August 22, 2024 • 57 mins
From the eclectic artsy vibe of Hubba Hubba Tiki to the unique atmosphere of the Harrisburg Comedy Zone, our adventures have been nothing short of memorable.
And yes, we're rallying for Joe Rogan to open a comedy club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania because this city's comedy scene is just waiting to explode.
But it's not all laughs and giggles. We also explore the dynamics of audience interaction at comedy shows, sharing our personal encounters with hecklers and the pros and cons of crowd engagement. From Dan Soder's masterful handling of disruptive spectators to James McCann's colorful crowd work, we discuss audience respect in comedy clubs and the wild ride of live performances.
Get ready for an episode packed with laughter, intriguing insights, and a few star-struck moments with celebrities. Who was it?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I'm Alana B, and let's dive on into the dumpster
of comedy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,stop the presses.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Before we get started on anything, we got a few
things to revisit from the lastepisode.
First off, on the last KillTony episode that we watched,
red Band was wearing a Rax roastbeef t-shirt.
It was kind of sexy.
I want it.
I want a Rax roast beef t-shirt.
Are you kidding me?
Yes, a Rax Roseby t-shirt.
After we just talked about it,never heard about it in my life.
(00:49):
And then, boom, there, it isright in my face.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know, I like to refer to those as
synchronicities, babe.
It's just the universe tellingus that we're talking about the
right things, we're saying theright things, we're doing the
right things.
Also, from last episode, alittle bit of good news you
found on social media today wasthat Noah West and Presley
Tennant are definitely releasingthe song, if it was easy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Great song.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, amazing song.
We talked about it in the firstepisode and it's releasing on
eight 30, I think Eight 30 oreight 31.
Go check it out.
I mean check it out, Take itfrom them, not from us.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Right, we're just relaying the message relayers.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Don't kill the messenger.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Right, we're going to talk about going to all the
different places that we've doneOpen mics, all the different
scenes that we visited in termsof, like, different cities.
You know what I mean.
Cool people that we've metalong the way.
Uh, cool people that we've metalong the way, cause we've met
some really, really cool people.
And also we're going to makeour argument for why we think
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Joe Rogan should open upmothership East in Pittsburgh,
pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I really like I've come to that conclusion.
First of all, I grew up closeto Pittsburgh, so I'm already a
Pittsburgh girl, right, I lovePittsburgh, Um, but it's going
through a transformation rightnow and I just think that it's
ripe for the pickings.
What's the feature topic forthis week's episode?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, we're going to talk about, as we know maybe not
everybody else, but I starteddoing comedy back in March open
mic comedy and we're just goingto talk a little bit about some
of the things we've come across,some of the people we've met,
you know, some of the thingsthat we've encountered.
All that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
All right, I mean I do have an agenda here, but yeah
no, it started really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The comedy journey started back in March.
We went up to harrisburg to thecomedy zone, which is a comedy
club it's awesome actually isn'tit it's.
Yeah, it is pretty awesome,it's the nicest thing that we so
outside of like shows thatwe've got, comedy shows that
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we've gone to that were like atplaces.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, like actual.
I mean, that wasn't actualcomedy club though, right, but
that's what I'm saying, but itis and it isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's not the improv.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's not the improv, but it had an improv, like feel.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it's definitely a cool place.
It's like a mid tier.
It's improv, like feel.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
yeah, it's definitely a cool, it's like a mid-tier
it's like it's not an open micat a what's happening right now,
that I think that was thecomputer.
So it makes a noise like thatit does now because I fucking
turned something on that Iwasn't supposed to and jack
something up and I'm gonna haveto factor your whole thing
already.
But that's it.
No, it gave me a feel ofstandup.
New York.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I mean I would count standup.
New York is like a little bitbetter because that feels like
it was in New York.
Well, and it also felt likewhen you think a comedy club
like standup New York is likethe stereotype of like a.
It's like down in this littleroom there's like it's brick
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right, you know what I mean.
It's small it's very intimate.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's in new york well , right, but like thinking about
the murals that were all overthe wall at the harrisburg
comedy, like it just had a verycomic feel to it.
Yeah, yeah, oh, it's a greatplace.
Yeah 100%.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And it's big and it's in a hotel, so that's what
really makes it awesome.
It's in a hotel with a bar,restaurant, with a comedy club,
with, like a game room.
It was like a sort of adifferent version of like JD
Legends.
Yeah, yeah Not quite as muchactivity, but like still with
having a game room, having a bar, having a comedy club.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So I was trying to research earlier what the name
of the hotel was that it wasattached to, and it could be one
of two.
It's like the MagnusonHarrisburg hotel or or the
budget in cause.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
they all have the same address, which is
one-on-one line kiln so like, orthe budget in because they all
have the same address which is101 Lime Kiln.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think it was the budget in, to be honest with you
, Right, but if you look on theside of the marquee there where
it says what's the name of therestaurant?
Again Boomerang.
Oh, their food was good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Their wings were good yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And it's really nice inside.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's like a really nice sports bar it's huge and it
has the patio out back it'shuge or the tiki bar or whatever
that's yeah, it's got like alittle tiki bar outside thing
going yeah, checked a lot ofboxes, but what I was saying as
far as it being like a mid-tier,it's like it's not your.
That's when the computer beatoh right all right, the it's not
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an open mic bar or like brewerythat you're at doing comedy and
it's not like a nice club whereyou're gonna get like a
headliner, like a nationalheadliner.
You know what I'm saying, you'renot gonna get dusty slay there
you're not gonna, I'm justsaying, but you'll get him at
like the improv right orsomething like a club like that
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or mcgoobies like right dansoder is not going to harrisburg
comedy zone, but he's going tomcgoobies right, right, but I
agree it also does get so-callednational acts you know what I
mean like touring comedians thataren't your like name brand so
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aaron weber would play at theharrisburg comedy zone.
Aaron weber has played at theharrisburg comedy zone okay,
okay, that gives me an idea oftears.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's probably a little above baits don't be mean
to baitsy.
It's probably a little aboveBates.
Don't be mean to Batesy.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Try a little above Bates.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh my lanta.
But like okay.
So March of this year 2024, wasyour very, very first open mic
ever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
However, like before that, yeah, I mean I always
wanted to get into comedy butbut I, you know, just never did
I.
Uh, I used to.
I mean I used to think about itall the time.
I mean, obviously you know this, that I've been like I'm a
comedy nerd, like some people.
Like sport, I mean I likesports too, but like I love
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comedy, like, and like when Iwas a kid, I'd run around and I
mean I doubt anybody remembersthis, there might be somebody
but, um, that I would walkaround with like sheets of
notebook paper which is wordswritten on bits that I and it
would be like a bit.
It would say like uh, jerryGarcia and I knew a bit by Nick
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Di palo that he talks aboutjerry garcia, and like I
wouldn't, so it would just sayone word or phrase or whatever,
and I would have all these bitsmemorized.
And then, of course, like Iwould do jerky boys non-stop,
like for everyone that wouldever listen, and my friends and
I would make our own jerky voicetapes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I literally got to hear the first week we were
dating.
I think I heard every jerkyvoice through you, through your
impersonation of them.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I had heard them before, but not the way you.
But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm saying so like I've always.
Like I'm saying that's how Ireally got started doing voices,
though Like that I do you knowhow to do a million voices.
Um so like I always was likekind of geared towards that, but
like I uh well, first off.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I didn't know you could even like, really do that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I didn't know you could just be a comedian, right?
You know what I mean.
Right, when we were younger,that was right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It fell out of reach, like it didn't feel like what
somebody grew up to do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, you just didn't really think about it
because it was like how wouldyou even go about that?
Like as a kid, like there's no,because when you live, like in
the country, it's not likethere's a comedy scene or
anywhere, even nearby.
Right Even now we drive an hourand a half to get to a scene
Right At a minimum, really.
Right, you know what I mean.
Like it's.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And the closest place you would have been able to go
pre-Comedy Zone days would havebeen Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right or DC.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Or DC.
Yeah, I mean which?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean even still, even from there, like you're
talking, I mean you're going tohave to drive to the city, right
to the city.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right?
Well, there was always thealternative, though, for you,
which you also didn't pursue.
Well, you kind of pursued, butdidn't.
Your dad said that you couldalways be a megachurch leader.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I mean, I think that goes into being a comedian
, because you're just full ofshit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But you are ordained.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
so I am ordained, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The comedy preacher, the preacher comedian.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Not really.
I think that one guy he's likea legitimate preacher.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
He's a legitimate preacher.
I'm not legitimate, that's mything, no.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm illegitimate.
I do weddings for people thatare not looking to stay together
.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Matter of fact, he's zero for three right now zero
for three.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But uh, but if you need somebody in a pinch and no
professional, person would touchit.
That's where I specialize.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's where I specialize uh what did that one
kid say I can't believe I met apastor that smokes weed or
something.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I say so we were hitting the vape pen, it was
called the shit.
What was it?
The devil's something.
It wasn't the devil's lettucebut it was called the devil's
sunrise or something like that.
And he's like so I was likeit's called the devil's sunrise.
(10:47):
He's like you mean to tell methat I smoke a weed called the
devil's sunrise with my pastor?
And I was like first off,nobody's ever said the word
pastor.
That's a different connotation.
I'm here as a legal officiantand I ordained something or
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other something internet,ordained internet.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So so then, like we were just like so I don't even
know where, how it, just kind ofovernight I was like we're
doing a podcast and you're goingto start doing open mics.
That's what we're going to do,that's what we're going to put
like our time and money into.
So here we are.
That was in March.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
We're now in mid-August, already coming up on
football season, um, and you'vegot a little bit of practicing
already, some yeah yeah, some,not as much as I probably like,
but uh, yeah, but we've gottento do it all over, which has
really been fun yeah, we've doneit at lots of different, lots
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of different places, locationsnot just.
I mean lots of different towns,I should say right as opposed
to, and we're going to be.
We found out that there's one inaltuna yeah, that sounds really
, which is like really sort ofoutside the box because it's
like you don't really get openmics in places of you know that
(12:21):
size right right I mean youmight get a comedy show at a bar
or something like that.
You know what I mean.
Kind of like here, where theymight bring in a couple of
people right like it's not it'snever a comedy open mic right,
you know what I mean like sothat's, that'll be cool, or if
it is to check that out yeah, orif it is, it's like not for for
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an area like this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I I haven't seen one that was like really well
promoted or put together yet Ihaven't seen one open mic for
comedy, for music no forever forcomedy.
There was one where that youdidn't go to that was not for
comedy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They were doing that for music and you asked them if
I could do comedy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Anyways, I'm not going to argue that.
So I mean, but I think one ofthe very first things that we
did when we very first starteddating was we went to see the
Gaff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh, yeah, we've seen a ton of comedians.
Yeah, we've seen a ton ofcomedians.
Yeah, I mean it was that's.
We've seen a bunch thatwereians.
Yeah, I mean it was it that's.
