Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home? Either way, we want
Speaker 2: to be there.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 3: time and a terminol and gay.
Speaker 2: We want to send you off inside. We wanna welcome
Speaker 2: you back home.
Speaker 3: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 2: We scared? Or was it fine? Malborn?
Speaker 4: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do your need need to ride?
Speaker 1: To ride with Karen and Chris? Welcome to do you
Speaker 1: need to ride?
Speaker 2: This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgariff.
Speaker 1: Hello, my friend Karen. How have you been doing?
Speaker 2: Hello, my friend Chris. I've been doing good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been doing Today has been a day of podcasting,
Speaker 5: no brag. So I have been sitting here in front
Speaker 5: of my zoom for what feels like eleven hours.
Speaker 1: Well, I had a similar day.
Speaker 3: I skateboarded in the morning and then took a long.
Speaker 2: Nap almost exactly the same day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And so you know, busy, busy, busy, You
Speaker 3: gotta stay busy.
Speaker 2: Come on, always stay busy.
Speaker 3: Our guest today, I don't want to say his name
Speaker 3: right now because this is not his introduction.
Speaker 2: You just we're gonna do pre talking about him.
Speaker 1: But yes, he's got a name.
Speaker 3: I want to ask a linguist where his name ranks
Speaker 3: as far as beauty A lot of you know, you
Speaker 3: always hear that elbow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the most beautiful word.
Speaker 2: Have you heard that elbow? Cellar door is the what
Speaker 2: do you call it? Haunted Rabbit movie?
Speaker 1: They say it, Yeah, is it? Cellar door?
Speaker 2: Cellar door?
Speaker 1: That one?
Speaker 3: I get more elbow. It's like anyone can say elbow.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're on novacane. You can like limp
Speaker 3: lip that one.
Speaker 2: Elbow might be the ugliest and most horrible. I agree.
Speaker 3: I like strong consonants. I've always liked the word like corrugated.
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite ones. That's great, it's a
Speaker 3: it's about that wavy piece of paper in cardboard.
Speaker 5: Sure, there's also I like the word pithy. It does
Speaker 5: a bunch of stuff and make sound smart, but it's short.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a linguist isn't factoring in whether or not
Speaker 3: these words make you sound smart.
Speaker 1: Any dumb dumb can say elbow.
Speaker 3: But our guest name today has When we say it,
Speaker 3: do notice that it is a beautiful name, and I
Speaker 3: specifically like the way it comes off my tongue. I
Speaker 3: have not said the name, No, not yet. That's but
Speaker 3: when I do, take note.
Speaker 5: That was not a false intro, as they might believe.
Speaker 5: We are still doing something. I would like to say
Speaker 5: this along with that very melodic and beautiful name. I
Speaker 5: enjoy this person's comedy so much, and I've missed it
Speaker 5: over the quarantine and over the years because I haven't
Speaker 5: seen him since I believe, like some Washington DC festival
Speaker 5: that now feels like it was in two thousand and one,
Speaker 5: but I don't think it was that long ago.
Speaker 2: But he was truly one of.
Speaker 5: My favorite people to end up at a show at
Speaker 5: and go, oh, yeah, he's here too, because then I'm
Speaker 5: going to see something I really like.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's why I haven't seen him since the
Speaker 3: now closed satellite. Oh rip pour one out in peace
Speaker 3: that building shell rest.
Speaker 5: Please please don't don't wander the Earth satellite as a
Speaker 5: ghost filled with sins, because you don't deserve it.
Speaker 3: A lot of these businesses got shut down over quarantine,
Speaker 3: and they're just wandering around in purgatory.
Speaker 5: Ghost businesses all over Silver Lake, ruining people's days.
Speaker 3: And the sad thing is they think they're still in business.
Speaker 3: They're just confused.
Speaker 5: They're like, can I see your ID? You're like, you're
Speaker 5: not a business anymore. I don't have to show you shit.
Speaker 5: They try to stamp your inner right wrist, No get
Speaker 5: away satellite.
Speaker 1: Where are all my employees? Oh?
Speaker 3: This is kind of sad to think about. Why do
Speaker 3: I get sad about inanimate objects having feelings?
Speaker 5: Because the satellite was a place where lots of great
Speaker 5: comedy happened. So I bet you you're housing a bunch
Speaker 5: of dead memories in that dead business.
Speaker 1: You want to know.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing about the Satellite, Karen, was in the
Speaker 3: back room there was a bar, and in that bar
Speaker 3: there was bartenders and they were under there.
Speaker 1: There was like a horseshoe shaped bar.
Speaker 3: Above them were satellite dishes yep, which served as these
Speaker 3: odd like acoustically depending on where you would stand.
Speaker 1: Like my friend was like, do you want to see
Speaker 1: something cool?
Speaker 3: And they were at the other end of the bar,
Speaker 3: standing under one of these satellite dishes, and they whispered
Speaker 3: some things and I could totally hear it. Yes, So
Speaker 3: you'd never want to talk poorly about any of those
Speaker 3: bartenders because it was going right to their ear holes.
Speaker 1: All the employees went down with that business.
Speaker 2: We've got to introduce them. Now it's taken to yours.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 1: But do notice how beautiful this name is when we
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, You've seen them at clubs and colleges
Speaker 5: all over the country.
Speaker 1: So many colleges.
Speaker 5: Truly one of the most innovative, interesting and hilarious comedians
Speaker 5: to date.
Speaker 2: Please welcome the legendary Ian Abramson.
Speaker 4: Whoo I am from my silent prison. Wow. Thank you?
Speaker 4: What a what an amazing intro that I really appreciate
Speaker 4: it of It's true. So what what is this thing?
Speaker 3: Just kidding?
Speaker 1: Do you like your name?
Speaker 3: Do you do you feel like you it's a it's
Speaker 3: got It's a name riddled with soft consonants. It's got
Speaker 3: a nice rhythm, a nice cadence, a nice vernacular, a
Speaker 3: nice rhythm.
Speaker 1: It's got a jazz like quality your name.
Speaker 4: I have never been told that, but if I'm being
Speaker 4: honest with you, from time to time, I have thought,
Speaker 4: I really like my name.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: It's a weird thing to say. Both of you, I'm
Speaker 4: sure can relate. You both have wonderful names that are
Speaker 4: not They're not like unheard of names, Karen Chris. You know,
Speaker 4: Ian is not like a made up name, but it
Speaker 4: feels very us something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like my first name on its own.
Speaker 3: I need my last name, my surname to sure.
Speaker 5: Yes, and you are the kind of person, Chris Fairbanks
Speaker 5: where I always say your first and last name, of course,
Speaker 5: Karen kilarrateful. Oh sorry, I was just gonna say I
Speaker 5: was always grateful for my name because of the double
Speaker 5: first consonance, right, which is kind of like as in
Speaker 5: grammar school, is like weirdly a jackpot for I don't
Speaker 5: know initials, reasons and stuff. And then also nothing. They
Speaker 5: couldn't rhyme my first name with anything mean, so I
Speaker 5: was yeah.
Speaker 2: I just no one could get me. Doesn't hurt.
Speaker 4: Wow, Hey, that's right, especially on the especially when you're
Speaker 4: in third grade. You know, yes, calling a third grader
Speaker 4: baron is not only not understood, but it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1: But you know, I could have hurt your feeling.
Speaker 3: I would have called you Flarin Karen, like you had
Speaker 3: some sort of a uh inflammation disease.
Speaker 2: And children's gap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice ankles.
Speaker 4: Gout and then there's children's gout.
Speaker 2: There's children's out, which is sadder, it's more condensed.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the feline aids of gout.
Speaker 4: I actually have adult on set children's gout.
Speaker 5: Oh please get your raise your ankles up above your head.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 4: I do every night.
Speaker 1: I'm an adult child of an old person with gout.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you?
Speaker 4: How? How were you made fun of as a kid,
Speaker 4: Chris Fairbanks?
Speaker 3: I think it was always Chris pissed, you know, urine
Speaker 3: piss was always mentioned, but then it became hacky, luckily
Speaker 3: because of garbage pail kids, and now it could think
Speaker 3: of a second one.
Speaker 1: It was pissed or nothing.
Speaker 4: Last name Fairbanks seems like it would get a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't take a stab at it.
Speaker 4: I don't recall any fair Banks, not in America.
Speaker 3: Oh right, I still get those what about yes people?
Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing that people will think?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I bet he's never heard this, the two words in
Speaker 3: his last name being addressed.
Speaker 2: Your own name? What about you? Ian?
Speaker 4: Oh? I got a lot of eon I in. Some
Speaker 4: kids would call me N, just the letter N.
Speaker 3: There was the kid at my Big Sky Bible camp
Speaker 3: that was acting real tough. He said he accepted the
Speaker 3: Lord into his heart in the back of the police car.
