Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com happy Thursday coming at you with yesterday's brand new release 2021 Panini absolute football six box half case pick your team number three from jaspyscasebreaks.com This is our last case of absolute. I don't think we're I don't think we have any more. We might get some more eventually But for now, this is it at least at this price point big. Thanks everybody for getting into the action on the Thursday We got Thursday night football happening here If you have a little rooftop next to your name right here That means you won that team in that filler we did and John ended up with last bot mojo with the Eagles before we pulled out all those teams for the filler and We've got the Cardinals Packers at Cardinals and Cardinals up seven nothing with Few minutes left in the first quarter. So still early part of the game Here's the fresh case of absolute Let's see which half we're gonna do. So we've got you can see the top camera right there We got the back row here. That's two four and six boxes. Here's another two four six boxes right here So we're gonna roll the die and see which half we're gonna do one two three for the left side and four five six for the right side here Let's go with that guy and it's six one two three four five six So this side we will say for pick your team four So we'll mark these four. Let me do that really quick and then we can start this break Thanks everybody once again We'll see what we got We will do the full case Rex get into the second half Some of the rare stuff that we're looking for here You just talked to make you say it's okay if we if we do the full case. Yeah, we will Second half is up already. We are doing the full case Rex second half is ready to go Chastity's case breaks comm 11 teams left and we'll use this blank card right here to hide some of the hits We got a keen nix to 35 And a Jalen waddle 250 Jalen waddle going to the dolphins And that will be for Patrick who won the dolphins in that filler The hit is Cornell Powell 59 out of 100 auto going to mark and the chiefs Mark, I appreciate that dual relic Raiders dual relic Appreciate the gift. We got 10 out of 100. Diamond Brown for Peter and the Washington football team Got Cam Newton Justin Herbert and we got a 2-2 Atwell war room relic 51 out of 75 Going to the Rams that's gonna be for Robert and the Rams And then we've got Javante Williams rookie premier triple relic and autograph 153 out of 399 For my rivals the Broncos Who uh, it's for Adam and picked up the Broncos straight up. We got four out of 25 Tom Brady Buccaneers That's gonna be for Anthony Phillips the Bucks Stafford DK Metcalf And a Jets team tandem dual relic Zach Wilson Elijah Moore 169 out of 199 It's gonna go to the New York J ETS Jets Jets Jets but treat for the Jets and the redemption Is gonna be a signature rookies spectrum orange T Are the are a Travis Etienne junior for the Jaguars That's for Jacksonville.  Maybe we can find his teammate In here somewhere You get a free top load or two. All right next box Packers are in a fourth-in-one situation here. They're going for it. Oh, yeah, they have to go for it They're like at the 12-yard line Cardinals 12 and shotgun they're trying to oh, I think they're trying to draw them off sides Almost did But no All right next box and let's go. We got Tyler Murray Sam Darnold and TJ Watts is 75 and behind TJ Watt is a rookie premier quad relic and autograph. That's Kellan Mond Quad relic and auto 67 out of 75 And that'll go to Minnesota Jerry with the Vikings back here is Deontay Johnson tools of the trade dual relic 37 out of 99 Pittsburgh That's gonna go to Patrick Evans Got Dak Prescott 001 to 100 Dallas That'll be for Craig. You got Baker Mayfield and Philip Lindsey. I've got a dual relic here Joe Burrow Jamar Chase That's a good team tandem 24 out of 75 Tamoya with the bangles That's Marche's had what 200 200 yards last week something like that It's a good tandem and back here is Chauncey Goldston rookie autograph 22 out of 25 for the boys Craig we got a red zone Travis Kelsey 47 out of 50 For KC that's gonna go to Mark It's Carson Wentz and Darren Waller Now they're viking here. Yes Patrick Jones a second to 250 and the hit is Michael Carter rookie autograph for the Jets 13 out of 50 for the treat. Did you get the first down? Yeah, you're dealing about the first down All right next box second half in the store jasby's case race comm 11 teams left out get your teams before they end up in a filler Sack fumble looks like points down there Points will randomize to one yet his points will randomize to one person in the break Winner take all on the points if there's more than one points part. Hopefully it's just be the one There's Greg Rousseau for the bills eight out of 25 Colin with the Buffalo Billings Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey brothers I wonder if that was intentional No, these are all randomly packed so Air raid Patrick Mahomes Nice piece of his jersey going to mark and the KC chiefs and there's the points right there Got quitty pay 51 out of 100 for the Colts. It's gonna be for Jeremy 33 There's a manual Sanders and Taysum Hill We've got a charger here Keenan Allen piece of his jersey absolute heroes Nine out of 99 it's Roy with the Bolts and back here Dwayne Eskridge Quad relic and autograph 31 out of 75. That's Jerry and the Seattle Seahawks D. Eskridge We got here. We've got Zach Wilson 120 out of 250 It's for treating the Jets Third in one for the Packers on like the two-yard line Stuffed no gets in for the touchdown. Wow muscled his way in there. All right. We got DK Metcalf red zone to 35 and Annie Dalton Rob Ronkowski Your hit is Amir Smith Marseille rookie autograph gold seven out of ten that card is gold All right, good luck everybody 77 in the game For entertainment purposes only I'm on the cardinals minus six See how that works out for me by the end of the game All right, good luck. We got Jalen camp Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey together again brothers Jalen camp 75 for Sean and the Jaguars And there's a team tandem no offense and Devonte Williams 59 out of 1 at 99 Sean D. What's up? Sean's a Packers fan But Kyler Murray Your fancy QB you're hoping for a shootout Well, I thought I was gonna be a shootout to the the total was was at 50 There's Nico Collins still a lot of time though quad relic and autograph 32 out of 75 For the Houston Texans that'll be for Patrick Davis next up. We got Demetric Felton 63 out of 100 for the Browns Calvin Ridley and Levisca Chanel Jr Your hits we've got a Lamar Jackson Absolute heroes rally 79 out of 99 like that that texture there is pretty cool Steve Kim with the purple birds And on here is Pete Warner rookie auto 38 out of 50 for the Saints That'll be for Rex Who won the Saints in the filler? He's a friendly guy apparently so it says on the back of the card Rex. We got introductions Rondale Moore 27 out of 35 Ethan cook with the Cardinals He's been he's been getting some targets, I think Dak Prescott Jalen Hertz Got a Mack Jones relic no Mack Jones rookie card that is sorry to 250 003 out of 250 he's been having a solid season Patriots Karen with the Pats and the autograph is a camp chancellor iconic ink five out of ten I Slow number there for the Seahawks Jerry Grant with Seattle Two boxes to go. I think that's the kaboom card right on the bottom there They generally fall one per case although we have seen we did see a case yesterday That had an extra kaboom and an extra explosive short print So that is possible. We got a manual Sanders 45 out of 75 for the bills Colin Lamar Jackson Tom Brady and Team tandem Justin Jefferson Kirk Cousins 166 out of 199 Jerry with the Vikings Jerry Bennington, and then we have Hunter long rookie auto 23 out of 75 Patrick Evans Miami 79 out of 100 miles Sanders. There's tools at the trade T Higgins 17 out of 49 Timoia with Cincinnati Then we got trade Lance nice Rookie Premier Jersey and autograph 22 out of 49 For the 49ers That's Leonard who picked up the 49ers straight up Rewarded with the trade Lance. I think There's that part is that the designers at like a little I don't know what that is. I'd be part of the design Or maybe a smudge or something like that. I don't know. It's kind of weird look a little dot there Maybe trade Lance put a pen mark on there or something like that Either way Niners. There you go Leonard And let's see what we got down here. There's Kyler Murray James Robinson and a Sam Allen Gerta 250 Here is a 1 out 75 Aziz ojolari and Kaboom Kaboom time Kaboom is the kaboom is coming Kaboom Christian McCaffrey Not bad at all kaboom that goes to Tim picked up Carolina straight up boom Yeah, that's crazy So it is possible have multiples ladies dumbed so second half in the store Jasper's case breaks.com And then Really six-figure card like a hundred thousand dollars Wow not just like some kids saying it's gonna be wow Get into the action ladies gentlemen We could we could find an extra kaboom Go for a lot Another redemption on the bottom. There's a Keem Hicks to 75 for da bears EA Josh Allen Justin Jefferson and a Trey McKinney to 250 and Justin Fields is your autograph 10 out of 10 rookie autograph for EA and the bears There's a Remandry Stevenson to 75 Patriots John O'smith and Chris Carson Rex is saying there's a Brady explosive Up to what 2,500 with a few days left. I wonder what that's gonna close for Because people really really like those short prints Absolute heroes 43 out of 99 Short print and out of 10. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, you're welcome, man. Thanks for grabbing the bear straight up Nice low number on that too Adam Thielen for Jerry B and the Vikings. That's the redemption. Let's do the other side other stack first Rannel calm to 100 still Texans addition there There's miles Garrett absolute heroes Two-color relic four out of 49 Allison with the Browns got a Jacob Harris Triple relic in auto 243 out of 399 piece of the pigskin on the left side That'll be for the Rams. That's Robert Ronco who won the Rams in that filler and the redemption. Good luck everyone It's gonna be a signature rookies spectrum blue Jay a Jamar Chase Jamar Chase nice Nice Jamar Chase for Tamiya and the Cincinnati bangles We're on Cincinnati and a free top loader Great wide receiver. All right. Gonna give away those 600 points to somebody on This list right here. So that was pick your team three pick your team four in the store Let's go and finish off that second half. There's all the names here new dice new list name on top after Seven we'll get the 600 points One there's one two on ram.org three There you go wake up four Five What did I say? Five times. No seven times six And seven in final time after seven name on top with the points It's Patrick Evans with a spot that you won Getting 600 points going your way a little consolation prize. Thanks everybody for watching and breaking with us I guess I want to do a quick little recap about a half hour break. That's worth a worth a recap Usually your breaks are around half an hour or more Do a quick little recap nice tray the lance He's still working his way back from a knee thing There's the traves at tn brady to 25 And of course we had the macabre kaboom and the 10 out of 10 justin fields Thanks for watching everybody. Um, we should see We should see an explosive in the other half possibly an extra kaboom card. I don't know We won't know until we uh sell that out and bust it open. So thanks for watching everyone We'll see you, uh, hopefully a little bit later tonight with the second half of absolute football on joe. Bye. Bye