We've seen a bunch that we'reall really really, really good.
There's still a lot that wehaven't seen.
Oh yeah, I mean for sure 100.
I mean I can go to a comedyshow once a week and probably
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not get through all the peoplethat I wanted.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right, absolutely, absolutely, so like.
And now that we're doing thiswhole journey with all of this,
I feel like I've become somekind of crazy, like stage mom
where, like every place we go,I'm trying to wiggle you into an
open mic and you're like, I'mnot doing that here.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She's had me do it at a party, like just somebody's
redneck party in an orchard.
She's got me out there doingcomedy for people.
That ambush style of comedy isnot fun.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, it's not.
But that guy laughed no at thebar that day.
I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
That's one thing that I learned immediately.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Don't tell people you do comedy, don't ever do that?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
because the immediate people are like tell me a joke.
You feel like Rocco andBoondock Saints.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Make me laugh.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Right.
It's like it's so weird.
It's weird because it's likeone of those things like people,
as if you're just like loadedwith like knock, knock jokes I
mean if it was like uh, what'shis name back in the day, the
one-liner guy um rodneydangerfield, like if it was
something like that even so, butit's still a pain in the ass
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like you don't walk up to themusician and say play me a song.
No, you don't.
But to be fair, like it'shappened to me as well, because
I grew up in this area singing,so like if I would go anywhere
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where there was a band, peoplewould think they could go up to
the band and say they wantedAtlanta to sing.
And it's like not fair to theband, right, it's not fair to
their fans, who might not wantto hear me sing and I have
friends that do that too.
It's just, it's awkward, yeah,it's it's the most annoying
thing ever.
Plus we're both like reallyintroverts.
So if you learn, anything, it'sdon't ever.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
if you learn anything from this episode, nothing else
.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Take this home, If somebody, if you find out that
somebody does comedy in aconversation, do not be like,
well, tell me a joke no, don'tdo that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Do not do that, it's terrible it's, it's awkward.
It's awkward, it's not going tobe funny.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's not going to be funny.
Jokes aren't meant to be like Isaid.
They're not knock knock jokesright, like I can, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What you really just need to do is have a little list
of knock knock jokes for peoplelike that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
That to me is even more annoying, just being like
no no, I hear you all right.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
so, um, so, your first open mic ever was in
Harrisburg and I thought you didamazing, but I'm like a diehard
fan.
So then again, that's what Iwas talking about with Stage Mom
, because then I had this brightidea that we were going to go
see Shane Gillis in Nashvilleand that Scott was going to do
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some open mics in Nashville.
So we went down there and thetiming was a little bit off, but
I have one word Joyland.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That chicken sandwich , son?
Oh, my dear Lord, that was.
If you learn nothing else fromthis, I think If you're in.
Nashville.
Go to Joyland in East Nashville.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What was mine?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The Smashburger they only have two things Chicken
sandwiches and burgers.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But it's a Smashburger right.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, they're Smashburgers.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Hand-pattied right there.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I mean like they kill the cow on sight.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
They kill the cow right out back.
They're the only cows inNashville.
No, it's uh, top notch.
It's like just those two things, but they do really really,
really, really, really, reallyreally yeah, joyland was amazing
.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We we did.
We had a lot of good food there.
We had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Shangillas obviously was amazing, but um, we did that
because we were going to.
There was an open mic that wewere going to at a place called
Hubba Hubba Tiki.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh, that's right, that was that same night, so we
were looking, we were killingtime.
Yes, hubba, hubba Tiki.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I need to go back there.
I want to go back for open mic.
First off, it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
First of all, the kitchen.
There is fucking off the chainsLike the bathroom kitsch baby.
It's like the.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I was like kitchen.
No, it didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But like remember the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh yeah, it's, it's very.
It might not be everybody'svibe, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Like it's as if the eighties threw up all over the
place and then and then add insome like tiki stuff.
If you're cool, you'll like itRight, like the people there are
, just like, and it was veryeclectic in terms of the mix of
people that came in to do comedy.
Yeah, like it wasn't like onegroup of people or like.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It wasn't one type of comedy, it was a little.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It wasn't a bunch of 30 year old white guys, right, I
mean there was some, but likeyou know, you've got like no
offense but like comedy zoneyeah you know what I mean.
You got I mean even a lot ofthe open mics we do in
pittsburgh and stuff.
It's mostly 30 year old whiteguys 25 to 40 year old white
guys yeah, yeah, that's comedy'sbread and butter, but like it
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was just an eclectic mix ofpeople it was.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It felt very artsy, not that there's no diversity in
pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I want to throw that out.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, no there absolutely, is there absolutely?
Is and there's, and even at thecomedy zone there was.
But yeah, this place just feltdifferent.
It felt a little artsier, itfelt I don't know, it just felt
you felt like anybody could walkin there right right anybody
did walk in there oh, that'sright, but before we go there, I
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do want to give a shout out tobrandy legs on instagram.
It's brandy legs l-e-g-s oninstagram or misguided spirits.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, it's misguided-spiritscom.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
spirits made for the people, that pour them by the
people that pour them, by thepeople that pour them you know
what I mean.
Right that it's unsafe, butthat part is unsafe For the
people.
That pour them.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yes, that's exactly it Made by the people that pour
them, but anyways.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I was stalking her Instagram earlier and I found
out that Shabuzy follows her,which is effing huge, but she's
just a little gal in Nashvilleslinging spirits, but I love her
, yeah, and good times.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's what the thing was we walked into that place
and they made us.
You would have thought that welived next door.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Right by the way that they treated us.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They let us try this liquor.
There was nobody else reallythere, so they were just like
bullshitting with us about theirlives as if we'd known them and
were their friends forever.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We were just part of the conversation.
They were having theirconversation and we were
included.
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, no, it was very cool and the host there was of
the open mic.
Yeah, he was very cool, verycool, very, very cool he was
very cool, yeah, but yeah no, itwas a great mic at a great time
, um.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh, one other thing I wanted to say about misguided
spirits, though, is, even if youdon't drink, their merch is
hella cool.
They have a lot of tarot themedmerch, like shirts, um coasters
playing shit like that, butthey also have a collab with um
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tattoo artist, matt adamson.
Um, he has a tattoo shop inbrooklyn, new york, and it's
called old bone society, and sothat merch is slightly different
.
It's more flash art and stufflike that, but it's really I
feel like it's really cool,really cool.
So, but any who's all back to,who just randomly popped up at
the open mic and hubba, hubbaright.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So we were just there , we were watching um.
I went first yeah, it was soweird because it's like I mean,
first is actually not.
Not that I'm saying it'scoveted or anything like that.
Obviously you don't want to be,but like early is better
usually.
Right, you know what I meanBecause like, if you're wanting
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outside people there, they'rethere, whatever.
Or I guess that's really whatit depends on is when is there
going to be people there thataren't just comedians?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But regardless of any of that, um, what was I saying
about that?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
you went first.
Oh yeah, I went first.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So the the first time that I did comedy I was just
like in the middle of the pack,and every time after that.
But my second and third timedoing comedy I was first both of
those times.
So it was like if I was a lotto deal with because I was like
whoa Jesus.
But regardless of any of that,so we're sitting there, we're
watching comedy and this guy'sup there and I'm like he looks
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really familiar.
We're in Nashville.
I don't know this guy, but helooks really familiar.
I'm just thinking that in mymind that he looks familiar.
He stands out to me.
For some reason he gets upthere to do I had noticed him
prior to that you know, he'slike talking to everybody.
people knew who he was, likeobviously been there before, um,
and he gets up there and he'sdoing his and he did a joke
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about this was at the time thatthe whole nickelodeon
documentary come out and he saidthat he was a child star and
that he worked for Disney.
And that's when I put ittogether because Disney ABC.
He was on a show called Step byStep which was on TGIF, and he
was one of the kids on the showJT.
He was JT's friend and Rich, Ithink his name was on the show.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't remember, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Regardless, it doesn't, rich or no?
No, I think it was Rich, Idon't.
It doesn't matter.
Regardless of any of that.
So we don't even.
This is all we know about himat the time.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No, right, this is all we know.
However, I still wasn't puttinganything together because I'd
never seen that show, right?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
like I didn't care about that kind of stuff right,
and we had heard brandy actuallytalked about how he was a.
He was max, the voice of max ata goofy movie right, so by the
end of the night that we wereleaving the bar right.
We knew those things, that hewas on the show step-by-step and
that he was on.
He was Max in a goofy movie.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, that's all we knew.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's all we knew.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And just real quickly though, because this plays into
what you're about to say.
When I came out of the bathroom, you were having a conversation
with him and he shook my handand said said, oh, I heard
you're the one that doesn't likestep by step, and so well, yeah
(24:48):
, I just I before the end.
It was a joke before the end ofthe night.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I just introduced myself and said that you know.
I asked him if he was right theguy that I thought that he was
and he said, yeah, yeah, he wasand that that was that.
Right, you came out, had that.
He said, uh, he was like.
Oh, you guys are frompennsylvania.
He remembered because I had ajoke about the roads yeah and he
was like oh, you know, whatever, have a good night.
You know, nice to meet you,yada, yada.
(25:14):
So we thought that was cool.
You know what I mean?
Just to have just that alonewas I was thinking that you know
, this is awesome.
I was a guy like watching on tvwhen I was growing up, and then
we'll read his wiki page firstof all jason marsden, and he
said his name was mars at theshow right, that's how he was
(25:35):
like right, and that's how hegoes.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He.
He goes by mars on instagram umfollow him, because he's got a
lot of crazy shit going on andI'm going to tell you about it
here in a minute, but anyways,so we get to his wiki page and
he was the voice of the cat inhocus pocus zachary binks.
He was zachary binks in hocuspocus.
(25:58):
I am a middle-aged woman whoclearly, just by looking at me,
loves everything.
Halloween, mars, mars.
If you're watching this, youcould have led with the fucking
fact that you were in hocuspocus, because I wouldn't know
what that was.
I would have known, but anyway.
So he started in 87 on likewebster.
(26:19):
He did an episode of Websterand that was like the first
thing that I could find.
And then, like he's done, likeyou said, he was Max in the
Goofy movie, step by step, buthe's still working.
Brandy said that he's friendswith a bunch of the kids that
were in the movie Hook, I thinkthat he is.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I think I saw some pictures Because he does a lot
of like cons.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
He does a lot of cons .
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Was he even in that movie?
No, he wasn't.
I looked it up, I did look itup.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But if you're looking for something to do and you're
in Salem Mass on October 11th,they're having a really cool
costume party slash event.
Uh, mars is going to be there.
The girl that played allison,the girlfriend, the two little
thug guys are all grown up.
(27:08):
They're going to be there.
Omri katz is going to be there,so like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Like, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The witches won't be there, but everybody else
everybody else them.
Everybody else who is.
I don't want to see that.
I don't care less about Bette.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Midler.
