Speaker 1: You're extruded, my man. How are you, sir man? If
Speaker 1: I was any better, I'd be twins buba. How you doing?
Speaker 2: I am doing excellent? Thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, listen, I know I only have a limited
Speaker 3: amount of time and I got a ton of stuff
Speaker 3: to cover. Uh, but let me start.
Speaker 2: We're already out of time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Always good to talk to you, Derek. Yeah, No, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be good. Good luck at the lyrics. I hope
Speaker 3: the whole I hope the whole town shows up. No
Speaker 3: can I can I tell you right off the start, dude,
Speaker 3: you're you're You're special on Netflix is so goddamn good.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, buddy. I really appreciate that. I'm proud
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, just beginning to end. There are so many
Speaker 3: just really really hard laughs the whole way through. And
Speaker 3: isn't it killing it for Netflix? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It is. I'm so glad you bring that up. Because
Speaker 2: the Internet is social media is just you. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: know it because we're not allowed as comedians.
Speaker 1: Humble is the game.
Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to go on there, which is tempting
Speaker 2: every day, especially when I get a couple rounds of
Speaker 2: caffeine and me to get on an Instagram and go, hey,
Speaker 2: y'all may not know this because social media is delusional,
Speaker 2: but my Netflix special is doing better than ninety five
Speaker 2: percent of your favorite comedians.
Speaker 1: Have a blessed day. But I'm not allowed.
Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to do that, so I you know,
Speaker 2: you just play it humble. But yes, it's doing great.
Speaker 2: I'm really I'm I'm stoked out of my mind how
Speaker 2: it's being received. And I kind of I figured that
Speaker 2: he would do decent because I you know, you get
Speaker 2: in front of crowds, you work this in front of
Speaker 2: the entire country. I live in New York City. I
Speaker 2: can only have dark joakes that land here, So to
Speaker 2: have that validation has been cool.
Speaker 3: So wait a minute, when you when you say you're
Speaker 3: not allowed, Derek, when you say you're not allowed to
Speaker 3: get on social media and say anything, is that like
Speaker 3: is that because you're you're like as in the comedian
Speaker 3: world you're not allowed to say anything, or like contractually
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to say anything.
Speaker 2: In the in the the comedian world, just so you
Speaker 2: don't okay, like a monster and I mean and it
Speaker 2: just there's this, you know, just like with a lot
Speaker 2: of things in your business. My business, there's these politics
Speaker 2: you got to play, you know. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 2: sometimes you want to get on the air and go, hey,
Speaker 2: I know y'all like this other radio station, but we
Speaker 2: found them every quarter.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. So uh but you just can't.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not a reality. But uh, it's tempting
Speaker 1: because social media.
Speaker 2: Is all these smoke screens and all these lies. This
Speaker 2: comedian has a million followers and he's constantly in your
Speaker 2: face and YadA, YadA YadA. You would never know that
Speaker 2: my Netflix special I got two hundred thousand followers and
Speaker 2: I'm trying to come up is crushing theirs and views
Speaker 2: and retention rates.
Speaker 1: Just not allowed to talk about it. But when I
Speaker 1: get on the radio, you pay what everyone let them know.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, because I was gonna say, I don't feel like
Speaker 3: you're shy on social media. Hell, you'll slide into a
Speaker 3: professional basketball players DMS and just rip.
Speaker 2: Them an ass. Oh I absolutely will. Now when it
Speaker 2: comes to something like that, you know, it's a different entity,
Speaker 2: you know, but you're just talking about just running my mouth.
Speaker 1: I will show up. There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Perkins is gonna hear from me. There's no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. That guy's an idiot. But yeah, and I'm
Speaker 2: just somebody. I am who I am, and people can
Speaker 2: take it or leave it. I mean, if you come
Speaker 2: into the comments and you say something insane, it's not
Speaker 2: somebody from my office or a robot. I'm responding and
Speaker 2: I would like a word with you.
Speaker 1: And that's just how I am. Now.
Speaker 3: I want to going back to the special for a second.
Speaker 3: When you talk about after a hard meal or after
Speaker 3: a big meal that your family and then the family
Speaker 3: meal that it looks like a carbon monoxide leak hit
Speaker 3: the living room.
