Men At Work Podcast - Can We Out-Riff the Legendary Casey Rocket?

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

We're down with the riffness! Casey Rocket joins the show to riff in elements he's never riffed before: outdoors and in a park surrounded by shirtless baristas. Matt Peoples and Brendan Donegan try not to get out-riffed by one of the most legendary riffers while finding out what's in Rocket's Pockets, his celebrity marriage, the Austin comedy scene, and Kill Tony before they start interviewing the craziest guests! A shirtless savant in town from DC who only speaks in riddles, two young furries that are saving up money to buy their suits, and a restaurant architect that has to balance the line between blue collar and white collar workers while also defeating millennial gray in the process. Get your tickets for the Men At Work Live Show Spectacular! You can be a part of the show! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-men-at-work-live-podcast-spectacular-tickets-1333921478049?aff=oddtdtcreatorGo see Casey Rocket on tour: https://caseyrocket.komi.io/ Go see Brendan Donegan on tour: https://brendandonegan.com/Follow BrenDog: https://www.instagram.com/brendandonegancomedyCheck Out South Jersey Bad Boys:  ⁨@southjerseybadboys⁩  #caseyrocket #comedian #killtony About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for a living? After that the conversation flows from there. We've talked to substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and the Governor of Literal Pennsylvania. And we'll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a furry convention, and more! Whether we like it or not, our jobs are most of our lives - might as well yap about it. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-work-podcast/id1373108039SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XcFWt0I6gFvMotqDp5bsZ?si=2273debc08e5485dIf you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod*If you subscribe to the Patreon consider subscribing on a desktop or website or an android device, NOT THROUGH iOS (Apple) APP. Apple takes 30% of every month you're subscribed (yea they suck). Follow Us:The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/menatpod/Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedyhttps://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/Follow Kyle:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancbFollow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

You're talking about what's in Rockets pockets you strike me as a guy that would have a lot of stuff in the pockets though Well, I'll show you this I really shouldn't of course I didn't bring this so I could show you but oh my god. Is that Matt's dad? It's me and the six flags guy So this is Yeah Things were pretty serious, and then he's got his vows and his hands got he was nervous He was shaking a life-size poster. Oh, I was got it on me. Yeah, this were pretty serious and then he's got his vows and his hands. God. He was nervous. He was shaking a life-size poster Oh, I was got it on me. Yeah, this is a kiss, you know

All right before we get into the show we want to talk to you about a live show We're putting on presented by next in line comedy. It's the men at work live Spectacular Friday May 30th at 8 p.m. You ever wanted to be on the show, but you couldn't well now You got the opportunity to buy a ticket ticket, come to the show, hang out with us. You could put in a little thing that says hey I'd love to be on stage and just come chat about your job. We'll just horse around. Same thing you see on the podcast normally. We'll just be doing it in front of 70 to 80 people. Friday May 30th at the Coop at 8 p.m. Please come. You're talking about what's in Rockets pockets?

What's in Rockets pockets? That'd be good That was a segment that would run its course pretty quickly You strike me as a guy that would have a lot of stuff in the pockets though sure well I always yeah, you know I always got a couple pictures a couple harmonicas on me You never know when you're gonna have to riff your way out of a situation Yeah, but yeah, we sat down and I took this stuff out of my pockets. I put this bad boy on the table. He goes whoa Yeah, we sat down and I took this stuff out of my pockets. I put this bad boy on the table. He goes, whoa! Pulsar that thing.

What's this? Well, I'll tell you what it is. It's an invention. Oh, okay. Like an invention. That's one of those slap hand things? It's a sticky hand wrapped around a little lottery pencil. So the hand acts as the propellant.

Yep. It's basically a 3D printed gun. That's exactly right. I like to think that somebody was filling out a lottery ticket, you had one of those, and you just fucking grabbed their pencil like that. Not today. It does kind of give the vibe of like when Elon Musk

put all those forks together, and he's trying to show the lady at the table. Did you see that video? Yeah. Put like nine forks, it kind of, it's a similar thing, but it's a little more friendly. Kiss your mother with that brain. Please no cursing on here, by the way. Please.

Well, I don't know. I think I was on a phone call last night. You guys would have loved it. And I'm just talking to you. I've never heard of phone calls. I've heard of phone calls. Never been a part of one. Oh, man.

We'll have to do one sometime. If this goes OK, we'll have to do one sometime. What kind of phone call? I was talking to this girl I knew in high school and uh- Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, you guys wouldn't believe it. And uh- Okay, yeah. But I was messing with this sticklin' the whole time and then next thing I know I go, huh? It was like, what do they call it when you write, like spirit writing, like unassisted writing. Yeah. What was that?

I was like channeling this. Yeah. Probably from Nikola Tesla. Yeah. God bless. Bob Dylan. Bob Tesla, honestly. Bob's cousins.

Didn't get a lot of the love. Helped out quite a bit. That's great, dude. We're here. We got to start the episode. I forgot. Hey, we're back with another episode of Men at Work podcast. We are very sorry, Kyle could not make it today.

He's got a family shmammily thing going on, so much love to Kyle and the Pagan family. But we do have a wonderful little co-host, sorry, but that was the- Male American Average. Wonderful male, you know, one of those. Okay, anyway, Brendan's here, co-hosted with us. But we have a very special guest,

a very ooey gooey special guest. He's here at Helium Comedy Club all weekend, very funny from Austin, Texas, our pal Casey Rocket. Wee wee wee. We're here with Rockets Pockets. Rockets Pockets. Just finding out what's in the pockets today. Sorry, those girls were watching us

and it was making me really nervous. Yeah, it's gonna get bad. That's gonna happen quite a bit. Now this is my first time co-hosting like Matt said, so I'm still, I'm kinda experiencing this with you for the first time with people just walking by, kind of looking in like we're zoo animals. Yeah, they're looking at us like a bunch of freaks, man.

Hey, there's no glass partition. Throw a rotten apple if you want to, hoss. Yeah. That's one of the classic phrases. They're gonna fall in like Dudley Dursley, dude. Yeah. Oh, wow, Harry Potter. Fall into the snake pit.

I didn't mean to get into HP so quick. Yeah, like Bubba Ray Dudley. They're going to put me through this table. Bubba Ray Dudley. Yeah. Are you a Harry Potter guy? What's the fantasy land that you look? I didn't bring it up.

You brought it up. OK, sorry. You strike me as a Harry Potter-sman. Oh, you look like you could be in the films. Sure, yeah. I look like I could be one of the Weasley boys. For sure. I saw the first one and I saw the last one.

You said fuck the middle. I saw the alpha and I saw the omega. You said, I get it. Yeah, I get it. I get it. If the middle or anything like those, they're great. They're great, but I'm just as happy with a good book. Good book, Harry Potter. Yeah. Good book, Harry Potter.

Yeah, which would be Harry Potter. Very nice. So you were at Helium last night. How'd the shows go? Was it fun time? You've been at Helium before, right? Yeah, I've been there three times in the last calendar year.

So I was telling him, they know my hour, so. You're riffing hard. I was really riffing hard last night, trying to make up jokes. It's one thing when you're riffing on a joke It's another thing when you're trying to make up jokes. Yeah Cuz I get up there and I panic like I'll say a joke Maybe the crowd has heard last year and you could feel it. Yeah, you can feel okay. They've heard it

so I start going like Yeah, like what if worms like like what if worms could scream? Yeah, and they're like what how long will you go into a tape? Because obviously your act and your style is so chaotic already But like we're figuring it out. How long will you go on a tangent before you go? All right guys? I'll give it a minute. I'll give it one calendar minute. Yeah Yeah, anything longer than 60 seconds is a long time though. It really is. For sure.

