Daily Insomnia Episode 366 - The eighth wonder of the world

Rum Mule in hand, laughs on deck. We sat down with one of our favorite comics, Mike Dwyer, to break down July’s packed Demon Hour and his hilarious, one-of-a-kind style. Mike gets real about the moments that shaped him, drops some comedy wisdom, and keeps us cracking up the whole way. This one’s got stories, laughs, and a little heart. Don't forget Demon Hour Comedy next week Friday August 22nd. BUY TICKETS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome back Daily Sambia, this episode three sixty six,
coming to you on a beautiful, beautiful hot summer Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
My ball sweat, let's stick to my leg my legs.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Let's not know I'm getting older because my balls reaching
things of my like, places in my thigh we've never
reached before.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
We gottata buy you gotta buy boxes at that couple
of nice you know what I'm saying, A couple of
very like.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
After a while, even the box started like getting little.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's what happens when you dry on Dude's elastic. Yeah,
I started stretching out.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
But we have My name is Ramon, your host.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I have my lovely co host here, come out here,
and our beautiful, beautiful, beautiful producer, Big.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Dig Grandmo Dude, Big Rambo Man. And of course in
the sea today we have a special guest, one of
our fair convenience. I said, I say that about everybody,
but I gotta say this one. Is this one special?
All right, we call the Midwest Yvonne. We have in
the house today, mister Mike the Wire. Yeah, little clap
litt Clapp.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
You're a fan favorite here.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, we talk about we talk a watch.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
All the time because you are a enigma.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
An enigma especial. You're a special dude.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Man like you you, Especially when we saw you last
month for Demon Hour, I'm like, oh wow, this is
this guy.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
This guys it's magical. You are magical.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm blushing. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man, My boy turned pink right now there.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Try to be authentic, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's that's something you people can't copy, man, They can't
copy Mike Wire Man, you are who you are.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah. It was a very nice, very nice, a pleasant,
pleasant surprise that when we got so we've been trying
to get you on things on the pocket for a
while now and it's just our schedules don't line up.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And then finally got you on a Demon Hour.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And we've met a handful of times at Link Lodge
at night time, you know, drinking, we remember, Yeah, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Not so much. That's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And that showed him toler. We had a bunch of
comics that we didn't know right, so every we had
Rich Gomez, Mike and then Jamie James James Syder, and
we had no idea how anybody was in comedy, right.
Usually we had one or two people that we've like
we seen you live or you know, or we've had

(02:18):
you on before.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
And it was probably one of our best shows when
it comes to Demon hour.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
It was maybe one because I didn't know anybody, and
they was like seeing brand new comedy for that whole
hour and a half that we do our show, right. Uh.
But I remember we had we had Rich open the
night and he killed and then I was like, oh.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Man, they got Mike coming after this.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I was like, I don't know Mike and followed and
not because I didn't know your comedy.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I was just like break the Rich Rich and I
was like, oh, I don't know man. I'm like I
was texting mom. I'm like, why did you still?

Speaker 5 (02:57):
But I'm like, hey, hey, a, I know what I'm doing,
all right. I know what i'm doing.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I no, no, no, put Mic in that middle spot.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, I know what I'm doing all right, man.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
And I stepped out for like two seconds to use
the bathroom. When I came up, I'm like, oh, Mike's son,
and all I just heard was laugh and I was like, yes, all.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Right, he's doing good.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh yeah, dude. And it was like, as soon as
he came up, I was like, oh, this is great,
this is great. It was like, oh, he's doing it,
he's doing it.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I was feeling it that night.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I was having a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, I should to that stage with energy.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, because your your stand up is is very different too. Yeah.
I think you fall. You fall in the line of
a unique stand up where it's like kind of like
the case we were talking about case he rocket earlier. Right,
he's like his he has his own thing going and
you have your own thing going to and it's it's
a nice change of pace, right, because like you, you

(03:51):
have the storytellers or joke tellers or roasters whatever, the
crowd work guys, and then you come in and you
and and I don't know if you're doing stand up, yeah,
you know, I don't know. I don't know, but you're
making me laugh. And the whole time I'm trying to
figure out where you're punch and I is going.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
But I can't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I see other comics and I'm like, oh, I know
where they're going with.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
This, They're setting it up.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
It just comes after you're like, okay, okay, that's it's funny.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
Well, yeah, I mean that's what I kind of say.
It's it's not like just straight set up punch.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:22):
There's a lot of jokes I write and stuff, but
some of it's kind of like one man's show type,
just like I don't care. I'm just there performing, Like
I don't even I could be in an empty room,
you know, it doesn't Yeah, it's not like an interactive
I don't care what all the audience is doing and
all that. Yeah, I just let it rip just myself.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, and that's a nice thing because it's I like
not knowing where it's going.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, the surprise of it and the whole time.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
The whole time, you have your eyes closed, and I
remember asking. I'm like, hey, like no, no, no, no, no.
He's like he's actually has his eyes open. It it's
really close right now. I'm like, no, shut.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's the funny thing because I was looking at you,
I was like, dude, his eyes don't open. Because I
was trying to do this, I don't know, you know
what I meant. I'm like, is he even his eyes
even open? Dude?

Speaker 5 (05:11):
My boy, just out there straight fire man.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
But then he would point somebody out and I'm.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Like, you just hope someone's there, you know, in the room,
wants and that's it. That's it. That's all.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
Yeah, you know, it's like a criticism. It's like from
traditional comics book. It's like, oh, your eyes are closed.
It's like, well not really, I'm sorry, Like you know,
I don't know. I'm not gonna just do it your way.
It's like, yeah, I gotta get better, it's gonna improve,
but I'm present mostly yeah, yeah, president no, yeah, And
I could tell, but its just I don't know. I

(05:46):
get a lot of stuff coming in, so I shut
it down.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
You you you you the blinders, right, it's what they
put on horses, the blindness. You do your own blindness
for yourself. I'm focused. I am here. I'm here to
do my craft and I don't care about anything.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Else, right, That's what I think is Like stand up
is like like there's great CrowdWork comedians, you know, like
Big Jay or like Todd Berry.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Like different styles of crowd work.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
But like to me, it's like usually you're the performer
and the audience should hear what you have to say,
you know, and it shouldn't really always. It doesn't like
you don't go to a band and expect them to
like interact with the audience. It's like that that's kind
of more my philosophy. It's like I'm doing a show here,
like you watch me, like I'm the one in the

(06:38):
room who matters, you know, So it's like I don't
want to.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, so it's yeah, I mean you gotta you gotta know,
you gotta be ready to.

Speaker 7 (06:46):
Respond in life comedy, but it's my thing, so it's
like not that important to me.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, I want to change the.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Thing, man, keep man.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, you know, like you're you're the kind of I'm like,
like if I will see something like let's say I
go to the comedy show you're about to go up,
and one of my friends like him to wait, wait
wait wait wait, yeah this is this is this is
the guy you want to break await, Yeah, back and breakway.
Let him do his thing, because it's a it's a show,
it's a show man, Yeah for sure.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah what what what what got you?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
What? Why why that approach?

