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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, today is a free comedy Friday, and we are
very excited to have our next guest back in studio
with us. The great Kelsey Cook is returning to San
Diego playing at the American Comedy Company. You got a
couple of shows to night, a couple of shows tomorrow,
I say a couple, but one of them has already
sold out, so good job, can't job, can't go to
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the early show show nine thirty. That's great. Cal's great
to see again, welcome back to San Diego. Yeah, we
have history with Kelsey. We go way back with Kelsey.
There was a moment in time Kelsey in Casey. People
don't realize this. She is a great foosball player. Some
say legendary. I remember, yes, yes, this is great. This
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comes back a while ago. It's the first time we
ever had you, and we were fascinated with your foosball playing.
You know, as most people are talk comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think we well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean it's such an injury. She's she's cute, she's
a petite, hysterical, so foosball would be like the last
thing I would ever think, be almost a hustler, like
it works for you, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I mean there's there's some money in my bank account
from it. There you go wild. But yeah, I mean
people A don't think that there is professional foodsball. I
had no idea, and B would not look at me
and think that that's the person. That's usually somebody who
would like four teeth.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And you know, really well, we all played foosball at
the bar and all of us think we're good. And
I don't even know what like a good foosball player is,
to be honest with you, you just smoke everybody. I'm sure. Uh, well,
Thor piped up and your name, Yes, had a foosball table,
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and so he's thought he was good. So we set
up the whole there was going to be a match
between Kelsey and Thor, and unfortunately I forget what happened.
It didn't end up happening or whatever that I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Even remember what.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I don't remember it was. It was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, I'm like, did we could we not find?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No? We were. It was set up like you guys
weren't to play, and then we figured out a spot.
But I think you had something come up with the
club that you had to get there exactly. Okay, Yeah,
I don't remember, but something happened and we ended up
not being able to do it, which thank god for thorn,
because dude, it would have not gone well. I mean,
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if you have a professional foosball squad, you're done.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Dude, I haven't played in a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't I don't take it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's like I'm sure people who flip.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You're not allowed to do that though, right.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No spinning, no spinners, that's okay, Okay, we're looking for
the short gut.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So it's just like one shot you do.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like quick quick risks. You can do something called
a rollover shot where you put the handle on the
inside of your wrist and then you roll the handle
up and catch it. So the ball, sorry the the
football guy does not go more than three hundred and
sixty Okay, because.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I heard of that, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I just remember being so excited that I was gonna
beat somebody named four.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, that was what was going to go on like that, humiliated.
I'm telling you, dude, a tour.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
No, and she has a you had a like a
it's either a YouTube channel or something where you would
hustle people. And I've seen it because You're always coming
up for some reason. Your comedy always comes up with
my Instagram search feed.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So I'm always saying somebody, somebody's looking at something.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That makes me feel like something's going well with that.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I remember seeing that, and it's funny because you kind
of let the guy win for a second and then
you just destroy it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So you have a strategy when you play people, Yeah,
you want to really lift them up emotionally and then
drop them from a higherships.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I totally get this. That is great.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's all part of like the bait to it, you know,
because you like, typically I would act kind of ditzy,
you know, and I can't. I talked about this last time,
but it is it's more fun to walk up the
table and be like, oh my god, is this like what?
And I would play terribly at first to kind of,
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you know, build their confidence, and I'd be like, Okay,
I think I got the hang of it now, and
like we should play for money. And so that's when
every guy would put their whole wallet on the table
and I'd pull out my foots bowl, grip glove.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
John, That's hysterical, that's amazing. So you did like a
whole like YouTube thing with it.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well, I had a web series for for quite a
while called The Risk of Fury where I would play
against other kid but then I would also I did
like an episode in Vegas hustling people, and then my
first tour was called the Hustler Tour and being the
name of my first special too. But I would start
to just like find bars on the road that had
football tables and and do that when people knew less
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that that was. Now I think people have caught on
it to keep doing it. But yeah, I mean this
is a good time for hustling with Venmo because if
a guy's drunk, he'll just like he'll keep be like,
no one more game, and you can just keep getting that.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, that's a nice sam you get gone on there.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
My parents are so proud, I could imagine.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So what else is going on with you these days?
I know you have a special out as well, right
right now?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I just had one come out a few months
ago and it actually just hit a million views yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Do you celebrate something like that or is it just
kind of like no.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My gosh, no, you like never ever get used to it.
I'll probably get sushi with my boyfriend. There you go
some little bit. Yeah, I mean when you put a
special out on YouTube, because this is the second one
on YouTube, and you kind of like you never know
what to expect, and I think there's inherently a feeling
of like, oh, well, it didn't go on one of
the big streamers, so you don't yeah, exactly. And it's
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been so like, in the same week my first special,
The Hustler just hit four million views. On this one,
the new one hit one million, and so YouTube it's
like such a great time for comics to get their
stuff out there because the algorithm is really pushing it
out to people.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's great, great, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's great. Now is this the same boyfriend that you've
been with who was also a comedian?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Okay, I don't remember that. Thank you to Minnesota. Listen,
this is what we do.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I don't remember anything.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, but moving to Minnesota is a pretty big deal.
