August 6, 2025 • 22 mins
One of our show's longest-standing friends is Josh Sneed, a brilliant stand-up comedian whose latest special,"Fat Ryan," was filmed in Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The first game of the preseason, and the Bengals are
looking to start the season fast. To do it, they
need to beat the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles. Can
the Orange and Black clap their wings get the Gold?
Live from Dan Horden Dave Leapon coverage Figins tomorrow at
six pm. Stream for free on the new and approved
(00:20):
iHeartRadio app or on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home
of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, it's five h five ESPN fifteen thirty, Moeger,
thank you so much for listening against the Nickelobultra five
o'clock happy hour. If you watch the Reds game this afternoon,
you probably enjoying an ice called Mikkeelobulta right now. Reds
offensively non existent. They lose to the Cup six y one,
failed to sweep Chicago. They remained three behind New York
that's lost to the Guardians today, three and a half
(00:49):
behind San Diego who plays tonight. Andrew Abbot pitched and pitched, okay,
he just didn't get any run support and quite frankly
didn't which as well as Kate Horton, who was terrific
today for Chicago. So were a bunch of relievers. They
still win the series, but they do not get the sweet.
They're off to Pittsburgh, first to four against the Pirates.
(01:10):
Tomorrow night, Paul Skeens will face the Reds for the
first time this year. We'll have some audio from Chicago
a little bit later on One More check In with Tony Pike,
Today's Bengals training Camp update on the race and Clair
Roofing Hotline. Bengals and Eagles tomorrow on ESPN fifteen thirty
with kickoff at seven thirty, and don't forget next week
Tony and I broadcasting three times from Bengals Training Camp Tuesday,
(01:33):
Wednesday and Friday of next week the AE dorn Window
Tony and Mode Training Camp Show. Thanks to Adorn Window,
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Adam Weber for sponsoring that broadcast and supporting the Bengals
all these many years. This show might not have a
friend who is in longer standing than our buddy Josh Sneid,
(01:53):
who has been on this show a bunch. He's got
a stand up special out called Fat Ryan that was
ted at Memorial Hall. Obviously, the proprietor of Sincy Shirts
who were huge fans of and spending some time with
us in studio for what feels like the first time
in forever too long. It has been a while.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It has been a while, and I am always reminded
about how we met because you were the first blog
slash sponsorship that we ever had as a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I remember sitting in my car on the highway and
listening to you talk about your blog and I'd hear
Lance talk about his blog all the time, and it
was sponsored by I think one hundred got junk back
then it still is, okay, so uh, And I said,
I was like, Darren, this is the guy, this is
our guy we need to you know, because he was
(02:48):
you and Greg at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Greg Doyle. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And we we showed up at what was that place
downtown behind Fountain Square. It was like a country Western
Cadillac rand, Cadillac rant. We showed up there when you
were alive with a bunch of T shirts to give out,
and next thing you know, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
A groomsman in my wedding.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And here we are, almost twenty years later talking about it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was explaining to someone here who said to me, like,
do you know Josh need I said, you know, I
was in his wedding. He was incredulous. It's like, really,
it's true his wedding. It's true. Man, it feels like
a lifetime ago. It's awesome to have you. Man.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thanks man, way too long, Thank you, way too long.
Very exciting stuff. This is the new specials. I'm so
super excited.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well the new special to do it at the venue
you did, I do have been just unbelieved.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It was, I mean so many parts of it. You know,
the last two specials I did were Comedy Central and
Dry Bar, so it was already determined where those were
going to be and where they were shot, and you know,
all the production and getting the audience there was up
to everybody. And with this one that I've been working on,
I was so excited about it, and I decided I
(04:02):
want to shoot at myself and then we'll see who
wants it, so to speak. And so I'd always wanted
to do stand up at Memorial Hall. It's just one
of the most underrated, beautiful venues.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
In this city.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And so I picked a night, we sold it out,
five hundred and fifty seats and brought the film crew
in and then you know, the it was obviously just
because I'm from here. It was filled with people that
have known me in all different aspects of my life
for my entire life. My children were in the audience,
my wife was in the audience. You know, some of
(04:35):
my best friends and schoolmates and former coworkers. So it's
cool now to see like how good it came out.
But every time they cut to the audience, like I
almost know everyone in there, which is just neat, you know,
and so and so to have it, you know, have
someone say we want this and we want to put
it out for you, and you know, like you can
(04:56):
go to Amazon Prime and like, like it's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, it's cool to be at that point. Yeah,
I mean, look, you can you can shoot a stand
up special anywhere. To do it in a venue like
that in your hometown, I can't imagine. I can't imagine.