To be figuring out a story on the fly about worms specifically. Yeah. Well, it was a lot of stories. It was a lot of stories I hadn't told before. So, but you can tell where it's trending. Like, if it's not getting any laughs at all in the first 30 seconds, you go,

okay, this is no worse story. This is boo boo. Everybody hate it. Yeah. But if it gets a pop at the beginning you're like I'm gonna run with this for a little bit. Absolutely. I'm gonna wait until that pop was a distant memory and I'll go oh remember how funny this was when I started. That's gotta be the fun part about your style though is like when you're coming up with a new hour you can literally talk about anything. I mean I was telling you before you sat down like I saw you last year at Helium,

you had a seven minute bit about a love affair with you and the Six Flags guy. So it's like, this is the endless possibilities that it's gotta be so much fun where you could just sit down and go, I am just gonna come up with something out of thin air and just run with it for so long. Yeah, it's truly Machiavellian.

It really is, people are saying that to me. I've heard that. They're going, okay, this is a little Orwellian. We like this. Yeah, man, it's super fun. Yeah, I mean, I'm just a silly guy, so it doesn't seem to matter to the crowd if the story is fake or real. I won't fake a story in terms of like,

so I'm at a bar the other day, chick walks in. That's our act, so pretty hurtful. I'm not one of those fucking losers. Sounds fucking terrible, dude. No, I won't fake a story that could plausibly be real. I'll be like, you know, I was hanging out with Scrappy-Doo, and then the crowd's like, okay. Yeah, right.

Where are you going with this? So yeah, I have a 15-minute thing on the Six Flags guy. It's longer than he remembered. It's a little spooky. It's most of the act. What has he been up to since the Kingda Ka went down? I wonder how he's handling that. Oh yeah, the coup d'etat. Dr. Flag at the coup d'etat. Yeah. Oh yeah, there was a... Well, I'll show you this. I really shouldn't. Of course. I really shouldn't. I didn't bring this so I could show you, but... Oh my God, is that Matt's

dad? It's me and the six flex guy, so this is Yeah, things were pretty serious, it's just kind of one of those things and then he's got his vows in his hands God, he was nervous. He was shaking of those things. And then he's got his vows in his hands. God, he was nervous. He was shaking. Out of all the bits that I brought up too, that's the one bit that I brought up and you happen to have a life-size poster. I always got it on me. Yeah. This is a guess, you know. It's also terrific to think of, like you said you're doing the same hour. If like somebody in the audience is like, he's got the Six Flags picture guy again, he's doing it again. God, he's telling the Six.

Let's not worry about how he's married to the Six Flags guy. Honey, I promise he has new stuff. Anybody with a girlfriend there? What does the audience look like? Is it mostly little guys or big strong guys? What do you usually get over there? It's a lot of little freaks. It's little freaks and geeks.

Sure. No, I don't know, young men and women, I guess. Yeah. Like, it's typically millennials, I guess. Yeah. Like, it's typically like millennials, I guess. Yeah. But it's a lot of people on dates. So it's a lot of like the boyfriend took the girlfriend. Well, this is comedy in general, right?

Or the girlfriend took the boyfriend. And I can always tell like when I meet people after, cause I do the meet and greet after every show, I can tell which one brought which, you know? And she'll be like, no, I'll just take the picture. Yeah. When you started out, did you ever have to do a lot of crowds that were much older?

Oh, for sure, yeah. Especially when I lived in Idaho. I lived in Idaho for three years, and the crowds were super old, really conservative people. And it would just, most of my life was performing to absolute abject silence. Sure. No heckling, nothing. I didn't even give you a heckling. I wish I was there for those days, dude. Most of my life was performing to absolute abject silence No heckling nothing. I didn't wish I was there for those days. I could give you for the right price I could send you some videos that would make your skin tingle

That had to have been so much fun for you to figure out though well, I think I built up a callous pretty quickly to the idea of comedy pretty quickly to the idea of comedy. There's two camps, is it for the audience or is it for you or is it something in the middle, right? Three camps, some would say. Summer camp. Summer camp, fat camp.

Yeah. Camp Rock. Jewish camp. Fat camp for summer. But in Idaho, I quickly made the determination that it was just for me. So it's okay. And that's the wrong way to look at it, by the way. So much freedom.

Yeah, I have since come to find a happy medium of you have to have some sort of joke structure, you just have to. It's inherent to the art form. Anyone can go up there and completely freak people out to total silence. And that's what I was doing for years. Is I would go, you guys don't get it,

I'm a little worm or whatever. And I would do these long act outs to silence. And then I would go, yeah, don't get it, I'm a little worm or whatever, and I would do these long act outs to silence, and then I would go, yeah, I'm basically Andy Kaufman. Yeah. And then somewhere along the way, there's like, no, you have to find that medium, no one wants to be, that's not cool to freak people out for no reason.

At least you were doing it with such risky out of this world material where we were performing to complete silence of the most generic. Sure, yeah. It's like this should be relatable and it's getting complete silence. It's gotta be. To have a seven minute worm story getting silence

in the beginning is a little bit more understandable. Sure, especially. Yeah, they don't get it. When I'm genuinely talking about my life and people are like, I don't fucking like this guy. I actually hate who you are as a person. Yeah, interesting Yeah, they just moved to I mean It's got to be the craziest thing of like you're probably one of four comedians in Idaho at the time in an open mic Sure, and then you go on stage the guy after you it's got to be like no fucking way. Are they all like

This next set's gonna be a little bit different. Yeah, it was a lot of that. Yeah. Yeah. I heard you talking about on a Preson and Steve, you're a Brody Stevens guy. Oh, I was a huge Brody Stevens guy. He is the man. Yeah. He's so funny.

His hour at the Comedy Store is on Apple Music and I used to listen to it all the time. It would make me laugh so fucking hard. Yeah. Yeah. I shave with a mock hard. Yeah. Yeah. I shave with a mock fly. Yeah. Yeah. I took a swim in the Puget Sound the other day.

I clogged the drain. That's so sick, dude. Well, he has one of my favorite jokes that I think about all the time. He goes, sorry guys, I broke down on the way here in my daddy's arms. That's pretty nice. RIP to the legend, dude.

Pretty good stuff. Oh my god, though man. So Kill Tony, dude. Sure. Give us the long and the skinny of it. I mean, you get on there, you're like, you start to be the opener for it. How much like, how stressed are you every week being like,

oh my god, a new minute. Take a sip, please. Please, a long swig. Think about it. And do it like you mean it for once, dude. Don't lick the lips Sister sister. Oh my god. Sorry the Tamara to a great show of course. All right Peter He's a smart guy

TN Tamara. Yeah, they were gorgeous. They meant a lot to me back. That was originally the name of this podcast but then it was taken and It was bastardized. Yeah, so tragic so tragic well I don't do kill Tony every week I did it for a really short period last year yeah for like two months every week so I've only done it like 12 times but oh wow that's so you have to ask cam or William so I don't do it like that I don't fucking do kill Tony I don't do it like that oh it's just I don't do it every week but I would imagine you know it's a and It's just I don't do it every week. But I would imagine, you know, it's a, and that's what we would have conversations about,

ad nauseam, me and those guys, is that no one in the world does that. No one in the world is expected to do that, except for these three people. It's crazy. To come up with a new minute every single week. And then, you know, Tony and Red Band, they're not doing a minute,

so it's just you guys in this very exclusive company that makes you very open to criticism. Yeah. Yeah. And you're forced to grow. You know, Cam's only done it for like three or four years stand up. So yeah, he's forced to grow in the public eye as he's, I mean, he's already a savant. He's a genius. He's born. He's the, the wonder can, but he's forced to grow in this public eye that a lot of people aren't exposed to, so it's kind of unprecedented territory. Yeah. That's insane. Three or four years, dude. Yeah, maybe five now, maybe. Yeah. Even still, I can't imagine that. Is it like daunting where you're, I mean, they obviously love you guys, but are you kind of always worrying about, are you writing,

like, is the audience going to like this or like, is Tony going to be still into this, especially early on when you first get in kinda his, like, just like guys. Trying to get him to like it? Yeah. No. Certainly not. Yeah. Almost the opposite. No, no, no, no.

