Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 1: Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim, and give us
Speaker 3: time and a termino and gay. We want to send
Speaker 3: you off in style. You wanna welcome you back home?
Speaker 2: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1: We scared her?
Speaker 4: Was it fine?
Speaker 2: Mal porn?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need need to ride? Ride? Do you need
Speaker 2: with Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need a ride?
Speaker 2: This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: And this is Karen Kilgariff. Hello Karen, Hi gris, but.
Speaker 5: I'm happy to see you. Did you have a nice
Speaker 5: holiday weekend?
Speaker 1: I did. I was up in northern California, so I
Speaker 1: drove on Sunday to get a jump on the Monday
Speaker 1: travel traffic, holiday traffic I'm doing right now up in
Speaker 1: North Call. Yeah, I kind of I kind of ruined
Speaker 1: the holiday weekend by doing that, by avoiding travel traffic.
Speaker 1: And then like the day off, I was sore from driving,
Speaker 1: which is a very bad sign. So a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, six hour drive muscular dystrophy.
Speaker 5: There was a thing and I'm not trying to be crass,
Speaker 5: but when I'd sit in my car. Only when I
Speaker 5: was in my car, my right testicle was hurting severely.
Speaker 2: But then I'd sit at home and it didn't. It
Speaker 2: was fine. Everywhere I'd walk around.
Speaker 5: I'd even do calisthetics, go to the gym, toss around
Speaker 5: the medicine ball. And then once I get in my car,
Speaker 5: swelling of just that one testicle, what.
Speaker 1: Are you going to do? Take it to oak?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go. Of course, I'm going to
Speaker 5: a mechanic. I don't have health insurance. So he popped
Speaker 5: open the hood and by that I mean open my zipper,
Speaker 5: and the rest gets very erotic.
Speaker 1: Sorry, have you been on the road? What's happening?
Speaker 6: Uh? Go on?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't been on the road.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm trying out new testical jokes on you.
Speaker 5: Normally that would be an opener opening joke, an opener.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember a lot of the phrases anymore.
Speaker 1: No, you got you still got it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I still got it. And the only reason I.
Speaker 5: Told you that story is so you could remind me
Speaker 5: daddy still.
Speaker 2: God damn it, I called myself daddy again.
Speaker 1: Our guest today has played clubs and colleges all over there.
Speaker 2: Excited.
Speaker 1: We're so thrilled to see him again. It's been the
Speaker 1: last time we saw him was in the car, I believe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the last time I have not seen him
Speaker 5: in person for years, maybe in passing.
Speaker 2: But I'm very happy to see him today.
Speaker 1: I am too.
Speaker 2: Everyone put your hands together, clap alone at your house.
Speaker 2: Actually you listen for Baron Vondoo whoa.
Speaker 6: Absolutely Hello, Hello Karen, Hello Chris.
Speaker 2: Hey Baron? Did you hear my swollen testical story? What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, you're the one nut on your butt sort
Speaker 6: of thing. Yeah, definitely has something to do with the
Speaker 6: way that you're sitting or the way that yours seat
Speaker 6: is positioned.
Speaker 5: You want to know, to be perfectly honest, what stopped
Speaker 5: it from happening is taking.
Speaker 2: My wallet out of my right back pocket.
Speaker 1: When I cried, oh, you had some lift?
Speaker 5: It was, Yes, it was some sort of a pressure
Speaker 5: on my sciatic Oh that turned into a radiating frontal
Speaker 5: testicular swelling and throbbing of pain.
Speaker 2: All caused by sciatic pressure. It makes me want just
Speaker 2: doing that kind of thing makes.
Speaker 5: Me want to get into acupuncture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 5: Gravity was not your friend in that situation, exactly. It's
Speaker 5: a gravity in the weight of my body.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of sciatica presenting in the ball. I
Speaker 1: think this is medically fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 5: I think I'm one of the very I should be
Speaker 5: in medical medical journals.
Speaker 6: I'm immensely entertained. Yeah, the first ball of sciatica. That's
Speaker 6: to throw it out there.
Speaker 5: Baron, your career is going great and everything. How's your health?
Speaker 5: We do a lot of medical chat on this podcast.
Speaker 5: You and I have talked about mental health in the past.
Speaker 1: How's your physical health?
Speaker 2: Yeah, your physical health. How's your resting?
Speaker 1: Maybe pressure?
Speaker 6: Yeah, heartat You know, the last few times I've been
Speaker 6: to a doctor and I feel like I am past due,
Speaker 6: you know, outside of a COVID test, but like I
Speaker 6: feel like I'm like really due for a full blood panel,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. Yeah, a good old FBP.
Speaker 6: I feel like it's.
Speaker 5: Seem too Yeah, let's see how many of those white
Speaker 5: blood cells or whatever.
Speaker 2: There's like little scary Yeah here is.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what my heartbeat and all that
Speaker 6: stuff is, what my my rate is? These days. I'm
Speaker 6: about to start some kind of regimen for myself, designed
Speaker 6: by none other than me.
Speaker 2: You'll be in charge of it.
Speaker 6: I've created it, and I'm gonna be in charge of it.
Speaker 6: No one to hold me accountable but me. Wow, I've
Speaker 6: done this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, what's the plan?
Speaker 6: Uh? To work out?
Speaker 1: First of all, so many quotes, listener, there's so many words.
Speaker 6: Work out, see what comes up, copy it and see
Speaker 6: what happens, and.
Speaker 1: Then fax it to you. And that's what you'll do
Speaker 1: every morning.
Speaker 6: Workout exactly.
Speaker 5: I've been I've been taking photos of far to my
Speaker 5: body that I can't see with my eyes and text.
Speaker 5: I've been texting them to myself, a lot of butt.
Speaker 1: Pictures, just to say, hey, keep an eye on what's
Speaker 1: happening here.
Speaker 6: You got to look out for moles. They're everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Melanoma is anything shaped like a state, anything.
Speaker 1: Raised up a skate ice, skate a state.
Speaker 2: Like Michigan or Maine.
Speaker 5: I'll start with them stakes like uh steak.
Speaker 1: At first, Yeah, oh, like a little prime yeah, sitting there.
Speaker 5: It depends on what comes to mind when you looked
Speaker 5: at that disc curnel, that discoloration on Gorbachev's head.
Speaker 2: Remember was it a state? Was it a steak?
Speaker 6: It was? Wasn't it a birthmark?
Speaker 2: I think it was a birthmark, but it was, you know,
Speaker 2: and I I.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad you brought him up. Chris.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's hear this chunk.
Speaker 4: Finally, I'm joking, joking.
Speaker 6: I got nothing to say.
Speaker 1: You're from your old set back in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 6: But this Gorbachev guy tear down that wall. Right?
Speaker 1: Have you seen this guy.
Speaker 5: Since I've seen you? Uh, maybe i've seen you once.
Speaker 5: But you you have a baby boy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got two of them. Actually, you'd have two boys.
Speaker 6: Those boys.
Speaker 1: What are the ages?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's the oldest?
Speaker 6: The oldest is four and he's going to be five
Speaker 6: in October, and the youngest is well it's June, that's right,
Speaker 6: so he'll be he'll be three and nine days.
Speaker 1: Wow, three and a five.
Speaker 5: I knew about your first boy, I didn't know yet
Speaker 5: a second boy. I haven't seen you in so long
Speaker 5: three years and you and I.
