Patrick and the People - 12/13/2024 Patrick and the People - LIVE!

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Guests: Henry Coleman, Chad Sledge, and Mike "Lil Doggy" Woodall Musical Guest: Christine DeMeo

you you You Not like seeing a steeple, you damn well know They're one of a people Nobody breaks us, nobody made us And no one can take this cause we got their fix We are the people, we are the people We are the people, don't mess with us Let's go Good morning, Welcome to Friday. It is Patrick and the people, baby. And man, we've got a hell of a show lined up today.

I'm so excited. I know you're going to be happy about it. Oh, cell phone's off the table. Sorry, guys. It'll cause a buzz. That's my bad. I should have told you that. That's my bad. It's my bad. Anyway, good morning to everybody. Let me introduce you to the people here. You know Chad.

He gives bonus holes. And Conway, he has piercings by Chad. What's going on, buddy? How are you? What's up, man? How y'all doing this morning? Good, good. Great, great.

And to my right here, first time in the studio, Rickshaw Mike, little doggy, Mike Woodall. What's going on, buddy? I don't know if I got. Yeah, I got. Hey, good morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then to my right right over

here uh tonight starring at the looney bin this is a big time guy right here this is henry coleman man what's going on buddy how are you feeling good how you feeling man i am uh i'm doing great man i'm excited to have you in here tell me a little bit about uh what you've been doing uh last 25 years i've been doing stand-up comedy making drunk people laugh every weekend that's a damn great thing to say right there. Hey, can you beat that? I don't think you can. You can beat it, but yeah.

I guess technically you could. I mean, but tell us a little bit about your style of comedy, Henry. Just, you know, casual dialogue. I mean, I started off early in comedy trying to, you know, make people think and say provocative shit. I don't really, you know, I'll just make people laugh now. Yeah, I love that. that no that's all you got to do man just be funny man that's it i mean it's you know people got a lot of shit to worry about in the comedy comedy show and you know how to worry about being offended or i mean i am offensive but you're right but you know in a different way yeah yeah no i get that i guess in the way we want you to be yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah so let me ask i I always like to ask great comics such as yourself, who were your inspirations in comedy? You know what? I got a chance, when I first got to LA, I got a chance to watch Andrew Dice Clay perform live. Really? Night after night after night. And every night he just got worse and worse.

Like, you know. Oh, man. Just being a worse human being. Just finding a way to be new awful. Yeah. Yeah, man, it was excellent to watch just finding a way to be new, awful. And it was the, yeah, man, it was, it was excellent to watch, you know? Yeah, I bet it was, man. He was, uh, he was quite a different kind of character, wasn't he? He's still alive. So yeah, no, I just mean, as far as his stand up, he's still alive.

Andrew Dye's play is still alive. Everybody thought he was gone, but not so much. All right. We're going to talk more with him, and we've also got an amazing musical guest today. Christine DeMeo is going to be here and perform for us. We're going to talk to her, learn a little bit about her. She's going to do an acoustic song at the end of the show. So we've got it going on.

Plus the rant will pop in today at some point around 715. So you want to stick around for that. Let's real quickly get into some news that you can use. See, you know, what is going on in the world here. All right. So, oh, hold on. Okay, there we go. All right. So, oh, hold on. Okay, there we go.

President Biden is granting clemency to 1,500 Americans, pardoning 39. The White House secretary said in a briefing that those who had their sentences commuted have shown remorse, growth, and you know all the things they say. They were placed on home confinement during COVID. Those who Biden pardoned were convicted of nonviolent crimes. But it was the largest clemency in presidential history so you know he's going out with a bang letting everybody out so that's a good for that uh pets are now on the list to be protected from domestic abuse in pennsylvania a new state law lets judges and prosecutors include pets and domestic violence protection

orders having to say pets are at risk in violent homes too. Data by the Humane Society shows that up to 71% of domestic violence victims claim their abuser also targeted their pets. You know you're a piece of shit when you beat on a dog. I mean, honestly, man. I mean, that's a special piece of shit right there. I mean, can you imagine getting a domestic violence charge? Hey, where's my light?

