April 28, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Tittle with you coast to coast and around the world
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and talented Julie Kim.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you, I am those things. Hello. Nice to be
here again.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You were here yesterday. You felt bad that you went
to the wrong place and so we only got about
half of our time, and you said I'll come back tomorrow.
And even though you didn't mean it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We said we said, I did mean, I got on
I got up on time. I'm here. Do I sound tired.
I'm a little tired, But like the important thing is
that we're here, Rick, We're having a good time, are we?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Absolutely? The important thing is is that we're big fans
of Julie Kim. That's all. So what happened at the
Punchline last night?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, the Punchline was amazing. It was like a pretty
full show for a Wednesday night, especially, which I really
appreciate because a lot of my fans now are parents
and it takes a lot of work, I'm sure, as
you know, to just organize on a weekday, and they
came out. I was so heartened. I met a bunch
of people after the show that was really nice. Can
I mention one weird.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Thing that happened please while you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So, there were a lot of people who came up
and just to say hi, And it's usually just a
quick exchange and normally, after some sheepishness, people are like
can we take a picture? And I say, of course,
we can take a picture. But there was one couple
two things. One couple that came up to me and
they were like, you know, saying thanks, we love your show,
and then like kind of silent. So I was like, oh,
do you want a picture? They're like no, We're good.
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Like so I don't know what that was about. Maybe
they were just awkward, or I was making it awkward,
but they'd said we don't take pictures because they're probably
criminals or something. So that was weird. But then another
very nice young lady came up to me and said,
you know, she came alone, had a really nice time.
My jokes resonated, thank you so much, and we had
a little bit of an exchange. And then as she
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was leaving, I noticed that she was recording me the
whole time from like here like this, and like I
wouldn't have minded if she was like, can I take
a video, like let's do a little into it was yes,
it was actually on a thing that looked like a baton.
It could have been a multifunctional thing that records but
then also can beat you over the headway. Yeah, it
was weird. I felt like a little bit violated, even
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though of course there's cameras everywhere, but she was like
talking right at me, and maybe it was like, how
dare you record me from below a below angle? But
I felt a little weird there. But you know, with
way I'm most going around everywhere and I have seen
them now, you know, Yeah, yeah, since you told me
about them. I don't know. I don't think it's the
time to be precious about anything, but it just felt weird.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But you know what, it reminds me of when I
was And I'm not a East Coast guy, so I'm
always when I go back to the East Coast, it's
always kind of a little funny to see, like, you know,
the sweat hogs, as we would say for my generation.
I know, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Did they call themselves that?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, it's from Welcome Back Cotter. Oh, okay, that's right,
the East Coast guys, so all right. But it's when
I was just telling this yesterday because I was in
Conquered mass a couple of years ago and I was
waiting at the train station. It's this little train station,
and there was this Italian restaurant called Sorrento's. I probably
shouldn't say it, but it's too.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Late, and they were like, there's probably ten of them.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
There were four guys in there, and I don't want
to say guidos, but I just did, there's four guys
in there, and it kind of looked kitchy. And I
take a lot of pictures on the road, okay, and
so after I ordered my sub, I backed up, I
put my camera up and they went and they all
four dropped. They go, what are you doing? What are
you doing? What are you doing? I went out, sorry,
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oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no pictures.
And I thought, is this witness relocation?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They probably are all criminals. Not to be racial about it,
but like, how do you how do you explain that
kind of behavior? Were you recording them or yourself or
the premises?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It was like I pointed a gun at them. I
just took a wide shot of the whole restaurant and
the four of them are in it. They're not even
like squared up.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, and they panicked.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They were not supposed to be there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know what it was. It's like, don't tell
my wife I'm working. I told her I'm at the
strip club.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh that's funny. I mean, that's that's probably true. Or
maybe they were eating. Maybe they were messy eaters. Some
people don't are very These are the employees, Oh the employees.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, they're just four guys standing around.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Maybe they were on documented.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Maybe that's all I could think was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I was keywords right now it's all over the news.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I was in Oakland a few years ago and I
had the temerity to stop at a crosswalk with a
little girl holding a puppy, straight out of Central Casting,
and I got hit from behind, and then the car
hit that car from behind, and then that car hit
me again. So I get hit twice.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's like Domino's, but just you, and so I pull over.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The other two cars race away. Oh no. And so
there was a Latino man on the sidewalk and he
said they left because they're illegal.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I mean in America. I'm sure that comes
to mine right away. When you first said you were hit, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, my car was hit.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh thank god.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And then I started a movement called build a Wall.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Did you start that? You deserve credit. Trump should definitely
credit you. I thought the story was going to be
different because you mentioned a little girl and a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I stop.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
How did they factor in?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Because they were in a crosswalk and these other cars
were not going to stop for her. It was like
you wait till we drive by. And so she was
waiting to cross, and I'm like, oh, I'll let you cross,
and the other ones are like, what are you doing, dude? Wham.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Was it a crosswalk?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Crosswalk? This is on East fourteenth and Oakland, also known
as International Avenue.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Why is it called that?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know. I think East fourteenth got a bad
connotation for hookers in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh, from different countries? Is that why it's international?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And the hookers ran away because they were undocumented?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh? Well, I mean this all makes sense and I'm
definitely sensing a theme here.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Coming off likey G. Gordon Liddy, You're.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Coming off as the one good person in this story
as the point. This is always why I start a story,
because I want you want to know what a good person?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's right, You want yourself to be in a good light.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Right, I'm with you, And no.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
One's going to start a story. Hey, I was in
a restaurant. I made a scene. I didn't tip.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Those are fun stories, though, I think so and so
in the West Coast where I'm from Vancouver, especially Seattle.
