Episode 91: Comedian/Podcaster-Mike Baldwin

Comedian and co-host of The Truthican Podcast, Mike Baldwin, joins the show to talk about his comedy special, podcasting, AI, Edward Furlong and more! Go check out Mike's comedy special at mikeisfunny.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
What his name is A really funny guy.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is his podcast in your Rise.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
They Ride Pouter Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey everybody, thanks for tuning in. In the Right Podcast
Episode ninety one, I think should have looked. Guest today
is gonna be Mike Baldwin, comedian slash podcaster. I's got
a special out called the top number one, top selling
best comedy special ever. It's on YouTube, recorded by eight

(00:41):
hundred pound Gorilla. Awesome special. Before we bring him in,
let's talk about some of my shows I got coming up,
and let's fix my air a little bit. January second
and third. I'll be at Hyenas in Fort Worth. January
ninth and tenth. I'll be at Hyena in Dallas January

(01:01):
twenty second. I'll be headlining The End of the Mountain
Gods in Mescalero, New Mexico. January twenty seconds or twenty
twenty sixth be headlining Honda Casino in Pine Top, Arizona,
January thirtieth and thirty first, featuring for Jeff diet Ayenas
in Albuquerque of February twenty eighth, I'll be with Steve

(01:24):
Gillespie at tumble Root in Santa Fe April third and fourth,
headlining the Chattanooga Comedy Catch that's in Tennessee. April eighteenth.
I'll be opening for a guy named Honest John in Albuquerque.
May first and second, headlining the West River Comedy Club

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in Rapid City, South Dakota. And May seventh through ninth,
I'll be at License Number one in Boulder, Colorado. And
for my Albuquerque listeners, Mike Baldwin, my guest, will be
headlining Hyenas January second and third. So get tickets to
see Mike, go check them out and enjoy the podcast.

(02:12):
Sang Mike Baldwin, what's up, dude?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
What? Oh hey? Can I Is it okay if I
smoke in here?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
For sure? Yeah, as long as you don't blow up
my face.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've asked, Well, that would be very disrespectful of me.
So you have a podcast? What's it about? What do
we do?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Uh? It's not about anything really. I just kind of
interview people that I like, comedians and musicians and actors
and stuff, just kinda I like to find out sometimes
like their writing process or like their creative process. Sometimes
they like to hear stories. I don't know. We just

(02:52):
kind of go with the flow and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
All right, so we're not going to talk about Marvel
movies and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, I'm wearing a Marvel shirt just because you mentioned
your Marvel earlier, so I say, I'll wear my Marvel shirt.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Nice. I'm just wearing my robe because I dickishly asked,
in like disrespect of your podcast, like if I do
your podcast, can I wear my robe? And you were like,
you can wear anything that you want.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
You can.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
All right, I'm gonna fucking do it then. So this
is my first robe podcast.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I got this from my dad. This is what my
daddy left me when he left the earth, was this robe. It.
He didn't like leave it in his will or anything.
It was just like, do you want this robe of
your dad's? And I was like, hell, yeah, I'll take
that robe. And that was in twenty ten. That's how
long I've had this robe. Oh and he had it

(03:51):
for several years before that, but regardless. Anyway, Yeah, Marvel
movies are good. I'm excited for Doctor Doom. I just
watched the New Fantastic Four movie. It was it was enjoyable.
I liked it, and I am just watching the Marvels
for the first time. And I enjoy it. Also, Yeah,

(04:14):
they're all good. Every Marvel thing is like, yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Was fine there.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The only ones I don't really like, I think are
I'm not a big fan of Captain America for some reason.
M m. I mean even he's probably the guy that
Chris Evans guy. I don't like him that one that much.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, Well, I mean if you don't like the guy,
then it's hard to suspend your beliefs. I guess I
like all the people. But well, I take that back.
I'm not a big fan of Mark Ruffalo. I'm not
a fan of his non Hollywood opinions and whatnot. I

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love I love some stuff that he's in, though, and
he does a good job playing the whole when he's
like not the Hulk, you know.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah he's no Lou Forregno though, that son of a
bit is anybody? No?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
All right, So now we switch gears and I'll teach
you my writing process.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, good, Well, I was gonna tell you I met
Lou Forgno. Did you ever met Lou Regno? Holy?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Why would I?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't know. You've met people, You've met famous people, right.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I met the kid from Terminator two when I when
I lived in La once and he was fucked up.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Of course he was.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
He was just walking down the street and I was like, hey,
Terminator two, and he was like, yep, that's right, that's
my name.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's definitely not Furlong. That was him, right, Edward Furlong. Nice.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
He was also in American History X.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
He was, I feel like your audio is only coming
in through one side here.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, I don't know, does it. I'm adjusting this. Did
that change anything?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
N It should be fine?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
All right? Maybe I blame your headphones.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, it's definitely my headphones. I've only used them once.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Or it'll just be an hour long podcast of only
people being able to hear you.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
And that it wasn't plugged in all the way.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I'm stupid. Uh anyway, Yeah, so you did some
drugs with Edward Furlong. That's cool.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I didn't do drugs with him. I just talked to
him for a second.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, okay, Mike, Uh that's the story you want to tell.
Is he alive still?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I have no reason to suspect that he isn't.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh well, I do because of all the drugs.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
But uh, I'm gonna ask the internet.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, we actually watched Terminator two. Remember at the.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Comment, did that's right? Yes? See that's how non Hollywood
I am is that I didn't even.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Tell that dude.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
He was born in nineteen seventy seven and he's currently
forty eight years old.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Jeez, he's barely older than us.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I know. That's what I've I've gone through those phases
in my life. Like after I a few years after
I graduated high school, I would watch like the Olympics,
you know, and be like, I'm older than all of
these fucking people. Yeah, like what the hell's happening to me?
You know? And then ten years later, I'm in my

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thirties watching football, going, dude, I'm older than a lot
of these people. And now I mean, I can't people
call me sur and shit, you know, like I we're
officially at that age where we're like the old people.
And it makes me kind of sad that I didn't
realize that all the old people when I was young

