Danny Nixxon is a stand up comic and video graphic designer.
https://www.instagram.com/dannynixxon/
Ever plucked a nose hair and felt like you'd just been zapped by the electrical force of all your worst decisions? Well, that's the kind of unique comedy gold you can expect when you tune into our latest episode, where my producer Amber and I delve into the curious world of bodily reactions, and welcome the hilarious Danny Nixxon to the fold. Danny, a rising star in the stand-up comedy scene, shares his anecdotes on everything from haunted comedy clubs to punk rock fashion, blending laughs with spine-tingling tales. It's a rollercoaster of an episode that takes you behind the scenes of the laughs and scares of the comedy world.
As a host, I offer a glimpse into the personal side of comedy, from using humor as a shield against social anxiety to the nuanced craft of joke writing and delivery. There's something raw and revealing in talking about the ways comedians piece together their acts, the vulnerability that comes with standing on stage, and the unexpected camaraderie found in the comedy circuit. Our conversation meanders through the highs and lows of performance, the discipline of writing, and the shared joy of a punchline that lands just right.
Rounding out the episode, we sidestep into the realm of the philosophical, riffing on Jim Carrey's perspectives and diving headfirst into the rabbit hole of Michael Jackson conspiracy theories. Our banter takes unexpected turns, touching on the talents of blind musicians like Stevie Wonder and the ethical boundaries of AI. And of course, we couldn't leave you without dropping some dates and locations where you can catch the humor live. If you're ready for a dose of hilarity that spans the gamut from personal reflection to the outright absurd, you've found the right podcast.
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"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
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King without a Throne
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Danny Nixxon is a stand up comic and video graphic designer.
https://www.instagram.com/dannynixxon/
Ever plucked a nose hair and felt like you'd just been zapped by the electrical force of all your worst decisions? Well, that's the kind of unique comedy gold you can expect when you tune into our latest episode, where my producer Amber and I delve into the curious world of bodily reactions, and welcome the hilarious Danny Nixxon to the fold. Danny, a rising star in the stand-up comedy scene, shares his anecdotes on everything from haunted comedy clubs to punk rock fashion, blending laughs with spine-tingling tales. It's a rollercoaster of an episode that takes you behind the scenes of the laughs and scares of the comedy world.
As a host, I offer a glimpse into the personal side of comedy, from using humor as a shield against social anxiety to the nuanced craft of joke writing and delivery. There's something raw and revealing in talking about the ways comedians piece together their acts, the vulnerability that comes with standing on stage, and the unexpected camaraderie found in the comedy circuit. Our conversation meanders through the highs and lows of performance, the discipline of writing, and the shared joy of a punchline that lands just right.
Rounding out the episode, we sidestep into the realm of the philosophical, riffing on Jim Carrey's perspectives and diving headfirst into the rabbit hole of Michael Jackson conspiracy theories. Our banter takes unexpected turns, touching on the talents of blind musicians like Stevie Wonder and the ethical boundaries of AI. And of course, we couldn't leave you without dropping some dates and locations where you can catch the humor live. If you're ready for a dose of hilarity that spans the gamut from personal reflection to the outright absurd, you've found the right podcast.
My Grito Industries
mygrito.net
Subscribe to The Mindbuzz Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIYj7eDCsV3YPzxv7VRKZKg
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @themindbuzz https://www.instagram.com/themindbuzz/ to keep up with our hosts, guests, and upcoming events!
See you on the next one!
"King without a Throne" is performed by Bad Hombres
King without a Throne Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhxTYU8kUs
King without a Throne
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tdoz0W9gr3ubetdW4ThZ8?si=9a95947f58bf416e
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Speaker 2:February 23rd Delet Comedy is a standup comedy, open mic comedy showcase and podcast recorded in front of a live studio audience. Each open mic and featured standup comedian will receive three minutes of stage time, followed by an interview oh yeah by a host and two special guest hosts. February 23rd, delet Comedy. Check out the link in the bio the MindBuzz oh yeah, let's go. Boom, that is Up. Mindbuzz Universe. Welcome back to another podcast episode of the MindBuzz. My name is Gil and that's what two L's, ladies and gentlemen, two L's, g-i-l-l, and working the twos and threes in the back is my producer, my lifelong partner. She tells me what to do every single minute of my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Amber, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good you got a nose hair.
Speaker 2:That was longer than three minutes or three seconds, right, are you sure?
Speaker 1:I'd be horrible at telling you because I can't see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you would. Huh, All my senses are like shot.
Speaker 1:I can't hear, I can't smell, I can't see.
Speaker 2:Okay, I give you that, but if you did have good eyesight, you'd be able to look up and see what's hanging out of my nose because of your stature right, You're right yeah. So, but have you? You've never run into that problem before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course, but I think the nose hair is just different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:What do you want to say? Hey, you have a nose hair and then can I pluck it out for you?
Speaker 2:Can I pull it for you? You know how satisfying that is.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:I've ever felt it don't like, don't shave it, you pull it. No, it has this weird sensation that Do you pull your?
Speaker 1:nose hair and you don't feel it in your nose. Do you feel it like somewhere else in your body?
Speaker 2:I feel it the filling after I pull it.
Speaker 1:It's like my groin that's weird.
Speaker 2:It goes up, goes up my spine like something really sensual. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no wonder you're like. You got a nose hair.
Speaker 2:I'm bald in my nose.
Speaker 1:You have like no hair in your nose? No, is that bad.
Speaker 2:We got to look that up too.
Speaker 1:Yes, your nose hair is your nose hair is helped from like dust particles oh so it acts like those things on your eyelids. Yes, like eyelashes or like, you know, like those, what are they called? Like wind curtains or whatever the ones, like in restaurants when you open a door and then it blows air, like Wind curtains oh okay, you don't want to talk about wind curtains?
Speaker 2:No, are you sound like a 1940s like restaurant decorator.
Speaker 1:No, it's a thing you need to have it. You need to have it in all restaurants. Well that's what it's for.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, let's let's take care of our migrito weekly and let's let's get into today's guest, because I'm super excited to talk to Danny right now. So, without further ado, let's go to migrito and Amber has that. Take it away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Maria Sanchez will be performing at forever mine and Bakersfield on February 10th.
Speaker 2:The video.
Speaker 1:Oh shoot, I forgot Dang. All right. So Maria Sanchez will be performing at forever, mine and Bakersfield on February 10th. Some of you may remember her from our episode 149 on the mind buzz. Go check that out Also. Bad hombres will be at la Cita on February 23rd. You may also remember their drummer, sebastian, on one of our episodes, so 170. He's a jujitsu personal trainer, so go check that out as well. Harla Sweetwater will be in Arizona at the rhythm room on February 29th. A rundown creeps recently released this new music video you can find on their YouTube or the link in their Instagram by. The paranoia's will be releasing their new music video shortly, so stay tuned for that. For more details on these shows, go to the artists Instagram page and don't forget to get migrito Donnet to purchase your vinyl. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and don't forget February 23rd. All the info is down at the show description or you can find it on mind buzzorg. Put the camera back on me. February 23rd, in the city of Paramount, we will be having Dalek comedy, which is an open mic comedy showcase and live podcast. I'm super stoked for that. I think we have 13 sign ups ready to hit the stage with the three minutes and talk to me and the special guests. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be a good time.
Speaker 1:Tickets are free.
Speaker 2:Tickets are free.
Speaker 1:Get your tickets. Come out, have fun.
Speaker 2:Get in while the getting is good and free. Yeah, all right. So there's that. February 23rd city of Paramount, mind buzzorg, for all your info and without further ado, he does comedy everywhere, and the OC and LA sometimes in the IE, I think. Danny Nixon, thanks for coming out and doing the podcast.
Speaker 4:Hey man, thanks for having me, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Thanks for coming out, dude. I'm super excited man.
Speaker 4:This is going to be fun. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:So what do you think I was talking about? Nose hairs?
Speaker 4:before.
Speaker 2:What's your perspective on that?
Speaker 4:On telling somebody you got a nose hair. Well, I plucked my nose hairs too and I just this is what people came for. I'll grab them by like a bunch at a time and just yank them out, and then I'm like so used to it now that it's tolerable. But when you do it you just sneeze like a maniac for like a good 15 seconds. But, Amber, you're correct, you shouldn't pluck them, because they do act as a screen, as a filter for all the microbes and dust that makes you sick. And I actually have noticed that. Because I do, I'll use a little nose trimmer thing, which is great, it's super fun and addicting and satisfying. But then I notice afterwards I'm like it's all clear and then I'll like I kind of feel like my immune system has decreased.
Speaker 2:Oh, so, yeah, so they're like the what eyelashes do for your eyes Totally, totally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I used to date this and pick the character that you're not getting.
Speaker 2:I used to date this Really. I used to date this punk rock chick that used to pluck her eyelashes out Her eyelashes Her eyelashes. Yeah, I didn't notice. That's how punk rock she looks.
Speaker 4:I didn't notice that. But then she paint them on, kind of like the cholas do, like the eyebrows, and then repaint them on, and it was just that's like a nervous.
Speaker 2:It was her eyelids, not her eyebrows.
Speaker 4:I know, but she would do it. Would she do it like her eyebrows kind of mean, oh, she would trim them and then put the eyeliner on, yeah, then put the fake yeah.
Speaker 2:She put fake ones and she used to glue them like straight to her skin. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4:Commitment, it was Dedication.
Speaker 2:It was different. You know you got to respect the hustle I respect it.
Speaker 4:You know Totally, you know you got to respect the hunger because you trim them, I don't know, but they definitely sneak up on you, though, when there is that one that just kind of sneaks past everything and you're like, how did you get out here?
Speaker 2:And then you get it.
Speaker 4:Butter.
Speaker 1:It's something satisfying, so TMI but I would go to a laser hair removal and the girl at the laser hair removal was like hey, you want me to like remove your nose hairs? And I was like fuck, yeah, like you know. So they put the little lasers through my nose and then you know, we do it and apparently you have to go through all the sessions. I left like three sessions undone because of COVID and never went back and now like they grow like two inches out, like they're like ridiculously long, and it was saying like if you don't have enough hair and you do laser, you like stimulate more hair growth. So I was like she fucked me. That's messed up.
