June 16, 2023 • 35 mins
We're taking a trip down memory lane in this episode, as we reminisce about our personal journeys in the arts and the defining moments that ignited our passions. Do you remember the first person outside of your family who recognized your potential? For Leah, it was the incredible Jan Canada Fritch who believed in me during her voice lessons as a young girl, despite her lack of singing talent. Her encouragement played a monumental role in shaping her career and instilling confidence in her pursuit of the arts.
Our older brother Mike also played a part in our journeys, albeit in a more humorous and cruel way. We share stories of his antics during our childhood games of flashlight tag and how they helped us develop a thick skin. As we chat about our favorite songs and bands, we introduce the Mega Men, Andrew’s high school band. Their catchy song, Shun-Junt, kicks off the musical portion of the episode and is sure to have you humming along.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Who do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sissy, i don't know brother, maybe it's Mommy and
Daddy.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Should we answer it?
Maybe it's.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Pete's way to flip sis.
It could be a listener or itcould be Stranger danger.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who's a?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
ho, who's a ho Where is?
Oh yeah, and we're grown-upsnow.
Hi Hi, did you just burp?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, what Were you just choking?
I did, but it, i was justchoking on your own saliva.
I assume nobody would notice it, nobody would have, nobody
would have, but I just choseviolence today.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wow, i was fine, and now I'm a little on my toes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
A little on your toes .
That's how you should be.
Yeah, yeah on my titsies, howyou doing today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm good, i'm very good.
Yeah, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm great.
I'm just kind of getting movingover here.
We're back in different cities.
I'm in LA, you're in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You seem less grumpy than you usually do at this time
of day.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, you know I am not a morning person, And it's
11 o'clock So I'm sort of pastthat.
I'm past that morning hump, asthey say.
I've had a little coffee in me.
It's coursing through my veins.
I do get cranky in the morning,though.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I don't mean to paint you as a very nice person, no,
you've painted me as a monster,And that's fair, because I
really threw you under the busat the beginning of this episode
by being like Did you burp?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, it's okay.
Let's just you know, let's tryto be kind.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How about that?
I love that.
Let's choose.
kindness, you're looking well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So, thank you, I'm feeling good.
Amy's had me grow out thisbeard which I told mom that I
was going to grow out, and shewent Ew.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Then last night I came home and she went.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
She came home.
I came home last night and shewas going.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was like What are you doing?
She was miming, she was mimingshaving.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's amazing.
She's just trolling in signlanguage now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
She gets on a run of something and nothing can stop
her.
How big are you to grow out thebeard?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I think I'm going to stop about now which It looks
good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It feels good Now.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
this might not be interesting to anyone, but I had
this zit on my neck, it's agreat way to start and you're
right, it's not interesting toanyone.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, what I think might be interesting is it might
be a mole.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It could be a mole, which I'm very unhappy about.
You know what?
Nothing has said that.
That's very interesting.
Did you make a dermatologistappointment?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did not, but I'm hoping not, because it's right
center and I'm an actor as youknow, these were none of the
chosen topics.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
This was not on the topic list for today.
I'd like it struck from therecord, your mole talk.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's mole talk struck .
Let's talk for a moment.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You just said me Yeah , go ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We talk a lot about moments of doubt.
Comedy in this field is filledwith self-doubt.
It's ubiquitous Good word.
I don't think enough time isspent focusing on moments of
confidence, or in other words,moments that have created a note
(04:10):
, made you realize maybe this isfor you.
Along with that, i'm trying tothink about Genesis stories.
What happened in your past thatyou could pinpoint?
that put you on this trajectory.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Sure, i love that.
That's a great topic.
Andrew, you're welcome.
I told you this, but I startedtaking voice lessons when I was
in middle school.
I think that there's still hopefor me as a singer, but that's
(04:52):
not what this is about.
I'm a terrible singer.
This is the one time I'll sayit.
I'm going to get real for justa minute.
I'm a terrible singer andthat's okay, but when I was in
high school, you're welcome.
When I was in high school Ireally wanted to be a singer
because I fell in love withmusical theater, but I was just
(05:16):
tone deaf, so mom and dad signedme up for voice lessons voice
lesson classes with this woman.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Very sweet of them, because the writing was on the
wall.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, I don't know.
I think that there's alwayshope.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm just kidding, you were a young girl.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was a young girl, they signed me up for classes
with this woman, jan CanadaFritch What a name.
She taught classes out of herbasement condo in Cincinnati.
I would go every week and shewas someone who She was in her
(06:00):
late 60s, early 70s and she had.
She had toured the world doingMaria in West Side Story.
It was her claim to fame andshe had this big painting of
herself in the basement over thefireplace And she was really
(06:21):
refined and I don't know.
She was lovely.
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Was this off-Broadway Broadway The Maria?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was like an international tour, i think it
was, i don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Broadway adjacent And so I would go every week and we
would do show tunes, we woulddo songs for musical theater and
like I didn't really get anybetter as a singer.
But I think that she saw, shelike started having me like
bring in monologues and like Ithink she must have known that
like I wasn't going to be asinger, but then she started
(07:01):
like working on these monologueswith me, even though she was
like a singing coach, and shewas like the first person to
really be like oh, you have thefirst person outside of, like
mom and dad, to be like oh,there's something there, there's
like a spark there, and shereally like fanned that flame
and like I would, you know, shewould help me, i would, i
started going on these auditionsand she would help me.