Well again, cause I, that was, that's never been my intention. So all you can do is just do what you think is funny, right? And if they like it, that's great. But I can tell a lot of the times I did it that the guests didn't like it or whatever. And it doesn't bother me. All you can do is that you think it's funny, you know? Yeah. Yeah, because if you cater to them, I mean, what would that even look like? I don't know what that would look like. Yeah, in retrospect,

look, I'm not the one who usually leads the interviews. That was one of the worst questions. Do you like making other guys happy or do you care about your craft at all? That's crazy. I don't know what he would even like. I don't know. It would be right. Yeah a joke by joke. I'm playing with my invention It's yeah busy busy. That's how we're gonna grab the guests later We're gonna slap them with one of these goo hands sit down fucker Do you guys party it up last night? Always I don't drink so we went but we went to the casino and I lost $300 again. I lost $300 on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday

I'm way down. Yeah, I've never been down so much money. I don't gamble like that Apparently now I do except for three nights in a row except for three nights in a row. Yeah, we're taking tonight off. Thank God What's the game of choice? What off the clock? I'm just bad at all of it man I'll put $100 into a slot machine I'll do $5 spins bogus gone grub cooked then I'll put $5 all around the roulette table boop hits the bankers zero zilch yeah then I'll go okay now I'm down to hundo let me flip this hundred on blackjack boys this next one's on you yeah but immediately all right I'm gonna take off Rob Jimbo we're gonna be pulling our money together this next

trip yeah the whole gambling thing freaks me out of just I just feel so hi thank you thanks it's gonna be such a funny thing to get recognized first of all your first recognition was from your t-shirt alone. Sure. Twin Peaks and then also getting recognized with crab hangs. So it's just probably the more unique recognition that somebody's getting. That's gonna be fun. Yeah, the universal symbol of love.

Yeah. What is that? Because this is all, it seems like, I mean, you've been doing Santa for a long time. Like this is all kind of blown up in the past couple years. Sure. What is the adjustment? Are you feeling sexier? Are you feeling taller and longer?

Like what's it been like this past couple years? Ebs and flows man. Yeah. Do you care if I smoke on here? No. Please. Please. Be insulted if you didn't.

God things are looking up. Things are looking good for us. Pop a couple almonds, smoke a cigarette, whatever you gotta do man. It was really Really really really difficult last year was such an artistic director move It's also the perfect phrase to start a cigarette with it was really difficult It was really difficult and ebbed it flowed it. Oh my god it reeked. It was not the best summer It was not the best summer. It's been summer for my husband.

It was just really hard. I got like a hundred thousand followers I think within like one month. So it was like, I had like maybe sixty thousand last February and then I got a hundred thousand like within like every day would be like thousands and thousands of people. So it was just a lot. It put me in a really bad head space. Really? Where I was just really, all I could think about was like people, like as a comedian, obviously what you want is people to see what you do, right? But then when it's happening, like en masse,

and like having all these like comments rolling in, like mostly negative stuff, at least when I would do it on Killtoning, everybody hated it. So then I would, it's like, oh God, am I some clown? Are people only following me because they hate me? Or trying to figure out these things. But then at the end of the day, only within the last couple

of months have I really been able to come to terms with, it's the same thing as Idaho. It's just all you can do is do what you think is funny. It's the same exact thing. It doesn't matter if it's a million people, or's a hundred people or it's ten people, which is what I did for years with shows for like no people. Like we all do. It's the same general concept. All you can do is just do what you believe in, as lame as that sounds. No, it's funny. It feels like when you start comedy, that's kind of where you're at. You're just doing what you think is funny. And then in a couple of those middle years, you start to get away from that a little bit.

And then you start to come back to it realizing, like, I just got to get back to what I think is funny. Yeah. But I don't know. It's like I've experienced the same thing on a much, much smaller scale. Well, when I went to Idaho, it wasn't working. It wasn't working. And I go, OK, just this is not I go, okay, this is not funny. What I'm doing is not funny, this is never gonna work. So then I had about six months where I was totally 100% trying to do relatable, what I thought they wanted to do.

I would love to see what that would look like. I was at my job, you guys know jobs, you've had them. My accountant, ScrappyDew, was talking to me about taxation What is kind of more basic like working? Like kind of like you guys we type. Yeah. Yeah, and exactly what me matter doing Like drop the weed material man You and I did a crab walk cross-stage someone call the cops

It's got to be like a cake a cake. I got some, someone would call the cops. It's gotta be like a KKK thing, or some house of way, dude. It's horrifying. It's all off for interpretation. So sick. Yeah. But then you realize, okay, well this, even if it was working better, but it left me with, I felt like a thousand times worse,

where I was like, okay, I've sold my soul for what? To be a feature comedian, like, what for what? Yeah. Yeah, you're like, so I can work slightly more locally? Yeah. So I can host at Liquid Laughs and Boise. What's the point? One more winery, please. Yeah. Well, what happened is Sam Talent came to town and I hosted for him and he saw my act and I did really well. And then I watched his hour and I was like, holy shit. I was like, I'm so embarrassed.

Like I felt like my skin was crawling. I was like, I've, I just wanted to grab him and be like, that's not me. Like I made a mistake. That's not me. I don't really do like weed material like that. I do worm stuff. You would love my unique shit. You would love my unique neat shit. I'm not even relatable, dude. I't normally relate this much. You wouldn't understand me at all Mr. Talent. Dr. Talent. Sorry. Dr. Talent I presume. He's a tall glass of milk huh? That's gotta be intimidating. He's a big guy. He's a big dude. Large man. Larger than life. He's a genius. He really is incredible. Especially standing next to somebody that's like male American average like you and I. You know he's probably just a giant behemoth. Yeah, dude. I'm wearing dr. Scholes right now stuffs knock I rolled my ankle last month. It's really downhill for me the past couple weeks Being around like so you kind of like blood over the past couple years being around like bigger comedians

Is there like a large intimidation factor? Are you a little bit kind of like yeah, this is us kind of caught the nose Well, it depends glad you asked that it depends on the person but yeah, I mean it's something as with all things in entertainment it's something you slowly slowly get used to. And only within the past maybe year have I been able to kind of still do my act or whatever. Like if they're in the room I'm saying I guess. Like do my act without thinking like oh Ron White's back there or you know whoever, Tom Sigour is back there, you know. or Tom Sigoura's back there. Do you ever think about that with Rogan specifically?

When I first started working at the club, oh yeah, every set I did, I was thinking he was in the back of the room. Like, who is this piece of shit? What does that do to you when you're on stage doing it? Even if it's just like, you don't change your act, but what are you thinking? Are you like, fuck dude, he's gonna...

Well yeah, anytime something doesn't hit, you're like, I'm cooked. Yeah, so you're slowly, maybe you start up here and you're slowly collapsing in on yourself. As things, your tags don't hit. Even if everything else hits, if a tag doesn't hit, like a throwaway line, you're like, Rogan hates me.

And then he's not even back there. He's not even in the club, you know? I can't wait till you're eventually on his podcast and it's just you and him sitting down like, worms are fucking crazy, man. Like that will happen within the year. It's just you and Rogan getting deep in on the worm talk, dude.

Yeah, worms are crazy, man. I can't, I mean, I have that thought, there's guys who have that thought at open mics in New Jersey about like, Joe Rogan's gonna hate this. I wouldn't stress I mean I have that thought there's guys who have that thought at open mics in New Jersey about like Joe Rogan's gonna Hate this I would stress about that brother. You should be right as rain after this one quite far Ways away from the mothership. I should be a okay. Yeah, what do you think about like the Austin scene is now very popular

But it seems like everybody is a little Fancy pants about it. Like is it comparison comparative to New York and LA? What do you think? Like fancy pants in what sense like they think comparison, comparative to New York and LA? What do you think? Like fancy pants in what sense? Like they think that is better? Perhaps, yeah. I don't know, like the past. How fancy are your pants?

And talk about your pants for once in your life, dude. For the past calendar year, I haven't been around like I once was, so. I like that you keep specifying that it's a calendar year, calendar minute, calendar day. The Roman Greco calendar. Geico, yeah. Yeah, man, it's great.

