actual party clothes instead of just my gym shorts or whatever. I got a bunch of uh beers from the bar, I ran up and I was like, uh chugging contest to the first nine dudes that come up to this, and that guy's just sprinted up there. We chugged beers, and I realized I go, part of the reason I got into the entertainment industry and got into um like stand-up comedy was I would watch spring break, MTV spring break, and I'd see these VJs, and I would just be I didn't even care about partying. I was just like, it's cool that these guys bring the party just wherever it was out here, Panama City here, Daytona Beach. It was just like MTV is descending, it's gonna be music, there's gonna be, you know, fun games on the beach, it's just gonna be a party. And I was like, dude, I have this opportunity to just create whatever I want to create. Someone's giving me a green light, and there's people that actually want to listen to me talk on the microphone. So I I was like, this is it. This is being an MTV VJ. So I had the best time. I lost my voice that day. I hosted this party for like four hours, and they were like, you can go. Because I had like a four o'clock like show that day. And I'm like, nah, we're doing a push-up contest, push up contest. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're I I went out in the stands with the microphone, and we were doing like, you know, siphon was playing like songs, and we're doing like Sweet Caroline, bum, bum, bum. Like, I just made up a day. Like, you know, and it was like one of the funnest days I've ever had, man. Are you are you a beer chugger? Can you chug beer fast? Man, I can for sure. Um, I'm very much in this pocket of life where I don't need to get a hammer. I don't want to be a fall-down drunk. Right. I don't I don't like when I I'm out with the fans or you know, after a show and people are like, we're doing shots. And I'm like, why? I'm like, I'm just gonna just ensuring a hangover. I'm like, I want to drink delicious IPAs. I want to have a nightcap with an amazing bourbon on a big ice cube. I want to have some really nice wine on my dinner. Like, I love to drink, but I don't need to be like hammered drunk. Like, like let's let's milk it to get hammered. You know, like let's not let's not being drunk is just uh a byproduct of drinking good stuff, not drinking whatever I can drink to get drunk. Right?

SPEAKER_03 36:45

I've got people come up to me at the bar and they're like, What's the strongest beer you got? You know, I'm like what what why don't I have the one that tastes the best? Yeah, you know, but I what I was asking because I was a pretty big beer chugger. I was the guy on the rugby table that could like no hands, man, just tip them back and you know.

SPEAKER_01 37:02

It's fun for a social thing. Like we were doing the 5K the other day, and I was like, you know, I got a couple beers, and then I was like, if you have a beer in your hand, come over right here. We're gonna kill them together. And it was like a cheers, and we all went bottoms up, and it was but it was just like to build community. Yeah, like you know, it wasn't because like let's all get hammer, you know.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

No, no, it's a spectacle. Yeah, it's you know, it's like playing a guitar behind your head in a rock and roll show. You know, you're up there. Every once in a while I'll do it at the bar. People are like, playing the guitar, you know. Yes, exactly. We used to do the pony races, we called it. You'd take the little millers. Exactly. We would take the little millers, and you'd just bend over with your hands behind your back, and you would rake, you know, grab them with your teeth, kill them, and go down the line like that. It was like a rugby thing. Yeah. Every once in a while I'll take a highlight of the bar. You know, just uh well, if it's like a great night, like the the night the Dodgers won the World Series, I think I did it and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Let me tell you something, man. I you know, I went to Auburn and I played water polo there, and it was very organized, but it's still it was it was club water polo. Exactly. So um so we didn't have like study hall at 6 a.m. or you know, uh a D1 coach like looking over our shoulder. So we we could we could uh find the the nice um you know balance between partying and being college students and being a student. You know, but uh man, those like I feel like we partied pretty hard. Those rugby players. Uh it was those guys toilet paper and their ass cracked on fire and would run around a party. I'm like, that's different.

SPEAKER_03 38:38

Yeah, that was a lot of nudity. Uh a lot of drinking. Uh yeah, it was uh We didn't have one. Of course, bowling green Kentucky. No, there was no polo, water polo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet there's now. Probably. Yeah, I guess it's probably everything now, right? But I mean, we are our I just went to the 15th anniversary of the rugby team. And uh the founder of the team, who's like, he goes, he goes, Lawrence, uh, this is a great party and all, but uh hadn't seen anybody naked and uh hadn't heard any songs yet.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

What happened to you? The old guy's like, what happened to you guys, right?

SPEAKER_03 39:13

So I go, Oh well, I'll say I'm not getting naked again, but I'll sing a song. Then I started singing these songs. I'm like, ooh, I gotta cut that because people's phones are on. They're like videotaping. Can't say that anymore, can't say that anymore.

