This is the Downbeat ninety seven one, The Freak All right, Jason Kidd
at nine, Chris Catan at nine to ten. I'll tell you that tonight
the Been and Skin Show. They got a lot going on this week.
They are going to be at the Almo Draft House tonight in Richardson ninety seven
one Thefreak dot com. If you want to get your tickets, it's just
seven dollars. The movie is a Bottle Rocket by uh Wes Anderson, Luke
and Owen Wilson, and a lot of the scenes shot here in Dallas.
Very cool. I'm gonna be out there tonight to Speakeasy broadcasting live from Alamo
Draft House and Richardson today from two to six. Hell, I'm gonna be
there, so if you want to come see me, I say hi,
See Kevo. How are you doing selfies? Prim autographs and everything? Yeah,
I know autograph restrictions. Is there any other merchandise you won't sign?
No? Doud it all sign anything anything up up to ten I'm legit excited.
Six tomorrow we're doing Kat's review of Bottle Rocket is first viewing. I'm
looking forward to that. Crazy. I think you're gonna love it. I
think I am to think it might kick off a Wes Anderson love affair,
which you probably already liked some of those movies. I mean Rushmore, I
Love That's probably my favorite of his movies, but I have not seen all
of them. He's the radio ahead of director. Sometimes it takes a couple
of viewings then you're like, whoa, now we're five minutes away. Oh,
everyone says Ben and skin Having Michael Young and Ian Kensler in studio tomorrow
incredible on the same week that we're having Farah Abraham call in. We got
her insane Chris Catan, Farah Abraham, Michael Young, Ian Kinsler. You
know who could have thought that's gonna be awesome. I think they'll stay for
an hour and to get them together, hm, pretty rare. They're both
pretty good interviews at this point because they're not as guarded as they were where
they were players. Yes, there wasn't guarded at all. He actually was.
Yeah. Yeah, But we interviewed him a bunch of times at the
ticket and he was always incredibly forthcoming, spoke is mine, super cool,
would answer any question and kind of fun. That's gonna be great. Bennet's
gonna show tomorrow Michael Young and I in Kenslor and Studio Mike's Netflix News.
Yeah, I didn't even know this was happening, but I'm pumped and I
may make a day of it today because I like things that hall Ass and
cars haul Ass tell it well. I love you know, the f One
series on Netflix, and Netflix is perfecting the art of, I guess,
illuminating a sport that you may or may not like. Its kind of like
the end season sports documentary. Yes series, it's so great for anyone who
likes the sport. But apparently NASCAR's Full Speed is just debuting. I don't
know if it abuts today or in the last few days on Netflix, and
apparently they're taking the whole F one model for a Drive to Survive and apply
it to NASCAR. And there's an athletic review of it that says it's is
it good? No, it's great, And they're saying they're five forty five
minute episodes and this thing is the best Nascar content ever created. Apparently goes
way behind the scenes and does the trick. And I think in America,
you know, people are already predisposed to be a little more interested in Nascar
than they were Formula one, and Formula one is turned livery media into like
the most valuable sports entity in the world or something like that, and F
one's more popular than ever, and if NASCAR can capitalize on this would be
really cool leading up to February eighteenth, which is the Daytona five hundred,
which I'm psyched for. Anyway, I watched the dayton Of five hundred every
year just out of respect for my race and roots. You got me to
watch it last year, dude, it's awesome. Why not so we might
go home today? Is that dropped? Yeah? I think it's all.