I was just in Seattle, they are so overtipping, over
overdoing it. Apparently in Seattle. My cousin was telling me, like,
people are angry because minimum wage is actually very very high,
but tipping culture has only propagated and become much much stronger,
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and so people are being priced out of like their
coffees and stuff and like whatever. I mean. I would
never put this on Twitter or x or anything because
people will argue any point. Yes, but I'm just relaying
the sentiment that, like, people are exhausted.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I can tell you that I had two rubicons that
I crossed. When it comes to tipping, and you know
now that they just turn the screen around, it starts
at eighteen or twenty percent. That's the first one.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, try BEG twenty five or a nail salon. Sometimes
they start at twenty two percent after tax. I think
my gripe is about the after text. Why are we
doing it after? They're just like kind of slipping it
in there. I don't know if I would do the
same if I was a small business owner and wanting
to keep my people happy and not leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
These are my two rubicons. The first one was I
was at a rock concert and I bought a T
shirt and it was forty bucks, and the guy got
it and handed to me. It took two seconds and
he turned the screen around and it said twenty five
percent to forty dollars and I put no tip, and
I felt slightly bad. But then I was at a place.
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There's a burke A in Kensington, in the East Bay.
There's a bakery called Semi Freddy's and make great sour
dough bread. You grab the bread yourself, you go up
and pay for it. And she swung the thing around
and said eighteen percent. I went no tip. You did nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You said that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I didn't say it in your head. In my head,
you did nothing. You're like, well, you have to support
my job. No I don't. If you do a service,
if I go to a restaurant, if you're the worst
server ever, I'm still giving you fifteen for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well you know what I find interesting now? In a
lot of coffee places where I go, they swing the
machine around and they watch. They used to do this
thing that often at restaurants they do where the server
will look away. But sometimes they look away because you know,
they don't want to look at your password or your
pin or have some sort of decorum and be like,
you know, you do your thing. But at coffee shops
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lately I have noticed they look straight at you or
straight at the path.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And they spit in it and then they get to know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
But they know they're applying peer pressure, and they really
should do a study about that, if they haven't already
done a study about it. But then I figure, like,
this is manipulation, So I'll just like act as if
they're not looking. But it took me a while. Together,
we're all on a journey, right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Isn't interesting too that to leave a tip of three
pennies is more insulting than no tip.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, I've heard that. I've heard that people feel insulted.
I would just take any money. Also, being from Canada,
did you know that we no longer have pennies. Pennies
were taking out of circulation a few years ago because
smart cost and worth of copper was beyond what the
one cent that it actually was, So now we don't
really have pennies.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Wow. The other day Jay Moore was in here and
he said that he saw a dime on the sidewalk
and he said, I now know the price of me
bending over is twenty five cents.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh, it wasn't worth it to him. I wonder if
he would have picked up two dimes or three dimes.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Is it just maybe if it was three dimes.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But also if you're going to bend down or like
scrutinize a bit. You've already spent the time to do
the math in your head. Just bend over and pick
it up and then count it in your hand, because
it's so much easier now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think after the show yesterday, did you do merch?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, I'll tell you something interesting. Being from Canada, I
have had reservations and outright fears of crossing the border.
Like last month, I did shows in Portland and Seattle,
and I did a road trip down with my family,
and I did lose some sleep hearing about these stories
of children being confiscated at the border or being held
inttention in other parts of the country. You have heard about, oh.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
These things, kids in cages.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well yeah, and I know it sounds extreme, but it
does happen to people. So I lost sleep over it,
and I did consider should I cancel these trips, and
I thought, no, I'm gonna do it. But at the
last minute I realized that I might have trouble at
the border if I brought merch, because what if they
considered those as imports, like in formal imports. So I'm like,
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I'm going to simplify, which is too bad because I
do have new amazing merch and it's actually on my
website if people want Julikimcomedy dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Is that why you call your new tour the tariff tour?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That's right, twenty five percent in tips after tax. Yeah,
it's definitely a different kind of world out there, and
it leaves a lot of us feeling nervous. But you
know what, this is the great thing about doing comedy.