SPEAKER_05 39:24

You know, what's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_03 39:27

No, these filthy rugby songs that are you know misogynistic. I would have been good. This podcast would be they would storm in here right now and shoot us all.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Yeah, I just went back for my well, no, okay. Sorry, I told you about my high school reunion weekend. But I went back, I the past few years I've been good about going back to Auburn for their home tournament because there's an uh alumni team in the tournament. So I've I I missed it for years and years and years working the road, having kids, you know, you know, working day jobs. And now I'm at a place where I can put shows together and you know make it make sense. So I've been in tradition in the past three or four years where I go do a one-nighter in Huntsville, do a one nighter in Birmingham, I do a one-nighter in Auburn, and then I could play on the Auburn alumni team on Saturday, Sunday, right? So uh I'm definitely the oldest dude who comes back regularly. Um often the oldest dude. Still got it. I still think I'm one of the better players on the alumni team, even though I'm fattened slow. But um, anyways, that's not the point. So this past year, I go back and me and a couple of the dads go out Saturday night, and we're having uh pizza at one of the old, you know, like nostalgic places, and we're having a couple pitchers of beer, and we're looking across the street, and there's this line of college kids, I'm not exaggerating, a couple miles down the road, like waiting to get into this nightclub. And now there's this dude who lives in Auburn, he's an awesome guy. He's been hitting me up for years, a fan, hitting me up for years, like, dude, come to my bar when you're in Auburn, come to my bar. And I was like, Alright, man, whatever. And so I finally met him a couple years ago. I show up to do my show, and he comes out. Turns out we have a lot of mutual friends, and he invites all of us, like, yo, you want to go down the street to um to my bar. We go, sure. Walk down the street. He's got like one of the most popular bars in Auburn, Southeastern. He owns a couple other bars, right? So I'm like, dude, you own like a legit bar. And Auburn's like, yeah, man, I've been inviting you for years. And I'm like, dude, you know. So uh so we have a blast, and so a couple of the dads who were on the Auburn alumni team with me, they were there that year. So now we're back this year, and we're sitting in uh we're sitting in the pizza joint, and this one guy who wasn't there that year looks across the street and goes, I don't really care about going to that nightclub. He goes, but I'm kind of curious to see what all the hustle and bustle's about, right? And uh and I go, I can get us in. And he goes, No, you can't. And the other dads are kind of smirking, and I go, I bet you I can. And he goes, All right, Dave. And so we walk over there and I purposely take him down to the end of the street so we can walk by all these kids and we walk up to the front, right? There's a manager's house to be standing by the front. And I walk up and I go, hey man, uh I go, uh, John put me on the on the guest list. And he goes, uh John's usually pretty good about giving me names. I don't have any names. I go, well, you know, he's in Vegas. He forgets to do stuff when he's in Vegas. He's like, that's a good point. And uh he's like, uh, boy, let me see if I can get a hold of him. You're not gonna get a hold of him. He's in Vegas. It's late. I go, but here's the text message. And uh he goes, Well, hit his name. And I hit his name, and like his actual phone number popped up, and he goes, Oh, okay, you're John's buddy. He's like, Come on in, guys. And so I turn around, the guys were all awkwardly standing behind me. I just turn around and go, let's go, boys. And then this guy's face was like, How did you do that? You know? Because I mean, I'm not like famous enough as a comedian to like just randomly go. This guy had no idea I was buddies with a guy who was a bar, you know. So we go in and we were very uncomfortable. Like, literally, this one girl walks up to us and literally just looks at me and goes, What are you doing here? And I'm like, I'm thinking the same thing, right? So we have like two beers there, and that's when I remembered that like drinking in the college town is like it's like three dollars for an ice beer. This like, what is this here, Lawrence? You're a bartender. Uh 10. At least minimum. Ten at our half hour. Yeah. Yeah. Uh in Alburn, this would be like three bucks. Right.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

Now you're like, I'm rich. Would you go back home? I got this one. Everybody's like, oh, Mr. Big Shop.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

You have no idea. So we spend like two beers there, right? And then we go, all right, let's go down to this other bar. We're a little bit more comfortable there, right? It's this cool bar called Avalon. It's a second-story bar. Like, and it's it's like grad students would hang out there, like actual adults would hang out there, but also some college kids would hang out there. But you feel it's a little bit more R-speed. So we go up, we go upstairs into that bar, and we walk up to the bar where there's just enough, like where there's space where we can go up in order, right? So there's this like college girl sitting here, and she turns to us immediately and she goes, Oh my god, are y'all the biker gang? Please start cracking up. We're like we're done. Definitely not a biker. Dressed in leather? She's going to love to see them dressed in leather. I was wearing like a Hawaiian shirt or something, right? You know? And so I just started cracking up. I'm like, we're definitely not a biker game. But I go, thank you? That's so much nicer than what the girl said to me in the other bar.

SPEAKER_04 44:17

Did y'all just have a prostate example?

SPEAKER_01 44:21

So this girl's cracking us up, right? She's talking to us. She's asking all kinds of questions. We told her we were playing water polo. She's like, water polo? So she was very sweet and nice and right, you know, made us feel welcome. And so I could tell her friends kind of like, why are you talking to these old dudes, right? So I I didn't want her friend to feel awkward. So I just told her friend, I go, hey, look, I go, I'm sorry that your friend's talking to uh to my buddy. It's like, you know, um, but you know, just so you know, I go, all five of us are happily married. None of us are hitting on you guys. I go, uh, and if you guys want us to buy drinks, do you guys want a drink? She can put it on our tab. It's no problem. We're just grateful you guys are being so nice to us. It's nice to talk to someone, you know? And she was like, Really? I go, yeah, not a problem. They were drinking white Russians. So I'm like, yeah, I'll buy your milk. All right. It was like $2.50 for a cocktail. So that she was like, thank you. That's very nice. So we sat and talked to them. They're very nice. Met some of their friends, kept coming up, coming back. But there was these like two or three dudes that they were friends with who wouldn't come over. They were just like spink eyes. Uh femin. And I'm like, dude, these guys think we're hitting on these girls probably. You know, like they just you should not be threatened by the beard belly mustache dads like who are over here. I don't know. Some of the girls. My dad was a truck driver. What are you doing? I guess that's true. I don't know what experiences he's had, right? So, anyways, at some point, uh, they were like, nice talking to y'all. So nice talking to y'all. Um, we're gonna go hang out with these boys. They're being dumb, they won't come over here. And we're like, yeah, go hang out with your friends, thanks for being cool, whatever. So we have one or two more drinks, and then we go to leave, right? And so we walk by the table that they're sitting at as we leave, and I go, bye girls, very nice talking to you guys, thanks for being cool. They were like, bye, Dave, bye boys, nice to meet y'all. And we're like, all right, so we turn the corner and uh and I go to walk down the stairs, but there's a group of people coming up the stairs, right? So I wait at the top of the stairs for them to come up before I go down. So this kid who was sitting at the table around the corner probably played it out in his head and figured I'd be out the bottom door and out in the alley by then. Right. And so then he gets brave and yells, Why don't you go to another bar and hit on girls your own age, you fucking losers, right? And I was like, oh bro. I go, Did that guy just yell that at me thinking I was gone? Right? And I go, dude, if that guy had said that to my face as I was leaving, I would have been like, All right, man, I'll let you have your moment. I go, I get it. We're the old dudes in a college town. Right. I go, I would have, I don't have no interest in fighting anyone ever. I've never been a f in my whole life. Like, I've stood up for people, I don't let people get away with shit, but I have no interest in throwing a point. I don't want to hurt another human being, you know, whatever. And I don't want to get hurt.