(07:22):
She helped me do the like Joanof Arc monologue And it was like
that was really like one of myfirst sort of mentors.
Yeah, yeah, i wonder what she'sdoing now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I imagine that is meaningful.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I hope she's still around.
Yeah, I just got.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I just got.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I just got dark She's around.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
She's gotta be she.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Jan Canada, french, lives forever.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, I'd imagine that has to be a formidable
experience, because the mom anddad, it's like you're expecting
that validation.
You're expecting it right So tohave it come from an outside
source of not somebody who'slike it's.
It's a objective person.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's not something in your
family, but yeah took a likingto you Totally And it was like
you know I, it really meant somuch to me And it was, i think,
the beginning of me feeling likeconfident as a performer.
Yeah, and yet she's still.
She still would like take homea musical theater song every
week And I would practice itlike ad nauseum in my bedroom.
(08:32):
And our older brother, mike,would just like be so furious He
would be like shut up mom.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Tell me how to stop singing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He would get so mad At the time.
it was terrible.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Was this?
did you know it was terrible,like did you?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
was it frustrating for you at the?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
time.
No, I thought it was Noawareness.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I thought I was getting because I would also
like I would sing the songs.
I would sing the songs for momand dad And they would be like
you are getting so good.
Yay, i would do little concerts.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's just sweet of them, but also that's kind of
can be like detrimental to likelater in life because you What
do you mean?
Not for you because you well,for you, I think you figure
because you became supersuccessful, but, like a lot of
people don't.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And then they're like why does the world not think
I'm wonderful like mommy does?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Do you remember me practicing my singing, Or did
you just?
did you just block that part of?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
life out.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think I was speaking of singing careers.
You had one of your own, whichyou just sent me I was in a you
just sent me the recording towhen you were in the battle of
the bands.
Now, what would you describethe genre of your high school
band?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Hmm, i would say it's heavy rock rap core Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't know what the genre is.
My bandmates were talented.
I couldn't sing And, by the way, we're going to, we're going to
throw these songs to that Isent you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We have to throw the songs in because they're very
funny And you know well, they'renot.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I wasn't weird out Yankovich, i was there.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They're um, they're it's it.
I'll tell you what it's.
It was better than I thought itwas going to be when I listened
back.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It was good happening here.
What It was good, here's what'shappening here.
Before you said it was good,you are jealous that your little
brother has some sort ofsinging ability.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm not saying I'm not jealous, but I could scream.
You could scream Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, so those are my two favorite songs.
I sent you Shunjunt and GhostTrain.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Shunjunt, shunjunt.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They're very dark.
The lyrics I still remember.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm not going to repeat them.
Did you write the lyrics?
I wrote all the lyrics.
You wrote all the lyrics.
They were very.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Shunjunt sounds the blade coming through.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They were filled with angst.
They felt like lyrics writtenby a little rich boy in a world,
a little rich boy in Ohio whowas full of rage I know It's so
funny like listening to that nowand I'm like what am I so angry
about?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Like I had all the love, support in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That's what you were angry about.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I didn't have something to.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You didn't have something to be angry about,
what's like.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Sean Patton has it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He's got a joke about that, or I can't you know I
can't repeat jokes, but yeah, sojust move along, It's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It was funny.
Check out his joke about that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So you, so it's.
It's funny because I think thatwhen you started doing that,
you were called the Mega Men.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The Mega Men.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The Mega Men, and I think I was gone when you
started, because what grade wereyou in when?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
you started like 10th grade Junior year Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I was like sort of I was already in college, but I I
heard, i heard the tales of it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah It was.
I mean, it was probably themost fun period of my life.
I feel like and that again,genesis stories like I don't
even think I realize it untiljust now, but like that, really
that adrenaline rush, i think Iexperienced it before, i
experienced it in comedy anddidn't put it together until
(12:39):
like I really lived for thatrush, for like being in front of
a crowd And yeah.
And mom, said that she saw us atBogert's and I was clapping
like this, but I wasn't That youwere clapping over your head,
but you have no recollection ofthat.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, yeah No recollection.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Did you do a?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Um, but saw like a decent amount.
I mean we yeah, yeah yeah, wedid a decent amount.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How did the band fall apart?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, i actually kind of was.
The was the reason it fellapart, because I went away to
South Carolina to college andeverybody else stayed in
Cincinnati.
Um, but I think that itwouldn't have.
You know Cole, who is thedrummer who is arguably the most
talented in the band, he wenton to become a biomedical
(13:28):
engineer at CincinnatiChildren's Hospital and now he's
a professor, so he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, some people just have talent in all sorts
of things.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Man that guy's got so much talent.
I'm so jealous.
Yeah, yeah, i'm jealous of himtoo, But you know, along this
same theme of Genesis stories, iwould argue that for you, i
think both of us, a lot of itcame from both mom and our
(13:59):
brother.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Mike helped us develop a thick skin.
Very funny, very likes to like,you know, big brother.
So when we were in, how oldwere you when we played
flashlight tag?
You were probably.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Probably 12?
.
Probably, yeah, probably 12.
We used to play flashlight tagin the backyard.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We used to play flashlight tag In the good old
days.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Before tablets and cell phones and TVs and regular
phones, when we would gatheraround the radio every night.
What I'm done, i don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I thought that would be a fun little riff, and it
didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You gotta take risks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We used to play flashlight tag.