I get to actually go to different countries and these
different cities, and whatever misconceptions I might have based on
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like the news or social media are gone as soon
as I meet the mostly normal, sensible people here, and
it's very heartening. It's a shame that not more people
can just do comedy and relate to large audiences of
people who have the same sense of humor and backgrounds
and you know, relatable themes in their life, because it
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really is like such connector. I'm really I'm really grateful
for it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's great. One quick question before you go to the break. Yes,
I remember being in Canada in the eighties and the
money had one one bill might have been the same
bill dollar bill I had Queen Elizabeth on the money
and a beaver. Do you still have both of our monarchs. Yeah,
is queen Now that you guys aren't technically commonwealth, do
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you still have Queen Elizabeth on your money?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Think we do so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I recently did a show an Attawa, the capital of Canada,
and I was with my daughter and we went to
the mint. So we learned more than we want to
know about money. So there is like some sort of
rule where the Queen Elizabeth is just like on our
money and raining past monarchs are also on various forms
of money. But there's a lot more different kinds of
money than you see in circulation. We have a lot
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of bills one we used to have a one, two, five, ten,
and they go up like there's like a thousand dollar
bill tenth, you know. And some of them are special
coins that like you'll almost never see out there that
are collector items. So the Martin Short that's you know what, Yeah,
I would actually pay for that. He deserves the million
dollar coin because he's like our best expert. But anyways, anyways, yes,
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she's still on our money, and a lot of other
people are on our money as well.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I have the Great Julie Kim for a couple more minutes,
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, thank you for that,
and welcome back to the show. Rick Tittle with you
coast to coast and around the world on the American
Forces Radio Network. You know, we love the comedians and
very happy now to be joined by Jeremy Alder. He
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has a brand new album from Blonde Medicine entitled Almost
a Grown Man. And Jeremy, welcome to the show. You
did not do this at the Hollywood Ball. You did
it in a little town in North Carolina. Where were you?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
That's right, man, I was in Hillbro, North Carolina. It's
about so fifteen minutes from Durham Chapel Hill and I
did a little bar right around the corner from my house.
And it was great. Man. It was like a community event.
The mayor was there, all the local celebrities, the restaurant owners,
the coffee shop, bearistas, the librarians. It was great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was in your neck of the woods in December.
I stayed in Greensboro, not too far from you.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah, about forty five minutes from there.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Actually, So, Jeremy, you were a preacher, and the first
thing I thought of was, of course Sam Kennison, who,
as you know, was a preacher originally. Did you draw
an inspiration from Sam's path?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
You know, I can't think of two comedic personalities that
are more different than me and Sam Kennison. And I'm
I'm definitely a better driver than him. Ah, God, bless God,
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bless his soul. I I really do love I really
do love Sam Kennison a lot, but I can't say
I learned a whole lot. He was also a little
bit before my time, so that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He was more in my wheelhouse. So tell me about
growing up in uh in South Texas, because I have
a friend of mine who works in San Antonio, and
he always says, when something's really redneck, he goes, he goes,
that was really redneck. And you got to remember I'm
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from South Texas and I'm like, what does that mean?
He's like, oh, that's the most redneck part of Texas.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No, No, not at all?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I mean yeah, no, I think you travel h northwest
or east of Texas of San Antonio and you can
find much deeper redneck country. No, San Antonio is the
largest predominantly Latino city in America. So for me, I
didn't experience it as redneck. I experienced it as like
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like when I was growing up, all the kids in
my neighborhood called me wet.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I was like one of the only white kids, and
I just thought we must it must mean Jeremy in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, and well is it? I thought Weddo. As I
grew up and around a lot of Mexican guys too,
I thought Wedow was white girl. And then like Guerol
was white boy.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So I heard Pendejo and Mary Kahn and Oka Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Sure, oh yeah, yep, yeah, those were all the first
first words.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah. No, he and my friend wasn't He works in
San Antonio, but he grew up like down By, like
c DoD Warez and el pass Away and all that.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I mean, that is that is uh, you know, cowboy
country for sure?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, so for sure. When did you first have the
calling for the Lord?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Well, I mean I grew up. I was, I was homeschooled.
My parents are retired missionaries, and we I grew up
in a very very religious, very kind of sheltered environment,
and so I was, you know, I just kind of
grew up in the church and so uh, yeah, I
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didn't have far too far to go to find the Lord.
He was right there. So but the the preaching, you know,
that that came you know later. I ended up going
to seminary and uh and preach for a little bit.
Mostly I was licensed to preach in the Black Baptist
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Church out here in North Carolina. And then and then
I joined the Mennonite Church, and I don't know if
you can imagine two more different congregational.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Styles.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And that's actually where I first I first did stand
up was at the Mennonite Church. I did a five
minute set roasting Mennonites for a kind of humor service
that we had, and it killed and I loved it,
and yeah, kind of went on from there.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So my great grandfather is from a town called Munster
in Westphalia, northern Germany, and there's a it's a Catholic enclave,
so to speak, mostly Protestants in Germany except north and south.
But anyway, there's this huge cathedral in Munster and they
used to they got cut down a about one hundred
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years ago, but for about three hundred years they had
cages full of hundreds of skulls of Anabaptists. Those are Mennonites.
