Episode 84: Comedian-Savannah Holder

Albuquerque comedian, Savannah Holder joins the show to talk comedy, her dad's cool accent, her milf mom and a lot more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
His name is a really funny guy, and this is
his podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
In your rise, right Poter Fletcher.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in. It's in the RYE Podcast,
episode eighty four. I'm Kurt Fletcher, your host. Before we
get started, I just want to say rest in peace
of my good buddy Todd Johnson, who passed away a
couple of days ago. Very sad news. I guess he
was having some health issues. Todd was actually on this podcast.

(00:44):
I don't remember which episode is one of the first twenty,
somewhere in the first twenty, so you can go back
and watch watch that episode with Todd. I always love
talking to him. Every time he called, I knew it
was going to be at least a two hour conversations.
So always like that guy. I din't I can't even

(01:06):
remember the last time I saw him, but I was
kept in touch over the years. Super nice guy, very funny,
very likable guy. He actually lived in Preston, Idaho, which
is where they filmed Napoleon Dynamites. He actually lived in
that town, so rest in peace. Todd said that that

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you're gone, I won't get those random two hour phone
calls anymore. Over the weekend I performed at Casada's Comedy
Club here in New Mexico. Had a blast working with
Molly Carney while he was on SNL for a couple

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of years. Very funny, very fun to work with. Uh
had some awesome shows. We did three shows, very fun.
Had some locals June Ople opened, did grades. I had
a couple of local local comics, do guest spots and stuff.

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So it's a lot of fun. Saw some old friends
in the Crowd's overall as a fun weekend. Nothing nothing
too crazy happened. I guess well, let's do my tour
dates and stuff before before we start this podcast. I

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have a guest today, Savannah Holder, very funny comedian from Albuquerque.
She's new in the scene, but she's really good. Been
doing comedy for about a year or so. Here's my
tour dates though coming up and you can find these
on funny Fetter dot com or in the Rye podcast
dot com. So May first, I'm in Carrie, North Carolina,

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had a Don't Tell comedy show, and then May sewid
in Durham, North Carolina, third and fourth in Raleigh, North Carolina.
May twenty third, I'm headlining Gnarly's in Golden, Colorado. Twenty fourth,
I'm at the Denver Comedy Lounge doing three shows, and
then the twenty fifth, I'm at the Comedy Works Downtown
doing a show called Thick Skin. This one I just

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got added to. I will be hosting a show.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I a.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's a festival in Minneapolis called Loons on the Lake,
So Wednesday night, I'll be hosting a portion of the competition,
and then on the seventh, which is a Saturday, I'll
be hosting an industry panel. Should be pretty fun. June eleventh,

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I'm headlining the show at Albuquerque. Don't know the venue yet.
June twenty sixth through the twenty ninth, I'll be at
the Lab Factory in Reno. July seventeenth, I've got a
show in Albuquerque, and I don't know the venue on
that one yet. July twenty fourth, I'll be headlining into
the Mountain Gods down in Mescalero, New Mexico. And then

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September twenty ninth through October fourth Comedy Cave and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
And if you want to sign up for my mailing list,
on to my website Funny Fetter dot com, or you
can email me and say hey, put me on your
mailing list. Also, go check out my comedy special on
YouTube Open Bar Comedy. It's called Ginger Snaps. Go check

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that out if you want to. That's it for the intro.
Let's let's go talk to Savannah. It's a good one.
Have fun, never Abata. There we go recording. Hey, Savannah
Holders here, how's it going, Savannah Holder?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's going well good, it's not going well.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I don't know, well, but I did lie.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
But yeah, I mean, for the purpose of the podcast,
things are going well.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well. We could always turn this into a therapy session.
We've never had one of those on the podcasts.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I mean, I would love that.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I mean, I don't know. I don't know if i'd
be any help or not. But we've got at least
eight great listeners.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
All right, Well, I'm excited. I've never been on the
podcast before.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh okay, neither had Phil. And you could tell. Phil
was like, oh yeah, he's like eating Starburst and taking
phone calls and all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah yeah, I since Phil's letting me use his laptop
and I'm at his place and everything. I did all
his dishes and I baked brownies.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh wow, there's been anything special in the brownies.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Just walnuts.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh he's allergic to walnuts. I love it. That'll be
exciting for him later.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Maybe some peanut oil. These allergic to penuts.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, that'd be awesome. Just put everything he's allergic in
the brownies.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
It'd be funny if it was like it was just
so much that it didn't even bother him. It was
just just turned out to be the best brownies of
all time.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
They do smell really good. Right now, I'm not gonna
really nice, but and he I did want to let
you know he may be coming back around three thirty
or so. Okay, just so just a heads.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Up, try to wrap it up before he gets in there,
because we don't need him making a second appearance. Yeah
for sure, No, it was it was fun chatting with Phil. Yeah,
he had never done a podcast before either, so but yeah,
he uh, he did some stuff that you're probably not

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supposed to do on a podcast. But that's all right.
So Savannah, you are a comedian and you're way funnier
than Phil, and you started after Phil's That's not like
a huge compliment either, because Phil is like the second
worst comedian in town. But you are insanely funny. I've

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seen you perform a few times. The first time was
a gig we did together some I don't even remember
the venue right.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now, but Little Mountain.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
It was. It was it was a show for Ali
did oh well, that lady gave us that free water.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, it was that Urban Mama five O five the
Kombuchery and then yeah, that's it a cafe but they
had to cancel, like it was last minute, venue changed, so.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, but we got free water out of the deal,
so that was good. Yeah, that was the first time
I saw you perform, and you did a great job
and your mom was there and that was cool. Does
your mom come to a lot of your shows?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah? Are you going to say she's hot? Are youn
say she's a mill loves that ship?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I mean I could, she's probably like my age.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
She's I don't think so. No, you're what like forty
forty five forty five? Yeah, she's fifty five, Okay, so
she Yeah, she might be her age.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
On my Oh nobody's listening, it's fine, but yeah, someone
said the N word on my podcast and nobody said
anything that. Really, I have zero listeners, zero listeners that
give us ship.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, I mean zero listeners that give a shit that
sounds ideal.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, I guess, so I don't know. Just I don't know.
I mean, if you want to drop the end bomb,
feel free.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Nobody's going to my career before it starts.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
I would be more concerned about dropping your mom's age
on here than up in the end word, because moms
can get pretty upset.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah. Yeah, but she she's a good mom. She's really supportive.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
And that's super cool. Was she a comedy fan like
when you're growing up.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
No, my dad is definitely more of the joker. I mean,
she's funny in her own way, like kind of accidentally.
I think that's where I get my accidental funniness. But
my dad's more of the comedy fan.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, So did he watch a lot of comedy or No?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I kind of discovered like stand up comedy on my own.
I remember the first comedy he ever showed me was actually,
do you know Jim Brewer? Yeah, he showed me party,
Party in the Stomach or Party in your Stomach by
Jim Brewer.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, so I listen to this, Savannah, How funny is this?
So Jim Brewer's guitar player is the guy that dropped
the end bomb on my podcast.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh cool. Yeah, I don't know what to do with
that information.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, I don't either. It's just it's kind of a
funny coincidence.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, that's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah. So, yeah, Jim Brewer is great. I actually, uh,
he actually performed here a few years ago. I guess
it's probably been like five or six now, but uh,
Presbyterian Hospitals they do like a big party every year
for their employees and they always hire like a famous