We lived in a lovely cul-de-sac.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And for those Gen Zers flashlight tag it's at
night, somebody has a flashlight.
You're flashing on somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, flashlight, not to be confused with flashlight
children.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, flashlight tag is.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That's a different game.
That's completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You do that down by the river, and so Mike, the
whole neighborhood, he'd go andyou'd hide, mike, was it our
brother, he has a flashlight, hegoes and hides, you're hiding,
and you're hiding, and you'rehiding, and nobody's coming, and
nobody's coming, and nobody'scoming.
And then you realize that Storyof my life, huh.
(15:29):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Your parents love you .
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You know that right, don't laugh like a demon.
We've talked about this.
So Mike has organized the wholeneighborhood a ploy to come in
early and let Leah stay out byherself in the dark until she
realizes that the game is overand everybody's laughing at her
inside.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Everyone's laughing at me inside.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He's left.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I stayed in that tree for probably an hour And I just
thought that I was winningflashlight tag And then
eventually I was like this issomething's off here And I
walked inside to our family roomand everyone was just like
(16:22):
pointing and laughing at me AndI was, so I think I just started
crying.
Well, we're gonna have to cutthat That doesn't make it funny.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Why I'm just kidding.
That just makes it sad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's my truth and that's also part of my Genesis
story.
I was left in the tree duringflashlight tag.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It was so funny because you the whole time you
thought you were winningflashlight tag And we weren't
even playing flashlight tag Yeah, yeah, it was a cruel, we were
playing.
Leah as a loser and you werelosing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It was a cruel joke, it really was.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But I think what's interesting about that is when
you really break it down.
What is flashlight tag?
The game is essentially youshine a spotlight on somebody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They're illuminated, just them around all darkness,
and then the game's over.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh God, I mean it is just a metaphor for what.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What did you strive?
for A spotlight To have thespotlight on me, to have the
flashlight on me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You're always yearning for that flashlight
that Mike took away from you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That is.
you know what?
That is my Genesis story, Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
That is.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's beautiful.
That is beautiful Now for me.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
my ex-girlfriend in college, when we broke up, told
me that I wasn't funny and Itried too hard to make my
friends laugh And I was like,well, i'm gonna be a comic man.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, that'll.
And she was nice?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I don't mean to be.
We had a toxic relationship.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I don't mean to paint her in a bad light, but I think
that really stuck with me.
We'll put her name in thecomments, just kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That really stuck with me though.
Because, I was like, not that Itried too hard to be funny, or
just the idea that I'm trying tobe funny.
I always thought like, oh, i'mjust being funny.
Yeah, so who doesn't try to befunny in front of their friends.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Of course I had a boyfriend tell me that I wasn't
funny, that women weren't funny,but that's just, that's gonna
happen if you're a woman incomedy.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Were you in comedy at the time.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, it was high school.
I don't yeah, Oh okay, yeah,yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, but that will .
I think that will like you know, love it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Well, at the time I well, i don't, i didn't.
at the time I was like, yeah, iguess you're probably right
Like I believed him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, you weren't trying to be a comic at the time
.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No, but I, you know, i was on the, i think I was on
the path, like I was, i wasdoing like theater and stuff and
I think I just you know, butthat was also like the pervasive
belief at that time.
It was like, oh yeah, womenjust aren't funny, like it was
just like a thing that you know,that was just said.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What do you mean at that time?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, i know it's got .
I mean, it still is a veryprevalent like belief, but I
think it was at that time, youknow, before there was like
really internet, or you know, itwas like living in Ohio, i
didn't you know, you didn't know, you didn't like I didn't know
anything When the number of yeah, the access for women comics to
(19:38):
be headliners wasn't the sameas it did now.
Yeah, i'm sure, and I didn'tknow, i didn't know anything
about you know like we would go.
We would go to like like momand dad would take me to, like
the local comedy club, and likethere weren't women performing.
You know which is still?
very much off in the case but,like I think, even more so than.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's like they were.
It's like they were grooming usto be comics.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's, it's sort of.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Is grooming the rotten word.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think so.
I think it can have manyconnotations, some of which are
bad, but I yeah.
I mean they took us to so manystandup shows growing up.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, Like that's Colin Quinn.
I went to the comedy cellarwhen I was 18.
Colin Quinn heckled me next tomom and dad.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, they took me to New York for my 16th birthday
and that we just went to comedyshows.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, that's so interesting, it's like that, and
yeah, i think those two thingsagain, mike cause Mike used to.
I mean he would.
This is a guy that would fallasleep in the cra, or when I
would fall asleep in my bed, hewould be hiding in the two foot
crack between the bed and thewall for like two hours until I
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reached a state of REM sleep.
Like he would wait, like a NavySEAL, until he knew that it
would really, and then he wouldjump up and just start screaming
in my face and shaking me Solike He would hide in my closet
cause I played Barbies for likeway too late.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I played Barbies until I was like edging on teen
years.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
And 25.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Until I was, i still played Barbies And I would play
with my best friend, eva, wholived across the street in the
cul-de-sac, and we would go inmy room And we were embarrassed
about it because we were likeyou know, we were like 12.
You should have been And it waslike too old to be playing
Barbies And he would like hidein the closet And we would like
get it.