Speaker 4:That sounds half correct. I mean I would, I'd believe it. I mean it's kind of like you know, when you grow, when you cut the grass or when you prune roses, right, and they grow back fuller, better. If you just let them grow once, then they kind of they don't really do much, but the more you cut them.
Speaker 2:I respect how Amber did it, though, like she's over here going to a place to get them laser removed, and then men, we just you know what.
Speaker 4:We're just in the car on the way over here Just like ehhh, ehhh, ehh, ehh, ehh. And then sometimes you know, tears do form, but not because you're from the, you know you're not a cry baby.
Speaker 2:Danny Nixon is in the house. Ladies and gentlemen, you are pretty busy man Trying to be. You are very busy?
Speaker 4:I'm not, I'm trying to be.
Speaker 2:February. It looks good On paper yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, february is going to be good. Like we got some stuff lined up in February, we'll try to pull up what he has going on. Yeah, we got a show. What's today, thursday? So Saturday night we're doing House of Blues, the foundation room, with Comedy Madness. That should be fun and then, yeah, but right now we're on the mind buzz and that's what's most important. There we go.
Speaker 2:You also have your, your off the. I'm sorry I'm bad off the hook with.
Speaker 4:Danny On deck On deck On deck Off the hook.
Speaker 2:And on deck we're going surfing. Sorry dude.
Speaker 4:I've been in a 1999 thing I'm a child of the 90s too. So For that but you also have that which dude I like. Thank you I really enjoy it.
Speaker 4:You know, I sit around because I kind of wanted to do something like this. I'm like I want to do something because, like it's hard for me to kind of get out and do as much comedy as I want to. I want to, I've got family responsibilities, but you know, so when I'm home I'm like I got to be doing something. So I wanted to do something. I didn't know what it was and I was like you know, and I'm lazy, so I was like you know what? I just kind of want to talk to other comics and find out, like what their writing style is and what how they approach comedy, like stuff I'm general, genuinely curious about. And so, yeah, I started I didn't even know what it was going to be or how it was going to turn out and we tried one with Adrian Lunat at Ontario improv and did another one with our boy, mikey Barajas, which he's also going to be at House of Blues on Saturday night, and a couple of other shows as well. I think he's going to be, yeah, he's. We're doing a bunch of get a continental room, kings Brewing Company, and I think he's in comedy Boulevard too.
Speaker 4:And LA, I'm not. I think we're all together on that. So yeah, but yeah, and I got a third in the works and I may even do one on tonight after the show on on you if we want, if you guys are down, and yeah, it's just fun. It's fun and easy, you know, cause I like the long form too. I like I mean there's definitely an appetite for it and, like I said, I'm lazy.
Speaker 4:So I figured like let me get quick, quick get in, get out you know and do features on other people, and then you know Do you mind if we pull up a reel?
Speaker 2:Sure, yeah, it's, you can. Yeah, is that one? That's one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, mike Brown has. Yeah, mike, and the one, adrian, or the curse at the interior of the office is actually kind of interesting.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like that one. Yeah, Go to the the curse.
Speaker 4:It's like a snippet. Yeah, there we go Perfect.
Speaker 6:That pretty much only all the employees know about. Headlighting acts will come here and then die. So, for instance, ralph you may, one of his last performances here. John Witherspoon, his last performance here. Dick Gregory, his last performance here. Most recently, bob Saget, he played here and then died like a week later. So there is some sort of like Ontario improv headliner curse. Is it the building?
Speaker 4:you think it's self or you think it's? This building is cursed, yeah, yeah, and there's always Ghost stories here. I don't know necessarily ghost stories, it's just bad. It's just bad, it's funny because every time I've been here I've had amazing shows. Yeah. But I'm not a headliner, so I hopefully.
Speaker 6:I'm staying, that's what I'm like. You know that word, but yeah, that's, that's the, that's an improv curse, that's kind of know about it. I didn't know that. Ontario specifically.
Speaker 4:I'm scared to go on tonight. I don't know if I'm thinking everything. Yeah, Dude it's a great mic, it's one of my favorites, for sure. Yeah, you're doing something right. Man, I'm thankful for you to come on our first show and try it out. We'll see how it works. Yeah, this may be awful, but I appreciate you coming out and doing this for us and then send us the mic for all of that.
Speaker 6:Yeah, if it doesn't work out, let me know I'll do it again, for sure. Appreciate you, man. Appreciate you. That's cool, it's really cool. I like it yeah.
Speaker 2:Appreciate it.
Speaker 4:You know, I have a background in video and graphics and motion graphics and video editing and I was like my mind as well and I, yeah, I very particular. So I just like I enjoy working alone and just plugging away at it. So, thank you, it's fun, I'm excited for to watch it. You know, to keep doing more and have it evolve. It's going to be. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's really, it's really awesome.
Speaker 4:And then that curse thing I haven't really yeah, there's a an update to that, which which Adrian, I guess, left out because then the comments were going and all of the other employees were commenting. Apparently Mitch Hedberg also on that list, that's right. And then the last special he did was at the Ontario improv. That he recorded and he died, I think, like a couple months later. Yeah, so add him to the list and yeah. And then other people said that it is haunted. They're like oh no, for sure it's haunted and so we'll see.
Speaker 2:I don't know. What do you think? What's your thoughts on haunted stuff?
Speaker 4:Haunted stuff, man. I think there's so much we don't know that I'm just like, yeah, I mean, there's things that that I believe in multi-dimensional entities. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay, so you know.
Speaker 4:so yeah, for sure, I've heard too many stories from people that I know and trust and yeah, just things like I mean I always think about brainwave, just the idea of a brainwave in general, like you ever think about somebody you haven't thought about in a long time and then like they call you 10 minutes later you know what I mean Like that stuff, like unexplained stuff like there's something out there like so yeah. Yeah, goes for sure.
Speaker 2:That happens.
Speaker 4:Like echoes of energy that were.
Speaker 2:Right, whatever you're putting out there, you know sticks around for a little bit.
Speaker 4:I think so.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it answers back.
Speaker 4:Sometimes it's still there.
Speaker 2:Right, and then plus something too like a comedy club, there's energy. There's energy every time the lights come on in any place.
Speaker 4:So yeah, I actually I used to work in when I was in, when I first got started in comedy, when I was in high school, I worked at a comedy club in Houston called the Last Stop and actually Mitch Hedberg came through and recorded an album there when I worked. I was a doorman, so I got to see all the comics come through. But people would tell ghost stories about that place and they even said that Bill Hicks, because he would frequent that's kind of where he got to start in Houston, which is where I'm from that he actually literally haunted that place Really and I mean I heard so many stories but the one in particular, like they were all. All the comics were hanging out, all the local comics were hanging out late. One night after the show it was like 1 am, 2 am and everyone was like super drunk. So factor that in Sure.
Speaker 4:But you know, one of the waitresses like went up on stage and she was like on the mic and she was trying to be funny and but I think she was she's obviously not a comedian, she was doing terrible and she says that she just felt this presence. Come up on stage and gently kind of guide her off. You know it's like sit down and people and then people. They would say that also what you're saying about the audience. They would see like these, like way, like the laughter, that energy of the laughter.
Speaker 4:They would describe these like waves of like where the audience would be laughing, like stuff like that, and when I'd have to leave there. Like you know, clock out at the end of the night. Right, I got out of there pretty quickly when it was dark it was.
Speaker 2:That's a crazy story with the woman dude.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I wonder if she was a Waffle House waitress.
Speaker 4:Maybe no, I don't know what.
Speaker 2:I don't know that was a Bill Hicks reference to his. Waffle House joke. Oh, dear oh damn it what you're reading for, I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's that bit.
Speaker 2:I don't know that bit. I fucking love Mitch Hedberg and I'm not gonna do it. Mitch Hedberg and Bill Hicks dude, they're like all time favorite Dude. When I first started getting into comedy it was Bill Hicks. I was obsessed with that dude.
Speaker 4:He was. You know, I'm sad to say that actually I wouldn't. I don't know, I couldn't do or name you Bill Hicks, materials as well as I could. Mitch Hedberg.
Speaker 2:Oh okay. That's fair.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but yeah, so yeah, I was fun dude Like Ralphie May would come through, Cassidy Madigan would come to Deichappel when he was before he was the go.
Speaker 2:Dude, how is it like now? Just, you've been around comedy for such a long time, right?
Speaker 4:Well, I started it when I was in high school and then I didn't do anything for like 20 years. So I'm you could pretty much say I'm new to comedy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:I've got life experience. I mean I've done performances and stuff like that. I've got a performance background. I did music for a long time, so I mean I've been in front of crowds.
Speaker 2:But Crowds entertainment.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:I've missed comedy. And then I got an opportunity to start doing it again and, man, I love it, I love it and it's way better than music. And I love music, I play music, I love to play music. Comedy is so awesome because when you play music you have to rely on, unless you're a solo artist. But even if you're a solo artist, you gotta bring your guitar, you gotta bring your amp, you gotta bring your microphone, you gotta bring your cables, you gotta bring your. You know. All this shit.
Speaker 4:And when you do comedy, you just show up and it's all on you. You don't have to rely on anyone else, you don't have to change your strings, you don't have to tune, you don't have to sound, you know like maybe there's some sound checks, sure, but I love it Like that freedom, like it's the best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's why it's one of the hardest forms of art entertainment slash entertainment to do, because it's super vulnerable and you're just up there. Totally you can't blame. You can't blame if anything, something goes wrong. You can't blame your guitar, you can't blame the drummer, you can't blame the bass player.
Speaker 4:It's all on you, yeah, and when you play music, though, too like sometimes, even if you mess up playing music, like sometimes you can cover it up with a mistake. So they don't know.
Speaker 2:If you mess up in comedy for the most part On a word or something like what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4:It throws everything off, or you know it's harder to cover for it. I mean, granted, I think the longer you do it, the easier it is to ride those waves, I guess, but yeah, yeah, how is it crazy to?
Speaker 2:you were younger, right Back in Houston working the door and fast, for 20 years later and the people, the comics that used to come through that door, are household names like Dave Chappelle, Ralphie May. That's crazy.
Speaker 4:It's crazy. I mean, everyone came through there. I mean I'm trying to think of other Jim Brewer, richard Jenny, before he died, pablo Francisco, jeff Dunham, jeff Ross, david Tell. I mean all these guys and everyone, pretty much anyone who Kathy Griffin, kathy Griffin, somebody had a seizure, somebody had a seizure during Kathy Griffin's show and I thought that was very fitting.
