Met Nick at Skankfest after he did Bastard Radio. Stood and spoke with me for a few minutes about TAFS and Dick Cavett. Was a genuinely kind and attentive dude.
He walked by me while I was eating Chicfila in my car by myself. We locked eyes for 5 seconds while I was chewing. I never want to experience that again
Nick is spot on. It’s annoying listening to comedians who make a lot of money off podcasts constantly talking about “you cant say anything any more without being canceled.”
Yes I would rather listen to comedians who make a lot of money off podcasts constantly whine about the state of their mental well being while a bug sits idle and nods every 30 seconds. I do agree with you that Gomez crying about being "canceled" while raking in thousands each month is hilarious, but I don't think Nicky Millions, the manic depressive pseudo philosopher should be taken too seriously.
@@Mastur_BatemanGomez cancelled? From what? I don’t think being cancelled has ever been a concern for Luis, and I don’t think he’s ever suggested he has been or will be cancelled unless the intent was to be tongue in cheek.
i imagine these days nick spends weeks reading schopenhauer, being confronted with the most daunting conundrums a person can face; and then hopping on a plane to vegas and the first person he runs into the brendan schaub
Yes, 100%! Trying to "manufacture" fun usually doesn't work. The most fun times are, for the most part, spontaneous and one time deals. Nick himself has expressed this b4 with trying to rewatch old Simpsons episodes and feeling like he's hooked up to a dialysis machine slowing waiting to die. It's very relatable but very gay of us to feel this way. First world problems for sure. I dont wanna get too preachy but i feel the best way to live to the fullest is to experience as many new things as possible and never succumb to an "all eggs in one basket" mentality. Also im gay.
Skankfest seems fun as shit if you're one of the comics and a fucking nightmare if you're an attendee. Seems like Gomez figured out a way to just get together a bunch of comics to party with while making a ton of money lmao
Knowing like 30+ ppl whove gone for years, based off their opinions it seems like the best festival type event you could find, but if your not down with/a die hard fan of like all the comics/pods that are around thst scene, i could see it being not as great an experience. I dont think Vegas helped that either🤷♂️
@@DN-zc8ssyes because Sam ( who is successful making a living off comedy and has a large platform) is canceled and you will be canceled if you associate.
the craziest thing happened today at work.....I do HVAC work and a customer had the same exact chair they are sitting on......suffice to say I sat in it and pretended I was hanging out with the boys
I'm glad Nick is not afraid to show his true self. I'm not sure about the entertainment value in the long run but who cares. If he sticks around he wil get out of the slump eventually. Time does that to a person.
Honestly, I kinda get where he's coming from. Sometimes you do something that in the moment felt fun or exciting, but looking back on it, it doesn't seem like it was all that great. Maybe some negative thoughts/feelings overshadow it in retrospect, maybe it didn't live up to your expectations, and now, even though you had a decent time in the moment, the memory of it just feels lackluster/disappointing.
they'll look back at this podcast, maybe even this episode in particular, as a poster example for whatever era of art we're currently in. to be so abstracted from the art-making process as a result of being so critically aware of ones place and potential place in history, is tantamount to the all existential pondering of ones place in the universe. the struggle for meaning. the artistic choice here is not only the choice to feel defeated by this fact, but also to create in spite of it. to create something, anything. to just express ones view on something, as fleeting and immediately regretted as we fear all lives must be. an ouroboros of self reflection. endlessly warping. endlessly approaching whatever 'self' is, in a society ebbing between collapse and singularity and the urge to find a difference between the two.
The point about being self aware of ones place in history made me think Nick may or may not understand how good he is but i think he realizes that he has no control over how he'll be remembered. I think that's what's bothering him.
The description of that spread was genuinely depressing. You could slip it right into a Solzhenitsyn book, and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and not just because I've never read anything by Solzhenitsyn
Lol Gulag Archipelago and the subsequent one, the title of which I am blanking on but it's about the network of people that helped him write and disseminate the writings while in the camp, are both worth reading. If you like reading, obviously, and if not there's always audiobooks. I think they are so well written and the subject matter is so real and visceral that it hits an exciting note like good fiction does. I've not found too many nonfiction books that are as captivating as fiction. Non-fiction writers are such a weird group of writers. Like...they write well, all around, but there are some who seem to be ok writing in a dry and technical prose and then there are the creative and powerful ones who use nice creative prose and keep it from feeling less like a text book by adding conversational techniques like quips, anecdotes and little attempts at joking. All in all, Gulag Archipelago is absolutely a fuckin banger of a book. I killed it, cover to cover, in one sitting on a Saturday a few years ago
@@shayna2830 Quite the endorsement! What an interesting era we live in... Pronouns have become an edgy topic, an Orange huckster lost a presidential election to an actual Ghost, Drag Queens are for kids, and I'm taking a serious book recommendation from the comments section of a Cumtown adjacent podcast.