Hi, my name is Nealey Stewart, and I'm a 4-H state ambassador from Lee County. This is my friend Stacy Brown, and she's the founder of Chicken Salad Chick, so today we're just going to talk a little bit about that. Well, thank you so much for having me, Nealey. Of course. So I know your major at Auburn University was communications, so how did you get in the restaurant business? Well, so I really did not know what I was going to do with a communications degree. At that point in my life, I was really going off of my parents saying, you have got to get a degree. It really doesn't matter what it's in, just get the degree, and then you can move on with your life without having any restrictions that you just needed that degree to be able to move on with life. And so at that point, I wasn't going after a degree because of what my passion was in life. I was just doing what I thought I needed to do. What I didn't realize is that a communications degree perfectly prepared me for what I would do many years later. So I did not, let's say I graduated in 1999, and I did not begin chicken salad chick until 2007. So, you know, life just does not happen in the great plan that you have for yourself.  And so the perfect storm for me to start chicken salad chick ended up being, it came in the shape of a divorce. Unfortunately, you know, we think of a large life event like that is going to just be all devastating and all tragic, and it was, but to come out of that situation and become an entrepreneur in order to survive and take care of my three kids, that's how chicken salad chick started. I did not go to college with a dream of opening a concept and franchising that business. Life is just not that neat and tidy. And so, thankfully, the way it all unfolded, it has been a dream that is, I mean, I just, I never could have imagined that it would be this wonderful. And so I'm so thankful for everything that has happened in my life to get to this point. But I did not go to college and think I was going to be an entrepreneur and open chicken salad chick. OK, so I know you said that something like your college degree helped you in your job today. So how, how does it help you like explain? So my greatest classes that I took at Auburn about communications were really about interpersonal communication, about how to communicate effectively one on one, one on one with people, how to be good team members, how to be a team player, how to accomplish a task as a team. And so running a kitchen and running a restaurant is an absolute teamwork, getting through every shift, all of that is about a team. And then the interpersonal communication one on one has been so helpful in running a restaurant because you really feel like you're every guest therapist. You know, I mean, I have real relationships and lots of one on one communication that helps everybody in a restaurant feel very loved and valued. And that comes from my communication degree. And then moving into the franchise world and building an infrastructure for that business, all those skills were used as well. So communication really can be used in all walks of life. OK, so since you are an entrepreneur, what is your biggest hint of how someone can get started in the restaurant business? How to get started in the restaurant business. I would say go get a lot of experience, so go work in restaurants. If you want to get into a restaurant and you want to open your own and that is your dream is to go own your own business. You need to go sink yourself into other businesses first. And you need to drink up all of the knowledge and experience that you can get in the industry and really be observant about what's working and what's not working and take notes. And if that is your path, that's what you want to do. Then you need to be a good student, need to be a good student of your experience. And then you've got to have the drive and the passion to move it forward. It's a lot easier to not act. And it takes a lot of courage and it's got to be in your heart. It has to be a passion or work just becomes work. And when work is just work, it's not very fun and it's harder to get up in the morning. And I have never felt that way one day in my life. I whistle to work every single day. I never think I don't want to go in. I absolutely love what I do because it's in my heart. It's in my veins and I just can't wait to get going. And that's my wish for everybody is don't go after a livelihood. Don't go after the money. Go after what you love and then you're bound to be successful. OK, so if you do it all over again, is there anything that you would do differently? So this sounds crazy because I've made so many mistakes. I made so many mistakes that, thankfully, our franchise owners don't have to make because Kevin and I made them for them and we learned from those mistakes. And so it sounds like, well, I wish I would not have made those mistakes, but that's not true. So we made a lot of costly mistakes and we purchased equipment for a kitchen three different times rather than going to spend the money the first time around for commercial equipment that would have worked. We bought residential equipment three different times because we didn't want to spend the money that we needed to buy the commercial equipment. And we didn't go and research other restaurants. We didn't research other restaurants on the way that they did things. We we basically recreated the wheel because we did not go out there and look. But what I have to say about that is if we had really taken what other people had done before us, we would not have had the out of box thinking that we ended up having. So even that benefited us. And so we've made lots of mistakes. And I can honestly say I would not go back and do anything differently because I would not have the knowledge that I have today by making those mistakes. And I hope that what students realize is every mistake is going to benefit you, whether it ends up narrowing your focus because you made a mistake in that way or you made a costly mistake. It always teaches you how to move forward. And so if people will take the time to be reflective and say, what did I learn from that? Then every step forward is going to be more focused. But it's all those mistakes that you make that get you where you are. So I don't regret any of those. It's they're all time consuming. They've taken a lot of my life, but still wouldn't be here today without it. OK, so I already know the answer to this question on how you came up with all your flavor names. But lots of people don't understand. So can you explain how you came up with all the flavors in the name? Yes. So the very first part of that, how that idea evolved was when I was delivering out of my home, only had four or five flavors. But when I told Kevin, who at that time was just a family friend, when I told him I was asking him for advice on how to run this business from my house. And he said, well, if you're going to have different flavors, you should really differentiate them some way. Now, it already named the business chicken salad chick. He said, I don't know, give them like girly names or something. And I was like, oh, my gosh, that is the most brilliant thing ever. Chick and with a girly name with the chicken salads, it was the perfect piece to the puzzle and it was a theme and it all fit together and it just came together beautifully.  And all of the namesakes of all of the chicken salads have played a large part in my life. So Nutty Nanna is my mother. So Luelle Lydia is my daughter. Kicking Kalen is my aunt. Jazzy Julie is my college roommate. Some are neighbors, some are friends. Some are sorry, my neighbors and friends together and aunt's daughter, mother, mother-in-law. So it's just a wide variety of real people that I was just trying to honor by naming chicken salads after them. I did not realize it was going to lead to some hurt feelings because there are chicks that I love in my life that don't have flavors. And it was just to honor people. I didn't want it to hurt people's feelings, but it did. And so that is how Sassy Scotty came to the menu. So Scotty, her actual name is Scott, it's not Scotty. And she called me up one day because she was not on the menu. And she said, I have been your best friend since kindergarten. And I am not on that menu. And I said, I can't put you on the menu. It's a chick menu. You've got a boy name. And they said, you call it Sassy Scotty. Then you put bacon and cheese and know I love all that stuff. Well, she is the number three seller. She never lets me forget it. And she tells everybody, yes, my recipe. What's wonderful is we have a great chicken salad that accepts a lot of different ingredients and a lot of different flavors can be made from it. So there's so much potential that all of the chicks in my life could one day have a chicken salad, it's endless. So excited about that. Didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings, but there's a lot of potential. OK, so I've kind of always wondered this question. But if you were going to name a flavor after me, what would it be? Oh, my gosh, Neely, Nettles, let me say Neely. See, I already have a Nutty Nanna, but it would be a Nut Neely because you're pretty nutty. I'll have to think about that. Do you have what it should be, Neely? I don't know where to start with the N. The Nettles, Neely, I have to think about that. I have to think about that.  Now we're going to have to start thinking about ingredients. Well, you need to help out with the ingredients. Make sure there's fresh fruit in there. Fruit, OK, I'll be working on that. So you've really got my wheels turning. N, N, N, N. OK, I'll be thinking. OK, this is the last question. What is your favorite flavor if you could pick one? So I get this question at every opening and I try to attend all of the openings I can attend. And I get this in every at every opening and I have the same answer all the time, which is they're like my children and just don't have a favorite child. Don't have a favorite flavor. But I do get in moods. So like some days I want fancy Nancy on a croissant. Some days I want cranberry Kelly just with the fork. Some days if it's the beach or the lake, then it is Buffalo Barclay on a Frito scoop and then Olivia's Little South. I want it on a slice of a tomato with salt. I mean, I could go on and on how each one needs to go on something different at a different time. So it's just by my mood. OK, well, you already know my favorite, but I just like the classic Carol.     That's the funny thing, because I eat everything that you pretty much give me. And I always got home and I'm like, mom, Miss Stacy has the best nachos and then mom tries to make them and they're not good. Bro, you just think that because the nachos I'm not even going to say I'm embarrassed at how easy they are. Not to say, but whatever I can get you to eat at my house, I feel very proud of. But I understand that the classic Carol is your favorite, it makes sense. OK, well, thank you for your time and thank you for answering all these questions. OK, well, thank you very much for having me. I hope I didn't talk too much.