Speaker 2:I was like yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4:But sorry to all you Kathy Griffin fans, I liked her pre-nose job quite honestly, I think she looked better with the original nose. I don't know if I'm alone on that.
Speaker 2:Let's get some pictures of her up there. Kathy Griffin.
Speaker 4:I think oh, hollywood now.
Speaker 2:Post nose and pre-nose.
Speaker 4:Pre-nose is always the way to go. Yeah, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that her now? Okay, what year? Whoa, look at those lip tattoo. She got a lip tattoo. That's crazy. She's got I don't know. Look at that, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Wait, that's not her.
Speaker 2:That's what they're saying. Yeah, she looks like her. Oh yeah, she made it wider. Or is that just me? I don't know what she did.
Speaker 4:I mean I feel like they all kind of all start to look the same after a while, like they're all using the same doctor or something.
Speaker 3:I don't know what it is, but like they all kind of look the same.
Speaker 4:Right, it's just Like catfish or something. I don't know what it is. It's like. I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 2:It bothers me. One surgeon just trying to make everybody look the same.
Speaker 4:Yes, I know.
Speaker 2:I got a perfect nose for this.
Speaker 4:Totally. Yeah, it's just like Mr Potato Head.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's what we need to get into.
Speaker 2:Okay, I see there's not much of that. No, look at the Much of a difference.
Speaker 4:Look at like type in, like Kathy Griffin 2023.
Speaker 2:Oh Okay, that was 97 and 2007. That's almost 15 years ago.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let's go current.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, oh, that's a lot shorter too.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it looks like she gave herself a wider nose.
Speaker 2:It looks wider, right, okay, that one doesn't.
Speaker 5:What did she do she?
Speaker 2:looked like Joan Rivers there he's pulling her nose hairs out for her. That's how you know. You got money, ladies and gentlemen, that you can have a doctor pull out your nose hairs out for you. You don't need a laser, you don't need your fingers, you got somebody else. Oh, she don't look that bad. No, now you're making me look like an ass, I'm like she's got a Kathy Griffin, leave her alone.
Speaker 4:I love that she's like used up like 15 minutes of the podcast right now, like just she's Kathy Griffin, she'd be proud. She's looking her own. Now we have to pay her royalties, so I'm sorry, gil, that's Kathy Griffin, your pocket.
Speaker 2:It's fine. It's fine. I mean, that's our new sponsor of today nose hair trimming. If you need nose hair trimming, go down and show it. I don't got anything, yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 2:Not yet, but we're plugging that in. Soon we're plugging you're plugging it, and then you're gonna pluck it. Yeah, there we go, we're plucking it. Plucking it in soon. But yeah, over the 20 years, right that you, you know kinda I feel like I screwed up quite honestly.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I feel like I should have been doing it the whole time. I feel like if I had been, you know cause it takes a while it's years, you know, of hard work and all this stuff and I was like all this time I was devoted to music and stuff, which I still love, but I wish I had started, you know, an Instagram or a YouTube channel like 10 years ago.
Speaker 2:Been doing it this whole time Buddy, everybody's something, Even me, dude. I'm just like oh, if I would have just started a podcast in 2000.
Speaker 4:If I had just bought a home in 2000 and nine right after the crash, I would have been perfect.
Speaker 2:Dad, you should have bought that piece of land in Mexico while you had the chance.
Speaker 4:He has a chance, and now it's run by Cartel.
Speaker 2:So, Literally.
Speaker 4:But yeah, when were we? Where were we on the-.
Speaker 2:The you working the door seeing all these people coming in here.
Speaker 4:Seriously the best time, and so, yeah, I was doing the open mics there. I was like learning from oh cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean, I was doing comedy.
Speaker 4:Oh nice At that time so, and I was young, I was like 17, 18. So I was like the youngest guy there for a while and then, you know, I moved out here to go to school and I didn't. That was it. But before then I did it probably about two years running being the door guy. So I would it's just like homework, just watching all the guys come through every night, just kill. It was a dream, seriously. And then doing the mics and so I kind of got some feel for it. But but if people ask, I can't be like oh yeah, it's like two back in 2000 and then one, and since 2022 it's one. I'm like about about a year in pretty much now.
Speaker 4:Yeah and it's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 4:I've learned a lot. Yeah, I'd like to think quickly. I mean, I think we all learned pretty quickly. You can't go up there and rant. You know that. You know you can't just go up there and rant unprepared.
Speaker 2:You know what I, before even Doing any type of open mic signing up, I've hosted open. We've hosted open mics for about a year. We've gone out to watch other open mics for about a year and I I didn't really that didn't really click to me until I started Going up there myself and and watching a lot of comedy. Oh Okay, it's not going up there and just ranting. You have to sit down and actually think about what you're talking about, totally.
Speaker 4:I mean there's obviously guys that can riff, for sure, and do crowd work. But yeah, I mean it's, it's a dance, you know it's, it's a, it's Shoot. I for the most part that's well rehearsed and it's made to look like you're saying it for the first time exactly.
Speaker 4:I think that's a challenge too, because you have to say it. For me at least, my process is I say the joke Over and over and over with a microphone. You know, I pretend the audience is there, I do, I talk it out, and then eventually you kind of nail it. You're like, okay, this is sounds pretty tight and we could try it. But then by the time you you're ready to try your own, we're almost sick of it. You know what I mean. Like you find the perfect it, you're like, okay, well, I'm done, yeah.
Speaker 4:I want to do something else, yeah it's yeah, and then it starts to it feels rehearsed, and then he's like okay, well, now we have to Make it not sound rehearsed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to make it not sound rehearsed and then also make it sound like you're excited to.
Speaker 4:The first time I'm saying it. Oh my god, yeah, you said it. How many times.
Speaker 2:It's a lot of it's, it's a lot of theatrics, and that's what I've I've learned over, I think Over the month, was well, this thing is theater, like it's for sure it's. It's an art theater. I like your act.
Speaker 5:I like your act right, it's totally.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's all birth from the vaudeville days. You know they didn't go out there, didn't know what they were doing, and they would usually bring tap dancing too. So I mean we got to step up our game really. I mean we're all slacking, is what I say. You know, if you can't use a top hat and cane, right I spin in a shizzen. And you know flash and the, you know jazz hands, then you know I was telling really comics.
Speaker 2:I don't think so, dude. I was telling Ricky and Jay that we should bring back the Barbershop trio, you know. Yeah, yeah or you can be our fourth person dude, I'll do that, I can.
Speaker 4:We need a port case, I mean okay, I can kind of get low there we go you could be the man sitting in the chair and there you pop in with your low voice, you know okay, I can also get pretty high too. Okay so yeah, but yeah, come in.
Speaker 2:Here we go, jay, you hurt the man. Yeah, we got our quartet, so it's gonna be a quartet. Now We'll make you.
Speaker 4:But oh, you could tell by the vocals that that's why I gave up Music. This one is never gonna make it.
Speaker 2:Maybe not have him on our quartet.
Speaker 4:Yeah. We'll have you jump the gun, gil. Yeah, I know I get too excited on things. Should have got that prenup.
Speaker 1:Do you, did you always like I always think about this now that like I involuntarily and now surrounded more by comedians, and I'm just kidding, but Did you always feel like, like you were funny, like growing up? Oh, yeah, yeah, I don't, yeah.
Speaker 4:I was always cracking jokes. I mean, I loved comedy. I was always performing comedy, making people laugh from a very early age, like Saturday live, money, python, mel Brooks, and then comedy central was on when they just played stand-up comics and movies like funny movies, and that's all I wanted. All I wanted to do was be on Saturday live and and. So yeah, and, and I think it mainly is because I'm just so socially awkward and and I just remember when I really started to discovered comedy was more of a defense mechanism really, and I think a lot of it is for a lot of people.
Speaker 4:But I Started a new school, I didn't know anybody, and somebody said something to me and I don't know, I can't, I can't even remember what I said back, but like they laughed, I was like oh, oh, okay, I, I get it. You know, and it's a way for a lot of times, for me at least, is to deflect from the awkwardness. But I've just been doing this along, that I I Don't know if I'm quick, quick, quick, but like give me time and then usually I'll get a laugh.
Speaker 4:It's you know it's funny now with now, if I do comedy, I talk about this like you go to like just a board meet, not a board meeting Like a conference or something like that, and some speak for work or something and some speaker gets up and they crack Like the opening joke and the room gets a good laugh and I'm just like, oh, wow, you got. Yes, he's killing right now. It's totally changed my perspective on on how to how to work a crowd, you know, and Because that's also half the battles keeping their attention right and telling the story and and then Throwing the jokes in, you know getting their attention and then maintaining that same energy.
Speaker 4:Totally right for sure, and you have to do it in a confident way, like I'll see some guys go up and you can just tell right, oh, you'll see some comments, they'll go up. And as soon as they go up doesn't even if they're funny, they don't have the confidence and the audience just immediately starts talking. You know what I mean. Like they just doesn't.
Speaker 4:They just don't command why you should be looking at them. But that's kind of half the battle Because, like you said, you're so vulnerable, yeah, and like sometimes you'll see somebody like and I'll do it too. Sometimes you think you're gonna commit to the joke, but then something happens, or like oh yeah, there's a little glimpse in your eye and people can sense and like okay, he's, they're not feeling this, feeling it, or just they can, just it's like sharp. They can. Just it's like sharp. They can smell fear or something.
Speaker 2:You know right.
Speaker 4:You can't, you have to go full you're being judged. Totally being judge. You're being judge.
Speaker 2:Totally being judge. That's what it is. Totally yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I think that's kind of why I like it, because it's like that awkward. It gets so awkward you could. You're just standing up there dying and you have to just make them laugh. Be from the awkwardness, you know, and Right.
Speaker 2:Oh, that I totally get that. Yeah, cuz if you're already like, if you're bullied or you're an awkward type of person already or you, you're the butt of the joke every single time. So, you just you have that defense Already up totally right for sure it's.
Speaker 4:It is to keep people in an arms length. You know, yeah, you know, or and also do that if I want to get out of a conversation, you know, you just end with a joke, you say something funny and then a laughy and then you walk away.
Speaker 2:You're like see ya. Jesus might shut up, oh my god.
