1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Let's get ready to rum, all right, and we're back. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the podcast Battleground where just 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: everybody stops by and hangs out. Today's episode is gonna 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: be a really good one. A guy by the name 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: of Dan Cummins. He's been on Conan, he's been on 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: comedy since. He also has his own podcast, which a 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: lot of people love called Time Suck And if you 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: have not listened to that podcast, definitely definitely check it out. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: And on the show today we kind of get in 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: depth of serial killers. We talk about a crazy guy 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: that's been stalking him and uh oh yeah, a guy 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: that broke a bottle like in a movie and try 13 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: to charge at him while he's on stage. Absolutely crazy stuff. 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: That interview with Dan Cummins happens right now, So sit back, relax, 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: and enjoy. Thanks for downloading the podcast and listening. And 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: he's in the building right now, Dan Cummins, he's at 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: Zany's tonight tomorrow night. Man, I want to have you 18 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: in here. I mean, that's thanks for having me, dude, 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Love the podcast, by. 20 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: The way, Thank you man. Timesluck's been fun. 21 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 3: I was just I was just talking about that out 22 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 3: in the lobby a lot of a lot of time. 23 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: A lot of time. So let's let's talk about this 24 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: because the big fascination right now is serial killers, Yes, 25 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: and going through you have tons of stuff. 26 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: And then like every five six episodes, I feel like 27 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: we do. 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 3: I mean, there's such a demand and you know, curiosity 29 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 3: about it, and now we're trying to you know, pick 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 3: like the ones that are a little bit maybe less known, right, 31 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: but it is it is just a Yeah, they're terrifying 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 3: just to think like how could their brain work that way? 33 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: And I think the scary part is is people are 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: now it's like the big thing, like right now it's 35 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: Ted Bundy. 36 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because exactly because of the Netflix, Docusent, the tapes, 37 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: the the whatever that. 38 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: Tape, the tapes of Ted Bundy, the twenty twenty and 39 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: now the zac Efron movie, the. 40 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: Zach Efron movie. Yeah, well Ted Bundy. Know I've thought 41 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: about that, like why he was why there's so much 42 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: fascination around him, because there's there's other guys who uh, 43 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: you know, killed more people, killed people even more brutal 44 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: fashion like that, or other people that were also very intelligent, 45 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: you know, IQ wise, like why why him? And I 46 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: think it's because like, like if you look at a 47 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: guy like like Richard Ramirez, to me, is scarier than 48 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: Ted Bundy. 49 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: Oh, most definitely. 50 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 3: But there's not a fascination because Richard Ramirez he was 51 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 3: just all evil, Like there was nothing. He made no 52 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: attempt to have a social life, He made no attempt 53 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 3: to have a family to hide kind of. 54 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: He was just a dirt bag all of the time. 55 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: You know, he was just you know. 56 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 3: Doing downtown in La just drugs and stealing stuff to 57 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: make money or killing where But Bundy, I think, but 58 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 3: it's just hard to wrap your head around because you 59 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: know he he worked at like a hotline for like 60 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: suicide prevention. Why he helped her like trying to get 61 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 3: into the politics and do some good. He you know, 62 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 3: he was going to law school. Like there was this 63 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: guy that on the surface seemed like such a good dude, 64 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 3: and he was every bit as evil as Richard Ramirez. 65 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: When he got somebody alone, you know, it's. 66 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 3: Like right, and and also there's no like in his childhood, 67 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 3: you can't be like, oh okay, that's why that's where 68 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 3: the Turning Boy is crazy because of the crazy abuse, 69 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: Like I just did this week on Time sooksh Pedro 70 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: Lowe Pez Monster of the andes that dude was a 71 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 3: street kid from the time he was eight years old. 72 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 3: You know, he got raped three different times. Growing up, 73 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 3: he was doing bisuko, which is worse than crack. He 74 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: was like, it's like a base form of coke mix 75 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 3: all this stuff. He's smoking that when he's nine, and 76 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 3: he's getting in knife fights when he's nine and ten 77 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 3: for like sleeping territory and bogatah And You're like, oh, okay, yeah, 78 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 3: I get how that would create a monster. But Bundy 79 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: was like, you know, typical childhood for the most part. 80 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: And you know, you bring up that one and that's 81 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: your latest episode of your podcast, and I was listening 82 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: to it and I was like, I had no idea, 83 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: who the hell this guy was? Yeah, scary, And then 84 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: you go into depth and I'm like, shit, yeah, this 85 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: is the scariest thing in the world. 