Speaker 2: Dude, It's so funny how that's like one of the
Speaker 2: most relatable bit I get emails about. And you ought
Speaker 2: to see the pictures of living rooms, I get.
Speaker 1: I mean it.
Speaker 2: I mean it looks people are just slumped over furniture
Speaker 2: and they're like, look at this, what's going on? It
Speaker 2: happens to all of us, man, you know. And then
Speaker 2: you're gonna wake up in another twenty minutes and you're
Speaker 2: gonna be like, I could go for something sweet if
Speaker 2: you got it, And can I tell you the other?
Speaker 3: Can I tell you the other thing that made me
Speaker 3: laugh really really hard. Is you get into this whole
Speaker 3: thing where you're talking about how we need to bring
Speaker 3: cigarettes smoking back and how much better things would be
Speaker 3: even though you don't smoke, your parents smoke like crazy.
Speaker 1: That's right, But you need a camel in.
Speaker 2: A long walk, Carol. That made me laugh so hard. Absolutely, No,
Speaker 2: I mean I come from a smoker's family. That's probably
Speaker 2: why I do not smoke. I mean, when you're surrounded
Speaker 2: by it and your jan sport just was drenched in it,
Speaker 2: it pushing you the other way. But I cannot run
Speaker 2: from the fact that some of the best people I've
Speaker 2: ever met in my life were holding a cigarette. So
Speaker 2: I wanted to do a bit that kind of highlighted
Speaker 2: that in And I'm telling you, man, I mean, I
Speaker 2: was just in Lexington, Kentucky, and I'm working on my
Speaker 2: new hour, but I had to bring back the smoking
Speaker 2: bit in the tobacco state. And if they weren't weaving
Speaker 2: so hard, they'd have been laughing their best off.
Speaker 1: I can promise you that.
Speaker 3: Hey, Derek, let me let me ask you this were
Speaker 3: you're like, like you said, both your both your parents smoked.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I love I love that your
Speaker 3: mom is in the is in the special. But the
Speaker 3: man did your parents because my parents smoked. Listen, I'm
Speaker 3: doing my part to bring it back. Trust me, I
Speaker 3: do smoke the But do did your parents do what
Speaker 3: my parents did? Like before they would go to bed
Speaker 3: at night? Would they lay in bed and have like
Speaker 3: one last cigarette together, like it was their last thing
Speaker 3: before they went to sleep.
Speaker 1: No? No, but that is a hilarious visual. I love
Speaker 1: that your parents are.
Speaker 2: In bed knocking down a sig. I had two different
Speaker 2: My mother and father are garage smokers, okay, so they
Speaker 2: never smoked inside. It was either detached garage or the
Speaker 2: garage that was attached to the actual house, So they
Speaker 2: never smoked in the uh and and my dad smoked publicly.
Speaker 2: My mother was a pretty private smoker. So when I
Speaker 2: came out and told the.
Speaker 1: Whole world that she smoked, Stacey was.
Speaker 2: A little shook because she just she was always the
Speaker 2: one that kind of would take a walk and kind
Speaker 2: of disappear, and you know, my dad's out there, I
Speaker 2: mean blowing smoke into you know, somebody's holding.
Speaker 1: The oxygen's hank. But never never in bed. That's that's
Speaker 1: hilarious though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was it was they they'd have Johnny
Speaker 3: Carson on, they would have a cigarette, they would finish,
Speaker 3: they turned the TV off, roll over and go right
Speaker 3: to bed.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: Right next to the ASHTRAK. It was awesome. Hey.
Speaker 3: So wait, God, when you when you said you were
Speaker 3: in Lexington and you were working on working on stuff.
Speaker 3: So when you when you come through at the Lyric
Speaker 3: your showed for the Running Hot Tours October ninth, that's
Speaker 3: a whole new hour that has nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the with the with the Netflix special Nostalgic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Theater Tour is all brand new material.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: I'm still doing clubs because you know, we're growing the
Speaker 2: new Hour. I'm about thirty thirty five minutes in. But
Speaker 2: when I get to uh, you know, September, that's a
Speaker 2: whole new hour that's nothing from the Nostalgic special.
Speaker 3: Is it did the did the success in how that
Speaker 3: that special did? Does that? Does that make the the
Speaker 3: I don't know if pressure is the right word, Derek.