Speaker 3: I find that hard to believe. Oh, we were all ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 3: He seemed like he was like sixteen though oka but
Speaker 3: his name was Ian and I was just trying to
Speaker 3: make small talk and I said where are you from?
Speaker 3: And he said North Dakota? And I said are you
Speaker 3: in North Dakota? In which I thought was a cute
Speaker 3: little joke, And he punched me in the stomach. I
Speaker 3: was relaxed too. That's how hou DEMI does.
Speaker 4: That is how died.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this kid punched me in the stomach. He was
Speaker 3: not a fan of that joke, and I did not
Speaker 3: make a friend.
Speaker 5: Now, was that going forward your story of when you
Speaker 5: accepted Jesus Christ into your heart? Because that would have
Speaker 5: been a great moment to do.
Speaker 3: I was paranoid about it because at that Bible camp
Speaker 3: they said, if you've already done this and you do
Speaker 3: it again, if you if you asked the Lord into
Speaker 3: your heart again, which I still didn't understand physically.
Speaker 1: What I was doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's a sin. So it's like, maybe I've
Speaker 3: already done it. Uh, maybe I should play it safe
Speaker 3: and not throw the log in the fire.
Speaker 1: So I didn't do it. I don't.
Speaker 4: I never Oh what I don't understand the logic of
Speaker 4: that God's going to be upset? I am already in there.
Speaker 4: What do you mean you're inviting me in?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: If the sin is if you didn't mean it the
Speaker 3: first time? Who you already have a one way ticket
Speaker 3: to Hades?
Speaker 1: WHOA.
Speaker 5: So these clearly are a counselor and leaders at a
Speaker 5: Bible camp who themselves are red flag human beings. Yes,
Speaker 5: where they're like fuck fucking with children's minds about quote
Speaker 5: unquote the Lord.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's.
Speaker 1: It's a bad one. It was a bad one. Uh
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: There was some strange adults there and they made us
Speaker 3: think we were going to hell if we made a mistakes.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of talk about hell. Let more
Speaker 3: talk about hell than heaven. Fordic, Yeah, kill us.
Speaker 4: There's probably more people in hell than heaven though, to
Speaker 4: be fair.
Speaker 3: Right, first of all, all the people that jokingly say, oh,
Speaker 3: I'll end up in Hell anyway they're going.
Speaker 1: Then there's the people where it's a surprise.
Speaker 4: But in the same way, there are people that want
Speaker 4: to live in the city, like in New York, which
Speaker 4: is like Hell. And then there's people who want to
Speaker 4: live in the middle of nowhere and have some more freedom,
Speaker 4: and that's Heaven. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a small town with a cornfield, except
Speaker 1: its clouds. Right, yeah, yeah, I would.
Speaker 4: There's more of a nightlife. Everybody interesting is in Hell.
Speaker 2: Yes, the density, and there's all those dance clubs and stuff.
Speaker 2: There's a lot to do and see in Hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And in Heaven they're going to bed at eight pm.
Speaker 4: Right, whatever that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably comfortable. I will say that it's corn.
Speaker 1: Where is a cloud? We don't know? You never know?
Speaker 2: And what have you been doing lately? What about that
Speaker 2: for an interview question?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: The summary of my quarantine is because I assume that's
Speaker 4: kind of what you're really really getting out. What has
Speaker 4: the last year and a half been is? You can
Speaker 4: ask that to anybody and there's not a boring question.
Speaker 4: In ten years, we will all be tired of that question.
Speaker 4: But for now, nobody's made a sort of like nostalgic
Speaker 4: look back on quarantine. But once we start getting the
Speaker 4: mad Men version of quarantine will be like, okay, I
Speaker 4: get it in a yeah, right, but for now, I
Speaker 4: can tell you that I realized my brain was changing
Speaker 4: when I put on Silence of the Lambs at one
Speaker 4: am as a comfort. I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 4: what was going on. I was, but that's when I
Speaker 4: realized this is not normal. That's when I realized, like, oh,
Speaker 4: something's something shifted in my brain that I want to
Speaker 4: revisit the cinematic classic right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: Time kind of was just a has become and still
Speaker 3: seems to be a malleable concept that you can manipulate yourself.
Speaker 3: It's no longer a rigid rule system. If you want
Speaker 3: to watch a classic at one a m.
Speaker 1: Or three a m.
Speaker 3: A movie you've seen a million times, just to watch
Speaker 3: it in a different light, Yep, you can do that.
Speaker 1: It was it's kind of laborating.
Speaker 4: I have a new favorite movie of all time that
Speaker 4: I had seen a couple times before Quarantine, and now
Speaker 4: I've probably watched over one hundred times. That movie is
Speaker 4: Ocean's Twelve, not Ocean's eleven, not thirteen or eight. Ocean's
Speaker 4: twelve is my favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2: Now, can you name a specific plot point that it
Speaker 2: made the difference for it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I absolutely can. Julia Roberts plays tests George Clooney's
Speaker 4: wife as well as Julia Roberts, an incredible move. There's
Speaker 4: a scene in that when Julia Roberts is pretending Julia
Speaker 4: Roberts is playing Tess, who is pretending to be Julia
Speaker 4: Roberts to sneak into a museum.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I rewatched that. I wondered which one
Speaker 1: I watched recently? That was the last ye.
Speaker 4: There's an amazing scene where Bruce Willis happens to also
Speaker 4: be at this museum, and so then Julia Roberts is
Speaker 4: pretending to be starstruck because she's meeting Bruce Willis, Who's like, wait,
Speaker 4: is this Julia Roberts And it's so fun and.
Speaker 2: At that point does no one know who anyone is?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: At that point, is the audience and the cast equally confused?
Speaker 4: I will say it is a convoluted movie. I will
Speaker 4: say it is confusing. But I think a great sequel
Speaker 4: is like a first movie needs to be really tight
Speaker 4: and perfect, and the second movie can be a little messier,
Speaker 4: but it just gives you more of what you want.
Speaker 4: And that's that's my theory on sequels and Oceans twelve?
Speaker 4: Does it great?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Thank you Steven Soder.
Speaker 4: So I've been watching a lot of Ocean's twelve. I
Speaker 4: got really into making. I got into making things out
Speaker 4: of cardboard.
Speaker 1: Like miniature, like that neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Yes, my in my.
Speaker 4: Office, which is a walk in closet, I uh, which
Speaker 4: was another quarantine project. It was a storage closet. Then
Speaker 4: I was like, what if I made this an office
Speaker 4: and any of my friends. I've zoomed with friends and
Speaker 4: then when they've since come over and seen it, they've
Speaker 4: been like, this is much smaller than I realize, and
Speaker 4: they're a little worried about.
Speaker 1: Me that you're hanging out in a time.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried at all.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried, thank goodness, Thank goodness. But you haven't
Speaker 4: said I made I made Mount Rushmore puppets out of cardboard.
Speaker 4: It's just been it's just been a weird time, you know.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: I got into miniatures too, and I bought these kits, yeah,
Speaker 3: like the dollhouse kits. I love them, and I wonder
Speaker 3: if you love them, especially what you made. I always
Speaker 3: think of two things when I see these neighborhood miniatures.
Speaker 3: I think of the beginning of the Mister Rogers neighborhood
Speaker 3: like that, the little cars, the little it's the camera
Speaker 3: zooming down, but the opening, the long version of the
Speaker 3: HBO thing where you in the end it flies up
Speaker 3: and a chrome HBO logo is is like the Lord
Speaker 3: looking over this town. Being so religious today by the way,
Speaker 3: but those miniatures and the detail as it flies over,
Speaker 3: there isn't even enough time to see little cars with
Speaker 3: the headlights and there it's little houses and lights turning
Speaker 3: off it. I have been obsessed with miniatures since I
Speaker 3: was a kid, but there's this negative stigma for boys
Speaker 3: to play with dollhouses.
Speaker 1: And I'm here to change that.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's changing.
Speaker 5: Love It twenty twenty twenty one is the This is
Speaker 5: the positive out of the negative, which is everybody gets
Speaker 5: to do what they want and do what it takes
Speaker 5: to comfort them.
Speaker 2: If that's Hannibal Lecter at three.
Speaker 4: Am, exact, so be it exactly. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Discover yourself in that way, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A lot of these Lecter types wouldn't act out with
Speaker 3: violence if they were just supported with their hobbies and.