Today's show is brought to you by Zipcar.com. Earn $25 of free driving credit at JoinZipcar.com forward slash David Feldman show. The David Feldman radio program is made possible by listeners like you.  Welcome to the broadcast. I'm David Feldman, DavidFeldmanShow.com. Please follow me on Twitter and friend me on Facebook. Do all your Amazon shopping via the Amazon link that you see at the David Feldman show website. We're coming to you from Izzy's Diner on Wilshire Boulevard. Why are you laughing? Be professional. You're the host. I feel like this is Larry King in Miami in 1963 and I'm about to talk to Jackie Gleason. We're at the Park Sheridan Hotel and you're sliding scripts under the door. Larry King used to do a show like at Izzy's Diner. Izzy's Deli. So where is Izzy's Deli? And Adam Ferrara is here. I have not seen you. Long time, my friend. Long time. We work together in Vegas. I think the dunes were still there. It was a while ago.  So we would go for walks before our show, before we take the naps before our show. Wait a second.  It's got to be. 17 years ago and I was opening for you. Right now. And you used to say, let's take Grandpa for a walk. Yeah. Because you was there. I'd like to go for a walk. And if you walk in Vegas, you know that things are a lot further than you think. Yeah. And it's hotter and so we walked in the last two long. And then we came back to LA and we were living, I was in Hollywood and you were right down the block. So we would meet once in a while and take a walk and then we just kind of lost touch. So when I got in touch with you again, I was really looking forward to doing it. And I like to eat. Right. So that's why we're here at Izzy's Deli in beautiful Santa Monica where the sun is shining and it's a balmy 70 degrees. Cross from a hospital which is not really a good sign. Well, but it's convenient for me at my age. I'll be right back. I have to get one artery unclogged. How are you, my friend? I've been, you know, yesterday was my mediation for my divorce. Okay. And it looks like that's over with. So you need to see the wine list. Yes. I heard enough whining yesterday. That's hard, man. It's a hard road. It's a loss of structure, man. And you're married. I am married, yeah. Here's what I remember about you. Yeah. I guess this was 17 years ago. It can't be 17 years ago. It might not have been. It might have been 15 years ago. Okay. Oh, much better. Yes.  That's so sweet of you. I'm looking at the one I got. Women threw themselves at you. Oh, God. You are old. Your memory's going. And I remember in Vegas, there was a Russian woman. Mm-hmm. This was... Oh, yeah. Wow. That was the weekend you were there. Yeah. This is what I remember. Yeah.     Oh, look, I'm lucky I got the one I got. But this is what I remember about you.  She was Russian and she was gorgeous. Yeah. And you would buy her flowers and chocolates and wine and diner. And I kept saying, you closed. What are you spending them... See, what are you doing? That's right. I remember that. Why are you buying her flowers and chocolates? I don't know. I said, are you one of those schmucks? She was a nice girl. And you were romantic. Yeah.  What a putz.  He actually likes women. Oh, that's funny. You do love women. I love my women, yeah. But I mean, I think you genuinely enjoy the company of women and like romance. Yeah. I think you're romantic. Yeah. I wish you would have taken me to a nicer place for this, to be honest with you. Now that you brought it up, I didn't want to see anything in front of Alex, but now that you brought it up and it's on the table, would it kill you to put a lighter candle after 17 years? This is why we don't talk, David. I guess I do. I guess it's a whole, the atmosphere. I only can connect it to my wife because I am truly in love with this woman. And I learned a difference when I met my wife between have to and want to.  How can you live in service of the queen? So I guess I have that. I got that from my dad. I remember he... Go on with this because I have things to say about that. What? Well, my wife makes me better. So I knew that I was a pack of data. Thank you, sir. My veggie burger is being reported. I'll try to find something wrong with this and send it back. Yeah. Okay? Yeah. I'm sure there'll be something wrong. That's great. So I'm going to do this... Please eat, baby. I want to...  It's a boiled potato. How did they screw it up?  If it's floating, it's time for dinner.  Did you ever think it was you? Say it. Say what? Jew. You know, you're living proof that New York Italians are Jews. Oh, yeah. It's food, family, and guilt.  Food, family, and rage. Yeah, and rage. Oh, yeah. I remember once I asked my father, I said, Pop, how come you're so angry? It helps to hold down the rage. So I'm going to do this... Please eat. I want to do this because Robert Smigel did my podcast. Right. And ate throughout it.  Why? Do you hear the chewing? Wasn't Triumph smoking during the whole thing? And Triumph was smoking. And I did Jimmy Pardo's podcast this week. In the opening, five minutes, I was munching on a bagel. And I just want to see... How much you can piss it off the audience? How much I can push people away. Did this come up in mediation? You know, he eats constantly when we're trying to talk. All right, we're going to write that down. So what I was going to say is, if I had to do it over again, what you just said and the listeners to this podcast have heard me say this, I would have worshipped my wife. Really? Yeah, but the thing I learned was women are to be worshipped. Now, unfortunately, we have a female president. We're about to have a female president. And that's going to be considered patronizing. Is it patronizing or is it just... I'm not being sexist. The fact is, I genuinely love my wife. And grateful that I've seen how my life has got so much better that she's in it, and I want to... I define myself as trying to be a good husband and everything. My job is to provide and protect. It's not meant to marginalize ladies in any way. I think that women are underpaid. I think any decisions regarding their body should be made by them. Actually, that's what I think about women. But this isn't about them. It's about me.  Let me talk. No, I agree that women's bodies are their bodies, and only women should make decisions about their bodies. So whenever I sent my wife to a plastic surgeon, it was always a female who performed the...  Go see Claire, something sagging. Was that the... We're back. I had a little... He had to send something back.  Unfortunately, yes. It was delicious. Thank you. I'm sending back an empty plate. I'd never sent stuff back. No, me neither. No. You come back, oh, look at the heart shape of the potatoes. Those are ball prints. Don't eat them. Speaking of being on the stage, let's review... You're not just a stand-up comic. That's how I know you. But you're an accomplished actor. Yeah, I've been very fortunate to... Tell me about Nurse Jackie. Nurse Jackie was fun. I did two years on that show. I played Jackie's boyfriend. We fell in love, moved in, broke up. And it was a great deal of fun. It was a lot of fun to do it. She's extraordinary. I remember... And she's from Long Island, which is where I'm from. She's from the town next to us. So we kind of... It was kind of a connection there to begin with. Right. So I get the gig. And I remember the first scene we did. I'm in the car. I play a police officer. So I asked her out on a first date. And she says yes. And she's so good about creating, about being present. And I said, so you want to go out? And she goes, yes. And my little head, I went, I'm doing great with this girl. Does that happen? Because I'm not an actor. What? Does that happen if you're getting so deep into it, the method? Oh, you're connected. You have to play the truth of the scene. So, you know... It's like, I'm not the king of comedy in the basement. Ma! You know, it's like that. But yeah, there's a certain amount of truth and you have to find the truth of the scene.  Can it be adultery? Can you be lusting in your heart as an actor, even though you're married? Right now with you? No. I got nothing. But what... I mean, do you have to do a sense memory where you have to... Well, it depends on what you need to get there. I'll be honest with you. When I got to get anywhere I need to get deeper, there's two things to have. I think of my wife for emotional connection or I think of my wife telling me what I'm doing wrong. So, there's that voice in your head. Oh, thank you. More coffee. And do you do a line by line analysis or do you just get it off the face? There's a purpose of scene. You break down the scene like you figure out what the actor, what the writer intention of the scene, what the purpose of the scene is for the story, what your part of the whole is to play that. And then you just get the truth. It's being truthful in imaginary circumstances. Get the truth of that moment. Play it. And our scenes were very quick. That's when we did like... We wouldn't really rehearse much. Maybe we'd run lines quickly in a makeup trailer but then two takes and they were all happy with it. So, that's usually the best stuff I find is when it comes quickly. So, you did love scenes with Edie Falco? I did. So, I'm on top gear. I flipped over in a car and I separated my shoulder so I couldn't work out. So, I was all freaked out because I know I had beyond set with Edie. So, I get the script. Frank and Edie make love. Great, of course. I got a love scene. So, I can't work out and I'm freaking out.  I wasn't eating red meat anymore. So, my wife's a vegetarian. And when you fall in love with someone, she was like, listen, this isn't a fair. This is my lifestyle. You're going to be okay with this. And I'm like, do I get you? Yeah.  Fine. So, I stopped eating that and we did the love scenes. And the first kiss scene was very, very stressful for me because you want to do well. So, I ate a whole box of Altoids because I was terrified about my breath was going to stink.  But yeah, it's awkward. But, you know, you get through it. She's done love scenes on TV with two of the greatest actors of my generation. You and James Gandolfini. Look at that.  You know what? I'm getting you another potato. That was very nice. James Gandolfini. And she is just the nuance that she has. So, do you still study acting? Oh, yeah. I'm told you still have to... Yeah, you got to keep the machine moving because you never know when your next job is going to come and you learn by doing. You keep doing. It's like our stand-up, man. You keep doing it. Right. It's like when you talk to younger comments on the road like, how do you do this? How do you know this? I've just been doing it longer. But somebody like, I consider George Clooney, Matt Damon, to be great actors. Yeah. Do they... They can't go to an acting school. Do they have a coach comes in? I don't know what goes on in Italy. I don't know what George does over there. And Lake Homo? Lake Homo, you know. I'm sure they do something to keep the machine going. I guess they're fortunate just to keep working. You just go from one gig to another gig. Tell me about Dennis Larry. Irish, tall, skinny. Is he really skinny? Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. He's fun. Dennis gave me... We've been friends for a long time. The first gig I got with him was a cop show called The Job. I think it was 1998. 1998. And I get the gig and we're doing the show. And I had done Letterman. And I was like the second day of shooting. So we're still trying to get to know each other. And I had done Letterman the night before. I did stand-up. And he came into makeup trailer and just kicked my chair.  I saw you on Letterman last night. Really? Yeah. He didn't have no idea I was a stand-up. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I would assume that Apostle... That's his company. Jimmy, yeah. Serpico and Tom Selleve. Yeah. Those guys. And I would assume they take care of their friends. Yeah. This is my... I first met them. This is when I first came into the fold. Wait, wait, wait. You weren't a friend of his from Boston? Dennis? No. I met Dennis at the final audition for the show. Oh, my... I... No, we weren't stand-up friends. I was... I met Dennis actually during that process.  I was on that roast. I know. And all... I said this is a guy who takes care of his friends. Yeah. And I... So you became... He auditioned you as a friend. Yeah. No, not even... I didn't know him. I'm saying he auditioned you. Yeah. And then you became his friend. Oh, yeah. That's a good idea. It's been working friends. We're working... We're working on a show. I went audition... I went on tape. And you know how tape auditions are? I'm never going to see these people again. And then I got a call, fly to New York. And it was the greatest test they had, the test deal. Because I didn't know that... Well, the suits were looking. We're at the Chelsea Piers. It was just Dennis, Peter Toland, and a cameraman. That was it. They were shooting it. But I didn't know Disney and ABC were all up in the rafters watching. Oh. So it was just us and we started in Provinc and making each other laugh. Uh-huh. And I got the gig. And then I went on to rescue me. Yeah. And then that turned into a rescue. Who did you play on rescue me? I played Chief Needles Nelson. I was... When 9-11 hit, all the older guys either retired or unfortunately perished. And so they needed... Everyone in the FDNY got moved up before they might have been ready because of the shortage of manpower. Right. So I played a young chief that was in charge. And I did that for four years. For four years working in New York? In New York. Yeah, it was great. You have the opportunity not to live in Los Angeles. I did. Yeah, that's why we're here. But you keep coming back here. Well, I got the house here. I'm in Santa Monica. And I still got the apartment in New York, so I go back and forth. But what pulls you back to LA? My mortgage. Is there more work for... Well, there's... You have to be in both coasts, you know. It's like Jackie shot in New York and Top Gear... Shoot all over the place, but a lot of it was here in LA. It's great. I get to drive cars that cost more than the house I grew up in.  And you grew up living in a Corvair. You grew up living in a Corvair. Which is unsafe at any speed. Yeah, I got my... I like cars and I got it from my dad. I don't have that if-then-go-to statement when it comes to mechanical stuff. But my father can fix anything. But if you wanted to spend time with my dad, that's where he was in the garage. So I would learn how everything worked and I'd try to, you know, fix stuff like him. And we quickly figured out that my mechanical ability, my job was to hold the light. Because that's what I would do. I remember I was working on a car and if there's oils leaking, bloods flying, wrenches are falling, and my father came over and put his hand on my shoulder and said, son, you're going to have to get a job. You're going to have to work at something the rest of your life. This ain't it. So, let's put this one aside. But you wish you were able to know how to lift up a hood. Yeah. Well, I can-I knew how it-now I can't. I used to lift up a hood. That's because my dad was a model and I used to help him out of the-in the garage is where he did it. I thought you were going to say executioner. Oh, that's even better. Nobody knows what a model is. Today you're a man. They know it is he's. Listen, I'm going to have to send this foreskin back. It's a little tough. Hey, Doc, leave some on for later. Yeah. So, so you're driving cars? I-yeah, so that part of the show is three guys and we get to do all these automotive adventures.  I jumped a Cadillac about 40 feet in the air. I did-I did 188 in a Ferrari F12. I did 183 in a Lamborghini on the Autobahn.  I never thought I'd be able to-to do stuff like that. See, this is just-I'm an awe of real men. I remember I was doing-I got booked at a country club in Phoenix. Mm-hmm. And they rented a car for me and I show up and they were being very generous. Mm-hmm. And I show up at Enterprise and it's-they go, oh, you know, look over there, you can have any car you want. Right. And-and there was a brand new Mustang. Mm-hmm. Uh, I don't even know what the other car was. It looked like a Corvette, but it wasn't. Right. And I see a Nova. Right. And I go, I'll take the Nova. A Nova. Or a Taurus. Is it 1973? No, like a Taurus or something. Okay. And they go, but you could have a Mustang. Yeah. And I know how to drive a Taurus. You know what my- And that's the body of a Jaguar. That's-you know what my daily driver is? The car I drive every day is a 1970 Buick Electric 225. It's huge-it's 18 feet 5 inches. I have three garages at my house. It doesn't fit in any of them. And I live here in Santa Monica. I painted a black cherry metallic. I dropped the suspension. And I drive around-I drive around down playing Paul and the Funkadelic and Scare and White People. We-when I was married, we bought, I-I-it was a 1974 Dodge. I don't remember what it was. Dart. Swinger. Hornet. I don't know, but we spent a fortune on it. Mm-hmm. Just keeping it alive. It was a 1974 something. And I decided we were going to have a real American date. Okay. So we went to La Brea and picked up-this is when I was eating turkey burgers. We picked up fries, turkey burgers, and a shake at Pinks. Yeah, yeah.  Good. We get on Mulholland and I have a panic attack. Oh, good. And my wife is going, this is not a real man. I'm-I'm driving this car on Mulholland with the curvy roads. Yeah. And I'm going, we're going to crash. We're going to crash. I can't do this. I can't do this.  Oh, stop it. Well. You get pan- I got panic attacks. Yeah. Yeah. I got-I got-I got them, um, uh, when we were talking before, we were talking-we were talking all fair when we were eating. Yes. About the-the loss of structure and relationship. Right. And I got them. And my dad got-got ill during that time, so everything was crumbling for me. And, uh, that's when I got my panic attacks. Right. And you know what actually-actually helped me? Was listening to my act. Because, you know, we can't lie on stage. You can't-so that was a form of identity. I was like, okay, I can still do that. Right. And I could still work. So that was my saving grace. It's interesting because I had a-a-a mild nervous breakdown in Las Vegas at Harris. Were you working? No. Okay, good. I just couldn't-I was like in a- I was mild nervous breakdown. You know, I-I had a slight coup of the government. You know. Well, mild nervous breakdown means I'm too cheap this spring for the loony bin. Hello. What's my insurance like? Yeah. Okay, then this is a mild-this is a mild one. I'm going to take-I'm going to drink cocoa and yell at the lamp. I'll be fine. But the only time I could function was when I was performing. Yeah. I don't know what that is. It actually-in physically too, like if I have a cold or something, I can go on stage and not feel, you know, anything. Or if you have to pee. Yeah, if I have to pee. I don't know if I ever-I don't know if I ever had to pee on stage. If I have to pee and they go, ladies and gentlemen, David Feldman, I'll go on stage and I don't have to pee. Okay.  It's a prop act. Listen, drink this-drink this-drink this water. We got a late show. What do you-if you could choose-if you had to choose, if I had put a gun to your head. Right.  Right. From the erection. My fear erection. Yeah. If you had to-you had to choose between acting and stand-up. Mmm. It would be stand-up, right? It would-the thing about-like that-66 Galaxy. So you like cars? I do, yeah. Sorry, there's a window here it is. If I had to choose, that's a real tough choice. Can I make stand-up pay as much as acting? The money's the same? Yeah. His-his-his-I'm gonna-I'm gonna process out loud with you. The traveling beats us up and stand-up. Nice thing about acting is you're on a set. If it's in New York or here. Um, but the immediate gratification of stand-up, you know, is-is you can't beat that adrenaline rush. It's still-and I've been in country, what, 26 years? I start, you know, doing stand-up. And it's still-it has not subsided. So you consider it war? What? Oh, yes. Stand-up is war? Well, don't you-when you-when you meet someone-a comic, I got married. A civilian? Oh, she's in a business, you know? So, yeah. I never thought of stand-up as-as war. It's-it's a term of-the term just sits with me.  What is? Stand-up. I think soldiers-I'm joking. Soldiers don't-soldiers never had to do a second show in Newark, New Jersey on a Saturday night. You want to talk gunfire? Yeah. There are no atheists. Yeah. There are no atheists on the late show. Did you ever-you wouldn't serve in the military, right?  I-would you? You.  Uh, what I-I-I would if they'd have me. First of all, first of all, I'll be honest with you. I joined a gym and I never go. So I don't know about the-the-the physical demands. Um, but I did a-we did an episode of our show at, uh, Fort Irwin. I was in a-an Abrams M1A1, fired off 10 rounds- Fort Irwin and Abrams? Is-is-is this a Jewish- It's not right here, Fort Irwin and the Abrams tank. They put me in there. I got pictures, I'll show you. They put me in the tank and I was the TC, the tank commander, and I'm riding around and they're blasting off these rounds in the tank and I-I'm screaming every line I can think about from Patton.   I'm like, Move out! And they're babies! The guy driving this tank is a kid. He's younger than Alex. You can't see Alex. He's a hipster sipping soda right now. But they were kids and I was having the best time. I was like, come on! Let's-let's beat Patton's time to Baston! I was just screaming. Um, and the-the commitment to those guys, I'll tell you what, we-we-we're shooting in the rain and we're supposed to race a tank. So I'm gonna-I'm gonna- What show is this? Top Gear. Oh, right, okay. So the tank is going alongside and I'm racing it in a Jeep.  