You know, we would have likethe storylines and we would like
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we would be deep into the into,like the soap opera of whatever
like Barbie was up to that dayAnd like he would wait, like a,
like a, like a snow leopard, Andthen like, right as our like
Barbie story was like peeking,he would jump out and just be
(22:08):
like, yeah, losers.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I remember one time I was, I was so mad because you
had a diary that had a littlekey.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes And I found the key because, you know, growing
up I had severe Stockholmsyndrome, Like I would do
anything to try to impress Mike,even if it meant you know,
throwing you under the bus, eventhough we were allies right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But I would throw you under the bus in a minute.
Same me too.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I found yeah sure It was survival Still, still
still do really, we still do.
It's so funny And when we allhang out, like when Mike's there
, the one of us who might alwaysattack you in person.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We just want to impress Mike.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This is why we do comedy to impress Mike and to
win Flashlight Tech.
But I just lost my train ofthought.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oh, God, oh no.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What was I just talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I don't know, i wasn't listening.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Oh no, Um, um shit.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, it was, uh, it was
, oh, my diary, my, my, mychildhood diary.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You found the key pervert.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I found the key And I gave it to Mike, as you know,
an offering to please you knowAs his, as his little as his
little minion.
And then him and I think one ofhis friends, i think Fred, went
in there and unlocked it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They read my diary whole thing.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And then they commented they wrote something
on the end.
Haha, you're such a loser.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'll tell you what they wrote, cause I remember
they wrote.
we read your diary.
May the fleas of a, may, thefleas of a thousand camels
infest your armpits.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Jesus, what is that That's like?
so biblical?
How did they even?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
it really is, it's really, it's quite, it's quite
literary.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your
armpits.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
What a visual that is .
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's, it's, it's actually impressive, i was so
upset.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your
armpits.
Yeah, so you're telling me it'syour fault that um, oh, that
was, that was devastating.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know I was so irritating about that.
Oh see, now I feel bad again.
See, i'm trying to tell thesefunny stories now.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, and it's actually, it's actually my
trauma, all of these stories.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, you know it's my trauma.
Everybody mom, dad, everybodywould retell that story Give
Mike full credit.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh, oh, poor you Mike , founder, keith, oh, that's so
sad for you.
All of my secrets out for theworld, all of my secrets on the
table, humiliating.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
What secrets did you have?
I had a lot of secrets and Istill do Barbie's, my boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, that was my secret, barbie's my boyfriend
Stacy's, my daughter Ken's, mydaddy.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I was sort of confused.
Listen, you have a.
You have a, you have a crowdwork special coming up Not to
pivot too hard.
Yes, but that's very exciting.
No, this will be a good.
This will be a good time to rap, because we still got to play
the songs Those will be fiveminutes at the end.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh, and which, by the way, if you join the Patreon, i
will put the Mega Man's entirecatalog.
Oh, so you're going to be doinga lot of stuff.
If you join the Patreon, i willput the Mega Man's entire
catalog.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh, you've got to get on there, because these songs
are not to be missed.
Shun jump, shun jump.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Shun jump, shun, jump sounds the blade coming through
.
That's the first lyric Andwe're going to play those two
songs at the end of this episodeSo you can get a little taste.
If you want the full catalog,join the Patreon And you get
video and you get Q&As.
So, yes, i have a CrowdWorkspecial coming up.
It's going to be at thewarehouse in Cincinnati.
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There's not a name, but there'san address.
It's in my info If you followmy Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So, yeah, so I'm shooting a special with this
company, four by threeproductions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It's going to be all CrowdWork, which I'm a little
nervous about because how longof a set are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
an hour?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I think I'm going to do an hour 45 to an hour
depending on how it goes with nojokes, Which I've never really
done.
I've done a lot of CrowdWork,but I'm not going to do a single
joke that I've written, becauseif the writers in LA are on
strike, so am I.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And um hilarious every time, but yeah, i'm really
excited.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I want people to come out.
It's a little weird, though,because I want to fill it out,
but I don't want people.
I know I want them to come, butnot sit in the front, because I
need to talk to people who Idon't know.
So if you're listening to thispodcast and you live in
Cincinnati, please, please,please, july 7th, july 7th, at
the warehouse.
It's on the um near SpringGrove, i don't know where it is
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but the address.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll put it in the.
We'll put it in the in thething.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And then I'm doing another special on October 7th
Oh excuse me At the lodge inDayton, kentucky, which will be
like 40 minutes of actualmaterial.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Is that another we're going to code?
Is that another?
four by three.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No, that is with Jeremy Esseg, who's formerly uh,
formerly ran Helium Studios.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh, that's very exciting, Or he would do the he
did my album.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Very exciting.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
He did my album with Helium Presents, so I got two
specials coming out.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Look at that July 7th and October 7th.
Get in there.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
So come check those out Go check those out.
And we got a lot of fun showscoming up.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
We do.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
We're going to be in Grand Rapids and Pittsburgh,
yeah.
We have all of our dates afterthe outro in the episode.
So if you keep listening andyou want to come see us listen
after, gotta keep listening.
We really boring it up.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We really did, didn't we?
That's great, that's just great.
Listen, this has been fun Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
This has been fun.
Thanks for listening So enjoyShunjant, enjoy ghost train.
What was your favorite song, bythe way?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh, of those two, oh, that's a toss up Oh, my
favorite.
Do I have to pick just one?
Yeah, there were two.
