Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP. 40 Feat. Brian Enck

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Success in Organic Content and Insightful Conversations with Brian Inc. In this episode of Good News York, hosts Matt Masur and Mike Brindisi discuss the power of organic content with highlights of their viral success on TikTok featuring Dan Garcia's auto expertise. They celebrate this achievement with a pizza party. The conversation follows with intriguing discussions on various news topics including New York's consideration of a four-day work week pilot program, changes in child labor laws affecting paper routes, and findings from Ithaca College's commencement ceremony featuring David Muir and Bob Iger. The episode concludes with entertaining guest Brian Enck, a comedian who recently taped his comedy special in Syracuse. Brian shares insights on the experience, the importance of energy in comedy, and future plans for the special. The segment wraps up with a fun hypothetical game about choosing seatmates on a plane, sparking humorous discussions. 00:00 Welcome to Good News York 00:37 Celebrating Viral Success 02:03 The Power of Organic Content 04:48 Pizza Party and Future Goals 07:59 Tuesday Newsday: Four-Day Work Week 19:02 Debating Child Labor Laws 27:21 Special Guests and Comedy Highlights 34:36 Reflecting on Past Performances 35:40 Challenges of Self-Producing a Special 36:03 Advice for Aspiring Comedians 38:47 Distribution Deals and Platforms 40:07 Building an Audience through Platforms 40:34 Upcoming Shows and Future Plans 45:59 The Airplane Seat Game 46:49 Debating Influential Figures 58:44 Comedy and Cultural References 01:06:28 Concluding Thoughts and Plugs

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Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads just like this. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start your new podcast for free today at RSS.com. Hey folks, welcome to Good News, York. I'm your host, Matt Major from Growth Mode content. Sitting next to me is my smiley, as always, sidekick Mikey B.

I am smiling. I'm in a very good mood. Yeah. So we have Brian Inc. coming in today. Yes. And I love Brian. And we've got Tuesday, Tuesday, Newsday. Tuesday, Newsday.

We're getting a pizza party. You just told me. We are. We are. So we're going to have a little celebration a little later, and we'll break right into this. So very excited to celebrate our growth mode content team recently. If you've been perusing the TikTok, you will notice there's a clip feature in this friendly guy in our man, Dan Garcia from the garage of 3100. That clip has 120,000 views.

I forgot to ask you, is that our, that's our most view. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. So what's cool is if you look at our aggregate numbers, you know, from all the different clips, since we put out so many every day, that's a consistent organic content strategy that we do for all our clients. You will see that we got great combined numbers. But for a single video, yeah, this is one of the best ones that we put out.

But tell them what we're talking about in the video. We're talking about oil changing. This is wild. We're getting expert advice from Dan, the proprietor of these local auto businesses. But I love it because everybody sort of has an opinion. Even folks that don't necessarily disagree. Like we get incredible interaction from folks that are like, yep, that's what I do. Yeah.

It's like, nope, 3,000. Cool. I own one thing. I owned a Chevy. I ran that thing in the ground. 350,000 miles. I only change the oil three, three, twice. And then someone's like, you're an idiot.

You should do it every 2,000. It's a very. It is wild. And, you know, it got me thinking, you always push this organic content, organic content, organic content. I mean, that is as organic as it gets. Yeah. We, we, I just asked the question, you know, hey, just wondering, you know, is it 3,000 miles by then? What is it? Who knew that that would, and I guess I'd chalk it up to this, because every time we think we figure out the algorithms, something like this happens, right? Yeah, well, I mean, and it's one of those things where we're getting continually better. because we're figuring out these things, right? So you will see a continual growth. And what's very exciting, you'll still people in,

and we're talking about 120,000 views, which is a huge number. But in internet terms, you know, there's people like, oh, well, you know, these guys get a million views on every video and all the time. And that's cool. What's exciting to me is we are going to do that. What we should keep in mind is this is a brand new account

that we started only a couple of months ago. It's only got 2,000 followers on it, but they've been growing rapidly. And from scratch, this kind of... Organically. ...shows our entire point of why we're doing this growth mode content thing. It's why we have more businesses every day signing up to make podcasts and have us create this organic, consistent content. It works. Yeah.

And you see that, you know, we got this one great video. But also, if you look back, you'll see all of our other videos. The numbers on them are continuing to grow. The audience is growing. the algorithm. Our client's number is seeing what we're doing and it's just, yeah,

it's across the board. Consistency is the key in content and that is also the hardest thing you do. It really is. And that's why our service exists. I think, you know,

I was talking to you about it off the air a lot and the only thing I can think of is, you know, I'm like, how did we get 100,000 views on talking about oil changes? And then I remembered

talking about that Lama video and how much, we got like 20,000 views. off of that. And I just got to thinking that you know what it is? Everybody has to deal with oil changes in some capacity. It's an everyday thing, every month

couple month thing. It's not something, and it's something that a lot of people have a lot of different opinions on, and I think that was the recipe that worked. Well, and it's that and then all the tried and true strategies that we deploy on every video, right? Where we use what they call a hook, that's

the first couple of seconds that grabs you and keeps you in. It's got the right graphics that keeps your attention. It's got even the text that helps the search and on TikTok, they call it the for you page, the algorithm that feeds it to people, which by the way is almost all of the views from that. It is people that the algorithm has fed it to, which is the whole name of the game. You know what always trips me out? And I'm just very excited.

And to celebrate that, we're going to get some pizza from. Fuck, yes. I could eat pizza for lunch, breakfast, and dinner. It's the only food. I'll be honest. It sounds cheesy. Oh. Oh, you.

You pepperoni, you. I just want to celebrate something, and that was the quickest thing I could think of is today. Let's have lunch and let's order some food for everybody. But in all honesty, when we had a million view video, we might throw like a million ticker tape parade or so. Oh, parade?

Let's do it. Down the hallway. I got to say, you know, you're talking about how people in the social media world are like, oh, 100,000 views. I mean, that's not really that much. Think about it in this term. This is what always blows my mind

open. Imagine back in the day when we were growing up in television ratings. Imagine a hundred thousand people seeing something you created. That's like a stadium full of people. When you look at it that way, it's just like, how is this happening? But this is the world. The average, you know, you think a big

name like cable news shows, like the, you know, all of the names that you can think of. ABC News. Fox and CNN and MSNBC, all those people. They don't average that many views. per episode. They don't have that many viewers watching their TV show and they get the millions of dollars. Maybe they should be talking about oil changes and then they'll get their views. Maybe they should just come to growth mode content. But, you know, like I said, it's just,

it's cool. It's nice to see the strategy work. And the other part about that is, you know, one of the reasons that we do Good News York is not just to share the good news of everything cool that's happening, but also be able to highlight our friends and colleagues in business. And that's what happened here. Our buddy Dan, his business with the garage at 3100 got. And this is the stat that I like. So we talk about those views, you know, that 121,000 views. Let me tell you exactly how that works out, though, in an amount of time.

Because I think this is a cool stat that they track. Total play time. 878 hours. Oh, yeah. In 31 minutes. I divided that by 24 hours. That's over a month. of continuous watch.

So Dan at the garage at 3100 got a month of continuous view time of people with eyes on him and his business and talking about his expertise. In hours. In days, I guess. That's crazy. What would you pay to get that from a billboard? What would you pay to get that from a radio ad? I don't know. What would you pay to even get that many eyeballs on a promoted Facebook ad?

