Daily Insomnia Episode 351 - Do Better

In this episode, the crew were sipping on Gammal’s tequila concoction while diving deep into some big changes. The boys have been doing some soul-searching and have officially brought in a new producer for the podcast! They also take a moment to reflect on the recent passing of a great Chicago comedian and break down exactly how NOT to run a comedy club. All this and so much more—tune in for laughs, insights, and some much-needed real talk!  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, welcome back, Damian Sami. Have this episode three
fifty one coming to you from another monyhatas God.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Got busy, we got basic, I got busy.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We're not busy. We're not We're being extremely lazy and
we're not doing what brought us to the party.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know what we were. We've been soul searching. That's
why I did.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I've been soul searching.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm just trying to stay live.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Every day.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Every day I look at that news and I'm like,
looks so right.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, I have a bullet engraved in my name. I'm
just trying to add you as soon, dude, you.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Know, just putting my initial at this point. Don't the
whole names this r p R people do. Our people
do just.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Is over there. But hey, like I say, we have soul searching. Guys.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I've been saying they want to get a third person.
We finally, we finally did. In the Sues today our
first daily song producer. We have Alex Roombos.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
He rooms, okay, rooms.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, you know America has gone down. We have
two Mexicans hiring a white guy. What's going on with
I hate it?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Dude, Bring it back, make America America again.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Right, Yeah, they're taking her job.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
They're taking her job, dude. Now they're host to get
out of here, dud.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
But no, no, we're we're thinking about having you for
the time.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Man, glad. Yeah, she kind of magic we can make.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do you know how many people we in the job
and they're like, yeah, we'll do it And they're like, no,
not really.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well I'm not getting booked right now.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I got you, got it the moment I get booked up, dude,
with the rest of them, dude, But no, dud, we
appreciate man, I know we we know you come through
Alex Ramon's brother.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But you have a passion for this, already.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Doing comedy, been doing a little bit more production work
here and there.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
You guys open the door, said why not, I'll try
it out.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's that's that's beautiful, man.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
To see what we can do.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, who knows. This might be the first day,
first of last.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
The first land, but you gotta watch for next episode.
See if I'm back another different one.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Hey, guys, d back just toos. No, man, we had
the prepodcast before this. You know, I got a couple
of the demons out. I got a couple of demons out,
you know, we got in tune with our souls. We
talked about the comedy scene. We talked about little little hiccups,
a couple of naughty boys, a few naughty boys.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Man, I'm one of the good ones.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
A bunch of good ones here, you know, Amna the
cloffee dude, you know, but you know, it's it's always fun,
it's always want to have a conversation. But the insight
what's going on in comedy, especially here in Chicago. And
you know, obviously I wish we could record it, put

(02:56):
it out there, but I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You're get in trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
People get booked again.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
I mean, if you read between the lines, you can
figure it out. It's not that hard.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Hey, just joined the comedy groups Chicago. You'll find the
whole team, all the teams up there. Honestly, all the
teams up there. That's up to you if you want to.
You want to see it or now, dude.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
People love dropping hints.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
People love drama. People love drama.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know, it's crazy. Man, I just had fucking dayjavu
right now, Okay, right now, it meant I had had
da like you said that and then I looked over
here and I was like, oh ship, I've seen this
already right to non believers, is real. My my younger brother,
he doesn't believe in daja vu and I tell him
I have that ship all the time.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
He told me he's never had a moment of day.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
He says, it's a memory. It's similar to something you've
already done. And you just your brain starts thinking like
that it's a new memory, but it's just a past memory.
Does that makes sense?

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I can't see that, But I also know there's fucking daja.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You've never been here, no first time here, never happened.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
You don't watch My favorite theory when it comes to
that that it's a moment where every every dimension, every connection,
so that one particular moment and you all get the
same feeling. Oh I've been here ready, but it's just
your other self going to the same thing for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
For sure, like me and them, we've had this conversation before,
like what version, like you know in the multi dimension world, right,
there's you know if in a number of the malls,
if the numbers or moans and different numbers of alets.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Right, there's only one.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Was named He's the rogue scarlet which scarlet witch?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, the proxy. No, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
But we joke around about like where we fall. We
fall in the lines of all all Vermonents, like all
the Greats?

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Is that movie? Everywhere? Everything all at once? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
where you're total.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
This guy hasn't the same thought that he's somewhere near
the top, which it makes no sense. It makes no
sense whatsoever. He has a roommate, he's thirty three.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I just moved out and got I got my own
place thirty four.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Due. I don't want to talk about that.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
I'm sincere. I'm like, I'm I'm somewhere near the bottom.
I'm nowhere. If I'm the greatest ramon that's been around,
that's a sad day for a moment, you know what
I'm saying, this is the best, then it's a sad
day as well.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
That is true. That is true to uh.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Two men in their early thirties room together, following dreams, Dude,
following dream That's all we're doing.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Man on a half nowhere literally is going to be
going on hill.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
We're chasing the ghosts man.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Ghost the highs and lows. Man can always be high.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're chasing a high, that's all.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's all we do.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
What do you think you fall?

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Honestly, if there's a number of me, it'd probably be
a small number, probably like fifty. Okay, but i'd be
like number probably like number like thirty five out of
the fifty right there. Yeah, I'm a good worker. I know,
I'm a jack of all trades, but like a master
of none.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
I know a little bit of lot, a little bit
of a little bit of about a lot, but I
don't know a lot about a little yeah, except like
one or two things.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, okay, that's all I know.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's fair.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
That's my life path. That's where I'm working at.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's a sensible answer. That's an answer of a man
who understands. You got me to illusion over here? You know,
a dark magician over here.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well, I've lived through the paths.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Like so, I used to live with my mom on
the South Side, So like growing up, my dad was
like when you're eighteen, then he or sixteen, you can
decide who you want to live with. And then finally
my dad pushed for it. He's like, fuck dad, he's
not doing good in school. He's moving with me. But
it was like I was living on the south side
in Bridgeport. I was gonna go to Saint Rita daya south,
but no. Then I moved to the north side out
of nowhere, and it's like, Okay, now what high school

(06:47):
you're going to go do? What group of friends are
you gonna roll with?

