Episode 79

Hey Curt's back! Recapping what's been going on the last couple months, a trip to Texas, a trip to Iowa, performing in his home town, a lady almost dying at a show, some of his favorite famous comics he's worked with in his 23 year career and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
His name is a really funny guy, and this is
his podcast. In your Rise and Ride Pater letter, Yay
everybody in the Right Podcast, Episode seventy nine. It's been
a couple of months since I recorded one, believe it

(00:29):
or not. Been busy, all right, been traveling a lot.
Let's get off my back. Let's sick of all the
hate emails and stuff when you bring the podcast back.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I never get emails or
text messages or anything like that. Do you have a

(00:49):
new website for the podcast in the Right Podcast dot com.
I also have some stickers to buy, some Kurt Fletcher
logo stickers and some other stickers. I can't remember what
I have on there, but if you go to Funny
Fletcher dot com click on merch. Got some stickers on

(01:11):
there from sticker Mule and you can buy them you want,
and I can make money. That'd be pretty cool. Usually
give away stickers for free at my shows, so that's
a good way to get them. Also. I also have
my schedule on there, tour dates, well toward dates. I
don't know. I don't have a ton of shows, but

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I got a lot of got a lot of local
gigs coming up, talk about them real quick. August twenty
fourth the Hops and Dough tap Room here in Albuquerque.
September sixth at the Tractor Brewery. That's gonna be a
anniversary show. It's gonna be a really good lineup. September

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thirteenth at the Through Lab Rio Ranchi. September fourteenth, of
we headlining the Sunday Service Motor Company. And that's on
a Saturday. Don't get that confused, just because the word
Sunday is in the venue name. It's on a Saturday.

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And then on October I go to Canada. October twenty
first through the twenty sixth, I will be in Calgary
headlining the Comedy Cave, which I'm pretty excited about. I've
never been to Canada. Hopefully I can make those people laugh.
I'm pretty excited, kind of nervous, most excited though. And

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then October twenty third, I have a comedy special coming
out on Open Bar, which is gonna be on YouTube,
just a like a thirty minute special I recorded in
February at Looney's in Colorado Springs. Pretty excited to see
how it turned outs. It should be fun. A couple

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of weeks ago, or maybe last no, two weeks ago.
Maybe it was the four year anniversary of this podcast.
Know what you're thinking? Four years and you're only on
episode seventy nine. Yeah, I know, I'm lazy, all right,
get over it. Yeah? Four years pretty cool, I guess.

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I don't know. Nothing too exciting about it. But on
August fifth, the other day, I celebrated my twenty three
year comedy anniversary, which is pretty cool. I actually still
have some posters from my twenty year show. If anyone
wants one, just send me a few bucks and I
could ship to you. I don't know how many I

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got left, but it's probably a decent amount because I
didn't sell very many at the show, I don't think anyway.
I don't know. I don't remember a few years ago,
but I do have some. You can kind of see
it over there in the corner there I can move
my I'll just put up a picture whatever. I don't know.

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It's covered up by the logo. Uh. Yeah, So twenty
three years in comedy pretty uh, pretty crazy. Being able
to work with a lot of pretty cool people over
the years. You know, I made a list of some
of my favorite like more well, known comedians that I
worked with. I guess i'll do a little we'll talk

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about you know, where should I start. Brian Posain was
one of my favorites. You guys know who Brian Posain is,
don't you? Yeah you do. It's kind of cool. I
already had tickets to see Brian he was performing here
at the Route sixty six casino just outside of Albuquerque.
Already had tickets to see him, and then got a

(05:02):
phone call that week from some guy. He said, hey,
is this Kurt Fletcher is like yep. He goes, uh,
what are you doing Friday? I was like, who is this?
And he said his name and said he worked for
Route sixty six Casino. And I said, well, that's weird
because I'm going to Root sixty six Casino Friday see

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Brian Possain. And he said you want to open for him? Yeah?
I do. So He's like, all right, I'll see or
he asked he has how much money I wanted? I
was like, I don't know. You know, I was already
planning on going to the show. I don't care. I
don't care if I make money or not, you know,

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And then he told me a number. He's like all right,
I'll see, I'll see if I can get you that cool.
And then he called me back a couple of months later,
he's like, all right, you're opening for Brian and you're
getting that amount. Blah blah blah. Do twenty minutes. So