Aren't Mennonites Anabaptists?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, yep, yeah. We like to say the only thing
that Protestants and Catholics could agree on was he had
to kill the Anibat.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So, so what was your joke? You're like, you know,
I was on the road to Damascus and two Israelites
came by in a Samaritan. I mean, what was the joke.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
For the Mennonite?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah? What what kind of You're not in there talking about,
you know, trans jokes or anything.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No, No, I think I think one of the jokes
was was about how do we know Adam was a Mennonite?
We had when you had the choice between mean eve
a naked eve in an apple, he shows the apple.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, it was silly, tough.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
These are a stupid kind of like street jokes, but
it was it was a lot of fun, and it
definitely kind of gave me the bug to try more comedy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So so who were you know what? Correct me? If
I'm wrong, I'm going to put you in the same
kind of category a guy who's been in here a
few times. So I really like as a Ryan Hamilton.
Do you kind of think that you're kind of like him?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I love Ryan Hamilton. Yeah, I mean I think we're
both generally pretty clean in our comedy, but I think
we try we do clean comedy in a way that
it's not obvious and it's not the first thing people
come away with. It's like, oh, that was a clean
comedy show. It was just these guys were funny, and
when I think about it, oh, you know, they didn't
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drop a bunch of f bombs or you know, make
my grandma to him comfortable. So yeah, Ryan's fantastic. I'm
honored that you di'd even think of us in the
same category.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Let me tell you a story that he told me,
and then I would like your corresponding story. When he
was in Rexburg, Idaho, and he was, you know, zero
comedy scene, and he one time drove to a mic
in Montana and he was like three hours in the snow,
and when he got there, no one listened, no one laughed.
He didn't get paid, and the bar maid said, hey,
came here, and she headbutted him and laughed, and so
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he said he was driving home in the snow. He
made twenty five bucks holding an ice pack to his forehead,
and he thought, if I don't quit now, then I
guess I never will. So what was your Nator story
where You're like, you know, let's screw everybody, I'm leaving comedy.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Oh man, I want to leave comedy every day. It's
I think it's at it. Every day I wake up,
I think about quitting. And that's how I know it's
a sickness. It's an illness, it's some kind of addiction.
But that is how you realize whether you really have
it in you is when you have held gigs like
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that and you want to keep going. Like I remember
my first kind of gig where I got paid pretty
well was a New Year's Eve gig up in Virginia
and it was at a very very fancy hotel and
they like put me up in a nice room. I
bought a suit. It was the first time I'd ever
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worn a suit, and they were paying me pretty good money.
I was maybe two years in. I had maybe ten
minutes and they wanted me to do fifteen minutes, and
I was like, well, I'm just going to go for it.
And man, they had an amazing band. They had served
everybody dinner and then they put me up fifteen minutes
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before midnight, and it was during the band. It was
like lights were down, the spotlight on the stage and
everyone's having a great time. But I guess they didn't.
They couldn't fit me on the stage because it was
a big band with lots of instruments, so they put
me in the middle of the dance floor where they
didn't have a spotlight. They raised all the lights in
the room so that I could then see that the
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room was filled with grandmothers, middle aged people, and children.
And I had at the time, I had jokes that
were just not child ready. And I did fifteen minutes
to dead silence, except for except for one old lady
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who just in the middle of my set was like,
I hope you have a day job. That was it, man,
And I could not have gotten out of that room faster.
I did the countdown, and then I booked it to
my room and I was like, you know what, like
I don't know if this was worth it, And but
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I got up the next day and I went and
did another gig. And that's just how it is, man,
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And you realize those weren't comedy fans. It was on them. Man,
all right, one last question for you, Almost a grown man,
Blonde Medicine coming out tomorrow. What are we going to
hear on this album?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Man, You're going to hear an hour of my best
material about my weird upbringing, growing up homeschooled in Texas,
about becoming a young dad. I've got five kids. I
talk a lot about YEP, talk a lot about raising kids,
raising teenage boys. I talk a lot about I have
(25:40):
a lot of jokes about religion. So if you are
kind of feel some kind of way about jokes about religion,
this album might not be for you. And a lot
of sex, drugs and rock and roll in there too
to keep it interesting. So yeah, Well, I always say
I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Great, And I always say if some he has an
area where you can't joke, then you're not a comedy fan.
You know. It's just if you don't like it, don't laugh. Yeah,
I just I hate the off limits people. And I
know a lot of people comedians won't even do colleges
because they walk in and they get a list of
eight things you can't talk about. There's no rules in comedy, Yes,
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Jeremy Alder almost a grown man. He well, with five kids,
he definitely is. But that's the name of his new
album from Blonde Medicine out tomorrow, and Jeremy, next time
you're in San Francisco, come by the studio.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Thank you so much, man, we'll do.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
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and talented Julie Kim.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you, I am those things. Hello. Nice to be
here again.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You were here yesterday. You felt bad that you went
to the wrong place and so we only got about
half of our time, and you said I'll come back tomorrow.