Speaker 4 (06:48):
This and that?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
And it's like I branched off and I was like,
if I would have stayed down there, I would have
been a completely different person.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
And it was like this fucking close too, man.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, yeah, but that's all it is. That's the fork
in the road, right when it's like, hey, I would
have gotten on this road, you know, so then you know,
you know, it's almost gonna have been married. Yeah, someone
was gonna have kids this.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Point, gonna be married and miserable.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right, we don't know, we don't know, but but we're
all here right now.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Things happen for a reason.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
At an apartment in Chicago, our lives in our middle thirties.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
We all want spot right out there.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
And it's how he finally met you. I've known your
brother for a minute. Yeah, he brought up them all
one night. He introduced me, got to talking. One night
we're all at Lincold lunch together and then oh we.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Bump into each other. Hey, let's get this ship fucking
going about you guys.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You were the last cognit wheel Like, all right, man,
we finally you know you're interested. Let's just try it out.
You see how it goes. Obtually, we see how the
prepodcast going.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's flowing.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm all right, cool man, we see future. That's the
last cob. We need to really get this ship happed up. Man.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know, because we've been doing this for it's gonna
be eight years in July. Yeah, eight years ago.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
While we still now since we went to college, right right,
you know, we've we focus more on Demon Hour. We've
given them more of our attention.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Even our great show. Go check it out in our
comedy though.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
We're March fourteen and the Link Lodge at nine p m.
Tickets only fifteen dollars. Make sure you guys lock in
your seats. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. You
can find the link there. Get your tickets. It is
selling out. We are selling out every time we do
the show at the nine pm slot, So make sure
takes early. Yeah, takes early.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, Watkins very very limited.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's almost known almost.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, we have one.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Whatt up the guys. So you love the show, you're
a big fan.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Missed out something own chair, Yeah, say say you know
you think you think one of the producers really cute.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
You set on my lamp. I'll sit in back.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Sign right out of like you out of here, damn man.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
But yes, I mean talking about Demon hard.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, get Demon, get your tickets for Demon our comedy guys,
it's it's it's only gotten better since we moved to
nine oclock show. It's like the audiences, it's morawdy, it's honest,
more fun.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
It's bring energy.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
We found that sweet spot and we knew we would
because we were like, we can get the show at
a later time slot. It's gonna kill even more. It's
gonna be easter cell tickets. You know that's not gonna
be us. Like a boy would get suicidal every every
fridayough every Friday bro seven pm slot. We would be
at fifteen tickets or like low right, and we knew

(09:25):
we were gonna get that last bump on Friday, but
that from like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, this guy would
be like, man, dude, what are we doing wrong?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Man?

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Hey, man's getting hot in the room. Man was going hot, man, And.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'm about to open the windows.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sometimes, I mean, you know, you know this. And in
the summer, comedy dies a little bit. In the city.
People want to be outdoors.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
People want to right now after the new year, you
get that little bit of a lall where it's just
too cold.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, people do want to go out, but it's like
it's just too fucking cold out for sure.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
For sure.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then it's like, you know what's nice day.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's Friday. I need to get the fun out. I
want to laugh my ass off, have some fun. Yeah,
and you guys have a good show to where it's
interactive to it's not just exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
But the thing is that and I and this is
my spiel when I do this, when I'm having people
walk in the door, I go, look, the shows don't
even be as good as you wanted to be. Yeah, right,
because if you want to give us a good confession,
it's gonna make the show so much better. And you
can give us something stupid where we're like, iarn't when
I'm walking around, Yeah, dude, cool. Yeah, So its ninety
nine point nine.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
The population fin ass right now.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
The only people that are not walking around a pair
of pletics, all right, they all the time.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, I just can't feel it.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I can't feel it. They don't know they put on.
But before we go down this rabbit hole of what
daily and somnie is, come on, what do we drinking?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
First of all?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
This disappointed?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
You're disappointed.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm a little disappointed because yeah, because next time you
sell the show, drink too, man the last minute and beautiously. Yeah,
I took boy, took a nap.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Anything today?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Iok, I took a nap. I took it. That's a
hard day, right, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Do anything today, but go ahead.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
But no, we were drinking today.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
The original uh not original. It's just we take the
squirt and my boy couldn't come up with a drink.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
All right, I'm enjoying this.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't know I'm doing it too.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Next time?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
All right, come heavy, put up the put up the questionnaire.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Next time, throw a little little garnish, maybe make believe
there's beautiful I'll put next.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Time is all I got.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Don't be a bartender, be a mixed exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, I know God. Usually the next episode you'll be like, ah,
this is quality.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I would have so many ingredients to work with.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I wouldn't I want to make something fantastic. Bro Like
you would have been like, oh, you should be a bartend.
I'm like, no, you know, I.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Work for everything, Barton.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
You should be a comedian. Dude, you should be whatever
married to.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
No, don't do that. Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
He wants to, dude wants to want to want it hard, man,
he just has to find the second part.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
You know, I can see myself getting married, no kids, whatsoever.
That's just I'm the last of my name, so I
kind of want to carry that honor of let it
die with me.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
You spread at least once. Yeah, hed a name like Ramble?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, why would you want to let there's only one me?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Man?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
It looks just a million ten billions, is right? Garbage? Right, Rambles.
I want to bet one I.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Do a show with like three different deeds enough.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
To stop breathing.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Rambles.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
We gotta we gotta get old ladies.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
If you're out there, hit me up. I don't know
my own company do jiu jitsu comedy.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
But yeah, belt boot damn okay.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
I just know how to get my better sucked in.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
The street fight. You take the guy down, all right,
all right cool?

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Unless he knows MMA, then I'm getting my sp.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You're like, you're like, let me get in my bag.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Real qick, give me your the other. You're doing it wrong.
Let me do this to you.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
You have a collar, so I can come in with
the collar.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
My boy, the concrete. You get a kick?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Are you doing?

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Are you doing just with G or non gee?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
I do both both. Yeah, they're both fun in their
own right. I mean, no, G.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
A lot of guys like it better just because you know,
it's harder because you don't have to grab on to
it's more wrestling too. Used to do that in high school.
Do a little m m A boxing striking you a
little background.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, my boy kills somebody basically basically what it is.
We have.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
We have two killers and some guys.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm a lover too.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
I never get in the fights. Nobody, nobody. If you're
if you if you know how to fight, you never
get ah.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
But every time.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
My buddy Greg, who works with Alex, his uncle owns
the bar, him and me train together.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'll show up to the bar like an hour later.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
After them, and they're like, you just missed them, Like
what like we just kicked out some drunk asshole he
started ship.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
I grabbed him like, I'm like, why do I always
miss this ship? Man?