You would spend more than that. than our clients spend it a month with us to do this every day. Yes. I didn't mean to turn this into a commercial. No. It blows my mind because this is literally like, this is why you fellows are here. This is how we're able to pay you. And, you know, we're

watching the formula work. Well, we're... Awesome. We're... You're leading the charge, man. We're going to eat some chicken wings. We're going to eat some chicken wings today. That's the best part. You ready for some news? Yes. Tuesday, Newsday. All right, Tuesday, Newsday. I'm kicking it off here with a story that's going to hit very close to home from you and I.

We've discussed this at lengths. New York is considering four-day work week pilot programs. I fucking love it. And when we say New York, we're talking about the state. We're talking about state of employees. Yeah. So two bills are being introduced for four-day work week pilot programs in New York State. The bills were introduced by assembly member Farah Soufront Forest.

If passed, New York would be one step closer to a 32-hour work week. Now, let me pause for growing. You're listening to a podcast right now. Driving, working out, walking the dog. If you're into podcasts, chances are you have something to say too. With RSS.com, starting your own is free and easy. Upload an episode, and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and hundreds more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads like this.

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One pilot program would establish a four-day work week for state employees, and the other will offer tax incentives to private employees to run the pilot. pilot. Both bills, that's what I was going to say. Do you get pro-rated? They were introduced in February and they are currently in the committee stage of the legislative process. I could go on to more details, but you get the gist. And I want to talk about that. Yeah, that sounds like exactly something that should have been included in the budget rather than banning cell phones. But oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oops. Well, nobody knows that this is happening because the kids don't know because they can't use their phones. But let's talk about. this real quick because you have adopted this four-day work. As always, you're ahead of the career. You're always ahead. And in full disclosure, not 100%, right? There's a number of our employees that do work five-day schedules. It's sort of position-dependent. Sure. But we try to do that as much as possible. There are some industries and some jobs where you cannot afford, literally,

to only work four days. That's understanding. There are certain things that it can't be done. But there are many positions where it can be done. Well, and let me give you a breakdown of how it happens and kind of why we have that difference, just so folks understand. So a primary business at growth mode technologies is IT support. That means when somebody needs something, we need to be there like the fire department. Absolutely. We have to have people around the clock five days a week.

But what we're able to do, because we have enough people on our team, is our IT teams work in alternating four-day schedules. So some people have Monday off, some people have Friday off, but the company and our clients always have a full week of coverage in both situations. You guys here at growth mode content, you know, what we were able to do with that because we were able to launch it from the jump. We don't have support. We don't have to be on call for clients. So that was very easy to make these positions immediately four days. Yeah.

And eventually as the company grows, you know, really the, only a couple people don't have that schedule, one of which is our new executive assistant that just stepped out. But as we grow, we'll get more of that type of position and allow them to go to that alternating four-day. But it's just a better thing. And as a business, we have a client, one of our largest clients actually shifted their whole business schedule,

so they're closed on Fridays. And if companies can do that, it's great. Let me tell you something. The reason I'm so excited about this, and we've talked about this. First of all, the amount of moans and groans I get from friends and family that are like, oh, it's Thursday, that's your Friday, must be nice. And I said, hold on. I've worked my entire life in shitty jobs five, six, seven days a week.

But I'm not going to go down that road. But the point is when I... Can I just say, and I'm sorry, I don't mean an interrupt you. But my most favorite thing in the world, that does not happen to me enough. is people saying must be nice. I love that because I fucking embrace it. Okay, maybe I should. Oh, it must be nice to have Fridays off.

Yes, it is. Oh, it is. Oh, man, it is incredible. Yeah. It's great. I get a long weekends. I get to spend time with the kids. Like, fucking lean into it.

Okay. Thank you. People that try to shame you with positive things. I feel guilty after. Yeah, you shouldn't. Well, I love you. So it must be nice. It's great.

It is great. It must be nice to have a dollar to buy pizza. It is. Pizza is so fucking good. It must be nice to have a riding more. I fucking love it. Absolutely. Pizza right now.

So it goes deeper for me, though, because in my last semester at college, I didn't know, I had to take, like, I had to find three more credits. And so my advisor goes, well, just think I couldn't find anything. What was a class or professor you liked? And I particularly loved my sociology professor from the first. And she goes, well, he's got like a 300-level sociology course called Work and Family. So I took it. And the whole thing was where we studied the workforce in other countries compared to ours. And so in Italy and European countries, they have four-day work weeks.

And they're interviewing these people from these factories and from all these different industries. And they're saying, so you pay your employees way more than minimum wage. You give them three vacations, three weeks vacation or four-weeks vacation a year. And they only work four days a week. Doesn't that hurt your production? don't you find that they're slacking and they all looked at them and immediately shut it right down

and said no, it's the opposite. And this is why I truly believe here in the United States we do have to adopt this eventually because the whole idea is if you're paying people enough to where they can afford to live, if they can afford to take care of themselves when they are sick, and if they have time

to spend with their families, they're going to be happier, healthier, they will be more loyal and stay longer. And therefore, overall, everybody wins. You're getting the best out of your employees, which increases production. And I don't know why we can't wrap our fucking heads around this. It's that old school mantra. What you need to understand is the United States is a corporation that masquerades as a country.

Everything in our existence is programmed to be workers. You know, that George Carlin bit. Yes. To be obedient workers. Yes. That is our purpose. That is why unfortunately we have a societal thing where you were defined by your job. Correct.

They go, hey, how are you? What's your name? What do you do? That's right. Right? That doesn't happen in these other places because they get that. And what's wild is when you have that mindset, you think that if you're not putting in 60 hours a week, you're lazy and you're a bum and you're no good. Right.

It's ridiculous. We have to break that mindset. Now, coming out of that, let's look at some facts, right? You studied this in school. You can probably tell me this a little better. Facts. What does the data say about productivity in a four-day work week, Mike? You actually can look it up through Google and find that out.

I off the top of my head, I don't know how, but just figure it out. The productivity, I don't remember the number, but it is, I don't want to say skyrockets, but the productivity is way more than what we have. Way more. So you don't lose productivity? Not even close. So you work 20% less and the company doesn't get less done, Mike? That's correct, Matthew.

And here's the other part of it. And I'm being serious. Think back to like my grandfather. Okay, I never met him. He died before I was alive. Why did he die? Because he worked too fucking much. Yeah.

But the other part of that is, you know, there's a lot of baby boomers who are a little rough, a little angry, a little bitter with that mindset. Because when they were growing up, dad was never around because he worked all the time. The point is it's more than just having an extra day off. And ironically, they still feel like that's the way it's supposed to do. Right. That's my biggest frustration with those folks. The irony is that it's the opposite of what they're thinking.

Nobody likes to work anymore. No, because guess what? Not only are you going to feel better because you know, you're refreshed, you're making enough money, right? You're going to have a better home life because you're going to be with your family more. You're going to be less angry. It's just there's so much to it. I'll tell you one of the reasons that I did it to begin with,

with my IT company. It did it with our very first IT employee was because the burnout rate in IT is incredibly hard. It's a stressful job where people only come to you when there's something wrong. And they're mad at you. It's your fault. Even if you had never been there before, it's your fault. It's very stressful and people get burned out easy. And by having one less day a week of that, the career lifespan just becomes exponentially longer. And as a company, we get better people who aren't burned out and miserable and ready to leave a year before they actually do leave. You nailed it. And I dare say we reframe it as it's not one day less work. It's one day more, one day more of a quality of life. One, one. You're listening to a podcast right now.