And even though you didn't mean it.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We said we said, I did mean, I got on
I got up on time. I'm here. Do I sound tired.
I'm a little tired, But like the important thing is
that we're here, Rick, We're having a good time, are we?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Absolutely? The important thing is is that we're big fans
of Julie Kim. That's all. So what happened at the
Punchline last night?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, the Punchline was amazing. It was like a pretty
full show for a Wednesday night, especially, which I really
appreciate because a lot of my fans now are parents
and it takes a lot of work, I'm sure, as
you know, to just organize on a weekday, and they
came out. I was so heartened. I met a bunch
of people after the show that was really nice. Can
I mention one weird.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Thing that happened please while you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So, there were a lot of people who came up
and just to say hi, And it's usually just a
quick exchange and normally, after some sheepishness, people are like
can we take a picture? And I say, of course,
we can take a picture. But there was one couple
two things. One couple that came up to me and
they were like, you know, saying thanks, we love your show,
and then like kind of silent. So I was like, oh,
do you want a picture? They're like no, We're good.
(02:04):
Like so I don't know what that was about. Maybe
they were just awkward, or I was making it awkward,
but they'd said we don't take pictures because they're probably
criminals or something. So that was weird. But then another
very nice young lady came up to me and said,
you know, she came alone, had a really nice time.
My jokes resonated, thank you so much, and we had
a little bit of an exchange. And then as she
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was leaving, I noticed that she was recording me the
whole time from like here like this, and like I
wouldn't have minded if she was like, can I take
a video, like let's do a little into it was yes,
it was actually on a thing that looked like a baton.
It could have been a multifunctional thing that records but
then also can beat you over the headway. Yeah, it
was weird. I felt like a little bit violated, even
(02:48):
though of course there's cameras everywhere, but she was like
talking right at me, and maybe it was like, how
dare you record me from below a below angle? But
I felt a little weird there. But you know, with
way I'm most going around everywhere and I have seen
them now, you know, Yeah, yeah, since you told me
about them. I don't know. I don't think it's the
time to be precious about anything, but it just felt weird.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But you know what, it reminds me of when I
was And I'm not a East Coast guy, so I'm
always when I go back to the East Coast, it's
always kind of a little funny to see, like, you know,
the sweat hogs, as we would say for my generation.
I know, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Did they call themselves that?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, it's from Welcome Back Cotter. Oh, okay, that's right,
the East Coast guys, so all right. But it's when
I was just telling this yesterday because I was in
Conquered mass a couple of years ago and I was
waiting at the train station. It's this little train station,
and there was this Italian restaurant called Sorrento's. I probably
shouldn't say it, but it's too.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Late, and they were like, there's probably ten of them.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
There were four guys in there, and I don't want
to say guidos, but I just did, there's four guys
in there, and it kind of looked kitchy. And I
take a lot of pictures on the road, okay, and
so after I ordered my sub, I backed up, I
put my camera up and they went and they all
four dropped. They go, what are you doing? What are
you doing? What are you doing? I went out, sorry,
(04:02):
oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no pictures.
And I thought, is this witness relocation?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They probably are all criminals. Not to be racial about it,
but like, how do you how do you explain that
kind of behavior? Were you recording them or yourself or
the premises?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It was like I pointed a gun at them. I
just took a wide shot of the whole restaurant and
the four of them are in it. They're not even
like squared up.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, and they panicked.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
They were not supposed to be there.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know what it was. It's like, don't tell
my wife I'm working. I told her I'm at the
strip club.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh that's funny. I mean, that's that's probably true. Or
maybe they were eating. Maybe they were messy eaters. Some
people don't are very These are the employees, Oh the employees.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, they're just four guys standing around.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Maybe they were on documented.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Maybe that's all I could think was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I was keywords right now it's all over the news.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I was in Oakland a few years ago and I
had the temerity to stop at a crosswalk with a
little girl holding a puppy, straight out of Central Casting,
and I got hit from behind, and then the car
hit that car from behind, and then that car hit
me again. So I get hit twice.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's like Domino's, but just you, and so I pull over.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The other two cars race away. Oh no. And so
there was a Latino man on the sidewalk and he
said they left because they're illegal.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I mean in America. I'm sure that comes
to mine right away. When you first said you were hit, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, my car was hit.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh thank god.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And then I started a movement called build a Wall.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Did you start that? You deserve credit. Trump should definitely
credit you. I thought the story was going to be
different because you mentioned a little girl and a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I stop.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
How did they factor in?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Because they were in a crosswalk and these other cars
were not going to stop for her. It was like
you wait till we drive by. And so she was
waiting to cross, and I'm like, oh, I'll let you cross,
and the other ones are like, what are you doing, dude? Wham.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Was it a crosswalk?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Crosswalk? This is on East fourteenth and Oakland, also known
as International Avenue.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Why is it called that?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know. I think East fourteenth got a bad
connotation for hookers in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh, from different countries? Is that why it's international?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And the hookers ran away because they were undocumented?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh? Well, I mean this all makes sense and I'm
definitely sensing a theme here.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Coming off likey G. Gordon Liddy, You're.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Coming off as the one good person in this story
as the point. This is always why I start a story,
because I want you want to know what a good person?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's right, You want yourself to be in a good light.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Right, I'm with you, And no.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
One's going to start a story. Hey, I was in
a restaurant. I made a scene. I didn't tip.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Those are fun stories, though, I think so and so
in the West Coast where I'm from Vancouver, especially Seattle.