Speaker 5 (07:24):
You know, like, and you've been in comedy for quite
a while, right.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Just a couple of years really yeah, yeah, no, I
got him pretty old. So thirty nine started. It's pretty
only yeah, yeah, d life's just starting.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
But you know, so.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
I feel like it's just it's the way I'm able
to like channel the vision I have in my head.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
I don't know, it's a way. It's like it's like
a medium. It's like it comes out like otherwise, like.

Speaker 7 (07:58):
My consciousness just gets like it gets in the way,
like and it's not natural. So I mean that style
like I used to when I first started being more quiet,
maybe more slow deadpin and it's just evolved and it's
just me having fun up there.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
And then I do a lot of those things.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
That I realized work and verbal pauses, the noises I
would naturally make to fill space just got laughs, and
so I started leaning into those things.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Why we cut them out?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
It was so like I realized, this stuff's getting laughs.
It's not gimmicky, it's natural. But like I just keep
all that stuff in and I just fill the space.
So it's like I believe in like laughs per minute.
You know, I don't like everything. If I have a
joke with the long setup, I want it to be
funny along the way. You know, if it's a story,

(08:55):
I got it, Like, what's funny? Get that in the
first and if it requires more set up, phrase it
in a funny way, drop a word in, make some noise,
do some aside. But I hate being in a room
with no lafts happening. So it's like I just try
to keep the lasts flowing as much like And some

(09:16):
comics can have that, like a really well crafted story.
It's interesting along the way and then the payoff is
fucking huge and it's worth it. But like to me,
when I'm not here, when I'm hearing that silence, like
that's the stuff that makes me want to like close down,
Like that's the stuff that gets me out of the rhythm.
Is just like anything any dead space, So I just

(09:38):
like to fill it up, just keep it going.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
And I have a lot of jokes.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
You know, I could use like a little more discipline,
but like I right now, it's just like letting it flow.
And like the states present carries me like through more
so than being like real precise with all my joke
like doing them exactly the same way every time.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Now, so not every timing is the same timing, Yeah
you might, you play around with it, yeah yeah, every
that's different, yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
And I just have like like I like to know
what I'm gonna say for the first like two minutes,
like pretty specifically, especially if it's something new, like oh,
I noticed something that's happening in the room before the show,
or the show's in a location that I know something
about locally that's gonna relate. Like I like to like

(10:32):
have that kind of like scripted almost like I know
I'm going to start this and go to this and
then this, but then from there, I just let it
rip to all the material that I've been doing in
open mics, and I'm real comfortable riffing and off the cuff,
you know, So it's like and I it's me having fun.
So it's like if I think something's funny, like I

(10:54):
just it comes into my head, I just say it,
and it's like maybe it's not like hysteric, but like
other people when they're collecting themselves, it might be just silence.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
You're like, what else I got? Like what else am
I going to do?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (11:09):
I got one about this?

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Like I just kind of talking my way through it
and then get to the to the next thing.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
So yeah, it's just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
It's just if you're like pause and you're like Okay,
where am I going. No, No, just fucking work it out, man.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah. Yeah, but you're talking talk yourself on the actual stage.
You're like, all right, we're going through this, we're going
through this, we're going through this, and you're just like
you said, you're building up in your own way.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
And then like the discipline and just like the repetition,
the muscle memory comes in and I can just pull
my bits exactly how I want them the longer.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
I've been doing it.

Speaker 7 (11:51):
But like any nerves, any like anxiety, any tension I'm
holding in my body just like gets in the way
of me like pulling the materials.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
So yeah, like I just kind of go inside and
then it.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Close eyes a little bit. Yeah, yeah, a little bit
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, Yeah, there's there's.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
A few shows that come on and remote have had
their eyes closed before we before we see it, they're like,
we've only had sold six tickets.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
By the time we know it. Bam.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah we get to that point too.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
We're just like the shows where I'm like.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Don you open your eyes, like people are.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Here, people okay, yeah, start seeing the app tem D
and d D. I'm like, oh damn to walk in.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, we about things that Bart.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I'm like, I love you.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
Like producing a show, you get a good lineup and
no one comes. That feels terrible. I feel bad for
the comics for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I feel bad for me. I feel bad, Yeah, I
feel bad for Lincoln. I feel bad for everybody because
you know, when you try so hard to sell something right,
and you you know, you do the clips, you do
the flyers, you promote, promote, and then come Friday, you know,
mid day, it's like twelve pm. I always got to

(13:06):
do a call in for Coal, always got to call him,
and I called him at twelve scheck. Yeah, just be like,
hey man, how you doing. He's like, I'm good man,
but I heard.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm shaking over man, shaking over it.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Just wait till like seven, and then.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
We started ye yeah, ye yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
But you know, people come in and we you know,
we're fortunate that we've been the nine PM slot that
we've got. It has been.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Like you guys, you guys never saw us in the
summertime last year. Different different ball game, yeah, different ball
out every every every second, every no every fourth Friday
like this, and.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
It was a lot of like our friends like hey man,
you come, Yeah, like come and our friends live far Man,
our friends are in the suburbs, and we would be
like hey man.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Hey solid.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
So it would be like the same. It would be
the same crowd like a lot of shows because it
would be our friends coming.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Gamal's met a lot of.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Megals came through the show too, because I was like, hey,
you have a date, just having a couple of sea hours,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
And they heard me us bringing her megas, you know
what I'm saying. Like you know what I'm saying. A
lot of it was it was like self funded in
a way. You know, we need uh were to put
a seats. That's it's a business, you know what I'm saying,
Like trying to sell alcohol. We're trying to sell a
show and then you know, an experience. You know.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
The cool thing was though the last show that you
were on, we know they had a couple of groupies.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah I do we get loyal fans that are open mic.
Uh yeah hear that.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
She Uh Sarah is her name, not a groupie, just
a friend at this you know, she like brings her
other friends and like they just love live comedy. They
come to her mic and yeah, it's crazy. I have
fans like like I've been recognized.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Like yeah at a restaurant.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
You know it's really yeah yeah yeah, Like I was
the ct A like going the other way on the escalator.
I was going up someone going down. Oh I saw
you on this Oh that's crazy, you know, all over
like the Orange Line, you know, southwest side, like far
from where. It's just crazy that that's starting to happen.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So, yes, the uniqueness you bring to the table, you
can't unforget that, you know, you like the people that
saw you that night, Like I don't think you can
forget that act.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
You can't forget that that part of the show.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, you know, it's because, like I said, it's unique thing. Yeah,
unique because either you were like man like you said,
either you're confused he has eyes closed or you have
used like who is this guy up here? But it's
like he's killing You're like because you know, because everybody
else was kind of like a joke teller, you know
what I mean. And then you have what was cool

(15:55):
because like Rich was kind of like a like a
joke teller, you know a little bit of a yeah,
a little bit of a story going on, right, you
come in and you come with your own energy, and
then the show Jamie comes in and he's.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Wrapping her pussy and I'm like, what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
But the cross variety man.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
Comedy because you get three different xs like that, you're like,
each one's funny and there you own unique way. But
you're like, yeah, cool, put them on the same show.
I want to see the ship and.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I guess what. Then the introduction to Demon Hour isn't
show itself. The introduction the way you do the Pope come.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Up and then you get the Pope showing up.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Man.