Well, Kathy, how do you say?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
her name.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I like her, but the other two I can do without
her.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, regardless, october 11th in Salem
Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Not that I don't like him in the video.
Okay, move on from that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But yeah, so he's still working, and he's still
working really hard.
And his girlfriend on Insta ishella cute.
She does all the cons with him.
Remedy, follow her too.
So what else are we talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I don't know.
What else are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So there's a whole Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, I mean, that's what we've been doing a lot of
yeah, which is cool.
I mean I like it out there.
It's definitely cool.
We're going to go to Austinhere soon.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Not only are we going to Austin people, but I've
already hooked up with a realestate agent as a plan b but um,
yeah, but uh, yeah, no, I meanI like the Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Like I said it, it's like we've learned a lot.
You know what I mean by goingout there yeah a when you go
because, like, we watch the showwhile we're there we don't just
just typically.
I mean a lot of comics.
We're coming at this from alittle bit different place.
Most comics start this muchyounger.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right, you know what?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I mean Than I have.
So I'm not going to go around,I'm not trying to hit 19
different places.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Right, I mean I'll do two or three, right.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But I try to stay, I try to watch other people,
because not only that, but Ilike to watch right other
comedians bad and good right,however, what's going on,
however I'm fucking over it,dudes.
I'm so over it we have made themistake in this last time.
I don't know why you wanted todo that, but um do you like to
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engage again?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I feel like a stage mother.
I want to show my support tothe other comics.
I want them to have a face.
That's not one of the othercomics and I'm the only one that
routinely shows up with him.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That is not one of the other comics, so yeah we get
stuck like, and the problemwith a lot of these is if, with
the exception the scene inpittsburgh, you might be there
on a great night the same, thenyou can be great and bad week to
week you don't back, right, youdon't know it might be filled
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with people.
It might be nobody there rightand we've made the mistake
several times of like going intolike the bar and we'll we'll
typically like order somethingto eat.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Right Cause again we're driving Right.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Right, this is our whole night.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We're out there for you know the time that we get
off work to you know we get home, Um, and we've sat.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Do not sit up front, do not be in a place where they
can engage you, Because whenthere's nobody there, they're
going to engage with the onlypeople there that are engaging.
Yes, and that's the problem.
So then you end up in this spotwhere you're just like you
gotta be like on your A game.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean to be fair.
I I'm very comfortableresponding Right, because I did
used to be a DJ, so it's notawkward for me to respond and I
will say some awful bullshit onpurpose, just to see if they're
on their game sometimes.
But it's no longer fun.
I feel like I'm in thespotlight when I'm there and I
don't want to be in thespotlight.
I just want to relax and watchcomedy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, spotlight when I'm there and I don't want to be
in the spotlight Right, I justwant to relax and watch comedy.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, so obviously you don't ever have to
worry about that at like aprofessional show.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right, I mean you do if you're sitting up front Right
.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But I want to be up front when fucking Well, not
maybe Matt Rafe, but no whenSoders worked in the crowd.
Right, we were up front,although, ari is a staunch
defender of.
Matt right or Tony.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Tony Hinchcliffe is a staunch defender of Tony.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'm not anti-Matt, right, no, I mean I was prior to
that, but he put his work in.
He's doing what he's doing,right, he's working.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He's making way more money than me.
Exactly, people get Whateverdude, do you?
If you can, crowd work your wayto 10 million fucking dollars.
Crowd work your way to 10million dollars is what I say
yeah if you can do it, do it Ijust like.
It's just not for me yeah, it'sjust not for me either.
(31:53):
I don't really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But remember we went and saw uh soda that one time
and we were close.
We had like we've been we'vebeen.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Actually it's crazy how close we've been to most.
Like we were close to shanegillis, we were up front yeah we
were uh soda we were up fromdusty sleigh we were up from.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, nate, every time I've seen nate?
Yeah, well, not an arena, butlike a yeah we.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We had really good seats at state college though we
did have.
We were probably only likeeight rows back or something
that was really good, remember.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So that's kind of when you're talking about like
interacting with the comic orwhatever.
So one thing that cringes meout is hecklers, and I know that
that's something that you guyshave to learn to get used to.
I'm a mouthy son of a bitchLike I have to learn to just
pull back.
And'm a mouthy son of a bitchlike I have to learn to just
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pull back and be like it's notmy right.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, because it's just that's the problem with it.
Is you just it's?
I mean you.
Every situation that I'vegotten into like that it's
unique in itself because you'redealing with different people,
so's like what may work to getout of it one time won't work on
somebody else or vice versa.
Right, Because it's like ifit's just like you know, if it's
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one person, like being likeoverly answery.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You almost have to just get to the point and just
be like shut up dude.
Right, which is where mostpeople get to is they're like
dude, shut up, you know what Imean, like so, because it's just
there's no other way to dealwith that.
Now, if it's just peopletalking you know what I mean
that can sort of be corralled,like you.
Just, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You can just sort of get out of that because you can
pull them out of it if it's theright you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Like yeah, like, or.
Let them finish.
I'm sorry, am I interruptingyou, right?
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Like you, just like yeah there's a lot of good ways
to get out of it.
But I think why it's cringy forme is because the couple times
that I've seen it handled overthe past couple months, um, it's
been somebody screaming at theperson, like screaming like shut
the fuck up which I do thatsometimes to you for no reason,
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like you're just like.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You could always pull , michael Richards.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Or not.
Okay, let's not get canceledbefore we get up and running.
I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, how do professional comedians handle
heckling?
I mean, we saw Dan Soder, I'mnot going to do it.
Well, how do professionalcomedians handle heckling?
I mean, we saw Dan Soder.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right, where were we?
That was Magoobies.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Magoobies, that's a frigging awesome venue.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I love Baltimore to begin with, but yeah, as much as
I love Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So when we saw Dan Soder, he literally basically
just said shut the fuck up.
There was people talking.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And they were talking a lot, and they were talking to
each other, having a full blownconversation.
A full blown conversation.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Enough to disrupt the show, and we also should say
this was right after COVID, soit wasn't even a full room.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Right, right, Exactly .
And it's like why the fuckwould you pay the price to sit
front row to see an awesomecomedian and then sit there and
bullshit with your friend?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
A show that you've waited two years to see because,
remember, this was originallybooked like 2020.
We were supposed to go see him.
They shut everything down.
They didn't even start doingshows again.
This is like the end of 2021,maybe the beginning of 22.
I don't remember Right.
You paid money, waited twoyears to go to a show, only to
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have a decide right when he'sgetting started to have a
conversation from the front rowRight and so.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
So Dan Soder handled it, but I felt I felt his energy
get a little angry the rest ofthe show.
So I don't like, I don't feellike it, like it didn't hurt.
My experience is what I want tosay agree it did not hurt my
experience.
I still appreciated everythinghe did after that, like I still
he's.
He's hilarious.
(36:22):
I love Dan Soder, but um,didn't he say something at the
end of the show then?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I don't think he said anything at the end of the show
, but I think he might'vereferenced it later on.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, like in a joke, you know like we've heard
comedians do that before.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes, where they'll reference back to the matter of
fact.
Shane Gillis, he wasn't the onethat did it, it was McCann.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
James McCann James.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Donald Forbes McCann catamaran plan Shout out to his
podcast.
That's the name, it's prettycool.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He's a funny guy.
He is fucking hilarious.
I don't know I had never heardof him before the Shane Gillis
show.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I can't believe we totally forgot about that
incident.
That was better than the Soderincident.
The Soder incident was mine.
That was just people talkingrepeatedly after being asked to
be to be quiet.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
This lady, she was drunk, yeah, and she was
shouting like bring out shanegillis like oh god, it was
embarrassing good and everycomedian after that happened
called it back.
Called it back, Called it back.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Even Shane Gillis called it back yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, but um, I mean props to the security guard
because she fucking handled itand it was, and everybody
clapped when the lady left andthat was that.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
In a full, uproarious cheer.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well, especially too, cause he called her a cunt.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
He did call her a cunt, which is one of my
favorite words he did.
He's from australia yeah, he'slike get out of here, you cunt
like that.
It was great.
In the rhyming auditorium hesaid cunt that was the best part
.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That makes it even better.
The mother church of countrymusic as as the?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
um stained glass windows were beaming light down
on him, the word conscious drops.
I love it now.
So, but back to soda for asecond.
So true story like, and I Iwould waffle it on which way to
say it, but ultimately at theend of the day, he tweeted about
it after the show and Icommented that she was still
(38:31):
running her mouth in thebathroom after the show, which
was true.
So I go in to pee after the show.
She's in there, she's in thestall next to me, I hear her
talking to herself and when weboth walk out to wash our hands,
she's bitching.
First world problems, becausethey didn't have the handlebars
on the side of the toilet at aheight where she could squat
(38:55):
properly wearing heels, so youcan imagine why they were having
a fighter conversation in thefront row, but this entitled
Hussie.
So I commented back on thetweet that Soder had tweeted and
said that she was still runningher mouth in the bathroom after
the show.
And it got me my very, veryfirst celebrity like on a
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comment which was oh, my heartis just beaming right now, and
it also caused my addiction togetting attention from
celebrities.
So now my whole goal is toTikTok um, TikTok, tweet or
Facebook, something that willmake you like my comment.
But anyways what I'm getting atthere is that, um, if you're at
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an open mic and you don't knowit's going to be an open mic and
you just came in to have foodand there's somebody standing
right behind you telling fuckingjokes and you're like talking
to your person because you wantto eat your food, like no comic,
you shut the fuck up like no, Itotally disagree.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Those restaurant people have made the decision to
have an open mic there.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You know what I mean well then, that's on the
bartender to be like hey, whydon't you guys sit down here, so
you're not right underneath thehot breath of the?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
guy.
Well, also at that place,though.
They have the same open micthere for years, and those
people should have shut the fuckup.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, I don't disagree.
In that case those people werebeing fucking totally annoying,
Totally annoying.
So I don't disagree, but I justI'm just like if we were in a
comedy club.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
That dude did scream at him Jesus Christ.
It was a lot.
It was a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
It was extra, it was definitely a lot, it was way
extra, it was definitely a lot,but that was cool.
Anywho, that actually brings usto my campaign, which I am
(40:57):
staunchly going to.
I'm going to launch an internetbarrage against Joe Rogan until
he takes me up on this offer.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
He needs to open a mothership East in Pittsburgh,
pennsylvania.
And here's why because there'sthe big four of comedy New York,
la, chicago and now, mostrecently, austin has emerged as
damn near, maybe, a contender totake.
I mean, if you ask Tony, it'sthe best in the country, it's
(41:28):
better than New York, it'sbetter than LA, it's where, all
the up, it's like Hollywood inthe late 60s, early 70s were to
Starlet's.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
That's what Austin is to comedy right now.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Right, it's just all the young comics want to go
there because there'sopportunity.
Yes, that's the name of thegame in comedy is opportunity to
do comedy when you offer themost opportunity.