(08:01):
were just people like me. Yeah, who's like, dude, I
don't know, I don't know what's going on with everything,
But to me, they were like the wise ones that
had all the answers, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah for sure. Yeah. I remember watching like sittims like
Roseanne and stuff, you know, like, man, they're so old
and like it's like I'm older than them.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Now, yeah, I was DJ's age. I like I grew
up with DJ Connor, which is that's another story, because
I can remember like holding a pillow from the couch
over my face so my parents wouldn't see me laugh
during the episode where DJ was masturbating and I didn't

(08:47):
want my parents to know that I understood all of
the references that they were making.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know, yeah, probably did your laundry so she knew.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh yeah, oh my mom. Well this was years later,
but my mom fully walked in on me one time,
like right in the middle of the deed and I
as far as I know. That's one thing I've wondered
about my family and the more I think about it
and the way that I know I am, Like I
always wondered, like do my parents are they just oblivious

(09:21):
to the fact that I smoke weed all the time?
Or do they know and just choose to not say
anything about it? And the more I look back, they
definitely knew. And just I'm just a non confrontational kind
of guy. You know, and I think my parents were also,
so they were just like they probably talked about me

(09:43):
to each other and then was like one of us
should say something and they're like, it's just weed.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Like yeah, as long as you don't fuck anything up,
like if you fucked something up or something while you're high,
maybe they have the conversation. But like if you messed
up like a Thanksgiving din or some shit.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, but I just I always used to think I
was so smooth, you know. Yeah, looking back now, it's
just like, no, I wasn't even a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Were your parents weed smokers?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Maybe a little when they were well before my time,
but yeah, not during my life.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, I know that my aunt was. I joke about
that on stage, about walking into a high school party
at like age fifteen and being like, why does it
smell exactly like my aunt Judy's house in here? But regardless, yes,
my parents never did though.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
No, Yeah, okay, yeah I thought that a lot. I
found out my mom was a big pothead. We were
going through some of her old high school stuff and
she had a little name plates and said Toker on it,
and I was like, what is this. She was like, oh,
that was my nickname in high school. I was like, okay,

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so you're a big piet.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Was she still during your life?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
She quits probably when I was like in high school.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, do you remember that happening?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, you know what, she didn't smoke when I was younger.
I think she smoked a little bit after she got
divorced from my dad, you know, because she she really
didn't party when she was married to my dad, and
then when they got divorced, she had like a few
party years, you know, because you know, because she didn't
get to do shit, you know, which was awesome, you

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know for her.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
How old was she when she got divorced?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
She would have been thirty four?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
All right? Yeah, god, seeing that just sounds so young now,
you know, yeah right, yeah, like, oh to be thirty
four again. But I can remember being twelve and being like,
mister Johnson's thirty four, like yeah, yeah, yeah, he probably
has terminal cancer.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Where did you grow up? Did you grow up in Kansas.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
City outside of Kansas City, Independence, Missouri? Yes, I went
to the same I've heard stories of kids that moved
around and had to switch schools, and I never had
to switch schools other than the transition from elementary to
junior high and then junior high to high school. But

(12:30):
that was switching schools with a bunch of my friends. Yeah,
I never had that like I'm the new kid thing
or anything.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I didn't really have, Like I I moved from a
really small town in Iowa to another small town, so
I was kind of the new kid in third grade.
But then our schools like merged once you hit middle school,
so like a bunch of my friends from the other
school came to my middle school, so that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yep, that is cool. Yeah, that's how. Like our junior
high school was made up of like five elementary schools,
you know, so it's like all the kids I knew
from elementary school plus hundreds of other new kids. And
then there was another junior high school on the other

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side of Independence, Missouri and some of my friends. That
part's not important. So then in high school, the two
junior high schools got merged, but then they were split
by a different line. So there were some people from
my junior high school that went to the opposing high school,

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and there were a bunch of kids from the opposing
junior high school that went to my high school. So
it was kind of a weird thing, but it helped
everybody get along, like we would have I went to
Truman High School and then there was Chrisman High School also,
and we would have like Truman Chrisman like merge parties,

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and everybody knew somebody that they hadn't seen in a
year or so, you know what I mean. Yeah, So, yeah,
that was always kind of a cool thing. Looking back now,
at the time, you have nothing to compare it to,
so you don't know how it's different. But for sure,
looking back now, it's like, yeah, I bet they did
that on purpose.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah. Hell yeah, this smoke's getting over here, so I'm kidding.
So I'm excited that you're coming to Albuquerque, even though
I'm not going to be in town, but I have
a lot of listeners from Albuquerque. Uh, so you're gonna

(14:44):
be here January second and third a Hyenas, which is awesome.
Due the room is great. Yeah, it's not as big
as the Dallas and Fort Worth ones, but its seats
probably like one sixty ish and Randy knows how to
set up a room. It's fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Oh I enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, I have no doubt. I'm always surprised with how
busy it is when I go to Dallas and Fort
Worth and I'm like, you know, and I'll ask the
audience like does anybody know who I am? And like
almost nobody ever done, So I'm just like, what is
he telling people to get them to come see me?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Have you performed in Albuquerque before?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Uh? No never. I've done the state of New Mexico
just casinos and stuff, but no, never Albuquerque. So I'm
looking forward to it. And it's not a crazy, ridiculous drive.
It's like nine hours from Wichita.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it's not a bad drive at all. It's boring
as shit, but.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, I don't drive to like have crazy shit happen,
you know what I mean. My entertainment is inside the
car with me. So I don't like when people say
it's a boring drive. What's a fucking exciting drive?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah. Plus, if you drive off the road, you're not
going to hit anything, which is nice.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah. I did that in a snowstorm in like Wyoming
or one of those Utah or something. Once, drove off
the road because it was just a complete wide out dude. Yeah,
and I was using the rumble strips on the road
to tell me like whether I was still on the
road or not. And I had a system down. I
was like I was basically driving with my eyes closed

(16:29):
and just feeling, you know. And I knew when I
felt the rumble strips that meant that I was veering
too far to the right, so I would jerk it
to the left a little and straighten back up. And
I did that four or five times successfully. And then
one time I felt the rumble strips and I didn't
realize that I had veered all the way over to