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did twenty minutes open for Brian. Awesome show. That's pretty cool.
I was going to school at the time too, which
was kind of cool. And I didn't tell a lot
of people in my class that I was a comedian.
So there are a few people in one of my
classes that were at the show, and then they told
everybody I was a comedian. The kind of hated that,

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but oh well, I guess see. Brian was cool. I
worked with Jim Norton once I got it open for
him at the National Hispanic Cultural Center here in Albuquerque.
I was probably the second biggest show I've ever done,

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Like crowd size wise, I don't know. There's a lot
of people probably, I don't know how many people that old,
so we're looking it up once. I think it was
something like seven or eight or something like that. That
was a lot of fun I just did a ten
minute set and he thought it was funny. So that
was cool and he's a nice dude. Didn't get to

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talk to him a whole bunch, but talked to him
a little bit backstage before the show and then after
after walking off stage. He said, it was funny, so
pretty good, pretty good time. Let's see Jeff Die. He's
a pretty well known guy now. I worked with him
at the Des Moines Funny Bone. He was he was

(07:35):
super nice. I really liked one of my jokes. He
said that. I can't remember exactly what he said, but
he had nice things to say about it. Remember that
he's really funny. If you haven't seen him, go check
him out. Harland Williams. I'm pretty sure I've talked about
him on the podcast before I Gotta do uh. I

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did a guest set with him at the Tempe Improv
and he was super nice. I'd met him before it laughs.
In Albuquerque, he came in two nights in a row.
They were filming Employee of the Month in town, so
he did a couple of sets that week that he

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came in and was super nice. Worked with Finesse Mitchell,
who was on Saturday Night Live. I worked with him
at the Denver Improv. He was super nice. He was
telling me I should get into acting and stuff, but

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I never did it. I mean I did some acting,
never went to LA or anything like that or whatever.
I worked with Kyle Kanane, who's one of my favorites,
worked with him at the I was also at the
National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. It was in the
smaller room though, so it wasn't as big of a crowd.

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Plus it was on a Tuesday night, so it was
not like super packed, but it was cool to work
with him. And Josh Blue I've worked with a few times.
You know, he used to live in Denver. I was like,
telling this story about Josh all right. I have a

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couple of funny Josh Blue stories, which I've probably told
them here before. But one of them was when I
was hosting at the Denver Comedy Works on the new
Talent night and Josh was headlining, and this newbie comic
came in and he said he was gonna go on
stage and just his underwear, and I was like, you
probably shouldn't do that. She'd probably have some jokes, and

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he just went up there in his underwear anyway, and
I was pretty embarrassed, and Josh came backstage She's like,
what the fuck is this guy doing? You know. I
was like, I don't know. I told him not to
do it, and then Josh took his clothes and chucked outside.
It's pretty funny. So the dude goes up on stage
and eat ship for two minutes and then comes backstage.
You can't find his clothes. He hit go outside to

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find him. So it was pretty funny. And then the
other the other funny story was we're working at Hyenas
in Dallas and in the middle of the set, some
lady just yelled, I love you, Josh, and she goes
He goes, thank you, sir, and everybody laughed except for

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that lady. Apparently she was in she was crying in
the bathroom. After that, I ran into her husband in
the lobby and he said she was crying in the
bathroom and like, I don't know, he didn't know what
to do. It was kind of funny. Uh So I
told Josh about when he got off stages setting up
his march and stuff, and I was telling him what happened.

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He's like, are you serious as yet? So I see
the lady come out of the bathroom and she walked
over to Josh, and she said something to him, but
I didn't hear what she said, but Josh kind of
like grabbed her shoulders like he's like, sir, calm down.
She flipped the fuck out and walked out. That was

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pretty funny. I felt bad for the dude because I
don't know he knew it was clearly a joke, but
for some reason she did not. Yeah, Josh has always
been cool to work with. At that Dallas Hyenas also
worked with Carl Lebov. If she don't know who Carl

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Lebov is, he was Sam Kinnison's best friend. And I
had never met Carl before these shows, and I was
kind of nervous to work with it, you know, because he,
you know, Sam Kinnison was one of my favorites growing up,

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and I don't know he just you know, he was
his best friend, so he knew everything about Sam and
well not everything. Yeah, I didn't know what to expect that.
I didn't know if he's going to be a dick
or not. And I didn't get a chance to talk
to him before the show. He got there while I

(12:20):
was on stage, I think, or something. I don't know. Anyways,
the first show, though, when I got off stage. He
was like the first person that greeted me when I
got off stage. So that was really funny. And he
was super nice, and he went up and just crushed
for like an hour and then we got to chat