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with your family. One extra day to refresh. And here's what's interesting. The other thing that we do here that's a little unique is you guys schedule

technically have a paid lunch. What? So yeah. What the fuck, man? You get paid. You get paid. Mike doesn't even look at his paycheck.

I don't know. I don't. I love this job. You get paid four nine-hour days which makes up 36 hours. So it's a hair under 40. But that's the thing to keep in mind. Slacker. In four days, you get 36 hours. So even the most, you know, ardent full-time, 40-hour work with, you're technically working four hours less than the

average worker, but they get to an entire day. Exactly. You know? Exactly. And again, one of the reasons that it comes out to that number, a lot of companies will pay you for 32 hours. And that's your full week because you don't get a paid lunch. We include that lunch. We include that lunch. So that's the big difference. That's how we get to 36. But again, the point is like, even when you think about it, you look at the math and like it's technically a four-hour difference, you know? I don't know.

Do people really imagine that that much additional productivity would occur in four hours? You would know more than me, but I mean it's... How many hours do you stand around the, you know, they make you come back to the office now? How many hours at the office do you stand around the water cooler? Yeah. You know, right. And check your Facebook. How many of those four hours are quality hours?

Right. You know? And look, you're right. I'm going to embrace it because it's like, oh, you didn't go on a day off. Yeah, I do. And you should too. Yeah. And sorry you don't.

Like I said, we can go on and on about it. But the reality is, don't take our word for it. Just look at the data. Just look at the data. Well, you know, facts don't matter about my feelings. Anyway, here's one for you. Speaking of which, a change to a certain law is going to be going into a fact for decades. New York's child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the time-honored tradition of a paper route, but they are now going to change the minimum age to 14.

The move was first reported by Politico, and the change comes, even though paper boys and girls have mostly gone the way of phone boots. I'm so glad for this. I am too. I wish they would also lower the age of Milkman because, you know, this is a problem that just, you know, needs to be addressed. It really does. I think, look, I think...

I'm sorry, who the fuck even proposed this? I don't. Seriously, like, who is some sort of legislator who's sitting around is like, you know what we should spend half a second on writing legislation about paper boys? I know. It was my first job. You can read about that in the paper. Oh, wait, they don't exist. Right.

What the fuck? Why are we changing it now? Why don't we write laws about horses and buggy? Yeah, right. Yeah. Are we like, is this bizarral land? I don't know. I just thought it was wild that we're changing the labor law for an outdated position.

Why? I don't know. But here's what I do now. Did big paper lobby for this? I don't know. Kids, kids are, I don't know. Was your first job was McDonald's, right? Yeah.

See, when I was growing up, it was like your first job was either McDonald's or Paperboy in the Mohawk Valley. I was a Paperboy. And it was exciting because of the video game Paperboy. Yeah, but did you actually ride and throw it? No. So here's... That was the thing that really upset me. I got all excited.

I got my first job. I'm going to be a Paperboy. I loved the video game Paperboy. I'm thinking, this is going to be awesome. It's going to be like the movies. I'm going to pedal. I'm going to throw it. And the sprinkler's going to go off.

And, you know, the whole thing. Yeah. First day, I'm loading up my papers. they're like, you got to load up all your papers, fold them, rubber band them, put them in your bag, and don't throw them. You've got to walk up to the mailbox. I'm like, well, this, this sucks.

The whole allure to me was chucking it. This is not what I was sold. This is not what I signed up for. And I was also, I think, uh, 11. Yeah, but I'd have to be. I have a serious question. Can you still get a paper newspaper in Syracuse? I still, I know they cut the daily,

did they still do the Sunday paper? Okay, he still can't get it. Okay. All right. I mean, you can get the New York Times, the Washington, like, they can send it to your cost of arm and a leg. And why would you do this? Some people just like the feel of holding a paper, you know?

I don't know. I mean, we, my kids have pet guinea pigs, but we just buy the betting now. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. We don't need somebody to deliver their trash to us. I mean, look, I don't understand. Strange times, man.

People read the news. Like, literally the second. It pops up on your fucking. arm. I mean, you're going to wait until they print it on a sheet of paper? The only reason I like to read the news is and have a 10-year-old walk it to your door.

It's like, what? Are we? What? I'm sorry. I like to read the newspapers just so I can lower it and give a look to my son with my nose, my glasses on my nose like, son, you know better.

Hey, David Muir and Bob Eiger were at the Ithaca College commencement ceremony this past weekend. Not sure if you know, but they're both Ithica college grads. David Muir is from ABC News. He famously lives in a mansion in Skinny Atlas. Yes, he does.

And Iger, who earned his degree in 73, is the chairman and chief executive officer of a Walt Disney company, which owns ABC and ESPN. Yeah, you all grew up with Disney as part of the culture, and your parents did, and your grandparents did, Mears said. They spoke at the graduation?

They spoke at the graduation. Both of them? Yeah, well, Iger... You got two speakers? Well, Iger was the... the scheduled guest, and then David Muir made an surprise. Oh, he, like, had a cameo? Yeah. He, like, crashed the graduation.

He crashed the graduation. And I will say... Breaking news. Breaking news. I'm a celebrity and should be allowed to speak as well. Well, yes. Move over, Iger. I think they kind of...

Step aside, richest man on the planet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, also, you got to remember David Muir is Iger's employee because, you know, Disney owns ABC. Oh, shit. And ESPN now. So I think... So was it like a hype man?

I think so. Was Eiger worried that he wasn't going to do well and he had to bring a ringer? Yeah. And David Muir wore a big clock, like Flav of Flav? Really? Yeah. No, I'm kidding. But you said he was his hype man.

But you know what I love about that? Other than those are two humongous names at my alma mater. I want to see David Muir do the news with a favor of Flavid Clock. Someone said this to me there day and it's so true. What else could David Muir do? He is your quintessential news guy. No, I know. But I mean, like, there's nothing.

else he's meant for. Like everything, the way he looks. No, he's molded for it, 100%. His jawline, the way he talks. Yeah. Uh, a guble at you. He is perfect. And he donated a lot of money.

We had a great television studio. Probably the best studio. Uh, at, uh, Ithaca college, thanks to him. Nice. Fashioned after the ABC World News Studio. Wow. But yeah, that was pretty cool. I thought I'd bring that up.

And to donate their scrap. Uh, a couple, couple quick, uh, two more new stories. Yeah, we got a guess, bro. Yeah, all right. Well, this one I'll just can. Yeah, it's not that great. Uh, but I do. But I do want to hear this one.

In music news, Jane's Addiction guitarist, Dave Navarro, told guitar player in a new interview that he will never play again with singer Perry Farrell after... Dave Navarro, he's still around? Oh, yeah. Well, he was hosting...

Remember he was hosting a fucking tattoo reality show? Oh, yeah. But anyway, Perry Farrell punched him on stage in Boston last year. That's the most Perry Farrell thing you could do. Well, he was on drugs again, I think. Here, let's watch it. So the music is getting better?

So after this incident, you got to see this thing, man. Check this out. Oh, here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can tell he's on something. The view. So is his veins? Yeah.

You remember James a bitch, you know? Hey, boy. Ben Klodstein. So here he's like, he's just like getting into it. He goes over. All right. Now he bumps into Dave. He's his fucking shoulder.