(16:49):
the other side of the road, so I was feeling
the left side rumble strips, and then I jerked left
a little bit and I just drove myself right into
the ditch.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
That was a crazy experience because earlier that day they
closed the highway down and there were like one hundred
people at this truck stop thing, and they all gathered around,
and the fire department came and they were like the
fire house or whatever is like a block or two
from here, like we're gonna lead a caravan, just follow

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the lights. We got food, blankets, everything you need. Everybody
can stay the night there and wait out this storm,
and there were some truckers that were like, I gotta
get my load where it's going, So we're gonna take
this back road to this other thing and then that
connects down to the highway where the highway's open. And
I was like, I'm gonna follow these truckers. And they

(17:44):
were going so fast, dude. They lost me within like
five minutes. I couldn't even see the tail lights anymore.
And then I was just stranded by myself. And then
and then I went off the road. Then I called
nine to one one. This is before like maps and
all that, like smartphones, but I still had a cell phone,

(18:05):
so I called nine one one and they were like,
we're sending somebody out. We think that we know exactly
where you are. Just stay on the phone with us.
And I waited a few minutes, and they were like,
do you hear a horn honking? And I listened and
I did, and so then I honked my horn and
that's how we found each other. And then they picked
me up and took me to the exact same firehouse

(18:26):
that everybody from the gas station was just that. So
I had a good like ten or fifteen minutes when
I got there of everybody going, hey, how is that?
How was that? I'm not gonna wait for the storm
to pass? Shit, how'd that work out for you?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
That looked just like me?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
But it was fun. It was an overall it was
a fun experience. Looking back, and then we went back
the next day and in my mind as I'm driving,
I'm just imagining like fearing twists and turns and like
giant cliffs that I was about to drive off or something.
And it was just the straightest road that existed in

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the world. And it was all flat. So when I
drove into like the ditch, it wasn't even a ditch.
It was just on the side of the road. But
I still got stuck. Anyway. That was a long story,
but there you go.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I've had some experiences like that. Luckily it was
like in a flat area.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh what happened? Are you there? Oh yeah, oh I
thought you froze. I took my subtitle away from my
name so both of our name tags would be even.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh thank god. It was so many complaints about that
on my podcast.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yep, what's your podcast called?

Speaker 2 (19:48):
In the Rye podcast?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
In the Rye Rye, like like a shitty attitude yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Cool, yeah, like w.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
R why yep? Oh, I see it up there now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you want to talk about bread, we can talk
about bread too, because I know how to make.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
It, do you really, dude? Bread is fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I don't know how to make I don't know what
rye bread is.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oh, I don't really like rye bread, so.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
But I don't know. I haven't learned that much yet.
But I know how to make a loaf of like
white bread.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Heck, yeah, yep. It was probably when we're younger.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's so good, and I didn't I'm forty four years
old now, and I wish that I had learned this
ship when I was sixteen, dude, because I had no
idea that like basically every everything that has a bunch
of carbs in it that tastes good is like the
same basic ingredients you know, yeah, flour and butter and

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water and like an egg or something, and it's all well,
like you can make pasta, you can make bread, you
can make ce rolls, fucking just anything. You can think
of tortillas. All of that stuff is like just shit
mixed together.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
It's when I when I'm broke sometimes and I've just
got like a few things in the pantry. Uh, there's
this website you can go to and just type in
all the ingredients you've got and they just tell you
stuff you can make with it.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, that's what I use groc for. That. That's my
AI of choice. I did that for Christmas. Actually, I
was like, I have this, this, and this, but I
don't have like, I had cookie ingredients, but I didn't
have any chocolate chips or anything, so I didn't want
to make chocolate chipless cookies. So I was like, what's
a Christmasy sweet treat that I can make? And Groc

(21:50):
gave me the idea of making snowball cookies. Oh nice,
So I made like round cookies and then I rolled
them in powdered sugar and shit and then they were great.
Oh yeah, yep, good times.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Thank you Rock saving Christmas. Dude.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I'm not sure what's gonna happen with AI, but I'm
excited that we're we're living through this point in history.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah. Yeah, there's things I like about AI, but there's
certainly things I don't like about it. See and go ahead,
like to mediums trying to write jokes with AI. Yeah,
we're writing scripts with AI. It's like, I don't I
don't like that part of it, but.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
But that's what's gonna happen, dude.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I bet it's less than three years before we get
a feature length uh movie that's one written and made
by AI, and I bet it'll be good as fuck dude.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
And then well, but I think that's the same with
every level of technology. You know, like when Henry Ford
started building a bunch of cars and stuff, the guys
that like shovel horse shit or like what are we
supposed to do? And people were probably picketing and whatever,
you know, like screw cars, like we're yeah, you're doing

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away with a whole industry here. People that do horseshoes
and just all horse related stuff had to struggle during
those decades after the invention of the automobile, you know.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, that's true, fucking Henry Ford ruining lives.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, or coin everything better for everybody.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, I know. You wouldn't have been able to drive
off the road in Wyoming without Henry Ford.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, my horse would have known exactly because they have
different vision than humans.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
See that rumble and he's like this, yep, good times.
Oh yeah, so what is your riding process?

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh uh, well, it's different nowadays than it was in
the beginning. I tell myself often that I need to
go back to doing things the way that I did before,
because that's where a ton of my good material came from.
I used to just force myself to physically write, you know,

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and I would fill up at least one page in
my notebook, even if I didn't have any ideas or anything,
even if I was just writing, I'm forcing myself to
fill up one page in my notebook like I did
that every day for a decade. Probably I have hundreds
I'm not a dozens at least of full notebooks that

(24:37):
I should bust out because I bet there's some gems
in some of them that I never did anything with.
But yeah, so that's where a lot of my stuff
came from. And then we would do open mic night
on Mondays, and then on Tuesdays, the club would let
us come in at like ten in the morning, and
there were like five to ten of us, depending on

(24:58):
We did it for a long time, but we would
go in on Tuesday and we would talk about how
the previous night went, and then we would get a
couple minutes to like work the joke out, you know,
and figure out how to say it better. And so
then we were all week long. We were excited to
try again the next week because we would be like,
oh yeah, I'm gonna say the word rock instead of stone,