Speaker 7 (16:35):
The more, yeah, the more I'm involved with comedy, I
love those steam shows. I love just like having some
that breaks it up. There's so many people. You can
get a show which is to line up five people
doing the same traditional style, and it's like it's too much,
like you see so much. But then you get these
steam shows and it's just a really.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Nice especially if you're trying to like really create something. Man,
you have to get out of the box. You have
to get out of the norm because he's as a
producer at least for us, like we need to figure
out we're not gonna use your side, your sets to
your side, right, We're not gonna cut cut that up
and say oh that was you said solid dem No,
that's your guys stuff. We had to come up with
an idea where people could see what our aspect of

(17:14):
the show actually is.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, because how else would you promote a show?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, comment, We're not gonna do that. That's that's that's dirty,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I know some places
here in Chicago they make you sign an agreement where
they could use your stuff.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I don't believe in that. I don't believe that's your material.
You know, if you guys want to put it out there,
you guys put it out there. But for another business
to be able to do that, nah, I don't believe
in that. I don't believe in that at all. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah, so, I mean that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
I try to bring something unique, and like at the beginning,
it's like slow. Maybe the bookings come slow because it's like, well,
his eyes are closed or like he's not doing it
this way, or or it's loose, like he doesn't seem disciplined.
It's like, well, I'm putting a lot of thought and
effort into this, but then it's like people see me
getting laughs and like now like some you know, books,

(18:01):
things come in get maybe at.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
The end of the day you need to laughs.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah I'm not coming back. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:08):
And it's just like there's so many people trying to
make it do it the exact same way, Like you
gotta do something a little different. Like I think if
you really want to like like be make it somehow,
you know, be something that sets you apart from everyone,
because there's a lot of super funny people who never
get that far.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
They get frustrated.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
They but like, like you got to have some style
that's like uniquely your own.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I think we saw that when we saw that, I
think we saw a little bit what to offer, Like yeah,
this is the styles that you get to see, because
I think that's.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
The thing with comics that they forget a lot, like
you are a product. You got to sell yourself, right,
because if you're not selling yourself, then nobody's gonna.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Want to book you.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
A lot of people just think it's just like, oh,
just based off my comedy, I'm gonna make it right.
Always like that. You know, there's a lot of luck,
there's a lot of of like who you know, there's
a lot of like how markable is this person? There's
a lot of funny people that never made.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
It right, yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Know, and there's a lot of unfunny way I made
it and you know how to market.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Themsel Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, Yeah, it's it's I mean,
look at the size of the guy. Look at the
size of the commedians we have. There are comedians that
they're gonna hit certain levels, you know what I'm saying.
No one's gonna make it like you're saying, Yeah, it's
gonna They're gonna hit certain ceilings and that's it and
that's where they stay, you know. Yeah, And I think
it's a little bit you know, closed minding for those

(19:32):
that are in that position. Yeah. You like, like for
us instance, man, where for our what we do. We're editors,
for producers, we're writers who're doing this or doing that.
You got to figure out that. You got to understand
that you got to take on multiple jobs. You have to.
That's the only way to be able to unless you
have money, you have to take on multiple jobs.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Once the money starts scrolling in, then you start getting
people involved.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
You know, it's only reinvest yourself.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, reinvest yourself correct.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yeah, and that you gotta produce, like you got a
book to to get book, like as a comic, and yeah,
it's real complicated social politics and everything just uh, you know,
trying to navigate like getting opportunities and you.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Want to get you want to get with from from politics.
Hey be funny, Yeah you are funny. Guess what politics
out the goddamn window. Yeah, because people want funny people.
We want funny people, that's all. Yeah, and we're not
We're not funny. We're not gonna book. I'm sorry. Right,
you know what I'm saying. We're running on business, you're not.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
If you're not funny, we're not booking.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
But see, yeah, you guys are producers, but a lot
of like the producers are also comics kind of sitting
at that ceiling, you know.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
So it's like, you know, we know when people produce
their own shows for them to be able to get
on there, we get more time, which, hey, I think
it's great. You know what I'm saying. I understand that
that's sometimes what you have to do. But we're not
producing good show, right, it doesn't really matter, right, You're
not gonna have enough people to see you anyways, you know.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah, so you have to love it and just keep
getting better no matter what, like bookings or whatever. Just
keep getting better and focus on what you can control.
It's like, am I doing everything I can to get
better today? And you know, I used to get frustrated, like, oh,
how's this person getting booked? Like, oh, they're not funny.
It's like who cares. It's like it doesn't that's like external,

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It's what am I doing to make myself better? Get
better at comedy?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
And I was doing the same ship. I'm like, why
are all these people getting booked?

Speaker 6 (21:29):
But you look, You're like, oh, they're on a bar
show in the middle of nowhere with eight other people,
Like yeah, are.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
They really gonna remember me? Because there's eight people on
here that some of.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
Them are good and some of them are just dog
shit at the moment, it's like, right, give it time,
give it time, put the work, and it shows.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah, like you said that dog shit at the moment,
not dog shit.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
But I've been too many, way too many people that
have only been in six months and they already have
ten clips up and it's from the same open MiCT
it's a one little crowd interaction where it's just like
that's funny, that's stupid or something. It's like, yeah, what
was the joke? What was funny about that?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
There was nothing? You just pointed out all that guy's
old ha ha.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
People are doing reels as soon as they start open mics,
and I understand getting content out there, but you also
are getting bad content out there. So I'd rather be
a little too slow with with like building a trying
to build a following desperately. Then like and then when
I start putting out have just like a wealth of
good stuff that everything delivers, you know, not like.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
We started together, like your act from like when you
first started. Now his mannerism, everything is one hundred percent
fucking better, man. But like just seeing your progression of
the jokes you've worked on and seen him crush being like, god,
damn it, man, Like I remember when and you had it,
but then he like worked out and then like a
month or two later, you're like, fuck, dude, he's got
it now.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Damn it.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
I hate you, But it's a good joke.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:58):
Yeah, And yeah, I mean I have bits too, I
like I feel them in some it's like this was
five minutes. Like I usually the time I get is
ten minutes, you know, Like so if this, I'll have
a bit that. Oh that worked. Wow, that was five
minutes one bit. Yeah so and sometimes you gotta let

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it breathe a little bit.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, so you take your time, work it out, be
like oh yet, you know what, there's something else here,
and then you're like, oh cool whatever I did five
minutes with that, but it was funny at least right now,
just like, let me get through these three jokes real quick,
and shit, I missed the punch on this or that.
Work it out, be up there, be be present, but
also be active with what the fuck's going on?