Speaker 6: Part of the reason you haven't seen me.
Speaker 2: Is because I don't pay attention to baby stuff.
Speaker 6: Listen, man, no, no, no, no, just because like you know,
Speaker 6: I disappear. You know, it's not It's not on anybody else.
Speaker 6: Like it's just like I got focused on other things.
Speaker 6: Everyone's living their lives.
Speaker 1: You're not standing around in the back of meltdown anymore.
Speaker 1: You've got stuff to do.
Speaker 6: That's not even a meltdown. Isn't it condos now or something?
Speaker 1: It's gone, it's way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We used to always hang out at the Hollywood Bar
Speaker 5: and Grill, and I was always happy to see you
Speaker 5: barons have fun. If you're about to go on stage
Speaker 5: and you don't want to do comedy, Baron's a fun
Speaker 5: friend that you can see that'll like riff with you
Speaker 5: and be silly and get you in the mood to
Speaker 5: do stand up whether or not you want to.
Speaker 6: You. Yeah, it's a very nice compliment.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: I yes, I agree.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you did that to me many times, and so
Speaker 5: thanks for that.
Speaker 6: I'll say it less as like I was not necessarily
Speaker 6: intentionally trying to riff with you to get you in
Speaker 6: the mood. I just see a person like yourself or
Speaker 6: caring till Gareff, and I go, well, there's a funny
Speaker 6: person that I want to talk to. Yeah, because in
Speaker 6: any conversation that we're going to have, you're going to
Speaker 6: be funnier to me than anything you do on stage,
Speaker 6: to be honest, right, yeah, But most of the time,
Speaker 6: I'm also excited to see whatever the heck it is
Speaker 6: you're going to do on stage, you know, and that
Speaker 6: goes for you both. Well.
Speaker 1: There's sometimes in green rooms where there are you know,
Speaker 1: we know there's many different types of comedians. Some get
Speaker 1: real intense and they stare at a very tiny notebook
Speaker 1: with even tinier writing in it, and you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to really kind of talk to them. Some of them
Speaker 1: are all about getting their bottle of water. Whatever I think,
Speaker 1: I'm like I want depending on who else is in
Speaker 1: the room, oftentimes I'm just like I don't want to
Speaker 1: put anything on anybody, and I don't want to get
Speaker 1: in anybody's vibe they're trying to do. But absolutely, if
Speaker 1: I would see a Baron Vaughan or Chris Fairbanks, I
Speaker 1: would be like, get into a conversation with them immediately,
Speaker 1: so your brain starts working, oh yeah, and you get
Speaker 1: into a sort of like this is what we're here
Speaker 1: for vibe, Whereas I don't feel that.
Speaker 5: Way with everybody, right even comics that are very funny
Speaker 5: on stage, but it's just like, oh, there's no conversational
Speaker 5: fun times with this.
Speaker 2: Stage, only fun person. Yeah. So anyway, that's true.
Speaker 6: Some people get very intense and they get in their
Speaker 6: zone and you, you know, you can try to feel
Speaker 6: out who's who, and you can never really tell. I
Speaker 6: feel like for me at least, yes, because I'm with you,
Speaker 6: caring on, like working yourself up into it's almost like
Speaker 6: you guys are like sparring partners, and I know I
Speaker 6: can throw a few rounds with you to get myself
Speaker 6: in in fighting mood or mode if you will.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, and mood and well, because it is that thing.
Speaker 1: I think there's somebody that I watched recently. I think
Speaker 1: it was when we were talking to Emily Heller and
Speaker 1: I just said, I think it was her. There's those
Speaker 1: comics that you watch and they surprise you. Because my
Speaker 1: thing since I started stand up was I know what
Speaker 1: they're about to say. I know what this joke is
Speaker 1: going to be. Like that's part of my That's how
Speaker 1: I prove to myself that I'm a comic, is that
Speaker 1: I know what the joke might be. Or there's that
Speaker 1: kind of like anticipation and the comics that really make
Speaker 1: me laugh for the ones I'm like, what in the
Speaker 1: fuck are they talking? No idea? How did you think
Speaker 1: of this? How did you tag this?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: When did it take such a joy?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Exactly, And that's how I feel watching both of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's very interesting. Yeah that is that's very true.
Speaker 5: And then it feels like I'm part of your stand
Speaker 5: up because I.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't guess the punchline, I am a part
Speaker 1: of this. I write that, I get credit.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, that's I just like I miss that.
Speaker 5: I miss how things were stand up wise, as far
Speaker 5: as we're all even if we're not taking a break,
Speaker 5: we're doing shows off by ourselves safely or not safely whatever.
Speaker 5: But I miss being being forced to hang out in
Speaker 5: a kitchen people are trying to prepare food. Remember that
Speaker 5: Hollywood Bar and Grill show where they there was no
Speaker 5: green room. We just hang out in the kitchen and
Speaker 5: they're actually run food. So you're trying to stand out
Speaker 5: of everyone's way. Yes, absolutely, everyone felt ill it ea
Speaker 5: is and I would hide in the bathroom to look
Speaker 5: at my notes.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, but also the door to outside was through
Speaker 6: the show. Like you had to want the stage to
Speaker 6: go outside.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, but I miss it for some reason.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, nostalgia it's called romance.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6: Rubbing velvet on a sunny night, yes.
Speaker 1: Like that, so warm at night.
Speaker 6: That show was a moonfilled day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Different textures of sex right right? Yeah? You say
Speaker 2: sax sacks, yeah, eight steak sas.
Speaker 6: Okay, what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: I forgot.
Speaker 1: I actually exchanged pictures of your one of your sons
Speaker 1: today with the great Danielle Kramer, who used to work
Speaker 1: at Mountain It's what it probably why I thought of that,
Speaker 1: and because she said, I said, we're doing the show
Speaker 1: with you, and then she said, oh, he has babies now,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I didn't know that. And then
Speaker 1: she sent me a picture of your baby and it
Speaker 1: is the cutest baby. And I know people say, oh
Speaker 1: the time, whatever, but I was like, Danielle sent the
Speaker 1: picture and then I zoomed in on the baby's face
Speaker 1: and sent it back to her because I was like,
Speaker 1: look at this baby's face.
Speaker 5: Is it the very because I've been looking at pictures
Speaker 5: too very uh.
Speaker 2: Someone commented Blue.
Speaker 5: Steel like a very serious straight in the camera like
Speaker 5: a baby modeling picture.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm with you, Like, I'm I'm happy that,
Speaker 6: Like I got some cute kids.
Speaker 1: That yeather, that baby is that baby?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my phone.
Speaker 6: That's the oldest that's saving on when he was really young. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's my goodness.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a catalog baby. Have your babies ever
Speaker 1: done any catalog work?
Speaker 6: Not yet? You know, who knows if we're going to
Speaker 6: try to do that? Who knows if I want to
Speaker 6: give them a show this childhood you got a real one.
Speaker 5: It's just extra income. If you got beautiful babies, you
Speaker 5: got to get them in print that print ad revenue.
Speaker 6: That's right, get that. Let's get those model dollars, get
Speaker 6: that cosh gosh money.
Speaker 1: Wait, because you played violin correct, violin.
Speaker 6: Instrument a very small child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think you're going to have your kids
Speaker 1: play an instrument or the violin specifically?
Speaker 6: You know, I've been thinking about that a lot because
Speaker 6: I kind of look back at my own childhood now.
