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Andrew Branson on Comedy Tours, Scene Collaboration, and Building Community · The Scene Projects

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  This program is part of the Scene Projects podcast network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  Welcome into a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is my brother coming back to the scene
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  projects, Andrew Branson.
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  Brother, welcome back to the show.
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  What's going on, dude?
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  Man, it's really cool to see, what has happened in the last month and, seeing that you guys had
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  a great show, it looks like, up there at the Sherwood Lounge, and you're coming back there.
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  So that's why we had to get you back in the show and talk about this new one coming up.
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  Dude, much appreciated.
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  I it was quite a quite a wild time.
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  The first show, terrible, terrible weather, but we still got, like, thirty, forty people in
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  this little bar and we had a great show.
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  And that being said, if the show I I told them when we were negotiating for few future shows,
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  I was like, for how bad the roads were and how good the turnout was, just imagine what's gonna
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  happen when I can pay headliners, get a good headliner in here, and then there's good
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  weather.
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  All the stars align.
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  All the stars align, and we can all just fill out this entire bar, and I guarantee I'm gonna
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  astound Colleen and her and everyone that works there with the the the comedy that I'm bringing
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  there.
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  It's gonna be a great time.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and so much about what that first time was was just a, hey.
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  Will this work?
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  Are you funny?
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  Was more than anything.
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  It it wasn't it was less can you bring people or, like, are you guys actually going to be
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  funny?
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  So I feel like anytime that you're doing a first bit and you'd kinda done that, with your,
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  you know, few minutes that we provided when when you came starts and ends was playing up
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  there that it was like, okay.
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  He's funny.
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  Well, does he have funny friends?
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  Right?
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  Is that next step?
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  And now that you've proven that, it's like, okay.
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  Cool.
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  Let's start to look further out and then start to schedule some more regular dates and to get
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  this popping.
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  So really excited to see that you're back in there now, coming up soon.
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  What's the date for the show?
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  The next next one is, Wednesday, January 14.
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  So it's next Wednesday, next Wednesday, at the Sherwood Lounge.
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  And, everyone so, like, let me tell you this.
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  So I was able to negotiate with them, and now I can pay headliners.
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  So that means that I can book better headliners.
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  I can get people who are excited to make an occasional 50 to $100 on a Wednesday night,
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  something like that.
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  And then also, like, the the people, in the Minneapolis scene, like the the comedy scene,
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  they don't have that many mics to do on a Wednesday.
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  So if this continues and I can continue this trajectory, get other bars and clubs to follow
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  suit as well, join in on the cause of having Claiborne comedy in their venue, that, this
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  could be something that could grow.
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  And my goal for 2026 is to have two or three book shows that I'm producing every month every
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  month.
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  And And I love it.
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  And to just take Wednesday nights and say, those are my night regardless of what the venue
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  is.
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  Because maybe not every venue.
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  I mean, obviously, most venues aren't gonna be, prepared to do comedy every Wednesday night.
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  And most some aren't gonna be willing or able to do it every month.
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  But if you can stack up a list of venues, and I would highly recommend, Andrew, you guys gotta
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  get video of these sets that you're doing this time so that you can prove the concept and use
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  that as a, you know, an audition tape to very like, hey.
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  This is what we're doing at the Sherwood Lounge.
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  This is what we can recreate at your venue.
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  And that's actually what I just had a meeting with my producer who is actually he's also the
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  music act on my show, Oscar Straumannis.
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  He's very, very funny, very musically talented.
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  I give I give him, like, fifteen, twenty minutes before the show.
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  He does some Johnny Cash covers.
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  He does some of his originals, and then he'll play guitar in between comics when they come
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  up.
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  He he just brings up the production value of
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  Great idea.
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  Great idea.
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  I know that, historically, comedians have opened for the music acts.
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  Right?
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  Jim Brewer used to go out and open for Metallica of all people back in the day.
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  But to have the music to kinda set the mood and get everybody feeling good before you just
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  start hitting them with jokes and then having that in between a little you know?
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  And it doesn't have to be very long.