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Right Yeah. I mean that's why I like Power Our Power.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Our open mic that I host now on Fridays has
the drinker who drinks gets drunker throughout the night and
then like heckles you or interacts with your set, and
it's like some people don't like that because they're like, well,
I can't do my jokes is written. I mean, the
whole mic is pretty loose. There's a lot of feedback
from the crowd, and it's like but that is like

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invaluable to me because that's going to happen, especially on
these shows we get on early in our time in comedy,
Like you're gonna go to a place with a drunk
towny at the bar, you know, a regular who's upset
that you're there and you just want to be able
to think and shut them down. You're gonna go somewhere
where your joke's not working and you want to pivot

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on something.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
So well, that's I mean, it's it's practice. It's practice, practice, practice.
It's all practice, man. Yeah, it's practice. You're practicing when
people or when you get a chance to be able
to talk to the crowd, yeah, or point someone out.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
And you'll see the newer guys coming in and the
drinker or one of us in the crowd whatever, somebody
just heckles a little something and they get thrown off
right away and they're like what like what what and
like they lose their track and then like yeah, so
as I.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Was saying, it's like no man, like starting with the drinker,
that's right.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
And I mean there's shows like yours where that's the show,
like you have to you read some of a paper
and now you gotta say something. There's a lot of
shows like like Laughter Hours. We were just talking about that,
or like you know, there's there's heckle shows like there's
that'll get you opportunities to and just being just like
flexing your muscle, figuring out what makes you naturally funny.

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You have to incorporate your natural ability uh into your style.
It's not all it's not all writing. Something's got to
set you a part of it.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
We've we've had comics where they don't do good and
uh and there's set made a little slow and they
don't get enough laughs, but they redeem themselves when it
comes down to the actual demon aspect of the confessions
and stuff, you know, or vice versa. You know, you're
killing your set and then made demons a little slower
to get the best confession. But you know you get

(25:53):
the moments you're killing your set and you kill in
the confessions man, And yeah, you know that's how it is.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Yeah, but yeah, some.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
People are people are like that. Some people are quick.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Some people are very good joke writers were like Mike
was saying, they can tell this story and you're intrigued.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
You might not be laughing the whole time, but you're hooked.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
And then the punchline is right there, and you're like, Okay,
that was fucking that was a good setup and everything.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
And then you get.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Jamie who sings fucking knocks it out of the park.
She's talking about her pussy and whatnot, not just a pussy.
She's got other good.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Songs, but most memory.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
You need to flex your muscles on this ship. It works.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's cool.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's cool to seeing everything man seeing like Howard comes
together when it comes with different aspects of in the
world comedy.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Right before, before we move on, I just want to
bring up drink up the episode. What are you drinking?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
We are drinking the Wow.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
You had the cup?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I know you drinking rum mule. There a delicious rummle.
It's a daily soign original like always their originals.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Original, originals, originals, originals.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
But cheers to that, guys, salute.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
So I want to take a step back. Okay, So
you started comedy at thirty nine.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Yeah, like I did a few open mics like we
have twelve thirteen years ago.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah yeah, like I.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh so, so when was the first time you actually
tried comedy.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Maybe like twenty seven, twenty eight, So like twenty eleven
something like that.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
From twenty eight to thirty nine, what was going on?
Like what were you going like try to just you're like, fuck.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
Yeah, no, Uh, I had a rough life.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
I moved around a lot, you know.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
I've tried different jobs, different degrees, and then I kind
of got pretty sick for a while with like depression,
you know, so I had to figure out how to
I mean, yeah, so I don't I didn't do anything
for a long time. I kind of withdrew. So it's
kind of a weird thing. It's like embarrassing to talk
about sometimes. I yeah, I kind of orderline, like stayed

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in my house for like seven years, like.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
A long time. Now. I only saw a handful of people.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
So I had to figure out how to live authentically.
So that's what I do. That's like where my style
comes from. It's like, this is me doing what I
want to do. Yeah, And it's like they started comedy.
It's like I was already on the upswing. So I
would always be trying.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
I never lost like full faith in myself or anything,
but like I couldn't just like do normal stuff in
the world. So yeah, I would bounced around a country
I traveled and lived different places and and.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
I did that.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
So then I was like, I don't know, I gotta
move past it, you know, I gotta bust out, like, uh,
get something in life that's happy, that's my own thing
that's fulfilling, you know, And like like I would have dreams,
like I was like, so shut it like a turtle
like in my own head, Like I don't know, I

(29:25):
just had to find something to to to get out
of that, and like I had to just like turn
my life around. So I I, yeah, it's hard, but
like I found comedy. I love comedy, and since I
started comedy, like everything every challenge become just like how

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do I dress this? How do I move through it?
How do I I'm doing? There's no lower place than
I already been, so it's like how do I just
keep There's nothing to fear, like I've already done more
like been the lowest, so like I've already done more
than like my wildest dreams when I was at my lowest.
So like everything is just gravy and I just remind

(30:10):
myself that, you know, and everything that happens, it's like, well, yeah,
what am I mad about? I didn't get on a show,
this per you know, this girl rejected me or some shit.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
You know, It's like, who gives a shit.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
It's like even the fact that I'm talking to like
you have these people in my life, you know, it's
like I have these opportunities or any aspiration to get
these things.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
It's like that is like a pipe dream.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Like there was a little like literal dreams like that
I used to have when.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
I was sick.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Is like like that was one thing I keep me going,
Like I could barely talk like make sense of things,
but like I could have dreams like fall asleep and
have a dream of me like doing stand up or
like talking like like just like a healthy person like
I can now. So it's like I knew it was
in my head somewhere. So like then I started doing that.

(31:05):
I just had to figure out a way to make
myself healthier, find my place in the world. So basically
as I've been starting stand up, just like build my
life back from scratch.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Like and yeah, what what helped what helped you get
all of that like that that you were in.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Yeah, well, I mean I was, you know, I I
do therapy still, but like I was doing like psychiatry,
like I had a real smart doctor, real good doctor,
and uh, you know, I was getting better, and like
I tried to go back to work because like I
have a master's degree, so like you know, I tried.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Goddamn genius.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
I knew it.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
You gave me that vibe. This guy, this guy's intelligent man,
this intelligent human being.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
Yeah, well I would education, but my batter, like I
was a journalist, I used to be a.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Talk about man.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
Well I just kept bouncing like oh, I'm going to
go back to school. Like everything was not fun, Like
I wasn't like in my place, like not comfortable, Like
I felt like artistic with no art form, Like I
couldn't be authentic.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
You know.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
I like my solitude. I like my time alone.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
I like to talk to people in burse you know,
I like or but I like to kind of sit
back and observe.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
So it's hard to find a job where you can
do that.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
So then, like I was getting better, recovering, try to
go back to work, and still it's like there's no joy.
It's like, yeah, the best I can hope for here
is just like this is the ceiling of me being functional,
like as a psychiatrist defines it.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
So like I I like fired the psychiatrists.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
I was like, there's gotta be more to life because
it's still not fun. Like I'm starting comedy like everything,
there's just nothing fun behind it. So like I fired
the psychiatrist, like I weaned off the medications, and then
I that summer two years ago, I started not the
first time in my life, but like doing psychedelics like