That's where people want to go.
But that brings us topittsburgh right pittsburgh,
which like so.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I am a planner, I am a designer.
Logistically speaking, I coulddesign the whole infrastructure
for you.
I already have the businessplan, because we've got
communities that are lovely andhave houses that are in the low
30s and $40,000 that might needsome attention.
(42:19):
We've got a workforce that'salready used to a college town,
ruckus.
We've got bars out the wazoo inevery little corner of the city
that are ripe for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
It has.
It's already doing its ownthing with a resurgence, with
health care, with technology.
So you already have a citythat's transforming itself.
You already have a great comedyscene that's already in place.
Comedy scene that's already inplace.
I've told you this out of everyplace we've really been a part
of.
Pittsburgh offers the bestcomedy scene in terms of that
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size of a city.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Without being like I said, I want to make it one of
the big five.
The big four are behemoths andevery other city is on a
different tier and it's equalwith those, but Pittsburgh is at
the top of that next tier andthere's room.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Austin's already starting to overflow and there's
a lot of kids over here on theeast coast who just cannot make
their way.
They're all they're likegetting over to austin and
they're struggling right becausethey're living out of their
cars.
We see it every week, yeah atleast one of the hat pulls a
week is fucking, either livingout of their cars we see it
every week.
At least one of the hat pulls aweek is fucking, either living
out of their car or just shackedup with somebody that they met.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, I mean part of that that's part of the fun and
the experience.
I get it.
Yeah for sure, but.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
but what we're getting at is that the
infrastructure is already inplace If you open up a
mothership East.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
You've already got a booming comedy scene in terms of
there's a ton of good comicsthere there's a ton and you're
so close to morgantown, you'reso close to the freaking um
turnpike, jersey, people cancome in, people from you know.
Uh, as you know, west virginia,tennessee, can all get there
easily enough right, that's thething is.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
So you would turn it, you would have people, so the
scenes that are all right nowbasically at the same level,
like Cleveland, buffalo, youknow what I mean.
You're going to have peoplethat are in those comedy scenes
moving to Pittsburgh, to uptheir game.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
To up their game Right.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
But it's going to like.
That's what has to happen,though, but you, the mothership
East, Joe Rogan, get it done.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Get it done, get it done Y'all.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
No, but I'm going to start everywhere.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
What does he?
What does he?
What's his name?
Well, farrell say let's get herdone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Well, no but that's what I'm saying, though.
Be like one of those, like itneeds to just catch fire, and to
the point that, every time,somebody is talking to joe rogan
.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
They're, like they mention it right, like what
about that?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
mother, I've been hearing rumblings, but just make
it that, just start rumblingsthat it's happening somebody
please start a rumor that joerogan is opening up everybody
start a rumor, tell your friends, tell everybody you know that
you heard this through thegrapevine and eventually it'll
manifest itself true becausehe'll be so bothered by it he'll
(45:19):
be like what?
I keep hearing this, and theneventually he'll be thinking
it'll just make so much sense tohim that he'll have to come
over and do it mothership eastpittsburgh, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I just say that I'm making that a hashtag, um, and
so okay, so we've talked abouthecklers in pittsburgh and, well
, we've talked about a lot ingeneral.
Um, there's more to talk aboutin pittsburgh that we want to
get into, um, so we're going togo there.
But let's talk about yourfavorite topic.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Food, some good food, like you find cool bars you
find great places to eat.
Look how many great places toeat we found, how many great
bars we found that I would go tooutside of comedy.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Like I never partied in Pittsburgh when I was younger
.
I was on the South side once ortwice and I've been to concerts
or whatever.
Whatever I've been to things inPittsburgh, but not like
somebody.
Like my cousins live on theSouth side or did at some point.
I don't know if they still do,they're grown, but so like I,
(46:29):
there's a lot of really coolfucking hiding spots in all the
bars.
Like all the bars there havelike a secret back room or two
different venues in the samespace or an upstairs lounge.
That is only where the it's allreally effing cool like I love
(46:49):
yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
And, like I said, back to the food thing, I mean
we have eaten some good food,not just at like places we've
gone to either with, but likethey might be next door oh yeah,
what's that place called nextdoor to uh?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
uh, roland's roland's seafood oh my god that, that
lobster quesadilla boy.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Let me tell you what they were losing money on this
thing.
Cause there was so much lobsterin it, cause there was so much
lobster in that thing and it wasreal.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Like I'm a seafood connoisseur.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Like I might, I might sound podunk when it comes to
city bars maybe or might soundprodunque when it comes to going
to big concerts in the city,but when it comes to seafood, I
fucking know seafood, let mejust tell you so it was.
Oh, my god, it was so good, sogood, yeah, I mean.
(47:41):
But yeah, we've.
And not only that, but like thepeople that I will say this
about the pittsburgh comedyscene it's been very, very
welcoming yeah, like, I mean,like everybody has been so nice
to you yeah, well, they just actlike.
The thing that I like is theydon't there's no I this is the
wrong word but there's like noto do about it you.
(48:02):
They just like you're justanother person.
They're trying to do it andthey just right they treat you
the same, like if you've beenthere the whole time, right?
Is what I'm getting at, likethey treat you as if you've been
there the whole time.
You're not like they treat youthe same.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Like if you've been there the whole time, right Is
what I'm getting at Like theytreat you as if you've been
there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
You're not like an outsider.
You don't feel and I even seethat they're like, even when we
see people come from out of townand they say they're from out
of town.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, they always like treat.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Treat them real good, Like nobody's ever Comedy in
general, though, Right.
It's a very welcoming community.
It is.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well, no, I Let me backtrack that though, because I
think the first night inHarrisburg it felt very clicky.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Well, I'm going to tell you the reason for that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
There's one club, there's one place to do comedy
yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
And that's why it's so big.
There's 60 comics there on anight, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
It's because there's no other opportunities like that
.
There's one shot there.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
And not only that, but you're jockeying for
position, because there's a bigdifference between going first
there, one through 10 or fourhours later.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Right, you know what I mean, right.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Right After everybody's cleared out and the
only people left are the lastfour comics, last comic standing
.
It really gives all new meaningto that right, it does because
it's like that's who's leftright and if you're not going up
after you are there, so it'slike it's a very competitive.
I think it's a more competitiveenvironment it is Than anywhere
(49:31):
else that we've been.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, and it has a lot to do
with location, right, because itis the only one there.
And so when we got to Nashville, I mean so I mean just
welcoming all around we'retalking about.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, that was a welcoming scene.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
And East Nashville is its own vibe altogether like
for sure and a lot of folks thatI talked to who are really like
just laid back people.
They said that they would theywish they would have known about
east nashville before they gotdown there, rather than planning
the trip around like broadstreet oh yeah, people from east
(50:09):
nashville don't want people to,and because we?
It's funny, because what thefuck killing trash is?
Dude, we're finding thetreasure.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
No, I know, I know but I'm saying like no, because
it's funny, because we've runinto people since we've been
there and talking about howgreat it is and they're like,
yeah, it's getting to be likeeverybody's finding out about it
.
So now it's becoming like therest of it.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, and they don't want it to be.
But like so you bring up.
Another good point, though, isthe very first open mic that we
went to in Pittsburgh.
We ran into a guy that was fromhe's Nashville.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
We had just gotten back from Nashville a couple of
weeks before that.
Yeah, and it was just funny totalk to somebody that was there,
you know yeah, that we.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You know, it was just a connection and he decided to
go up and try his very, very,not you, the kid from Nashville
yeah, yeah, he did it very.
I wish I could remember hisname, but he had, like he has
like a, um digital art studio ineast nashville, shit.
Anyways, regardless, he wasreally funny and, um, he tried
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his hand at stand-up because healways wanted to do it yep, he
did and everybody welcomed himbecause yeah, that's what
comedians do.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
That's what comics do .
Speaker 2 (51:23):
That's what comics do I feel like a goddamn groupie,
though it's so weird because,like to your point, like so, if
you live in pittsburgh, right,then I could be like babe, no,
I'm doing my thing tonight, yougo do your comedy and I can do
(51:43):
my thing.
But because it's a whole nightout, I'm gonna not make him
drive to pittsburgh by, althoughI've thought about it no.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
I haven't.
It's fun though it's, it's wewere stuttering.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
We both work from home during the day, so five
days a week we're glued to thehouse, no matter what, and so,
like that's, it's just a fungetaway too, but, um, I'll be
sitting in the back from here onout, for sure.
Be sitting in the back, yep.
There was something else Iwanted to talk about in that
vein, too.
You were talking about the food.
Oh, that's.
(52:17):
What I'm really excited about,though, is that we're getting
ready to be into college, isgoing to be back in session, so
that means there's going to beway more kids on the streets of
Pittsburgh that you can bark andget into the shows, which means
that you're going to havepotentially better crowds, um,
so, I mean, maybe you'll see,we'll see.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
That's just an assumption.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
One thing ah, but Alana B has a plan and she's
going to be bringing gildedmerch, trash, gilded trash,
merch, merch, gilded Trash,merch to the shelves and hawking
outside to get people in, andif they come in I'll give them a
beer koozie, now you're goingto be working for them, the bars
(53:03):
.
I'm working for the comics toget you guys in.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
I know, I'm just saying you're working for them.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, that keeps me out of front and center, so I
don't have to answer stupidquestions Like how long have you
two been married?
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Right At this point you all should know, because
we've only been asked 37.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
We've been married for 15 years.
Um oh.
So what are we doing next week?
Well, not next week, Not nextweek, Two weeks.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
I said it's a true crime special, Tune in to find
out.
No, but no, we're going to.
So we love true crime.
Lots of people else love truecrime.
So we're going to talk aboutdifferent podcasts, talk about
our murder tourism, talk about,you know, just also talk about
(53:56):
cases that people becausethere's a lot of like homegrown
detective work that people aredoing that solving cases when
the police aren't out theredoing their jobs, which is a lot
, and so, yeah, we're just goingto dive into and have a true
crime episode.
We're not covering anyparticular no, we're not, we're
just talking about the love oftrue crime right like and
(54:19):
talking about all the thingsthat you can get into when you
go down these true crime rabbitholes right.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
I mean there's a lot of cases that we might mention a
case or two no, there's a lotof cases that I would like to
sink my teeth into um just here,full time but I need to retire
first, because that's a lotright, you almost have a have a
full-time job to be a true crimedetective like to be.
There's a lot of research.
Yeah, to be a good.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Really like really be out there helping solve case,
cold cases and stuff yeah, youreally got it, but we'll cover
all.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
Yeah, we'll cover all that.
Yeah, we will cover all that.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
But before we go, I just want to leave everybody
with this little bit of advicefrom the great philosopher
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr,otherwise known as Lil Wayne, I
always believe to be the best.
Gotta dress like the best.
Gotta dress like the best.
Act like the best.
(55:12):
When you throw your trash inthe garbage, can throw it in
better than anybody else whoever threw trash in a garbage
can.
