July 15, 2025 • 53 mins
Jeremy welcomes back, special guest, Kent Masloskie to the show! Kent is a stand up comedian, actor and writer from Lincoln, Nebraska. Kent has been in comedy for over 10 years and spent time acting before that in Pasadena, California. You can see Kent perform LIVE July 25, 2025 - 8pm at the Storm Cellar in Lincoln, NE.
In this week's episode:
-What's Kent been up to lately
-History of stand up comedy
-Performing comedy in front of the mob
-RIP OJ Simpson
-Kent on the spectrum?
-Las Vegas Sphere
-Hollywood coming to Nebraska?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm in a real good hearted place right now, so
I really don't want to see that taking advantage of
and I just I know that people could make up
stories for all kinds of reasons, but I'm trusting that
unless I see otherwise.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, you're in a good hearted place. So where
do you in one of those porn shops?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doctor John's?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's right, that's right, that's a good place to be.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode this is Laughing
Me podcast, Jeremy, I'm your Home, jo. I did you
check out the interview with the Tiger King? It's appropriately
titled Tiger King Joe exact. I could just came out
(01:01):
right before this episode. Check it out. He what a
gift it was. He called in from from prison to
give us an update on where he's at with the
pardons and and just kind of you know where he's at.
Some nuggets in there. We found out if he was
on the Epstein list. That's good. It's good to just
either clear your name or just hand up. So, uh,
(01:23):
check it out. Fun episode and uh was pretty surreal.
A big fan of his as far as like the
TV show, not a fan of the murder for hires
and the animal engagement and whatnot. As I'm sure a
lot of you are too. That wasn't a joke, Johnny,
I really don't agree with those things. But anyhow, for
(01:47):
more information on Joe Exotic, if you heard the episode
Joe Exotic Official dot come all right, Well today another
special guest and he's been on the show before. He's
a stand up comedian, he is an actor, he's a writer,
and he currently resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. Kitt Maslowsky. He
(02:09):
is calling in and we're going to get an update,
see where he's at, what he's got going on. And
he's got an awesome show July twenty fifth in Omaha
or not in Omaha and Lincoln the storm Seller. That's
it's for a great cause. So awesome lineup and it's
for a great cause. We're gonna hear all about that,
(02:29):
and frankly a whole lot more. We kind of we
went all over the place as far as what we
talk about. But it's always fun to catch up a cat.
And that's the thing. He's a guy that's like you know,
you know those people that are just they can talk
to you about anything, right, And I like to think
I'm kind of in that world too, where it's like
(02:51):
I could run into anybody and they'll bring up something
and I don't know everything about it, but I know
just enough and we can just talk and talk and talk,
and then you'll know something very rare or random about
that topic. He's one of those guys like I feel
like I'm one of those guys too, and so it's
fun to catch up with him and just just chat
and uh no fun episode, and we've got more coming
(03:14):
later this week as well as This is season four
of Laugh with Me. Ken't Masowski calling.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It She've been writing a bunch of new jokes. I've
been for some reason my sets. People are saying this
are just they're clicking harder than they ever have. I
don't know why. I don't know what's different. I have
(03:41):
no idea. And what's crazy about it is sometimes these
are said to know I'm not completely happy with because
I'm such a massive perfectionist. Yeah, I'll like, I'll arrange
a word, and because the audience doesn't know that I
did that, they don't care. But then when I listen back,
I'm like, oh, I said, I said. That doesn't even
make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
How to think, yeah, yeah, that's the best though, when
the audience still laughs and you're like, I can make
that better.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah. Yeah. So when you're in that flow state, you know,
sometimes things get like transposed. But at the same time,
it's like they're responding to your competence. They're not really
they're not responding to the words per se. The confidence
allows you to do their thinking for them.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, so you're still you were producing the show where
because I did it last year where you eat the
you try to do a set while you're eating increasingly
hot chicken wings. That was a lot of fun. I
haven't seen that you've had one recently. What's what's the
status on that show?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's kind of on hiatus right now. We're finding new
comics and I ran through all the comics, like I
got every single one, and you like, you know, I
think we have some people come from Omaha as well,
so like we just I don't want to do it
with the same people over and over. I think I
think the real novelty comes from the novelty, so people
(05:04):
trying it for the first time, because then if it's
someone who's already done it, then they kind of know
what they're in for and that's that kind of kill
some of the fun. I want, you know, I want
people to in real time have to strategize how am
I going to finish this set?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, because it it certainly was that because as the
I don't know if the first wing was fine, but
then once I got into the second one, I was like,
all right, this is I can see how it's going
to be a challenge as I'm also trying to keep
my composure and be able to talk. Yeah, it was fun, though.
(05:41):
I enjoy the show Hot Ones, so it's like anything
in that world is to me is just great, Like
there's endless opportunities for it. So I very much enjoyed
doing it, and I very much enjoyed watching the show
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it's fun. It's I think the audience enjoys it
because even if you've heard these jokes before, you've never
heard them perform this way.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you never heard the mark.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Pauses and burths and cops and wow, that's only hot
there's more, you know, Like that's what But that's the
thing is like I've been saying for a while that
like I don't know if stand up comedy is dead
per se, and I don't mean dead like not living,
I mean dead like a sea like. I just I
(06:28):
feel like I don't know where it's going, and I
think the place for it to go is to is
back to its roots, which it's the roots of Vodville
are of standup comedy rather are vaudeville and really criminality,
because you know it was it was gangsters that named
stand up. Really, Oh, you don't know this, okay, No, you.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Give me a history lesson. No, I I one hundred
percent did not know that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, this is this is the core of the the
quote unquote jets and sharks issue with improv and stand up. Okay,
so improv comes from Toronto, which is a really nice
place in a really nice country and people like to
work together. Right, that's improv. Yeah, stand up all right.
(07:14):
The origins of stand up are if you could entertain
a room full of dudes in a back room, like
some of whom had pistols on the table, smoke in
the room, you know, you get them all to laugh
and you could survive that show. They say you're a
stand up guy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, okay, that made that stand up guy. Now I've
heard that phrase before, not thinking it had anything to
do with comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right right, It has, it has other connotations, but at
that time that was that was how they described like
Don Rickles, yep, stand up guy, because Don Rickles could
go into that room with actual, honest to god gangsters,
some with pistols on the table and make fun of
all of them to their face and survive the encounter. Yeah,
(08:01):
so pretty important.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
George Burns was probably in that world. I would imagine.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, Anny, young men, do you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Think do you think that is like, uh, that's a
world you could you could live in. I mean, do
you think you could survive that room?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think I could perform in that room. I've had
enough bizarre experiences that I think, first and foremost, if
you leave with respect, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Really matter what room you're in, who you're around. I've
been with people from all different states and states of being,
and as long as you treat people with respect, by
and large, unless they're crazy, you're pretty much okay right now,
because the crazy ones are still there. That is a thing.
But like I performed it, like was it Doctor Jack's Drinkery? Yeah,
(08:59):
that's biker bar in Omaha. That was when I was
still drinking. Actually, I remember because I pulled off to
get some Soco shooters before I went in there, and
there was a comic who he was on stage. He
doesn't really perform anymore, but he did his entire set
unbeknownst to him with his flydown. Hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
My biggest fear, not not just on stage, but just
in life, my biggest fear.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's an understandable fear. But he did it, and it
was it was just like, man, like, you're with the lights.
I mean, it's impossible for us to miss and you
don't have any clue, and this is gonna be amazing.
And when he did find out, he just like ran
out of the bar.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. Was he Commando that night? Oh no, no, okay,
lucky him. Yeah, Oh it's lucky me. Yeah, the lucky you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's a good point. So you're so as a sober comic,
how is it being around folks? Because you just mentioned,
you know, at that show you had to get the
shooters ahead of time, and you know, and I've done
the same thing. I've had a few drinks before. How
do you feel about the difference in that when you're
there and you're preparing and getting ready on stage, and
(10:18):
maybe your co workers or castmates are not necessarily as sober.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, they probably won't be. Some of them will
make fun of you know. Yeah, there's one. Every time
I do my enough joke, I go and I look
in the crowd and I see if he's there, and
I'll point at him. And that's just because, uh, you know,
I see, I see where he's going, and I've been
there and I fully understand and right now he's having fun.
And I was having fun for a long time. But
(10:48):
at a certain point it just overshadows the fun and
it's fine. You just that's when you quit. And it's
just knowing when it happened. That was That was the
thing that I feel so black about, is that I
knew when as soon it was like a mathematical equation.
It was like, uh, this is encroaching on photography. I'm
(11:10):
cutting it out right. I had a I had a
gig that I woke up on my friend's floor and
I had to go and do and I was like,
this is this is the last time this is going
to happen. Yeah, And then the stand up. It took
four months after I stopped drinking to be able to
stand on stage without like my leg staking just a
(11:31):
little bit, like I because I really hadn't done it,
to be completely honest, like without that, I hadn't. Really
there have been a couple of shows that I'd done,
you know, completely Stone sober One was an expert to
like three hundred people. That was kind of a you know,
kind of a change.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But I'm thinking of your material and I'm like, so
you did a church. Was it a clean show?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Five minutes? Yes, I didn't. There's just back after five minutes. DJ,
you know young it was Reverend Durell ran that show
and Carlos Tibbs R I P was on that and
Carlos was amazing. If if, if you know anyone who
(12:15):
knew him, get you some Carloss stories because he was
he was a tremendous comic dude.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Speaking of R I P, do you you know O J.