Speaker 6: It's it's this thing where I have to like make
Speaker 6: sure to keep a gap between what I did and
Speaker 6: what they're going to do. Right. Yes, Yeah, it's very
Speaker 6: easy to try to force something on kids. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: I look back at my own childhood and go, man,
Speaker 6: I wish I didn't take those music lessons for granted,
Speaker 6: you know, And even if I didn't like them, like,
Speaker 6: I still maintain a lot of that knowledge and it
Speaker 6: still applies to so much of my life in all
Speaker 6: these different ways that are just for me most of
Speaker 6: the time. But I would love it if they, even
Speaker 6: if they hate it, get some sort of education. There's
Speaker 6: even something about like I don't want to do this,
Speaker 6: but then later being like, oh maybe I actually liked that, yes,
Speaker 6: and then come back to it whenever or whatever. But
Speaker 6: you know, they show a little prowess, right. It's again,
Speaker 6: I have to get to a certain point before I'm
Speaker 6: spending money on it, right because there's only so much money.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. And is there anything they're interested in
Speaker 1: now that like you can see that they're Do they
Speaker 1: love star Wars or do they love a sport or
Speaker 1: do they love art or anything?
Speaker 6: Well, both of them kind of show a little bit
Speaker 6: of musical ability. I will say I didn't realize how
Speaker 6: much I pathologically beat box around the house. You don't
Speaker 6: know how much you beat box until this a child
Speaker 6: always watching you doing it, and then suddenly they just
Speaker 6: think that that's how you are supposed to be going
Speaker 6: around the house.
Speaker 2: Going oh, I love it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, is he beatboxing all of the time? Is
Speaker 6: that what I do? And now I know that, like
Speaker 6: I've been beatboxing, So it's like there's always music happening
Speaker 6: or obsessive compulsive disorder happen.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's better than whistling.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of nervous whistlers in my Yeah,
Speaker 5: just like a oh, try and just whistling trying not
Speaker 5: to think about World War two?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: Yeah, an impersonation of this, like like my grandpa would
Speaker 5: whistle maniacally like a bird, not a tune, but just
Speaker 5: freestyle whistling. And wait, my grandma did it too, on
Speaker 5: each side and it made me nervous. I the whistling
Speaker 5: made me nervous. And now I have a thing I'm
Speaker 5: realizing right now it's coming to the surface. People whistling
Speaker 5: makes me nervous where I think they're pretending to be
Speaker 5: happy or they're just straight up a serial killer. And
Speaker 5: I need to let go of that because I was
Speaker 5: just childhood trauma. I'm not saying beatboxing does that. I
Speaker 5: think little kids love to hear a good beatbox riff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they must love it, who knows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But but crazy bird whistling not their father.
Speaker 6: Like beatboxing is going to be part of their personalities.
Speaker 6: I'm still finding out who they are. You know, it's insane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I someone came to school one
Speaker 5: day and they they're like, okay, pick out your instrument,
Speaker 5: and trombone was left over, and I that's how I
Speaker 5: was assigned the trombone. And I never enjoyed it, but
Speaker 5: I do look back on it like it was my
Speaker 5: first time having.
Speaker 2: To do a solo. Like you'd leave school and have
Speaker 2: to play a.
Speaker 5: Song that you were supposed to learn in a church
Speaker 5: basement or something, and some person in a.
Speaker 2: Tweed jacket would judge how well you did it.
Speaker 5: And and that you know, that's like a good you know,
Speaker 5: human building experience.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like, but did I think trombone was ever going
Speaker 5: to be in my future? Or did my parents ever?
Speaker 5: You know, they didn't know the third wave of SKA
Speaker 5: was coming.
Speaker 1: They couldn't they couldn't have known.
Speaker 6: They thought was the end of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad's My dad's more of a Goldfinger guy.
Speaker 6: But oh my well, Karen you because you play I
Speaker 6: almost want to say that, isn't that a symbol behind you?
Speaker 1: That's a weird little end table that doesn't really go
Speaker 1: with anything that I just stuck there. But it kind
Speaker 1: of looks like a little high ass.
Speaker 5: It looks like it does look like a little high
Speaker 5: animals Muppet symbolic.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you've either.
Speaker 6: Got the and Chris has either got the continent of
Speaker 6: Africa or of.
Speaker 2: That Scorbatrov's birthmark.
Speaker 1: But it's also a clock.
Speaker 6: It's a clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a sliced redwood burrel.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: They take the trunk and they slice it like bread
Speaker 5: and then my dad buys it and makes furniture.
Speaker 2: Wow in the sixth line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But Kerry, you play you play music to this day,
Speaker 6: Like I've seen you play the guitar a lot at
Speaker 6: different times.
Speaker 1: You know, And that's like the late life. All the
Speaker 1: comics I came up with from San Francisco played the
Speaker 1: guitar because that's kind of how they amused themselves when
Speaker 1: they went on the road, like they would go. That
Speaker 1: was like the glory late late eighties, early nineties glory
Speaker 1: days of like you could go on the road as
Speaker 1: a middle and like make a living. So I knew
Speaker 1: lots and lots of comics who were just like, here's
Speaker 1: five open chords, now you can play any eagle song.
Speaker 1: And that was I'd always wanted to play an instrument,
Speaker 1: and we actually had a piano in our house, and
Speaker 1: I still couldn't get my parents to get signed me
Speaker 1: up for lessons. They just wouldn't do it. They were
Speaker 1: just like, well, who's going to drive you? I'm not
Speaker 1: driving you. That was always like their response. So later
Speaker 1: in life when I was kind of like had the
Speaker 1: ability and had you know, like Eben Schletter, the genius
Speaker 1: who did the music for Mister Show and lots of
Speaker 1: other stuff. He was just one of our friends that
Speaker 1: was around all the time. So he literally was like,
Speaker 1: if you can get the CG change and if you could,
Speaker 1: if you can teach your fingers how to make those
Speaker 1: change between those two chords, you'll be able to play
Speaker 1: the guitar. Now, whether or not that's actually technically the truth,
Speaker 1: I believed it completely, and then I was just like
Speaker 1: I learned those two. Then I added and a D
Speaker 1: through in an A for good luck, and that's half
Speaker 1: of every song is just basically those versions of those
Speaker 1: chord progressions. And I told myself, like, you get this,
Speaker 1: and then allowed myself because normally I think I would
Speaker 1: be super like, oh I can't read music or whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Was also probably because I was on speed. It was
Speaker 1: the nineties, so I really needed something to do.
Speaker 2: We were all in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean you have to fend fan and
Speaker 1: try to get skinny for your audition for some fucking
Speaker 1: show for joyd Ass jeans for Ali McNeil.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why just go immediately commercial? Yeah, I don't do
Speaker 5: any real acting. I didn't know you went to school
Speaker 5: for acting Baron.
Speaker 6: Accidentally what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How that? No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, we were you gonna say?
Speaker 2: Here's what I thought.
Speaker 5: I thought you were just born in Los Angeles and
Speaker 5: started stand up here, And I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We don't know our credibly at all. We were deeply wrong.
Speaker 6: We get to see each other in like limited context.
Speaker 5: I swear at some point, I, how did you How
Speaker 5: long did you live here before you start doing stand.