Oh, that's tough There were two, i think Shunjant just because
that's the one that I is themost catchy Shunjant, shunjant.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It's a toss up, though All right, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, leave us a five star review.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Give us a five star review and we'll give you one
right back.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Kiss it.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, here's the third band of the evening, the
Mega Men.
Thank you, guys all for comingout here.
This is the first song calledShadrion.
This is the first song of theevening.
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This is the first song of theevening.
This is the first song of theevening.
Who do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sissy, i don't know brother, maybe it's Mommy and
Daddy.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Should we answer it?
Maybe it's.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Pete's way to flip sis.
It could be a listener or itcould be Stranger danger.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who's a?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
ho, who's a ho Where is?
Oh yeah, and we're grown-upsnow.
Hi Hi, did you just burp?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, what Were you just choking?
I did, but it, i was justchoking on your own saliva.
I assume nobody would notice it, nobody would have, nobody
would have, but I just choseviolence today.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wow, i was fine, and now I'm a little on my toes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
A little on your toes .
That's how you should be.
Yeah, yeah on my titsies, howyou doing today.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm good, i'm very good.
Yeah, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm great.
I'm just kind of getting movingover here.
We're back in different cities.
I'm in LA, you're in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You seem less grumpy than you usually do at this time
of day.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, you know I am not a morning person, And it's
11 o'clock So I'm sort of pastthat.
I'm past that morning hump, asthey say.
I've had a little coffee in me.
It's coursing through my veins.
I do get cranky in the morning,though.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I don't mean to paint you as a very nice person, no,
you've painted me as a monster,And that's fair, because I
really threw you under the busat the beginning of this episode
by being like Did you burp?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, it's okay.
Let's just you know, let's tryto be kind.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How about that?
I love that.
Let's choose.
kindness, you're looking well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So, thank you, I'm feeling good.
Amy's had me grow out thisbeard which I told mom that I
was going to grow out, and shewent Ew.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Then last night I came home and she went.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
She came home.
I came home last night and shewas going.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was like What are you doing?
She was miming, she was mimingshaving.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's amazing.
She's just trolling in signlanguage now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
She gets on a run of something and nothing can stop
her.
How big are you to grow out thebeard?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I think I'm going to stop about now which It looks
good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It feels good Now.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
this might not be interesting to anyone, but I had
this zit on my neck, it's agreat way to start and you're
right, it's not interesting toanyone.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, what I think might be interesting is it might
be a mole.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It could be a mole, which I'm very unhappy about.
You know what?
Nothing has said that.
That's very interesting.
Did you make a dermatologistappointment?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did not, but I'm hoping not, because it's right
center and I'm an actor as youknow, these were none of the
chosen topics.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
This was not on the topic list for today.
I'd like it struck from therecord, your mole talk.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's mole talk struck .
Let's talk for a moment.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You just said me Yeah , go ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We talk a lot about moments of doubt.
Comedy in this field is filledwith self-doubt.
It's ubiquitous Good word.
I don't think enough time isspent focusing on moments of
confidence, or in other words,moments that have created a note
(04:10):
, made you realize maybe this isfor you.
Along with that, i'm trying tothink about Genesis stories.
What happened in your past thatyou could pinpoint?
that put you on this trajectory.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Sure, i love that.
That's a great topic.
Andrew, you're welcome.
I told you this, but I startedtaking voice lessons when I was
in middle school.
I think that there's still hopefor me as a singer, but that's
(04:52):
not what this is about.
I'm a terrible singer.
This is the one time I'll sayit.
I'm going to get real for justa minute.
I'm a terrible singer andthat's okay, but when I was in
high school, you're welcome.
When I was in high school Ireally wanted to be a singer
because I fell in love withmusical theater, but I was just
(05:16):
tone deaf, so mom and dad signedme up for voice lessons voice
lesson classes with this woman.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Very sweet of them, because the writing was on the
wall.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, I don't know.
I think that there's alwayshope.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm just kidding, you were a young girl.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was a young girl, they signed me up for classes
with this woman, jan CanadaFritch What a name.
She taught classes out of herbasement condo in Cincinnati.
I would go every week and shewas someone who She was in her
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late 60s, early 70s and she had.
She had toured the world doingMaria in West Side Story.
It was her claim to fame andshe had this big painting of
herself in the basement over thefireplace And she was really
(06:21):
refined and I don't know.
She was lovely.
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Was this off-Broadway Broadway The Maria?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was like an international tour, i think it
was, i don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Broadway adjacent And so I would go every week and we
would do show tunes, we woulddo songs for musical theater and
like I didn't really get anybetter as a singer.
But I think that she saw, shelike started having me like
bring in monologues and like Ithink she must have known that
like I wasn't going to be asinger, but then she started
(07:01):
like working on these monologueswith me, even though she was
like a singing coach, and shewas like the first person to
really be like oh, you have thefirst person outside of, like
mom and dad, to be like oh,there's something there, there's
like a spark there, and shereally like fanned that flame
and like I would, you know, shewould help me, i would, i
started going on these auditionsand she would help me.
(07:22):
She helped me do the like Joanof Arc monologue And it was like
that was really like one of myfirst sort of mentors.
Yeah, yeah, i wonder what she'sdoing now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I imagine that is meaningful.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I hope she's still around.