Simpson died?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, a little while ago, right, Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm it's still I'm still struggling with it. Okay, yeah, good,
carry on?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is what what what is it about about Ojis Simpson dying?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The guests to you, Well, I just feel like he
didn't get a fair shake, like he died so young.
You know, Well, he's a Hall of Famer, he's a
Heisman Trophy winner. I mean, he's but loved in movies
and television like the guy. Just I don't know, I just.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Can't name a single bad thing he ever did either, So.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, not really. Yeah, I mean, he had a little
bit of legal trouble in the nineties, but that all
got that all got sorted out.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh, that was some kind of you know, misunderstanding or something,
I'm sure, And you know, the good thing about it
is he didn't then publish a book that was called
If I Did It, which included the phrase I remember multiple.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Times, you know, if I if I remember correctly that
the proceeds from that book went to some victims of
that little legal case that was that was just a misunderstanding.
So in the end it worked out.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Truly a towering giant of a man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He will be missed.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He will be missed. And that concludes the O. J.
Simpson portion of the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Episode, or does it. Yeah, you know they're they're remaking
the Naked Gun.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They are. Yes, they've got him make a mention, have to.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well they did in the trailer. You didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
No I have not, did they really?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So yes? So okay, So what happened was the the
Leslie Nielsen character is uh is being played by uh,
what's his name? It's Liam Neeson. Okay, so Le he's
(14:29):
like the son of Frank Dreven. And there's a scene
where or there's a shot rather where it's him and
he's looking at the picture of his father and he's
talking to him and it and it just hands down
as all the cops are doing this and it gets
to oh, his kid, and he looks up and goes, na, No,
(14:53):
that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm just happy. I'm just happy they give him a
give him a little nod that that movie is going
to be so funny because you can just imagine it's
going to have that same field they don't make, like
Hollywood doesn't make comedies like that anymore. So this hopefully
does well at the box office and they can start
to get that rolling again.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, man, I mean, you're you're not wrong. Our rated
comedies are like kind of the thing of the past
at this point. Like if they can, if they can
bring it back, I'll tell you who's going to do it,
probably is Kat Williams. Uh yeah, he just bought a
military base a couple of years ago, and this was
(15:36):
inspired by Tyler Perry, who previously bought a military base
and then started a huge film studio. Well, Kat Williams
bought a military base and it's got three million square
feet of studio space. So Kat Williams a lot of
stuff over the next few years. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Well, I'm here for it because that's we just haven't
had that since uh well, probably the early early two thousands,
mid two thousands, somewhere in there. It's been a long time.
Did you see the movie Friendship? I did not paul
ed Tim Robinson so freaking oh.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I mean, I mean except for you know, Leonardo DiCaprio
in Romeo and Juliet. But yeah, isn't that weird. It
is one of the humans who dies in Romeo and
Juliet and they didn't kill Paris. Paris is like the
Platonic ideal for Juliet. Of course, you know Romeo should
(16:39):
kill him, but not in the bas learmon one where
everyone had guns. It wouldn't have been hard.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No, it wouldn't have been hard at all. That's a
that's a lapse in the in the in the script.
They gotta, we need to remake the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's right, Rooms Die Part two, cat Paris.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And they and they got to cast Leo in it
and make things right.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's right and the past his girlfriend, and then after
she graduates from high school, yeah, you know, and they
can release it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I heard that. I don't know who his girlfriend is currently,
but I heard she is over twenty nine, because he
had this whole thing forever that he doesn't date girls
over twenty nine. I heard that she is, So maybe
he's matured a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, well he's fifty, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's about that time.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, fifty, it's time to not not your own age.
But you know, a couple of decades down now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
He and Toby McGuire are friends for life. And I
remember what was like ten plus years ago they were
talking on MTV about how they they have like matching
ferraris and they pull into the same like bar and
hang out together just be in movie stars with ferraris.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Movie stars. And they still do this.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh okay, well I thought you were running in that
circle you you lived, you used to live in l A.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I did eat wrong glass. That's true. I met wrong glass,
but but it was under not false pretenses. But the
person who was introducing me was a super scientologist. I
was like, oh, I had to figure out if like
he was, then I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Imagine where your career would be right now had you
joined scientology at that moment.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I would be one of those people who puts the
wood in lay in Tom Cruise's plathfinder.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yes you would, that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Would or no, sorry, was a weak navigator? Yeah, yeah,
that would. And then and then with my tongue, I
probably end up in that that facility that doesn't exist
out in Nevada that.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They have that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't exist. What are you talking about.
It's not like I have a friend who went and
shot industrials there yea, and it's like, yeah, they walk
you in. It's weird. Yeah, No, it's not like that
ever happened.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Have you been have you? I know you're writing jokes,
but have you written or started working on any screenplays
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, I have a screenplay that I've been working on
for a while. It takes place at a church camp.
Actually it's a yeah, it's a kid. It's it's based
loosely on my actual experiences at church when I was
very very young. But one thing I noticed was that
(19:52):
in addition to kids who come from church, they would
also just bust in bad kids to be like no
bi osmosis, just like maybe power of Christ compels you, like,
can we make these good kids? And what ended up
happening was not that. What ended up happening was then
you just kind of let's see. I remember Jesus said,
I send you out as as sheep among the wolves.
(20:13):
It was a little like that because I had never
fought until that that camp, and I remember fighting on
the way to like nightly church service after after dinner
one time just clocked this kid at the water fountain.
So so basically the story is it's about one of
(20:36):
those kids and why is he there and what was
the idea behind this and because it was a time
where that that was a thing that they thought would
help and I stood this day don't understand, but I
was trying to like wrap my head around what is
the life of this kid who gets sent to this
(20:57):
as as punishment? You know, you want to go to Juvie,
but they send him to church camp. It's like, oh no,
what's the you know, what's the fall out there? And
I have the I have the broad strokes figured out.
I know how I wanted to end. It's just a
matter of like putting that connected tissue together. And then
(21:21):
I have, uh, I have a sci fi series that
I started writing like five years ago at the pilot
for that, and I've been working on the second episode
of that for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So the Church the Church movie, is that like a
young coming of age type movie or is it like
a faith based and he finds himself.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Neither neither. Huh yeah, yeah. So so the idea is
is is it's kind of like more of like a
slice of life kind of like this is the day in,
day out of this camp and then now we take
this aberration and we kind of injected in and just
like what are the effects. And then beyond that, everyone
(22:12):
has a past, everyone has a future. So you know,
it's like every was that, every center has a future,
everything has a path. Yep, souh. It's it's sort of
that where you know, you think, oh, this is a
bad kid, but like there are no just out of
nowhere bad kids, right, So you know, I try to
address how how this all came to be, and a
(22:35):
lot of kids that you think you're bad kids are
deeply misunderstood. And I, you know, the older I get,
the more I start to think and this sounds like
a joke, but it's not. I'm sorting to think I
was probably and am still somewhere on the spectrum. And
I know a lot of people like to say that
they watch TikTok and they go, oh, this is me right,
(22:57):
But I've been I've been looking at like just social
anxiety and then like things I have with food and
all these different little details, and I'm like, hold on,
first of all, if this is the case, I really
wish this would have been figured out years ago. But
no one was talking like that back then. If you
(23:17):
were autistic, you were non verbal. That's the only the
only version that you know that society beheld. So you know,
now we have concepts like Aspergers, et cetera. And so
I'm starting to think that I'm somewhere in this neurodivergent world,
which is weird. But at the same time, the thing
(23:40):
I keep coming back to is it's, uh, there's there's
a lot of comfort knowing that you're perfectly find zebra
and not just a messed up horse.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And so that there's a question. Do you think it
is just a matter of we have more tests, we
have more ability to diagnose people, or is there there's
something that is causing it and making it more? I
guess it's just having more people now, you know, like
(24:09):
the people who think that the vaccines are causing it,
I'm not one that believes that that the science is
too good to say that it does it. So do
you think it's one way or the other? I guess
where do you stand on that?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I think? And this is part of why I think
I have this neurodivergent mind, because when I asked questions
like that, I try to look at it from multiple angles.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Is there's it's been so many decades now, it's hard
to tell, is it Because during the unpleasantness of twenty
twenty we learned that the more you test for things,
the more you find them.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Sure, so.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We are testing more for autism, so we're finding it more.
But is it more prevalent as well? We can't say,
because we're finding it more. But maybe it was always there.
