January 5, 2026 • 39 mins
MONDAY HR 2 We learn something new about Angel!! The ole GP?? Ryan Holmes goes to Texas! The Comedy mothership. So this is Austin Texas?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh yeah, back to we call his work big Dumb.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Back to Big Dumb, a bigger dumber funner in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We're just gonna keep doing what we.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Did last year. By the way, thank you for making
us a number one morning show all last year. And
it looked like still on that trajectory. Did that say
that word?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, Hey Ryan.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Our next thing that we got to be excited about
is winter Haven. It's uh oh yeah thing Lakeside Slam
and winter Haven happened in two weeks. Look out, winter Haven,
Here come the monsters for the first time. Could be
the only time we all get out there. Uh and
you've got a party bus.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
How's that going?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It is going well, it's only a couple of tickets
left as we go into this twenty twenty six, why
not kick it off right with the kod traveling to
go see some wrestling with the Ambernova and everybody else
is gonna be out there too.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Go to real Radio dot FM, slash Ryan and snatch
up those last few tickets before they're gone, because people
always wait till last minute, very annoying.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Just sell this out. Please.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think it's only like six left, like six tickets left,
so grab those for the party bus with Ryan Holmes,
It's Lakeside Slam in winter Haven. It's gonna be at
Tanner's Old Man Franks and the Barmuda Triangle, Angela Boom
if you listen, if you're in winter Haven and you've
always want to see angel He's.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Gonna be DJing out there.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Uh, Daisy del Toro is gonna be out there, you
can see her for the first time. And then we've
got the Men's MWO Tournament that's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's Round one.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Everybody that wins the finalists will end up going to
Earthday Birthday to uh to compete to find out who
is gonna be the Men's MWO Champion. Then also you
got former MWO champion Amber Nova in a revenge match
against jac Love and and Angelice and I will be
out there, you know with you know Amber to support her.
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Ryan's gonna be out there to support her. And then
the main event is your MWO champion Teal Piper will
be taken on Island girl Tracy Taylor, who is a
Wow TV superstar. So all that's happening in winter Haven
and looking forward to that in a couple of weeks,
our first big Monster event, and all of us will
be out there and can't wait to see the folks
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in winter Haven. And people are talking about it out there. Man,
it's gonna be a really big deal. So if you
don't have tickets, chet, you can go to real radiomonsters
dot com and get your tickets, whether it's ringside, whether
you just want general admission or you want to get
a table, And if you get a table, you can
get tequila or whiskey to go along with the table.
So it's gonna be a really big, cool event in
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winter Haven. So angel I just kind of went through
my Christmas vacation. It was probably I almost feel bad
for saying this probably the best Christmas vacation I can
remember in a long time. And I feel bad saying
that because my sister has passed and my dad's passed,
So I feel bad saying that. But as far as uh,
as far as having a bunch of like drama and
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and and and rushing around and and then my son
did the Christmas Day thing like like Mary Ellen and
I were just it was just probably the best Christmas
vacation I could think of having. How was your your
Christmas vacation?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Man, it was, Uh, it was absolutely incredible time. And
uh really, uh, this is what I would say. And
for me, Russ, this is probably one of the most
kind of low key, uh Christmases. Uh just had a
lot of family stuff that needed my attention and just
things that I needed to get in order in that regard.
So it was it was absolutely amazing experience. I will
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start with here. This is like one of the things
that first started it off on I think.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It was the Monday.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
The Monday or Tuesday morning, after our break, I get
a call from my daughter. She's getting ready to go
out of town with her mom. And I don't know
if this happened to a lot of people flying out
of Sanford and flying on Allegiance. Apparently they changed their
policy on letting your dogs fly with you, especially if
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you can bring it on the plane, and they didn't
really they didn't do well enough to let their people know.
So I get this phone call at like eight o'clock
in the morning from my daughter at and and she's frantic,
and I'm freaking out, and I'm and I mean just
the burst of adrenaline, and I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And she's crying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
They're like, they're not gonna let us take the dog
with us, and I was like, wait, what are you doing?
Where's your mom? Her mom was there and everything. So
that morning I'm hauling butt to Sanford Airport to pick
them up because they can't fly, and they were going
up to Ohio because the airline wouldn't let them take
their dog on the flight with them. There was a
policy change with something about how if you're bringing the
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dog on the plane if it can't fit underneath.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
There and turn around or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But this dog has flown, you know, tons of times
recently in this past year. It's flowing and they were
apparently sending people home right and left.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So you're going to get the dog or you're going
to get all of them.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I thought I was going to get the dog, right,
So I'm thinking, I'll bet so this is gonna be okay. Well,
and I'm in my mind, I'm doing all the mental
gym dash is Okay, what do I gotta get? I
gotta get this and this for the dog. I wonder
if they let me swing by and and you know,
and and pick up some stuff. And I was like,
and I'm familiar with the dog. Yeah, her name's Hazel.
She's cute little you know, yeah, fooful little dog. And
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I'm just like what And I'm like, well, okay, this
is gonna be different kind of Christmas. You know, I'll
have to take care of the dog whatever. And the
time that I get there are her mom read books
flights and they have to go to Orlando International and
they're flying from there and they're on Frontier again. I
was like, you're crazy, first Allegian, now Frontier.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Barrel, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
And so so that, you know, kind of set the
tone for it for the holiday. So daughter goes to
Ohio for that first part of it, I'm with my
family and you.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Keep the dog or dude. No, So luckily you're like,
oh damn, I thought I was gonna get away with it. No.
So luckily, uh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They rebooked the flights and they get on Frontier and
they're able to take the dog without any incident.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So for the most part of the holidays with my family, Uh,
it's got some really cool quality time with my nephew
and just again super super low key. The main thing
that I was looking forward to was our New Year's
uh new Year's even New Year's celebration, and that was
my daughter was my fourteen year old daughter was back
and we were going up to the Panhandle to visit
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my oldest daughter. She had just recently had a baby,
and so that was the that was the big thing
that I was looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Uh went up there and uh and then the first
time you actually got to hold and be with.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And hang out with them, yeah and uh okay, so okay,
like that feeling. Can you even describe it, like when
it's your grandson, grand daughter son?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right, yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard to explain, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, there was a ton of emotions going on there
because of just a lot of circumstances and how my
daughter ended up up there and everything, and so that
part of it. I was really just super humbled by
her mom and her husband and just so holding that
little dude and like looking at him and I'm like,
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oh boy, you know, but just it was a really
perspective changing experience, I guess, and things that like I
don't know, I just things that don't matter to me anymore.
I'm putting them by the wayside kind of thing. You know,
there's a kind of a refocusing or reshuffling of things
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that are important to me, and that relationship with her obviously,
the connection with with her with her baby boy absolutely,
uh you know that whole the relationship between my two daughters,
and and doing whatever I can to continue to help
facilitate that. So but it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It was cool.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's a yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, you got a cool grandpa name. We got
pop pop. I'm Paul, I'm Paul, Paul.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What's your grandpa name GP? GP? Yeah? Why GP sounds
like a race car driver.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
GP, because because again, I mean, you know, they're they're
from the panel and everything, so grandpa.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Because I'm trying to figure it out. I was thinking
Angel Rivera, like.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I was, I was his name, I was, I was campaigns.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I just let the kid call me Angel.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
It's like, no, because everyone needs, you know, and all
the good so all the good nicknames are taken care of.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know, she's got a step dad. Uh, he's got
the cool name.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Uh, you know, he's got grandma either, like all the
cool names. And I was like, I'll just go just
we'll teach him GP.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Then yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, so it was ran.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Out.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah yeah, so it.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Was again just super uh being in Niceville, being in
Cressview destined all of that is again, I find that awesome.
I was out there looking at the bay there and
just really kind of you know, changing perspective kind of
thing for for me. So it was it was important.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How often do you think you'll be able to see him? Uh?
So that's what we're working on now.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
So she my oldest she started a new job there, uh,
State Attorney's office, and so there's a lot of settling
down and things that are changing there. And we've already talked.