Speaker 5: Crafts and not judged so much about their cannibalism, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 5: Actually I was doing a lot of waking up in
Speaker 5: the middle of the night, and at first I would
Speaker 5: feel worried or like, oh no, it's three am, I'm awake,
Speaker 5: and then I'd be like, fine, I'll just go watch
Speaker 5: more TV. And I had this kind of like home
Speaker 5: when you're home alone and you get to do whatever
Speaker 5: you want, but you're like twelve, so you rarely all
Speaker 5: the rest of your life is so governed and you're
Speaker 5: so constantly bossed, especially because I was the youngest, so
Speaker 5: I was like if it was my parents, who was
Speaker 5: my sister? And suddenly I had this like I'm gonna
Speaker 5: fucking eat M and MS and watch TV at three am.
Speaker 5: Like it was just like anything I wanted I got
Speaker 5: to do. And there was a true joy in that
Speaker 5: feeling of like, yeah, I'm of course I'm scared. Everything
Speaker 5: bad is happening outside my door, but in here it's
Speaker 5: fucking TV. Eminem's time Cooly.
Speaker 4: I've never related to anything more. I haven't. I have
Speaker 4: tried to say that to others to explain my relationship
Speaker 4: with insomnia over the last year and a half, and
Speaker 4: you explained it so much better than I've been able to.
Speaker 2: It's like a birthday party then, only you're invited to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can put on you can put on whatever
Speaker 4: you want and it feels good.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, put on some football pants and cowboy boots
Speaker 3: and a Viking hat and dance and eat candy. There's
Speaker 3: no one around because you're alone. You're tragically alone and
Speaker 3: having fun with it exactly.
Speaker 4: Now. What I want you to picture is I want
Speaker 4: you to picture being in that exact mode and you
Speaker 4: haven't been able to see any of your friends for
Speaker 4: a long time, and then suddenly you're in the room
Speaker 4: with twelve of them. Welcome to Ocean's Twelve. My best friends,
Speaker 4: My best friends, over and over again. The stealing art,
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? Excellent?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's enough to just play Checkers with Brad Kid,
Speaker 3: but when you're high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a movie about a bunch of friends working together.
Speaker 4: Like it. Yeah, that's all I mean.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's hard to it's hard. Even they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I wonder when they're done rolling. If Andy Garcia and
Speaker 3: George Clooney ever share stories about making love to many
Speaker 3: many women or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, it's something they have in common.
Speaker 4: I want to hear him talk about miniatures. You know
Speaker 4: they must have opinions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, what have you discovered?
Speaker 5: We know, Andy Garcia that you can fuck anyone you want,
Speaker 5: But what about arts and crests? Give us some glitters?
Speaker 5: You know, what do you do with glitter when you're
Speaker 5: by yourself at three am?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to I usually put it on
Speaker 1: a woman's body. He has a yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he has an accent, yes, an accent that I yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's subtle. And he's a beguiling man. I've been
Speaker 3: in the same room as him. I'm not just talking
Speaker 3: about watching one of the Ocean's films.
Speaker 4: I cannot I'm seeing with jealousy right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, I've never heard an Andy Garcia.
Speaker 3: I interviewed him for a press junket for a movie
Speaker 3: called Smoking Aces.
Speaker 4: Can you do me a favor? And can you compare
Speaker 4: Smoking Aces to Ocean's twelve justet is.
Speaker 1: Not as good.
Speaker 3: It is a group of and you know, they probably
Speaker 3: had a fun time together when the cameras weren't rolling,
Speaker 3: But when the cameras started rolling, the magic stopped.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, this is not what I told Andy Garcia.
Speaker 3: But I did say my stepmom, who has since divorced
Speaker 3: my dad amicably, she was so in love with you,
Speaker 3: mister Garcia.
Speaker 4: She was.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was a long setup to ten minutes describing
Speaker 3: the relationship, and I'd say, she'd talk about you all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: She brings we wouldn't even be talking about movies.
Speaker 4: And then she just he was the reason that your
Speaker 4: dad got divorced.
Speaker 3: He was laughing so hot hard just at the bizarreness
Speaker 3: of bringing that up. He was like so sweet and
Speaker 3: he's like, oh my god, I feel responsible.
Speaker 1: Could they get back together? Or he was so great.
Speaker 1: He played along with my weird idea and it made
Speaker 1: me love.
Speaker 5: And then you said it at the very end of
Speaker 5: that interview, you said, do you see that what just
Speaker 5: happened to you?
Speaker 2: And I that's the energy you should have brought to
Speaker 2: smoking aces.
Speaker 1: See it was natural and it had a decent No,
Speaker 1: that's not your fault. There was a plot.
Speaker 2: There's a beginning of middle and an nn.
Speaker 5: So ian you've recently been married and you want a contest,
Speaker 5: Well you ex I have, yes.
Speaker 4: Wow, talk about it. I feel like I'm on comics
Speaker 4: at least right now. That was an incredible set up.
Speaker 1: I hear you like fish tanks.
Speaker 4: Wow, oh my goodness, talk about an amazing setup. You know,
Speaker 4: I did get married. I did win a contest.
Speaker 1: You're still married now, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I mean I got yes, I am. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not like your dad.
Speaker 3: The you hear that, Jim.
Speaker 4: That was an amicable joke. Okay.
Speaker 3: So the.
Speaker 4: I got engaged as quarantine seemed like it was starting
Speaker 4: to wrap up, which I guess was every single day
Speaker 4: of quarantine and still is. See it always seems like
Speaker 4: it's wrapping up. But it was the time when you
Speaker 4: could start kind of safely going out with a mask.
Speaker 4: You know, it is kind of how it felt. And
Speaker 4: my wife and I got engaged, and a month or
Speaker 4: two went by and we were planning a wedding for March,
Speaker 4: and then we get a very odd DM on Instagram saying, hey,
Speaker 4: your friend entered you into a contest. Do you want
Speaker 4: a free.
Speaker 1: Wedding, which I would think was spammed, and we did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, of course you assume that's spam. That sounds
Speaker 4: very spammy. But also you know what they say and
Speaker 4: show business, you take the meeting. So so my move
Speaker 4: was like, can we talk on the phone about this
Speaker 4: so that I at least could know if this was
Speaker 4: a real person. That was like the easiest way to
Speaker 4: cut through a lot of the BS to me. And
Speaker 4: we hopped on the phone and it seemed very real.
Speaker 4: The venue Lodge Room, Highland Park Venue, Gorgeous, Gorgeous Venue
Speaker 4: said they were kind of coming out of quarantine and
Speaker 4: they wanted to do like a big, fun promotional event
Speaker 4: and they often work with wedding vendors, so they will
Speaker 4: They would basically just like it would be kind of
Speaker 4: a big commercial for all of the vendors, the band,
Speaker 4: the people to make the cake, everything, They would handle
Speaker 4: it all and we and anybody would be welcomed. They
Speaker 4: sold tickets to our wedding and wait what yes, this
Speaker 4: is yes, this is what happened. They they sold tickets
Speaker 4: to our wedding. We had like an unlimited guest list.
Speaker 4: We can invite as many people as we could, but
Speaker 4: we had one week to do it. Oh shit, yes,
Speaker 4: so suddenly it was like a scramble and.
Speaker 3: Uh wait, when were you did you had you already
Speaker 3: picked a real a wedding day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're still going to do it in March.
Speaker 4: March fifth were getting hurd Okay, we're going to have
Speaker 4: a second month, second wedding. But we did get married
Speaker 4: at the lodge room over the summer.
Speaker 5: Where does your family basically generally hail from? And where
Speaker 5: does your now wife's family hail from?
Speaker 2: How hard was this? How Ocean's twelve was this to organize?
Speaker 4: It was exactly Ocean's twelve and that it was a
Speaker 4: complete mess and the best thing that's ever happened. The
Speaker 4: I grew up in the Inland Empire out by San
Speaker 4: Bernardino Riverside area.
Speaker 1: If that means anything Moreno valley. How do you know that?
Speaker 1: I I've been here a while since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: No, but did you know that I'm from Reno.
Speaker 2: He's from Reno Valley.
Speaker 4: That's where I really grew up. Nobody knows Marino Valley.
Speaker 4: That's why I thought you said that. Just then I
Speaker 4: thought you were like getting more specific.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I know that it's because I went
Speaker 3: to skate parks when I first moved here, and I
Speaker 3: would I would print out the map quest and a
Speaker 3: lot of the skate parks were all the way out there.
Speaker 1: So that's why I was in that area.
Speaker 5: To go.
Speaker 1: Now, there's plenty in town. But yes, that I am not.
Speaker 1: I am not gifted. I did not real that's wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of. It's like a an odd barren
Speaker 4: wasteland between San Diego and l a kind of If
Speaker 4: you've ever driven from La to Vegas, you've driven through
Speaker 4: the area called the Inland Empire, which right, Marino Valley
Speaker 4: is a smaller town in and Riverside and San Bernardino
Speaker 4: are just like more They're bigger and more well known.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I've spent I've spent time in all those places,
Speaker 3: and I know they're distinctive.