It's great for standup. I will say that there is, sometimes there's kind of this, I shouldn't talk about it. There's kind of this, it's not as silly as other places. I think people would be surprised at the narrative of like, oh, Austin is right leaning. Most of the comedians in Mothership, like, nine out of ten,

are super silly young people doing like alt comedy. Yeah. And that's something people don't see until they get kind of behind those doors. Because there's no clips being released out of this like media black hole, right? Right. So you don't really see what's going on They're like most of the door guys are super silly like alternative people so I think that that general perception about Austin is wrong, but at the same time

Sometimes I don't feel I Feel like people are in it for the wrong reasons there, maybe yeah Yeah, yeah, even though I have a lot of like great friends there and stuff who aren't in it for that reason. Totally. But you're gonna get that I guess just with the explosion. Anywhere. Yeah. Just comedy in general.

Yeah. Yeah. It's funny to think that that's right leaning and then like La Mer is there. The La Mer is the most just, it looks like a poster boy for anything but right leaning. There we go. We were gonna find it. I love La Mer. It is bad. No. I know. I thought you were gonna come up with a specific, like, it looks like a poster boy for anything but rightly we go we were gonna find it I love them I

know I think we're gonna come up with a specific like looks like a poster boy for something and we're all gonna brainstorm around that I could say he was he was are we I mean our core you know best like Philly guys are all awesome guys now yeah they left us and parted us they were too good Lamar unless I'm he was I think one of the few times he was in Jersey recently he took a shit in my apartment that smelled so bad to me and my girlfriend got in a fight He laughs don't like don't let him poop in here. Well, she was like, did he have to do in the main bathroom? I was like, I can't really control that thing. It really was a little mayor guest bedroom

If you're doing dookie time, it's time to go to the guest bedroom. Do you, Rob and Jim, share a hotel room on the road? No. I was going to say, that's got to be the smelliest hotel room of all time. That puts forward the idea that somebody's sharing a bed. Yeah. Which is totally fine. Sometimes you open for somebody on the road at a park sexino and you share it. I've done it before for sure. I've shared plenty of hotel rooms. But no, the club, you know, they whatever they pay for my hotel room So and then I pay for Robin gems. So what a gentleman. Yeah, that's a classy move. Well, sir Well, what you know, so when you live your life, like I don't really have like a home, right? I live like out of a suitcase, right? So it's a pleasure

You need to pay to bring your friends with you. Yeah, you have to have your friends with you or it's a really really isolating experience What do you think's been the biggest change with touring that you've noticed like within the last year? There's you've obviously you know gotten an even bigger audience like when you're on the road and you're touring now Is there like any glaring differences that you're saying? People are just excited and it's really exciting. Yeah. It's nice to meet. I do the meet and greet after every show, which a lot of people don't do. It's really tiring, right?

But yeah, it's really exciting. It's all new for me. Again, I couldn't sell. I don't even know if this is again. I don't even think I said this. But I couldn't sell any tickets before like a year and a half ago. So it's all super cool. So me. Yeah. I don't really have tickets before like a year and a half ago, so it's all super cool to me Yeah, I don't really have like a litmus test I I did I've done like 70 cities since last summer so I've done like a bunch a bunch a bunch of cities

So it's all equally exciting and equal measure. Yeah, it never it hasn't gotten old yet. Yeah, it's awesome I can't imagine dude. It's gotta be the coolest thing just coming up horsing around goofing all throughout the states, dude Yep, bring your friends with you, but at what cost? Have you ever done a somersault on stage and be honest, dude, I'm sure I'm sure I have yeah. Oh, yeah I open mic stuff. I've definitely tried Yeah, what's that? What's like one of the more absurd things you've done like that? You can't do on a real real stage like an open mic or back of the day Hey crowd surfing any you I see you jump in the stool constantly, but that seems a lot of stool work

Yeah, man, I don't know I used to do sets in character a lot where I would be like I Guess this is what I was trying to say about Austin is I seem to be more my inclination would be as like a UCB person where I'm like silly character work type goofy goofy improv type thing even though I don't do improv yeah and then there's not a lot of people like that in Austin so sometimes it's like trying to find my tribe, right? But yeah, I would do a lot of like, I used to do showcases and I would do 10 minutes as standup and then I would go, I would go,

all right, I'm gonna do a character. And then I would do a character, which is like the worst way to do comedy. Cause they're like, it's you, right? We just saw you, it's you. Yeah, but you made an announcement to be fair you just did one 360 spin You're like I am a different guy. No, I'm the weatherman I did that for like a long time you should have had audience plants of like somebody like holy shit

It's the weatherman nice He's a weatherman the other guy left rain sleet stuff like that No, he saw my clouds now. Have you found any? People trying to copy like do Casey rocket styles. Yeah, any Casey baby Sure these things happen, but it's things that people grow out of right I think I used to we all did that we all did that so it's yeah, it's a form of flattery I guess yeah, yours has got to be so funny to see because there's no denying where you go I wonder what kind of who he's inspired by.

I'm the lobster man. Well, he's dancing like a crab on stage. I don't know that might be a tell. Well, it's um This is what I always say about it is that it hardly works for me even when I'm Even when it's my crowd it's a room full of people who bought tickets just to see me I'm one riff away from losing them at all times. Yeah, so It hardly works for me and when I do showcases to this day, I eat shit all the time.

So if it's not my crowd, I eat shit constantly. I bombed super bad last week at the Moon Tower. Yeah, you riffed too close to the sun and you get burnt. Like Icarus. Riff-a-rus. Hello fucks, good to be here. It's just me falling out of the sky. I tried to talk about my bones being too long.

Have you ever met a rival riffer that you guys kind of came to maybe fisticuffs almost? Somebody that riffed in the same vein? You had to take matters into your own rift? Yeah, I picture like a Japanese anime cartoon where they just like see each other. Yeah, you keep thinking about your move in your head and it gives a dialogue. I've met some people who have messaged me and they go, oh, you know, I'm like the riff guy too. And I go, all right, brother see I'll see you on the court and then so I was in Australia and like two weeks ago

and there's a comic from Britain named Kyle legacy oh dear god and he riffed me he riffed me into a coma no he was good dude he fucking stole my wind out of my sails with the fake accent and everything? Yeah total, by the way, call it legacy, fake accent. Call it legacy. The jig is up buddy. I'm calling it how I see it. Fake last name. Say what you want, what you see is what you get. Take it at face value, okay that means something. This is genuine Riff's. No but he was like, genuine. Stewart Crowder, Griffin and he had already, we had been messaging and I had met him before and so it was our first show together and yeah they had me close out this showcase. And this is always a fatal mistake.

When it's me headlining a showcase for a crowd of people who don't know who I am, it almost always is total silence. And they, it's either the show was bad, now the crowd is dead, they're gonna continue to be dead, or the show more than likely was red hot. And they they're gonna continue to be dead, or the show, more than likely, was red hot, and they love what they've been seeing for an hour and a half, and then I get up there and I'm,

baby, baby, baby, baby. No, no, no, no, no, stop doing that thing, and I'm like, I don't know how. It's kind of my move, too. I don't know how, the only way I know how to do it is. Ugh. It's like the ad dip is something different. I bomb so, so hard.

But it's good for business, man. It's good for business. It's good for business Are you can you acknowledge a bomb when you're in that can you hit like you guys don't like this or you? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'll go like don't worry up. It's just like 45 more minutes You know you have all kinds of tricks of the trade where you're trying to win them back I never typically give up. Yeah, you think of a time recently I mean, it's probably a while ago since you've had a crowd for a while now, but where you go right off the bat, they are not into it and you're looking down the barrel of like another 44 minutes.

I've had many sets where it's like they don't like me right away and I'm like, just, oh my God, the time that I have to finish. I had a bad weekend, this is a great club. I had a bad weekend in Arizona, maybe six months ago. And Improvs are big groups. So Improvs typically are like 400 to 500 people with the bigger clubs. And the whole weekend was basically sold out.

And for whatever reason, it was like a college town. I think it was just people, they bought tickets to see something other than me. And every single hour, I was like back behind the curtain like, fuck. And I would go there, like, you know, shooting Kettemine or whatever. Showtime. Yeah. Kettemine in my dick hole.

