Episode 85: Comedian-Noah Vargas

Comedian/Podcaster Noah Vargas joins Curt for this episode to talk comedy, podcasting, horror movies and more. Check out Noah's podcast Improvised Intelligence

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
His name is a really funny guy.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is his podcast, in the Drive.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Ride Fletcher.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in. It's in the Right Podcast,
episode eighty five. I'm your host, Kurt Fletcher. We got
an awesome guest today. We're having Noah Vargason, who's a
podcaster and comedian from Albuquerque. There's a fun shats. I
just got back from North Carolina recently, my first time
in North Carolina. Did four shows out there with my

(00:41):
buddy Jerry. Thanks to Jerry frooking everything up. Jerry Patoko,
very funny dude, very motivated. We had four shows we
uh four totally different crowds too, which was pretty fun.
The first night was a Don't Tell show at an
axe throwing place. Super awesome crowd, like seventy five people

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crammed in there. Friday night was at a distillery in Durham,
North Carolina. Kind of an older crowd, but they weren't
so bad. Did a forty five forty forty five minute set.
Saturday was at like a bookstore coffee shop type of
deal where we had to do a little bit cleaner
material and that ended up being pretty fun. Small crowd.

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And then Sunday was a place called Neptunes. Very small
bar downtown, like underground downstairs, another small crowd, but it
was pretty fun. It was a fun trip overall. I
liked the Raleigh area. A lot of trees and stuff
like that. I thought that was cool. You don't have

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a ton of trees here in New Mexico like that.
Very green. It was cool. Looking forward to getting back
out there. I forgot to mention this on a previous podcast,
but I was actually mentioned on one of my favorite podcasts,
Are You Garbage. My pal Chad Daniels is on there

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and he's talking about Sam Talent's book Running the Lights,
and he was talking about, well, I'll shed the little
clip on here, so watch the clip being here's the
clip and the words it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, it's it's walking thesaurus. And he uses names of
of people we know, which I which I thought was awesome,
even if they're not comedians in the thing, Like he
uses the name Kurt Fletcher as a as a guy
that's selling coke at a random bar, and Kirk Fletcher
is a dude from New Mexico that I've worked with.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, so it's really cool.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, so cool not a lot going on and working
on the website for this podcast in the Ryde podcast
dot com. Hopefully have it all done by this week.
It's been hard. I want to make it look better
and didn't really like outlet before, so I actually put
a little money into it and I'm gonna make it
look good. Hopefully. There's some tour dates to talk about

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this week. Going to Colorado. May twenty third, I'm headlining
a show at Gnarly's in Golden Colorado. You can google
Narlies check it out. I think I got the ticket
link on my website, Funny Fletcher dot com. May twenty fourth,
I'm at the Denver Comedy Lounge doing three shows. May

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twenty fifth, I'm doing Thick Skin at the Denver Comedy
Works Downtown. June fourth, I will be hosting a show
for the Loons on the Lake Comedy Festival, will be
hosting part of their contests. And then on the seventh,
I think is a Saturday, I'll be hosting a panel
with some of the people that are there, so it'll

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be fun. If you're in Minneapolis, come hang outs. Then
I'll be back home June eleventh, headlining Bourbon and Boots
down town. Then I'll be in Reno June twenty sixth
through the twenty ninth at the Laugh Factory with my
buddy Tim Gather doing a contest at Casata's Comedy Club.
I don't know what date it's going to be at
July fourth or fifth. Then July seventeen, I guess the

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show in Albuquerque. I don't know the venue yet. July
twenty fourth headlining into the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, New Mexico.
And then September twenty ninth through October fourth, headlining the
Comedy Cave and Calgary, Alberta. That's in Canada. Well, let's
let's go talk to Noah Vargas. Everybody. This is a

(04:39):
fun one. Also, before we get started, I want to
thank Jarrett Reddick from Bowling for Soup for the intro
music and John Singleton from Anesthesia for the outro music.
Go check out both of those bands, you guys. All right,
let's go talk to Noah. So yeah, everybody, Yeah, there

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we go. No Vargas, What up, dude?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
What's up? Buddy? It's gonna see it you too?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Man? Looking good looking sharp? I like the mustache.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Thanks man, have you have? We seen each other in person.
I got the mustache, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I feel like I did see you recently, but not
I guess, not that recent.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I shaved it, shaved off the beard two three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Maybe it was just time, okay, it was time for change.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, I like it looks good.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Dude, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, I appreciate you being on here today.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, dude, thank you for having me looking forward to this.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah yeah, and uh yeah, so you do your own
podcasts improvised Intelligence. I noticed that you changed the name
of your podcast. Why did you change the name of
your podcasts?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
So, originally, as I think, yeah, because you were on
it when I was. Yeah, so originally the name and
it ran for about.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Three and a half years or so.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Uh, it was called only Kings and as as you
were a guest on it very generously, Uh, it was
based off of only fans and uh, you know, because
I didn't I didn't expect to do.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
A podcast for very long, you know.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And so I was like, all right, well, you know,
podcast is going pretty well. It's not fucking massive, but
it it's going well. And stand up seems to be
taken off and uh, I need to. I need to
have something a little bit more marketable, you know, something
a little more uh like, because I did. I had

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done Cassaal this last year. And when I was hanging
out in the green room with the headliner, you know,
she we were going back and forth and she was like,
you were on a podcast, right, And I was like yeah,
and she's.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Like, what's it?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
What's it about? Like what do you talk about? And
I was telling her like the gist of it. And
the whole time I was telling her, I was just like,
please don't bring up the fucking name. Please don't ask
me what the name is. And that was like the
all right, I need to I'm embarrassed of my own shit.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I need to change. So then I just did the
whole rebrand.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh funny see. Actually, so you started that podcast before
you started doing stand up.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, let's started the podcast in October of twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Cool. And when did you start doing stand up?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Started doing stand up June of twenty three?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, cool?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, what's uh? What got you into podcasting?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, so you know, I was a huge I mean
I still am, but you know, big fan of Rogan
got into him around like I note about him like
fear factor and from him being a stand up and
all that. But I got into the podcast like maybe
when I was in college, so like twenty sixteen ish,
twenty seventeen ish, and then just kind of grew an interest.
And then really when I was overseas, uh into twenty nineteen,

(08:01):
going into twenty twenty, you know, we had so much
fucking time on our hands, I listened to a lot
of the podcasts and I was like, oh, this seems
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And then came back started working a warehouse.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Job, and I was like, you know, at the end
of the day, for like an hour and a half,
two hours, I was cleaning a lot, restocking a lot,
and I was like, you.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Know, starting an AirPod and listen to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I was like, oh, I want to do I want
something to do, you know, I want to I want
to like do I don't know, just have something to create.
And that seemed like it was a lot of fun.
So I was like, I see if I if I
can get my buddies to do it or get interesting
people that I know to do it, and yeah, I dude,
fucking Four and a half years later, it's a fucking
full time job.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh yeah, man, yeah, because you I mean, your episodes,
some of them are more than three hours long. I've noticed.
Yeah yeah, I mean I dread just editing an hour
long podcast. See, I don't even have to edit that much.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I was gonna say, like, I don't even even edit,
Like it'll be there'll be like random guests that'll be like, hey,
you know, I don't like how I said this, Can
you get rid of that?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
And and I.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Was like, yeah, sure, that's fine because you know, I
don't want to like I'm out out here to do
to play, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
You know, I'm not like, ah ha, you said the
fucking you know, I don't. I'm not here for that.
So I'll I'll do.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
That, but I just the only things I'll edit out
if there's like a pe break or you know or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
But now, I like, I like it being long long form.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
And you know, now you know I found a uh
because I found an AI software that edits the podcast
for me. So I just like, I like line everything
up and just put it through the thing and it
just cuts back and forth. So like because beforehand, oh yeah,
because like for like two and a half years, three years.
I would just sit there in front of the computer