There's lots of comics who have that kind of opportunity.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, you know, when I see it, I was jealous
of it, you know, I like guys in Chicago at
the Chicago Theater or whatever, and uh, it was just
it was a no brainer when it all like everything
aligne that I could film it here and film it
at that venue.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It just in the sound, like have you been in there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Like the sound is incredible, so the way the laughter
just like echoes.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's it's so great. It's one of those venues because
of where it's situated, and we're so used to saying
music hall that you say Memorial Hall and people go
to music Hall and no, no, no, it's an entirely different venue, right,
And music Hall has its own charm in history, which
is awesome. But Memorial Hall, for those who haven't been
for any kind of event, it's and it's incredible. Yeah, yeah,
I love it. It's incredible. So you do the special.
We were talking off air. I mean I've known you
(05:56):
now eighteen years, close to twenty years, yeah, and still touring.
You're gonna be in Vegas for a long stretch later
on this year, yep, September. I'll be back at the
MGM Grand. They had me twice a year for seven nights,
which you know, it's like that's something that twenty years
ago me would have been like, oh man, one day
I want to play Vegas, you know, and then you
(06:16):
get to that point where it's like you're on the
strip and your face is on the marquee of like
a major hotel. It's like, I'm I'm excited that this
far in I still have stuff to be excited about. Yeah,
your face is on the Marquee. Yeah, on the strip. Yeah,
that has to be weird. It's wild because you can look.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Right past me and see Jamie Fox and you know,
like much much bigger names. But Brad Garrett from Everybody
Loves Raymond and a host of other things. He put
this amazing comedy venue in the MGM Grand right, surrounded
by all the Iron Chef restaurants, and so you know,
(06:56):
it always shows who's headlining at Brad Garrett's.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You mentioned the name Garrett, right, So here's something I
didn't know, And here's something I think you may know,
but you would certainly I feel like I know what
you're gonna say. I was reading a Hulk Hogan obituary,
and it was it was a fair obituary, covering the
stuff from when you and I were kids, and then covering,
you know, kind of what became of Hulkan in the
latter stages of his life. When we were kids, there
(07:20):
was Hulk Hogan rock and Wrestling, the cartoon. I didn't
know Brad Garrett was the voice of the hul Cogan.
Isn't it wild?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I know it's crazy, Like people don't realize how old
he is. Brad Garrett, Yeah he was. He opened for
Frank Sinatra, like he was Frank Sinatra's opening act in Vegas.
You know, but I did know that. I did know
that it's wild though.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But like, what was Hulk Hogan doing? I think that's
the question. You know, this supremely recognizable character, in part
at least because of his voice. I can't believe as
a nine year old kid.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I didn't call bs on this right, and it made
What I want to do that I haven't done is
go back and look at all the other voices and
see if it was only Hulk Hogan, Like who was
Junkyard Dog?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who was Big John Studd? I want to know who
these voices were. Was I duped on everybody? Or was
just Hulk the stars?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So he got out? It just goes to show I
read this ten thousand word like Hulk Hogan bio and
the one nugget that I remember that he took voices
own commercial. It's so funny. That's pretty cool. We'll tell
Brad Garrett now that's what I know him for.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I definitely will, and I'm gonna shout at the feature
act is Mark Shallafu, who I also met through you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He was your producer back then. So I watched you
and Mark on The Growler, Yeah, on Paul Danner Junior's podcast,
and I was thinking, like, you know, I remember when
the two of you came together, and it was while
Mark and I were working together, and you were, you know,
sponsoring our blog and you know, coming on the show
all the time, and it just I just I watched
(08:51):
that and I'm like, holy hell, where's the time gone?
I know, it's crazy, It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I mean in between then, like he and I had
started a podcast, you know, we had a failed writing
website that we were going to compete with Barstool Sports
because they were just this little blog out of Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's wild what's happened in the last twenty years. It
sure is. And it's awesome to see Mark have the
success that he's had because I literally watched you take
him from the ground and basically teach him the mechanics
of being a stand up, not teach him how to
be funny. He's always been funny, but teach him how
to do stand up comedy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
First, it was always in there, and it has been
neat because when he and I did that podcast, it
was probably, you know, halfway through the tenure of it,
that he went from being a guy who was just
into comedy to a guy who is going to try comedy.
And then you think, just from that point where he
is now, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's so cool. It's really neat, especially when they're your friends,
no question. And I remember, I mean, I was watching
you guys, and I thought to the first thought back
to the first time I saw him doing open mic,
and how nervous I was, Man, I don't know about this.
