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Mic Drop Comedy San Diego _ Comedian Mal Hal(MP3_320K) · Mic Drop Comedy

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I think we've met before.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: A long time ago, right? I think so, yeah.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Because you've been doing this for a minute as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been doing stand-up for... This is my 16th
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: year as my... my main income on my tax form.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: It's like, I know at that point it gets real. Like,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't, this isn't just monopoly money. I
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: have to like really account for it.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: For sure. How many little gigs do I need to
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: stack to make this number at the end of the month?
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: For real zero.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: And then repeat. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you originally from?
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  Speaker 2: I'm from here.
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  Speaker 1: You're from here? Yeah. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of the few, like, born and raised San
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: Diego people you'll ever meet.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why do I feel like I met.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: You in L.A.? I lived in L.A. for eight years.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Yeah, because I was like, I could have
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  Speaker 1: sworn I met you in L.A., like, around the store
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  Speaker 1: or something at that one point.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yep. I'm a comedy store person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And then, so, you came back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I know why you came back. It's fucking
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  Speaker 1: awesome here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I... It is amazing here. I've been
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: to almost all 50 states and it's hard to find
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  Speaker 2: what we have going on here anywhere else. And then
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  Speaker 2: my wife and I had our first kid seven years
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  Speaker 2: ago last week. So it's like, I'm not raising a
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  Speaker 2: child and L.A. when my mom and her mom are
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: both here, and it's.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Like, you need community to make it work. Need community,
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  Speaker 1: and a babysitter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Otherwise, you're doing what I'm doing now, which
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: is like, I have three kids in the van outside
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  Speaker 2: with the window cracked, you know, just to make comedy work. Yeah.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: Right on. So, for real, you have three now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. What are the ages?
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  Speaker 2: Seven, four, and two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and boy, girl, boy, girl, boy? Boy, girl, boy. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's up, man.
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  Speaker 2: Girl in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. Okay, so I'm, because I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you mind saying your age or anything like that. I'm 41. 41, okay, yeah, 44.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any kids, but like, that's like a
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  Speaker 1: whole new kind of thing I'm not even aware of. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when we got pregnant with my son, my oldest,
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: it was like, the range of emotions as a comedian,
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: just like, Oh, I think I'm, I think I'm retired now.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: I think my job, like I, how am I going
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  Speaker 2: to do this and support a child? And like the
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: time that it takes to, to be good at standup
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  Speaker 2: and the time that it takes to be a present
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  Speaker 2: parent is like, something's got to give, but you, you know,
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: you figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: It's so, cause, cause I mean, I would assume for me,
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  Speaker 1: for like, same thing. Like I think fear would just.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Setting crippling dude yeah crippling i literally thought my life
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: was over and then i had one of my best
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: friends was like uh pointed out her sister she's like
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: dude my sister had twins when she was a junior
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  Speaker 2: in high school you're in your 30s you're gonna be fine.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: You're gonna figure it out great point.
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  Speaker 2: And it was literally the most like i needed to
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  Speaker 2: hear that it was the most like oh yeah people
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  Speaker 2: do this with much less than what i have right
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  Speaker 2: now so it's like i'll We'll make it work. So funny.
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  Speaker 2: Fast forward, you know, seven years. Now we have three.
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  Speaker 2: And as of a week ago, the factory is shut down.
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  Speaker 2: So we're solid with three.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. The cutoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally. The cutoff. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's good to hear because I still, I got,
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: you know, get worried. Like I'm like, like you said too, oh,
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: comedy career is over. Because it's funny because it's like
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: I'm so used to being selfish in that way. But
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: now it's like completely the opposite of being selfless.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it really establishes your why. I think, like,
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  Speaker 2: before I had kids, I, you know, I probably couldn't
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  Speaker 2: tell you my exact why. Like, I want to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like a solid why. It's like, why am
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  Speaker 2: I doing this? Because I need to support these kids
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  Speaker 2: and give them a better life than I had. And
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  Speaker 2: it really just, like, it's a fuel, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then, so it's funny. So, like, because there are... Well,
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  Speaker 1: you said the oldest is seven, right? Yeah. So they're
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  Speaker 1: not even in school. Well, seven's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be starting second grade next year.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have a second grader and a TK, which
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: is the level between preschool and kindergarten, I found out. TK,
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll have one kid still at home starting
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: So that's another thing, too. Because I haven't had that.
