How to Be a Classy Comedian w/ Ryan Hamilton!

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You get all that bonus content Thank you. That's right gang. We couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly and I mean incredibly special guests He was this today for the first time. He is a very funny very successful well-respected stand-up comedian among his peers And you might have seen him in but not limited to you got Conan the late show that tonight show the comedian life of Beth Inside Amy Schumer. He's got a brand new Netflix special out right now. This just hit me. Do me a favor Give it up for the very what I predict very classy very funny very awesome, Mr. Ryan Oh, that's very sweet. Thank you very very very happy to have you here. Oh, I'm very happy to be here. Thank you We're big fans. Yes, so nice of your comedy and also the way operate as a gentleman. Oh, yes, you are a very Buttoned up gentleman the kid can wear a suit. Yeah I got a side-themed wearing suits. Is that true? I got him wearing Yeah, yeah, he wasn't wearing suits before I was around walking around in my eyes Cherry That was funny. I mean, we were you you For the people that might not be familiar you wear us a at least a jacket on stage Most of the time it depends on where I'm at But if I'm doing a theater a good look for me is kind of like jeans in a jacket Uh-huh, but if I'm on the road with Seinfeld, I wear a suit full suit. Sometimes I opt to wear a full suit depending on where I'm at What the pan what if we're big on what depends? I mean Well if I'm doing the tonight show something like that. I'll wear a full suit A very special occasion, you know if I'm in a big theater or something like that I might wear a full suit But if I'm in like an arena or something I often feel like I got to wear like a more casual Situation I'll you play it down. Yeah, yeah, little cash a raken leaves jacket as Jerry calls it What's your raken leaves? You know like a jacket like you like a like a swayed kind of jacket. Maybe these guys operate their operate a different fashion set I'm I'm only thinking about what's appropriate, but I do think you Change the way you perform a little bit based on how you dress and I think it's a 4% and I think it's very important that people look at you and go Oh, like I look sharp, but they're not distracted by it once you get distracted by it. I think that's a little You know a little bit to your detriment as a stand-up committee. Yeah, and let's know everybody's different But that's how I feel nobody's ever said that about us Those guys are sharp Can I see this? What are the suits? What's the brand the suits? Oh? Like Zenia Zenia is a good fit for me. What's that? You know Zenia. This is our this is our our tapped in cool. Oh, yeah Yeah, Zenia is very classic. Yeah, I feel like it's an up-and-commer It's been around for a minute, but I feel like I've been very hot recently. They're rivers over there They're very good at like I nothing fits me off the rack. So He said it This is gonna be fun. Yeah, so well, you know this stuff ain't cheap. No, I mean You can't afford it. I know that here. Listen, it's Hamilton. It's it's it's another rich guy I know in your career In your career nine hundred for a t-shirt to get you in some zengus. It's it's a little I look they're they're they're Crazy, but they fit me well, and you go that's all the man and if you watch my last special I got a lot of compliments people go that jacket looks nice Mm-hmm, and it's because I spent the time to find the right drape and the right color and the right fabric and the right you know falls on you. Yeah, I know it draped me and So that's what I went for and and it pays off I think if that's you know And it makes you feel a certain way. I think one of the most stressful parts about doing television anything is Figuring out how you look. Yeah, it makes me it's like once I get that down. I'm relaxed. I'm calm It's an investment in your performance. I feel like you do the show you start guy you do the show You keep the you keep the suit on for the rest of the night. Are you change out of it? It depends I guess I like to get out of it as soon as I can depending on the situation you sit in the pants or do you put your full Depends I'll sit in the pants. You know for a while. Yeah, I'll sit in the pants Listen, we're talking to guys who are banned with suits, right? We've always been bigger guys and we look you put a suit on us It lasts about like a fat kid in a wedding. We got I got about 40 minutes in a suit before I look like a melted candle The bag what do you mean the suit shirt something? Oh, yeah, like I'm just not he's gross I think the problem with a lot of people with suits and I have this problem to it's very difficult to just go buy a suit You got to find the you got to get the right fit and then a lot of those problems will go away. No, who's who's your Taylor? You got a guy you go to you don't say his name is it? Well, no, I have tried different people over time I found someone in Chicago. I really like at the Zenyus store. She's great and she helped me with the special and so I stay in touch with her It's crazy. That's good. Someone who really understands you and knows what you want and you know And then they have all my measurements and everything. I mean, I've only ordered the one thing from her, but You know she was good. I got a he's got a he's got a Taylor wrong retainer this guy. I don't know. What was the suit? Trunger in Tunger. Uh, that which one the special jacket. Yeah, special jacket. I don't think it was that much. I can't remember No, I think it was I don't remember now, but you know, it was a lot of money But it wasn't that much She's a nice suit. Don't it's Netflix special classic. Uh, Mr. Hamlet. He's tight tilt your mic up a little bit Oh, sure. Thank you. You've been called He commands it. He commands that respect Let's go back to the beginning. Yeah, give us give us the origin story Ryan Hamilton here. You're an Idaho boy I'm from a little town in Idaho a little potato farming community a thousand people in this town. Whoa still I just did an interview yesterday Somebody on the radio did a bunch of research on my town and they and they go do you what guess what the population is now? And I guess 1200 and he said it's 950 so it's gone down But I think it's I don't know that that seems odd to me because I think there are new people coming but Would your mom and dad do my dad they both studied Creative things they studied my dad studied art education my mom Studied like creative writing But they ended up doing different things my dad Eventually when he was young was it got a career as a lineman For a little power company right and for the county. Yeah. Yeah, that's basically love it And a little power co-op in Idaho and my mom became a teacher. Okay. Yeah And she taught all sorts of different she taught sixth grade for a long time. She's taught creative writing she taught Gifted and talented for the whole school district from a very rural place, you know a little tiny town. And so Brothers and sisters. Yeah, I have one brother one sister. I'm the oldest very nice. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah You got a George Bailey vibe What are you made He just pulled that he's got talent that jacket Okay, what did you was it the house you grew up in was it on a big plot like how rural was the neighborhood or was the houses close together? Or you like when I was up until I was about 13 I lived we lived in a little House in town, but it was on the edge of town and so right on the edge of town It felt like almost out of town. There was a big pasture next to us With cattle and horses. We didn't own it, but you know that that's where it was up to you know end of the street And we had neighbors and stuff and then we moved out of town eventually when I was about 14 like rural more rural. Yeah, well about three miles out of town our nearest neighbor was maybe a mile away You know all surrounded by potato. It was a farmhouse that we moved into it wasn't on a farm, but it was a farmhouse Yeah, it wasn't your guys farmhouse. No, no. We never owned a farm My my grandmother's from this town and her her family owned Like a little general store that my great-grandmother ran and my grandfather ran after that It was called a variety store nice and they sold everything appliances close and it was open like you were a lot when you were a kid up until I was about 12 or something. Yeah, you get to run around the store and stuff like oh, yeah Yeah, I used to go I used to work there. They'd put me to work Every Christmas they had toy land downstairs and that was insane for us. They set it up just for Christmas Yeah, yeah, that toy land down in the basement and You know, we would always get them wholesale discount. So I would work all summer because I could buy, you know, great stuff from my grandfather's store. What'd you do? Would you work at the store? I would work there sometimes. Yeah, you know, just like taking stuff out, shelving stuff like that. I never like was like customer service. What was the first proper job yet? I always had jobs. I got a job at a little pizza place right across the street from my grandfather's store when I was about, I guess, 13 something like that. How was that pizza? It was called Husky Pizza, which was the name of our high school mascot. I don't remember the pizza being great, but it's all potatoes. But I didn't know great pizza that either. Sure. And I also every potato harvest had jobs because we would get out of school for a couple of weeks to harvest. Yeah, for a, we call it Spud Harvest. And every, and first two weeks of October we get out of school. No kids that go help harvest the potatoes. Yeah, because everybody's, you know, most of the kids were farm kids. So they needed to go work. And so if you weren't a farm kid, you go get a job because what else are you going to do? So, you know, 13, 14, you start going to get jobs. And yeah, we work for a couple of weeks. I would, you start on the sorting table, pulling potatoes and, right back in, you know, you're a muscle memory. He was picking on film. You're not in the field. You're like, you're like, by the, I wanted to get promoted to work in the field, but you really got to be blood to drive the truck and stuff like that. You know, like, I'm not, I'm the, you know, friends of the farmer's kids. I'm not, I'm not one of the actual farmers. But so I would start, you start on the sorting table. Eventually, I got to where I ran the stinger. It's called, which is sick. Yeah, it was awesome. You, you regulate the flow of the potatoes off of the truck up onto the sorting table. And then it goes into a piler. And you, I never got to run the piler, but that's what stacks the potatoes in the seller. But what I really wanted to do was drive truck, you know, where the combine comes in and puts the potatoes in the truck. But I never got to do that. Yeah. What did that pay? I just buy the hour. I don't remember. I mean, this was a long time ago, but we got paid by the potato. No, yeah, you would end up making, you know, six, 800 bucks for two weeks at that time. That's not bad. It was really good money for a kid. I actually bought my first car with my Spud money is what we call Spud money. Yeah, yeah. What year is this? Well, it sounds like 1930. I know. No, I know it does. This was in the 90s. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, probably around early 90s, mid 90s when I was doing that. Yes. Yeah. Well, your toys was a kid. What do you like as a kid? Oh, man, I was into this series of toys called mask. Did you ever hear of them? Yeah. Did you? Huge mask guy. Yeah, 50. Oh, me too. Yeah. Yeah. Mobile armored strike command or something like that. Oh, it is. Yeah. It's an mobile. They fought venom. Yeah. Exactly. The gas station at all. It's I still have them all. I still have all my masks. Are you serious? Yes. They're in a box at home. Yeah. I have a lot of them move right there. I got my grandfather would order these into a store because he knew I liked them and I would mow lawns all summer so I could buy these. Wait, are they are they unopened? No, they're all opened, but yeah, I got them out. My nephews were playing with them. Oh, wow. That was pretty fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got all those. Well, I don't want to toys when we were kids the best. Oh, those were all Joe Transformers. Yeah. Mask. These were so cool because they were like cool cars and then they would turn into like a jet or, you know, they would turn it. They weren't Transformers. They were more like, um, practical than Transformers. Turn to that's what we like. You missed all this. Yeah. We were smoking cigarettes. You're too young for this. I'm 24. So you saved them. Do you collect anything else? You save anything else? Um, cause you're very meticulous as everybody knows. Yeah. Put together. Yeah. I mean, I was in the comic books for a while. I still have all of those and I'd like to go back to the now I, if I'll see a comic book shop, I'll just wander in and actually I just wandered into Midtown comics the other day and they have a mask is like having this like research. Yes. I just saw the comic book series. Yeah. What do you have anything? First of all, where is this stuff? It's in Idaho. It's in Idaho. Yeah. Your parents to live there or the. Yeah. Yeah. Where's what family? Yeah. To mask stuff. And it's comic book. Oh, okay. I don't think he had it displayed in his apartment. That's what I did. But he had it in the house here. Oh, secret toys close. It's a long ways away. It's hard to transfer. Do you have anything that you know is expensive in the comic books or like, you know, I have the first appearance of Venom. I think that one's worth a few hundred bucks or something like that. Pretty sick. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have anything really crazy though. Okay. But you know, who did the cook and growing up? Your mom? Yeah. Mostly my mom. Yeah. What are we talking about? We would have all sorts of things. We would, we were a family that liked to try stuff. It was like, I mean, not my dad, but my mom was very encouraging of like, we would, you know, if we were out on traveling somewhere, we were encouraged to try new things. But at home, you know, you know, I don't know. We had a lot of mac and cheese. Things were fast. Everybody was busy. I know dishes. Like, uh, freckles here. I mean, it's like steak and potatoes. It's pretty standard. Okay. If you're just going to have an Idaho dish. Yeah. What are the restaurants in town? It must have got to be a small town. So there's the pizza place. There was a pizza place that would open and close. There was this place called the frost top on the highway, which is on the way to Yellowstone Park. And it was only open seasonally a lot of times. But it was cool. It was like an old drive in. And my mom, when she was a teenager, worked there and actually worked there on roller skates. Like she would serve people on roller skate. And it's still there. It has a big, if you look at it, yeah, right there. Whoa. Isn't that cool? That place still exists. Looking soft serve. Yeah. Big root beer outside. It came right up. That's so funny. Yeah. It's a big, that root beer used to turn when I was a kid. I think it stopped turning. But, um, I don't make stuff like they used to. But that place is like an institution. And it's right across the highway from the high school. So we would sometimes walk over there and get greasy fries or whatever. Not a lot of ethnic food in the town. Uh, Charlie is not much. My aunt had a Mexican restaurant for a little bit a few years. Yeah. She Mexican. She married a Mexican. Okay. And she learned to make fantastic Mexican food. No kid. Yeah. Yeah. And we had a place called Big Jods. It's kind of famous in our little neck of the woods. They have like a huge one pound burger that's like one pound. That's how you make some buzz after it's cooked. Not before. And if you eat the whole thing, you get your picture up. You know, I've never attempted it. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What were the vacations like growing up? Where would you go? We would always try to go somewhere. There were a lot of road trips. We went to one year. My dad was from Southern California. So we went there a lot to visit his friends and family. One year, we went to, um, oh, this place. And I think it's in Colorado. What's it called? It's like these ancient civilizations who had their homes built into the. Uh, Machu Picchu. No, it's in, it's in Colorado. It's like a Mesa Verde. That's something, right? Yeah. Uh, what is it? Mesa Verde cliff trailing. Yeah, this. Yeah. Yeah. Mesa Verde National Park. Yeah. It's really cool, actually. There's a lot of, uh, who lived there? There was like age like, you know, they lived in this. This would. Yeah. Oh, I don't like that. Well, how would it be that that place is haunted? No way. It's really interesting and, uh, very educational. Your parents were learning people. My, yeah, my, my, my, um, my grandfather took my mom in her siblings on vacations. And that was, so that was like a tradition that stayed with us, even though we didn't have a lot, but we went to the Oregon coast sometimes. Um, that was good. And, you know, we do stuff close. We went to, uh, Yellowstone Park and like Jackson Hole, Wyoming, those places are very close. And so we would go explore those places a lot. We would go camping sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go camping. Just, you know, close, um, and those were great trips. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How are the grades growing up? I was, uh, I was average. I would get bees, bees. Isn't about that occasional, an occasional sea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right around there. Nothing would you get in the SATs, you remember? We had the ACTs. And I think that was like a 24 or something like that. Speckable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You go to college. I did. I went to, um, Brigham Young University. Really? Yes. And I went there. Uh, there was a little, they have a, when I was, now it's a four year university, but they had a school in Idaho, a branch that was called Ricks College when I went there. I'm going down to Ricks. Yeah. Yeah. A branch of Brigham Young. Yes. Ricks. And now it's called Brigham Young University Idaho. Okay. And it's a four-year school. But it was two years when I went there and then I transferred to the Ricks. Yeah. I went to Ricks. Sounds like a tire shop. Rick. Uh, I got my batches in science and I got it at Ricks. Kevin, let's talk about Square. Square, square, square, square. 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Are you kidding me? That's good. Did you go to football games and stuff like that? Were you big into that? I wasn't huge into that. I would go. I would go. You know, you just put it back back down in the 90s, boy. Somebody huge. I have a feeling you're asking the wrong guy. Yeah, I mean-- Somebody big. Well, Steve Young came from there, but that wasn't my time. Now, he would've been-- I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, I can't recall, to be honest. But it was fun though. Speaking of that, who is, it could've been a local celebrity or who is as a kid, the, you know, the most famous person, or the first famous person you met? Was there anybody who could've been like, a radio DJ? When I was like 14, I did a lot of stuff when I was 14, it turns out. But I wanted to be a humor columnist. That was like my aspiration. Yeah, I got it. There was a guy named Dave Barry. You know who Dave Barry is? He's talking to a lot of movies and, yeah, and he had a humor column that would syndicate it all over the countries from Miami. But, and he's a very funny guy. And I would just read that the whole column was just purpose to be funny. And we didn't have a school newspaper. So I called the county newspaper when I was 14 and said, can I have a column? And they said, sure. So I read it going on. I'm getting to the celebrity. And then the NBC affiliate said, we hear you're interested in journalism. Do you want to, like, learn how to shoot sports? We need a guy to shoot sports. And you can drive when you're 14 in Idaho. Really? 