Okay. Bumps him. Now watch. Oh, he's like. And Dave's like, wait, what the fuck? He's like, you're serious? Like, coked up angry guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you look at him, he's like, wait, what's happening? Yeah, yeah, the crew's getting involved. And Dave Navarro, you'd see it. They're tackling him. Yeah, dude. This is a big deal. This is old news, technically. But I'm just updating the...

So, as much as Dave Navarro's kind of a douchebag, I got to give it to him. He was just, like, doing his thing. And bro, like... Well, you saw him go, like, he thought he was joking at first. Then you see his face go like, oh, wait, this is... This is real. All right, this is... I'll tell you a quick story.

This happened. Something similar to this happened to me. like this happened to me at Brownies and Herkimer. Brownies, shout out, my home. Dude, and this was towards the end. I was there with like my girlfriend and my buddy at like, like, happy hour time, not late at night or something. We're standing there having a drink.

And there's not many people in the bar. And I order a Labatt's blue. And this dude who I don't know in the bar who was hammered drunk, walks over and takes my beer. Oh. why don't you order an American beer? Oh, wow. And we're all like, the fuck? And it was very similar, just this random weirdo.

I don't know where going off on me. He thought he was joking. Yeah, and he was like posting up, like he wanted to take a swing on this. And luckily, he wasn't that drunk. And I think when me and my buddy looked down at him, he finally realized maybe he should fucking chill out. But no, it was a wild time. But it was one of those.

Like I said, just out of the blue, here's a guy. Just look at your own business. And he's just fucking you. You did something. Don't order that Canadian shit. Literally. I was like, what? I remember looking at the barmaid and going,

is this, what? Is this guy kidding? Or like, I don't know. Good times. Good time. Anyway. But anyway. So there's a little bit of news for you.

We've got Brian Inc. Come on. Let's take a break, get the man of chair. Yeah. Come back. With one of the funniest guys in Syracuse. Let's do it. Who's done our show?

And we're back. We are. Welcome back to Good News York. We've brought in a returning champion. Is this three? I think this is he's now, we've had a couple of two visit, but it is the third time. He's our most. Should we do like a five timers club like the SNL does at some point?

No. It just sounds like I have nothing else to do for going. He keeps coming around. Which, by the way, and I'm so glad I'm going to just throw this on you right now, we found out that you came here on the wrong day. Don't say my name through this entire clip. Paul. Yeah.

You came here the other day. Like, we got done shooting, and Amanda goes, oh, hey, Brian ain't stopped by. He thought he was on today. And we're like, what? Why didn't, you could have stayed. You could have came on. I know. I did.

Not that. I had the day wrong and go figure. The first time I was here, I was an hour late, second time. You made up for it. Made up for it by coming a week early. Yes. And you're wearing a Yankee hat. Comedian Brian Ink, he is the man.

Last time we were here, we were talking about him shooting a comedy special here in Syracuse, which still to me is just an awesome concept. You know, I'm somebody who grew up watching these HBO specials with the biggest names. And to see it, we were the same. there. I went to one of the tapings, I guess you would say. Yeah. To the late. You went to the drunk taping. Great comedy show. Thanks. First of all. And just also just to see the whole thing how it worked. You had a professional, this wasn't like, you know, my buddy in the back with his handy cam.

You had a legit production crew. The whole deal. Tell us a little bit about how it went and how you're feeling about it. It was, it was great. Thanks for coming. It was, I thank you guys for helping me promote it. It definitely, we got a lot of butts in. seats because of your viewership. So thanks everybody who came out. Which one's my camera? Thank you guys. We'll get you on all of them.

It's up there. It's the top cam. But yeah, it went really what. We did two tapings. And I'll hit the highlights. First one, pretty standard, went through pretty good, good audience. I'd say if I had to describe them, they might have been a little bit tighter, which was fine.

But also, it was, there was just a lot of funny stuff that happened. Like one was, and it was not their fault at all, Katie and Abdul, who were the host in the feature, there was this weird sound thing where they were over in a corner talking, but the sound carried and it like went right to me. And I could hear their conversation weirdly. And I couldn't be like, hey, guys, shut up. Right. Because people would think I'm crazy. Sure. So I had to kind of just keep going with hearing it.

And I told them in the second show, they were very apologetic. They had no reason to be. But then there was like weird stuff. like there was a swing dance class above because we're in this basement space. Oh my God. And so I can hear the swinging. And it just, that was really funny.

But again, I didn't address it because I'm like, maybe it's just me that can only hear this. People do that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, there's swingers everywhere. There sure is. Go on.

It's got to watch which one of those websites you go to. If they have a pineapple in their house, that means that they are swingers and they want to dance with you. Yeah, if you see a pineapple symbol. They want to dance? They want to dance. That's it. Also,

side note, when I was managing a music venue a few years back, they had swing dance nights. And I'm telling you, these people would show up and show out, and they would take it very soon. I didn't need to go off in this tangent, but that actually makes me how.

I think that's a cool genre. It is cool. It deserved more love than it got in the 90s when it was trying to tape a comedy show. Yeah, it's not great for when you're, at least they work. an Irish stomper. So that would have been. That would have been river dance. Yeah, exactly. So that, so that was fun. First taping goes well. You know, we had some video tech issues as you do, but that's why you have two, two tapings. And then the second one was, so we, everybody leaves. I kind of say thank you quickly, but it's a quick turnover, so we're getting ready. And I met my lovely wife upstairs, Jamaica Cuse, who's going to plug right now. They were kind of our restaurant lobby area. And I met my lovely wife upstairs. And I met my lovely wife upstairs, Jamaica Cuse, who's going to plug right now. They were kind of our restaurant lobby area. they were great and took care of everybody.

And so I go up and see my wife up there. Her cousins had come to visit for the special. And it's like, I think the show starts at 9. It was like 8.50 and there was no one downstairs. And so in my head, I was like, oh, it's just going to be my wife and her cousins. And that's going to be really kind of embarrassing. I'm going to feel bad about this. And I was like, hey, I think it's just going to be you guys.

And she goes, oh, no, everyone's trying to find parking. I was like, who are these people that are just, but trying. And she goes, well, you know, because share. And I was like, what does Share have to do with anything about what's going on right now? You know, because if you could turn back time. If I could, yeah. I don't know. And so the Cher musical was in town on that night.

Across the street. So, literally. And so every parking spot had a retirement card on it and was just all these blue-haired old ladies are trying to find parking. They're taking up three spaces with their giant Buicks. And we just, so everyone was trying. And sure enough, like a little bit late, a group of 10, a group of 12. And we filled up the same size that I think we had 60 people at each show, which was great. And it was super fun.

It was definitely the drunker audience, which was also very funny. In particular, I have some friends who I played disc golf with, and I love them. And they came in. And they were like, hey, man, we just came from the bar. And he did Manhattan like a shot because we didn't want to be late. And I was like, oh, no. And they were so great, but there's also this very sweet moment where, uh, there's a couple and I play disc golf with them and it's a, they're an interracial couple. I do an interracial bit. And usually I go, anyone doing interracial relationships and they'll be like, woo, woo, or something like that, you know, kind of just like a polite woo. I go, anyone doing interracial? And in the back, they just go, whew. So you remember, I was like, oh, we can't use this take. Um, but yeah. So it was, it was very fun. It was nice to see a bit of a tighter and a very little. loose audience.