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  Speaker 1: Basically also too, they, they represent time, you know, too,
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: as well. So it's like, I've been doing the same
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: shit since I was, you know, 27. So it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I'm like, sometimes I'll get asked my age
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, that's right. No, I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: the same shit. I have no gauge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But also too, like you get to see, or you
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  Speaker 1: get to relive stuff with your kids. What's, what's been
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  Speaker 1: the thing the most that you're like, oh, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: about that. I love doing this.
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  Speaker 2: That is the, one of the coolest parts about having kids.
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  Speaker 2: If you, um, I mean, we've all met parents, especially
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: in this game, that, like, the child is a burden.
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  Speaker 2: They're not, like, enjoying it.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But if you enjoy it and look at it through
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  Speaker 2: a kid's eyes, it's fun to watch a human experience
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  Speaker 2: something that you know well for the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: it gives you kind of a first-time experience. Like, the
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  Speaker 2: first one that pops into my head now is, like, looking...
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  Speaker 2: Seeing an elephant in a book and then going to
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  Speaker 2: the zoo and seeing an elephant and watching the face
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  Speaker 2: of like, oh my, oh shoot. Like that's an elephant.
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  Speaker 2: Or like the arcade for the first time. I experienced
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  Speaker 2: a first time moment in my life with my son.
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  Speaker 2: Last week we celebrated his seventh birthday at Chuck E.
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  Speaker 1: Cheese.
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  Speaker 2: I'm 41. Never been to Chuck E. Cheese my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Until last week. we're super poor so we didn't go
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: to chuggy cheese the the birthday party was at the
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  Speaker 2: park for free oh yeah run yourself until you're tired
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: yeah um spray each other with the water hose isn't
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: that fun and now it's like we're in a position
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: where hey you can invite this number of it's a
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: finite number of friends but you guys will get unlimited
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: games we can afford to get you unlimited games for
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  Speaker 2: this amount of time and i'm also in there like
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  Speaker 2: uh Yeah, I'm going to need a card, too. I
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  Speaker 2: need to play. I want to play. I've never been here.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: I want to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want some skee-ball. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Skee-ball, pop a shot. I was doing all the things.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting tickets.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: It's so funny, too, that you said that about, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because, I mean, like, I kind of contextualize it, too,
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  Speaker 1: here and there, but, like, the massive amount of scale
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  Speaker 1: that it has that it adds on to when it's
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  Speaker 1: with your kid or your, you know, because, like, I enjoy...
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  Speaker 1: I'll watch a movie over and over again and I'll
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  Speaker 1: watch it with someone that hasn't seen it because I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for them to experience. And it's like, okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: But like, yeah, I can get like, it's funny because
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  Speaker 1: what you described is like, oh, I get that. But
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  Speaker 1: I probably only get a tenth of what you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about because it's like, oh, no, this is my son
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  Speaker 1: and or my daughter. And now... You know, we're going to,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: we share this now. And definitely more questions and more answers. And, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is your interest? Oh, I'll dive all in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it also opens your eyes to, like, we have
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  Speaker 2: a general knowledge of most things as adults. But then,
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: but we don't have, like, a detailed understanding of almost anything.
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  Speaker 2: And you find that out when your son's like, or
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: your kid is like.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what is.
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  Speaker 2: Why do we do this? And it's like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We just do. But why? And then you're like, why?
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Why do it? And it's a lot of self-reflection, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of critical thinking.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I need that, actually, especially as a comedian. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, you know what? That's actually a really good point.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: And then you ask your kid, you're like, are you
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  Speaker 2: gonna use that, or can I have, is that mine, or?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's really good, man. I don't want to step
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: on your shit.
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  Speaker 2: You came up with it, but like, are you gonna?
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  Speaker 1: We were in conversation together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny, too, because like you were saying, with the
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: comedy and stuff like that, and going back at like
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  Speaker 1: the why, oh, no, that's what I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I ADD'd and had to replay. Yeah. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Animaniacs.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever watch that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 1: So there was this cartoon character, and her name, I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember. It was Buttons and something. It was a
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: dog that she would always have, but she would always
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: just get lost. And Buttons was this dog trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect her from danger. And she would walk up to strangers,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: and she'd be like, what are you doing? And then
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  Speaker 1: he would tell her. And then she was like, why?
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: And then he'd tell her again, why? And then he
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: was like, get out of here. You're bothering me. But
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: it's so funny, because that's what that reminded me of.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was a big fan of Animaniacs and cartoons,
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  Speaker 1: which is something that kind of isn't around anymore for kids.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't around the way we experienced it for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot.