So spring break was the one that I was thinking
I was gonna be able to go. But my fourteen
year old, she's already going on another cruise. She went,
she went on a Christmas cruise. She's going on this
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cruise again.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Like that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, she's double digits already. So that's a big running
gag there.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You should go on one with her and she could
show you the ropes that would that would be good
for you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
You're setting things aside and remember having fun baby and
so so yeah, so it was just it was that
it was really a lot of family concentrated time and
just kind of you know, letting things uh materialize in
front of me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
For for Christmas, you know, I got to see both
my grandkids, and I have successfully bought off my in
it like like he knows Grandpa because I buy him
presents all the time. Yeah, but r Raya like like
like she's still like I haven't won her over yet, Like.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
She like I'm come here and she's crying, and I'm like,
I guess I need to step up from the president.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
She's a baby, I know. But I was like crushing
it though with this kid.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I was able to like get him to fall asleep
in my arms and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, we hit it. He and I
hit it off pretty well. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
For Like, for on New Year's Day, for good luck,
I brought Begnet's over. I found this really cool Louisiana,
New Orleans kind of style cafe. So I brought fresh
beignets to the house and then took the little guy
with the daughters and we went to the beach and
we put our feet in the sand. We had did
you do you guys do this call of greens, black
eyed peas, and corn bread for New Year's Day meal.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Maryill like, yeah I did all that, and I was like, okay,
this is I like this. I like this nutrient did
like we were doing all the things to welcome positive
energy fortune.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah. Yeah, it was cool to do that with them.
You know, that's good. That's good.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, we'll talk about New Year's resolutions and looking for
New year and stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So what did you do for New Year's Eve? Like
you stay up at night with them? So we were
I was good.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I was gonna chime in when you were telling about this, dude,
I was I was in bed probably whatever the football
game that was on that night. Ye watched that football
game at the house. We had pizzas.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I watched a little bit of it too.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I forget who played on New Year's ef. That was
the first of the four the Sugar Bowl or some
of the old textan it was the first of the
bowl games of the because there was four of them,
so it was that one that night, and then there
was three New Year's Day. So the one that one
we watched that game.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Or is that the one from Orlando promoting this was.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
One of the college football playoff games. And so then
so we watched that and everything, and then it was
probably eight thirty nine o'clock at everybody, I mean everybody,
babies been put to bed. My daughters are both you know,
kind of sleepy eye, and I think, I what was it.
I think we were gonna watch we were gonna watch
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something else. But I look around it everyone's like kind
of falls and I was like, come on, let's go.
Because we had a hotel like just right up the
road from the place where they live, Blue Ridge, And
so yeah, got in the car. New Year's Eve night,
police everywhere right everywhere because it's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Got to the hotel. Dude, I was asleep by nine. Yeah,
it was fun.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I woke up the following morning to uh just like
just waking up and then looking out and see the
water and everything, and uh just dude, like you know,
they was like like I had missed New Year's Eve
to New Year's Day kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We were in Panama City beach, right, and I went
out and bought this whole charkouterie board thing, all the
cheeses and all the meats and I got and I
got a champagne for you know, to pop off at
midnight and all that stuff. And then we went to
a winery that day, a beautiful winery in Panama City Beach,
and we did wine tasting, which was fun and met
a bunch of people and everything, and then we went
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out to this bar and we're drinking some more and
I'm you know, and by the time we got back,
I mean we would just we had had a whole
day of basically party and Mary Ellen fell asleep at
like eight thirty and then I woke up and when
the ball drop came and I was gonna wake her up,
I'm like, as she's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So I just watched the ball.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Drop by myself and all to see all the chacuterie
stuff was all laid out.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And we didn't I didn't open the wine and we
didn't see any of that. Didn't watch a minute of
New Year's Eve broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It was good, like once again, you know, And I
know he's part of this company right in Seacrest.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
He seems like a nice guy, but he's just so
he's he's done that on purpose. He's not like Dick Clark.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Dick Clark at least had some I don't know, like
I don't know, I can't I can't explain it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
But I wish he was like Bob sagger was Like
you see Bob Saggon on TV and you're like, what
a wholesome vanilla guy, and then you see a stand
up and like, my god, this man's a psycho.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh well, maybe there's there's a bit of that somewhere
in the background. Dark stories with him had some Oh
but you know what, I know, we're late.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But he was throwing it back to his old ex girlfriend,
Uh Julianne Huff. Julianne Huff was in UH in Vegas,
but he wouldn't say her name, and she didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
She didn't. She was with Gronk, So he would.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Talk to Gronk and not her, and then Grenk would
talk to him, and yeah, it was kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
He doesn't seem the kind of guy that would hold
a grudge like that. I don't think he was on
the grudge. They just didn't interact, you know, because they
used to date. ADSM. Dungeon. All right, we gotta take
a break.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We come back and find out about Ryan because Ryan
had looks like a great time now. Of course, you
know it can look great, but you know, Ryan can
make it sound horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Who knows. I know the New Year's resolution, everything was fine,
was good.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't believe it. All right, we'll find out when
we come back. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the
March of the Morning. You know, ain't noticed all the
all the trash that they left out there, you know,
like they took everything out of here and they just
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left stuff out. You know, is left is the Christmas
gift I gave Ryan, just sitting out there like it's trash,
like he could care less.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's where it went. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh my god,
just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No I took that home.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You just left it around. That's a pretty value.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And then you're just really nearly just eating meat sticks
that you find around after the I played it during
best of the adventure that you had of eating the
mysterious meat sticks.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
There's additional drawer meat back there that they found somewhere. Hey,
you're just gonna rip it open and eat it now,
you ain't. You ain't changed a bit in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It doesn't expiral six. Yeah, okay, perfectly good draw meat. Hey,
by the way, guys, we have we have breakfast coming
to us. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I heard Jenny from First Watch said, Okay, I guess
something happened at the end of last year where First
Watch was gonna bring us.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Food and they can't.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
They they didn't know how to get into the elevator
or something like that. Okay, well they feel bad about that,
so they wanted to make up for it, so they're
bringing us.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Breakfast this morning. So I figured that puts you all
in a good mood. That's a great news level First Watch.
Fantastic way to start the new year. When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
She just said, she just sent me tracking here, so
she's got the tracking thing, and I said, can you text.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Me when you get here? So there you go. We'll
start off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I remember that that person was afraid of elevators, so
they wouldn't come all the way up to the fourth floor.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's it, And I guess they got someone else to
bring it because because they see here.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I always really enjoyed the best of you, picked Angel,
because I would drive around and our station's always just
set to real radio. As we get in the car, right,
and I'll hear myself and it's such a weird experience.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'll never get tired of that. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And then I forget about all the fun stuff we do.
And then Angel throws it into a best of it.
I'm like, oh, yeah, I heard.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A lot of great, great things about the best of
you pick, especially on Christmas Day. I had so many
people thanking me for what you played on Christmas Day
and I'm like, it wasn't my Angel played it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It was the whole bubba, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, I like doing that on Christmas Day. I don't know,
it's just it seems like the you know, the right
day to do that. So I definitely advantage of that.
And then on some of the other days, like I'll
definitely lean on the interviews. Yeah, I played all the
best interviews I thought that we had for the year.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I used to be like that where I would listen,
but by fine, I get obsessive and then I have
to listen for the entire five hours and I'm wasting
my time. So I can't listen to best of anymore.
I had to train myself not to do it. I'm
trying to be a better person Ryan every day. I'm
trying every single day, and we'll talk about our news
resolutions and my thing this year. But I want to
find out about your trip. I I you know, I
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follow you guys off obviously on social I saw the
picture of Angel and his grandson and stuff. I'm like, oh,
that's so cool. So I that, but that's pretty much
all you posted. You didn't post a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Like I said, this, Uh, this break was definitely about
kind of just recentering, refocusing and really spending time with
like I said, my nephew, you know, uh connected and
try to chill with him, with my parents definitely, and
then uh with uh, you know, with my daughters, and
and uh with this.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Cool little grand baby. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, yeah, So Riot I saw I saw one post
and I'm oh, I guess Ryan's not home for the
for the holidays. And then and then I saw another
post where you were in Texas and you went out
and you and you did stand up comedy for the
Kill Tony Show.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And not for Kill Tony. I signed up for kill
to explain what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Because I I just and I was like, oh my god,
he's gonna crush it. Tell me what happened. And I
did notice that you were not home for the holidays.
