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00:00because i'm about to tell you you look fantastic thank you thank you i haven't seen you in a
00:05minute yeah and it's been i mean it's been a couple years i'm trying to think the last time
00:10it's been a little while it's been a minute and you look ridiculously good what are you doing
00:14uh i have been home off a tour for a little bit now we got about got home back in october i think
00:20it was and i mean i have been doing uh muay thai lifting weights a lot of physical exercise um
00:27you know uh i just that's the one thing that still was bothering me about myself is that i carried a
00:33little too much fluff for what i'm what i wanted right and being from kentucky being i was a fat
00:38kid when i was growing up it's always just kind of there and i finally had the time to not only do
00:43all the workouts but i'm also actually like uh watching what i eat for once finally i used to go
00:47to the gym so i didn't blow up now i'm trying to go to the gym and watch the diet to dial it back in
00:53so you yeah because you were doing a lot of mma training too oh yeah muay thai obviously but
00:58oh and one record whoo did you yeah oh dude tell well i uh back in god i was 32 years old
01:06it was my first muay thai fight and uh it was a smoker um one kick nicks here in town did these
01:13smokers over at the corner of sunset and vegas boulevard big sports uh venue over there and uh
01:19i'd been training for about two years so i said i saw other people doing i was like you know what
01:24i can do this no so here i stand here i stand at 0-1-1 at 32 i fought a 22 year old and uh got in
01:34the ring got hit harder than i've ever been hit before in my life and it was at that point that
01:38i realized while i'd been doing muay thai for two years this kid had been thai his entire life
01:45and uh yeah he beat me but uh i think overall i won the long game yeah yeah well i mean you're
01:53you're taking care of yourself and looking really really good thank you thank you um obviously five
01:57finger death punch it's been quite the journey oh yeah um i would like you to share the story of
02:03joining the band because i think it's i think it's such a cool story very cool well um i don't know
02:08if i've told you this story or not this is a new one for you perhaps here we go um i was working at
02:13the hard rock cafe here in town uh on the strip and matt the old bass player came into the hard
02:19rock one day him and case our old security guy and i knew case um a cocktail waitress walked up and
02:25was talking to matt and then came back over now let me back up matt had a big beard yeah i had a big
02:30beard to about the middle of the chest at that point so i figured i'd make a beard joke go over
02:34and say hi i tell her hey uh you know the guy at the bar she's like yeah that's matt from death punch
02:39i said tell him that uh he's in the big boy beard section and the little boy beard sections over
02:43there he didn't like that so he uh she came back over and she's like you know i don't know how to
02:51tell you this but he said that he's a rock star and you're still waiting tables oh oh i had no
03:00come back no no no he spoke truth and i hated it but you had power over the drinks but anyways go
03:05ahead so then exactly um and then uh two months later i found out are we allowed to curse on this
03:12absolutely okay two months later i found out that death punch was looking for a bass player
03:15right then i was like fuck that motherfucker i'm taking this job and here i am yeah we've seen each
03:22other since and it's all water into the bridge but uh i i really i would not have tried to get into
03:27death punch nearly as hard had he not said that that night so so him being him being uh surly let's
03:34say i get it i've been in the band for a long time now i know why you were surly yeah right um but yeah
03:41had he not had he not uh behaved in that manner that night i would not have gone after it nearly as
03:46hard as i did i wanted it just for the story alone and yeah here i am telling it to you guys and
03:51here you are going on the road with metallica yeah i mean yeah what uh it's incredible i have
03:59now played for uh in front of kiss and metallica two of my favorite bands growing up in the day um
04:07man and metallica total gentlemen wonderful professionals just the amount of stuff in the
04:12hallways in these stadiums that we're playing i don't know like how do you organize that it blows my
04:17mind yeah just the magnitude and the size of the stuff that they have going on but it was incredible
04:22experience uh we played all around the world with those guys um yeah it's been quite yeah that had
04:29to just be surreal yeah it was awesome and the thing to suck though is that uh when we're opening up for
04:34metallica they've got so many trucks and whatnot that once we're off stage we got to be out of there
04:39like maybe an hour or so after so i never got to see an entire metallica set because i always had to go
04:45out and watch a little bit and then get on the bus and go to the next place wow but it was cool you
04:49know if i'm complaining about not being able to watch metallica because i got to play with metallica
04:54i should probably shut my mouth yeah probably probably all right there yeah any cool stories
04:58on the road from that tour like oh man i mean i was at a backstage at a metallica concert a couple
05:03times so i know about the equipment that you're talking about it's crazy but once i was standing there
05:09waiting to do something i think i was going to interview james and all of a sudden his uh i think
05:15it was james kidd came up to me and goes um yeah i would i just finished this karate thing what do you
05:21think i mean like was showing she was showing me like this stuff and i was like oh it's really cool
05:28james kids look at this you know the whole family was back there at that time yeah it's different now
05:33obviously right there's still quite a bit of family back there though and even cooler now so metallica
05:40on this tour and i don't know if they do it all the time but they would play on friday have a day
05:45off on saturday and then we would play with them on sunday on that day off in between they would set
05:50up a show in town for like either bands they liked or uh james's kids got a band robert robert
05:56two heels son has a band so they would have their sons play on saturday and then just direct all the
06:03traffic that was in town to see metallica to go to those shows i thought that was an incredible way
06:08to kind of bring everybody together make it a full metallica weekend and uh yeah i learned a bit
06:13watching those guys out there constant professionals uh very approachable there was one day i was in