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  Speaker 2: I read this somewhere or I saw it on an
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Instagram reel or something. But the way almost everything is
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: designed now is to keep them locked in. So when
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: we were kids... Like we would wake up on Saturday
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: morning and you would know the time that your favorite, whatever,
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: Tom and Jerry was coming on and you would watch it.
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  Speaker 2: And there may be two episodes or 20 minutes and
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  Speaker 2: then Tom and Jerry was done for the rest of
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: the day until next week. And now it's like, you
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: can literally watch 10 hours of Tom and Jerry back
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  Speaker 2: to back to back to back. And you don't even,
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  Speaker 2: it's seamless, you know? And so they don't appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Arcades at the Chuck E. Cheese. It's like that you
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: got the card that's unlimited. It doesn't, When you die,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't make you go to the beginning to figure
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: out how to get past this point. You just continue
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: from right here, and so the game never ends. So
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: it's not like on Mario, how we were like, okay,
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: I keep getting to this point, and I don't know
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: how to jump over this crevasse.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: It'll take you all the way back.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: All the way back and figure it out. Not anymore.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, start from here again.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're good.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: Go again.
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  Speaker 1: So crazy. Go again. Especially to, like you said, arcades.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when the arcade was better than the home system.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: And now the home system is way better.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Way superior. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I remember getting Street Fighter 2... A friend of
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: mine got it. I say I got it, but a
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: friend got it.
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  Speaker 2: If your friend has it, it's yours.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: That's how I saw it. I would get good at
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: video games at other people's houses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I did not own a game system growing up.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I'm allowed to come over?
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I'll be there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there. Hey, you actually suck at this. Can
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: I watch this? And I will tell you that. I mean,
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: you're an adult, so you know. It graduates into adulthood.
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  Speaker 2: Out of video games to, like, other things. So, like,
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: if your friend is a member at a place, you're
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: also a member there.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: If your friend has a pool and you don't, you
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: do have a pool. I got a pool, yeah.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: I started inviting people over. I was like, hey, I'll
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: get him up. We'll go over there, man. He's okay.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: He don't give a fuck.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could let us. I know the code.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: It's good. We're good. We're good.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: For real. So, yeah, that's something we definitely, millennials for sure,
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: have taken from our childhood into adult life.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's yours.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: It's mine.
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  Speaker 1: For real. And it's so crazy. Like you said about
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: the cartoons and how like, um, like it was, it
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  Speaker 1: was also like something sacred to like, um, everyone saw
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: it at the same time. So it's like everyone got
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: that same experience. So it's like, oh, okay, cool. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now it's like, like you said, it's on demand and
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: it's like, there's no, um, struggle to get to it.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: There's no, there's no anticipation or no waiting.
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  Speaker 2: So no appreciation for it. So there's no conversation on
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: the playground about, Did you watch the episode last night?
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Remember when The Simpsons was like that? It was like, dude,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: the Halloween episodes.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: That's funny you bring up The Simpsons. So I grew up,
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: my parents were super strict. So we did not have,
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch TV in the house until I was
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: like a junior in high school. So a lot of
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: the 90s sort of references go right over my head
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: because I didn't, we grew up in the country. We
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: had a couple of channels. and we would just rent
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: videos from the library. I got all mostly educational stuff
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: growing up, but there was a survival instinct that kicked
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: in very early, and I understood like, oh, everyone's watching
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: The Simpsons show. I had no idea what it was,
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: but all the cool people know about what's happening in
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: this show, so I would position myself on the bus
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: next to these kids that would always talk about The
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Simpsons on the way to school. I would eavesdrop on
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: that conversation and then I would start my own conversations
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  Speaker 2: at recess based on the conversations I had eavesdropped on
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  Speaker 2: so no one knew that I didn't watch The Simpsons
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: at home.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Wow. So it was like, you were acting, you were
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: just becoming an actor. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So, and that, so to this day, I'm like, I've
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: seen some episodes, but it doesn't hit the way it
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: would hit for someone that grew up watching it.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Grew up watching it. And I was going to say too, like,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: and so that, when that translates in the comedy too, like,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: you know, secondhand stuff or just like, you know, like,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: so I heard about all this. What's the thing? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, uh, it was easier to, my brain has
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: always kind of been working that way. I felt like,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: how do you translate a story to people?