86 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and that dude's scary to what what brought 87 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 3: him to my attention was it's kind of infamous about 88 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: Pedro Lopez is the laws in South America at the time. 89 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: A lot of all those countries, Columbia and Peru, and 90 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: Ecuador because of all the political strife which I talk 91 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 3: about in that episode. They were constant like having coups. 92 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 3: And then this new government takes over and so a 93 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 3: lot of these countries pass these like maximum sentencing laws 94 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 3: so that you couldn't just take over the new government 95 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 3: and just execute somebody immediately. So they got rid of 96 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: like the death penalty, and they got rid of these 97 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 3: long prison terms. So what's crazy to me is he 98 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: admitted to killing one hundred and ten girls they found 99 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: bodies for fifty seven. Yeah, and he got fourteen years 100 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 3: and got let out and then and then went to Columbia, 101 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 3: you know, and got two for I mean, and the 102 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 3: dude they think he killed like three hundred and fifty 103 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 3: people and he's out there. 104 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: Now, right, and he's just out there hanging out. Oh 105 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: it's crazy. And you can actually hear more about this 106 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: guy on Dan Cummings' podcast Time Suck Again. 107 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 3: There is comedy's thrown in as dark as he's, we 108 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 3: do manage to lighten it up with some absurd humor. 109 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: So now that we start with the dark stuff, let's 110 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: go into this comedy thing. So you started comedy about 111 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: over eighteen years, right, when did it finally click that 112 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, stand up is what I'm gonna do. 113 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: It was Monday, Monday, this past Monday, finally glast Monday. 114 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, okay, this is it just feels right, 115 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: there's something here. Uh No, it's like I didn't I'm 116 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 3: I'm a atypical I guess with comedy where I didn't 117 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: watch Late Night growing up, I didn't practice. I didn't 118 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 3: want to be a comic ever, I didn't think about it. 119 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: Uh. 120 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 3: And then I just kind of, I don't know. I 121 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 3: like doing creative things. I liked music and different stuff 122 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: and uh, creative writing. And then my ex wife just 123 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 3: told me like, hey, you try these of Mike. I'd 124 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 3: done some sketch comedy for fun at school and uh, 125 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 3: and I just went and did it, and I just 126 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 3: I just liked it enough to come back to the 127 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 3: next week and then the next week, and then it 128 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 3: kind of progressed. And then I was still like, after 129 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 3: I've been doing a full time for a couple of years, 130 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 3: it still was a year to year thing in my head. Right, 131 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: I'll well, we'll see how this year goes, but then 132 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 3: I'll but then I'll write my book. 133 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: You know, everybody talks about the book book. 134 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then and then it just kept going. 135 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 3: And then I think it took me like I don't know, 136 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 3: seven eight years in before I was like, Okay, this. 137 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: Is long term, this is the deal that I'm doing 138 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, my guest right now, Dan Cummins is 139 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: hanging out with us. He's at Zany's tonight and tomorrow night. 140 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: You can still get your tickets. Uh, let's talk about this. 141 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: I heard a story about you in Cleveland and having 142 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: to be escorted out to your car. 143 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: Oh about the like the crazy stock. 144 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, this guy, he's still a problem. It is 145 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 3: just interesting, like the expectations people put on you or whatever. 146 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 3: This is the guy worked with on a documentary project 147 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: a long time ago, never did anything with it, and 148 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 3: then he wanted to maybe when time Starcks started growing, 149 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: do more documentary work, and I did think about it. 150 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 3: I was like, okay, yeah, maybe, and then and then 151 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: I just really thought about it. I talked to my wife, 152 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 3: and it's like he just a guy who, uh, he 153 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 3: never really worked that. 154 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 2: Hard at his career, but expected a lot. 155 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 3: It's kind of become a little bitter over the years, 156 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: and he just didn't have a plan for the docution. 157 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 3: So I was like, hey man, you know, it'd be 158 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 3: fun to use that footage we did before, but you don't. 159 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 3: There's no like, hey, we're gonna do these festival submissions. 160 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 3: Here's how we're gonna raise like nothing. He just basically 161 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: wanted me to pay him to do a documentary that 162 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,559 Speaker 3: he never completed in the first place. 163 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: So a fire festival documentary, right pretty much? 164 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's great thing. 165 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: And so I said, hey man, we got these new guys, 166 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 3: well yeah, one of which who's in the studio right now. 167 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 3: It's like they have experience, they knew know what they're doing. 