Speaker 5 (14:08):
I'm like, let me let me just sock somebody wants
to choke him out. Let me get something out of it.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
You know that's a reality bit man, because I was
one time. That's just give them all same thing. Man,
Like I did martial arts, corn up and didn't moved
high to Russell to high school.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Killer boxing and hands registered right now, dude.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Weapons that can't be a rough schools.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I can't walk in the store, no, but there is.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
I never want to start a fight. I don't want
to fight anybody. I don't want I don't want it,
but there was, this was a part of me. I'm
just like, let me just throttle hands once.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
It's think all my friends would get into fights and ship.
I try to break it up, but they're like, you're
so well mannered, where like you try to cool everything off.
You're like, we can kick his ass, but let's not
do It's gonna be too much ship. But they're like,
somebody is really pisses me off. To like, we're gonna
have to pull you off, Like that's what we're afraid
of them.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Like that's what I thought. This guy too, I'm like,
you see black. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I'm afraid.
I was see red and that's not good.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Not black.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
We'll still see black.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I'm sorry, we see black. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
You great, dude, I've been I told him on the story, Dude,
I was breaking up a fight house party on the
country and also I see a group of people just
start going at it and go in trying, you know,
break people, you.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Know, break up the fight. Know what are we doing?
We're partying, you know, we're trying to good time.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
One one hit in the back of the head, I
literally did a one eighty and just walk my ass off, due.
I don't need to do this, you know, it's not
my fight. What am I doing this? And knock the
sense into me, bro, I don't need to ever stop
a fight. Let them kill each other, my not my beef.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Last time I got hit, I didn't even I wasn't
even in the fight. We're at the bar, two random chicks,
our chicks were there. We were drinking all day everyone's
all fucked up. These chicks started ship with our chicks.
I'm out back having to smoke. I come inside one
of the guys that hangs out the bar. This huge
guy's breaking.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Up the chicks.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
They're grabbing each other hair, pound, pounding each other in
the face, this and that. You get it broken up.
I get the one chick outside. She wasn't starting ship.
It was her friend that was about like five foot nothing.
So like, I'm outside, they're handing me the purse, the glasses,
the phones like there.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
She goes, sorry, I'm sorry whatever. Everyone's drunk.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Let's get out of here. Then her hot headed friend
comes out. My other buddy's out there. He's like, listen,
you guys go your way. Oh fuck those bitches, this
and that. He's like, all right, I'm gonna call the cops,
pulls out his phone. She smacks it out of his hand.
So I step up and I'm like, all right, now,
you guys gotta go where.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
We're gonna call the cops. Because that was as salt
right there.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
She goes, oh, yeah, you want to call the cops,
winds up, hits me in the eye. My contact goes
flying out, grow a peach out of my eye. Bro,
And then I look up and I'm like, now I'm
gonna call the cops.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Barton comes out. Nobody's calling the cops. I'm like, are
you fucking serious?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Walk in.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Everyone's like, you got hit? What the fuck is going on?
They called the cops on us. They're going back and forth,
and the cops are looking at me.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
I'm not saying anything.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
They see the shiner in my eye, and I finally said,
I'm like, if anyone's pressing charges, it's me.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
And they're like, maybe she was hitting on you, man,
she get her number. I'm like, ha ha, fuck you dude, Like,
let's move on Chicago.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, five different girl, Yeah nah. And they were cracking
jokes the whole time, and then finally came down to,
all right, you have every right to press charges, but
if you do, they're gonna press charges.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
On one of your friends.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
So somebody's going to jail to, like one of your friends,
one of theirs four o'clock in the fucking morning.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I was like, what friend Tom, how did.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
And she's still single? So but that was it.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
And then he dropped it, and my friends like I'm
su sorry. I'm like I don't fucking care, just want
to go home and sleep.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Hey, wake up the next day. Show my dad and
he's like what the fuck and he's like, did you
hit the bitch? I'm like no, I couldn't. And then
I go across the streets. My neighbors were like, as
liberal as fuck.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I know that's that's probably school bitch.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
If you fucking knock her back, she got every right.
My neighbor across the street. I tell her the story
and she goes, did you hit her? I'm like no,
she goes, you had every right to him, Like I
missed my chance to hit a chick legally.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
God damn it.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
The moments come once in a lifetime, and.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Two of them were like because my head cock back,
and then like I had my fist and I was like,
I would just launch this chick down the street.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
We were we were talking about this other day. Dude,
So as a friend who has a friend who has
a friend of a friend of a friend, and we
met this girl a couple of times. We had we
actually have a clip that we had on TikTok where
we're talking about it and it blew up. But the
point was that two random Mexican chicks that were hanging

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out on one night, we went to this random Mexican
bar and it was just garbage and we talked about
it and the video hit. But these girls, like we
they were like in their thirties, man, yeah, yeah, they
were too old to be still acting like you know,
like young. Yeah, yeah, working and stuff, and I'm like, hey,

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we're grown as adults.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
And this particular, like I said, we met her handful
of times and then we hear that, you know, she's
in a new relationship, right, yeah, yeah, she's in a
new relationship and she's with a guy who who hits her, yeah,
hands on her, bro Yeah, and puts hands on her,
and and they're telling you know, she come up telling
me this, And the whole time, I'm just thinking, I'm

(19:38):
just like, I'm like, hey, what do you like, why
would you even tell your friends? What would you even
tell your friends that you're this guy you're you're seeing
that you're abused.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
I mean, you're you're abusing you Yeah, yeah, you're like
the and you're there. But but that's the thing, Like,
like I told my friend, like why I told her? Like,
what are you telling her?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I mean, like, I'm not I didn't say much, you
know what I'm saying. That's the reason. Yeah, that's the
reason you should tell hey it's time to leave, something
to go the first time it happens, any type of
any type of aggressive threat that way, Hey, it's time
to go.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
But that guy, that guy is living our dream man.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
And you can hit her and she come back home
to you and.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
She loves What are we doing? Im kidding about the fifties?

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Right back to fifties.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
The reason I said someone is say that joke.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
You know, you gotta chick. You can't pick her up
from work, it's the end of the world. But you
can hit abroad. And it's like, yeah, I still love you.
That's crazy because I love you, bitch.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, I love you girls.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Like I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I don't understand. Bro, you can just walk away from that.
You don't need your life. Cent's a syndrome called yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Well to like, if you get to that point where
you're being aggressive towards your woman, you got to get
the funk out.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Of you have no love for her, My boy, you
have no love first of all, very emotional guy, that's
the point.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
He's he's some therapy something, dude.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Everyone should do therapy.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Everyone should do Everyone should travel, work in the service
industry and have some therapy just to know, like, hey,
we're all in this together. Everyone's got their own demons.
Demon hour check it out, Lincoln and work and work.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
With an Indian an Indian guy. Yeah, just there with
some Indians every once in a while.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, everyone a while. You got to take him down
a peg.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, all the way, every once in a while, and
then you'd be like, you know, what should be we
should be nice to each other.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's okay, that's okay, man.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Talking about lifet okay. Since the month that we've been
gone from Daily SMA, we had a friend of ours,
a guy that we've had in the podcast. The guy
that we did introduced a comedy show at the Copley
Feeder in in Aurora. And the person we're talking about
is Can Floors and Flores passed away.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
And I would say about two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Probably two three weeks ago at this point. Yeah, and
he's a friend. He was a friend of ours. We,
like I said, we produced Camp Floor's Homecoming Bura. We
it was it was our biggest show that we've ever
done something we've never thought about doing. We rented out Feather.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
We asked her his blessings. Mahama, we do this around.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
You sold out. You know, it's it's it's a moment
that we still speak of. Every once in a while
we bring it up, like, hey, we can't believe we
still did that. And he said, we've had We've had
him on Demon Hour, We've had him on so.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
That show first, he was there, he was part of it,
and you know, obviously we were on his podcast as
well back when he was doing it.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
And good guy, dude. You know, nobody really had any
badness about Kim Floor's and we we went to a
show last Friday, remembrance, yeah, the laugh Factory where it
was a remembrance when it came to. So basically a
bunch of comic friends from the city came and you know,

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said a couple of words, made a couple of jokes.
Everybody went their own path. You know, some people just
talked about stories that they shared with him. You know,
some people you know, were did their stand up beds,
you know for sure, you know, and it was cool
because when me and them all were sitting there, man,
we were we got their little late, so we sat

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in the back and so we didn't say hi to
any comics that we knew. And then all the comics
that were in the show, we've had them on Demon Out,
so we're seeing them pop up, pop in and we're like,
it felt like uh. As as sad and awkward as
the moment was, it felt like a high school reunion
because we were.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Like, Oh, find everybody, one spot everybody.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
The worst part about growing up is like you don't
see your friends unless they get married or die.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, you see each other.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Dude, I've ben't seen you in the X amount of
years And you're like, you know, it's only been too
You're like, no, it's been eight I've been married, divorce,
got two kids.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Where have I been?