And yeah. So, and then, uh, finish it up. Uh, what no one saw was after everything was said and done, uh, you know, I, it was like a Bruce Springsteing, uh, music video. I like had to just put all the chairs back and all the, you know what I mean? It's this thing. Like I was like, I did it. And I was like, you're listening to a podcast right now, driving, working out,

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Yeah. And so, yeah, it was a very fun experience right now. We're just going to start editing and put it together. But even the half hour that I have of just the wide, I was like, I really like. this. Good. Good. Yeah.

Do you mean, in general, it was a great set. I just want to say, like the material and everything, as much as we're talking about the production and all that, just the comedy was the most important part. Thanks. Well, we talked about it on the pod. We were like, when are you ready, when you know, when you know when it's time to, you know, unleash, you know, do this material and do it, you know, and it was just at that point, I think I had done some of those jokes like two or three years.

Yeah. So it was actually one of those ones where I was kind of done doing them. And so I kind of just got excited. excited about them, did them with the most energy I could do them with, and now it's very funny going on to shows now and being like, I got nothing. Yeah, starting from scratch. A lot of crowd work. I'm glad that 9 o'clock went well for you, because I remember that was the one you were

real worried about. Yeah. Because ticket sales-wise, it wasn't showing. Thanks, share. Stupid share. I got to think the Funny Bone also and Rob, the manager over there. He let me drop off, because I was doing shows the weekend before with Dan Porter, and And they both let me drop off QR codes.

And I mentioned them after my set. Like, hey, if you enjoyed any of this, I'm taping. That was a huge part. Chris Porter, I'm so sorry, Chris. I love you. Chris, he won't see this. Yeah, no one sees this. It's fine.

So let me ask you this. And it sounds like a hack question, but it's not because, you know, we're in a unique world now where at the level that you are at, you can pretty much design and do your own special, which is amazing. What is like, is there one or two things that you're like, you know what, next time I do it, I am not doing this. Oh, that's a great question. For those other comedians listening.

So if I were to do it again, and actually there's a couple of comics who are great, who kind of had great questions to ask. Bill Lake is one of them. He should definitely come on your pod some time. Love Bill. He's working on his half hour, and he was kind of asking me. And I think if anyone was to do any taping, whether it be music or stand-up or anything like that, I would say an usher slash somebody to make sure that the show people are sitting

and other stuff is getting done. Just overseeing the audience. An usher slash gopher. Not in a disrespectful way of like, but like I had run over to Funkin Waffles. Thank you, Funkin Waffles. Because we had to get like four sound chords to connect. And we just didn't have enough with where we had things set up. So that would have been great to be able to do that.

So I would definitely say an usher, gopher. And then I would have done on our first visit, I would have done more testing of look and sound and stuff like that, because we kind of went into that. We knew what we wanted, but we went into it pretty blind. And that was pretty hard to kind of have them be like, okay, this is the first time we're looking at this set, and let's try to find spots to shoot.

And so definitely would have that, a clear shot list. But yeah, I think just the biggest one was to have somebody who could have run around to take care of things that I had to take care of. That you shouldn't have to. A production assistant or something. Yeah. And it's and the other part of it too is there is a little bit of a, the professionalism gets taken down a little bit of being the headliner, the reason why people are there when you're moving seats and running. up to grab their drinks, stuff like that. Just because I wanted to do that stuff, so everyone was comfortable, but it definitely

changes people subconsciously. The first time they see me is me coming on the stage versus me being like, okay, so it's two beers, and then I'll give you one more seat. And then because when they're like, you're a headline, like, he just sat us. Why would I care about what? Right. Yeah. This is, I mean, it's, it's, I went through the same stuff in, well, in comedy, but in, in,

in music as well, where, you know, you do this. this big show and then you're like, thank you good night. And then you come back out and you slowly roll up your guitar chord. And, you know, but this, but even that's the tradeoff for not needing, like I said,

we can create our own specials now. You know, this is the tradeoff of not having a production company like Netflix involved and taking a cut. So, you know, it's a little bit of give and take, but those,

well, it's interesting. I just kind of heard that a lot of people are, maybe Netflix will shift this, but Netflix, um, And they're, I say, I think the best deal out there right now is Hulu, because Hulu lets you put the special up on your YouTube. Yeah.

And then I think there every two or three years, you can re-sign your contract and let it go other places. So that's a good deal. That's cool. But right now, as I understand it, Netflix writes you a check and then you can do whatever you want with it. But if you want Netflix quality, that means that you're, there's comics who have spent all that money or more. more because they understand that the opportunity is to get eyeballs on them and then, you know, your tours hopefully get busier and stuff like that. But, yeah, a Netflix special really is more of a serviceable investment than it is a victory

lap of the material that you've been working on. So, yeah, it is pretty interesting. I mean, I'm not saying that people shouldn't do it or there isn't obvious pros to it. Like Mark Norman's a great example. He just saw him in Ithaca a few weeks ago. Yeah, he's great. And Samarrell did this on Amazon. And so they both, I think, had a YouTube special and then got the offer to do something on a platform.

And they knew, well, if I do this, then the first one's going to get a lot more eyeballs. And then sure enough, that's what ended up happening. And so the platforms definitely can help you build an audience, whereas YouTube, you get more both financial and creative control and from the audience you already have. Yeah. It's like the old record labels. Same kind of concept. Speaking of which, I'd like to thank the seven audience members that I have on a regular basis. You guys are great.

You guys are awesome. We love you. The magnificent seven we call them. Brian, we got a few other things we want to jump into. But I just want to, if you could, just take a minute. Tell folks what happens next, right? So obviously we know you edit the thing and you create a finished special. What happens with it next?

You put it on YouTube kind of like we're talking about here. What do you do? So Mike Abbott. who is my director, producer, extraordinaire, he and I are going to sit down with the material and write down what we want it to look like and what shots we have available to kind of put this together. And then from there, it's shopping it around to production companies. There's one in particular that I've already reached out to who kind of started this whole thing and I'd love to work with them. And so we'll go from there. And then that's kind of where that is.

There'll be a lot of promotion of, hey, I'll come back on and say, hey, it's going to air, go check it out. Get to do my digital panhandling is what I call it for a month there. I was just on Facebook with a cup going, please come to my show. Please give me change. Yeah. And so that's the next stage for it, is just cutting it together, putting it up,

and being happy with however it turns out. So when you say working with production companies, is that for the distribution part portion of it? Yeah, I mean, because again, the seven people who follow me on YouTube, You know, my channel isn't something. And the first half hour, that was the same issue was I felt good about it, but there wasn't anywhere for people to see it.

And so production companies definitely have a great value of having that audience and being able to push it. They also know how to cut up the material and promote like, you know, you guys have with your team here. And so it's one of those things where, yeah, just want to finish it, let them or whoever wants it, want it. And then hopefully we can put some tour dates around it because people like it. And that's kind of the goal, right, kind of to what you were speaking to earlier, is not necessarily that this thing is going to make you rich, but it'll get the eyeballs that drive ticket sales and other social media channels and kind of build your community. Is that a, at your description?