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and the k sound is gonna hit so much harder.
And then you would try it and it would work,
and then all you five or ten guys would look
at each other and be like fuck yeah, many like
this is why we do this, And so we did
that for a good five years. I would say where
we would do open mic Monday and then talk about

(25:43):
it on Tuesday, and that's awesome. Plus I was friends
with all the not all, but a lot of the comedians,
so we were hanging out on Wednesdays and on the
weekends and shit, then the club would let us come
and watch comedy on the weekends for free. My whole
life was pretty much comedy, dude. I'm All of the
older guys always told me how lucky I was that

(26:04):
I decided to start when I started, because I started
like right out of high school. I was like still eighteen,
you know, and so they would say, like, you get
to get your shitty years out of the way and
then still be young when you're good at this, and
they weren't wrong, like I mean, I was, you know,

(26:24):
featuring by the time I was like twenty three or something.
And then I mean I headlined when I was twenty
three too, but not well, you know what I mean.
But yeah, oh but nowadays, well since I can track
it to the year because I got my first iPhone

(26:44):
in twenty eleven, I believe, and ever since then, I
don't write in notebooks anymore. I always just anytime I
think of a funny idea, I just type it into
the notes in my phone and then I riff it
on stage. Oh and and not to say that that
doesn't work, because it still works. I've still written a

(27:05):
shitload of jokes since then, but it's just not the same,
and jokes don't like. I have a lot of notebook
jokes that I wrote that are like five minutes long,
you know, because I would write days in a row
on the same subject, and I would have every conceivable

(27:29):
angle of that thing, you know, so it would lead
to longer bits. And when you type it in your phone,
it's just like a one liner sort of joke. And
and if the audience doesn't go with that first punchline,
then you don't have the confidence to like stretch it farther,
you know, or I don't at least no, I feel
you there. So now it's it sucks because I put

(27:53):
out a comedy special at the end of twenty twenty three,
and I told myself then, like, all right, I'm retired
and all this stuff, and I'm just starting from scratch,
you know, because in my mind, like everybody's gonna see
this special and then nobody's gonna want to see it
again when they buy tickets to me, you know, and

(28:16):
so then for the next year or whatever. I would
ask the audiences when I got on stage, like who's
seen the special? Like who's here because of the special?
And I would have like one table of people clap
and I'm like, all right, who has no fucking clue
who I am? And the room just erupts yeah, and
I'm like, all right, well, then I'm doing the classics.

(28:36):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's funny, That's yeah. That was my mindset too. When
I put up my special, I was like, all right,
I have a bunch of people gonna see this, so
I can retire this stuff, and I think it hasn't
even hit like four thousand views yet, but I do
have enough material where I don't have to, Like I
could do a headline set and not repeat any jokes
on there, which is nice. I think we have this

(29:00):
conversation when we're in Little Rock though, like, like you,
you said that you like to always do like your
best stuff, and uh, I should probably do that too,
But I just like not doing some of that stuff
because I got so sick of it, you know.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, Oh, I believe you, and I feel it every
time I'm on stage, you know, And I anytime I
say there's like five lines that start bits that are
like five minutes long, and anytime I say that first line,
I just think, like you pussy, Like why are you?

(29:40):
Why are you doing this easy thing instead of working
on you know, like fuck this audience. If this audience
hates you, so what, you're still gonna learn from it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
But then there's that part of me that's like, no,
but they bought tickets, and I want to sell t
shirts to these people after the show, Like I gotta
give them something that I know, oh is gonna get
real laughs, you know, what I mean. So anytime I
say like I'm sober, like I know that's gonna lead
to all of my drinking jokes, which is a good

(30:11):
five six minutes worth of shit. Or if I'm like,
you know, like I like this job, like this is
better than my old jobs, and then I'm like, now
I'm doing the job shit, and I know that's gonna
take five minutes. But I try to like pepper in
as much new stuff as I can while still comfortably

(30:35):
doing well on stage.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, and you can't tell sometimes. I feel like with myself,
you can tell what jokes you're bored of and which
ones are new. Like I remember one time I was
performing in Tulsa, and I don't know if you remember
Dave Ashley. He passed away about ten years ago, but
he used to work at the club and he was

(30:58):
a comic two but he uh, he came up to
me after a set one time and I was like,
he was like, I could tell which jokes were new
because you're so excited about him and you know. And
then I was like, oh, man, I wonder if the
crowd can tell shit like that. Like I knew Dave
could tell because he was a comic, but like, but
with you, like watching you, I couldn't tell which jokes

(31:20):
were old which jokes were new. You know. Well, yeah,
so that's that's a good thing. I think, like that's
like that old thing where uh who said it? Dana
Carvey maybe said something about like trying you try to
tell the joke like it's your first time telling it

(31:40):
something like that, so it feels like fresh and exciting
even though you've told it a thousand times.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, I mean I try to do that. You know,
I still have there's still lines of my jokes where
I have to go, oh and another thing, and like,
you know, pretend I just thought of this thing. Yeah, yeah,
that I wrote in two thousand and two.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The crowd doesn't know. They're pretty stupid
usually about comedy.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah. Well I learned that watching hacky ass hacks, you
know what I mean? Oh yeah, watching guys that I
are clearly doing another famous comedian's material and the audiences
are just loving it. Yeah, And no audience leaves going, ah,
he that is a hack piece of shit. They were

(32:31):
just like, ah, that guy was so funny. H And
I'm a comedian going, he's not original. Yeah, he's not
doing the thing that we all agreed to do.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, that's one thing I liked about. You know. I
started out at Laughs in Albuquerque and Russ Reeves was
the owner and he was actually a comic, so when
when he saw someone hacking someone else's material, he would
call him out on it, which I thought was awesome.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, we had there were some guys in the the
open mic scene that would pull you aside, you know,
and be like, you can't you can't do that, dude. Yeah,
like I did. This is a fun story. I guess.
I got booked at a place called Junior's Last Laugh
in Eerie, Pennsylvania. Do you know who Gary Minky is?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
I know, I never met him, but yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Gary Minky used to be like the booker of all
of the funny bones and improvs. Like, uh, he wasn't
the he was the comedian that the booker knew and trusted,
so he would get other comedians to do all these gigs,
and he also booked some other stuff. So anyway, this
is like super early in my career. I was probably,

(33:49):
like I said, like twenty three, twenty four, and all
of my jokes are just like you know, fucking chicks
and like stinky pussy, like taking a shit, stuff like
just all terrible, you know what I mean, like stuff
that open micers liked. But it was just a groner anyway.