I just got the email. Yeah, NASCAR Full Speed on Netflix now now
playing. Apparently it's a plus. I bet there's a lot of people that
got turned on F one. I know there's a lot of people who got
turned on F one from the Netflix stuff that don't watch any other racing at
all other than those events. It turned me into I watch every qualifying,
every race, read up about it, like to a level that I never
thought i'd be into in any car racing. I used to be into NASCAR
or a really high level, but like, I already like NASCAR. So
if this thing sets it off in my brain, I can't wait. Well,
the thing is is, I think there's a lot of people to watch
just f one events because of that show that they may that where the NASCAR
world is maybe misunderstood or look down upon or has kind of some misconceptions about
it based on a lot of history. I wonder if this is going to
open the open eyes for people to this is going to broaden them to a
brand new audience that they never had, right, and people and there are
too huge Netflix are gonna maybe watch this, say wow, hold on,
I'll watch the Daytona five hundred. Yes. It All it does is humanize
things. That's it. Sure, anything at all something you don't care about
if it's eloquently humanized right in front of your face, and you're like,
now I care about this person. This person is interesting to me. You
will be interested in what this person does. And I haven't cared about NASCAR
since Dell Earnhardt died. You know, as he well, he's not dead,
he's just one lap ahead at this point. But when he rammed his
car into the wall after turn three, that's turn four, that was a
sad day. Had cared. They changed the rules a lot too. I
remember going to I used to be a tour guy at TMS, so I've
had a lot of At some point I got desensitized to a little I mean,
it was a part time guy, but there's a little action or at
TMS. You're kind of around Nascar a lot. At some point you just
don't want to be around it anymore. But that was college part time job.
I remember, you get these race tickets. I remember going there and
goes to a racing going no one's going to pass here because they'd taken off
the restrictor plates and safety was a big issue at that time, and or
they put on the restrictor plates and they were worried about safety a lot,
and it's like, Okay, well this is going to be a single file
race. They're not going to do any passing. Then they changed their playoff
format, which might be for the better, but I haven't given a damn.
I just have it. Also, I think it's terrible that their sport,
much like Baseball's playoffs, run into football season. Yeah, like,
just acknowledge who the king is and stay away from the King. And Escar's
tried that we're gonna do more primetime races of a Friday night race and things
like that, racing the coliseum in LA. Yeah, they're trying to surround
that. I'm so interested in this because I do understand NASCAR way more than
I understood F one, because I liked NASCAR until I was, you know,
thirteen years old. Well, like I actually, NASCAR will never be
the procession line that F one is. In some cases when they race in
Mont Carlo, you almost know there won't be I mean, there might be
two passes in the entire race. Yeah, but it's still just like,
out of respect for the spectacle of it, NASCAR is always going to be
bumping and passing. It is inherently more of an exciting race day experience,
yeah than F one is. F one just benefits from being sexy, right,
and being cool and beautiful people and all over the world, and it
is the traveling circus. Yeah, NASCAR has Pitbull doing their pregame concert.
Meanwhile, at the F one race, you might bump into Tom Cruise,
that's right, But you might run into Chris Catan at one of these races.
Does Chris Catan like car racing? I don't know. Joining us now
in the freaking never know it is now a guy. Interviewed him a couple
of years ago. I consider him a friend. He's gonna be at the
Big Laugh Comedy Club in Fort Worth this Friday and Saturday shows at seven and
nine thirty. You can get tickets now at fort Worth dot b Lcomedy dot
com. It is Chris Catan. Hello, Chris Ay, good morning.
Yeah, I consider you a friend. Yeah, you have no recollection of
ever speaking to this man before in your life, Chris, It's okay,
that is true. I don't remember any of it. He remembers. He
talks about you name you like, what did he say? Yeah? What
did you say? What? We just did a big interview, but we
talked about the Grand Prairie cobra mystery. Uh from two years ago. Yes,
that was a big story. Yeah, you'll never forget it, you
know at this point they did they ever solve it. No, he's in
the wind, Chris. He's still in the wind like that Tom Cruise.
Yeah, we're all still unsafe here in the metroplexus. This cobra is still
running loose. Didn't Chris say cobra? Didn't Chris say in that interview that
he had a pet cobra? Did you see this, Chris? Everyone,
It depends on what you want to name it, but yeah, I guess
come on here too early for that. Chris's improv background would serve him well.
As we were doing this interview a few years ago, and He's like,
I have a cobra. I just found it in the street. But
is that my voice? Are you doing an impression to me? Wow?
I don't do impressions. I found Yeah, Kevin, So what are you
up to? Man? What what do you do? What do you doing
this morning? Is it? Are you in California? It's it's early this
morning. Huh No, I'm in New York City right now, so I'm
a little ahead of you. And now I head so I'm already up.
I did my calisthenics and I did everything. I'm already in the wind.
