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Speaker 1: Are you leaving?

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Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?

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Speaker 3: Either way, we want to be there, doesn't matter how

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Speaker 3: much baggage you claim and give us time and a

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Speaker 3: terminol and gay.

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Speaker 2: We want to send you off in style.

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Speaker 1: Do you wanna welcome you back home?

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Speaker 2: Tell us all about it?

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Speaker 1: We scared her? Was it fine?

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Speaker 3: Malborn?

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Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?

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Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?

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Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?

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Speaker 4: Do you need to ride?

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Speaker 2: Ride with Karen and Chris? Welcome to Do you need

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Speaker 2: a ride? This is Chris Fairbanks.

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Speaker 1: And this is Karen Kilgaroff.

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Speaker 2: Karen, I you almost did that hilarious thing. I love

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Speaker 2: when comedians do it where I introduced myself, except I

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Speaker 2: my name. It's not fun when comics do that.

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Speaker 3: It is so hilarious, and it it really kicks you off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it let people know, yeah, that they're entering some

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Speaker 2: backwards world.

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Speaker 3: Get ready open your mind, because this is what this is.

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Speaker 2: I'm kidding, of course, I don't like that. I also

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Speaker 2: don't like when someone's doing a selfie video and then

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Speaker 2: they turn and go, oh, hello, I didn't see you there.

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Speaker 2: That's still very popular.

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Speaker 1: And you and you say no, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I and I say it, no, I don't see

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Speaker 2: you there, And I slam my computer shut and and

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Speaker 2: shoot loose papers off of my desk. Nice that I

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Speaker 2: only keep stacked on the desk for that purpose.

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Speaker 1: For a station. Yeah, in your inbox.

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Speaker 2: Ye, yeah, No one's even watching. Yeah, it's like that's

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Speaker 2: Stephen J. Connell opening to eighties shows.

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Speaker 1: Yes, when it goes fly.

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Speaker 3: And then it reel paper typewriter paper to flying cartoon paper.

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Speaker 2: Into a logo. And I'm going to say, that's not

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Speaker 2: the first time I've referenced that.

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Speaker 1: No, you love that.

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Speaker 2: I'm all out of and we're gonna our guest today.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to believe the story that I told

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Speaker 2: on his podcast. I'll give you one guess what it

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Speaker 3: Was it about feline aids for God, God, damn it.

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Speaker 2: That's what I did on Eugene's podcast. I talked about

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Speaker 2: that damn cat. The episode even is called this Darn Cat.

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Speaker 2: He knew preemptively that I would overtell that story for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we love it.

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Speaker 2: We've got them all set up we're doing it over zoom.

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Speaker 2: Back then, when I did his podcast, we had to

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Speaker 2: recruit a local recording station in Missoula, Montana. There was

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Speaker 2: like all these people involved. It was very professional. But

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Speaker 2: that's we didn't want to do that to Eugene today,

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Speaker 2: so we kept it very unprofessional.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the great professionals of our time.

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Speaker 2: I know. That's why I thought I'd mix it up

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Speaker 2: for him, remind him what it used to be like before.

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Speaker 2: He was a consummate professional.

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Speaker 3: He plays clubs and colleges in this great country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you watch Bob's Burgers, you will recognize his

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Speaker 3: Yes, for our guest today, it is, in fact Eugene Merman.

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Speaker 2: Hello, he did he said it. You promised to say

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Speaker 4: Yes. I thought it was the right thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not lie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah, follow your gut, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: And let them know that I'm here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real.

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Speaker 1: How are you, Eugene doing okay?

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Speaker 4: Doing okay?

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Speaker 2: So when you you and your parents fled, I assume

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's great.

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Speaker 2: Are you how about you? Are you good at math?

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Speaker 2: It's your dad funny because I always thought it's maybe

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Speaker 4: I think of, like, you know, comedy is figuring out

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, those don't intimidate me like numbers do.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I am good at a form of numberless math.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, called comedy. Comedy trial and error, like science, You

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Speaker 4: get on stage, you try stuff. Yeah that's not as

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Speaker 2: You edits by adding or subtracting words.

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Speaker 4: I loved stand up as a kid, like listening to

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Speaker 4: everyone like works with computers. There's all sorts of things,

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Speaker 3: Yes, as opposed to if you were carolines at ten

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, I'm someone that I started in Austin and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I met you, you had a following, grassroots

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you very very much.

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Speaker 4: I'm I am uh me and my friend Julie Smith

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like and he I feed him and I pat

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Speaker 4: Yes, that I experience occasionally, but yeah, it was it

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Speaker 2: So you haven't seen any of these you've been recording

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Speaker 3: And people are loving that movie, right, I see people

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Speaker 4: I think people are enjoying it. Well, we'll find it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I think it's I think it's very funny.

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Speaker 4: I think it's very sweet, you know. I feel like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's I'm a huge fan of the show,

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Speaker 3: they really are. Yeah, it's so good. When you said

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Speaker 1: Like, and Ye're getting get out there and eat it,

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Speaker 1: don't do it.