(33:20):
mushrooms and acid and like, like I have a joke
in my stand up about dancing and like how I
lost this a bunch of weight because dancing and like
people can see how fat you are even if you're
not having fun, and like that was kind of my style.
Like when I was at my saddus, like rock bottom,

(33:41):
Like I have one friend who I've known for like
thirty five years, Like he'd come around and we go to.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
Raves and shit, and like that.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
I would just go out and like like just do
some malli or whatever or dance, and like that was
like kind of starting me like feeling that and then
like so then I was It's just like I had
to figure out a way to like free myself and
those drugs, like not like doing it every day, but

(34:10):
like learning setting attention like once every one or two weeks.
For like a few months, I did like some sort
of big trip and like that worked. And then since that,
I just I have a different mindset, Like I haven't
changed the way I experience the world in the way.

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It's not like that like my mind was ready for
you know. It's not like, oh, you take a bunch
of acid and like you it's gonna change you. It
can be with it's like you have to integrate it
with like support from professionals and things like that. But
it's like that's pretty much my hopeful fit theories. Like
people can see like they're gonna think bad things about

(34:57):
you or whatever even if you're not having fun. So
now I just have fun and be myself and like
let fuck call.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Let people think whatever they they want, you know.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
So and ship we got to work on a movie together.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah right, and that's enough thing.

Speaker 7 (35:13):
Just get involved with good people who you trust and
who are talented, like Donovan Uh we worked on his
feature movie Donovan Strong O'donnald Just like that was me
like just and that led to like, oh, then I
was producing a show at one of the bars where
we did filming, just like you get involved with good people,

(35:33):
good projects, like more stuff comes your way, and so
just trust your intuition on that and and be supportive
and be genuine and good stuff happens. I think just
if you're there's just so many talent people to talented
people that I've met through comedy that you just want
to work with them and just say yes and just

(35:55):
put yourself out there and say yes to almost every
almost every opportunity, especially when you're you're getting started.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
Yeah, and especially too it's good people asking you like, hey,
you want to be on my show, you want to
help me with this, and you're not like a, I don't.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Want to know, I want to work with you. I
like hanging out.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Like the movie crew after it was done, we're like,
god damn, Like we had like some long ass nights.
We're bouncing around the city trying to film everything, and
then after we.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Was done, we're kind of like, I miss you guys.
Can we do another one?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (36:28):
Yeah, that was It was a lot of fun working
on that. We busted our asses.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
But yeah, just so Many's.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Got a great ass part in the movie.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Too. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
So yeah, now I'm acting like I'm taking acting classes.
Yeah yeah, so I'm just exploring all the creative ship
that like I didn't really have that much courage to
do or felt like I couldn't tap into it, like
I was blacked like creatively just very like my whole
body was like tense. I was unhealthy. And yeah, so

(37:02):
I do all this ship that I would have laughed
at like ten, ten, twenty years ago.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Like I'm doing like.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Hardcore yoga, like serious like yoga, like.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
I meditate, like I fuck with aligning the chakras.

Speaker 7 (37:18):
I do all this shit like I like I yeah,
I I so I I do all this stuff just
to to better to my myself and become more mindful
and more present and not like and just let things
go like things that upset me or or even you know,
your victories. You can't write like too high on those either,

(37:40):
just like everything is like a moment, you know. So
it's like, yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. You know,
it's like before I would like especially like when I
was a school teacher, Like that was.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Dude, I was trying everything.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
We got to print out the bio.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Confused, I won't talk to you right.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Used to be in the c I's like cancer.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
Yeah, no, factories, I've worked, yeah, the newspapers.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
You were you were a school teacher.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
Yeah, it was an elementary.

Speaker 7 (38:21):
And I like real disabled like like autism down like
nonverbal children.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
Yeah, but that was just like so hard. It's every
day like I could not like just like what do
I gotta do?

Speaker 2 (38:35):
What do I have to?

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Like, like everything was a distraction. It was just like
and then you're just like never there like enjoying your time.
You're always like thinking about ship. So I don't know,
you know, there's something.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I feel like there's like a book right, Like I
feel like you can write a book about your experience,
your experience because it's all over the place. Like you said,
you were like I'll scoot you at work to the factory.
I was a coal miner, you know what I mean.
I trave an Africa four years. You know it's like.

Speaker 7 (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, one day, I mean maybe, Yeah, I've.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Got a lot of.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
A lot of experience. Yeah, I mean I certain things. Yeah,
like I don't know if I'll ever finish anything, but
I got a lot of ideas about like how I
want to share that. Yeah, and then it all just
comes into my stand up. Like that's the thing about
It's like I will cut like cut myself down. Now
I respect myself and love myself, So I like some

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people try to do it at open mics because listen,
they see my style.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
They think this guy's an idiot.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
They think he's got his eyes like like they better
watch out, you know, like once I get up it
or just get the microphone. But like, uh, like I
personally like anything. I'm just like an open book, like
and I'll just like to tear myself down, but in.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
A way that you have to do that where you're
not like.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Trauma dumping, like you're still like it's like this is
what I've been through, but I'm fucking fine with it
and right now here, I am happy to be here.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
You know, you can't. You got to be personal, but
not be like sad or it's just the journey, not
the finish line. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, so it's uh yeah, I've had a lot
of experiences and a lot of it but been by myself.
So I just try to get out there more now
and be open and.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Work with good people.

Speaker 7 (40:42):
Yeah and yeah, but also be myself because it is
it is different. There's less that I handle. Like, I
don't know, I like one thing, it's hard, like always
like having to like make conversation, like you're just always
going to like the same people, same place. It's like
we already like I don't have that much to say,

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and most people don't, so I don't want to hear
them talking with nothing to say.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
It's like don't.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
Ye shut so yeah, but I like, you know, I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
So it's like I don't like to always be on
you know, like.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
But I like, like I I I appreciate people, you know,
I appreciate what they bring to the table. But I
like to kind of observe things. And and it's like
hard work, a lot of energy to like have to
force myself into that every day, Like I get a work,
like work, you just got social demands like every single day.
It's like that's so exhausting. It gets me outside of

(41:46):
my myself.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah no, I mean it's so interesting, dude. Like I'm
like I feel like I'm I might have got a
ted talk right now trying trying to pick them out life.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I'm like going, it's not that bad.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah no, But so you you do the public transfer
transit transit yeah, yeah, you don't have some wild stories. Yeah,
of like things you've seen, man, because mean them up.
We've like been dabbing our feet, you know. I mean
we're car guys. Yeah, we find parking, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
But uber, you know uber.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, but when it comes to like the train the bus,
like we're very uh, I'm rehressive about it.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
You line, and I think green line, right, I think
we've been on the green line. That's it. That's it,
you know one time the blue line.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Wait until you try the red line.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
That's what I keep hearing. That's why I keep hearing
like this the red line and the yellow line or
the line brown line or something like the worst ones.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Well probably red and green would have that reputation.