Yeah, I just got.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I just got.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I just got dark She's around.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
She's gotta be she.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Jan Canada, french, lives forever.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, I'd imagine that has to be a formidable
experience, because the mom anddad, it's like you're expecting
that validation.
You're expecting it right So tohave it come from an outside
source of not somebody who'slike it's.
It's a objective person.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's not something in your
family, but yeah took a likingto you Totally And it was like
you know I, it really meant somuch to me And it was, i think,
the beginning of me feeling likeconfident as a performer.
Yeah, and yet she's still.
She still would like take homea musical theater song every
week And I would practice itlike ad nauseum in my bedroom.
(08:32):
And our older brother, mike,would just like be so furious He
would be like shut up mom.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Tell me how to stop singing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He would get so mad At the time.
it was terrible.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Was this?
did you know it was terrible,like did you?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
was it frustrating for you at the?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
time.
No, I thought it was Noawareness.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I thought I was getting because I would also
like I would sing the songs.
I would sing the songs for momand dad And they would be like
you are getting so good.
Yay, i would do little concerts.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's just sweet of them, but also that's kind of
can be like detrimental to likelater in life because you What
do you mean?
Not for you because you well,for you, I think you figure
because you became supersuccessful, but, like a lot of
people don't.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And then they're like why does the world not think
I'm wonderful like mommy does?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Do you remember me practicing my singing, Or did
you just?
did you just block that part of?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
life out.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think I was speaking of singing careers.
You had one of your own, whichyou just sent me I was in a you
just sent me the recording towhen you were in the battle of
the bands.
Now, what would you describethe genre of your high school
band?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Hmm, i would say it's heavy rock rap core Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't know what the genre is.
My bandmates were talented.
I couldn't sing And, by the way, we're going to, we're going to
throw these songs to that Isent you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
We have to throw the songs in because they're very
funny And you know well, they'renot.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I wasn't weird out Yankovich, i was there.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They're um, they're it's it.
I'll tell you what it's.
It was better than I thought itwas going to be when I listened
back.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
It was good happening here.
What It was good, here's what'shappening here.
Before you said it was good,you are jealous that your little
brother has some sort ofsinging ability.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm not saying I'm not jealous, but I could scream.
You could scream Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, so those are my two favorite songs.
I sent you Shunjunt and GhostTrain.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Shunjunt, shunjunt.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They're very dark.
The lyrics I still remember.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm not going to repeat them.
Did you write the lyrics?
I wrote all the lyrics.
You wrote all the lyrics.
They were very.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Shunjunt sounds the blade coming through.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They were filled with angst.
They felt like lyrics writtenby a little rich boy in a world,
a little rich boy in Ohio whowas full of rage I know It's so
funny like listening to that nowand I'm like what am I so angry
about?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Like I had all the love, support in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That's what you were angry about.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I didn't have something to.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You didn't have something to be angry about,
what's like.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Sean Patton has it.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He's got a joke about that, or I can't you know I
can't repeat jokes, but yeah, sojust move along, It's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It was funny.
Check out his joke about that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So you, so it's.
It's funny because I think thatwhen you started doing that,
you were called the Mega Men.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The Mega Men.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The Mega Men, and I think I was gone when you
started, because what grade wereyou in when?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
you started like 10th grade Junior year Junior.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I was like sort of I was already in college, but I I
heard, i heard the tales of it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah It was.
I mean, it was probably themost fun period of my life.
I feel like and that again,genesis stories like I don't
even think I realize it untiljust now, but like that, really
that adrenaline rush, i think Iexperienced it before, i
experienced it in comedy anddidn't put it together until
(12:39):
like I really lived for thatrush, for like being in front of
a crowd And yeah.
And mom, said that she saw us atBogert's and I was clapping
like this, but I wasn't That youwere clapping over your head,
but you have no recollection ofthat.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, yeah No recollection.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Did you do a?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Um, but saw like a decent amount.
I mean we yeah, yeah yeah, wedid a decent amount.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How did the band fall apart?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, i actually kind of was.
The was the reason it fellapart, because I went away to
South Carolina to college andeverybody else stayed in
Cincinnati.
Um, but I think that itwouldn't have.
You know Cole, who is thedrummer who is arguably the most
talented in the band, he wenton to become a biomedical
(13:28):
engineer at CincinnatiChildren's Hospital and now he's
a professor, so he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, some people just have talent in all sorts
of things.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Man that guy's got so much talent.
I'm so jealous.
Yeah, yeah, i'm jealous of himtoo, But you know, along this
same theme of Genesis stories, iwould argue that for you, i
think both of us, a lot of itcame from both mom and our
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brother.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Mike helped us develop a thick skin.
Very funny, very likes to like,you know, big brother.
So when we were in, how oldwere you when we played
flashlight tag?
You were probably.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Probably 12?
.
Probably, yeah, probably 12.
We used to play flashlight tagin the backyard.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We used to play flashlight tag In the good old
days.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Before tablets and cell phones and TVs and regular
phones, when we would gatheraround the radio every night.
What I'm done, i don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I thought that would be a fun little riff, and it
didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
You gotta take risks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We used to play flashlight tag.
We lived in a lovely cul-de-sac.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And for those Gen Zers flashlight tag it's at
night, somebody has a flashlight.
You're flashing on somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, flashlight, not to be confused with flashlight
children.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, flashlight tag is.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That's a different game.