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00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 2: It's important to have that voice always in your head.

446
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 2: I know I have it. Yeah, I don't need it.

447
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's.

448
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: Even Sometimes the voice will say I wonder what it

449
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 2: would feel like to stop doing well right now and

450
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 2: consciously eat it, and then I do it, and then

451
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: I do it. It terrible. I forgot terrible.

452
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 4: I forgot that.

453
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: It always feels needed.

454
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: The reminder that sucks.

455
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 2: I will do it. My brain is a terrible thing

456
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: that I can't control. Yeah. The Belhouse is synonymous with

457
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 2: your name. Actually I know nothing of it except you

458
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 2: at a show there.

459
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. We did our festival there and then A showed

460
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 4: Union Hall for a long time. Yeah, it's a wonderful

461
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 4: relief on venue, and I think, like now, like there's

462
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 4: lots of shows, people have recorded specials there, and you know,

463
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 4: it's a great space.

464
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 2: Yep, I forget about all them. That's Merman's House. And

465
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 2: it's one of those dad movies or movies that my

466
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: dad made me watch over and over. No, I loved it. Fletch,

467
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: the first Fletch and like Catty Shack. But you're do

468
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 2: you know much about this Fletch that's coming out or

469
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 2: when it comes out?

470
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 4: I mean in the sense that I'm in it.

471
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

472
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 4: So I's like I don't know the details of like

473
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 4: when it comes out or anything, but I know that

474
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 4: I filmed it last summer, and I know that it's

475
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 4: coming out and that you know, it'll be funny, and

476
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 4: I think it'll be. Yeah, I'm very excited to see it.

477
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 2: Are you a character that was maybe based on one

478
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 2: from the original movie?

479
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 4: I don't know. No, I don't, I don't. It's not

480
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 4: I think that the tone of it is much more

481
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 4: like the tone of the novels as I understand that

482
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 4: from the seventies, So it's not a remake of the movies.

483
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 4: It's like actually like an adaptation of the original books.

484
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: I'm always someone, yeah, that either doesn't know or forgets

485
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 2: about the existence of books and how they brought me.

486
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 4: I think a lot of books, and I believe it

487
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 4: is based on the book Confess Fletch.

488
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 2: I am going to go ahead and admit that I

489
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: didn't know there was a series of Fletch books. Yeah,

490
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 2: that's just.

491
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I found out when I was doing them.

492
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 4: I don't think like a lot of people are finding

493
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 4: out right now that in the seventies there was a

494
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 4: series of Fletchboesah.

495
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think anyone like read them in high school.

496
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to be well. Although I have to say,

497
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 3: Fletch was a movie that came out right when I

498
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 3: think I was twelve when it came out or so,

499
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 3: so it was one of those movies that we had

500
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 3: memorized and said the lines to each other constantly or whatever.

501
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: And I do remember seeing that in the credits it

502
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 3: was like based on the book by the author I

503
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 3: can't remember, Okay. So that's the only reason I knew

504
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 3: is because I just loved that every frame of that movie.

505
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: I think it's great. And also it's starring John Hamm right.

506
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 2: Yeahs, yes, it is a comedy. He is funny in

507
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: it though.

508
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yes, it's not a gritty reboot.

509
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 4: It's like the New Batman. It's like it's just it's

510
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 4: just him, Like every scene he just murders someone. Yeah,

511
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 4: in self defense. No, it's it's like a it's a

512
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 4: it's a I mean it's yeah, it's it's very funny.

513
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 4: It's directed by the Greg who did Super Bad, so

514
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 4: it's this very funny Yeah.

515
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to see that. Was it really fun

516
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 2: to be in that movie?

517
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 4: It was really fun, you know, I like, uh, you know,

518
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 4: I haven't done a ton of movies, and that was

519
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 4: sort of it. And it was really fun and they

520
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 4: were really nice and it was fun on set.

521
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 2: And yeah, you're gonna dust off your mirror suit.

522
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 4: Yes exactly, I'll have to.

523
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 2: Yes, ready for another carpet. Get used to it.

524
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 4: Yes, the new me.

525
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 3: Uh you get really big lips and lip injection.

526
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will.

527
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 4: I will get like butt implants and shoulder spikes or

528
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 4: whatever people do. I'll figure it out.

529
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: Give the shoulder spike implants.

530
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 4: I'll consult with the you know, the sty in the

531
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 4: Boston area.