I watched a few of these podcasts and then stopped because it's so dreary to listen to these guys anymore. I guess becoming so rich and obsessed with being sober is not exactly a recipe to being fun to listen to. Skankfest, more like snoozefezt. The community also used to carry the show back in the cumtown days but nowadays it's so childish and repetitive "DUUUUDE LMAO I'M SO IRONIC END EVERY SENTENCE BY STATING I'M GAY" wow, that's so funny and original
@@FugueSt4teThe least funny aspect of Cumtown and TAFS has always been the fans. It's like a fucking reddit or something with how many shitty "jokes" are getting passed around constantly
I was introduced to Nick Mullen via the Bonfire, which lead into LOS, then Cumtown. It’s a bummer to see the lack of enthusiasm around the festival, and the community as a whole. But I understand. I understand that I’m gay.
I love you guys, but nick is getting really good at fucking up my nerves when he says “skanksfest” he’s done it a couple years in a row now and I’m sure he’s only doing it to piss off neurotic basement dwellers like me.
I'm really intersted to hear why Adam didn't go to skankfest the last 2 years. He's from Vegas.. There must be some beef or awkwardness between him and someone from skanks. He's never been on the pod either.
This show is catastrophically nothing. Like you clipped a segment talking about lo mein noodles and comedians being fascists or some shit I don’t even know. That was your epic highlight.
,I love listening to my favorite hipster comedien(nes) having a poignant conversation about a certain je ne sais quoi, I feel a certain ingenue emanating from my (gay) private parts.
@@thatONEmachine nuh uh, he's my boyfriend! I love his inability to riff and instead longingly look out the window and think about that chinese girl from the woods
Met Nick at Skankfest after he did Bastard Radio. Stood and spoke with me for a few minutes about TAFS and Dick Cavett. Was a genuinely kind and attentive dude.
I saw him at a bathroom glory hole
..Nick is very attentive
Did he attend deez nutz?
Yeah he mentioned meeting you (we're very close friends btw)
@@FugueSt4teyeah I actually fucked him
Was he hot (I’m gay btw)
Adam is the ultimate energy vampire. Nick is barely alive
I think dracula did it
god i read this right as adam started talking about what he cooked for diner
how dare you say such an antisemitic thing when Israel is in the middle of leveling Gaza!
Have you ever met a chronically depressed person? If anything Nick's the energy vampire.
I haven't. You nailed it. Damn.
im just glad adam showed those freedom fighters how to paraglide
Trader to his own people... Classic Adam, that definitely rings true
Traitor Mr.MerMAN
@Poorleeno when your ridiculously good-looking, you don't have to learn to read good... or do other stuff good too.
That shit was so badass
Paragliding is the gayest way to invade so this checks out.
I met Nick at CVS. He was roid raging while buying Plan B. Nicest guy you could ever meet.
I like what you did there.
He walked by me while I was eating Chicfila in my car by myself. We locked eyes for 5 seconds while I was chewing. I never want to experience that again
Nick is spot on. It’s annoying listening to comedians who make a lot of money off podcasts constantly talking about “you cant say anything any more without being canceled.”
Yes I would rather listen to comedians who make a lot of money off podcasts constantly whine about the state of their mental well being while a bug sits idle and nods every 30 seconds.
I do agree with you that Gomez crying about being "canceled" while raking in thousands each month is hilarious, but I don't think Nicky Millions, the manic depressive pseudo philosopher should be taken too seriously.
@@Mastur_BatemanGomez cancelled? From what? I don’t think being cancelled has ever been a concern for Luis, and I don’t think he’s ever suggested he has been or will be cancelled unless the intent was to be tongue in cheek.
I've read this exact comment many times over the past 5 years
@@Mastur_Bateman Chet Hanks
Being cancelled in the way they talk about it isnt even real
Nick millions sounding so depressed nowadays. Wish him well and hope he doesn't clock out early. Im sure his 40s will be much more liberating.
His best friend is a bug, what can you say?
Once you're 40 you really just stop giving a damn
i imagine these days nick spends weeks reading schopenhauer, being confronted with the most daunting conundrums a person can face; and then hopping on a plane to vegas and the first person he runs into the brendan schaub
@@petermoore7796imagine having to converse with Adam and Schaub in the same week, i think i would kill myself
@@kimilsungthefirst6840he's not sober, thats what makes it even worse
What would happen if young Cumtown Nick could travel forward in time and assess neurotic, post-suicidal TAFS Nick?