I don't know. But simultaneously, also we have, you know,
food dyes that are petroleum based. What are we doing
(25:12):
petroleum based? And Skittles did not. Skittles and Eminem's are like, no,
we're keeping our bright food dies. But a lot of
companies are like, yeah, we're gonna start flavoring with fruit
juice and coloring with fruit juice and stuff. That's what
they do in Canada. And I've had Canadian fruit loops
and they are top notch.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
They are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
They're really good. We did a tape test Tuesday, which
we do on the radio every Wednesday, you know, for consistency,
and we tested American versus Canadian froot loops. And after
the Canadian proof loops, I threw away the American froot loops.
I was like, I don't want to subject myself to
these anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Did the colors fade faster?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The colors are not as brilliant, but it's cereal. You're
gonna digest it pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, But I like, I like my cereal to be neon,
Like I want it bright.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You like a pop of color in that blur right
before it gets shoved into your gullet. Yeah everything. Yeah, no,
it's yeah. Instead of instead of pale green, it was
it was bright neon green. And man, I'm telling you
here's the thing. It tastes worse because these are petroleum products. Jeez.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
So while we're on this subject, go ahead plug the
radio show for anyone listen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So, Uh, every week on Tuesday and Wednesday on the
Santa Cruz Voice at Well it's too central, but out
there it's noon, we do a show called One Season
in the Sun. It's me and Uh, and the host
of the show is Brian g And we talk about sports,
(27:05):
we talk about goofy stuff, we talk about basically, we
are a non political show and I'm not crossing my fingers.
We are a non political show. The whole purpose is
that you can listen to it while you're eating your
lunch and just have something to enjoy. So we talk about,
(27:26):
like we talked about Ozzie last week, you know, talk
about how Sharon kicked somebody off that show, but we
don't know who. We've been trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh that wanted them monetize it.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yes, well we think it was their manager is more
than likely what it was. We not the band that's like, oh,
we want money, it's usually the manager. I think of
it that way. But you know what else have we
touched on?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Have you guys talked about the Backstreet Boys residency at
the Las Vegas Sphere yet No.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I just saw that this morning. I saw some of
the visuals and what was crazy was like, I mean,
the audience, it was like the nineties again because they
I mean were they were the same screaming fans they
were twenty years ago. They it was like no time
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had passed and the visuals are so crazy, Like I
think what happened was these are the visuals that they
used to eat. If you wanted to see them, you'd
have to go to like Electron Electric, Daisy Carnival or
like He's like outdoor raves and so the visuals were
always there. Is just a matter of constructing a thing
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that could hold them, and that's the Sphere, which, by
the way, I heard yesterday twenty five percent off for
Vegas locals.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Is it really pretty cool?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well, the severe it loses millions and millions of dollars, Like, what,
at what point is this thing just gonna shut down?
I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You're concerned for this year.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I am because it's beautiful. It's a beautiful facility. I
haven't seen in person, but everything I've seen on TV
or they have seen it online, it looks insane. Everybody
that comes out of there is like, this is the
way to see a show, and you don't even have
to look at the band, Like it's just incredible. The
artists are like, it's amazing, but it's weird because the
(29:30):
audience isn't necessarily looking at us. But then but everybody
has a great time. But then I heard to like,
run the damn thing. It's just millions and millions and
millions of dollars that they're just losing. I don't know
if that's just over. They have they have a plan
where overtime, you know, like Netflix, where they're like, yeah,
by twenty thirty five will turn a profit, but then
(29:54):
that never happens, you know, when they get there. But uh, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what the future of
it is. I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
They said Uber hasn't ever turned a profit, but they
just happen to be gathering data on every single person
who uses their service. So at a certain point they're
going to have something more something true. Sphere. Yeah, the
Sphere is just it's just a performance venue with insane
fiber optics and it's got to be crazy expensive to run.
(30:26):
And not to mention, the show that you're seeing is
only half of the Sphere. The other half is while
you're waiting for the show, you're going through this like
museum of future technology. It's like technology of the twenty
first century, the twenty second century. If we're in the
twenty first century. How that happen?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So is that a separate ticket for that or is
that just when you get in.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
No, my understanding is that's part of the overall experience
and there's all kinds of wacky technology. I've never been there,
but I have. I have looked at it, and I
have friends who have gone. They say it's, i mean,
just mind blowing through. Kerry said that it was like
a transformative experience. Why wow, he saw the dead there?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh really, Yeah, that would be quite the show.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, mhmm.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, I'd love to go, but man, that's that's gonna
be a that's a pricey ticket.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's gonna be a pricey ticket for sure, and it's
it'd be good to do once at least.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, I don't know. I my sphere is that someone's
going to crash into that thing because they they have
traffic going around it all the time, and it's it's
bright and brilliant and periodically. I don't know if you've
seen this, they're like beings that are trying to break
out of it. Have you seen this? No? I have not, Okay,
so they have like as animated as part of the sphere.
(31:56):
It's like a giant being and it's beating on the sphere,
breaking through the glass. I have to think, Yeah, I
have to think you're driving around Vegas. Maybe if you're
driving around Vegas, you're desensitized and nothing, nothing, can nothing
get touch you about. I don't know. For me, if
I saw that thing, I'd get a little weirded out,
you know, and like does it ever get out? And
(32:20):
and why did you program it to get out?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, that's awesome. Welly didn't be to get you off
track from here from the radio show, but the uh,
but the Las Vegas fere just I don't know. I'm
concerned for the future of it, but I'm also encouraged
by the technology of it. You know, like what what
else is going to come from from this, you know,
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I hadn't seen that guy in a long time, and
to see him performing it from his from that chair.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Was sad.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
But it was also like, man, I hope I hope
that was the last run. Like I hope he actually
is retiring.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah. Yeah, when he's saying Mama, I'm coming home, you
felt it. Yeah, you're justly I this is a man
who built a genre, who built a world, who built
a universe of music and of camaraderie like there. The
metal people would not exist without Ozzy Osborne. The whole
(36:11):
idea of metal, this whole prince of darkness thing that
you know. I mean, it just it would not be
there without him. And to be able to see his
for lack of a better word, to see his kids
come and pay tribute, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But at the same time, yeah, he's at the end
of his life. I mean, at the best case scenario,
he's what eighty.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, he's got to be in that range.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, yeah, So I mean he's he's not he's not
gonna be running around and touring anymore anyway. Now, I
would have liked if you know, oh it was sound Garden, Okay,
well there we go, just sound out.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Oh was the artist?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's That's what I'm saying, says sound Garden explains absence
from concerts. Oh shit, because I heard that it was
possibly sound Garden, it was possibly Motley Crue. But yeah, okay,
so yeah, Ozzie's seventy six, Like he's had a good life,
(37:22):
he's done. What else can you do? He bit the
head off a bat accidentally, He's he's done more things
than you can imagine. I think. I think being able
to say, yeah, I'm done, I'm passing the torch, you know,
let young blood start running with it now, I think
(37:45):
that's kind of awesome. It's awesome because look, uh, you know,
everyone's everyone's life, you know it. It at a certain point,
it fades, and to be able to recognize that and
to not hold on with ego, you know, and and
end up doubling over on stage because he had to
get one more performance. And I think there's something something
(38:08):
kind of beautiful about that. You know, at a certain point,
step aside and you let the future come in.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I think you said it. It's he allowed the ego
to step aside, and you don't. That's that's very rare
for someone at his level. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
I'm sitting here looking at a picture vinyl of young
Blood on my wall. I'm a big fan of young Blood.
I'm so excited for him and see like where that goes.
(38:33):
He's just blowing up right now.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
And that's awesome because I didn't know anything about him
until this concert. Yeah. I I used to deliver food
years and years ago to this guy who unfortunately he passed.
He had cancer, unfortunately brain cancer actually, but he was
you know, he owned a company, h and basically all
(39:00):
he did with his time with well, his downtimes, he'd
sit in his garage and uh and he drink a
beer and he'd watched like Steve VI videos or like
you know, all the other great guitarists. And I remember
Steve VI had a guitarist who came out, who's about fifteen,
who came out and started threading with them. And that's
kind of what I thought of when I saw young
Blood up there with with Ozzy. I'm good. So you've
(39:22):
got the prodigies and they're connected to you know, the
old rock gods, and so you know, they're The ability
to have that, like that unbroken link to the past,
I think is so important. And there are a lot
of genres that don't have that. Yes, and metal does.
Metal has like a family kind of feel to it,
(39:43):
and I think that's great well, and.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
That explains a lot about Ozzie then, because other every
others genre, everybody's trying to hold onto their spot even
at that age. Did you get did you get an
update on that show?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Uh? It has not. It has not come, So I
don't okay, let me let me, let me just try
to send a text. I know you're fine, hurting the
way back right now.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
But where'd you say you were going tonight? Duffies?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, heading to Duffies supposed to start a nine thirty.