Yeah. I remember I had this conversation with a comic in Albany, and he's a great comic and a legend, but we kind of disagreed. He was like, I think standup is the platform to do other things like movies and da-da-da-da. And I said, actually in my experience, stand-ups only really. want to do stand-up. We don't want to do movies. We don't want to do the TV show. They're fun and all that stuff. But there's so much more work than just showing up 15 minutes before the show. We're very lazy people. We really want to work about two hours max a day. And yeah, we're if a Frenchman and a Greek mother were raised by Italian grandparent, you're just a very, we're napping a lot. We love the Spanish mentality. We're taking it very easy And so

We eat meals before lunch Yeah we yeah Between lunch and dinner Complaining about things So that's kind of the thing And I think that with the You know people talk about the 80s and 90s stand up boom There wasn't

I think there's like And this Mark Norman and Samarillo They were saying they know like eight comics Who are doing stadium tours right now That's never happened before And so podcasts are a huge reason Why that's possible just the straight to

connecting to your audience right away is a huge part of it. So yeah, I think that for me right now the goal is to get it up there and then hopefully build some tour dates around that because I just like doing stand-up. Yeah. You know, it's wild because

we've kind of talked about this before too where those same comics that are, you know, selling out stadiums could probably walk around in that city before and after the show and maybe one out of five people would recognize them because it's such a niche like you have your locked in social media audience

like they're your hardcore fan base but not everybody's watching and consuming the same content yeah it's pretty cool yeah that's uh you know I went to a Matt Rife show and it's like they put up a bat signal for 23 year old girls named Becky it was incredible yeah a lot of Becky they just flocked there there was a there's a great Dan Soder who's an amazing

love him so much I think he was in Pittsburgh no he was in Salt Lake City I think and this has never had before it he's such a great guy and he had no shame in it. He goes, I wasn't selling tickets, and Matt Rife had just been starting to blow up a little bit. What they did was if you bought tickets to Dan Soder's show, you entered in a

raffle to be able to get tickets to Matt Wright's show. And so all the show sold out because all these Beckies showed up. They wanted to see Matt Rive instead? That's genius. Matt Rife. Every Kylie Kendall and Kendra showed up. I mean, that's going to happen to me.

I'm sure I'm going to have ticket sales that aren't going and they're just going to put a raffle together so that they can go see some influence. I actually love that idea. I think that's a brilliant. It's not a terrible idea. Come see me and you could get a free $10 car wash. Yeah.

You know, I think you could do a lot with that. Yeah. We're so happy for you. But do you have any shows coming up that you can plug? Anything going on yet? I'm in North Carolina in two weekends with Steve Byrne. So if you're in the North Carolina area in Charlotte, go check that out. Huge North Carolina.

We do. And then I'm at the, uh, Utica Theater. Actually, let's vamp. Vamp for a bit. Hello, my baby. Hello, my darling. Hello, my ragtime guy. What is this game anyway? Oh, the game?

I want to play. And I don't even necessarily understand the goal. I saw this on, I don't know where I saw it. One of the shows I watch. There's like this new thing where they're putting up, Danny, if you want to cue it up here, it's a chart. Now, I designed this chart, okay? This took a lot of work, all right? He's literally behind this for four days.

If you were sitting on a plane. Oh, I've seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you were sitting on a plane, okay? Okay, and these seats were open, where would you sit and why? And we're ignoring the fact that some are dead. Some are dead. We're pretending like they're alive.

Mostly because I wanted to segue into something I had to say about Princess Die and Pee-Wee Herman. So I purposely threw them in. So he came up with this for one random bit that he wants to bring up. He's a super producer right here. But should we, let me ask you this. So, and maybe this is part of the game, and forgive me if I'm skipping ahead, but should we go over who each of these folks are first? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So first, in the number two spot, top left, you've got Hakitua.

And then just to we're clear, once we start, the whole point is each of us will go around and pick which seat we're going to sit in. Yeah, you have opened. Why are you choosing that seat? And there's a few, and I will admit, Brian, this is, I made this before I knew you were going to be a part of this. So I included people that I know Matt likes because he's weird. So not all of them, but some of them. So we've got in the back row, seats two and three, you've got Hock Tua and Pee-Herman. Good old Haley Welch.

Yep. And then you've got an aisle seat open where you could be next to Bob Ross and Lynn Manuel Miranda, Miranda, who's got the window seat. Now you can get crazy. You could hit seat number eight. And that is you're sitting between Mr. Beast and then that social influencer you love. What's his name? Hassan Piker. Yeah, yeah, Hassan Piker.

This one I love. So the reason I chose this one is you could get the middle seat between O.J. and Lee Harvey Oswald. You could find out some shit. I'm saving my thoughts. Because there's a lot of conspiracy between those two. You could sit and I'll seat 15 where you're next to Howard Stern and John Stewart's got the window seat. Now, if you really want to celebrate some douchebaggery, seat 17, you're between. Dave Portnoy of Barstool and Joe Rogan.

Love them both. Window seat, your boy Gary V. You could sit next to him and Ken Jong. Diversity. And then we've got some animated characters. You could sit next to Cartman, who is also next to the Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball's D.

D.Gy guy. Then, last two, you could sit next to Oprah, who's next to Princess Die. Or you could sit between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia. So that's the layout. Obviously, we'll show it on the screen when we... All right. Am I going first? Sure.

All right. First, I've got to give you some thoughts on this layout. So, like, a couple of these. So, like, Lynn Manuel Morant, that's the dude next to Bob Ross there, right? That's the Hamilton guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. See, he's kind of a loss because, you know, you're going to sit in that empty seat. You're nowhere near him anyway.

So it's do you want to sit next to Bob Ross? Interesting. I like that. And, you know, that's probably the safest seat in the whole. airplane is next to Bob Brooks. If you had a piece of loose leaf paper and you sat there, would you, would you ask him to draw you something? Maybe.

Happy little trees? Happy little trees. He needs a paintbrush. He's not a pencil artist. You know, the influencer seat, seat eight there. Now, that's an interesting one. My money's on that for you. Mr. Beast and Hassan, you know, that's, man, that might be some fun conversations.

Especially with your, you know, this gig. You know, here's the thing. Now, I also say, you want to talk about safest? I sort of feel like sitting between O.J. and Lee Harvey. Oh, interesting. You feel safe. Ain't nobody going to fuck with you there. That's interesting because most people look that and go, oh, my God, that's insane. You're trapped.

Two murderers. And on the other side of that, we're on a plane, so there's a reasonable expectation that they've been stripped of any weapons. You know, so. Knives. I'm not too concerned about that. again we got Howard and and John Stewart what a great couple but you're going to be on the end

so really you're only going to talk to Howard there you go which you know the king of all media if there's anybody you could talk to on a long flight that would be the guy I love the pod bro seat right 17 looking at this

we're in the back here's the thing I'm not like I'm not one of these bros who loves either one of those dudes. I'm also not one of these people who hates either one of those dudes. Okay. Me too.

I'm in the middle, yeah. And I'm just going to tell you that I would avoid that seat. Okay. Because I think those two dudes would spend the whole flight talking over you to each other. Excellent.

I love that. We're going to, that's the first one I'm actually eliminating a step. Okay. All right. Kim Jong, Gary Vee. Again, you don't get both of them. No.

I love Gary Vee. Kim Jong is the funnier ones, which almost makes me think he might monopolize Gary V's time, so I'm just going to end up sitting next to the window. Let me tell you, man. Here's the thing that's going to do, man. You're just going to make condo every day, man, consistently. That's the best Gary V impression of it.

Cartman, and so who's the fella next to Cartman? It's some guy from Dragon Ball Z. Did he? Goku, thank you. I don't watch anime. Go-Cart? Is that? You know, I'm trying to.