SPEAKER_02 46:58

That's amazing for me. I don't know, I can't imagery.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

Yeah. So, so uh, you know, if he had said something, I would have been like, all right, man, I go, I'll let you have your moment, I'll let you look tough, and I would have just left. But I hate fake tough guys. And the fact that this dude waited until he thought we were long enough before he yelled something brave, I just walked right the second he was done with the sentence, I just walked right back around the corner and I went, Did someone say something to me? I go, Did somebody have a message for me and my biker gang? I go, boys, get back in here. And this guy was shitting his pants, dude. Right? He was like, what, what? And I'm like, it sounded like somebody had a message for me and my friends, like that, you know? And uh, and then the bouncer comes over, the bouncer's laughing because he can just he's like, he's like, dude, these guys aren't gonna hurt each other, you know. So the bouncer kind of like like puts his like hand on me and starts to like push me out the door. And I'm like, I'll be out in the alley if you would like a further this discussion, like kid shitting himself. So uh so the second we turn the corner, I look at the bouncer and I go, Hey man, I'm not really mad, I don't care. Like, you know, and he's like, I know, man. I've been watching you guys all night. You guys have been cool as shit, you've been talking to everyone. He goes, that little punks just like you know, whatever. And so then I go, look, I'll leave. I go, but only if you do one thing. And he's like, What? I go, Well, you go back in there and tell that guy that we are really pissed off and that we've got both X fits covered and we are waiting for him at closing time. And he goes, Nothing would make me happier. So he goes back in and uh and and uh finds uh I know he told the kid that because one of my friends told uh those girls that I was a comedian, so they found me on Instagram, and then the next day I realized they messaged me and they were like right at closing time, they were like, Dave, I would like to apologize for my friend. He's just a really insecure. And I'm like, oh man, that kid was so scared shitless. He was probably getting her to be like, yo, can you message our guys from my way? I'm like, dude, we were already eating chicken wings and passed out by then, dude. I like that. That's all I wanted was to get chicken wings that night. I don't care about fighting somebody. Did you ever have a fight in a club at a show or anything?

SPEAKER_03 49:11

Ever have a problem?

SPEAKER_01 49:13

I mean, I've never like gotten into a drop, you know, down like melee or anything. I have always been able to talk my way. Because I mean, I I I mean, I've I've certainly like something like that, I get more mad about the principle than I actually get mad at the person.

SPEAKER_02 49:28

Like, you know, it's more like who's coming out of this club to fight at the city. Oh, I'm not gonna fight the pan pana bottom. Oh bro, dude.

SPEAKER_01 49:34

I mean, don't get me wrong, there's been situations where I'm like it was a two drink minimum.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

I get it, you pushed you over the edge.

SPEAKER_01 49:40

But man, the thing is, man, 99% of the people out there, and it's a little sad that the state of the world, like you uh you see you like back like back in the day, like you didn't see it, like you had to be there to see it. Now you see like you should scroll, which is like every thing is people fighting a target, people fighting at a comedy show, people, and it just like breeds more and more sustain and hate and and you know, whatever. But uh long story short, I feel like I've always been able to, in a heated moment, be like, hey man, everything's cool. Don't worry about it. We're fine. Like, you know, I I'll I won't like let someone get away with something. I'll speak my mind. I'll be like, look, man, if you want to throw it out, I'll throw it out. But I don't want to, bro. Like, you know, like I don't know. I mean, and I'm I've never been I don't have that deceleration thing, man.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

I'm always just like you know, I just go, I just all guys no brains, man. It's stupid. But I mean it it's it's who I am. I'm trying to learn to be better. But I mean, I've you know, I've had shit. I've probably been in ten bar fights at OB's, man. While you were working, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:39

Main opponent is like teenagers trying to do that.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

No, no, I've never had this these guys from Auburn came in and fucking biker gang. I tossed him out. No, I wish I did. Like Duke, my roommate, was like the Mr.'s man. He was like, you don't, you know, you don't like those people. And I've always been like, look, this is the line, you're not crossing this line. And if you do, we're done. You know, and I and it's uh and I don't want to fight, but I mean they it seems like they want to fight. It sounds like you do. It seems like they want to fight me. Well, it feels like you're kind of the bouncer and the bartender. Well, we don't have the bouncer. Yeah, so you know you've got to do what you gotta do, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:14

I don't know, but anyway. Uh I don't know. I'm sure if I really thought I mean there's been times in like a water polo game or something where I start getting like, and really it's more the ref's fault than it is like the other players. Because you start getting a little physical, and then when the guy's getting away with it, and he's getting away with it, you get frustrated, and you're like, Well, I want to send a message that you can't get away with that. So you'd give them a little like under the water, and then they're gonna see under the water, bro.

SPEAKER_03 51:38

Well, I'll tell you this. So there wasn't that the thing that uh the the under the water and water polo is just a melee. Y'all are kicking each other and all that.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Yeah, but there's also like uh it's a new one.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

Essentially can't see under the water unless it's like uh at the Olympics and they have, you know, VAR or whatever, you know. But um you know, if if you're if you have your hands down and someone like looks like they got popped, you're gonna get called for it. But if you have your hands up and you're able to pop someone and they're like sneaky with your knee or something, you're probably gonna get away with it, you know. But that guy's gonna be pissed at you and he's gonna get you back when he gets a chance, you know. Like, if Mr. Pat's taught you to twerk, you can kind of throw that thing around at him. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of there's a lot of like, you know, uh, I don't know, it's kind of good. Maybe it's why I haven't gotten into a bar fight, because there's a lot of like de-escalating through like, hey man, you can't do that shit to me. Like, you know, if someone just takes it and takes it and takes it, they're gonna keep doing it. Right. If you if you like pot someone and put and go, you're alright, you pop me, I'm gonna pop you. But people are like, all right, respect, let's just play, you know? So it's a lot of that, you know.

SPEAKER_03 52:46

But usually uh water polo players haven't had eight shots of Jaegermeister.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

Well, it depends which tournament you're talking about. Um But I don't know, man. I never thought of it that way, but I bet there's some truth to that. That that that's like a life lesson where it's like, you know, I think that's I've never shied away from like having to puff up to someone at a bar, but also did not want to ever actually like I'd probably get my ass kicked in most situations. Right neck in a bar. No, I'm not good. But yeah. I'm like five and thirty in fights. But you know, I never I was always just like, hey man, knock it off. Or yo, let's get, you know, let's or talk my way out of it. Like, yo, I I didn't mean that or whatever, you know, like instead of just coming back with like, well, fuck me, fuck ye, you know, and then you know, next thing you know, no one's saying anything intelligible. Right. And you're just swinging, you know.

SPEAKER_03 53:35

I've never been accused of being intelligent. It's not southern either. That was an accident. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 53:40

Oh no, Miami's Southern, right?

SPEAKER_01 53:42

Well no. Miami is the north of the South. Right, exactly. Yeah, it's a flipped on its head.

SPEAKER_02 53:48

Yeah. It wasn't there when the South was the South. It was like a beach.

SPEAKER_03 53:53

Right. You know, and then, oh, talk about fight. They're just gonna turn on the course. Ah, oh no. You want me to rub it for you?

SPEAKER_01 53:59

I got you, I got you, bro. Right here?