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Man? That's what that's it was, dude.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
It was.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
It was literally a high school union with us. But
I was telling Gamal as soon as we walked in.
As soon as we walked in, we've been the Lavet
Factory a halful of times, right, We've we've seen camp floors.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, I think that's where it started. Yeah, that's where
he popped off, was at LA Factory for.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
And and we were like we got there and then
right away, dude, it was the most weird feeling that I've
ever felt, but it felt like church. It was quiet.
We walked in super quiet. The comic club should never
be quiet.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
You know, there's always people talking, you know, getting ready
for the show to get energy starts building.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Up, and and I'm walking in and I'm telling and
then obviously on the stage they had an altar of him,
a picture of him flowers, candles, and then seem like
another picture of him with butterfly wings. Still don't understand
that one. We're flying and haven't bro, don't understand that
my butterflies little wings? Bro? Yeah, yeah, it was a

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little wig and our boy Renee. He's the one that
you know, Sara team together, so you know, he different
tactic job of sending everything up last minute, so I
you know, I congratulate him for that.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
But not the easy thing, especially away.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
It's never it's never easy.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's never easy.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
He was young too, He's only twenty nine. Man. His
star was fucking rising.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
I never got to meet him because by the time
I got into comedy, he was already a bigger name.
He moved out of Chicago, but that was the first thing,
it's like Ken Flores, You're like, oh, I want to
follow him. I want to see what he's doing. And
everybody's Ken Ken Ken. Yeah, people are getting in on
his podcast, like dude, you got Ken, Like I started
with him. He's my buddy, and you're like, oh shit,
you know him, Like yeah, yeah, dude, when he comes
in the town, when we hang out, it's no big thing.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Like if he knew you, he knew you. Yeah, like
he never like he never pretended not to know somebody
he knew. And but we're at the comedy show, you know,
right away, Like I said, it's a weird feeling. Then
you know, Renee starts it with a eulogy. I mean
he's on a they have a podium up there as well,
so I'm like, it's go to get it more Turchy.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
It starts with a clip of them at Ken's podcast
and Aurora and they're talking a while starting Latin Exile.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah three years ago, right about it?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Probably? Yeah, about three years four years ago. And yeah, well,
like I said, it was very eerie at first. I said,
everybody was there new Ken. There was a couple people
that didn't know Ken. They were just kind of there, yeah,
you know, and I was, no, we know, that's not
the word part. The weird part was that people bought

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tickets to that show thinking it was just a comedy.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah. People don't even read people read you read the.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Headline, headline because the headline's said what it like, remember rememori.
Yeah yeah, And it's like who buys tickets and doesn't
read the description.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
There's tons of people who go to comedy shows, and
that's where you get those people that are like, I
don't like this.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
It's like, then, why did you buy a ticket? You
just wanted to go see a show.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
It's like, yeah, all these people are here to see
this comic because they like their style.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
They say whatever they say. Yeah, but it's a comedy show.
You could leave it.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
It's a remembrance. It's gonna be sad, it's gonna be funny.
We're don't remember the guy who was a funny fucking guy.
You're not gonna be.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Said the whole time.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, people still show up to that ship.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Because that was the thing when I when I first
got there, I always sees like Mexicans and I was like,
oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
This yeah for sure?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Right And then I think some people thought he's actually
to perform that day.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, yeah, times.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Closing on the show and and they're one of the
first one of the comics. Right away they go like
like how many people are here for Ken and like, ah,
people do and how do people just bot take the show?
And it's a good fucking portion.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Geez, I'll say about thirty five percent.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
At lest Yeah, and I'm like, what are you guys doing? Yeah,
as soon as I walked if I would have walked
in and be like, why is there an altar of
a guy?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, like.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Rose, like my boy got roasted already, but no, but yeah,
and it was like that was a little weird. That
was a little weird. The show itself ran for three hours.
You got there in nine thirty. We didn't leave till
twelve thirty.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it seven comics that
did the set? God damn boy. And they did a
roast of them, Yeah, they did, did like one a
year ago, yeah, which they brought up a couple of
people like why did they bring those guys up for
the roast? That that was gonna be more intimate, more like
friends and stuff. They knew him for the roast of er.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
That well yeah, well, I mean right there, I mean
we're watching screening now, and obviously Gabriel was there, so
you know a lot of these guys too, were you
know at.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Jessica Missus Town. How does Jaica miss townel?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
No?

Speaker 5 (28:36):
No, Also with the roast two, this was when he
was still alive. They do, they do have a lot
of people that do know him. But then also you
do want funny ass comics. They know how to roast people,
so you get them in there to hype up the
crowd and just keep the flow going.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
God damn dude.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, I mean it was just it was something I've
never thought I would go to. Yeah, a comedy show,
remembering that that comic, right, and especially this young Yeah
we're close. Somebody we need to Yeah, somebody we need
to we knew and yeah, just just very very very weird, right,

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I mean, what was your experience?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
I mean I didn't feel though. I mean, the whole
church thing, for sure, that's exactly the minu we got there.
Typically playing music is more lively, but for the people
that were there, i mean, you know the mood, you
know the mood, Yeah, it's it's sad. It's sad mood,
it's quiet. Other people, the other thirty five percent just
didn't know what the is going on.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
They're like, it's.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Great, why is he crying during his Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, there was people like that.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I gotta get up to everyone that went up there, though,
said a few words. Man did their set. You know,
it's no matter what they're so laughs. I love those guys.
Kill still killed it that night, you know what I'm saying.
Chris Jamal Luise, Gabriel went in. You know, my favorite
one was so far was Gabriel because he just went
there just throwing haymakers and this.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Boy man Yeah yeah, he was like he went in
there and just started roasting them. And I'm like, fucking
Peyton Paydon did paying Yeah, came out as well, and
so you know, he did his day. Funny. I said,
everybody was funny. Everybody, everybody was funny.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
You still got a show, no matter what. That was
a show.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, yeah, you got a show even if you just
bought the tickets to see funeral basically, but you got
a show. And Payton was like, at one point he
was like he thought about going up there wearing the hat,
like he can you do it and then pretending he
was Candidy's here. Yeah, and I'm like, if you would
have done that, you would have killed. Yeah, and you