Speaker 5: Fritz's there's real, real good, real good math in Riverside. Yes,
Speaker 5: I had a crush on a drummer that was from
Speaker 5: Riversign was his name, Travis Barker.
Speaker 4: He's a drummer, isn't that theer?
Speaker 3: Is he a drummer?
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's my favorite drummer with a checkered flag on his name. Yeah,
Speaker 3: go on a boat and be naked.
Speaker 4: So my, but my mom now lives in rural Washington,
Speaker 4: so like right south of Canada, like an hour away
Speaker 4: from from Canada. And I guess can you get if
Speaker 4: you can guess I will do.
Speaker 1: Is it not Vancouver, Canada, but Vancouver, Washington.
Speaker 2: Oh no, but that Vancouver Washington's down by the Oregon border.
Speaker 1: Sorry damn it.
Speaker 4: But but a good a good guess in the same state.
Speaker 2: Certainly, sure, definitely for sure.
Speaker 4: So it was too short notice, and this is a yeah,
Speaker 4: the world's opening up again. Flight prices were like insane suddenly,
Speaker 4: they went from dirt cheap to insane, and to try
Speaker 4: to get that in a week just was not feasible.
Speaker 3: Right, my wife, that's the main reason you have to
Speaker 3: do another wedding, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, because yeah, we want to celebrate with our
Speaker 4: families and all that and people, you know, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: If a wedding is supposed to be one of the
Speaker 4: best days of your life, why limit yourself to one.
Speaker 4: Your dad knows what I'm talking about, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like, you know, I did Halloween
Speaker 3: three nights in a row. I think that's a perfect comparison.
Speaker 4: Right, perfect. So my wife's family mostly live in Buffalo
Speaker 4: at Buffalo, New York, and her mom was able to come,
Speaker 4: and her siblings mostly were LA based, so they were
Speaker 4: able to come. But I mean most most of the
Speaker 4: wedding party wasn't able to be there, you know, like
Speaker 4: they'll be there in March, but a week's notice is insane.
Speaker 3: It's great and so yeah, we're a lot of the
Speaker 3: people there. They otherwise would have been at a dance club.
Speaker 3: It was like a night out. Or were they kind
Speaker 3: of in on the joke, like they're like, we're going
Speaker 3: to a strange wedding.
Speaker 4: It was. It was absolutely both.
Speaker 1: It was see that sounds like fun. It was.
Speaker 4: There were hundreds of people having their first major party
Speaker 4: out of quarantine, and we got married on stage. There
Speaker 4: was a ten piece band that we never would have
Speaker 4: been able to afford. The cake was like a portrait,
Speaker 4: a cartoon portrait of us. They took this this what yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was all like it was vegan raw cake.
Speaker 4: That was one of the best things I've ever tasted.
Speaker 4: No lie, it was like it was unreal and we
Speaker 4: were just like our faces were these cartoon versions of
Speaker 4: us on the cake and we showed up and it
Speaker 4: was just there. When you have a week, you don't
Speaker 4: have time to like nitpick, I want the cake like this,
Speaker 4: I want the.
Speaker 2: Decorations like that.
Speaker 1: Did you have any input?
Speaker 4: I mean, they were so communicative, but with a week
Speaker 4: you have to just kind of like prioritize. As a groom,
Speaker 4: it's much easier too. You know, my wife was like,
Speaker 4: what do I do for a wedding dress? I thought
Speaker 4: I had months? And so she decided to lean into
Speaker 4: it and she made her own wedding dress. First started
Speaker 4: full of clothing she's ever made, and she she sewed
Speaker 4: it completely. And I felt like I was in the
Speaker 4: hit movie Ocean's Twelve when I came in and.
Speaker 1: I came in.
Speaker 4: And like it was it was like a biopic moment
Speaker 4: or something where she was just like, wait, I got it.
Speaker 4: I can turn the bra and the shoulder pads and
Speaker 4: it was amazing. It looked incredible that I love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this.
Speaker 5: This is almost like it's the perfect thing to go
Speaker 5: along with the craziness that we all felt in quarantine
Speaker 5: in you know, January sixth, all the realities that were
Speaker 5: like kind of denting all of our previous like this
Speaker 5: is the way things are supposed to be, which got
Speaker 5: that all got kind of swept away and in quarantine
Speaker 5: and in the pandemic, and then basically you guys came.
Speaker 2: Out on a wave of like.
Speaker 5: Wedding cake and it's so good.
Speaker 1: Other than the band, like what was the best part?
Speaker 4: The officiant was incredible. We had not I met the
Speaker 4: officiant that day. Shout out to Jason. He killed it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: He had asked us for some personal stories that he uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I do comedy. I know what good public
Speaker 4: speaking looks like. He was ten out of ten excellent, wow, funny, heartfelt.
Speaker 4: It was it was you. You lower your expectations a
Speaker 4: bit when you're having a wedding in the week, and
Speaker 4: he exceeded in them by so far. It was amazing.
Speaker 3: Do you think people there that didn't know him didn't
Speaker 3: know you guys? Do you think they cried?
Speaker 4: Yeah? They did. Absolutely. It felt like a like a
Speaker 4: like a rock concert. There was literally a band, there
Speaker 4: were fog machines and lights. It's an amazing music venue
Speaker 4: that was fully orchestrated for us. They made they named
Speaker 4: drinks after us. My wife plays the harp and so
Speaker 4: she had like the punk harpist or something like that.
Speaker 4: I had the studs circle and it was just like,
Speaker 4: this is amazing. It feels like a dream. Even saying
Speaker 4: this out loud to you, Honestly, that's.
Speaker 2: It's so cool.
Speaker 1: And when you have your boring wedding.
Speaker 4: That's that that's so funny. You say that because the
Speaker 4: people that say we were not the first people that
Speaker 4: they asked. By the way, part of the reason that
Speaker 4: we had a week is because so many other people
Speaker 4: were like, a wedding special, We don't want to be
Speaker 4: rushed into it, like just because it's free. And we
Speaker 4: were like, hell, yeah, all this is amazing. Yes, and
Speaker 4: so we you know, we we're planning uh March March
Speaker 4: fifth wedding. It's going to be big and weird and
Speaker 4: Death Valley and we're excited about it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: So you're doing it out in the desert. That's still cool. Yes,
Speaker 3: but it's the opposite of what you just did.
Speaker 5: You think you could loop could you loop Jason back
Speaker 5: in at least to associate.
Speaker 4: Yes, Chris Gethard is going to be officiating wedding. Oh
Speaker 4: wonderful man, great comedian and just that perfect He's that
Speaker 4: perfect mix of absurdity and sweet that we want for
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's someone you actually know, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're right right, yes, as opposed to Jason who
Speaker 4: happened to knock it out of the but could have
Speaker 4: totally beefed it.
Speaker 3: Yes, And did you know when they said you want
Speaker 3: a contest, did they tell you who submitted you or
Speaker 3: signed you up for it?
Speaker 1: And you knew who that was? And because that would
Speaker 1: bring me some comfort.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So our friend Suzanne a month or two before that,
Speaker 4: had a log room just posted like, hey, we want
Speaker 4: to give away a wedding. Do you guys know anybody
Speaker 4: that's engaged? And all Suzanne wrote was something like she
Speaker 4: tagged Resa my wife and was like, hey, this sounds interesting,
Speaker 4: don't you think?
Speaker 1: And that was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and one think about it again. Reesa didn't think
Speaker 4: about it again. The next time it was thought about
Speaker 4: was when we were on the phone with the lodge rooms.
Speaker 5: I think there's really something to be said though, as
Speaker 5: a person who has gone through a wedding and the
Speaker 5: planning of it and the stress of it and all
Speaker 5: the things that get built up around it, I can
Speaker 5: tell and you'll have this experience so you'll be able
Speaker 5: to compare yourself. But to me, this almost like hands
Speaker 5: off the wheel, like well there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 5: Is actually the solution to so much bullshit, Like the
Speaker 5: reason they're like full on Bridezilla TV shows. Because when
Speaker 5: that series started, I was like, this is unfair because
Speaker 5: it is not showing the background of why this woman
Speaker 5: has gone insane her I bet you her fiance is
Speaker 5: not fucking helping and doesn't actually give a shit, and
Speaker 5: she all her friends from high school like this is
Speaker 5: a get back and this is a I'm you know,
Speaker 5: it's finally my day.
Speaker 2: Whatever. There's a lot of like societal pressure.
Speaker 5: There's all kinds of ways this can go wrong, hundreds
Speaker 5: of ways, and you guys just basically you blocked it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and you didn't. You weren't screaming at each
Speaker 3: other about napkins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2: Just laughing your asses off and like so good.