Speaker 6: Up in La?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: I came to La doing having done been doing stand
Speaker 6: up for like about Okay, I started in Boston, and
Speaker 6: then I was in New York, so about that time
Speaker 6: was ten years. And then I moved to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Moved to LA like two thousand and eleven. I want
Speaker 6: to say something.
Speaker 2: Like that, weird. I made up a whole different life
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 6: That's fine, man. I was like a ninja to you.
Speaker 6: It just comes and goes with the night smoke palace away.
Speaker 2: Where are you from?
Speaker 6: You're from Las Vegas, Las.
Speaker 1: Vega, Vegas. I think we talked about this on the
Speaker 1: last You need to Ride.
Speaker 6: You guys actually picked me up from at the airport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were one of our first episodes.
Speaker 6: I think that's awesome.
Speaker 5: And we yeah, we of course never I mean we
Speaker 5: haven't been in the car for obvious reasons. But we
Speaker 5: stopped going to LAX years before that.
Speaker 1: We were forced if we were forced to stop going
Speaker 1: to LAX.
Speaker 6: I was there recently too, and I, uh, wow, they're
Speaker 6: doing a lot. There's a lot, yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're trying to fix the whole thing at once.
Speaker 1: It feels like there's like five lanes of stop traffic.
Speaker 1: You can't get over to the United the United Terminal.
Speaker 1: It's like everything takes an hour and a half.
Speaker 5: All start going there. When they reopened that that Jetson's
Speaker 5: themed restaurant in the middle.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Stratosphere look a restaurant, yeah arches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, apparently back in the day that's where you you go.
Speaker 2: And you rub elbows with the stewardesses.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's really cool inside, because in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties they did have, like they tried to revive it.
Speaker 1: I think there was a comedy night there one time.
Speaker 1: No way, and to go there and to be there,
Speaker 1: to park and to buy drinks. The whole thing cost
Speaker 1: everyone so much money. Everyone was like, we're never doing
Speaker 1: this again because it was like we thought it was
Speaker 1: so cool and like, you know, it was very yes, timely,
Speaker 1: like that you know, sixties mid century, like everyone was
Speaker 1: being hip and I was like, how that drink was
Speaker 1: twelve seventy what? Like I couldn't believe how expensive it
Speaker 1: was and I had zero dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, airport prices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, were like, we're suckers for even being involved.
Speaker 2: I wonder why it was there and why it's been closed.
Speaker 2: It gives me the creeps. Actually, when there's a building out.
Speaker 6: What the heck I thought it was just a elaborate statue.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, exactly with window. Yeah, but it I was like, wow, I.
Speaker 6: Guess that's something from the Chicago State Fair.
Speaker 2: What is this Yeah, yeah, it's an old West cop center.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there it represents travel.
Speaker 5: There is there's like I've looked in the windows. There's
Speaker 5: like booths with cobwebs. Yeah, it's almost like ghosts.
Speaker 1: There's three sixty windows and it's like you basically can
Speaker 1: eat and watch planes take off in land and you
Speaker 1: can watch traffic. I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's people love popular pastimes in the sixties.
Speaker 6: But no, I hate to say, take it down and
Speaker 6: make more roads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
Speaker 6: That is a mess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it needs the foot the square footage. That really
Speaker 1: should be like three cutover lanes instead of that place. Lax.
Speaker 6: And now I've moved away from La so I like
Speaker 6: live in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Now, oh you're in that's where you've moved to.
Speaker 5: Get Okay, last time I saw you, you you and
Speaker 5: your wife Rhiannon. It's like, yes, you were like helping
Speaker 5: her move and I just made it about me. I'm like,
Speaker 5: so there's an apartment opening up in there. That place
Speaker 5: off from us and you were about to start a
Speaker 5: life together and make the two beautiful babies. And I
Speaker 5: was like, hey, how much what's the is there air conditioning?
Speaker 2: And you drove off with all your belongings.
Speaker 6: Hey, we're all the heroes and our own story.
Speaker 1: Well there a deposit.
Speaker 2: I'm a villain and a lot of mine.
Speaker 1: But then, how is Atlanta? I wonder about, like, let
Speaker 1: you know, the day to day life there is beautiful?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Does the humidity get you?
Speaker 6: Well? Having come from the hot, hot desert, you know,
Speaker 6: I was used to heat, but this humidity thing is
Speaker 6: a little I mean I experienced that when I was
Speaker 6: in Boston and New York, but this is a very
Speaker 6: different southern humidities. I think it seems like its own
Speaker 6: thing because there's also so much nature here. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: the biggest, one of the biggest reasons we moved different pace.
Speaker 6: You know, like I was in la for I guess
Speaker 6: ten years, and now this is the new place. So
Speaker 6: it's kind of like every ten years, in ten years,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna move from here, Like I just got here
Speaker 6: like a couple months ago.
Speaker 5: That's great when every time I've been there and I
Speaker 5: I think this about a few cities, but when I
Speaker 5: was in Atlanta, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2: I could easily live here.
Speaker 5: Yes, if there were a reason, I would move here immediately.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 4: It's a dope place.
Speaker 6: You know, there are things that I'm getting used to,
Speaker 6: like practical stuff like humidity, but like also like you know,
Speaker 6: I saw a deer the other day in our yard
Speaker 6: and I was like, so beautiful. I'm going to have
Speaker 6: to put up a fence. But so yeah, I'm going
Speaker 6: to have to I me literally has to put up
Speaker 6: or hire someone to come put up a fence.
Speaker 2: Are you outside, are you liking roswell or something? Or
Speaker 2: are you knowing Atlanta?
Speaker 6: In Atlanta? Atlanta?
Speaker 2: This place is a great city.
Speaker 6: Deer, I I think I recently heard that Atlanta has
Speaker 6: the second biggest tree canopy of every major of the
Speaker 6: major cities.
Speaker 1: I don't know what first one is, no idea somewhere
Speaker 1: in Florida, I bet right if it's like density of trees,
Speaker 1: but that makes sense because it's so green.
Speaker 5: It's very green, and I think that's even considered like
Speaker 5: a noxious weed or whatever. But there's a canopy of
Speaker 5: bushes that like grows over and and covers trees like
Speaker 5: alongside the freeway. It just looks like one giant bush,
Speaker 5: but it's like a spider web of.
Speaker 6: Is it like a or ivy?
Speaker 2: The is it.
Speaker 5: Totally like like ivy climbs up on a building.
Speaker 2: This stuff will and so they want.
Speaker 5: To say, I guess it kills plants and trees that
Speaker 5: it covers and encapsulates.
Speaker 6: Well, that's a thing that I actually have to I
Speaker 6: have to learn about nature a little bit. And how yes,
Speaker 6: because I'm like, I have to manage a little piece
Speaker 6: of land. Was I thinking? But no, it's it's kind
Speaker 6: of amazing.
Speaker 2: Did you buy a lawnmower?
Speaker 1: Awesome?
Speaker 6: I did. I bought a lawnmow. Did you like the
Speaker 6: other day, literally a week ago.
Speaker 2: That's so funny.
Speaker 6: You want to be done in any other way? I
Speaker 6: have to buy a lawnmower.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 6: My hips like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and pose that's so great.
Speaker 6: It's different because in like in La, it's like you're
Speaker 6: trying to like keep the grass alive with as little
Speaker 6: water as possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but here it's like the grass it's like, what's up?
Speaker 6: Why are you here? Because it's lunch boom grass? You know,
Speaker 6: you know, I personify everything I'm so sorry. Boom grass boom.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to buy a law with the ass.