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and being like, Okay, this is me talking. Clip all right,
this is nam talking. And dude, you're doing a fucking
ford half hour podcast with your homies getting drunk as fuck.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's toughye, it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
See yeah. Mostly my podcast is usually just this on
stream yard, but uh, the one I did with Phil Romero,
I decided to set a camera on my desk, so
it's filming me also so I can cut back to
like I could show myself when I'm talking or whatever,
you know what I mean. I should have just cut
the whole thing out and just showed me talking.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
But uh, I laugh. I think I messed you about it.
I laugh because that was the most like on.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Like like un ironically ironically dry podcast I think I've
ever seen. Yeah, like because if because you know, the
definitive if kret me if I'm wrong, But the definition
of rye is like very dry, satirical like lampooning type humor.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, And that was just perfect.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
And then he didn't he didn't do much to to
help himself, just not at all. Talking to his chick
Eatie taking he told me, he took a phone call.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, I edited. I edited that part out.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh that's so funny. Oh it's funny.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, he had he had definitely never done a
podcast before.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, you know, but yeah, yeah, that's uh, it was
fun though, you know, Phil's a silly guy.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't do a three hour podcast
with him, though it felt like three hours though holy ship. Uh,
especially like the editing, because I was doing the editing
back and forth, and like I, I've never done the
two camera things, so I need to get better at

(11:53):
the editing that part I didn't. And then then I
did another episode of Savannah and I was going to
North Carolina weeks. I didn't even bother, uh doing the
more than one camera, so so I just put it
out as as it was on the recording on stream yards.
So yeah, but it can get kind of time consuming,

(12:19):
you know, clipping stuff up and things like that. But
you know, it's not so bad. That's a thing we
got to do to promote ourselves and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, it's a it's a pretty bitch thing to complain about,
even though I complain about it pretty much every week.
And I've just I broke down and I, uh, what's
it called? I got a subscription to Opus Clip Okay,
and dude, that is the most Like it's so easy
to use and it's great, but like to really get

(12:50):
your money's worth, you got to put some you gotta
buy more of it, because like what you do is
you take your link for the podcast, you throw it
in there and it for the a lot of amount
of time, it'll pick out clips, yeah, and then like
rate it and like on its virality level or whatever.
The five I'm starting to think it's a little bullshit

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and it just clips everything for you, gives it nice
captions and does like this AI thing where it like
tracks the face so the camera stays on it. And
I'm gonna do that for probably two more months to
see if I like it or not, and if not,
I'll just go back to clipping myself, because I mean,
because you get like a certain amount of minutes that
it lets you use. And you know, it's cool if

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you're doing like it's real, like the utility is really
there if you're doing an hour maybe ninety minute podcast.
But like for me, if I'm cranking out two three hour,
three and a half hour episodes. You know, I use
all my currency that I pay for. It's like I'm
paying fifteen bucks an episode and I'm doing at least
an episode a week, so that's not Oh yeah, that's

(13:53):
not feasible, you know.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
So yeah, and today's episode is sponsored by opus clip.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Actually you know what, Well, we're talking about sponsors. I
have a great sponsor called Chopped Chili Co. Please buy
their ship, people. I just met with the owner and
he's a great guy. I love the guy to death.
He's awesome. He actually pays me, buddy, he's not paying
for this sponsored ad. But yeah, you know this, and

(14:21):
it's actually really good too, like yeah, it's it's legit,
like like, is it the hottest chili in the world.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, but it's it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hand.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
I fucking love like they have a redding I think
I think they're the only company that does a red
and green like blend.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
And I love that ship.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Dude's cool. Yeah, yeah, you never see the blend, so
that's nice.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I enjoyed it a lot. But yeah, show out to them.
They pay me money.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
So so I was gonna ask about opus clip. Does
it work with stand up clips as well?

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Probably? Probably you know, I because.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Because I noticed a lot of a lot of comics
they use something that follows yeah, it's around.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, I'm sure it's I'm sure it's the same thing.
I just I need to get better at stand up clips.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
But like I just.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know, man like so for instance, like I
just I recorded my set that I did out in
Plano over at Mike Drop, and then I recorded my
set that I did in Santa Fe this past Saturday,
and it's like there's things out of that that I
could post, but like from what I noticed, it's typically

(15:28):
unless you have a really because I I mean, I
love the camera that I have, don't get me wrong,
but I don't have like a super like high quality
like audio setup. Lynn set up like like when I
was out there, like you've seen fucking and glorious bassards, right, yeah,
So when I was out there, I set up my
camera and I told the feature right, shout out to

(15:49):
fucking Rivy Gilmore, super nice guy, super funny motherfucker too,
because we had known each other to see it come
through Albuquerque last year, and I told him in the headliner,
Chloe Branch, he's funny too, real.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Real, fucking funny dude.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
I was like, hey, if you guys want, yeah, I
brought my camera. I can film your stuff yet.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Like oh yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, thank you cool.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
So Riley's like, yeah, I brought my camera too. I'm like,
oh sick, we can do like different angles whatever. I
set up my camera. It's just my basic it's not basic,
but it's a good camera. But it's on like a
basic tripod whatever. He sets up this like dice tripod,
thousand dollars camera, eight hundred dollars lens and it's like
an inglorious Bastards with the guy smoking his pipe and

(16:30):
Hans Lana's like, do you mind if I spoke too?
And he brings out the cartoonishly big.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Fucking you know what I mean? And I was like, ah, okay,
this is how the Mothership guys do it.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
And this is how Albuquerque, half open micer, half wanna
be club conic does it.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Okay, sounds good, man.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's so funny because I just use my little canon
that was like a couple hundred bucks off of Amazon
and it happened to me in North Carolina too, is
working with a buddy of mine, younger comic and Yeah,
he brings his camera all the gigs and this thousand
dollars camera, like super fucking nice shot in four K
and everything. Yeah, he's like, you can clip do some
clips from this if you want, And it's like it'd

(17:08):
be kind of weird to, you know, use a couple
of clips from his camera and then go back to
my shitty camera.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
You know, I want to, like, you know, eventually down
the line, get a lens. I don't even know if
I can, if I have a type of camera that
can have a good lens on it.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure I can somehow. I just
I'm not well versed.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
But like because Josh Fournier, he has these road they're
like lapel mics, but I guess they are lapel mics,
but they're these little like boxes and they're Bluetooth and
he sets it up to his phone. But I saw
it and they're like three hundred bucks. But they're high
fucking quality, and I want to get it because you

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can wire it into a camera. So it's like my
camera has about mid grade quality. But if I can
have solid audio, that's what matters. And he manages to
pick up I don't know how it works, but he
manages to pick up the crowd audio pretty well. And
that's the other thing too, is like I get unless
I'm like Saturday Night, I fucking.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Smacked in Santa Fe.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I leveled out there, and it's like that audio of
the crowd, and it's also a way smaller room, so
the audio of the crowd was a bit better. I
did fine in Plano, like I did a perfectly fine
hosting set, but it's such a big room and my
cameras in the back and there was all it's about
a three hundred seater room and we had about sixty