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  Get up, play a song, gives everybody a break, gives them a chance to go grab a drink and to
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  do those things because you want them engaged in the comedy at this show.
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  Exactly.
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  And then, like, the added production value of there being a physical person on stage playing
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  music, it's like, oh, this is a little bit more put together.
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  We should give him more of our attention, which is why I wanted to bring him on.
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  But, also, we had this meeting last week talking about exactly what you just brought up.
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  I have a camera where he's actually running to the store today to grab some more camera
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  equipment, and we're gonna be focusing on recording our shows.
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  And I'm gonna be able to put out clips from, like, funny moments that happened.
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  Comics could pay me a minimal fee of, like, $5 to get get their entire twenty minute clip or
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  fifteen minute clip.
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  Brother, we'll put them up and create a new comedy hour on the scene projects, man.
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  I'm totally down to work with you guys on something like that.
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  And we have connections to other media companies on Roku, Apple, Amazon that would be
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  more than willing to take that content and put it out either.
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  We can build our own Comedy Central right next to my MTV.
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  Mhmm.
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  Dude, I love this idea.
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  It's brilliant.
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  And I I let me tell you this.
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  Is that, all the comedians that I'm booking from on my show, are either passed by other on
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  this on this show, the my next show that I'm doing, like, all the comedians that are on
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  there are are passed by local comedy clubs and or they feature or headline in their own right.
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  So Elizabeth Celine, she's coming up at the scene very strong right now.
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  She's been making waves in the past year and a half, two years.
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  Trey Charles, again, very, very confident in what he can do.
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  He's very funny.
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  He also has the style of, like, a seventies dude.
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  Big handlebar mustache, classic style.
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  He's so fun to watch.
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  You gotta come check him out.
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  Whitney Haverstock at the top left, he is known as the mayor of Minneapolis comedy.
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  So he, like he'll he'll wear a blazer, but he dresses pristine, kind of business casual, but
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  smacks you in the face with whatever he's about to say.
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  It's crazy.
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  He he's gonna hit you with some black hooks if you come see some of the show.
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  It's gonna be a good time.
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  Top right, Drew Rudenstadt.
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  He's a good buddy of mine.
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  Very, very funny.
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  Me and him nerd nerd out about movies and stuff and and different different music that we like.
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  He he's very good.
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  Eric Anton.
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  Eric Anton, he has been making waves in, like, the bar scene that I've been noticing.
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  A lot of people have been really loving his his shows, and whenever he gets on a mic at, like,
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  these, like, these bars or little clubs, everyone enjoys it.
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  It's it's such a good time.
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  And
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  I'm Well, that's a different beast too.
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  Right?
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  To to be able to command attention in a crowded bar and and to be able to get people and to
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  have them engage with you as a comedian is a tough ask.
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  That's why I that's why I asked the people who I asked because I know they do really well.
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  All of them in their own right do really well in comedy clubs, and they all can maintain
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  attention at these dive bar spots that I'm producing.
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  So that's why I I created the show.
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  And then
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  The dive bar comedy tour.
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  I love it.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  I was actually just doing I was working at House of Comedy.
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  I I door staff and do sound booth and, like, produce a little bit sound booth at House of
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  Comedy at the Mall Of America.
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  We just had uncle Lazer there, and he's from Hill County.
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  So we were I was hanging out after the show and having drinks with him, and he was like, hey,
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  man.
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  I got this idea.
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  I got this idea.
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  Then I was like, I've heard the idea before because it's not a foreign idea.
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  But if someone can capitalize on that idea on large scale, it's very profitable and it's very
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  cool.
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  He was saying he wants to do some type of blue collar comedy tour, but for, like, north, east,
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  south, West.
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  Get, like, different regions of different styles of comedians that can still hone in on,
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  like, the urban country, you know, suburban, outback type of crowd.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Well, and instead of going out on your own and just one person who now has to command the
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  stage for an hour long set, you almost kinda do on the show that you featured on.
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  We talked about last time you were on the show where, you know, where they went out in a
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  tandem and also had a podcast with it.
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  Like, bring the whole show.