Yeah. I like when I'm over fifty. I don't know old New York
Christ like, we're probably close to the same age, But I like how
I like how working out turns into calisthenics when you hit the age of about
forty eight. Yeah, running turns into walking one single slow jumping jacket and
you're like, well, do we're good here? Yeah? And then you
time it, and you have a watch that tells you when to jump and
when not to jump. Right, work done for the day, when's your
rest? How many steps you've done up the stairs? That's always fun.
So you're in New York? Are you? I think when I told you
last time, I think you were in Californias. We did the interview little
bit later in the day. Are you on on tour and mess around up
in New York or do you stay up there sometimes? Right now, I'm
in New York to read through for a movie with the with Parker Posey.
She's doing you know that. Yes, he's actually got the New White Lotus.
She's on the New White Lotus season three, So season three you'll be
seeing Parker Posi on the White Lotus, which is very exciting and uh good
for me too because we're doing a movie together, so that's very cool.
After she does White Littus. But that's why I'm in New York because I
was just for a read through. And then I go back to Chicago,
which is where I'm actually living because my fiance lives there, so I live
in Chicago. Uh, and I do have a place in la So I'm
all over the place I guess getting married. Huh, that's right. I'm
getting to do Calisent. It's easier way. You gotta squeeze into that tuck
so riscumber bund please. I'm too small to get heavy. So that's good.
It's not a Christopher Guest movie, is it that you're I mean Parker
Posey famous. No, no, no, no, it's called Adam and
Steve fifty five plus. It was a sequel to a movie called Adam Steve
that we did years ago. Nice. Actually, yeah, so but yeah
it she'ld be pretty fun. She's great and but yeah, no, I'm
in New York City. I'm looking at the beautiful skyline right now. I'm
getting ready for the Big Laugh Comedy tour this weekend. Yes, not the
tour, but i'll beat the big last comedy club in fort Worth, which
I'm excited about doing. Is that? Is that a one offer? You
got like a whole string of dates coming up? I got a string of
dates, but they haven't all been announced yet. So right now we're just
doing fort Worth with some new show and some new material. So yeah,
right now we're gonna go on to fort Worth right now this weekend. So
Friday and Saturday the Big Laugh Comedy Club. Have you been to the Big
Laugh Comedy Club. It's incredible. You're gonna have such a good time,
is it. Yeah, so it's a great club. So well, this
is like the four Worth appearance. Will that this be like the first time
you're trying out some of this new material? Yeah? Some of it?
Actually the sec her a third time. Okay, Yeah, I think it'll
work. You know, people in Big Laugh or people at Fort Worth are
good people, so stull probably laugh. I assume you overestimate them joke,
I do a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, Well I was just curious,
you know, so the first couple couple of times that you tried new
stuff and how does that evolve? So like you're starting a tour. All
right, you've got thirty dates or twenty dates or whatever. You got some
new stuff, you go to your first night, you're opening night. How
much does your set evolve on based on audience reactions? You go out there,
you try some new stuff, It's like that bit didn't really go over.
Well, I'll try a couple more times and you kind of get some
consistency on knowing how this stuff is going to go over how much does that
evolve or do you just stick to it. It's like, this is what
I got, this is how I'm going. It involves a lot. I
mean, it really is a good gag, you know, it's the audience
is a lie and I'm not gonna do it again most likely, but usually
or trying to improvise it a little further with the audience and try to see
where it goes and how it thows up together, and you know, stress
it out a little bit, just improvised with it because I love improvising a
lot with the audience, and so that's the best way to find out whether
it works or not, you know, you know, so usually it works
out. Sorry, buddy, Chris Catan joining us funny. I want to
ask the other side of that, because you often hear about we're trying out
new material, new material. When do you phase something out, like something
that you use that is just the kills? But then do you realize,
all right, I've been that has been part of my set for far too
long, but it still kind of works. Like when do you when the
laughs start to quell a little and then you're like, all right, I
gotta phase this joke out. When you when it just you just get tired
of it. Sometimes you just get tired of the same damn thing and you're
just like, I'm just not having fun with this anymore. Yeah. So
it's Friday and Saturday shows at seven nine. You get your tickets at fort
Worth dot b Lcomedy dot com. It's the Big Laugh Comedy Club and for
Worth with Chris Cantan shows at seven and nine thirty. What do you do
in between that time? Because you kind of gotta stay amped a little bit,
right, Like how do you how do you like you don't just go
like sit down, Like what do you do during that time in between shows?