Speaker 4:But yeah, I mean, I am, I am awkward. I've gotten better at it. But and that's also why I like doing the show, the on deck too, because it also kind of forces me to interview other people and to kind of like work on my, my conversation skills, because I Don't know about you, but my biggest problem is like I don't listen. Like Even when I go to comedy clubs or comedy shows, open mics and stuff and like even like some good friends of mine they're up there, like I'm either in my head or I'm thinking about what else I'm gonna say in the conversation, that I'm always up here that I don't hear what they're saying. So to be like they'll come after I can tell they're laughing. It'll be like that one bit that I did the thing that worked right. I'm like I didn't like.
Speaker 2:I didn't you record it? Yeah, let me, let me listen back, let me watch it, you know, because I'm just always up here, which is not course. It's not good but, but yeah.
Speaker 4:So I always feel bad and like that one joke totally worked. I'm like sure right. Yeah, which one was that Do?
Speaker 2:it again.
Speaker 4:You see myself like five times. I'm like I Right, I'm sorry, like it's and it's nothing.
Speaker 2:It's terrible, it's not good right, it's not a good habit, but also you, it change. It's different because if you're there at a mic with a comic, you are, you're in your head, focused on, on you getting up and your act.
Speaker 4:Yes, right, yeah, and I think most comics are too. I mean, everyone's on their phones going their notes, so doing the likes for other comics is always a Struggle but you know what it was?
Speaker 2:what is awesome, dude, I went to a mic last night at. It's called feet. That funny it's out here in the Yelen Empire.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but Darby right, darby cash, yeah, parker, owen, parker, oh and Parker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, two great guys, two funny guys, so they. They have it every Wednesday at this pizza joint, called First Amendment Okay, yeah, really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's really awesome, it's a good time. So last night I Just had a blast, dude, and I didn't even they asked me do you want to go up tonight? I'm just like you know what Tonight I'm just chilling, I'm just gonna hang out. You know, vibe out with all these cool people, and it was completely different. That gave me. Two things happened. That gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with everybody, but also gave me the the the opportunity to Be hungry for, to write again, to be inspired, right, and then it also gave me a chance to just sit and actually listen to their Comedy because you're not going up.
Speaker 4:Yes, you know what you're gonna say, right, oh, that's a good tag. Or I should, you know, make a joke about with that guy who just said this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was, it was really good, it was awesome.
Speaker 4:It was good time. That's far for me. So where's that Sam Pit? Where's?
Speaker 2:it Sam Pedro. That's the other way, dude.
Speaker 4:Claremont, claremont.
Speaker 2:It's. It's about 15 minutes away from here from here.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, back I make the drives, don't? I mean I'm doing, you know right, chocomonga next week, that's got you. But you know it's gonna be fun, kevin caveman, it's gonna be their Maxwell farms hosting and yeah, you know Agin Lune is gonna be there too, and Perry. Perry. Joseph Joseph Perry. Yeah, people are gonna be offended. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be so fun. I've been to Kingsbury I haven't been there. No, but I've done a lot of Maxwell farms Okay. Mike's and I've always had a great time. They move around a lot.
Speaker 2:Are they mostly in the IE? They've been everywhere.
Speaker 4:The first time I did, it was in, they were, they were at some man, what was I want to say? Like not belflower, like Placentia there, and then they were in Fullerton, and then they were in Corona, and then they're now and they're in Rancho. But every time I've been to one of their shows I always have a great time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just pop up everywhere. Yeah, kingsbury is a cool spot. I don't know, I haven't been to their Comedy shows or open mics, but it's a really cool spot. You still have like Walking distance five minutes from there.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, cool. Yeah, I'm excited, I should be good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, it's, it's awesome. But do you, would you feel, because this also happened to there was a lot of conversation on why and I'm talking to Andy on this one, andy, see, because he was doing the same thing too he was going out hanging out, just he usually does open my comedy too, and they, they were saying they're giving, giving, kind of giving him some. Dude, why don't you just go up? You got to work on your stuff and then to get out of that you you'd be like hey, gil's not going up tonight, why don't you give him shit? But I was just like you know what, dude, it's, it's all good man. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's just, I don't. It's a weird thing. Whatever your decision is, whether you go up or not, like it does it what? What's the what's the point? I don't know. I don't know where I, where my point is, at what I'm bringing up.
Speaker 4:Well, I think, like you're saying, it's kind of like a way to kind of just take a step back for a second.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like right, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like I also equate. You can equate it to like when, if you're ever building a skill, I I'll bring my to music. I play Different instruments. My favorite is to play the drums. It's like on the worst at it because it's the most like tedious, so to speak. But there'll be moments, you know, you try to you play up a play for like an hour and then I'll you know it's not working. It's just feels like, feels everything feels like shit, and then I'll take like a week off and then you come back and it's just those good, it well, it not even feels good, it's, it's there. Yeah, what I was working on is there now. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Like it just it's on a delay, you know. And so from that same concept, like if you're always working on your music or on your comedy, maybe you need to take a step back and, just like you said, go enjoy the night. Plus is also the the whole, you know, camaraderie of right of the scene and the other comics, because I like being around other supportive comics. You know, not all comics are support. I mean, it's Hollywood, you know, like you, some people in it for themselves or there's clicks and all that stuff. But I always try to just find people that are Supportive and will give you pointers and, you know, come up together that kind of thing. So yeah.
Speaker 4:So there's always that, too, which is positive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was, it was, it was pretty, it was really different. Just not not doing anything and just hanging out, no expectations, nothing like that, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I did that. Actually, I went to the Continental room, for I'm doing that in a couple weeks, but I wanted to check it out too, so I went. I think I Gully was there that night and Vince Royale showed up and I was just there. I was, I knew I was gonna go on, but I was just there to to watch and that was kind of nice it was. It was Well granted, part of it was kind of maybe there's a chance I'll go up.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but the what gets you to keep coming back is that, that newfound Passion for it's like.
Speaker 5:I.
Speaker 2:Can, I can, I can go up like that you, there's this built-up Tension that you need to. Really you need to build up that tension, yeah, passion and love for it, like today I was writing for like two hours. I sat down right there and wrote for two hours straight.
Speaker 4:That's awesome. Yeah, so you do, you literally write pen and paper kind of thing. So I Memo's.
Speaker 2:I typically type on my phone or on the laptop, but I did something very different today, and that was pen and paper. Okay and it was weird. It was weird.
Speaker 4:I'm used to just yeah you know, yeah, some guys are very particular. Yeah, I've, you know, I think, a lot of little, I think signs, all these like Never, like he, he's always pen and paper. Yeah, maybe he had a joke or something he put, even with the keyboard, and it's like blinking at him or something. It's like it's just like wait. He's like so what are you gonna do? He's like I don't want that pressure, you know it's like for me.
Speaker 4:I'm, I I definitely use my, I I have a notebook, but I I'm an iPhone Note-taker, but then I just kind of talk it out. I stopped, I used to write them out verbatim and then I noticed that like you'd write them out verbatim and then you start saying it and it just doesn't sound Funny. Have you ever done that? You wrote a whole thing and then you say I got this funny thing, and then you read it and you're like this is awful, so that's not funny at all.
Speaker 4:So my, my approach now is like, if I have the idea, I'll really just like start telling I got, I got my to open my saying it for the first time, you know, and now that's, you know, this feels weird, and then, as you literally have to say it out loud a couple times, and then it starts to kind of like formulate that's my approach. But I like talking about the process with people because, you know, sometimes it's it's hard for me to actually sit down and do that and write it really. But what I will do is I'll go off 30 minutes, which I'm like I'm doing a set for 30 minutes and I'm just riffing. Let me, let me take my set.
Speaker 2:Let me take that back. I it wasn't two minutes to two hours straight. Sure I was like back and forth just getting up. Oh, let me go do something real quick for like two minutes, I think.
Speaker 6:I have like severe ADD. Sure it was a good chunk of it was a good chunk and I got.
Speaker 2:I mean I wrote maybe more than half of it is probably gonna be crap, but at least I got it all out. Yeah, sat down exactly, and I think I wrote two. Two new things right, amber, and Next Mike. I'm gonna try them out. So it was. It was a pretty productive day today, dude.
Speaker 4:So what's your process? So you wrote it today, mm-hmm. Have you said it out loud? Have you practiced like, or you're gonna, kind of you have the idea.
Speaker 2:I, I write it out verbatim. I cut Things, I cut them and then I rethink them. What can I? Can I? Can I switch this person if there's like a celebrity and Do I? Would it make? Would it be different if I put Jeffrey Dahmer instead of, I don't know, martha Stewart, or would cause he caused be be the best person for this type of thing, right? So I, I, I play with it that way and then, when it's all said and done, I go to my filter right over here on the other side of the screen and I, I take this little guy right here, I Practice with hands and motions and everything.
Speaker 4:Perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, and I'm like, okay, pause your phone, stop the TV, stop where you're doing, and and listen to me. So I'll do that. And Ta-da, what do you think? And I either get a laugh or no right. Don't do that, don't say that.
Speaker 4:Don't say, don't worry, what is your problem? Yeah, is this what you're? Doing exactly you got problems. Yeah, I'm rethinking this whole relationship, right now right. I can't be with somebody who has.
Speaker 2:You literally set that today. She was like what? Why does it have to be all about death and and Assault, like what's your problem? Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah, no.
Speaker 4:Have a sounding board for sure. My wife does. I do the same thing with my wife. Okay. When I can, because, like, if I could, I'd be like what is this funny? Is this funny, is this funny, is this funny. And then she would go crazy. So I have to pick my pick, my moments of when I could like present, right, you know. But but yeah, the other thing is I have got a couple buddies that I like, my some my best friends, that I'll call and like we just talk.
Speaker 4:Right a couple times, once a week, just in general, you know, but usually I'll try some stuff out and then they'll give me notes. Oh, there we go, but some of the best stuff that I have, like when I'm laughing out loud, Like just hysterical, or just from conversations that I'll have with my friends. Oh yeah, and then I'm like holy shit, I got to write that down or how did. I say that, and then usually it's so funny because usually it just never Formulates again.
Speaker 2:I don't know back to it.
Speaker 4:No, when I try, it's just not the same. So, and it's kind of, I also like sometimes I'll work on a. You know, if I'm just driving or wherever I am, I'm working on the joke, I'm saying it, I'm trying to say it, I'm trying to trim it down and say it over and over and how could I say it? But sometimes you work on it forever and I'm like it's just not working. And then another joke you'll write in 10 seconds, you like, and it's perfect.