Speaker 6 (42:51):
Red's like the longest one, so people ride it all
the way north, all the way south.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Yeah, and red and green runs through some dicey west
side and south side areas.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Yeah, but yeah, I like it.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
I mean for I actually like for jokes, for comedy,
like sitting on the bus, like passive, like writing time
and like getting the getting material and just seeing the city.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Like I go all over the city because I'm a
dog walker.

Speaker 7 (43:20):
Now it's like so like and petsitters. So I go
to different neighborhoods on the bus and I walk to
I walk like fifteen miles a day or twenty sometimes,
like you walk some yeah, during a busy week, like
I easily average more than fifteen miles a day, and

(43:43):
then I have to get from place to place, so
like I like have to I hustle between buses and like, yeah,
I noticed CTA pretty well, and I I'm not.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
You know, I love the city. I love this city in.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Neighborhoods, you know, like so it gets you out and
gets you to experience people.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, yeah, what.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Is it like walking dogs?

Speaker 7 (44:03):
I mean I just go there, do the half hour,
and then I'm onto the next one. That's like you
just always it's I like that. It's like I do
this today and this and this. It's like when you're
like a salary job, it's like too much. Yeah yeah,
and like I gotta like manage my own time and
like organize and sh It's like no, I well, now,

(44:25):
I mean I I do my clients, I you know,
set my appointments. But it's just like well I just
get there and then I walk the dog.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
And you don't have to say much right, know where
you're there, like all right.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah yeah, if the time, I'll talk more to the dog.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
I mean the best clients I never seen, Like I
see them once when I meet them, and then they're
just at work every time I come to walk the
dog in the house, grab dog, yeah yeah but something
yeah yeah, like all right, they'll give me a key. Yeah,
just I have access and then h you know, sometimes
it's like more the people at home.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
It's more of a luxury for people.

Speaker 7 (45:05):
They just don't have that much time or energy to
exercise the dogs, so they I like that. Yeah, I
like just I love different dogs, different animals. I mean,
it's just they just appreciate me. So I just walk
as much and do a good job. And then I
liked also that people can give me extra money when

(45:27):
I do a good job, like you know, I get
my rate, but then people just show their appreciation. Like
that doesn't happen with like salary job. You just like
you work hard, you just yeah, but yeah, I like it.
It's fun, it's meditative. You just get to pick up

(45:49):
the dog and then just walk.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
And then it's a lot of thinking time.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yeah, listen, to music.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, you people stop you like, oh my god, your dog.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah that's a lot. Yeah, that does happen a lot.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah you do you just admit like yes, my dog,
or you just go like no, I'm a dog walker.
I just want do you what do you? What do
you go?

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Well it depends like how embarrassed I am about the dog.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
It's like.

Speaker 7 (46:18):
It's like I have no beast talk. I'm like he's
not mine, Like I don't do this to my dog. No,
Like sometimes I like gotta let the person know him
in a hurry, yeah, you know, like or they want
like too much, like this isn't even my dog, like h.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah. Yeah, So have a sign on your shirt and say, hey,
don't bother me dog walking, dog walking a little vest,
put some little invest on working best. Hey, dog walker,
put a little dog on it, walking the dog. Yeah yeah,
I'm in the clock, right, guys will bother me.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
I'll have the headphone in and then like yeah, so
I'll try, like you know, take it out like what
you know, still still want to talk, yeah, but now
mostly just meet and the dogs.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Yeah yeah, what.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
I don't speak English and keep simple.

Speaker 7 (47:15):
Dude, I do though, I mean like not like that,
but I mean sometimes it's it'll be like a neighbor
in the building like a high rise downtown, like I
want to talk. They know the dog when I'm not there,

(47:37):
and like, oh, it's like all right, I'm working, and
like I got to schedule to keep like seriously, like
what we just come in the building. I got two
minutes to get the dog in and then like get
back to get onto my next one, and they'll like stop,
want to talk. I'm like, okay, you see the dog
every day, like its just complete and like some people

(47:58):
just gotta shut it down.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Or just handle yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
So this is like an app that you do and
people like yeah, I used Rover.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
But then I also have some clients that I've met
other ways or oh just private if I use the app,
and then they take twenty percent, which isn't bad because
they do all the promoting.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
You know.

Speaker 7 (48:24):
It's like so it's like that or some clients I
just have myself that I just communicate with directly.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Yeah that I got through word of mouth or whatever.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Yeah. So I mean when you walk the same dog
like five times a week.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
Yeah, like yeah yeah, but like now I broke my
toe two weeks ago, so I've been off dog walking,
so like that sucks because like it's just like all
of a sudden boom, no money, like yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
So yeah, like that's try to get regulars.

Speaker 7 (48:55):
And mostly I'm working in like Bridgeport area now like
all Stone between twenty six and like Pershing so like
my old Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Like you're just throwing off fucking just streets man, I'm like, yeah, man.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Bridge for yeah, we not we have no idea, no idea, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:13):
We have no ideas going on there.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
You can say, you can say you can talk latitude
and longitude like I have.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Yeah, it's like the streets you guys live out of
you Yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Yeah, Honestly it helps so much to like know and
like the grid and everything just to like figure out,
oh I can get here, like because that's how I
was when I first moved to the Like I'm from
Displaying the suburbs. Yeah, so when I first moved into
the city, I didn't know any of that ship like directions,
what's this?

Speaker 5 (49:43):
How does everything link up? And now I know, like
I'm no so much, like I.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
Know this street is you know here we are irving,
you know, irving in Central Park for four thousand north
thirty six hundred west.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Just like knowing that ship is just like helps me
get around.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
And then it's like, well this is like for this
is this far for you know, four blocks to half
miles just like I can get to this line from here.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
I love like that shit.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, but being at you're walking so much in the day,
what is your die like A yeah, because I want to.
I mean, you're burning so many calories just yeah, I
mean fifteen miles. We're talking about like a thousand calories
a day.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Yeah, yeah, I burn a lot.

Speaker 7 (50:28):
Yeah, like sometimes too trashy like sometimes like in the
summer this year, I've been drinking like a lot less beer,
but like a lot for a while. I was getting
so many calories from beer. But like I eat a
lot of protein, like hard boiled eggs. Like I'll eat

(50:49):
like just stop and it's like I don't plan well,
so I'll just like realize, oh my god, I'm so
hungry and then like get a protein bar or something
because it's like a guess you know.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, yeah I do.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Like I'll use apps and things like that. I look
for different deals.