What's going on here? Why am I freezing up? I don't know. Hold on one second here. Here we go again. No, we're good. We're good. We're going to be just fine, damn it.

I refuse to accept any problems whatsoever. Thank you. Yeah. Let's see. Talk show host and podcaster Conan O'Brien has been hit with a couple of losses in one week. Both his parents died three days apart. Ruth Reardon O'Brien died Thursday. She was 92.

She was an attorney, only the second female attorney at the Boston law firm Ropes and Gray. Dr. Tom O'Biden died on Monday at the age of 95, a renowned doctor and pioneer in the field of infectious disease as well. I mean, in fairness, they were 92 and 95. I think they made a good run. Right. Yeah. So, I mean, I know it's always going to be terrible to lose your parents. But, I mean, at that age, you kind of expect it.

You know, once you hit about 90, I would think every day you expect that to happen, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. day you expect that to happen right yeah yeah i think so uh let's see a man trying to evade police got himself stuck in a chimney in fall river massachusetts robert langley's fell fled the roof of a home tuesday when police arrived to execute a drug search warrant he got wedged in the chimney trying to hide and couldn't move police had to literally break the chimney, smash it apart to get him out of the house. I mean, what a dumbass, man. Man, we need a better class of criminal, that's for sure.

All right, let's see here. Oh, yeah, after weeks of drone sightings in New Jersey, they're now being seen in Pennsylvania. Numerous sightings reported last night in the eastern part of the state. On Wednesday, they were spotted in Buck County near Philly. Pennsylvania, numerous sightings reported last night in the eastern part of the state. On Wednesday, they were spotted in Buck County near Philly. The latest sighting comes hours after the national security spokesperson said, yeah, no, it's not a foreign adversary. We know who's up there and it's fine. Okay. Yeah, we don't. I want to know who it is. These are SUV size drones. This isn't some punk kid flying a drone out of his backyard, man. These things are giant.

And I'm telling you, I wish they would come over here. He had a congressman come out and say it was an Iranian mothership. Oh, well. What? No, it's not that. And then the Pentagon comes out and goes, no, that's not true. Yeah, no, definitely not an Iranian mothership. This isn't Independence Day.

Wow. A record number of people are expected to travel for the holidays. Close to 120 million people are going to travel 50 miles or more. That's an increase over last year by about 4%. Taylor Swift stopped by the Kansas City Children's Hospital. That's great. Thanks, Taylor. Let's see.

A suspect stole taco sauce after breaking into a taco time in Seattle. The restaurant is flattered, they said. While the restaurant was closed, he opened the drive-thru, grabbed taco time sauce bottles that were displayed on the window. The cash register doors were open and empty, so he didn't get any money. He just got taco sauce. That's all you need. Man, maybe that's what it was. Maybe he just had some tacos and shit. I mean, really?

That's terrible. God. All right. While the extradition process continues for the accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, prosecutors in Manhattan have started presenting evidence to the grand jury. They want an indictment for murder. Fingerprints recovered from a water bottle, a candy bar wrapper, all kinds of stuff matched to him. Three shell casings with his, I mean, his DNA and fingerprints are all over everything.

I don't know any way this guy gets out of it. I mean, it's kind of broad daylight. You know, you're not even really masked up real good you hung out there all day i mean it's like you wanted to be caught it seems a little weird doesn't it it's really weird doesn't it seem a little set up like i mean it seems really convenient like that's what i mean like they got they caught the the guys that were the the dc shooters the same way like everybody seems to get caught at a mcdonald's i don't know why you killed the same way like everybody seems to get caught at a mcdonald's i don't know why you gotta have a breakfast burrito from mcdonald's no i it's a weird phenomena isn't it it's like

man i'm hungry after all that killing i think i'm gonna mickey d's and see if they got that they always know exactly who's on the run at mcdonald's yeah yeah how is it the mcdonald's customers can identify these people i've've stood in line buying posters. They can't even pick which fucking meal they want. And you're going to tell me they can identify this guy? Come on, man. It's crazy. Every time.