He'd snuff the boy Adam out like a light
He would call him gay
Like a bug
He'd call him gay
nick mullen: man with the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Weight of what? He's just an annoying new Yorker now
@@MrDavidflores1990 obviously you are not a golfer
I do appreciate how Nick always keeps it real. Shitting on skankfest in 2023 is more taboo than stoning a trans.
And he did both
So not taboo at all...
@@OnPointFirearmscome back to reality pal , you’ve lost your damn mind
Let Derosa get a handy first, then we'll throw stones
we’re outlandish, we’re wild, we’re here doing puerto rican rattlesnake dabs with traaans people
This could literally be footage of a therapy session
Literally what is going on
And yet this is the same guy who goes on about "I'm always thinking about how to make everything funny and if things aren't funny I panic"
"Brandon Schwab's crew fucked up the vibe but I'm really not allowed to say it."
Where did you infer that from?
How did I know Nick was going to have the, “Everything sucks, I’m sad” party-pooper take.
Trying to recreate memories or recreate a feeling. I've certainly fallen in that trap before in several different scenarios
Yes, 100%! Trying to "manufacture" fun usually doesn't work. The most fun times are, for the most part, spontaneous and one time deals. Nick himself has expressed this b4 with trying to rewatch old Simpsons episodes and feeling like he's hooked up to a dialysis machine slowing waiting to die. It's very relatable but very gay of us to feel this way. First world problems for sure. I dont wanna get too preachy but i feel the best way to live to the fullest is to experience as many new things as possible and never succumb to an "all eggs in one basket" mentality. Also im gay.
Do you guys think paying for the patreon so I can listen to even more hours of Nick talking about his depression, cure my depression?
I cancelled mine months ago… Adam is a void of anything genuine and Nick is in his head
Its Skankfest, not Skanksfest. And Nick knows it, beautiful
Adam's Minds live at Myrtles Beach. All according to plans
Why do i ever still click?
I think if they both tried really hard and focused all their energy that they COULD cross their legs even harder than they are in this video.
we all need goals
Nick was manic last year. Thats why everything was so exciting to him
Can you be bi polar and autistic? I'm not sure...
@@Josh-sj9igyah you can
@@Josh-sj9ig comorbid as fuck. Bipolar, ADHD and autism spectrum are like the caprese salad of mental illnesses. No better fit
Nah he was just on a lot of opioids
@@Josh-sj9ig He's gay polar
I am just gay
Skankfest seems fun as shit if you're one of the comics and a fucking nightmare if you're an attendee. Seems like Gomez figured out a way to just get together a bunch of comics to party with while making a ton of money lmao
Or a sex worker
If you’re a comedy fan you need to buy Louis ck tickets, Dave tickets, burr tickets, and you need to make a trip to skankfest at least once
Knowing like 30+ ppl whove gone for years, based off their opinions it seems like the best festival type event you could find, but if your not down with/a die hard fan of like all the comics/pods that are around thst scene, i could see it being not as great an experience. I dont think Vegas helped that either🤷♂️
Cash grab
This year was my first one. It was awesome.
Damn, no mention of the World Peace 2 screening ?
they don't wanna get cancelled
@@DN-zc8ssyes because Sam ( who is successful making a living off comedy and has a large platform) is canceled and you will be canceled if you associate.
This was the funniest clip of the year! Thanks for the work you guys are doing. Truly riveting stuff 👏
once again Adam touches the bottom of his shoe and then touches his face with the same hand. multiple times!
god if nick could have done an actual talk show with literally anyone other than adam
Can you leave Adam alone? You alt right trolls have no idea how much we need a centre left voice for these unprecedented times x
Amen
@@Josh-sj9igehh I’m not some kinda milk toast fence sister, but sometimes I feel like TAFS veers into radical, extremist center-left territory.
@@severalwolvesis fence sister a new LGBTQ term?
hes better then stav atleast he can hold an actual conversation
Nick looks like a Dallas Buyers Club member....careful Nick what and who you eat.
The one with the lighting bolt on it, duh
the craziest thing happened today at work.....I do HVAC work and a customer had the same exact chair they are sitting on......suffice to say I sat in it and pretended I was hanging out with the boys
Thats insane!
Awesome dude! Did you get a chance to fantasize they were there talking with you while jacking off in it? I hope so
Wholesome I'm happy for you bro
I'm glad Nick is not afraid to show his true self. I'm not sure about the entertainment value in the long run but who cares. If he sticks around he wil get out of the slump eventually. Time does that to a person.
He’s on a several year downward spiral.
