WEBVTT - Interviews Part 2 (Brian Huskey/Rekha Shankar/Jojo Wright) 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.200 This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, filling 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.600 in for our host Ari, who's busy on Saturday Night Live. Yes, 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.160 I wasn't joking. Last week he's joined the cast of 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.320 Saturday Night Live, which is so so great for him. Anyway, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.880 he's left me in charge. Much like last week, this 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.920 week's episode will also be a little different than usual. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.360 I think we've established that the best part of This 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.760 is American's Live is me, producer Andy, and my ability 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.840 to sift through the archives and find footage from the 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.280 lives of our guest contributors during the interview. As well. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.360 This week, we're going to replay three more of my 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.280 favorite interviews from this season so far. Brian Husky, Rica Shankar, 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.519 and radio personality Joe Joe. Right, all right, let's get 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.280 into the first interview. Brian Husky enjoy especially guest contributed 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.400 Brisky you today. Oh, I'm very good. Thanks for having me. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.800 I'm I've only eve been listening to the show. I 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.800 you know, I came to it maybe about halfway through 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.000 your run. You know, I had some people so recommend 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.600 it to me. I always trust her a word of 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.200 mouth and um, and these people were you know, really 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.600 sort of tapped into a lot of Zeitgeists podcasts and 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.640 and so I really felt like that's uh that spoke 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.320 to me for a long time. Yeah, and and for 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.600 me to go back and sort of go find all 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.920 these archives. It's also a time capsule, you know, like 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.959 you're focusing on the first cell phone and you know, yeah, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.320 and then sort of you know when when small inspection 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.200 stations closed down, like these big moments in society, that 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.360 the shifts, we actually had that small inspections one. I've 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.720 always been there, you know, we have that in the 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.960 archives that when the small such as it's such a 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.839 cause a family runs small inspection empire, when that goes down, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.040 that I mean, it's heartbreaking, it's really heartbreaking. Any it's 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:55.280 number inspection house, uh, any chain of different small inspections 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.160 across the Houston Metroplex area shut down for really two days. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.000 People who need to get their cars inspected and you 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.200 know the status of the smock of their own cars, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.840 we're just sitting there with their pockets and ends. Yeah. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.240 Well we've had this our family for must have been 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.000 three years now, you have three three years and nine 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.560 months this Tuesday. Yeah, we don't want to Yeah, we 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.880 want to say four years, but it's not four years yet, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.040 but we will be in two months, in one week. Yeah, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.320 but we didn't want to say that it was four 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.359 years because we know you're a journalist and we don't 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.160 want to be any gotcha journalism. We want we want 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.720 to be factual for you, and also we want to 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.799 be factual about we're closing down, but not for any 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.400 kind of criminal reasons. We really want to emphasize that, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.079 which are you ever going to devote to people? Well, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.520 you just say any closed down. We'll divulge all the 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.720 reasons why, all the reasons that are not reasons why 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.640 we close down. Like will say, like, we did not 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.400 close down because for criminal reasons. Yeah, well, we did 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.200 not close down because theft or future arson like if that, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.240 if that happens in the future. We did not burn 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.240 it for insurance money purposes because it got to be 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.040 too much not having this place open very long. We 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.600 got miles to feed. We did not try to cash in. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.120 I burned the place down. We do not have a 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.320 gambling problem that is currently up ending our existence. Surely 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.280 after the interview, all four locations burned in the hell 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.040 fire and the two brothers twin brother smug inspection banished 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.000 the blue deating a lot of people with no smug 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.520 inspection places to go to. Yes, I would like to 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:41.160 apply for a driver's license. Um, I am not trying 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.240 to get a new identity. I'm not flying a law. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.960 They just had to accompany him to the d n V. Sir, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.040 I can only help one of y'all. So who who 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.280 needs the I D and who does not? I'll do 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.280 not not need it. Okay, I don't have I do 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.240 not have time for this, and I am I am 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.680 not a word play person. To I am not a 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.200 double entendre. If you're trying to post some of that crap, 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.320 you can take it right out of here. Rad Namma 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.600 for him was in That was a good one. It was. Yeah. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.680 I kind of is a young me, very much a 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.160 round over version, and I thought it was really interesting. Yeah, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.600 and you did the last act on her, which is honestly, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.600 I mean that there wasn't much to her. She was 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.159 kind of just a woman who worked at the d 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.080 m V. Yeah. Negative. So I don't want to give you, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.039 but I love your work. We do. We actually we 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.520 have that too. By the way of the third act 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.560 of that episode when you were talking when you followed 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.760 the the m V woman around. Yeah, you guys, I 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.680 have to play it. What I'm serious? What just trying 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.760 to make you up here? I know you're sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 I'm just trying to I know, but I do not. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.440 Can I get a check one too, please? In right now? 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.919 Check one to check one to sibilants, sibilants like in 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.800 that SNL sketch about sound. I know what y'all do. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.440 Go ahead, now, go ahead, you're you're in my living 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.479 room now, in my my one evening off. I gave 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.960 you my time, so let's do this interview. Yeah, that 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.080 was a very tough interview. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.720 why I included that stuff and just saying I used 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.240 to have his dad back in the day when I 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.640 just did everything that I've included, I would just put 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.480 it out there. You know. I just really very much 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:21.040 about transparency. You've really grown and it tells about yourself. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.880 Oh wow, that's a good interview question. I'm from originally 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.000 from Charlotte, North Carolina, and uh now I live in 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.480 Los Angeles. I went to a college in Charlotte. You 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.839 did in Charlotte for ten years? Oh my god, where'd 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.560 you live in Charlotte? Was passing in the night? Yeah, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.839 the Queen City. You lived in New York? He moved here? Yes, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.360 I was in Uh. I moved there in ninety six. Yeah, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.400 and then I moved out here in two thousand and six. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.640 But you in New York for ten years? Ten years 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.200 in math? Did you enjoy your time? Dude? I I did, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.919 and then I got exhausted with it. It's an exhausting city. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.320 It takes a lot of energy, right, And I broke 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.360 my toe because I kicked the wall after my car 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.040 was broken into for the seventh time, and um, subways 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 uh started to make me sad, so uh. And there's 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.080 no more work there. All the work was out in 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.440 l A. I was gonna say, there's no more work 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.479 in New York? Right, what kind of work do you do? 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.000 I've got to get there. Really seem to take a while. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.000 That was the kind of look you do. Oh, I'm 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.040 an actor and a writer, mainline actor. Have I seen 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.840 you and stuff? I don't know what you watch. I 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.440 watch all kind of stuff. I'd watch a lot of old, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.400 old movies from the nineteen eighties, yeah. I mean I'm 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.720 in most of those. Tell us about what you've been 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.320 working on. Now these days you'll stop hearing record? Do 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.120 we have let me step recluding? Okay, So when we're 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.239 in this part, do I sort of talk about the reality, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.960 like the harsh reality we've all been through with a 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.760 COVID and stuff, or do I steer away from that? Well, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.200 I would say, like, well, the past year and a half, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.360 I haven't really been doing much. I've had my own 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.880 podcasts and stuff. But I got a podcast called bald 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.600 Talk on. We'll talk about that, yeah, And and then um, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.080 I've auditioning. I did some commercials. I do voices for 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.080 Bob's Burgers. Do that. We'll talk about that. Okay, all right, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.240 so when we go when when you when you ask 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.080 the question again, are you taking notes? I don't have 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.840 a pen Okay, podcast, Bob's Burgers. Yeah, auditioning, but you know, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.560 trying to generate work. I think that's a you know, Okay, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.200 do you have any podcast it's going on? Oh? Sure, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.000 I've got a podcast called bald Talk. Let's just try 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.440 that one again. I just I'd like a clean one 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.880 and we'll just kind of Okay, do you want me 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:28.560 to be him? Do you want me to do you 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.080 want do you want to run run the lines with me? Right? 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.000 Use this audio and then we'll use your your thing. Okay, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.360 So okay, um tell me about Hey, can you not 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.360 do it in his voice? Because yeah, what is that? 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.880 What the fund is that even you've been doing impictions 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.200 to me behind my back? That's a that's a new 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.920 character on Mark. You know, I don't I don't need to. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.280 I don't need the question. I'll just say okay three 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.080 to one. So I have a podcast called Bald Talk. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.360 It's myself and Charlie Sanders. Uh, two bald comedians interview 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:05.280 bald everybody. We've had actors, directors, musicians, wig makers. We 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.800 just interviewed them about being bald, and then it kind 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.560 of goes from there into their creative work and their 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.640 insecurities and sort of the idea of like vanity and 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.720 perception and stuff. Are there any things that you discovered 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.440 that you didn't know of other people's perspectives and being bald? 