Speaker 4:Yeah it's like it's. It's kind of I always bring it back to music. It's the same thing, like some songs when I would write songs. You work on a song forever and it just sounds like shit and it's just not coming. And then just another. You pick up the guitar and there's a song where I said self, and they could say they say you didn't write that joke or you didn't write that song, you were a vessel, right, that joke was there, that thought was there, that song was there. You were just the vehicle for which you were allowed it. You put it into, you manifested it into reality, kind of thing. So that's my point is the best jokes are the ones where they just come quick, they just happen, they just happen.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's, that was easy.
Speaker 2:Is it full? Is it full on bits or is it just like a? The last punchline Happens?
Speaker 4:sometimes it's, it's, usually it's well, yeah, it's probably like the joke of the punchline and it's like, okay, well, I got to set it up or whatever. But right, there's been a couple jokes. One of my favorite I won't do the joke, but the one that I love the most it's like a 15 second long. It's 15 seconds, yeah. Oh yeah, those are the best and yes and I remember when I just thought to myself I busted up laughing a Bus I'm like well.
Speaker 5:I got to do that.
Speaker 4:Yeah there's no, it's just quick setup. I mean I've, I've, you know, you build up things around it anyway, right. But on its own it's just, I love it and those are just the best you know. You just Crack up laughing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if it's funny to you most, most of the time, right, most of the time it's. If it's funny to you, it's gonna be funny to somebody else.
Speaker 4:My wife would disagree. She's like what's so funny? And then I'll try to tell you have to explain it right. Yeah, then I have to explain it, and then it's the explanation job of a comedian. It's like what would be funny if I explained it's like no, that's what you're supposed to explain the joke and set it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look, this is my, my Partner brain, right, like I'm gonna advocate for your wife and I hope, I hope I'm right. But I think our brain is like, if you can't make a sloth, that we know you. What makes you think that you're gonna make a Stranger laugh type of thing? Right, yeah. But then the other side of my brain is like, wow, no, maybe a stranger doesn't know you in there, anything like oh, that's funny, because my brain is always too on, like I Don't want someone to say something about you or think bad about you or like my protective mode comes on when he comes out with like, very like Strong, you know jokes that I'm just like no.
Speaker 1:Don't say that, you know. And then he surprises me on stage when the times that I go and he's like hey, and I'm like oh it kills, though it kills, but you know.
Speaker 4:So I don't need to listen to you. I pick and choose yeah yeah, but you can tell though, too, like usually they were correct. You know or not you? A Lot of times they're correct in. Yeah, you can always know if it works right away too. You know if they're laughing right away.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, that works because I think that that, as a as a Guest, as someone that's going to go laugh like you're going to comedy show, right, you want to be entertained, you want to laugh and you don't want to have to think so hard for a joke sometimes, true, so you want it to be self, at least for myself. Okay, I'll talk for myself. I wanted to be a little self-explanatory where I'm not like Laughing ten seconds later.
Speaker 2:However, however, If it's a referenced. If it's a reference, say your joke is a reference joke, right? And you're referencing I'm stuck on this one Martha Stewart, right? If it and you don't know what happened to Martha Stewart, then that joke is dead when it comes to you because you don't know Martha Stewart right, Totally right.
Speaker 4:I had a joke about magic Johnson's son right See, like that.
Speaker 2:Well, I wouldn't, yeah, I don't understand anything she's like.
Speaker 4:I don't think people are gonna know who that is. I'm like, okay, well, maybe I have to change it to something exactly, Eric, you know.
Speaker 2:But that's correct. Yeah, for sure correct, that's always.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I agree with the reference stuff like mm-hmm. It could hit or miss, or if you are gonna reference it, you have to broaden it right. It has to be a broad or you have to. You have to explain what it is and you have to do it quickly, but then also you take the risk of losing them as you explain it.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. So it's good to wordy and it gets to like rant yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. But I know what you mean, amber, about the protective nature of of you wanting to protect Gil, because my wife does the same thing To. I had this. I have this one joke I'm working on and I, you, you saw it, I did the bit worst, and then I start crying, I pretend like I, I break down.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I start crying.
Speaker 4:And I don't think it worked. But I Think it's hysterical if I can really commit to it. But my wife was like don't do that. I Immediately she's like don't do that, don't. Mm-hmm, it's not you know. And I think she was right, but I kind of want to try it one more time. Try one more time thing but yeah, it's right now, no no. Yeah, I Think it's funny is your wife?
Speaker 1:Is she the total opposite of you? No, we have similar sense of humor.
Speaker 4:So I think we both love the same style of comedy and stuff. For sure she's usually on point. I trust her for sure implicitly when she'll tell me like sometimes I'll be like, you know, I think you're wrong. I think you're wrong and sometimes, gil, we are correct. Yeah, but majority, I'd say she's. She's probably correct and it's a good sounding board, you know, because I Think we have a tendency to there's comments like it makes sense to us.
Speaker 4:Right that makes sense in your head. That's why you think of a joke and it's funny, you bust a laughing and then what what's so funny? And then you explain it and it's like that's not funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the explanation is really terrible. I think that's what it is like the nature of, like what we. Yeah, the it's terrible, like it's you wouldn't. That wouldn't be like a point of conversation at like a Christmas dinner or anything.
Speaker 4:Mmm, it kind of comes out of the fields you mean, or no, it's just the nature of this is really bad.
Speaker 2:It's like really bad.
Speaker 4:That's my kind of. It's inappropriate.
Speaker 1:But then it also had no like. It wasn't like cohesive, like to where you could put one.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was that piece was not, and that's why I put my pudding and grape.
Speaker 4:Well, now we're all lost, you're right. You're right, it does not make sense. Okay, I do not know where.
Speaker 1:Pudding, there's no parallels right between pudding and the grape.
Speaker 2:So have you ever had a group? A great flavored pudding. But, can there be a great flavored pudding? Probably not, no.
Speaker 1:I told you okay, then I'll put vanilla cherry.
Speaker 2:I'll change it to desserts, then don't maybe not get too specific on the dessert. Maybe just call it dessert.
Speaker 4:Yes, so I explain. At the same conversation with my wife the other day, I was like should I say this or should I say like that? She's like, if you say it that way, then you're actually just taking people further away. Hmm, from what you're trying to say yes, yeah, that's just gonna confuse them more If you don't want to confuse, because sometimes, like you know, a lot of comedy is like you lead them.
Speaker 5:Yeah, what the answer is gonna be right, and then you sidestep it right so.
Speaker 4:So sometimes Inadvertently, I think you're setting up the joke and you're taking them in this direction, but you're not trying to take them in a direction, but they're there so that when you go this way it's not a misdirect. They're just lost, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean. Okay you know I mean so they think they think you're.
Speaker 4:You're set up going this way, but that's not even your intention. Because you said that word, though it makes them think that always talking about this. But you're like, and then you're like no, I'm actually talking about this. And like well, why'd you say that word?
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mind's here, we're kind of like the dog, that's like squirrel Right. Yeah like that's what. What I feel like audience us as audience is like we're trying to piece together. Okay, where's this guy going? With his next word, with his next line.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:I'm talking in in just a being a spectator, because I'm no comedian. But being a spectator, like you know, like you said, like I wanted to be cohesive, I wanted to make sense and I want to laugh and I don't want to be veered off Somewhere else.
Speaker 4:Yeah, pretty much I mean.
Speaker 1:but that's with any, anybody, not just skills. Yeah, I mean because he has some great stuff and it's edgy and I'm like but it's funny. So See, I'm not always against you.
Speaker 4:I want to hear this joke.
Speaker 2:I won't do it. I can, I can. I show it to you on paper, and, but don't read it out loud.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, I Gotta get somebody else's perspective on.
Speaker 4:We're workshopping on the we're reading yes, I like what you've done here. Okay, that's.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's my okay. There's two options for that piece, okay so.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 4:See where you going with it. There's something there for sure, right, there's something there for sure.
Speaker 1:I said, there's something there for sure but the parallel to that word was this nah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that makes sense though.
Speaker 4:Yes, I.
Speaker 2:Yes, but without that, Without this letter that the G yeah, yeah okay.
Speaker 4:Well, I think the whole, you gotta say the G Right yeah, I'm going to say it. Yeah, yeah, okay, no, I know you're going with it, you know, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, which one were this or? That.
Speaker 2:Oh, because this is where she said it doesn't work with that because it's funny because I got something.
Speaker 5:I, when I think yeah, right, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4:I said home knows exactly what's going on.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the welcome to my new segment of the podcast, where Nobody knows yeah nobody knows what's going on.
Speaker 4:You guys guess the setup and the punchline you won't.
Speaker 4:Oh, this is awesome dude you know what's funny though I don't think it's really. You said his name already Bill Cosby. You said something about Pudding and I wanted I have a Bill Cosby thing and I'll just do it because it's not finished and who cares, but I always I think it's. I think it's funny to say the idea of Bill Cosby being grossed out by one of his victims because she's not attractive or something and he's like I am not putting my my Jello in her. Yeah, I don't know something I'm not putting there. We go Everyone loves puns.
Speaker 4:Everybody loves it's word play Right, I love word play.
Speaker 2:I mean you're, you're a huge, you like Mitch Hepburn. He's the fucking goat when it comes to those types of jokes right, he's all, he's, yeah, he's Every joke.
Speaker 4:Is what? Six seconds dead?
Speaker 2:We were talking we were talking at goody-two shoes, about Open, mike and Long Beach. Check it out, it's awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah, man does awesome Gabe.
Speaker 2:Sosa Gabe, sosa awesome they was the great Mike.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm doing episode next episode of on deck it's gonna be oh awesome bro.
Speaker 2:So we were talking about I. I literally broke it down. I broke down his five minutes and in his five minutes he got like over 120 laughs I think it was something like that. Like every his first minute got like 30, Second minute got like 25, like he was in that range of the 25 to 35 range of laughs per minute. It was insane after five minutes dude.
Speaker 4:It is crazy. Yeah it's just so short, it's just set up line, but it doesn't feel like set up punchline, you know what I mean? Like it's just something about it, because he doesn't tell stories, you know, I think, as long as jokes, probably what like 20 seconds you know if that yeah, you know I.