(34:11):
So Gary Minky calls. I had done a few gigs
for him already, and those audiences liked me enough are
the clubs, I guess liked me enough that Gary was
still calling me. So it was one of those things
where it was like a Wednesday and he was like,
what are you doing this weekend? And I was like nothing,
you know, and he's like, okay, Junior's last laugh in Erie,

(34:32):
Pennsylvania and from Kansas City that's like a fucking twenty
hour drive or something ridiculous. And I was getting like
three hundred bucks or something. I just want him to
do comedy. I didn't care. So I get to this
club I'm like an hour away from Erie, Pennsylvania, and
Gary calls and he's like, hey, you're not like a

(34:54):
dirty comic or anything, are you? Like you're clean right?
And I was like yeah, you know, I don't cu
salat or anything. And he was like all right, good
because this is a clean club, so you gotta be
clean and I was like, yeah, okay, no big deal,
and and uh so I go up the first night
and it's just like groans from the audience, like audible

(35:17):
groans and people going and that kind of shit. Because
they had trained the town to know this is a
clean club. You're gonna hear nice, respectful things here, and
it's gonna be funny. And I'm just up there talking
about you know what, like you can pee in the shower,
why can't you poop in the shower? He just mash

(35:38):
it in with your foot and it's like a poop
cheese shredder and people are just going, oh god. And
so I just completely ate shit. The headliner probably got
a standing ovation that night because he just spent his
first ten minutes being like, oh geez, what deal? Everybody
hate that guy with me? And everybody was like, we

(36:00):
will so and I it was a condo too, so
I'm sharing a condo with this headliner and I'm not
gonna out him or whatever. But he was like, man,
that was rough, you know, like your first time here,
you a young comic, and we went through all that,
and he was like all right, like who's your favorite comedian?

(36:20):
And I was like I don't know, like Mitch Hedberg
or Brian Reagan or something, and he goes, yeah, yeah,
Brian Reagan do his shit, and I was like what
And he was like, listen, You're never gonna get booked
at this club again after last night, Like that's a guarantee.
If we had anybody to fill you in to cover

(36:42):
for you, you probably wouldn't even do the weekend. But we don't,
so you're here, so just you might as well make
the shows as good as you can for the audience
and everybody. And I knew Brian Reagan by heart, dude,
like I had listened to his album a thousand times.
So I went up that next night and I did

(37:02):
fucking word for word Brian Reagan shit talking about taking
packages to the ups and what does girth mean and
all of this shit. Dude, I fucking killed Like, and
the manager or the owner guy or whatever like pulled
me aside and he's like, where was all this last night?
Like this is what you should have been doing? And

(37:23):
I was just like, yeah, all right, you know, And
uh so I and I sold CDs after the show,
and they were just burned CDs. No, I was selling
my dirty fucking inappropriate shit CDs, and I sold a
good amount of them that weekend too, and so I'm

(37:43):
sure there were just a ton of disappointed people that's like,
this is not the same guy. It can't be. But yeah,
So anyway, that story leads to another story of me
at a bar somewhere with like Kansas City comics that
I knew and I had to do like twenty minutes
and I was like five minutes in and they weren't

(38:04):
buying into any of it, and I just started doing
Brian Reagan shit then too. And this was like maybe
two weeks after the Eerie Pennsylvania thing, and the audience
loved it and everything was great. And then in the
car on the way back, all of the other comics
in the car, I think there were four or five
of us all together, We're just like, and what the

(38:24):
fuck were you doing, dude? And I was like, ah,
you know, it's not like I'm gonna get booked at
this place again, so you might as well give the audience.
I was saying the same shit to them that the
headliner said to me, and they were just like, that
doesn't fucking matter, dude, even if you have to start
crying up there or whatever out of discomfort, like you
don't ever fucking do some other guy's material, like, and

(38:47):
they kind of went off on me. And then I
at the open mic night the following week, like comics
that weren't even there were like giving me weird looaks
and shit, and was like heard, you were fucking hacking material, dude,
And I was like it wasn't. It wasn't like like
it was a big deal. Was the whole point of
that long ass story. And so yeah, but that's one

(39:09):
of those things that looking back now, like I'm lucky
that I learned that when I was young, instead of
having nobody say anything, and I would have kept doing it,
you know, I would have become that guy that I
hate now. That's like that's doing what like Carlos Mencia
used to do, Like watch his opener and be like

(39:30):
I could fucking use that joke. That's a joke right there.
So I'm glad that I got shipped on by all
of my peers. We had a good team of comedy
in Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
That's good. That. Yeah. I've always Tim Gather always talks
about how great the scene there was, you know, he
always talks about Brian Burgess I think was his favorite. Yeah,
he was a guy I never never got to see,
but yeah, I remember, you know, I've worked with Chris Porter,

(40:04):
and uh, I'm trying to think of who else was
from Kansas City. Mike Baldwin when he wasn't doing Brian
Reagan stuff.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
I don't know that guy. Yeah, there were a ton Gaithered, Porter,
James Johann Uh, Justin Leon, Craig Tomkinson was big when
I was an open micer. Looking back now, he was
just like featuring or something. But he was better than

(40:32):
we were at my stage. Like I look at it
as sort of high school stuff, like when I was
a freshman. These guys were like juniors, probably like Gaither
and Porter and Justin Leon. And then there was another
level above them of guys who were rarely at the
open mic because they were on the road all the

(40:53):
time doing actual work, you know what I mean. Yeah,
and so one of those guys would pop in every
once in a while. But I don't know, it was
just fun, dude. Looking back, it was like it was
as fun of an experience as like going to college
or whatever. It was just with the same people for
years in a row. And we were all learning from

(41:15):
each other, we were all getting better, and we all
like supported each other, and it was it was just
a really cool thing that I just fell into, you.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Know, yeah, like how did you get started doing comedy?
Did you always want to do it?