The Jeep comes off the ground, I catch a little air, I come down. The tank comes out, we get out. And the other guys were standing there and the LT is standing there, Lieutenant's standing there, he was a tank commander. And Rutledge, one of the other guys on the show, comes around the corner in a big truck and he hits a puddle and we can see he's gonna hit the puddle. Me and Tanner, the other actor, ducked behind the tank. Lieutenant just stood there. He didn't blink. Water just came up, it was freezing rain. He's just standing there. He didn't move.  And he's just standing there. He just took it right in the face. Marine Army? It's a training center. Fort Irwin is the Army. It's a training center which is where everyone trains before they ship out to Afghanistan and wherever they go. And they were great to us. Well, ever since they allowed gays in the military, soldiers have no problem taking it in the face. Oh, there you go. It's a jizz in the face joke. Why do you hate our soldiers? Why would you make a joke like that? Where are you going?  My God. God. Gays in the face. It started with Alexander the Great. It did. You know, there's a theory about that. Aristotle. Was it Aristotle? Was this his boyfriend? He attended a grade? No, but in Plato's Symposium, written by, yeah, Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades is the great Greek general. Right. And he claims that the best form of love is between two soldiers because they will defend each other to their death. See, and you yell at me for trying to get romance in Vegas. Adam, why are you buying a flower?  Do you have to ruin everything, Feldman? I think that Plato's Symposium, it's a discussion about what love is. And I think the guy's name was Alcibiades. He was a Greek general.  They'll defend each other. They'll defend each other, which is great having women in the armed forces. Well, I don't think... Because lesbians... Also, Alcibiades' mother said, you can do better. So Top Gear, is that NBC? Oh, history was on history. It was BBC history. There's a Corvair. Wow. This is great to do on radio. Seeing stuff you can't see. This is Wilshire Boulevard. It's on the History Channel. It was, yeah. Our contract is up. We did five years, six seasons. BBC was the production company. They want to move us somewhere else. So we're in a holding pattern until we find another home. So I get to go back and do stand-up again. That's the good thing about... I'm very fortunate, David, because with the ADD, I can't focus on anything between them anyway. So I get to act... Is that true? You were in long series. Yeah, but I get to do different things. Like, even the drama that I was telling you, I was telling you, Orphe when we were eating about my first dramatic... Law and Order. Law and Order. So I get the gig, and this is when it was on network. So I told my mother, and she invites the entire neighborhood, because the episode's gonna air. She made a lasagna. She wore a corsage. Everyone's around. They took the card tables out. The entire Marjean group came down. Ten o'clock, NBC.  Silence in the room. The whole thing. Everyone gets up and leaves. My mother calls me up screaming. Why the hell didn't she tell me? I had everyone over the house. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't even bring the garbage cans out. I made your father drag them out to the curb. I don't want people seeing me. It was a gig. So that was my first dramatic acting gig. And the director of that ended up directing an episode of Rescue Me, and I remember them. I said, thank you, man. You gave me that gig. And he said, oh, yeah, the pedophile. The pedophile. I know you. The baby touched it.  Well, I didn't have to do anything, you know, creepy. I'm sorry.  Would you stop it? Another moll joke? This is the day after my divorce. I'm hanging in there. You're hanging. I'm just... You're not really hanging in there. I know.  Thank God it's radio. I have a pool of Feldman in front of me with a little microphone. What were you saying about playing the pedophile? I was the Michael Jackson character. So I was like, they paralleled his... That's a little wider than you. Not now.  So I played that character that kind of... I was supposed to be on Saturday Night Live, but I had the same Michael Jackson's life with that character. So you were a child actor? No, I was supposed to be on, like, a Saturday Night Live show, but I had this thing for the kids and they were trying to convict me. That sounds kind of interesting. You know, I was watching some old Michael Jackson from 84. When he was black? Yeah, I felt guilty. Why? I got the chills. He was so great. Oh, yeah. I went, oh, my God, I'm so... Like, I can't like him. Because of, you know... Yeah. He was black. You know, just the way I was raised. Wait till a white guy steals his music and then you can enjoy it. Right. You can enjoy a black guy. Yeah, that's right. Little Richard. No, Pat Boone.  And how ironic that his last name would be a pejorative for black people. Boone. That's... Wasn't that... It used to be a... No, I think at one time that was. I don't know. Tell us more, Grand Wizard. Is it wrong to like Michael Jackson? I don't... It's the same. It falls into Woody Allen category. No. No. Well, not like that, but it's still that same... You think Woody Allen is guilty? She was the kid. She's casting a new movie. She's casting... Be careful what you say. Well, it's still that I can't... When people... I guess we'll expect more from people when you like people. You take it personally. Right. You know, because they're an artist. You know, you take it personally because you feel emotionally connected to their art. Right. That their behavior needs to rise to your moral standards. So... You're talking about marrying Sun Yi. Yeah. As opposed to the allegations. Yeah, Sun Yi and... There's a certain amount of trust, I think you've got to have a parental trust. But I hesitate to go on with this conversation because I look at your eyes right now. I'm looking at you right now. Don't bring up the family. No, I'm curious. Are you judgmental? I've been accused of being judgmental. Do you think that stand-up comics in particular have very clear divisions of black and white, right and wrong? Race or right and wrong? I think we have our opinions are at... Right. So there are no moral gray areas with us, right? Well, I'm sure... Look, I try not to... You try not to judge. Old spiritual teachings say don't judge. Right. Judgment, you will have an emotional reaction to the judgment. It's not... You can't just see things objectively. Yeah.  Right. Okay. The joke is he was judging people who are judgmental. Yeah, I try not to judge other people. That's what makes me better than those fucks. But we have definitely clear opinions.  You have your point of view. You have what's right and wrong to you. Yeah, and the joke either works or doesn't. Yeah. That's the nice thing about stand-up what I like is there is no gray area in the art form. If they're laughing, it's funny. You know, if they're... And if you get to a point... Sometimes you get to a point when if they're not laughing, they're wrong. Right? I have notebooks of that. I have notebooks of things that I said on paper should work. How many times will you tell a joke or do a bit? Hmm. Until you go... Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I get that. Do you let go? I try to let go. But then I'll try and bring it back and I'll say... I know that that joke is saying something to me. I just haven't figured it out. I'm not here. I know that that joke is saying something to me, so it might not be that joke, but it might be the thought behind it. So there's something there. So it'll go in a notebook and when I read my notebooks, they keep coming back. Like in a couple of pages, I'm like, I keep writing if there's something here.  You have jokes go away on you. Yes. Like they work for a while. You forget why they work. And they don't. My acting coach gave me a great... There's a story, a theater story about... Actor goes to the director. He goes, I used to get such a big laugh when I would ask for the tea. And it's not working anymore. And the director said, because you're asking for the laugh, you're not asking for the tea. Yes. That's great. You're expecting a laugh. Yeah. Yeah. I just make... Put you back into where you need to be to make that joke work. I just realized how I should do my show. What? Well, I... Describe that guy. But that guy? Yeah. It's Pat Harrington. Oh, good. It's Pat Harrington from... What was that? From one day at a time. One day at a time, yeah. You know how, like every show they go, if you're just tuning in... This is David Feldman's show and we're talking with Adam Ferrara. The way I should do my show, if you're just tuning out, you've been listening... You have been listening to the David Feldman show. Our guest has been Adam Ferrara. That's the end of the show. Wake up!  That should be my signature... If you're just tuning out. If you're just tuning out. This is David Feldman. This is David Feldman. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yes. Do you still tape your sets? Oh, yeah. And you listen? I do. I listen when I have something new. It's a lot easier now with the iPhone app. I mean, it used to be the mini recorders. Yeah. I used to like the mini disc, because you could put a track mark in and just push your button and go right back to that set. I have cassettes. You do? Alpha Romero. Wow. Caesar's son. What? Caesar's son. Caesar's son? Alpha? Yes. Alpha Romero. Caesar's son. We found the Joker makeup for Halloween every year.  I've been reading some books about Caesar Romero's son. It wasn't really his son. But go ahead. He wasn't? I don't want to get into that. That's neither here nor there. Does he listen? Does he tune out when he's Caesar Romero? He's not alive? No. I think it's safe if you want to go into it. No. It's private. What was the question, Dave? I tuned out. Is this the David Feldman podcast? I get so much rest when this shows on. So when you get an acting part, do you call a coach? No. I break the scene down. I do my prep, I break down, and I try to memorize the words the best you can. And then I run the scene with my wife. If it's something real intricate, I can call my acting coach. If it's something out of, or I can't figure out what a beat means or what the purpose of that beat is, I might make a phone call. But it's usually me and my wife. And God bless my wife for her patience. Because we were talking, you know... How much prep work would you have to do for one scene? How long the scene is? How many pages is it usually? 