SPEAKER_03 54:01

Right there, what the f Movie magic. I don't know, man. It just all of a sudden this is what happens to dance.

SPEAKER_01 54:08

I was thinking about fighting, and I at this at this age, that's why you don't get to fight. You throw one, you throw one punch and you're like, hold on, I'm crampling. I'm crampling. Wait, wait, wait, wait, talk him out, talk him out. And meanwhile, this guy's beating your face, and you're like, I got a trolley horse, no bear. Oh my god, I talked about it.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

I got a pain in my side.

SPEAKER_05 54:27

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_03 54:29

Oh shit. Wow, that was bad. That was like, whoa. Oh. Anyway. All right. Um there.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

What is we talking about earlier? I was talking about the drinking on the plane earlier.

SPEAKER_03 54:41

Yeah, man. You fly all the time. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

They're cutting down on drinking on the plane. Do you drink on the plane? Well, I noticed. Is this a thing? Because I sit normally, like if you sit in first class, they'll come and they'll serve you or whatever. But like I normally uh get upgraded to Delta Comfort where you can get free drinks. But man, that bar cart comes through once and they they've slowed it down. It doesn't come right away anymore.

SPEAKER_03 55:06

They want you to be embarrassed by bing.

SPEAKER_01 55:08

Yeah. There he goes again. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:10

So if you were the comic.

SPEAKER_01 55:12

You're not allowed to be YOB. Right. So it's just like you you're only gonna drink as much as they're gonna. I have so many vouchers on my thing. I mean, but um, yeah, I mean, I definitely like having a cocktail on the plane.

SPEAKER_02 55:24

Uh this guy was complaining about uh cocktails before you get on the plane. He's like, I don't want you to be able to drink more than two drinks before you get on the plane. People are kind of crying foul. They're like, well, that just you just want people to buy more drinks on your plane.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

Yeah, but that's gonna hurt the entire economics of air travel because those bars in the airport are banking on people. That's the whole economy of the airport. I don't do that. But I but I've noticed like the lounges where you know they have a selection of what you can have. First of all, they start they've started limiting the time amount of times per year you can go to the lounge. Second of all, they start it's like full and you have to wait a line longer to get in the lounge. Third of all, the selection for what you get free in the lounge versus what you pay for in the lounge isn't as good as it used to be. And like they'll have the one beer I like to drink, and they're like, oh, we're out of that. You can only and I'm like, uh, I want to drink a lot of and eat this, you know, whatever. And then uh, and then you know, you get on the plane, and like you're lucky if they make one round to serve you, you know. So it's just like, yeah, it's tougher and tougher for sure to have a few cocktails unless you're sitting first class.

SPEAKER_03 56:26

I've seen I had I forgot who I was flying. This was about last year, and the guy I watched the guy get on the plane. I'm like, that dude should not be getting on this plane. Yeah. And like three minutes later, I just feel and he just puked on my leg. He was sitting there on your leg? On my leg. Oh, that's right. And they're like, well, it's gonna take 30 minutes. You're gonna need somebody in here to clean my leg, man. I'm gonna do the antith theater. Or I'm gonna throw another goddamn Charlie horse or something. Man, that's brutal. It's just uh but I don't I I'm the guy that gets to the airport. I'm the guy they're waiting on the door. Like, oh, here's the lake, he's late. I don't I hate sitting in an airport.

SPEAKER_02 57:03

They put a bar right there. Well, you know what?

SPEAKER_03 57:05

I like to be the last person on the board. Yeah, me too, man.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

You don't want to get crop dusted when you're sitting there. That happened to me. I just don't want to be crop to I'd rather just be at the bar, slow sipping a beer, I eat a little sandwich, uh, and then when I see the last group is boarding, or one of the last groups, uh, I just, you know, I got the priority, so I just skip the line. It's good, all right. I'm gonna get on the little plane now. And you know, I put my backpack down under, I don't need to get on in time to I don't carry on ever. I always check my bag. I hate dragging shit to the airport. And um I usually have a bag full of merch, which is my purpose seasoning and rub, which you can purchase at any of my shows or on my website, Dave Williamson.com. Perfect.

SPEAKER_03 57:48

Oh, thank you, man. This is some great uh he is I can't say enough, folks, that if you get a chance to go to the old town patio or get his or if you're gonna be in Memphis in Memphis and Meg, go check him out.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

This will probably come out after Memphis and Memphis.

SPEAKER_03 58:00

Yeah, well, that's true. But anyway. Uh but yeah, it's it's great food, it's wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 58:06

So this is my this is my merch on the road, right? I sell those. But then uh also a lot of the clubs, I'll ship them a couple of those ahead time ahead of time so the bartenders can mess around with them, and then they'll make a Meet Dave specialty menu and they'll do like a spicy margarita with that on the rim. Oh, they'll do a fireball shot with that in it, or like they'll come up with different cocktails where they can utilize that. Nice, yeah. Um and uh sometimes I'll even do like barbecue/slash comedy events where it's like uh you know, I'll either cook for the show or sometimes even at the big clubs, I'll cook. I'll find a smoker I could borrow and cook some uh pulled pork, and then like the the nachos come with my pulled pork on it that night or something like that, you know.

SPEAKER_03 58:45

Where do you keep a smoker when you're not on the road? When I'm not on the road? Yeah. When you're not, you're taking it to go borrow. Do you have a giant?

SPEAKER_01 58:53

Oh, no, like if I'm on the road, I usually just borrow one. Right. Like I have a big enough network of friends and all that.

SPEAKER_03 58:59

But you have one here. I've see you I know you got one here.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

I have seven or eight smokers here. Yeah, I got a couple more.

SPEAKER_03 59:04

Don't you have the big trailer?

SPEAKER_01 59:06

I uh I don't have one on a trailer. I have um I have a big offset smoker in my yard. Uh huh. Um I'm gonna order one for the restaurant eventually. It's a big thousand gallon offset from Titus Smokers and put it on a trailer and can do catering with it and stuff. But um, yeah, we're not there yet. We gotta do a build-out for a place to park it. And hey, how about another one of those beers over there? What do you want? One of them.

SPEAKER_02 59:28

I'll take one too, yeah, Lord. Just give me one of those uh ranch waters. Is there another ranch one?