All right, let's see. Scott Hendricks of Spicewood, Texas, experienced chest pains while driving, collapsed at the Spicewood General Store. That's a bad place to collapse. But four employees jumped in, performed CPR. The employees later honored with the Burnett County Lifesaving Award. And the ordeal highlights the critical role, it says, of CPR training. Well, that's good news. Last Friday, Toby Collier came across an overturned SUV on a rural highway in Missouri, rescued the teen driver trapped inside.

He had to pry open the passenger door. He helped the teen out, called the mom, let her know the daughter was okay. So that's good. This is great. A 90-year-old great-grandmother just achieved her dream of getting a college degree, completing her studies after a five-decade pause to raise her family. So she's 90. For what?

She got an an associates in business administration she's an aspiring entrepreneur long view i mean they can only do it for two years right that's what i'm saying what yeah yeah no you can go for a bachelor's this takes too long man no that's that's 90 i mean that's optimism right there when you get a degree at 90 you aren't the most optimistic person on the planet the last thing i'm trying to do is get a degree i gotta get them hours before i die you know like yeah you're right uh if you care about the billboard music awards uh taylor swift became the artist

with the most wins in history for the award show. She took home 10 prizes last night. That's 49 wins. Behind her, Zach Bryan at five, Morgan Wallen four, Shabuzy, Bad Bunny, Drake, Elevation Worship tied each other with three wins. Chapel Roan was the top new artist. Linkin Park performed, or the new version of Linkin Park. Do you like that version, Mike? The new Linkin Park performed, or the new version of Linkin Park. Do you like that version, Mike? The new Linkin Park? It's not the same, but if you look at it like that,

you're not going to enjoy any music. Yeah. Really, you have to see her for who she is. It's karaoke. Yeah, okay. I mean, that's what a lot of people say. She writes her own music. It's karaoke. Yeah. All right. What about all right what about i agree with him yeah henry you're a lincoln park person i don't know i mean i know the old

lincoln park yeah well they they have a new female singer and they they you know kick the band back off with a female and some people feel like it's younger like what is i mean she is younger uh she's more alive than chester right that does help it does help a little you know i mean so i um but yeah some people feel like it's karaoke you know what they're trying to revitalize the group with it yeah okay yeah yeah that's exactly it huh like leonard skinner yeah like leonard skinner doesn't even have original dna in it. What are you talking about, man? No originals. No, there's like four guys who were cousins by mothers or something. You know, I mean, it's weird. Let's see who else performed. Shabuzy performed the bar song. Jelly Roll performed I'm Not Okay. Teddy Swims. I mean, that dude's awesome. Teddy Swims. Yeah, he performed his song, Lose Control at the awards. So that's enough about that.'s awesome. Teddy Swims. Yeah, he performed just on loose control at the awards.

So that's enough about that. You don't need any more. Okay, let's see what else is going on here. Good Lord, that is a lot of... Man, that show must have took four hours. I'm just scrolling through these dumbass awards. All right. Yesterday, the deal with Cy Bill Belichick became the head coach of UNC Tar Heels. That was wild.

When does he leave? Is he already out of New York? Like, when does he leave? The Patriots? Yeah. He's been out there. He's been, yeah. He's been doing, I think, commentating.

Yeah, he's been on TV and stuff. Yeah, he left them last year and has been doing commentating, and so now he's going to be at UNC. His dad was a coach there in the 50s. Was he really? Yeah. Oh, okay. So that's a full circle thing for him. I have a was a coach there in the 50s. Was he really? Yeah. Oh, okay. So that's a full circle thing for him.

They have a picture of him sitting in the bleachers. Really? It's like a black and white picture. Huh. It was like a full circle thing, you know, coming back. Yeah. He had like the jersey of his dad with the sleeves cut out. And I think his girlfriend might be a freshman there.

Probably so. Probably so. I forgot about that part. Don't get her on the back of a motorcycle. Yeah, I'm sure he'll do fine. I mean, he'll be all right. You know, he'll bring a lot of attention to him. The AP Player of the Year is Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes.