Speaker 6: I'm so sorry. See, this is the kind of environment
Speaker 6: these children grow up in. It's just data free, styling
Speaker 6: at all time about the grass, and they're like, is
Speaker 6: that funny or is this a problem?
Speaker 2: That's so My dad used to do that stuff.
Speaker 5: He would like go off into little characters, and I'd
Speaker 5: always I would say, please talk like your real self.
Speaker 5: I remember, and now I look back, so thankful that
Speaker 5: he don't stop doing, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: No, but but there are the times where I definitely
Speaker 6: have to talk like my real self, realizing like I
Speaker 6: can't become up. I can't become too much of a
Speaker 6: clown to these kids because they'll never listen to.
Speaker 1: Me, ye, never respect you. They'll never come home at midnight.
Speaker 6: What are you talking about? Both?
Speaker 2: You're doing another character mad guy? Yeah, the ball in the.
Speaker 1: Alone, it's time to go to bed.
Speaker 6: What else? I don't know? He's that is all kinds
Speaker 6: of mind for a podcast.
Speaker 2: It's so funny that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: To me, almost more adult than having children and becoming
Speaker 5: a father is buying your own lawnmower that blows my mind.
Speaker 2: For some reason. But you're right, it is because we live.
Speaker 5: Here and know when owns their grass or takes care
Speaker 5: of it or it doesn't grow out of control and
Speaker 5: it's way for it to die or burn.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a whole different environment. And I'm like, that's
Speaker 6: that's a big thing. It's like it's a It's like
Speaker 6: it really changes my mood. It really affects my mood.
Speaker 6: It's a very different pace of a place, you know.
Speaker 6: I like, I don't want to call myself a highly
Speaker 6: sensitive person, but I'm I'm I always felt like La
Speaker 6: has this kind of you know, for me at least,
Speaker 6: I got to this place where I can no longer
Speaker 6: take the rush, if that makes any sense. Yes, And
Speaker 6: I'm just kind of like, I don't know, and having
Speaker 6: to think about these kids, these freaking things.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Cut to a picture of the most beautiful baby.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Hey, I grew up in apartments, you know, so
Speaker 6: it's like to be able to like have a little
Speaker 6: house in a city like this is like incredible, you know,
Speaker 6: nothing nothing like I feel like I'm doing. I'm like
Speaker 6: jealous of these kids, you know, Like I didn't have
Speaker 6: a meet all right. Can you imagine me without a meat.
Speaker 6: That's what I was like, But you get a meat,
Speaker 6: isn't that crazy? And they're like whatever, clown.
Speaker 1: Anyway, then they just go run and beautifully cut grass,
Speaker 1: just like a slow motion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, through sprinklers. Your kids get to run through sprinklers.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Also, isn't the food amazing in Atlanta? Like that's the
Speaker 1: That's the one thing. I remember being on the road
Speaker 1: and we got to go to really nice restaurants and
Speaker 1: I was just like, holy shit, everything here is the best,
Speaker 1: so delicious.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of great food out here. Absolutely, I
Speaker 6: care about it. We're still only at the beginning of it,
Speaker 6: you know, still getting used to it and all that stuff,
Speaker 6: but like, uh yeah, loving it so far. Still got
Speaker 6: to unpack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just got there. Is there any of the
Speaker 5: shows you're acting on? Are they shooting there? Was there
Speaker 5: work reasons that brought you there?
Speaker 2: Also?
Speaker 6: No, I mean, I guess this was kind of a
Speaker 6: dream before you know, the pandemic hit to kind of
Speaker 6: be able to move out here while I was working,
Speaker 6: But like now I'm kind of like a free agent
Speaker 6: if anything. Yeah. Grayson Frankie has concluded it's run. Okay,
Speaker 6: so like they dropped the last of the last of
Speaker 6: the last episodes that are out on Netflix, and I
Speaker 6: am you know, I want to say free, yeah and
Speaker 6: available call me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that show was on for a while. Was that
Speaker 1: like five years?
Speaker 4: Seven seven years.
Speaker 6: Seven seasons, eight years? I was on that thing.
Speaker 1: Amazing, great show.
Speaker 6: So condescending. Yeah, yeah, that's that thing that I just
Speaker 6: called my children those things. So I got to get
Speaker 6: rid of that, like those things or that thing that's disrespectful,
Speaker 6: that great show I was on.
Speaker 5: How long have you been Tom Servo on Mystery Science
Speaker 5: Theater three thousand.
Speaker 6: And three thousand, it'll be about this is the third season.
Speaker 2: So there's been little breaks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had. We had two seasons on Netflix that
Speaker 6: went down the drain for reasons I'll never I'll never
Speaker 6: know personally. But then Joel Hodgson and the team got it,
Speaker 6: got it back together and decided, hey, let's do another fundraiser,
Speaker 6: and they launched this their own platform, their own streaming
Speaker 6: channel app thing oh wow, called the gizmo plex plex plex.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, I can watch it. I it's the best.
Speaker 5: I can watch that any time I can have it
Speaker 5: on the background. I can sit and get high and
Speaker 5: watch it.
Speaker 6: Where does it again?
Speaker 2: Chris Montana.
Speaker 6: Oh, so you're you're from the Midwest kinda.
Speaker 5: I mean the state is so large, it's the fourth
Speaker 5: largest state, and it's so it's it goes pretty far.
Speaker 5: But it's also you know, it's just two hours from Washington,
Speaker 5: so it's actually more Pacific Northwest. Like there's Washington, there's
Speaker 5: a little thing of Idaho, then giant Montana. Then you
Speaker 5: got a couple of Dakotas, and those Dakotas I think
Speaker 5: are considered Midwest because you get the Thatargo thing.
Speaker 1: Your outer PN dubs. Yeah, I think adjacent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Is it different per the side like the east of
Speaker 6: the west side of Montana.
Speaker 2: Because it's such a large state.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't. It's so large that I never have
Speaker 5: been really to eastern Montana. I am on the western edge,
Speaker 5: and I like it.
Speaker 6: There is no what's an eastern Montana? A lot of
Speaker 6: I am Dakota's No, I mean, what what major city?
Speaker 2: None? I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 5: We're talking about the fourth largest state and there's not
Speaker 5: even a million people in it.
Speaker 3: Whoa.
Speaker 1: So everything's happening on the like the southwestern corner.
Speaker 2: There is in the very middle is Billings.
Speaker 5: I think that that is the largest city that has
Speaker 5: over one hundred and fifty thousand or something.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of like eastern northern California, where truly
Speaker 1: it's like I've never been there, and I don't know
Speaker 1: anyone who's ever been there. It's like a completely different
Speaker 1: state kind of.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's also where the mountains are on the western edge,
Speaker 5: the Rocky Mountains, So you kind of want to if
Speaker 5: you're in Montana, you want to be in the Montanas.
Speaker 5: That's Spanish for mountain. So in my opinion, it's the
Speaker 5: most beautiful part. That's my opinion.
Speaker 6: Oh what I.
Speaker 1: Want to know is why you're resisting the idea that
Speaker 1: you're from the Midwest so hard?
Speaker 5: Like what what is It's it's just not the case.
Speaker 5: I should have gone along with it though, as I
Speaker 5: usually know life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is actually the this is exactly the exact
Speaker 6: education about Montana that I needed to.