168 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 3: How about you get brought in as a producer. It's 169 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 3: not your project, but you still get to have your 170 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 3: footage shown, right, and then you can make some connections. 171 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 3: And he he lost it. He was very angry, and 172 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 3: then it just escalated into like, you know, he's not 173 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 3: gonna be a part of it, and then escalating to 174 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 3: he's gonna create a smear campaign and I'm gonna pay 175 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: the price and all this kind of stuff, and I 176 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: was like, and then I just started ignoring him, and 177 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: then he showed up in Columbus, Ohio in the lobby. 178 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: I'm just going too my elevator at night, and this 179 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: guy's screaming at me, hey and. 180 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: Just and you think it's probably just a drunk fan 181 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: thing from whatever. 182 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 3: Turn around camera in my face, like aggressive, like yelling 183 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 3: stuff at me. I mean, I you know, get in 184 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 3: the elevator and just leave. After I did say some 185 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 3: things to him about like you know, why do you 186 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 3: come in here and see what happens? Which is probably 187 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: not the best call, but he caught me off guard, 188 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 3: got a little angry. 189 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 2: I mean, oh dude, I h yeah, I'm sure. 190 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 3: He has footage to me saying some of the effect 191 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 3: of like put your hands on me and see what happens. Right, 192 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 3: But uh, but then I think it's over again. And 193 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 3: then the next day I'm walking to the mall, he 194 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 3: ambushes me again. It's like I had to get the 195 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: police involved. And then yeah, like like Cleveland Cert, I 196 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: have to have like let the staff know, like, hey, 197 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 3: here's what this dude looks like. 198 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: He's not stable. 199 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 3: But that is the weird thing of like it just 200 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 3: sucks that like, uh, and you see that lot when 201 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 3: you start you're working really hard for a lot of 202 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 3: years and then things start to go well, and then 203 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 3: there's like the leach. 204 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 2: The leech. 205 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, these parents are like they think they should be 206 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 3: involved for whatever reason, and then when you don't want 207 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,719 Speaker 3: them to be. It's interesting how like this guy was 208 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 3: a super fan before, how the super fan can turn 209 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 3: into you know, just like your worst nightmare. Like you 210 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: ever see the old Robert de Niro movie, Uh, mister comedy, 211 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: I think is what it was called. It was about 212 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 3: de Niro played a guy and I'm blanking that, but 213 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 3: he played a guy who really wanted to be on 214 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 3: the Tonight Show, and Jerry Lewis played the equivalent of 215 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 3: Johnny Carson, okay, and he couldn't get on this guy 216 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 3: and take him to heres, so he kidnaps the host 217 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 3: wow and just tries to like force his way onto 218 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 3: the show. 219 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: But it's like, it's great that there are people like 220 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 2: that out there. 221 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: So that is it's crazy and it's yeah, man. Dan 222 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: Cummins is hanging out with us right now and talking 223 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: about some crazy stuff. Definitely check him out. He's at 224 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: Zany's tonight and tomorrow night. So let's kind of go 225 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: into some other crazy stories. 226 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure sure. 227 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: While we're on the topic. Yeah, I heard about a story. 228 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: I guess you're at a doing a stand up and 229 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: a guy charges at you with a broken glass bottle. 230 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 2: Oh man, you've heard some good ones. Yeah, that was 231 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: early on. That was uh. 232 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 3: Just that was just a lesson in like, you know, 233 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 3: you think that like when you start, or maybe I 234 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: thought at least that, hey, I can say whatever I 235 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 3: want up here, and you know, that's kind of the 236 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 3: nature of it, and. 237 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: People get it. 238 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 3: But with stand up, you know, it's such an intimate 239 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 3: thing where I've had to physically throw people off stage, 240 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 3: like earlier in my career, where it's like there is 241 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 3: no barrier, they're right there. Some clubs have security when 242 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 3: you start off, some don't. And uh yeah, I mean 243 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 3: people will just walk up on stage, you know, and 244 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: in an aggressive way. 245 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 2: And this uh, this guy, it was so nuts. 246 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 3: It was just doing an open mic and spoke and 247 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 3: Washington in this trashy neighborhood Little Penny I think was 248 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: the name of the bar, and uh and there was 249 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 3: this guy at the bar and he was getting irritated 250 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: with other comics and I was up there and it 251 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 3: was a weird heckle where he didn't. It's not that 252 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 3: he didn't want me to keep talking about what I 253 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 3: was talking about. He wanted the show to stop. He 254 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 3: was like, hey man, I'm trying to talk. Once you 255 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: guys shut up, And I was like, Wow, that's what 256 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 3: we're doing here, we're talking. That's why we have the 257 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 3: microphone and the speakers. Now now you're done. Wow, No, 258 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 3: we still got more time to do. And he was 259 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: like trying to anyway, it escalates to him. Yeah, he literally, 260 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 3: like out of a movie, breaks a bottle on the bar, 261 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,599 Speaker 3: starts to come for me. Luckily, the guy running the 262 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 3: open mic was like a martial arts dude and grabbed 263 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 3: him from behind and didn't let him get to the state. 