The two-way threat's been a force this season as a wide out and a quarterback, cornerback, with a knack for making highlight real plays uh he credited his teammates and said he views these awards as team awards uh he is one of the finalists for the heisman and probably will get it if i'm being honest he well i don't know he might get it what do you think are you i mean that sounds like just that's just the right answer no yeah yeah i don't know okay fair enough Fair enough. Fair enough. What do you think, man? Travis Hunter all the way. You think so?

Yeah. I think so, too. After a 16-year hiatus, the Skins game is making its return. This is a PGA event. They'll bring it back for the first time since 2008 on Black Friday of next year. Plenty of details to be confirmed, though players will be competing, how much money, all those things. Plenty of details to be confirmed, though players will be competing, how much money, all those things.

For those unfamiliar, the Skins game sees foursomes play 18 holes, each hole worth a predetermined amount of money. And if a hole is tied, the monetary value is carried over to the next hole. So it's a big thing, I guess, in the PGA. Very competitive. Yeah. Yesterday, the trial of Tampa Bay Ray shortstop Wander Franco was postponed until june 2nd he's been accused of abuse exploitation against a minor human trafficking yeah he's facing up to 20 years

originally the trial was set to begin yesterday but key witnesses were not located in time okay that's always disconcerting when the key witnesses aren't located in time they'll probably never be located. They may very well never be located, man. And then this was, man, this is the weirdest thing to see, to be honest with you. LeBron James has been playing it for most of the season at ridiculously high levels.

I mean, he's had multiple triple doubles. I mean, he's scored 40 points multiple times i think i mean it's been insane and then all of a sudden the past few days he just i mean his shit just went down man i mean like he missed he was like over 20 from three he needs a rest and he changed dealers is that what it is you're probably right i. You're probably right. Damn, I bet you're right, man. New dealer got to get you. Yeah, man. Medicine, right?

You're right. He's got to get it adjusted. No, he said he needed to take – he was stepping away from the Lakers for personal reasons. He's tired. And it's indefinite. I mean, they don't know what's going on exactly yet. Now, this could be some kind of – you know,

I think there's a free agency thing that's going to be going on, and I know some other teams are trying to get him but i know look he's he brought brawny on for god's sake and surely he's not going to leave after bringing him on i mean he did a lot he made a lot of changes everywhere he went and he would just right he just left yeah he made a lot of changes uh miami made a lot of changes that is true i mean that's a fair point yeah that's a fair point about him going out with stuff like that's what everybody's I mean, that's a fair point. That's a fair point. Think about him going out with Steph. Like, that's. With Steph Curry? Yeah, that's what everybody's talking about.

Yeah, that's the little chatter. Oh, my God. Yeah. You put him with Steph Curry. That's like the farewell tour. If they don't win. Oh, man. The coach should be fired.

Everybody should be fired. If you put Steph Curry and LeBron James together and that team doesn't win, something went way wrong, man. Honestly. I mean, look, MJ is still the GOAT to me. james together and that team doesn't win something went way wrong man honestly i mean look at i mj still the goat to me always but i think it just makes the league boring you know to put those two together it's like you know it almost would i think a lot of people felt that way the last time when kevin durant landed over there and uh they were like man this is an alt i mean this is like

playing the nba 2k you know you're just and matching an all-star team. Are you a sports fan? Not that much. Not that much? No. I watch football. I watch, like, the playoffs. I watch the playoffs of everything. Yeah, no, I'm the same way on that. That's behind the ball. When you get to the best of the best, that's when I start kind of showing it. Okay, yeah, now that is the exciting time of it, so I'm with you there. You watching the Emerald Cup?

The Emerald Cup. You know, like the basketball little... Oh, the NBA Cup? Yeah, the in-season tournament. No, I hadn't been paying attention to who... uh the emerald cup you know like the basketball little in oh the nba yeah the end season tournament no i hadn't been paying attention to who did some have that done yet if you've been watching it is it no y'all watch basketball well sometimes we do i've just been busy this week but uh what's going on with it no they just had the end season tournament i didn't know okay no man i i i just i haven't had a chance i've been busy burning the streets up, you know. I'm getting it done, you know what I'm saying?