12 pages. That's not a scene. That's almost as... An act. Thank you, sir. Usually, it depends on how intricate it is and how you want to run it. But I like to do it if I can get a day or two so I can sleep on it. I always find out I'm better like if the line's going to your head, you do your rehearsal and stuff, and then you sleep on it and get up and run it again. It's usually better. I cast you in my sitcom as my neighbor. Okay. And we're using teleprompters. Really? Yeah. Okay. Brando-like. Hold this card up. I'm Dr. Moreau. And I say to you, you're going to cold-read the part, the scene. You're not even going to know that you're my neighbor. Okay. Could you do it? Could I do it? Yeah. You give me the scene. I'll look at it. No, no. Just cold-reading it off the teleprompter in front of an audience. You could. I could do it. I wouldn't, I don't know how good it would be, but I could do it. How are you? Did you see that woman just, like, look at me? See that? Thanks for turning around for your Feldman. Look at that. That was the... She was looking at the boiled potato. I didn't want to say anything because it meant a lot to him that moment. Was that my image? It was a hungry, homeless woman and his ego just put that through the filter. Like, did she just flash me? You get women to look at you. Women look at you. Women don't notice me. Wow. She was looking at you, not me. She was looking at me but then again, I'm holding a microphone and a gun to my head. It's true. But yeah, so my wife, and we're talking off here to get through my defenses, to get to emotionally where I need to be in the scene. Every character I start with is like a crime boss because that's the... the defense mechanism I have. So you grew up in New York. Yeah. Long Island. Mm-hmm. Long Island is a Native American term. It means near the mall. Isn't Long Island anything but Manhattan and Staten Island? Yeah, it's suburbia. It's suburbia. Yeah. Long Island. It's a big island. And it's like, and your family, like my father's family, they all fought to get out of the city and we all fought to get back in. Right.  So when you joke about good fellas, you know, being from a neighborhood like good fellas, is that really true? Yeah. In a pretty much a Scorsese movie. It was, it's pretty much that's... My neighborhood those sensibilities. But were they mobsters? Not as far as you know.   Every, every Italian thinks they got, like my cuss like, you want me to make a call?  I'm the most powerful friend you have. Who are you calling? You work for the water company. My Uncle Tony was like, he would stay over the house and he'd be in a bathrobe in the morning. He'd be like, come here. Come here. What? Get over here. You want eggs? What? I'm making eggs. You want eggs? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want some...    Everything is, you know, my other uncle would come over to the house and put some down in the basement. Don't go down there for about a week.  Everything was like and that's where I have it. There's no communication. There's no black and white. Everything is, yeah, we'll see maybe a couple of things. Everything is a couple of trees. No one really knows. Let me see what I can do. How much is that? I like that. You know, when I went to see a shrink for the panic attacks the first time, I come out and my buddy's like, how'd it go with the shrink? I'm like, he didn't get nothing out of me. I love my mother. I ain't going to roll on her.  Yeah, that's the defense mechanism you get through and the codependency, the family is everything.  Well, hang on for a minute. Are they acting? I, because I'm fascinated by the what? The Kosinostra. Okay. They're acting like they're connected. Yeah. Look, there's a certain amount of what do you need? Look, my middle management, we're not killing anybody, but if something falls off a truck, we're not going to put it back. Let me put it this way. Most of my family does not have to pay for parking.  Is it still around or did Giuliani, did they do a good job? I left. I left a long time ago. I don't know. I'm sure I know there's a lot of Jamaicans, Russians, a lot of different. But the Italian mafia, is that kind of done? Not in Italy, but I always, yeah, I don't know. I've been out of New York. I don't know what's what anymore and I really didn't want to find out to be honest with you. Yeah. It's all the values and the cultural, it's what it is what you see on TV. You know, there's always families very important to a fault. You're going to eat a lot. You're going to have a big dinner on Sundays at two in the afternoon and everyone's going to be sleeping on the couch downstairs. Every Sunday at my house a whole family comes over, football's on, we have big ball of pasta in the afternoon and everyone's laying downstairs. Looks like you're feeling. But you will defend each other. How old were you when you did stand up? First time. I'll say 1920. Where? East Side Comedy Club, Huntington, Long Island. East Side Comedy Club. July 13, July 13, 1988. It's an old Volvo. No, I get Boston because of my friendship with Dennis and Lenny Clark. Everyone thinks I'm from Boston but I'm not from New York. But I started in New York. I started on Long Island. I didn't even go into the city because I started on Long Island because I knew that the city you get one chance to make that impression. Right. And Carrie Hoffman who was running at the time was running Stand Up New York gave me the late night spot and I remember that the all the the headliners at that time was like John Stuart and all those guys would do from 8 to 1045 and 1045 I'd go on and I'd host the late night and I had a car and that's why I got so much states people off at the house because I knew that these headliners from the city they needed rides and I would come back and meet me at the improv I'd meet you at the improv and then I would tell the comics where do you live I'd take you to your house where you got to take a cab for so they knew if they hired me I would drop them off and I got a car and I just kept my mouth shut and that's the one thing I got so much great advice from my father keep your mouth shut and your eyes open because you're going to learn by listening and seeing when you listen you learn when you talk wow yeah he's a smart man my father was like a crime boss my father had the he wasn't he had the gravitas he had that gravitational pull when he did kitchens and bathrooms he was a construction business an Italian construction living in New York go on I could see it in your eyes but I remember vividly sitting in his office as a kid I was playing with a pipe wrench and I would sit in a corner and everyone in the neighborhood would come by and give my father coffee and he would light up drinking, have his coffee and go what's the matter and they would just pour their hearts out to him and tell him his problems and he would say here's what you need to do first of all take it easy take it easy life's going to beat the shit out of you Feldman don't help it wow you know so he would give people advice and he was very comforting and he would give people directions and I don't remember consciously you know taking any of that in but now as I get older and since he's gone what do we say your father helped me so much and my father cops firemen whoever could make parole at the time criminals and everyone showed up they were all there they all came out Lenny Clark came in flaming red pants he looked like he walked off a golf course in 1968 and loud and I heard cause I heard a muttering cause there was all these people all these old gindolins and the Italian funeral you get that there's these old women in black dresses crying nobody knows who they are or where they're from and you're always by arranging the mass cards looking at each other going who the fuck are these people I don't know but they need to ride home and I'm not going back to Brooklyn don't know who they are and then there's always one then the drum it's a fucking opera in Italian it's like why I don't know cancer I think that's what did it so we hit this commotion where is everybody and it's Lenny and it was it was like a wave you see the waves part in his landing his red pants I'm so sorry get my mother's giant kiss and just it was a healing energy just came in and then he left it's interesting that you mentioned that when I first became a stand-up comic I started watching it mmm Bobby I saw Bobby Slayton and I thought oh he's the guy at the funeral funeral Bobby's the guy at the funeral and everybody's mind off the sadness yeah and what you describe as Lenny Clark they're you know at a funeral you need the guy to draw attention away from the pain mmm and you know Bobby's the kind of guy at a funeral who will complain about traffic yeah and just go on and on to the point where it's disrespectful mmm and people are going I cannot believe how self-centered this man is he's complaining about suddenly everybody starts laughing and they love the guy they hate him at first mmm for drawing focus yeah and he knows exactly what he's doing yeah we're alive folks we're alive there's traffic yeah that's your problem I'm distracting you from your pain and yeah I did my father's eulogy and my opening line how'd you do killed so yeah I broke up I still break up I mean and this is laughing emotionally I guess I'm still processing we were talking off yeah that doesn't really leave you so my opening line we're all in the church and everyone's sitting there and I got up and priest brings me up and my opening line was if my father was here I know what he would say so this is what the inside of the church looks like and everyone started laughing and the priest's head whipped around and it was it was a strange thing because you say that you can diffuse the energy I think as comics we can that antenna that can read a room and know what needs to be done in a room to calm everybody and I used to I do that quite a bit I have that it wasn't working that day because I wasn't where I needed to be to have my radar working and Lenny came in and did that and I didn't think of that until now but usually that's my job so I guess I guess part of our art form of what we do is part of our emotional state your dad raised in New York Manhattan yeah my dad was my dad was Long Island we used to live in Queens and then the neighborhood was changing and my father says we're getting out of here so we went out the big exodus and we went out to Long Island and that's you know all the the crime boss and all that stuff and my father even told me about because that element was all around us David and he said look kid there is no such thing in this world as easy money anybody comes to you with a plan and makes them easy money they're going to throw your ass under the bus and a lot of those people are in this family it's true every time I thought I won the lottery in show business it never came through or there was a price to pay way too much there's no there's no free it's the it's the middle path as they say there's no like it's surviving the lows of life and show business is worse because and our jobs are very treacherous because our identity is so much connected to our success have you survived the walls bourbon your timing is impeccable so growing up what did you watch growing up when I was well in New York growing up 11 o'clock was the odd couple 11 30 was Gleason Honey Moons and you go to bed but the comedy albums were Carl and Pryor was huge for me I saw Richard Pryor the Santa Monica concert on a VHS you know when you go to those those parties with