It's so funny that people make fun of storm Seller
for starting late, because every once in a while, like
we just like I don't know, we put it to
ten ten or something, you know. And I've seen Duffies
started like it was ten twenty when I left, like
a couple of weeks ago. So funny, you're gonna you're
(40:44):
start at nine thirty, you're starting at ten twenty. What
are you talking about? It started ten oh five. But
it's fine. Duffies is the place where I have no responsibility,
so that's where I like to try stuff, and the
Storm Celler I have a little better handle, so I
don't really try a lot of jokes there. It's more
(41:05):
about like just kind of setting the table and letting
the comics come up.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Work the material.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yep, we have a really cool show. It is coming
up July twenty fifth, off the Storm Celler. It's going
to be fifteen dollars at the door. It starts at eight,
and we are going to have some great local comics
and we also have a comic who has been on
Jimmy Kimmel, which is pretty cool. You got a guy
(41:29):
named Casey Crawford who you can look them up on YouTube.
He will make you laugh, no doubt if nobody else
makes you laugh. And by the way, that's not gonna
happen either. But if nobody else makes you laugh, it
will be worth it. You will pay fifteen dollars for
Casey and you will smile about it. But that having
(41:50):
been said, we also have We have Will and Serenity Doherty.
We have Ben Danielson, and we have Colton Hopfer who's
one of our newer com and he's awesome. He's also
a steah. He's a really interesting guy. We have Robert Davies,
who's a really solid staple of the scene. And uh,
(42:11):
we're going to have a silent auction. We have a
lithograph which is signed by Tom Osborne from nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yes, we're working on gathering some more donations, but that's
that's kind of the path we're on right now. We're
going to have I want to have buckets out by
the door so people can just drop money in. I
wanted to be huge, and I want to write off
in the bucket on the bucket, and I want her
to come away with as much money as possible. Because
(42:45):
what's happening is is this lady has he's a single mom.
He has two kids, and one of them as special needs,
and he has stayed four cancer. And I've said this
to other people. I can't hear cancer right If I could,
(43:07):
I would, And sorry, I know, Pharma, you're drawing a
bold eye on me right now, but I would. I
would cancer if I possibly could. And I don't care
who never could. Uh, but I can't. And because I can't,
we're gonna we're gonna try to help her with her
bills and we're going to try to to just just
support her with as much love as we possibly can.
(43:30):
And I have another reason for putting this show on,
and that is that she came to a show that
I was hosting, and I was so embarrassed because she
was her first comedy show ever. You've never seen stand
up comedy lives ever and who of the comics they
sort of two hours late, Oh no, and it was
(43:51):
it was a catastrophe. And she came back to an
open mic that we had in the storm Celler a
few maybe a month later, and that was a really
stolid night. So she was like, oh okay, So like
this is what comedy's supposed to be, and we want to,
you know, we want to give her a really good
night where he just doesn't have to worry about anything.
Just come and relax and laugh, you know, like like
(44:14):
what Roberts said is laughter is the best medicine. But
money definitely helps.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Money helps. Yeah, and you said her name's Cassie.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Her name's Cassy Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
And it's July twenty fifth, eight pm. I know for
a fact, Casey, you're you're the headliner, is plenty worth
the price of admission and to help the good cause
as well. But then you've got a great lineup and
you're hosting, right.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yep, I'll be hosting. I couldn't fit my name on
the poster and I look, you know you'll see me.
It's fine, but it's not my thing. It's her thing,
and I I really want to focus on her, and
and the comics are all donating their time, All the
money is going to her. No one is getting anything.
(45:03):
I mean, the bar you know, is going to get
paid for drinks etche But and do support the bar
because it's because of Jackie's big heart that we're able
to put on events like that. And and you know,
huge shout out to Jackie Storm because if not for her,
there'd be no Storm Seller And then where would I be, right,
(45:24):
where would any Honestly, that's it. That's a meeting place
for comics.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Another reason to support this show in particular, other than
the great cause and the great time you're gonna have.
But the more people come out and support local comedy
Lincoln and the storm Seller, the more opportunities for great
shows there will be. So go out July twenty fifth,
eight pm, Lincoln, Nebraska, Storm Seller and uh man, it's
(45:49):
gonna be great cause you're gonna tear it up. I
know that. What do you what are you gonna do
like five ten minutes?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, I probably, I probably won't do more than ten.
I'm just trying to do a tight little set, you know,
try to. I've got some some new stuff I've been
working on. I'll bring that with me, and you know
I've been doing. Here's the thing is, at the end
of the day, I and I don't know why it
took me this long. I'm eleven years in, but it
took me this long to realize, you know, buying large
(46:18):
people don't want comics. They'll they'll have comics think for them,
but they don't really care about your opinions. At the
end of the day, you know, I don't care. I don't.
I don't care what a comic tells me to vote
for or think. Really, I just want them to make
me laugh. I don't want them to go you know,
beyond that really, And that's the thing that I've been
kind of working on, is like just mining my own
(46:40):
life and being like, what's ridiculous about me? You know,
because if I if I talk about some kind of
big idea or whatever, people can attack that, et cetera.
And if I talk about a person, people can go,
you can defend that person. But if I talk about me,
no one's defending me.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Let me introduce you to this great comedian that has
that exact same principle. His name's Jerry Seinfeld. He's done
pretty good for himself up and commor then, yeah, you'll
have to you'll have to google him. There's a little
bit out there about him. But yeah, no, he's got
the same philosophies and it's it's just great stuff. You'll
(47:19):
have to check them out.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Well, at the end of the day, I think that's
all there is for comedy, is I Mean, people aren't
going because they want to hear how they should vote,
what they should think. They're going because they want you
to clap your symbols and dance monkey is exactly what
it's not. And it's not shameful either, because that's what
you're here for. It's what we all agreed to. Like
(47:44):
it's but at the same time, like I don't want
to see preachers tell jokes. I don't see comics preach.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yep, I love it.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
I can do anything.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Gat Wallives could do anything he wants, including saving Hollywood,
which he sounds like he's gonna do. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
He's down in Georgia. He might just you might just
replace Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
He could. That's Georgia loves. I think they have good
incentives for for filming there because I know a lot
of big studio shows and movies have been working down there,
because I don't know if it's tax incentives or what
it is, but I know they've got Yeah, they've got
great programs for him, so better in Hollywood I have.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Oh I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yep. My my former roommate, the closest person I have
to a brother in the whole world, Luke Sheridan. He
just became the vice president of gig Site Productions that's
located in Fremont just got a movie yesterday there and
actually had the mayor of Kremont say that, but he
(48:55):
was on set and uh. And it's really cool to
see Fremont just really wrap their arms around the concept
of film in Nebraska, because they're really the only community
that really has that vision and they have been nothing
but supportive, whether it's you know, White Lights City Film
(49:15):
Festival or just providing the tax and centives for films
to be shot there. I can't say enough about the
city of Fremont. Their mayor is amazing. I met him,
I met his wife at an event that that my
my my Famer roommate was at. We had the cinematographer
(49:37):
for Avatar was there. It was a good day. And
and be watching because Nebraska is about to start doing
some big stuff. Because the thing is like, hey, Nebraska
can play anywhere. Yeah, we have enough hills and we
have little desert ye places, and we have woods, and
(49:58):
we can we can play anywhere. We could be Norway,
we can be Hawaii, we can be there. I mean,
we have so much range as a state. And then simultaneously,
the democratization of technology allows for you can shoot anywhere.
You can you can shoot, you know, especially now with
(50:20):
with Blender and with AI you can shoot in your
room and you can you can put an entire feature together.
Like it's entirely possible now. So it's just a matter
of like who wants to pick those tools up and
work with them? And in Fremont there are a lot
of people also, massive, massive shout out to Stacy Heatherly.
(50:41):
She is the head of Eastern Nebraska Film and we
couldn't have done any of this without her. We are
just moving Ferduram forward. But she has been doing this
for decades. He has been working hard at this and
I'm so excited to see this happening because yeah, when
I left Hollywood, you know, I was kind of dejected,
(51:02):
but I came back with all this knowledge, and so
did a bunch of other Nebraskans, and it's like, hey,
we don't have to be in Hollywood to make movies.
Let's just go and make movies. So like you know,
in twenty well was at twenty sixteen, I just up
and shot a short film, you know, so I just
I had a camera available, I had some lights, and
(51:24):
I just got some comics and just wrote a script
and bam, you know, and you can do that now.
So Hollywood doesn't have the shine it used to because
it's not necessary.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, it's just it's more of an industry name anymore.
It's not necessarily a destination.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Right, absolutely. And I've worked on some excellent projects here,
and you'll work with people who sometimes they come from Hollywood,
sometimes they come from New York, sometimes they come from
sometimes local. But I've worked with some really really excellent directors,
(52:05):
really really excellent actors, And it's it's really going to
take people by surprise what Nebraska is gonna pull off.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Man, I think he buried the lead. I mean, here
we are, we're talking about the end of the show.
We should have been talking about this from the get.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
I know, I'm still you gonna be thinking about the
car craft, right.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
I was like, I'm going to bring this mood down
instantly and then we'll get to Hollywood character.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Well, at least you didn't just out of nowhere bring
up O. J. Simpson. That would have been whacky.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Oh geez, can you imagine the the vibe of the
show had I even begun to talk about a A.
I don't know, he's not even a murderer. He was
a accused.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
Murderer he was, Yes, he was acquitted murderer. Yeah, accused, convicted, No, accused, excused, accused,
acquitted citizen.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Oh wait, thief, thief, thief, he did steal his own memorabilia.