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killed already as it was, but like with that, that
would have been the one.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Joke Sony in comedy where it's like I should just
fucking do it, man. Yeah, it's always that little bit
where you're like.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
You put the hand on there made for him was
a respectingly hey man past the way, but he did
a lot of the jokes and he did the mannerisms fingers, yeah,
the magic fingers. Bron's up there, he's doing the you
know what I'm saying, a little tick. But he should
have done it, man, he should have done it, especially
for the laugh, especially when people need this, people need
that laugh man.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Ken's family was there too, so that was like and
that was like at the end, at the end of
the show. So after after the comedy then they were like, hey,
anybody who wants to come up to the stage say
something about Ken. You want to welcome to you come
to At this.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Point, he's telling me somebody that had no idea who
he was got up.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
No, no, but one lady, one lady. She she didn't
read a room, and so basically they're going up to
you close the night. A couple of comics go up.
There's you know, then the family's about to come up.
The last ones. Hey, the last ones' FAM's gonna come
up and say a couple of words, you know, blah

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blah blah. And after going up the stairs, a lady
in the front row she goes she all of a sudden,
she's talk and she goes, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. I just want to say something. Starts going
to Spanish, and her Spanish kind of broken because I
think she was a white girl who learned Spanish. And
then it goes like, hey to say in English, yeah,
because you're like you're struggling and we're trying to move

(32:15):
on because we're trying to end, and she goes like yeah,
she's like I just want to say. She's like, we
hired Ken When for a cas scenario for my daughter,
and you know, he was so funny, so we decided
to pay him more. But then she just kept repeating,
repeating herself. She would have ended there. People would have
been like, yeah, awesome, thank you for saying a great thing.
Move on. Right, and especially because the family was like

(32:36):
halfway upstairs. And then she keeps going and going and yeah,
people in the crowd start clapping like all right, right up,
like move.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
On, you need to stick from like the Apollo.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, and you see Renee on the stage like it's
like and he was trying to end it too, and
she just kept going and going, and it's just.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
It's like at weddings when like the aunt gets up
and tells the speech, You're like, that's what it was.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
It'd have been done five minutes ago. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, even during the show because I know we're going
to talk about Lincoln Lodge man the production was the
lowest quality or the lowest qualities in the Lincoln. Sorry, yeah,
Lincoln Lodge. I would say it's so much better than
last in terms.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Of yeah, like I hadn't been to the Lincoln. I
haven't been to I've been to the Live Factory, respect
him since we went to go see Ken? Did we
go see Room after that?

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Nervous?

Speaker 1 (33:32):
So we went to go see Ken And that was
the last time we had been in the Live Actory,
so maybe a year or year and a half, right,
And I got there bro right away, I knew the
place was ship. Yeah, yeah, let him know, let it know,
let it know.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
I don't go about going laugh factory ever again. Yeah,
you know, demon hours not going there. Yeah, I have
ever come out of retirement. I'm not going there. It
is what it is. Right right away, I comes up
sorry actions for drinks, you know, and I'm like cool,
I'm like, you have missky and he goes, nah, we
got messca. I'm all right cool. I'm like, can I
get a gent tonic with two lines? He's like, we

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don't got limes. We's got the lime juice. And I'm
like right there. And then I was like, oh.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Shitty bar should how are you gonna be a comedy
club with shout he drinks?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
What the what the lines?

Speaker 3 (34:22):
You know?

Speaker 2 (34:22):
The lime just asked.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
The ship you buy taste like and and I'm like, oh,
so then what do you What do you guys have?
He's like, and I'm like, oh, well, let's get a
cut water because you guys used to have colt waters
when we last went there, and then we don't have
cut waters. I'm like, all right, cool, So I'm like
what can we get? Then like like, you can get
any drink, but we're gonna give you like fake lime juice.
And I'm like, I'm like, all right, cool. I'm like,

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can I get a rumming COVID line And he's like yeah, concentrated.
I'm like, cool, man, I'm gonna shake that ship up. Yeah,
can we take it up? Like I get some of
the good stuff and dude, And it was the shittiest
drink we've had, and and I was good just having one. O.
You know, to drink minimum. It's laugh factory, so they

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have to charge you to drink minimum.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
And it was so shitty, Like you know what I did?
Just charge with the count. They just charge. Just charges,
give to me.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Just charge.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm like yeah, I'm like I should have been like, hey,
you know what, just keep the drink, charge me as
a drink and leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Man, dude, I just gotta I just gotta coke with
Cheri Grenadine. That's what I wanted. I just want.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
You don't have anything I want. I just want that.
Yeah what uh coke with Cherry Grenadine. Oh you didn't
get a drink, that's all I got. Oh you weren't drinking.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
No, I didn't drink at all. Dude, just mess like
I'm not really craving anything else.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Let me just get that I enjoyed that I thought
you were drinking to just give me coke grenadine at
the bar afterwards, Yeah, as.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Much as a regular man.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah yeah, let.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Me, you know, just let me I was there with you, dude,
you let me drink alone. I thought you drink with you.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Now are at the bar though, at the bar afterwards.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
You sneak. Yeah, you sneak. You sneaking.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
I was crabbing a cherry copar.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
You sneak.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Is soberism around me a little? I don't know. I
don't believe. I don't believe I sent myself like five hours.
I'm kind of I'm kind of I'm kind of heart
right now, dude, I don't know that I wasn't going
through that back experience.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
It's he was like, I'm not gonna deal with this, right.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
He says, I have line just like I'm I'm already
turned off, Like I don't want anything else on Just
give me a coke, but cherry gunnadine, that's what I want. Yeah,
you know I should ask for a kiddy cocktail.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, and you work at a bar a bar right,
so you know that as soon as a bar gets
rid of garnishes, it's going on here.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Like the bar away said it was a neighborhood. It
was neighborhood bar.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
I always classified as like a classy dive bar way
a nice countertop.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, sports memorabilia TVs everywhere.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
But like people would walk in, Oh can I do
a manhanded, I'm like, we don't have everything for that.
I go, We're more of like a you're in a shot.
I can do this and a coke this and a sprite.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Yeah we do.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
I can make limited amount of drinks. But I'm like, realize,
you're not in Lincoln Park. I know beers only four
fucking bucks. That tells you something.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
But you can give me a gin line and.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah we got lines, we got Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
That's how I'm asking. And especially at a comic club,
you can't give me a gardners.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Especially your laugh factory. You guys have a name.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
It's a national brand too.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
It's not a brand.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Lincoln Lodge has got more ship than they do.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Lincoln Lodge that's a independently run has great drinks, and
we rock with Lincoln. I haven't bought it yet, but
I'm buying.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
It's one show that I was working on got kicked
out of there for bullshit reasons.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
But the show I'm trying to get out of that one.
So that's what I'm glad you guys hit me up.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Man.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
I'm like, I need something else to do.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah. Yeah, So this this is how I heard of you.
My so, my younger brother works with one of your
one of your close friends, right, and he told me.
I was like, yeah, you know, I know this guy
who does comedy too, blah blah blah. And I'm like,
have you heard of him? And I'm like, nah, id,
we'll help you here.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Man. Two years in, I'm still people know me, not
everyone people do know me.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
He's like, yeah, man, he does comedy. You used to
do a comedy show and Lincoln Lodge but he got
kicked out.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
And I'm like, what, I wasn't there for that. That's
the fun up thing too.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
And that's what he told me too. He's like he
wasn't as always what happened, but being he was a
part of it, yeah, he just can't like he can't
go back there.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
Now we do it at some shitty bar in the
back room and it's just like, so what happened?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Man?