(18:32):
five ish there, so they're all like in the front
camera's way back. So it's like there are a couple
of moments, like I was saying earlier, there's.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
A couple of moments that I could use.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
But I'm I've noticed that, like crowd work is a
lot of the stuff that goes better on the on
the viral like algorithm stuff. And I'm not a crowd
work guy, like I did. I tried to do crowd
work and it didn't work out very well.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I'm still pretty new too, you know, like yeah, that
was the thing for me too, Like I was scared
to do it. Plus I've I've felt like, uh, I
don't know, I just I just didn't want to do it,
you know. I just I like telling my little one
liners and getting out of there. You know.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
No, I'm the I'm the same way. I just I
want to do my material. I'm at the stage now
where I'm like, unless there's a super obvious crowd work moment,
I might tap into it, but it's like a freebie,
like a layup, you know. But yeah, I'm I'm still
in the stage where I need to make sure that
my fucking that my material works.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I need to make for that. I don't want to
waste time, especially when you're a host. You don't want
to run the light. Yeah, you know, I I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
And and this is my first time in that club
or like, you know, my first time in that room
in Santa Fe.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't want to be known as like a comic
that ran the light.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
And now I'm here to do my stuff, make sure
it works, get out on time.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's fine. I actually used to do a
joke about and glorious bad Oh really yeah, I never
got like a really good laugh, so I kind of
dropped it, but it was I was like, yeah, yeah,
I've done some acting. I actually played a Nazi soldier
in the movie and Glorious Bastards. But now I got
a wicked case of Hitler elbow.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's so fucking stupid. That's funny. Oh man, that's funny.
Hitler elbow. That's funny.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, pretty stupid. Not my best Hitler joke, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's all right.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I want I'm waiting for my I'm not that I'm
actively writing one, but I'm waiting for the day that
I have a good Hitler joke.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I have a good not a couple, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
I've got a good pedophile joke. I've got I've got
a did I have a domestic I used to have
a domestic vials joke, but it didn't go very well.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I don't know, I just yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
It's fine. I remember I went and saw a documentary.
I forget what it was called. It was like a
comedy documentary. They played it at the Guild and they're
interviewing a bunch of comedians. It's like they're talking about
stuff that you shouldn't joke about, and like every single
thing that they brought up My friend that was with me.
He's like, did I think you have a joke for
every single one of those?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Good? Good? At that point good Like like, I don't know, man, that's.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
The idea that there's things you shouldn't talk about on
stage that's so stupid, Like there's I know, he's getting
a bit on his high horse right now.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
And there's an argument back and forth on whether or
not that's.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Acceptable because Anthony jessl Nick's the fucking he's one of
my goats personally, but he had I saw a clip
of his going around, but he was he did a
podcast recently and he was like, yeah, you know, comedy
can talk about everything, but comedians can't, like certain comedians
have the ability to. And he basically boiled it down
to you know, there's some comics that do it, and

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it's clearly like, oh, you're not just making a laugh
or doing it in good faith. You actually have an
issue with like gay people, trans people, black people, like whatever,
you're making fun of Jews, whatever, And there's just and
there's just other people that are like, oh no, you.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Actually made a well written.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
You know, joke or you have a well thought out
premise and you know how to pull the funny out
of a horrible situation. Yeah, but yeah, the idea that
there's there's stuff that comedians can't talk about that's come on, now.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, that's that's dumb. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I totally agree. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think anything can
be funny, but yeah, it's got to be well prepared,
well written. Uh, definitely done by the right person.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I saw jessel Nick when he was here last year.
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I wanted to go so bad, but I couldn't get
a ticket in time. And then when by the time
I was looking at Tike, It's like, all right, I
got paid my buy a ticket.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Now it was so fucking expensive, dude. I was like, cause,
I don't know, and I'm curious about what.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
You think about this too, because you've been doing it
for so long, you know, because he was playing at
the Convention Center, right, Yeah, So that's basically like it's
a small version of it, but that's basically like an
arena show, like how.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Many how many seats or how many people do you
think they could have sat in that in that room?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I feel like the capacity is around two thousand.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Okay, So.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Because there's like I'm never gonna say that I'm against
arena shows or that I'm against like outdoor pavilion show
like these massive thousand seater whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's like, yeah, if you're a.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Comic that can pull that many people and you can
pull it off, go make your fucking money.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Like that's awesome, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Like I'm never gonna say it's a bad thing, but
like I really wanted to see him. I really wanted
to see Nicki Glazier when she came through Sandy. But
the other part of me was like, I'm not convinced
I want to pay more than sixty or seventy bucks
to see a comedian A and B.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I kind of want to see him in a club.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, Like that's where comedy is supposed to be, you know,
like it's supposed to be in a two to three
hundred seating room, low ceilings, packed in little chili, dark
as shit, and where it's like a more intimate setting,

(24:35):
you know, and and almost like theaters I can get
because you still have like the packed in seating and
theaters are very beautiful, and I can kind of understand
I'd like to see that too, But the arena stuff
kind of loses me.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I feel like when comedians are.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Playing arenas and playing like the bigger stuff, they're kind
of afflexing on everybody else, Like, yeah, I can fucking
I can sell up mass Yeah, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
You know you know what I mean. I feel like
it's not really a challenge either, Like m I mean,
if if you're that level though, if you're that level,
people are gonna laugh at anything you say if they're
a big fan of you. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
But don't you think you'll be the same thing in
a club or a theater too, Because if you're at
that level where the audience can give you a pass
just because they're so happy to see you, that's true.
That's that's almost anywhere.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, And it's awesome being on shows like that when
someone's so excited to see the headliner. Like working for
a big headliner, like opening for him is fucking sweet spot.
Like I got to open for Theo Vaughn at the Kiva,
and yeah, it was one of the easiest sets I've
ever done in my life, you know, Like, but yeah,

(25:47):
I would much prefer perform performing at a club though
with two three hundred people yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
And that's and that's what I ran into as well
when I was at Mike Drop was it's like, this
is the setting I want to do my material at.
This is the setting where like they are undeniably here
for comedy. They didn't get trapped by comedy. They didn't
you know whatever. They made the conscious decision to go
see stand up. So now it's really like I look

(26:15):
at that footage and I'm like, Okay, did okay the
material that didn't work? Does it suck? Was it the
wrong audience for it?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Was?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Did I fuck it up? Because I was nervous as shit.
I was fucking nervous as fuck.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
It was like, there's like some stuff that I definitely
missed some like I misstepped on miss did some some
phrasings or some execution or whatever. And that's when I
can really look at that and go, Okay, this was
a big test. What can I pull out of this?
What can I work with and go from there? Because
you know, the stuff that I know works popped did great? Yeah,

(26:51):
and the stuff that's iffy and you know, so it
was it was good.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, I get you.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
And that was in Plano, right mm hmm, Okay, yeah,
It's so funny because like different parts of the Dallas
area are so different, Like cause there used to be
a Hyenas in Plano so I could do I would
do Dallas fort Worth in Plano, and Plano was always
my least favorite crowd wise. I don't know why. Uh,

(27:16):
I don't know if it was just the club or what.
I don't know. I just never really felt great about
my sets, like all the time, Like fort Worth is
way that fort Worth. I've never had a bad set
there ever, Like I feel like it's almost impossible to
have a bad set there.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Is it a demographic thing?

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Is it an age thing? Cause I noticed that when
I was there and I was watching everybody come in,
there wasn't a ton There was maybe six people that
were twenty years old. It was mostly older people let's
say forty and above right, so middle aged to like
there was there a few people that in their sixties

(27:57):
in there. Yeah, And then it was weird because it's
like some dark stuff worked, but other dark stuff didn't.
Some local stuff was okay, but it's like they really
wanted to be pandered to, but then it was like
what do you want to be pandered about? Yeah, you know,

(28:20):
so it was I want to do that club again
outside of the obvious, if I just really enjoyed being
there and it's a fucking club that'll book me. It's
a club that'll book me, you fox. But you know,
it's also like I want to figure out what works there,
like you know what I mean. It's like I want

(28:40):
to know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah. Yeah, that's why I always keep tracking, Like I
record an audio of every set that I do, and
I keep it in the folder of whatever town it
is or whatever. You know, Like if I'm in Tulsa,
I've got audio recordings of the year before. I can
go back and listen to what jokes didn't work in,
which one is dead and stuff like that. So that's
kind of a cool thing to do.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, it's funny how how different crowds are regionally. Plus,
I think the Fort Worth crowd is so good because
it's been there so long. That club has been there
for probably thirty forty years or so, and people are just,
you know, they're used to going there, they're used to laughing,
I'm having a good time. The Plano Club was fairly new,
and I think it closed down, like right around twenty

(29:28):
twenty or twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
So, well, was the Plano club like in a shopping
mall area? Yeah, okay, that's where my drop is now.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Then probably same place, so probably like.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Super like when when you walk in, is there immediately
like a bar and then you enter through some doors
and the showrooms in there?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
There were so when I when you walk in, the
bar was on the left, yeah, and then bathroom's over there,
and the it was a pretty good sized room like
lobby area. Yeah. Yeah, it might be the same spot.
I'd have to look up the address.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah. The green room was hot as ship. It was.
There was no there was no air in that fucking
green room.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, and it's like you have to go through the
kitchen to get to the green room. Ye. And so
I'm like I got back there and I was just
immediately sweating, and I was already sweating.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
That's fucking human as ship.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
It's like eighty eight degrees outside with a seventy percent
of humidity.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
And then I walked in there.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I'm like, ah, oh, yeah, well you're going You're going
to Austin stand too, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yes, sir? Uh so when is this coming out?