Speaker 3: Oh that's I want to be. I want to have
Speaker 3: an Oh that's so great.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: Who was the person from Instagram or the lawge room
Speaker 5: or whoever that planned this, Like, do you know whose
Speaker 5: idea it was?
Speaker 2: Ultimately the owner?
Speaker 4: This guy at Dalton is like the kind of booker owner.
Speaker 4: I think he and his family run the venue and
Speaker 4: after I mean the way the process went, because even
Speaker 4: on a phone call, this feels so crazy that you
Speaker 4: still have to like, is this real? So the next
Speaker 4: day we go to the venue and meet him face
Speaker 4: to face and he's like, no, really, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 4: We'll take care of it all. And we're like all right,
Speaker 4: And at that point there is not enough time to
Speaker 4: question it. You just had like at that point, you're
Speaker 4: just going along with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, everybody go to the lawge room if you're
Speaker 2: in la around it.
Speaker 5: Support people with good ideas that bring people together in fun.
Speaker 5: Because if I had just been going to a bar
Speaker 5: with my friends that night and we happened into a
Speaker 5: basically an impromptu wedding, I think I would have been
Speaker 5: crying the whole time, especially it was right after Quarantine ended.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone loves a wedding that isn't there. Yes, so
Speaker 3: all those people were so excited and then you kind
Speaker 3: of had the element of being at a wedding.
Speaker 1: That isn't here. Except he totally, Oh, I forgot this
Speaker 1: is my wedding. He just mentioned me.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is such a good show, this is this
Speaker 3: is better dinner theater than David and Lusa.
Speaker 5: Wait, so you must have danced like that band played
Speaker 5: and everyone danced, So I.
Speaker 4: I have these friends, Yoshi and Jesus who came and
Speaker 4: they they're they're they're very into music, and they were
Speaker 4: they've never been a fan of The Killers, and the
Speaker 4: way they described the wedding was like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I was singing along to Mister Brightside with everybody else.
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was unreal. It was because also, these are like
Speaker 4: the best wedding band in LA, and people it entertainment.
Speaker 4: People rush to LA, so it's like, these are incredible
Speaker 4: musicians on every level. And again we it would have
Speaker 4: been so far out of our price range to get
Speaker 4: a fraction of that. They were just playing all the hits.
Speaker 4: I walked in on the rehearsal and they were like, okay,
Speaker 4: now let's do the nineties pop medley. And I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is what the night's gonna be. This is they
Speaker 4: They can go decade by decade and just play the hits.
Speaker 4: They know it all.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love it. That sounds so fun, like
Speaker 1: my heart is racing. I don't know I have to do.
Speaker 3: You could just describe a now and I get all
Speaker 3: nostaltic and just imagining it.
Speaker 4: One of the hardest parts about a wedding is the
Speaker 4: guest list too, because you you want as many people
Speaker 4: to come, but you're you have to pay for every
Speaker 4: single person, and so there comes a point where you're like,
Speaker 4: oh man, I don't know how to It gets hard
Speaker 4: to figure out who to invite. And this was a
Speaker 4: free for all. Everybody come out. I could literally post
Speaker 4: on Twitter if you want to come to my wedding,
Speaker 4: use this code. You know that that was all they
Speaker 4: had to do. So what that meant was people from
Speaker 4: all corners of my life, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like from from people that I knew as a toddler
Speaker 4: in high school, in college, I worked in summer camps.
Speaker 4: I went to Chicago to start being a comedian, Like truly,
Speaker 4: every walk of life. That must be what it's like
Speaker 4: to die. You look out and you're just you're just
Speaker 4: you're just like there's fog, machines, there's lights, and you're
Speaker 4: seeing a little bit of everybody, and it's like, well,
Speaker 4: have fun, goodbye.
Speaker 1: You mean hell not Heaven?
Speaker 4: Right, I don't know the difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is non secular, secular, don't know the different.
Speaker 2: This is a I love this story. It's so good.
Speaker 2: Who was the weirdest person that showed up that like,
Speaker 2: you got a couple of those.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I mean it's impossible to Uh my my
Speaker 4: wonderful ex girlfriend from from college showed up and it
Speaker 4: was like and she had messaged beforehand very sweetly and
Speaker 4: was like, hey, is this cool?
Speaker 1: And I was like, absolutely, this is.
Speaker 4: It was wonderful, and I mean that that felt amazing.
Speaker 4: You know, my my freshman year roommate was there, like
Speaker 4: it was. It was just wild. And because you know, I.
Speaker 3: Just say at my wedding, I want there to be
Speaker 3: an ex girlfriend's section. I think that that.
Speaker 2: Sounds crying and wearing all black and veils.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but and yeah, yeah, just kind of jealously morning
Speaker 3: or let's be honest, most of them would just be yay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's so rate.
Speaker 4: I love that she went because you know, my wife
Speaker 4: is a weirdo harpist. I'm a weirdo comedian. People showed
Speaker 4: up dressed like there was some woman painted completely blue.
Speaker 1: I do not know who that person is, so it
Speaker 1: was Rebecca Roman.
Speaker 4: I might know who they are, but they were painted blue,
Speaker 4: so I do not know who they were.
Speaker 5: That's what they were doing all quarantine long where they're like,
Speaker 5: you know, I don't have insomnia. What I like to
Speaker 5: do is body paint exactly.
Speaker 3: Was there like security and bouncers there in case things
Speaker 3: totally went backfired and there was like.
Speaker 4: There's a low oiled machine. You know, they're they're used
Speaker 4: to full on.
Speaker 3: I want to win a wedding. I don't even need
Speaker 3: to be getting married. I want to win this contest,
Speaker 3: lie and just show up stags.
Speaker 4: Well, guys, I got stood up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, we're still doing the thing.
Speaker 2: Let's stand rocket.
Speaker 1: The immortal words of Kevin Bacon. Oh that's so so exciting. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh did Gary Butty go?
Speaker 4: I got to meet him very briefly. I met him.
Speaker 4: This is my Andy Garcia story. I told him about
Speaker 4: your dad's divorce. I got I got to do. He
Speaker 4: did like a kind of fake court show, and I
Speaker 4: got to be the post interview person on the court show.
Speaker 3: Called Gary Bey colon pet Court. Yes, Jude, yeah this
Speaker 3: is judge.
Speaker 4: This one you did know before him. This is not
Speaker 4: like Marino.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, yes, yes, a little too weird. But it's
Speaker 1: on Amazon, yeah for sure. Yeah, Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 1: You're like the Doug Lou Allen. Yes, yes, yes, that's
Speaker 1: the name.
Speaker 4: Had a great time. Yeah, he was incredibly nice, but
Speaker 4: also those were very long days for him, so he
Speaker 4: understandably kind of was like hello, great to meet everybody.
Speaker 4: If I don't case myself, he's an older gentleman, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: take his own space and stuff.
Speaker 1: But he was.
Speaker 4: He was very nice.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 5: Well, and also as a he's like an icon, So
Speaker 5: I think those people other people don't understand how much
Speaker 5: they have to deal with as a person where it's like,
Speaker 5: no one's going to let Gary Busey pass them by
Speaker 5: without going no way and doing a thing, and after
Speaker 5: ten of those your Gary Busey's don't want to do
Speaker 5: it anymore, very very understandably, and they have to do.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't he win an Oscar for the Buddy Holly movie?
Speaker 1: He did? Or he was nominated?
Speaker 4: I know that? Should I check?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Check please?
Speaker 3: I think that that's because we all know him now
Speaker 3: as being like this kind of crazy character.
Speaker 5: But he was a.
Speaker 4: Nominated, did not win, but win the New Generation Award
Speaker 4: from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for the Buddy
Speaker 4: Holly Story.
Speaker 1: Yes, then the MTV Music Awards Best Best Kiss. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't Buddy Holly and his glasses best Kiss.
Speaker 3: There is that weird scene in that movie where he
Speaker 3: makes out with his glasses.
Speaker 2: It was I'm just the lens. It was innovative, innovative
Speaker 2: at the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, actually, you know what Ian I wanted to
Speaker 5: tell you is the first time and Chris, I think
Speaker 5: you and I did this show together. But the first
Speaker 5: time I did a Zoom comedy show, I could not
Speaker 5: stop thinking about your old show. Now I can't remember
Speaker 5: what the name of it was, seven Minutes in Purgatory.
Speaker 5: So Ian used to have the show where it was
Speaker 5: a comedy show, like the time I did it. It
Speaker 5: was at the DC Improv And so there's a full,
Speaker 5: like a sold out room of comedy audience that are there.
Speaker 2: You are in a side room.
Speaker 5: You cannot hear the audience and you don't know what
Speaker 5: they're doing, and you have to do your set to
Speaker 5: a camera.