90s? Yeah. But now, still, because of all of these farm kids, they have to be able to drive this farm equipment. So you get your driver's license when you're 14 where I grow up. That's crazy. That's got to be the only state. I don't know. I don't know. But I think now it's just daytime. Like, you can't drive at night or something like that. But anyway, so I took this little gig. And I learned how to shoot sports. And I met all of the newscasters that I would grow up watching. And the sports guy was like a funny guy. And so I would sometimes write jokes. He taught me how to edit on old real to real. And I would do that every Friday night. I would go shoot a game somewhere, drive to the station. And then we would edit. And these guys were celebrities to me. Yeah, of course. So I was around TV. And it was like, this is cool. I love the vibe of the newsroom. And I just love every once in a while. They would mention my name on air. And I'd be like, this is amazing. Yeah, yeah, lower their names. There was, oh gosh, and it's been such a long time. What was there was Carol Honus and J. Hildebrand. Were the two big anchors? And J. Hildebrand and Carol Honus J. Hildebrand, yeah. Don't forget Ryan. This was channel eight at that time, which was the NBC. And the sports guy was, what was his name? These guys would come and go. Carol and J. were the only ones who stayed. They're these small markets that come around. Come and go, come and go, come and go. Those small market news anchors are huge celebrities in the town. They make a lot of cash, too. They do our rights. The first thing back in the '90s, those guys were probably clearing a lot of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of cash. That's the first thing I said to them. You guys probably got a lot of cash, don't you? Got bar on her butt? [LAUGHTER] Thinking about going to Ricks. [LAUGHTER] How old were you when you got your passport? Hmm. I think I must have been like 18 or 19, because I was a missionary for two years for the Mormon church. And I think they must require-- I didn't go to a foreign place, but I think they require you to get your passport, maybe. I'm just trying to think of the first reason why. But that was probably it. Wow. It should grow up in the Mormon church? I grew up, yeah, kind of going when I was young. And my mom's family goes way, way back into the church. So I kind of-- we went when I was really young, and then I kind of started going in high school and stuff like that. And then I went to Brigham Young University, and then I thought, I'm going to go be a missionary. So I did that. I went to college for one year, and then I was a missionary for a couple of years. But she didn't graduate college. And then I came back and graduated. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, which was kind of the standard thing. That was the standard. Gotcha. Yeah. So where'd you go be a missionary? North Carolina. OK. The Western part, I was in Charlotte and up in the mountains and all over the place. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. I did that for two years. I mean, sometimes I can't believe it. But yeah, yeah. So you go around trying to convert people? Yeah, we would go around and knock on doors. But that was like the last thing. We did-- people think that we did that all day long. But really, we would try to get referrals. At that time, there was-- I don't-- It's a lease. Yeah. There was a lot of commercials that they would run. I don't know if you remember that. But they would run. And people would call and go, we want to talk to somebody. And so we would follow up on those. Yeah. And we would do a lot of community service. It was really pretty-- it's an intense experience because-- Where would you live? They had housing that was set up in different places. So it was taken care of. I mean, we would pay like a monthly-- I don't know-- thing. And then everything was kind of taken care of. They had cars set up for us, or we had our own bike often. But they would have apartments. And we would move around to different apartments every few months. It's very, very well organized, to be honest. It's like kind of a program all over the world. And yeah, it was pretty difficult. And I felt like I needed to do it, but I wasn't real. I don't know. It was hard, but you don't communicate with your family. You don't date. You don't watch television. You don't like listening to popular music. You have a very regimented sleep and work schedule. You're up every day. You study for like two or three hours a day. You want a mission? Big double. No chicks, no TV. What are you crazy about? Yeah, yeah. It was something else. You weren't allowed to talk to your parents? Now, I think you can talk once a week on phone or FaceTime. But when I did it, the rules were different. You would write letters and then you could call on Christmas and Mother's Day. Jesus. So for two years, I basically just wrote letters to people. Was this mid '90s? This was, yeah, I guess late '90s. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I was getting fucked up at Widener. They're dropping out of college. You were. Oh, wow. So yeah, I mean, now my life's a little different, but that was kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, I call anybody whenever I want. Christmas End New Year, I call my mom. OK. So when did you move to New York? I moved. Let's see, like 2008. OK. A little bit in a while. From Utah. I stuck around in Utah after college. And-- Did you stand up at there? I started out there. Yeah, what year did you start? I did it like three times when I was 18 and Idaho that I don't really count at that at Rick's college I had a little radio show. I was studying broadcast journalism and for the radio show I produced some stand we a few of us produce some stand-up comedy shows That was the first time I did it, but then I didn't touch it again for like six years And then I started doing it right after college a little bit locally and then yeah That's where I started and then I eventually moved to New York I mean I was doing it full-time before I moved to New York. Yeah, what was the first, you know We I mean if you're doing it full-time you're obviously earning a living But was a first like kind of big windfall like big check with a few thousand dollars like money And what you do with it you probably put it right away Yeah, fucking money. Yeah, money Talking cake first time I made real money. I don't I mean I would get these corporate events every once in a while It must have been one of those Where I went wow, I don't really remember I remember the first time as I got paid But it wasn't real money. It was like There's corporates pay all right. I mean I did Lie the first kind of big things that I really remember being big were like I did live at Gotham for Comedy Central before I lived in New York That was big. Yeah, yeah, and that was kind of the launching pad for me Access TV. Yeah, we did it. Okay. They already got the channel 837. I'm gonna have you 400 bucks. It's a penny in a lot of Check out the mr. Mazzilli It's a tight operation over there. Hit me up. Yeah, I actually did it with it was also Amy Schumer's first real television spot, hmm, and I was first I'd never even been to New York in my life and Might as well be another planet to what you're yeah, yeah, it was crazy crazy. It's got two potatoes in his hand. Yeah, I don't put these Brought gifts. I know can I talk to your elders? But I got off stage and I happen to have a good set somehow and I was first and Amy came up to me and goes Hey, I'm Amy and you're gonna move here and we're gonna get an apartment