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Speaker 1: with feedback on our debut bonus segment we did with
Speaker 1: Christy Todd Whitman. This week, we're doing what we call
Speaker 1: an after pod with Matt Walsh from the hit show Vat.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of questions that didn't make it
Speaker 1: into our episode, So are you ready, Let's dig in. Matt,
Speaker 1: tell me about your first job. My first job, I
Speaker 1: was cook at a retirement community and I got fired.
Speaker 1: I was a dishwasher. Excuse me, I was a dishwashing
Speaker 1: Why did you get fired? I was super slow and
Speaker 1: I was super messy. They were like puddles and food
Speaker 1: everywhere on the floor, and they're like, they just stopped
Speaker 1: putting me on the schedule. As a kid, What did
Speaker 1: you want to be when you grew up? I think
Speaker 1: fire men or uh or a squirrel. I used to
Speaker 1: love squirrels. I want to be a squirrel. I could
Speaker 1: see that they're kind of like rats with tails. Though really,
Speaker 1: when it comes down, tremendous agility. Though to see the
Speaker 1: tree hopping they can do as a kid, that's true
Speaker 1: impressive sort of superheroes can see that. They're sort of
Speaker 1: like rodent superheroes. What role or job has brought you
Speaker 1: the most joy? Oh my gosh, Well, let's say V
Speaker 1: because it's current and it's the most recent that comes
Speaker 1: to mind, and what motivates you as an actor and
Speaker 1: as a comedian funny, it's got to be funny, and
Speaker 1: also the ability to collaborate or provide input to the material.
Speaker 1: What about your day to day life would people be
Speaker 1: surprised to learn? Uh? Then, I you never shower, Brian,
Speaker 1: You're sitting next to Matt. I mean, is that a
Speaker 1: hide from I'm fully tattooed from wrist to ankle. No, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Surprise. I am annoyed that I still
Speaker 1: have to drive my kids to school every morning for
Speaker 1: like fifty minutes. Bad father. Yeah, they'd be surprised to
Speaker 1: learn you're a bad father. I'm sure that's not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm a good father. But that's the one thing about parenting, Like, really,
Speaker 1: do we really have to drive them again today, don't
Speaker 1: they have a school bus. There's no school bus in
Speaker 1: this K through six school and we haven't. We've got
Speaker 1: to get people who live by us so we can
Speaker 1: do the car pool. Definitely the pool and yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I need to change it. So I still have things
Speaker 1: in my life that I haven't perfected. That's the revelation
Speaker 1: of that. What was your big break? Big break? I
Speaker 1: guess you see be getting a TV show, a sketch
Speaker 1: show on Comedy Central. Who do you most admire in
Speaker 1: comedy and do you have comedy mentors? I mean I
Speaker 1: have the childhood people I grew up watching from you know,
Speaker 1: the Marx Brothers to Peter Sellers and then too Python
Speaker 1: and kids in the Hall and early s and now
Speaker 1: those would be like the people. And then as far
Speaker 1: as a mentor, I don't know that I have an
Speaker 1: active mentor in the comedy world. What do you watch
Speaker 1: these days, Matt? Is there anything that you're loving? What
Speaker 1: you know? What? I I saw The Keepers, which is
Speaker 1: a dark documentary about some priest who probably murdered this
Speaker 1: nun in the seventies in Maryland. That was like the
Speaker 1: last thing I watched with my wife, And then I
Speaker 1: know I tend to watch more dramatic stuff and medians
Speaker 1: are very dark, depressive people. Right, Well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to watch comedy necessarily, and then we have three kids,
Speaker 1: so I end up watching a lot of younger movies.
Speaker 1: Whatever we saw. We took them to see Wonder Woman
Speaker 1: the other day. That was a blast. They did well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: TV wise, I actually did House of Cards again, so
Speaker 1: I'm up to date on that. And oh the Killing
Speaker 1: I just went back to that, see that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched some of that. Yes, yes, pretty great. You
Speaker 1: know what, I just started watching A Handmade's Tale and
Speaker 1: it is it is so disturbing, and I watched it
Speaker 1: before I went to bed, and I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a good idea. I think of my daughter told me
Speaker 1: she thought it was amazing. So I started watching it.