Speaker 1: And that's every Zoom show. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Literally, you are a visionary and you thought of the
Speaker 5: thing seven years before it.
Speaker 1: Why did you do this to us?
Speaker 5: But I mean, didn't you think of that, Chris, where
Speaker 5: it's like you're just sitting there trying to make these jokes.
Speaker 5: There is no Eventually they got it so that you
Speaker 5: could hear laughter or people were trying to refine it.
Speaker 5: But in those early days, I was like, this is
Speaker 5: even Ian Aberson's bit. It's not fair that everyone else
Speaker 5: is stealing it from in.
Speaker 3: And yeah, there's still payoff later where you get to
Speaker 3: see that audience edited with you in a closet, like
Speaker 3: you just never know if you ate it or not,
Speaker 3: and you think about it for three days.
Speaker 1: It's in the same room with a bed that you
Speaker 1: just performed. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's on Comedy Central right, like someone could go
Speaker 3: to Comedycentral dot com.
Speaker 4: It was a digital series, yeah, yeah, all the episodes
Speaker 4: are on YouTube and yeah, for sure seven minutes in purgatory.
Speaker 3: Everyone will appreciate it more. It was very much ahead
Speaker 3: of its time. Yes, it was literally by total accident.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize how because when when we went to
Speaker 5: do it, I mean, first of all, it was when
Speaker 5: I was doing a music act. So I was so
Speaker 5: grateful because I'm like, oh great, I don't know, I
Speaker 5: just just standing there by myself, even doing it with
Speaker 5: another person, and just like we're just singing songs.
Speaker 2: It was like the shame and.
Speaker 5: Self loathing I felt literally seven seconds in. I was
Speaker 5: just like, I can't this is horrible, horrible.
Speaker 4: And you know what you're getting into. It wasn't like
Speaker 4: a It wasn't snuck up on you.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a surprise wedding right all, exactly at all.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean it never got normal for me, and
Speaker 4: I did it every single time.
Speaker 3: You know, you know what, I've made it even worse
Speaker 3: for you. If you dig your dog shock collar. Ian
Speaker 3: has this bit where he puts on and I've put
Speaker 3: on one of those. It was from the eighties, but
Speaker 3: there was two electrodes on it and you put it
Speaker 3: on your neck and me and my friends just took
Speaker 3: turns barking, and it hurt so bad that my friend
Speaker 3: never let his parents use it on his dogs again.
Speaker 3: It was like inhumanely painful. But Ian puts one on
Speaker 3: until and give someone in the audience a remote, right,
Speaker 3: and then just does a bunch of one liners and
Speaker 3: it's like, if you don't like one of the jokes,
Speaker 3: give me a shot. And the time we did it
Speaker 3: at the Satellite, that person was a little trigger happy,
Speaker 3: and I remember there's no way, either he's the most
Speaker 3: amazing actor ever, or it's on a low setting, or
Speaker 3: he's getting shocked and not. I just imagine being in
Speaker 3: that seven minutes and brigatory on that show and also
Speaker 3: getting shocked and you don't even know if you can't
Speaker 3: even see the audio.
Speaker 1: Made it worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it turns out handing the remote to a drunk
Speaker 4: audience member I often wouldn't go great. But I was
Speaker 4: part of the fun, right if you're being like.
Speaker 3: Hey, like you curly were you were getting shocked and
Speaker 3: it did hurt, right, Oh yeah, yeah, the pain.
Speaker 4: Would last for a second and like you like think
Speaker 4: of like getting shocked a little bit where it's just
Speaker 4: like one brief moment of like oh my god, and
Speaker 4: then it fades pretty quick. But I've for like anytime
Speaker 4: I would do it, for like the next two hours,
Speaker 4: I was so on edge. My body was acting like
Speaker 4: I've been electrified because I had been.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I know, with a lot of people, it's like a therapy.
Speaker 3: Even to this day, I have friends that have taken
Speaker 3: shock therapy.
Speaker 1: They still do it. They're just better at it now.
Speaker 3: Maybe, Yeah, but uh, I wonder if you had long
Speaker 3: I wonder if you're a better person for it.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying, well, you definitely, I think taught some people.
Speaker 5: It's like, imagine if you were on a date and
Speaker 5: your date was handed that remote and then you just
Speaker 5: watched as they shocked the fuck out of someone, where
Speaker 5: you're just like, anyway, it's great to meet you. Think
Speaker 5: that was such a good shot. Oh yeah, let's talk
Speaker 5: to you later, and then just fucking book it to
Speaker 5: your car. Truly run away.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's wild.
Speaker 2: Did you wait?
Speaker 5: Did you you do the joke and then they shock you?
Speaker 5: Or would they sometimes do it while you were speaking it?
Speaker 4: It was totally yeah. So the idea I would say
Speaker 4: is like, you know, I'm trying to train myself to
Speaker 4: be a better comedian. I thought, how did I train
Speaker 4: my dog? So I'm gonna wear his shot collar and
Speaker 4: I'll give you the remote. If you don't like a joke,
Speaker 4: shock me so that I learned not to do that joke,
Speaker 4: and they, without fail, they would do they It would
Speaker 4: it would almost always go like this. I would tell
Speaker 4: one joke and they wouldn't shock me, and the second
Speaker 4: joke would almost always get a shock because by that
Speaker 4: point they had to know if they could really shock me.
Speaker 4: And then during the setup of the third joke, they
Speaker 4: had to tell if I was faking it, and so
Speaker 4: they so they would like like be like, wait, does
Speaker 4: this really work? And then at that point it became
Speaker 4: are they a good person or a bad person?
Speaker 1: And it would go one right way.
Speaker 3: And did you ever do that bit where someone just
Speaker 3: non you couldn't even get through a joke because they
Speaker 3: were just shocking you the whole time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I like, you realize I'm literally being electrocuted,
Speaker 4: right and and like it was it wasn't on a
Speaker 4: it wasn't on like the highest setting and it's designed
Speaker 4: for dogs, but it did legitimately hurt.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, God, that's so.
Speaker 5: And so then while you're being hurt and trying to
Speaker 5: reason with this person, people are laughing harder and harder
Speaker 5: at the entire situation.
Speaker 3: It's such a good bit a stunt. It's it's like
Speaker 3: a physical stunt. I love your comedy anyway, yeah, but me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but bits like that where it's this, it's there's an
Speaker 3: intensity because you know something's gonna happen and you set
Speaker 3: it up ahead of time, and then on top of that,
Speaker 3: you're just doing stand up, and it's a great time
Speaker 3: to do all your throwaway one line or bits that
Speaker 3: you like that maybe usually get like a I have
Speaker 3: so many like exactly puns and everything that I've always
Speaker 3: loved and they get a grown it and I remember
Speaker 3: watching you do that, and I'm like, wow, what a
Speaker 3: perfect place to showcase all of your you know, your
Speaker 3: word children word children.
Speaker 5: It reminds me of like in coming up in San Francisco.
Speaker 5: Mostly there were and it was the early nineties, everyone
Speaker 5: was really trying to be quote unquote edgy, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. So, and most of the time that
Speaker 5: meant like hain and fucking John Wayne Gacy or you
Speaker 5: whatever like you you tried to shows, but I did
Speaker 5: it all the time where it's like, yeah, you won't
Speaker 5: believe I said that, but you're really putting your money
Speaker 5: where your mouth is in that way where just like
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be so edgy. There could have I could
Speaker 5: have a cardiac incident here. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you ever worry about that that it would
Speaker 3: all of a sudden affect your heart rate or something
Speaker 3: like have a heart attack because oh the setting stop
Speaker 3: doing it and then.
Speaker 2: You just show and then the laughter just build and build.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just laughing at your limp body.
Speaker 4: I mean it would affect me, like it really would
Speaker 4: affect me. I would feel a little more aggressive after
Speaker 4: for like two hours. I would have to be like,
Speaker 4: I need to chill out right now because it's like
Speaker 4: your body. Your body is like it was reacting like
Speaker 4: I was being attacked because it.
Speaker 2: Kind of was you were you were.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I love it. I love it such a
Speaker 1: great bit. I forgot about that very great.
Speaker 5: And what do you miss about the old comedy days,
Speaker 5: the old doing sets around town?
Speaker 1: That's a very specific and getting back at it at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely starting to. I've been the the the whole
Speaker 4: last quarantine obsession I'll talk about. This is how I've
Speaker 4: kind of filtered my creative energy. I got really obsessed
Speaker 4: with ex President Theodore Roosevelt, and I wrote ninety minutes
Speaker 4: of Theodore Roosevelt material, And now I'm getting to test
Speaker 4: that out around town. The one person on everybody's mind,
Speaker 4: the second most famous Roosevelt.