together That was the first Yeah, she was like, you're gonna move here and we're gonna get a place and I remember going Like what neighborhood Because I didn't understand how New York works and she's like I'm not living below 14 It's real That's gotta be the ever gonna be close to the Zengah story. Yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah So anyway, that was the first kind of big thing that I remember but cash wise I don't know. I was always scraping by and those corporates would kind of save my save me Yeah, corporate money. Yeah, how was Ryan Hamilton with money? I would have to assume pretty good You're saver. I try to be I mean I I Try to be smart. I make mistakes here in there. I like real estate and I've made some wait what He's got screwed in What do you mean like real estate? I'm just interested in it I like even from a young age like just where I grew up we were always thinking about land and and interested in land because of where we lived and Just the way the culture was you all around agriculture and it's beautiful and we had some old old family land and You know that had been in my mom's family for a long time So it just stuck in my head. I was always interested in that. We were always kind of driving around going who owns that? What is that? That's up for sale and so I'm always thinking about that So I've made some purchases and sometimes I've win sometimes I don't and you own some real estate I own a little bit. I mean I own yeah, I do Yorker outside of New York both a little bit now when you say purchases You mean like buying land or buying home like I have some land in Idaho that I own jointly And then and then and then you know, I own an apartment and you know an apartment in New York Yeah, you live in yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm always thinking about that and and I've always you know And I'm trying to move into a different apartment. It's a whole situation. What was some of the bad bad moves that you made it to ours? Well, I don't know I bought this apartment. It's a long story I'm actually trying to get into another apartment I don't know if it was the right situation that I bought so I'm kind of in the middle of it right now I'm trying to and I renovated this other apartment that I'm trying to I like I like I like that way I like it. It's a good way to invest. I feel like because I enjoy it Uh-huh, and I also feel like I put a lot into it. You know what I mean? So you feel fulfilled. Yes, yes, yes, and I don't know if New York is a great investment in real estate anymore these days But that's where some of my money and and I just wanted to have something in Idaho It just made me feel connected connected and like I couldn't go back there at some point. Did you go back there and build a house if you want? Uh, I could actually yeah my my mom and sister are now building a house It's a long story, but I own some land with my mom and I sold my half to my sister and now they're building a house on it And I own another piece of property jointly with my sister. Yeah. Yeah. That's good stuff I got to get you hanging out with Hamilton. These guys are none of these are huge Investments, you know, but I mean, but it's late night. I don't know. I didn't think it was the Taj Mahal. I gotcha. Yeah, that's a I slept at a hotel. I live in New York in the city. He lives it. Wow. That's a real estate That's a one-night real estate purchase. Yeah, yeah, you know, stay caged Okay, do you have a car at the moment? Yeah, no, I had a car. I sold it last summer. What'd you have? I had an old Subaru outback that I bought during the pandemic reliable. Yeah, I love Subaru's I love Subaru's and I was back in Idaho and I needed a car because I was back in Idaho for a lot of the pandemic and so When I came back to New York, I thought I'm just gonna keep it because I love going upstate once in a while to look at land I just I'll just keep it and then it became such a burden that I was like I got to get to this so yeah Yeah, very good. Yeah, huh? What? What kind of plastic? Yeah, you got an amics. We thrown her in. I have I just have a standard I don't even know which one it is. I'm not good at the credit card game like I have a card that I probably should upgrade and get more points for I have so many Delta points. I don't know Delta guy. I'm a Delta guy generally, but lately I've just ever since the points I used to be like all about it, but now ever since it became about how much you spend rather than how much you travel I just kind of like done with that. So we diamond. What are you? I'm not diamond currently. I was diamond for years, but I am a Million-miler life. Yeah, I'm creeping up on two actually two million miles. What do you think I'm at 1.7? Are you that what is it? What is it you board first as a million? You're you in that like you know program? No, I mean it doesn't mean I think I have life time silver or lifetime gold is what you get But I you know, I'm already plat I'm usually platinum now. So I'm platinum and I'm bored zone three or four. You bring food on the plane? Yeah, I'll bring something I can go either way You're not bringing like Shake Shack or any no not like that. I'll get like a protein bar like a kind bar or like I'm not bringing hot food on the plane Occasionally I'll bring something like a like a roll, you know what I mean if I'm really scrambling a roll like well like a wrap a wrap Okay. That's okay You're right there. You're on the front of wrap. I don't even know I don't know what we're judging here like is that is that trash to bring food on Tuna Hogi would be you know interesting bad news. Yeah, take your shoes off on a plane Only on really long flights. Okay. Yeah, put the seat back Depends long flight. I might if I'm sleeping. I might you give him a little look back. We do No, no, I'm kind of of the mind like if someone puts their seat back on me. I go. That's your right I'm with you. Yeah, yeah, I go. I want to be the change. I want to see in the world. I'm gonna eat this Yeah, but if the person behind me's back. I'm going back to It doesn't bother me too much either way. I mean, it's it's two inches. It's like you get you get nothing and they're and they're doing nothing to me You know what I mean? It's nothing sharp. You cooking up to house cook a department. I cook a little bit I'm trying to cook more. I'll do like What am I into lately? I don't know. I've been trying to cook Every once in a while. I'll get a recipe and I'll go let me try to figure this out I've got one of those Air fryer now the like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. What do you call it the pot pressure cooker? Instant pot. I've got an instant pot and I'll do stews or things like that once in a while. Yeah, you'll have it for the week Yeah, you read yeah, what do you read now? Right now. I'm reading a book nonfiction book called breathe. It's all about breathing And that's hold on and that's next to the bed. You read it as you go to sleep. Sometimes