1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,119 Speaker 1: And we're back. That's right, it's time for another bonus episode. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do do. 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's sort of like the Gong Show. 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: But anyway, thanks to everyone who called and wrote in 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: with feedback on our debut bonus segment we did with 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Christy Todd Whitman. This week, we're doing what we call 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: an after pod with Matt Walsh from the hit show Vat. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: We got a lot of questions that didn't make it 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: into our episode, So are you ready, Let's dig in. Matt, 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: tell me about your first job. My first job, I 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: was cook at a retirement community and I got fired. 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: I was a dishwasher. Excuse me, I was a dishwashing 14 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Why did you get fired? I was super slow and 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: I was super messy. They were like puddles and food 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: everywhere on the floor, and they're like, they just stopped 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: putting me on the schedule. As a kid, What did 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: you want to be when you grew up? I think 19 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: fire men or uh or a squirrel. I used to 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: love squirrels. I want to be a squirrel. I could 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: see that they're kind of like rats with tails. Though really, 22 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: when it comes down, tremendous agility. Though to see the 23 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: tree hopping they can do as a kid, that's true 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: impressive sort of superheroes can see that. They're sort of 25 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: like rodent superheroes. What role or job has brought you 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: the most joy? Oh my gosh, Well, let's say V 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: because it's current and it's the most recent that comes 28 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: to mind, and what motivates you as an actor and 29 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: as a comedian funny, it's got to be funny, and 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: also the ability to collaborate or provide input to the material. 31 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: What about your day to day life would people be 32 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: surprised to learn? Uh? Then, I you never shower, Brian, 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: You're sitting next to Matt. I mean, is that a 34 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: hide from I'm fully tattooed from wrist to ankle. No, Uh, 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. Surprise. I am annoyed that I still 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: have to drive my kids to school every morning for 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: like fifty minutes. Bad father. Yeah, they'd be surprised to 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: learn you're a bad father. I'm sure that's not sure. 39 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: I'm a good father. But that's the one thing about parenting, Like, really, 40 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: do we really have to drive them again today, don't 41 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: they have a school bus. There's no school bus in 42 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: this K through six school and we haven't. We've got 43 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: to get people who live by us so we can 44 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,839 Speaker 1: do the car pool. Definitely the pool and yeah, sure, 45 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: I need to change it. So I still have things 46 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: in my life that I haven't perfected. That's the revelation 47 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: of that. What was your big break? Big break? I 48 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: guess you see be getting a TV show, a sketch 49 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: show on Comedy Central. Who do you most admire in 50 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: comedy and do you have comedy mentors? I mean I 51 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: have the childhood people I grew up watching from you know, 52 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: the Marx Brothers to Peter Sellers and then too Python 53 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: and kids in the Hall and early s and now 54 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: those would be like the people. And then as far 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: as a mentor, I don't know that I have an 56 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: active mentor in the comedy world. What do you watch 57 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: these days, Matt? Is there anything that you're loving? What 58 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: you know? What? I I saw The Keepers, which is 59 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: a dark documentary about some priest who probably murdered this 60 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: nun in the seventies in Maryland. That was like the 61 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: last thing I watched with my wife, And then I 62 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: know I tend to watch more dramatic stuff and medians 63 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: are very dark, depressive people. Right, Well, I don't want 64 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: to watch comedy necessarily, and then we have three kids, 65 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: so I end up watching a lot of younger movies. 66 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: Whatever we saw. We took them to see Wonder Woman 67 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: the other day. That was a blast. They did well. Yeah, 68 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: TV wise, I actually did House of Cards again, so 69 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm up to date on that. And oh the Killing 70 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: I just went back to that, see that one. Yeah, 71 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: I watched some of that. Yes, yes, pretty great. You 72 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: know what, I just started watching A Handmade's Tale and 73 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: it is it is so disturbing, and I watched it 74 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: before I went to bed, and I don't think that's 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: a good idea. I think of my daughter told me 76 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: she thought it was amazing. So I started watching it. 77 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: And it's very