Speaker 5: It's easy to forget about North and also South Dakota,
Speaker 5: but they are the separator between the Midwest and the West.
Speaker 1: Oh, truly, that's like the official dividing line.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I didn't know that either.
Speaker 6: You're from northern California, Karen.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm from the I'm from basically the coast
Speaker 1: of northern California, so the.
Speaker 4: Furthest West, what part of it.
Speaker 1: I'm from the North Bay, so I Pedaloma, which is
Speaker 1: about thirty miles north of San Francisco. That's having a
Speaker 1: kind of resurgence now because I think because so many
Speaker 1: people left San Francisco when it got so expensive and
Speaker 1: right the dot com boom kind of drove everybody that.
Speaker 1: Like when I lived there in the nineties, I think
Speaker 1: I paid three hundred and fifty bucks a month rent.
Speaker 1: I had two roommates and we had a beautiful like Victorian,
Speaker 1: the first floor of the Victorian in the upper hat,
Speaker 1: and I paid like almost nothing for rent. And I
Speaker 1: look back now like we were it was. We were
Speaker 1: living off the fat of the land in the nineties.
Speaker 1: It was totally insane compared to now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wish, I wish I could have been around
Speaker 5: for that. I'm glad I started in Austin. But the
Speaker 5: San Francisco scene it seems so well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is I hate to say that seems like
Speaker 6: it's the coolest. It always still to me, Well.
Speaker 1: You know what it's It was a when I went
Speaker 1: there and I started as not even an opener, but
Speaker 1: like just someone in the audience hoping to God, someday
Speaker 1: I would be able to get to do comedy here.
Speaker 1: It was like the headliners were like Mark Mare and
Speaker 1: Dana Golden, Greg Proops, right, and then the like the
Speaker 1: like mid class you know, the middlers or whatever were
Speaker 1: Greg Barent, Patton Oswall blank Patch. It was just like
Speaker 1: Sulie McCullough. There was all these people that it was
Speaker 1: like everybody was so good at stand up comedy in
Speaker 1: a different way, so you kind of could go like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be like that, and I want to
Speaker 1: be like that, and there was and everybody was so
Speaker 1: virulently anti hack. It was like it was really the
Speaker 1: pecking order was about originality kind of in a way
Speaker 1: that I feel like it was a huge advantage in
Speaker 1: terms of being able to be creative instead of and
Speaker 1: you need to fit into the setup punchline system and
Speaker 1: like be the best of that style. The whole idea
Speaker 1: was originality, it felt like to me, So.
Speaker 5: I call it the birthplace of alt comedy. There, i'veset it.
Speaker 6: Wow, be careful, right, I.
Speaker 2: Use that stop yelling that expired phrase. I did get
Speaker 2: very close to the mic for that. I feel like.
Speaker 6: Every scene, though, every city has had, like I want
Speaker 6: to say, like two major waves, Like every major comedy city,
Speaker 6: I would say, including Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Speaker 6: New York, Boston, even where even where I started, even
Speaker 6: where I started. Yeah, but it's kind of like it's
Speaker 6: interesting to see because I feel like right now, every
Speaker 6: single city, the personality of every single city is shifting
Speaker 6: in this way, you know what I mean. Like it's
Speaker 6: like a city, what we knew was city to be
Speaker 6: about in a lot of ways is becoming irrelevant, if
Speaker 6: that's if that makes any sense. Where it's like San
Speaker 6: Francisco is like to me at least, it's like nothing
Speaker 6: like what it what. It's like a fully different vibe
Speaker 6: that whole place. Same with Austin, same with Los Angeles,
Speaker 6: same with New York. You know, like every place is
Speaker 6: like shifting. I think Atlanta is part of you know,
Speaker 6: every place is like entering a different Wait a minute,
Speaker 6: it's the roar in twenties. That's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 6: oh good, but don't roar too loud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, keep it down.
Speaker 5: When I was in Austin, there was that keep it
Speaker 5: weird thing I got. I would roll my eyes. People
Speaker 5: would say it it was on bumper stickers. People would,
Speaker 5: you know, be painting unnecessary murals just.
Speaker 2: Like I get it. Everyone here's an artist.
Speaker 5: People would walk around with film reels where director hats.
Speaker 1: Yelling cut and action.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no right to do, like people directing traffic by
Speaker 5: yelling cut in action.
Speaker 2: Let you know, uh, everyone was a filmmaker.
Speaker 5: And now it's just kind of become a thriving, you know,
Speaker 5: a regular city. It's good and bad, I suppose, but
Speaker 5: most people that live there would probably complain about it
Speaker 5: because you know, when I lived there, it was five
Speaker 5: hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: People and now what yeah, two million? I don't know.
Speaker 6: Well, this pandemic really, like I feel like, exacerbated a
Speaker 6: shoote shift of population.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I mean the United States of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: What connection did you have to Atlanta? If any baron,
Speaker 5: why'd you choose that place?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I do have a couple of connections
Speaker 6: to the comedy scene here. You know, I kind of
Speaker 6: love that Atlanta has a thriving stand up comedy scene
Speaker 6: that has professional live equity theater question.
Speaker 5: Classically trained is classically trained?
Speaker 6: I'm good. But also there's film and television here. You know,
Speaker 6: I can work in New York, I can work in LA.
Speaker 6: I feel like we're in this time where it kind
Speaker 6: of doesn't matter where you live, you know. Like not
Speaker 6: that I'm saying everybody needs to travel everywhere, but there's
Speaker 6: a lot of new ways to work remotely when you
Speaker 6: I feel like traveling is not that hard, and like
Speaker 6: for me at least, I'm going to try to. You know,
Speaker 6: I don't do it unless I have to, which is
Speaker 6: not necessarily the best because I didn't never take a vacation,
Speaker 6: but like because I'm like, I was like, I'm a
Speaker 6: very for something.
Speaker 4: I gotta go.
Speaker 6: I got to eat a lot more guys.
Speaker 1: Well that's almost it's good in a way. It's almost
Speaker 1: like getting taken out because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the time and I always say LA is a young
Speaker 1: man's game. It's like you're here, you're doing sets every night.
Speaker 1: You're trying to see and be seen and be known
Speaker 1: and all that, you know whatever, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: in this stage of your life, it's a different it's
Speaker 1: a down shift in some ways like now you don't
Speaker 1: have to compete for it anymore because you're known, and
Speaker 1: then now you get to do next level stuff, you know.
Speaker 6: And there's something suffice it to say that I think
Speaker 6: is here for me creatively. Yeah, I feel like there's
Speaker 6: something for me here that I need and the soul
Speaker 6: so I came.
Speaker 2: To find it.
Speaker 6: That makes it great?
Speaker 4: Yes, that makes any sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, way more than La, where like, what the hell
Speaker 1: what of your soul are you're going to be able
Speaker 1: to find?
Speaker 5: And fucking Atlanta specifically has it though, just like interacting
Speaker 5: with people there I have.
Speaker 2: I always feel good there.
Speaker 5: I think, Uh, that's a good place to be.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 6: Who knows, you know, it's a it's a it's a chance,
Speaker 6: it's trying something different. So I have a good feeling
Speaker 6: about it, and you know, part of it is also
Speaker 6: hoping to that'll make me focus when I come to LA.
Speaker 6: So it's kind of all these quote unquote grown up quotations.
Speaker 1: Grown up right when you drive your lawnmower to La.