264 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: Because I know, I'm like, oh, what do you do? 265 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: Right, but you're just kind of sitting there watching it. 266 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, find out after the show that he had he was. 267 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 2: It was like a neighborhood bar. 268 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 3: He had just got out of prison, like again he 269 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 3: was that dude for salt, I believe, Oh crap, and 270 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 3: then like he'd been out like two weeks. 271 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: And they just let him stroll right in. 272 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't kick him out, and he's just like, 273 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 3: you know, he's a he's a guy that I mean, 274 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 3: this was a neighborhood where that's probably like the bulk 275 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 3: of our clientele is guys who have been in and 276 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 3: out of prison, right and but but that was just 277 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: a lesson of like a reminder of like, Okay, sometimes 278 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: you gotta use a little bit of finesse up here. 279 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 3: You gotta be prepared because yeah, that's what's crazy about 280 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: like stand up you know, and a lot of so 281 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 3: intimate that yeah, you don't know what can happen. 282 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 1: He's kind of gotta roll with the punches and say 283 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: what happened, like literally roll the punches. Guess right now 284 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: is Dan Cummins. He is on the Happy Murder Tour, Uh, 285 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: trying to knock it as not get murdered. Trying not 286 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: to get murdered. He's at Zany's tonight and tomorrow night. 287 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: Tickets are twenty dollars. So what's in the future for 288 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: Dan Cummins. 289 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 3: Well, Uh, you're going to record another special sometime this year. 290 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 3: Just trying to figure out the venue and stuff for that. 291 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 3: Gonna launch a h is crazy he does right now 292 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 3: and trying to get things manageable work wise so I 293 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 3: can launch two new podcast ideas or keep time stuff going. 294 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 3: But then I've always been a horror fan. Gonna launch 295 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: another podcast called Scared to Death with my wife where 296 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 3: she gets she's easily scared, but she likes scary. 297 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 2: Stuff, So it's gonna be my wife. 298 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: Okay, I got I got these old books of based 299 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 3: on true stories of horror things, ghosts, you know, urban legends, 300 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. We're going to record in the Dark, 301 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 3: which is Candles, and I'm just gonna try to scare 302 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 3: the hell out of her. 303 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Wow, So when can we kind of expect okay. 304 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 3: Out, Yeah, we're working on logos and all that. But uh, 305 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 3: and then another one with another guy just called is 306 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: we dumb? Just making fun of troll culture where it's like, 307 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 3: you know, going after people who leave hateful reviews on 308 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 3: Yelp and you know iTunes and all that, cause that's 309 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: such a pet peeve of mine. 310 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: Oh, it's the worst. It's the stupidest thing that they 311 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: complain about. 312 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 2: Oh. 313 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: The worst to me is when there's a pre release 314 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 3: on iTunes or some other record. It hasn't even come 315 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 3: out yet. You can't listen to it, but somebody hates 316 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 3: the band and feels the need to one Star and 317 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: just try to get other like what kind of person 318 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 3: are you? 319 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,479 Speaker 2: When you're at home, you're like, I O don't lack Metallica, 320 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: no Elsha either. 321 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 3: And then you just leave the one Star and be 322 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 3: like this band sucks. It's not enough for you to 323 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 3: not like him. You have to try to get other people. 324 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 3: I've just never felt that way about any artist ever 325 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 3: in my life. 326 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: I think the best thing is, if you ever have 327 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,079 Speaker 1: time and I get stuck down the rabbit holes, I'll 328 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: go to company's Facebook page and see what people leave 329 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: the company about the company A good one on the wall, 330 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: and the best ones are like Twinkies and and Hostess, 331 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: like people go blisting. 332 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 3: There was one on Yelp there's a donut shop in 333 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 3: my town. And actually, don't think I'm going a donut 334 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 3: yere shit right now. 335 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 2: I love a donut. 