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I'll probably drop in a couple of days like on
the okay second, okay, cool. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
So this so coming Saturday night. Uh, me and aj
Da Leone. Uh, we're driving out. We're gonna drive through
the night and then get there Sunday and we've got
I've got four shows out there and he has like
five or six, and yeah, it'll be good. It'll be

(31:00):
a I'm I'm so fucking excited, bro, I'm not. I'm
so fucking excited. Oh yeah, Oh, I'm so fucking excited, dude,
It's gonna be great. I were doing I'm doing two
clubs and I'm doing a local bar that's really known
for comedy out there.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
So I'm psyched, bro, I'm psyched.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
You've been Austin before, haven't you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
I went for the first time last year around this
time of year. Actually, I went last year and I
didn't do any like stand up or anything. I just
did a couple of podcasts and uh, fucking huge shout
out to maver McWilliams and Alison Voidevich.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
They they were.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Super nice to me, and Maverick like took time out
and like showed me around like the comedy scene in
Austin and like showed me a couple of different clubs,
a couple of different venues introduced me to a bunch
of comedians Like I mean, you know, how fucking polite
and how manners based that guy is and that's exactly

(32:01):
how he treated me. And he showed me like some
of the best that Austin comedy has to offer. And
I was like that really like lit a fire into
my ass. I was like, I need to be good
enough because they're they were like all the comics that
I met were super nice to me.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well one wasn't.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
They were pretty passive, but everyone else was just super
fucking whether they were like you know, just open micro comics,
whether they were just the writing comics that can work
in clubs, the mothership guys whoever I met super nice
to me.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
The moment they knew I was a comedian, they were like, oh, hey,
what's up. How we've been doing it? All that stuff?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
And I was like, man, I need to get good
enough to hang out with these guys. Like I want
to be good enough to hang with these dudes and
like do shows with these guys and girls and like
really like, you know, because they were just so fucking
nice dude, and so welcoming. So I'm pretty excited to
get out there and do stuff, especially after the last
couple of shows that I've had that have gone pretty well.

(32:58):
I'm like, all right, I've got material to go out
there and do and like not fuck up, and you know,
because and I'm not afraid to, you know, admit it.
The shows that I'm getting out there are off vouchers,
so I don't want.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
To like go out there and bomb.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, and then the person that gave you advo like, hey, dickhead,
what happened?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
So it's I'm pretty I'm pretty. I'm pretty psyched. I've
got good material now, and I'm not doing super long sets,
thank god. They're all between five and ten minutes. So
just get in, punch, get out, don't bomb, you know,
stay in the pocket, bob and weave and uh. Yeah,
I'm excited, bro, I'm fucking I'm psyched. Got your got

(33:43):
a few podcast book two, so it'll be good. Sweet, Yeah, Yeah,
it'll be good.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah that's great, man, Good for you. Yeah, It's it's
good to be excited about something, you know, especially in comedy.
It keeps you motivated. Yeah, and it's, uh, you know
what's funny is like you're mentioning how everyone was super nice.
It's like, I've been doing this twenty plus years and
I've only met maybe like four or five comics that
I can't fucking stand and that's over twenty some years.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Well, I just think like I've been doing it very long,
but just extrapolating out what I see from other people's
experiences and talking to other people, listening to other people
speak about it. The people that are really doing like
you'll have pompous dickheads that like you know, and it's
at least from what I've found, you'll the real like

(34:32):
assholes of it are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
I'm trying to get myself in frame opposite ends of
the spectrum.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
You know.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
They're either dog shit horrible that think they're amazing and
their ego just won't it's an ego problem either way,
but their ego just won't let them whatever, let go
of that and just be a human for a second.
And then you have people that are just so good
and they know how good they are and they just

(35:00):
swing their dick around. But you'll find that anywhere, you know,
show business or not. But the ninety five percent that
are nice and welcoming and cordial and what I about
expecting that everyone has to be like, oh, give me
a hug.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
But you know, just people are.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Just respectful and nice and cordial and whatever outside just
being decent human beings. I think it's like they they
just met another person. It's like, oh, you're a comedian, Okay,
you understand what it's like to eat a dick, like
you understand public humiliation on some of the grandest levels.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Come have a beer.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah you know, so for sure. Yeah, yeah, I've met
so many cool people in this business just doing this,
you know, yeah, we have. Yeah, it's funny. You have
so much in common with these people. You know, they
all started the same thing you did, you know, just
to fucking scared open micro and uh, you know, so
that's cool. I'm glad you're getting out there and doing

(35:59):
doing other states and stuff, man, because New Mexico is
it's uh not the easiest place to do stand up.
Like it's funny because I'll try new jokes out or
I used to a lot of times. I'd go to
the open mic and I'd try something out and and
I wouldn't get a laugh, and I was like, I
think that's pretty fucking funny. And then I would take
it to like Tucson or something and it would crush
and I'm like, I fucking knew it.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, man, And and that's the
benefit that.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
You have and people like you have that have been
doing this for so long and correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
But I feel like once you're doing this for a
while and provided that you're good at it, I mean,
I guess that's a good asterisk is like you're good
at this, you start to you build this like internal
filter where it's like, Okay, I know this is good.
I know this has legs. I know this has the
potential to do the thing. Yeah, And I'm definitely still

(36:52):
developing that. I'm still trying to figure out what's what's
right and what's wrong. Uh it's funny or what's funny
and what's not?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
But yeah, I agree, like There's it was funny because
like there's so when I was doing Plano, I wrote
three new jokes and they're about a minute long each,
and I was doing my best to learn them before
the show and all, and it was all like regional
stuff that I think would get laughs there, and stuff

(37:24):
about them and comparing New Mexico to their and all
that kind of stuff and just getting in with the crowd,
you know. And as I was writing it, I was like, man,
and I called I actually called Alison. I was like, hey,
what do you think she's from Texas, She's from Austin.
And then you know, I was like, okay, like what
do you think about all this? Yeah, that'll do pretty
well there, Like you have to get it as you're

(37:45):
writing it, but it's good. And I was thinking about it, like, man,
I am ninety nine percent positive that all of this
would bomb at an open mic.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Let's see how it does at as show.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
And most of it did well, and it's and you're right,
it is hard getting a getting a good barometer because
it's kind of like an oxymoron in and of itself,
because it's like you're trying to get a good barometer
of what's good, and when you're at the early stages,
you're doing it at open mics. But then I've come

(38:19):
to realize of the last maybe seven to eight months
that open mics like if you can get a laugh,
get a laugh like that's good, Like obviously go for
the laugh, like you're trying to make people laugh whatever.
But open mics are also just like it's disposable stage time.
It's like, how does how does the words feed? How

(38:41):
do the words feel coming out of your mouth? What
are your mannerisms while you're doing it? Does the the
like the stream of consciousness?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Does it make sense?

