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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

That was the tail end of high school and most of college for me.

After school, either sports practice or go to a friend's house to do homework, goof off, play foosball or PS. Go home, dinner, fire up Napster and rip a new mix CD to bump on the Best Buy car audio on the way to school the next day.

College: get back around 3, go to the rec center for pick up football or basketball. Hit the dining hall, then back to the dorm. Do some homework, find a party.

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Scrapla1@reddit

This show was great! I remember watching it many drunk nights.

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Boatshooz@reddit

I met a hot girl from Boise and was able to chat her up with something witty about Boise that didn’t have to do with potatoes, thanks to watching an episode where Dave was there. Been married to her for 14 years.

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intensenerd@reddit

Rad. I’m in one of the background shots of that episode. Bars in Boise back then were so much fun.

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bootrot@reddit

My roommate dated a girl who turned out to be the girl in that episode who was describing a fight she got into recently. And they dated for like 2 months. So it's related to your story. I have contributed to the conversation.

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Just_Another_AI@reddit

LOL my wife is a hot girl from Nampa - and now we live there. The first time we were watching Napoleon Dynamite, in the theater, she was like "where are they at?" and I was like "It HAS to be Idaho." She says "no way, you're just being a dick." 15 minutes later it gets to the scene where the principal says ".....but here in the Gem State...." and I was instantly like "HA! I KNEW IT!" and she just says "Whatever." Been married 23 years....

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ramalledas@reddit

Unexpected wholesome ending

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Drilling4Oil@reddit (OP)

Dang, son. Good to hear.

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Budget_Diver_7866@reddit

early 2000's are still the late nineties, great times. dark too but in a different way

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tagehring@reddit

I think in time historians are going to look at "the Nineties"as 1989 (Berlin Wall opening) to 9/11/2001. That really was a unique period in history utterly unlike what came before and what came after, and we were lucky to grow up then.

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Drilling4Oil@reddit (OP)

Forrest Gump Abbey Hoffman speech at the Pentagon scene

"You said it all, man."

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PorcelainScrote@reddit

This was a great show

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Bellatrix_Shimmers@reddit

Don’t remember that one. Probably too stoned. Interesting choice.

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RoboJ1M@reddit

Here in the UK through the 2000s it was party time.
Extreme hedonism, clubbing until the sun came up.
Then home for 🚿, 💩 and a 🪒 and then back out again the next night.
Glorious times, including being able to do that AND afford a mortgage.
If you want to see what it was like, go watch the movie Human Traffic.

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RoboJ1M@reddit

How you doin', junglin' guy?

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foozebox@reddit

My big night out was Tuesday, for no great reason. Fun times.

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

This show was the best!

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Bellatrix_Shimmers@reddit

I loved this show back then

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jsusbidud@reddit

YouTube didn't have ads.

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cordelaine@reddit

YouTube didn’t have anything until 2005.

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jsusbidud@reddit

True. Was a passive aggressive response to posts that link to YouTube rather than uploading to Reddit like a civilised person. I didn't have time to check my facts 😂

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Intelligent-Top5012@reddit

Dave Attell doing the lord's work, bless him.

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jugdeesh@reddit

Thanks for posting! This episode really brings back Great memories as someone who lives in the bay area and turned 21 in 2004.

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Mother_Echo4502@reddit

What ever happened to Dave Attell?

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_plays_in_traffic_@reddit

man back when comedy central was good. now i only turn it on for a little while on monday night. i miss old basic bitch analog cable comedy central.

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SnakePlissken1980@reddit

Dave kind of disappeared, at least from the mainstream. He was fairly big there for a bit during and after this show and was getting some standup specials and stuff but I haven't seen him in a decade at least.

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Hippiepope@reddit

Watching it right now because I just realized it was on youtube a couple days ago.

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OhTheHueManatee@reddit

So back in like 2004 maybe 2005 I tried my hand at being a stand up comedian. I didn't rehearse enough so my delivery wasn't great. I had a MySpace page and added all the comedians I could to it. Dave Attell not only accepted my Friend Request but he was the only one to post a unique comment and a kind of advice on my page. He said "Don't tease the bald, fat man." Still makes me smile thinking about it.

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1980pzx@reddit

That’s awesome. Did your career in comedy make it anywhere? I’ve always had admiration for people who could get up there in front of all those people, it takes a lot of guts.

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PizzaWhole9323@reddit

I was a high school teacher who had a four-year-old kid at this point. She started preschool and it was expensive as hell. So they said hey young high School teacher, come teach our afternoon classes and pick the kids up in the bus, and your kid gets to go here for free. So as young parents we took them up on it. I worked there for almost 2 years doing school age and what not around the school. My daughter never had to pay a penny in tuition.

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Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit

Watched this every night!

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jessek@reddit

I was in my early 20s, working a shitty job and going to college very part time. I spent most of my evenings and weekends getting fucked up. It was a blast.

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post_obamacore@reddit

cool thing is if you know where to go, the East Bay is still a lot like this

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Lord_Wicki@reddit

Troof

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tuberlord@reddit

I had a swing shift job when I first moved out on my own. I watched Insomniac after work pretty much every night.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I worked at a gas station 3-11p in 2005. My coworker and I would hit the bars in Allentown right after. This went on for about 5 years.

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Drilling4Oil@reddit (OP)

How are you doing now?

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SlinkDogg@reddit

I actually just started a rewatch of this show, I hadn’t seen it since the late 90s/early 00s. It still stands up and it’s the perfect glimpse into how life was back then. I live in a big city and things aren’t open super late like that anymore , I miss it.

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chueysworld@reddit

I ran into Dave at a biker bar patio in Scottsdale. At like at 2am. Pretty cool dude.

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badchefrazzy@reddit

I loved that show so much. Dave seems like an awesome guy <3

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lemonheadlock@reddit

I mean, my stuff isn't necessarily "outside of work," but I worked retail and if I was closing, we'd get out at like 12:30 or 1 or so, and Insomnia really captured the vibes of late night. Half of us would light up immediately after walking outside, we'd gossip and argue about where to go next, then head to bar or diner or pool hall for another couple of hours of fucking around. I've always been an insomniac and it feels like there's less going on late at night these days. Places close earlier, people stay inside. I used to be able to go to the grocery store or Walmart at midnight! When my wife and I were starting to date, we were able to go do plenty of shit in the middle of night that wasn't clubbing. I don't think that's an option for zoomers.

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Drilling4Oil@reddit (OP)

Exactly what I was getting at.

This came up on my algo on YT & upon viewing this for the first time years, I was taken back to that "vibe" where it could be late yet, there was somehow an incentive to be out. Like, you might just talk to people for no reason.

On the one hound, "places close earlier, people stay inside", yet the vehicles are so extravagent, the houses so outwardly clean, yet I can't engage with the inhabitants.

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