336 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: So if there's any donut shops out town, come does 337 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 1: Amy tonight and bring down donuts. 338 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 3: It's funny right now, I'm trying to just like low carbsing, 339 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 3: but man donuts a man. But anyway, there was this 340 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 3: guy who left like a four paragraph rant about the 341 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 3: donut shop about how he has asked them multiple time 342 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 3: times that he has a nut allergy and would they 343 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: please make their giant donut with the powder on a 344 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 3: sheet without nuts, and they will they refuse, and he 345 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 3: is sick of it and he's been and then their 346 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 3: response is hilarious. We're like, like they clearly know him. 347 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 3: They're like, George, we've talked to you numerous times. We 348 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 3: can't do the giant donuts on the tray we all have, 349 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 3: but I just love that this is a guy who's 350 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 3: coming month after month. 351 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 2: I want the Johnt donut, but the no nuts and 352 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 2: you gotta George. We talked about this. We only have 353 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 2: the one oven, and it's like and you just can't 354 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 2: let it go. Like he's in home. 355 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 3: It's just it's just all I wanted to time donut. 356 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: I just the nut out of Jet. 357 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 2: I can't help him nut. 358 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: We can just see him sitting there going at the keyboard. 359 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I picture his mom. You know, just George, 360 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: are you are you tiring about the nuts? Again? 361 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 3: We've talked to the donuts, George, but it's like those 362 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: people fascinate me. Were It's like, really, I'm jealous in 363 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 3: a way that'd be nice to have so much free 364 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 3: time and so little going on in your life where 365 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: you will take the time to go to a store 366 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 3: and just aggressively ask for the thing they don't want 367 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 3: to give you. 368 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: Over and over again, and then he just goes. 369 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 3: Yea, and you gotta go online. Oh lest sorry, I 370 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 3: no favorite Yelp thing I've ever seen. Spot of my head. 371 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: Adult movie shop in Los Angeles, California that still lets 372 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: you watch like live porn. 373 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: Oh wow, I can tell this is gonna be an 374 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: interesting a one star. 375 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 3: Yelp review and the person was angry about how much 376 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: jerking off was going on during the movie made it 377 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 3: hard for them to enjoy their experience, and it's like 378 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 3: that's why people go there to jerks. But it's like 379 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 3: it's like complaining about like a strip club, being like, 380 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 3: didn't like the new to dy, didn't like if they 381 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: could just. 382 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: Cover it's a little bit more clothing. 383 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 3: But I love that you would go to an adult theater, 384 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 3: you know, sit around people jerking off at adult movie, 385 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 3: but then go on yelp me. 386 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: Like too much and then it's that guy probably put 387 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: his real name and number and yeah, and then you just. 388 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: Google people past it, which you know, which makes a 389 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: lot of commedy. 390 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 3: That's a lot of my stuff for the shows this 391 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 3: weekend is just making fun of people who It's like, 392 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 3: why would you ever think that? 393 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: How did you think that was ok? Hey to do 394 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 2: what you did? Or yeah, oh. 395 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: Man, my guest right now, Dan come ins the Happy 396 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: Murder tour is going on and saying he's this weekend. 397 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: Uh So that kind of goes into my next question. 398 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: For somebody who hasn't seen your stand up point, can 399 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: they kind of expect if they come out. 400 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 2: Uh, dark and weird humor? I think. 401 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 3: I mean I talk about you know, my kids, I 402 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 3: talk about observations about life. I do talk about fantasizes 403 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,479 Speaker 3: about killing people. 404 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: Which is why it's happening he tour. But exactly like, 405 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at the flyer and it's probably 406 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: the scariest dexter looking thing in the world right now. 407 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 3: Well, and what's funny to me is when people come 408 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 3: into the show then after seeing that and then like 409 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 3: it's a bit much for them. It's like, what were 410 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 3: you thinking, Like there's a picture of me covered in 411 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 3: blood on the like, why would you think this was 412 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 3: just gonna be like, oh, my wife, she like, oh, 413 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 3: she shops so much and she buys all these things. 414 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: It drives me crazy. 415 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: Here's a knock knock job. 416 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's a little bit more aggressive 417 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 2: and stuff. 418 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 3: But I like to think it's kind of smarter humor 419 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 3: and and but it's not for everybody. 420 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 2: It's funny. 