Speaker 4 (38:37):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Experience?

Speaker 5 (38:39):
So from when I heard what the story was, because
you know how it shared green rooms at Lincoln Lodge
because the rooms are like green next door.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
The green room one of the best green rooms.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Probably you know there's one more green room at Lincoln
Lodge for the big room, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I've never seen that green room.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
I just went into it the other day and I
was like, I was trying to find the door. I'm like, oh,
it's right here.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I'm like, oh, I had never been that. I learned this.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
I learned this literally. I was like they were like,
because the.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Bar is connected to the big room, yeh.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Know, it's no no, yeah, yeah, because that one door
it goes through.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
But so the story was there was we were in
the blue room, I think, and in the bigger room
there was some improv class graduation things. So they're doing
their big show and somebody brought a cookie.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Cake, the cookie the famous cookie cake.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
The little cookie cake. They're always fucking dead. But you
put it in a green room.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
There was no signs being like hey this is for
this show, this is a prop. There was plates and
napkins and you leave it in a green room with
a bunch of comics who aren't making that much money.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Drink free drinks and any type of food.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
They're taking it after it's a green room, Yeah, fucking
have at it. So everyone's grabbing at it. My one
buddy was like, oh, fucking I'm gonna have a slice.
What he told me was and he's he grabs a
slice of it, and he's like, wait a secon, I'm
allergic to peanuts. Let's make sure there's no peanot oil
on it. So he's holding this thing up in the
air looking at it. The chick walks in. She goes,
what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
And he's like, oh, this might look at a lot awkward.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
But I was gonna have a piece. I'm allergic to peanuts,
just making sure. She goes, no, that's a prop for
my show, this and that, and he's like, oh, I'm sorry,
I didn't know this, but like everyone else was eating it,
I was just about to grab a slice. I'm on
the show right here. No, no, no, how could you do this?
And she starts snapping off and he's just.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Like, whoa, I just told you I didn't do it.
I didn't do anything. Everybody else was eating it.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Yeah, I was about to have a slice until you
walked in and told me, now I won't have one.
But you know, half of it's fucking gone. She bitches
the management. They booed us. And this was only our
second show at the Lincoln ne first one great fucking crowd.
We sold out. The show was great because we had
that energy. And now we're stuck to the back of
a barroom with like three comics that show up, and

(40:52):
we try to grab somebody from the bar to hang out,
but nobody's having it.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Who is the person?

Speaker 4 (40:56):
I have no clue. Somebody showed me a picture of her.

Speaker 5 (40:59):
Yeah, and she's she took an improv class. She's trying
to get into comedy. Less than that, It's like, if
you want to do comedy, just do an open open mic.
Just go and fucking do it. There's no just do it.
That's how you fucking learn it.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
You know that we got kicked out of lincol last
first time.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
We did it too.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah nice after the show after we sold I want.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
You to show the other show that I do. I
don't want to say it right here because I might quit.
It's a good show, it's a good premise. But when
they do have the audience back there, it helps and
I think Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Lodge is that it's that space.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
It's helping out a lot of comics that have the
smaller shows that start doing it there and then they
you get the following.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
You get it.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Oh, hey, what are we doing on Friday or every third?
Oh we're doing Demon Hour.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
That's happened. That's a hot show. Oh let's stay. There's
another show right across the hall. Oh he's got some
big names.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
The guy.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't know this guy, but this guy is fucking hilarious.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
You just made a new fan for sure. So hopefully
we can get back in there. But if not, I'm
sticking with you guys.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Right then down down to whatever show that is it.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
That's the thing with that show.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
I told him like, hey, we need to up the
They're all about production. We got different cameras doing all this.
It's a tech based show. But I was like, you
gotta load this ship up now. You can't have it
because then we lose Wi Fi. Then you lose the signal.
You can't load it up. Then finally I walk in,
They're like, oh yeah, we have everything preloaded I'm like,
I've been helping you with this for a fucking year

(42:25):
and I said this from day fucking one. And now
you guys are listening. And one of my buddies girlfriends
who comes and watches. I was like, oh, yeah, they
finally took my advice. But you know they did it.
I had nothing to do with it. She goes, I
know you've been saying that forever. Thank god they fucking listened.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Well, that's funny you bring that up, man, because at
the laugh Factory, the Laugh Factory, back to that fucking.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
They were they were trying to show clips or something.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I'm taking a quick peep breaking once I break the SEEO,
I gotta god. Luckily you have somebody talk to nowt.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
To get you.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
No.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
So, when in the beginning of the show they're trying
to show a couple of clips of Ken, a couple
of his new materials, and the thing, what's going on here?
Oh ship there you go.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
There, go over there you go.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
No, So that I'm saying, they're trying to they're playing
clips off the internet versus downloading them. And this is
Ken's new material that was obviously they're gonna eventually put
it out there, but for those that they were there
for the special show, they will show people new material,
behind the scenes stuff with Ken. And they were just

(43:41):
playing everything off the off the internet.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Nothing was downloaded.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
And the thing is here is their fucking Wi Fi
gave out after a minute and we never even got
to see the clips, never got to see anything.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Dude, just that that little much.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Man, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
You respect, your paying tribute, showing respect to.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
The can that you know, people know X up because
of that show. So yeah, it's not because of the show,
but the production value that they're carry That's whyra MoMA
says that when they start giving up fresh fruit for
shitty shitty lime, drips productions down. Like I said, Wi
Fi was horrible. We didn't get to see the clips.

(44:21):
They just for some reason, they just didn't care enough. Man,
like you guys have you guys are a national brand.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
And yourself, you're selling the show. You're gonna sell it out.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yes, sell it thirty ticket for a rememberance show for Ken,
so they still sold tickets. But things here like you
guys didn't care enough to prepare perfect for this.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
You're gonna get the people that weren't there for Ken
being like, oh was good.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
They know it was don't want this?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
It was it was cool, man, But it wasn't. It
wasn't good. It wasn't good. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
It was sad in a way because like, you guys
didn't care enough to really set this up to really
like do this for Ken. You're a national brand. You
guys dropped the ball.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
And now only that, but also like you see how
the jump in the conference, Yeah, I'm sucking good. I
heard our neighbor talking. I'm like, who's the TV on?
I forgot that in the apartment. But yeah, but not
only that, but it was like it's like we were
killing in the back because we started making jokes about it.