Speaker 2:Think it's also to his. His delivery has just his demeanor, his holy His he comes.
Speaker 4:Look he comes off like he's aloof and forgetful. He's just spitting shit out of his ass right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, mitch, it was the he gone too soon, for sure I got. I got to meet him when he came through. It was that, like I said, the Album that they recorded. He was called like something city grill or something local city grill. There's a base. He did a whole set and there's a walking base. Chuck Savage was playing. He was a comedian there and he did the walking base and he would. I think that one night that Mitch Hedberg came in he just happened to see Chuck Savage who was trying to do something with the stand-up base, doing like jazz comedy Kind of thing, which was like I want to do that. Why don't you come do my show tonight and we'll record it? And it was like this amazing special, just like kind of random happenstance. It was awesome. Do those you know? And that was like prime Mitch Hedberg twos. That was the best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, that there's nobody like. Stephen Wright is another dude. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 4:I Amazing. Yeah, he's super dry super quick, like also set up punchline yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean. You think if somebody thinks that Mitch is dry, they've never seen Stephen Wright.
Speaker 4:Yeah, pretty much he has. He's also one on this.
Speaker 2:He's one tone, one tone, one ever Mitch had like kind of yeah and like he'd like swing and and Move a little bit.
Speaker 2:but I feel like Stephen is just there Like he's a typewriter and he's just typed like he's an AI, totally he's a robot. He's a robot. Yeah, that's what it sounds like, pretty much. Yeah, yeah, one of the first time I heard one of his jokes I was there's this volume, there's this Author by the name of Scott Dickers. He wrote he was the Co-editor or what is it when you're like the top editor and in executive editor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah so producer, right, he, it was in the onion, which is that okay, are you familiar with the onion? Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:So it's like a parody of a news channel. So he's the head editor. There we go. Head editor of the onion. He wrote these three volume of books called how to write funny, how to write funnier and how to write funny ass. Most of his stuff is in prose. I've got a lot of gems from just reading those volumes of books. And when you listen to his audio version he tells you okay, this is this. And then look at what Steven Wright does. And Steven Wright I had. The first joke I've ever heard from Steven Wright was in his book and it was fucking phenomenal. I was like what the fuck? Who is this guy? I googled him, started listening to all of his stuff and I'm like this this is great, right here, dude.
Speaker 4:So that's your jam, yeah, yeah, see, what would you say? He's one of your ease up there.
Speaker 2:I mean Mitch is one of my favorites, bill Hex for sure, george Carlin for sure. Those are right now, because I do get you know like yeah, yeah. Music right, music preference, preferences change totally, and something you know.
Speaker 4:I want to go back and listen to like some of this early stuff exactly. Yeah, for sure I was watching Andy Kaufman yesterday, oh.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 4:Andy. Kaufman really like that's with him and Jerry Lawler, all that stuff. Like I was young but I remember like that was going on, that was like a thing, so I watched that. But I watched this thing that he did an improv in Brooklyn in in Brooklyn when he first came up and he, he bombed. You know, he bombed purpose. He bruns the bongos up and then he comes back and he's like he starts crying Right, he's like I'm just trying to do a good job, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, my god it was. And then he comes back as Tony Clifton and just like pisses off the audience like it was, I Love to imagine being in the audience and being like what the fuck just happened. Yeah, you know, because he came out with I think was the first time he did Tony Clifton. I didn't know this because Tony Clifton always had, like, the big sunglasses, but when he first the one the one I watched he didn't have the sunglasses. So everyone knew it was Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 4:They're all kind of laughing. But had he not had the, had he had the sunglasses from the get go would have been like Dude. They probably would have beat him up. I mean that's when he started. He wrestled a woman on stage. He had the woman get out of the crowd and start, you know, yelling at him. Then they wrestle on stage and she beats him up and like Dude he was.
Speaker 2:He was insane. Andy Kaufman was your Hulk Hogan back in those days.
Speaker 4:I mean him and yeah him, money python, mel Brooks, saturday live, like. So, like the Mike Myers era, chris Farley, david Spade and Rob Schneider, all those guys, and then obviously the will Farrell and all, and Steve will Forte, fred armisen, those guys are like some of my heroes.
Speaker 2:Current classics right now, dude, yeah, yeah, I mean, have you seen Jim and Andy, that documentary film that Jim carry? Did when he did a man on the moon. No so when they were filming man on the moon, he had his own Production crew follow him around as he was doing that movie.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:He had it in his Is. He had a locked up for a very long time until he decided, hey, okay, I want to make a documentary about this. But it was a documentary about him being a such a Method actor that he Was like he. He in his mind, he made himself believe that he was Andy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you seen the Dave Chappelle?
Speaker 4:Yes, special, then he's Joe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what he's talking about, totally right, but you have to call them. And yeah, but, dude that, that documentary, like he literally turned himself into. Yeah, he had Andy's parents come see him and he had his daughters talk to them on the phone Little crazy, right.
Speaker 4:I love Jim. I'm a huge like ace Ventura. That right came out was like dumb and duller. It was like looking the mask, all that shit huge. But yeah, he's a little crazy. Come on, you gotta be that movie really change it.
Speaker 2:It changes his trajectory.
Speaker 4:Oh, it's holy dick, because then he's gonna have to watch shows. He's like everything's meaningless. Yes you know that stuff. They really cool. Why are we here right now? He's in the awkward interview with a woman. She's like sorry, you're, you know we had an award. And he's like why would I win an award? What is this? This isn't this. I'm not even here right now. And the woman's like I'm just, I'm Pull it up, let's sponsored by X.
Speaker 4:This is we're on extra. Right now we're on entertainment television. The wives are not the housewives are not interested in existentialism, you know right.
Speaker 2:But yeah, he totally went off the deep end, you know he did, and I think it was just that that that Method acting being Andy Kaufman really like it maybe Scrambled some wires, maybe, or maybe aligned Some wires maybe maybe aligned for him.
Speaker 4:Maybe literally the brainwaves, the ghosts. He channeled the spirit of because it has an act.
Speaker 2:Is it this one?
Speaker 4:Is it that one?
Speaker 2:Would you put Jim Carrey awkward interviews?
Speaker 4:I think it's the first one. I think it's that first.
Speaker 2:Jim Carrey, yes, I've covered a lot of fashion weeks. This is the first time I've run into Jim Carrey Wait, tell me, is it true?
Speaker 3:You're wandering the streets? You need a date to the party with them.
Speaker 5:No, no, no, I'm doing just fine. I just you know there's no meaning to any of this. So I I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and poor, poor woman. There's. I mean you got admit it's completely meaningless. Well, they say they're celebrating icons inside. Boy, that is just the absolute lowest aiming.
Speaker 4:She's got no one to throw to it's like icons.
Speaker 5:What do you do believe in icons?
Speaker 4:Who are you wearing?
Speaker 3:You don't believe certain icons have the power to make change, to think differently, to be bold, to inspire others. Artists street you're one of them, on the good foot.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no, I. I don't believe in icons, I don't believe in personalities. I believe that peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention and disguise, beyond the red s that you wear on your chest that makes bullets bounce off Right. I believe that it's deeper than I believe we're a fair face.
Speaker 2:That's being dude.
Speaker 4:I don't care, I don't know what to do with this.
Speaker 5:I didn't get dressed up. There is no me. There's. No, you know, we're not here. This is a dream, it's just things happening and there are clusters of tetrahedrons moving around together.
Speaker 3:So what's happening on our world right now? Because there is a lot of news that actually is relevant. That's not that.
Speaker 5:I'm saying it's not our world. No, we don't matter. We don't matter.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow, Okay that was awesome Do you know this is the most awkward yeah ever and it's funny I believe I agree with like a lot of these he's saying. But it's like it's like the Mormons showing up at your door Be like we have this conversation right now. You're like I'm not here for that. Yeah, playing fortnight. They. Can you Come back later? You know I mean like yeah, poor, poor girl.
Speaker 2:We should start something like a Mormon type of deal, but just it be all these weird Jim Carrey ideas and we'll call us the Jim Carrey church of Nothing matters or something the nihilists and There'll be different characters that Jim Carrey has played over the years, like one guy would be the mask, jim Carrey right, the other guy would be the ace Ventura, jim Carrey.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like that movie. So guy had like 12 personalities or something like that. M-9 shayamana on did it. Oh, call me slither, no like. Slytherin something slitherin is it's like that, but it's all the Jim Carrey Potter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not slitherin.
Speaker 4:I Don't know what it was. Yeah, it's just Jim Carrey, pretty much in all the different personalities yeah, can get hoods or something, I don't know. Yeah, I'll call him. I'll give him a. I'll see if he's interested. Give him a call, dude, I.
Speaker 2:That is something that you say, like what he was talking about, just something you say coming out of a 10 hour Psychedelic mushroom trip or something Totally right, yeah, cuz he doesn't look like he's on drugs, no like.
Speaker 4:but you know he did some drugs right, got him to you know right like what is it.
Speaker 2:We're just surrounded by electrons.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like tetrahedrons he's talking about like was a sacred geometry and shit, like he's. He's tapped into some, yeah, knowledge there that there's a piece in them.
Speaker 2:But the documentary dude is he's, he's met it, like the moment he talks about, the moment he switches from Jim to Andy and just the way that he describes it was kind of it was spiritual, bro, I could the way that he described it, that he was sitting down and looking at the like a pond or something right, and then he's just he's like I am Andy, I am Andy, like he kept on, you know, calling Andy into Into the universe to take over his body type of thing, right and he did and it did.
Speaker 2:I Don't know, it's just.
Speaker 4:This guy is how deep you want to go right now. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I mean, it's part of the creeper. You're talking about the ghosts and the interdimensional things. I'm crazy, so just take this with a grain of salt. Okay, I have a great image. I have a wild imagination. I love entertaining any sort of crazy idea and I know it's probably bullshit, but I'm just like maybe sure, why not? But like that kind of stuff like channeling you know, it's almost like the Ouija board stuff. You know, like there's things that I think that you may we may not believe in it, but other people do, yeah, and they're certainly dabbling in whatever that is, and Maybe he's been turned on to some of that you know, the mind is so crazy if you as an actor, you have to have a Switch Right or some people, some actors can have a switch when they turn on.