Oh my god that's it.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Until next time, see ya.
Oh my lanta, you're out ofcontrol.
This is an urgent news bulletin brought to you by
your local Waste Pickers Union.
Since the last episode, we'vegot t-shirts, truckers, hats and
beer koozies.
We got YouTube, patreon andeven a Discord.
So head on over togildedtrashcom and find all of
our links and merchandise.
I'm Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I'm Alana B, and let's dive on into the dumpster
of comedy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,stop the presses.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Before we get started on anything, we got a few
things to revisit from the lastepisode.
First off, on the last KillTony episode that we watched,
red Band was wearing a Rax roastbeef t-shirt.
It was kind of sexy.
I want it.
I want a Rax roast beef t-shirt.
Are you kidding me?
Yes, a Rax Roseby t-shirt.
After we just talked about it,never heard about it in my life.
(00:49):
And then, boom, there, it isright in my face.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know, I like to refer to those as
synchronicities, babe.
It's just the universe tellingus that we're talking about the
right things, we're saying theright things, we're doing the
right things.
Also, from last episode, alittle bit of good news you
found on social media today wasthat Noah West and Presley
Tennant are definitely releasingthe song, if it was easy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Great song.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, amazing song.
We talked about it in the firstepisode and it's releasing on
eight 30, I think Eight 30 oreight 31.
Go check it out.
I mean check it out, Take itfrom them, not from us.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Right, we're just relaying the message relayers.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Don't kill the messenger.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Right, we're going to talk about going to all the
different places that we've doneOpen mics, all the different
scenes that we visited in termsof, like, different cities.
You know what I mean.
Cool people that we've metalong the way.
Uh, cool people that we've metalong the way, cause we've met
some really, really cool people.
And also we're going to makeour argument for why we think
(01:52):
Joe Rogan should open upmothership East in Pittsburgh,
pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I really like I've come to that conclusion.
First of all, I grew up closeto Pittsburgh, so I'm already a
Pittsburgh girl, right, I lovePittsburgh, Um, but it's going
through a transformation rightnow and I just think that it's
ripe for the pickings.
What's the feature topic forthis week's episode?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, we're going to talk about, as we know maybe not
everybody else, but I starteddoing comedy back in March open
mic comedy and we're just goingto talk a little bit about some
of the things we've come across,some of the people we've met,
you know, some of the thingsthat we've encountered.
All that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
All right, I mean I do have an agenda here, but yeah
no, it started really.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The comedy journey started back in March.
We went up to harrisburg to thecomedy zone, which is a comedy
club it's awesome actually isn'tit it's.
Yeah, it is pretty awesome,it's the nicest thing that we so
outside of like shows thatwe've got, comedy shows that
(03:04):
we've gone to that were like atplaces.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, like actual.
I mean, that wasn't actualcomedy club though, right, but
that's what I'm saying, but itis and it isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's not the improv.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's not the improv, but it had an improv, like feel.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it's definitely a cool place.
It's like a mid tier.
It's improv, like feel.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
yeah, it's definitely a cool, it's like a mid-tier
it's like it's not an open micat a what's happening right now,
that I think that was thecomputer.
So it makes a noise like thatit does now because I fucking
turned something on that Iwasn't supposed to and jack
something up and I'm gonna haveto factor your whole thing
already.
But that's it.
No, it gave me a feel ofstandup.
New York.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I mean I would count standup.
New York is like a little bitbetter because that feels like
it was in New York.
Well, and it also felt likewhen you think a comedy club
like standup New York is likethe stereotype of like a.
It's like down in this littleroom there's like it's brick
(04:09):
right, you know what I mean.
It's small it's very intimate.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's in new york well , right, but like thinking about
the murals that were all overthe wall at the harrisburg
comedy, like it just had a verycomic feel to it.
Yeah, yeah, oh, it's a greatplace.
Yeah 100%.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And it's big and it's in a hotel, so that's what
really makes it awesome.
It's in a hotel with a bar,restaurant, with a comedy club,
with, like a game room.
It was like a sort of adifferent version of like JD
Legends.
Yeah, yeah Not quite as muchactivity, but like still with
having a game room, having a bar, having a comedy club.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So I was trying to research earlier what the name
of the hotel was that it wasattached to, and it could be one
of two.
It's like the MagnusonHarrisburg hotel or or the
budget in cause.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
they all have the same address, which is
one-on-one line kiln so like, orthe budget in because they all
have the same address which is101 Lime Kiln.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think it was the budget in, to be honest with you
, Right, but if you look on theside of the marquee there where
it says what's the name of therestaurant?
Again Boomerang.
Oh, their food was good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Their wings were good yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And it's really nice inside.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's like a really nice sports bar it's huge and it
has the patio out back it'shuge or the tiki bar or whatever
that's yeah, it's got like alittle tiki bar outside thing
going yeah, checked a lot ofboxes, but what I was saying as
far as it being like a mid-tier,it's like it's not your.
That's when the computer beatoh right all right, the it's not
(05:47):
an open mic bar or like brewerythat you're at doing comedy and
it's not like a nice club whereyou're gonna get like a
headliner, like a nationalheadliner.
You know what I'm saying, you'renot gonna get dusty slay there
you're not gonna, I'm justsaying, but you'll get him at
like the improv right orsomething like a club like that
(06:09):
or mcgoobies like right dansoder is not going to harrisburg
comedy zone, but he's going tomcgoobies right, right, but I
agree it also does get so-callednational acts you know what I
mean like touring comedians thataren't your like name brand so
(06:30):
aaron weber would play at theharrisburg comedy zone.
Aaron weber has played at theharrisburg comedy zone okay,
okay, that gives me an idea oftears.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's probably a little above baits don't be mean
to baitsy.
It's probably a little aboveBates.
Don't be mean to Batesy.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Try a little above Bates.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh my lanta.
But like okay.
So March of this year 2024, wasyour very, very first open mic
ever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
However, like before that, yeah, I mean I always
wanted to get into comedy butbut I, you know, just never did
I.
Uh, I used to.
I mean I used to think about itall the time.
I mean, obviously you know this, that I've been like I'm a
comedy nerd, like some people.
Like sport, I mean I likesports too, but like I love
(07:20):
comedy, like, and like when Iwas a kid, I'd run around and I
mean I doubt anybody remembersthis, there might be somebody
but, um, that I would walkaround with like sheets of
notebook paper which is wordswritten on bits that I and it
would be like a bit.
It would say like uh, jerryGarcia and I knew a bit by Nick
(07:43):
Di palo that he talks aboutjerry garcia, and like I
wouldn't, so it would just sayone word or phrase or whatever,
and I would have all these bitsmemorized.
And then, of course, like Iwould do jerky boys non-stop,
like for everyone that wouldever listen, and my friends and
I would make our own jerky voicetapes.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I literally got to hear the first week we were
dating.
I think I heard every jerkyvoice through you, through your
impersonation of them.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I had heard them before, but not the way you.
But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm saying so like I've always.
Like I'm saying that's how Ireally got started doing voices,
though Like that I do you knowhow to do a million voices.
Um so like I always was likekind of geared towards that, but
like I uh well, first off.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I didn't know you could even like, really do that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I didn't know you could just be a comedian, right?
You know what I mean.
Right, when we were younger,that was right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It fell out of reach, like it didn't feel like what
somebody grew up to do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, you just didn't really think about it
because it was like how wouldyou even go about that?
Like as a kid, like there's no,because when you live, like in
the country, it's not likethere's a comedy scene or
anywhere, even nearby.
Right Even now we drive an hourand a half to get to a scene
Right At a minimum, really.
Right, you know what I mean.
Like it's.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And the closest place you would have been able to go
pre-Comedy Zone days would havebeen Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right or DC.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Or DC.
Yeah, I mean which?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean even still, even from there, like you're
talking, I mean you're going tohave to drive to the city, right
to the city.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right?
Well, there was always thealternative, though, for you,
which you also didn't pursue.
Well, you kind of pursued, butdidn't.
Your dad said that you couldalways be a megachurch leader.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I mean, I think that goes into being a comedian
, because you're just full ofshit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But you are ordained.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
so I am ordained, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The comedy preacher, the preacher comedian.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Not really.
I think that one guy he's likea legitimate preacher.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
He's a legitimate preacher.
I'm not legitimate, that's mything, no.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm illegitimate.
I do weddings for people thatare not looking to stay together
.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Matter of fact, he's zero for three right now zero
for three.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But uh, but if you need somebody in a pinch and no
professional, person would touchit.
That's where I specialize.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's where I specialize uh what did that one
kid say I can't believe I met apastor that smokes weed or
something.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I say so we were hitting the vape pen, it was
called the shit.
What was it?
The devil's something.
It wasn't the devil's lettucebut it was called the devil's
sunrise or something like that.
And he's like so I was likeit's called the devil's sunrise.
(10:47):
He's like you mean to tell methat I smoke a weed called the
devil's sunrise with my pastor?
And I was like first off,nobody's ever said the word
pastor.
That's a different connotation.
I'm here as a legal officiantand I ordained something or
(11:09):
other something internet,ordained internet.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So so then, like we were just like so I don't even
know where, how it, just kind ofovernight I was like we're
doing a podcast and you're goingto start doing open mics.
That's what we're going to do,that's what we're going to put
like our time and money into.
So here we are.
That was in March.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
We're now in mid-August, already coming up on
football season, um, and you'vegot a little bit of practicing
already, some yeah yeah, some,not as much as I probably like,
but uh, yeah, but we've gottento do it all over, which has
really been fun yeah, we've doneit at lots of different, lots
(12:00):
of different places, locationsnot just.
I mean lots of different towns,I should say right as opposed
to, and we're going to be.
We found out that there's one inaltuna yeah, that sounds really
, which is like really sort ofoutside the box because it's
like you don't really get openmics in places of you know that
(12:21):
size right right I mean youmight get a comedy show at a bar
or something like that.
You know what I mean.
Kind of like here, where theymight bring in a couple of
people right like it's not it'snever a comedy open mic right,
you know what I mean like sothat's, that'll be cool, or if
it is to check that out yeah, orif it is, it's like not for for
(12:43):
an area like this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I I haven't seen one that was like really well
promoted or put together yet Ihaven't seen one open mic for
comedy, for music no forever forcomedy.
There was one where that youdidn't go to that was not for
comedy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They were doing that for music and you asked them if
I could do comedy.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Anyways, I'm not going to argue that.
So I mean, but I think one ofthe very first things that we
did when we very first starteddating was we went to see the
Gaff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh, yeah, we've seen a ton of comedians.
Yeah, we've seen a ton ofcomedians.
Yeah, I mean it was that's.
We've seen a bunch thatwereians.
Yeah, I mean it was it that's.
We've seen a bunch that we'reall really really, really good.
There's still a lot that wehaven't seen.
Oh yeah, I mean for sure 100.