That's go-kart from. What is he? is he like a go-kart. Actually, the two of them, cart menu, they would be go-karts. And in Goku, characters can come together in Dragon Ball Z to become one superpower. So if they were to do that, they would become go-kart. And I planned it that way. Honestly, the most I know about anime is the South Park Chim Pokemon episode.

So I guess I got to ask this dude, so he's got this orange, is he like a prisoner? Did he break out of jail? Is that why he's wearing the orange? Mine would no more. No, he's just a fighter. Okay. He's, in the anime world, he's like the Hulk Hogan. He's the, yeah.

Yeah, okay. He's like the, well, I would say he's like Superman, that he's also the most recognizable. There you go. There you go. Does he, he plays the polka balls? Mm-hmm. Okay. He'll poke your balls.

Gotcha. He will poke your balls. Let's see who else we got on this plane. Oprah and Princess Die, I would fuck would never in a million years sit in that seat. Oh, I thought you would have sex with Oprah. Oh, God. Well, yeah, but here's something to think about with the Oprah. Listen, Oprah's brilliant.

I just don't want to, I don't want to do. I feel like if I sat there, I would end up doing Oprah. And then I'm going to jump on the seat and they're going to throw me out. That's fair. Here was my way of thinking. Imagine just listening. Wait, when you say doing Oprah, you mean do her impression. No, no, I mean, like I'm on her show.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were saying you were going to hook up with Oprah. No, risky and broke too. I 100% would. You would say treasure. But my way of... You get an orgasm. You get an orgasm.

I mean... My way of thinking was imagine the conversation you could listen in on between her and Princess Divo. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's kind of my sales pitch for that. I feel like they just like talk about a fancy shit or tea that I don't care about. My sales pitch for Hock Tua is you're in the back corner. Imagine what she could do to you.

And imagine what Peewey would be doing while he's watching. Oh, that's the... I see what you did there. I thought that was the front. Well, maybe it is. Yeah, I think it is. No, but you face it towards the back. Yeah.

Okay, and then keep going, and then I'll do mine. I was just going to say this last row, so we got the Star Wars folks. That's because I know you love Star Wars. I do love Star Wars, and, you know, that would be a great seat. So I guess I got to pick. Yeah. Let me give me my final answer here. My vote was C-D8 if I had to pick.

I'm leaning strongly towards C-D8. Yeah, I'm going to go with C-D8. A, because of the row, but also because you got Bob Ross in front of you. I feel like he would be the most courteous, not jamming the seat in your back sort of type of fella. He's just painting a happy tree behind you. That's right, just happy little trees. And also, I feel like most people would not have my level of security with the two killers behind me, which means there's probably nobody in seat 11, and I can recline my feet.

I'm really proud of you because you thought outside the box. That was my thinking with seat 21 next to Gary V. is if you wanted to double dip you could also probably listen in and talk to Portnoy and Rogan if you leaned over your seat and then you could laugh your ass off with Cartman and you know Go-Cart who's in funny

God damn it Yeah I can wrap it around this Okay so one if one's in the back Yeah you do the Hawk to a girl But I don't find white women attractive So I'm not going to do that anymore Also we can talk about

Pewee he got in trouble for what masturbating in an adult movie theater That's where you're supposed to do it I don't know why he ever got bashed for that. I agree. Porn did not exist. He had to, or video, you know, we don't have porn hub, but he did what he had to do. Number six would be fun because I could pitch the Bob Ross musical done by Linman Miranda.

Oh, shit. Number eight does nothing for me because Mr. Bees to be like, we've got this crazy idea. We're going to treat everyone like a slave. And you're like, okay, no, I'm okay. And the guy on the right, I know he's an influencer, but he's got so much jewelry, he just would jingle the whole time. And that would bother because the young people wear. where grandma's pearls now for some reason. 11, I'm going to leave that open

so they can murder each other. That'd be funny. But 15, if I was sitting next to John Stewart, I could do it. I'm not a huge Howard Stern fan because I didn't grow up with it. I didn't grow up with it. And when I see him now, he reminds me of a lot of 17. Of not particularly just not anything that I think, the interviewees like Oprah's a fantastic interviewer.

I think, you know, I'm trying to look at the rest of the list. There's, I think that, and this is a controversial opinion, Howard Stern and Joe Rogan, the talent that is in the, that, uh, show and their empire is with their producers, not them individually. Wow. Because they're able to get great guests on, but I don't think that they bring anything specifically interesting to an interview or a conversation. I know how, and I know, it's sacrily just to say that about Howard Stern, but he's, he'll just have porn stars on.

And he's like, so you have sex, that's wild. What's that like? You know, terrible Howard Stern impression. 17, I wouldn't go because fuck Boston sports. Yeah. Again, Joe Rogan, you know he's not wearing a mask and he's shooting elk blood into his neck. And I just don't need that in my life. 21 could be fun.

Yeah, they have the same, you know what it is? Their voice has the same frequency that if you ever try to get a glass, it's just going going to shatter. So that's not going to work. 22, I'm okay because, again, these two are just going to become more. one person, the go-kart, and then Mario shows up to drive away on them. 25 could be fun. Again, it's the reverse of Haktua.

Oprah's a beautiful woman. And we'll be fine with that. And then 29, I love Star Wars. So I would go there. I would go 29 because go Star Wars. It's the best. Excellent. Real quick.

What do you think you're, you're, no, no, you're fine. I wonder what the topic of conversation would be. For who? the Star Wars people. I wouldn't, I don't know. I don't watch Star Wars. I'm not a Star Wars guy. What do you got, buddy?

I'm going to just keep it brief. I mean, look, bottom line, I'm picking C-Eat 11 because I want to feel like no one's going to mess with me. Okay. And I also, I mean, I have so many questions about the killings. I feel like I want to dig in. I want to dig in. And I want to find out what really happened.

And then I'm going to go on a book tour or a speaking tour. And I'm going to make a ton of money off that. And by the way, one of my heroes, Howard Stern, will be right in front of me. Which... Let me ask you, which one are you more interested in the details from? O.J. or Lee Harvey? Honestly, probably Lee Harvey.

Yeah, I think that's better. Because there's way more conspiracy surrounding them. Like, did you actually even shoot them? Right. Yeah. What's this second gunman, third gunman? Let's brass tacks here. And if you were going to do it today, how would you do it?

You know, I mean, there's so many ways... How did the magic bullet come to be? Yeah. Well, actually, it really was magic. I'm a wizard. Right. Right. That's why I'm actually in black and white on the airplane.

I will say two quick things. One is I think Pee We Herman is one of the most underrated characters to ever exist in pop culture. I think it is a genius character. And Princess Dye. Have you ever seen his comedy? Stand-up? Yeah. No.

It's phenomenal. Yes. I've never seen his stand-off. And you're right. The character Peewee that he created is. absolutely phenomenal. But if you see the stuff, he's one of these guys who plays like a goofy, very juvenile character and was actually incredibly an intelligent guy. And a lot of his other stand-up,

a lot of other comics that knew him well. You know, he got branded for that horrible indecent thing that he did. But you know, a lot of, like I said, the real comics will talk about the respect that they gave that guy for genuine comedy chop. I mean, he launched, arguably launched Phil Hartman's career, but just the movies were part of my child. They're hilarious.