Speaker 3: That's a high bar to have to hit, knowing like
Speaker 3: I just watched the special, I'm gonna go see I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go see Derek in October. It's gonna be better.
Speaker 3: That's a high bar, dude, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It is, and you feel a little bit of that pressure.
Speaker 2: But you just gotta trust yourself and you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta realize that you know that it wasn't a fluke.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been writing. I got an album that
Speaker 2: I put out in twenty twenty three called Dinner Twice,
Speaker 2: And I mean, just after I wrote some of those bits,
Speaker 2: I go, man, it's gonna be hard for me. And
Speaker 2: it's and it's not. Your career grows you. You you
Speaker 2: get better, more prolific. I mean, comedy is one of
Speaker 2: those fool things where we all have different ceilings, but
Speaker 2: there's no denying that the more you do it, the
Speaker 2: better you get at it, the better you're writing gets.
Speaker 2: So I have my next hour will be even better
Speaker 2: than the last one, and that's what's really really exciting.
Speaker 2: You do feel the pressure. This is the first time
Speaker 2: I've ever wrote another hour under a timeline. You know,
Speaker 2: in the past, if you if you don't have any heat,
Speaker 2: you can kind of move at your own speed. But
Speaker 2: once you have some demand, you get put on the clock.
Speaker 1: And that's been and that and it's still worked out good.
Speaker 1: For me, just more disciplined.
Speaker 2: You just got to do things with more intention. It
Speaker 2: was just a little bit of adjustment on discipline. But yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I got my new hour. I mean I already got
Speaker 2: some jokes and just Lexington some new stuff have people
Speaker 2: spitting their teeth.
Speaker 1: So awesome, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Awesome, Hey can I can I ask you this? I
Speaker 3: know you're from Harvest, Alabama, and then you then you
Speaker 3: ended up moving to Denver, and then like you said,
Speaker 3: New York. What is the where? Where does where?
Speaker 2: Does where?
Speaker 3: Does a kid in Harvest, Alabama? Where does where does
Speaker 3: comedy come from? Like there's no comedy club in Harvest?
Speaker 2: No, No, But honestly, man, Southerners are some of the
Speaker 2: funniest people on planet Earth. I mean the way that
Speaker 2: people all the time will come to me and they
Speaker 2: go you know, there's something about how you say things
Speaker 2: on stage, the way you word them, the phrases you used.
Speaker 1: That's all from growing up in the country, right.
Speaker 2: It's like one of those things where you know, and
Speaker 2: and I like to consider myself I'm a modern day
Speaker 2: Southern man. I'm not like somebody if you come to
Speaker 2: the show, you're not gonna get anything. Because I've got
Speaker 2: a pitchfork and overall's on. I just happen to have
Speaker 2: a Southern accent. I mean, I'm I'm Bill Burr, raised
Speaker 2: in the woods up there.
Speaker 1: We're we're very current and then we're on the move.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's uh it. It is an interesting process
Speaker 2: to kind of find your voice and figure out how
Speaker 2: to how go about it. But my comedy resonates. You know,
Speaker 2: the whole country is my market.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, let me be clear. I wasn't. I wasn't
Speaker 3: trying to make a comment that somebody from Harvest couldn't
Speaker 3: be a comedian. I'm just trying to think, like, where
Speaker 3: is where's a comedy club, where's an open mic to
Speaker 3: go try something out?
Speaker 2: I mean it would be at the mechanic shop. And
Speaker 2: this guy Yim, Yeah, he left school in the ninth
Speaker 2: grade and for some reason he can't spail. But everything
Speaker 2: he says is a damn zinger. It's from the history teacher,
Speaker 2: you know, in the eleventh grade class, This country dude
Speaker 2: who's teaching history and making up a few outcomes on
Speaker 2: his own. You know, you kind of pick it up
Speaker 2: along the way, and I think you're born with some
Speaker 2: of it. I was talking to somebody earlier and they
Speaker 2: were talking about timing. They were like, you're timing on
Speaker 2: stage and your haadence they go. They were telling me that,
Speaker 2: you know, complimenting me on it. And I think some
Speaker 2: of those things are kind of born with because there'll
Speaker 2: be a seven year old that you'll hear him say
Speaker 2: a couple things funny, and you can tell that seven
Speaker 2: year old in the back of your head, you're like that,
Speaker 2: I don't know where that kid's life is headed, but
Speaker 2: he's got some timing and so, uh, you.