Speaker 7 (51:07):
Hey, the deal deals all day baby, way of to
day because they gave me thirty percent of.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Subway is not great, but you know it's it's alright.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
Yeah, but then I'll get the double meat, you know,
I get ye kind yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Day, I don't want all the calories from bread, you know,
double meat.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
I focused on protein, that's mostly right, right.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Right, okay, yeah, protein and goddamn beer.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
Yeah yeah yeah, but yeah I'll eat junk to like. So, yeah,
I spent a lot of money at gas stations.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Yeah, gas hot dog. Oh never, I'm gonna say, I
was gonna say.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
I mean like roads, yeah, I mean sometimes, except they're
not that many seven levens on this out side, you know,
but like or like yeah, so mostly just like protein,
cliff bars and and or Snickers bars.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (52:08):
I have a bit about buying Snickers going hand the
mouth in the wildgreens. I say, yeah, that's how I
I go. I find something on sale and I buy
it and eat it immediately.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
What's the what's the crazy experience? The crazy experience you've
had on I on a train or a bus.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
We were like, this can't be happening right now.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (52:35):
It's like, okay, like this is when I lived in
Fort Worth in Texas all Fort worth Man rivalry.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Yeah the West begins. Yeah, I know, I know very well.

Speaker 7 (52:50):
Yeah yeah, no I went That's where I went to
college TCU. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, So but when I
lived there, there was like like a very like old
like ethnic like Vietnamese lady, like I think, like she
spoke like no English at all, but she would have

(53:11):
like a cart, and like I would see her all
the time. And the bus system there sucks, like you
get there's like one bus an hour, and like you're
on it forever, like they're in the South, you know,
like there's barely any public transit. But this woman, I'd
see her all the time, and she would take forever
and like hold up the bus.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
One time, she.

Speaker 7 (53:30):
Gets off the bus with the cart, goes by the
back door, squats down next to the back door, and
just starts immediately.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Pissing right this bus, just like it was.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
The old country.

Speaker 5 (53:46):
I mean, I've seen people be on the bus.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Only dudes you see masturbate on the bus.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
I've actually never seen it.

Speaker 7 (53:55):
Like I've seen people with like shit, you know, like
covered in ship, but yeah, never actually like seeing anyone
doing like a sex act. Yeah, I mean so yeah,
but mountain peeing on the bus fighting.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
Remember something like when I leave, I mean, yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's kind of a blur at this point.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Yeah, yeah, I'm so horrible at like recalling stories.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
You know, I don't know. It's like everything is, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
There there somewhere.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Me, Me and a co worker.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
This past Saturday, we went to go get some fu
on on Brinmer Brindmyer, Bridmar, Bridmar, And this is by
the week, go frequently too, and there's like street parkings.
We park on the street and as soon as we
get there, it's just like crazy Asian lad and she's

(55:02):
like yelling and she's screaming and and she's talking to
herself and she's just kind of like doing her own thing.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
I park a little, I park a little bit a
little a little far behind her, you know, on the
sid street, and then my my coworker parks right in
front of me, and we get out of the car,
you know, we go with our phone and they were
just good or just copasthetic, right, and we come out
and she she jokingly says, she's like, oh, I hope
she didn't break my window, right, And I was like ahaa, funny, right,

(55:36):
And I get into my car and I see her
like start walking towards her car and I see her.
I see her just stop and she goes, what the fuck?
And I'm like, I'm in my car. I'm like, I'm like,
what's going on. She's like what the fuck? She's like, gramon, look,
and I was like, damn, dude, I get out, get

(55:57):
out of the car. First thing I do, check my car,
make sure. I just take the front of it, make
sure there wasn't anything like going wrong, because we were
only like a couple ft away from each other. And
then I make the I go in, get on the
sidewalk and look to the left.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Hair covers covered. It could have been a can of chili.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Or ship or vomit, but it was all over the
fucking the driver's window, the side door, you know. And
I would just like, She's like, what the fuck about
and I'm like and I looked, and then again I
turned to my car to make sure that my car
was good. I'm like, man, this sucks. And she's like,

(56:42):
where is she where?

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I'm like, you know, but I was like, god, damn dude.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
And it's I was just like you know, every time,
every time I see like homeless person or or like somebody,
you know, somebody street yelling.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
To yesterday, yester're walking through.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Uh yeah, we're going to go ahead.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Yeah we're literally we're going through. Uh, we're going through.
We're already passed the stadium.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
We heard of Trace, Yeah, yeah, we we passed Trace.
And this is black dude. Man, just just just we
saw him already a couple of feet away. Man, he
just he screams out of nowhere, you know, and like
I don't know, he's trying to do some fighting moves
or something, you know, and uh, I walk right past them,
and some walk right past them. Dude, my guy decides
to scream and do a funny movement, you know. And

(57:29):
so he did that movement. I put my hands up
because I thought he was going after me for a minute.
Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. And I saw
him cornery. He's not moving something, all right, cool, but
just I just I keep hustling along though, but he
just decides on to scream out of nowhere, dude, and
that puts like that puts me in defense mode man,
because I'm like, I don't know, he's about to do
something to me, like I don't know you guys are

(57:51):
you know, they're unpredictable.

Speaker 7 (57:52):
Sometimes on the way here, say guy, you know what
I mean? Like just like this is a rough neighborhood
like Chicago Avenue between uh Kezzie and Homan. So it's
like Garfield Park and there's just like a lot of
guys walking around.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
But like a guy stops we try to talk to
me and then he moves real fest but I.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Like yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
And he's like, well, you don't got to be scared.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
It's like, well in general, I'm not, but like I
don't know you at all, and you're like moving at me,
like but yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Wait wait wait wait, So you were just walking this
guy well.

Speaker 7 (58:30):
Like he wanted to ask me if I wanted to
buy a crack pipe or something. Yeah, I mean yeah,
Like he was like you get hot, like a lot
of headphones in again, Like so I take it out
and then he just like moves like turns towards me.
It's like okay, like I don't know what you're trying
to do, so yeah, but then he was like trying

(58:52):
to get me to He's like you get high. It's
like I'm not here for that because that's like the
area is like you could get your drugs, Like.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
I never heard this.

Speaker 7 (59:03):
Yeah it's a west side neighborhood and uh.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Yeah, I mean you don't know, you don't know, you
don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
You gotta be in the fence, right Unfortunately, unfortunately, especially
mentally ill mentally ill people just yeah, I'm not going
to take that gamble.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
I mean that's the kind of thing like about CTA stories.
It's just like mostly poor people being hostile to each
other and ship or mentally ill. It's like, yeah, not
that funny. I mean, you know, usually it's just uneventful.
You just get where you go and what. But like
if something notable happens, it's like it's just like kind
of scary or sad. People yelling at their kids or

(59:46):
your fight.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Or like be crazy in the corner.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
Don't trying to get like smoke, like come on, why
are you smoking weed on the bus? You can smoke
weed every other fucking place, and the like why are
you just people who have like no power. They're like
just trying to assert themselves in some way.