your family and you pull up and the whole family is there and your mother gives you the warning in the car like now your father does business with these people don't behave like morons so all the adults were watching Pryor and they went to have coffee and I snuck in and then rewound the tape and put it on and it just blew my head off I didn't understand a lot of it but I remember saying look at what this man can do they didn't they didn't introduce him he walked up and just picked the mic up and just started talking which I was just captivated like I said I didn't understand black and white I was a kid but I was I didn't know I wanted to be a stand-up but I was just profoundly transfixed on what this guy could do and that never left me and the pathos he had and just and that's what I wanted to do I wanted to be able to tell stories as a wow that's so different than my experience what because I know Pryor's the greatest stand-up comic whoever did it but I enjoy Carlin oh he's a he's a mechanic yeah I like the mechanics yeah but as a kid to be that sophisticated my inability not to enjoy baseball is my flaw and my inability to not enjoy Richard Pryor was a flaw because I know he's the best but I'm so into words why is it a flaw it's a personal taste no because I think I'm such a rod you know he never brought me my trains that's a homeless guy maybe it looks like Santa Claus let's just say a rustic a rustic from the Edwardian yeah era yeah I'm a joke guy so I like Rodney and Woody Allen oh it's mechanics it's a mechanical but the next level is Pryor well where you cannot and Cosby you cannot you can only imitate them you can't steal what they do right I don't think it's you're a you're a storyteller yeah I want to be able to emotionally connect and move you that's what I how do you know to do that I don't know if you know to do it I think it's just the way I do it it's like it's another level you know that's my that's what I was given in my toolbox you have a different toolbox how come you're the Italian and I'm the bricklayer that's it I'm the one here's a joke here's a joke I don't look at it as bricklayer I have I have so much respect for guys like you and the guys that write for people and because I tried to do that remember when they said we can get 50 bucks with facts and jokes for Leno or Letterman I can't sit with a paper and write 10 jokes I can't work a fax machine so that's why I didn't do it so but you can't I can't do that the cultural things sometimes like they like Jews you know keep the car running right we're not gonna be here for a long time keep the car running that's my cultural that will keep it run聞 towards the freeway if you hear a gunshot take off would help keep the car running close the garage door make it look like a suicide yeah that's it hyram but my my when I started I always thought hate me. You know this is going to hate me. They're never going to love me. Get to another joke. Get to another joke. Just make them laugh. Make them laugh. Make them laugh. I think culturally, you don't feel, you don't come in worried that they're not, I don't know. Well I don't think that that's cultural. I think you need to spend some time in the self esteem room. Yes. The self esteem room. The self esteem room. Yes. I don't know if that, you're coming in with, again, that's your bag of shit, man.  I got, believe me, I laid down to go to bed at night. That's unleashed the galloping fear.  But it's how you approach it. Raymond Chandler said talent indicates what you can do. Motivation indicates what you will do. Attitude is how well you do it.  But it's the approach. It's how you're going to come at it. You're right, Alex. Wow. Tell me about your dad.  I grew up in Long Island. And where are your grandparents from?  And I asked, I go, Daddy, where are people from? Ellis Island. Go to bed. Right. Okay. So they were... We traced our Roots. And then my father would say, we owned him. We owned him. That's funny. I got my dad grew up in Queens, my mom. They all met together. Their world was six blocks long. Right. But your grandparents through Ellis Island? No. I think my mother's, my mother's, my great-grandmother came from Italy. Not believe that. I think it's Naples. My father's family was here. I don't know what generation they came here, but they're all Italians.  And my great-grandmother on my mother's side, the one that immigrated, used to, you know, snuff. She had the tobacco snuff, which we found out later was cocaine. Because my grandfather had to go down to the docks to get it. Like, I'll go to the store and get it. They don't have it the one that lives. Okay. She doesn't sleep. Why doesn't grandma sleep? Why does she only have two teeth? She's pretty thin for an Italian woman. Oh boy. Am I gonna get a punch for that one? Nah, she's dead.  Wow. Yeah. Well, you know, do you realize how much pasta we still have? We haven't eaten? My mother used to make it. My mother, my mother had a pasta machine which she would crank everything out. I remember vividly when I was a kid, my father made this giant table for her. And it used to clamp on the end of a table, this big chrome thing that she would make. Oh, and all the relatives came over and she would sit there. It's like, okay, Lucy's making wine with her feet. You know, all kinds of stuff going on at the house. So, so my, getting back to your question, sorry, the ADD is raging. No, what you just said is what I was saying on the show about a month ago, Ellis Island. It all starts, your father said it starts at Ellis Island because I'm not interested in my roots. Yeah. Well, what am I gonna know? It's Ellis Island. Well, my grandparents, we're here in America and that's it.  Well, don't you want to go back and see the relatives? No. I've never met these people. After, oh my God, then what do you do? Right. It's only a matter of time before I get hit up for money. I'm not going. I don't have to go to Italy for that. I think that can happen here. I've never been, my wife wants to go to Rome. I was supposed to go to Bologna. Have you been to Israel? I've not been to Israel. My wife has. I was supposed to go to Bologna and drive a Lamborghini because the factory's there, but it never happened. But she wants to go to Italy. My wife traveled extensively because she's been all over the world and now she's here. She's like, I don't want to go. I said, I don't blame you. Right.  You know, but I'd love to go see. Well, I want to go to Florence. I want to see the PC Gallery. I want to see that. What would you have? I want to see the Brunelleschi's dome in Florence. When my then wife and I went, she was Irish, is Irish. We went to Ireland and it was going to the Holy Land for her and for me. This is, I get it. This is, it would go to Italy for you be like the same thing, me going to Israel. Like, is it, is it a, I think for the art and for the culture to see, like, you know, because I really like, do you identify as an Italian? I don't really, I think it's steeped in me. I don't know. I don't know specifically what I identify as. I try to just be the best human being I can be for that, that answer is, but I don't really identify as, you know, I'm, I'm this, I'm that. Okay. Hi, how are you? I'm a guy with problems just trying to be the best way through it. But as far as, you know, I'm not going to sit there and defend the notion of being, you know, whatever, whatever that Italian, I'm grateful for the people that I've had and been in my culture and everything, but it doesn't, the values that were steeped into me seem to be universal. You know, be the best person you can be and put out as much energy as you can. But as far as being an Italian, you know, like, you're Italian. Don't go near those mutts, you know, anytime, anything that preaches the other, if I'm an Italian, just by, by identifying as one thing, you're discounting everything else. And I don't like, I don't really like that too much. Why do you hate Gypsy so much then? Those sons of bitches. No. Why? Because the fortune teller, everything she told me is not true. Okay, that's why. Why?  I am Hungarian. Yeah, I know. We had this conversation. I know. Well, I'm not Hungarian. My grandparents were Hungarian. And you know what they say about Hungarian? Mm-hmm. Never go into a revolving door with them because they'll come out, come out ahead of you. You know, the recipe for Hungarian chicken catchatory? Mm-hmm. Step one, steal a chicken. That's, hey, paprika and theft. How nice to see you. This has been just the best. Great to see you, my friend. Tell me where we can see you, how we can follow you. Adam Ferrara on Twitter, Facebook. F-E-R-R-A-R-A. So the football, the concussion's going to affect you. No, no, still, still all right. It's the same spelling as the bakery and everyone else. You like the famous bakery? Haven't seen a dime. So I don't think so. But it's, yeah, it's Ferrara on Twitter, Facebook. You played football in high school, right? No, no, no. I played baseball for a while. And then, oh, not now, Helen! I think that woman's name is Helen. Her head just snapped around.  I'm sorry, lady. Look at the look of the stain I'm getting from her. No, I never played football. I played baseball as a kid. Did you play high school baseball? I was in the church league. And then I was two, so I was a catcher. And then I was so... A church league? Yeah, same pass. Do you steal second and have to go confess? Do you feel guilty? I was playing off the Woody Allen joke. If you put half of the base you stole into the collection plate, it's okay. Yeah, I played baseball. There's a church league? Yeah, it was a church league. So what was your team? The Cardinals? We were the sinners. No one wanted to play. Yeah, I played and then I was a catcher. And then I wasn't... Mike, I didn't grow fast enough. Well, there are a lot of catchers in the Catholic Church. They're all the older boys. Hey! That was a joke. That's the joke I told you we got. What? I would talk about the Joe Paterno joke that I got in trouble for. What? Well, when they took down the Joe Paterno statue. Yeah. You know, people were saying he was a saint. He wasn't a saint. He turned a blind eye to the molestation of children. That doesn't make you a saint. That makes you a pope. Wow. Yeah, that's a great joke. Yeah, no, I got in trouble for it. Who'd you get into trouble with? The pope. Apparently he follows me on Twitter. Adam Ferrara, thank you so much. It's always good to see you, my friend.


Like, why did so-and-so do the how-could-they appalling? What's wrong with them?  I wouldn't have done that.  None of that is based on truth. In fact, if you were that person, you would have done it too. You would have pulled right out there. If you were in a hurry, if you were fighting with your spouse, if you just got yelled at by your boss, I don't know, whatever the situation was. So blame, then, is replaced by curiosity. What happened to you? To turn you into somebody who would do that. Curiosity leads to creativity. That's the alternative to a world of endless war.