Your mom was not happy about that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, best Christmas, average Ryan. No, I like, I like it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I uh I, but I look, I only get two
guaranteed weeks off a year. They happened at the end
of the year. And that's the thing. My mom is like,
you're not going to be here for Christmas. And I'm like, Ma,
you lived down the street from me, you see me
all the time. We could have our Christmas before or
after or do whatever. But I only get two weeks off,
and I got to take advantage of these opportunities when
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they come.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sorry she put a post out. I was like, oh yeah, yeah,
well I guess Chris. Sure, I'm gonna miss you guys
for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm like, oh boy, I get it, I get it.
She only had so many left. But uh hold damn,
but you got something.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But again, I'm here three hundred and you know fifty
days out of the year you can come.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Come.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
We lived so far away from you. Oh yeah, that
said one mile one mile away. My mom lives. She
loves her son.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh my god, anythingtle post I put something up or whatever,
and She's like, that doesn't Oh, I did one of
those things where it was like Happy New Year's and
I put it in AI so it change our clothing
this time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That doesn't look like Ryan.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Like.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
She gets so defensive over you, which it's so funny,
but she.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Got calmed down, realized we're doing a show, and then
we hijinks are doing Sue. But yeah, so I I
was sitting there on Monday after the break. You know,
I got a nice little weekend. I did you know,
the Standard did kettle corn at the Winter part farmers
Market and we were planning on just staying in town.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, and that would have been fine, But I don't know, man,
I think I'm having like a midlife crisis.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Right. So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking about it,
and I'm like, you know, cause a lot of my
friends like I do pretty well for myself. I really
enjoy being on this show. I'm I'm local celebrity slash
hero Ryan Holmes here.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
In town of course.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, And I got to stop comparing myself to other people, right,
But when the other people that I'm comparing myself to
are people like Preacher Lawson and Cam Patterson and these
people that have like really blown up and become like
major stars. It's hard sometimes it's very hard for me
to do that, right, And I'm like, Okay, I should
take the stand up side of my career more seriously
because I do let the radio become an all encompassing
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thing and it is a lot. There's a lot to
do here and it takes up a lot of mental
you know, faculty to do this part because you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Do realize those two names you said there are a
lot of people that listen to this, and like, I
don't know who those guys are, but I know who
Ryan Holmes is.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
That's true because again local celebrity slash hero Ryan Holmes,
but like I don't know, so I was like, okay,
I know that, Like Texas is like Austin, Texas specifically,
is this mecca for stand up comedy now for a
bunch of various reasons, right, And I'm like, I was
sitting there in my chair in my office. I was
just playing a video game and I'm like I just
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had this like bug and I'm like what am I doing?
Like I'm just wasting time doing this? I should I
should just I should go and do something and try
to like advance my career a little bit further. Okay,
So I looked up flights and all I was like,
I've always want to do this too, where I just
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take off.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, you know what I mean. My wife's down too.
We don't have we got a dog.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
My mom could take care of the dog, or we
could border. So it's like we don't have kids, so
we can kind of get up and go and we
don't ever do it. So I'm like, we're going. So
I look up the flights, and.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
The flights for four hundred and fifty dollars. Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, because we were going to do a christ cruise,
but the Christmas cruise was like it was getting kind
of expensive when we added everything up.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
So they're like, okay, well Texas is gonna be cheaper.
It turns out when you fly willy nilly like I do,
it's not cheaper. So I talked to my.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Wife and she's like, she's like, look, if you want
to do this, this is important to you, we can
get it. We'll get on the planet.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I can have us packed in like thirty minutes. Yeah,
And I was like are you sure. It's like yes,
and I'm like that's why I love you. Uh So
we packed fast. I mean we literally just grabbed clothes,
threw them into a into the bag and just take
off for Texas. It's because Kill Tony films on Monday nights. Okay,
so I have to beat to the sign up in Austin,
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Texas by five o'clock to do the show that starts
at eight.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Right, And from what I what you've explained to me before,
there's no guarantee you're gonna get on the show. You
go and and you and hopefully they draw your name
and hopefully you get on stage.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Is that accurate? Yes? And so we fly out there.
I go.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Now when you sign up, there's two sign ups right
then they happen at the same time. There's the one
where you can do the show at the Comedy Mothership
in the main room and they pick you know, sixteen
people out of two hundred, and then Kill Tony, which
is you know that they picked maybe eight names out
of like three hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, so I was able to get it's just willy
nilly or it's willing. It's a bucket pull.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So it's not by your reputation. It's nothing like that.
We know who this guy is.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
That's part of the stick is that they got the
bucket right there and he's just pulling names out there.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, I've never watched it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Some people have signed up, you know, hundreds of times,
have never gotten picked, and some people have signed up
very few amount of times been on the show, like
four or five times.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And like part of the evolution is that another part
of it. And I don't know if you've got to
experience this, Ryan, but waiting in line outside has also
become a thing, and there are guys that have become
a little bit infamous, notorious famous by doing kind of
working that outside area to go on on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, so I was, you know, I signed up and
I got and I got selected to go onto the
Mothership's main room. Wow, like you know, the main comedy
club of the country right now.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So it's just like Willy Nilly Luck. You got Willi
Nilly Luck, and I flew out there on a Monday
and a whim. That's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Part of success, by the way, it's just showing up.
A lot of people don't show up, they don't go,
they don't they just sit and cry that they are
not going to make it. So what you did was
absolutely I respect it. It's perfect. So you get out
there and you and you get to go on stage.
So why did they give you five minutes?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
No, you only get three three minutes, three minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
All of Austin, Texas is three minute comedy sets, which
is so weird because here and everywhere else I've ever
been in the country.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's five minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So then I got to like, so, if I'm going
on stage, I'm just gonna use my closer, right, Yeah,
but I know that my closer takes about five minutes,
so I have to like cut it down to three,
which is actually way harder to do then I thought
it would be. But I actually did really well. I
mean the first like six people went up in front
of me and they bombed hard, and I'm like, oh,
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this audience is like this is not gonna work out.
And then I went up, opened the audience up. It
was crazy. He crushed it, and then uh so I
felt good, Like, so, no matter what happened for the
rest of the you know, eight days in Texas, I've
already won, you know what I mean? Yeah, because I'm like, Okay,
I did a thing. The booker for the comedy club
saw me talk to him for a second. It was great, great,
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great great. So then I signed up for kill Tony
And that is a it is like a mini kind
of like I once did America Idol and went to
that audition which was like at a stadium, and then
you know there's like ten thousand people trying to sign
up for stuff. Uh, this is like a mini version
of that, except every at the bar that that's next door,
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they have ten.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Dollars liquor pictures and everybody's drinking those.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
So like so everybody like who's there to like theoretically
advanced their career and might basically get this lotto ticket,
it's getting hammered, not taking it that seriously, which is interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And so I'm you know, they're all for I'm making friends,
you know, I'm talking to people.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
A lot of a lot of comedians there, so like
it's kind of like you know, if you're a comedian,
you go to another town, you find other comedians, you're
just you're just in and you can talk to anybody.
But like they're like, oh for me these liquor pictures,
I'm like, I can't, Like, what am.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I gonna do?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Go on to stage like super slobby, drunk and one
this one girl got picked and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh hard and uh but it's a long wait.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I mean like you're waiting from well theoretically five o'clock
until eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So you made it to get on the stage. No,
I never made it on Kiltony actually stayed till next Monday.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Extended my trip to try to try again because I
try to be strategic about it because at the end
of the year, around Christmas and New Year's Eve, they
get less people that sign up, like a significantly less.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So I was like, okay, that's better. Better's my chances.
But day was good. It was good.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I got a lot of thoughts and opinions about Texas.
I say, I've heard a lot about my entire life.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Let's do that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I want to find out about Texas. About the rest
of your trip. I saw you did a Christmas tree lighting.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, we're talking about that and we are going to
do trivia. But I want to get everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I want to find out everybody had you know, their
their vacation ones and everything. So we're going to catch up.
We'll do trivia. We got nerdy news coming up. We
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That's seven seven zero three.
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Speaker 3 (29:40):
We're going to it.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
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Angel will be DJ and of course I'm gonna be there.