I hope it works out. And there were like four
or five people before him that just didn't have it,
and then Mark got up there and it's like, yeah,
I think there's something here. Yeah. Yeah, it was always
(10:10):
in there for sure. When Mark comes on the show, though,
we don't talk about you. That's okay, that's that's fine,
it's fine. I'll bring it up in Vegas, but it's fine,
that's right. So the stand up itself now it's distributed
and handled in a way that's a little bit different
than folks might be used to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, so there's a company called Matter. They're like YouTube gurus.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
There.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Came from the music industry. They work with like Whiz
Khalifa and a bunch of other artists, and now they've
gotten into the comedy side of things and they're producing
like Bert Kreiser's cooking show and stuff with Adam Ray
as doctor Phil kill Tony, like all these big comedy
brands that are being established, and they wanted to have
a clean comedy arm, which is kind of what I've
(10:54):
leaned into over the last several years. And so so
my special is the flagship special of this this website
they created called Disruptor Comedy. So if you go to
Disruptor Comedy you can see my special and a host
of other people.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
As I mentioned, it's also.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now on Amazon and it'll be added to Apple and
other streaming platforms in the coming weeks and months. But
but yeah, it's you know, I've never had to go
try to get people to watch it because it's always
been on a platform that you know, has a built
in audience. So this has been really fun for me,
you know, to put these clips out. I put a
(11:33):
clip out making fun of my wife and how much
she loves TJ Max, And yesterday TJ Max contacted me
and said, we want to share this on our social media,
and they did. So It's just like that kind of
stuff doesn't happen unless you have control of your special
and that's the kind of stuff that I was hoping
would come out of this because we were the ones
that produced it instead of someone else owning it. When
(11:54):
TJ Max reaches out to you, what is that like?
It just says, we love this clip, we want to
share it, can we? And I was like, absolutely, they
didn't see the whole bit where I refer to for
TJ Max as forever forty two. I don't know if
they would have been as on board or the fact
(12:16):
that I make fun of all the candy at the
checkout line of TJ Max. It's like all stuff that
didn't sell at other stores, you know, Siracha peeps and
sour cream and onion bubble tape and stuff like that.
But but the clip that's online is kind of flattering.
I guess my wife certainly embraces it, and the response
has been fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So I'm proud to say, or maybe not. I've never
been inside a TJ Max. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I mean that's a streak that I cannot I was
in one today.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But you're you're, you know, doing business with him. I guess,
oh yeah, we're friends. Now, hang tight? You could is
the easiest way to get fat Ryan just at Josh
Need dot com. You can.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
If you go to Josh dot you'll see in the
news on the news page, you'll find links to wherever
like as links get added, So if you go there,
you can watch it on Disruptorcomedy dot com or just
if you got Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Stick around for just a little bit. Eighteen minutes after
five o'clock, Josh Need with this Red's lost the game
today six one of the Cubs. We'll have some Terry
Francone a little bit later on Tony Pike latest from
training camp, even though there's no training camp today. We
are here till six on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station,
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Josh Need is here Josh Need dot com. Pat Ryan
Comedy special available now some good NFL analysis. We were
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Speaker 3 (14:21):
I know, right, we're on sports radio station and we
save all the sports talk for when your commercial. But
we're both the consensus. We're both excited about the Bengals season.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How could you not be? I know, right, there's an apprehension.
I get it, you know the defense. I mean, god knows,
I've talked about it for eight months. But it's so
much fun. It's so much fun to watch the people
who scream about sports on TV always talking about the
Cincinnati Bengals. I know, because that's not the environment. You
and I grew up in.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Right, And I was talking with somebody the other day
that there was like a popular I guess meme or
topic on social media that was like, what is the
most embarrassing thing you've ever seen an NFL player do?
And I just kept waiting for, you know, because remember
like when we were kids, like whenever there was like
(15:11):
a football Follies video, every play was against the Bengals,
like it there was never a Bengals like on the
positive side of those. And it's like, man, I remember
not long ago that our little T shirt company was
only printing shirts that we're talking about how bad it
was here, and it's like, you know, I would love
(15:32):
to be perennial, you know, playoff in baseball and football
and soccer. But it doesn't take a long time to
think back to where this part in the summer, we've
already given up on the Reds and we're talking about
next year's opening day because we're just skipping over football,
like to be relevant right now, to be in soccer baseball,
(15:54):
and this excited about football, like this is fun.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
When you know from where I sit, you know, I've
said this about the Reds this year, two years ago,
when they're bad and we talk baseball. We don't talk baseball.