06:19catering and james walked by he was on his phone he's like hold on a second hey kale how you doing
06:24everything good you know you're enjoying everything everybody treating you well okay i'll be right back
06:28and i looked at my friend i was like did you just get off the phone to say hi to me
06:33so even uh 14 years into being in death point still very much a fanboy when it comes to uh stuff
06:39like that this life is surreal the the love and uh for what you do isn't jaded yet you're not like
06:47yeah dude i gotta go on the road again i mean there are times when that happens but that's mainly
06:52dealing with just a couple of dicks you know right here we go i've had all this time to myself but it's
06:57all the time on the road that allows me to have all the time to myself to work on all the stuff
07:02that i'm working on too so comedy yeah dude tell i know you opened uh you're big all of a sudden i i
07:09all said it was like chris kale's doing stand-up comedy like yeah where did that come from a friend
07:14of mine named craig gas who i'm actually doing a podcast with him now called beardo and weirdo okay
07:19we've got about five episodes out now i think we got ten in the tank and just released them
07:23uh as time goes on but he's a stand-up comic he is also on the howard stern show does a lot of voices
07:29he grew up in a house he was the only person in his house that could hear everyone else was deaf
07:35so when he learned to speak he learned it from watching tv so he's able to kind of do voices and
07:39whatnot but he knew that i was a huge fan of stand-up comedy still am and uh had this thing called punch
07:45lines and back lines at vamps was the first time that i did it and uh it's basically you got three
07:52comics and a musician who's never done comedy and they'll kind of feed you jokes if you wanted or
07:56you can do your own stuff so craig and um laura i think was her name gave me a couple of jokes here
08:02and there and i was like i don't know man like i got a lot of stories i got a vibe i think i kind of
08:07want to do this and just actually do it so my very first time on stage doing stand-up i think i did 20
08:13minutes holy that's a lot for stand-up looking at it now i'm like how wow hell how full of myself was
08:20i oh i could do 20 minutes especially now but it was a very forgiving audience it was advanced so
08:25it's a rock crowd yeah i'm basically i'm doing stand-up but it's more just telling stories about
08:31the road um sharing this unique experience that i've got it's that's always kind of been my my use
08:38of the platforms is i was behind the bar in las vegas literally behind the bar in las vegas when i got
08:44the text from zoltan telling me i had to get with death punch so i'm this man off the street
08:51plunged into this incredible world of rock and roll and i like to kind of open it up a little
08:55bit and let people in and kind of share that experience with them and i've got a voice i love
09:00speaking you know my my ex-wife said my favorite song was me me me me me she was right i did stand up
09:08up for a minute nice um in fact i opened up for roseanne bar at the house of blues oh yeah um and
09:13it was a 25 minute set oh my gosh yeah at the house of blues yeah it was like heroin oh yeah just
09:21so much fun yeah so much fun but it takes a lot to write the jokes oh yeah so are you how how are you
09:29are you just mapping out your stories or do you just go up and swing it i originally like way back
09:36before i started doing stand up i have always had this idea when i grew when i was growing up i wanted
09:41to be either a musician or a writer i'm already a musician writing's next so i was planning on writing
09:47a book about my experiences and all that stuff so this is essentially me kind of doing uh like market
09:53research telling stories on stage seeing what connects with people and then kind of adapting those
09:58stories um i don't know if i'm going to end up doing a book at some point but i have had so much fun
10:03with the stand up and actually going back to talking about um the metallica experience what
10:08i'm trying to do now is with death punch let's say we roll into a town we're playing on saturday but
10:14we have a day off on friday in that same town i want to schedule a comedy show on friday in that
10:20town that way people can come in much like the metallica stuff yeah everybody just make it a full
10:24death punch weekend come in here's some stories about being in death punch a little stand-up comedy
10:29as well and then the rock show the following day so that's kind of where i'm working towards
10:33good on this thing yeah and you know it gets me out of the hotel room i find that i often uh get
10:38overwhelmed with too many people just like i'm very very social very full frontal so if i walk out
10:44somewhere you know it's me yeah like is that yeah there's no mistake no that's kale yeah so i tend to
10:50kind of isolate a little bit when i'm on the road and i really don't want to do that anymore so i'm
10:54trying to just do more things that keep me active keep me sane keep me social being social is part of
11:01what keeps me saying a lot and uh yeah so that's that's basically where the whole have you done
11:06comedy outside of las vegas i mean have you hit different clubs around the country oh yeah uh
11:10i've done it at comedy works up in denver for uh brant tobler oh wow um that's an act someplace
11:17overseas spain maybe i went in for like an open mic on one of those nights that we had a
11:24night off on a metallica tour and i did comedy there i've opened up for big j okerson here in
11:29town at wise guys josh wolf many times over it's um kimball's comedy club so it's it's been nice the
11:37thing that works well for me is most people when they're doing stand-up it takes three years
11:43just to get used to being on stage i've been on stage since i was 15 essentially so i'm not afraid
11:48of that at all very um vocal and very outspoken and whatnot so it's just a matter of at this point
11:55i've been doing it seriously for a year maybe a little bit longer than that and uh just finding
12:01my voice the support from all the other comedians has been great the profile that i have with death
12:07punch has definitely opened a bunch of doors for me there so it's it's nice to have this this massive
12:11platform that is death punch that opens up other creative opportunities um so i can just kind of you
12:17know i'm i'm i am at my best when i'm being creative and that's whether it's um doing stand-up
12:22whether it's podcasting playing bass singing writing music that's that's the ring that yeah
12:28getting in the ring in the ring yeah just once i'm good
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