Speaker 6: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about what everyone's thinking. What did you get
Speaker 5: a Toro? A Briggs and Stratton?
Speaker 2: What you get a John Deere?
Speaker 6: We're going to tell you because I think it's slightly
Speaker 6: embarrassing because my name has a toro. Oh and I'm
Speaker 6: like what what?
Speaker 2: What can I be asked?
Speaker 5: Did you get one of those lime green electric lawnmowers?
Speaker 6: Definitely not my I just got something that's a little
Speaker 6: low tech for now.
Speaker 5: I got you, I got you. Yeah, you don't need
Speaker 5: to get a riding lawnmower. I don't expect you to no,
Speaker 5: no than with a steering wheel and smoke stacks on it.
Speaker 6: And also, bro, I still don't know this lands. You know,
Speaker 6: when you when you need someone the first time, do
Speaker 6: you cut off all their hair?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 6: Would you feel their head? Figure out? What?
Speaker 2: Got a massage? The horde of culture? Dude?
Speaker 6: A lot is the haircut of the land man.
Speaker 2: You don't just buzz it and send it off to
Speaker 2: the army.
Speaker 6: Right, I'm feeling for bumps. I need.
Speaker 2: Your lawn has a disgusting scalp?
Speaker 6: What is this stand drift? No poison knife?
Speaker 2: Oh head bumps.
Speaker 1: I do like that idea, though, it's real brave to
Speaker 1: make a change like that, because that is perfect for creativity.
Speaker 1: You're so right in that way where it's like new stuff,
Speaker 1: new spots like things that stimulate you in a new way.
Speaker 1: It's that like, to me, here comes your sitcom script
Speaker 1: about you know what I mean. It's like, that's how
Speaker 1: that stuff gets born, is when you people go out
Speaker 1: and actually have real experiences, you know, as opposed to
Speaker 1: looking at what other people are doing on social media
Speaker 1: and being like, yeah, me too. Yeah I'm an expert.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say I don't get sucked into
Speaker 6: that black hole.
Speaker 5: Everything I possible and it does not provide inspiration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to like travel and do it the
Speaker 2: other places.
Speaker 6: Either the things make me. I feel like everything I
Speaker 6: see on social media either makes me envious or angry.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that funny or scared?
Speaker 6: Of course, there's just some order baseline scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just there the whole time.
Speaker 5: The algorithm I've built for myself on videos that are
Speaker 5: sent to me through Instagram is things that will make
Speaker 5: me cry. Just yeah, people being nice to each other,
Speaker 5: or animals, small animals riding on the back of a
Speaker 5: swimming other animal. Stuff like that. I just cry and
Speaker 5: I found out. Yeah, that's a form of entertainment. A
Speaker 5: lot of people like scary movies. A lot of people
Speaker 5: like comedy not me. I like performing it, but I
Speaker 5: don't like watching it. But show me a good cry film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like those videos where people find a starving
Speaker 1: dog on the side of the road. It's just like
Speaker 1: you start the video broken hearted, but then then you
Speaker 1: get to watch the rehabilitatione.
Speaker 2: Fat and covered, feeding babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, running in a field fat. Yeah, just like we're
Speaker 1: gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: No more skin bumps.
Speaker 1: Scalp scalps.
Speaker 2: This dog had a bumpy scalp.
Speaker 6: And that's why we named it scalp scalp.
Speaker 2: Bumpy scalp, esquire.
Speaker 5: We're thinking about changing the dog's names since he's so
Speaker 5: smooth now, bumpy SCALPYI.
Speaker 1: Bairn. Are you going to get any pets? Do you think?
Speaker 6: Well? I have some of the dumbest allergies. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: and I've been looking at all kinds of alternatives. You know,
Speaker 6: the most scientifically proven ones, it seems for allergies are well,
Speaker 6: acupuncture apparently helps her allergies, but that's only like seasonal allergies.
Speaker 6: But for pet allergies there's like a series of shots,
Speaker 6: yeah that you can do it like self administered. So
Speaker 6: it's like I'm allergic to dogs and cats. I wasn't always.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're just sitting on your wallet.
Speaker 5: A lot of see the sciatic nerve controls a lot
Speaker 5: of our I was sitting.
Speaker 6: On the wallet of my nervous system, if you know
Speaker 6: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need to have you.
Speaker 5: I wonder it sounds crazy, but going somewhere and just
Speaker 5: having an animal near your face to really test to
Speaker 5: see if it's hypoallergenic and if not, it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: never mind, you can keep that one.
Speaker 2: How do you find out if you're going to be
Speaker 2: allergic or not?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know you got to go to some
Speaker 6: kind of allergists. Yeah, and then you get tested for
Speaker 6: all this blah blah blah. And as far as I understand,
Speaker 6: like there really is not still a real scientific reason
Speaker 6: for allergies. They always say that, like allergists. I remember
Speaker 6: last time I went to an allergist, They're like, luh
Speaker 6: about why I'm allergic? Yeah yeah, but just kind of like,
Speaker 6: but you are so shoop. Yeah it was the needles
Speaker 6: by the way, for the lists stabity. This is for
Speaker 6: Karen and Chris guys. But yeah, so it's like I've
Speaker 6: I've had a couple shots you know, for some food stuff,
Speaker 6: and I'm going to try to do it for some
Speaker 6: pet stuff, like it depends, you know, But I feel
Speaker 6: like my dumb allergies are not reason enough if you will,
Speaker 6: to deprive these children having a dog or a cat. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well it's so funny when I moved to Austin,
Speaker 5: and it made sense because you you like look into
Speaker 5: the air and it's like a Clarton commercial. There's just
Speaker 5: giant feather balls flying and Paulin you can see it
Speaker 5: in the air, and people would get like cedar fever
Speaker 5: where they literally would get a fever like and be
Speaker 5: sick and have to stay home.
Speaker 2: And it's an allergic reaction.
Speaker 5: And I always thought grow up like I was like
Speaker 5: judging people for having allergies because when in Austin, I
Speaker 5: did not have any kind of seasonal allergies. To me
Speaker 5: moving to LA and I swear to God, the first
Speaker 5: thing I'm allergic to was the ocean, like the ocean breeze.
Speaker 2: You would see the cleanest air.
Speaker 5: It's since I've moved away from the ocean, like to
Speaker 5: downtown La, I don't have allergies that whole thing with
Speaker 5: like black mold. It probably was because that sea air
Speaker 5: made black mold grow it like I had that wet environment. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I was constantly sneezing. I was miserable, wow by
Speaker 5: the beach. And now I'm fine now that I'm in
Speaker 5: a I just and I've never had that where they
Speaker 5: poke your arm and rub different irritants on you. It
Speaker 5: seems very primitive a way to find out what you're
Speaker 5: allergic to, right, I mean, I haven't.
Speaker 6: Really looked into it. Maybe there's been more advances. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: were we going to see Karen?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say it's real direct because I
Speaker 1: got that's when I was little. I had terrible allergies
Speaker 1: and very bad asthma. So I used to have to
Speaker 1: go get a shot at the kaiser in the next
Speaker 1: town over once a week, and then everyone's in while
Speaker 1: they would run the tests and they would either do
Speaker 1: it up both arms or they would do it down
Speaker 1: your spine and they would poke, poke, poke, poke, and
Speaker 1: it would be and then every and they would write
Speaker 1: numbers next to it, so they knew what they were
Speaker 1: testing you for.