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.320 The big takeaway is that, uh, it's always a bigger 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.320 hang up for you than anybody else in the whole world, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.560 and especially if you have a hang up about dating. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.960 Women do not give a f They really don't. So 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.360 take that away. If you're if you're listening and you're bald, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.040 it's fine, it's totally fine. Well, thank you guys. Are 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.080 you welcome? You usly want to leave. I don't know. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.400 It seemed like it was just I just eating. You 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.679 do get very close to people's face when you talk 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.160 to them, I think to make sure that they can 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.800 hear any way it comes out of my mouth. Have 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.320 headphones microphones? Yeah, that's what the mike's from. I mean 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.160 we're literally on both on your mic. You started on 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.200 the other side of the room. You are now out 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.880 over with me because I don't want I don't want 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.760 to throw you know, I don't want to mess up. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.760 We guys have. But it's just just some feedback. If 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.400 if if you guys were to make a survey available 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.720 to me, I would take it and give some feedback. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.960 But you know, actually have that survey. We have a 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.240 line phone number. I have to press the button, well, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.760 you have to press several buttons because you're down the number. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.160 What is it again, It's one, It's the one and 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:33.080 this is Americans Live Survey. This is Americans Life numbers right, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.920 it's like way too many. Oh hold on, sorry, sorry guys, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.160 my phone's ringing. Thank you for calling. This is American's 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.280 Live Customer Service. This is Andy the producer. Can I 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.840 are you taking the survey for me? I feel like 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.560 I should take the say, would you get away from 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.760 my mic so I can take the survey? Please? Please, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.480 just for this moment, step away, like a second? Okay, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.839 thank you? Yeah, Hi, Hi Brian? Yes, oh hey, how 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.760 you doing. Hey you're you're calling the survey line. Yeah, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.920 I just wanted to give some feedback on the interview section. Okay, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.040 how's it going so far? Are you enjoying it? I mean, yeah, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.839 there's some problem. I mean I feel like there's some 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.120 elements to it that I'm not totally psyched about. Like 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.199 he gets a little close and and I felt like 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.000 when you ask opening questions like tell me about yourself? Yeah, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.480 I mean what am I supposed to? Well? You know, free? Sorry, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:28.160 can your hand just one second? I'm getting another call please, 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.319 All right, I've got Brian on the survey. Yeah. I 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.959 know he's saying that I can see you talking to him. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.360 I can turn around if it's can you do me? 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.880 Could you do me a favorite. Just turn around real quick. Yeah, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:45.320 what's that? Yeah, he's on the phoniest bitching again about again. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.760 This is what he sounds like right now, he's suing 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.280 too close to me again. I'm sorry, I turn back around. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.600 You guys gave me the option, Like I just said, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.320 is there a survey? And so you're letting me do 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.559 a survey? But now just now you're sort of uptended. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.520 I'm this is weird. You know, if you have a 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.760 survey about your survey, I would I would give some 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.720 feedback on that. As a matter of fact, we're going 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.160 to end it on this. We actually have one. This 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.560 is American's Live survey survey. Who's calling it? I'll do it. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.360 I have a new I have a new phone. I 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.920 want to Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna do a voicing 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:25.320 one eight hundred. This in a shift number one hundred. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.240 This is Americans Live Survey Survey. I'm sorry, did you 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.920 mean one eight hundred? This is Americans Live Survey, no 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.880 survey survey. I'm sorry, did you mean this is Americans 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.480 live survey? I think it might be a confusing the 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.920 phone because we say survey twice tobably. I'm gonna I'm 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.320 gonna hang out making the call. I'm gonna call it 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:52.360 survey quick, did it now? Hey, guys, one second, my 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.080 phone's ringing. Sure, I'm gonna grab it. Thank you for 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.720 calling the This is Americans Live survey line. This is Andy. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.839 How can I help you? How was your How was 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.200 how's it going? Alright? We'd love it if you just 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.760 let me start talking at some point. Oh, okay, I 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.840 have a problem with my producer. Can I tell you 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.080 what it is. He's too great, he's too great, it's 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.720 too funny. He's asking me to play different parts of 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.080 the archives. And you know how many tapes we have 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.440 any archives? Thousands? Right? Huh? And then now we've got 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.839 to end on this. I'm sorry, I got I'm getting 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.400 a call. One a second. Hey, Brian. He's on the phone, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:36.520 always on the phone. Really good. He's like, like, what 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.800 he's doing? You do it? I don't think he sounds 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:44.080 like a yeah. He sounds like a dying librarian or tydeing. Alright, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.679 what are you doing here? I've been here the whole time. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.960 He's listening to here. Got a bit of shit. I'm 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.439 really sorry. I'm sorry. I think I I caused the 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.520 problem in this problem, just like the thing is that 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.920 I do my best to move these it's along. Sometimes 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.000 my producer gets a little archive crazy, and then we 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.320 started dipping into things and then all of a sudden 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.960 we have no time for nothing. I really like the 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.720 way that you're tired. I'm gonna call the survey. Here 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.480 we go again. Hold on lift phones. Hello, Hey, it's me. Hey, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.400 what's up? Well? Ari is kind of being a dick 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.720 right now to you? I know, okay? Well by zero 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.680 stars guys contributed by NSKY, Thank you so much for 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.040 this opportunity. Yeah, coming up, our interview with Ka Shankar. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.240 But first a word from our sponsors who make this 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:44.440 high quality show possible. Stay with us. Welcome back to 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.800 This Is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.880 our host, Ari, who was away in New York as 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:54.800 an SNL cast member. Which is really something, really really something. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.479 I'm here playing some of my favorite guest contributor interviews 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.160 that we've had during this first season of this amazing 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.640 top shell show. Up next, Raka Shankar, enjoy my especially 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.679 guys contributor. Hello, how are you doing today? I'm great? 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.240 Thank you so tell us how long have you been 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.679 listening to our show? As long as it's been on, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:21.560 which is maybe you've released five episodes, but there's been 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:27.200 ten recorded. We've released more than five. You're something you 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.800 told me before and a number I'm forgetting, but that's 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.160 how many I've listened to. So you've been listening for 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.520 three years? Yeah, decades? Even Do you remember any of 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.240 the shows that I was on prior to doing this show? 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.800 I do remember? Which one ed? A cooking show? Yeah? 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.760 Can I finished? What else? What other shows did I have? Oh? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.480 I mean we both remember, right, all the stuff that 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.680 you've done. So it goes without saying almost, but I 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.160 I'm asking you to say it, right, a cooking show? 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:10.560 You probably did something with Poe Hi. You say politics, pe, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.600 Politics pot Pie. We actually have shows. Yeah, we actually 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.000 have that in the archives that your episode of Politics, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.480 one of the highest rated episodes of Politics pot Pie, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.480 which was episode forty eight. Who was that? Um? You 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:28.480 I know that? And Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oh my god, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.000 that was an incredible episode. Remember, Yeah, we use that 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:40.680 too thousand and sixteen when she was running for president. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:47.800 I remember my especially guys written thank you for Kenning, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.760 thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.520 Tell you've been speaking of that in different times. Feeling 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.800 very rasped, I am not doing too good. The only 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.320 thing that would make me feel better is a hot 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.800 piping pot. Bye, let's make them. That was the show 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.280 for the most part. I don't know if you remember. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.400 I just have a guest on even though its supposed 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.600 to be political, It's called political Popeye. I just have 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.800 somebody on the show who was politically and poet. Again, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.000 it was the things we were going to talk about, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.480 dicks maybe just talked about Poppy. I'm sure it was 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.200 a relief to a lot of the politicians are sick 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.640 with talking about politics. Just sit down with a pop pie. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.120 It's nice. Can you imagine to pick a politician and 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.360 I do an episode with him? Okay, pick a politician, anyone, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.480 Pete Pewter, judge, Pete Poota judge. It was my What 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.720 episode is that I was? That was one of the 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.280 later ones, with a more recent right now, I don't 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.640 know if we have that one in the archive. Welcome 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:56.040 to Politic Poppy. Very happy to be here. I'm oh my, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.320 I think I need a lozenge. And the only thing 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.200 that's going to help if pop Piping pot Pie the thing. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.040 If I'm most compelling about that show, it was like 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.200 when I feel sick or like like my throat hurts, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.880 and I don't really reach for a pot pie super something. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.080 So it's interesting a lot of your guests seem to 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.040 have like a throat issue and we're like, oh, I 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:22.359 want like a big, thick pot pie. Yeah you could see, yeah, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.359 would you had more of that kind of consistency, but 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.399 they did swallowing like chicken chunks. Well, I hate to 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.720 break it to the two of you, but I think 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.720 that's all we have in the archives anyway. So okay, Wow, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.040 do you think I learned? There won't be a third example? 