SPEAKER_01 59:36

I'm gonna buy a camo. Whatever you got. These are beers from Common Space Brewery where I do a show the first the first Wednesday of every month. Fun show. Free show. El Sagundo's got some good beers, huh? Uh yeah, this is in Hawthorne. Concerts is a Hawthorne. Um, it's a fun show, dude. It's been it's been killer lately. We always evolve it every few years. We move the stage to a different part of the room, or like we know, we we we change like about the show, you know. El Segundo has one, two, three, four breweries or not. Four breweries within walking distance to my house. Um and they're all great. And uh yeah, it might be forget. Oh, we we had a fifth one, but it's gone now. But we we have four, all within walking distance of my house. It's pretty crazy. That's a nice one. Uh anchored by El Segundo Brewco, which was one of the t one of the first seven beers in Los Angeles County, our first seven breweries. And they also brew um Steve Austin's uh Broken Skull IPA, which is distributed nationwide.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

I didn't even know Steve Austin had an IPA.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:43

Oh, dude. It's it's killer.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:46

Yeah, it's really popular. They've got a great porter that they only put in a bottle that's only out I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:52

They have a lot of seasonal beers.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Yeah, man. That is a great beer. We always try to go over there and get a slice at the pr at the pizza company.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:01

Don't know when it's going to a great great place. We got their beers on top.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:04

Yeah, and I can't remember the name of that beer, but it is really good, man. It's a good little but it's delicious. But you can't, it's like and they don't they won't uh they sell they only sell it in like four packs or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:23

You know, it's a great it's it's weird how there's beers that I remember being amazing, like when I first discovered them. Because my move is and has been for a long time, when I travel or do gigs, I'll just tell the bartender, I would like a local IPA, please. Right. Or sometimes I'll even throw in like, I'd like a local IPA that you think is delicious, you know? And I like the bartender to choose what I should have. And then even when we were traveling with Bert, like the writer, you know, would say local IPA. So whoever the local, you know, venue runner was, they would pick out some really good local IPAs for us, and then the fans would bring us local. So I like I like discovering regional beers, right? And I remember the first time having like um uh Sweetwater 420 and um sculpting and uh uh like uh uh Two Hearted. Uh Love Too Heart. Yeah, but I think a lot of those beers have been like bought up by An Hyder Bush and the bigger things. Like they're all like, dude, if you can't beat them, join them, and they all started like you know, acquiring those things. So it's getting harder and harder. But um when you put it into the the bartender's hands, then they can kind of curate it for you. And I've had some great beers from around the country, man. Have you had Pliny the Elder? Oh bro, I remember the first time I had Pliny the Elder. I was moving out here from Florida, and my cousin, who's in the restaurant bar business, told me, he's like, dude, we did this like um, you know, beer tasting tour through Napa and Northern California, and he's like, dude, if you can get Pliny the Elder. So and I just kept hearing about it. And uh when I moved to LA, I was having lunch with my buddy, um, who's a guy who played water polo for University of Florida that I used to play against and we became good friends, lifelong friends. So I met him for lunch because he was living out here at the time, and I look over on the chalkboard and they had plenty of the elder, and I go, Motherfucker, I got people wanting to try that. And he was on his lunch break in a suit and tie, and I drank one, and I was like, oh my god, that's so good. We sat up there and drank like three Pliny the Elders apiece.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:22

That's uh we have it on our our uh on our POS system, Pliny to the Elder. It's never no often do you have it? No, we've never had it. It's like, but he's got it in there just in case.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:34

Well, Pliny the Elder, they they've been the Russian River Brewery, it's been very smart. Not only is it do they do a great job, so speaking of two-hearted, like two-hearted and ploting the elderly went back and forth for years as like um whatever it is, uh craft brew magazine or like uh number one IPA in the country. It was like those two back and forth for years and years. Um but what Russian River does, to my understanding, is they've been very smart about not oversaturating the market with it. It's a special thing when your local bar gets it. Right. There's only a few bars around the country that have it like pretty constantly on tap. I think the library in Santa Monica is one of them. They get it a lot. Every now and then uh they'll get it at Slizman Pine or at Richmond Bar and Grill. Oh, really? Segundo, yeah. And um back in the day, uh Rock and Brew used to get it, but a couple times they've gotten it, like someone's told me, and then by the time I get down there, it's gone. Yeah, but um, but yeah, there's places that get it, but they they just like slow release it. So so it's still a special It's like an allocation thing, and that way it doesn't you can kind of control the product. It's a special treat to get burned. Yeah, exactly. But there's this there's this one random bar in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which um my buddy Kyle Ruff runs uh comedy shows in Steamboat, and uh I I've gone back the past couple years and done his show for him because you know I like to snowboard, and um I've got I've put together enough gigs around Colorado that I can make little runs out of it, and it's just fun for me. Like there's a lot of people I really enjoy hanging out with and seeing um uh those Colorado gigs and whatever. So I like to support Kyle specifically because he works really hard at um producing comedy shows in this little ski town, and uh they do their show at this place called Schmiggade's, which is like a bar or slash like club. Normally they're gonna have music acts, but on Friday, Saturday, early show, they do comedy shows and people show up for it. It's really fun. And then there's this one bar down the street that I can't remember the name of, but everyone just migrates down there. And it's just this little hole in the wall, it's like not dimly lit, it's like a well-lit bar, no food, and they just have really good bourbons and really good uh beers, basically. And they have Pliny the Elder year-round, always there. And so the first the first weekend I ever worked there, first night I was drinking some local IPA, it was good or whatever. And then the second night uh I was drinking and I asked I You know, I asked the bartender, like, what should I have? He goes, You read Pliny the Elder? I go, Fuck yeah, I've had Pliny the Elder. He's like, All right, you should have that. I go, You guys have Pliny of the Elder? He goes, Yeah. I can't believe I wasted a night not drinking that. I've been drinking Bud Life. What the fuck? I'm like, I'm drinking Pliny of the Elder the rest of the night. So now, like, every time I go to steamboat streams, I'm just like, gonna have plenty of the elder. What's the name of that bar?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:22

I like sniggeties. Call Kyle Ruff. Kyle Ruff, tell him to give me some pliny of the elder. All right. Uh hold on.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:32

Here we go. This is what Kyle looks like, just so you guys know. Burt Reynolds. This is fun. Kyle, first of all, happy birthday, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

Thank you. It's Sunday, but thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm not gonna call you on Sunday. I'm calling you today. Hey man, I'm on the overserved podcast right now, bragging about your show and your scene. And I can't what's the name of the bar that we go down and we drink Pliny the Elder till the sun comes up?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:01

Oh, that's called the Barley.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:02

The Barley! This is how I described it. Very plain Jane. It's just like tables and chairs. Maybe there's one couch in the corner, and it's got a got a modest bar when you first walk in, a coat rack off to the left, but uh it's not even dim. It's like it's like well lit. And they just have great beers and great booze. And it's very simple.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:23

