Mind Eraser’s and the Three Legged Rat

Middle of Somewhere w/Chad Daniels and Cy Amundson

The Laugh Button

Comedy Interviews, Stand-up, Comedy

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, Chad calls up one of his best friends in the entire world, the hilarious Fritz Nothnagel, to discuss the up’s and down’s of elevator deliveries, battling one of Chicago’s largest rodents, and his farewell comedy hour titled Gone Fishin’! This episode is brought to you by Chime⁠! --- Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Chad Daniels (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ThatChadDaniels⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) is a Dad, Comedian, and pancake lover. With over 750 million streams of his 5 albums to date, his audio plays are in the 99th percentile in comedy and music on Pandora alone, averaging over 1MM per week. Chad’s previous album, Footprints on the Moon was the most streamed comedy album of 2017, and he has 6 late-night appearances and a Comedy Central Half Hour under his belt. Cy Amundson (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CyAmundson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) With appearances on Conan, Adam Devine’s House Party, and Comedy Central’s This is Not Happening, Cy Amundson is fast-proving himself in the world of standup comedy. After cutting his teeth at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis, has since appeared on Family Guy and American Dad and as a host on ESPN's SportsCenter on Snapchat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Chad again. Without Sai, he is dealing with some personal stuff, so we're
0:08.2	giving him a little break. That's what we've decided to do, and we are happy that he gets to take
0:13.8	care of that stuff, and so I'm just going to be bringing you some of my favorite people.
0:20.5	I have a podcast with Kelsey Cook called
0:23.5	Pretend Problems. So when you don't see her on here, that is why. She is one of my favorite
0:30.4	people, of course. But we have a separate podcast, so I don't want to mix the two for people
0:36.6	to listen to both. So I'm going to bring
0:38.1	in some new blood. This week we have Fritz Knothning. I have been friends with him since the
0:44.4	moment we met. He was divorced when I met him. I was married. Now I'm divorced. Now he's married.
0:53.1	We've been through it all together. Kids and
0:55.7	jobs and this and that and the other. And we have made it through thick as thieves. Fritz has a
1:02.2	punchline. A punchline. Yes, he has several, actually, that you can see on his special gone fishing on
1:09.4	YouTube. It is his farewell performance in stand-up comedy.
1:14.0	He is, he's gone. He has gone fishing literally. And so you check that out. And he has a
1:20.2	podcast called punches and punchlines with his buddy Franco, who I also know this thing is great.
1:27.3	If you like boxing, if you like hearing about
1:30.1	the reviews, if you can't catch certain boxing matches during the week, they review them all
1:35.7	lightheartedly with some funny stuff. So check those two things out. And I hope you enjoy the show.
1:43.5	This episode is brought to you enjoy the show. your account in two minutes at chime.com slash somewhere. That's chime.com slash somewhere.
2:02.2	Chime feels like progress. The road stretches before you, but there's trouble ahead, stationary
2:08.0	cars. You're faced with the McDonald's side mission. Do you, A, join the ever-growing
2:13.8	Q, or B, take the next exit and treat yourself to a glorious Mackey's.
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