421 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 3: I got a joke right now that I've been doing them, 422 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 3: talking about, uh, why I don't believe the devil is 423 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 3: out there buying souls? Oh and I just talk about 424 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 3: how like if that was true, there would not be 425 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 3: a homeless population, like if he was given fame and 426 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 3: fortune for souls. And I just and I just say, 427 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,880 Speaker 3: you mean to tell me that this dude out there 428 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 3: sleeping on a you know, urine soaked ally eating out 429 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 3: of a dumpster, you know, sucking somebody off from meth 430 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 3: is going to turn down that deal like he's not 431 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 3: quite ready. And I act out a guy giving another 432 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: guy a blowjob while talking to the. 433 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 2: Devil, and that one. I love it. Like there's a 434 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: few people every show with that joke. They're done, show's over. 435 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: Just watch them, like slowly get up. 436 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 2: Oh there was it was great in Phillyate the weeks ago. 437 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 3: They could you could tell they weren't familiar with my 438 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 3: sense of humor Front Row, Dead Center, and I knew 439 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 3: as soon as that joke was midway through. I'm like, 440 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 3: within ten minutes they are out of here. And sure enough, 441 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 3: literally after that joke, check and uh. 442 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: You got it. 443 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 3: So you know it's not it's not it's not for everybody, 444 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 3: but I think it's for people who like weird, irreverent humor. 445 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 2: It's we have a good time. 446 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: Now. When you see those people get up, yeah, do 447 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: you say something as they're walking? 448 00:17:59,680 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 3: Leave it. 449 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 2: I don't want to like bubb them. 450 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 3: I'll joke around if other people doing things, but if 451 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 3: someone respectfully doesn't want to be there, I don't want 452 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 3: them there either. It's like, you know, it's annoying to 453 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 3: me on some level. It's like you showed on your homework. 454 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 3: There's a thing called the Internet where you can google 455 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 3: machine that you can here's this Google box where you 456 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 3: can find answers to questions. 457 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: You know. 458 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 2: It's like, so I don't feel bad. 459 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 3: There's no part of me that feels guilt where it's like, 460 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,719 Speaker 3: you know, okay, find something else like that's on you 461 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 3: for not looking into what you were what you were 462 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 3: going to. 463 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it cracks me. 464 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 3: Up, though, Yeah, just what And it cracks me up 465 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 3: too because I just am not that person, Like there's 466 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 3: there's nothing you could say, uh that would outrage me 467 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 3: and make me. 468 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: Just like storm out, how dare you? Right? 469 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 3: So that kind of person in life. It's just I'm 470 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 3: fascinated where it's like, wow, you just even just hearing 471 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 3: this topic brought up. 472 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,479 Speaker 2: Let's go, Timothy. You know, I didn't come here for filth. 473 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: You know, I sit there and I've been to quite 474 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: a few stand up shows and I've never seen anybody 475 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: get up, but you could kind of see them kind 476 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: of ease back to your chair and kind of duck. 477 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: Like when you're sitting up there watching that, what's going 478 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: through your mind when you see after you tell that 479 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: joke and you're seeing somebody kind of. 480 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. 481 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't hear this. 482 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 3: I'm like, I hope it resonates on some level where 483 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 3: it's like when you hear people laughing at your at 484 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 3: the concept that you base your identity on, maybe it 485 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 3: makes you rethink it a little bit. Like I go 486 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 3: real hard on anti vaxers right now, and. 487 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: Oh, it's the worst. They're in my kids school. 488 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 2: I I hate it. 489 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 3: And there's that, and some people might think, like, oh, 490 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 3: what if there was an anti vaxxer there. I hope 491 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 3: so I hope they hear everybody laughing at how stupid 492 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 3: they are, right, you know, I hope I hope it 493 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 3: makes it resoning in their head that maybe they think, oh, 494 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 3: maybe I am a complete idiot and need to rethink 495 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 3: my life on some level so I don't kill people accidental, 496 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 3: you know, with like these stupid movements. 497 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: Right, and it's it's it's just, yeah. 498 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 3: I'm no sympathy for that. Like people who are willfully ignorant. 499 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 3: It's like, oh, I hope you get uncomfortable. You're the 500 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 3: one that I hope you hate, my guts. I hope 501 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 3: it like really gets in your head and maybe makes 502 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 3: you rethink, you know, the values you have and the 503 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 3: ideas you have, and maybe you'll you'll learn a little bit, 504 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 3: because that's like, I'm not some but I'm smart enough 505 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 3: to recognize how ignorant that stuff is, you know, right, 506 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 3: and how it makes life, you know, hard for the 507 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 3: rest of us. That's that's why it matters to me 508 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 3: to talk about. 