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Or I always thought about it? Like I always loved
comedy as a kid. The first time I ever did
it was in the sixth grade talent show and I
was a hack then too. I hacked Richard Jenny's HBO
comedy special minus the cusswords, and I fucking I crushed

(41:52):
my sixth grade talent show. Dude, Like parents and stuff
were like rocking back and forth, laughing and clapping and stuff,
and so it was really it was a good feeling.
And yeah, like my I was in sixth grade. My
fifth grade teacher gave me a handwritten note and it

(42:12):
was taped to my desk the next day after the
talent show, and I saved it for several years. I
wish I still had it. But it was just like,
you know, you found your calling and don't let this
opportunity pass you by and really stick with it. And
and it's gonna take a lot of hard work, and
you know, all the classic teacher ship. But it was

(42:33):
really cool to like have that support just immediately and
that and just clicked a thing in my brain where
I was like, well, I could do this forever, you know.
But then I didn't be.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Fun if that teacher watched that Richard Jenny special like
a year later or whatever, It's like.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Yeah, that would be funny and sad. So I'm glad
that that didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
But yeah too. But yeah, I mean that's a good
place to start. I mean that's like I have a
lot of musicians start to, you know, like playing other
people's shit. Sure you know, so yeah, so that's a
good good Like I I definitely didn't steal any jokes
when I started out, but I definitely emulated Stephen Wright's style,

(43:20):
you know, because he was always one of my favorites
and I kind of wanted to be like him, you know,
like with the one liners and shit like that. Yeah,
And I feel like if you I feel like, if
you go to any open mic, this is what I
used to do. Like when there started to become more
open micers in town, I would go to open mics
and I would just close my eyes when someone was

(43:41):
on stage. And I can guess who their influences were
just by listening to them.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, you can hear that a little bit even nowadays
if you watch an open mic night yeah and be like, man,
this guy's definitely a fan of this other guy.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I had that happen to me a few times, like
whatever comedian I was listening to during that period would
like influence my comedy. I got fired and I think
it was Sue Falls, South Dakota. Maybe it wasn't. It
was somewhere up there in that general region, but I
got fired from a club for saying the word kunt

(44:18):
on stage because I was listening to Louis c K
so much leading up to that weekend, you know, and
yeah I was. It was a whole long thing, but
at some point I was just like like to an
audience member, I was just like, you're just being such
a cunt right now, and the whole crowd was just like,
oh no, and everybody just turned on me, and yeah,

(44:41):
the manager was just like, well you're fired. Yeah I
can see that. Yeah it sucked, man. That was one
of those, yeah, heartbreaking trips. I cried, I think in
the car driving back because I was just like I
just made no money and everybody hates me.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Yeah, is that the only time you've been fired?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
That's the only time I've been fired for cause you
know what I mean. Yeah, oh yeah, like I had
been I've showed up to clubs where I thought I
was booked and oh yeah, and they were just like what, No,
who did you talk to because we got so and
so this weekend and oh man, I'm just like what, Like,
I got people in the audience here, and I've had

(45:26):
that kind of shit happened, But no, that the South
Dakota thing was the only time that they were just like,
you're fired.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Damn. That's got to be brutal.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
It was, dude, it was. It was heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, I've never been fired. I I kind of fired
myself one time. I was doing like a h It
was like a county fair type of thing, and me
and my buddy each had to do thirty minutes like
squeaky clean material, and uh, I was almost done with
my first set. We had to do two sets. We

(46:02):
had to do one in the afternoon and then hang
out and do one like in the early evening. And
the first one it was going well for a while,
and then I did a hemorrhoid joke and the lady
kicked me off stage, and like I was almost done,
and she kicked me off stage, and I gave her

(46:24):
half the money back and I was like, I'm not
coming back for the other.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Show, and she was like you're right.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
No. She was just kind of stared at me, and
I just walked off.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
M So she like came up on stage like she.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Was not on stage. She was like she was just
happened to be walking through the crowd, and I guess
the hemorrhoid joke was too gross for her, and she's
like she just started out no now, and I was like, okay,
She's like get off the stage.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
I was like, all right, was it going well at all?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Before was going great? Everything was going great.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Was the audience Like what audience?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, there's kids there and they were having a good time.
I was doing some crowd work with these little kids
and they were having a blast and it was going well.
And yeah, that was just and I wasn't even like
doing anything graphic about it, you know what I mean.
And I don't know if that's like the only part
she heard or whatever, but she was like, no, you're

(47:30):
off the stage, and I was like, all right, wow,
so yeah, but I mean it was a fucking county fair.
I had to follow like a something to do with
cows and ship, you know.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
The future Farmers of Americas.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah that was fun. Yeah what else?

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, see what else? We got your specials outs? You
do a podcast with Tim? That's good. Have you guys
recorded an episode lately? Seems like you haven't.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
We did one the week before last. We took the
week off for Christmas, and you know, other personal tragedies.
I don't know how much you've talked about any of that,
but but yeah, so all of that stuff started a

(48:32):
little bit before Christmas. So I think the episode that
we recorded most recently, I think Tim was too busy
to even post that episode, So we might be we
might be three weeks behind right now. And I don't
know if he's gonna post that episode since it's been
a while now. I don't know how topical it still
is or what we're gonna do exactly. But but I

(48:56):
that's what I like about us doing a podcast is
that both of us are just like, look, if you
don't want to do it today, we don't have to. Yeah,
and when the other one's like, yeah, I can't, then
I feel like both of us are secretly yeah cool.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yeah, but you guys have been like super consistent. Man,
You've only missed like, I don't know how long you've
been doing it, but I mean you're well over one
hundred episodes and you've only missed like, you know, three
or four weeks.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I feel like, yeah, we've been pretty consistent about it.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
But yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
It's and I like it. I'll go back and listen
to it every once in a while just because I
like the things that we talk about. We get way
more political and way more like conspiracy theory ish and
for sure and that kind of stuff, and I love
talking about that kind of stuff. Like I've I've been
a Trump guy since literally since the beginning, since since