We don't talk about the games. We don't talk about
the strategies. We don't talk about the makeup of the lineup,
we don't talk about possible trade scenarios. We just we
talk about why people aren't going to the games and
(16:18):
how they want, you know, the team to be sold.
That's not fun, right, And when we talk about the
Bengals and they're good, we discuss going forward on fourth
down and the makeup of the team and you know,
how they match up against this opponent, which is why
I love sports, That's why I got into this. When
they're bad, it's, well, let's talk about the draft which
is seven months away, and why I'm not going to
(16:40):
Bengals games. Yeah, so's it's rejuvenating when both teams are
relevant and right now, both are right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And also I like that when we are getting excited
about something, it's not our prayers are on some like
retread or huge like project, you know, like oh, well
Terrell Owen is gonna come and save the day. You know,
it's like we both teams are you know, to whatever
(17:06):
degree we can be upset about how quickly it's happening.
They have pieces that will make us relevant for a
while instead of like let's just get this guy and
see if it fixes everything.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, there's always been that in town, and recently not
so much, which is which has been a lot of fun. Yeah.
You have a baseball facility I do. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, me and some friends we turned this old batting
cage in northern Kentucky. We basically gutted it and redid it.
It's called the Fieldhouse, and it's three pitching machines, all
with hit tracks. They can throw baseball, fast pitch softball,
or slow pitch softball. And then we have like fifteen
thousand square feet a turf that can be used in
(17:48):
entirety or chopped up for hitting and pitching. And it's
a full concession stand with four beers on tap and
TVs everywhere. It's a cool spot. You know. We've got
our baseball card show coming up on August twenty fourth.
We've done comedy in there. If you can believe that
was something we tried, comedy in a baseball facility. Yeah,
(18:10):
we Actually there's a guy, his name is Mark Paul.
He does really funny baseball content like that travel ball
families really appreciate. So we brought him in and I
did like a kind of a one on one and
did some of my stand up, and you know, we
had four hundred and fifty people in there. It was awesome.
You're in that travel ball world. I am in the
travel ball.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
What's that for you? You know?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And this may sound I know it's it can be
very frustrating because it is. It is a there are
some real characters, but you know, like not to get
too like sappy, but I want to change the way
that that world operates because I feel like it's ruining
kids in their love of sports before they even get
to high school. Yeah, and the people that are in
(18:54):
you know, in the know in the later stages of
baseball have said that it's ruining kids. And so we
started our own organization called the Red Legs Okai. We've
got eight teams in our first year and they practice
and train out of our building. But we're trying to
create teams that have the right attitude when it comes
to we're not trying to play one hundred and fifty
(19:16):
games as an eleven year old, like, we want to
teach these kids how to play baseball. And make sure
they're good enough to play in high school if they
want to, but that they're not burned out on it
by the time that they get there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah. I talk to parents who have kids in travel
ball and I don't know what else they do during
the summer, and it just doesn't I mean, I love
playing baseball as a kid. I could just see myself going,
this isn't that fun.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, you know, we've tried to be real conscious of
that with our son and the teams, you know, But
I know parents that it's like every weekend as a
family vacation to somewhere, you know, and it's just I
don't know, I don't understand it. You know, you can
stay around here and still get good at baseball. We
(19:59):
have a rich history of kids that just played baseball
in Cincinnati and did just fine.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, yeah, traveling to Delaware, that's right. And I'll tell
you what. Hockey's even worse.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Like I got a buddy of mine whose kid is
an incredible goalkeeper and he's fourteen, and I was like,
he's like, where were you guys last week? I'm like, oh,
we were in you know, Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Where were you?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Prague Hockey Yeah, fourteen years old playing hockey in Prague
and it's like, I think it's the coolest opportunity. But
that is an investment, that is that is quite the
investment to be be on that level. So we're fine
with where we are. We're just trying to grow it
here locally and find people that have the same mindset.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
All right, very good. Josh Need dot com? Are you
playing locally anywhere anytime soon?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Nothing on the books. It'll probably be around November. That's
usually the time of year where I do a local show.
But you know, follow me on the socials and uh
and keep an eye on the website.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It'll get up there soon. Josh Needs Comedy Special, which
was filmed at Memorial Hall Fat Ryan is available now.
Watch it. It is terrific. I can't thank you enough
for doing this. It has been way too long and
let's not make it as long of a time between
visits next go round.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Ah, you're a good friend for saying it, and we're
all proud of you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Man. Look at you, what cause you're you're dude. You're
the guy.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
What like you're the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Like to listen to local radio, Like we are so
lucky with the people we have around here, and you're
right there.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
At the find line. I agree, how lucky we are.