Speaker 5: Why did you write an hour and a half of
Speaker 5: Teddy Roosevelt material?
Speaker 4: The same reason Ocean twelve is my favorite movie, and
Speaker 4: I watched silence of the lambs at two am. There's
Speaker 4: there's just not answers, even though it kind of makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he I mean, he larger than life figure. He's he's
Speaker 4: literally on the Mount Rushmore of presidents, which is why
Speaker 4: I made the cardboard Mount Rushmore puppets. That's like that,
Speaker 4: that's part of.
Speaker 2: It that comes into it. So at seventy is when
Speaker 2: those puppets come out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely carrying it down. It's not
Speaker 4: you know, the first version of it was basically a
Speaker 4: ninety minute Ted talk about a president that only I
Speaker 4: cared about. But then you know, trying to turn it
Speaker 4: into bits and everything. That's the fun of going back
Speaker 4: out is trying to turn something from a Ted talk
Speaker 4: into comedy. And I miss that. I miss just getting
Speaker 4: to like throw things against the wall and trying to
Speaker 4: be like, oh, yeah, this is working and not working,
Speaker 4: and how can I get the thing that's not working
Speaker 4: to work? And yeah, I always love that, and it
Speaker 4: was really hard to not have that during quarantine. What
Speaker 4: about you guys?
Speaker 3: I mean I enjoyed that We've talked about this a
Speaker 3: lot on the podcast. That's like we both pause, but
Speaker 3: I enjoyed the no pressure. The I didn't realize how
Speaker 3: it was always looming over me, Like how am I doing?
Speaker 1: In comedy?
Speaker 3: Am I doing everything I should or could be doing?
Speaker 3: How's everyone else doing? No matter how hard you try,
Speaker 3: are kind of obsessed with where you scan among your peers,
Speaker 3: and it is kind of a contest a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and for that all to be lifted, I mean, my
Speaker 3: gray hair went away. It's coming back. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: thoroughly enjoyed the time off. And I'm having trouble fully
Speaker 3: diving back in like I've been doing shows.
Speaker 1: But I enjoyed not doing it. It was great.
Speaker 3: I felt like a seventeen year old. I just wasn't
Speaker 3: worried about things totally.
Speaker 5: I basically stopped doing sets and then tried to start
Speaker 5: doing them again after way too long, you know, like
Speaker 5: I would say three years or something of not really
Speaker 5: doing it. The thing is, and this has happened to
Speaker 5: me before in the past, of when I stop entirely,
Speaker 5: I truly just do not believe I can do it anymore.
Speaker 5: Like the way the thing I do in my own
Speaker 5: brain is unbelievable, where it's like this is something I've
Speaker 5: been doing since I was twenty years old. It's crazy
Speaker 5: and it's like you didn't forget how But what it
Speaker 5: is is the time I wasn't putting in the time,
Speaker 5: and I wasn't focusing on other people. I think that
Speaker 5: competition element, although it can be bad, also it can
Speaker 5: be amazing because I go to shows and I think
Speaker 5: Chris and I have talked about this before, but one
Speaker 5: of my favorite things to do is go watch a
Speaker 5: bunch of other people do sets because my brain is
Speaker 5: I have such defiance disorder that while I watch people
Speaker 5: that I love and I'm laughing at my brain starts
Speaker 5: writing material that is totally unrelated and it's so it's
Speaker 5: like my brain's going, You've got to fight for your place.
Speaker 2: And here's an idea, you know what I mean, where
Speaker 2: it's like, oh shit.
Speaker 5: So there's a kind of cultural immersion that I think
Speaker 5: I have to have, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 5: as like a now middle aged woman, I just don't
Speaker 5: want to have to do that, Like I want to
Speaker 5: see my friends and see the people I really love.
Speaker 5: But ultimately it's a young man and woman and person's game.
Speaker 5: So like it's like I don't go I just started
Speaker 5: getting that thing of like you kind of have to.
Speaker 5: I felt, it's like let it go. You can always
Speaker 5: like do a set if you want to. But like,
Speaker 5: but ultimately, the part that I really love about comedy
Speaker 5: is that beginning. How do you take a ted talk
Speaker 5: and turn it into an actual bit? How do you
Speaker 5: actually make people laugh? Because for a while I was
Speaker 5: just reading old tweets and then kind of standing there, going.
Speaker 2: This is a pyrrhic victory if there ever was one.
Speaker 2: This feels bad. This is not well written material.
Speaker 5: So you know, it's kind it's kind of that where
Speaker 5: I think it gave me in quarantine, just truly, I
Speaker 5: told myself my job was to not go insane, so
Speaker 5: I didn't have to worry about that or you know,
Speaker 5: it was just like just you know, get your work
Speaker 5: done and stay happy and other than that, don't put
Speaker 5: yourself through it because that whole push pull of comedy.
Speaker 2: Although it is my true and first love, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but also you.
Speaker 5: Can't you can't be doing you know, showcase nights for
Speaker 5: the rest of your life, Like you have to take
Speaker 5: your pension after a while. If you're not like a
Speaker 5: you know, if you're not like a headlining comic or whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was a relief in that way where it's like
Speaker 5: I can still be a fan, I can still know
Speaker 5: all the people that I know. I can be proud
Speaker 5: of the people that I watch go and do things
Speaker 5: and be innovative and truly that's why, like when I
Speaker 5: watch you do comedy, it's like this is it reminds
Speaker 5: me of my early days when people are like, I
Speaker 5: don't give a fuck, I'm gonna fucking try his bit
Speaker 5: and it was all very punk rock and it's you know,
Speaker 5: I just really love it and support it.
Speaker 4: That is so kind. If it's not clear, I will
Speaker 4: just say here and now that I am huge fans
Speaker 4: of you both, deeply admire you. You've been inspirations from
Speaker 4: day one, so thank you you both. You've said such
Speaker 4: kind things about me, and I felt bashful about saying
Speaker 4: that about you, but now I'm going to you have to.
Speaker 3: You have to.
Speaker 4: I what is a podcast except a chance to do that?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: I circle jerks get a bad but that just felt great.
Speaker 2: Rights you need these days.
Speaker 5: Also, it's like that weird thing where like Chris and
Speaker 5: I see Chris consistently because we have this podcast luckily,
Speaker 5: and thank God, because you know, other comedians are some
Speaker 5: of my favorite human beings because of their brains and
Speaker 5: the way their brains work, and you don't meet those
Speaker 5: kinds of people every day, And I think that's another
Speaker 5: Another thing is like really appreciating It's like Ian Abramson, when.
Speaker 2: That name came through, I was like, oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 2: like I how else would I see you?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Fine? Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, there really is kind of
Speaker 4: a special community. And I feel like quarantine was freeing
Speaker 4: for so many people rather than making us all cynical.
Speaker 4: Things got so bad for everybody, for literally every person,
Speaker 4: that it was kind of like, well, if that's the baseline,
Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just trying to carry that over and remember it.
Speaker 3: I found myself like this past weekend I did shows
Speaker 3: that in Irvine, and I was like, don't go back
Speaker 3: to being upset of the audience doesn't remember what it
Speaker 3: was like to not have this. Enjoy it and I
Speaker 3: have been enjoying it, but I got to remember not
Speaker 3: to lose that. I've got to remember to stay appreciative.
Speaker 3: Are you saying, chriss I promised myself and that the.
Speaker 2: Audience like doesn't remember how to be an audience kind of?
Speaker 2: Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3: Oh? I just I sometimes if an audience isn't acting
Speaker 3: the way I want to. I was getting impatient with crowds,
Speaker 3: and I promised myself I wouldn't do that when I
Speaker 3: didn't have access to that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I miss it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to even appreciate the most drunken, hecky crowd
Speaker 3: that is anti vaxer or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't care where I'm at.
Speaker 3: I gotta I've gotta appreciate this, and it's so far
Speaker 3: I have felt like I'm appreciating it more than before
Speaker 3: this thing happened.
Speaker 1: But I got to hold onto that because.
Speaker 2: Do you think this sets are going better because you
Speaker 2: have that energy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Certainly not, because I still don't know what the hell
Speaker 3: I'm doing, and I'm I'm just still rusty. I'm you know,
Speaker 3: because I that thing that you mentioned, like you feel
Speaker 3: like you forgot how to do it. I'll do that
Speaker 3: during a weekend of shows like I did shows last night.
Speaker 3: It went fine, Why would tonight not go well? And
Speaker 3: out feel good until I get that first laugh, and
Speaker 3: then I'm like, okay, I guess this won't be terrible.
Speaker 3: I've always it's a clean slate of light. This might
Speaker 3: be going, this might be terrible for me. I'm always
Speaker 3: able to put myself there and I shouldn't, but I do.