509 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: And that's the crazy thing. It's like, cause I've got 510 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: two kids. I got an eleven year old and two 511 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: year old, and at the daycare there's like some pants 512 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: in there. They're like, we're not vaccinating and he's out 513 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: for an entire month because pink eye broke out. And 514 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that's how you build your immune system exactly. 515 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: To me, that stuff is like child abuse, you know. 516 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 3: It's like some of that stuff, like like the I 517 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: do on the Patreon version of the podcast, did it 518 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 3: this wack a doodle of the weak segment about his 519 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 3: people just doing weird, you know, ridiculous ignorant stuff. And 520 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 3: I just did one on this West Virginia snake snake 521 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 3: handling churches. Oh those stores are like do they die 522 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 3: all the time? Die all the time. They get a 523 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: spy ratler, like a timber ratler. 524 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: And it's like, God's gonna get the poison out. Nope, 525 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: No he won't, No dumbass, it's not getting out. 526 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 2: Dude. 527 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 3: There's one guy he's the pastor now. His brother got 528 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 3: bitten died by the snake. Who was the previous pastor 529 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 3: before that was their father who got bitten, died by 530 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 3: snake and he's still like, oh man, God is good 531 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 3: take a killing. Yeah, It's like why are you doing this? 532 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 3: And and but then what bothers me is when those 533 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 3: people bring kids into that. I'm like, okay, if you 534 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 3: want to believe that and risk your life, all right, whatever. 535 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: We don't need you in the gene pool anyway. 536 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 3: But it's like, but you're gonna bring kids into that, 537 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 3: your kids should be taken from you, and that's abuse. 538 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: God. 539 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 540 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: And it's like you see these guys that are protesting 541 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: out like there was one day we walked into I 542 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: think maybe it was like a Rod Stewart concert and 543 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: these guys are like, you're going to Hell. And there's 544 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: like this Westboro Baptist church. No, these guys are worse. 545 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: They haven't they They will. They will protest Natural Predators games, 546 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: they will protest Titans games. They are everywhere with signs 547 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 1: and they will walk downtown and tell everybody that they're 548 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: going to hell. And there was one day that there 549 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: was a kid with them and. 550 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 2: He you could be raised and hate. 551 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: You could tell that he was uncomfortable because he was 552 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: out in the cold having to hold this poll with 553 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: a God hates gaze and all this other stuff. And 554 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: it's it's though, like you said, they should be taken 555 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: away from their family. 556 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 3: It's so there's no logic that what I understand is 557 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: like how they can't step back and see how how 558 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 3: silly that is where you think, Okay, so you believe 559 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 3: that there's this god out there in space or whatever, 560 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,479 Speaker 3: you know, and and he's watching over the world and 561 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 3: people are starving in this continent and dying of but 562 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 3: he's worried about the predator's game, right, that's his concern, 563 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 3: is that people are watching too much hockey or whatever. 564 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: They're they're idols, they're idols. 565 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's like and it's it's a weird thing 566 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 3: to me where it's like some of these like the 567 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: Westborough and those kind of groups, their idea of God 568 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 3: is such an angry, like vengeful deity where it's like, 569 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 3: why would you want to worship something so angry? It's like, man, 570 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: you believe that God is an asshole, you know, And 571 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 3: it's like and that's who you worship, And it's like, oh, man, 572 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 3: if that's who he is, then we're all we're all done. Yeah, 573 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 3: that kind of God isn't going to like honor deals 574 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 3: and stuff later, like you were the most hateful of 575 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 3: my member membership. That's why you get to sit in 576 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 3: the golden throne. It's like, no, we're all going to hell. 577 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 3: That thing exists because right right, right, exactly. Just it's 578 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 3: like a weird life is so short. 579 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 2: I don't know. 580 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 3: I don't understand that why so many people want to 581 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 3: spend it just being so living in such fear and 582 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 3: shame and guilt and worry and stuff over all that. 583 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: It's crazy stuff. I'm Dan Cummins, is my guest right now. 584 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: We're just sitting here talking at Zany's tonight Tomorrow night, 585 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: twenty bucks. So let me ask you this your podcast? 586 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: What was just tonight? Actually too? Tomorrow Night's done tomorrow. 