Lawrence Fishburn, yep, yep. You know, they had cherry and mecca like a hi, mechahe ho. The bike, I loved the bike. The rubber band ball. Pee Wee's Playhouse I used to watch. So I was a big fan, but I just think, looking back now, I mean, my God,

even with SNL characters, I just think because of the incident where he bopped his baloney in a theater, where you're supposed to do it, I guess, he you know he didn't get the credit it was just an amazing character and then Princess Dye I took a

one of those Did you take a college class on her too No I got a What do you call him? DNA test done And I paid $10 extra to see if I was related to any celebrities No bullshit Can you pull up the picture of Princess Dye real quick It should be a $10 extra

I paid $10 related to a celebrity On my genetic test You know the answers yes Hold on Do I look like her? For $10. I need a crown, but... I mean, all white people look the same.

He's got you there. Yeah. All you missed with Ryan was that... So you're a descendant of Princess die? I guess. I paid... When I took the Kineat test, they said, if you want to pay $10 extra, we'll check and...

Technically, she wasn't the royal family, so I guess it doesn't mean anything. No, I don't have royal blood, technically. But apparently I am... Wow. Yeah, I'm related. The only thing you miss, I'd love to hear your opinion is... No, it's fine.

You're so cool. Now that you shot your special, you're taking call. middle of interviews. I said 20 million per movie. I said that I think Peewee Herman is one of the most underrated characters of all time. I think it's genius. This is another one that's tricky because I didn't, and not that he wasn't in my time.

No, no, no, I get it. If you don't grow up with something. I did. So that maybe it's more about me. It's the same thing of like when I go to India to visit with my wife, Fletchmi's family, it's hard talking about cultural stuff because if you didn't grow up with it and it's not ingrained, like try to explain. fight club to someone who grew up in South India. Like I was literally, they were like, we should watch American movies when you come and visit.

And I was like, oh, fight club is a classic? And he was like, oh, is that where they like fight each other to make money so they can feed their family? And I was like, oh, geez. No. Edward Norton thinks IKEA has too many choices. And that's the downfall of society. When here's something, why.

And so, so peewee is my fight club as a South Indian. It doesn't make, now that it doesn't make sense, I just didn't grow up with it. But I love anything that's going to be, I mean, let's be honest, Pixar did what Pee We was doing beforehand, which is kids and adults are laughing at something together. That's right. And that had never really been done before. So it's one of those things where even though I didn't grow up with, I can see the amazing, yeah, I can appreciate it. Yeah, for sure. So I just want to say real quick, now that you're back, I got to give you a little shit.

Please. I'm excited. Howard Stern is probably one of the best interviews you could find. I could agree more. ever in the history of the world. And here's the thing, though, if you don't watch and listen to his show, and to do so to really understand it is like,

you've got to win fast. You know, you've got to be one of these fucking listeners who's hours and hours and hours. But if you're not, you get exactly kind of what Brian said. It's the interview and the strippers. Those are the clips you hear the most and the shit that he's most famous for, the dirty stuff. But he'll get A-list, you know, Billy Joel and like these big-name people to open up in a way

that you will never find in any other review. I haven't missed. And I'm very open to the idea of being wrong. I've been married two and a half years. I'm getting very used to it. And like I said, I don't even want to give you much shit because it's one of those things like, you know, there's one of these, oh, this guy on the podcast is phenomenal.

And you'd only know that if you were a fan and listed 40 hours of fucking podcast, you know, I certainly can't blame you. But I just, I got to throw Howard's little, a little defense. He's the, he's the goku of morning talk show radio. in if you're not watching the 40 hours of it, you don't realize how important he is. Yeah, I haven't missed an episode of Howard Stern since 1997, and I'm not joking.

I listen every single day. And I respect your opinion because, like Matt said, unless you're in that world, you're not going to just tune in for an interview. But you have to remember, too, he wasn't always a great interview. This was an evolution over time. And his interviews,

especially the one with Stephen Tyler is one of my favorites. It is unlike any other interviews you listen to. Because he talks, it's like this, but just with so much depth and so much. The shit he gets out of people. Sort of because he can be raunchy, right? He has sort of that license to get personal. And like I said, the stuff he gets out of people is not something you'll find. Okay.

Then I will give him. You're not wrong. You can have a different opinion. I mean, from that photo, it looks like he's got six months left. So we'll see how much I can watch. You want to hear something crazy real quick because I know we got to go? You said Fight Club? I will never experience Fight Club because someone told me the fucking ending before I watched it.

That's like the one movie. You cannot do that. There was one, Rosie O'Donnell. I remember Rosie O'Donnell saw it, and she spoiled it for like thousands of people who were watching it. She was like, I didn't like it. I didn't like it. It was very. And he's got an imaginary friend, and you're like, no.

I'll be honest. I feel like you could still appreciate that's one of those. Yeah, no, I did, and I liked it the whole time. I'm like, oh, look. No, I'm with you, though. I'm like, don't fucking ruin it for me. But mind you, it was years later, but still. But what's also fun, too, is watching it again, because it is a great movie,

watching it again, you also get to see the nuances and the specific things where you realize, oh, he really is the one. Yeah. When they're in the kitchen and they're talking, I'm like, oh, my God. There's like small details. When they crash the car, Edward Norton gets out on the side that would have been the driver's side because he was actually driving and or whatever it was. You're right.

That is actually, and that's the way I consumed it because I had no choice. I knew the ending. And you're right. It was kind of a fun angle because you're like, right. That's why he, like you said, it's why he's not doing that. That's why he's sitting there. That reminds me of, oh, God, I think it's John Mulaney or, no, it's, it's, God, Tennessee kid. Nate Bargatsy, he does a great joke about the,

six cents and how that movie he clearly is shot at the beginning. He clearly has died and he's having meetings he's getting dinner with his wife but it made more sense to us the audience married people that they would just sit in silence and eat.

The idea that maybe something's wrong right something happened. No one is like why aren't they talking they're like, huh, been there. Yeah. So checks out. So goddamn funny. He's not wrong. What a chop-full episode. Yeah. My God.

I think it's time to wrap. But before we do... Thanks for having me. Brian Inc. Give us your plug. This help you. Yeah, man. Brian Inc.

Oh, I have... Yeah, I was able to pull this up. So, Charlotte, North Carolina, in two weeks. It's going to be a super fun one. And then I am closer at the Utica Theater, the 21st. The family? I think the show's at 7. I don't really know.

the goal of the special is to get a manager who can tell me where to go and what to do. That is the dream. I have no idea. But that'll be a fun one at the Utica Theater. Stanley? It's the Stanley Theater. Which theater? I don't.

Yeah, the Uptown. It's got to be a Stanley. Or the Stamlow. Maybe it is the Uptown one. Is that the one that they're doing renovations? Yes. Yep. It's that one.

Okay. So, yeah, I work exclusively with theaters that aren't done being built yet. Brianink, we love you. What's the name of your special? Well, letters are hard. And it's coming out sometimes. Sometimes. When he's done with it.

Editing, well, we're done. Editing starts this week and we go from there. We love you. Do you block out time? Like, do you have a kind of a schedule for editing and you know? Yeah, I don't have it. Not sort of when we get to it sort of deal? Yeah, I don't have a date for it.

No, it's scheduled, but then it turns into, I'll just get to them. Well, I do timers. Timers are big for me, and so I'll do an hour of editing and then see how I feel about it and see if we can give it another hour or if something else has to come up. I love that. We'll go from there. Yeah, definitely. Timers are huge.

Brian Inc. He will no doubt be back again. He's one of our favorite guests to have him. And he's not even too far away. I got nothing else going on. For Mikey B, our man, Danny behind the board, I'm Matt. And we'll see you tomorrow.