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  It takes pressure off your comedy set, off of everyone in the crew, and you're gonna have a
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  shitload of fun out there traveling around together.
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  Mhmm.
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  It's gonna
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  be But imagine the jokes that are going to come from everybody just, like, vibing in the hang
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  of the tour.
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  Mhmm.
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  And let me tell you about the headliner that I have on my show.
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  This guy's name is Riley Cosgrove.
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  He's been an entity in the scene for the I've known him for, like, five, six years.
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  He knew me before I started doing comedy.
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  He actually worked with me at House of Comedy back in the day.
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  He was a server while he was also doing comedy.
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  I have him headlining.
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  He's a feature act.
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  He's headlined.
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  He's done shows all over the nation.
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  He's done he he recently, he moved back from Chicago, killing it over there.
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  But he's one of those guys, six foot four, tall, sassy white guy, and this bar is not
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  gonna see what what's coming.
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  It's gonna be the best time.
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  I I posted some clips about him.
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  If you're ear if you're if anyone's curious watching this, riley underscore cosgrove on
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  Instagram.
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  Check out his clips.
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  Super, super funny guy.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, he's gonna have to watch his head.
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  They don't have particularly tall ceilings at the well, you know what?
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  No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  My my tall Paul fit up there.
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  He's gonna be fine.
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  He'll be fine.
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  He'll be fine.
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  But he'll be he'll be he'll be, talking shit about everyone at the bar.
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  It's gonna be a great time.
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  Yeah.
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  I really think you
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  gotta come check out one of these shows, man.
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  I I I I'm telling you, it's gonna be a great time.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you keep having them, brother, and I will make it up there at some point.
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  I love this tour idea, and I think we're really onto something.
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  We're gonna keep talking about that because I'm actually working with a company called Music
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  Mogul AI who's building a booking agent and this massive database of theaters and venues
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  for musicians, but I'm gonna suggest this to my buddy Brad when we when we get off the call and
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  I talk to him later today about, hey.
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  How much would it take to turn this to comcomedians and to provide that kind of
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  service to a whole another sector of creators and performers?
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  I think it's brilliant.
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  Bro, that'd be amazing.
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  Thank you so much.
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  I'll tell you about this.
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  This is like the niche that I want to go for my show.
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  I want to be able to reach the, like, suburban crowds, the dive bars that are in, like, you
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  know, the Lakeville, the Burnsville, the Shakopee, like, two hours into the, like, the
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  center of the state type of vibes.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, little country bars, little pubs and stuff like that.
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  Anywhere that has a stage that maybe doesn't fill it on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night.
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  And then we can try to figure that out because I know my comics and I know that they want to
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  fill in their time of, like, a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night.
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  If they got nothing going on, they'll drive forty minutes to an hour to make $100 or
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  something.
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  It's gonna be a great time.
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  And so I feel like if if I've I've traveled around Minneapolis so much in the past, like,
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  three or four years doing comedy and Minnesota as a whole.
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  Just noticing that there's so many of these little dive bars in, you know, these country
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  towns or in the suburban areas that just do music, but they have a great stage for comedy.
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  Well, they probably have a great local following that are in there.
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  I mean, we know what these townie dive bars are like.
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  We know their crowds.
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  We know that they would be so appreciative of somebody bringing the show to them.
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  And you need to get, like, a 12 passenger van that everybody can just throw into and not
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  everybody's driving separately.
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  Right?
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  And just, yeah, take this show on the road, brother.
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  I think you're building something incredible and that forward thinking of what you're doing
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  and being willing to put other people on.
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  That's really where it starts from is your your willingness to say, hey.
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  I'm not just about this because you could very easily just go, hey.
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  I want this night for me, and I'm gonna take it.
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  And I'm gonna make a couple $100, and nobody else is gonna get a chance to step on that
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  stage.
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  Right?
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  But instead, you've built this incredible night of comedy.
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  You're supporting all of these other comedians, and the bar is getting a show that's above and
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  beyond what they would get from just a single person.
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  Mhmm.
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  And I'll tell you this.