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a little bit after the show and between shows. Super
nice guy. And then second show he goes up and
does a completely different hour and crushes And that's pretty impressive.
Maybe one day I'll get to that level. That'd be cool. Yeah,

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he was great. He passed away a few years ago.
Let's see is Mo. If you guys heard of him.
He's from another country I remember, which is like Finland
or Poland maybe Finland. Yeah, that was right, I looked
it up. If you haven't seen him, He's got a

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lot of really funny material. He does a lot of
stuff about different words, like in the English language, like
like he could do fifteen minutes just about the word
shit and it's super funny. I got it open for

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him and Wichita at the Looney Bend there. It's just
like he was there on a Wednesday night that just
happened to be featuring there that week, so I gotta
I have to do a set with him. It's pretty awesome.
Let's see THEO. Vaughn h THEO for years. First time

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I worked with him was I think twenty twelve, eleven
or twenty twelve, I forget what year, But then Oklahoma
City at the Loomy Ben and me and him got
to stay in the house together all week is Wednesday
through Sunday. Pretty fun. He had a website at the
time that it was he would prank people on Craig's List.

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He would put like fake posts on there, and then
he had a phone like just for these pranks, and
then he would put like all the pranks up on
this website. And what we would step till like four
or five in the morning, just goofing around and writing stuff.
And I would be reading a bunch of stuff from

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the website, just laughing, laughing a bunch. That was cool,
and we kept in touch a little bit over the years.
You get the two thousand. It was twenty sixteen, maybe seventeen.
I think twenty sixteen. I did a guest set with

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him at the Addison Improv And then a few years
ago and Albuquerque, you gotta do a guest set when
he performed at the Kiva Auditorium, which is the biggest
show I've ever done, probably a couple thousand people in there,
close to a couple thousand at least, So I think

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it has always been cool. It's always been one of
my favorite comics to work with, watch and stuff. Always
trying to watch his podcast. Uh. Chad Daniels is another
guy I really likes. Kept in touch with him over
the years too. You know, I haven't seen him in
I think sixteen years probably, but I used to hang
out with him. He would come here to Albuquerque perform

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at laughs, and then I gotta work with him a
couple of weeks on the road at the Looney Bens
and Oklahoma City in Wichita. He stole my bacon atter
and told that story before. He's got a new Netflix
special Outdough that just came out on the sixteenth of July,
Empty nester. It's called go check that out if you

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haven't seen it yet. He's one of my favorites. He's
got ten albums out, ten specials, which is crazy, and
they're all awesome. He's definitely one of my favorites. Let's
see Dennis Blair. He's a dude. I gotta work with

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Dennis Blair. I saw in two thousand and three opening
for George Carlin, and after Carlin died, Dennis started doing
headline spots by himself, you know, and I was lucky
enough to work with him in Fort Wayne, Indiana. What

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was it called Snickers? I think at the time pretty
sure that was cool. I wanted to ask him a
bunch of questions about George Carlin, but I didn't want
to be like that, you know, I didn't want to
bug him. So when we went to do a radio interview,

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he was going to the bathroom or something, So I
asked the radio DJ if he had to ask him
a bunch of George Carlin questions so I wouldn't have to.
So that was pretty cool. So he still he told
some carln stories and that was pretty awesome. Also, I
wrote a book I forget the name of it. That
it's somewhere. I don't see it around right now, but

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a lot of cool stories in there about opening for
Rodney Dangerfield and Carlin and a bunch of like famous
music musicians and stuff like that. So Dennis Blair get out.
It's pretty good. Another dude I really like is Dusty Sleigh.
Him when I was working in Tulsa at the Looney Bend.

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He was one of my favorite comics that I got
to see in the time working there. You know, a
lot of times you get tired of watching the watching
the comics act because you know, when I was working there,
I'd see six shows a week, and he was one
of the few that I'd actually enjoy watching all six shows.

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So it's pretty cool. And I got to hang out
with him pretty recently. He was in here at Kasada's
Comedy Club. It was in late June, so that was cool.
Got to see his see his new stuff he's working
on for his next special, and hang out with him
for a little bit. So that's it's uh, I don't know.

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I've worked with some other famous comics, but I don't know.
I don't want this to go too long. So yeah,
I haven't recorded an episode since May, like late in May.
So in June, I went out to Texas for about

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a week and a half or so. I was out there.
I gotta stay with my buddy John. It's cool to
hang out with him. It's hot a ship though. Yeah.
The first night I got into town, I flew into town.
We went to see bowling for soup, at the Lava Cantina,
which is a super cool venue. I've seen them twice there. Now.