I'd like to read fiction before I go to bed I just recently had an opinion I like to read I'm gonna start saying that I'll take it back. I like to read fiction. I know me and my friend Ron Hamilton We're joined we have it's a property jointly. We'd like to read fiction before we go I'm in Iowa that's not my thing if you read fiction before you go to bed it helps you sleep because if you read nonfiction you're computing things and it keeps you alert in your life try if you read fiction you're buying just kind of like oh the story I'm picking up and you fall asleep I've been reading the Lord of the Rings kind of right now I got that sitting by my bed just to go to sleep too you put a glass of water next to your bed before you go to bed I picture you kind of got it does that sometimes no but not generally I do this thing now where I I've been working on my sleep and I tape I'll tape my mouth shut I got yeah yeah yeah do you know that yeah I tried it yeah oh it's a little scary but I feel like it helps me hmm are you a mouth breather I've been trying I've been trying to fix that that's what this whole book is about actually I mean I was working on it before this but yeah yeah CPAP do you you find that helps oh yeah okay good yeah I was dying in the middle of the night yeah that's what happens yeah that's chapter one of the book brief but you got what do you wear pajamas to bed no I picked you I picked you as a full pajama guy I I never I've thought about it sometimes I proves online a guy should buy some pajamas but I never look sharpened with the slippers and a robe and a little bit sharp got back to back to travel real quick I forgot we had talked about it at the seller one night this you're your bag that you have I think it's a pack do you got Jerry on oh yeah yeah it's in yeah what is the brand pioneer carry it's awesome it's really it's a little brand this guy I actually kind of connected with the owner a little bit and we went back and forth this guy is he's like a great I just love good design and this guy really it's very thoughtful about bags and I looked a long time and I had this bag and I was on the plane with Jerry and he goes and Jerry's you know he's he notices everything we love Jerry and big Jerry guys nobody's ever noticed this bag and I'm very like put a lot of thought into finding this bag and it's just sitting there and Jerry goes what's this what's tell me about this bag and I go yeah he knows and he starts kind of looking at it and he goes he looks at me and he goes now you got me excited so he kind of went down the rabbit hole of finding the right backpack and he's had the same backpack for like 20 years and cuz I have a bowl one of these yeah he bought one but he was he was going back and forth we were texting which model that's the one I carry that's a nice bag he has the bigger one and I don't think I know they're not that expensive they're not crazy but sometimes it's not about it's about the thoughtful design but this the fabric that this guy has designed is amazing the what do you call it the ballistic nylon ballistic nylon this guy for a couple operas we're out there on the road is it bulletproof it feels bulletproof this guy's designed it's like it's like very hardy sturdy but it looks slick and professional you can take it to work but you could also take it on a hike or what I mean it's like a really the fat the material he's I'm I got to get eyes on that yes that's an 840 ballistic nylon twist your ballistic nylon ballistic nylon what the heck that's good stuff good anyway the happy hour or shooting bad guys yeah do an extraction point in a rush Jerry actually posted this on Instagram after he found the one and he was like he's like let's get breakfast and he he goes this is the one that he posted no kid I knew pioneer Carrie he said something like I must have a freaking out yeah yeah they sold out he put thanks thanks my new pioneer carry bag thanks for runs right now for showing me the way and they were sold out for like a month or something that's that's the Gary Bump yeah yeah yeah wow because I believe where you know you travel we travel so much in the back like we were talking about it this weekend it is like you need something that is you know that you can operate in different you know it's can't be too big you can't be too small it's got to fit here yes one of the amazing about these bags it stands upright it's designed so that it stands upright by itself which is you don't realize you want until you have it and you just set your bag down there and it's just sitting there kind of looking at you you're like it's my companion now you know it's everywhere I go I've got this thing very sharp guy meticulous sharp we brush your teeth in the shower Ryan no not in the shower we pee in there you pee in the shower no really no wow is that surprise the more I have yeah no really watching you might be the first person ever really I think in the history of the show I mean I think maybe I have a couple of times in my life but but it's not you know start days yeah start days something bad is going on you floss every day yes floss every day yeah what's the what's the nighttime routine you gotta have something yeah I mean flossing is huge I floss twice a day yeah but really I mean flossing is you know they say it's got all sorts of benefits people who floss prevent Alzheimer's stuff like that no shit yeah yeah yeah yeah I do it's it's not gonna I floss every single day twice a day it's the only thing that I do religious it I don't know why it's a hard thing to do but once you get in the habit it's you know it's great it's we should all be great I have to do not be missed I have to do it because of the feel I have to I have to do it makes makes my teeth feel wow I cleaned out right yeah it feels great yeah yeah the sticks are the actual floss I do the actual floss old school yeah I like it look like you just pull this string out you got a brand you got a brand that you like obviously I'm looking for a new brand to be honest try glide yeah I am I'm on glide right now can I get a glides good can I recommend the ballistic nylon little clean your right up I forget the question I was answering oh my nighttime routine yes yes so I floss I I have a you know cleansing very pretty basic skin management thing I do try to that's about it really and and under eye cream anything I used to do under eye cream I've abandoned an under eye cream okay I don't know I I ask some people and they were like it's the same stuff but sometimes I feel like it's good what else do I do at night I mean I try to just cool down get in bed and read if you no phone in the bed I presume I wish that I did I mean I go back and forth it's so hard I break the habit on the road cuz it's just sitting right next to you one thing I do at home as I have these red lights that I turn on at night nice and that really helps me it puts me in a good state oh and here's another thing that I like to do and I'll do this on the road I eat a