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comedian to perform, and one year they hired Jim Brewer,
and the CEO of Presbyterian wanted to do some jokes
as well, so he hired me and a couple of
my friends to write jokes for him. So you got
to do like a ten minute set before he brought
up Jim Brewer. So that was pretty cool. And I

(11:00):
I didn't get to go see Jim Brewer perform. They
said that we could have gone and went if if
we wanted to, but I was out of town, so
I missed it. Yeah, Jim Brewer is awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, yeah, he is really awesome. I've seen he kind
of gives me that like Jim Carrey feel a little bit. Yeah,
with like kind of the mania. Uh huh, you know, like, yeah,
I words are failing me right now. But but yeah,
my dad. I've actually shown my dad more like he

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showed me Jim gaff again when I was younger.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
He likes clean comedy, which I'm very nervous about going
to North Carolina in a week or so. Yeah, because
I'm going to the Durham area and I'm going to
do an open mic and it's going to be the
first time my dad's seen me do comedy.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Live out there.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
He does live out there. He lives in which is
like a little tiny town in the middle of nowhere,
but it's about forty five minutes from the Raleigh Germ area.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh cool, Yeah, I'm actually I'm finding out there Thursday
to do some shows.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, yeah cool.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, that's cool. Your dad's gonna get to see you.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yes, yeah, it's about him.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh yeah, I was gonna ask you, like, do you
have any jokes about him? So that'll be fun.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, it'll be good. He said he's going to heckle me.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh that's not good.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
So if he doesn't like the jokes, and he will
do that, but he won't get up on stage with
the microphone. He's too scared to do that. So you're
a wis you know. Yeah, that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
He's gonna get to see you perform though. Yeah, that'll
be really good.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Do you want to hear a funny story real quick?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah? Absolutely no, this is a podcast, let's hear it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Okay, So hit, I'm actually going to North Carolina for
his marriage blessing. He already got married at like the courthouse,
but they're having like a ceremony at his house. And
he actually met his current wife. I say current wife
like she's only a second wife, his first wife being

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my mother, but his current wife in England because I
was visiting him in England and I wanted to see
if the British guys were cute on tinder boiler alert.
They're not that cute and they're just as mean as
they are here.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Do they have a lot of fish in their profile pictures?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
No, but they do have a lot of fucked up
teeth in their mouth. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't sorry,
I don't know if I'm allowed to cuss on here. Absolutely,
as long as I don't say the N word, right.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
You can say the word.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's fine, Okay, I hard rt no hard er.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I remember, I'll have to go back and listen to
that episode. Okay, nobody else did.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
So yeah, but but well, oh sorry, I lost my
train of thought.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I was talking about, Yeah, your dad, and.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
He saw me on Tinder and he's like, what's that
because previously he had been on like match dot com
and e harmony and all the old person ones like
dating apps or not even apps like websites, And so
I showed him what tender was. He said it to
his age range. And then I think one of the
first people he matched with was Pia, his current wife,

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and he just had right away. She thought he was
a catfish because she talked to him on the phone
and he has a very thick Southern accent, and so
she she thought he was like a Nigerian like scammer
or something because she thought, no way to someone that

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thick of a Southern accent. Yeah, he likes to tell
people they ask where he's from me, he says a little
town called Boston, just to see like the confused look
on their face, and then he says about a thousand
miles south called Atlanta. Yeah, so I don't know how
many miles south of Boston Atlanta is, but I assume

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it's around one thousand. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
You should look it up.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
We should look it up at.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Miles. It's pretty close one thousand and seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh okay, yeah, okay, good, that's good. So I don't
look like a dumb mass on your podcast, or like
a dumb mass in a different way maybe, But you
got plenty yes I have. But and then and then
my luck on Tender in England was I wouldn't meet
up with this guy on Christmas Eve because I was
with my family and he called me a useless yank slut.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah you did a talk about that, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I just think that's so funny that my dad met
his wife right away. And then I was just getting
called a useless yank slut, which the useless part I get,
the yank part I get slut. I was like, I
didn't even do anything, you know, so yeah, I mean
I am How did he know that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
So it's probably one of my favorite insults I've ever

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been called.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, that's pretty good. That should be. Is that on
your Tender profile.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now I don't have Tinder right now, I have Bumble,
like self respecting lady.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh okay, is Bumble the one where the ladies do
the initiation?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
It used to be, but I think anybody can now.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
They changed it because it turns out, I guess ladies
aren't the best in making the first move.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Ah Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
There's probably some reason for.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
It, but yeah maybe yeah, maybe it wasn't a popular
as Tender or something like that, and they're like, we
gotta change this.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, for sure, got to help. I think. I think
the creator of Bumble used to work for Tender, okay,
and then I think they treated her badly or something,
and then she switched her own dating app, which was
very similar to Tender. But I like it better. It

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just has you know, I mean, it still sucks. Dating
dating apps.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Suck, but yeah they're pretty stupid.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
It's better than dating in the comedy community, which I've
learned the hard way is not the best thing to do.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, that can definitely be hard. Like my my ex
wife did comedy and my ex girlfriend was also a comedian,
so oh really yeah, so it's definitely uh definitely not easy,
and uh yeah, it's it's funny because my best friend
is a female comic too, and so yeah, I always
get to see like the shitty side of comedy, like

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through a female's perspective. Like I've seen a lot of
that over the years, and I've got to say, it's
definitely way harder being a female comic than a male comic.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But at the same time, I feel like it kind
of gives you an edge in certain situations. Yeah, because
you're female, Like, people want to see a female comic
do well, for sure. I would say like it kind
of gives gives them someone to root for in a way.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh definitely. Yeah. Yeah, if you're on a show with Phil,
everyone's gonna want you to do better than Phil, and
they're in for a treat because you will.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Like I like Phil though, he's one of my good friends.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I do too. I love he's.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, he's fun to talk shit to. He's just so
loud and he loves just saying things that make people mad.
And yeah, I kind of admire just like his ability
to just not give a fuck. That's something I admire
because I wish I was more emotionally abstinate. You know. Yeah, yeah,

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if I gave fewer fucks, So.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Yeah, I feel yeah, I feel like the more time
you do stand up, it'll happen. M you just yeah,
it's it takes a while to get used to, but yeah,
I yeah, that's one of my favorite things things about
phil is I just I like talking. I like talking
ship to comics, like, that's one of my favorite things
to do. And uh, I know some of the some
of the younger comics when I do it, they they

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look like I'm actually talking shit to him and it's like, no, no, no,
just go around jokes.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, you're just in a silly goofy mood.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah yeah, and it's fun.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
I didn't take you calling me fish slips personally because
I knew it was true.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah he did smell like a fish.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah yeah, my daddy. I have not tried plenty of fish.
I've tried going to Long john Silver's with a sign
being like, hey, if you're craving fish, you know I'm
on the market. Catch me at Pike's Place market in Seattle.