It's MWO. You got Ambernova, Daisy del Toro be out there, Angelik,
and you're MWO Women's champion. Teal Piper will defend her
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(30:03):
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this is a big, big event and winter Haven, look
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Speaker 3 (30:18):
All right. So Ryan, you were in Texas. You did
get to get on the stage for uh you know,
it was the kill Tony stage or the is the
Comedy Mother Show. It's the same building as when kill
Tony's happened and you killed it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You did a great three minutes. Yeah, and and and
had a great time, felt good about it, had a
good time. Decided to stay out in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Austin text for a week. Yeah, so that's a long time.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It is anywhere, it is a long time, and it's
a long time to be in Austin, Texas, which, uh,
it's like it probably would have been better if if I,
you know, gone out through during the year, because a
lot of comedy shows I wanted to get on were
actually shut down for the holidays. So we had to
fun other stuff to do because my wife is there
and she wants to be a tourist as well, and
she can't do comedy every single night apparently. Yeah, so
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we got we got to tour around Austin in a
little bit of Texas, and we went to another town
called Fredericksburg. But man, like Texas talks a big game nationally,
you know what I mean, Like people always like everything's
bigger and better in Texas and blah blah blah. Look,
I only saw Austin, Okay, And I understand that Austin
is to keep it weird capital. It's a it's a
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liberal city in the middle of a sea of red right.
But I gotta say, man, I have never seen more
homeless people in my entire life, really, like an army
of homeless people. And I'm and you could ask and
you'd get you'd get fifteen different reasons why this is
happening in Austin, as well as far as like some
people are like, oh they bust them in and some
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summer like they've always been here. It's crazy though, is
the first time I ever stepped in full human feces?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Which was like, which is the eye opening experience when
I when that happen?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Because uh, shoes on, right, had some shoes on, But
it happened me and my wife was like, my wife
walk a little bit behind me.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I step in it. She steps in. It happens very fast,
and my wife goes, please tell me that was dog.
And it makes a difference. Apparently for her it makes
a huge difference. You know it would for me too,
Like it was dog. I'm like, okay, if it's a human, yeah,
yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And it was the thing about human feces is you
generally only see it in a toilet, so it looks.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Small in capacity.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, this is it was a lot and it was
like and once you started noticing the feces, it's kind
of all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
People ask me about that with New Orleans and I
did not experience anything like that in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, and I saw there.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Were a couple homeless paper I'm not gonna say they
were none, but it was not overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It wasn't like there was a ton you know.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I don't want to be clear when I talked about this, okay,
because they have like the Austin Resources Homeless Center, and uh,
there's a version of homeless that is homeless. It's people struggling,
like like what we raise money for things like that happen.
These are your homeless people that is drugs right, and
they are out on the street and a lot of
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them like it's it's that they look drug addled and
they are friendly is a is a minor word.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
They will just come up to you. They will ask
for money.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I was walking back with just my to go food, right,
and they were like, let me get that, like I
must have like just from a like a one mile
walk from this restaurant I went to back. I had
like seven or eight different ones to be like, hey,
let me get that food, and I'm like, this is
my food.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm also gonna eat this, and they'd be like, oh,
you don't care.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It was aggressive, homeless, aggressive homeless, nothing worse.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
And I guess, like from what people were telling me,
Texas is short on police officers, right. They're they're missing
about three hundred or so depending based on their population size.
And it's evident too because actually didn't see a ton
of police, which is which is interesting. What I did
see was hey, it's Texas, so a lot of people
are open carry. And then the other thing is they
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have this private security force that's out there with like
that are fully armed and they so they have badgers
that and like they're wearing tactical vests and it just
says security, right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
But they're not police.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
And then there's a third section of like and they're
just like the Austin City Safety Team, which is just
guys that like wear bright yellow vests and on bicycles
trying to help people out, the problem with it is
I got a really nice hotel, right, and it's in
the heart of downtown. I'm down the street from the
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Capitol building, but the second i'd walk out, it becomes
like zombie apocalypse land. And if you weren't on certain
streets and very aware of like where you were going,
and it felt less safe than when I was in Argentina.
Like at one point I just bought a knife because
it felt like I needed it to walk around because
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we didn't have a car, so we try to walk
everywhere like we were like in like some fancy city
what not. Not the best walking city in the world. No,
so we But the other thing is they got waymos there, guys,
and uh, waymos.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
What's that? Oh they're robot taxis. Bro Oh they are.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
They're full on, fully automated, no driver Jaguar taxis that
pick you up and you don't have to interact with anybody.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That was beautiful. I love them.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
The first time you get in one of these robot taxis,
it is terrifying and you're like, oh, it's definitely gonna
mow over a group of people. Because we only hear
the bad stories, right right, we hear the one that
like because right before we laughed, it was that one
that got into the gunfight and just kept trying to go.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
A felony stop in Florida and uh yeah, it was
a felony stop here in Orlando.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, and it's just here there. There are different parts
of Orlando, but they're here. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I love them because every time I got into a
car with an Uber driver, they were psychos. Really, Oh
my goodness, Texas odes Is it's worse than I for
They got like their main vats I thirty five that
goes through it's super Hella under construction. Uh, it just
kind of veers off at certain places and and and
(36:13):
it was awful. So to get in the robot car
was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I could see that. I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
In New Orleans, it seemed like everybody who was, you know,
driving for lyftor or what's the other one, Uber or whatever.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
It's like they were a part of the I don't know,
the committee to make you want to come back to
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
They were so friendly and nice and like telling you
where to you know, hey, you should go try this,
and they had their act. I can't I can't do
the accent, but they all shot so friendly. I had
a totally different experience.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, I didn't find the people of Austin to be
the friendliest people. They weren't unfriendly, they just I don't know,
it's going through this major transition because all those tech
companies moved there. I mean, like Samsung's there now, Google Tesla,
and so I'm even Florida, even though Florida is not
the South, I would say, we're pretty friendly people down
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here overall.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
And I just didn't find that same vibe there. You
didn't find that.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Did you get a chance though, to like because what
people from Austin will tell you is that all of
that is not Austin. South By Southwestern is in Austin.
You know, the Comedy Mothership isn't Austin. All of that
that's come to Austin isn't Austin. And that if you
want to really genuinely experience that, you've got to get
out of like say, like the downtown proper and get
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out to the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
A lot of people very mad. What's happening to Austin
a lot of natives.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Yeah, because and the amount that Austin has changed, it
has been in a very short period of time. It's
been we're talking like four to five years tops, where
like it went from this like super weird city to
kind of this tech paradise and the whole vibe is shifted.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
So whatever, it's fine, just fix your streets.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
You got a governor in a wheelchair, you think you'd
have better handicap acs this in a lot of places.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Damn it. I just felt like that.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Also, Texas very proud of Texas themselves, but no one's
from there anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
It's a lot like.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Florida now, where everybody I met wasn't a native for
the most part. And I'm not talking just the comedians.
I was just like I would be out and about
talking like the waiters and stuff like that. No one's
from there anymore. But when you go to that Texas capital.
First of all Florida, we got update our capital. Okay,
Texas has a big fu state capital. It's bigger than
the White House. And I like it that it's got
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a history behind it, because it's like they're like, oh,
we're Texas, We're our own nation, and Washington doesn't tell
us what to do. So we purposely faced our capital
away from Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
And I like a pettiness of it. It's good.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
They're also big fans of Davy Crockett there, like when
you walk in, who, by the way, is a real person?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I didn't know that. I thought he was made up.
I thought he was a made up person, like Daniel Boone.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I thought, like, who's the guy that like did that
raced the train, the hammer and the nails John Henry.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, I thought it was like a John Henry. No,
he's real. He's a real guy.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
All right, let's let's we have to take a break.
I'm gonna give you tip money. We have a food
out there for us. Grab some food.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
When we come back, we're gonna do trivia. Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
We got a chance for you guys to win some stuff,
so you want you might want to get on the line.
The first trivia winner of two thy twenty six is
about to happen. So here's the phone number. Four O
seven nine one six one oh four one. Uh, we'll
do a little trivia. We also got Monster Sports coming up.
We got nerdy news man. We're already to eight o'clock.