kiwi or two before I go to sleep what's that kiwi fruit I read somewhere that has something that helps you go to sleep and I feel like it does and it also saves me because you know that right before bed you get I get this real hunger thing where I'm like I just want to eat something terrible right before bed yeah and the kiwi thing isn't that bad and it kind of satisfies my sweet tooth and it kind of knocks me out and there's a lot of great stuff and cute I just I just wash it chop it up skin and all on the road I'll just get them on the road you bring I go right to the grocery store when I go to the grocery store often if I'm there a couple days yeah yeah yeah and I'll pick up some kiwis a few things I just like having some stuff at the hotel makes me feel like I'm not desperate to get garbage I get that and some water do you you run a car when you land in a sometimes it depends I like having a car yeah yeah yeah this is a really fun show I don't know if I'm answering entertaining now let's just know I'm having a ball of course yeah hmm how often do you wash your hair like every three or four days very nice yeah yeah who cuts the hair I have a lady in midtown yeah wolf and blade Katie shout out to Katie I've been with her for a while and she kind of started her own little thing and yeah you got a lot of people for stuff you got to find people you know just stick with them well I find that if they know your history they can help you better I like it smart that's some shit look would do yeah um are you a coffee guy or no no I don't I I drank coffee for the first time in my life like on the road yeah I mean I felt like a year ago or something I mean it's more men's aren't I never grew up drinking coffee yeah I now will I'm into matcha now I'll drink matcha I like caffeine really makes me jittery but matcha gives me a little energy and evens me out got you yeah what's what's the haircut cost you say back okay it's it's also expensive I mean that's why I guess I know wolf and blade it's got five stars I never seen a place of full five stars I think it's I think she's got me on a rate that because I've been with her for a while so I think it's more than this now but I think it's like 125 okay what do you tip on it uh I don't know I usually do whatever the full like 25% yeah good that's a good tip on 125 bill she's great she fits me in when I need to like she just did I just did the tonight show and she's right across the street from 30 rock she fixed me all up no charge you know she's like that's what happens when you have a person you got guys and girls so that's when you went to do your hair like hair and makeup you went there well it was right across the street my hair always stresses me out for TV and I just thought I'll just go and she offered it she says I'm right across the street sometimes I do this for people who've got stuff going on a 30 rock just come by I'll fit you in for 15 minutes clean you up not a full cut just a little clean up I gotta start hanging with him that's what I'm saying I mean dude this guy's going this guy's hitting it getting a custom haircut before 30 rock right across the street walking in a $5,600 suit or something like that you've got wrinkle green t-shirt my team stinks that's it I'm hanging with Hamilton you're out it's me new guy Luke in Hamilton you bite your nails you trim your nails never bite them I never know that's not a thing for me I trim them I just noticed a nice little Rolex on your hand right there yeah what's that what's the story behind that I just recently you know I looked at watches for a long time I was interested in it's a thing that I do research think about I like to find a thing and if it's something I'm interested in I will find the one you know what I mean I like that I like buying things for life if you can find the thing that you want you're not an impulse guy no I like if I think you're not something I'm all impulse baby all in person all the time purchases you just I get a little impulsive but I have tried to implement this rule if there's something I really want I'll go I'm gonna wait 48 hours 24 hours and see how I feel and if you do that it changes how you feel about things so I you know I have some buddies who are into watches and it's just a thing where I have a very small risk so I could never wear a great watch so I was always on the hunt like what's the watch for me and this is like one of the cheaper high-end watches that you can buy really and but it's it's so perfect and it's just praised as like it's nothing but a watch and it does it perfectly well this is the explorer this is the new model and it's a perfect size for me it does nothing but tell time and it's just it's it's not a watch that a watch guy's gonna go it's not gonna blow anybody's but for me my mind but it's reliable it's totally reliable it for me it's just perfect I can wear it to everything and it doesn't it's not super people aren't really noticing it if they notice it there are bags on a podcast you know you got a rolling so many you might notice it but if you do you go it's a normal it's not flashy middle of the road good watch not middle of the road but where this with a suit to dinner you can wear this it's a sports watch you can wear it anywhere back to the suits we talked about at the beginning how many suits do you think you own I own a lot of suits that I don't wear anymore because my body's changed or I grew out of it but you know I have probably I have a black suit that I is in regular rotation I have you know the special jacket now it's like once you wear it on the special it's hard to wear it again performing because people I think in their head they're like this is how I like wear something fresh I have I have like a more than a shirt as we get four shoes I have a linen suit that I just wore on the tonight show that I really like that I've been what like I for summer I think is great and then I have a cup like I've got like a navy suit and I do have like a gray suit those are kind of those are my four like suits that I just kind of keep around but really the black one gets a lot of wear and then my jackets I have a couple jackets to get a lot of wear you I mean I don't know if I told you this he has the story where him and Goldman took list out to buy a suit for whenever this was doing oh yeah what about shoes he bought this maybe Gary took him to the suit I was only involved in shoes I'm not sure and he got whatever while I'm making this it was like a thousand dollar suit and this was gonna wear like $89 like hey let shoes and he stepped in because you can't wear them yeah gotta go he got to spend 250 on shoes but then he bought on the shoes yeah yeah we put to Alan Edmund's bottom some real nice Alan Edmund it's got great name dude that could be a financial advisor or a shoelace go down to Alan Edmunds hope they carry it or a local Idaho newscaster this is Alan Edmund we found some shoes I think shoes are important I I've I made a mistake I think in my