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I don't know. That's all the fish jokes I have.
My dad just tried to FaceTime me, which is really funny.
I was tempted to answer just so you could hear
his accent.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm disappointed that wasn't my dad a little bit because
I am.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
But ye know where he's at. But maybe I'll try
to give him a call near the end and see,
yeah and see, because he he would love to be
on a podcast, honestly, he loves Yeah. He's a big talker.
He's a storyteller.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
So yeah, how long has he been in North Carolina?

Speaker 2 (20:59):
A couple of years now? I think he retired he
moved there or at least a year. He retired from
the Air Force a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Oh cool.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
He was a special operations pilot. Nice with the osprey,
which is like a tilt rotor. It's not quite a helicopter,
not quite an airplane to a helicopter than an airplane.
But because the rotors like they when he takes off,
he can hover like a helicopter, so he doesn't need
a full way to take off, and then the rotors

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like move and then he can glide like an airplane
and get better fuel efficiency. I think. Okay, but yeah,
he's he's kind of a badass. Actually, he's one of
a lot of boards. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of him.
He has like a distinguished Flying Cross with Valor, and
he's set a lot of missions like in Iraq and

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Afghanistan and stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Cool. Yeah, So did you move around a lot with
him being an Air Force guy?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
I did. I would say I've lived in New Mexico
more than anywhere else, probably like fifteen to seventeen years total.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh, cool, sod to go to high school here?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Then I did. I went to El Doorado High.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
School for Dodo Eagles. Yes, yes, I graduated from there
in ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Really ninety eight. Yeah, I was born in ninety six. Yeah,
you could be my dad. It is weird. Yeah, no,
I graduated there from there in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Cool, So I like it.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I did. I had some friends there that because I
lived here in elementary school too, and then I moved
back for high school. So I had some friends I
played soccer with in elementary school that lived here, and
then I reconnected with them in high school.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
So cool. Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah. But I've also I've lived in Florida. Sorry, I'm
just adjusting. I lived in Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, Kansas,
and here like four different times. Oh cool, there's a
lot of moving every two to three years or so.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, yeah, I remember you told me you went to
uh Kansas State for college, right.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
I did.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Cool? How was that?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I can see where there's a lot of alcoholics in
the Midwest because there's not a lot to do. There
was one prairie to hike the consat prairie and there
was like a creek, and that was about all there
was to do outside. Maybe cows too. I don't know.
I never tipped a cow because that seemed little mean,

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that's not that mean.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
You can't even do it. They're so strong, they're strong.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
They're strong. So then how do people tip cows? Because
I know that do it? They don't do it?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, the do it a different way. They're like, here's
three dollars, thank you for your service.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's pretty funny. Has anyone told you should do comedy?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah? I get some lady at ihop told me that once.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Probably just trying to get tipped herself.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, no, she was. She was sitting in a different booth.
It's kind of funny because she was sitting in a
booth by herself. I was sitting in a booth with
it was like a bunch of the white staff from
the comedy club, like we just we just uh finished
for the night. So we just went to I Hop
and then I was making everybody laugh and stuff, and
she's like, she told me I was funny. She's like,

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I'm sorry, Freeze dropping, but you keep making me laugh.
And then she told me I should try stand up comedy.
And I was like, you know what, I've always wanted
to try it. And I was like, maybe I'll try it.
They have an open mic this Sunday. She never shut up, so,
oh well, I was going to I was gonna go
down there. I'd already been doing stand up for a
couple of years. I'm like, oh, are you up for

(25:08):
my first time?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Huh? I see you were going to be a trickster,
I was, Yeah, I was. I could see it. You
seem mischievous. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I like doing stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, yeah, me too. I I wanted to do stand
up for like five years before I got the courage
to do it. It's all really time to work up
the courage.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah. Were you in New Mexico when you wanted to
try it, or were you in college or.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I was in college in Kansas, and then Arizona briefly,
and then yeah, mainly here in New Mexico. I had
a lot of friends who always told me I should
try it, and I really wanted to do it, and
my life kind of fell apart, like I was like

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at rock bottom and I was like, well, things can't
really get much worse, so my well, try comedy now.
And that's when I started doing comedy. And then I
was like, you know what, it's it's really fun for me.
I get like adrenaline from it, and yeah, yeah, so
that's why I've been doing it ever since. So that's cool.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
When did you When did you start?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Last May?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, cool, that's awesome. What was your first uh? Your
first time?

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Like, my first time was at It was at Slice
parlor Carla and Tito's Mike on a Tuesday, and I
had my family. I don't know why I invited so
many people, but I had my mom, her fiance, my
friend Jake, and Grace and then this even this guy

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that I was seeing who ended up ghosting me. But
I was so nervous. I just remember I drank like
a beer or two and I my hands were shaking.
I remember that I was looking down at my hands
and they were like that, and I got up there
and I don't even remember anything that I said. I
just blacked out.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh wow, alcohol.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
But just like I have like the buzzy ears, and
I think I do have stage fright pretty badly because
I still kind of get like that where I'm so nervous.
I was struggling really badly Friday at the Roast War
actually at Revel. Really my mind kept going blank. So

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but I did win.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Oh cool, how'd you be? Uh?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
His name's Trevor Miller.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
H I don't know Trevor.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's it's because he's the roast ghost. I've decided to
nickname him that because he doesn't do comedy and he
doesn't talk to any of them before after the show.
He just does the roast and I think he loses
like every time. So actually, I was really upset because

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one of my favorite jokes I had for him, I
got kind of messed up with, like the rounds, and
I wanted to make sure I had something saved for
overtime if necessary. So I ended up and it didn't
go to overtime, So I ended up just missing out
on saying this joke. Maybe I can say it for
you if you Yeah, for sure, But I was going

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to say that Trevor's actually not here to win. He's
here to get publicly embarrassed and then get hard about
it or get hard from it, and then he's gonna
go home and jack off about it. He's gonna light
a candle, put on some Blink one eighty two, and
ruin his own orgasm, because that seemed like something he
would kind of be into, like orgasms. I don't know.