He did do that. I will, I will admit to that.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Okay, he was convicted of that, so I can't. You
can't come after me from that one.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Oh that's funny, all right. July twenty fifth, eight pm,
Storm Celler, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great show, great cause. Uh you'll
have to check it out.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Kay.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
Thanks man,
I'm in a real good hearted place right now, so
I really don't want to see that taking advantage of
and I just I know that people could make up
stories for all kinds of reasons, but I'm trusting that
unless I see otherwise.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, you're in a good hearted place. So where
do you in one of those porn shops?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doctor John's?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's right, that's right, that's a good place to be.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode this is Laughing
Me podcast, Jeremy, I'm your Home, jo. I did you
check out the interview with the Tiger King? It's appropriately
titled Tiger King Joe exact. I could just came out
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gift it was. He called in from from prison to
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pardons and and just kind of you know where he's at.
Some nuggets in there. We found out if he was
on the Epstein list. That's good. It's good to just
either clear your name or just hand up. So, uh,
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check it out. Fun episode and uh was pretty surreal.
A big fan of his as far as like the
TV show, not a fan of the murder for hires
and the animal engagement and whatnot. As I'm sure a
lot of you are too. That wasn't a joke, Johnny,
I really don't agree with those things. But anyhow, for
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more information on Joe Exotic, if you heard the episode
Joe Exotic Official dot come all right, Well today another
special guest and he's been on the show before. He's
a stand up comedian, he is an actor, he's a writer,
and he currently resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. Kitt Maslowsky. He
(02:09):
is calling in and we're going to get an update,
see where he's at, what he's got going on. And
he's got an awesome show July twenty fifth in Omaha
or not in Omaha and Lincoln the storm Seller. That's
it's for a great cause. So awesome lineup and it's
for a great cause. We're gonna hear all about that,
(02:29):
and frankly a whole lot more. We kind of we
went all over the place as far as what we
talk about. But it's always fun to catch up a cat.
And that's the thing. He's a guy that's like you know,
you know those people that are just they can talk
to you about anything, right, And I like to think
I'm kind of in that world too, where it's like
(02:51):
I could run into anybody and they'll bring up something
and I don't know everything about it, but I know
just enough and we can just talk and talk and talk,
and then you'll know something very rare or random about
that topic. He's one of those guys like I feel
like I'm one of those guys too, and so it's
fun to catch up with him and just just chat
and uh no fun episode, and we've got more coming
(03:14):
later this week as well as This is season four
of Laugh with Me. Ken't Masowski calling.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It She've been writing a bunch of new jokes. I've
been for some reason my sets. People are saying this
are just they're clicking harder than they ever have. I
don't know why. I don't know what's different. I have
(03:41):
no idea. And what's crazy about it is sometimes these
are said to know I'm not completely happy with because
I'm such a massive perfectionist. Yeah, I'll like, I'll arrange
a word, and because the audience doesn't know that I
did that, they don't care. But then when I listen back,
I'm like, oh, I said, I said. That doesn't even
make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
How to think, yeah, yeah, that's the best though, when
the audience still laughs and you're like, I can make
that better.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah. Yeah. So when you're in that flow state, you know,
sometimes things get like transposed. But at the same time,
it's like they're responding to your competence. They're not really
they're not responding to the words per se. The confidence
allows you to do their thinking for them.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, so you're still you were producing the show where
because I did it last year where you eat the
you try to do a set while you're eating increasingly
hot chicken wings. That was a lot of fun. I
haven't seen that you've had one recently. What's what's the
status on that show?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's kind of on hiatus right now. We're finding new
comics and I ran through all the comics, like I
got every single one, and you like, you know, I
think we have some people come from Omaha as well,
so like we just I don't want to do it
with the same people over and over. I think I
think the real novelty comes from the novelty, so people
(05:04):
trying it for the first time, because then if it's
someone who's already done it, then they kind of know
what they're in for and that's that kind of kill
some of the fun. I want, you know, I want
people to in real time have to strategize how am
I going to finish this set?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, because it it certainly was that because as the
I don't know if the first wing was fine, but
then once I got into the second one, I was like,
all right, this is I can see how it's going
to be a challenge as I'm also trying to keep
my composure and be able to talk. Yeah, it was fun, though.
(05:41):
I enjoy the show Hot Ones, so it's like anything
in that world is to me is just great, Like
there's endless opportunities for it. So I very much enjoyed
doing it, and I very much enjoyed watching the show
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, it's fun. It's I think the audience enjoys it
because even if you've heard these jokes before, you've never
heard them perform this way.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you never heard the mark.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Pauses and burths and cops and wow, that's only hot
there's more, you know, Like that's what But that's the
thing is like I've been saying for a while that
like I don't know if stand up comedy is dead
per se, and I don't mean dead like not living,
I mean dead like a sea like. I just I
(06:28):
feel like I don't know where it's going, and I
think the place for it to go is to is
back to its roots, which it's the roots of Vodville
are of standup comedy rather are vaudeville and really criminality,
because you know it was it was gangsters that named
stand up. Really, Oh, you don't know this, okay, No, you.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Give me a history lesson. No, I I one hundred
percent did not know that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, this is this is the core of the the
quote unquote jets and sharks issue with improv and stand up. Okay,
so improv comes from Toronto, which is a really nice
place in a really nice country and people like to
work together. Right, that's improv. Yeah, stand up all right.
(07:14):
The origins of stand up are if you could entertain
a room full of dudes in a back room, like
some of whom had pistols on the table, smoke in
the room, you know, you get them all to laugh
and you could survive that show. They say you're a
stand up guy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, okay, that made that stand up guy. Now I've
heard that phrase before, not thinking it had anything to
do with comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right right, It has, it has other connotations, but at
that time that was that was how they described like
Don Rickles, yep, stand up guy, because Don Rickles could
go into that room with actual, honest to god gangsters,
some with pistols on the table and make fun of
all of them to their face and survive the encounter. Yeah,
(08:01):
so pretty important.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
George Burns was probably in that world. I would imagine.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, Anny, young men, do you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Think do you think that is like, uh, that's a
world you could you could live in. I mean, do
you think you could survive that room?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think I could perform in that room. I've had
enough bizarre experiences that I think, first and foremost, if
you leave with respect, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Really matter what room you're in, who you're around. I've
been with people from all different states and states of being,
and as long as you treat people with respect, by
and large, unless they're crazy, you're pretty much okay right now,
because the crazy ones are still there. That is a thing.
But like I performed it, like was it Doctor Jack's Drinkery? Yeah,
(08:59):
that's biker bar in Omaha. That was when I was
still drinking. Actually, I remember because I pulled off to
get some Soco shooters before I went in there, and
there was a comic who he was on stage. He
doesn't really perform anymore, but he did his entire set
unbeknownst to him with his flydown. Hilarious.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
My biggest fear, not not just on stage, but just
in life, my biggest fear.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's an understandable fear. But he did it, and it
was it was just like, man, like, you're with the lights.
I mean, it's impossible for us to miss and you
don't have any clue, and this is gonna be amazing.
And when he did find out, he just like ran
out of the bar.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. Was he Commando that night? Oh no, no, okay,
lucky him. Yeah, Oh it's lucky me. Yeah, the lucky you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's a good point. So you're so as a sober comic,
how is it being around folks? Because you just mentioned,
you know, at that show you had to get the
shooters ahead of time, and you know, and I've done
the same thing. I've had a few drinks before. How
do you feel about the difference in that when you're
there and you're preparing and getting ready on stage, and
(10:18):
maybe your co workers or castmates are not necessarily as sober.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, they probably won't be. Some of them will
make fun of you know. Yeah, there's one. Every time
I do my enough joke, I go and I look
in the crowd and I see if he's there, and
I'll point at him. And that's just because, uh, you know,
I see, I see where he's going, and I've been
there and I fully understand and right now he's having fun.
And I was having fun for a long time. But
(10:48):
at a certain point it just overshadows the fun and
it's fine. You just that's when you quit. And it's
just knowing when it happened. That was That was the
thing that I feel so black about, is that I
knew when as soon it was like a mathematical equation.
It was like, uh, this is encroaching on photography. I'm
(11:10):
cutting it out right. I had a I had a
gig that I woke up on my friend's floor and
I had to go and do and I was like,
this is this is the last time this is going
to happen. Yeah, And then the stand up. It took
four months after I stopped drinking to be able to
stand on stage without like my leg staking just a
(11:31):
little bit, like I because I really hadn't done it,
to be completely honest, like without that, I hadn't. Really
there have been a couple of shows that I'd done,
you know, completely Stone sober One was an expert to
like three hundred people. That was kind of a you know,
kind of a change.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But I'm thinking of your material and I'm like, so
you did a church. Was it a clean show?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Five minutes? Yes, I didn't. There's just back after five minutes. DJ,
you know young it was Reverend Durell ran that show
and Carlos Tibbs R I P was on that and
Carlos was amazing. If if, if you know anyone who
(12:15):
knew him, get you some Carloss stories because he was
he was a tremendous comic dude.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Speaking of R I P, do you you know O J.