532
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 2: There was the Velvet Room, the place I started at

533
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 2: in Austin. Next door was a burger place called Casino

534
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: El Camino, and a lot of the employees there were

535
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 2: from the Jim Rose circus side show thing, and there

536
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 2: was a guy there with it. It was the first

537
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: time I'd seen implants under like, I guess these little

538
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 2: horns yes, yeah, yeah, embedded, I guess, screwed into the

539
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: bone of his skull. Yeah, And I couldn't. The skin

540
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: was stretched over it like tot and I'm like, I,

541
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: if you ever bump your horns getting out of your car,

542
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: what is it? Horrified me just because I kept thinking

543
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 2: of the accidents or bumping them that tight skin. I mean,

544
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: this is a very clinical, disgusting thing for me to

545
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: talk about. But I was obsessed with how dangerous it

546
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 2: seems to have spiky implants. So do not get them

547
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 2: in your shoulders. I will joke, yeah.

548
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 4: If you do. I didn't mean like I guess, yeah,

549
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 4: I guess. It sounded like I was going to do

550
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 4: surgical implants, right.

551
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: I assume you go through surgery and then get it

552
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: all removed the day after the premiere. Yeah, the butt

553
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: implants and everything, yeahs.

554
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 4: Over yeah, I'm not going to do that. I think

555
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 4: I saw that guy there because I've seen that in

556
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 4: my life around twice, and I feel like it's either there, Yeah,

557
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 4: because I remember that place.

558
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: I wonder if that's you know, like people get their

559
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 3: tattoos removed after a while. I wonder if, like you

560
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: get two horns implanted in your head and then like

561
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: thirteen years later, you're kind of like, I don't know

562
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: if I'm really this person anymore.

563
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 4: Probably right around the same time you're passing the bar.

564
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're so.

565
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: You're a talented lawyer.

566
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 4: You're like a very good lawyer. You just at twenty

567
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 4: were like, I'm a scary little monster in the Yeah. Yeah.

568
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: Why is he always wearing a fedora to court?

569
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly to hide his horse or a very large wig,

570
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: like a top.

571
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 4: Like one of those British Yeah exactly, British barristers.

572
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: It's just upon bringing his own powdered wig to court.

573
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: Hey, look, I want to do this the right way,

574
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: he says, hiding his horn.

575
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: I really want there to be a modern day lawyer that,

576
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: without explaining it to people, just wears a wig like that.

577
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: I want it to be true. Just for you know, geez, yeah,

578
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 2: just for litigation, just for for a hit and run accident.

579
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: Anything powdered wig. You know what, I'm going to start

580
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 2: wearing one, do it?

581
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think I came.

582
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 2: Here for support.

583
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: Wait for winter, though, because there it will warm you

584
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 3: up really good. I think summers summer's not great.

585
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 2: Well that's the purpose of the powder. Sure you're sweaty

586
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: and disgusting under that wig, but the powder keeps you

587
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: fresh because it's medicated.

588
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

589
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: Wait, can we go back to Fletch for one?

590
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do let's get out of this whole wig thing.

591
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 4: I'm sorry were back in so Yeah, it's funny. Yeah,

592
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 4: so Greg Mantola directed it, who did super Bad, And

593
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 4: it's a very funny and Ham as great as Fletch.

594
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 3: Did you ever do any like did anything ever happen

595
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: on set? Like did you forget your lines?

596
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: Or wait?

597
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: Did you have to shoot?

598
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 4: So originally I was worried that I would have to

599
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 4: do a Boston accent, and but I had like as written,

600
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 4: there were only like two lines or so, and I

601
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 4: was like, do I have to do that? Because it's

602
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 4: originally I think was cast as that because really John

603
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 4: Hammond and Greg had asked me if I wanted to

604
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: do like they were like, here's the world, do you

605
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 4: want to do this? We're shooting in Boston, and it

606
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 4: sounded fun and so I agreed. And then when I

607
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 4: saw it, I was like, Oh, I wonder if I

608
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 4: have to do this Boston accent for these two lines

609
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 4: out there. No, I'm a security guard.

610
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: I would assume if any jo.

611
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 4: I think they had enough. So like when I got there,

612
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 4: they were like, we have plenty of people who are

613
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 4: local who have an actual Boston accent, so you don't

614
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: have to like pretend, which is great because it's like

615
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 4: one thing to try to get like one or two lines,

616
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 4: but to improvise in an accent that I don't really

617
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 4: do would be its own level of effort.

618
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: Which is funny because you're actually from Massachusetts.

619
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's not like I can't probably say a

620
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 4: word or two, but like to have a conversation is different.

621
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 4: So it's like a lot of improv and it was

622
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 4: it was pretty fun. I haven't seen it yet, but

623
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: but I've but somebody I saw somebody last week who

624
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 4: said they saw it that it was funny, and yeah,

625
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 4: so I'm excited to see it.

626
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 2: I am so too. Have you guys seen not to

627
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: change the subject to something that involves none of us

628
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: but the new kids in the hall.

629
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 4: No, I really want to see it.

630
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 2: It is. I texted your Karen today, like you didn't

631
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: have better things to do? Hey, one pm, watch all

632
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: of kids in the hall and be sure to just

633
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: be in your underpants like me. They really went for it.

634
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: I'll just say that I was so and I thought

635
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: maybe they wouldn't get away with certain things. But it's

636
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: so well done and they are so good that it is.