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  On the the first night of our show on December 10, because of the terrible weather, I was
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  astounded by how many people actually came out and supported the show.
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  There's about 30 people, almost 40 people in there.
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  And and, also, the Minneapolis scene comes out to support shows.
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  If you if when when people started to find out that I'm producing my own show, there was,
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  like, 10 people from the Minneapolis scene who weren't on the show just coming to support.
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  And that's what's also gonna happen.
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  If I get these shows that are, like, maybe twenty, thirty, forty minutes out of the city,
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  that's not too far.
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  A lot of these people who live in the area who are comedians are going to get their friends,
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  their family, everything else, and come support it because they love the Minneapolis comedy
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  scene and they love the support.
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  That being said, also, we're we're penciling in ourselves into their regular market, the the
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  Sherwood Lounge regular market, which you know it has they have a great crowd.
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  They have a great audience.
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  Oh, great batch of people that hang out there, and it's a family.
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  And that's what you have at all of these, you know and and I want people to understand that
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  when we say dive bar, we say it in the most endearing way possible.
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  That is people's home.
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  I mean, think of Cheers.
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  You're probably too young to remember the old TV show, but where everybody knows your name.
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  Everybody has one of these places.
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  And instead of trying to pull them away from their from their spot, you're showing up in
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  their spot and bringing the whole damn crew.
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  Right?
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  It's an amazing concept.
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  I I I'm gonna continue to support you and put you on our program and platform you to promote
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  this thing because I think it's an incredible way.
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  And if we can start to capture those content and put it on these platforms as well, brother,
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  we're building a little feedback loop of growing this.
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  And and I've had the comedy moniker at the top of our scene, you know, at the Scene Project's
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  logo since its inception.
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  I've always envisioned this being a part of it.
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  I just not being of the comedy world and having a fledgling comedy, you know, scene here mostly
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  around Sioux Falls of which I'm not, you know, I'm not in that location.
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  So it's really taken somebody like you, and who knew that, you know, a a simple conversation
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  outside of the bar that you happen to kind of fall into that night would turn into all of
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  this.
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  Right, man.
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  My friend Jesse just invited me to the bar.
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  We were going to watch some football.
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  We didn't know there was gonna be your band there, and we just, like, had the best time.
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  We had the best time, picked up a conversation.
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  And I'll tell you this right now.
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  I actually think some comedians would go to Sioux Falls.
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  If you have a venue in mind where you wanna do a music slash comedy show, I could bring a
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  couple comedians up there, and we would we would have a great time.
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  That would be awesome, man.
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  That would be absolutely awesome.
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  And I got one in mind, a place that we work at quite a bit.
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  And they have, some stages, and they're doing some comedy.
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  Shout out to my guy, Zach Dresch, who does a ton of stuff and had a really great year
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  bringing comedy out.
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  But we got some other, people that are doing some amazing things that they've been on the
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  show, and they're just some really great people in Sioux Falls in the scene now.
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  And, they're, you know the music and comedy scenes in Sioux Falls are really together too.
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  So they have the Sioux Falls open mic.
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  My friend John Small owns a radio station.
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  He's a clean comedian, but he does comedy all over the state.
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  So I'm gonna connect you with some people down here.
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  And if we can get that tie in like we've done with the music scenes again, Devin Worley
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  Band's gonna be coming back down from Minneapolis to play in Sioux Falls at at a bar
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  called the Den later this month, actually.
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  I I better get my tickets.
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  And, because I'm not gonna miss that, and I wanna get out to see my friends that, we we
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  have something building and growing, and we just need to stay dedicated to it and working
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  with the venues that are willing to have us and growing this whole thing.
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  I think I actually think some of the comedians I have on my next show on this poster have
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  performed in Sioux Falls.
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  I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Saline has.
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  I'm pretty sure Trey Charles, maybe Whitney Haverstock.
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  But yeah.
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  I also just wanted to say this.
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  I've had this mantra since I was, like, 17 years old, just skateboarding at the skate
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  park, you know, doing kickflips and shit.