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Like you know, you're you're just doing the performance side
of it, trying to see if that were and if
you can get a laugh attached to that great.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
And obviously you can feel if something just doesn't work
in an open mic, like you can feel that.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, but I'm not convinced. And maybe I'm wrong, but
I'm not convinced that just because you don't get a
laugh at an open mic doesn't mean that it's not
a good joke.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'm not convinced.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, I've never I've never really you know, had a
joke bomb at an open mic and be like, well,
not doing that one again. I'll usually try it out
a couple different times and different venues, you know, with
different crowds.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Like actual shows and shit, Yeah for.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Sure, Well, like I like doing it like at shows
i'm really doing well. I like sneaking in a new
joke to see exactly in between two jokes that crush exactly,
and if it just fucking eats ship, then it's like, okay,
that jokes up exactly.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, And that's like that sandwiching method is what I finally, like,
literally over the last week and a half, two weeks, yeah,
like two three weeks. I'm now in the spot where
I can start doing that, where it's like, Okay, I
have a decent, decent to good ten minutes, twelve minutes.

(40:19):
Now I can start sandwiching in things where I'm not complete.
Like I said, like, and I don't know why it's
a thing for like me, but like, I'm really big
on making sure my set makes sense and if if
I am gonna transition into something completely different, try to
play off the audience. And just like it worked in
Santa Fe Saturday, where I was like, I did my

(40:41):
material and it was going well, and I was like, Okay,
well now I'm gonna start doing darker shit that has
no connection to the other stuff. So I just find
out said, I was like, all right, we're gonna get
u some darker stuff. Now because this is going too
well and they liked that, and finding I'm finding things.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Like that that work for me.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
But yeah, figuring out like newer material, but I think
has legs writing, trimming the fat, figuring out what's that
and then yeah, just it's like good joke, try it out,
good joke, just so I can kind of recover trip
and fall and move on.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
So it's it's a fun process.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I uh, dude, it's it's so much fun, Like just
trying to figure out what jokes work, what wording works,
where to put the joke in the set. That's one
of my favorite things to do too. Like you know,
when I'm working on like a a longer set, is like, uh,
switch things around once in a while, just to see
if he can come up with a callback or something

(41:41):
or see if something connects with that later on, you know.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Yeah, And like something that I've heard a lot is
you know you're getting better when your closer moves closer
to the beginning of the set.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, And and I.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Used to close on I mean you've seen me do it,
I'm sure a few times. But uh, my Joe or
my bit premise whatever that I have about growing up
in a Christian household, So that used to be my
closer back when I was doing cassavas. Oh yeah, And
now that's like in the front of my fucking yeah,

(42:23):
in the front of my set, because I just have
better things to end on.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
And I'm using that.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
As a barometer too, where it's like, oh, yes, okay,
I'm on the right path, like this this makes sense
to me.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Isn't you grew up in a Christian household? Did you
get to listen to much stand up grown up?

Speaker 3 (42:42):
I mean it was I mean not with my mother
knowing about it, you know, like my my uh like
I didn't. I didn't grow up too much with my
dad in my life. But even like he wasn't a
big comedy guy, Like what he impressed on me was like, uh,

(43:02):
it was like old school horror movies. So like the
old school like uh, like the Boris Carloff, Frankenstein, Bello
Lagosi's Dracula and then like you know, the Romero movies,
John John Carpenter, so like the old school horror stuff,
Batman and comic books and all that. That's definitely where
I got that from. And then weightlifting, even though I've

(43:25):
kind of become a lazy piece of shit over the
last like six months, dude. I there was like a
good two months three months where I just didn't go
to the gym. I didn't train at all. I went
and I went to the gym for the first time
last weekend, and I was dying. I was fucking I
was dying. My strength wasn't there. I was like, fuck,
I'm a bitch now anyway.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Anyway, But like you know.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I like, growing up with my mom was super super helicopter,
super like, if you want to listen to this music,
I'm gonna read the lyrics. I don't want to know
what as you're watching. Oh yeah, super like on it
and all that. But the first comedian that I like,
and I think we talked about this with me one

(44:08):
of my podcasts, the first comedian that I convinced her
to let me have a DVD of was Jeff Dunham Yeah,
and the woman.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
But the way that I passed that on her was like,
because my buddies, my buddies had shown me like YouTube
clips of him, like old, old YouTube, and uh that
re clearly rips off the DVD, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, And so I was like, yeah, he's got.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Puppets, he's not whatever, And I knew the shit that
he was saying, and so I had that DVD out
of like the bargain Bin.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
And then uh. And then when I had like a little.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
iPod, I would I would buy. I had my own
like iTunes account, like I've specifically made an email so
I could have my own iTunes account. And then God
bless her, I love her to death, like she's pretty
much my mother, my aunt.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
She would give.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Me these iTunes gift cards, and every so often i'd
buy actual music, but a lot of it was like
some stand up Every now and again, i'd buy the
whole album, so like I grew up, like the first
stand up album, well, really the first stand up album
that I listened to.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
I sailed the high Seas to get it, let's put
it that way.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Uh. And I got Vicious Circle from Dane Cook. And
then when I would get these little gift cards, I
bought Caligula from Anthony Jesselnick. And then I got I
always forget the title of this fucking album. I'm gonna
look it up.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Really quick, but it's the one where it's brown with
his face on it. It is Shakespeare.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
And I got those two albums and I was just like,
holy shit. I was maybe like fifth grade, going into
sixth grade, and I was like, oh my god, and
like obviously, you know, there's a good thirty percent of
the material I just didn't understand because I was young.
But then like you know, the obvious, like the rape jokes,

(46:10):
like the dead kid jokes, I'm like, damn.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Like so I really got in to him.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I really liked Bo Burnham growing up, really like words
Words Words, I fuck it. I still listen to that album.
I adore his older stuff. And then as I got
into high school, that's when Netflix, the streaming service really
started taking off. You know, so like because because I

(46:37):
would watch like comedy movies, like like, I guess my
dad got me into a little bit of comedy now
that I think about it, because he showed me John Candy,
you know, showed me his movies like Playing Trains, Automobiles,
Uncle Buck, Uh, Stripes, you know, the classics. But so
I definitely liked comedy movies to a to a degree

(47:00):
growing up. But like when Netflix we started taking off
the streaming service, that's when I started watching like Bill Burr,
He's still my guy. Like Bill Burr was huge, and
then Chappelle. My uncle when I was little showed me
Chappelle's Show and so that was like part stand up,
part sketch comedy. Yeah, and then and that's what really
got me into hip hop because at the end of

(47:21):
each episode he would typically have a musical guest, so
like get into guys like most def and nos and
uh I think Kanye was on one of them, and
you know, getting into that tinpe of stuff and then
getting into Chappelle's stand up from that, and and then
my aunt she would have like the movie channels, you know,
like she would have them, my grandparents would have them.

(47:42):
So I would go to like HBO and then oh,
there's like a HBO half hour with like Chappelle or
Carlin or stuff like that. But yeah, I just really
latched onto Bill Burr. I outside of these he's funny,
but I think what I really liked about him was

(48:04):
he the material was great and it was just ridiculous
things about everyday life. But he's such a loud person,
and I'm a naturally loud person, and so I was like, oh,
like I get made fun of and teachers yell at
me for being loud, but this guy's famous for just

(48:27):
being angry. Like this is like I like, now that
I'm actually doing stand up, I don't yell at all
on stage.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
I don't like I have one I have one punchline
where I yell, but I take the mic away from
my mouth because.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
I know how loud I am.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
And you know, I want to get to a point
where I can just go on angry rants and people
laugh at it.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
You know, you know I want to do that.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
But it's like he I got really into him, and
then that led to stuff like Louis c k and
like Tom Segura and then what else did I watched
as a kid?

Speaker 2 (49:07):
A Rogan?