(45:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you know. I was like, hey, they
want to they want to borrow my mobile hotspot and
I'm like no, I'm like they're running on cricket internet, dude,
And and yeah, dude, it was just one of those
things where you think they would be better, you think
they would be more prepared. I know the show was

(45:42):
kind of thrown last minute. Yeah, but hey, this is
this is you guys. You guys should know that sucks.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Another thing is man that I was even talking with
r right there, that there was like he was there.
He was starting to twenty people, dude, in the conversation
to get everything that you tell me with twenty people
and no one's still like, oh, you got to talk
to this person. You gotta talk to this person. Like
there's too many people in the pot. Yeah, I should
be talking to one person, one person only. That person

(46:10):
should be relaying the whole message, the whole team.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah, there's too many.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Old too many old heads there, there's too many there's
there's not enough new blood and and that company brand
whatever that. Hey what are we doing, dude?

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Yeah, going down to hell.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
First find their guy, they work, they work his ass off,
and then they're like, that's just the way we do it.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
You know, it's just the way we do it.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the mindset there. This is how
things are done. These somethings done, and it's like, well,
things should change and adapt to what's going on in
the world. Yeah, and obviously you guys run a shitty club,
sty shitty club, shitty drinks. The place hasn't been renovated
and forever.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
Yeah, you know, well they do they do the open
mic on Tuesday, where there's a line down this fucking block. Yeah,
then like you know they picked time names two people
if they get picked, and they're on for the following week.
But they're not really doing anything with these people. They're
all their new shows. They're reusing people. It's like, no,

(47:12):
start bringing these people up because there's been too many
bar shows where you see, I've seen way too many
people getting booked on bar shows like go cool, that's cool.
You got your little group, you got your production team,
they're doing these three shows, but you really know you're
not going anywhere. Yeah, everybody's got to work through their thing.
But like, if you're letting these people in and you
want to make a name for yourself, bring the new

(47:33):
people up. You find the new guy. Oh cool, you
also do x Y and Z dude, bring it on.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
What can you do for us?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
We'll help you find find the new camps.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
And also, I think the biggest thing here is.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Only there's only one Calvin floors and there'll only be.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
One there's there's uh, there's struggling to buck bigger name
comics too. You look at it, man and probably is
fucking murdering everybody and.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Is murdering everybody.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Even then, you know, come on with talking about this
early the week that you know how many times on
my Facebook that's see improv doing like it goes first.
First they'll start with ten dollar tickets, Yeah, ten dollar tickets,
Hey get ten dollar tickets for this, and they'll be like, hey,
reread tickets. Oh yeah, hey just come, just come.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
There's a few people the last couple of months where
I've seen where it's like tickets are only like thirty
five bucks, and then they had following it's like fifteen bucks,
come on, buy one, get one.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
You're like, damn, they're not selling as exactly.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
But those are the good shows to see because it's
more intimate. Comics are chill as hell. Like I've I've
done a couple of comedy fests where like you walk
around back stage, you're talking and you're like, hey, I'm
a big fan, Like you just shoot the shit with them.
We're all normal people.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
In comics I think are more levelheaded where they're like
we're comics, we're being goofy, we're joke makers, we're.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Not a musician.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Where I worked seven years on this song to perform
it and I'm a rock star this and that. It's like, no,
I'm another dude. I appreciate you. Did you watch the
game last night? And then bam, you're talking about that
for an hour, like, oh ship, that's one of my
favorite comics.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
And he started Renumber two. The majority of comics are
poured in you. Oh yeah, just you know, give them
some food, buy him a drink. Oh yeah, you know,
the gift cards, put them around.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I have a burger.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
If you're if you're trying to get into comedy, best
thing to do you find a comic in an open mic,
you buy him a drink and be like, dude, what
what do I need to do that?

Speaker 4 (49:25):
That's the easiest way take the class if.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
You're not if you want to get your footing and stuff,
but just suck alumni.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
I'm not here second alumni.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
I don't want to talk me Steve Krall, you know
I don't. I don't like to bring it up because
I got a picture.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
I wish I had a picture, dude, I got put
the picture.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Of But uh, you know how cool would that be though?
If if the audience members, because they know that starting
off in comedy, there's like no money in comedy. Then
they start bringing out they start bringing gift cards to
give the comics picture.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Put them.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
I was trying to find that one where Michael Scott,
he's got the this one.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Where's the bigger one?

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Ruben, Ruben, send those? Because I was joking around every
time I see him, I'm like, you know Second City
alumni and you know how you go to Second City
on the wall there's a bunch of alumni and then yeah,
and then he put he what do you do you
put you on there?

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Oh? Man?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
They said, have I have it here in the text
right now?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Yeah, that's just funny.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Damn dude.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
But I mean, if if you're a comic and you're
trying to get into comedy, I recommend try to get
into the side guys of the Liquor Lodge because you
can go on multiple shows on one night along as
you as long as you you know, you get along
with people like it will get you.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
That was my biggest thing. One, Like I said, I'm
only two years in.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
You're gonna bomb keep bombing everyone fucking bombs and open
you'll see a comic that performs at laugh Factory, Improv Zanies,
whatever they tour. They open they're still doing open mics.
You're there, you're on the level playing field. You're not
getting paid, You're in there for the love of the game.
You're doing your work, and I really.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Love the game.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Hey, money is not coming to like year eight for
some dude.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
I twice last night and I'm like that that's what
it is. That's comedy, man, Fuck it.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, I was, honestly, dude, I would say, like, don't
quit your day job.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
No day job, all right, you can't.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Quit moving to Austin if you just started fucking some.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Work wherever you're at, don't quit your day job. Put
in some work. Yeah, get around. People are with the
same mindset that want to move up because you got,
like I said before, you got groups that just okay
with stay in Chicago, and you got your groups of
people that I want to become bigger. I want to
be the next Kevin Hart. I want to be the
next Steve Crow, I want the next this. I want
to be the next and to the next kind four

(52:02):
is man, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
One of my buddies who's been doing it for a
few years now, a few of us were like, I
hate my job. Like everyone hates their fucking job. Man, Like,
now even own my own business and ship, I.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Hate it, dude, I hate fucking people. I hate working.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Is that the job? It's the people?

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Oh yeah, it's the people. People fucking suck. Yeah. But
they're like, don't quit your job. Keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
And it's a long it's a long fucking path. Yeah,
you may get booked on a show your first year,
but guess what, you may not have.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Nothing for another year. I haven't. I got booked earlier
in the year. Haven't done ship this year.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
You know what, you know what it is?