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then like, cause like, and you're saying to like, uh, um,
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  Speaker 1: questions about questions too. So it's like, you're going to
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: definitely like when you bring it to an audience and
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: it's like, so I've been hearing about that. And so wait,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: hold on. Let me, okay. Let me get this straight. Yeah. Yeah.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: So it's, it's great to have like a, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, can you fill in some of these? There's something
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: missing here. Do you guys know about this? And the
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: audience doesn't know that I'm literally like, I'm crowdsourcing information.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's great, too, because it's a double dip
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  Speaker 1: on the joke. It's like, I'm going to create an
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: inside joke for all of us.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then we can laugh at the people that don't
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: get it. And we can also make those people up, too.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: For sure. And also, you're in my writing room right now.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: So next week- This joke is going to be so
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: much better.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: It's going to be fine.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: And then they're going to add a little bit.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we'll double dip on it. No. And so
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: you said... So 16 years.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: And you started here. Was it when this was a
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: comedy palace? Yes. Okay.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: So this place is... This place we're at, Mic Drop
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Comedy Club in San Diego. And this is like a
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: pretty big piece of my origin story as like a
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: professional comedian because... three years into doing standup NBC had, uh,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: their diversity showcase here. And somebody told me I was
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: at the open mic at the comedy store and that
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: was on a Sunday and they were doing the showcase
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: here on a Monday. And someone asked me, Oh, are
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: you going to do the NBC showcase? I had no
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: idea they were having one. I was like, what showcase? Uh,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: they're going to see a hundred people over there. NBC to,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to like the winner gets a holding deal and does
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: this college tour. And, people are coming from all over
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: to like get in the hundred, like people are sleeping
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: outside of the club. And I was like, I don't
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: believe you. I'll drive by. And if there's people out there,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: then I'll, then I'll run back to my house and
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: get a jacket or something, get us, get a spot
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: in line. And so sure enough, there were people, LA, Arizona, Vegas,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: people were coming here for their showcase. And so I
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: was number 27 in line. Oh, great. And, and I
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: made it to the top 10 of that showcase for the,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: country and did the NACA and did the the college
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: tour and that really like off the strength of that
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I started quitting all my part-time jobs and yeah eventually
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: here I am NACA.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Was the goal too it was it was like it
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: was like wait what you're gonna get I'm gonna get
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to go to schools where people are the same age
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: as me at that time you know the same age
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: as me I'm gonna be doing stand-up and I'm gonna
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: get paid decent yeah and you guys are gonna like
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: pay for the room and board I.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Was like this is amazing and it was like It
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: was really like a crash course in, it was a
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: crash course in all aspects of the job of being
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: a comedian. Because for a lot of us, we're coming
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: straight from open mics to like, I mean, I'll speak
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: for myself. I had no like real professional experience. And
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: then I'm, I excel in this showcase. Now I go
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: to the NACA. I did pretty well. I got a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: bunch of schools and in the contract, every show was
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: 60 minutes, 60 minutes set in front of these kids.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: And it's like, I might've had, I might've had 20
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: to 25 of like actual performable. I know the, the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: outcome of these bits kind of material. And then now
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I have to fill 30 other minutes. And so it
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: was like, I taught me a lot about how to
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: tell stories, how to maximize material, how to, how to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: read an audience and how to really like stretch when necessary,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: how to cut when necessary, like a lot of how
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to travel in an agile way, how to sleep on
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: a plane, how to like all of these things that
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I use to this day, I put in my toolbox
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: from that like experience experience, which started right outside of here.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Number 27 in line.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I was just talking to Cassidy,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: who's on the last one, and I was talking about,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I go, it's 45 minutes now.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: The comedy clubs and everywhere, it's 40 minutes. I go,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: back in the day, I go, and I'm like, I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: sound so old, but back in the day is not
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: even that far back in the day. Yeah. And I go,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: you had to do an hour.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Ten years ago.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: One hour, dude. One hour, yeah. And I go, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it's so funny because like, you know, 45 minutes is like, it's, it's, it's,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I go, once you get to having 45 minutes, I go,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: for some reason, like, as soon as you break that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: 45 minute mark, you can do another 30 by accident. Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Because it's kind of like breaking your sleep. Like, oh,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: so now I'm up. Now I'm up. And it's like,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: all right, boom. But that was also too, I was
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: going to ask, in the, in the, do you remember
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: who won the diversity that year? Because I remember like after,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: like it was.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I think that year it was, um, Kevin Shea. It
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: was either Kevin Shea or... It was Kevin Shea or
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Ron G won that year.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I just recently worked with Kevin earlier this year. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a while.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him in a minute.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: He moved to Sacramento.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was talking about how he moved to a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of different places. He moved to just Sacramento,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: so we were doing the punchline together not too long ago,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in the early of the year. Such a chill dude.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Such a beast of a writer, too.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And so, like, Like, goofy offstage.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. I'm stupid. I was like.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But onstage, so serious. Yeah. Boom.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And then, because for a minute, they're like, that was
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the hot shit, too. The diversity show, the NBC, every
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: year you're waiting for it to come.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Because it was like, yo, they're looking for people all over.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: They got, like, satellites all over. And, like, I think...