And there's like, no. Just you backstage going, just get out there, Case. Fuck. Yeah. Do it for yourself, bro. You gotta do it for you, dude. This is for the boys back in Idaho. Yeah.

Served to the best. You're living a blessing right now. This is for the boys back in Idaho You're living a blessing right now. It's all blessing. Oh, yeah, we our boys back. Yeah, come on Haven't take a look at this invention now. This could be a rival riff if I ever We're to run some inventions by you and see your thoughts on them And we need totally think about that bad boy You grab that microphone hold that close to your mouth. You ever seen one of these in the wild? Cool, invention. My name is Dylan by the way.

Dylan, okay. He used to put his hand out first. He's a quick boy. Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, man. We've been looking for you all day, brother. You found me. We're going to find out what you do for work in a little bit. But the first question, your thoughts and keep it a bean.

My thoughts? Sticky situation in your pucks. That's right. He's absolutely right. You're a little bit of a lint that's gonna get on there. That's a natural blue ripper. So Dylan, what do you do for work? What's your life like?

What do you have at the job? Yeah, I do. I live down in D.C. What are you doing down here? Up here, I'm visiting my good friend Kiara over here. There she is, Kiara. I've known her for a while. Hanging out for the day, working food, working restaurants. Down at this cafe in Georgetown down there right now.

Nice. Okay. Do you make music? Make music, I, you know, just music kind of flows through me I find. I like dancing a lot, like freestyle and- You're a dancer. Yeah, you know, not like, I know you're thinking I'm a contemporary, modern, you know, interpretist.

Exactly. I was gonna say. Chopin, you know. That was last year, but I figured I had to try something new. One calendar year? Yeah. More like the belly dancing kind of, you know. Really?

Really? How'd you get into that line of work? Well, you just turn the song on and then the moves start happening. I feel it kind of... And did you say you were a freestyle either too? Freestyle rap? Yeah, you know, started... Would you mind giving us a sample?

Just a couple bars. Couple bars? Lowly bars for guys like us. Couple bars, we got them all around. One over there called the Park. I hear the birds with the high def sound. I'm from my man, he said I'm from out of town. I said, you know how we get down, even though we up now. Okay. That's how it was, heading the cloud. Almost took off the mic.

Shit, I did it like mic. Listening to like mic back when I was like maybe five and oh five, I think it was with Calvin Cambridge. Yeah, but nowadays I'm 20 years older and I'm still saying the same shit. Yeah. That's pretty fucked sweet. Something like that. Are we getting this?

Yeah, we're getting this. Clip it. Hello, Hollywood? Hello, Dr. Hollywood. This is me, I'm calling. Dylan's here. That was pretty good, man. Pretty impressive. Dollar dang, you know, disco dang, D'Londo, I'm calling. Dylan's here. That was pretty good, man. Pretty impressive.

Yeah, Dolly Dang, you know, Disco Dang, D'Londra Jones doing the dang. Yeah, brother. Dang. It just never stops, dude. This is good stuff. No, no, yeah, you guys should, yeah, you guys come hang out sometime.

I would love to. Thanks for having us. Right, hang out. Where should we hang out? Where we hang? I don't know. Where are we headed to? No trees, we don't hang from trees.

What park? Okay. I hope not.. Where are we headed to? No trees. We don't hang from trees. But OK. Well, I hope not. OK. I don't know. Is that a threat? What parks are you going to be hanging out at that we could find you? I don't know.

Down in DC, like Malcolm X Park's a nice one. Nice. We live over by there. They got a nice little drum circle for anyone down there on Sundays. Hell yeah. Come shake it one time. So you work in food.

That's a very broad thing. What is it, restaurants? You work at? Let me get all. Yeah, please. Get situated. Yeah, come on now. I'll try to lounge out.

Yeah, I feel like we're connected at this point. After I skipped your hand, I feel like I gotta make it up to you. Can I touch a braid? Yeah, you can touch anything. Just a braid. Anything. Yeah, you just gotta add.

And let me feel your hand. And you feel that? It feels pretty good. See that? That was in a 40 and over there. I was doing the chakra dance. And you feel that? It feels pretty good. See that? That was a shot. There was an accordion over there. I was doing the chakra dance earlier. Y'all missed out on that one.

We were aligning the chakras earlier. So I hope y'all caught some of that. Oh, I felt it. I felt it. Align the chakras. Are you a very Zen guy? Are you very like? No, no, I don't really believe in all that.

What? You're shortlisted in a park today. You gotta have some level of Zen. Nah, I mean, I enjoy it. I think it's all, you know. Change their own. You gotta do some level of zen. Nah, I mean I enjoy it. I think it's all, you know. Enjoy good zen. Change their own. You gotta do what you like, you know.

You gotta feel comfortable, real natural with it. But, you know, the whole like, coup line, you know, you need all the like, you know what I'm talking about. Of course, yeah. You know, you know what I'm talking about, like. We get it. I'm gonna, you know, pay for the tarot cards and you get the dowries on and all this stuff

I got a lot of a little much. It's a little too much. Oh, it's too much. Okay. You have your been no palm reading before No, no, I've been to one and I it actually was fairly accurate I went to one at a bar and the lady told me that me and my girlfriend were going to break up soon And we broke up a month later, so it's not all so we do going to break up soon and we broke up a month later so it's not all we do. I've had a lot of them that are accurate, they're super accurate. It's a little scary accurate almost every time. It's kind of like the zodiac sign. I would love to shit on it but for the most part it does feel like there's some symbols of truth. I don't like it. It feels like then my my fate is locked in and then I'm like well I just I gotta get in a car accident next month.

She said it's gonna happen. I'm just gonna keep doing perks It's above my pay grade Perks is a similar price or Picking up a new hobby. So maybe I could The tar ifs are hitting the perks from my understanding the tar ifs tariffs tariffs. Yeah. Oh my god perk prices are through the roof Tariff tariffs tariffs. Yeah. Oh my god perk prices are through the roof Grow your own that's true Perks in this country, that's what Like a baseball size poppy

It's homegrown. Yeah, it's 37% tariffs on Jason the dealer bringing the jobs back to America. Yeah So you went shirtless today? You said it's good Sun out. I'm gonna absorb it. Oh, yeah. I mean it feels good I'll be getting tired walking around girls. It's like that little doohickey you got over you get all sticky and yeah It's not real comfortable. You know, I'm gonna have a go change my shirt. I'll be all stinky like yeah, you know I'm gonna let it breathe. You're a In shape good good looking guy. If you weren't, do you think you would still go shirtless? Settle down, Matt.

I've just took two different ways. Probably not, right? Really? Yeah, I have been not good looking and out of shape before, and I wasn't popping off then. At times, you know, real comfortable. You weren't always popping the top. In certain situations, you know, you'll rock out, but all the time, no. You know, you grow into it. We all got time, no, you know, you grow into it.

We all got different phases of life. Yeah, that's true. I'm in a phase right now myself, honestly. Yeah, you just broke up with your girl. No, that was my old girl. The new girl is still around. Yeah. Yes. Are you a taken man? You're a single guy? You're on the town?

Single, single guy, yeah. And how's Philly treating a single guy? Shit, I've been here like 18 hours so less than that? Less than that. 8 hours? I don't know. Between 8 to 18 hours. Sweet. You guys just strolling around the city just looking for some fun stuff to do? I guess you look forward to finding you.

We got a little table they told us to wait. We said okay, came over here. I seen y'all. Now we're talking. It's like the shirt. You just pop now we're talking. Shit's popping off. It's just like the shirt. The shirt, you just pop off the shirt and then the rest pops off. That's right. Actually, I had my tarot cards read last month

and they said a shirtless guy was gonna sit down with us. Unbelievable. Not worth the story. We turned dreams around. And the weather channel too, so it doesn't be 78 degrees. He's a weatherman actually. I watched that one. Couldn't read that one.

Wouldn't that be funny if tarot was like, it wasn't like your life is going's a wet man. I watched that one. And I, yeah. Couldn't you read that one? Wouldn't that be funny if Tara was like, it wasn't like your life is going through a different season. It was like next Tuesday. Yeah. Someone is going to walk into your apartment. Yeah. Oh, shit.