dystopian. I mean that word was really 78 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: made for that, that book and now that series. You know, 79 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: it's very very scary. Yeah, I've heard that. You know, 80 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: the other series that kind of like Veep seems like 81 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: a parody, but probably isn't That I love is Silicon 82 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: Valley also on the HBO, an amazing show, and you 83 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: know I lived up there. For seven years. I will 84 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: just tell people it is very much true to life. 85 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: It is not an exaggeration in the least. If anything, 86 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: they underplay things. Well, this has been around the dial 87 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: with Katie, Matt and Bryan. What are you listening to? 88 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: What's the last album you bought? What's on your iPod? 89 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: Remember that was a big question for a while. What's 90 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: on your shuffle? Yeah? Anyway, the best advice you've ever heard, 91 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: I think my mom and dad sort of communicated, just 92 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: do something you love because whatever you're gonna do, whatever 93 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: you do, you're gonna have to work hard at it. 94 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: Can you tell me about the first time you got 95 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: on stage and did improv and what that was like. 96 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: The most memorable moment was I did a scene that 97 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: lasted three minutes and it succeeded, and I was amazed 98 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: that neither one of us on stage I knew what 99 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: the scene was going to be about, and yet we 100 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: kept the ball in the air for three minutes without 101 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: a plan and entertained a room of ten people. And 102 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: it was a small room, but it was mind blowing 103 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: to me. And what did end up being about. I 104 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: think we were two farmers competing over livestock or something 105 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: like nothing I had life experience about. But it was 106 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: a magical because there was no preconceived plan and yet 107 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: it worked out. That was what really bit me about 108 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: that moment is it must be stressful to do improv 109 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: if you ever had to complet eat an utter brain 110 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: fart and just not known where to go. Yes, many 111 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: times wants the show. You wait for someone else to 112 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: take the lead, or you just start, or you just 113 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: start behaving in the moment until you find a way 114 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: to talk about it, you know what I mean? Like 115 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,679 Speaker 1: improv isn't necessarily you have to be witty every moment. 116 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: You can also just act and behave, behave as if 117 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: or invest in the things you do know and steer 118 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: clear of like I need some elements on the periodic 119 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: table now, So, Matt, one of our listeners, Adam and Missouri, 120 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: sent us a question for you. You know, YouTube and 121 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: technology have really changed the entertainment industry, and so in 122 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: what ways has making it in comedy changed since you 123 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: started out? Good question. Um. My advice to that person 124 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: is because YouTube or Instagram or vines can help you 125 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: find when not vines on a good one. But I 126 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: would a the basics are still the same, like do 127 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: do it every night of the week, um, be nice 128 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: to people, and then also learn how to shoot at 129 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: it and write, like all those skills will serve you 130 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: to make your own material. It's basically the same formula, 131 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: which is like do it yourself. Don't wait for somebody 132 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: else to give you the keys to an opportunity, try 133 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: to make your own stuff. If you didn't go into comedy, 134 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: do you what do you think you might be doing 135 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: today other than being a fireman or squirrel. I was 136 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: on the road to being a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. 137 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: Psychologist you didn't want to prescribe drugs. I wasn't smart 138 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: enough to sit through med school lectures or do another 139 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: six years of school, so I was I could see 140 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: a world. We're a parallel world where I ended up 141 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: being into in psychology of some kind, like a therapist. 142 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: And finally, what happens when you just don't feel that 143 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: funny and you have to go to work and you 144 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: have to bring it, but you're kind of grouchy and 145 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: you're just not feeling it. You just commit to the 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: reality and you serve the other people you're in the 147 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: scene with You don't have to be the funniest, just 148 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: say the words that are on the page. All right, 149 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: that's it for the Afterpod with Matt Walsh a k A. Veeps, 150 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: Mike McClintock. Tell us what you thought. 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