It wouldn't work. All right, let's move on, shall we? So, anyway, we were talking earlier about comedy, man. Yeah. And so you said that one of the inspirations was Andrew Dice Clay for you. Who else did you like when you were growing up? Who were people you watched? You know what?

I've been watching comedy since maybe the late 80s. I liked even at A-List. I liked comedy back when it wasn't a big celebration. You know, you would watch eight or nine people on a show. You know, maybe one or two of them was probably funny, but it didn't take a lot to get on TV back then. That's true. That is true. You know what I'm saying? And you but it didn't take a lot to get on TV back then. That's true. That is true.

You know what I'm saying? And you didn't have to be a celebrity to be funny. That's right. It's like you could be a normal human being and walk out there in front of the brick wall comedy shows. Yeah. And be like strangers. People had the patience to watch and enjoy and like who they liked and then not like who they didn't like. Right.

And the world didn't come to an end. So you just love it for the love of the game. I did. And I hate I do that. You know what I'm saying? I wish I had done it the other way. I wish I was less of a Pierce in that sense. Yeah, no, I mean, that's like.

These kids now, like, they can take or leave it. They don't care. You know, if they don't hit on the Internet, you know, go and start making billions in a week. Oh, right. And they're just ready to walk away. No, you're not wrong the Internet, you know, go and start making billions in a week. Oh, right. And they just get ready to walk away. No, you're not wrong about that, you know. I mean, the great thing, I think, about the Internet is it equalizes.

It gives people a chance to become stars. But on the other hand, it makes people less likely to pay dues. You know what? Not even pay dues, but just kind of love it. Well, I mean, when I say pay dues, look, you know this from, I'm sure, your experience on the road. Until you've performed enough situations in enough places with enough foreign crowds, you know, it's hard to really master your craft and appreciate and understand the different ways you interact and the different ways you do things. I think what happened for me was, which is not happening now. When I started, I had an ideal of what I wanted to do,

but sometimes I would get to the vent and I would need the money. Hold on, man. I ended up in a couple of alleys that way. I mean, everybody starts off idealistic. Like, you're going to be like Kenison. You're going to be like Pryor. You know, you got this idea in your delusion in your mind about what kind of comedy you're going to do. And then you get there and you're just like, man, these people just look like they just want to laugh.

And I need this $300. Yes, I'm going to do it. I'm going to make them laugh. I'm going to fucking make them laugh. Yeah, I'm just going to do it. And people are like, well, you know, isn't that kind of sacrificing your voice? I'm like, you know, you're not going to be a legend every night. Some nights you just got to tell airplane jokes or whatever that is.

No, I mean, that is true. You know, some nights are that night where you're the man. Yeah. And some nights you're just telling the jokes. You know, I mean, yeah. And the good people can make both nights feel the same. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying?

You know, make both nights feel like, you know, I've had nights where I thought I was terrible and the crowd was like, oh, you were fantastic. And nights I thought I was great and everybody walked past me like, you know, I had shit on my face. Yeah. So, I mean, it's, you know, it's, yeah. To answer your question, it's like, I was just a fan. You're just a fan of the game. Student of the game. Yeah.

And I hated when I got older and I found out that you know fame or celebrity brought you laughs so it it brings you you know enough adulation to kind of skate through it when i saw celebrities i was fans of that weren't really good anymore yeah i was just taking advantage of it because they were celebrities sometimes i feel that way um like recently i watched and i'm not going to take away his i mean his talent level is just off the charts jamie foxx okay okay yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean his talent level what you think i mean what was your understanding but but i thought that the the most recent thing was real self-indulgent and uh very um it was weak okay i mean he's never been a pure stand-up like he's never been a joke joke joke joke joke you know insightful logic you know characters he's always kind of been like a

playful jump around uh you know kind of what he did is what he does i think uh you know more people that kind of understand the art we look at it with like a little bit of a like you bush it but you know the people the people love it you know no i mean look clearly they do and i get why i mean he's jamie foxx i mean what can he not do i mean nobody should have that much talent in one body man when i just because i was just such a nerd for the craft and when i got into it especially now with social media and just like reality shows anybody that knows how to hold a microphone and um and talking you know in a straight line for hours straight can get you know thirty forty thousand dollars a weekend you're probably right yeah so it's like you know then you have people out here that study it you know

like really right want to get good and uh you know i'm you know chucklehead tonight so what do you think about uh first of all are you a fan of kat williams uh i'm a fan of the art I'm a fan of the art I'm a fan of the art Alright well whether you are or not He has a formula that he operates on Where he wants to You know calculate how many laughs Per minute that he gets That's after they start laughing