Simpson died?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, a little while ago, right, Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm it's still I'm still struggling with it. Okay, yeah, good,
carry on?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Is what what what is it about about Ojis Simpson dying?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The guests to you, Well, I just feel like he
didn't get a fair shake, like he died so young.
You know, Well, he's a Hall of Famer, he's a
Heisman Trophy winner. I mean, he's but loved in movies
and television like the guy. Just I don't know, I just.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Can't name a single bad thing he ever did either, So.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, not really. Yeah, I mean, he had a little
bit of legal trouble in the nineties, but that all
got that all got sorted out.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh, that was some kind of you know, misunderstanding or something,
I'm sure, And you know, the good thing about it
is he didn't then publish a book that was called
If I Did It, which included the phrase I remember multiple.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Times, you know, if I if I remember correctly that
the proceeds from that book went to some victims of
that little legal case that was that was just a misunderstanding.
So in the end it worked out.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Truly a towering giant of a man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, he is.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He will be missed.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He will be missed. And that concludes the O. J.
Simpson portion of the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Episode, or does it. Yeah, you know they're they're remaking
the Naked Gun.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They are. Yes, they've got him make a mention, have to.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well they did in the trailer. You didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
No I have not, did they really?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So yes? So okay, So what happened was the the
Leslie Nielsen character is uh is being played by uh,
what's his name? It's Liam Neeson. Okay, so Le he's
(14:29):
like the son of Frank Dreven. And there's a scene
where or there's a shot rather where it's him and
he's looking at the picture of his father and he's
talking to him and it and it just hands down
as all the cops are doing this and it gets
to oh, his kid, and he looks up and goes, na, No,
(14:53):
that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm just happy. I'm just happy they give him a
give him a little nod that that movie is going
to be so funny because you can just imagine it's
going to have that same field they don't make, like
Hollywood doesn't make comedies like that anymore. So this hopefully
does well at the box office and they can start
to get that rolling again.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, man, I mean, you're you're not wrong. Our rated
comedies are like kind of the thing of the past
at this point. Like if they can, if they can
bring it back, I'll tell you who's going to do it,
probably is Kat Williams. Uh yeah, he just bought a
military base a couple of years ago, and this was
(15:36):
inspired by Tyler Perry, who previously bought a military base
and then started a huge film studio. Well, Kat Williams
bought a military base and it's got three million square
feet of studio space. So Kat Williams a lot of
stuff over the next few years. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Well, I'm here for it because that's we just haven't
had that since uh well, probably the early early two thousands,
mid two thousands, somewhere in there. It's been a long time.
Did you see the movie Friendship? I did not paul
ed Tim Robinson so freaking oh.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I mean, I mean except for you know, Leonardo DiCaprio
in Romeo and Juliet. But yeah, isn't that weird. It
is one of the humans who dies in Romeo and
Juliet and they didn't kill Paris. Paris is like the
Platonic ideal for Juliet. Of course, you know Romeo should
(16:39):
kill him, but not in the bas learmon one where
everyone had guns. It wouldn't have been hard.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No, it wouldn't have been hard at all. That's a
that's a lapse in the in the in the script.
They gotta, we need to remake the movie.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's right, Rooms Die Part two, cat Paris.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And they and they got to cast Leo in it
and make things right.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's right and the past his girlfriend, and then after
she graduates from high school, yeah, you know, and they
can release it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I heard that. I don't know who his girlfriend is currently,
but I heard she is over twenty nine, because he
had this whole thing forever that he doesn't date girls
over twenty nine. I heard that she is, So maybe
he's matured a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, well he's fifty, so that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's about that time.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, fifty, it's time to not not your own age.
But you know, a couple of decades down now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
He and Toby McGuire are friends for life. And I
remember what was like ten plus years ago they were
talking on MTV about how they they have like matching
ferraris and they pull into the same like bar and
hang out together just be in movie stars with ferraris.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Movie stars. And they still do this.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh okay, well I thought you were running in that
circle you you lived, you used to live in l A.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I did eat wrong glass. That's true. I met wrong glass,
but but it was under not false pretenses. But the
person who was introducing me was a super scientologist. I
was like, oh, I had to figure out if like
he was, then I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Imagine where your career would be right now had you
joined scientology at that moment.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I would be one of those people who puts the
wood in lay in Tom Cruise's plathfinder.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yes you would, that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Would or no, sorry, was a weak navigator? Yeah, yeah,
that would. And then and then with my tongue, I
probably end up in that that facility that doesn't exist
out in Nevada that.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They have that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't exist. What are you talking about.
It's not like I have a friend who went and
shot industrials there yea, and it's like, yeah, they walk
you in. It's weird. Yeah, No, it's not like that
ever happened.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Have you been have you? I know you're writing jokes,
but have you written or started working on any screenplays
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, I have a screenplay that I've been working on
for a while. It takes place at a church camp.
Actually it's a yeah, it's a kid. It's it's based
loosely on my actual experiences at church when I was
very very young. But one thing I noticed was that
(19:52):
in addition to kids who come from church, they would
also just bust in bad kids to be like no
bi osmosis, just like maybe power of Christ compels you, like,
can we make these good kids? And what ended up
happening was not that. What ended up happening was then
you just kind of let's see. I remember Jesus said,
I send you out as as sheep among the wolves.
(20:13):
It was a little like that because I had never
fought until that that camp, and I remember fighting on
the way to like nightly church service after after dinner
one time just clocked this kid at the water fountain.
So so basically the story is it's about one of
(20:36):
those kids and why is he there and what was
the idea behind this and because it was a time
where that that was a thing that they thought would
help and I stood this day don't understand, but I
was trying to like wrap my head around what is
the life of this kid who gets sent to this
(20:57):
as as punishment? You know, you want to go to Juvie,
but they send him to church camp. It's like, oh no,
what's the you know, what's the fall out there? And
I have the I have the broad strokes figured out.
I know how I wanted to end. It's just a
matter of like putting that connected tissue together. And then
(21:21):
I have, uh, I have a sci fi series that
I started writing like five years ago at the pilot
for that, and I've been working on the second episode
of that for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So the Church the Church movie, is that like a
young coming of age type movie or is it like
a faith based and he finds himself.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Neither neither. Huh yeah, yeah. So so the idea is
is is it's kind of like more of like a
slice of life kind of like this is the day in,
day out of this camp and then now we take
this aberration and we kind of injected in and just
like what are the effects. And then beyond that, everyone
(22:12):
has a past, everyone has a future. So you know,
it's like every was that, every center has a future,
everything has a path. Yep, souh. It's it's sort of
that where you know, you think, oh, this is a
bad kid, but like there are no just out of
nowhere bad kids, right, So you know, I try to
address how how this all came to be, and a
(22:35):
lot of kids that you think you're bad kids are
deeply misunderstood. And I, you know, the older I get,
the more I start to think and this sounds like
a joke, but it's not. I'm sorting to think I
was probably and am still somewhere on the spectrum. And
I know a lot of people like to say that
they watch TikTok and they go, oh, this is me right,
(22:57):
But I've been I've been looking at like just social
anxiety and then like things I have with food and
all these different little details, and I'm like, hold on,
first of all, if this is the case, I really
wish this would have been figured out years ago. But
no one was talking like that back then. If you
(23:17):
were autistic, you were non verbal. That's the only the
only version that you know that society beheld. So you know,
now we have concepts like Aspergers, et cetera. And so
I'm starting to think that I'm somewhere in this neurodivergent world,
which is weird. But at the same time, the thing
(23:40):
I keep coming back to is it's, uh, there's there's
a lot of comfort knowing that you're perfectly find zebra
and not just a messed up horse.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And so that there's a question. Do you think it
is just a matter of we have more tests, we
have more ability to diagnose people, or is there there's
something that is causing it and making it more? I
guess it's just having more people now, you know, like
(24:09):
the people who think that the vaccines are causing it,
I'm not one that believes that that the science is
too good to say that it does it. So do
you think it's one way or the other? I guess
where do you stand on that?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I think? And this is part of why I think
I have this neurodivergent mind, because when I asked questions
like that, I try to look at it from multiple angles.
And that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Is there's it's been so many decades now, it's hard
to tell, is it Because during the unpleasantness of twenty
twenty we learned that the more you test for things,
the more you find them.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Sure, so.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
We are testing more for autism, so we're finding it more.
But is it more prevalent as well? We can't say,
because we're finding it more. But maybe it was always there.
I don't know. But simultaneously, also we have, you know,
food dyes that are petroleum based. What are we doing
(25:12):
petroleum based? And Skittles did not. Skittles and Eminem's are like, no,
we're keeping our bright food dies. But a lot of
companies are like, yeah, we're gonna start flavoring with fruit
juice and coloring with fruit juice and stuff. That's what
they do in Canada. And I've had Canadian fruit loops
and they are top notch.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
They are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
They're really good. We did a tape test Tuesday, which
we do on the radio every Wednesday, you know, for consistency,
and we tested American versus Canadian froot loops. And after
the Canadian proof loops, I threw away the American froot loops.