I mean I can go to a comedyshow once a week and probably
(13:40):
not get through all the peoplethat I wanted.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right, absolutely, absolutely, so like.
And now that we're doing thiswhole journey with all of this,
I feel like I've become somekind of crazy, like stage mom
where, like every place we go,I'm trying to wiggle you into an
open mic and you're like, I'mnot doing that here.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She's had me do it at a party, like just somebody's
redneck party in an orchard.
She's got me out there doingcomedy for people.
That ambush style of comedy isnot fun.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, it's not.
But that guy laughed no at thebar that day.
I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
That's one thing that I learned immediately.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Don't tell people you do comedy, don't ever do that?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
because the immediate people are like tell me a joke.
You feel like Rocco andBoondock Saints.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Make me laugh.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Right.
It's like it's so weird.
It's weird because it's likeone of those things like people,
as if you're just like loadedwith like knock, knock jokes I
mean if it was like uh, what'shis name back in the day, the
one-liner guy um rodneydangerfield, like if it was
something like that even so, butit's still a pain in the ass
(14:59):
like you don't walk up to themusician and say play me a song.
No, you don't.
But to be fair, like it'shappened to me as well, because
I grew up in this area singing,so like if I would go anywhere
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where there was a band, peoplewould think they could go up to
the band and say they wantedAtlanta to sing.
And it's like not fair to theband, right, it's not fair to
their fans, who might not wantto hear me sing and I have
friends that do that too.
It's just, it's awkward, yeah,it's it's the most annoying
thing ever.
Plus we're both like reallyintroverts.
So if you learn, anything, it'sdon't ever.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
if you learn anything from this episode, nothing else
.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Take this home, If somebody, if you find out that
somebody does comedy in aconversation, do not be like,
well, tell me a joke no, don'tdo that.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Do not do that, it's terrible it's, it's awkward.
It's awkward, it's not going tobe funny.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's not going to be funny.
Jokes aren't meant to be like Isaid.
They're not knock knock jokesright, like I can, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What you really just need to do is have a little list
of knock knock jokes for peoplelike that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
That to me is even more annoying, just being like
no no, I hear you all right.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
so, um, so, your first open mic ever was in
Harrisburg and I thought you didamazing, but I'm like a diehard
fan.
So then again, that's what Iwas talking about with Stage Mom
, because then I had this brightidea that we were going to go
see Shane Gillis in Nashvilleand that Scott was going to do
(16:41):
some open mics in Nashville.
So we went down there and thetiming was a little bit off, but
I have one word Joyland.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That chicken sandwich , son?
Oh, my dear Lord, that was.
If you learn nothing else fromthis, I think If you're in.
Nashville.
Go to Joyland in East Nashville.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What was mine?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The Smashburger they only have two things Chicken
sandwiches and burgers.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But it's a Smashburger right.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, they're Smashburgers.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Hand-pattied right there.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I mean like they kill the cow on sight.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
They kill the cow right out back.
They're the only cows inNashville.
No, it's uh, top notch.
It's like just those two things, but they do really really,
really, really, really, reallyreally yeah, joyland was amazing
.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We we did.
We had a lot of good food there.
We had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Shangillas obviously was amazing, but um, we did that
because we were going to.
There was an open mic that wewere going to at a place called
Hubba Hubba Tiki.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh, that's right, that was that same night, so we
were looking, we were killingtime.
Yes, hubba, hubba Tiki.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I need to go back there.
I want to go back for open mic.
First off, it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
First of all, the kitchen.
There is fucking off the chainsLike the bathroom kitsch baby.
It's like the.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I was like kitchen.
No, it didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But like remember the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh yeah, it's, it's very.
It might not be everybody'svibe, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Like it's as if the eighties threw up all over the
place and then and then add insome like tiki stuff.
If you're cool, you'll like itRight, like the people there are
, just like, and it was veryeclectic in terms of the mix of
people that came in to do comedy.
Yeah, like it wasn't like onegroup of people or like.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It wasn't one type of comedy, it was a little.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It wasn't a bunch of 30 year old white guys, right, I
mean there was some, but likeyou know, you've got like no
offense but like comedy zoneyeah you know what I mean.
You got I mean even a lot ofthe open mics we do in
pittsburgh and stuff.
It's mostly 30 year old whiteguys 25 to 40 year old white
guys yeah, yeah, that's comedy'sbread and butter, but like it
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was just an eclectic mix ofpeople it was.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It felt very artsy, not that there's no diversity in
pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I want to throw that out.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, no there absolutely, is there absolutely?
Is and there's, and even at thecomedy zone there was.
But yeah, this place just feltdifferent.
It felt a little artsier, itfelt I don't know, it just felt
you felt like anybody could walkin there right right anybody
did walk in there oh, that'sright, but before we go there, I
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do want to give a shout out tobrandy legs on instagram.
It's brandy legs l-e-g-s oninstagram or misguided spirits.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, it's misguided-spiritscom.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
spirits made for the people, that pour them by the
people that pour them, by thepeople that pour them you know
what I mean.
Right that it's unsafe, butthat part is unsafe For the
people.
That pour them.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yes, that's exactly it Made by the people that pour
them, but anyways.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So I was stalking her Instagram earlier and I found
out that Shabuzy follows her,which is effing huge, but she's
just a little gal in Nashvilleslinging spirits, but I love her
, yeah, and good times.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's what the thing was we walked into that place
and they made us.
You would have thought that welived next door.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Right by the way that they treated us.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They let us try this liquor.
There was nobody else reallythere, so they were just like
bullshitting with us about theirlives as if we'd known them and
were their friends forever.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We were just part of the conversation.
They were having theirconversation and we were
included.
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, no, it was very cool and the host there was of
the open mic.
Yeah, he was very cool, verycool, very, very cool he was
very cool, yeah, but yeah no, itwas a great mic at a great time
, um.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Oh, one other thing I wanted to say about misguided
spirits, though, is, even if youdon't drink, their merch is
hella cool.
They have a lot of tarot themedmerch, like shirts, um coasters
playing shit like that, butthey also have a collab with um
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tattoo artist, matt adamson.
Um, he has a tattoo shop inbrooklyn, new york, and it's
called old bone society, and sothat merch is slightly different
.
It's more flash art and stufflike that, but it's really I
feel like it's really cool,really cool.
So, but any who's all back to,who just randomly popped up at
the open mic and hubba, hubbaright.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So we were just there , we were watching um.
I went first yeah, it was soweird because it's like I mean,
first is actually not.
Not that I'm saying it'scoveted or anything like that.
Obviously you don't want to be,but like early is better
usually.
Right, you know what I meanBecause like, if you're wanting
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outside people there, they'rethere, whatever.
Or I guess that's really whatit depends on is when is there
going to be people there thataren't just comedians?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But regardless of any of that, um, what was I saying
about that?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
you went first.
Oh yeah, I went first.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So the the first time that I did comedy I was just
like in the middle of the pack,and every time after that.
But my second and third timedoing comedy I was first both of
those times.
So it was like if I was a lotto deal with because I was like
whoa Jesus.
But regardless of any of that,so we're sitting there, we're
watching comedy and this guy'sup there and I'm like he looks
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really familiar.
We're in Nashville.
I don't know this guy, but helooks really familiar.
I'm just thinking that in mymind that he looks familiar.
He stands out to me.
For some reason he gets upthere to do I had noticed him
prior to that you know, he'slike talking to everybody.
people knew who he was, likeobviously been there before, um,
and he gets up there and he'sdoing his and he did a joke
(23:15):
about this was at the time thatthe whole nickelodeon
documentary come out and he saidthat he was a child star and
that he worked for Disney.
And that's when I put ittogether because Disney ABC.
He was on a show called Step byStep which was on TGIF, and he
was one of the kids on the showJT.
He was JT's friend and Rich, Ithink his name was on the show.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't remember, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Regardless, it doesn't, rich or no?
No, I think it was Rich, Idon't.
It doesn't matter.
Regardless of any of that.
So we don't even.
This is all we know about himat the time.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No, right, this is all we know.
However, I still wasn't puttinganything together because I'd
never seen that show, right?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
like I didn't care about that kind of stuff right,
and we had heard brandy actuallytalked about how he was a.
He was max, the voice of max ata goofy movie right, so by the
end of the night that we wereleaving the bar right.
We knew those things, that hewas on the show step-by-step and
that he was on.
He was Max in a goofy movie.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, that's all we knew.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's all we knew.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And just real quickly though, because this plays into
what you're about to say.
When I came out of the bathroom, you were having a conversation
with him and he shook my handand said said, oh, I heard
you're the one that doesn't likestep by step, and so well, yeah
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, I just I before the end.
It was a joke before the end ofthe night.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I just introduced myself and said that you know.
I asked him if he was right theguy that I thought that he was
and he said, yeah, yeah, he wasand that that was that.
Right, you came out, had that.
He said, uh, he was like.
Oh, you guys are frompennsylvania.
He remembered because I had ajoke about the roads yeah and he
was like oh, you know, whatever, have a good night.
You know, nice to meet you,yada, yada.
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So we thought that was cool.
You know what I mean?
Just to have just that alonewas I was thinking that you know
, this is awesome.
I was a guy like watching on tvwhen I was growing up, and then
we'll read his wiki page firstof all jason marsden, and he
said his name was mars at theshow right, that's how he was
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like right, and that's how hegoes.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He.
He goes by mars on instagram umfollow him, because he's got a
lot of crazy shit going on andI'm going to tell you about it
here in a minute, but anyways,so we get to his wiki page and
he was the voice of the cat inhocus pocus zachary binks.
He was zachary binks in hocuspocus.
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I am a middle-aged woman whoclearly, just by looking at me,
loves everything.
Halloween, mars, mars.
If you're watching this, youcould have led with the fucking
fact that you were in hocuspocus, because I wouldn't know
what that was.
I would have known, but anyway.
So he started in 87 on likewebster.
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He did an episode of Websterand that was like the first
thing that I could find.
And then, like he's done, likeyou said, he was Max in the
Goofy movie, step by step, buthe's still working.
Brandy said that he's friendswith a bunch of the kids that
were in the movie Hook, I thinkthat he is.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I think I saw some pictures Because he does a lot
of like cons.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
He does a lot of cons .
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Was he even in that movie?
No, he wasn't.
I looked it up, I did look itup.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
But if you're looking for something to do and you're
in Salem Mass on October 11th,they're having a really cool
costume party slash event.
Uh, mars is going to be there.
The girl that played allison,the girlfriend, the two little
thug guys are all grown up.
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They're going to be there.
Omri katz is going to be there,so like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Like, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The witches won't be there, but everybody else
everybody else them.
Everybody else who is.
I don't want to see that.
I don't care less about Bette.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Midler.
Well, Kathy, how do you say?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
her name.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I like her, but the other two I can do without
her.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, regardless, october 11th in Salem
Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Not that I don't like him in the video.
Okay, move on from that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
But yeah, so he's still working, and he's still
working really hard.