I'm not even in the line, but thank it, Thanks
to it, Thanks man, the Great Josh need We'll hear
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This report is
The first game of the preseason, and the Bengals are
looking to start the season fast. To do it, they
need to beat the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles. Can
the Orange and Black clap their wings get the Gold?
Live from Dan Horden Dave Leapon coverage Figins tomorrow at
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(00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, it's five h five ESPN fifteen thirty, Moeger,
thank you so much for listening against the Nickelobultra five
o'clock happy hour. If you watch the Reds game this afternoon,
you probably enjoying an ice called Mikkeelobulta right now. Reds
offensively non existent. They lose to the Cup six y one,
failed to sweep Chicago. They remained three behind New York
that's lost to the Guardians today, three and a half
(00:49):
behind San Diego who plays tonight. Andrew Abbot pitched and pitched, okay,
he just didn't get any run support and quite frankly
didn't which as well as Kate Horton, who was terrific
today for Chicago. So were a bunch of relievers. They
still win the series, but they do not get the sweet.
They're off to Pittsburgh, first to four against the Pirates.
(01:10):
Tomorrow night, Paul Skeens will face the Reds for the
first time this year. We'll have some audio from Chicago
a little bit later on One More check In with Tony Pike,
Today's Bengals training Camp update on the race and Clair
Roofing Hotline. Bengals and Eagles tomorrow on ESPN fifteen thirty
with kickoff at seven thirty, and don't forget next week
Tony and I broadcasting three times from Bengals Training Camp Tuesday,
(01:33):
Wednesday and Friday of next week the AE dorn Window
Tony and Mode Training Camp Show. Thanks to Adorn Window,
they sell the best end service the rest. Thanks to
Adam Weber for sponsoring that broadcast and supporting the Bengals
all these many years. This show might not have a
friend who is in longer standing than our buddy Josh Sneid,
(01:53):
who has been on this show a bunch. He's got
a stand up special out called Fat Ryan that was
ted at Memorial Hall. Obviously, the proprietor of Sincy Shirts
who were huge fans of and spending some time with
us in studio for what feels like the first time
in forever too long. It has been a while.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It has been a while, and I am always reminded
about how we met because you were the first blog
slash sponsorship that we ever had as a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I remember sitting in my car on the highway and
listening to you talk about your blog and I'd hear
Lance talk about his blog all the time, and it
was sponsored by I think one hundred got junk back
then it still is, okay, so uh, And I said,
I was like, Darren, this is the guy, this is
our guy we need to you know, because he was
(02:48):
you and Greg at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Greg Doyle. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And we we showed up at what was that place
downtown behind Fountain Square. It was like a country Western
Cadillac rand, Cadillac rant. We showed up there when you
were alive with a bunch of T shirts to give out,
and next thing you know, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
A groomsman in my wedding.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And here we are, almost twenty years later talking about it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was explaining to someone here who said to me, like,
do you know Josh need I said, you know, I
was in his wedding. He was incredulous. It's like, really,
it's true his wedding. It's true. Man, it feels like
a lifetime ago. It's awesome to have you. Man.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thanks man, way too long, Thank you, way too long.
Very exciting stuff. This is the new specials. I'm so
super excited.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well the new special to do it at the venue
you did, I do have been just unbelieved.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It was, I mean so many parts of it. You know,
the last two specials I did were Comedy Central and
Dry Bar, so it was already determined where those were
going to be and where they were shot, and you know,
all the production and getting the audience there was up
to everybody. And with this one that I've been working on,
I was so excited about it, and I decided I
(04:02):
want to shoot at myself and then we'll see who
wants it, so to speak. And so I'd always wanted
to do stand up at Memorial Hall. It's just one
of the most underrated, beautiful venues.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
In this city.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And so I picked a night, we sold it out,
five hundred and fifty seats and brought the film crew
in and then you know, the it was obviously just
because I'm from here. It was filled with people that
have known me in all different aspects of my life
for my entire life. My children were in the audience,
my wife was in the audience. You know, some of
(04:35):
my best friends and schoolmates and former coworkers. So it's
cool now to see like how good it came out.
But every time they cut to the audience, like I
almost know everyone in there, which is just neat, you know,
and so and so to have it, you know, have
someone say we want this and we want to put
it out for you, and you know, like you can
(04:56):
go to Amazon Prime and like, like it's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, it's cool to be at that point. Yeah,
I mean, look, you can you can shoot a stand
up special anywhere. To do it in a venue like
that in your hometown, I can't imagine. I can't imagine.