So once you start them laughing You get them in the zone It's just like chuckles go up and down But they never completely come to a rest For the duration of your set. So how, when, you know, when you're on stage, is it just only the laughter that lets you know you're successful? Is that how you're basing, or do you have a formula? I have control.

When I can stop them and start them, and then stop them when I want to, I have control of the room. Okay. Absolute control of the room, and they respect what I'm doing. Now, do you do a lot of crowd work you got to now you have to now because of social media and everybody's a star to themselves and the audiences now feel like you know they feel like you should be breaking the fourth wall yeah when i stopped when i started i was taught to not do that right everybody was like leave the people alone make them laugh and get you know get the fuck off stage Now, there's so many people doing that, the crowd is almost weirded out. He went the whole set without talking to us.

I know. I always had this debate with myself at times because I've done stand-up for many years. There's an enigma, I guess, to not connecting with the audience prior to the show. I started out doing that and then just talking to people after but later on i shifted my model and i would go out before every show and try to shake hands or talk to every single person in the audience before i did it before you started before i started because by the time I got on stage, they were warm to me. It wasn't a stranger coming up.

Okay. So I didn't have to take that first five minutes to earn everything because they already are rooting for me the moment I get on the stage. That's a different approach. It was a different approach. And I'm not saying it would work for everyone. I'm not even saying it's the way you should do it. Yeah, I like the element of surprise. I like them.

I just hate it. When I started out the first 10 years, I was doing all white clubs, and they knew I was the comedian. Some kind of way I don't know if you're watching this or not. But they knew. Yeah, that's the comedian. Yeah, I've seen there's a comedian. Bring me some water.

Yeah, so the element, and I don't like to talk to people who want to be talked to you're saying like right yeah you know they think they have some funny or exciting things now they're the worst people in the audience you know they always volunteer the worst information and kind of chuckle and they expect uh you know comedians from the audience type thing i'll tell you one thing that that is i i found a little bit annoying at times. I mean, it's just part of the game, you know, but are the people who come up after and go, man, I got a joke you can use, man.

No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. Please don't even, please don't do it. Say that for yourself. No, no, it's a good one. No, it's not.

Trust me, if you're bringing it to me, it's not, okay? Never in the history of time has that been worth a shit. Anything said after that sentence. I'll listen if they go, let me buy you a drink, and then I'll tell you. There you go. I'll at least listen. Like, okay, yeah, give me a long island. We've determined in a short time, Henry's a whore.

Like, what? It's all about the money, baby. It's the duckets. So, yeah, you know, with the audience, like, you got Matt Rife, you got people, Nate Jack, people that just do crowd work. Yeah. And they're building whole, you know, whole careers on it now. Yeah, no, you're right.

And I will give Matt Rife credit for his crowd work. I mean, it's very good. It is. It's pretty good. It's pretty good crowd work, you know. you know deal he really used to do something like that where he would he did you know he kind of you know so it's kind of like rebranding that thing well sure yeah i think every you know a lot of comics have have done crowd work for as long as crowds have been there you know so i don't think but i think if you do too much of it

hey the people should still come expecting to see a show. Well, yeah, you don't want regular people thinking they're going to be the show. No, you want to have a set. They're still regular. They're still normal human beings. Yeah. Crowd work should be just a. Everybody is not interesting. Everybody is not interesting. No, you're right. They live in, you know, the rat, the system and uh it's like you're trying to you're trying

