WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Andy the Comic Book Guy/Meet N Greet 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:01.720 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.640 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.480 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.760 of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.760 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.720 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.480 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:29.600 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.559 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.320 Welcome in the beginning of the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.879 Mahler and Danny G. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.320 Radio, The Weekend is upon us. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.080 This kicking off the weekend, our Friday Funday and a 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:51.159 special podcast. Today, special pod Danny G will return. He 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:57.000 is scheduled to return on Saturday. But today Danny is 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.640 away and we are going to chat with our guy 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.120 from the Overnight Show. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.520 You hear him calling in randomly. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.000 He sends a lot of messages on the Twitter machine 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.679 or x or whatever it is called. Andy the Comic 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.680 Book Guy is stopping by today to join us. Now, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.840 why are we having Andy the Comic Book Guy on 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.760 Not just because he's got the gift of gab and 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.200 he's a fun character on the show, and he's part 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.039 of what we do on The Ben Mahler Show. But 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.680 more importantly, if you look at your calendar, today is 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:38.200 August eighteenth, Tomorrow on the nineteenth, it is on like 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.720 Donkey Kong, kind of like a Donkey Kong cartoon, because 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.880 we will have the Malor Meet and Greet, and Andy 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.920 the comic book Guy is kind enough to be hosting 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.840 this event. We were looking for a venue in southern California. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.760 We did one in Minnesota several months ago. I did 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:01.280 a flash mob Mallar meet and greet back in the day, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.840 which was last last week, actually last Thursday, in the 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.640 state of Maine. And I try to hang out with 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 people as much as I can when I travel around, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.080 and life takes you to certain places. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.520 But in southern California, this is obviously the base. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.840 And so if you're a fan of the show, we 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.880 have so many great listeners in La Orange County, San Diego, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.919 Santa Barbara, all over California. Palm springs, the high desert, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.919 the low desert, you name it in the geography of 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.880 southern California. So I'm not expecting anyone to travel to 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.080 this from a million miles away. But if you're looking 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.000 for something to do tomorrow and you're a fan of 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:40.400 the show and you want to hang out with me, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:41.799 and Eddie's going to be there at least for a 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.840 little bit. If you get there right at two o'clock, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.239 you'll have a chance to meet Eddie, and then Cooper 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.400 Loop will be stopping by. I have a surprise. We'll 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.920 talk about it when we put Andy on here in 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.440 a second. So I am very excited about all this. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.080 I love to go out and hang out with people, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.120 even though I'm an introvert. Make the most of this 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.360 opportunity to meet people that provide me the opportunity to 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.240 continue to be a gasbag, blowhard and all that. On 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.760 the overnight and we'll get into all the specifics. They 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.000 are in the description on this podcast. Everything you need 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.000 to know is in the description box on the podcast. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.959 It's also on the Twitter, slash x and the Facebook page, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.800 so all of that is available for you if you 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.960 somehow do not grasp what we are talking about here 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:29.919 on this podcast, if you don't want to see stuff 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.799 written down. But it is tomorrow, and that's why we're 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.160 having Andy on today, nineteenth of August. It'll be in 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.000 the afternoon in southern California. We'll be hanging out. Andy's 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.920 got all kinds of promotions. We'll get into that, but 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.280 we'll get a little bit about his story. I want 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.240 to learn about Andy the Comic book Guy. Everyone's got 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.840 a story. I want to hear what Andy's story is 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.120 and how he found the show and all that. So 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.840 why don't we start down that road, Andy the Comic 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.840 Book Guy. Welcome to the Fifth Hour with myself, Ben 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.680 and Danny g Radio on assignment. Let's start with this. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.960 How long have you been listening to the Overnight Show? 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.040 You know, it's kind of funny. I've always heard the 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.640 Ben Maller Show, but I never really knew what it 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.040 was until probably maybe, like I don't know, about a 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.719 year and a half ago, where I really started to like, listen, listen, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.960 and then I started calling in. I think this past fall, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:30.240 like last fall, because of the Sabers and Eddie's constant 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.640 disrespect of them. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.720 Yeah, it is offensive, and Eddie does this all the time. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.280 He poops on certain teams that he thinks are below him, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.440 and you Buffalo Sabers are at the very top of 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:41.839 his list. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.920 You know, he's he's a hockey snob. Andy that's what 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.240 he is. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.440 You know what's frustrating is the Sabers finished the season 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.640 with the exact same amount of points as the Penguins. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.560 So and I know he's not a Penguins guy, but 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.839 he kind of is. It's his second team. He won't 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.640 ever say it is, but it is. He's it is. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.040 Well, that's a whole different issue. The second thing with Eddie, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.400 and we've been through this. He says he's a Steeler fan, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.800 but he goes to Charger games all the time. I 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.720 think he's been to like two Steeler games and yeah, yeah, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.520 one of those quirky things. And so you started to 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.760 listening that did your life change in any way? Because 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.000 normally the reason people find the show is either they're 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.520 having legal problem in their life, some kind of medical 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.039 either to them, or a loved one is under the weather, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.880 or small that do not sleep at night. Other than that, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.880 we have no one that actually finds the show. So 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.080 which of those categories? Which of those boxes would you 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:38.640 fall into? 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.480 Too many? But definitely it is the small business man 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.800 late hours one for sure. Definitely. Usually my drive homes 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.479 around midnight at one o'clock so in the morning, so. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.040 When you're driving home late. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.120 Now the comic book store is not open late, so 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.400 you're hanging out there working. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.880 Oh absolutely not. Yeah, no, I mean I'm not like 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.760 the people think, like, oh, you're just like reading comics 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.159 or like, you know, playing Warhammer games. No. No, there's 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.239 a lot of work that goes on when the story 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.039 is closed. You got to order that stuff, you got 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.480 to unbox it, you got to sort it, you gotta 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.240 price stuff. It's a great life. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:18.240 One man band. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.000 Obviously you have people that work for you and stuff, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.000 but you're you're the guy, You're the steward, you're the proprietor. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:24.480 That's a big wordy proprietor. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.400 But that's done on a Friday morning. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.320 So tomorrow is the big day. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.680 And I always get nervous the day before a mal 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.559 Or meet and greet because you never know who's actually 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.120 going to show up. You're not sure, you know, we 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.039 hope a lot of people show up. We've done pretty 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.359 well in southern California. But you don't know what. You 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.560 don't know that in a song somewhere. So we're doing this. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.440 We're having you on Andy to promote the fact that 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:55.520 if you're listening in a geographically desirable area within reasonable 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.440 driving distance, or if you're just bored out of your 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.680 mind and you want to come from far away. It 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.920 is tomorrow, We're going to hang out at your comic 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.960 book shop. What is the name it all? Everything's going 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.040 to be in the preview for the podcast. But for 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.080 those that don't like reading or maybe don't know how 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.080 to read, Andy, what is the name of the store 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.920 and where exactly is it located? 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.200 Let's start with that. How about that? 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.840 It is Brave New World Comics, located in Santa Clarita, California. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.640 We're about a twenty five minute drive north of Pasadena. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.640 Okay, so twenty five minutes north. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.480 And when I think of Santa Clarita, I think of 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.360 an amusement park, which is not that. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.960 Yeah, there is a six Flags Magic Mountain out there 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.120 if you just were actually like a good twenty minutes 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.200 before that. So you know, if you're coming from LA 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:48.800 or the southern area, Bakersfield I think is the closest 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:49.520 place north. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.480 You know, there's a McDonald's right off the highway there 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.200 that I have stopped at to use the facilities in 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.760 Santa Clarita up through central California. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.280 When I'm just driving with the wife. We'll stop. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.960 They have a really good bathroom at McDonald's, so if 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.920 anybody needs to take a whiz while visiting the comic 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.040 book shop, I'm sure you probably have bathrooms too, But 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.720 we This is a wonderful McDonald's right off the freeway, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:14.840 not far from Wow. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.400 How much did they pay you for that? Geez cau, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.040 I get a cut. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.760 It just provided great toilet paper. Just absolutely wonderful. So 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.040 you got the comic book shop Brave New World, Right, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:26.560 is that the name of it? 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:27.680 I get it right? Did I screw it up? 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.200 Yes, Brave New World Comics. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.760 Correct, Yes, this is a work I've noticed. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.800 I don't know you, Andy, we're gonna meet for the 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.000 first time tomorrow, but I can tell from your calls 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.360 that this is a life's passion. That this is not 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.120 I don't think this is something that you just kind 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.199 of fell into, right, this is something you wanted to 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.520 do to own your own comic. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:49.040 Book shop for a while. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.160 I mean, kind of tell me the backstory on how 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.599 you ended up finally pulling it off, because it's not 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.080 easy to get in that world. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.440 It's pretty crazy. It kind of just happened. I moved 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.240 out to LA in two thousand and nine, and I 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.920 was pursuing a different career at the time, but for 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.240 a nine to five my guy that I ordered comic 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.920 books from, I traveled for the three years prior, from 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.960 like two thousand and six to two thousand and nine, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.760 I worked as a traveling actor. It was great. It 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.600 was wonderful. So like right out of college, I only 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.840 played lead roles. I did it for three years. It 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.839 was wonderful. Then I was like, yeah, I'm going to 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.040 move to LA I'm going to do this shit. And 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.839 I did, and I was doing great, and I was 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.840 booking stuff. Almost booked a Super Bowl commercial, but it 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.960 was an Eminem's commercial where the red and yellow eminem 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.520 are walking down an island. Anyway, long story short, I 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.640 played in a Macated Island Man. But then they were 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.599 going to air it on the Spanish network instead, so 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.920 I slipped the bill. And then I got a woman pregnant. Wow, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.520 and yeah we did it. You know, we had the baby. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.840 She's great, she's almost thirteen now. It's crazy. But I 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.880 made a life choice and I started working in a 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.520 comic store just as a steady nine to five to 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.680 try and do something else. While that was happening, and 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.360 I got high by two publishers. I worked for them 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.480 for a few years. And then one of my clients 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.920 I worked with comics stores as a sales manager for 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.040 a publisher and was basically like, Hey, buy our comics. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.920 You know, let me help you sell them in your store. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.400 I can show you how it works. And it was great. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.120 And then one of my clients, who owned Brave New 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.600 World Comics, was going to sell his store and a 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.000 call that was just like a health check in turned 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.760 into Hey, I think I'll buy your store. At the 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.840 end of the two hour conversation, so you you. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.439 So I had the story wrong. I thought this is 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.360 something that you know you had wanted to do when 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:37.679 you were young. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.800 I've always loved comics, don't get me wrong. I mean 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.280 I've been reading them since nineteen ninety I was six 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.360 at that time to date myself. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.320 But yeah, first comic that you fell in love with? 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.040 Was there one that stood out of you? Oh? 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.839 Definitely The X Men, hands down. The X Men and 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.080 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which have a new movie 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.920 out right now. I'm going to see it with my 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.640 daughter right after this call. As we prepare for tomorrow 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.200 nice and yeah, but uh yeah no, so it's it's uh, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.120 definitely the X Men, hands down. Jim Lee's X Men. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.560 Jim Ly's an artist. He's now the publisher of DC Comics, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.840 which is it's kind of like if you know, you 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.600 worked as a producer at ESPN and now you like 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.400 run a show on Fox. That's kind of what Jim 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:23.360 Lee's career was like. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.439 Around you bring up yeah, yeah, I had your daughter. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.160 You decided, Hey, I got to kind of move on 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.320 from the acting thing full time. Because the conversation working 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.800 in the radio business. My wife has a stable job, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.120 so I'm like, my position is, at least one of 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.319 us has to have a somewhat stable job if both 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.480 has messed up jobs where we could lose our. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.520 Job at any moment. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.280 The math on that the back of the napkin math 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.280 and he is not going to work out right, It's. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.760 No, my fiance is they nurse that city of Hope 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:02.560 out here in the San Gabriel Valley, so much respect her. Yeah, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.320 I used. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.880 To live right here, right near the City of Hope. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.640 That's quite the drive though, right, that's a bit of 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:07.960 a drive. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:08.920 It is quite the drive. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.080 I mean it's not that bad. No, it's not quite 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.199 the drive at all, and everyone should make it this Saturday, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.440 August nineteenth from two to five. Yeah, that is not 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.200 that bad of a drive if you. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.120 Had every day, if you had to make that, you'll 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.800 like your wife to go to the City of Hope. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.319 You know, the same, Gabriel, because you live in the 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.080 Saint Gabriel Valley. That that's a bit of a job. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.800 But a chance to meet, you know, the stars of 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.400 the radio show and hang out with you and there's 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.240 all kinds of great things. We'll get into in a 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.600 couple of minutes about the comic book shop and what 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.800 people can expect, and it's a big event. It's not 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.240 just the malor meet and great there's other stuff going on. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.120 As far as the acting, you still do it at all? 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:47.480 Every once in a while, do you still go down 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.520 and audition for stuff? Or are you completely done with 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.360 that part of your life. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.960 It's so funny you bring that up, So you know, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.160 I really did take it seriously, and I know people 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.640 do say that, but truly, like it was a really 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.760 great time when I reflect back on it. But honestly, 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.640 like I have no desire to do it. I just 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:03.880 think it's so ridiculous. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.760 Now you're all grown up, you still own a comic 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:16.040 book shop, but I do below you. And yeah, I Austin. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.320 I had a lunch, like a business meeting with some guys, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.800 and you know, we were all talking about you know, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.280 family and kids and stuff like that. And one of 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.080 the guys is like, his daughter, she's going to school 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.920 to learn acting, and she's going to school in New 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.520 York and she wants to work on Broadway, like that's 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.560 the goal and all that, and we were talking about 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.199 the different things. Now, when you were traveling around as 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:41.200 an actor though as a thespian, were. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.439 You on cruise ships? Were you like, what was your gigs? 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.600 No I refused to do cruise ships. Cruse ships really 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.400 wanted me. I was really good at the musical theater. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.200 Thing no I did. Probably my favorite thing I did 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.599 was I played Romeo and Romeo and Juliet. I was 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.320 twenty three. It was in Jackson Hawayoming at Off Square Theater. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.640 I think they're still around. This was probably two thousand 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.320 and seven. So if you're from Jackson haw Wyoming and 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:05.839 you lived there in two thousand and seven and you 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.640 saw rome and Juliet. You saw Andy the Comic book 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.840 Guy as Romeo. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.000 Andy the Comic book Guy. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.640 I have never been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but when 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.760 I did stuff years ago and I did a little 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.840 work with the Dogs, one of their trainers retired and 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.440 moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And I remember this guy 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.520 telling me, Oh, it's amazing the outdoors, you know, And 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.160 there's apparently a big like celebrity conclave there in Jackson 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.560 Hole where like people. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.440 Apparently Hearston Ford owns a ranch out there or something. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.360 I don't even know. I didn't really do any of that. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.760 I just I was in the little downtown area and 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.040 we had to perform. I didn't really have time, like 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.120 truly it was. It was rehearsed for about two and 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.640 a half weeks. We rehearsed every day every except Sundays. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.600 We had Sundays off, and then it was perform eight 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.440 eight shows a week. So we performed six and then 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.960 two and one day, two and Saturday, and we were 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.720 off on Sunday. And I did that for like three 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.160 years straight, with multiple I probably worked about nine different 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.840 gigs in that time. I just went from gig to 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.240 gig to gig. It was great. And then I had 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:12.760 no gig lined up and I was like, oh shit, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.480 what do I do? So I was like my buddy 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.800 from my buddy moved out here and he convinced me 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.840 to move out here. And I was not trained for screen, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.360 but I had a learning curve. I was good, but 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.120 I was making headway. I really was. But it's all good. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.080 I love where I'm at. I'm not complaining. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.560 Now, do you get crap from your friends in Buffalo 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.360 and your family in Buffalo because you know, normally, and 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.280 I've been to Buffalo before, Southern California kind of looked 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.800 down upon among the you know, the hardy people that 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:46.080 grew up in Buffalo with lake lizards, and they think 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.640 everyone in La is, you know, a softy right because 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.920 you know, it's perfect weather other than it gets a 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:55.040 little too hot sometimes, so you know, back home. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:00.640 That is an interesting take, I would say, because it's true. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.200 But I think that's a generational take. I think I'm 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.240 a millennial. I don't know if that really matters, but 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.280 I would say most of my peers that are similar 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.360 in age, everybody kind of just respects where we're all at. Honestly, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.240 at this point in time, and there's really not a 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.000 lot of that. The only time I do get shit 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.560 like that, which does happen, is when I go to 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.800 at least two or three Builds games every year. So 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.320 when I go back, like I went back to the 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.120 Bengals game, and I don't give a crap what I 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.600 look like. I look like the stay Puff marshmallow Man, 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.320 but I am warm and they make fun of me 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.120 for that. They're like in a windbreaker and like a 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.480 hoodie and I'm just like, yeah, no way. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:38.560 Explain. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.360 That's a great point we should talk about. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.320 But as someone that grew up in whether even though 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.240 I got family on the East Coast and stuff. My 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.000 brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is near Green Bay, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.880 which is one of the coldest places, kind of like 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.720 Buffalo with the weather they have there. But I was 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.400 fascinated for someone that hasn't really experienced the bad way, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:57.760 Like the worst I've been to I was at a 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.320 World Series game where it snowed years ago, and that 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.720 was pretty bad and I got very sick after that 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.199 and that really sucked. But I haven't been to an 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.399 NFL game in the snow. I'd actually like to do it. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.760 At some point, but there's a hole. If you want 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.680 to be warm, right, you have to you got to 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.359 get what heat packs? How many layers when you go 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:16.720 into a. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.280 Bill Oh dude, I don't fuck her oundry. I don't 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.320 know if I say I'm sorry, but it's true, like 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.800 I do not mess with the weather and I don't 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.040 mess with the water. And that's one thing they kind 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.120 of teach you growing up back in Buffalo. It's true, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.919 like you just don't mess with it. Lake Euri will 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.840 kill you in a second if you screw around with 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.159 it and the weather. You just be prepared. And I 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.080 brought my daughter. We went to the Bengals playoff games 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.240 that sucked, and then I also took her to the 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.360 AFC Championship game two years ago in Kansas City when 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.120 it was Josh Allen versus Mahomes for the first time, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.760 and the Bills got clobbered pretty bad in that one. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.520 But we were there outside, and I would say neither 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.639 were really that bad. But we were really prepared. We 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:01.280 probably had probably at least five layers between a thermal, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:07.560 a T shirt, a sweater, a hoodie, a jacket, a 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:08.320 whim breaker. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.160 You were going. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.800 Now you're in my jersey, my jersey on top of 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.119 all of it. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.760 Its Mafi. You gotta have the jersey on Andy or 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:18.919 it doesn't work. Of course. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.719 Yeah, your daughter, I assume she her memories are of 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.920 southern California, right, even though you traveled around. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.200 She's born and raised there, but she's been around. I 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.480 brought her quite a bit of places. I feel like 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:30.800 for kid her age. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.600 Now, does she race the cold weather or does she say, Dad, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.000 what the eff are you doing here? 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:42.199 You know, it's funny she doesn't get cold. She's like 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.520 a Viking. I don't know what it is. My kid 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.239 doesn't really get cold. It's so weird. She kind of 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.520 speaking of making fun of She kind of makes fun 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.760 of me about that that I get cold. She doesn't. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.080 I didn't get cold for the longest time. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.160 You know. It was gotten a little older. I guess 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.040