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Whenever I think of like a really pathetic guy, I
think of like guys who ruined their own orgasms. I
don't know. Maybe I'm just a judgmental bitch, but.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
No, yeah I could. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah,
So they take a phone call like right before they're
about to finish or something. Can you call me back.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Hello? Yeah. It was a lot of fun, though honestly,
the judges roasted me harder than he did.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah. I've actually I've done I haven't done any of
the roasts, but I've done judging on that show before.
That's pretty fun.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah. Someone said, I look like if Miss Frizzle had
a baby with the school bus. Oh my god, is
that from calling me fat.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Let me look up miss Frizzle, make sure I know
who that is from the.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Magic school Bus. She just has curly the cartoon. Yeah,
the cartoon. I guess I don't really, I don't think
I really look like her. I think it's just the curls.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
And then yeah, she's got red hair, Yeah she.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Has red hair. But really they just wanted to make
the school bus joke about me being fat, which I
had prepared myself for. Honestly, I was like mentally and
emotionally prepared to get called a fat, ugly slut, and
to be honest, like I was gonna be like, yeah,
so what And I'm great at parties like tell me
something I don't know, yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
So that's why I don't like roast, because a lot
of it is like based on people's appearances and stuff
like that, and like like I did, ah, I forget
what I was called, but it was like we're like
roasting golfers as they would come by like whatever, they'd
come to our hole and we'd roast them or whatever.
And it's always hard to like roast the women because
like because I don't know, it just.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Seems yeah, and it just kind of makes you seem
like a jerk.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yes, I've never
really been a fan of like writing jokes for roasts
and stuff like I mean, I've I've written jokes for roast,
but not performed at roasts like you know what I mean,
like roast battles. My girlfriend used to like really like
doing the roast battles and when we lived in Tulsa
and stuff, and I didn't like doing them, but I

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would write some jokes for every once in a while
like aast.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, it is. It is an advantage to be a woman.
I feel like in a roast because well, first of all,
I think my appearance helped me. So that's actually my
third roast I've been in, but it was my first
official roast. So I did two roasts at the Hall, okay,
and I won both of those. It was against Ellis
and then Max, excuse me Max, and then this roast

(31:43):
was against Trevor. So I don't know, I think me
looking somewhat innocent or like like Caleb Mulkey said that
I look like if the Cabbage Patch Kids, like I
look like an extra from the live action Cabbage Patch
Kids movie which is actually a pretty good roast and

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like has definitely given me like a crisis about my
appearance since then. Yeah, but I think having the curly
hair and like the baby face and then just kind
of talking nonchalantly, I think it gives me an advantage
because I say some shit that people don't expect me
to say, for sure, and that element of surprise helps

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a lot, I think.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, even when you're doing stand up, just because I
remember the first time I performed with you and your
mom was there, even like some of the stuff you
said as I holy shit.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, it's just it just takes people off guard, and
that's one of my favorite things to do actually, So.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, that's uh yeah, that's one of the main things
with comedy is like you know, to shock them a
little bit and not necessarily shock them, but you know,
like definitely be unpredictable.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Actually I'm off their guard.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, yeah, so that's fun. Yeah. My mom used to
come to a lot of my shows too, like when
I was starting out, and then yeah, I invited like
every single person I knew my first time because I
was like, well, if I eat shit, I'll probably never
do it again. So I'm seeing me now.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, Yeah, I invite a lot of friends to stand
up stuff. I've learned though, don't invite them to open mics.
Invite them to shows because those people will hot better
than open mics, and there's no one like walking into
the microphone usually at shows. But Mike's every everything's fair game.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
So yeah, when I started, we only had one open
mic per month and it was at the comedy club,
so that was like my only chance to invite people.
But it was like it was a really good open mic,
you know, because they actually had you know, one hundred
people in the crowd that weren't just comics, so that
was always.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Nice, right, Yeah, do you want to actually, do you
want to hear about how I first knew I wanted
to do stand up?

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah? Of course.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
So I was in a sorority in college and there
were like one hundred and eighty women in my sorority,
and I actually held a position for like a semester
or two semesters. I was house managers, so I was
basically like the ra for the sorority house. But during

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chapter everyone was there. So it's like one hundred and
eighty basic white girls and like our one token black girl.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Usually it was twenty.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, it was. It was like that, and but I
would stand up and give announcements for the chapter, for
my position, and I wouldn't even realize anything I was
saying was funny, but then everyone was laugh all at once,
and then I'd just get like a wave of adrenaline
and I was like, oh, sh like I really like that.
I felt like going on a roller coaster or something.
So so that's how I figured out. But I didn't

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end up doing comedy for like five more years after that.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
But okay, but.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I count that as my one of my first times,
I guess, not my first official time.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
But yeah, yeah, that's kind of how mine was. Like
not I got kicked out of my sorority, but.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Was it the beard?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Were they like, yeah, they're like something, I know. Yeah,
I just so my first time performing was at my house.
We had this big party, me and my roommates and
like my my friend's band played and stuff like that,
and then the cops showed up and like shut everything down.

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So a bunch of people left, and then all the
cool people ended up coming back like thirty minutes later,
and since like they had like their sound shit set
up and stuff like that, And like, I had already
planned on doing stand up, but I hadn't really written
anything yet. I had planned. I gave myself four months

(36:08):
to write jokes, and I set a date. I was
going to do it in August. That was going to
be my first time. This party was in April and
someone was just like, hey, there's a microphone up there.
She got there, let's try some shit out. And I
was like, all right, I was drunk enough to do it,
you know, and I just pretty much just roasted all

(36:28):
my friends. You know. I didn't have any material plans,
so I just went up there and roasted my friends
and I got a lot of good laughs out of
it and stuff. So that was that was fun, Like
just it was a good practice for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, it was super hard going on the first time
though at the comedy club in front of like one
hundred and fifty people, though, that was pretty That was
pretty hard.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Is okay? I have a question for you. Is that
jaredt Reddick? Is that is he from Bowling for Soup?

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah? He sure is. Okay, he does the intro for
my podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Oh nice, Yeah, that's really cool. Okay, I'm not gonna
lie I just googled who he was. I wanted to
seem cool, like I knew he was just Google. He's
voiced like Danny or somebody on Phineas and Ferb and
he did. He's been the voice to Chuck E Cheese
since twenty twelve or something. I don't know. That's just

(37:31):
quickly what I just saw. Yeah, but I was gonna
like try to blow your mind about how much I
knew about him, but I decided to tell out myself.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
He was. He was on episode seven of this podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Also, Oh that's awesome. Cool. What episode number is this?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
This is eighty four?