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I think Kabir won it one year. RIP to Kabir. RIP, RIP.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Mikey Winfield.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Then there was, I wonder if Sammy, if Sammy won.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Sammy won. I don't know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Or maybe even shared it. i think there was i
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: think nick gara won too at one year um but
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: yeah no it was uh uh it was a big
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: deal it was a big uh it was it's i
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: mean is it still around.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know to be honest i don't think so.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: The last time i did it it was um we
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: were at levity live. Uh, they had just levity live,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just opened up an Oxford. I took over, uh, the improvs. And, um,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it was funny because it was all of us. Sammy
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: was hosting. Actually, it was funny because Sammy was hosting it. And, um,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I was like, dude, it's, it's cause you do a minute,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you do one minute.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And so, uh, I went up and, um, I did, uh,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I was just like, Hey everybody, you know, I was like, I'm,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know what to say. I was like,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I just started goofing off and it was like, I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: transitioning into a bike. I could do whatever you want.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I did like four different accents in like British, Scottish,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and transformed into an Australian, into an Irish. And then
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, also, too, you guys take care of
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the staff. You guys da-da-da-da. I started doing it in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the end of a club set. I was like, I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: selling shirts. In a minute.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, God, this guy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I couldn't dance in a club set. I was like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: if any birthday is out there, I was like, I'm
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: selling shirts. Yeah. And I got up. Because I was
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the first person to go. I went up. And then Sammy,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he was like, dude, that was the best. Because I go,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I don't even care for the comedy. I go, I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: playing you guys back there. And I was just talking.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I think it was the dude that does The Tonight Show.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But I didn't get picked. I didn't get picked. But
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it felt so, like, it's so funny. Because that's just
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: where my brain is at. The comics were like, that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: was fucking. Like, I wish I would have thought of that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And I go, yeah. But I didn't get picked. Matter
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of fact, it was so funny. Because Rene Garza.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: You relieved the pressure. You went first and everyone's nervous.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows what they're going to do in one minute.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And then to see you go up there and just
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: be so playful and courageous, that probably relieved a lot
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: of pressure for everyone else.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: It turned into a fun... Now that you said that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You cracked the room.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I'm reflecting back that it was... After that, it was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a fun show. A fun little industry show. Because then
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the comics weren't just not laughing.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They were laughing at other comic stuff. And so it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was kind of fun.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. I remember that one minute as well.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Because again, I walked into it with zero research or
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: understanding of what was going on. And so they're like, yeah,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: come back here at this time. You'll do one minute.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And then we'll see if you make it to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: next round. And I was like, oh, OK. So I
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: spent the morning at home just trying to figure out,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: what do you do in a minute? And I made
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: it past the minute to the two minute. The second
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: one was two minutes. The callback was two minutes, and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: then we did the two minute. And then I believe
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it was just two rounds, and then the showcase was
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: five minutes. So it was like one minute, two minute,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: five minute. And I remember, fast forward, I'm at NACA
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in Boston, and Kendra Carter was the person in charge
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: of it when I was going through and I had
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: a moment after the NACA showcase and I was like
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I need to ask you the one minute the one
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: minute audition like that's the craziest like I don't like
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: none of us like were prepared for like one minute
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: like what is what was the purpose of the one
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: minute and she said um she said as a comedian
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: when you walk on stage she goes the walk from
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: off the stage to the microphone that first 10 seconds.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And then the first 30 seconds of you talking, the
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: audience makes a judgment on like what your show is
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: going to be and how you carry yourself as a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: comedian in that first 30 seconds. So in a minute,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: we kind of have an idea of what that next
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: piece is going to be. So we're looking. So what
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: they were looking for was like, how do you carry
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: yourself to start the show? Because most of us don't
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: have a one minute bit like you don't have a
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: one minute set. So it was a mechanical thing. Interesting.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So after she told me that, I was like, okay.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And from that moment on, so I'm three and a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: half years into my career at that point, I was like, okay.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So from that point on to this day, I take
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the walk to the stage and the first minute of
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: my show very serious. This is like a tone setter
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and it's either an affirmation of what people are thinking
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: or like, okay, maybe we should like pay attention here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I didn't know that. That's actually, that's a really good,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: that's a great tip.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Cause I wondered like, you know, like we all
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: just go like, what the, what the hell? One minute?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Like it's more like annoying and upsetting and then learning