Yeah, it's all everything there is from uh at least all the liquor is from Colorado, and then the majority of the beers are Colorado, but they do some special, they call them tourist house like that Finding the Elder, which is from Oregon, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:39

It's from Rushman River in Northern California, but nice try by it.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:43

I don't know where things are.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:45

All right. I love it, buddy. All right, that was gonna kill me. I had to think of it. The barley guys go if you're in steamboat springs, go check out the barley. They don't have food, but there's a great pizza place upstairs. You can order pizza and bring it down there and check out steamboat comedy uh while you're in town to go see Kyle.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:01

Yeah, fucking appreciate you, brother.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:03

All right, I love you. I'll call you later. The barley. That sounds like smiggateys a little. Smiggade's is like, yeah, that's a great name too. Wait, let's see. Let's ask you. Hold on, hold on. I would think that's a good story, too.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

What's the story behind how they came up with the name Smiggade's?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:30

Dude, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:33

Um, that disappoints us, man. All right, all right. Lupin the loop loop in the owner. He told me the story before it was a good it was a good story.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:42

I will I will find out because I gotta go there tonight to run karaoke, so I'll find out and I'll report back.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:47

All right, get back to me and then we'll do a follow-up episode. All right, see you later. I never thought I would have to be. It was it was uh the owner was at the shikami show, and I asked him, I was like, how'd you go with the name Schmiggities? And he was like, it was something like it was it was such a terrible story, it was a good story, right? Because it was something like uh, oh man, we were drunk trying to come up with a name for the bar, and someone suggested something, and someone else was so drunk they couldn't say it, and the way they kept pronouncing it was Schmiggity, and we went, we're just gonna go with that. Yeah. And I was like, I go, that was such a bad story, it's a great story. There you go. But you named your business out of something so flippant, you know, and it worked. And it lasted. I like it, man. So the last time I did their show, uh, it was during season, so it was like, you know, it was uh snow season. Right. So uh you know how like when you go up on the mountain to go snowboarding or snow skiing and they have the the top of the gondola or the ski lift, they have the big cafeterias and the bar and everything where like you know, you would eat mountain you would eat food up on the mountain. So he did um he does a show down at the base at that bar, but then he did a special couple shows where on the Saturday night you took the gondola up and then we did the comedy show up on top of the mountain. Oh, that's cool. And it was so cool. I was like, dude, are people gonna go up for this? This seems weird. And we got up there and it was packed. Oh, it's kind of and just like it's not like you're like you're still in just a room, but just the fact you took a gondola up and it like made it like a special event, like the energy was so different. Like my comedy show at the patio, like I've produced tons of bar shows around town. I've produced tons of shows in general over the years, and something about this show that we're doing every other Wednesday at Old Town Patio, it's the most fun I've ever had producing a show. Part of that's probably because I have I'm invested in the butt but but honestly, it's more than that. It's just we literally I don't wanna I don't wanna jinx it, but it's like I think just the vibe of it being outside and the the patio itself is such a cool space that I just feel like the crowds not need to be warmed up. They're like, dude, we showed up to like chill and have a great time, and they're just like invested from the go. It's been the most fun I've had. Like, I was supposed to leave you out in Memphis and May tomorrow night, um, and I was gonna have a guest host for the show, and our lineup is so banging tomorrow night, and then also I've had so many people reach out being like, dude, I I'm actually free. And I just think it's gonna be a packed house. And I'm like, dude, I don't want to miss it. Like, I've never felt that way about a bar show before. Especially an outdoor show. Outdoor shows usually dude. It started raining halfway through one of the shows. Like, not raining, like misting, you know. And I was like, oh my god, we're screwed. And I went up and I told everyone, like, guys, if we need me to grab some of everyone's like, dude, it's barely like just go.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:44

And y'all are serving barbecue at this? I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:47

I'm going. That's it. That's that's the sales pitch right. People sat in the rain. I like it. And watched the second half of the show. I'm like, this is random. This is not happening normally. You know, I I think a year from now it's gonna be the one of the best independent shows in LA. It's like the vibe's that good. People are starting to reach out to me to do the show. Like, you know, you you always feel the tide turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:07

Right, right, right. This little area, I hate having to go all the way up to like Hollywood if you want to catch a show or whatever. There's only a couple little things down here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:13

Well, Dano's show's great. Dano's shows is maybe one of the best going in town.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:17

Yeah, Dano's an anomaly, dude. No one puts the love and energy and and effort into uh consistently running a great show like Dano does. You know, it's like no, that's that's that's but outside of that, I mean you gotta I I think Dano's shows are great because of Dano.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:34

Oh yeah, he builds it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:35

He he built it and you know this this this show is great despite of me.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:42

I think it's the barbecue, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:44

Yeah, so I run once a year now, I run the Gundo Comedy and Barbecue Festival, and it's because I truly believe there is a symbiotic relationship between the mood, having good food, and having something that's a special uh treat um, you know, brings to uh good entertainment. And you've seen it for years at comedy clubs. If you want to talk about the bar scene and being overserved, underserved, whatever, uh it's so relevant in the comedy landscape because how many clubs have you worked where the um the tickets were overpriced and the um the servers sucked and they had just big uh sugary drinks that were cost too much money and the uh mozzarella sticks were cold and the server was not good, and then the seats were uncomfortable, and then by the time this comic comes on stage, yeah, this crowd is not ready to laugh at all. And it has nothing to do with the comic. And this comic's like, why is this room suck so bad? It's because people are in a bad mood. They just spent a ton of money on a babysitter, and they've had just nothing but bad news after bad news before the comic even got up there. But on the flip side, you go somewhere where it's like, oh, this was a reasonable ticket price. Parking wasn't difficult. Um, man, we had two great cocktails before the show even started. Like, they're just in a vibe, they're like, Man, we're so happy to be here.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:00

You know, it's definitely who who cares about comedy? It's somebody that loves comedy who wants to make it a good product. Lenny says some of the zany's in Nashville, man, that club ran like a time. And it was he never dropped, he never dropped checks during the show. You know, hey, they're gonna wait. If you gave them a good show, they're willing to wait. You know, why am I gonna interrupt the show? Why am I gonna make the show worse? Uh, by you know, by dropping the show, the tickets 10 minutes before the end of the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:27