How'd that happen?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
We just it's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the Match of the
morning
Oh yeah, back to we call his work big Dumb.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Back to Big Dumb, a bigger dumber funner in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We're just gonna keep doing what we.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Did last year. By the way, thank you for making
us a number one morning show all last year. And
it looked like still on that trajectory. Did that say
that word?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, Hey Ryan.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Our next thing that we got to be excited about
is winter Haven. It's uh oh yeah thing Lakeside Slam
and winter Haven happened in two weeks. Look out, winter Haven,
Here come the monsters for the first time. Could be
the only time we all get out there. Uh and
you've got a party bus.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
How's that going?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It is going well, it's only a couple of tickets
left as we go into this twenty twenty six, why
not kick it off right with the kod traveling to
go see some wrestling with the Ambernova and everybody else
is gonna be out there too.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Go to real Radio dot FM, slash Ryan and snatch
up those last few tickets before they're gone, because people
always wait till last minute, very annoying.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Just sell this out. Please.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think it's only like six left, like six tickets left,
so grab those for the party bus with Ryan Holmes,
It's Lakeside Slam in winter Haven. It's gonna be at
Tanner's Old Man Franks and the Barmuda Triangle, Angela Boom
if you listen, if you're in winter Haven and you've
always want to see angel He's.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Gonna be DJing out there.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Uh, Daisy del Toro is gonna be out there, you
can see her for the first time. And then we've
got the Men's MWO Tournament that's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's Round one.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Everybody that wins the finalists will end up going to
Earthday Birthday to uh to compete to find out who
is gonna be the Men's MWO Champion. Then also you
got former MWO champion Amber Nova in a revenge match
against jac Love and and Angelice and I will be
out there, you know with you know Amber to support her.
(02:03):
Ryan's gonna be out there to support her. And then
the main event is your MWO champion Teal Piper will
be taken on Island girl Tracy Taylor, who is a
Wow TV superstar. So all that's happening in winter Haven
and looking forward to that in a couple of weeks,
our first big Monster event, and all of us will
be out there and can't wait to see the folks
(02:24):
in winter Haven. And people are talking about it out there. Man,
it's gonna be a really big deal. So if you
don't have tickets, chet, you can go to real radiomonsters
dot com and get your tickets, whether it's ringside, whether
you just want general admission or you want to get
a table, And if you get a table, you can
get tequila or whiskey to go along with the table.
So it's gonna be a really big, cool event in
(02:44):
winter Haven. So angel I just kind of went through
my Christmas vacation. It was probably I almost feel bad
for saying this probably the best Christmas vacation I can
remember in a long time. And I feel bad saying
that because my sister has passed and my dad's passed,
So I feel bad saying that. But as far as uh,
as far as having a bunch of like drama and
(03:05):
and and and rushing around and and then my son
did the Christmas Day thing like like Mary Ellen and
I were just it was just probably the best Christmas
vacation I could think of having. How was your your
Christmas vacation?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Man, it was, Uh, it was absolutely incredible time. And
uh really, uh, this is what I would say. And
for me, Russ, this is probably one of the most
kind of low key, uh Christmases. Uh just had a
lot of family stuff that needed my attention and just
things that I needed to get in order in that regard.
So it was it was absolutely amazing experience. I will
(03:43):
start with here. This is like one of the things
that first started it off on I think.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It was the Monday.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
The Monday or Tuesday morning, after our break, I get
a call from my daughter. She's getting ready to go
out of town with her mom. And I don't know
if this happened to a lot of people flying out
of Sanford and flying on Allegiance. Apparently they changed their
policy on letting your dogs fly with you, especially if
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you can bring it on the plane, and they didn't
really they didn't do well enough to let their people know.
So I get this phone call at like eight o'clock
in the morning from my daughter at and and she's frantic,
and I'm freaking out, and I'm and I mean just
the burst of adrenaline, and I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And she's crying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
They're like, they're not gonna let us take the dog
with us, and I was like, wait, what are you doing?
Where's your mom? Her mom was there and everything. So
that morning I'm hauling butt to Sanford Airport to pick
them up because they can't fly, and they were going
up to Ohio because the airline wouldn't let them take
their dog on the flight with them. There was a
policy change with something about how if you're bringing the
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dog on the plane if it can't fit underneath.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
There and turn around or something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
But this dog has flown, you know, tons of times
recently in this past year. It's flowing and they were
apparently sending people home right and left.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So you're going to get the dog or you're going
to get all of them.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I thought I was going to get the dog, right,
So I'm thinking, I'll bet so this is gonna be okay. Well,
and I'm in my mind, I'm doing all the mental
gym dash is Okay, what do I gotta get? I
gotta get this and this for the dog. I wonder
if they let me swing by and and you know,
and and pick up some stuff. And I was like,
and I'm familiar with the dog. Yeah, her name's Hazel.
She's cute little you know, yeah, fooful little dog. And
(05:26):
I'm just like what And I'm like, well, okay, this
is gonna be different kind of Christmas. You know, I'll
have to take care of the dog whatever. And the
time that I get there are her mom read books
flights and they have to go to Orlando International and
they're flying from there and they're on Frontier again. I
was like, you're crazy, first Allegian, now Frontier.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Barrel, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
And so so that, you know, kind of set the
tone for it for the holiday. So daughter goes to
Ohio for that first part of it, I'm with my
family and you.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Keep the dog or dude. No, So luckily you're like,
oh damn, I thought I was gonna get away with it. No.
So luckily, uh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They rebooked the flights and they get on Frontier and
they're able to take the dog without any incident.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So for the most part of the holidays with my family, Uh,
it's got some really cool quality time with my nephew
and just again super super low key. The main thing
that I was looking forward to was our New Year's
uh new Year's even New Year's celebration, and that was
my daughter was my fourteen year old daughter was back
and we were going up to the Panhandle to visit
(06:41):
my oldest daughter. She had just recently had a baby,
and so that was the that was the big thing
that I was looking forward to.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Uh went up there and uh and then the first
time you actually got to hold and be with.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And hang out with them, yeah and uh okay, so okay,
like that feeling. Can you even describe it, like when
it's your grandson, grand daughter son?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right, yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard to explain, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, there was a ton of emotions going on there
because of just a lot of circumstances and how my
daughter ended up up there and everything, and so that
part of it. I was really just super humbled by
her mom and her husband and just so holding that
little dude and like looking at him and I'm like,
(07:32):
oh boy, you know, but just it was a really
perspective changing experience, I guess, and things that like I
don't know, I just things that don't matter to me anymore.
I'm putting them by the wayside kind of thing. You know,
there's a kind of a refocusing or reshuffling of things
(07:55):
that are important to me, and that relationship with her obviously,
the connection with with her with her baby boy absolutely,
uh you know that whole the relationship between my two daughters,
and and doing whatever I can to continue to help
facilitate that. So but it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It was cool.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's a yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, you got a cool grandpa name. We got
pop pop. I'm Paul, I'm Paul, Paul.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
What's your grandpa name GP? GP? Yeah? Why GP sounds
like a race car driver.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
GP, because because again, I mean, you know, they're they're
from the panel and everything, so grandpa.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Because I'm trying to figure it out. I was thinking
Angel Rivera, like.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I was, I was his name, I was, I was campaigns.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I just let the kid call me Angel.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
It's like, no, because everyone needs, you know, and all
the good so all the good nicknames are taken care of.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know, she's got a step dad. Uh, he's got
the cool name.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Uh, you know, he's got grandma either, like all the
cool names. And I was like, I'll just go just
we'll teach him GP.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Then yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, so it was ran.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Out.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah yeah, so it.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Was again just super uh being in Niceville, being in
Cressview destined all of that is again, I find that awesome.
I was out there looking at the bay there and
just really kind of you know, changing perspective kind of
thing for for me. So it was it was important.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How often do you think you'll be able to see him? Uh?
So that's what we're working on now.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
So she my oldest she started a new job there, uh,
State Attorney's office, and so there's a lot of settling
down and things that are changing there. And we've already talked.