There's lots of comics who have that kind of opportunity.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, you know, when I see it, I was jealous
of it, you know, I like guys in Chicago at
the Chicago Theater or whatever, and uh, it was just
it was a no brainer when it all like everything
aligne that I could film it here and film it
at that venue.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It just in the sound, like have you been in there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Like the sound is incredible, so the way the laughter
just like echoes.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's it's so great. It's one of those venues because
of where it's situated, and we're so used to saying
music hall that you say Memorial Hall and people go
to music Hall and no, no, no, it's an entirely different venue, right,
And music Hall has its own charm in history, which
is awesome. But Memorial Hall, for those who haven't been
for any kind of event, it's and it's incredible. Yeah, yeah,
I love it. It's incredible. So you do the special.
We were talking off air. I mean I've known you
(05:56):
now eighteen years, close to twenty years, yeah, and still touring.
You're gonna be in Vegas for a long stretch later
on this year, yep, September. I'll be back at the
MGM Grand. They had me twice a year for seven nights,
which you know, it's like that's something that twenty years
ago me would have been like, oh man, one day
I want to play Vegas, you know, and then you
(06:16):
get to that point where it's like you're on the
strip and your face is on the marquee of like
a major hotel. It's like, I'm I'm excited that this
far in I still have stuff to be excited about. Yeah,
your face is on the Marquee. Yeah, on the strip. Yeah,
that has to be weird. It's wild because you can look.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Right past me and see Jamie Fox and you know,
like much much bigger names. But Brad Garrett from Everybody
Loves Raymond and a host of other things. He put
this amazing comedy venue in the MGM Grand right, surrounded
by all the Iron Chef restaurants, and so you know,
(06:56):
it always shows who's headlining at Brad Garrett's.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You mentioned the name Garrett, right, So here's something I
didn't know, And here's something I think you may know,
but you would certainly I feel like I know what
you're gonna say. I was reading a Hulk Hogan obituary,
and it was it was a fair obituary, covering the
stuff from when you and I were kids, and then covering,
you know, kind of what became of Hulkan in the
latter stages of his life. When we were kids, there
(07:20):
was Hulk Hogan rock and Wrestling, the cartoon. I didn't
know Brad Garrett was the voice of the hul Cogan.
Isn't it wild?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I know it's crazy, Like people don't realize how old
he is. Brad Garrett, Yeah he was. He opened for
Frank Sinatra, like he was Frank Sinatra's opening act in Vegas.
You know, but I did know that. I did know
that it's wild though.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But like, what was Hulk Hogan doing? I think that's
the question. You know, this supremely recognizable character, in part
at least because of his voice. I can't believe as
a nine year old kid.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I didn't call bs on this right, and it made
What I want to do that I haven't done is
go back and look at all the other voices and
see if it was only Hulk Hogan, Like who was
Junkyard Dog?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who was Big John Studd? I want to know who
these voices were. Was I duped on everybody? Or was
just Hulk the stars?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So he got out? It just goes to show I
read this ten thousand word like Hulk Hogan bio and
the one nugget that I remember that he took voices
own commercial. It's so funny. That's pretty cool. We'll tell
Brad Garrett now that's what I know him for.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I definitely will, and I'm gonna shout at the feature
act is Mark Shallafu, who I also met through you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He was your producer back then. So I watched you
and Mark on The Growler, Yeah, on Paul Danner Junior's podcast,
and I was thinking, like, you know, I remember when
the two of you came together, and it was while
Mark and I were working together, and you were, you know,
sponsoring our blog and you know, coming on the show
all the time, and it just I just I watched
(08:51):
that and I'm like, holy hell, where's the time gone?
I know, it's crazy, It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I mean in between then, like he and I had
started a podcast, you know, we had a failed writing
website that we were going to compete with Barstool Sports
because they were just this little blog out of Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's wild what's happened in the last twenty years. It
sure is. And it's awesome to see Mark have the
success that he's had because I literally watched you take
him from the ground and basically teach him the mechanics
of being a stand up, not teach him how to
be funny. He's always been funny, but teach him how
to do stand up comedy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
First, it was always in there, and it has been
neat because when he and I did that podcast, it
was probably, you know, halfway through the tenure of it,
that he went from being a guy who was just
into comedy to a guy who is going to try comedy.
And then you think, just from that point where he
is now, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's so cool. It's really neat, especially when they're your friends,
no question. And I remember, I mean, I was watching
you guys, and I thought to the first thought back
to the first time I saw him doing open mic,
and how nervous I was, Man, I don't know about this.