If nicks special doesn’t get 1M views he’s gonna neck himself
You think this is him showing his true self?
Not me thinking Nick went to a Ska festival.
One of Nick’s redeeming qualities is the openly acknowledges his first world neurosis.
A sort of Turgenev's superfluous man, if you will
"Everyone's returned from the shit, and their wives.."
Honestly, a joke that's better for being interrupted
It’s funny to hear this from his end bc everyone else is saying he was very involved and having fun.
Hear what from him exactly? What did he say here?
@@HaykInWonderland Give watching the video a shot.
@@knallow_ i did. Did you? Can you recap for me in a sentence or two, what you think he said about it?
Honestly, I kinda get where he's coming from. Sometimes you do something that in the moment felt fun or exciting, but looking back on it, it doesn't seem like it was all that great. Maybe some negative thoughts/feelings overshadow it in retrospect, maybe it didn't live up to your expectations, and now, even though you had a decent time in the moment, the memory of it just feels lackluster/disappointing.
@@HaykInWonderland No. use your adult brain and do something for yourself.
Sgt. Mulldog pining for the fraternity of the trenches.
nick sounds really smart on 1.25 speed
My boy’s wicked smaht
they'll look back at this podcast, maybe even this episode in particular, as a poster example for whatever era of art we're currently in. to be so abstracted from the art-making process as a result of being so critically aware of ones place and potential place in history, is tantamount to the all existential pondering of ones place in the universe. the struggle for meaning. the artistic choice here is not only the choice to feel defeated by this fact, but also to create in spite of it. to create something, anything. to just express ones view on something, as fleeting and immediately regretted as we fear all lives must be. an ouroboros of self reflection. endlessly warping. endlessly approaching whatever 'self' is, in a society ebbing between collapse and singularity and the urge to find a difference between the two.
The point about being self aware of ones place in history made me think Nick may or may not understand how good he is but i think he realizes that he has no control over how he'll be remembered. I think that's what's bothering him.
For the love of god stop paying for the Patreon so these two can let go and live their lives
The description of that spread was genuinely depressing. You could slip it right into a Solzhenitsyn book, and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and not just because I've never read anything by Solzhenitsyn
Lol Gulag Archipelago and the subsequent one, the title of which I am blanking on but it's about the network of people that helped him write and disseminate the writings while in the camp, are both worth reading. If you like reading, obviously, and if not there's always audiobooks. I think they are so well written and the subject matter is so real and visceral that it hits an exciting note like good fiction does. I've not found too many nonfiction books that are as captivating as fiction. Non-fiction writers are such a weird group of writers. Like...they write well, all around, but there are some who seem to be ok writing in a dry and technical prose and then there are the creative and powerful ones who use nice creative prose and keep it from feeling less like a text book by adding conversational techniques like quips, anecdotes and little attempts at joking. All in all, Gulag Archipelago is absolutely a fuckin banger of a book. I killed it, cover to cover, in one sitting on a Saturday a few years ago
@@shayna2830 My favorite thing about him is that he would hate Adam Friedland for his religion.
@@glennyoungkindid9116 Scientology?
@@shayna2830 Quite the endorsement! What an interesting era we live in... Pronouns have become an edgy topic, an Orange huckster lost a presidential election to an actual Ghost, Drag Queens are for kids, and I'm taking a serious book recommendation from the comments section of a Cumtown adjacent podcast.
The podcast really should be audio only and the interviews should be filmed. Also they need to go back to handheld mics it brings a different energy
Always sort of knew that Nick thought Skanksfest was for mouth breathers. Nice to actually hear someone say it.
Yeah we skanks aren't high minded enough to grasp 15$ minimum and free* Healthcare.
Didn’t think I’d watch a guy talk to a bug for over ten minutes today, but here we are.
I'm a batty boy for TAFS!!!
another nick meditation on the minutae of his self-absorbed overinflated ennui, amazing clip!!
Nick needs a better therapist than this
Adam is gay for not saying why he wouldn’t go to skankfest
the old lighting looked better. why does this look so much worse? like the sharp focus idk?
Yes my eyeballs are bleeding
I understand what Nick is saying and that's the vibe I got from Skankfest this year. It's run it's course.
Wow that was hilarious.
Adam is that dude who only wears hats that are given away.
No clue what point Nick is trying to make.
depression
I always find it strange that Nick is an actual person and not a historical philosopher....
Have you seen Matt Christman
@@kimilsungthefirst6840i didnt even know he was sick
@@kimilsungthefirst6840 not quite
They shouldn't have done it at the same venue... gotta switch it up
nick looks like a baroque painting
why does Adam wear the same shoes my grandpa did for 40 years?