So spring break was the one that I was thinking
I was gonna be able to go. But my fourteen
year old, she's already going on another cruise. She went,
she went on a Christmas cruise. She's going on this
(10:00):
cruise again.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Like that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, she's double digits already. So that's a big running
gag there.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You should go on one with her and she could
show you the ropes that would that would be good
for you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
You're setting things aside and remember having fun baby and
so so yeah, so it was just it was that
it was really a lot of family concentrated time and
just kind of you know, letting things uh materialize in
front of me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
For for Christmas, you know, I got to see both
my grandkids, and I have successfully bought off my in
it like like he knows Grandpa because I buy him
presents all the time. Yeah, but r Raya like like
like she's still like I haven't won her over yet, Like.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
She like I'm come here and she's crying, and I'm like,
I guess I need to step up from the president.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
She's a baby, I know. But I was like crushing
it though with this kid.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I was able to like get him to fall asleep
in my arms and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, we hit it. He and I
hit it off pretty well. That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
For Like, for on New Year's Day, for good luck,
I brought Begnet's over. I found this really cool Louisiana,
New Orleans kind of style cafe. So I brought fresh
beignets to the house and then took the little guy
with the daughters and we went to the beach and
we put our feet in the sand. We had did
you do you guys do this call of greens, black
eyed peas, and corn bread for New Year's Day meal.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Maryill like, yeah I did all that, and I was like, okay,
this is I like this. I like this nutrient did
like we were doing all the things to welcome positive
energy fortune.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah. Yeah, it was cool to do that with them.
You know, that's good. That's good.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, we'll talk about New Year's resolutions and looking for
New year and stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So what did you do for New Year's Eve? Like
you stay up at night with them? So we were
I was good.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I was gonna chime in when you were telling about this, dude,
I was I was in bed probably whatever the football
game that was on that night. Ye watched that football
game at the house. We had pizzas.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I watched a little bit of it too.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I forget who played on New Year's ef. That was
the first of the four the Sugar Bowl or some
of the old textan it was the first of the
bowl games of the because there was four of them,
so it was that one that night, and then there
was three New Year's Day. So the one that one
we watched that game.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Or is that the one from Orlando promoting this was.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
One of the college football playoff games. And so then
so we watched that and everything, and then it was
probably eight thirty nine o'clock at everybody, I mean everybody,
babies been put to bed. My daughters are both you know,
kind of sleepy eye, and I think, I what was it.
I think we were gonna watch we were gonna watch
(12:55):
something else. But I look around it everyone's like kind
of falls and I was like, come on, let's go.
Because we had a hotel like just right up the
road from the place where they live, Blue Ridge, And
so yeah, got in the car. New Year's Eve night,
police everywhere right everywhere because it's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Got to the hotel. Dude, I was asleep by nine. Yeah,
it was fun.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I woke up the following morning to uh just like
just waking up and then looking out and see the
water and everything, and uh just dude, like you know,
they was like like I had missed New Year's Eve
to New Year's Day kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We were in Panama City beach, right, and I went
out and bought this whole charkouterie board thing, all the
cheeses and all the meats and I got and I
got a champagne for you know, to pop off at
midnight and all that stuff. And then we went to
a winery that day, a beautiful winery in Panama City Beach,
and we did wine tasting, which was fun and met
a bunch of people and everything, and then we went
(13:51):
out to this bar and we're drinking some more and
I'm you know, and by the time we got back,
I mean we would just we had had a whole
day of basically party and Mary Ellen fell asleep at
like eight thirty and then I woke up and when
the ball drop came and I was gonna wake her up,
I'm like, as she's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So I just watched the ball.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Drop by myself and all to see all the chacuterie
stuff was all laid out.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And we didn't I didn't open the wine and we
didn't see any of that. Didn't watch a minute of
New Year's Eve broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It was good, like once again, you know, And I
know he's part of this company right in Seacrest.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
He seems like a nice guy, but he's just so
he's he's done that on purpose. He's not like Dick Clark.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Dick Clark at least had some I don't know, like
I don't know, I can't I can't explain it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
But I wish he was like Bob sagger was Like
you see Bob Saggon on TV and you're like, what
a wholesome vanilla guy, and then you see a stand
up and like, my god, this man's a psycho.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh well, maybe there's there's a bit of that somewhere
in the background. Dark stories with him had some Oh
but you know what, I know, we're late.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
But he was throwing it back to his old ex girlfriend,
Uh Julianne Huff. Julianne Huff was in UH in Vegas,
but he wouldn't say her name, and she didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
She didn't. She was with Gronk, So he would.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Talk to Gronk and not her, and then Grenk would
talk to him, and yeah, it was kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
He doesn't seem the kind of guy that would hold
a grudge like that. I don't think he was on
the grudge. They just didn't interact, you know, because they
used to date. ADSM. Dungeon. All right, we gotta take
a break.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We come back and find out about Ryan because Ryan
had looks like a great time now. Of course, you
know it can look great, but you know, Ryan can
make it sound horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Who knows. I know the New Year's resolution, everything was fine,
was good.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't believe it. All right, we'll find out when
we come back. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the
March of the Morning. You know, ain't noticed all the
all the trash that they left out there, you know,
like they took everything out of here and they just
(15:51):
left stuff out. You know, is left is the Christmas
gift I gave Ryan, just sitting out there like it's trash,
like he could care less.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's where it went. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh my god,
just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No I took that home.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You just left it around. That's a pretty value.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And then you're just really nearly just eating meat sticks
that you find around after the I played it during
best of the adventure that you had of eating the
mysterious meat sticks.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
There's additional drawer meat back there that they found somewhere. Hey,
you're just gonna rip it open and eat it now,
you ain't. You ain't changed a bit in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
It doesn't expiral six. Yeah, okay, perfectly good draw meat. Hey,
by the way, guys, we have we have breakfast coming
to us. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I heard Jenny from First Watch said, Okay, I guess
something happened at the end of last year where First
Watch was gonna bring us.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Food and they can't.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
They they didn't know how to get into the elevator
or something like that. Okay, well they feel bad about that,
so they wanted to make up for it, so they're
bringing us.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Breakfast this morning. So I figured that puts you all
in a good mood. That's a great news level First Watch.
Fantastic way to start the new year. When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
She just said, she just sent me tracking here, so
she's got the tracking thing, and I said, can you text.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Me when you get here? So there you go. We'll
start off a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I remember that that person was afraid of elevators, so
they wouldn't come all the way up to the fourth floor.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's it, And I guess they got someone else to
bring it because because they see here.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I always really enjoyed the best of you, picked Angel,
because I would drive around and our station's always just
set to real radio. As we get in the car, right,
and I'll hear myself and it's such a weird experience.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'll never get tired of that. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And then I forget about all the fun stuff we do.
And then Angel throws it into a best of it.
I'm like, oh, yeah, I heard.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
A lot of great, great things about the best of
you pick, especially on Christmas Day. I had so many
people thanking me for what you played on Christmas Day
and I'm like, it wasn't my Angel played it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
It was the whole bubba, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, I like doing that on Christmas Day. I don't know,
it's just it seems like the you know, the right
day to do that. So I definitely advantage of that.
And then on some of the other days, like I'll
definitely lean on the interviews. Yeah, I played all the
best interviews I thought that we had for the year.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I used to be like that where I would listen,
but by fine, I get obsessive and then I have
to listen for the entire five hours and I'm wasting
my time. So I can't listen to best of anymore.
I had to train myself not to do it. I'm
trying to be a better person Ryan every day. I'm
trying every single day, and we'll talk about our news
resolutions and my thing this year. But I want to
find out about your trip. I I you know, I
(18:31):
follow you guys off obviously on social I saw the
picture of Angel and his grandson and stuff. I'm like, oh,
that's so cool. So I that, but that's pretty much
all you posted. You didn't post a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Like I said, this, Uh, this break was definitely about
kind of just recentering, refocusing and really spending time with
like I said, my nephew, you know, uh connected and
try to chill with him, with my parents definitely, and
then uh with uh, you know, with my daughters, and
and uh with this.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Cool little grand baby. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, yeah, So Riot I saw I saw one post
and I'm oh, I guess Ryan's not home for the
for the holidays. And then and then I saw another
post where you were in Texas and you went out
and you and you did stand up comedy for the
Kill Tony Show.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And not for Kill Tony. I signed up for kill
to explain what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Because I I just and I was like, oh my god,
he's gonna crush it. Tell me what happened. And I
did notice that you were not home for the holidays.