I hope it works out. And there were like four
or five people before him that just didn't have it,
and then Mark got up there and it's like, yeah,
I think there's something here. Yeah. Yeah, it was always
(10:10):
in there for sure. When Mark comes on the show, though,
we don't talk about you. That's okay, that's that's fine,
it's fine. I'll bring it up in Vegas, but it's fine,
that's right. So the stand up itself now it's distributed
and handled in a way that's a little bit different
than folks might be used to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, so there's a company called Matter. They're like YouTube gurus.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
There.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Came from the music industry. They work with like Whiz
Khalifa and a bunch of other artists, and now they've
gotten into the comedy side of things and they're producing
like Bert Kreiser's cooking show and stuff with Adam Ray
as doctor Phil kill Tony, like all these big comedy
brands that are being established, and they wanted to have
a clean comedy arm, which is kind of what I've
(10:54):
leaned into over the last several years. And so so
my special is the flagship special of this this website
they created called Disruptor Comedy. So if you go to
Disruptor Comedy you can see my special and a host
of other people.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
As I mentioned, it's also.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now on Amazon and it'll be added to Apple and
other streaming platforms in the coming weeks and months. But
but yeah, it's you know, I've never had to go
try to get people to watch it because it's always
been on a platform that you know, has a built
in audience. So this has been really fun for me,
you know, to put these clips out. I put a
(11:33):
clip out making fun of my wife and how much
she loves TJ Max, And yesterday TJ Max contacted me
and said, we want to share this on our social media,
and they did. So It's just like that kind of
stuff doesn't happen unless you have control of your special
and that's the kind of stuff that I was hoping
would come out of this because we were the ones
that produced it instead of someone else owning it. When
(11:54):
TJ Max reaches out to you, what is that like?
It just says, we love this clip, we want to
share it, can we? And I was like, absolutely, they
didn't see the whole bit where I refer to for
TJ Max as forever forty two. I don't know if
they would have been as on board or the fact
(12:16):
that I make fun of all the candy at the
checkout line of TJ Max. It's like all stuff that
didn't sell at other stores, you know, Siracha peeps and
sour cream and onion bubble tape and stuff like that.
But but the clip that's online is kind of flattering.
I guess my wife certainly embraces it, and the response
has been fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So I'm proud to say, or maybe not. I've never
been inside a TJ Max. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I mean that's a streak that I cannot I was
in one today.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But you're you're, you know, doing business with him. I guess,
oh yeah, we're friends. Now, hang tight? You could is
the easiest way to get fat Ryan just at Josh
Need dot com. You can.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
If you go to Josh dot you'll see in the
news on the news page, you'll find links to wherever
like as links get added, So if you go there,
you can watch it on Disruptorcomedy dot com or just
if you got Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Stick around for just a little bit. Eighteen minutes after
five o'clock, Josh Need with this Red's lost the game
today six one of the Cubs. We'll have some Terry
Francone a little bit later on Tony Pike latest from
training camp, even though there's no training camp today. We
are here till six on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station,
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Speaker 2 (14:06):
Twenty three after five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.
Josh Need is here Josh Need dot com. Pat Ryan
Comedy special available now some good NFL analysis. We were
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Speaker 3 (14:21):
I know, right, we're on sports radio station and we
save all the sports talk for when your commercial. But
we're both the consensus. We're both excited about the Bengals season.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How could you not be? I know, right, there's an apprehension.
I get it, you know the defense. I mean, god knows,
I've talked about it for eight months. But it's so
much fun. It's so much fun to watch the people
who scream about sports on TV always talking about the
Cincinnati Bengals. I know, because that's not the environment. You
and I grew up in.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Right, And I was talking with somebody the other day
that there was like a popular I guess meme or
topic on social media that was like, what is the
most embarrassing thing you've ever seen an NFL player do?
And I just kept waiting for, you know, because remember
like when we were kids, like whenever there was like
(15:11):
a football Follies video, every play was against the Bengals,
like it there was never a Bengals like on the
positive side of those. And it's like, man, I remember
not long ago that our little T shirt company was
only printing shirts that we're talking about how bad it
was here, and it's like, you know, I would love
(15:32):
to be perennial, you know, playoff in baseball and football
and soccer. But it doesn't take a long time to
think back to where this part in the summer, we've
already given up on the Reds and we're talking about
next year's opening day because we're just skipping over football,
like to be relevant right now, to be in soccer baseball,
(15:54):
and this excited about football, like this is fun.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
When you know from where I sit, you know, I've
said this about the Reds this year, two years ago,
when they're bad and we talk baseball. We don't talk baseball.
We don't talk about the games. We don't talk about
the strategies. We don't talk about the makeup of the lineup,
we don't talk about possible trade scenarios. We just we
talk about why people aren't going to the games and
(16:18):
how they want, you know, the team to be sold.