last special I wore brand new sneakers that I'd never worn before and I walk weird I didn't feel they didn't have laces I couldn't get them tight they weren't and I was kind of my ankle was slipping out and it's you're thinking of mine yeah of course shoes are important and that leather sole on the stage on a wooden stage there's something about that feel you know what I mean you nail that leather sole to the stage and you are secure and I love the sound of it you know yeah sure to eat your place is spotless I would assume your apartment it goes back and forth my life's been chaos the last month it's really kind of crazy right now it's not great but I'm also for Ryan Hamilton I mean there's up for you there's dishes in the sink right now there's books laying around the bathroom needs clean there's piles of laundry that need done I mean my life's been chaos for a couple of months it's a real man I'll move in I'll take care of you got a in unit washer dryer in no I have a laundry room in the building okay it's not you're okay I like it I like it it's it's honestly pretty good because you don't have to service the things they they're really nice and I can do like four loads all at once what neighbor what area you in upper west side you did I just yeah of course well you're not living down to your sign fell you're up there with Jerry I actually live across the street coincidentally well I never do that getting to know but I live across the street yeah very nice yeah play a scene at the upper west side St. Phil's turf oh do you know the sign felts territory start knocking on doors I mean this guy it's not even up for debate this guy's all class you know what I mean 100% yeah I don't know I mean what I listen to trash compared to the animals that have been drug through here you said you're my you might as well you said your place is a bit of dishes in the sink there's a dead squirrel and Kevin's sake yeah I don't know I feel yeah I've always felt like I have my feet in two different worlds you know what I mean I come from a very rural sure kind of you know not a lot of money like and I live in New York City and I you know we found the money doesn't really matter it's like it's no it doesn't matter yeah yeah you can have a lot of money and still be trashy you can yeah it's like it takes you know it's it's really where you come from and what's instilled in you and stuff like that when's the last time you bought a lottery ticket a scratch-off lottery ticket yeah I when the I started buying lottery tickets if like I don't know when that gets up to really crazy just for fun I'll go by a billion yeah I mean I probably bought 15 lottery tickets my whole life do you gamble no it doesn't do much for me drink no no I mean I drank a few times I drank for the first time when I was 45 years old and my tri at 45 I don't know I was just on vacation with a friend in Hawaii and we were like I don't know we were just kind of bored and I get it it was like let's try this and I was at a point in my life where I thought it was after my accident which we haven't really even talked about but I had an accident and it was kind of significant to me in my life and it shifted my mindset a lot of things where it's like you only live one time like I'm just gonna try things now did you get banged up you get drunk or just have like a couple drink I got really the drunkest I've ever been you know we've been down the first I took a long time though I think yeah and then I was pretty drunk and then I would did it kind of as an experiment I'm like I want to see because everybody goes I want to see you drunk like you know everybody who knows me well like they're just like for whatever reason if you never drank your whole life people want to know what you're like as when you're drunk that's got to be fun at a party and so yeah so I was trying to maintain in my head like what am I like because this is a question I always get and I think that I just got overly helpful like I was like what are your problems now we can solve these right now like we can figure out a solution to this that's good you know even even drunken even blackout drunken he's sitting in a resort in Hawaii don't people's taxes let me help you yeah so but I didn't I just don't really enjoy it and it's not I just kind of stop it it's interesting but would you still get much out of it would you stay in Hawaii I'm sorry I just stated it was a Marriott beach resort it was like Like a lot, I've been to Hawaii a bunch of times for work and yeah, it was on a while. A while? Yes. I've been there but that was not, that was for work. This was just a place by the airport that was, yeah, wait, I get confused on my Hawaii trips now. No, this was actually on, this was on Kauai, I'm sorry, yeah. What was the last vacation you took? It was cool. I hardly ever go on vacation. I go home to Idaho a lot. I went home for the fourth of July just, yeah, just to hang out with my family. But to go on vacation, vacation, I rarely do that. When you go home, do you stay at the house with your family or do you got a hotel? I stay at the house. I mean, there's not much hotel happening and yeah, last time it was pretty crammed right now. We're all kind of in a rental house that was never meant for us to live in as a family. So my mom's got a little apartment, my sister's family's in the rest of the house. I actually slept in my nephew's bunk bed. Oh, there you go, there you go, 50 year old and a bunk bed, baby. Oh, yeah. I'm at your cell at the floor, Mike. Can't get that idle out of you, man, that's in there. Where did you shoot? Yeah. I was on Netflix or yelling down at it. Sometimes I'll sleep in the camp trailer in the driveway. Uh-oh. Yeah. In the summer. It's too cold in the winter. But I like it. The trailer in the trailer. I can see that. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. We know Jerry. I'll tell Jerry that. You'll be home. He'll sell your house out for my day. Ladies and gentlemen, the special is this just hit me on Netflix. Ryan Hamilton, one of the absolute funniest guys working, buddy, we can't thank you enough for coming in. 100% all class. You guys are very nice. Like to the boat. Wow. That's very nice. Anything yet coming up? You want the folks to know? Plug away. Uh, just a special really is the main thing. This just hit me. Now, if you haven't seen anything from me, I have two specials on Netflix. Happy face is the other one. We got dates coming up. I'm announcing a theater tour later this week. We'll have San Francisco. We got Denver or some of the big ones. You know, lots of stuff. Irvine, California. Des Moines coming up. Omaha. Yeah. This just hit me on Netflix. Stone Coldkiller. Stone Coldkiller. Do yourself a favor. Check it out. Kippy what he got for him. Guys, we are off the road right now. We just finished in Denver, a new tour coming soon. We love you. Thanks for the support. Ryan, we love you, buddy. Thanks for having me. Thanks, gang. We love you. We'll see you next week.