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They were doing a they were having their anniversary weekend.
They were I think Friday night they did their thirty
year anniversary show. Saturday night. The show I went to,
they were doing a twenty year anniversary for their album
Hangover You Don't Deserve So they did the entire album
start finish, and then closed out some other songs. They're

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actually on tour doing that album right now. Well actually
they just ended the first leg at the tour, but
they're coming to Albuquerque October twenty seven. Yeah, hopefully I'll
be able to fly back from Canada in time to
catch that. Probably should, I don't know, never flowing to Canada.
So yeah, that was a cool show. I was supposed

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to work at Dallas Hyenas with Punky Johnson and she
ended up bringing her own feature act, so I got
bumped from that. I still got paid and I got
to see. Yeah, I catch a show for free anyway,
so I gotta see Punky Johnson and that's pretty cool.
So the following the week, I worked at the Dallas
Club with Sarah Colonna, who was super funny I've always

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known who she was. I saw her on Harlan Williams'
podcast before, so it's cool to actually get to work
with her. She was really funny, super nice. Her husband
was super nice. He was at the show's super nice guy.
Even though he beat the Broncos in the Super Bowl
and he was playing for the Seahawks. Uh, he was

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a punter, so I don't think you got to play
much in that game, but still kind of cool. He
wont he won a super Bowl. It's pretty nice. July
was fun. I got a co headline that's case Sada's
Comedy Club with my buddy Jacob Tero. Josh Fournier hosted
those those shows. We just did a Friday Friday night

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and we just flip flopped the headlining spots, which was
pretty cool. If you haven't been to the show case
Soada's pretty awesome. See it's about three hundred people or so.
Beautiful showroom, which is awesome, Like the backstage area is
really cool, the green room's nice, the staff's awesome, security
guards are great, just cool, you know, having a good

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sized club like that here in New Mexico. We also
have Dry Heat Comedy Club downtown. If you haven't been
to that. They actually moved locations, so it's a little bigger.
I don't know what the capacity is on the new one.
The old one I think was like forty ish forty
to forty five, which was cool, you know, and it

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was like kind of cramped in there, which isn't bad,
you know when you're performing. But the new location is great.
I don't know how many people they can fit in there,
but it's cool. I got to perform there for the

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first time, and I had an awesome show. It was
a stacked lineup. It's pretty cool. So it was a
lot of fun performing there. If you ever get a
chance to you perform there or go there, check it out.
And then I got a headline at the knob Hill Stage,

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this little coffee shop. Me and Eddie Stevens did a
set over there. It's kind of nice to get a
headline spot in. Before my Iowa trip, I did three
headline sets in Iowa. I was in Iowa from July
seventeenth to August first, so I gotta do some shows,
visit some family. Sadly, my aunt Cherry passed away while

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we were up there, but we did get to say
hi to her and stuff before she passed away. We
went to visitor in the hospital and then in the
hospice house and stuff like that. But yeah, it was
It was sad. I hadn't seen her in a long time.
And we gotta see see my uncle Jim and my

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cousin Dave help out with some of the funeral stuff
and things like that. So if you're the praying type,
you know, they're in some prayers for cousin Dave, my
uncle Jim. They've been having kind of tough couple a

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couple of weeks. I gotta see a lot of family
on this trip, which was nice. You know. I got
to see a lot of my cousins kids that I
never really got to know before, so that was kind
of cool. They're all like teenagers and going to school
and stuff and graduating and things like that. So makes

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me feel old. All of our all my cousins are
all having kids that are going to college and stuff
like that in high school. My daughter just turned twenty
two a couple of weeks ago too, so I'm pretty goold.
The show's and I were a lot of fun though.
That was you know, I got to perform in Brits

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Mason City, and Clarion. I was supposed to do one
in Clive, which is just outside of the mone but
Alex Hooper, who was supposed to headline, got stuck at
the Atlanta Airport for I don't know, sixteen hours or
something like that. Poor dude, so they ended up canceling
that show. But all the other three shows, I got

(25:23):
a headline and just kind of do whatever I wanted
and tried a lot of new material outs and got
some got some good good stuff out of it, so
that was cool. Got to see a lot of friends too.
Did a showing Clarion, which is my hometown. You know,
I lived there for eight years and I got to