(49:52):
the uh, Mexicans are rapist thing that I that I
watched live on television, and right when he said it,
I was like, he could have said that better, but
I knew what he was saying. Yeah, And then I
proceeded to watch every single news channel say Donald Trump
thinks that Mexicans are rapists, and I was just like,

(50:17):
that's not. The first time I saw it, I was like,
that's not what he said. Yeah, clearly he didn't. So
that began my journey of like, why are all of
these people from all of these different news organizations, why
do they all agree that even though that's not what

(50:38):
Trump said, that's what he meant? And then since that,
I've seen it a thousand other times. With every single
thing that Trump does, I've seen them twist it to
make it either seem not as good as Trump says
that it is, or to make it seem way bad

(50:59):
even though that's not what Trump was saying.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
And I don't watch anything political. I watch your Guys'
podcast because Tim's my best friend and stuff. So that's
where I get a lot of my info is from
videos on on your podcasts and stuff like that. You mean, well,
I like I like your podcast because you a lot

(51:24):
of times you'll play Devil's Advocate and you'll look at
it on the other side like why you know why
they would spin it that way or why they would
see it that way. So I think that's why I
like your podcast a lot too, is because it's not
just you know, you're not just bashing one side all
the time, Like, it's not constant, you know, and you

(51:46):
keep it. You know, you obviously have your views and
why you like what he says and what he does
and stuff like that. So yeah, it's it's fun to watch.
I like watching you guys go back and and then
I like when you guys talk comedy too, So he's
a good amount of comedy.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Also, we try to Yeah, yeah, and we sprinkle in
some videos that aren't political at all.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Anytime I see a video that I'm like, that would
be good for the show. Yeah, let's watch this. Uh,
you know, otter eat watermelon? Yeah, everybody likes that, you know. Yeah,
and you just see it an adorable otter making like
noises that if a human was eating that way, you
would be like, what is fucking wrong with you, dude?

(52:37):
But when an otter does it, it's adorable.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah. Anyway, have you thought about doing a comedy podcast
or all?

Speaker 1 (52:44):
I think every single morning, I think I should just
go live right now, yeah and just talk. Nobody's gonna
see it, so I'll be able to practice at least and.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Year old the way you did comedy or you're writing before.
Just wake up, have your coffee and weed throw on
your dad's robe and just start talking, you know. Yeah,
and if something comes of it, you know, maybe something
you could throw in your act or something. You know.
I think that would be enjoyable. You know.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Well, maybe I'll do it. And when I do, then
i'll text you the link.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
But I just well, I'm not gonna be up that early.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
But uh, but y'all i'll watch it later. Yeah, the
link will work after you wake up.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Yeah, this is the this is this might be the
earliest I've podcasted before.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Well it was gonna be even earlier, I know. Yeah,
you messed up the times.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Oh my god. Yeah, because like last night I went
to I was gonna text my friend John, and I
was like, well, he's in Texas, so he's an hour ahead,
so he might be asleep. And I was like, oh shit,
Mike's in fucking the Central time zone too, And so
I looked at the text and was like, oh shit,
that means I would have to be up.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
At eight o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
I was like, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, because you said let's do it at nine. And
I even because I said, like the earlier the better. Yeah,
I met like, you know, at noon or something. Yeah. Yeah,
you're like, how's nine am? And I was like, man,
you do go early. Yeah, that'll work. And then yeah,
I woke up this morning to a text, which was
nice because I woke up at like eight fifteen this morning,

(54:27):
so really meaning I would have had to rush a
little bit to get through all of my comfortable morning routine. Yeah,
just so Yeah, when I woke up to that text,
I was like, oh, dude, I don't have forty five minutes.
I have two hours in forty five minutes. This is perfect.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, thanks for accommodating that too.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
H We're getting to the point of the day where
I can't even see the screen anymore because it's so Yeah,
I need to change my living room around.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
I might do that today, yeah, and then go live
on Monday.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I might go live today. Dude, you never know when
does this go up? Is it live right now?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
No, it's not not live. I'll probably post it Monday, Okay.
I like to post on either Mondays or Wednesdays. I've
read that those are the best days to put out content.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, I can see that. You do. You go for
a particular.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Time, usually early in the morning, Like I'll have it
set to post while I'm still asleep. Yeah, and then
once I wake up is when I start like really
like because I have a thing where like it'll automatically
post to YouTube at a certain time, and then it'll
post to my Twitter or whatever at a certain time.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah. I was reading about the different times for different
apps sort of thing like face. Facebook, you can post
at seven o'clock in the morning and you'll get people
that watch all day long. But if you try that
on X, people aren't gonna sit through. They gotta work,
you know what I mean. So they're not gonna they

(56:10):
don't they can't listen or watch anything that's long and
like involved or whatever, you know. Yeah, So with X,
it's best to wait until like around five o'clock in
the evening when people are getting off work and they're
they're sitting down at home and thinking, all right, what

(56:31):
am I gonna watch tonight on the TV? They got
the remote in their hand and they're just flipping through
shit on X at the same moment, and then your
hope is to get them locked into your shit to
where whatever's on the TV is just paused for an hour. Yeah,
but you know, nobody fucking watches anything that I do,
so I don't know why I would listen to anything

(56:52):
that I say about when to do anything, but I have.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm always like, I don't think anyone wants
is my podcast. I had a comedian dropped the in
bomb on here, and nobody said shit about it. So
I was like, that's how I know nobody's watching.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Right, because if you had fans, then they would have
been pissed.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Someone would be like, hey, I notice you didn't shut
out the inbomb there.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
That's all right. It'll hopefully one day you get famous
enough that that will come back and ruin your career
for you.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
I hope. So, I mean, it won't be me. I
didn't say it. I'll just blame it on my producer,
which is also me.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
You don't need to say that. Hopefully they don't dig
up this episode too.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Oh they won't. I think I'm past the age where
I'm going to get famous doing comedy, so which is
fine with me.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
I mean you literally never know, though, dude. All that
takes is one clip, one podcast one of anything to
go viral, and then you're selling out clubs all over
the country for the next year.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Yeah. At least I have an act to back it up.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
That's what I was gonna say. And then that's the secret,
because that's one thing that I've seen a hundred times
over the years is somebody that gets famous, gets booked,
and then does shitty, and then that club goes, well,
We're never fucking booking that guy again, because the all
the comment cards are terrible, the audience leaves going. I

(58:22):
thought I thought he was what he was in the
video that I saw, you know, and he wasn't that
at all?