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  And I've always said this, like, I'm about to do something scary.
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  I'm about to do a scary trick, and I just shout into the world, believe and achieve.
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  Believe.
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  Believe and achieve, you know.
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  Doesn't matter what it is.
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  That it didn't go for anything, you know.
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  You you have to believe to achieve.
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  But sometimes you can achieve without believing, but that's after you believed
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  repetitively enough and you can catch yourself by surprise.
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  But the short mantra is believe and achieve.
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  I wanna get that tattooed.
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  I wanna get t shirts made of it.
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  I want that to be my merch.
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  I wanna maybe name my podcast that.
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  I just think that's a mantra that can go anywhere in life.
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  Believe and achieve.
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  Doesn't matter what you're doing.
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  If you're reaching for your goals, if you're, like, trying to start to work out again, you're
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  doing your new year's resolutions, believe and achieve.
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  Believe that you can achieve whatever you're going to do.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, we got another bar down here called Lucky's that I see is back doing.
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  Lucky's bar is back with their open mic and doing stuff here.
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  And sorry.
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  I'm kinda jumping in, and it's been a while since I've checked in on everybody.
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  It's so, you know, rare.
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  Sarah Manson, look her up on Facebook, s a r a.
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  Shout out to our friend.
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  She's doing some awesome stuff.
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  I, I love this picture.
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  I'm gonna share this picture up with everybody and shout out some of her shows too.
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  Because building it all together is really what this is about.
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  So, yeah, man.
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  Love what you've built up there.
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  Love what you're building and growing, and, shout out to the Sioux Falls music community
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  and and open mic and and comedy community for continuing to stick with it.
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  You know, we don't have the advantage of having a major city center.
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  Right?
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  We we have Sioux Falls is a few 100,000 people.
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  So they're still doing these, every Tuesday.
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  They've been going incredible.
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  Sarah's great.
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  They would love to have you anytime.
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  She would be a great connection for you to, build into this scene.
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  So make sure that, you connect with her on Facebook.
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  All you other comedy folks that are in Minneapolis that are gonna see this, do the
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  same.
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  They would love to have you and and to help to bridge those communities because everybody in
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  Sioux Falls would love to come up to Minneapolis.
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  Right?
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  And and vice versa.
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  So it's such a cool pipeline that we're building here.
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  Mhmm.
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  She seems she seems familiar.
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  Like, a lot of comedians in, their surrounding states come to Minneapolis, you know, if
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  they're going to see a concert or something.
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  They're going to see a football or hockey game or maybe they're coming for the Acme's Funniest
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  Person contest.
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  And, like, some sometimes I'll meet comedians from, you know, North Dakota, South Dakota,
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  Iowa, Wisconsin, or Chicago.
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  And and I'll be like, how do I recognize you?
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  And it's like, oh, you were in town a year ago at one of my shows because you were on the
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  contest.
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  Like, that's what I think about Sarah.
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  I I recognize her a little bit.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I I know she anywhere there's a mic, she's gonna get on it.
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  I know that about her.
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  Zach Dresch the same way.
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  He's actually a fantastic drummer too.
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  He actually played some shows with my pants starts and ends, not this last summer, but the
• 20:46
  summer before.
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  And, man, I'm just so blessed that these scenes are growing.
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  It's the reason that I started the platform, the scene projects, is because to support
• 20:57
  wherever your scene is.
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  It's not just about, like, our little local thing that we're doing.
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  It's about the Minneapolis or Chicago, and now we're taking this show on the road to major
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  markets around the world or, you know, at least around the country right now, around the world
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  in the near future.
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  But, you know, we're going on tour in March hitting Detroit, Nashville, Dallas, Austin,
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  Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta.
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  You know, we're getting out and touching these major points because everyone is dealing with
• 21:23
  the same issue is that there's not enough people that are willing to do what we do.
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  And and, Andrew, you're getting better at this podcast thing.
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  I'm really gonna have to start pushing you to start your own podcast where you can start
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  hosting everyone on interviews in your scene, and we would air that onto the scene projects
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  network as well, brother.