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That's when you really love somebody. Yes, when you commit
to eight months of winter, are you still there?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Still there?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah? And if you've grown to love it or I
think I've just like I have like Stockholm syndrome with
the city. Now where you just like slowly turn and
you just lose your identity and you forget what there
ever was before Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Time we do lists of like best places to visit
in like the spring and summer that Minnesota is up
there well.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And the friendliest city like Minneapolis and things like that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It is really great. I think it consistently gets voted
best work life balance in a city because people I
don't know if we're just like broken inside from the cold,
but we do really make an effort to go do activities.
You know, winter ones, it's like you'll play pickleball indoors
or in the summer you're out of the lake. So
it is. It's a really great place to live. I
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do love it, but it's you know, this is my
first time experience seen minus twenty five. Yeah minus that's
not a thing, no, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Guy's freezing when it's in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I mean, look at I know, and you're heat wave.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm not doing it. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Minus twenty five hits different. This is my body's never experienced.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Are their plans to go to other areas or is
this like forever? This is hard?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I think is probably forever. I mean we talk about
it would be nice if we got to a point
where we could have like a place in Arizona or
something to go for part of the winter. But Chad,
he's born and raised there, so he is. He's just crazy.
He's like a like a Golden Retriever, like a Bernie's
Mountain dog. Like he loves me now and the snow.
He'll just stand out there and stare it. I'm like,
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you're a psycha, do it inside.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
He loves it now the summertime though, we're in it now.
It like what kind of stuff do you do out there? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
So he got a lake cabin a few years ago,
so I get to I get to benefit from that,
which is nice. So we'll go and we were up
there for the fourth and it's I mean, it really
is nice. The summers are beautiful, but winters it's like,
you know, I can remember if I mentioned last time,
but I learned that you like, you can't use a
bidet in the winter there because the water is so
cold that it feels like local anti seas.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Dude, like I would never even your.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Bee hole, Like it's so like you to go numb.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's crazy. What a wild thing? Yeah, oh god, I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I think some people get like fancy heated ones, but
we didn't have that, and I just let her rip.
It was like, oh my god, yeah awful. Yeah yeah,
it was like five red bulls. It was like I was,
I was off.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's a spot you don't really want. Yeah cold, no, no, no, no,
that's that's pretty cool. And when does it start getting
like cold cold.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Like like no, like October November. Okay, there's some like
okay moments in October, but then it just it turns
on you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, I know. I remember. The reason why probably thora
remembers is because he was in minutes, so yeah, for
a playoff game. He's a big Giants fan. So when
they played the Viking, it was right around the time
you came in and you had just experienced Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I got there at eleven thirty.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I went by myself, okay, my wife didn't want to go,
and I got to the airport and landed. It was
minus two outside and it was freezing, and I remember
just being like, I don't know how people live on
the all time. I just stayed there all day Saturday,
just stayed in the Airbnb and like walked to a
good food and walked home and then I went to
the stadium and that was it. I was the only
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time I was outside.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, they're so like they don't really give you sympathy
if you're an out of towner or a transplant, they'll go, oh,
it's like all our buildings downtown are connected by skyway,
so you never really have to go outside. I'm like, oh,
so you had to turn the city into a Gerbil place.
This isn't normal behavior. I have to like exclusively stay indoors.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's like the opposite out here, like everything's outdoors. Yeah,
we don't understand. Like school's back east are all indoors.
We don't have that. Everything's outdoors.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yes, my gosh.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
So yeah it's wild. I'm from New York, so it
gets cold, but not that cold.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Nothing.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
When I came out here, it was weird seeing everything
a mall outside. Oh yeah, it's really odd. Have you
been to that Mall of America?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes, it's like don't even know, like is it really
that big?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's huge. There's a theme park, there's a roller coaster
like next to Lulu Lemon.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's it's my dream.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I love balls, I love the Big Ball.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You're so White so much. He was like, I love
them ball dipping pretzels. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I want to go to the Ball of America so
bad there like too far?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Is there a water park like next to it?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I thought they added that, but maybe might have.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh my god, this is so funny. You're like the
only person above the age of seven has all of
America on their bucket. Yeah, water parks, Like, I gotta
get to the Ball.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
What's the difference. I love it. I mean it's just big.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It is pretty crazy, just to be like, wow, there
is every story you could ever imagine in one place.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But yeah, well malls are kind of going by the
way at a little bit, so it's kind of cool
that I guess that it's still there.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, it's almost like a museum.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Was a great seeing. Ye gotta go see her. Check
her out at the American Comedy Company. A couple of
shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night. One of
them is already sold out, so sorry about that one.
Go to the late one. Uh and and don't don't
get fooled by her at Foosball so we know your story. Sorry. Sorry,