I was just in Seattle, they are so overtipping, over
overdoing it. Apparently in Seattle. My cousin was telling me, like,
people are angry because minimum wage is actually very very high,
but tipping culture has only propagated and become much much stronger,
(07:03):
and so people are being priced out of like their
coffees and stuff and like whatever. I mean. I would
never put this on Twitter or x or anything because
people will argue any point. Yes, but I'm just relaying
the sentiment that, like, people are exhausted.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I can tell you that I had two rubicons that
I crossed. When it comes to tipping, and you know
now that they just turn the screen around, it starts
at eighteen or twenty percent. That's the first one.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, try BEG twenty five or a nail salon. Sometimes
they start at twenty two percent after tax. I think
my gripe is about the after text. Why are we
doing it after? They're just like kind of slipping it
in there. I don't know if I would do the
same if I was a small business owner and wanting
to keep my people happy and not leaving.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
These are my two rubicons. The first one was I
was at a rock concert and I bought a T
shirt and it was forty bucks, and the guy got
it and handed to me. It took two seconds and
he turned the screen around and it said twenty five
percent to forty dollars and I put no tip, and
I felt slightly bad. But then I was at a place.
(08:07):
There's a burke A in Kensington, in the East Bay.
There's a bakery called Semi Freddy's and make great sour
dough bread. You grab the bread yourself, you go up
and pay for it. And she swung the thing around
and said eighteen percent. I went no tip. You did nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You said that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I didn't say it in your head. In my head,
you did nothing. You're like, well, you have to support
my job. No I don't. If you do a service,
if I go to a restaurant, if you're the worst
server ever, I'm still giving you fifteen for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well you know what I find interesting now? In a
lot of coffee places where I go, they swing the
machine around and they watch. They used to do this
thing that often at restaurants they do where the server
will look away. But sometimes they look away because you know,
they don't want to look at your password or your
pin or have some sort of decorum and be like,
you know, you do your thing. But at coffee shops
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lately I have noticed they look straight at you or
straight at the path.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And they spit in it and then they get to know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
But they know they're applying peer pressure, and they really
should do a study about that, if they haven't already
done a study about it. But then I figure, like,
this is manipulation, So I'll just like act as if
they're not looking. But it took me a while. Together,
we're all on a journey, right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Isn't interesting too that to leave a tip of three
pennies is more insulting than no tip.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, I've heard that. I've heard that people feel insulted.
I would just take any money. Also, being from Canada,
did you know that we no longer have pennies. Pennies
were taking out of circulation a few years ago because
smart cost and worth of copper was beyond what the
one cent that it actually was, So now we don't
really have pennies.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Wow. The other day Jay Moore was in here and
he said that he saw a dime on the sidewalk
and he said, I now know the price of me
bending over is twenty five cents.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh, it wasn't worth it to him. I wonder if
he would have picked up two dimes or three dimes.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Is it just maybe if it was three dimes.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But also if you're going to bend down or like
scrutinize a bit. You've already spent the time to do
the math in your head. Just bend over and pick
it up and then count it in your hand, because
it's so much easier now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think after the show yesterday, did you do merch?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, I'll tell you something interesting. Being from Canada, I
have had reservations and outright fears of crossing the border.
Like last month, I did shows in Portland and Seattle,
and I did a road trip down with my family,
and I did lose some sleep hearing about these stories
of children being confiscated at the border or being held
inttention in other parts of the country. You have heard about, oh.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
These things, kids in cages.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well yeah, and I know it sounds extreme, but it
does happen to people. So I lost sleep over it,
and I did consider should I cancel these trips, and
I thought, no, I'm gonna do it. But at the
last minute I realized that I might have trouble at
the border if I brought merch, because what if they
considered those as imports, like in formal imports. So I'm like,
(11:08):
I'm going to simplify, which is too bad because I
do have new amazing merch and it's actually on my
website if people want Julikimcomedy dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Is that why you call your new tour the tariff tour?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
That's right, twenty five percent in tips after tax. Yeah,
it's definitely a different kind of world out there, and
it leaves a lot of us feeling nervous. But you
know what, this is the great thing about doing comedy.