You're like directing the clock. You're going to miss the bus tour. Yeah. Just week by week Tara card readings. You were going to have diarrhea on Wednesday the 16th. Tuesday night, you got your blanket up to your face. There will be a crack in it. Because you know you're about have diarrhea in Wednesday the 16th Tuesday night you're just you're you got your blanket up there so sick when you say you work in food are you a cook I'm currently doing front of house stuff making like

lattes and cleaning tables and counters and used to, part time I'm also cooking at night. I've done most things except bartending. Yeah, what are you cooking at night? Yeah, what are you making? We're gonna a pasta wine bar called Revelers Hour in DC, really nice spot. We'd all kind of, it's not like Italian, Italian, but pulls from it, kind of contemporary and American cuisine as well. Pasta wine bar, what is the cocaine budget on that back row back there? You know, you got to at least get a bottle to start. Then you got to buy a lot of cheese.

Bottle of cocaine. You know, we got cheese by the wheel. Oh, quit bragging. Bottle of coke. What am I going to do, you know? Bottle of white? You know, we got cheese by the wheel Little Florida Sally, you know, that's your little espresso that gets you gone. Yeah Cheese by the wheel. Can you imagine? Cheese wheels and they... and they uh...

That's the splendor. They put the noodles in the wheel and they mix it all up. That's what I would imagine Casey's doing with his new comedy money. He's like just give me the biggest cheese wheel you can possibly think of. What's the comedy money? Smoking a pipe and just buying cheese by the wheel. I'm dipping fucking In-N-Out burgers in there.

Oh. Get out of my room? I'm dipping fucking In-N-Out burgers in there. Oh. Get out of my room! I'm a comedian. We're all comedians. Oh, right on. Yeah, been best friends for about 40 minutes now. We just met each other. I've never met him. That's amazing.

I feel like we're like a quartet now. We're like the four tops. We've met. No, we're met. We met. Trust me. We're old friends. Mr. Rocket. How long y'all know each other? I remember that. We all just met today, but we're men. Trust me. We're old friends. Mr. Rocket.

How long y'all know each other? I remember that. We all just met today, but we're just here to kind of hang out, interview some people like yourselves. Oh yeah, yeah. But this was great. Thanks for hanging out with us. Oh yeah.

Any parting wishes to the community? I don't know, just keep doing what y'all do, you know. Enjoy yourselves and don't think about it too much. You know, it ain't that deep. Just have fun and don't let shit get you down that don't matter now. Beautiful. Can we put that on a T-shirt?

Yes. Yeah, but I'm gonna take it off. Okay. Yeah. Come on. Let's go, man. Nice to meet you. He was a world of surprises that entire interview.

He's spoken riddles. He did. And out of the cosmic. Yeah. Of the cosmic variety. Yeah, I feel like you're the only one that was actually interpreting what was being said The riddles it's on me we were riff channeling yeah, it was beautiful spirit writing He did feel like a rival riffer. Yeah, there was a lot of moving on that There was a lot of tension, but there was a lot of camaraderie Our best friendship we were talking about earlier that was a really dismissive we'd never

met before dude. I have never met these guys. I didn't mean it like that. I got nothing to do with this. I never seen this before. You can stick that gooey hand right up your ass. You guys have to believe me. Alright we're calling it. It's so fun. That was, you know, I won't lie to you guys, it's been one of the best days of my life. I'm at Helium all weekend. Next weekend, when does this come out? It'll be out tomorrow.

I love. If you see this, and it's Saturday, I got a couple shows at Helium Philadelphia. If you see this, and it's next week, the last week of April, I'm in Las Vegas all weekend at Wise Guys. Come see me, thank you. We'll be there hanging out. Best of friends.

Some of the closest guys. It was fun, you guys are super fun. Appreciate you. Thanks for doing it. You're awesome. Nice to meet you. I'm happy to. CaseyRock at Comedy.com.

Alright team, who are we here with, what's going on? What are our names? I'm wolf wolf Yeah, okay. I'm Amy wolf and Amy okay now is wolf your birth name. No. I wolf is my chosen name gotcha I like wolf. How do you on wolf? I like wolves I went by Alex for like a long time like the ten years or something like that and If you know anything about Alex's you you know the shit's on Alex's. I was tired of being one of the Alex's. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna stand out, I'm picking something new.

Straight to Wolf. It's pretty tough to say that in front of Amy. There's quite a few Amys out there. Actually, Amy's my nickname. My name is a- Real name is Wolf. Real name is Wolf. I'm surprised.

I'm Wolf and she is also Wolf. We're actually all, all of her is actually named Wolf. Of course, of course. My birth name's Cheetah, but I go by Amy now yeah I um I typically go my actual name is Amora okay um but 90% of people for some reason don't know how to say it yeah they look at it on paper so I just made it easier for people just there you go call me Amy yeah yeah it's pretty sweet yeah yeah so you guys are furries furry fans is that we're here. Yeah Yeah, how do you get into?

Becoming a furry I walk me through that it just it's kind of a vibes thing. Yeah Like when did you first catch the vibe? Um, I think when I was back in middle school Yeah, I originally was like oh I Like I like that stuff. But like, so you saw a video and you were like, I like what's going on with this. Yeah, what was like your opening? Like what piece of media, like what on social media?

Yeah, like are you hugging a teddy bear and you're like, God, I'm feeling something? Yeah, or like movie, cause you know how every furry has like that movie that was like that awakening. I saw Ted the movie and I said, that is what I want Ted the movie and I said, that is what I want.

There will be blood. So originally I think it started, earliest memory, I think it started with the movie, what, The Secret of Nim? Oh yeah. It's like a mouse movie, it's like an animated mouse movie. A lot of people apparently were- Attracted to the man to the man

unfortunately okay I won't judge them I won't judge on letter rip that wasn't exactly my awakening I was one of those people who I fell along that like hated furries into furry pipeline so like I always knew a first when I was younger but in 2016 as a sort of an interact more with the media it just I just kind of fell into it yeah um but I would say I was like a low-key furry for the longest amount of time and I what does that look like I'm a low-key furry I'm just sniffing a teddy bear behind closed doors

that's low-key from it's's Loki from Marvel, by the way. That's an actual Loki furry, yeah, of course. Yeah. I would say like my proper, when I decided to dive deeper into the community and media was like a year or two

ago. When I started properly interacting with it and then I went to my first convention which was a furry Delphia last year. And do you have, and I apologize because I'm not as familiar, but do you have a specific like costume for yourself? So I want to get one. Yeah. Um, they're just expensive. I don't have the money right now. Uh, but that's something that's not talked about enough is how expensive it is to get in the furry game. It actually is.

It is. It is. It was talked about on Minute Work podcast. 19 episodes. I am a guest host today, so I apologize. Those motherfuckers are loaded, dude. Every furry we talked to was a six figure earner. Oh yeah.

Yeah, my suit's $40,000. Oh my God. My partner is a landlord. He works for Graystar. Okay. which is like one of the biggest. What is it called? Rental, one of the biggest property owners in general, especially on the East Coast. Like you'll find a decent amount of the buildings in Philly are Greystar buildings. Yeah. So he works for them and he makes a decent amount.

He owns his own like partial. Get the fuck out of here Yeah, but I'm I'm one of those who just don't really make a lot of money. Yeah Though I am trying to pursue a proper career as a furry partially both being a furry and becoming a mechanic furry mechanic Career path is furry mechanic. Most times I'm getting my oil change, I go,

this guy's probably dressing up behind closed doors. He's behind closed doors. That'd be pretty sick of a furry coming out and being like, so this is what your carburetor looks like. You're going to want to get that one changed. I'm going to say bitmits on that. That'd be terrifying. That's so funny.