And his girlfriend on Insta ishella cute.
She does all the cons with him.
Remedy, follow her too.
So what else are we talkingabout?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I don't know.
What else are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So there's a whole Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, I mean, that's what we've been doing a lot of
yeah, which is cool.
I mean I like it out there.
It's definitely cool.
We're going to go to Austinhere soon.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Not only are we going to Austin people, but I've
already hooked up with a realestate agent as a plan b but um,
yeah, but uh, yeah, no, I meanI like the Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Like I said it, it's like we've learned a lot.
You know what I mean by goingout there yeah a when you go
because, like, we watch the showwhile we're there we don't just
just typically.
I mean a lot of comics.
We're coming at this from alittle bit different place.
Most comics start this muchyounger.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right, you know what?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I mean Than I have.
So I'm not going to go around,I'm not trying to hit 19
different places.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Right, I mean I'll do two or three, right.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But I try to stay, I try to watch other people,
because not only that, but Ilike to watch right other
comedians bad and good right,however, what's going on,
however I'm fucking over it,dudes.
I'm so over it we have made themistake in this last time.
I don't know why you wanted todo that, but um do you like to
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engage again?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I feel like a stage mother.
I want to show my support tothe other comics.
I want them to have a face.
That's not one of the othercomics and I'm the only one that
routinely shows up with him.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That is not one of the other comics, so yeah we get
stuck like, and the problemwith a lot of these is if, with
the exception the scene inpittsburgh, you might be there
on a great night the same, thenyou can be great and bad week to
week you don't back, right, youdon't know it might be filled
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with people.
It might be nobody there rightand we've made the mistake
several times of like going intolike the bar and we'll we'll
typically like order somethingto eat.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Right Cause again we're driving Right.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Right, this is our whole night.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We're out there for you know the time that we get
off work to you know we get home, Um, and we've sat.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Do not sit up front, do not be in a place where they
can engage you, Because whenthere's nobody there, they're
going to engage with the onlypeople there that are engaging.
Yes, and that's the problem.
So then you end up in this spotwhere you're just like you
gotta be like on your A game.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I mean to be fair.
I I'm very comfortableresponding Right, because I did
used to be a DJ, so it's notawkward for me to respond and I
will say some awful bullshit onpurpose, just to see if they're
on their game sometimes.
But it's no longer fun.
I feel like I'm in thespotlight when I'm there and I
don't want to be in thespotlight.
I just want to relax and watchcomedy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, spotlight when I'm there and I don't want to be
in the spotlight Right, I justwant to relax and watch comedy.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, so obviously you don't ever have to
worry about that at like aprofessional show.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right, I mean you do if you're sitting up front Right
.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But I want to be up front when fucking Well, not
maybe Matt Rafe, but no whenSoders worked in the crowd.
Right, we were up front,although, ari is a staunch
defender of.
Matt right or Tony.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Tony Hinchcliffe is a staunch defender of Tony.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'm not anti-Matt, right, no, I mean I was prior to
that, but he put his work in.
He's doing what he's doing,right, he's working.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He's making way more money than me.
Exactly, people get Whateverdude, do you?
If you can, crowd work your wayto 10 million fucking dollars.
Crowd work your way to 10million dollars is what I say
yeah if you can do it, do it Ijust like.
It's just not for me yeah, it'sjust not for me either.
(31:53):
I don't really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But remember we went and saw uh soda that one time
and we were close.
We had like we've been we'vebeen.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Actually it's crazy how close we've been to most.
Like we were close to shanegillis, we were up front yeah we
were uh soda we were up fromdusty sleigh we were up from.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, nate, every time I've seen nate?
Yeah, well, not an arena, butlike a yeah we.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We had really good seats at state college though we
did have.
We were probably only likeeight rows back or something
that was really good, remember.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So that's kind of when you're talking about like
interacting with the comic orwhatever.
So one thing that cringes meout is hecklers, and I know that
that's something that you guyshave to learn to get used to.
I'm a mouthy son of a bitchLike I have to learn to just
pull back.
And'm a mouthy son of a bitchlike I have to learn to just
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pull back and be like it's notmy right.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, because it's just that's the problem with it.
Is you just it's?
I mean you.
Every situation that I'vegotten into like that it's
unique in itself because you'redealing with different people,
so's like what may work to getout of it one time won't work on
somebody else or vice versa.
Right, Because it's like ifit's just like you know, if it's
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one person, like being likeoverly answery.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You almost have to just get to the point and just
be like shut up dude.
Right, which is where mostpeople get to is they're like
dude, shut up, you know what Imean, like so, because it's just
there's no other way to dealwith that.
Now, if it's just peopletalking you know what I mean
that can sort of be corralled,like you.
Just, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You can just sort of get out of that because you can
pull them out of it if it's theright you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Like yeah, like, or.
Let them finish.
I'm sorry, am I interruptingyou, right?
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Like you, just like yeah there's a lot of good ways
to get out of it.
But I think why it's cringy forme is because the couple times
that I've seen it handled overthe past couple months, um, it's
been somebody screaming at theperson, like screaming like shut
the fuck up which I do thatsometimes to you for no reason,
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like you're just like.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You could always pull , michael Richards.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Or not.
Okay, let's not get canceledbefore we get up and running.
I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, how do professional comedians handle
heckling?
I mean, we saw Dan Soder, I'mnot going to do it.
Well, how do professionalcomedians handle heckling?
I mean, we saw Dan Soder.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right, where were we?
That was Magoobies.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Magoobies, that's a frigging awesome venue.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I love Baltimore to begin with, but yeah, as much as
I love Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So when we saw Dan Soder, he literally basically
just said shut the fuck up.
There was people talking.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And they were talking a lot, and they were talking to
each other, having a full blownconversation.
A full blown conversation.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Enough to disrupt the show, and we also should say
this was right after COVID, soit wasn't even a full room.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Right, right, Exactly .
And it's like why the fuckwould you pay the price to sit
front row to see an awesomecomedian and then sit there and
bullshit with your friend?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
A show that you've waited two years to see because,
remember, this was originallybooked like 2020.
We were supposed to go see him.
They shut everything down.
They didn't even start doingshows again.
This is like the end of 2021,maybe the beginning of 22.
I don't remember Right.
You paid money, waited twoyears to go to a show, only to
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have a decide right when he'sgetting started to have a
conversation from the front rowRight and so.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
So Dan Soder handled it, but I felt I felt his energy
get a little angry the rest ofthe show.
So I don't like, I don't feellike it, like it didn't hurt.
My experience is what I want tosay agree it did not hurt my
experience.
I still appreciated everythinghe did after that, like I still
he's.
He's hilarious.
(36:22):
I love Dan Soder, but um,didn't he say something at the
end of the show then?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I don't think he said anything at the end of the show
, but I think he might'vereferenced it later on.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, like in a joke, you know like we've heard
comedians do that before.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes, where they'll reference back to the matter of
fact.
Shane Gillis, he wasn't the onethat did it, it was McCann.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
James McCann James.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Donald Forbes McCann catamaran plan Shout out to his
podcast.
That's the name, it's prettycool.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
He's a funny guy.
He is fucking hilarious.
I don't know I had never heardof him before the Shane Gillis
show.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I can't believe we totally forgot about that
incident.
That was better than the Soderincident.
The Soder incident was mine.
That was just people talkingrepeatedly after being asked to
be to be quiet.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
This lady, she was drunk, yeah, and she was
shouting like bring out shanegillis like oh god, it was
embarrassing good and everycomedian after that happened
called it back.
Called it back, Called it back.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Even Shane Gillis called it back yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, but um, I mean props to the security guard
because she fucking handled itand it was, and everybody
clapped when the lady left andthat was that.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
In a full, uproarious cheer.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well, especially too, cause he called her a cunt.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
He did call her a cunt, which is one of my
favorite words he did.
He's from australia yeah, he'slike get out of here, you cunt
like that.
It was great.
In the rhyming auditorium hesaid cunt that was the best part
.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That makes it even better.
The mother church of countrymusic as as the?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
um stained glass windows were beaming light down
on him, the word conscious drops.
I love it now.
So, but back to soda for asecond.
So true story like, and I Iwould waffle it on which way to
say it, but ultimately at theend of the day, he tweeted about
it after the show and Icommented that she was still
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running her mouth in thebathroom after the show, which
was true.
So I go in to pee after the show.
She's in there, she's in thestall next to me, I hear her
talking to herself and when weboth walk out to wash our hands,
she's bitching.
First world problems, becausethey didn't have the handlebars
on the side of the toilet at aheight where she could squat
(38:55):
properly wearing heels, so youcan imagine why they were having
a fighter conversation in thefront row, but this entitled
Hussie.
So I commented back on thetweet that Soder had tweeted and
said that she was still runningher mouth in the bathroom after
the show.
And it got me my very, veryfirst celebrity like on a
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comment which was oh, my heartis just beaming right now, and
it also caused my addiction togetting attention from
celebrities.
So now my whole goal is toTikTok um, TikTok, tweet or
Facebook, something that willmake you like my comment.
But anyways what I'm getting atthere is that, um, if you're at
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an open mic and you don't knowit's going to be an open mic and
you just came in to have foodand there's somebody standing
right behind you telling fuckingjokes and you're like talking
to your person because you wantto eat your food, like no comic,
you shut the fuck up like no, Itotally disagree.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Those restaurant people have made the decision to
have an open mic there.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You know what I mean well then, that's on the
bartender to be like hey, whydon't you guys sit down here, so
you're not right underneath thehot breath of the?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
guy.
Well, also at that place,though.
They have the same open micthere for years, and those
people should have shut the fuckup.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, I don't disagree.
In that case those people werebeing fucking totally annoying,
Totally annoying.
So I don't disagree, but I justI'm just like if we were in a
comedy club.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
That dude did scream at him Jesus Christ.
It was a lot.
It was a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
It was extra, it was definitely a lot, it was way
extra, it was definitely a lot,but that was cool.
Anywho, that actually brings usto my campaign, which I am
(40:57):
staunchly going to.
I'm going to launch an internetbarrage against Joe Rogan until
he takes me up on this offer.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
He needs to open a mothership East in Pittsburgh,
pennsylvania.
And here's why because there'sthe big four of comedy New York,
la, chicago and now, mostrecently, austin has emerged as
damn near, maybe, a contender totake.
I mean, if you ask Tony, it'sthe best in the country, it's
(41:28):
better than New York, it'sbetter than LA, it's where, all
the up, it's like Hollywood inthe late 60s, early 70s were to
Starlet's.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
That's what Austin is to comedy right now.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Right, it's just all the young comics want to go
there because there'sopportunity.
Yes, that's the name of thegame in comedy is opportunity to
do comedy when you offer themost opportunity.
That's where people want to go.
But that brings us topittsburgh right pittsburgh,
which like so.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I am a planner, I am a designer.
Logistically speaking, I coulddesign the whole infrastructure
for you.