Speaker 3 (49:08):
I got really big into his stand up.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
I've never been a big fan of Rogan's stand up.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, I'm definitely in the minority.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Yeah, I haven't met a lot of people that are
into his stand up.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, and I do.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
I think he's the greatest. No, And every time that
he puts out a new special, I'm like, if it's
with the last one, like I enjoy the last one,
burn the Boats like I liked it. But even then
I'm like, uh, you're reusing jokes again, dude, Like fuck,
but I'm still entertained. Like, at the end of the day,

(49:46):
I just I want to be entertained, that's all I want,
you know. So I like his stuff a lot, Like
I really love Rocky Mountain High. I think that's a
great album. And uh so, Yeah, I started getting into
that type of stand up as I was growing up.
And then, you know, it helped a lot too that
I went to a military school, so I was out
of the house for most of my high school years. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(50:11):
and so I just got to explore a lot of
entertainment without the fucking you.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Can't listen to that you can't watch, you know what
I mean, It's like I can you know. So it
was it was good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Did you watch Cigaura's show?

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yeah, not yet. I've I've seen.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
I'm trying to avoid clips as much as I can, yeah,
and avoid the pictures of behind the scenes, but some
of the stuff that I've seen, it's like, what the
fuck is this show?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Its fucking ridiculous. It's so funny. It kind of reminded
me of Bill Bird did a show. And not many
people know about this that I've told about anyway, I didn't. Fuck.
I don't know what the show is called. I might
have to look it up. It was on the Roku channel, though.
Do you know anything about thist? Me see if I

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can find the name of it.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yeah, you're ringing a weird bell.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Yeah, a moral compass, A moral compass. No, oh dude,
it's fucking great. Did the first the first scene? I
think it's Nick Swartson. I don't want to give it away.
I'm not gonna say anything. Just go watch it. It's
fucking The first thing is so goddamn funny.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh no, you know what I do know about this? Yeah? Yeah,
I've never seen it, but I know about it.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
You should. Yeah, if he get a chance, you should.
You should watch it. It was pretty good. I thought it
was okay. Yeah, I'd never heard of it, and I
was just it just happened to click on the Roku
channel on accident, I think, because nobody watches the Roku channel.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
And ye, I was that the Roku channel? So did
you watch the uh, the weird Al Yankovic biopic?

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Oh? Mad?

Speaker 3 (52:03):
I was that that was released on the Roku channel. Yeah,
it's like, fuck off dude again.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Yeah, any anytime I tell someone about it, like, I
don't have a Roku, so, yeah, how the are you
gonna watch it?

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
You know with that, I had to sail the high
seas as well, you know, to get that one.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
But my god, what a great movie.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
But that you're you telling me every streaming service knocked
that down.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
There's no way.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yeah, put it on Touby. Oh dude, I love Juby.
He's not the best stand up in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
It has a surprising amount of standards.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
It's kind of like old school, like, yeah, stand up,
which is great. It's got all the Carlon ones on there. Yeah,
a bunch of dudes that I've worked with on there.
It's super cool.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
I love to be Yeah, I uh, I've been used by.
I'll take that to me money, I'll give a fuck.
Uh but yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
I I'll watch that every now and again and like
to B and Freebe have become some interesting streaming services
for me. I'm like, oh shit, this is on it
like it was a horrible It's a horrible fucking movie.
But I watched in the last year, I watched the
original I spit on your grave.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Oh yeah, have you ever seen that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Fucking right, yeah, yeah, trash movie, like just like I'm
not like again, I'm a like, you know, I'm never
gonna say that movie shouldn't have been made because I
just who am I to say that?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I'm a free speech like just radicalist, you know.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
But on the other hand, the amount of assault in
that movie, yeah is ridiculous, like because I and not
a lot of people like it, and I get it,
but I thoroughly enjoy the remake. And yeah, and the
remake has the same premise. Girl gets assaulted by a

(53:58):
group of guys. Shew it gets assaulted once in the
in the remake, not like over and over.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, but you.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Know, I uh but you know, I thoroughly enjoyed the
remake because the payoff is just so damn good, like
where she baddages to fucking have the guy accidentally killed
the leader, and it's oh, dude, it's so good.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
But that first one is uh who, that's a doozy.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah, it's god. I don't remember when I watched it.
I remember almost shutting it off.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Yeah yeah, I got to that point too.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah. It's like one of those things where like, no,
I'm gonna I'm gonna finish.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
But I I I like movies like that though that
make you feel dirty watching it, Like you know, you
shouldn't be watching this because that's like that's the feeling
you only really have as a kid, where it's like, oh,
your parents don't know that you're staying up watching you know,
the Creature Feature or the then whatever it is, you
know what I mean. But it's like that movie made

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me feel like that. It's kind of on screen. But
the original Last House on the Left that have you
seen that? Yeah, that's a pretty gnarly one to get
through too. But again, the payoff is just so good
with the parents fucking up all the all the criminals.
You know, that movie's great and that movie only got
made on like a thirty.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Seven thousand dollars budget.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Oh wow, yeah, Like so you remember the scene where
one of the criminals, remember it? Well, So there's this
there's a scene where one of the criminals is getting disemboweled,
and I guess the way they've made it is to
like simulate the intestines. They stuffed a condom with just

(55:50):
like a bunch of meat, with like meat and dirt
and mud and like kind of meshed it all together
and tied it off and just like turn it into
and test and and it looks great, Like Wes Craven
clearly knew what he was doing. But you know stuff
like that too, where it's like so clearly gorilla filmmaking,
where it's like, damn, you had next to no money

(56:11):
and you still pulled off like that. And then like
a Henry Portrait of a serial Killer with Michael Roker,
that's a great one too, if you haven't seen that,
it's called Henry Portrait of.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Yeah, Portrait of a serial Killer.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I believe it's on to be and it's on Amazon,
and he's.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
It's pretty good man.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
It's well, i'd say it's about middle of the road,
but his performance as a serial killer is really good.
And he's loosely based on an actual serial killer, and
he was one of those guys that like he definitely
murdered people, Like there's definitely like evidence. But as like
I believe, as the true story goes, because it's back

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in the seventies, I think so as they locked him
up and they were getting him to confess to the
crimes that he actually committed, they were finding there they
had like other cold cases from the areas he was
in and they're like.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Hey, what do you know about this?

Speaker 3 (57:17):
And he was one of those guys that was just like,
oh yeah, I totally did that too, you know, just
to like rack up the superficial numbers.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Yeah, so it's unknown how many people he actually killed.
I forget the guy's real name.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
It was like Henry.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
There's Henry Lee Lucas. And it's also based on Otis Tool,
who I have heard of.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Yeah, Henry Lee Lucas. Yeah, but it's a again low budget.
It gets super super graphic.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Towards the end.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Really, but it's you know, it's one of like if
you can stomach those other movies, you could definitely like
do that one.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
And it's.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
It's again just a great example of what you could
do on a low budget. And yeah, it's it's worth
your time. It's only like ninety minutes. It's worth your time.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah, I'll check it out for I watch a lot
of dumb shit on TV. I watched meth Gator. Yeah,
it's as ridiculous as it sounds.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Yeah, like the Fifth Shark Nato, Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Yeah, there was one I watched. Holy shit, Ah, it
was so funny. It was about this butthole that killed people.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Well, you've seen teeth, right, tell me you teeth.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, I showed I showed my girlfriend
like a month ago.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I showed her a hobo with a shotgun.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
And she's into like horror, like super into horror and
super into like the Gorris Flatter stuff, and uh, she's like,
this is fucking great.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
This is awesome, Like that was really good.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
And then because we went and saw uh Terrifier in
the Terrifire three in the theaters.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Now tell you two. I see and not not for
the gore, because I can deal with the gore.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
But dude, Terrifier two especially, that does not need to
be a two and a half hour movie.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
I'm sorry. Just the writing is so bad. I can deal.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
I can deal with bad acting if it means that, like, Okay.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
The script is O is good. They're just not the
best people to execute. But it's like that's who they
could get and who they could pay. All right, well
you have that.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
That's but just some of the acting in those movies, bro,
Like Terrifier the first one, it's great, ninety minutes in
and out, real simple cutting people up, vagina down like
it is what it is, all right, but two and
a half hours, I think there's some things that could
have been left on the cutting room floor, all right,

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you could have written you know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Yeah the uh it does make me laugh though, like
a lot of parts made me laugh in part two
and three. Oh pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's it's it's black humor for sure,
like it's the it's definitely the black comedy. Uh you know,
it's it's certainly torture porn, Like I get it. But
you know when the fucking bathroom scene with the chainsaw
Terrifire three, it's like, come, you know, it's like I'm glad.

