Hey guys, Willie Geist here. You know, I'm preparing for my next big Sunday sit-down live event at City

Winery in New York City with the hilarious Jim Gaffigan coming up on November 10th.

We're going to tuck into some of his father time bourbon, sit around and just have storytime

with all of you. If you'd like to join us in the audience, you can be there live with me and

Jim Gaffigan. Just head to today.com you'd like to join us in the audience, you can be there live with me and Jim Gaffigan.

Just head to today.com slash fanfest to grab a seat. In the meantime, I've been going back

and listening to my old interviews with Jim Gaffigan to get ready, come up with some new material.

Thought you'd like to listen in too. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a special Sunday sit-down,

rewind with Jim Gaffigan.

I've got a personal favorite for you today with superstar stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, one of the funniest people walking this earth right now.

And part of the reason I love this podcast and our Sunday Sit Down that you can watch on NBC as well, is that there was no reason

for it. He doesn't really have a movie coming out today. He doesn't really have a stand-up special

that begins streaming. There's no book to talk about. It's just that we kind of live near each other,

and he has taken up cross-country skiing, something he has railed against in his stand-up

act in the past. During this pandemic, he's got his family up outside of New York City where they

typically live for the last year or so to spread out and have some more space, his wonderful wife,

Jeannie and their five children living up in Westchester County, which is north of New York

City, and he decided to take up cross-country skiing. I asked him why, despite the fact he's

claimed he doesn't like it. And as you'll hear him explain, it's because it gets him away from his

family, that no one else wants to go cross-country skiing. So he bought the skis.

He's been doing it up in this park, and he said, hey, why don't you and I go for a cross-country ski, and then we can just sit and talk? So that's exactly what we did. So what you'll hear at first is the two of us, I've never been on cross-country skis. I'm a pretty good downhill skier, but never done cross-country for all the reasons that Jim Gaffigan rails against because it's the worst part of skiing, which is just on flatland. I like the downhill. I like

gravity to help. But he claims to like it, so he offered to give me a little lesson. Kind of confessed

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