That's completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You do that down by the river, and so Mike, the
whole neighborhood, he'd go andyou'd hide, mike, was it our
brother, he has a flashlight, hegoes and hides, you're hiding,
and you're hiding, and you'rehiding, and nobody's coming, and
nobody's coming, and nobody'scoming.
And then you realize that Storyof my life, huh.
(15:29):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Your parents love you .
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You know that right, don't laugh like a demon.
We've talked about this.
So Mike has organized the wholeneighborhood a ploy to come in
early and let Leah stay out byherself in the dark until she
realizes that the game is overand everybody's laughing at her
inside.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Everyone's laughing at me inside.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He's left.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I stayed in that tree for probably an hour And I just
thought that I was winningflashlight tag And then
eventually I was like this issomething's off here And I
walked inside to our family roomand everyone was just like
(16:22):
pointing and laughing at me AndI was, so I think I just started
crying.
Well, we're gonna have to cutthat That doesn't make it funny.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Why I'm just kidding.
That just makes it sad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's my truth and that's also part of my Genesis
story.
I was left in the tree duringflashlight tag.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It was so funny because you the whole time you
thought you were winningflashlight tag And we weren't
even playing flashlight tag Yeah, yeah, it was a cruel, we were
playing.
Leah as a loser and you werelosing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It was a cruel joke, it really was.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But I think what's interesting about that is when
you really break it down.
What is flashlight tag?
The game is essentially youshine a spotlight on somebody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They're illuminated, just them around all darkness,
and then the game's over.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh God, I mean it is just a metaphor for what.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What did you strive?
for A spotlight To have thespotlight on me, to have the
flashlight on me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You're always yearning for that flashlight
that Mike took away from you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That is.
you know what?
That is my Genesis story, Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
That is.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's beautiful.
That is beautiful Now for me.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
my ex-girlfriend in college, when we broke up, told
me that I wasn't funny and Itried too hard to make my
friends laugh And I was like,well, i'm gonna be a comic man.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, that'll.
And she was nice?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I don't mean to be.
We had a toxic relationship.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I don't mean to paint her in a bad light, but I think
that really stuck with me.
We'll put her name in thecomments, just kidding.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That really stuck with me though.
Because, I was like, not that Itried too hard to be funny, or
just the idea that I'm trying tobe funny.
I always thought like, oh, i'mjust being funny.
Yeah, so who doesn't try to befunny in front of their friends.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Of course I had a boyfriend tell me that I wasn't
funny, that women weren't funny,but that's just, that's gonna
happen if you're a woman incomedy.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Were you in comedy at the time.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, it was high school.
I don't yeah, Oh okay, yeah,yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I mean, but that will .
I think that will like you know, love it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Well, at the time I well, i don't, i didn't.
at the time I was like, yeah, iguess you're probably right
Like I believed him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, you weren't trying to be a comic at the time
.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No, but I, you know, i was on the, i think I was on
the path, like I was, i wasdoing like theater and stuff and
I think I just you know, butthat was also like the pervasive
belief at that time.
It was like, oh yeah, womenjust aren't funny, like it was
just like a thing that you know,that was just said.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What do you mean at that time?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, i know it's got .
I mean, it still is a veryprevalent like belief, but I
think it was at that time, youknow, before there was like
really internet, or you know, itwas like living in Ohio, i
didn't you know, you didn't know, you didn't like I didn't know
anything When the number of yeah, the access for women comics to
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be headliners wasn't the sameas it did now.
Yeah, i'm sure, and I didn'tknow, i didn't know anything
about you know like we would go.
We would go to like like momand dad would take me to, like
the local comedy club, and likethere weren't women performing.
You know which is still?
very much off in the case but,like I think, even more so than.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's like they were.
It's like they were grooming usto be comics.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's, it's sort of.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Is grooming the rotten word.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think so.
I think it can have manyconnotations, some of which are
bad, but I yeah.
I mean they took us to so manystandup shows growing up.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, Like that's Colin Quinn.
I went to the comedy cellarwhen I was 18.
Colin Quinn heckled me next tomom and dad.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, they took me to New York for my 16th birthday
and that we just went to comedyshows.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, that's so interesting, it's like that, and
yeah, i think those two thingsagain, mike cause Mike used to.
I mean he would.
This is a guy that would fallasleep in the cra, or when I
would fall asleep in my bed, hewould be hiding in the two foot
crack between the bed and thewall for like two hours until I
(20:59):
reached a state of REM sleep.
Like he would wait, like a NavySEAL, until he knew that it
would really, and then he wouldjump up and just start screaming
in my face and shaking me Solike He would hide in my closet
cause I played Barbies for likeway too late.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I played Barbies until I was like edging on teen
years.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
And 25.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Until I was, i still played Barbies And I would play
with my best friend, eva, wholived across the street in the
cul-de-sac, and we would go inmy room And we were embarrassed
about it because we were likeyou know, we were like 12.
You should have been And it waslike too old to be playing
Barbies And he would like hidein the closet And we would like
get it.
You know, we would have likethe storylines and we would like
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we would be deep into the into,like the soap opera of whatever
like Barbie was up to that dayAnd like he would wait, like a,
like a, like a snow leopard, Andthen like, right as our like
Barbie story was like peeking,he would jump out and just be
(22:08):
like, yeah, losers.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I remember one time I was, I was so mad because you
had a diary that had a littlekey.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yes And I found the key because, you know, growing
up I had severe Stockholmsyndrome, Like I would do
anything to try to impress Mike,even if it meant you know,
throwing you under the bus, eventhough we were allies right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But I would throw you under the bus in a minute.