I already have the businessplan, because we've got
communities that are lovely andhave houses that are in the low
30s and $40,000 that might needsome attention.
(42:19):
We've got a workforce that'salready used to a college town,
ruckus.
We've got bars out the wazoo inevery little corner of the city
that are ripe for hanging out.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
It has.
It's already doing its ownthing with a resurgence, with
health care, with technology.
So you already have a citythat's transforming itself.
You already have a great comedyscene that's already in place.
Comedy scene that's already inplace.
I've told you this out of everyplace we've really been a part
of.
Pittsburgh offers the bestcomedy scene in terms of that
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size of a city.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Without being like I said, I want to make it one of
the big five.
The big four are behemoths andevery other city is on a
different tier and it's equalwith those, but Pittsburgh is at
the top of that next tier andthere's room.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Austin's already starting to overflow and there's
a lot of kids over here on theeast coast who just cannot make
their way.
They're all they're likegetting over to austin and
they're struggling right becausethey're living out of their
cars.
We see it every week, yeah atleast one of the hat pulls a
week is fucking, either livingout of their cars we see it
every week.
At least one of the hat pulls aweek is fucking, either living
out of their car or just shackedup with somebody that they met.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, I mean part of that that's part of the fun and
the experience.
I get it.
Yeah for sure, but.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
but what we're getting at is that the
infrastructure is already inplace If you open up a
mothership East.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
You've already got a booming comedy scene in terms of
there's a ton of good comicsthere there's a ton and you're
so close to morgantown, you'reso close to the freaking um
turnpike, jersey, people cancome in, people from you know.
Uh, as you know, west virginia,tennessee, can all get there
easily enough right, that's thething is.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
So you would turn it, you would have people, so the
scenes that are all right nowbasically at the same level,
like Cleveland, buffalo, youknow what I mean.
You're going to have peoplethat are in those comedy scenes
moving to Pittsburgh, to uptheir game.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
To up their game Right.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
But it's going to like.
That's what has to happen,though, but you, the mothership
East, Joe Rogan, get it done.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Get it done, get it done Y'all.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
No, but I'm going to start everywhere.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
What does he?
What does he?
What's his name?
Well, farrell say let's get herdone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Well, no but that's what I'm saying, though.
Be like one of those, like itneeds to just catch fire, and to
the point that, every time,somebody is talking to joe rogan
.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
They're, like they mention it right, like what
about that?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
mother, I've been hearing rumblings, but just make
it that, just start rumblingsthat it's happening somebody
please start a rumor that joerogan is opening up everybody
start a rumor, tell your friends, tell everybody you know that
you heard this through thegrapevine and eventually it'll
manifest itself true becausehe'll be so bothered by it he'll
(45:19):
be like what?
I keep hearing this, and theneventually he'll be thinking
it'll just make so much sense tohim that he'll have to come
over and do it mothership eastpittsburgh, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I just say that I'm making that a hashtag, um, and
so okay, so we've talked abouthecklers in pittsburgh and, well
, we've talked about a lot ingeneral.
Um, there's more to talk aboutin pittsburgh that we want to
get into, um, so we're going togo there.
But let's talk about yourfavorite topic.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Food, some good food, like you find cool bars you
find great places to eat.
Look how many great places toeat we found, how many great
bars we found that I would go tooutside of comedy.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Like I never partied in Pittsburgh when I was younger
.
I was on the South side once ortwice and I've been to concerts
or whatever.
Whatever I've been to things inPittsburgh, but not like
somebody.
Like my cousins live on theSouth side or did at some point.
I don't know if they still do,they're grown, but so like I,
(46:29):
there's a lot of really coolfucking hiding spots in all the
bars.
Like all the bars there havelike a secret back room or two
different venues in the samespace or an upstairs lounge.
That is only where the it's allreally effing cool like I love
(46:49):
yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
And, like I said, back to the food thing, I mean
we have eaten some good food,not just at like places we've
gone to either with, but likethey might be next door oh yeah,
what's that place called nextdoor to uh?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
uh, roland's roland's seafood oh my god that, that
lobster quesadilla boy.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Let me tell you what they were losing money on this
thing.
Cause there was so much lobsterin it, cause there was so much
lobster in that thing and it wasreal.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Like I'm a seafood connoisseur.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Like I might, I might sound podunk when it comes to
city bars maybe or might soundprodunque when it comes to going
to big concerts in the city,but when it comes to seafood, I
fucking know seafood, let mejust tell you so it was.
Oh, my god, it was so good, sogood, yeah, I mean.
(47:41):
But yeah, we've.
And not only that, but like thepeople that I will say this
about the pittsburgh comedyscene it's been very, very
welcoming yeah, like, I mean,like everybody has been so nice
to you yeah, well, they just actlike.
The thing that I like is theydon't there's no I this is the
wrong word but there's like noto do about it you.
(48:02):
They just like you're justanother person.
They're trying to do it andthey just right they treat you
the same, like if you've beenthere the whole time, right?
Is what I'm getting at, likethey treat you as if you've been
there the whole time.
You're not like they treat youthe same.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Like if you've been there the whole time, right Is
what I'm getting at Like theytreat you as if you've been
there the whole time.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
You're not like an outsider.
You don't feel and I even seethat they're like, even when we
see people come from out of townand they say they're from out
of town.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, they always like treat.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Treat them real good, Like nobody's ever Comedy in
general, though, Right.
It's a very welcoming community.
It is.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well, no, I Let me backtrack that though, because I
think the first night inHarrisburg it felt very clicky.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Well, I'm going to tell you the reason for that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
There's one club, there's one place to do comedy
yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
And that's why it's so big.
There's 60 comics there on anight, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
It's because there's no other opportunities like that
.
There's one shot there.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
And not only that, but you're jockeying for
position, because there's a bigdifference between going first
there, one through 10 or fourhours later.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Right, you know what I mean, right.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Right After everybody's cleared out and the
only people left are the lastfour comics, last comic standing
.
It really gives all new meaningto that right, it does because
it's like that's who's leftright and if you're not going up
after you are there, so it'slike it's a very competitive.
I think it's a more competitiveenvironment it is Than anywhere
(49:31):
else that we've been.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, and it has a lot to do
with location, right, because itis the only one there.
And so when we got to Nashville, I mean so I mean just
welcoming all around we'retalking about.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, that was a welcoming scene.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
And East Nashville is its own vibe altogether like
for sure and a lot of folks thatI talked to who are really like
just laid back people.
They said that they would theywish they would have known about
east nashville before they gotdown there, rather than planning
the trip around like broadstreet oh yeah, people from east
(50:09):
nashville don't want people to,and because we?
It's funny, because what thefuck killing trash is?
Dude, we're finding thetreasure.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
No, I know, I know but I'm saying like no, because
it's funny, because we've runinto people since we've been
there and talking about howgreat it is and they're like,
yeah, it's getting to be likeeverybody's finding out about it
.
So now it's becoming like therest of it.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, and they don't want it to be.
But like so you bring up.
Another good point, though, isthe very first open mic that we
went to in Pittsburgh.
We ran into a guy that was fromhe's Nashville.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
We had just gotten back from Nashville a couple of
weeks before that.
Yeah, and it was just funny totalk to somebody that was there,
you know yeah, that we.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You know, it was just a connection and he decided to
go up and try his very, very,not you, the kid from Nashville
yeah, yeah, he did it very.
I wish I could remember hisname, but he had, like he has
like a, um digital art studio ineast nashville, shit.
Anyways, regardless, he wasreally funny and, um, he tried
(51:15):
his hand at stand-up because healways wanted to do it yep, he
did and everybody welcomed himbecause yeah, that's what
comedians do.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
That's what comics do .
Speaker 2 (51:23):
That's what comics do I feel like a goddamn groupie,
though it's so weird because,like to your point, like so, if
you live in pittsburgh, right,then I could be like babe, no,
I'm doing my thing tonight, yougo do your comedy and I can do
(51:43):
my thing.
But because it's a whole nightout, I'm gonna not make him
drive to pittsburgh by, althoughI've thought about it no.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
I haven't.
It's fun though it's, it's wewere stuttering.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
We both work from home during the day, so five
days a week we're glued to thehouse, no matter what, and so,
like that's, it's just a fungetaway too, but, um, I'll be
sitting in the back from here onout, for sure.
Be sitting in the back, yep.
There was something else Iwanted to talk about in that
vein, too.
You were talking about the food.
Oh, that's.
(52:17):
What I'm really excited about,though, is that we're getting
ready to be into college, isgoing to be back in session, so
that means there's going to beway more kids on the streets of
Pittsburgh that you can bark andget into the shows, which means
that you're going to havepotentially better crowds, um,
so, I mean, maybe you'll see,we'll see.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
That's just an assumption.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
One thing ah, but Alana B has a plan and she's
going to be bringing gildedmerch, trash, gilded trash,
merch, merch, gilded Trash,merch to the shelves and hawking
outside to get people in, andif they come in I'll give them a
beer koozie, now you're goingto be working for them, the bars
(53:03):
.
I'm working for the comics toget you guys in.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
I know, I'm just saying you're working for them.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, that keeps me out of front and center, so I
don't have to answer stupidquestions Like how long have you
two been married?
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Right At this point you all should know, because
we've only been asked 37.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
We've been married for 15 years.
Um oh.
So what are we doing next week?
Well, not next week, Not nextweek, Two weeks.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
I said it's a true crime special, Tune in to find
out.
No, but no, we're going to.
So we love true crime.
Lots of people else love truecrime.
So we're going to talk aboutdifferent podcasts, talk about
our murder tourism, talk about,you know, just also talk about
(53:56):
cases that people becausethere's a lot of like homegrown
detective work that people aredoing that solving cases when
the police aren't out theredoing their jobs, which is a lot
, and so, yeah, we're just goingto dive into and have a true
crime episode.
We're not covering anyparticular no, we're not, we're
just talking about the love oftrue crime right like and
(54:19):
talking about all the thingsthat you can get into when you
go down these true crime rabbitholes right.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
I mean there's a lot of cases that we might mention a
case or two no, there's a lotof cases that I would like to
sink my teeth into um just here,full time but I need to retire
first, because that's a lotright, you almost have a have a
full-time job to be a true crimedetective like to be.
There's a lot of research.
Yeah, to be a good.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Really like really be out there helping solve case,
cold cases and stuff yeah, youreally got it, but we'll cover
all.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
Yeah, we'll cover all that.
Yeah, we will cover all that.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
But before we go, I just want to leave everybody
with this little bit of advicefrom the great philosopher
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr,otherwise known as Lil Wayne, I
always believe to be the best.
Gotta dress like the best.
Gotta dress like the best.
Act like the best.
(55:12):
When you throw your trash inthe garbage, can throw it in
better than anybody else whoever threw trash in a garbage
can.
Oh my god that's it.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Until next time, see ya.
Oh my lanta, you're out ofcontrol.
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