I scratched your Crystal massa figure Paliston X. Yeah, other things that
relax your body, that kind of thing. You know, I was wondering
that's too. Maybe you could relate this back to SNL because you know,
when you have a crowd that's kind of unpredictable, Like it's if you have
a crowd of people who are just not laughing, like no matter what,
that's not really on you. And I've heard like SNL alums like talk about
sometimes you know, you feelt like you wrote something that's incredible and you just
didn't have a good crowd inside the studio that night or you know, how
do you it's the wrong night of the week. Yeah, how do you
read how the crowd is going to be? Can you tell in that early
show or is it just completely different how it might go later? You mean
previous to them not laughing? Like, how can I tell if they're there
or not? That's a good way if they're if they even react some clouds.
Usually I don't really have a bad crowd. I mean, they're usually
you know, whether they're if they're very quiet too, they end up laughing
somehow, and I just I wake them up by playing with them, and
you know, I just just improvise with them and we have a great time
to get and that somehow wakes them up. If they're not woken up,
but usually they are by the time I get there, because I have an
opener that's usually funny enough to get them to laugh and warm up. But
they you know, that's that's you see how it is? You know,
sometimes they're distracted or sometimes they're you know, too drunk, but usually uh,
that's okay, though I like them drunk. Actually, you mentioned you
taught you mentioned openers. I was curious about this. When when you're on
a tour, is it always openers that are from the local scene that have
to be approved by you? Do you travel with openers? I was kind
of curious how that process works. I used to travel with openers, but
now I encourage local talent. I like to meet new people, and I
think that's those are people that usually already work with the crowds, and they
know what they like already, and they're really they're you know, they're close
to the crowd the club, rather they performed there before, so they know
what they're doing and so, and I just like fresh faces and people to
meet, you know, So I usually keep it open to uh, local
talent usually. I think that's the best way to do it. I finally
go travel with the crowd with the opener, because they know you and you're
you already know what they're going to say. But I trust people usually that
are already working with the club. I was curious about that. When you
use the law local openers, I think they obviously they they're known more than
likely in their city. They also kind of have that distinct advantage of being
able to make regional references and reference, you know, a certain street or
a neighborhood that might be you know, emblematic of some type of behavior.
Do you do any research when you go into say Fort Worth? Are you
going to like get on Wikipedia or Google and try to use some of those
little little things that you can kind of get a I don't want to say
cheap reaction, but just kind of a connector with the audience. How much
do you try to learn about the city that you're in to maybe use some
of those references as well, or you just do your thing and ignore all
that other stuff. I do some. I should do a lot more,
like I should look at what's happened currently. I remember there was like us
in some city, and I looked up that there was like the bus.
There's a small town and the school buses were late dropping off the kids one
night, and they dropped off well one day and they ended up dropping off
the kids at the school because of some storm or something, and they're all
mad about it. So I made those jokes, you know, stuff like
you know, hey just ain't no school bus, I'll be on time,
that kind of thing, and so they loved it. So I do try
to pick up on local stuff that's happening, stuff that's not even in the
paper yet. But I think that's a smart thing to do. That way,
you just know that you're on the side with the audience of the town.
You're in Fort Worth. You know that's a big city. So I'll
probably do some studying. I need to know a little history anyway about Fort
Worth? What is some history about four Worth? I need to know?
Actually, what you tell me they had a huge explosion hotel three weeks ago.
Well, that's always funny, that's hilarious. I'm trying to think.
Talk about a couple of Dallas cowboy jokes and you'll be fine. That's all
you need, Oh Dallas cowboy jokes? Okay, because they're not in the
super Bowl, or if you can come close? Yeah, exactly, didn't
even come close. Okay. Are the cheerleaders so cute? They are?
They are? Okay? Well, no joke there, still got that.
I'm still at that. So are you gonna go to the fiftieth third?