Speaker 2:You know, being a comic is kind of the same thing. You gotta know when to turn To turn on. You turn it up a notch right for sure, turn the dial just a little bit and I'm sure with Seems like what he did is he turned it way up and opened up to the idea of having somebody else drive drive for him right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe studying Andy Kauffman for all this time kind of gave him that confidence to Actually become Andy. Or, if we want to take it a step further, maybe Andy did in some way. But also there's some people out there that think that Andy Kauffman didn't die, that he's gonna come back right that he's been back. Can we look up Andy Kauffman sightings? I've seen a couple of them.
Speaker 4:I think so. You think he faked it. I feel like if he did, it would like he's. He's waited too long. Yeah most people. That's why I'm like now he's probably dead right, because If you, you know everyone's dead everyone that you're.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine them coming back now and really who? I?
Speaker 4:got who? Who's Andy Kauffman? You know what I mean. Like. I mean you say will Smith, are like, who's that? Jada Is that? You know what's the will of Smith's dad, you know like.
Speaker 2:And then you can. You you'll probably have like somebody from play. It'll probably be you behind in the theater. You know how, when, when some people get those those laughs in comedy places, I don't know, maybe it looks like no, no, but yeah, I think it's been Too long, too long for him to come back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:Right, I think so, I mean even they help us think too too long too long.
Speaker 4:The one I also give hope to is the Michael Jackson one. You're Michael Jackson one that he dresses up as a burn victim or something. Oh, yeah you see that one and he shows up at award shows and stuff like that. Yeah, still now. Well, I guess it's been a while, but it was like I don't know.
Speaker 2:What was the? Can you look up the? The date was a Davey or something like that. The burn victim. Was called Davey. Can you look up to see what what the name was?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean I've. And then also you read the things. Like you idiots like these, this guy, and like no, michael Jackson, dead dummy. You know back Also, they have the same eyes. They do have the same eye.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of. There's a lot of similar Lilliarities to that. For sure, I love the mic still live or just put a burn victim Davey. No, just if you put Davey it would be in there. Google's not that crazy, not anymore. Do you remember when he's to search up for Google and you said thousands, like at the bottom of the page? It used to be like thousands of other pages of other pages now there's like and you will go to the sites me Want you to go to exactly there we go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dave, dave, dave, there we go but see he's there with him.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's probably should.
Speaker 2:No, but I think what they say is right the real Dave Dave passed away right, and then he took. And you took over. I'm come on. There has to be a loophole. Yeah to this, and that's the loophole. Is that the real one, the real Dave? Dave passed away and Michael Jackson took over his spot, right oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, but why would you?
Speaker 2:know he wouldn't. It's all makeup or a mask. He wouldn't really burn himself.
Speaker 4:Well, he did get burned on that Pepsi commercial right.
Speaker 1:Pepsi that's when it all went downhill. That's what I heard.
Speaker 2:That's when it all went down because it burned him, and then you had to get all these like surgeries and stuff.
Speaker 4:It was weird for me because you know me, my wife, we love Michael Jackson. We were. We were pretty upset when he died. Granted, there's something he was a weird dude. Like I love his music, he was a weird dude, I just love the videos. Like they're like. They're like they say you've, you've had your lips done and your nose, and he's like no, no, nonsense, like it's our lives. It's our lives.
Speaker 4:It's like, bro, look at your face Gaslighting me like right now I'm gonna hold up this photo and this photo I'm telling me they look the same like no, it's all just you know.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you one thing about Michael Jackson, and that he was a great Artist. He was a really good artist. Did you know he wrote and composed, along with Quincy Jones, that one song? What was that? We watched a great documentary today.
Speaker 1:We are the world.
Speaker 2:We are the world. Yeah, it was a documentary about that song. He wrote it, he came up with the melody.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he wrote a lot of his songs. He would come up with the beats, he pretty much whatever you heard in his head, right? I don't know if he was a good instrumentalist, I mean he maybe played some stuff. No, they said he wasn't, but he wasn't but he would beatbox and he would Whatever he would do and, yeah, he was super challenge.
Speaker 1:We were just talking about him earlier while we were watching documentary and I was like I don't care what they say about him, I love Michael.
Speaker 4:Jackson, yeah, I mean, I mean yes, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll separate the that's a great that and let's hope that that's not what it is, but I really like him.
Speaker 4:I didn't want to admit it, but it's come on. He was yeah. I don't know if he was weird he was a weird dude. You don't invite children into your bed. What did it?
Speaker 2:What did he say on the documentary that was so fucking early? Oh, it was the way he walked, like he was just, like he sang, like really fucking he belted out the song.
Speaker 1:He was like he was weird.
Speaker 2:He walked away from the mic. He was like I Love.
Speaker 4:I also love the clip Well, the way dude, the we are the world, and he because he was also perfectionist too, it was like you know. He was notorious, I guess, for like you're gonna, it's gotta be perfect or you get the fuck out right, but like they're all singing the we, all the world. And Cindy Lopp is like Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's like you, just look at him. He's like God, this sucks and he's like but he's like dealing with like 30 other like yeah pop stars yes so he can't really Coach them.
Speaker 4:but he could tell he's just like this oh, he's so pissed, you know the Bob. Dylan Bob.
Speaker 2:Dylan. Pull up a picture of Bob Dylan doing Recording. That's up. What is this song called?
Speaker 4:I know the world.
Speaker 2:We are the world. Okay, I gotta listen to. I haven't heard it, but you don't know the song. I've heard it like in passing over 32 years, but I never okay, I figured how old are you I'm 32.
Speaker 4:Okay, so I got 10 years on you. Okay, that's probably why.
Speaker 2:I know Bob Dylan. No, I love Bob.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but this that song was like yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, for my right for my decade, gotcha. It was huge, it was huge. I know that song.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure this song I'm I've got it on vinyl really yeah, okay, I've heard it in passing, okay.
Speaker 4:There's plenty of things that I haven't this.
Speaker 2:I have to watch it.
Speaker 4:I didn't know any Bill Hicks material, so I mean oh, there we go.
Speaker 2:I have to watch a whole documentary on one song to get me to listen to. That's how Indecisive I am. I got. Is there a documentary on this song before I even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I heard the song before we watch.
Speaker 2:I've heard it in passing.
Speaker 4:Taylor Swift has a couple documentaries, so you're gonna have to start tackling those yeah.
Speaker 2:I do, I just watch a foot, I just watch a. I don't hate anybody but I don't like I just watch a Kansas City.
Speaker 4:Dude, they have game right. There's rumors, now You're gonna propose or something. Oh Jesus.
Speaker 1:It's all it's she's. They call smoke in years. Yeah, smoke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's all the. Let's get back to.
Speaker 1:Let me, let me pick my bone real quick with her.
Speaker 2:Silly Lopper to Swift.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't care for her. I never have. I didn't grow up like listening to her, but I think her face that she did at these award shows with the joy what's the name, dick boy here the that he made a coy joke, joke, coy, that he made a joke about her. And then they pan the camera to her and she rolls her eyes like she was so annoyed to me. I was like, come on, I feel like she feels like she's untouchable. That's why I don't like her.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I just you like her, I don't like her because she can't hold a steady relationship really.
Speaker 1:That's the only way you know albums. Every album is oh yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a different guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could. I wonder how this new album is gonna be after. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4:It's gonna be a good one about football Happling and first downs it's gonna be I think she's just on the play it's gonna be she.
Speaker 2:She's just trying to get into To the market for men like she they're her marketing agent is probably like we need more men. I don't get it.
Speaker 4:I feel like it's not for her, it's for him right yeah, you know I was like, hey, we'll set you up with a pop star, taylor Swift, she can give shit, she's getting paid regardless. It's like that was that movie with Joan John Cusack and Julia Roberts and they're like their actors and they're like we need to revive your career. You're gonna have a relationship and it's gonna be all.
Speaker 4:That has to go on right. It's all ball. The relationships are bullshit. Like you get paid, you know you have to pay you do? You want to take Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2:It'll cost you a million dollars like literally prostituting them but she's also getting a lot of Screen time on national television. Or does she always have that national?
Speaker 1:I think, anywhere she goes, she's.
Speaker 4:She's huge. But yeah, I don't get the fast, I don't get the obsession. That's what's weird about it.
Speaker 1:Hmm, yeah it's like every, every game. It's like they do a play and then they pan to her and then they do a play and then they hand the camera to her.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it's distracting, yeah, distracting, yeah. What?
Speaker 2:we're here.
Speaker 4:Bob Dylan. I Got into Bob Dylan for a while. I like his songs and I like his music, but over time Just feel like I'm just a hater. Tonight I can't listen to his voice. It's like trying to listen to who's the other guy did. God, god, it's not gonna come, forget it. But he just sounds like he's taking a shit, like everything he sees just sounds constipated.
Speaker 1:I liked his early stuff when he first started.
Speaker 2:No, when he went electric. That's when he he pulled it off really well in this song you know what it is he had to. In going back to the, the documentary, stevie Wonder coached him like he. He looked like he was super out of place there, right, like I'm done. Yeah, pull up his picture again.
Speaker 2:He looked super uncomfortable, like yeah, he probably was this guy Does not want to be there, like every, like he was like mumbling stuff, like he wasn't even part of the chorus. He does a little solo in that song, right, and he tells the producer goes in, goes in the studio and gets everybody out. He, okay, move it, move everybody along. I, I, I, I, I, I, I I.
Speaker 4:I.
Speaker 2:I, I, I I.
Speaker 4:I.
Speaker 2:I like Bob's Bob sings and it came out okay. Yeah, like he was like. Oh, now I get it. We're here to sing this song.
Speaker 4:I just like the idea of Stevie Wonder trying to coach Bob Dylan on how to sing and being like he's like. Here we go but I thought it's like and then he's like no, that's not, that's not the same, that's not what I'm. Listen, listen.
Speaker 2:Well, what's a good?
Speaker 1:watch documentary what's a?
Speaker 2:good Stevie Wonder song what's? What's the superstitious?
Speaker 4:Yeah, so superstition.
Speaker 2:I Imagine Bob Dylan singing superstition. Right, we're thinking about the wall. Paying on the wall. We're thinking about the good man as we're doing this on the wall. I'm doing a really, really Bob.
Speaker 1:Dylan voice Wonder is blind.
Speaker 4:Oh, I love that theory.
Speaker 1:He probably is.