637
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 2: I highly recommend it. It's great.

638
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 4: No.

639
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: I watched it with the second that I heard that

640
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 3: it was on, and I was just like, this can't

641
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 3: be real.

642
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: And then I just binge the entire thing. I was thrilled.

643
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 2: They are funnier than ever. And I don't know what

644
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: if they've been practicing with acting, they're so good.

645
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: Well they've all been a didn't Yeah, I think so?

646
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 2: Yeah?

647
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've all stayed in practice.

648
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, kept it warm.

649
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I can't wait to watch it.

650
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: I hosted some music festival and I do want to

651
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: ask you about that, Eugene, because I know you've opened

652
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: for a lot of bands, but uh, one of the

653
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: we went to Calgary. It was like a folk music

654
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: festival and you just had to talk in between these

655
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: acts as as they were setting up. It was actually

656
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 2: and no one was listening, but it was me and

657
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: another comic, Derek Sigin, I think. And then Kevin McDonald

658
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: was there, and he was so nervous. He acted like

659
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 2: he just had moved to Saskatchewan and gotten married and

660
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: he didn't do showbiz stuff anymore. That's why I was

661
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: so happy to see how funny he was. Because he's

662
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: so funny. I was worried that he would get on

663
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: stage and no one would know him. And the minute

664
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: he got on stage, the whole crowd freaked out. I

665
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: mean either yeah, and he's like, oh, what a relief,

666
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: And I'm like, are you kidding me? Yes, Yeah. He

667
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 2: was so humble and it's like he didn't even know.

668
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: I was just staring at him, so excited to have

669
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 2: met him. They were just really important to me in

670
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: the in the early nineties, watching them over and over

671
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 2: and over. Yeah.

672
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 3: So anyway, he actually was one of the people the

673
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: Odd Bloc festival that they used to do and I

674
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 3: believe Winnipeg. Yeah, and their first night, they had a

675
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 3: kind of like all the comics can go and hang

676
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 3: out in the lobby of the main theater that they

677
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 3: have it in, and he was there and I was

678
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 3: freaking out. It was like it might as well have

679
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 3: been fucking Rob lower At.

680
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: That's the only other slow you can think of.

681
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 2: But I like, yeah, I problem too.

682
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 3: Those are the two that matter to me most. But

683
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 3: I think I was with like Michelle Buteau or something,

684
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 3: or they're like, go say hi, and I'm like no, no, no, no,

685
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 3: Like I was acting so weird. But it was that

686
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 3: thing to me of like those guys were I loved

687
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 3: that show. And it was at this time where I'd

688
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 3: like flummed out of college. There was nothing going on.

689
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 3: I hadn't started stand up and yeah, it was it

690
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 3: truly was like the idea that he would think people

691
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 3: wouldn't recognize him in Canada is hilarious.

692
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and then they it was just to see

693
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand people on this outdoor this island. It was

694
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 2: the middle of the day. It was a terrible gig

695
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 2: and that's why he was nervous.

696
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was right to be like this is

697
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 4: a good thing. Right. The part where he was wrong

698
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 4: is that people adore him and he's very funny.

699
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 2: And the part where he's right, he's like, I'm supposed

700
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: to do stand up. I don't do that. Yeah.

701
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 4: I think like as I've done sort of things that

702
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 4: music stuff, I have shrunk like like now I'm like,

703
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 4: oh you like I think after the first time that

704
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 4: someone was like and you can go as they're setting

705
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 4: stuff up, and then it turns out like you can't.

706
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 4: You can't possibly perform as stuff is being set up,

707
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 4: so you have to say like, no, I can do

708
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 4: a set beforehand or after, but I can't do it during.

709
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: It's not it's just genuinely not possible, Like you can't

710
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 4: tell a joke and someone is like trust like trying

711
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 4: the sound of the symbol and then like of a

712
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 4: kick drum and then there's a guitar, Like it's not feasible.

713
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 4: But it takes having terrible experiences to go like, oh,

714
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 4: these are the things that I that you should and

715
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 4: they don't know. They're like, it'll be fun, yeah, and

716
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 4: the answer is it will not be fun.

717
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's always you're always tricked into it by because

718
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 2: that's this festival. There was of course a comedy tent

719
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 2: with twelve people sitting in the grass right then later

720
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 2: oh and then there's just this other thing where you

721
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: kill time as Roady's drape cable over your shoulder right.

722
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 4: Right, And I think you have to like now I

723
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 4: know that if someone asks the thing, I'm like, yeah,

724
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 4: I'll totally do like this version of it. But na,

725
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 4: like I'll do a set before a band, But there

726
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 4: can't be like someone tuning up instruments. And you also

727
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 4: can't do like a really a half hour like you

728
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 4: have to in a row, like it has to be,

729
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 4: you know, unless I guess it's like you're both like

730
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 4: draws or something like that, like if you're splitting the

731
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 4: bill as opposed to like opening for some huge band.