I get to actually go to different countries and these
different cities, and whatever misconceptions I might have based on
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like the news or social media are gone as soon
as I meet the mostly normal, sensible people here, and
it's very heartening. It's a shame that not more people
can just do comedy and relate to large audiences of
people who have the same sense of humor and backgrounds
and you know, relatable themes in their life, because it
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really is like such connector. I'm really I'm really grateful
for it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's great. One quick question before you go to the break. Yes,
I remember being in Canada in the eighties and the
money had one one bill might have been the same
bill dollar bill I had Queen Elizabeth on the money
and a beaver. Do you still have both of our monarchs. Yeah,
is queen Now that you guys aren't technically commonwealth, do
(12:22):
you still have Queen Elizabeth on your money?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Think we do so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I recently did a show an Attawa, the capital of Canada,
and I was with my daughter and we went to
the mint. So we learned more than we want to
know about money. So there is like some sort of
rule where the Queen Elizabeth is just like on our
money and raining past monarchs are also on various forms
of money. But there's a lot more different kinds of
money than you see in circulation. We have a lot
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of bills one we used to have a one, two, five, ten,
and they go up like there's like a thousand dollar
bill tenth, you know. And some of them are special
coins that like you'll almost never see out there that
are collector items. So the Martin Short that's you know what, Yeah,
I would actually pay for that. He deserves the million
dollar coin because he's like our best expert. But anyways, anyways, yes,
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she's still on our money, and a lot of other
people are on our money as well.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I have the Great Julie Kim for a couple more minutes,
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, thank you for that,
and welcome back to the show. Rick Tittle with you
coast to coast and around the world on the American
Forces Radio Network. You know, we love the comedians and
very happy now to be joined by Jeremy Alder. He
(14:39):
has a brand new album from Blonde Medicine entitled Almost
a Grown Man. And Jeremy, welcome to the show. You
did not do this at the Hollywood Ball. You did
it in a little town in North Carolina. Where were you?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
That's right, man, I was in Hillbro, North Carolina. It's
about so fifteen minutes from Durham Chapel Hill and I
did a little bar right around the corner from my house.
And it was great. Man. It was like a community event.
The mayor was there, all the local celebrities, the restaurant owners,
the coffee shop, bearistas, the librarians. It was great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was in your neck of the woods in December.
I stayed in Greensboro, not too far from you.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah, about forty five minutes from there.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Actually, So, Jeremy, you were a preacher, and the first
thing I thought of was, of course Sam Kennison, who,
as you know, was a preacher originally. Did you draw
an inspiration from Sam's path?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
You know, I can't think of two comedic personalities that
are more different than me and Sam Kennison. And I'm
I'm definitely a better driver than him. Ah, God, bless God,
(16:11):
bless his soul. I I really do love I really
do love Sam Kennison a lot, but I can't say
I learned a whole lot. He was also a little
bit before my time, so that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He was more in my wheelhouse. So tell me about
growing up in uh in South Texas, because I have
a friend of mine who works in San Antonio, and
he always says, when something's really redneck, he goes, he goes,
that was really redneck. And you got to remember I'm
(16:43):
from South Texas and I'm like, what does that mean?
He's like, oh, that's the most redneck part of Texas.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No, No, not at all?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I mean yeah, no, I think you travel h northwest
or east of Texas of San Antonio and you can
find much deeper redneck country. No, San Antonio is the
largest predominantly Latino city in America. So for me, I
didn't experience it as redneck. I experienced it as like
(17:16):
like when I was growing up, all the kids in
my neighborhood called me wet.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I was like one of the only white kids, and
I just thought we must it must mean Jeremy in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right, and well is it? I thought Weddo. As I
grew up and around a lot of Mexican guys too,
I thought Wedow was white girl. And then like Guerol
was white boy.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I heard.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So I heard Pendejo and Mary Kahn and Oka Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Sure, oh yeah, yep, yeah, those were all the first
first words.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah. No, he and my friend wasn't He works in
San Antonio, but he grew up like down By, like
c DoD Warez and el pass Away and all that.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I mean, that is that is uh, you know, cowboy
country for sure?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, so for sure. When did you first have the
calling for the Lord?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Well, I mean I grew up. I was, I was homeschooled.
My parents are retired missionaries, and we I grew up
in a very very religious, very kind of sheltered environment,
and so I was, you know, I just kind of
grew up in the church and so uh, yeah, I
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didn't have far too far to go to find the Lord.
He was right there. So but the the preaching, you know,
that that came you know later. I ended up going
to seminary and uh and preach for a little bit.
Mostly I was licensed to preach in the Black Baptist
(19:03):
Church out here in North Carolina. And then and then
I joined the Mennonite Church, and I don't know if
you can imagine two more different congregational.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Styles.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And that's actually where I first I first did stand
up was at the Mennonite Church. I did a five
minute set roasting Mennonites for a kind of humor service
that we had, and it killed and I loved it,
and yeah, kind of went on from there.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So my great grandfather is from a town called Munster
in Westphalia, northern Germany, and there's a it's a Catholic enclave,
so to speak, mostly Protestants in Germany except north and south.
But anyway, there's this huge cathedral in Munster and they
used to they got cut down a about one hundred
(20:00):
years ago, but for about three hundred years they had
cages full of hundreds of skulls of Anabaptists. Those are Mennonites.