Speaker 1: And it's very dystopian. I mean that word was really
Speaker 1: made for that, that book and now that series. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very very scary. Yeah, I've heard that. You know,
Speaker 1: the other series that kind of like Veep seems like
Speaker 1: a parody, but probably isn't That I love is Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley also on the HBO, an amazing show, and you
Speaker 1: know I lived up there. For seven years. I will
Speaker 1: just tell people it is very much true to life.
Speaker 1: It is not an exaggeration in the least. If anything,
Speaker 1: they underplay things. Well, this has been around the dial
Speaker 1: with Katie, Matt and Bryan. What are you listening to?
Speaker 1: What's the last album you bought? What's on your iPod?
Speaker 1: Remember that was a big question for a while. What's
Speaker 1: on your shuffle? Yeah? Anyway, the best advice you've ever heard,
Speaker 1: I think my mom and dad sort of communicated, just
Speaker 1: do something you love because whatever you're gonna do, whatever
Speaker 1: you do, you're gonna have to work hard at it.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me about the first time you got
Speaker 1: on stage and did improv and what that was like.
Speaker 1: The most memorable moment was I did a scene that
Speaker 1: lasted three minutes and it succeeded, and I was amazed
Speaker 1: that neither one of us on stage I knew what
Speaker 1: the scene was going to be about, and yet we
Speaker 1: kept the ball in the air for three minutes without
Speaker 1: a plan and entertained a room of ten people. And
Speaker 1: it was a small room, but it was mind blowing
Speaker 1: to me. And what did end up being about. I
Speaker 1: think we were two farmers competing over livestock or something
Speaker 1: like nothing I had life experience about. But it was
Speaker 1: a magical because there was no preconceived plan and yet
Speaker 1: it worked out. That was what really bit me about
Speaker 1: that moment is it must be stressful to do improv
Speaker 1: if you ever had to complet eat an utter brain
Speaker 1: fart and just not known where to go. Yes, many
Speaker 1: times wants the show. You wait for someone else to
Speaker 1: take the lead, or you just start, or you just
Speaker 1: start behaving in the moment until you find a way
Speaker 1: to talk about it, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: improv isn't necessarily you have to be witty every moment.
Speaker 1: You can also just act and behave, behave as if
Speaker 1: or invest in the things you do know and steer
Speaker 1: clear of like I need some elements on the periodic
Speaker 1: table now, So, Matt, one of our listeners, Adam and Missouri,
Speaker 1: sent us a question for you. You know, YouTube and
Speaker 1: technology have really changed the entertainment industry, and so in
Speaker 1: what ways has making it in comedy changed since you
Speaker 1: started out? Good question. Um. My advice to that person
Speaker 1: is because YouTube or Instagram or vines can help you
Speaker 1: find when not vines on a good one. But I
Speaker 1: would a the basics are still the same, like do
Speaker 1: do it every night of the week, um, be nice
Speaker 1: to people, and then also learn how to shoot at
Speaker 1: it and write, like all those skills will serve you
Speaker 1: to make your own material. It's basically the same formula,
Speaker 1: which is like do it yourself. Don't wait for somebody
Speaker 1: else to give you the keys to an opportunity, try
Speaker 1: to make your own stuff. If you didn't go into comedy,
Speaker 1: do you what do you think you might be doing
Speaker 1: today other than being a fireman or squirrel. I was
Speaker 1: on the road to being a psychologist, not a psychiatrist.
Speaker 1: Psychologist you didn't want to prescribe drugs. I wasn't smart
Speaker 1: enough to sit through med school lectures or do another
Speaker 1: six years of school, so I was I could see
Speaker 1: a world. We're a parallel world where I ended up
Speaker 1: being into in psychology of some kind, like a therapist.
Speaker 1: And finally, what happens when you just don't feel that
Speaker 1: funny and you have to go to work and you
Speaker 1: have to bring it, but you're kind of grouchy and
Speaker 1: you're just not feeling it. You just commit to the
Speaker 1: reality and you serve the other people you're in the
Speaker 1: scene with You don't have to be the funniest, just
Speaker 1: say the words that are on the page. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it for the Afterpod with Matt Walsh a k A. Veeps,
Speaker 1: Mike McClintock. Tell us what you thought. You can leave
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