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Stop stop Stop right where you're at. I'm tired of this. I'm telling you you guys aren't gonna skip do not I've had too many comments this month of Noah. I cannot catch a fish I made a lot of posts saying no guys. What's your biggest fish?  I'm not That seems so mad. I was like editing this back. I'm like I seem super Irritated in this intro. I'm not mad. I was just trying to be like straightforward with you guys But it just came off as I'm like super mad But this video is probably one of the most valuable ones. I'm ever gonna post on my channel So take the time out of your day if you have some time and please watch it You're gonna learn so much out of this even if you're not having trouble right now and this I promise you will help you guys So much I hope you guys enjoy these types of videos drop a comment down below on what type of tip videos you guys want to see and I'll get them out to you guys listen I keep it real here on kicking their best TV my main goal since I've started this was to help you guys out in This video if you watch it closely don't skip because It makes me mad because this I'm literally gonna take you through on how like if you guys are fishing They'll know is 20 degrees is too cold the fish aren't biting. It doesn't matter. They will eat Exactly what I'm gonna show you guys to rig up today If you guys throw it the right way and this is gonna help you guys catch fish this month 100% next trip you go on you take everything I talked about and you will go catch fish now Let's go ahead and hop right into it So I've got so many comments this month. No, I just cannot catch fish know is 20 degrees is tough This is going to be the best way to catch the fish We're gonna go out to the lake that I'm going to which is a pond.  Okay this time of year the fish is tough Today in particular the pressure is higher than I've ever seen it I've never seen the pressure this high since I have been fishing my whole life, and I'm that is dead honest truth I'm being straightforward with you guys today because I got to catch your attention So you guys can actually listen to me for two seconds without getting bored and and just try this. This is all you need We got some finesse drop shot weights right here. Okay clean and simple. These are lead ones It's 316 sounds. There's 13 of them in a pack Five bucks for okay some regular drop shot hooks right here clean and basic a couple dollars right here The combo that I'm throwing it on is a pro ti and you guys are probably saying Noah Why are you throwing the drop shot on a baitcaster? Um, I would suggest throwing a drop shot on white spinning tackle The line I would suggest is 10 to 12 pound floor carbon 10 is probably perfect especially for vertically dropping I really wouldn't suggest throwing it on a baitcaster, but me I'm very stubborn I'm gonna catch the fish how I want and my spinning rods. I need a new line on them So therefore I'm gonna be using this today on 15 pound, but I'm throwing it out I'm not vertically dropping and we're gonna catch them on it either way Let's go ahead and talk about how to rig this up real quick I'm gonna cut this off of my rod real quick. So take me about two seconds and then we'll hop right into it This is a very important step so don't skip this don't think oh no I know how to tie a drop shot. There's something on this That's very important that if you're not doing then you're gonna lose a lot of fish guys I'm cutting you straight.   Okay, boom hook's facing up notice that I'm gonna I'm gonna make my tag in very very large I tied the uni knot I have a video on my channel if you want to learn how to tie it But I'm gonna make a very long tag in I want to make my leader around 12 to 15 inches We have her not tied on her hook Now what we're gonna do is our tag in it's very long as you guys can tell it's about two foot Okay, this is important. This is what you guys need to do.  I'm trying to put it on my white shirt so you guys can see it There you go.  There's no it's not sideways It's not facing down your hook is straight up aligned with your line So when you lift up on this drop shot that hook is gonna penetrate right in that fish's mouth That simple step right there with you putting that line back through the eyelid will help you catch If you get 15 bites, it's gonna help you get all 15. Okay? If it's not like that, you're probably gonna catch five out of those 15 fish. That's very important So now we're gonna leave this tagging about I'm gonna say 14 inches what we're gonna aim for today 14 inch leader from your weight to your hook now. We're gonna get one of these 316 sounds standard drop shot weight stick our line through You pull it tight Now I'm gonna do two loop knots to tie this thing on since you're down We're good to go. I'm gonna cut this tag in there. We go. I got the best drop shot rig You can possibly make Got a regular hook. We're gonna be lip-hooking our bait right there 13 inches down. We got our weight right there. That's the rig that you're gonna be using now I'm gonna catch you guys at the pond I'm gonna show you the worms that I'm using just gonna be simple and basic Now I'm gonna show you how we're catching these fish because this is the important part is how to catch the fish This is just made it out to this beautiful pond. We're gonna rig up real quick I just got a basic little worm right here basic little drop shot worm This one's in black and blue black and blue green pump can work out here pretty basic So this is the hook that I got right here all you're gonna do Just nose hook this bait Just like that All right, that's all you got to do So now I'm gonna show you guys coming out to the areas on how to find these fish during the winter So when you're fishing these small ponds, it's gonna be the same with the lakes What you want to find is the deepest point of the place that you're fishing So whether it's a ditch whether it's a little hole whether you got some rocks out there some structure on the bottom Whatever it is those deep little crevices those bass like to sit in this time of year So what you're wanting to if you see a little ditch what that fish is gonna do see this is the ditch He's gonna sit his body right in the bottom of that Okay, if you're fishing a place that has a lot of grass still has a bunch of slop What I would suggest throwing is like a weightless Sanko on it you WG hook I have a video on that if you want to go watch it Or I can make a new one because I have a little bit more to talk about that if you're fishing a place That's really flat. You know, there's not really any drop offs to shallow the whole thing with this fish You're gonna do is still pull up onto that cover So the laydowns and all that stuff that's on the bank this fish are gonna get on But if you have any areas that have deep drop offs, this fish will be stacked in there You guys are probably saying Noah. How do you know that a place has deep water? Well coming out here? I count down my cast so I beam it out there and I count down one two three Four and I figure out that fall rate to figure out what the depth is this pond has a lot of deep water If you look right out here, there's a pocket back in this corner, okay? Right here is a flat about a hundred foot out going all the way down this stretch So right here you got that stretch flat all the way out hundred foot then right after that hundred foot it goes like this Drops off.  This fish are gonna get on the hard bottom So on this flat, there's certain little areas certain little chunks of hard bottom My bad of hard bottom and this fish would be stacked on there this time of year in the winter time It's important that once you catch a fish realize why you caught that fish Okay, because this time of year the fish stack up. So if you have a little deep hole and you catch one There's another one. It's always rule of thumb. I can fish this whole pond won't get any bites But there's a couple spots out here that are gonna hold fish. So let's go ahead and get out here I'm gonna show you guys how I'm working this and why those fish are sitting there. All right So we have our drop shot about 12 inches to 15 inch leader right here You're gonna have to experiment with it to see what this fish want because you will get bites depending on the leader size Drop off his way out there. So what I'm gonna do Beam a long cast right out there right where I just landed is exactly where that drop off is Okay, it's gonna be about right where I landed. It's probably about eight foot up on this flat It's about five foot that three foot drop off in shallow water is very important There should be fish sitting out here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna let that drop shot hit the bottom okay Once I let it hit the bottom. I'm gonna I'm gonna reel up my slack and just barely hop that thing Okay, barely move that rod. So what that worms doing is just barely fluttering Okay, then I'm gonna let my line go slack show them that don't right there. See how my line slack So look this is what that worms doing.  That's a great technique to catch on this time of year Okay, if you guys are saying it's just so so tough to where you can't get bites I would suggest a dead sticking it. So, you know, just lifting up shaking it a little bit And then just let it have slack line and let it barely fall and just leave it in that same position And this fish are bite it But it's important to find that hard bottom up on these flats And if they're not on these flats to get on those drop offs in those little holes So we're gonna fish around here and I promise you there's gonna be some fish located right here All right, so we threw off on that drop off. I've been fishing this flat last time I went off You guys saw one of the previous episodes right where I just casted There's a hard bottom And it's only about five by five. I don't know what it is, but it's I mean, it's only yay big And there's fish that are sitting all up on it. So I just casted by it We should get bit in the matter of Probably 10 15 seconds. There should be one right here. Give me one second. I'm telling you watch this this cast Should be a fish down there because I know there's they stack down there, you know There's so many that sit on that That's what you got to find this time of year is there's certain spots that hold a lot of fish Whether it's those little drop offs or those hard bottom pieces Because this fish really patch up this time of year. There he is That's a good one. That's a good one That's actually a big in Yep No, I get it. I get it. That's four pounder Oh man, that's a good one Oh, that's a freaking football caught me a four pounder.  I'll put the camera on him in a minute. Yeah, one they say drop shot catch a small fish Most of the term is I've wanted been on a drop shot And that's almost four pound fish right there It's probably three and a half to be safe That is a beautiful bass Just like what I said, I will not hard bottom. Now if you guys think it's over you're crazy Remember where you caught that fish make the same cast on that spot and we're gonna catch another one But that is a beautiful three and a half pound bass right there. That is a good one. There we go. Almost a four pounder The pressure is so high today delton You witnessed it bro. It's insane, man. And we're gonna do it again. Same cast You you guys are gonna watch it. I told delton you put down the camera. I said hold on There's one more thing I got to talk about that drop off is good that hard bottom can sometimes be even better Well, delton anyways, tell the people like out of your last five fishing trips pond fishing. How has it been out here? It's been super tough. I have been fishing Probably the last two times I went fishing didn't get a single bite and a couple times before that I got a couple of bites. They were all small small fish. Maybe less than a pound It's just been really really tough here lately. We just had a big cold front come through full moon come through Everything about it right now. It's just tough conditions. It's it's almost impossible to catch one Thank you for telling the people that the fish has been tough because people like to say no You're just fishing places that are so easy And this place is actually a place you don't get more than five bites a day So it's like one of those things and the fishing has been tough This is just a proven concept to catch more fish if you follow these Instructions that we're talking about today and for all you people who think that noa fish is private ponds That only he's allowed to fish You're thinking wrong because me and him fish the same place and I can't catch anything He can't catch anything. It's actually really tough guys. I promise we just called that fish I showed you right there now. This is going to be even crazier. This is going to blow your mind even more We're going to make that same exact cast and catch another fish because this time of year like I was talking about They stack up on that stuff So we're going to get delin rigged up on a drop shot We're going to get him to cast that out there and he's going to catch a fish in the same exact spot I'm going to tell you exactly where to cast you casting that same exact spot. Here's the issue man. What's that? Here's the issue when we went on the boat last time. Yeah, um, I lost the lucky hat so Oh, you don't have the lucky hat? I don't know. I guess we'll see all right delin's rigging up right now I'm just gonna beam one out here off this drop off. I'm gonna let him cast back on that hard spot because they should be stacked Guys this pond listen my record out here is five fish in one day and one of the days I stayed out here for like six seven hours And the other day one of the last episodes I caught over 20 Just because the fishing conditions are so tough. It's just unbelievable You throw the right bait and you know where these fish are located you can do anything And that's when I see those comments of you guys, you know saying you can't catch them That's why I really want to make these videos because I just know they're so valuable and like this is one of those videos I just don't want you guys to skip through at all Because I know how much values in this and if you go do exactly what I'm doing and you pick a part where those fish Are located you'll catch them like this There he is Next cast first cast out there You find those fish stacked up guys. This is how that winter winter stuff works This fish are going to be condensed in some of the best spots some of them's deepest holes some of those hard bottoms If you find it you just keep catching them a small one But I'm gonna get delin on a big one now I'm gonna go out on that drop off. There he is.  Dude, I was barely dragging it Like very slow. I grabbed the end of my rod I'm like grabbing the bottom of my rod and just kind of putting it in their lip This these looks good. I'm pretty good though. Not a bad one. There's a little guy They're stacked out there though. That's about where delin had his bite right here on this flat I felt some hard bottom and sure enough he was right there I'm sorry, man. That was bad That was not good. That was not good. Can you get it out? Is there any possible way? I don't think there's any possible way, man Oh my god I'm sorry, dude. That was bad. That was bad Delin this is my Christmas present the year just hooks up. I'm not even kidding.  Just stand up Stand up.  He's a solid two Dude, I thought he's gonna come off. I was like, no, dude.   I know you've been going through a lot with that thing I was like, I'm gonna give him the next fish. I've got it out now. That's why I've been standing next to you I was like, I'm just gonna hand it to you All right, well not a bad one not big but not bad We considered out a double up since you caught the fish and I hooked I guess Yeah, that's pretty cool You just you just finish it out, you know, I got on the bike you finish it out. So I guess it don't Okay