Speaker 2: That seems like ship from the eighties. I can't believe
Speaker 2: they still do that this seventeen eighties.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mine looked like a leak. I want to say,
Speaker 6: it was like a It looked like like an ice
Speaker 6: cube tray, except yeah, except every ice cube was a
Speaker 6: needle that was numbered, and they had a corresponding piece
Speaker 6: of paper and they put it on my back in
Speaker 6: a very specific order so they could see to the number.
Speaker 6: What was what? But like, it's also like, so.
Speaker 2: What are you allergic to? Then? What did they the
Speaker 2: cult everything?
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you just had a severe allergic reaction, which
Speaker 6: I had, then you're going to come back allergic to
Speaker 6: everything because your allergy is making your immune system go.
Speaker 6: You know, going Viking, going Viking Vikings too. You know
Speaker 6: it's going Dave Agers and the Norman.
Speaker 1: It's berking. I believe it's what.
Speaker 6: They buzzerker exactly.
Speaker 1: I just watched The Northman. I really loved it. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's such it's there's something very specific.
Speaker 1: I just really love when something is old and based
Speaker 1: in the truth, because I'm like, this is the education
Speaker 1: I didn't get. So I'm like, oh, look at these Vikings,
Speaker 1: this is how the Vikings used to do stuff, And
Speaker 1: like is that true? I'm not sure it's not. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the point of the movie.
Speaker 2: But I liked it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like a peek into the past. Like that
Speaker 1: idea that you could you could see history somehow would
Speaker 1: be very thrilling to me. And also York makes a cameo. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that alone is worth the price of admission. I
Speaker 1: recommend you're supposed to say, spoilers, spoiler You know what's weird?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Mean that last night, at two.
Speaker 5: In the morning, I woke up and I ordered a
Speaker 5: B York shirt a sleepwalking No I was, I was
Speaker 5: sort of.
Speaker 2: I mean I was laying down, but I.
Speaker 6: Ordered a shirt and shopping.
Speaker 2: I forgot about it till right now.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I wonder why I ordered that, And then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, Karen brings up York.
Speaker 1: There it is, you see now.
Speaker 6: Is a full coincidence.
Speaker 5: But tonight I'm going to wake up to go pee
Speaker 5: or whatever at three in the morning and just order
Speaker 5: a lawnmower. Yes, and other people are dictating my purchases.
Speaker 6: No, I definitely did not get a lawnmower. That is like,
Speaker 6: I mean, some of them are very like life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a lifestyle, right, Oh, it's if you've never
Speaker 5: thought about them ever in your life.
Speaker 2: Why would you all of a sudden throw.
Speaker 6: Something I've never thought about them. It's been a long
Speaker 6: time since I've lived in a place where I had
Speaker 6: to mow a lawn, you know. Yeah, So I got
Speaker 6: something that's gonna tide me over until we figure out.
Speaker 6: That's what I mean. It's like I got some scissors.
Speaker 6: I didn't get shears, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yes, you got to test it out, and you got
Speaker 1: to see what if you need a weed whacker or
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, it's the tool has
Speaker 1: to fit the yard, not vice versa.
Speaker 6: And it's the same with acting. Oh, the tool has
Speaker 6: to fit the yard. Just take the word yard and
Speaker 6: replace it with part and we're out.
Speaker 2: You can't even see it.
Speaker 6: Just like throwing things as a bunch.
Speaker 1: Throw your coffee table book off the table.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you're gonna You know what, that's one of
Speaker 5: the benefits wearing a mat when you're out there kicking
Speaker 5: up allergens with your new mower.
Speaker 2: Just wear this, wear that mask. Wouldn't that work?
Speaker 6: I do?
Speaker 1: I have to say, Baron, you said that line about
Speaker 1: acting exactly at the one hour mark of this podcast.
Speaker 1: It was like the perfect button for this book.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, boom, And as usual for me, there's
Speaker 5: always like a perfect ending point and then I continue.
Speaker 2: I continue.
Speaker 5: The amount of times I've ended a comedy set with
Speaker 5: I should have ended on that.
Speaker 2: Is it makes me shutter Taven.
Speaker 6: That's the name of your next album.
Speaker 2: I should have ended on that.
Speaker 5: Yes, I honestly I'm going to write that down because
Speaker 5: that's a great I'm going to write it on my arm.
Speaker 1: And then poke poke yourself and see what you're looking
Speaker 1: to underneath it.
Speaker 5: It turns out I'm I'm allergic to on micron pens.
Speaker 5: That's actually kind of painful. Well, I'm excited for your
Speaker 5: future with your family in Atlanta, all excited about a
Speaker 5: new life.
Speaker 2: That's that's very Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about your sitcom script that I absolutely know
Speaker 1: is coming because of this experience.
Speaker 6: Yea, I'm trying to work on it. What is a
Speaker 6: sitcom anymore? Different versions of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's no longer like a fake room where people
Speaker 5: enter into an apartment you can see.
Speaker 2: The wall moving.
Speaker 6: No, but that's until some of it. Yeah, something out there.
Speaker 5: Some of those are coming back, and for some reason
Speaker 5: I am not, and it actually deters me from watching
Speaker 5: when it's an actual Like, hey, remember the old sitcom
Speaker 5: set up where it's a set and for some reason,
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, that's that's a bygone but it's not.
Speaker 6: It is not has not gone by for me. For me,
Speaker 6: it is yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: It's still happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and also, let's not negate in case Baron wants
Speaker 1: to eventually make that he could be a three camera sitcom.
Speaker 1: You could do a five camera sitcom. You could do
Speaker 1: an eight camera sitcom and be the first.
Speaker 2: What about a single cam single.
Speaker 6: Takes a half of a camera wa.
Speaker 5: Thrill that's turned away like a camera from Willie Walker's office.
Speaker 6: She's like, everyone wears go pros, like hidden go pros
Speaker 6: under a wig, right. I like that it's a wig
Speaker 6: that is a camera.
Speaker 1: And it's blocking itself.
Speaker 5: Here's the other catch. No one's doing sound. The sound
Speaker 5: is awful. Yes, yeah, the sound is u.
Speaker 2: Jeff.
Speaker 6: Also like Charlie Brown's teacher.
Speaker 1: This we got a hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ship.
Speaker 1: It's from the name of Atlanta to all set.
Speaker 6: Atlanta to the other TV show. God, I didn't know
Speaker 6: there was gonna be another one.
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's amazing. It was great. To see you, and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for your growing family and your yeah,
Speaker 1: all your things.
Speaker 5: Well right, right, when I was saying I haven't seen
Speaker 5: you in so long, you're just breaking it to me. Well,
Speaker 5: well it's you're gonna see me even less.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be longer. Well you know, look me up
Speaker 6: when you all are in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll.
Speaker 5: I won't even me, I won't even warn you. I'll
Speaker 5: just be knocking on your door.
Speaker 6: I do look forward to future, to future run ins
Speaker 6: and collaborations, and so it's good to see you both
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I missed, I miss you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've been terrific. You've been Baron Vaughan everyone, and
Speaker 5: you've been listening.
Speaker 2: Do you need a ride?
Speaker 1: D y n ay.
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Speaker 1: Produced by Casey O'Brien.
Speaker 2: Mixed by John Bradley.
Speaker 1: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 2: Theme song by Karen Kilgarriff.
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