732
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 3: Do you have any do you have any nightmare stories

733
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 3: from doing gigs like that?

734
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what's funny is like it's all

735
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 4: it's like, well, no, it's like more like the stories

736
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 4: where it's like and it went shockingly well, is like

737
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 4: the part that like is in a sense amazing, Like

738
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 4: I certainly have, Like I did a tour in Florida

739
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 4: with Modest Mouse where I did maybe twelve shows, and

740
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 4: you could imagine that some like work very hard, but

741
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 4: the fun your part is almost like a few work great.

742
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 4: Like yeah, but it's true that there was one maybe

743
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 4: in Miami that was like it was like so hot

744
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 4: and people couldn't hear me, and there was a woman

745
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 4: in the front like I don't know, or a kid

746
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 4: like I forget, like somewhere between, probably like around eighteen

747
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 4: or twenty, and she was like kind of get my attention,

748
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 4: and like it was so distracting and everyone was yelling,

749
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 4: and then I was like and then finally it became

750
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 4: clear that like people didn't realize that there's like a schedule,

751
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 4: so like if I get off stage, it h the

752
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 4: band doesn't go on any faster. And then she also

753
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 4: tried to convey sort of basically and I I'm Randy

754
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 4: and philosophy of self interest that I was like, are

755
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 4: you describing on Rand She's like, I've never heard of her.

756
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 4: She's just I just like act in a self interested,

757
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 4: selfish way.

758
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 2: It's as while you were on stage, yes, it was.

759
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 4: Like this is what I mean. It was like people

760
00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 4: distracting you with complicated, tedious concepts. Oh, and the problem

761
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 4: is also like you can't even like make fun of

762
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 4: like it's not like like it's the whole thing. It

763
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 4: was just also just noise and chaos. But on the

764
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 4: other hand, there were shows in like I think it

765
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 4: was Saint Augustine that were really fun in Jacksonville were

766
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 4: really really great. One of the way that it all

767
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 4: sort of that like doing stuff with bands. I did

768
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 4: stuff with Gila Tango because they would have comics on

769
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 4: shows and stuff. But when I started working with this

770
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 4: agent who was wonderful and booked me on the Modest

771
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 4: Mouse Tour and then some other stuff. She when the

772
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 4: Shins were blowing up, so like I don't know, around

773
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 4: two thousand and two plus or minus, like they had

774
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: three shows at Bowery and she was like, do you

775
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 4: want to open for the Shins? And I was like, yes,

776
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 4: I would love to open for the Shins, and you know,

777
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 4: and then I learned like from that experience, like let

778
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 4: people know they'll be a comedian. Yeah, So like there's

779
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 4: two other bands, and then I think at eleven o'clock

780
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 4: or ten or whatever it was that when the Shins

781
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 4: were supposed to go on instead, I came out to

782
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 4: do ten minutes of stand up comedy and there's people going

783
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 4: like shin shin shit said. Then I'm like hello, and

784
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 4: I think I had like also some video because I

785
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 4: knew it could be hard, Like nobody really yells at

786
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 4: video because they know it can't stop. But there was

787
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 4: a point in which like I'm sort of trying to

788
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 4: talk or whatever, and then I made some joke of

789
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 4: how I can't believe I'm being heckled by people who

790
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 4: could get beat up by Belle and Sebastian, and then

791
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 4: that kind of like turned and everyone's like, oh, this

792
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 4: is let's give this person six minutes of our attention.

793
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 4: So then people were kind of nice. So it was

794
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: like but yeah, and then I did, you know, various shows,

795
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 4: and now since then have like done a lot of

796
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 4: music comedy things with friends, you know. But also it's

797
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 4: that's at a time where it's like if there's an

798
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 4: opportunity to like reach an audience and like have to

799
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 4: figure out how to make it work, you know, it's

800
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 4: totally worth that. So like, yeah, you know, that's like

801
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 4: if there's a way to like make two hundred dollars

802
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 4: in a night and pay your rent, and maybe it's

803
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 4: a little hard, you still you know, do it and

804
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 4: also reach people and probably you know, find fans in

805
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 4: the end.

806
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

807
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 3: I did that Yola Tango show one time. I really

808
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 3: love those guys. They're so nice and there's they had.

809
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 3: They have so many friends that are comics and stuff,

810
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 3: and I've felt so honored to do it. And at

811
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: one point I was finishing a joke and I was

812
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 3: so I was so shaky about like I just kind

813
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: of I'm sure it came out, but it's like I

814
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 3: didn't believe in myself as a stand up doing stand

815
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: up in New York City. I was like, I just

816
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 3: don't have the hard jokes to be doing this, and

817
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 3: I think it like showed. But there was one joke

818
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 3: that I was doing and it was about a taco

819
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: bell commercial and the punchline was like bitches ruined food

820
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 3: and the second the last word was out of my mouth.

821
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: This guy in the back goes and rock shows.