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  That's what we are all here for and using our connections into the other media outlets that
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  we have, to keep putting this stuff out.
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  It's just incredible what you've been doing.
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  You're so motivated.
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  You're such a light, and lighthearted person to go out there, and you don't get discouraged
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  easily.
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  And I think that may be your your best trait is that nothing's going to stop you.
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  And if you have that, then you won't be stopped.
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  Thank you.
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  I appreciate you.
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  And congratulations for going on tour.
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  That's gonna be a lot of fun, dude.
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  That's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, we got an opportunity to go down to Nashville, to cover the Josie Music Awards,
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  which is a large independent thing, but it was at the Grand Ole Opry House.
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  So I did a 150 interviews with on the red carpet and realizing that value and being able
• 22:32
  to communicate and talk to all these artists that were coming from all over the world and
• 22:38
  realizing that, okay, now that we know each other, hey, I'll be in your town or closer to
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  you, you know, you don't have to just come to me.
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  I'll come to you.
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  I love to travel.
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  Right?
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  And nobody is just, like, randomly landing in my little farm town in the middle of South
• 22:51
  Dakota.
• 22:53
  I I I watched some of your interviews.
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  They're really good.
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  I I I and I will say this.
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  You gotta bite off a little bit more than you can chew.
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  You can't stay complacent.
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  You can't stay in your little bubble.
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  You gotta bite off a little bit more than you can chew because I saw this quote earlier this
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  year.
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  You know what's crazy is that memes, after enough time, memes can turn into quotes, which
• 23:14
  is which is ridiculous to think about because we live in this era.
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  But anyway, I saw this meme quote where it was like, no one is expecting change.
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  No one expects the change you're about to get.
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  You don't expect what the change you're about to that's about to happen to you.
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  So reach but bite off just a little bit more than you can chew.
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  Not too much, but, you know, like, back up a little bit.
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  My show that I wanna produce, I wanna put out two or three shows a month producing myself,
• 23:43
  the type of show that I do.
• 23:45
  And I'm thinking about if the trajectory goes well in the next year, 2027, I wanna reach out
• 23:50
  to Chicago, North Dakota, South Dakota, like, the whole Midwest.
• 23:55
  Just tour the Midwest with this little show that I'm doing.
• 23:58
  And that way, it'll build up more confidence.
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  I'll build more confidence.
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  I'll build more of a stage presence than I already have.
• 24:03
  And then also, it becomes kind of like a mystery.
• 24:06
  Like, where's Claiborne comedy gonna be this week?
• 24:08
  Where's Claiborne comedy at?
• 24:10
  Brother, it's a reality show.
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  You get cameras and get a full time camera person to follow you.
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  You throw six comedians in a van, renting out Airbnbs across the Midwest, film everything,
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  and brother, you got some you got gold there because that's what people want now.
• 24:29
  They want to live vicariously through that.
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  It's why reality TV is as popular as it is.
• 24:36
  Right?
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  And now you're not just bringing the the show and the performance, but you're capturing all
• 24:42
  of the backstage stuff.
• 24:44
  Shout out to Wildman TV.
• 24:46
  My buddy Clayton Ryan, he's up there tearing up the scene in Minneapolis.
• 24:50
  But him and, Casey have teamed up Coffee Break Entertainment, my guy, Alec Glauwitz, Zander in
• 24:57
  the couch, that, they have done something incredible.
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  And while they're not getting the views now, the content that they have created is
• 25:07
  absolutely bananas.
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  This TV show that they created when no one was asking for it, right, is gold.
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  And I share it every time I can and continue to put it out there and looking to get them into
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  some of our networks and and on some of the things that we're doing as well.
• 25:24
  But it's staying focused on the creation and the capture and the views and the attention
• 25:30
  will come after.
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  Right?
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  And I think that's what some people forget is that we live in this world of instant
• 25:36
  gratification that you feel like if that piece of content that you put out doesn't go viral
• 25:43
  that you failed.
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  No.
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  You're just not ready yet.
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  The world isn't ready yet.
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  So save it, post it again in six months, and keep going and keep going.