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Eighty four? Okay, yeah, yeah, I've.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Got a Bowling for Soup poster back here autographed. Also
nice other anniversary shows.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah, that's really cool. So you you friends in high places?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, I sure do, because.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
You know, I wanted to tell you. I don't this
is just going to come across like me buttering your biscuit.
But I do look up to you a lot. Yeah,
with all your traveling and everything, and just like you're
poise and I don't know, you just have a knack
for comedy. I think. So you're just someone I look you. Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Mean I've been doing it a long time too, you know.
I h I started when you were like five years old,
I think.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
So, yeah in two thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, right before nine to eleven.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Right before nine to eleven, you're like actually after like
right after nine eleven, you could have been like, you
know what, this nation needs some laughter jokes. Yeah, more
dick jokes, maybe some at fuel can't melt, steal beams
jokes or something.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah. I actually did a nine to eleven joke last
Saturday at Turtle Mountain.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Oh really, can I hear it?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Okay, if you don't want to.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
No, I'll tell it. I Uh yeah, it's well okay.
So a friend of mine asked me what I what happened?
Like we were talking about nine to eleven for some reason.
He asked me where I was that day, and uh,
you know, I told him I I woke up that
morning and uh turned on the TV and I was
watching everything go down pun intended. And then I had

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to work at Pizza Hut that day, and so I
went to Pizza Hut and I think I got to
work at like eleven or something, and it was like
super quiet all day.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
You were working on your delivery, I assume.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh yeah, except not, we didn't have any deliveries that day.
Well yeah, so like nobody was ordering pea to until
like two o'clock. We get this phone call and some
guy like just starts ordering pizza, and I'm like, I
wonder if this guy doesn't have a TV, doesn't know
what's going on, or maybe he's a weirdo and he's

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watching like footage a nine to eleven and he's like,
you get some pizza, you know. Yeah? But then then
I pictured that. Then I started picturing like this little
terrorist looking guy sitting in his apartment eating pizza and
he's got like he's got two breadsticks that are like
standing up like this, and then he's got a slice
of pizza and it's like it hits the breadsticks and

(40:35):
then the breadsticks fall down, and then I say, and
then breadsticks seven falls down.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
And then there's just the wreckage, like the Marinera sauce.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Every Marianera everywhere, olives.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
And pepperoni, and that's pretty funny. I like that.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, So yeah, I tried it at an open mic
once and never it didn't get a laugh, So I
was like, eh, probably won't get a laugh. But I
tried it at Turtle Mountain. Some of my friends that
I worked with that pizza were there. So we'll try
the nine to eleven joke.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Fair enough, that's always the safe bet. You're like, should
I try a nine to eleven joke? Answers always yes, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I mean I probably won't do it in North Carolina
this week or anything, but probably Yeah, I'll stick to
my racist jokes.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, they love that ship out there, I hope.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
So I'm excited. I've never I've never even been to
North Carolina, so this is this is pretty cool for me.
I'm excited. Yeah. Yeah, I have a couple of comedian
friends out there, so hopefully I'll get to see them and.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
The shows well out there for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you're going to come in early
possibly according to that phone call, So that's pretty cool.
I might be able to see if I can squeeze
you on a show or something, if you have time.
Maybe really Yeah, I can see.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh that would be awesome, thank you.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Yeah, I just got to figure out when the shows
are and stuff. I don't even know the venues really,
because one don't tell comedy show. They don't really tell
you the venue till the day of so okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
It's almost like it's in the name or something. Yeah, right,
secret show. That's really cool. I've wanted I've been wanting
to go on a don't Tell comedy show. I think
that would be really fun.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, for sure. Do you have a favorite venue that
you perform at in Albuquerque or in the Albuquerque area.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I really I enjoy Unhinged in that that new room
that they have, Yeah, stage, I think that's really cool. Honestly,
I I just am so grateful for every opportunity to
to get to perform the I'm not too picky, like
I love all the venues. I mean the coolest one

(43:04):
was probably Kazatas okay, just because it's an actual comedy club,
you know, And that was definitely the biggest gig that
I've gotten. I really enjoyed revel to actually backstage at Revelce.
Oh yeah, it's really cool too, I enjoy. I also

(43:24):
really enjoy First Fridays at Tractor in Wells Park. I
mean he gets almost one hundred people in there.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
To be a huge place, yeah, on a.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Huge place, and it's just you have to get there
like an hour early just to get somewhere to sit.
It's I really enjoy that show a lot too. I
think I like the complication aspect of it.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Yeah, it's so cool because there's ten comics or whatever,
like just doing like a really tight five so you
get to see a lot of good comedy.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
That's awesome, right, Yes, yeah, And so I've done first Fridays.
I did it three months in a row. Oh cool,
and I my first time ever doing it. I got
third place, and I think the top three get invited
back the next month, and then the second month actually
got first place, which I was really happy about. And

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then the third month I did not place. I was
not really in a joking mood. Bonnie had just died.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Oh yeah, and it was.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Like right around then, I just wasn't I just didn't
have I wasn't in the right mindset, I think. But yeah,
I didn't place that one.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
But yeah, we're pretty close with Bonnie.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I would say, so. Well, she had a knack for
making you feel like she was one of your best
friends without necessarily like having to be that close to her.
She I just she always like when I first started comedy,
I remember she was standing up for like women in
the scene and saying like more female comics needed to

(45:03):
get booked, like on roasts and things to Kayla, and
she she actually came, so she left the Facebook group.
And I kind of invited all the comics to my birthday,
like at Differential, from the Facebook group, so I didn't think.
It wasn't that I didn't want to invite her. I

(45:25):
just kind of didn't think of her. But she still
showed up because there was an open mic that night,
and then she heard other people were going and she's like,
I hope it's okay. I came because I care about you,
and like she she hung out, and then I hung
out with her like a week before she died. Actually
at Differential again, she's pep talk about the roast battle

(45:45):
and just about like not beating myself up about things.
And so I wouldn't say we were like best friends
or anything, but she was definitely always there for me
if I needed her, and she was a good person.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
So yeah, she was great.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Yeah it really sucks. It was actually kind of bad ass.
She's like, yeah, I have Marphin syndrome and I could
drop dead at any moment. And then she's out of mic,
goes out for smoke and then does exactly that. Apparently
she was talking about that that night. And as much
as it sucks, it's like kind of bad ass because

(46:28):
we all took it. Yeah, we all took it as
a joke. She's like I might die and then she
just dies and we're like, oh shit, she was being
for real. Yeah yeah, but I really enjoyed the privilege
of knowing her.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
So yeah, I didn't know that well. Had I had
two like good conversations with her in person and a
couple online and stuff. But yeah, just a great person.
Very funny too. Like every time I saw her, she
she was just like five times funnier. It seemed like, Yeah,
she like really worked hard on comedy and that was

(47:07):
cool to see.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think I met her before
I started comedy actually, so she was just a recognizable
face to me when I first the community. But I
had met her at bar Uno and just downtown, always downtown,
So she's a very recognizable Albuquerque figure, I would say,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I met her. I didn't
know she was a comedian either. I was just I
was wearing like an Iowa sweater and she grew up
in Iowa. So she started chatting with me and stuff
and then okay, and then I found out later she
was a comic.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
So yeah, are you did you go to school in
Iowa or anything or are you just a fan?