Onward to Beartaria!
This was the least compelling 11 minutes of media I've ever watched. Keep it up!
Nicks a real ass dude
Has Nick read the Glass Bead Game? What a fucking reference.
"being within that wagon circle" lol 😅
It's not even fun to listen to Nick anymore. He is just so depressing
I watched a few of these podcasts and then stopped because it's so dreary to listen to these guys anymore. I guess becoming so rich and obsessed with being sober is not exactly a recipe to being fun to listen to. Skankfest, more like snoozefezt. The community also used to carry the show back in the cumtown days but nowadays it's so childish and repetitive "DUUUUDE LMAO I'M SO IRONIC END EVERY SENTENCE BY STATING I'M GAY" wow, that's so funny and original
Yeah I know what you mean. He sounds lifeless. Like some vampire got a hold of him and just sucked him dry.
@@FugueSt4teThe least funny aspect of Cumtown and TAFS has always been the fans. It's like a fucking reddit or something with how many shitty "jokes" are getting passed around constantly
Yup
@@FugueSt4teyou sound pretty gay
I was introduced to Nick Mullen via the Bonfire, which lead into LOS, then Cumtown. It’s a bummer to see the lack of enthusiasm around the festival, and the community as a whole. But I understand.
I understand that I’m gay.
I feel like Nick is gonna write me a citation with his cop stash.
Realest moment in a while. Nick's depression is a repository for our entertainment.
Hey the lighting is ay better!
These guys are gay un ironically, they should call it the adam feelings show or just keep the name and start being funny again
I love you guys, but nick is getting really good at fucking up my nerves when he says “skanksfest” he’s done it a couple years in a row now and I’m sure he’s only doing it to piss off neurotic basement dwellers like me.
absolutely
Wow this clip and Skankfest are both incredibly straight
Also Nick looks like he is 50.
Nick has never once pronounced Skankfest correctly lol good years-long bit
This is just awful. What’s he even talking about. Nick doesn’t even know what he wants to criticize. Just needs something.
Nicks face is starting to sink into itself
Why the fuck would they do skanksfest in Vegas? It’s literally an east coast show predominantly
Nick, thanks def clinical depression. Hope you’re able to get a hold of it one day. Also I’m incredibly gay.
I'm really intersted to hear why Adam didn't go to skankfest the last 2 years. He's from Vegas.. There must be some beef or awkwardness between him and someone from skanks. He's never been on the pod either.
This is the NPR of comedy now
Nick is slowly becoming Russ from true detective
This show is catastrophically nothing. Like you clipped a segment talking about lo mein noodles and comedians being fascists or some shit I don’t even know. That was your epic highlight.
What camera is this shot on anyone know
more funny/interesting insights on people and events I've never heard of
I’m just staring at the seams in the stage.
Don't miss the post credit sequence
Going to skankfest is like paying to feel excluded by the cool kids. While you watch them bully each other.
Anybody hear about joe derosa?
Why am I listening to this
I love how real this conversation is. It’s honest.
Is there any footage of Sam Hyde's set on Skankfest?
Skanfest really is full of people doing kratoms.
,I love listening to my favorite hipster comedien(nes)
having a poignant conversation about a certain je ne sais quoi, I feel a certain ingenue emanating from my (gay) private parts.
Nick wants to genuinely enjoy things but he’s built an entire career around being terminally ironic and can’t say he actually likes stuff
Perfect edit, cutting adam off
Envisioning a festival of people considered fascists doing Kratom is so absurdly surreal to me. But hey, I guess good shit is good shit right?
When did Nick get his Masters in Fine Arts?
The ads before make me hate u
Adam I hate your pink hat. Please stop it. Interview Adam is a G though.
Was the bastard radio reordered ?
I keep trying to listen to this show, but if i wanted to feel like i did too many drugs, i would just do too many of my drugs
Im glad adam is safe
There is nothing wrong with listening to Wagner
I remember when I looked forward to the pod.
Was waiting for nick to say hes gay the whole time
Who is the guy in the glasses?
It's ok that you're not funny anymore Nick, we still love you. I mean, not enough to give you guys money on patreon; but enough
He's not funny anymore? How dare you talk about my boyfriend like that.
@@thatONEmachine nuh uh, he's my boyfriend! I love his inability to riff and instead longingly look out the window and think about that chinese girl from the woods
Man he is the king of riffing like Luis J Retard is the king of skanks?@@telophasemusic
Lmao these are the comments living rent free in his head driving his mental state. Leave the man be he's just in a phase 😂
He doesn't give a shit man. He's a good dude. @@CoastalBreed
what kinda chairs are those?
Put that coffee down!