Zany's in and that Zany's group, they were just in Chicago at the time. When I was a young comic and I started working the road, that was the first place that I recognized they've curated this atmosphere where people trusted the brand versus trusted who was on the show. So it wasn't like, oh, you had to book some reality show guy or some has been because there was name recognition just to sell tickets. People who wanted to go to the comedy show would say, We trust Zainies to book people who will make us laugh. Yeah. So they weren't coming out to see a specific comic. They were just coming out to see whatever comic Zain's told them, this guy's gonna be great. So that for that reason, they were one of the first clubs that used to regularly headline me. Because I mean I had no name recognition at the time. I still barely do. They were great, but they were like, dude, we know you're gonna kill it today. We know our our our our people are gonna love you, and they would book me. Yeah, they're great.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:23

And there's uh those those people who did that, uh the uh I mean uh Bruce and uh in Birmingham at the Stardome, he cared about he was one of those guys, you know, and uh D'Anunzio and those guys at the punchline in Atlanta, yeah, and uh uh uh and De Petta, those guys cared about comedy, so it was always gonna be a great show. If you're just putting in comedy as an afterthought, you know what can we do? You know, oh well let's get comedy in here. Yeah. Uh and you don't give a shit. Well, just like anything else, if you don't give a shit about it, it's gonna die on the vine. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go, man. Did you have a good time?

SPEAKER_01 1:16:00

Dude, the black. How long do we go for?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:02

Uh well.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:03

Should I call more people?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:05

Let's do it. Uh who do you got on the line? Call someone. I don't know, man. Uh, but yeah, I appreciate you coming out, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:11

Dude, anytime. Easy yes. Thanks for stalling. I had to go get my laps in. Uh I see you at the pool sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:16

I'm telling you, it's my thing, man. Yeah. It's my zen.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:19

Yeah. I love the pool. So I just started my own water polo club. Oh, yeah, there you go. Yeah. So I'm a water polo guy. I played at Auburn like we talked about. And I've coached high school for over 20 years. Um, and uh, but I've never ran I've I've helped run clubs, I've been a part of clubs, I've never started my own club. And um my friend and I, who's a very talented coach, um, she coaches with me at uh El So Kano High School, Neela. And um, you know, it just one of the other clubs recently um uh folded, and some of our kids were looking for a place to play, and and some of the other local clubs didn't make sense for them, so they started begging us, like, please guys, start a club, start a club. So I was like, look, I think I I mean I got a lot on my plate right now, but I I would love to to do this for the community. I think it'd be fun, and I just love the marketing side of it, and and I just think we can do a lot of really cool things with relationships we've made over the years or whatever. So we we started a club, and told me if you like this name. Are you ready? I'm ready. Alright. We wanted something El Segundo without being too on the nose, El Segundo, because we didn't want to like exclude kids from other communities, you know, whatever. But we wanted to give a nod to where we're based. So we landed on uh a team called Quest water polo because of the famous song Cost My Wallet. El Sagundo, right? You know? I tried Quest. Okay, I got to do it. So we're quest water polo.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:49

I like that, man. Gotta get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:53

Yeah, you know. Gotta get it. Gotta get it.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:55

Who are you guys partnering with? Who what are your some of your relationships you guys can get?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:59

Well, I just know like so many I'm great friends with so many college coaches around the country and stuff like that. And so I just want to bring them in and use our infrastructure to do clinics and camps and um take the kids to, you know, I every year I take a group of kids from here to Orlando to play in a camp there. I just want to give kids like life experiences and memories. And then also, man, we're gonna do some cool stuff with like, you know, um Who's your age rate? Well, right now we just have the the high school. Yeah, high school boys and girls. But um, you know, we're we're gonna, you know, get some younger programs going. And then also I want to do some cool stuff with uh the masters and like the older guys, and and you know, there's limited opportunities. It's just like the same old opportunities where like, oh, you gotta be like on a team and you go to a tournament. I want to do some fun like daytime tournaments where you like put together a three-on-three team to play some beach polo, have a band playing out there, do some live uh announcing. Like I've started doing that too. I went a couple months ago to Phoenix and they have the desert duel. And so I purposely booked Tempe Improv the same weekend as it. And then I went out and uh I I they gave me a microphone and water polo, you know, unless you're playing like in the Olympics or you're playing for like the final four at D1, you don't get to hear your name over the speakers ever, you know. So I was out there, like people are scoring goals, and I was just like, DOM Johnson, what a scorcher!

SPEAKER_03 1:19:20

And he's like overlooking and be like, yeah, I'm just getting well that's like your bit about the guy at the Olympics.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:24

Yeah, Marco Kuhnz, bro.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:26

Yeah, totally, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:27

That's my closer.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:28

Which made a lot less sense to me until I found out you played waterpot. I was like, what is he talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:34

Yeah. Let me ask you this. What's the worst condo you ever stayed in? Oh, man, we're opening up another hour of talks here. I'm surprised because I would think you would say my duplex.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:49

That was, yeah, that was bad, but that was also a blessing. This look Lawrence goes, hey man, you take the bet. I don't want to put you out, man. He's like, I would not forgive myself if I made you sleep on the couch.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:03

I was doing redoing a building in Louisville, Kentucky. My mom's duplex, she had died. And I called you, I go, hey man, I saw you're at the club. I was at home for the derby. This is what happened. Like you didn't realize the I didn't know it was derby weekend.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:16

And you didn't have a place for it. So I was going to do like a couple one-nighters in like uh Indianapolis and I don't know where else, but I was like trying to tack one more night on. So I saw that the Indianapol or the Louisville Club had a Thursday open. Right. So I hit them up and they're like, they're like, they booked me like right away, and I go, that felt too easy. And so I have no clue. I got on the airplane and everyone's like dressed. I was like, something weird vibes. And then they gave out those little like chocolate things or whatever that are like I guess like customary, but derby, and they're doing like mint julips and stuff. And I'm like, the fuck is happening? And then they're like, it's derby weekend. And I go, oh my god, what have I done? Like, no, no one's coming. And I you were doing a I was like, hit you up. I was like, uh, because I saw you were gonna be in Louisville. Yeah. And I go, Lord, are you in Louisville? And you're like, yeah. And I go, dude, I don't have a place to stay. I go, I was just gonna grab a hotel room when I got there, and everything's sold out. And you're like, dude, crash with me, no problem. Like, you want to do this? Like, yeah, yeah, come on. So we hung out and whatever. And but yeah, I was I would have been screwed if you didn't give me a couch to crash.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:20

There was uh, I mean, the house was literally under construction.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:23