822
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 3: And then people kind of like booed the guy, which

823
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 3: then felt horrible because then it was like, oh, this

824
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: audience pities me. Like it's kind of thing where the

825
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: whole thing turned, and it is absolutely the thing I

826
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 3: think of because I'm so furious myself for not giving

827
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 3: it a beat and then going like, and this is

828
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 3: of course the comeback I've written hundreds of years later,

829
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:23,959
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.

830
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh, bitches ruined rock shows.

831
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 3: Let's not we better not tell Georgia the fucking drummer

832
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 3: of Yo Latango.

833
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: But instead I was just like, I can't remember what

834
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: I did. It was like, uh, this that's not the

835
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: spirit of Hanukkah whatever, and.

836
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: Then yeah.

837
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 4: Holidays, Yes, yeah, those shows were really fun. I mean

838
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 4: they're you know, they also like but but they were

839
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 4: also a thing where like people knew to expect a

840
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 4: surprise band and a surprise comic for those shows. So

841
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 4: it was, you know that that was It was really

842
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 4: when you'd be on a show and people are well

843
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 4: for the Shins, one was like, why is there? Why

844
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 4: is this person not the Shins? And then the Monastus shows,

845
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 4: I think I'd like, I was like, because nobody would

846
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 4: have known me, so I was like, please build me

847
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 4: as comedian Ugee Burbot just so people know it's comedy.

848
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 4: And then I think, similarly, I am seed that this

849
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 4: tour for Cake, the Unlimited Sunshine Tour with Cake, Teagan

850
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 4: and Sarah and Gogle Bordello and that I was like,

851
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 4: you know that. Also, like the opening set was great,

852
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 4: it was really easy, and then I could do a

853
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 4: sort of shorter set after the first band, and then

854
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 4: like when it was time for Cake, like cause I

855
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 4: think they were like and you'll do like a few minutes,

856
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 4: but then you would walk out and basically it was,

857
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 4: you know whatever, three thousand people chanting Cake and there's

858
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 4: no like version where you're like, hold on. I'd love

859
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 4: to tell you about a time at a mall that

860
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 4: was a little silly, like nobody wants to hear it.

861
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 4: They're just like Cake, so like, but then you just

862
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 4: once you do it, like with bands, you're just like,

863
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 4: here's what will work. I'm happy to do that. If

864
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 4: like you want a different thing, like it doesn't it's

865
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 4: not a good idea.

866
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, like for sure it's proven out.

867
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 4: And you don't want me to do forty five minutes,

868
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 4: Like you don't want forty five minutes, you want like

869
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Yeah maybe Brodags.

870
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll never forget watching Tool asked David Cross to

871
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 3: open for them and were this was like in it

872
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 3: was in southern California, but it was outside of La somewhere,

873
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 3: I want to say, it was in either Ventura or something,

874
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 3: and we all drove out to watch it because we're like,

875
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:38,280
Speaker 3: oh yeah.

876
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: We'll get you know, Tool tickets or whatever.

877
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 3: And then David's performing and he literally got introduced. He

878
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 3: walked on stage and everyone just started throwing bottles and

879
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 3: bottle caps and shit at him.

880
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 1: Oh no, and he didn't.

881
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 3: He got to the microphone, he tried to fight against

882
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 3: it for like thirty seconds and then they just left.

883
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: It's like Tools, audience doesn't want fi fucking comedy, and

884
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: it's Maynard Keenan who was like, I love comedy, they'll

885
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 3: love comedy.

886
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: It's like it does not work that way at all.

887
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 4: Yes, I think it's like depending like I did a

888
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 4: tour with Andrew Byrd and his audience was incredible. They

889
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 4: are like the lovely NPR people, and I did. I

890
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 4: think that show was actually probably like half hour opening sets,

891
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 4: like you know, but it was like, you know, a

892
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 4: very pleasant show in theaters for you know, a lovely audience. Yeah,

893
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 4: but Tool sounds impossible, yes, so like yeah.

894
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 2: But you know what was just as bad. And I

895
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 2: was too new green and new to stand up to

896
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 2: have done well, but because it was a half hour

897
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 2: in front of Selene or Cindy Laupper, so I always

898
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 2: want to call her Celine Dion. But they threw stuff

899
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 2: and yelled get off stage too, and it was Cydey Lauper,

900
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: and the woman that asked me to do it got

901
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: fired because of how badly I did. It was the worst.

902
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 2: I cried afterwards. I had trouble getting paid. I was fired,

903
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 2: yeah right there.

904
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 4: And how long? How much time were you supposed to do?

905
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 2: This was like two thousand and five and it was

906
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: in Houston, Texas at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Way and

907
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 2: the girl, I think she worked for Verizon, and she

908
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I know a comedian that could open

909
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: for Chris or for Cindy And I was just not

910
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: ready and there was no announcement. They people cheered when

911
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 2: I walked out, thinking it was going to be Cindy

912
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: Lauper and it was just a guy and they had

913
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: just immediately were booing. But I was like, I gotta

914
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 2: do my thirty minutes of what was then like wordplay

915
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: and puns now it and someone peeked down and I

916
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 2: was fired and I never got my free meal. Everything

917
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 2: was bad, and they were.