Your mom was not happy about that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, best Christmas, average Ryan. No, I like, I like it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I uh I, but I look, I only get two
guaranteed weeks off a year. They happened at the end
of the year. And that's the thing. My mom is like,
you're not going to be here for Christmas. And I'm like, Ma,
you lived down the street from me, you see me
all the time. We could have our Christmas before or
after or do whatever. But I only get two weeks off,
and I got to take advantage of these opportunities when
(19:59):
they come.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sorry she put a post out. I was like, oh yeah, yeah,
well I guess Chris. Sure, I'm gonna miss you guys
for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'm like, oh boy, I get it, I get it.
She only had so many left. But uh hold damn,
but you got something.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But again, I'm here three hundred and you know fifty
days out of the year you can come.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Come.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
We lived so far away from you. Oh yeah, that
said one mile one mile away. My mom lives. She
loves her son.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh my god, anythingtle post I put something up or whatever,
and She's like, that doesn't Oh, I did one of
those things where it was like Happy New Year's and
I put it in AI so it change our clothing
this time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That doesn't look like Ryan.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Like.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
She gets so defensive over you, which it's so funny,
but she.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Got calmed down, realized we're doing a show, and then
we hijinks are doing Sue. But yeah, so I I
was sitting there on Monday after the break. You know,
I got a nice little weekend. I did you know,
the Standard did kettle corn at the Winter part farmers
Market and we were planning on just staying in town.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, and that would have been fine, But I don't know, man,
I think I'm having like a midlife crisis.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Right. So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking about it,
and I'm like, you know, cause a lot of my
friends like I do pretty well for myself. I really
enjoy being on this show. I'm I'm local celebrity slash
hero Ryan Holmes here.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
In town of course.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, And I got to stop comparing myself to other people, right,
But when the other people that I'm comparing myself to
are people like Preacher Lawson and Cam Patterson and these
people that have like really blown up and become like
major stars. It's hard sometimes it's very hard for me
to do that, right, And I'm like, Okay, I should
take the stand up side of my career more seriously
because I do let the radio become an all encompassing
(21:45):
thing and it is a lot. There's a lot to
do here and it takes up a lot of mental
you know, faculty to do this part because you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Do realize those two names you said there are a
lot of people that listen to this, and like, I
don't know who those guys are, but I know who
Ryan Holmes is.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
That's true because again local celebrity slash hero Ryan Holmes,
but like I don't know, so I was like, okay,
I know that, Like Texas is like Austin, Texas specifically,
is this mecca for stand up comedy now for a
bunch of various reasons, right, And I'm like, I was
sitting there in my chair in my office. I was
just playing a video game and I'm like I just
(22:20):
had this like bug and I'm like what am I doing?
Like I'm just wasting time doing this? I should I
should just I should go and do something and try
to like advance my career a little bit further. Okay,
So I looked up flights and all I was like,
I've always want to do this too, where I just
(22:41):
take off.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, you know what I mean. My wife's down too.
We don't have we got a dog.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
My mom could take care of the dog, or we
could border. So it's like we don't have kids, so
we can kind of get up and go and we
don't ever do it. So I'm like, we're going. So
I look up the flights, and.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
The flights for four hundred and fifty dollars. Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, because we were going to do a christ cruise,
but the Christmas cruise was like it was getting kind
of expensive when we added everything up.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
So they're like, okay, well Texas is gonna be cheaper.
It turns out when you fly willy nilly like I do,
it's not cheaper. So I talked to my.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Wife and she's like, she's like, look, if you want
to do this, this is important to you, we can
get it. We'll get on the planet.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I can.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I can have us packed in like thirty minutes. Yeah,
And I was like are you sure. It's like yes,
and I'm like that's why I love you. Uh So
we packed fast. I mean we literally just grabbed clothes,
threw them into a into the bag and just take
off for Texas. It's because Kill Tony films on Monday nights. Okay,
so I have to beat to the sign up in Austin,
(23:40):
Texas by five o'clock to do the show that starts
at eight.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Right, And from what I what you've explained to me before,
there's no guarantee you're gonna get on the show. You
go and and you and hopefully they draw your name
and hopefully you get on stage.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Is that accurate? Yes? And so we fly out there.
I go.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Now when you sign up, there's two sign ups right
then they happen at the same time. There's the one
where you can do the show at the Comedy Mothership
in the main room and they pick you know, sixteen
people out of two hundred, and then Kill Tony, which
is you know that they picked maybe eight names out
of like three hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, so I was able to get it's just willy
nilly or it's willing. It's a bucket pull.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So it's not by your reputation. It's nothing like that.
We know who this guy is.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
That's part of the stick is that they got the
bucket right there and he's just pulling names out there.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah, I've never watched it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Some people have signed up, you know, hundreds of times,
have never gotten picked, and some people have signed up
very few amount of times been on the show, like
four or five times.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And like part of the evolution is that another part
of it. And I don't know if you've got to
experience this, Ryan, but waiting in line outside has also
become a thing, and there are guys that have become
a little bit infamous, notorious famous by doing kind of
working that outside area to go on on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, so I was, you know, I signed up and
I got and I got selected to go onto the
Mothership's main room. Wow, like you know, the main comedy
club of the country right now.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
So it's just like Willy Nilly Luck. You got Willi
Nilly Luck, and I flew out there on a Monday
and a whim. That's awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Part of success, by the way, it's just showing up.
A lot of people don't show up, they don't go,
they don't they just sit and cry that they are
not going to make it. So what you did was
absolutely I respect it. It's perfect. So you get out
there and you and you get to go on stage.
So why did they give you five minutes?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
No, you only get three three minutes, three minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
All of Austin, Texas is three minute comedy sets, which
is so weird because here and everywhere else I've ever
been in the country.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's five minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
So then I got to like, so, if I'm going
on stage, I'm just gonna use my closer, right, Yeah,
but I know that my closer takes about five minutes,
so I have to like cut it down to three,
which is actually way harder to do then I thought
it would be. But I actually did really well. I
mean the first like six people went up in front
of me and they bombed hard, and I'm like, oh,
(26:02):
this audience is like this is not gonna work out.
And then I went up, opened the audience up. It
was crazy. He crushed it, and then uh so I
felt good, Like, so, no matter what happened for the
rest of the you know, eight days in Texas, I've
already won, you know what I mean? Yeah, because I'm like, Okay,
I did a thing. The booker for the comedy club
saw me talk to him for a second. It was great, great,
(26:24):
great great. So then I signed up for kill Tony
And that is a it is like a mini kind
of like I once did America Idol and went to
that audition which was like at a stadium, and then
you know there's like ten thousand people trying to sign
up for stuff. Uh, this is like a mini version
of that, except every at the bar that that's next door,
(26:45):
they have ten.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Dollars liquor pictures and everybody's drinking those.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
So like so everybody like who's there to like theoretically
advanced their career and might basically get this lotto ticket,
it's getting hammered, not taking it that seriously, which is interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And so I'm you know, they're all for I'm making friends,
you know, I'm talking to people.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
A lot of a lot of comedians there, so like
it's kind of like you know, if you're a comedian,
you go to another town, you find other comedians, you're
just you're just in and you can talk to anybody.
But like they're like, oh for me these liquor pictures,
I'm like, I can't, Like, what am.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I gonna do?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Go on to stage like super slobby, drunk and one
this one girl got picked and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh hard and uh but it's a long wait.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I mean like you're waiting from well theoretically five o'clock
until eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So you made it to get on the stage. No,
I never made it on Kiltony actually stayed till next Monday.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Extended my trip to try to try again because I
try to be strategic about it because at the end
of the year, around Christmas and New Year's Eve, they
get less people that sign up, like a significantly less.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So I was like, okay, that's better. Better's my chances.
But day was good. It was good.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I got a lot of thoughts and opinions about Texas.
I say, I've heard a lot about my entire life.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Let's do that.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I want to find out about Texas. About the rest
of your trip. I saw you did a Christmas tree lighting.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, we're talking about that and we are going to
do trivia. But I want to get everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I want to find out everybody had you know, their
their vacation ones and everything. So we're going to catch up.
We'll do trivia. We got nerdy news coming up. We
got all kinds of good stuff. Mantras are back. Don't
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That's seven seven zero three.