Same me too.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I found yeah sure It was survival Still, still
still do really, we still do.
It's so funny And when we allhang out, like when Mike's there
, the one of us who might alwaysattack you in person.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We just want to impress Mike.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This is why we do comedy to impress Mike and to
win Flashlight Tech.
But I just lost my train ofthought.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oh, God, oh no.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What was I just talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I don't know, i wasn't listening.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Oh no, Um, um shit.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, it was, uh, it was
, oh, my diary, my, my, mychildhood diary.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You found the key pervert.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I found the key And I gave it to Mike, as you know,
an offering to please you knowAs his, as his little as his
little minion.
And then him and I think one ofhis friends, i think Fred, went
in there and unlocked it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They read my diary whole thing.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
And then they commented they wrote something
on the end.
Haha, you're such a loser.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'll tell you what they wrote, cause I remember
they wrote.
we read your diary.
May the fleas of a, may, thefleas of a thousand camels
infest your armpits.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Jesus, what is that That's like?
so biblical?
How did they even?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
it really is, it's really, it's quite, it's quite
literary.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your
armpits.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
What a visual that is .
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's, it's, it's actually impressive, i was so
upset.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your
armpits.
Yeah, so you're telling me it'syour fault that um, oh, that
was, that was devastating.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know I was so irritating about that.
Oh see, now I feel bad again.
See, i'm trying to tell thesefunny stories now.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, and it's actually, it's actually my
trauma, all of these stories.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, you know it's my trauma.
Everybody mom, dad, everybodywould retell that story Give
Mike full credit.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh, oh, poor you Mike , founder, keith, oh, that's so
sad for you.
All of my secrets out for theworld, all of my secrets on the
table, humiliating.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
What secrets did you have?
I had a lot of secrets and Istill do Barbie's, my boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, that was my secret, barbie's my boyfriend
Stacy's, my daughter Ken's, mydaddy.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I was sort of confused.
Listen, you have a.
You have a, you have a crowdwork special coming up Not to
pivot too hard.
Yes, but that's very exciting.
No, this will be a good.
This will be a good time to rap, because we still got to play
the songs Those will be fiveminutes at the end.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh, and which, by the way, if you join the Patreon, i
will put the Mega Man's entirecatalog.
Oh, so you're going to be doinga lot of stuff.
If you join the Patreon, i willput the Mega Man's entire
catalog.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh, you've got to get on there, because these songs
are not to be missed.
Shun jump, shun jump.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Shun jump, shun, jump sounds the blade coming through
.
That's the first lyric Andwe're going to play those two
songs at the end of this episodeSo you can get a little taste.
If you want the full catalog,join the Patreon And you get
video and you get Q&As.
So, yes, i have a CrowdWorkspecial coming up.
It's going to be at thewarehouse in Cincinnati.
(26:22):
There's not a name, but there'san address.
It's in my info If you followmy Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So, yeah, so I'm shooting a special with this
company, four by threeproductions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It's going to be all CrowdWork, which I'm a little
nervous about because how longof a set are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
an hour?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I think I'm going to do an hour 45 to an hour
depending on how it goes with nojokes, Which I've never really
done.
I've done a lot of CrowdWork,but I'm not going to do a single
joke that I've written, becauseif the writers in LA are on
strike, so am I.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And um hilarious every time, but yeah, i'm really
excited.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I want people to come out.
It's a little weird, though,because I want to fill it out,
but I don't want people.
I know I want them to come, butnot sit in the front, because I
need to talk to people who Idon't know.
So if you're listening to thispodcast and you live in
Cincinnati, please, please,please, july 7th, july 7th, at
the warehouse.
It's on the um near SpringGrove, i don't know where it is
(27:28):
but the address.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
We'll put it in the.
We'll put it in the in thething.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And then I'm doing another special on October 7th
Oh excuse me At the lodge inDayton, kentucky, which will be
like 40 minutes of actualmaterial.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Is that another we're going to code?
Is that another?
four by three.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No, that is with Jeremy Esseg, who's formerly uh,
formerly ran Helium Studios.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh, that's very exciting, Or he would do the he
did my album.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Very exciting.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
He did my album with Helium Presents, so I got two
specials coming out.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Look at that July 7th and October 7th.
Get in there.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
So come check those out Go check those out.
And we got a lot of fun showscoming up.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
We do.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
We're going to be in Grand Rapids and Pittsburgh,
yeah.
We have all of our dates afterthe outro in the episode.
So if you keep listening andyou want to come see us listen
after, gotta keep listening.
We really boring it up.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We really did, didn't we?
That's great, that's just great.
Listen, this has been fun Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
This has been fun.
Thanks for listening So enjoyShunjant, enjoy ghost train.
What was your favorite song, bythe way?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh, of those two, oh, that's a toss up Oh, my
favorite.
Do I have to pick just one?
Yeah, there were two.
Oh, that's tough There were two, i think Shunjant just because
that's the one that I is themost catchy Shunjant, shunjant.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It's a toss up, though All right, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, leave us a five star review.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Give us a five star review and we'll give you one
right back.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Kiss it.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, here's the third band of the evening, the
Mega Men.
Thank you, guys all for comingout here.
This is the first song calledShadrion.
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