Speaker 1: Know, some of that should pick up along the way.
Speaker 2: But the South is a funny place, and I grew
Speaker 2: up in a unique place Huntsville, Alabama. Harvest is right
Speaker 2: outside of Huntsville, Alabama. So it's a it's a smarter place.
Speaker 2: It's per capit of most engineers.
Speaker 1: In the country.
Speaker 2: You got NASA Missile Defense. So it's this unique place
Speaker 2: of you know, people in lifted trucks that have rocket
Speaker 2: science degrees.
Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, and I know that you say harvested.
Speaker 3: So what years did you live in Tyson's Corner?
Speaker 2: It was probably one two years old. My parents got
Speaker 2: married in Tyson's Corner. I was born in Charleston. My
Speaker 2: grandfather was a professor at George Washington for a few
Speaker 2: years and Kenneth's Strup and then we lived in Tyson's Corner.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why I'm a lifelong I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Commanders fan.
Speaker 1: Going to the Monday night game.
Speaker 2: This year against Cincinnati. I know I'm not in the
Speaker 2: right market to be. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: from you know, the lyric, I don't know if all
Speaker 2: these people are gonna love this. Oh yeah, no, no.
Speaker 3: You're totally fine.
Speaker 2: You are totally fine. But yeah, that's kind of where,
Speaker 2: you know, where that kind of comes from. We would
Speaker 2: go to practices as a baby, and then my whole
Speaker 2: family Commanders fans just from kind of that Tyson's Corner
Speaker 2: a couple of years being over there.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Hey, a couple of other things real quick, and I
Speaker 3: know we're gonna run out of time. The the the
Speaker 3: you talk about like not driving for fifteen years, and
Speaker 3: I guess there was the dui stories may be true.
Speaker 3: Didn't you just recently didn't you just recently start driving again?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah I did. I finally did.
Speaker 2: I gave it up for almost sixteen years, and it
Speaker 2: was just one of those things where I'd never even
Speaker 2: had a ticket, never been in trouble. Sixteen years ago,
Speaker 2: I get two DUIs and then just in the moment,
Speaker 2: I knew an immediate fix was to just never drive again.
Speaker 2: I go, I bet you, it'll be hard to give
Speaker 2: me a DUI if I'm walking. And and so that's
Speaker 2: all true. And people they'll ask me, they'll go, so,
Speaker 2: did you quit drinking when you got those duys?
Speaker 1: I go, Lord, No, I.
Speaker 2: Had to get through them, you know, I mean, you
Speaker 2: can't get through them sober. I did quit drinking about
Speaker 2: four years ago, and it had you know, had nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the DUIs. I just ran out of steam.
Speaker 2: But yeah, those are those are for true, for sure
Speaker 2: true stories. Now now I'm back behind the wheel. We're
Speaker 2: actually about to hit the road this afternoon. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: fired up, man. Good for you.
Speaker 1: Swim gems and a gatorade. Gip hey.
Speaker 3: Last thing, last thing is Tony Johnson, a real friend.
Speaker 2: His real name is Tony Spinelli, and that's that's I
Speaker 2: had to change it to Tony Johnson for the special
Speaker 2: because I couldn't do my boy like that, even though
Speaker 2: he doesn't hate the story.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, it's a great story.
Speaker 2: So what he got pants? He got pants, and and
Speaker 2: you know he was ahead of us. But yeah, Tony
Speaker 2: Spinelli and you can tell by that name. Tony'll never
Speaker 2: hear this, but what a short stop Tony Spinelli was
Speaker 2: in the fifth grade. My goodness, graceis the guy can
Speaker 2: eat it up up the.
Speaker 1: Middle, all right.
Speaker 3: Derek Strup will be at the Lyric in Baltimore. The
Speaker 3: Running Hot Tour will be there October ninth. His special
Speaker 3: is running on Netflix. It's called Nostalgic Derek. It is
Speaker 3: goddamn funny. I can't wait to see you in October.
Speaker 1: Oh man, thanks for having me. You guys were great. Man.
Speaker 1: I'll see you all then. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Derek.
Speaker 1: Gee buddy,