587 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: I sold out? Yeah, okay, so well we'll cut that 588 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: out pre record, so we're good then. So he's at 589 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: Zany's tonight twenty dollars. You can get tickets. Uh, favorite 590 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: episode of the podcast? Record? Which one's been your favorite? 591 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 2: Uh? You know, they're so different. I like a bunch 592 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 2: of them. 593 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 3: Salem Witch Trials is an old episode, but I really 594 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 3: like that one. Just just thinking about it's just that 595 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 3: was one of the first ones they did about like 596 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 3: how how like. 597 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 2: Weird moments and history where. 598 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 3: The Salem witch trials, you know, they they put these 599 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 3: people on trial for utter absurdity, like these women and 600 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 3: stuff where because it was this thing called spectral you 601 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 3: could be I think it was a spectral witness. But 602 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 3: they allowed this in court at one time, you know, 603 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 3: in the land this now you know the United States, 604 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 3: where basically you could have a dream that your friend 605 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 3: Bonnie is a witch and up to something no good. 606 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: Based on that dream, the next morning, you could talk 607 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: to the leader of the town and be like, hey, 608 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 3: Bonnie's a witch. 609 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: Yep, how do you know? Had a dream? All right, 610 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: get her round her up? And then they would convict 611 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 2: people and hang them to death based on somebody else 612 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 2: having a dream that they were doing witch stuff. 613 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: It's crazy stuff. 614 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, so crazy and so crazy that people like were 615 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 3: concerned about witches. I mean to me, that's the equivalent 616 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 3: of like today if somebody got put put on trial 617 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 3: for harboring a bigfoot and it's like, John, we know 618 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 3: where the bigfoot is. Just let it out, man, let 619 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 3: it out. I know what you're talking about, all right, 620 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 3: He's kidnapped Bigfoot. Let's put him in trial. 621 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: He's done. 622 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't find it, Okay, he killed Bigfoot. You know. 623 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 3: But it's just like I think about that kind of stuff, 624 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 3: historical stuff where it just makes me skeptical of things 625 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 3: now where you know, we have faith in uh or 626 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 3: some people have faith in that the judicial system will 627 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 3: take care of them or this, And I do have 628 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 3: faith to a degree in our institutions, but also I 629 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 3: constantly think about Salem witch trials and inquisition, you know, 630 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 3: and all those things. 631 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: Where man, it's like, we're such crazy animals. 632 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,959 Speaker 3: Humans are just such insane animals. Just the things that 633 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 3: we that we've actually done over the years is just 634 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,719 Speaker 3: is mind boggling now. And I always wonder when I'm 635 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 3: reading those old things, I'm like, what are we doing 636 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: now that one hundred years from now people are gonna 637 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 3: look back at and be like, what in the hell 638 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: were they thinking? 639 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna be about a wall. It's gonna be a bottle, 640 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,719 Speaker 1: That's what it's gonna be a one hundred years. It's 641 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: gonna be about a wall. 642 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 3: Oh God, I know they will, you know that they will. 643 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 3: They'll give like tours and like, yeah, they thought this 644 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 3: was gonna work. You know, it's crazy. 645 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 1: You can you can go to the gift shop and 646 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: buy a piece of the wall for thirty five dollars. 647 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 2: Right right exactly, Carri. Here's this stretch of the wall. 648 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 3: Here's the seventeen tunnels that were dug within the first 649 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 3: year underneath the wall. 650 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, you can go under there for extra five buck. 651 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: Right exactly exactly. 652 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: Oh man, that's crazy stuff. Dan Comes is my guest. 653 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: He's got a show tonight, ed zanies. Dude, thank you 654 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: so much for stopping by. 655 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for let me talk. Thanks let me babble. 656 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: Such an awesome time having Dan come and hanging out. 657 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: Don't forget he has at zany as. You can also 658 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: check out his podcast I'm Suck wherever you get your 659 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: podcasts and uh yeah podcast time. Let me just shamelessly 660 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: plug my own that you're listening to. You could download 661 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: this podcast anywhere you get your podcast iTunes. You can 662 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: listen to it on the free iHeartRadio app i am 663 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: on social media if you want to follow me. It 664 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: is Battle on air. By the way, next week a 665 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: new episode is gonna drop. There's gonna be some new 666 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: stuff happening on the podcast, I cannot wait to tell 667 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: you what that is, So make sure you stay tuned 668 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: up to date of everything that is Battleground Instagram, Twitter, 669 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: where we're at battle on air until next time. Like 670 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: I always say, two fingers and elbow boom. Now whoosh,