918
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 4: Right to the Verizon Center.

919
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 2: Well I thought it was going to be they said yeah,

920
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: and there's a whole tour after that. And my friend

921
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: Tommy was a regular opener for Share and he had

922
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: bought a house from that gig. Granted he was also

923
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 2: a family friendly like magician. He had a lot of

924
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 2: plan bees to go to other than jokes, right.

925
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, I once had very early in whatever I

926
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 4: think in the early two thousands, I was almost with

927
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 4: some agency and they booked some room in Vegas. So

928
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 4: I went to like La to like to like meet

929
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 4: with them and maybe come back and meet like have

930
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 4: another meeting or whatever. And they were like, you could

931
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 4: go and do this, you know, off the beaten path

932
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 4: Vegas room where you would I think just do ten

933
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 4: minute sets or something like something not and I like,

934
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 4: I was supposed to do eight shows. I think in

935
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 4: the first night I did too, and it was just

936
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 4: such a mismatch where it was like also it was

937
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 4: like an audience of people like on ventilators and or

938
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 4: like respirator not ventilators anyway, like oxygen machines and very

939
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 4: like elderly and this was you know what it was.

940
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 4: This was actually after nine to eleven because the guy

941
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 4: who headlined killed with like it was something like forty

942
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 4: five minutes of stuff about bush Gore. But it felt

943
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 4: like it was it was like November ish or Actroum

944
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 4: November after nine to eleven. So it was this weird

945
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 4: thing where like the world had changed and it was

946
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 4: like I get doing topical stuff, but it was like

947
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 4: not exactly topical, but to that audience it was quite topical.

948
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 4: And I remember saying something about the Internet, you know,

949
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 4: because this is what two thousand and one, and then

950
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 4: I like meaning the Internet, like like it was like offhanded,

951
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 4: like I signed up for something on the Internet, and

952
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 4: I could see in the eyes of the audience that

953
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 4: they like they didn't use the Internet, Like it was

954
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 4: not like I was like it was like I brought

955
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 4: up the telephone before most households had a telephone.

956
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you're on a ventilator thing, you yeah,

957
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 2: I really know you're going to the Internet.

958
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 4: But it was like I was like, oh, I can't.

959
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 4: I don't have like I thought, like this is broad

960
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 4: stuff that will relate and then I forget like the

961
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 4: poor ms like so the MC trying to help me,

962
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 4: like like he was genuinely trying to help me. And

963
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 4: he was like, do you have any fart jokes or

964
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 4: anything about being Jewish? And I was like I had

965
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 4: like one thing, like I didn't, but I tried what

966
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 4: I and it was like this is not a good match.

967
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 4: And then the the place was like, you know what,

968
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,959
Speaker 4: you can stay at the hotel the next three days,

969
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 4: but why don't you do none of the shows? And

970
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 4: I was like, this is great, this is a great deal.

971
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 4: I do not need this six more times.

972
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got treated much better than I was. Just

973
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 2: locked out of the Verizon Wireless Amphi theater. Yeah, pushed

974
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: out by a rody guy.

975
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: Don't come back.

976
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 4: Well.

977
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 3: You know that's funny is that the early days or

978
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 3: the old days of the Largo when it on Fairfax,

979
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 3: they used to always try to have comedy openers for

980
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 3: music nights, and I would do it all the time

981
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 3: because I like that was the level that I was

982
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 3: at of kind of like hosting and MCing and stuff.

983
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 3: They music audiences at that time did not want It's

984
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 3: like they got trained into accepting comedy going with music,

985
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 3: but in the beginning it they didn't like it, and

986
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 3: it is a totally different vibe, yeah, than any kind

987
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 3: of a comedy audience, Like when they're there to get

988
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 3: sung to and you know, like see their favorite musician

989
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 3: in an intimate setting. They don't want to hear anything

990
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 3: out of my mouth for sure, And it'd just be

991
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 3: like I would totally do it for the money and

992
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 3: the dinner that you would get. I'd be like, I

993
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 3: don't care, fine, I have to pay my attend you

994
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 3: played a spaghetti Yeah.

995
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 4: Yeah. But also like as it happened more and more often,

996
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 4: people like like meaning I now do it with musicians

997
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,399
Speaker 4: where like it seems like it could be a fun

998
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 4: match or it would go well, or it's like someone

999
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 4: I like and we're kind of doing it together, you know, totally.

1000
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 4: But it's yes, it's true that like if no, like yeah,

1001
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 4: if it's like a raucous crowd who don't really know

1002
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 4: there's gonna be comedy, it is not. It is a

1003
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 4: little uphill.

1004
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,439
Speaker 1: It's not great.

