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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Quinny Cantara picks one oh six.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
He's coming to the Egg on Sunday for the Faking
It Tour. It is comedian Drew Lynch on the phone.
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Drew?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Hey, everybody, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Drew was the Golden buzzer guy from a g T
a few years ago. You might remember him. He had
a little stutter going on and the America embraced him.
And here he is again.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
And little stutter going on is a great tinder bile
and I might, I might update it. I'm married it,
so I don't know how she'll handle it. But little
stutter going on, man, that seems so I love that.
It's unassuming.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My my partner quit over there.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Drew said, you made it all the way to the
finals and you finished in second place in the Game
of Life.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And comedian, have you beat that guy?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I don't know, man, I mean, I you know, I
I I rage, I rage work out to it all
the time, just you know, them announcing the results every day.
That's how I get through my day. And uh, he's
you know, he's not.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's on this.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's the headshots on a Baila Hay in my backyard.
You know, I got to go out to my uncle's
cabin and just break and go to town on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That thing I'm getting now.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
They say resentment, uh you from within, But I feel great.
I feel I feel great talking about it. I have
no idea, Honestly, I don't. I actually I don't. I
don't even think much about it, to be honest with you.
It's just it's a wild time when you know you
lose to a British guy on America's Got Talent, who
uh who won with puppets like he was a ventriloquis.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's tough.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I lost it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know, I know. I lost some guy hands. He
didn't even lose to him. I loked through his hands.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And you got married. After that. A woman wanted to
talk with you.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah she did. I know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I don't know if that's true, but she did marry me.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
With Drew Lynch Community Drew Lynch.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I read that you're doing a lot of different types
of therapy these days.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I do fit.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So here's the thing I do. I do it all.
I don't. I don't discriminate against who gets my money.
Number One is I do physical therapy, so I had so. Yeah,
I had a softball injury when I was twenty left
me with motor skills issues on my on the left
side of my body, so I had to like retrain
everything on the left side, like literally, let.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Me interrupt for those who don't know your story, I
know it's a well told story, but for maybe listeners
who don't know what happened in the soft what happened
with the softball?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
D you?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
How did it happen?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Sure? Sure? So I was basically I worked at a
comedy club.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I was.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I had no interest in doing stand up at all,
and once you see my show, you'll be like, I'm
not interested in seeing this neither. So what I had
no interest in doing that. I went out to Los
Angeles when I was eighteen, and I was just trying
to do acting.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like I was.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I was passionate about acting. I had done that pretty
much my whole life, and a year into me being
out there in LA, I had a manager, I had
an agent, I had like I had I was, I
was booking audition and I had like callbacks lined up
for like Disney and How I Met Your Mother, mad Men,
like things are always things are already looking great within
the first year of being there. So by the working
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at this comedy club, they had a REX Softball UH league,
and I was just like, yeah, sure, I you know,
I don't have plans on a Saturday. I've got a
I have a bad I'm not I'm not in shape.
Of course I can do this. So I uh took
a grounder to the throat paying shortstop and I had
fallen and hit my head on the ground, and so
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when I went down, I had a. I had A.
I had a. It was diagnosed as a vocal contusion
with a major concussion, but later when I met with
a neurologist, it was he told me it was actually
a tv I. It was a traumatic brain injury that
just went untreated. So I had to go back into
all of these remedial type therapies. Like I obviously I
was doing speech therapy for a while, and then I
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had to do physical therapy. And physical therapy was was wild,
just because I had to like retrain, like I had
to retrain my whole body on the on the on
the left side, like I had to like do everything
on the left Like yeah, I like I was like
I had to like learn how to like write on
that side. I had to learn like brush my teeth.
I even I even voted that way. Sometimes it was
just a it was a wild time just to do
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things on the left. And so now I have Now
I have a regular therapist. And so here's the thing
I go. I was going to speak therapy for a while.
I would go through all these like ridiculous you know,
like ridiculous exercises where you know, you you walk across
the room and you talk and you you're you're like,
let's say you're in like the waiting room, right in
the waiting room because most people who stutter, most people
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who are in speech therapy, they're kids. So the waiting
room is decorated not for adults at all. It's a
humiliating place to wait as an adult man when you're
talking to one of the moms and she's like, you know,
which kid is yours? And then they call you in
and you're like, I have a good one. Keep my
blasted chair warm for me, mommy, thank you. But they've
got literally they've got like puzzles and drinking coloring books.
(04:59):
They got a there was a ballpit. I've done it
all Highlights magazine. Yeah, yeah, and so my feet therapist.
You know, she has me do wild stuff, like wild
things over the years, like wild stuff where she's like,
you know, if you're having a difficult time, Uh, if
you have a difficult time, you come up on a
sentence where you can't say it, uh, you can try
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singing it. And I was like, I would rather stutter.
I honestly, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna be that
weird guy in the neighborhood. He's like, yeah it. Guy's
just always you know, I don't know. I don't know
if he was. He's just always in a good mood.
I mean he's a little who knows.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna serenade
my Postmates guy because I can't, because I can't thank him,
you know what I mean to me?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And Drew lynch Is at the egg coming up on Sunday, Drew,
were you funny before you hit your head?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Maybe it helped? Yeah, I don't know, maybe it's medical.
I have no idea. Man, I I care less. I
care way less. Oh man, do I care? I care
so less? So I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Do you do you you feel lucky to be alive?
Kind of situation?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I think so. I mean, you know, I feel like
it's one of those things. I mean, it's definitely one
of those things that you don't realize how bad it
is until they tell it back to you, you know
what I mean. When he like when the when the
neurologist like reads the scans and stuff and he's like,
you know, he's like this, this doesn't look good at all,
and I'm like, all right, well, I mean that's of
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my genitals. Do you want to show me my freaking
looking like? He's like, I'm yeah. He's like, I'm sorry,
I just I couldn't not X ray the whole body
I have. I have a pass and I don't have
a real degree.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But I'm looking at your schedule and you are touring
like a son of a bitch. You are constantly busy,
and you know, compared to that a g T day,
things have gone.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, man, you've done it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You've done it. Congratulations, Thank you guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's goin.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
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