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the purpose. And then like, think about your friends when
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: they go on stage or like how many of our
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: friends just like screw off the first minute or whatever.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And it's like, and then they come off stage and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: they're like, the crowd sucked. And it's like, well, you
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: kind of disrespected them from the, from the jump, the jump.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: And so like, why would they come back? Like your
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: material is not strong enough to do that. Like, what
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: are you, unless you do it on purpose for whatever
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the first bit is.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Like, dude, you should be kind of locked in when
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: you're walking on stage. Like these are adults who work,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: who paid money to be here. Like let's respect the time.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Get in. It's so funny too. Cause like, like when
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: we went, we did it. It was, it was like,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: cause plus you, you, you, you went by yourself, but
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it was a cluster of us. Cause we're all like,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Hey man, all right, let's people carpool. Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: So it was like, it was like me, Jack, Jack Asadorian. And, um,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I remember Jordan Conley was there. Uh, there was a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: gang of us and then, um, Robert Emoto, uh, and then, um, uh, uh, uh, uh,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Renee Vaca.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: He's okay.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He was with us. Okay. And then, uh, we're all,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and he, he got the call back. And I think,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I want to say, I'm not, I can't, I'm not
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent sure, but I think he, I think
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it was, like, the first time that there was, like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a split win. Like, it was two people won the thing.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, okay. But, no, it was
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a gang of us. And it was just, to be honest,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the hang was fun. Yeah. I mean, just the shit talking.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: For sure. And that was another thing, too, like, in
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that I remember when, because Robert Emoto and Rene got
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the calls back. And every, we're all sitting in the,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in that little car and everyone was happy for anybody.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Cause it was like, all right, boom. We're a team.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: This is a team in this car. Like we want,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: we want each other to win.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, this is a good story.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I definitely saw that. I, I, cause I didn't know
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. I started my career here. So
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I've gone to LA a little bit, but I didn't
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: have like friends, friends at that point. So it's like
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of my comedian friends, uh, to this day, uh,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: were in cliques of people that carpooled down here from
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: LA or from Vegas or Phoenix to like do the
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: showcase and like, no, I live here. I'm going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: go home now.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It was a trip too. Cause like, I mean, it
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: would be in Seattle and people were, yeah, definitely sleeping outside.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, Oh, that's great. Like, yeah, I've been,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't, I didn't get an email. Cause
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes you'd be invited or there.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Were industry invites. Like, yeah, I didn't know about any
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: of that. They're like at the two minute audition and
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: there's people like, rolling up and i'm like you weren't
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: here for the one minute what are you doing here
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: and it's like you're.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Like yeah i gotta i gotta yeah and then it's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: like how do you do that exactly i was like
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that's crazy like there's oh then then if that's the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: case then what am i even doing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Here yeah i guess you're gonna win if you have
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the thing like what yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You already have the shorthand you already know so it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like why am i even trying this let me just
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: go yeah i was i there's so it's so funny
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: because comedy like i i started realizing realizing this too
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: when i first started uh is was um uh, uh,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: comedy just keeps asking me, do you still want to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: do this?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Like things like that. Like there's, why are you even doing,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: there's so many people that are ahead of you. You
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: still want to do this? Yeah. And it's like, yeah,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I do. Because like, I always justify it for me.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I always justify it because like, because like, I'm, I'm,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this for that. I'm doing this for
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the result of becoming better. So when I'm on stage,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I get the, I get the reaction that I want
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: because that's what I like. Yeah. That's what keeps me
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: coming back. The work. Yeah, the work.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: The process.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I love the whole idea when you figure a joke out.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: When the jigsaw puzzle, when I just got the corner,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, there's something here. I could see it
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And then it's like, oh, I can't wait.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that feeling of joke bombing over and over for weeks,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: sometimes months. But you know, there's just, I just need
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to crack this code.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And then I don't know about you, but for me,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: it's like on the shows where I'm eating it the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: most are the ones where I'm like, all right, well,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: this can't get any worse. Let me pull out this bit.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: And for some reason on those sets, our brains are
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: activated and doors are just opening.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And it's on those sets where you find the missing
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: piece and you're like, and it's the one that cracks
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the bad audience for you. And you're like, but you
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: don't even care about them because you figured out this bit.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: And tomorrow I'm gonna get on stage and work from