(01:00:30):
I'm glad they did it, don't get me wrong. Like,
don't get me wrong. Yeah, I'm glad they did it
and the effects were awesome. But what I like about
the Terrifier movies, especially three, is like not just that
they go for the gore stuff, but it's like contextually
like around the violence, it's me Yeah, it's not just

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like adults getting cut up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
There's an ied in a mall.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Yeah, Like that's insane. Like let's see like the opening
scene when he's killing the family.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Yeah, he kills the kid too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Yeah, like this is some mean stuff, like this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Is like like scene in the second one fucking makes
me laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yea yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
They're like or like when he's literally rubbing salt in
the wound, it's like, all right, all right, we know
what's going on here, all right, this Damian Leoni guy,
he he knows he's the only dude on the market
that's doing it and doing it well we wells can
I guess, and getting away with it. So it's like,
all right, all right, I understand, I understand. I have

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a Terrifier three poster around here somewhere. Yeah, because when
we when we went to the theater, they uh they had
these little like the little printouts of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Yeah, it's it's around here somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
I said, what the fuck I put it? Yeah, but
yeah those are fun movies.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
And you got the Ice nine Kills poster, right, is that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Yeah? Yeah, I've got I've got.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
They did a music video for Fire three.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Yeah, dude, I I fuck with that band pretty heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
I love like this. Yeah, I've got this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
It's signed by Spencer Charnis the lead singer. And then
I've got a h a little like vinyl poster thing
of their their uh what's it called their song?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
It's based on Candy Man.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
And yeah, they're coming here in August, and I'm pretty
pretty sis I'm not exactly, I'll be honest, Like, and again,
I do want to preface this by saying, like, again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Free speech, truly do what you want.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Like I I really believe in that. But they're making
this new thing and I guess it's gonna be a
short film or a feature film, I'm not sure. And
it's called Slashing of the Christ. And I just I
don't you know what I mean, because like my whole
thing with the religious stuff, and obviously i'm biased because
I'm Christian, Like obviously i'm biased, but you know, there's

(01:03:05):
a market for everything. And like, I'm not saying you
can't do that, like just in the same way that
like I can't, I'm not saying that I'm not allowed
to make jokes about my own religion. Yeah, because I truly,
I truly believe that God has a sense of humor.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
There's no way he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Oh, sure, there's no way, Like if we're truly based
on the strict premise of like if we're made in
his image, then we have a sense of humor.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Like I absolutely like that's obvious to me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
But my whole thing, just like with anything else that
you're making fun of or poking fun at, is like,
why are you doing it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
It's just because they came up with a great name
and they're like, well, we can't let this school right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Well, my whole thing was like, if you're gonna do
like the way they did the promo image for the logo,
if you look at the original promo image, I thought
it was gonna be a song about conjuring.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Oh okay, oh like that's a genius name.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Yeah, but their promo stuff surrounding it with actual Jesus
imagery and stuff like that, I'm just like, Okay, why
are we doing this?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Is it? Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Like because it's not gonna be a comedy obviously, So
it's like, are we just straight up making fun of Jesus?

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Like just like being like blasphemous with it? Are we?
Like what are you doing with that? You know what
I mean? And so I mean, am I gonna watch it? Probably?

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Like I'm probably gonna watch it just out of pure curiosity,
but I can't say that I'm necessarily.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Gonna support it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
But I want to keep his open mind as possible.
And that's like the same filter that I use when
I'm writing my material is like, obviously I want to
be funny, like I want it to be funny, and
but I also I don't because it's haessially in a
place like Plano, you know, like the material that I
have right now, I know that I'm not being blasphemous

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that I know that I'm not like that, I'm not
making fun of Jesus, I'm not making fun of God,
and I'm not And there's certainly.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Comedians that do that, and there's local comics that do that. Yeah,
oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
And it's like there's some jokes that I'm like, that's funny.
Fuck it's son of a bitch, that's funny. But then
there's other stuff that I'm like, all right, that's just okay,
that's a bit much for me. Like I'm not gonna
laugh at that, But that doesn't mean that other people
aren't going to, you know, like that's fine, like find
your audience whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
I'm not the arbiter of what's funny or what canon
can't be said. So that's kind of like one of
the thothers that I use when I'm writing the material
is like, you know, I'm not making fun of what
I believe in or who I believe in. I'm making
fun of the human stuff surrounding it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Know, because obviously humans are imperfect and we do some
pretty ridiculous shit. And like I and I wish you
would work better, like I really do, Like I have
a premise right now that I'm not doing anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
That's just not working and I need to retool it
or just drop it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
But I have a joke about suicide in Christianity, and
because I was taught as a kid, and personally I
believe it's not true, but I was taught as a
kid that if you commit suicide, you go to Hell.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Oh okay, And so the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Joke that I have about that is, Okay, that's what
you get taught, So you can't be that excited to
go to heaven, is what I'm picking up from this.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
And I just.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
I've haven't like figured out how to like properly make
that funny and make that whatever, because it's like it
makes sense, but yeah, not funny.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Yeah, anytime you talk about suicide, it's going to be
tough to make funny. Yeah, especially because you don't know
who's gonna be in the crowd that night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Yeah, exact.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
You know a lot of a lot of people have
known someone close to them probably that have you know,
kind of suicide. So yeah, yeah, it's it's tough to
navigate around stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
I agree, and I just have to.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Be really fucking funny exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
But that's that's the great thing about comedy too, is
like you're talking about, you know, like religion and stuff like, oh,
I've got a joke where I make fun of church,
and I love telling it in the Bible belt because
uh because sometimes you'll catch those people laughing right off
the back because they know it's funny, and then they're like, fuck,
I shouldn't have laughed at that. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
I have a few jokes like that too. When you
get to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Laugh like that, you're like, all right, that's that's fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
No, I agree. I agree.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
And you know, because about the suicide thing, I because
I've had very close friends, you know, people are close
to me that have committed suicide and you know, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
That's where I'm like, Okay, if it starts to make
me upset, kind of like that same filter with religion,
like if that starts to make me upset, then I'm
not gonna or if I don't think I would laugh
at that, then maybe I'll move away from it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
But yeah, and I'm funny.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
I'm finding I will intentionally put material in my set
that I know won't get a huge laugh. It'll make
some people laugh, but it'll mostly get groans.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Yeah, because what's.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Gonna come after that that's lighter will get a bigger pop. Yeah,
It's like that's the Scottie Pip into the Michael Jordans
slam dunking the other stuff because I think, Yeah, Patris
O'Neil said it where he was like, I don't want
all of you to like me. I don't want all
of you to laugh at my stuff. I only want
like seventy five percent of you to laugh at my stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
I don't need all of you to laugh at me.
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
And so that's I'm kind of taking that advice where
it's like, Okay, I have darker stuff. We're like so
like how you mentioned about you know, you'll get laughs
and people are like, fuck, I shouldn't have laughed at that.
So I have a pedophile joke that's doing really well
and I'm not gonna like edit it. I'm not gonna
change it. It's exactly where it needs to be, not

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gonna whatever. Yeah, and so that one gets a big laugh. Now,
granted it requires me to be a bit lighthearted with
it and be a bit tongue in cheek about it,
but that executes it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
It's super like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
The punchline is super fucked up and it gets a
good laugh. And then the pedophile joke I have after
that is digging the whole more so where it gets groans.
It's like, all right, now we bring ourselves back up.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
And yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
I have this friend who doesn't do stand up anymore,
but he had this joke. He got booked in Corpus Christi, Texas,
just to do the joke, just to see if he'd
get fired, just to piss people off, and it works.
His joke was about Selena. So Selena's from Corpus Christie. Yeah,

(01:10:06):
and he's talking about Selena and I don't remember the
exact setup to it, but he goes, He goes, you know,
I was actually this close to seeing Selena, but then
the shovel broke, and then he does a joke about
raping her statue statutory rape.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
That's just dumb. But the shovel broke, that's Oh. If
I was a lesser comic, i'd steal that. Oh that's
so good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
It's so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Yeah. So I have a question for you. Why, why
do you think other than just like it's not working
or it's not working out or whatever, why do you
think people quit stand up comedy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
I feel like there's a lot of different reasons, and
it's probably varies by person. You know. Sometimes, yet you
have a kid or something, you're like, all right, it's
fun to try out or whatever. I'm never gonna make
a career out of it or whatever, you know, So
they quit for family stuff or uh. Sometimes they just
quit because they're just tired of seeing the same people.