1005
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 3: Also, if you I think, if you're going out in

1006
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 3: front of a crowd like that, you have to know

1007
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 3: you have like the killer material that's going to land

1008
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 3: kind of no matter what. And I was on a

1009
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 3: comic that would always be like I'm gonna try this thing.

1010
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 3: It's like, no, dummy, no, get the get all of

1011
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 3: your closers and put them all together, you know.

1012
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 4: Right right front you like, yeah, fifteen minutes of closer

1013
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 4: basically help yourself.

1014
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, and that is jokes.

1015
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you, if you, if Yeah. Now now I

1016
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 4: can show them so many bobs episodes like enjoy this far.

1017
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 4: Here's another fart coming at you, oldie.

1018
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: One of the great historical farts of all time.

1019
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 4: Exactly. Yeah. Now you know, two decades later, I have

1020
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 4: the fart jokes I needed.

1021
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it just is not well, yeah, you gotta

1022
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 2: craft them that some some of those fart jokes just

1023
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 2: need time to be molded.

1024
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: Eugene, do you still do your podcast?

1025
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 4: No? I did it for I mean it was really

1026
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: like audible hit, like was like do you want to

1027
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 4: do this thing? And they had basically all all these

1028
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 4: stories that they that they had recorded, and so I

1029
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 4: would talk to the person and they would so so

1030
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 4: it was it was really really fun. But I think

1031
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 4: that they were like we're now doing like I think

1032
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 4: they moved to do like larger long form sort of

1033
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 4: like almost like radio plays and stuff, and so I

1034
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 4: forget how many years ago that stopped. But I really

1035
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 4: enjoyed it, and I would totally do a podcast like

1036
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 4: I love like I did like college radio, you know

1037
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 4: in college, and I love radio. So podcast is very like,

1038
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 4: you know, it's really fun. So would totally do something

1039
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 4: like that again. But don't do it right.

1040
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 2: I forgot. That's how I because we didn't know each

1041
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: other very well, and that is how I was. They

1042
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 2: had it recorded from me.

1043
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 4: They already had it, yes, yeah, they had recordings, and

1044
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 4: so I would talk to you know, interview the people,

1045
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 4: and we would pause it and like go like wait,

1046
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 4: like tell me a little more about that.

1047
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 2: It's just so funny because they set me up to

1048
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 2: record in Missoula, and the place I recorded was a

1049
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 2: place where they teach kids how to play guitar, and

1050
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 2: then they had a little recording area so little kids

1051
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 2: could So I was just in a little room with

1052
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 2: little kid guitars. It's just in Yeah, it was. It

1053
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 2: was really an interesting experience. It was pre zoom, you know.

1054
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you have anything else you want to plug?

1055
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 3: Bob's Burger's movie.

1056
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, The Bob's Burgers movie is coming out I don't

1057
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 4: know when this comes out, but the Bob's Murgers movie

1058
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 4: comes out on May twenty seventh, so either go to

1059
00:53:55,360 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 4: it or go right when you hear this. Yeah, there

1060
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 4: can go the evening after or if it's September, go

1061
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 4: rent it, rent it.

1062
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 2: No, you're fishing for a day that this will come out,

1063
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,879
Speaker 2: but we we just go, oh no, I.

1064
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 4: See this comes out. This comes out six twenty seven.

1065
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 4: So so so I've done a perfect job promoting. So

1066
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 4: I hope you saw Bob's Burgers, the mono Fletch. Go

1067
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 4: see Fletch. If that's been an ass so that's check

1068
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 4: that out.

1069
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 2: I'm very excited, Yes, both excited.

1070
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well awesome. Thank you so much for doing

1071
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: this one.

1072
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. This was really fun.

1073
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 4: Thank you guys.

1074
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 2: Well, Eugene, you look good with that beard. I've been

1075
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: meaning to say, thank you, thank you. I know that's

1076
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: a visual reference, not good for podcasting, but that's a

1077
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 2: nice beard.

1078
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1079
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 3: Ejeene has a beard. It's really it goes down to

1080
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 3: his belt.

1081
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 4: And yeah it's yes, I'm working my way into his

1082
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 4: eazy top.

1083
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 2: Yes, he has a guitar that spins from a belt buckle, yeah, exactly.

1084
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: And he's got legs and he knows how to use them.

1085
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop now, I'm going to stop with

1086
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 2: this easy top.

1087
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 1: Rep stop and wrap it up.

1088
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah it. Thank you for being on e Jene you've

1089
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 2: been listening to Do You Need a Ride?

1090
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 4: D y n a R.

1091
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 2: This has been an exactly right production.

1092
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: Produced by Casey O'Brien.

1093
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 2: Mixed by John Bradley.

1094
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks.

1095
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 2: Theme song by Karen Kilgareff.

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Speaker 3: Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at dinar

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Speaker 3: podcast That's d y n ar Podcast.

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Speaker 2: For more information, go to exactly Rightmedia dot com. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Oh You're welcome.