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Yeah, yeah, why didn't he use his Instagram filters on stage?

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Right? I mean? I I worked with Do you know
who Nicole Birches?

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Huhuh?

Speaker 1 (58:41):
She's a nurse rachel on like TikTok or whatever. I
don't know if that's her name, but she basically does
in a nurse outfit, shows X rays of people who've
had shit stuck up their ass that they've taken X
rays of. But it's like, how does that transfer to stage.

(59:04):
She's one of the ones that I think did a
really good job of it because, like she did like
forty five minutes. Her first thirty minutes is just her
being a comedian, because that's what she was before she
made one video of people shoving shit up their ass
and it went crazy viral, and she was like, well,
I guess I have to add this now, you know. Yeah,

(59:24):
but it but she's got the act to go with it,
so like she'll be funny for thirty minutes and then
she literally just says, Okay, everybody, just wait one second.
I'm gonna go change into my nurse outfit. Then i'll
come back. I'm gonna do the nurse Rachel shit, and
then we'll call it a night, you know. Yeah, And
by then the audience is one hundred percent on her side. Dude,
Like it was pretty cool. I like cool, Yeah, I

(59:47):
liked working with her.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Yeah, that's awesome. Where did you work with her at?

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Uh? We did? I think it was a Wednesday Thursday
in Oklahoma. We did like Wednesday and at the Tulsa Bricktown,
and then we did a Thursday at the Oklahoma City
Bricktown and both of them were like not sold out,
but like hundreds of people. So yeah, it was cool,

(01:00:14):
and it was nice to seeing someone get a following
off of something and then be able to benefit from it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Yeah, yeah, I remember like the first time seeing someone
who had been like like famous for something stupid. I
remember I was at the Denver improv I was featuring
with Chris Porter. It was a Sunday night. I think
Chris maybe sold like seventy tickets to our show. And

(01:00:46):
Chris is like one of the best comics out there,
and whoever this other dipshit was had like a fucking
line out the door, like because they were he was
performing after us. He had like a Sunday late show
and uh I didn't want to stick around to watch it.
And my buddy was hosting the show and I texted
him later on. I was like, how bad was that guy?

(01:01:09):
And He's like, he was this the worst show I've
ever seen in my life. I was like, of course
it works.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Do you will you tell me who the guy was
after the show's over.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
I don't even know if I remember.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Oh, Okay, so that unforgettable?

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
I uh yeah. I feel like his name started with.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
L I L little Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Uh so he's like a I don't know if he
was a rapper trying to do comedy or what, but
it was little something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Yeah, so all right, well we should probably wrap this up.
It's about to hit an hour, Go see Mike AT's
a hyenas an Albuquerque January tewod and third tickets are
on sale right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Yeah, it's like ten dollars ticket weekend or something.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Yeah, it's a holiday ticket weekend or something. They're on
sale a little cheaper than normal, which is awesome, especially
this time of year. A lot of people are broke.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
As shit, so I know I am. That's why I'm
excited for this weekend because I know that even if
I do shitty, I'm still gonna make enough money to
pay my bills for the month. And if I do
really well, then I'll make enough to pay my bills
for the month and not starved to death.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Yeah. And it seems like a pretty decent merch room,
even though it's a pretty small room. But yeah, it's
it's awesome. The door guys are all comics and the
staff is cool. They don't do like meals. It's just
like popcorn and snacks and shit like that, so nobody's

(01:02:58):
like eating like a full meal while you're performing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Is it a hotel that you get with it? Ah? Yeah,
and it's nearby or is it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Like like walking distance or like think? So all right,
because one of the dudes I worked with before, I
offered him a ride to the hotel and he was like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Now I can walk, so very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
I didn't like me or it was really close.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Those are the Those are my second favorite kind other
than when the show is in the hotel that you're staying.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Oh, that's the best.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
That's always my favorite. And I don't even drink anymore.
And a lot of the reason that I liked that
so much was from my drinking days, for sure, but
it's also still just conveniently cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
It's son. Yeah, that's why I missed the Wichita looney.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Bin where the the the condo was attached to the
looney bin.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
I thought that was cool, so did I, and it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Was it's perverted reasons too, because you you can just
meet a lady and be like, we can go literally
twenty feet that way.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Oh, I thought you. So you could masturbate like two
minutes before you go on stage.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
That too if the lady thing doesn't work out. No,
I never I'm a masturbate before bed kind of guy.
I never masturbate to get my day going.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Oh yeah, that's good, but that would be awkward for
the live podcast when you go right when you wake
up one of these good.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Sorry do I if I have something on me, it's
probably not come anyway. We'll cover all of that and
more on the next episode.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
That's right. Yeah, I have fun in Albuquerque. There's a
lot of restaurants in the area too. There's a movie
theater right next to the club. I mean, not like
you're here for a long time, but.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
H I'll probably leave Thursday and drive overnight and then
hopefully get there at like noon or so on Friday,
and then I will sleep the day away and then
do the show Friday. So yeah, I probably won't do
much else. I'll get food, but I doubt i'll go
see a movie though. I do want to see what's

(01:05:21):
it called David and Goliath. I would like to see
that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Oh yeah, is that one coming out soon?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
It's out. It came out the week before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Nice and it was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
The number two film in America behind whatever else.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Just came out something Neil Diamond won.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
No what did just? Oh? Avatar? I think the new
Avatar just came out, which I'll wait and see that
when it's on HBO.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Yeah, that's gonna be the same as the other avatars.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
I have to assume, so, but I feel like they're
leading towards like an in game style, uh, like final movie.
You know, it's like all the avatar people all working together.
So that'll be exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Yeah, I guess. All right, all right, we'll have fun
in Albuquerque. Go get tickets now to see Mike at
Hyenas and Albuquerque. Yeah, you can go too.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
You can go to Mike is funny dot com. Yeah there,
you can watch my special. Don't watch too much of
it because it might spoil some of the ship. Oh
and my grandma's calling

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
So all right, wrap it up, alright, see you buddy later.