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well? Yeah, I grew up there. I lived there until
I was seventeen. Okay, halfway through my senior year, I
moved here. So cool. Most of my family's still in Iowa.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Okay. Yeah, into Iowa State University for like a rugby
game or something.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Really.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Yeah, I've traveled through there. It's kind of like Kansas,
though I'm not.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Going to similar Yeah, exceptly don't have toll roads in Iowa.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah. You they could totally have toll roads and you
could tell me they didn't have it and I would
believe you either way.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Well, Iowa people aren't jerks, and they're not going to
charge you to drive through the state like Kansas does.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, speaking of tolls, I I don't know if I've
driven in Florida recently, but I keep getting text messages
about my un.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
For sure today. I don't have a car, so I
don't know I'm getting tolls.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, well I don't because I've driven in Florida in
the past few years. I was like, maybe I drove
through a toll and I didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
I don't click on anything they send you.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Okay, I haven't. Okay, good good, I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
I literally got that this morning. I got a thing
for a toll and I was like, fuck, you don't
have a car, dummy.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Yeah, I know your audience.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yeah, jerk's yeah. Yeah. Usually they'll they'll email you for
sure the stuff tours are annoying. Kansas is guy. I
had a funny run in with a cop in Kansas.
I was driving through there a few years ago, and
this guy pulls me over and he's looking at my

(49:33):
driver's license and he like looks in the car at me.
He goes, He's like, your name is Kurt Fletcher is?
Yeah he was. I went to high school with a
guy named Kurt Fletcher. I gotta hope he was nice
to you.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
And he's like, yeah, he was awesome. I was like, cool, I.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Actually have a kind of funny story about well, I
have two funny stories about cops in Kansas.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
The first one was just my first time ever being
pulled over by a cop in college and it was
a little traumatic. Basically, I didn't know that if there
was nowhere to pull off, you can just stop in
the right lane and put your hazards on. So I
was getting pulled over as a speed trap. So I
was going like seventy five and fifty five and it

(50:22):
just like dropped like the speed limit, and then he
got me going twenty over. But he was behind me,
and I'm going like, I put my hazards on. I'm
going like five miles per hour, and then I drive
and it takes like ten minutes before I can find
somewhere to pull off, just five miles per hour. And
he's mad by the time he gets out of the

(50:42):
cop car, and I'm already crying, like I was prepared.
I was already crying. And I swear his name was Probably.
He was one of those cops with like you know,
like the steel gray hair and it's like flat on
top carb edges, and he had like lines on his face.
He looked like a shark. He looked like his name
was Bruce, and he was mad at me, and he

(51:05):
said he had another cop car coming to head me
off and he could charge me with evading the police
and all this stuff. And I'm like crying, and then
he gave me like one hundred and eighty dollars speeding ticket.
So that was my first experience, and then my second experience,
which was way more pleasant. I was driving back to
New Mexico actually for a spring break, and it was cold,

(51:27):
and I had my venus fly trap plant, which if
you know anything about venus fly traps, they're like the
high maintenance, like special needs kid of plants. They need
to be in like a north or east facing window.
They can only they need a net pot with like

(51:47):
pete moss where they soak up distilled water from below.
And then yeah, and you can't like have one of
the mouse closed because then it won't have the energy
to reopen. So anyway, well, I had a venus fly
trap and I had it in a stocking cap, and
then I had it buckled into the front seat with
the seat warmer on because I didn't want to kill

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my venus fly trap. And the cop pulls me over
and he like looks in the passenger seat and sees
like my plant buckled in like looking like it's wearing
a sweater basically, and he just kind of gave he
let me go with a warning He kind of had
the vibe like, this girl has enough problems. She doesn't
mean you take it on top of it. But but yeah,

(52:32):
those are my two Kansas cop stories, so I could
definitely punch him up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
But yeah, the Venus fly trap stuff. Do you still
have that plant? No?

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I it was very hard to keep alive, and I
brought it to Florida one summer and then we went
on like a day trip and it got really dried
up in the sun, so it died.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
You know, I planned on having kids anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
No, No, I have an IUD for that. Thank goodness,
Thank goodness, Yeah, thank goodness. I can barely take care
of myself and my cat and my Christmas cactus. And
the Christmas cactus actually isn't doing super hot. So yeah,
kids are not on the horizon. And my cat is seventeen,

(53:23):
and she's actually either yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yeah, what's your cat's name?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Nia Bella, but we just call her Bella for short.
I got her in two thousand and eight, so I
was like twelve, I think, and it was peak Twilight times,
so uh yeah, Ella after Twilight of course. Yes. Yeah,
but she's she's a sweet cat. She's like all my

(53:53):
friends who don't like cats are like, yeah, Bella made
me change my mind. Like she's like a dog's body,
very affectionate, very sweet, talkative.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Yeah, you try out material on her.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
I do, and she just goes yeah yeah, yeah, which
usually just means that she's hungry. But yeah, she she
heckled me a little bit when I would try out
some material on her.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
That's cool. Cats are usually a pretty decent audience.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yeah for sure. Do you have any pets.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
No, I used to have a I used to have
a poodle and he was badass a poodle. Yeah okay, yeah,
he was super chill. And then yeah, when I got divorced,
he went with my wife even though he didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Oh yeah, he was text.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Me all the time, come with me.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Was he a good speller?

Speaker 1 (54:56):
He was a great speller. Yeah, okay, yeah, and he
liked French fries. His name was Tot's my goats, and
he just called them Toto. Yeah, Toto.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
So he used to every time I'd go to a
drive through and he was in the car, he would
get uh he would like stand up and roll the
window down in the back seat, so he knew how
to do it. That's pretty I'd always give him some
French fries.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Yeah, for sure, you got to reward that being.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Yeah, it was pretty adorable.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Yeah, dogs are smarter than people give him credit for.
Like I have who we have like a like in
our backyard. It was actually in the heights, like off
a tramway when I was in middle or elementary school,
because I went to Double Eagle Elementary school. If you
know where that is, it's like the La Cueva school district.
Oh okay, I moved back here. My parents didn't want