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.000 I mean, my god, I'm trying to remember some of 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.600 my other favorite episodes Politicians and pot Pie only recorded 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.160 to numbered them. Strangely, there wasn't like a weird Mike 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.520 Pence one. Did I dream that? Wait? Wait, I think 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.560 there is. I think the Mike pens one though, sounded 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.879 a lot like people. Oh it did, Yeah, we can 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.440 check it. When would that have been? It was episode 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:08.000 just as MP fans and military police. Oh interesting how 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:09.760 it could mean both? It could be where they were 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.720 a press play. Now I have been working for the 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.200 military police more quite some time. I'm sorry, my throat hurts. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.240 I need a a cold, papa. Yeah, that's a little 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.160 bit about yourself. Okay. Great. Um, I'm a comedy writer. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.600 I knew that. Okay, great, you're on top of it. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.520 You're writing on the show now, are you guys talking 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.640 about it? Yeah? I was writing for Animaniacs recently, and 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.399 now I'm writing for show called Grand Crew that's on NBC. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.119 It's come out in January. When you're writing for the 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.760 show like Animaniacs and those characters have been around for 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.080 a long time, Yeah, do they give you a little 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.240 bit of attitude when you write something for them and 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.639 they just don't want to do it? Yeah? So their 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.639 their cartoons, so they don't really give you much attitude 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.960 since they're not people. Um, I mean is that supposed 0:18:59.960 --> 0:19:02.720 to mean? Yeah, I guess that was fucked up. Just 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.760 because you hear someone's voice you don't necessarily see their face, 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.280 doesn't mean they're not And I wasn't meaning to insult 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:14.040 you as a radio person, for sure. All those people 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.440 are are people, and you know those voice act their 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.760 voice actors is the thing. And you know, so I 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.760 didn't mean in any offense to you. I think people 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.880 who work in radio are really talented and and and 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.119 you know, it's justesting this happens to be something entirely 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.280 different from what you do. So you write jokes cartoons. Yeah, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.560 you're working on a new show, Yes, a live action 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.480 show called Grand Crew, and it's been a blast. It's 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.680 you know, about friends hanging out at a wine bar. Uh, 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.359 it's very cool. Are you a wine guy? Am I 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.679 allowed to flip the interview a little bit. I think 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.040 that's some wine. And what I think, you know, back 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:52.960 in the day when we first started doing this show, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.040 which was back in what you was that the Topeak 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.120 a year, I used to drink a yeah, and then 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.320 I mean, if you want to hear excipt from that episode, 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.520 you can see you could just tell, yeah, welcome to 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:15.400 episode of This is America's Live. I mean, I'm sorry, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.800 I mean you can tell the difference. Yeah, you sound. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.879 I mean that was like clearly in Toxic is a 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.760 Big Year. No doubt was lasting through heart, No doubt 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.520 it was. But you were also on the show another recently. Yeah, 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:33.560 I did a little cameo on hacks total total blasts made. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.760 They made a makeshift casino in downtown l A really 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:42.200 fun Yeah, you get started in comedy comedy. I actually 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.600 I started as an assistant video editor for true crime television. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.159 That was a racket, and so I did that for 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.240 a while and then was what was writing comedy on 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.600 the side, and transitioned out of it by just um 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.280 quitting and then freelancing. You mean, by writing comedy on 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.200 the side that you were writing jokes in the side, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.640 writing sketches, you know how, and dditing background so right, 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.159 and direct sketches and then cut them myself and that 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.920 kind of wrote little articles for places like Protectress and 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.919 stuff like that, and putting my sketches out online, and 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.720 then started applying to more comedy things. Um, it was 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:15.720 a lot of fun. Do you always make a funny 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.520 type put up? No? Um? I mean I wanted to be, 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.080 but you know, I wasn't like class clown type of person. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.520 I was a pretty academic person. I went to biomedical 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.400 research camp when I was fifteen. That's the only overnight 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.920 camp I've been to, so pretty academic. And then only 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.480 in college did I decided to go into film and 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:40.160 TV production. Does most child memory. I remember going mini 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.320 golfing with my cousin and there's a bug on his 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:46.919 back and I don't know why didn't just flick it 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.439 off or whatever. I was little and I was like, 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:49.960 there's a bug on your back. And he freaked out 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.320 and he's like, get off, get it off. And I 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.120 was like, okay, here's the way I think you think 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.600 of to do that. And I took my mini golf 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.240