I was like, I don't want to subject myself to
these anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Did the colors fade faster?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The colors are not as brilliant, but it's cereal. You're
gonna digest it pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, But I like, I like my cereal to be neon,
Like I want it bright.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You like a pop of color in that blur right
before it gets shoved into your gullet. Yeah everything. Yeah, no,
it's yeah. Instead of instead of pale green, it was
it was bright neon green. And man, I'm telling you
here's the thing. It tastes worse because these are petroleum products. Jeez.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
So while we're on this subject, go ahead plug the
radio show for anyone listen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So, Uh, every week on Tuesday and Wednesday on the
Santa Cruz Voice at Well it's too central, but out
there it's noon, we do a show called One Season
in the Sun. It's me and Uh, and the host
of the show is Brian g And we talk about sports,
(27:05):
we talk about goofy stuff, we talk about basically, we
are a non political show and I'm not crossing my fingers.
We are a non political show. The whole purpose is
that you can listen to it while you're eating your
lunch and just have something to enjoy. So we talk about,
(27:26):
like we talked about Ozzie last week, you know, talk
about how Sharon kicked somebody off that show, but we
don't know who. We've been trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh that wanted them monetize it.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yes, well we think it was their manager is more
than likely what it was. We not the band that's like, oh,
we want money, it's usually the manager. I think of
it that way. But you know what else have we
touched on?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Have you guys talked about the Backstreet Boys residency at
the Las Vegas Sphere yet No.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I just saw that this morning. I saw some of
the visuals and what was crazy was like, I mean,
the audience, it was like the nineties again because they
I mean were they were the same screaming fans they
were twenty years ago. They it was like no time
(28:26):
had passed and the visuals are so crazy, Like I
think what happened was these are the visuals that they
used to eat. If you wanted to see them, you'd
have to go to like Electron Electric, Daisy Carnival or
like He's like outdoor raves and so the visuals were
always there. Is just a matter of constructing a thing
(28:46):
that could hold them, and that's the Sphere, which, by
the way, I heard yesterday twenty five percent off for
Vegas locals.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Is it really pretty cool?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well, the severe it loses millions and millions of dollars, Like, what,
at what point is this thing just gonna shut down?
I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You're concerned for this year.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I am because it's beautiful. It's a beautiful facility. I
haven't seen in person, but everything I've seen on TV
or they have seen it online, it looks insane. Everybody
that comes out of there is like, this is the
way to see a show, and you don't even have
to look at the band, Like it's just incredible. The
artists are like, it's amazing, but it's weird because the
(29:30):
audience isn't necessarily looking at us. But then but everybody
has a great time. But then I heard to like,
run the damn thing. It's just millions and millions and
millions of dollars that they're just losing. I don't know
if that's just over. They have they have a plan
where overtime, you know, like Netflix, where they're like, yeah,
by twenty thirty five will turn a profit, but then
(29:54):
that never happens, you know, when they get there. But uh, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what the future of
it is. I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
They said Uber hasn't ever turned a profit, but they
just happen to be gathering data on every single person
who uses their service. So at a certain point they're
going to have something more something true. Sphere. Yeah, the
Sphere is just it's just a performance venue with insane
fiber optics and it's got to be crazy expensive to run.
(30:26):
And not to mention, the show that you're seeing is
only half of the Sphere. The other half is while
you're waiting for the show, you're going through this like
museum of future technology. It's like technology of the twenty
first century, the twenty second century. If we're in the
twenty first century. How that happen?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So is that a separate ticket for that or is
that just when you get in.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
No, my understanding is that's part of the overall experience
and there's all kinds of wacky technology. I've never been there,
but I have. I have looked at it, and I
have friends who have gone. They say it's, i mean,
just mind blowing through. Kerry said that it was like
a transformative experience. Why wow, he saw the dead there?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh really, Yeah, that would be quite the show.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, mhmm.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, I'd love to go, but man, that's that's gonna
be a that's a pricey ticket.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's gonna be a pricey ticket for sure, and it's
it'd be good to do once at least.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, I don't know. I my sphere is that someone's
going to crash into that thing because they they have
traffic going around it all the time, and it's it's
bright and brilliant and periodically. I don't know if you've
seen this, they're like beings that are trying to break
out of it. Have you seen this? No? I have not, Okay,
so they have like as animated as part of the sphere.
(31:56):
It's like a giant being and it's beating on the sphere,
breaking through the glass. I have to think, Yeah, I
have to think you're driving around Vegas. Maybe if you're
driving around Vegas, you're desensitized and nothing, nothing, can nothing
get touch you about. I don't know. For me, if
I saw that thing, I'd get a little weirded out,
you know, and like does it ever get out? And
(32:20):
and why did you program it to get out?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
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track from here from the radio show, but the uh,
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by the technology of it. You know, like what what
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I hadn't seen that guy in a long time, and
to see him performing it from his from that chair.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Was sad.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
But it was also like, man, I hope I hope
that was the last run. Like I hope he actually
is retiring.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah. Yeah, when he's saying Mama, I'm coming home, you
felt it. Yeah, you're justly I this is a man
who built a genre, who built a world, who built
a universe of music and of camaraderie like there. The
metal people would not exist without Ozzy Osborne. The whole
(36:11):
idea of metal, this whole prince of darkness thing that
you know. I mean, it just it would not be
there without him. And to be able to see his
for lack of a better word, to see his kids
come and pay tribute, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But at the same time, yeah, he's at the end
of his life. I mean, at the best case scenario,
he's what eighty.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, he's got to be in that range.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, yeah, So I mean he's he's not he's not
gonna be running around and touring anymore anyway. Now, I
would have liked if you know, oh it was sound Garden, Okay,
well there we go, just sound out.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Oh was the artist?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's That's what I'm saying, says sound Garden explains absence
from concerts. Oh shit, because I heard that it was
possibly sound Garden, it was possibly Motley Crue. But yeah, okay,
so yeah, Ozzie's seventy six, Like he's had a good life,
(37:22):
he's done. What else can you do? He bit the
head off a bat accidentally, He's he's done more things
than you can imagine. I think. I think being able
to say, yeah, I'm done, I'm passing the torch, you know,
let young blood start running with it now, I think
(37:45):
that's kind of awesome. It's awesome because look, uh, you know,
everyone's everyone's life, you know it. It at a certain point,
it fades, and to be able to recognize that and
to not hold on with ego, you know, and and
end up doubling over on stage because he had to
get one more performance. And I think there's something something
(38:08):
kind of beautiful about that. You know, at a certain point,
step aside and you let the future come in.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I think you said it. It's he allowed the ego
to step aside, and you don't. That's that's very rare
for someone at his level. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
I'm sitting here looking at a picture vinyl of young
Blood on my wall. I'm a big fan of young Blood.
I'm so excited for him and see like where that goes.
(38:33):
He's just blowing up right now.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
And that's awesome because I didn't know anything about him
until this concert. Yeah. I I used to deliver food
years and years ago to this guy who unfortunately he passed.
He had cancer, unfortunately brain cancer actually, but he was
you know, he owned a company, h and basically all
(39:00):
he did with his time with well, his downtimes, he'd
sit in his garage and uh and he drink a
beer and he'd watched like Steve VI videos or like
you know, all the other great guitarists. And I remember
Steve VI had a guitarist who came out, who's about fifteen,
who came out and started threading with them. And that's
kind of what I thought of when I saw young
Blood up there with with Ozzy. I'm good. So you've
(39:22):
got the prodigies and they're connected to you know, the
old rock gods, and so you know, they're The ability
to have that, like that unbroken link to the past,
I think is so important. And there are a lot
of genres that don't have that. Yes, and metal does.
Metal has like a family kind of feel to it,
(39:43):
and I think that's great well, and.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
That explains a lot about Ozzie then, because other every
others genre, everybody's trying to hold onto their spot even
at that age. Did you get did you get an
update on that show?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Uh? It has not. It has not come, So I
don't okay, let me let me, let me just try
to send a text. I know you're fine, hurting the
way back right now.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
But where'd you say you were going tonight? Duffies?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, heading to Duffies supposed to start a nine thirty.
It's so funny that people make fun of storm Seller
for starting late, because every once in a while, like
we just like I don't know, we put it to
ten ten or something, you know. And I've seen Duffies
started like it was ten twenty when I left, like
a couple of weeks ago. So funny, you're gonna you're
(40:44):
start at nine thirty, you're starting at ten twenty. What
are you talking about? It started ten oh five. But
it's fine. Duffies is the place where I have no responsibility,
so that's where I like to try stuff, and the
Storm Celler I have a little better handle, so I
don't really try a lot of jokes there. It's more
(41:05):
about like just kind of setting the table and letting
the comics come up.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Work the material.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yep, we have a really cool show. It is coming
up July twenty fifth, off the Storm Celler. It's going
to be fifteen dollars at the door. It starts at eight,
and we are going to have some great local comics
and we also have a comic who has been on
Jimmy Kimmel, which is pretty cool. You got a guy
(41:29):
named Casey Crawford who you can look them up on YouTube.