to derive excitement from just mom and pop people just people that wake up every day and go to work yeah yeah you're trying to find an end where there's not one sometimes you're like oh you uh you're you're a mechanic at jiffy lube huh that's interesting like is it it's not no it's really not how many lube jobs have you done today yeah no you're right it's not that damn interesting i mean so um you know there's there's still a thing about being an artist uh staying outside staying off the grid living a different life and kind of coming to be a storyteller and giving people a real story what that life on the outside looks like yeah yeah

no i i agree with you i mean i i love crowd work but it's not something i've ever really done a lot of yeah um other than the pre-show meeting people okay i just want to go up and do stand-up you know i just i have a set i want to do my set i mean you know i will like so i had a thing where like i was i had a real bad temper on audio on the on the stage if anybody tried to break my set. Really? Because I was so locked into it. Yeah. And I talked to my mother one time, because I would curse, I would brave people.

I was like, fuck you, bitch, shut up. I'm a whore. Like, I would just really get really pissed off, like, for real, for real. And I asked my mother, I was like, what is it about me that gets so angry when people disrupt me? And she's like, well, that's you.

Like, that person that's that upset that's really you and the other time you're just being phony like you're just faking it yeah so you need to let people upset you more so you can get comfortable with being who you really are and just you know and then and then you can work from that space that's a good good piece of advice i mean it did i just kind of like let it like last night we had some so people the audience just refused to like the whole 45 minutes they were just kind of going back and forth and i just you know just maintain my temperament and you know and added them but i controlled it yeah i didn't have no problem with the chaos it's like as long as i know that's right as long as you're in control

i could orchestrate it myself it's fine you know yeah yeah if they tone down when you need and yeah when i absolutely needed to they did and you know and you can ride through then every once in a while they pop up and you can kind of make that work it's when they're out of control and you got no control over it they're just like that's when it's like okay yeah that's when you have to go off on the whole table you have to stop everything you're doing and destroy people yeah but i mean i haven't gotten to the point where i'm not doing like i still do bars sometimes with the TVs on. Oh, my God. That is the worst, man.

You know that it's going to be a tough, tough show when you go, hey, can you guys kill the TVs? No, we'll turn them down, though. What? Oh, man. They just mute them down. They just mute the TVs. There's four football games on, bitch.

Yeah. And you can see people's eyes cutting. Every time you kind of get their attention, you can see somebody's going for a big shot or you see people getting excited watching something. Or they start yelling when somebody makes a shot. Oh, man. And you're like, oh, God.

You know it's going to be a bad show when you walk in a room and the bar is inside of the showroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if there are pool tables. Yeah, oh are pool tables and they don't want to talk, they're not going to shut the pool tables up. No, you let them keep it. Oh, you're getting somebody's eight-ball corner. Shut the fuck up.

You got to make the people that are paying attention laugh so hard that the people that make them laugh, they begin to care. Yeah, yeah. No, you're absolutely right. You know, when we were traveling all over and doing it man we played some real holes in the wall where yeah you know they'd leave the tvs on or or you know you'd have the the pool tables things like that and and you're absolutely right those nights you kind of like you know you you don't want to do a whole bunch of dick and pussy but you kind of end up doing it you know a lot of sex talks a lot of you know saying a lot of low-level humor yeah you do get to the base when i'm watching a guy

what kind of i could tell what kind of room a person plays when i watch them like three minutes yeah if i'm watching a comedian he's taking his time and he's patient i'm like okay he's he's working some high-level rooms where people care yeah you know if you watch a guy and he's quick and it's all you know dmp you know you. It's like he's playing some bars and some low-level stuff. Now, that's a really interesting point that you're making there because you do, you go for, I guess, what you'd call the low-lying fruit when you're just trying to get through it because it's an out-of-control situation.

Yeah, now that's spot on, man. That's absolutely true. Totally made me reevaluate my favorite comedian. What was the favorite comedian? Raging Cajun. Okay. Okay. Dude tried to kill me at the Looney Bin one night.

Just would not stop. Just fired him off back to back. There were people begging him, please. And he's like, fuck you. No. But he plays great rooms and he just has that quick wit and just quick and sober. That's crazy. He looked a little bit like Robin Williams, too, really.