• 25:54
  And, really, that tidal wave hits you when you least expect it, when you've been at this grind
• 26:00
  for three years and it feels like you should have given up a year and a half ago, and then
• 26:06
  that's when it finally happens for you.
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  But you have to prove it to the universe that you're willing to keep going.
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  And I think once you've kind of established that, that's that's when the universe goes,
• 26:17
  okay, buddy.
• 26:18
  Here you go.
• 26:19
  Look at Kill Tony.
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  Kill Tony was on the air for ten years.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Or eight years before they moved to Austin and before it really started to get I mean, they
• 26:28
  did it for five to seven years before it was anything.
• 26:32
  Right?
• 26:32
  And that was even locally in a place that has a thriving music community because Tony was
• 26:37
  willing to show up every Monday night and to never quit.
• 26:41
  And that's what it's about.
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  That's what it takes.
• 26:44
  And, also, I didn't I I I I didn't wanna just breeze by this.
• 26:47
  You told me to look this up.
• 26:48
  What was your buddy's program that he he puts on?
• 26:51
  His his TV show that you you that's kinda like a reality show you were just talking
• 26:54
  TV.
• 26:55
  You can find them on YouTube.
• 26:57
  Yeah, man.
• 26:58
  And Clayton Ryan is is his name as an artist.
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  You won't find him on any of the streaming services anymore.
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  He's gonna be doing everything just organic, real, back to the email, text lists, and
• 27:13
  connecting with real human beings.
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  He's done playing the Spotify game.
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  God bless him for everything that he's doing.
• 27:20
  And and I really think it's a movement that maybe he didn't start, but I think he's gonna
• 27:25
  bring a lot of attention to it.
• 27:26
  He's one of the most talented people I've ever met in my life.
• 27:29
  I will continue to pump their tires every time I get a chance to.
• 27:33
  And, what they've done with their TV show is unreal, man.
• 27:37
  I think you're really gonna love it.
• 27:39
  I'll have to check it out.
• 27:40
  I love everything you're talking about, man.
• 27:42
  It sounds really cool.
• 27:43
  It sounds like a cool experience.
• 27:44
  Awesome.
• 27:45
  Well, one more time, we're gonna put the flyer back up.
• 27:47
  Tell everybody where they can find y'all and what's going on.
• 27:51
  Follow me on all my social medias, Andrew Branson Comedy, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
• 27:56
  TikTok, and follow my show, Claiborne Comedy.
• 28:01
  I'm gonna be making an Instagram and a social media for the show itself.
• 28:05
  I'm booked at the Sherwood Lounge every second Wednesday of the month until April or May for
• 28:10
  the next four months or so.
• 28:12
  And then we're gonna discuss whether we're gonna keep doing the show in the summertime.
• 28:15
  But right now, it is a testing period while I'm also just producing these great shows.
• 28:19
  Come out, support it.
• 28:20
  The next show is what January 14, Wednesday, January 14, and then my next show is, I think,
• 28:29
  February 11.
• 28:31
  Awesome, man.
• 28:32
  Well, we're gonna get you back on.
• 28:33
  We're gonna make it a regular segment to get you here, talk about your shows, and to do this
• 28:38
  properly to be the promotion arm of Claiborne comedy.
• 28:42
  I'm gonna keep leaning on you to start doing interviews with your friends and getting your,
• 28:47
  getting your comedy, professionals on and, just talking with them.
• 28:52
  And I think after I think right after this show is a great time.
• 28:55
  Get everybody back on to talk about the show that they just did.
• 28:58
  Give everybody a little bit of FOMO knowing that they're gonna be able to come through in
• 29:03
  February and to check out another show.
• 29:05
  And if you got a monthly lined up right now at the Sherwood Lounge, man, I'm so damn proud of
• 29:10
  you.
• 29:10
  You you capitalize on a single moment and and have turned it into this.
• 29:16
  Right?
• 29:16
  You took five minutes and turned it into 12 shows.
• 29:20
  Thank you for hyping me up.