He will make you laugh, no doubt if nobody else
makes you laugh. And by the way, that's not gonna
happen either. But if nobody else makes you laugh, it
will be worth it. You will pay fifteen dollars for
Casey and you will smile about it. But that having
(41:50):
been said, we also have We have Will and Serenity Doherty.
We have Ben Danielson, and we have Colton Hopfer who's
one of our newer com and he's awesome. He's also
a steah. He's a really interesting guy. We have Robert Davies,
who's a really solid staple of the scene. And uh,
(42:11):
we're going to have a silent auction. We have a
lithograph which is signed by Tom Osborne from nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yes, we're working on gathering some more donations, but that's
that's kind of the path we're on right now. We're
going to have I want to have buckets out by
the door so people can just drop money in. I
wanted to be huge, and I want to write off
in the bucket on the bucket, and I want her
to come away with as much money as possible. Because
(42:45):
what's happening is is this lady has he's a single mom.
He has two kids, and one of them as special needs,
and he has stayed four cancer. And I've said this
to other people. I can't hear cancer right If I could,
(43:07):
I would, And sorry, I know, Pharma, you're drawing a
bold eye on me right now, but I would. I
would cancer if I possibly could. And I don't care
who never could. Uh, but I can't. And because I can't,
we're gonna we're gonna try to help her with her
bills and we're going to try to to just just
support her with as much love as we possibly can.
(43:30):
And I have another reason for putting this show on,
and that is that she came to a show that
I was hosting, and I was so embarrassed because she
was her first comedy show ever. You've never seen stand
up comedy lives ever and who of the comics they
sort of two hours late, Oh no, and it was
(43:51):
it was a catastrophe. And she came back to an
open mic that we had in the storm Celler a
few maybe a month later, and that was a really
stolid night. So she was like, oh okay, So like
this is what comedy's supposed to be, and we want to,
you know, we want to give her a really good
night where he just doesn't have to worry about anything.
Just come and relax and laugh, you know, like like
(44:14):
what Roberts said is laughter is the best medicine. But
money definitely helps.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Money helps. Yeah, and you said her name's Cassie.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Her name's Cassy Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
And it's July twenty fifth, eight pm. I know for
a fact, Casey, you're you're the headliner, is plenty worth
the price of admission and to help the good cause
as well. But then you've got a great lineup and
you're hosting, right.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yep, I'll be hosting. I couldn't fit my name on
the poster and I look, you know you'll see me.
It's fine, but it's not my thing. It's her thing,
and I I really want to focus on her, and
and the comics are all donating their time, All the
money is going to her. No one is getting anything.
(45:03):
I mean, the bar you know, is going to get
paid for drinks etche But and do support the bar
because it's because of Jackie's big heart that we're able
to put on events like that. And and you know,
huge shout out to Jackie Storm because if not for her,
there'd be no Storm Seller And then where would I be, right,
(45:24):
where would any Honestly, that's it. That's a meeting place
for comics.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Another reason to support this show in particular, other than
the great cause and the great time you're gonna have.
But the more people come out and support local comedy
Lincoln and the storm Seller, the more opportunities for great
shows there will be. So go out July twenty fifth,
eight pm, Lincoln, Nebraska, Storm Seller and uh man, it's
(45:49):
gonna be great cause you're gonna tear it up. I
know that. What do you what are you gonna do
like five ten minutes?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, I probably, I probably won't do more than ten.
I'm just trying to do a tight little set, you know,
try to. I've got some some new stuff I've been
working on. I'll bring that with me, and you know
I've been doing. Here's the thing is, at the end
of the day, I and I don't know why it
took me this long. I'm eleven years in, but it
took me this long to realize, you know, buying large
(46:18):
people don't want comics. They'll they'll have comics think for them,
but they don't really care about your opinions. At the
end of the day, you know, I don't care. I don't.
I don't care what a comic tells me to vote
for or think. Really, I just want them to make
me laugh. I don't want them to go you know,
beyond that really, And that's the thing that I've been
kind of working on, is like just mining my own
(46:40):
life and being like, what's ridiculous about me? You know,
because if I if I talk about some kind of
big idea or whatever, people can attack that, et cetera.
And if I talk about a person, people can go,
you can defend that person. But if I talk about me,
no one's defending me.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Let me introduce you to this great comedian that has
that exact same principle. His name's Jerry Seinfeld. He's done
pretty good for himself up and commor then, yeah, you'll
have to you'll have to google him. There's a little
bit out there about him. But yeah, no, he's got
the same philosophies and it's it's just great stuff. You'll
(47:19):
have to check them out.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Well, at the end of the day, I think that's
all there is for comedy, is I Mean, people aren't
going because they want to hear how they should vote,
what they should think. They're going because they want you
to clap your symbols and dance monkey is exactly what
it's not. And it's not shameful either, because that's what
you're here for. It's what we all agreed to. Like
(47:44):
it's but at the same time, like I don't want
to see preachers tell jokes. I don't see comics preach.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yep, I love it.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
I can do anything.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Gat Wallives could do anything he wants, including saving Hollywood,
which he sounds like he's gonna do. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
He's down in Georgia. He might just you might just
replace Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
He could. That's Georgia loves. I think they have good
incentives for for filming there because I know a lot
of big studio shows and movies have been working down there,
because I don't know if it's tax incentives or what
it is, but I know they've got Yeah, they've got
great programs for him, so better in Hollywood I have.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Oh I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yep. My my former roommate, the closest person I have
to a brother in the whole world, Luke Sheridan. He
just became the vice president of gig Site Productions that's
located in Fremont just got a movie yesterday there and
actually had the mayor of Kremont say that, but he
(48:55):
was on set and uh. And it's really cool to
see Fremont just really wrap their arms around the concept
of film in Nebraska, because they're really the only community
that really has that vision and they have been nothing
but supportive, whether it's you know, White Lights City Film
(49:15):
Festival or just providing the tax and centives for films
to be shot there. I can't say enough about the
city of Fremont. Their mayor is amazing. I met him,
I met his wife at an event that that my
my my Famer roommate was at. We had the cinematographer
(49:37):
for Avatar was there. It was a good day. And
and be watching because Nebraska is about to start doing
some big stuff. Because the thing is like, hey, Nebraska
can play anywhere. Yeah, we have enough hills and we
have little desert ye places, and we have woods, and
(49:58):
we can we can play anywhere. We could be Norway,
we can be Hawaii, we can be there. I mean,
we have so much range as a state. And then simultaneously,
the democratization of technology allows for you can shoot anywhere.
You can you can shoot, you know, especially now with
(50:20):
with Blender and with AI you can shoot in your
room and you can you can put an entire feature together.
Like it's entirely possible now. So it's just a matter
of like who wants to pick those tools up and
work with them? And in Fremont there are a lot
of people also, massive, massive shout out to Stacy Heatherly.
(50:41):
She is the head of Eastern Nebraska Film and we
couldn't have done any of this without her. We are
just moving Ferduram forward. But she has been doing this
for decades. He has been working hard at this and
I'm so excited to see this happening because yeah, when
I left Hollywood, you know, I was kind of dejected,
(51:02):
but I came back with all this knowledge, and so
did a bunch of other Nebraskans, and it's like, hey,
we don't have to be in Hollywood to make movies.
Let's just go and make movies. So like you know,
in twenty well was at twenty sixteen, I just up
and shot a short film, you know, so I just
I had a camera available, I had some lights, and
(51:24):
I just got some comics and just wrote a script
and bam, you know, and you can do that now.
So Hollywood doesn't have the shine it used to because
it's not necessary.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, it's just it's more of an industry name anymore.
It's not necessarily a destination.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Right, absolutely. And I've worked on some excellent projects here,
and you'll work with people who sometimes they come from Hollywood,
sometimes they come from New York, sometimes they come from
sometimes local. But I've worked with some really really excellent directors,
(52:05):
really really excellent actors, And it's it's really going to
take people by surprise what Nebraska is gonna pull off.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Man, I think he buried the lead. I mean, here
we are, we're talking about the end of the show.
We should have been talking about this from the get.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
I know, I'm still you gonna be thinking about the
car craft, right.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
I was like, I'm going to bring this mood down
instantly and then we'll get to Hollywood character.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Well, at least you didn't just out of nowhere bring
up O. J. Simpson. That would have been whacky.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Oh geez, can you imagine the the vibe of the
show had I even begun to talk about a A.
I don't know, he's not even a murderer. He was
a accused.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
Murderer he was, Yes, he was acquitted murderer. Yeah, accused, convicted, No, accused, excused, accused,
acquitted citizen.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Oh wait, thief, thief, thief, he did steal his own memorabilia.
He did do that. I will, I will admit to that.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Okay, he was convicted of that, so I can't. You
can't come after me from that one.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Oh that's funny, all right. July twenty fifth, eight pm,
Storm Celler, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great show, great cause. Uh you'll
have to check it out.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Kay.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
Thanks man,
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