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: right here. And it's going to be amazing.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: So many doors. And I was like, then you got
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: another little avenues. You're like, now, you know what? Now
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: that it works that way, I'm going to put this
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: right here and that will, and that's, oh my God,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: this actually, I wrote this like five years ago.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And now it's a connector. Now I have a chunk
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: and now I'm just like in this world. And it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: seems like this guy's like, how does his brain go
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: from here to here to here? And it's because I've
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: put in the time and the work, and it's like,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: now I can play.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's so exciting. It just makes me happy.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And it's like, that's what I get off on. That's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the thing. So when people are like, oh, you haven't
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: known it this long? I'm sure you probably get this
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: every now and then from people that don't really know
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the or are in the thing. They were like, oh,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you still do that comedy thing?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You still doing your little comedy thing? I hate you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I hate you so much, dude. I'll murder your family.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Are you still doing that little 9 to 5 job, dude? Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I hate you. I hate you.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, fuck. Okay, so we're going to move on to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the second segment. And it's just trivia really quick. Sure. Yeah,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: it's just that. Just to break up the knotney of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: every comic podcast on comics. And then Nikki's going to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: help us out with the questions. And you're going to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: have first crack at it. And I'll try to get it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Because I don't even know these either.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I'm one of the worst of all time at trivia.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So here we go.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny? All of those comics were not
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: very good.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: It's like I know about what I know about. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: most of it never shows up at trivia night.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're really good at bullshitting that we know.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. What's the category?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I can let you know the categories as well, so
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: you can have that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So I guess each question is something different somewhere else? Yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: So for the first question, it's going to be a movie.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: What is the name of a shrimp company owned by
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Tom Hanks' character?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Bubba Gump Shrimp.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Nailed it. Softball.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I've traveled around. Those things are in real life, too.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. That's right on. Yeah. All right. Next one.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: If you're ever in an exotic place... and you want
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to find the Americans that should not be in that
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: exotic place, just go to the Bubba Gum Shrimp because
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: that's the U.S. Embassy for people who want to travel
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: but don't want to travel. Yeah, for real.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get real cultured.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: So this one's going to be in music.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: So what pop star wrote songs for Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Britney Spears, and Alice Cooper?
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: What pop star?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: What pop star wrote.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Is it a man or a woman?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: A woman.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: If you're into the social construct of that. I feel
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: like this person is not... This person's popular.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: But kind of like a subtle level.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: More subtle person. But had hits, so.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I would for sure know this person. Lady Gaga?
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: In that realm.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I think I know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I can't remember her name. But she used to be
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: married to Melissa Etheridge. No, not her. Linda Perry. That's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: what I was thinking. Okay, then I'm... All right, final answers.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: All right, I say Linda Perry, but.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Kacey Musgraves.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: That was a good guess. It's Kesha.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Kesha. Oh, okay. That's good to know. Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: She's awesome.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Great life. Okay, so... This one is a book slash musical.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I'm out. Here we go.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: The Musical Cats is based on which book? Oh, it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: based on a book by which author?
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I do not know. Dr. Seuss.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know either. I have no idea on what
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that would be.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: The answer is T.S.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Eliot. T.S. Eliot. Okay.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I've heard the name.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Okay, so this one has to do with technology.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, the first computer mouse
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: was made out of what material?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: The first computer mouse was made out of what material?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Wood.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: That's your answer?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say carpet.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Wonderful guess it actually was wood.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah oh shit that's great good pool i'm just thinking
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: of like what could be whittled into that kind of
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: tool you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Know especially for a prototype.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Right prototype you don't want metal on your desk you know.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah wood wood wood wood that would be cool to
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: have a wood one now yeah like a straight throw
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: it like oh look at this.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Guy knows what's up yeah yeah Welcome to my mid-century
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: modern house. That piece of wood right there, that's actually
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: a mouse.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: That's actually a mouse. Pick it up, look.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: You want to know how rich I am? That's my
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: mouse right there. I got it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: This has to do with a movie.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Which famous line spoken by Chief Martin Brody in Jaws
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: was entirely ad-libbed?