It brings a whole entire new term for dog tracking. That's right. So is that how you guys met? We, so I actually met her through the Furry Delphia Telegram chat. I joined there because I got, I sold my fursuit to someone. They were like, oh, hey, here's a group chat

that a bunch of people who go to Furry Delphia are in. He infuses the invite to it. And I was like, well, shit, I didn't know this fucking existed. I didn't know it existed either until recently. Yeah. And I joined it. And we just started talking through that and hanging out and now we're here. And so you sold your fairy suit. I did I had to yeah. Did you make some good

coin? Yeah like 500 bucks something like that. Not bad? Yeah not at all it's decent. I had one for a short amount of time. Who was it? I had one for a short amount of time. I had one for a couple of months. I got back in Halloween. During Halloween, I had it in my possession because I had to fix it. And then I just kept on wearing it until like February. I had to give it back. Yeah, we were at Philadelphia, I guess it was last year. One event that I would like to propose done very safely, I think jousting would be pretty fucking sick at Furadelfu. Oh my god. Can we not fucking joust? I second that. Can we not joust? I think a little jousting should be allowed. Keep it safe. I second that. Very soft, kind of big sword thing.

Yeah, like a pool noodle. Like a pool noodle. Well, a little denser, okay, perhaps maybe, hmm, something like... Because they got like those foam swords. Yeah, I would like to see some jousting. Maybe like a foam paddle? Yeah, like a foam paddle. Yeah, so that's my big recommendation to the furry community to feel accepted. Instead of having an anthro arena, they just. Just do it in the fucking conference room with the Hilton.

In the horse's head. Furry Delphia, if you're listening, get in on this. Yes, please. Please, we need jousting. Absolutely. So a lot of people, do they thrift other costumes like that? Yeah, it's very, what's one of the most common ways I think to get a fursuit is secondhand through someone else.

It's that and pre-made and pre-made. Yeah So having full custom suits really expensive easily rack you 1200 just for I mean it depends on the creator. There's some there's some creators I know who do like a full suit for like two or three grand Which is but there are some who do it for like a part the price of a new car. Yes. Oh What was your furry costume what did it look like the price of a new car. Yes. Oh, holy shit. That's what we were starting to hear. What was your furry costume? What did it look like? It was just a corgi.

So I had the head and I had the hand paws and the feet paws. That's it. No body suit. No. I wanted one, but that body suit of a carpet would have been another like 500, 600 bucks. True, true, true, true.

Yeah. I've just been locked in. I keep seeing long body dogs. I want a long body dog so bad. Oh, yeah. They're the sweetest. Like a Oh, yeah, they're the sweet a wiener dog Saying you wanted a wiener dog fursuit perhaps get in on that. That's like a two-person suit though They have those they do make those fucking joust on dude riding that He just wants a long wiener

Everyone does Well I can't believe it. Is that a sin? Is that a sin? No. Well, in the Bible. Oh yeah, the Bible. I forgot about that old... Yeah. I'm not preaching it. Well look, thank you guys so much for hanging out. We appreciate any parting words. Oh, you got a furry tat. I do. I have a couple. I have this one. This is Toro and Yoi. He's the mascot for Sony in Japan. Okay. Yeah, this is this is my little guy I have one on my leg too. It's hard to see. Oh, and you got a little Little tail tail on yes my coyote tail. I get one of those get it. Yeah, I know I want to I also have a tattoo. It's GG from GG from Kiki delivery service. Just like the Ghibli movie

Yeah, Ghibli's in a having a rough moment. They are like God with the AI stuff. It's crazy Creator of ghibli. I think was pretty pissed. I I would be I would be tough. Yeah, god damn. That's what I've been saying Had no idea how tapped into you were to Do the gimbal a pulse on the kid? Alright, alright, we see you Yeah, well, thank you guys so much, this was great. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having us. It was awesome.

Appreciate it, thank you. Yeah, you're very welcome. I'm gonna put it in my wallet. Yeah, nice to meet you. Thank you, nice to meet you. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. Y'all enjoy the rest of your beautiful day in the greenhouse.

You too. Have a 100%. Beautiful day. You too. I'll see ya. Thank you, I'll see you. As we were talking to those guys, I was really astounded by how much you already knew

about the furry community. So I apologize that I was stepping on what you already knew of. No problem. Yeah, just I'll do it again But you were really tapped into the They were like, yeah, you know you do this you thrive. Yeah, of course you thrift your furries. Like how did you? Well, you guys did the furry convention totally honestly the pod is finally starting to get some legs on it and A large portion of that is due to our furry friends, dude. That furry episode, they're the bros.

The furries are cool bros. They were incredibly cool. Yeah. I think the jousting thing is kind of a boob, though. Well, it's definitely interesting. It's interesting to hear them just be like, yeah, you know how anybody else does. You just fall into the community.

I'm like, no, no, no. That is where I am not following. I don't understand how you even find out about that and how you kind of, but hey, each their own. That's people asking us about how to start stand-up. It's like, well, yeah it's very true. It's kind of directionless after college. I have a complex where I need people to like me, so here we are. It really is brutal to find a group of Misfits and you just Miss yeah, it is a we got big dog here Have a good time. Sure

It's so unbelievable just couple of Misfits in at a table and Britain House Square And how do you well how do you feel this your first time being out in the bow? It's been cool, man I am shocked at how much you guys are getting recognized out here. It's crazy. I think just the idea that most people I know only talk about their job. For the most part, as you get older too, I'm starting to realize that I get older, I'm just slowly dying inside and I'm just wrapping myself around. Right now it's comedy, but who knows? It'll just become my job Yeah, just being excel head well

It's good that you're posted up in the park too because you get I mean people from all sorts of jobs here some without jobs I'm with jobs some shirtless some shirts on yeah shirtless Dylan was kind of the move dude I kind of envy that level of confidence where if I walk also if I walked around shirtless Someone's gonna call cops Even if I'm like a public square on if I'm on the beach Yeah, the the level of translucence that I have in my skin pigment because you're a pale. You're a pale fucking guy. Oh I wouldn't wrote me in with your category. Sure. I'm not the tannist of men. I'm an Irish. I'm an Irish fella But more importantly, you're a dude a new second. What's the what's the term if you have a second kid?

I don't know man loser. Is he true? Yeah, just had a baby. She's a week old my second child Yeah, so obviously I'm here When you said yes to this I was like what a piece of shit That's why I was talking to my wife and well first of all you text me yesterday And you're like hey give me a call when you get a chance. My immediate thought is, I swear to God, I was like, holy shit, you're gonna call me. I was gonna text you back and go, is everything okay? Because whenever somebody says,

can you give me a call that doesn't normally do that, I'm like, what's going on? Or is he mad at me? So I thought you were gonna be like, Gab is pregnant. And I was gonna be like, dude, it's totally fine. It doesn't make things more difficult in your life at all. You're gonna figure this out, trust me, I was the same age. Oh, you were rehearsing before the call.

Yeah and then you're like hey can you hop on the pod tomorrow we got KC Rocket coming on and then for me having to tell my wife like we are interviewing Mr. Rocket it's really important in Rittenhouse Square we're gonna be outside. Yeah. So it's it's funny to when you're doing comedy, it's like nothing ever sounds like a job despite it being like hey like it is something that you want to do and you have to do sometimes but it's never gonna sound appropriate. I gotta talk to a shirtless guy in a park. It's important. It's a lot. And she's like got a screaming baby in her arms and I'm like you're good with this right?

Look man this is a big opportunity for me. I mean it really is like you That's why you have to have Kind of a psychotic partner in order for this to work Yeah, your partner kind of has to be as out of your mind at their mind as you are Like they're like hell, like this is gonna work for him at some point most most people will be like this guy's out of his mind Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah What do you think this guy does? Excuse me Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude. What do you think this guy does? How you doing? Let's get him on.

Excuse me. Hey, do you wanna sit and talk to us for a little bit? We just talk about your job, what you do for a living, and then just kinda horse around? What's that? Come on over. Greg, Greg, Greg. Greg, nice to meet you, man.

We finally got you, brother. Good to be here, yeah. So Greg, tell us, what do you do for your job? I'm an architect. You're an architect? Architect. Interior designer. Okay, very cool.

So, mostly work in restaurant design. Okay. Yeah. Very cool. Now, were you hanging out in the park just kind of visualizing, getting some ideas for your next architecture? Well, sort of. I'm working on a project that's right there, right on the square.