• 29:22
  Thank you for giving me this opportunity to, you know, shine a light on the Minneapolis and
• 29:27
  Twin Cities comedy scene.
• 29:29
  Thank you for giving me the time on stage that night I met you.
• 29:31
  That was such a fun time.
• 29:32
  I would love to perform music with you next time I see you, man.
• 29:36
  Would love to just set like, I feel like it'd be so cool to share the stage with you again
• 29:40
  and just go back and forth with the different music chops.
• 29:42
  It'd be a really good time.
• 29:44
  I'm just bringing that up because I was just thinking about that before we started.
• 29:47
  I'm like, man, I had such a cool time on stage with you.
• 29:50
  It would be so cool to keep doing that, man.
• 29:51
  So, like, next time you have you have an idea for a show or something in Sioux Falls where
• 29:55
  maybe a comedy music type of, you know, showcase of both both things.
• 30:00
  You know?
• 30:00
  Let's just try to figure something out like that.
• 30:02
  That sounds incredible, man.
• 30:03
  Yeah.
• 30:03
  I I think I'm gonna reach out to a couple of venues as soon as possible and and kinda pitch
• 30:08
  the idea to them and see what we can get moving.
• 30:11
  I'll be back up in April, but it's gonna be the third week because the first falls on a
• 30:16
  Wednesday.
• 30:16
  So your show will probably be on April 8, and I won't be in town till the eighteenth.
• 30:20
  We got another smoking on the runway show that we're gonna come up and take a part in that
• 30:24
  too.
• 30:25
  I don't know if they'll be back at the hook and ladder or not, but what a cool venue.
• 30:29
  Oh, by the way, I did talk to your buddy, Ira Ford, and got him on the show.
• 30:33
  I don't know if I posted the episode.
• 30:35
  I think it got lost in the shuffle a little bit over the holidays, but I know that we talked a
• 30:40
  lot about the the bong show.
• 30:43
  So
• 30:44
  Oh, the bong show is so much fun, man.
• 30:46
  If you can get if you can come out and watch one of the one of the episodes of the bong
• 30:50
  show, he's gonna be recording it, I think, this year and trying to put out every episode on
• 30:54
  YouTube.
• 30:55
  That's one of the shows that I've been seeing in the scene where, like, I'm watching it and
• 31:00
  I'm, like, everyone's getting high.
• 31:02
  Everyone's smoking weed.
• 31:04
  You know, like, I do a minute, someone else does a minute, the crowd reacts to see who did
• 31:08
  better, and whoever did worse has to take a bomb rip to stay on stage.
• 31:11
  And the show slowly falls apart in the funniest, most, like, nuanced way.
• 31:17
  And it's so fun to watch the host get so fucking high, and then, like, the show kinda
• 31:22
  slowly falls apart, but we're still there together, and we're there for it.
• 31:25
  It's such a fun time.
• 31:26
  Oh, what a blast.
• 31:28
  Alright.
• 31:28
  Well, one more time.
• 31:29
  Everybody make sure January 14, are at the Sherwood Lounge.
• 31:32
  That's on White Bear in Saint Paul.
• 31:35
  Go check it out.
• 31:36
  Claiborne Comedy.
• 31:37
  Awesome lineup of Minneapolis comedians.
• 31:40
  And, Andrew, you're killing it, man.
• 31:43
  Just keep crushing it out there.
• 31:45
  You're doing a great job, and and I will continue to put you on the SCENE Projects
• 31:50
  platform and to keep on growing with you, buddy.
• 31:53
  I'm proud of you.
• 31:54
  Thank you, dude.
• 31:54
  I appreciate you.
• 31:55
  And we'll keep in touch with getting my podcast put together because I've been thinking about
• 31:59
  that for a long time, and you're pushing me in the right direction.
• 32:01
  Thank you.
• 32:01
  Good.
• 32:02
  Good.
• 32:02
  Well, since you got the guy with the cameras now, let's connect after this show next week,
• 32:07
  and I'll let's start putting some stuff together.
• 32:10
  Mhmm.
• 32:10
  Thank you very much, man.
• 32:12
  Have a good one.