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me to go tol Cueva because they thought I would
get bullied.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
I could see that.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Yeah, yeah, you could see that. I actually made it
through all twelve years of school without getting bullied. But
I did get bullied in my sorority in college. So
just when you think you're safe, you're not safe.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
I got bullied at homeschool.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
By your mom or what.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Yeah she's kind Yeah, just kidding mom.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
It's like letting you use my basement for your silly
little podcast. And actually, oh really, okay, Well I was
just trying to make a joke. Well, no joking here,
no joking allowed. Yeah, I'm having a really good time.
Thank you for.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Having me cool. Well, we got to wrap it up.
I'm just kidding. No, I usually try to keep it
at about an hour, about an hour, except Phil because
he wouldn't shut up and taking phone calls and stuff
like that. But we can talk a little bit more
about comedy. Like I was gonna ask you, like, uh,
you do you currently watch other comedians, like not just

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like in the scene, but like on Netflix and stuff
like that, YouTube specials and things.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Yes, I just watched Tim Dillons I'm Your Mother special.
I watch a lot of I'm a big fan of
like John Mulaney, Nate Bardotsi Bo Burnham, I like Eliza Schlessinger,
Ali Wong, Taylor Tomlinson. I really look up to Taylor Tomlinson.
She kind of a vibe I'm going for the basic

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white girl kind of vibe.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Yeah, and she's super young too.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Yeah. I think she started comedy really early, like sixteen.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, she's really young. And let's see
who else have I been watching lately that I really like.
I really enjoy Shane Gillis's stuff. I think he kind

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of has that like slight asshole vibe that I like
with comedy that I'm actually kind of attracted to. I'm
it's bad. I'm a little bit of a chuckle fucker
for sure, because I like it when people have good
senses of humor, and that's like what's most mm hmm,
so very dangerous in comedy.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Yeah, Ralph Barbosa, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Ralph actually opened for me once, and then a few
years later he was like famous as hell.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Yeah, yeah, he blew up. Aaron Carson knew him too. Yeah,
she was in Texas, like she was in the same scene.
She threw a baby shower for him. Actually, yeah, yeah,
so she was telling me about that once. I thought
that was pretty cool. He opened up for you.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
He did great. He uh yeah, he was. He was
very new, but he was he was solid, and it
was like a really good show. It was like a
lot of like I wasn't I wasn't headlining that show.
There was like a guy who had been on like
MTV was headlining, and and then the guy who went
on before him was like a nationally touring headliner. And

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then I was on the show, and then Ralph and
then someone else. Yeah, yeah, it was it was an
awesome show. It was some in the middle of nowhere
in Texas, like justin Texas or something like small town
like north of Fort Worth or.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Something like that, justin Texas. I think, so, Yeah, that's
pretty funny. It's like nowhere special justin Texas. Yeah, I'm
sure they everyone who lives there hates that joke, probably
but probably. Yeah. I know I'm not the first person
to think of that. Yeah, yeah, but what else, Ralph Comedy?

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I said, what else did you want to talk about?
Regarding comedy?

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I was gonna ask you, like, what your goals are
with comedy, Like, what's like, do you want to do
it full time? Do you want to go on the
road full time? Stuff like that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
That would be awesome. I have a bit of a
punctuality problem, and I think being a stand up comic
is one of the only jobs where you can get
away with that a little bit. But I mean, I
don't want to put all my hope into like one
day being a famous comedian, because you know, the chances

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of that happening are pretty low. So what I like.
I like doing it. I have a lot of fun
doing it. It's a hobby for me for sure. Right now.
I guess I just I would be grateful for anything
that did happen, but I would also be fine keeping
it to open mics and shows around town. I have

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traveled to Colorado for a show, just Trinidad, but yeah,
I I think traveling around and doing comedy would be
really really cool because I love making new connections and
meeting people. I guess I just don't want to get
my hopes up too far. Yeah, because it's it's rough

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out there. But I do think I have a knack
for some aspects of comedy, so I think something could
possibly come out of it, but I I don't. I
just don't want to get my hopes up too much.
I guess my goals are like for this year, I
would oh my gosh. One of my like more immediate

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goals would be like to perform at Hyaenas would be
really cool. And the comedian I opened for at Quezadas,
she's coming back to Hyenas in July. Mattie Smith. Yeah,
so she's she's really She was really cool to hang
out with and I actually drove her around her and

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her feature Jacob Kendall. I took them to Old Town
and we smoked an infused joint because she was just
given like a bag of infused joints. She didn't even
smoke all of them before she had to leave. So
I was like, oh, that's so cool, Like people just
give you weed at shows and stuff like when you're
traveling around. Like that seemed so cool to me. So

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we just smoked weed in Old Town and then went
to I showed them around Old Town and we had
lunch and she bought me lunch and everything was so nice,
and then we went through all the gift shops and everything.
It kind of felt like purgatory in a way because
we were so high and we were just like going

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around gift shop after gift shop and they were all
the same, and it like felt never ending. And then
we went and did the show that Saturday night. So
it was really fun hanging out with her and Jacob.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
So I'm hoping to reach out to her. I have
her number. I'm going to reach out to her and
see if I can maybe open for her a hyenas.
That was an immediate goal. Yeah, I'll try to bribe
her with some infused joints and like a ride around
town and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Yeah, she's she's so nice and she gave me like
the like the details on some of the famous like
comedians she's worked with, like theo Vonn and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Yeah, that's where I met her, was with Theovon.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Yeah. Okay, so were you performing or what?

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Yeah, we were doing a show at the Kila Auditorium.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Okay, cool. Yeah, she's really cool. I she's a little dirty,
which I kind of like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I like, yeah, she was super dirty.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Yeah. She kept jacking off the microphone and stuff, like
pretending it was a dick at Kazatas And then when
I call up after her, I was like, man, I
think she made that microphone come like three or four times,
and I don't know. Hopefully she liked that joke, but yeah,

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but she was a pleasure to work with and really
like first professional comic i've met. Yeah, although I would
consider you're pretty professional too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Yeah, I'm pretty professional. I have a website and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
I think I need to make a website and an
email and start posting clips and things for sure. Yeah,
that's a goal of mine too. Actually, a major goal
of mine is to just start writing and rehearsing, because
everything you've seen me do up until now, besides the roast,
I don't write. I don't write. I haven't written anything,

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and I don't rehearse. I just kind of get up
there and wing it, which sometimes but other times it
falls flat. So I think I could be a lot
better if I actually put more work into it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Yeah, I never rehearse. When I lived in Denver, I
noticed that a lot of people would rehearse, and you
can kind of tell when you watch them because they
sometimes over rehearse, and then so when they perform, it
doesn't it doesn't sound organic, you know, It just sounds
like they've been rehearsing a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
But I do write a lot. I do love writing
and making sure all the words are right in the
perfect spot and stuff like that, you know. But I know,
I know some people that never never write anything down.
They'll just record it into their phone and then they'll
take that on stage and yeah, work it out on stage.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
That is something I need to do too, is just
record things I say. Because I make so many jokes
every day that, especially from smoking weed, I'll just forget
them and I never yeah the void and I never
think of them again, and some of them are really funny.
I'm just like, dang, I need to start.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
I remember I did that one time years ago, me
and my buddy were I can't I think we're drunk,
and I remember writing down something because I wasn't going
to remember it. But then so I looked at it
the next day and I was just I just wrote
down pants, and I I was going to remember it. Yeah,
And I called my friend the next day. Oh that's