(01:11:21):
I don't know. I maybe they're just kind of stuck
in a rut, you know, they're having a hard time writing,
or they're just not having fun with it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
I've done some really really good comics that quit, and
I've always wondered that, like why they quit like when
they did, and I think most of it is family stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
Yeah, that makes sense, and that well, that came up
on a couple of podcasts that I've done recently, but
that really came up with Buck where I was like,
you know, a big reason outside of the obvious of
just like money and responsibility and all that, but a
reason why I don't want a kid anytime soon is

(01:12:03):
because I know that and it ties into responsibility. But
I know that if I have a kid right now,
all of this stops. Yeah, for at least five years,
you know, all of this stops, because like it's one
thing to have to have a relationship, you know, and

(01:12:24):
having to spread your time wisely and whatever, like that's
one thing, but with a.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Kid, you don't get to spread your time wisely.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
And if you're going to be a comedian, if this
is what you want to do for a living, like
that's your fucking life, like your whole life, you're a
median every day, well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
And it changes, obviously it changed if you're a successful comedian,
like I'm talking for strictly like financially successful, like strictly
like you have money and money is coming in and
you're doing all because then you then you can justify like, hey,
I'm out for the weekend to fucking Tampa or to
Tacoma or to Austin or whatever because the club is

(01:13:05):
paying me twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Yeah, this is our livelihood. You know. That's one thing.
But if you're a fucking like me where it's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
Like an open micer, you know, scratching the fucking surface,
not even scratching, jumping up as high as I can
and punching the ceiling of a club comic, where it's
like you're not making a lot of money or any
money at all. I'm making money from stand up and
I'm not making a lot of money from the podcast.

(01:13:35):
And it's not my life. I can't drop my day job,
you know what I mean. So it's like you can't.
No sane woman is going to look at that and
be like, yeah, justified unless you have like unless I
don't know, unless like unless they're willing to make that

(01:13:56):
giant sacrifice, and then you're just a great parent, like
I don't know how trip does it personally, Yeah, like
like I don't know how, and and and more props
to it, like truly, all the respect and the credit
and just everything in the world to him because he's
got a wife and a baby. Now. I don't know
how to fuck he does it, but God bless him

(01:14:17):
for doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Uh huh you know, like, yeah, my daughter's My daughter's
born when I was like a year into stand up
and lucky for me, Yeah I do, butter, I don't
like to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
But is this a bit no no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Like all the ship that happened like with me and
her mom is I'll tell you sometime. But oh, ok
yeah I didn't get to see her for a long time,
but okay, but yeah, yeah, I had a kid when
I was I was like a year into stand up
or whatever. And then wow, yeah it was. It was.
It was difficult. But like at that time, we have

(01:14:56):
hardly any open mics, you know what I mean. Yeah, so,
and uh, I was like a year in so I
wasn't super good or anything. I was I was doing
guest spots at the comedy club and I wasn't even
hosting yet, you know, So I was I was barely
doing any shows at the time. And then uh, and

(01:15:17):
then her mom took her and then yeah, and I
was able to do more stand that. But uh, oh shit, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
So that's how old is the kid? The kid now she's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Twenty two, she should be twenty three in July.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Wow. Oh shit, Yeah, Kurrent Fletcher's a dad. I didn't
sure that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Yeah, no way, hah yeah, yeah, she's older than some
of the comedians in the scene. I think.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
No shit, Well, if I didn't have just fucking like
fifteen minutes to go, i'd fucking I dig into that
a little bore with you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
But oh shit, man, good for you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Well, it's it's not a very fun thing to talk about,
but yeah, I get you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
I get you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
I'll uh, I'll tell you about it sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Yeah, sure, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
I gotta wrap this up anyway. Uh, I gotta start packing.
I'm going to Denver this week.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
And uh, good for you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Yeah, man, I'm excited to hear about your trip, uh
to Austin. I'm gonna have a j on here pretty soon,
so sweetly be after your trip to Austin so I'll
be able to talk to him about it, and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Sweet yeah, well, I'm really excited. It's gonna be. It's
gonna be good man, Like literally, we're gonna be like
I said, driving through the night, get there Sunday doing
doing Mavericks podcast when we when we get there, and
then probably probably gonna drive through the night. Literally tap
the Airbnb, just check in, drop our ship, go do Mavericks.

(01:16:53):
I'm gonna go do Mavericks podcast. And then from there,
little downtime at the fucking AIRB and B go to
the Velveta room do that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
And then uh still around yeah and then cool.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Yeah doing that show and then off to the races, Buddy,
off to the fucking races.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
You got to got a show every night except Thursday.
I'm gonna try to get on the Secret Show Thursday
night and then ye.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
You're gonna try for kill Tony or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Oh yeah, okay, oh my, you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Know it's fine. My daughter actually grew up in Austin. Okay, Yeah,
she went to high school in uh Butda, which is
just south of Austin, and then graduated in San Antonio.
So nice, Well, cool man. Where can people find you
on social media and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Yeah, so really easy to find me. The My personal
Instagram is Noah of Vargus two. And then improvise intelligence
pod on Instagram. Improvise intelligence podcast. Excuse me, improvise intelligence
podcast on fucking Spotify YouTube. Then, uh, you know anywhere

(01:18:02):
you can find your podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Watch it though, go to YouTube and watch it all.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Right, Well, Spotify has you has video by the way,
they do. Yeah, Spotify has video, so my one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
I actually I think I knew that. I need to
figure out how to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
I was, dude, It's real simple, i'llo how to do it,
you asked me, I just say it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
All you have to do is just go on Google
and look up uh Spotify for podcasters.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Coah, I mean I have I have the log in
for that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
So yeah, so you just you just drop your video
file into the end of the thing and it uploads
it as a video.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Oh sweet, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Yeah, and then shows I've got coming up in Albuquerque.
I'm doing Don't Tell on May thirtieth, so that'll be cool.
I'll be promoting that a lot more here in the
next week or so because it's coming up. And then
on the thirty first, we have our next safe house show.

(01:18:57):
I got to get on AJ to get that flyer done.
But I think Tyler's doing that. Yeah, Tyler's gonna be
headlining that safe house show.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
And then on June.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
We're gonna have it in to the safe House in between,
but i'll promote that later, I don't we haven't have
a date yet. And then June twenty first, I will
be at Turtle Mountain at seven pm doing Eddie Show.
And then June twenty eighth, we are doing uh Unhinged
Brewing again. Eddie's gonna be headlining that one, and then

(01:19:30):
we have some I have some dates.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
In July two, but you know those are the immediate ones.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Sweet. Do you have a website for your comedy, your
podcast or anything?

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
No, just all my stuff is on my Instagram and
then YouTube and all that for the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
Sweet, well, hell yeah, thanks Noah, I appreciate you taking
the time to do this. Well, I will have you
on again for sure. Does that one my super fast?
I feel like there's a lot of cool stuff we
can talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
So well, that's how you know it's a good one, man,
So thanks for having me serious a little.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Yeah, thank you so much, and yeah, I'll try to
drop it. I'll try to drop it tomorrow, Okay, Thursday
at the latest for sure, though, But thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
So much, No, thank you, man, appreciate you all.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Right, Take care buddy, all right.