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think I know.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: We're going to need a bigger boat.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I say the same thing. Yeah. Yep. That's it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Damn. Turns out I am going to trivia.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're killing it. Yeah. You're killing it right now.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: It's three to one and you're winning.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: And actually, this is kind of funny.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: You did speak on it, so I can't even give
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you a genre because you're going to be able to
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: get it, I think.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: You spoke about it earlier in your interview with each other.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: What is the best-selling video game franchise?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, the Mario?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: No. Yeah, Mario, I would say. Yeah, it's Mario. Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I was like, darn it, maybe I should change it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite Mario? Yeah. There's so many now.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Mario Kart on Super NES is my favorite.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. Really?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Super NES and or coin flip for the Nintendo 64.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Same here.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say, the N64 one. I'm
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: all about the 64. I'm the Nintendo regular NES generation,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: but when the N64 came out, I was like, this
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: is amazing. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: That's the first console I owned and we're in the
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: process of moving right now and I found it so
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I have it with a good amount of games and
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: what I need to do now is find either a
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: HDMI converter or just try to find an old TV
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: which I think would be cooler I think that's cooler
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the old TV in the garage with the N64.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is like those things are like
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: they could go for extreme amount like 007 is hella
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: expensive yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: That's my favorite That's the best probably video game of
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: all time.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Dude, that was so much fun. And then you could
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: change the hard level. And there was like certain tasks
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that you could do to unlock the random shit. And
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it's so funny because back in those days, like there's
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: internet now where you can find the code. But it
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: was like you had to play that game so much.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: To figure it out.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: To figure it out. Like just a paintball mode. Like
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: how did this work? A big head mode?
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: A big head mode with throwing knives.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Was the best.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I was like... The game was like critical thinking. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: was like almost educational, you know? And we had no idea.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's so fun, too. Yeah, like the missions were like...
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: That's one thing that I liked about the games back then.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, you're right, it was difficult. So it's like, dude,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: we have to really figure this out. Because we can't
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: even just gung-ho through it.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: We have to wait, be patient, and then... Oh, man. Games. Games.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: All right, this one has to do with food.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Which fast food restaurant has the most locations across the
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: United States?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The United States or the world?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: United States.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That one's easy, definitely.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say Subway.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: And then what's your answer, Carlos?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say McDonald's.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: It's actually Subway.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: It's actually Subway. Oh, that's crazy. Dang, you are going
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: to say that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look at that. I think you're just picking questions that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: The specific questions I have the answers to.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: That's so funny. It's all Slumdog Millionaire. He's going back
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to all of his travels. He's like, I see. There's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of subways in Georgia.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: That's like a fun fact that I read in the airport.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: This one has to do with sports. What number does
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: every major league baseball player wear on April 15th?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know this one.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I know this one, too.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. 42.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: 42. It's Jackie Robinson Day.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Yep, you're both right. Dang, I thought that would have
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: been a left field one. All right, okay. Let's see
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: what's up. Okay, this one has to do with a movie.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Well, actually TV. What TV series launched Bruce Willis' career?
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I know this one.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I do not know this one.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint. It co-starred Sybil Shepard.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, because you didn't watch the movie. Moonlighting.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's moonlighting.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Noise. On the board.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Finally. I know, right?
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: It's four to six, so you're still, you're hanging in there.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, and this will be your last question, so you
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: can wager your points.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: You have six points.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: And Carlos, you have four, and you can wager as
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: many as you'd like to try to take the win,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: but it's going to be a music question.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Music.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to just put it all in.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll match. I'll match. All right.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: We're going all in.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: What is the name of the singer and actor Stefani Giramotta,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: better known by?
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: The singer and actor? Yes.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: I guess you say Stefani Giramotta.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I know this. I know the name.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Is she....
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Huge.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Lady Gaga.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: It's Lady Gaga.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I was going to be like, you said it earlier.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm pretty sure. Boom.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Golden. Nice. He took the win. Nice with 12 points. Nice.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's the highest score. That's the highest we've
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: ever had. Congratulations. I'm being honest with you.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Sandbagging is what you're doing. I'm generally not good at trivia.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I know the sports stuff and some technology stuff because
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: that's my... nerd wheelhouse. I'm into gadgets. But anything pop culture,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of on the fringes with.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So I was going to say, where are you going
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to be at soon?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: So I'll be at... When does this air?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: This will probably air in about a month. Okay.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I have no idea where I'm going to be. But
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: all of my... Dates are on malhall.com, or if you're
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: a Bands in Town person, go to Bands in Town
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: and search Malhall and click the bell or whatever, sign
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: up for the alerts, and I put all my dates
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: on there. Yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for doing this, man.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming out. Thanks for having me, man.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Great to see you. Good to see you too, man.