How's that? I mean, you said you're in New York. You stopped
by? Ever, what what's your relationship with that whole scene? I would
have this week? But there it's Monday and Tuesday, so they don't start.
They don't do any blocking or rehearsing until Thursday or Friday. So I
would have come by if it was Thursday, Friday or Saturday, but it's
not. They're up on me at seventeenth four this week, so it's more
of a walking around their offices. It's more distracting probably for me to go
by, but otherwise I would. But yeah, so, but I would.
Yeah, of course in the fiftieth Diniversity I guess is this year.
So yeah, that' should be fun. I'm looking forward to that, that's
for sure. So when you're in New York, is it typical of you
just to drop in swing by, make a phone call and say, hey,
I'm I'm coming in today. Is that Has that happened a lot since
you, uh, since you left the se I've done that many times.
Yeah, I love it. You know, it's just good to come by.
I mean, there's nothing that feels better than that area for me.
You know that Studio eight h it's just the rock Abutu Center. You just
get these incredible vibes, you know, it's just it's just so uh,
I mean, it was one of the best times of my life, you
know, being there and I always will be and just to be back,
you just get these ceilings you know in the in your stomach and your skin,
and it just feels great to be back there. It's there's nothing like
it a feeling. It's just magical. Do they have like a room with
like Mango's outfit or like your classic, Like, is that stuff still tucked
away dusty somewhere available if you ever needed it? They do. I don't
think it's dusty, but I think they have some mannequins around holding up you
know, those outfits. I think I think there's a there's a I know
there's an Ethno museum I think in Chicago that has a lot of the outfits
like the Rosburry guys and Mango and that stuff, but I don't know where.
Yeah, I think there might be something in the Smithsonians. Maybe I
heard somebody told me Mango's shorts or in the Smithsonian, but I don't believe
that's mister Rogers sweater and Mango shorts right next to the show. Yeah,
and it's good that you're carrying on doing your calisthenics just in case you ever
called upon to leap up onto a table again, like, mister peepers,
that's right. I need my calisthenics just the case. You're right, you
got that right on. I think the suit you wore when you when you
played politician, uh Brad Beluga is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, which
is weird, strange, incredibly weird. Uh Yeah. A listener hollered at
us and was like that is one of the most laugh out loud moments of
of watching SNL. Is that weird? Probably one or two off character that
you did. Is that crazy? Well, Chris, we think van and
we thank you. We're gonna send our audience your way Friday and Saturday at
fort Worth the Big Laugh Comedy Club. We have shows at seven and nine
thirty. You can get your tickets now fort Worth dot b Lcomedy dot com.
Chris, thank you for your time and the enjoy your time here for
for you guys. This is a blast you guys. I consider you guys
friends. Oh sweet sweet remembers in two years when we talked to you again.
Yeah, I we'll see how it goes. See you, Chris,
and congrats on the marriage and I have fun in Texas, man, Take
care all right, all right, guys, it'll be a great weekends.
Thanks for talking to you. There he goes Chris Catan once again, the
Big Laugh Comedy Club fort Worth this Friday and Saturday. Cool dude, nice
guy, right, yeah, cool dude, kind of wild. I know
you had a quiver full of SNL arrows you wanted to shoot. Uh nah,
I kind of did it last time, really, you know, and
you never know. I mean a lot of them are like, okay,
since he's off SNL and he yeah, but it will always be the biggest
thing you did or the biggest weather. I mean, yeah, there are
a few, I guess that do bigger things, but it ain't many,
you know, I ain't. There's your occasional Chris Rock, your Will Ferrell,
you know, but Adam Samdler. But that is episcopos. If you're
on that show, that's the biggest thing you'll ever do. And that's what
Keenan always talked about. He's like, I don't never leave, like this
is kind of like the coolest thing you could do. Now if that's a
stressful job and schedule as you're done after party, you have Sunday off and
then Monday Tuesday all day riding and staying there. Kind of nuts, but
all of the cocaine recovery time it takes, but that's happening. We have
Jason Kidd coming up next, So yeah, go see Chris Catan and stick
around for Jason Kidd, head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, calling in next.
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