Aren't Mennonites Anabaptists?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, yep, yeah. We like to say the only thing
that Protestants and Catholics could agree on was he had
to kill the Anibat.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So, so what was your joke? You're like, you know,
I was on the road to Damascus and two Israelites
came by in a Samaritan. I mean, what was the joke.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
For the Mennonite?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah? What what kind of You're not in there talking about,
you know, trans jokes or anything.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
No, No, I think I think one of the jokes
was was about how do we know Adam was a Mennonite?
We had when you had the choice between mean eve
a naked eve in an apple, he shows the apple.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I mean, it was silly, tough.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
These are a stupid kind of like street jokes, but
it was it was a lot of fun, and it
definitely kind of gave me the bug to try more comedy.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So so who were you know what? Correct me? If
I'm wrong, I'm going to put you in the same
kind of category a guy who's been in here a
few times. So I really like as a Ryan Hamilton.
Do you kind of think that you're kind of like him?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I love Ryan Hamilton. Yeah, I mean I think we're
both generally pretty clean in our comedy, but I think
we try we do clean comedy in a way that
it's not obvious and it's not the first thing people
come away with. It's like, oh, that was a clean
comedy show. It was just these guys were funny, and
when I think about it, oh, you know, they didn't
(21:56):
drop a bunch of f bombs or you know, make
my grandma to him comfortable. So yeah, Ryan's fantastic. I'm
honored that you di'd even think of us in the
same category.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Let me tell you a story that he told me,
and then I would like your corresponding story. When he
was in Rexburg, Idaho, and he was, you know, zero
comedy scene, and he one time drove to a mic
in Montana and he was like three hours in the snow,
and when he got there, no one listened, no one laughed.
He didn't get paid, and the bar maid said, hey,
came here, and she headbutted him and laughed, and so
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he said he was driving home in the snow. He
made twenty five bucks holding an ice pack to his forehead,
and he thought, if I don't quit now, then I
guess I never will. So what was your Nator story
where You're like, you know, let's screw everybody, I'm leaving comedy.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Oh man, I want to leave comedy every day. It's
I think it's at it. Every day I wake up,
I think about quitting. And that's how I know it's
a sickness. It's an illness, it's some kind of addiction.
But that is how you realize whether you really have
it in you is when you have held gigs like
(23:12):
that and you want to keep going. Like I remember
my first kind of gig where I got paid pretty
well was a New Year's Eve gig up in Virginia
and it was at a very very fancy hotel and
they like put me up in a nice room. I
bought a suit. It was the first time I'd ever
(23:33):
worn a suit, and they were paying me pretty good money.
I was maybe two years in. I had maybe ten
minutes and they wanted me to do fifteen minutes, and
I was like, well, I'm just going to go for it.
And man, they had an amazing band. They had served
everybody dinner and then they put me up fifteen minutes
(23:54):
before midnight, and it was during the band. It was
like lights were down, the spotlight on the stage and
everyone's having a great time. But I guess they didn't.
They couldn't fit me on the stage because it was
a big band with lots of instruments, so they put
me in the middle of the dance floor where they
didn't have a spotlight. They raised all the lights in
the room so that I could then see that the
(24:15):
room was filled with grandmothers, middle aged people, and children.
And I had at the time, I had jokes that
were just not child ready. And I did fifteen minutes
to dead silence, except for except for one old lady
(24:37):
who just in the middle of my set was like,
I hope you have a day job. That was it, man,
And I could not have gotten out of that room faster.
I did the countdown, and then I booked it to
my room and I was like, you know what, like
I don't know if this was worth it, And but
(25:00):
I got up the next day and I went and
did another gig. And that's just how it is, man,
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And you realize those weren't comedy fans. It was on them. Man,
all right, one last question for you, Almost a grown man,
Blonde Medicine coming out tomorrow. What are we going to
hear on this album?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Man, You're going to hear an hour of my best
material about my weird upbringing, growing up homeschooled in Texas,
about becoming a young dad. I've got five kids. I
talk a lot about YEP, talk a lot about raising kids,
raising teenage boys. I talk a lot about I have
(25:40):
a lot of jokes about religion. So if you are
kind of feel some kind of way about jokes about religion,
this album might not be for you. And a lot
of sex, drugs and rock and roll in there too
to keep it interesting. So yeah, Well, I always say
I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Great, And I always say if some he has an
area where you can't joke, then you're not a comedy fan.
You know. It's just if you don't like it, don't laugh. Yeah,
I just I hate the off limits people. And I
know a lot of people comedians won't even do colleges
because they walk in and they get a list of
eight things you can't talk about. There's no rules in comedy, Yes,
(26:19):
Jeremy Alder almost a grown man. He well, with five kids,
he definitely is. But that's the name of his new
album from Blonde Medicine out tomorrow, and Jeremy, next time
you're in San Francisco, come by the studio.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Thank you so much, man, we'll do.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Thanks for listening in to the Comedy All Stars Podcast
with Rick Tittle on the eight Side Network.
Host
Rick Tittle
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