Speaker 4:Right, I mean, if he's not, he's a great actor, he's a good actor.
Speaker 2:I think Stevie Wonder was in the document. I'm going behind a documentary because that was great. In there was a piece of the documentary where Stevie Wonder leads Ray Charles to the restroom. Like Ray Charles asked Stevie Wonder a Where's the restroom?
Speaker 4:Can you show me? Yeah, so yeah, that's a little sus. How did Stevie know? Right he couldn't find his way. Yeah, maybe just because Ray had trouble walking. He was older at that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was like was it. Yeah, he looked like he was like seven.
Speaker 2:I think the same age. No, no, no, really raise Ray way older. He was way older. Ray is a ray older.
Speaker 4:He's dead now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Still going? No, stevie was.
Speaker 4:Stevie's still going. I love Stevie Wonder. He's like Dude songs in the key of life. It's great, it's great out.
Speaker 2:I Can't name an album.
Speaker 4:No, do you remember when Stevie Wonder was on the Cosby show? Though he was, he was on the Cosby show.
Speaker 4:Yeah like a full in-depth casting. No, he was Stevie Wonder. They go and they meet Stevie Wonder in the studio and bills I think Bill Cosby's there and all the families there and he's got this like synthesizer keyboard and he's like he's like say something, what's the son's name? And Theo, hey, theo, say something on the mic there and he's like feels like jamming on the one and then like Stevie Wonder hits the keyboard, it's like jamming on the one, jamming, jamming, jamming on, jamming on the jamming on the one, and they're like, wow, that's so cool. And then he like crafts this like song. They're all in the studio. You don't remember that, no, I just remember what I'm in on. The one is like burned into my, my brain, jamming on the one, jamming on the one just jamming on jam, jam, jamming on the one he's like I'm gonna make it do that.
Speaker 4:I see what we can.
Speaker 2:Why do you think that all Blind artists do that like swaying thing?
Speaker 4:do they? Or is that just a Stevie thing?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Ray did it too, yeah. Yeah and I I'm more of a Ray Charles fan than than Stevie.
Speaker 4:I like them both I love them both. Yeah, yeah, that is I don't know. It's like it's almost just like a metric. Yeah, they're there, they're just the rhythm right. But I mean, ray Charles probably saw Stevie Wonder do that. I was like, oh Ah, you saw him yeah.
Speaker 2:I like that one or this one.
Speaker 4:I think Stevie's pretty much One of the greatest singers. Oh yeah for sure, there's not many people that come close.
Speaker 1:Is this not the part? No, it's. It's with.
Speaker 4:Theo, yeah, maybe fast forwarded a bit when they all come in afterwards.
Speaker 1:Oh, I think yeah there we go here we go. I'd say To fly.
Speaker 4:That Raven Simone is so cute. She's gonna grow up to be something. Yeah, oh.
Speaker 2:No, that was Rudy. That's pre-raven. Yeah, that's not Raven.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Rudy grew up in like shit. We need another cute little girl. Yeah, no, I don't think this is it, damn it, but just like jamming on the one. Yeah, yeah, literally just that jamming on the one. Yeah, jamming on the one.
Speaker 2:Chit-chit, jamming on the one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there we go, jamming on the one, jamming on the one.
Speaker 2:Oh, so he's like pressing it and yeah he recorded like he synthesized it.
Speaker 4:Oh gotcha, Now it's like standard, not just an app on your phone. Yeah, you know Big whoop, big whoop, stevie.
Speaker 2:Now that we got something new and exciting.
Speaker 4:There was something cool. Old hat catch a base. Now AI could have this whole show. For us loser, yeah, you could just have AI.
Speaker 1:Talking about AI real quick. I seen yesterday somebody put a video saying like watch out for this new scam. So I don't know how they do it, but I know they're AIing like your parents voice or your family members yes, and then they'll call you yes and be like hey, my car is on the side of the road and and and I have to pay the tow truck guy and I forgot my wallet. Can you send me X amount? And it sounds like you're freaking, mom totally.
Speaker 4:I've used that technology, I've meddled with it, just because I wanted to see what it is. Dude, it's incredible. You just need 10 seconds of somebody's voice and then you put it into this AI chat filter thing and Then, whatever you type out, it'll say it in that voice and you can choose excited, angry, you know like you can choose the tone insane, whoa yeah, so wonder if it's those phone calls.
Speaker 1:When you answer you're like hello and nobody's saying yes, they say you're supposed to hang up because they.
Speaker 4:The rumor is that they they're capturing your voice. Is that legal?
Speaker 1:Oh, no, of course not.
Speaker 4:Yeah, theft is usually Outlawed. I guess, I don't know. We're in California, it's a little different. Yeah nice, just like please don't do it again.
Speaker 2:We have a different type of death $99.
Speaker 4:yeah, right yeah dang, that's wild dude this is 10 seconds of just yes, I could 20, said he's like 27 clip Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Well, I have like a lot of 20 second clips of my voice.
Speaker 4:I'm there, so if anything, like you know, if you had. I know you're not gonna edit this, but if you wanted to, right could make me say anything you want awesome yeah, so I'm gonna try gentle Okay. It's my first time.
Speaker 2:All right, okay, so I want to see a couple of these things and then we'll let you go the the conspiracy stuff about Stevie Nicks, stevie Wonder, stevie, whatever.
Speaker 4:Wonder not.
Speaker 2:I've tuned out. I Want to see this Stevie Stevie Wonder, cuz I I think I've seen this before where he like looks over at stuff, like he catches things that are about to fall Proof.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna try to find like a shorter one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there's like, oh, he even reacts to rumors. Oh, this, I'm so cool. Oh, right there, oh yeah what do you do?
Speaker 4:he caught the mic.
Speaker 2:Those cut the mic, those falling right there boom.
Speaker 4:Yeah he catches that, did he catch it, and his hand just happened to.
Speaker 2:I think he was like oh the. He was probably like scratching himself and the cameras panning. He's like oh shit, yeah, someone's moving, they're gonna see me. He picks it up.
Speaker 4:Maybe he was just kind of he sensed Paul passing him.
Speaker 2:Maybe he hurt the thud too yeah, it's like what's his name?
Speaker 4:daredevil daredevil. Yeah, he's blind, he can catch a flying brick. This is the.
Speaker 1:It's probably the the whole premise of daredevil like this was the that's was the inspiration, or maybe the bottom of the stand, probably like nutted is like.
Speaker 4:He's so excited to be on the stage with Paul, the sir Paul McCartney.
Speaker 1:He was like it nudged like his foot or something sign sealed, delivered okay.
Speaker 2:Yesterday I don't, I don't got nothing.
Speaker 4:I. Do I do a Paul McCartney person. I like to do Paul McCartney as he's gone. Oh, he's gone. I love the Beatles. I was a big Beatles fan. Paul McCartney, he's like he's gotten old now. You know he's got no, you know he talks about John a lot. You know, and um Indom, as he's gotten older, you know he's good. He's good yesterday, you know, that was really good.
Speaker 2:I like that. Okay, yeah, alright.
Speaker 1:Somebody actually asked you to do an impression on the live, so oh there was it just said to make you do an impression if you did an impression.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Paul McCartney's my jam.
Speaker 2:There, you go.
Speaker 4:I do a good pee, we Give me a second Hang on. I gotta commit. If I don't, it's gonna sound like shit. Good morning khaki.
Speaker 4:What's the secret word of the day? You know people was a perv dude. He was a perv. I watched that show all the time he would. There were things like missy Vaughn, Did you watch that show? Yeah, missy Vaughn would come over and she, her tits would be like spilling out of her dress and they'd be like, oh hey, missy Vaughn. And then like and then Florie would be like I've got the best seat in the house. He's like looking up her skirt.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was, there were all pervs, dude. Whoa, yeah, there was hints in there, like there were hints and then yeah, and then obviously you know you got caught in the theater doing yeah the naughty dance.
Speaker 4:But Dude, he literally does it. There's an episode where he the male lady comes up, read of the male lady comes over and he's like playing doctor Already, we're off to a bad start. And he's like, oops, I dropped anything. And then he like he, he bends down and he's got this mirror and he's like looking up her skirt, dude, like on the on saturday morning cartoons. Dude, like you, look, you can look it up another time. Save that for the after show or something.
Speaker 1:But yeah, dude somebody said Nike had a pee, we pee, we dunks and on the insole was a picture of pee we sitting in a movie theater.
Speaker 4:You know I mean it's hard to get laid when you're pee. You know it's just not hot.
Speaker 2:You know there's something there, there's something there, dude. Oh my god, danny, thanks for coming out and thanks for having me.
Speaker 4:That's fun doing the podcast.
Speaker 2:I appreciate it. Next time We'll do Pee Wee Herman versus Macho man Randy Savage. Next time.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:All right, so tell us where we can find you, and we got coming up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, saturday night house of blues, let's see if we could do. In Kings Brew Co in rancho On the on the eighth. We got continental room on the 15th and Fullerton and then comedy Boulevard in LA on the 23rd. Uh yeah, thanks for having me, guys. And uh, give me a follow on the gram, my locale. I just started. It's kind of sad 215 followers and let's go. Come on, guys, we can do better than that. Don't make me beg.
Speaker 2:I'll make it easier for you guys. I'll throw his link down to his instagram down in the show description. If you're listening to it on spotify or YouTube, go down to the show description, click it, follow him, check him out. He's very funny dude. Uh, check out all his uh stuff that are coming up pretty local and uh, this was awesome. I'm thank.
Speaker 4:Danny, I really appreciate it. Thank you for coming out. I appreciate it, it was fun.
Speaker 2:And doing this. Uh, love to have you again. Yeah, anytime. Awesome dude. Uh, what do we got? Amber? Um, february 23rd is Delic comedy in the city of paramount. Go down to mindbuzzorg for more. We have A lots of open mic, comics, amateurs all the way up to professionals that are selling out in their own clubs Pretty awesome lineup. Special guests we've already announced Uh, johnny gold as one of the special guests and, uh, the next couple of days will Uh announce our second special guests of the evening. We've locked in a band for the night. We're gonna have a live band. It's gonna be such a huge, uh great thing. City of paramount February 23rd. Come out and have some drinks, have some food, have some laughs. It's gonna be awesome. Uh, peace the mindbuzz. Oh, yeah, yeah, fun, yeah, yeah.