That's not fun, right, And when we talk about the
Bengals and they're good, we discuss going forward on fourth
down and the makeup of the team and you know,
how they match up against this opponent, which is why
I love sports, That's why I got into this. When
they're bad, it's, well, let's talk about the draft which
is seven months away, and why I'm not going to
(16:40):
Bengals games. Yeah, so's it's rejuvenating when both teams are
relevant and right now, both are right.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And also I like that when we are getting excited
about something, it's not our prayers are on some like
retread or huge like project, you know, like oh, well
Terrell Owen is gonna come and save the day. You know,
it's like we both teams are you know, to whatever
(17:06):
degree we can be upset about how quickly it's happening.
They have pieces that will make us relevant for a
while instead of like let's just get this guy and
see if it fixes everything.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, there's always been that in town, and recently not
so much, which is which has been a lot of fun. Yeah.
You have a baseball facility I do. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, me and some friends we turned this old batting
cage in northern Kentucky. We basically gutted it and redid it.
It's called the Fieldhouse, and it's three pitching machines, all
with hit tracks. They can throw baseball, fast pitch softball,
or slow pitch softball. And then we have like fifteen
thousand square feet a turf that can be used in
(17:48):
entirety or chopped up for hitting and pitching. And it's
a full concession stand with four beers on tap and
TVs everywhere. It's a cool spot. You know. We've got
our baseball card show coming up on August twenty fourth.
We've done comedy in there. If you can believe that
was something we tried, comedy in a baseball facility. Yeah,
(18:10):
we Actually there's a guy, his name is Mark Paul.
He does really funny baseball content like that travel ball
families really appreciate. So we brought him in and I
did like a kind of a one on one and
did some of my stand up, and you know, we
had four hundred and fifty people in there. It was awesome.
You're in that travel ball world. I am in the
travel ball.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
What's that for you? You know?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And this may sound I know it's it can be
very frustrating because it is. It is a there are
some real characters, but you know, like not to get
too like sappy, but I want to change the way
that that world operates because I feel like it's ruining
kids in their love of sports before they even get
to high school. Yeah, and the people that are in
(18:54):
you know, in the know in the later stages of
baseball have said that it's ruining kids. And so we
started our own organization called the Red Legs Okai. We've
got eight teams in our first year and they practice
and train out of our building. But we're trying to
create teams that have the right attitude when it comes
to we're not trying to play one hundred and fifty
(19:16):
games as an eleven year old, like, we want to
teach these kids how to play baseball. And make sure
they're good enough to play in high school if they
want to, but that they're not burned out on it
by the time that they get there.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah. I talk to parents who have kids in travel
ball and I don't know what else they do during
the summer, and it just doesn't I mean, I love
playing baseball as a kid. I could just see myself going,
this isn't that fun.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, you know, we've tried to be real conscious of
that with our son and the teams, you know, But
I know parents that it's like every weekend as a
family vacation to somewhere, you know, and it's just I
don't know, I don't understand it. You know, you can
stay around here and still get good at baseball. We
(19:59):
have a rich history of kids that just played baseball
in Cincinnati and did just fine.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, yeah, traveling to Delaware, that's right. And I'll tell
you what. Hockey's even worse.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Like I got a buddy of mine whose kid is
an incredible goalkeeper and he's fourteen, and I was like,
he's like, where were you guys last week? I'm like, oh,
we were in you know, Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Where were you?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Prague Hockey Yeah, fourteen years old playing hockey in Prague
and it's like, I think it's the coolest opportunity. But
that is an investment, that is that is quite the
investment to be be on that level. So we're fine
with where we are. We're just trying to grow it
here locally and find people that have the same mindset.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
All right, very good. Josh Need dot com? Are you
playing locally anywhere anytime soon?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Nothing on the books. It'll probably be around November. That's
usually the time of year where I do a local show.
But you know, follow me on the socials and uh
and keep an eye on the website.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It'll get up there soon. Josh Needs Comedy Special, which
was filmed at Memorial Hall Fat Ryan is available now.
Watch it. It is terrific. I can't thank you enough
for doing this. It has been way too long and
let's not make it as long of a time between
visits next go round.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Ah, you're a good friend for saying it, and we're
all proud of you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Man. Look at you, what cause you're you're dude. You're
the guy.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
What like you're the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Like to listen to local radio, Like we are so
lucky with the people we have around here, and you're
right there.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
At the find line. I agree, how lucky we are.
I'm not even in the line, but thank it, Thanks
to it, Thanks man, the Great Josh need We'll hear
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