Yeah, so you were you were at the you were at the Derby already. The well, not the Durban. That was at Thurby. Yeah, yeah, Thursday. Which is the Thursday. I I literally landed, got my rental car, changed in like the parking lot, and I go, I'm gonna be there. And I I like dropped 30 bucks to park in someone's yard and like just walked into the the races, and we had a couple mint jups. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:44

I was like, mint julep, that's just like bourbon on ice? What is that?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:48

Bourbon, crushed ice, water, and sugar. And mint.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:52

It's not much.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:53

No, but it's supposedly like the original cocktail. What I've always heard.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:58

Yeah, but you guys were doing construction, there was clothes everywhere. No, but I've uh the rest of the shirt, I've stayed in way worse than the cocktail. What's the worst? Man, Dayton was pretty bad. Uh Dayton Wiley's? Yeah. That was really bad. I I was um I was co-headlining my my buddy Leandry, and this was like the tail end of that club right before that dude sold it, and like you could tell he was just like did not have extra money to spend on stuff. And uh and so we we went and uh he he brought his uh girl at the time, and so I was like, dude, I'll just take the second bedroom, you guys take the master bed. I don't know if either one of them was better than the other, but it was like didn't have headboards, so it was just like the bed, and you could just see the dirt on the wall from where people's hair had the head stained. Yeah. It was so gross. I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg. But uh and and back in the early days of like um working all the Florida like B and C rings. Oh my god. Like those guys all had cotton because all those shysters that ran those clubs were like, I got this condo button, you know, and they put you up in nose. And uh they they were just all so bad, man. Uh it it was just Richmond, Virginia had the worst club I think. Yeah, uh the old condo. So side splitters is an amazing club now, and they take care of you. But back in the day, that side splitters, you know. Is that Bobby Jewels? He's still a Bobby Jules. Was it the improv condo? I don't want to talk out of turn. There was one uh maybe it was the old improv condo. They're bad back. Yeah, they were one of them was really bad. It was just like the paint was like chipping off the walls.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:36

One of my favorite clubs in America was the it was in Milwaukee, and they had a terrible condo. It was like across the street, and it was just terrible. But you walked across the street and the club was so good. Yeah, you're like, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:51

One of the best situations was as a young comic when Zane started booking me, uh, they had a club out in St. Charles. Right. It was like in this uh. And so it was a club, a really nice club inside this like golf resort, and my kids were little, and my in-laws lived in Indiana.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:09

So we'd go visit them for a few weeks, and then I'd borrow they would give me a nice suite because I'd be like, I'm bringing my family.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:19

So they put me in a suite. So my kids were like sleeping downstairs, and my wife and I were up on the second level, and so it was like it actually felt like a vacation. Yeah, yeah. And then they had this awesome pool, and um my kids would just swim all day in the pool, and I would sneak away and play golf. And uh then they had like the kids' club, so you could drop the kids off the kids' club. My wife would come to the show with me, have a few drinks, and then just walk 50 yards back to our hotel. It was like the best weekend every year. I loved it. And then my first great closer came from being there. Uh, we were hanging out in the pool and they had doing they had like a DJ playing at the pool, but it wasn't like a like a spring break Daytona DJ like we're talking about now. It was like some old lady who was like a party DJ, you know? Yeah, so she did she teach you to twerk. She was teaching us how to do like the Macarena or something. Like, you know. So she would always do these little competitions for the kids, and she'd be like, uh, all right, come on over, guys. We're gonna do a you know, bubble. Who are we gonna make the biggest bubble? And I got a prize for you, whatever. So then they did a little race in the pool for the kids, and and uh and then she goes, All right, guys, we're gonna do another another race in the pool, but I have a really good prize, but it's for adults. So what's some adults who want to race in the pool? And my kids came over and like, Dad, you gotta race. And I'm like, nah, I'm just chilling. And like, you can do it, Dad. And I'm like, Alright, fine, I'll do it. So uh I'm gonna shorten the story, but basically, I was just gonna mail it in, but then this guy was kind of talking shit. I'm like, so I like, all right, I'll put on the jets and I just I just you know destroy these guys in the race. Well, I come in, I finish the race, and then this lady's like, uh, you just won two free tickets to see Dave Williamson in the comedy club today.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:04

I was like, oh my god. I don't know, bitch. It's so embarrassing. Burned that energy. Who wants tickets to see me? I'm passing them out, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:12

So I so I had this whole like story around it, like a lot more things ensued. But I I told that story that night and uh and it crushed, and then I didn't tell it again for like a year and a half. And when we went back there, I told the story there, and it just absolutely crushed. And I told my wife, I go, I think I could do that story anywhere. So I started, and it became like my first great closer. Oh yeah. Like I told that story for years, like about that swim race, and uh and it was like, you know, it was it was it was like literally my first like you know, banger of a closer.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:43

Zanies, man, they had a great clo they had a great condo in Nashville when I first started. I had a guitar-shaped swimming pool. Really? Yeah. It's like you had uh the feature act had his own uh condo and the headliner had their own condo.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:56

Everything shaped like a guitar in Nashville. Music City, I mean.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:00

Yeah. The uh huh. What do you want to talk about now? Are we done?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:05

Are we done?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:06

That seemed like a good one. I mean, yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:08

Seems like we got a little some bonus footage there. That was good. We were gonna stop and then we went well, we got right back into it. This is one of my favorite guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:15

Uh go to the uh old town patio in Elsie Gundo and get some uh pork.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:21

Come through, and I would tell anyone listening that if you're gonna go to the old town patio, uh their Instagram is at E S Old Town Patio, but follow me at Dave Wcomedy and message me if you're gonna come. And if I'm not already there and I'm in town, I will come down and meet you for a beer. I love when people come to support, I love meeting people who come uh go out of their way to support. So um hit me up. I I mean that genuinely, and tell me that you know you heard me on this podcast. Um I have another Instagram which is at MeetDaveBBQ. Trying to build my barbecue. Meet with an A. M-E-A-T. Yeah, Meet Dave. Meet Dave is my barbecue podcast, and it's just become my nickname and my branding. Um, and then check out Dave Williamson.com if you want to check out my tour dates. And uh the Gundo Comedy and Barbecue Festival in Els Gundo, California. It's like the funnest weekend of my year. I love it so much. It's like been such a cool thing to grow. And we sold out every single event last year, and that's gonna be June 25th to 28th. So um follow that on the socials at Gundo uh Comedy BBQ. And uh I think that's that's it. I think that's everything, yeah. Go uh join his water polo too.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:32

Quest water polo. Quest water polo. Yeah, thank you, man. Appreciate you coming out. Yeah, man. Thank you, man. Got it. That's it for us, guys.