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I was like, dude, do you remember when I was
talking about pants. He's like, yeah, it's fucking hilarious. I
was like, what did I say. He's like, I have
no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
That's pretty Yeah. I relate to that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Yeah. I was like, all right, next time we get
drunk or something, we're gonna have a tape recorder and definitely,
either one of us says something funny, we're writing it
down or recording it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Yeah. Yeah, I need to start just recording all my
high conversations with my friends I had and my old apartment,
I had a balcony and I had two chairs, and
it kind of looked like like a late night show
like set up, like a and I'd have friends over
and we'd smoke weed and I could hear like my

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downstairs neighbor would have like just their screen door closed,
like they wouldn't have the whole door closed. And sometimes
like we'd be talking shooting the ship or whatever, and
I'd hear them laugh, like in their apartment, and I'm like,
I know we're saying funny things. This is why I want.
I want to start a podcast. Actually that's another comedy goal.
Oh yeah, I think there's definitely a market for like

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a female based podcast in Albuquerque.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Yeah, I know, Carla had one for a while. I
feel like be the only one. Yeah, yeah, so I
think there's I forget someone else, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
There's definitely for a female podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Yeah, so do it, Savannah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, I'm going to do it. And I'm going to
have the production company be called Tatas and Ha Ha
and Tatas I don't know. I can't decide which way
it sounds better, and be like presented by tatas and
Ha has because you do you know Ali Russ.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
She has like the long she's a model and she
has like the long straight hair. She's from Florida, and
I know she is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Yeah, I guess I didn't know her name.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Yeah, her name is Ali, and she wants to start
podcasts with me called the screech So the Screeching Eagle.
It's because her ex, her ex who did her really dirty,
I guess, wanted to have a podcast called a Screeching Eagle.
So she wants to do it before he can. So

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I think we're going to try to get a podcast
going called.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
That, I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
So yeah, yeah, I need to do it soon. I
need to do it now now that I said it
on a.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Podcast, yeah, because he probably watches this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Yeah, he's probably one of your lawyer lawyer loyal viewers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
He's your lawyer, he's one of the three.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Yeah. Yeah, so I'm excited though. I'm going to repost
this everywhere. When does this come out tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
I'll probably put it out Wednesday. I try to put
him out on Wednesdays.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Yeah, Wednesday's okay. Yeah, just send me the link and
I'll share it everywhere and maybe more than three viewers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
I hope. So, yeah, the one with Phil. How many
views did that one get? If Phil can get views,
you can get views for sure. Let's see here. Yeah,
Phil's episode got thirty two views.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
You know what my goal is going to be for
this episode?

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Thirty three?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
No, one hundred, one hundred, Okay, over one hundred views.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
We can do it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
I think we can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Yeah, William Wheeler's episode got over one hundred views.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Yeah, if we get over one hundred views, will you
have me back on sometime?

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
Absolutely? Okay, I'll have even if we don't hit one
hundred views.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Okay. Yeah, thank you for sure for having me on
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yeah, for sure, Thank you for being on the show.
Where can people find you on social media?

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
So my Instagram actually my username for all social media's
save holder h O l d e R so s
A v h l d e r okay, and I'm
on Instagram. I'll be making a comedy website soon. It'll
probably be something like saveholdercomedy dot com or something cool.

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But yeah, I was gonna put my whole name on
this like yellow thing down here. Yeah, it was like
way too long, So like I thought about putting save Holder,
and then I was like, no, I go buy Savannah Holder.
So I just put Savannah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
So are you named after the town in Georgia?

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
I am? Okay, I am. And my my aunt who
passed away before I was born. Her name was Stephanie
ray or Ae was her middle name. So my name
is Savannah ray Yeah, so kind of Georgia kind of. Yeah.
My grandpa wasn't happy that I was named Savannah because

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apparently there's some ship like that, like the us USS
Savannah or something where they all turned out to be
traders and like surrendered or something like that. So he's like,
I don't want my granddaughter named after a trader ship
and dang, but he has dimension now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
So oh good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Yeah, so you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Kind of it kind of sounds like a country singer
Savannah ray Holder.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Yeah. It definitely is a very southern sounding name.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
I used to have a Southern accent as a kid.
Oh home videos.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
I bet your dad saying your name sounds cool.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Yeah, it does sound pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Yeah, well cool. Do you have any local shows coming
up that you want to promote?

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Actually no, just the just in North Carolina and then
I haven't really gotten booked on too much. In the future,
hopefully stuff will come up. You said something about a
show right where the audience roasts you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Yeah, that one's gonna be July seventeenth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Yet, but yeah, ok, yeah, so yeah that show that
sounds fun. I love getting roasted. Yeah, well, yeah, I regularly.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
The crowd's going to be roasting us, so that'll be
that'll be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
It sounds scary but fun.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
It does a little bit. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I like it's like when I now I'm going to
be scared about something, I have to go the full
nine yards, Like like at the roast on Friday, I
had like a crop top on with my tits out,
so I was like, I'm gonna be scared about that.
I'm going to be scared about the roast. And I
invited two guys from Bumble. I was like, what if
they both show up and like have to duel over me?

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Like so I was just like I'm just going full send,
like fuck it, we ball kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
My old roommate used to, uh he used to match
with girls on Tinder and then just invite him to
his comedy shows and then not talk to him.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
I kind of did that on Friday, Like this guy
I knew it was him, and he looked at me
and we hadn't talked yet, and I just gave him
a double thumbs up. And Dave Corvette was like, did
you end up talking to him or like you just
invited him and didn't even talk to him, just gave
him a thumbs up, and I was like, yeah, I mean,
you know, why not invite prospective lovers to shows where

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you're gonna get called fat, ugly and a slut?

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
You know, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Yeah, they got to know what they're getting into.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
And if they can handle that, then if they can
handle it, then they deserve a first date.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
They do, they do, so yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Well that's cool. Well, thank you for being on the podcast.
We already had an hour and twelve minutes and okay,
but yeah, I hope, I hope you had a good time.
You'll follow her on Instagram, everybody, Savannah Holder. It's a
save Holder, very funny. Go see a show of hers

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very soon. And I'll definitely talk about the July seventeenth
show and I get all the details and stuff. I
still don't know the venue or anything, so okay, that'll
be funny.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
All right, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Have a JA yeah you too, and safe travels. Maybe
i'll see in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Yes, that would be awesome. All right, bye bye bye