Speaker 4 (52:33):
What it is? I don't.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I think I think somebody's earned the guest spot. On
March fourteen, a Demon out of Comedy at nine pm.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
My buddy was like, listen, I've been putting the work in.
I know you're good. You're doing the work, you're helping out,
doing production, doing whatever. You're putting the work into it.
Let me eat the ship so I can help you out.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
In the long run. I'm like, that's that's fine to me.
I'll stick it out until the end.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Man, Yeah, thank you here, you got you got this skills.
You know that's gonna that's gonna help you put your
often in a position to.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
A lot of people were just I gotta get the clip.
I got a good done, TikTok. I gotta do this,
I gotta get kill.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
True true, true.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
But also you see a lot of people don't put
in the work. Man, people don't don't put in the
I gotta put the clip out. I gotta do this.
I gotta do that.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
And their shitty clips, dude, nobody's watching them. Have some
good material, then post it. Yeah, you gotta put the
work every every record, hands on record, all your ship.
I recorded on my phone. I'll record my camera every
once in a while. It's just helping me in the
long run. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, I did good
this night, but I gotta do it again multiple times.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Right, Like I said, my goal when it comes on
comedy is I want people to start putting demon Our
comedy as their credits to. That's that's my goal for
this brand. You know, I think that's for me. It's like,
that's dope. They were somebody. You know what I'm saying.
We're somebody within the comedy scene of Chicago.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
See that's problem was bro because we get we get
in our heads sometimes. Man, every everyone does do suicide scam, suicidama.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
And if you come to a show ten minutes before
you're gonna see.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
I watched, I had my suit I watch I literally
literally clock him in. I'm like, as long as we
can give him to like seven pm, if you can
give me a seven pm, he's gonna survive. But not
like we we don't go around because we'll be like
we we celebrate our small wins. You got to like
like nope, we staid to be better than anybody. Dude,
the moment we have a big win, I don't know

(54:28):
what we're gonna do. I don't know what we're gonna do.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
Yeah, Demon Hours growing, it's gonna be one of those
shows where it's like, what are we doing tonight?

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Ship Demon Hours going on? Oh it's eight Demon Hours
in two weeks.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
We got our tickets. Yeah, that's our night going out.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Man one one Friday. We're just gonna bucket trip to Mexico.
Ham what a part of Mexican dude?

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Okay man, Yeah, we're going supposed to go this year,
but I can't make it.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
We're gonna get a red Eye and got red Eye.
We sold twenty tickets to go. Let's go twenty tickets.
That's it, that's it is all we need to do.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
All right, right now.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
The biggest thing is, hey, every show sell out, every show, so.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
That way, but be consistent. You put in the work
and you're doing the show. It's not just oh it's no,
you're we're doing the show.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
We got the perfect time, so we got the perfect
time slot. We have the production. I do want to
fix up the sound, but you know that's otherwise. But
we have everything. We do the clips, we do the materials.
We give comics their sets so they could help themselves.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Out and successful.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
And we pay the comics and we pay the comics.
I guess something that was forgotten that you pay people.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yes, yes, I know. It's it's crazy. It's a crazy concept.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
I make money.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
You cannot make money too, you know. It's just but
once again, we come in with the business mindset. We
don't come in with the we're doing it for love
the game, because love the game doesn't pay, Yeah, it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Unfortunately, that's why you got the comics that do it
for the love of the game. They want to they
want to be on the show. They know it's a
good show. You guys are getting great crowds.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
But I want to be able to say or not
even able to say, but I want you to be
able to put de amount of comedy is a credit,
but I want to I want to be able to
help you lift you up to the next level.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
That's that's that's that's what a good producer should do.
You get a comic, you know they're good. Granted, some
people might bomb. It happens for sure.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Everyone everyone has a shitty time and every once in
a while.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Man, but you guys want to make these comics better.
They want to have a great show. It's full fucking
full sircirl.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
We also we also give them, we give them the
biggest opportunity to to pop because we're asking for a
short period of time of comedy. Right, so you know,
if you're if you're doing comedy for a decent at
least not even decent all time, but enough time, you
should have a strong five two eight minutes. Oh yeah,
you should. You should have a strong five eight minutes,

(56:42):
which I do, get.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
All right out.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
You're out?

Speaker 2 (56:48):
What's the food?

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yeah joke, no, but uh and look if you bomb
on your set, or if you don't do super well
on your set, you're able to redeem yourself with the
demon our console. Because now it's just about saying the
right thing after you read the confession. And that's all.
We always sat a Coments looking like, hey, look, you're

(57:11):
gonna get some confessions to the strake garbage. You gonna
get some confessions that are really good. But at the
end of the day, the number one thing that works
is just say something quick, get the laugh, and if
it like I said, if it works, they move on.
If you can play with it a little bit, they
play with it a little bit. But if not, just
get the quick laugh, get the quick little singer, and

(57:32):
move on. And it's gonna do super well.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
On IgA super well. I guess what.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
We're gonna tag you in it, and we hope you
collaborate with us. That's the only way for you to
get it.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
That's the way the clips work. People see that quick clip,
they go, what the fuck is that?

Speaker 4 (57:45):
That was hilarious? I want more?

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. But we
give comics their set, do something with it.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
You have to.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
We give you the best production possible. Make something happen
with what you guys have you can't be afraid of
throwing your material, man, because some people might come in
just to see that one joke. All right, no, that guy,
I want to see that one joke.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Yeah cool.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Yeah, Well, you.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Can't be afraid to throw throw that shit out there.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Man.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
If you if you cling on your ten minute set
for the next two years, you're not gonna grow man.
And that's the problem with a lot of comics, the still
cling on to those ten minutes, those fifteen minute sets.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Yeah, that's a reality. I guess we'll call it here, man.
I'll call it here, oh here, because because I'm a
little tired, dude, I want.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
To Hey, I want to go home.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Yeah, I'll give you a ride.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Yeah, you're right. Just go right around block, run the block,
right back.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
We'll be there in an hour, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
But like always, guys, just want to remind you that
demon our comedy is March four team at the linkl
out here in Chicago. Tickets around sell right now. We
have some great comics. We have Jacqueline, we have Riggan Namela.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Cody Heck and Cody Heck and you, of course your host,
Kevin Keller as he always does.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
So guys, get you tickets. We've been selling out since
we moved out, since we moved down to nine pm,
So you guys, make sure you guys lock in your
seats and you guys will be in for a hell
of time.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Ahead of time. Tell the people they can find us guys.
Of course we're on YouTube. Watch our old episodes of
the podcast. We have Demon Hour nine right now up
for January. Check that out, share with your friends and
exactly what you getting Demon. You guys get a great show.
Make your drinks. We still got a couple mixology videos
on there. Make yourself a cop a couple of cocktails.

(59:43):
But if you guys are on the road during the
car we're at Spotify, podbeing our heart radio, iTunes, anywhere
you guys can find podcast stations, we are there. And
of course you guys can find me on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Come on Ideas.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
And definitely our here alex MS. Hopefully we can keep
them for a minute, if not for a long time.
But tell the people where they can find you.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
Man mostly on Instagram. And uh oh it's Rambo, that's
U h O H. Underscore It's Underscore Rambo. Uh you
can find me running around the city doing open mics,
hopefully on a few shows in the upcoming future, but
check me out here.

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