Speaker 4: I did. I did a show last week and the
Speaker 4: first half, the first half of my set was I
Speaker 4: tried and true material that I was just like, let
Speaker 4: me just take out some of the old hits, you know.
Speaker 4: And of course that felt so much weirder than the
Speaker 4: second half of my set, which was brand new Theodore
Speaker 4: Roosevelt stuff, because it was it was like, it felt
Speaker 4: like driving a tractor, where I was like, wait, I've
Speaker 4: driven a car and I kind of know what this
Speaker 4: is like. But there's some weird stuff here that I
Speaker 4: don't understand what's happening anymore. And then the second half
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, now I'm just walking around. I
Speaker 4: get this.
Speaker 3: What it's your favorite fact about Theodore Roosevelt that you.
Speaker 2: That you've spun into comedy.
Speaker 4: I will tell you one of Theodore Roosevelt's. If you
Speaker 4: look at a top ten list, there will be something
Speaker 4: about how much he loved animals and hunting. He founded
Speaker 4: the National Parks. Was he But the way that this
Speaker 4: love started he was a little boy and he went
Speaker 4: to the store and got obsessed with a dead seal.
Speaker 4: They were selling a dead seal, and he went back
Speaker 4: for days to be like, hey, could I get the
Speaker 4: dead seal? For days and eventually they gave him just
Speaker 4: the head. Now to guess this, go to Wikipedia control
Speaker 4: f the word seal and it will be confirmed. The
Speaker 4: craziest the reason I've had so much fun with this
Speaker 4: is like that particular fact is not on top ten lists?
Speaker 4: How is that not the thing we're all talking about?
Speaker 4: This is one of the greatest presidents ever and he
Speaker 4: carried a seal head.
Speaker 3: Home and did it talk about as a relationship or
Speaker 3: what he did with this disembodied seal head or what? What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What was his goal to get into taxidermy? What?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, yeah, you honestly just nailed it,
Speaker 4: because he did get really into taxidermy, and you like,
Speaker 4: he became obsessed with taxidermy. But also the reason that
Speaker 4: he the way he would use his taxidermy is he
Speaker 4: tried to open up a little museum with his cousins
Speaker 4: and the seal head was like the big display.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's behind a velvet rope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he would like capture bugs and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, showing his parents like, oh very cute, Teddy,
Speaker 4: you got some bugs? And is that a monster head?
Speaker 5: What is this?
Speaker 4: Is not a creature we see every day. We don't
Speaker 4: have the Internet to know what a seal even really is.
Speaker 4: But here is the rotting head of an animal.
Speaker 5: Okay, I am seeing in an adult swim animated series.
Speaker 5: When you get all these things together, that's just like
Speaker 5: almost like a true crime documentary, but about Teddy Roosevelt
Speaker 5: and all the things about him that are disturbing to
Speaker 5: say the least.
Speaker 4: Totally another fun wy shot.
Speaker 3: It wasn't he shot during a speech too and finished
Speaker 3: the speech or did some pushes?
Speaker 4: I not believe you just said this again. I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm on comics unleash right now, because I was
Speaker 4: about to say, let me give you one more fun
Speaker 4: fact and tied into that. My favorite part of this
Speaker 4: has been taking these big things. You know that Teddy Roosevelt, well,
Speaker 4: right as he was about to give a speech, was
Speaker 4: shot in the stomach, and he gave the speech, and
Speaker 4: the speech was like an hour and a half. He
Speaker 4: spoke for an hour and a half as he was bleeding,
Speaker 4: and the crowd knew that he was bleeding, but his
Speaker 4: whole thing was like, I'm a manly badass, So that
Speaker 4: added to it. But what nobody asks about is the
Speaker 4: man that shot him. So I did a bunch of
Speaker 4: original research. I went through like university archives, and I
Speaker 4: ended up finding handwritten letters that have never been transcribed
Speaker 4: that the guy that shot Teddy Roosevelt wrote after being
Speaker 4: put in an asylum to the doctor being like, I'm
Speaker 4: not crazy. Yes, I saw a ghost that told me
Speaker 4: to kill Teddy Roosevelt, but I'm normal. Let me out.
Speaker 4: And it's like it's a man's actual writing.
Speaker 1: And it's like, he said, a ghost totally doing.
Speaker 4: More specifically the way that this is why, this is
Speaker 4: why it feels a bit like a ted talk, and
Speaker 4: I apologize. Teddy Roosevelt became president because he was vice president.
Speaker 4: William McKinley was assassinated, and this guy, John F. Shrink
Speaker 4: said that William McKinley came to him in a dream
Speaker 4: and was like, if you don't kill Teddy Roosevelt, the
Speaker 4: world will end. And so he was like, well, I
Speaker 4: guess I gotta go kill Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's like a civic duty at that point, right,
Speaker 3: is a global duty?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a universal dude deegation.
Speaker 5: Or so, do you ever lay into your ninety minute
Speaker 5: presentation any kind of you're getting shot element?
Speaker 2: Do you try to parallel that in your.
Speaker 4: Own speech about my life?
Speaker 5: Well that you're doing a ninety minute speech? Oh so
Speaker 5: at some point, don't you think you should also get
Speaker 5: shot so.
Speaker 4: That it opens with the gun shot?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, want to pitch, just want to
Speaker 2: get it out there.
Speaker 4: I love I love this, I love this. We're getting
Speaker 4: so much work.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give this gun to someone in the
Speaker 3: audience if you don't like a joke, shoot me square
Speaker 3: in the stomach.
Speaker 4: The bit that I'm working on and the bit that
Speaker 4: I did last week, I start telling the story of
Speaker 4: him getting shot, and then I'm like, wait, could somebody
Speaker 4: actually stand in be the be Teddy Roosevelt and no
Speaker 4: show you were standing Actually can I be Teddy Roosevelt?
Speaker 4: You'd be the guy shooting and actually there was somebody
Speaker 4: standing next to him, could you And just getting like
Speaker 4: fifteen twenty people from the audience by the end to
Speaker 4: come up and act out this whole scene and just
Speaker 4: like kind of playing with that. It's not really fully
Speaker 4: worked out yet, but that's how I'm trying to make
Speaker 4: it more performance and less ted talk.
Speaker 1: I love that you do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a comic that I came up with
Speaker 3: in Austin rich Gabe that would give a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: He'd give like, here's your line. He would hand it
Speaker 3: to people in the audience. He's like, when the lights
Speaker 3: flicker and we have everyone out a piece of paper
Speaker 3: with directions like when this happens, yell this out, and
Speaker 3: everyone was involved and it was so fun for the
Speaker 3: whole audience and it was one long, five minute LT. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you've always reminded me of him, So I love
Speaker 3: that you also have a bit like that.
Speaker 4: That's wonderful.
Speaker 5: That's very that's very ron Lynchy too, that very kind
Speaker 5: of like we're all in this together.
Speaker 3: He won the Funniest Person in Austin contest and moved.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did stand up after that, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't stand up. It was these performance bits he had,
Speaker 3: like a ventroloquism bit that was a tape recorder that
Speaker 3: he'd leave on stage while he went to get a
Speaker 3: drink of water and a pillow that had a voice
Speaker 3: in it. And it was a pillow and I can't
Speaker 3: even remember the bits, but they were all planned out
Speaker 3: and well timed. And yeah, to give an audience a role, yes,
Speaker 3: or a line, or to get them on stage with you.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves that. It's I love seeing that and I'm
Speaker 3: never had an idea like that.
Speaker 1: I'm jealous. What about your uh? Is it called the
Speaker 1: Inland Empire.
Speaker 4: Research?
Speaker 1: Did yeah that? I look?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do people watch that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? On Vimeo? It was a staff pick, so we
Speaker 4: hope you like it like they did. My my friend
Speaker 4: Tim Barnes and I wrote a short and starred in it,
Speaker 4: directed by Zane Rubin, who's my wife's sister. That's how
Speaker 4: I actually ended up meeting my wife was Zane Ruben.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, isn't that? Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 1: That's great, terrific, But yeah.
Speaker 4: In Inland Empire very very proud of that short. It's
Speaker 4: kind of like a weird take on our weird upbringing.
Speaker 4: So check it out.
Speaker 2: Awesome, nice Vimeo staff pick. Those people see a lot
Speaker 2: of video.
Speaker 3: So that's and post trial interviews on Gary Beauty.
Speaker 2: Judge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Ian Abram, thank you for much. See
Speaker 3: I say the name and I stumbled I Abram. It's
Speaker 3: hard for me to say.
Speaker 1: You're over thinking. I Abram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 1: I am always overthinks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to mess up such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: A linguist will tell you in Abram and a beautiful man.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2: Thank you Ian.
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