Speaker 5 (01:00:09):
Like we play music.

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
Like okay, okay, okay, yeah, you know, like playing music
loud as fun just because like every you can't say
anything because this guy might stab you or something. Right,
So it's just like this is how they feel some
sort of authority in their lives because there's just a
lot of sad people living in America.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
You know, we're very little.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
So yeah, we were at sorry about the noise, everybody
give it a second.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
Chicago, basically Chicago.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Then the cops would be like, no, we heard your
bike on the pocket around this time. No, we were
at We were at a restaurant and had like a
patio and it was mingham all. We're just sitting out
there drinking, drinking, and there's another guy citing and eating,
and this random dude comes in and he just starts

(01:01:04):
punching the wall and yelling, fuck man, this man shadow
boxing box. And we're like, what's the fun going on here?
And right away I'm like mom, like, don't make eye contact,
don't make guy contact, Like, don't even look at this
guy like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I'm staring at him. Then right, make got to make
sure man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
And luckily we were at the fore end, so he
would have had to go through a couple of tables
to get to us, and eventually like the staff comes out,
staff comes out, like and they sent the smallest Mexican.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
The bus boyd dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Yeah, there was like too tall.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
There's two tall white guys and they're like.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Little Mexican cooking back. He's like hey man, what's hey?

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
No, no, you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Here, man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
And the guy's like, no, man, just because fucking bitch
man and not like that. But he was delivering food.
He has bag with him and he's like he threw
like of the like against the wall and one of
the coasters on the floor. And then the Mexican dude comes.

(01:02:13):
He's like, no, man, you can't do that here, man.
And he's like no, and then try to talk to
him in Spanish, right, and he's like no, no, He's
like I get it, man. Yeah, He's like I get it.
Life's life's hard, man. But you can't be doing here.
He's like, man, man, fuck man, and he and he leaves.
He goes out to like the the corner of the sidewalk,
the corner sidewalk. He's out there for a minute and

(01:02:34):
then you know, he leaves. He comes back. He doesn't
come into like the Patua anymore. He stays in the curb,
but he doesn't come with a bag. And I was
joking around Gamal, I was like, can you imagine be
the girl hub Like watching his like status and seeing
him do circles, I'm unmapped what he's doing. I'm like,

(01:02:57):
you guys full there. You know, he finished job like
he was going through it, but he was like you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Know what got fast already.

Speaker 7 (01:03:05):
That was the most frustrating shit ever, Like trying to
deliver Uber eats, like back when I had a car,
Like I go to restaurant and they're like, oh, someone
would already pick that up because they just like, like
anybody come in and pick up food. So it's like
some guy like signs up for Uber Eats, like just
goes picks up the food, never delivers it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
I mean yeah, yeah, I've had where they just walk
and grab a bag. They don't even double chuck.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
I've been like sitting there for like twenty minutes and
like can I help you, Like I'm waiting for my food.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
They're like, oh, we don't have it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:38):
I'm like all right, yeah, someone already picked that up.
And then and then you get no money, so you're
just like drive to the place yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
More and more city. Of course in the suburbs, because
I used to do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Thor dash right and not never that has that ever
happened to me, which I assume here in the city
they happens every every day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
There's too much going on, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
I've almost done a few times where the line is
too long and there's like six fucking.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Uber eats ready to go. I was just ready to
grab one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Yeah, I saw this probably two three weeks ago. Two
weeks ago, I saw a guy in the wheelchair delivering.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Howard or no, like im zooming Broadway. My boy was like,
just like like that bro. We were on was on Friday.

(01:04:41):
We we were on what area, Linking Park, Linking Park,
and we it was late and grab a couple of
scooters go home, right, And so we job on this
couple scooters and we we we know that scooters should
go on the bike, right, but it was kind of

(01:05:02):
like a busy area, so we were.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Kind of on the sidewalk.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
We were on the sidewalk and we were kind of
going through it and you know, there's bars and people
were like you know, walking the sidewalk and we're being
we're not going fast. When I being the being a
little obnoxious with the bell ringings, like you know, people
people would get ticked off and things like that. And
We're passing a group of white girls and and I

(01:05:28):
hear one of them say she's like, she goes like
they shouldn't even be on on sidewalks, should be on
the bike lane. And I'm like and just had a
like reflex reflex. I go, I'm like, did you hear that,
fat bitch? What did I say? I was like like
if I'm like, oh, bitch, I'm like a fat bitch,
it ain't a bike, it's a scooter. And then as

(01:05:50):
soon as I left it, I felt bad. I feel
so bad. I was like I didn't mean to say it.
And I was like she wasn't even fast, and I'm like,
not just created trauma these poor girls. Like she's like, wait,
he thought I was fat? I thought you were a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
The corner attitude, but attitude for bad.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
For a second, I was like, I was like, I
should have got back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Into I'm sorry, I didn't mean that that girl come
to comedy show.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
I'm like, may we should be in a bike lane,
but fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
There's no bikeline at that moment. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
I'm here that scooters don't go on bike lanes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
They go on the sidewalk.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Everything's bikeling bike lane.

Speaker 7 (01:06:32):
But listen, like I did that ship on Cermac, like
I was in the school that Like on the street,
people are yelling at me, they're making fun of me,
like I'm gonna get killed, Like yeah, I'm sorry, yeah,
like I don't want to do it. They're like, there's
not bike lanes everywhere and it's biking.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
There were yeah, and I think there was a bikelinge there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
What I'm saying, I don't think there's but that's some
reason why we're in the sidewalk.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
It was just like busy traffic and we were like, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
I want to survive, dude, Like come on.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
But before we the podcast, let's talk about our demon
our show coming up August twenty second. Lincoln Lodge is
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We have some great comments. We have Maria Acosta on,
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Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
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two I'm sorry, guys, I did the scheduling, but we
have Luis Allo and then of course mister Chris Forte
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Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Dude after his specialty shot last night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Was yeah, big shout out to her boy, Kevin Man.
We are more, we can be more proud. I mean
going in there and just shooting high fire man. Yeah,
it was very shooting hoigh fire. It was beautiful, beautiful thing.
Want to take Kevin Man.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Won't take Kevin.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Take Kevin. That's what we call him now. But Mike,
tell the people they can find you any shows that
you have coming up. This comes out this week have
this weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:08:01):
Yeah, So Mike Dwyer Mike the Dwire on Instagram, you
can catch me produce two open mics Tuesdays and Fridays,
Easy and on Tuesdays monthly show there. The next one
is the twenty fourth, So you catch me that weekend.

(01:08:23):
I'll be on the twenty second, the regular Chicago. Then
the next day I got to show at bug House
and Easy And on the twenty fourth, so that was coming.

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a great comedian. Like I said, he's a comic that
you know you Yeah, you watch say the Drink or
take It Go beforehand and with the other comics going on.

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what can people find you?

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