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Speaker 3 (29:40):
We're going to it.
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Speaker 3 (30:18):
All right. So Ryan, you were in Texas. You did
get to get on the stage for uh you know,
it was the kill Tony stage or the is the
Comedy Mother Show. It's the same building as when kill
Tony's happened and you killed it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You did a great three minutes. Yeah, and and and
had a great time, felt good about it, had a
good time. Decided to stay out in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Austin text for a week. Yeah, so that's a long time.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It is anywhere, it is a long time, and it's
a long time to be in Austin, Texas, which, uh,
it's like it probably would have been better if if I,
you know, gone out through during the year, because a
lot of comedy shows I wanted to get on were
actually shut down for the holidays. So we had to
fun other stuff to do because my wife is there
and she wants to be a tourist as well, and
she can't do comedy every single night apparently. Yeah, so
(31:07):
we got we got to tour around Austin in a
little bit of Texas, and we went to another town
called Fredericksburg. But man, like Texas talks a big game nationally,
you know what I mean, Like people always like everything's
bigger and better in Texas and blah blah blah. Look,
I only saw Austin, Okay, And I understand that Austin
is to keep it weird capital. It's a it's a
(31:28):
liberal city in the middle of a sea of red right.
But I gotta say, man, I have never seen more
homeless people in my entire life, really, like an army
of homeless people. And I'm and you could ask and
you'd get you'd get fifteen different reasons why this is
happening in Austin, as well as far as like some
people are like, oh they bust them in and some
(31:48):
summer like they've always been here. It's crazy though, is
the first time I ever stepped in full human feces?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Which was like, which is the eye opening experience when
I when that happen?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Because uh, shoes on, right, had some shoes on, But
it happened me and my wife was like, my wife
walk a little bit behind me.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I step in it. She steps in. It happens very fast,
and my wife goes, please tell me that was dog.
And it makes a difference. Apparently for her it makes
a huge difference. You know it would for me too,
Like it was dog. I'm like, okay, if it's a human, yeah,
yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
And it was the thing about human feces is you
generally only see it in a toilet, so it looks.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Small in capacity.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, this is it was a lot and it was
like and once you started noticing the feces, it's kind
of all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
People ask me about that with New Orleans and I
did not experience anything like that in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, and I saw there.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Were a couple homeless paper I'm not gonna say they
were none, but it was not overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It wasn't like there was a ton you know.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I don't want to be clear when I talked about this, okay,
because they have like the Austin Resources Homeless Center, and uh,
there's a version of homeless that is homeless. It's people struggling,
like like what we raise money for things like that happen.
These are your homeless people that is drugs right, and
they are out on the street and a lot of
(33:10):
them like it's it's that they look drug addled and
they are friendly is a is a minor word.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
They will just come up to you. They will ask
for money.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I was walking back with just my to go food, right,
and they were like, let me get that, like I
must have like just from a like a one mile
walk from this restaurant I went to back. I had
like seven or eight different ones to be like, hey,
let me get that food, and I'm like, this is
my food.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm also gonna eat this, and they'd be like, oh,
you don't care.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It was aggressive, homeless, aggressive homeless, nothing worse.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
And I guess, like from what people were telling me,
Texas is short on police officers, right. They're they're missing
about three hundred or so depending based on their population size.
And it's evident too because actually didn't see a ton
of police, which is which is interesting. What I did
see was hey, it's Texas, so a lot of people
are open carry. And then the other thing is they
(34:05):
have this private security force that's out there with like
that are fully armed and they so they have badgers
that and like they're wearing tactical vests and it just
says security, right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
But they're not police.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
And then there's a third section of like and they're
just like the Austin City Safety Team, which is just
guys that like wear bright yellow vests and on bicycles
trying to help people out, the problem with it is
I got a really nice hotel, right, and it's in
the heart of downtown. I'm down the street from the
(34:39):
Capitol building, but the second i'd walk out, it becomes
like zombie apocalypse land. And if you weren't on certain
streets and very aware of like where you were going,
and it felt less safe than when I was in Argentina.
Like at one point I just bought a knife because
it felt like I needed it to walk around because
(35:00):
we didn't have a car, so we try to walk
everywhere like we were like in like some fancy city
what not. Not the best walking city in the world. No,
so we But the other thing is they got waymos there, guys,
and uh, waymos.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
What's that? Oh they're robot taxis. Bro Oh they are.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
They're full on, fully automated, no driver Jaguar taxis that
pick you up and you don't have to interact with anybody.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
That was beautiful. I love them.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
The first time you get in one of these robot taxis,
it is terrifying and you're like, oh, it's definitely gonna
mow over a group of people. Because we only hear
the bad stories, right right, we hear the one that
like because right before we laughed, it was that one
that got into the gunfight and just kept trying to go.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
A felony stop in Florida and uh yeah, it was
a felony stop here in Orlando.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, and it's just here there. There are different parts
of Orlando, but they're here. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I love them because every time I got into a
car with an Uber driver, they were psychos. Really, Oh
my goodness, Texas odes Is it's worse than I for
They got like their main vats I thirty five that
goes through it's super Hella under construction. Uh, it just
kind of veers off at certain places and and and
(36:13):
it was awful. So to get in the robot car
was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I could see that. I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
In New Orleans, it seemed like everybody who was, you know,
driving for lyftor or what's the other one, Uber or whatever.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
It's like they were a part of the I don't know,
the committee to make you want to come back to
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
They were so friendly and nice and like telling you
where to you know, hey, you should go try this,
and they had their act. I can't I can't do
the accent, but they all shot so friendly. I had
a totally different experience.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, I didn't find the people of Austin to be
the friendliest people. They weren't unfriendly, they just I don't know,
it's going through this major transition because all those tech
companies moved there. I mean, like Samsung's there now, Google Tesla,
and so I'm even Florida, even though Florida is not
the South, I would say, we're pretty friendly people down
(37:04):
here overall.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
And I just didn't find that same vibe there. You
didn't find that.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Did you get a chance though, to like because what
people from Austin will tell you is that all of
that is not Austin. South By Southwestern is in Austin.
You know, the Comedy Mothership isn't Austin. All of that
that's come to Austin isn't Austin. And that if you
want to really genuinely experience that, you've got to get
out of like say, like the downtown proper and get
(37:32):
out to the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
A lot of people very mad. What's happening to Austin
a lot of natives.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Yeah, because and the amount that Austin has changed, it
has been in a very short period of time. It's
been we're talking like four to five years tops, where
like it went from this like super weird city to
kind of this tech paradise and the whole vibe is shifted.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
So whatever, it's fine, just fix your streets.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
You got a governor in a wheelchair, you think you'd
have better handicap acs this in a lot of places.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Damn it. I just felt like that.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Also, Texas very proud of Texas themselves, but no one's
from there anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
It's a lot like.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Florida now, where everybody I met wasn't a native for
the most part. And I'm not talking just the comedians.
I was just like I would be out and about
talking like the waiters and stuff like that. No one's
from there anymore. But when you go to that Texas capital.
First of all Florida, we got update our capital. Okay,
Texas has a big fu state capital. It's bigger than
the White House. And I like it that it's got
(38:30):
a history behind it, because it's like they're like, oh,
we're Texas, We're our own nation, and Washington doesn't tell
us what to do. So we purposely faced our capital
away from Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
And I like a pettiness of it. It's good.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
They're also big fans of Davy Crockett there, like when
you walk in, who, by the way, is a real person?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I didn't know that. I thought he was made up.
I thought he was a made up person, like Daniel Boone.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I thought, like, who's the guy that like did that
raced the train, the hammer and the nails John Henry.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, I thought it was like a John Henry. No,
he's real. He's a real guy.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
All right, let's let's we have to take a break.
I'm gonna give you tip money. We have a food
out there for us. Grab some food.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
When we come back, we're gonna do trivia. Okay.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
We got a chance for you guys to win some stuff,
so you want you might want to get on the line.
The first trivia winner of two thy twenty six is
about to happen. So here's the phone number. Four O
seven nine one six one oh four one. Uh, we'll
do a little trivia. We also got Monster Sports coming up.
We got nerdy news man. We're already to eight o'clock.
How'd that happen?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
We just it's good to be back.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
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