Oh cool. Really? Right by a park? Right by a park. It's right there. Okay square. Oh cool. So really right by park right by park It's in the going in the old Barnes and Noble store. No way. It's a new Italian restaurant, so it's a big 24 restaurant we're designing and under construction right now Wow Ask I'm starting to notice the dimly the very dimly lit restaurant theme it makes me nervous I'm not sure how I feel about it is that like a trend or you think that's gonna be a lasting thing? I think it's lasting. You know, you gotta set the atmosphere. Lighting is everything in a restaurant, right? That sets the scene, it sets the mood, it gives you just enough light to light your face and

the food and the people you're talking to. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a bit of a klutzy guy where I walk in and I'm kind of... when it's too dark I just... I go panic mode, I'm scared about where my feet are, if I'm gonna trip. Well it helps you hide everything too then, right? True, that's a good point. You get a little spill, no one's gonna notice. That's a good point.

That's not bad. You should be an architect. What would be like, for your average person, basic interior design tips you could give someone that are like, hey here's like some, you know like something like that, oh that hides the. Well I mean, every project's different, that hides the...

Well, I mean, every project's different, but the core of it is you've got to think about it holistically. You've got to think about everything works together, right? Not just one element by itself, it's everything together. Right. So you're kind of thinking about a general theme with... It's a theme, and how does this go with this, and how they work together. That's kind of like, you always got to come back to that.

You always got to be able to... You can get caught up on what this tablecloth back to that. You always gotta be able to, you know, you can get caught up on like, you know, what this tablecloth is, but you gotta be able to zoom out and say, how's that work with it? That's always the mistake I'll make with my house is I'll get one piece of something that I really like and then, you know, I'm just piece-mealing random shit all together and none of it goes.

Yeah. That's kind of my existence. Yeah, that's always the issue, right? You get excited about one thing. Honestly, if it's more holistically together and it's simpler, it might be of my existence. Yeah, that's always dishy, right? You get excited about one thing. Yeah. Honestly, if it's more holistically together and it's simpler, it might be better than, you know, this crazy thing and this crazy thing and this difference. Right, because at least it's cohesive. Yeah.

What about, I'm kind of noticing a lot like the, I don't know how to phrase it, but like the commercial modernization of every restaurant. Now it's mostly in like chains, it seems like you're working in kind of like their own unique thing. Is that just, is that an actual aesthetic or is that just a cost-cutting measure where like everything's kind of gray and straight lines and that whole thing? That's the bad aesthetic that we gotta outgrow. Is that what it is? It's just something we gotta get rid of? Yeah, that's right, yeah. You know, it's the, you know, you go through waves of high design and low design, a lot of different stuff and then it gets simpler and simpler and simpler, it gets cheaper and cheaper and you know the millennial

gray yeah that's most houses yeah gotta go gray white cabinets is it a matter of sometimes just like the hiring architects that just have like the more creative visions and it's just been kind of yes and no I mean there's also things of like you know the market just dumps stuff down so it gets easier to get and then that's what's off the shelf. It's right there and that's what shows up because it solves a problem immediately without the forethought. Yeah, it's simple, it's maybe cheaper and then it kind of takes out some of the creative fun.

I always kind of enjoy the idea of, an architect. Yeah, not this not the Sound crass, but you guys like artsy fartsy. You're seeing things from specific angles Yeah, I guess you're a musician. So when you said architect, I'm like, all right. Yeah. Yeah the music of solids. Okay But like do you work a lot with like the blue collar construction guys and then is there any kind of like Rifts that happen where you're both coming from different kind of everything's uh, yeah, it's all teamwork You know, it's all you know, I might have an idea but you know, they're they're building it So you got to work with everyone right? It's like this full it's a circular conversation all the time Yeah, and that's a good good good results though. Yeah, we come up with a concept that comes ideas

We come up with all concept, we come up with ideas, we come up with all these things, but you gotta build it. You gotta work with someone who's building it and they have input and they have ideas. They oftentimes know better than you sometimes. And vice versa. You gotta be able to put it all together and kind of thread that needle.

Do you ever stress about what you're wearing in front of them? Because I always worry about, I kinda like to dress a little kinda cool, fun guy. I get made fun of pretty often. Do you ever worry about it? Yeah, you're going on a job site, you gotta be aware of what you're wearing in front of them because I always worry about I kind of like to dress a little kind of cool fun guy I get made fun of pretty often you don't worry about it yeah you're going on a job site you know you gotta be aware of what you're wearing but like you know this is what I wear them pretty good you know right down the middle it's perfect you walk anyway any world

perfect architect attire that's gotta be an amazing thing to tell a woman when she asks what you do is you go I'm an architect So that sounds good sounds great. Yeah, it's like sitting the old two syllables three still uses like boom But I just feel everyone knows what it is. Yeah, it's very nice I feel like a woman is just really attracted to a man with that skill set to you're an architect you can build You can see you can visualize plan. That's gonna be tough though with the lady though They're like most my girlfriend loves the decorating process. If I was better at it than she was, I think that would be a cause for fights pretty often. Do you see that a lot?

Where she puts a picture up and you're like, I wouldn't fucking do that. It's happened before. I've had some issues in the past. I'm classically trained in this. You're like, excuse me. Well, yeah, that's a different, you know, choose your battles. Sure. Yeah.

That's a good way to put it. Now you had to go to school for architecture? I went to school for it when I was younger, yeah. How long is that schooling? Is that your typical like, bachelor's degree? No, you need, there's a five, it's five and a six year, six years essentially at this point. Oh, cool.

Yeah, master's. Okay. Where'd you go to school? Temple. Oh, cool. Yeah, Temple. Go house. Yeah. There you go. So, I've been there for a while, but I didn't follow the normal route. Went to school for it, then I didn't practice for 10 years and started, you know, I've made stuff. I've worked in the world, wood shop, I started my own construction business for a while. God, I love that. And then I went back to the design world.

And after I had learned all those skills. Yeah. So, a little bit different path, different, well, more well-rounded. Were you all self-taught with the woodworking stuff? I ask because I'm trying to teach myself some stuff. No, I mean, no, I worked construction throughout my life as a teenager and, you know, self-taught, sure, but I was taught by someone on the job site, you know.

Right, you had some real job experience. Worked different jobs for a long time and then did my own thing for a long time, so. That's awesome. Yeah, so it's all. Very entrepreneurial you seem. Absolutely, yeah. You do have an entrepreneurial spirit, yeah.

There's a lot of Tesla to you. I don't know about that. Okay, there's no Tesla to you. Phil Gates, there we go. Well look, we have a lot of young men who watch the pod. Can you give like a parting, a lot of guys, we move in our first apartment and the idea is black fake leather and dark wood

and that's 90% of the apartment. Could you give any kind of advice to a young gentleman trying to figure out what to do with it? Help us out. Don't be afraid of color. Pick a color and do a color block. Do a big bright blanket. Do, you know, pick a color for artwork, you know.

Invest in art now also. That's what I would say as a young man. Start buying your friends, you know friends, go to a gallery, buy the $200 painting that your friend's making. You're going to have that for the rest of your life. Why do you say that? Because it's a collection and it adds to your interior as well. Your house can be all white walled with great artwork. It's going to pop. Love that. I like that. Sweet. That's awesome, man. Well, very nice. Well, thank you for sitting and hanging out with us.

This was great. Nice to meet you. See you later. Thank you so much. That has been our episode. We horsed around, we goofed around. Thank you to Casey Rocket for hanging 10. All the people we sat and we kind of chatted with. You gotta admit we chatted. Oh, we chatted hard. Oh my god. Chatted so hard. Chatted hard. And thank you to Big Don, Big Brenny Boy, leaving the paternal hospital, whatever that means, and doing the episode with us. But yeah, make sure you check out the YouTube, the Instagram, all that stuff. Kyle will be back next week, we'll see.

We missed him dearly on this one. Turns out I'm a little boy who needed my big daddy. Well thank you for listening, that's been the episode. Peace.