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see a lot of people that I hadn't seen since
high school. That's pretty crazy. Didn't recognize some of them
and they asked people who who they were and stuff
like that. But yeah, they treating me good. Up there
was really cool. I actually got to perform outside, which
was pretty awesome. Actually blocked off the street and set

(26:09):
up a little stage out there, so I was cool.
And then Mason City was cool as my friend's bar,
my friend Melissa and her brother Matt Matt Evans. He's
always been good friend of mine. He was always one
of the funniest people I knew, so he when I
started doing comedy, I asked him to kind of help me,

(26:30):
help me write some stuff or come up with ideas,
and so he was. He was definitely willing to do that.
He was like making people laugh, so that was pretty cool.
I got to see him at the show and he
brought his son, which was cool. And his son's a

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big dude. He's only like twelve years old and he's huge,
way bigger than me. But that was a lot of
fun got to see uh kid. I went to the
school with and Clarion that moved away in sixth grade,
and a couple of other people I knew, so it
was fun. It was a lot of fun shows. We

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had a little family barbecue, which was nice. Me and
my cousin her cousins went to this thing they were having.
The County Fair was happening while we were up there,
so we went to see. I always do like pretty
redneck things when I hang out with my cousins. Pretty fun.

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We went and saw this thing. It's called Tough Trucks.
The's people basically take their old shitty trucks and like
knock out all the windows and lights and stuff like that, mirrors,
and then just racing the mud. And it rained pretty bad,
so that made it more exciting. So it was cool.
There's it got pretty cold, but it was fun to watch.

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There's a lot of bush light happening. Actually almost got
in a fight with a guy at Casey's one night.
Casey's is like the gas station has awesome pizza and stuff.
This guy was walking out of Casey's and he's holding
a six pack of bush light and had some pizza,

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and my nephew had a can of liquid death and
my cousin didn't know what that was. I was like, oh,
it's basically water in a can. And the guy turns around.
He thought I was talking about his bush light. People
don't like when you talk about their bush light and
I but oh man, Yeah, that trip was a lot

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of fun. I had to get back home to I
missed my aunt's funeral. Unfortunately I had to come back
and I had a show in Colorado Montrose, Colorado with
Aj Martinez, who was on episode seventy eight. I had

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a fun little trip up there. Just drove up there
through the mountains and stuff, and we had a pretty
fun show. It was one of the weirdest crowds. So
I had a that lady almost die during my set.

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I just finished doing a couple of jokes about Jesus
and then I look over and this lady is just
laying back in her chair and her mouth's wide open.
She looked really pale, and I was like, is that
lady okay. They're like, yeah, she's fine. They're like, I

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don't know. She didn't seem fine to me. She looked
into me, and so I kept checking on her throughout
the show. She was just out and she wasn't moving
and all right. So I found out later that I
guess she puked and then passed out. And the reason

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she was so pale was because she's from Minnesota. So
the poor lady, she had a couple of drinks and
passed out. But yeah, she has kidney cancer and I
guess her husband, I guess it was traveling around the

(30:35):
country just visiting people while she's going through that. So
she came to the comedy show and almost died. But
I'm glad she didn't. But yeah, that was that was
kind of a scary moment. I was just like, I
don't know, but she keep telling jokes right now. You know,

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I don't know how to transition back into being funny.
After seeing a la you almost die. But uh, the
rest of the show went okay, so nobody seemed too
worried about there was a doctor there. Everyone said she
was fine, So it worked out all right. We had
a fun little trip. It was a nice drive. You know.

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Got a chat with aj a lot, which is cool.
He's one of my favorite people. Very funny too. Also,
you know, he's just too Also I didn't a fucking
idiot anyways. Yeah, you got ship else to say. You know,
I've got some shows. If you want to go to
a show, check out Funny Fletcher dot com. Click on schedule.

(31:40):
I'll have my shows updated there. Mostly local stuff right now,
except for Canada. I'm always adding shows on so that's
yes's uh has always. Thanks to Jared Riddick for the
intro music. Go see Bowling for soup on tour. Thanks
to John Singleton from Anesthesia for the outro music. Check

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out the Anesthesia's new EP out Now, I forgot the
name of it. I'm gonna chase in the Moon, I
think is what it's called. I'm gonna double check the
Chasing the Moon. That's what it is. Check out four
song EP. Awesome stuff. Thanks for tuning on, everybody. Talk

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to you next time, probably in a couple of months
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