That ability. Man, he was just quick. Good. One right after the other. All right. Let me do this real quick. I mean, Patrick. Angry Patrick's my favorite.

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Why? They got statues of the virus. They've got all these different things. So you can come over and hang out at the COVID-19 park. I'm good. You don't want to go to the COVID-19 park? No, I had enough of that. You know, no, I'm good.

Who wants to go to the COVID-19 park? Why would you open a theme park related to COVID-19 park? I had enough of that. You know, no, I'm good. Who wants to go to the COVID-19 park? Why would you open a theme park related to COVID-19? Is this in Milan, or is this the place it was? It's overseas. I don't remember where it's at, to be honest with you. Wuhan, yeah. Wuhan, yeah, I know. Definitely Wuhan, by the lab, right by the lab.

No, that's where it is. The first place of corona. That's what they say. All right. the lab yeah no that's that's where it is first place of corona all right uh let's let's talk about this because i i've been waiting to get to this now we talked about this lady uh not long ago okay uh she's an only fans model and uh she's going for a record where she's going to try to sleep with a thousand guys in like 14 hours or something right but she slept with 101 men in a day recently and uh on this interview she broke down in tears about it she's uh said she had sex of course with over 100 men one day back in october to create some content for a subscription for her only fans right yeah and uh but despite saying she enjoyed it all, she said, sometimes I feel so robotic.

And she started tearing up talking about it. Wow. Now, let me just tee it up. Do you have sympathy? Do you feel bad for the tears of someone who just slept with 101 guys in a day? Well, I mean, technically, I don't think she's, I wouldn't even think.

Well, she didn't sleep with them, but they all did their business. Yeah, I mean, technically, I don't think she's, I wouldn't even think. Well, she didn't sleep with them, but they all did their business. Yeah, I mean, but they, so basically when I watch those things, you know, every now and then, you know, very rarely do I watch. Right, right. But for research. Like everybody, I think, how many pumps, you know, how many pumps do you get to where, like, it registers as a person?

Like, I feel like you should have to sleep with everybody to completion. To completion. Yeah, like. Oh, okay. A dude should walk it up pumping twice. Come on, man. You know there are some guys, though, that they're like, yeah, they're going six hours. Man, you can't do that.

It is what it is. Like, you can't take credit for sleeping with 100 people. So now I got to find a bunch of pre. It's more of a fee. Right on the edge. A bunch of guys, yeah. You have to scout the right people. Yeah.

I got to find a bunch of infield. The ones that are ready over here. You have to scout the right people. Yeah. I got to find a bunch of insiders. The ones that are ready over here. We need the ones that are ready. Yeah. Right over here. Keep the fluffer going. Wow. Hire a whole staff.

You'd have to have a whole staff of fluffers. She's going to have a staff infection, I'll tell you that. I just couldn't stand that line. I couldn't beat that. How could you stand in that line yes i couldn't no no that's what i'm saying do you want to be number 85 no and think about a thousand do you want to be 885 no it's like being in a dvda movie she does she pay them like how do you know no i think they volunteer wow i think they're volunteers you. You know how it is. I mean, you guys will line up for anything, man.

Come on, man. 1,000 men? Yeah, 1,000. That's what she wants. That's her new goal is 1,000. And she's crying over 100. Yeah. I'm like, if you're crying over 100, what's 1,000 going to do for you?

Is that like a pregame? That's the pregame, yeah. That's the warm-up act. Yeah, no. I'm telling you, that thing's going to be broken. Blown out. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

It's our father proud. It's our father proud. She's got daddy issues. You know she does. I think he's the one that's just doing the numbers. Click, click, click, click. I always picture the father watching the video. Oh, you guys.

That's brutal, man. Welcome to Arkansas, man. My little girl. Welcome to Arkansas, man. What is he thinking right now? I don't know what any of them are thinking, man. You don't have to do 101 guys to make it work i mean you just go old school and sell it in the neighborhood uh did she get into

the world's record uh book or something like is it that's what she's trying to do yeah okay that's what she wants to be a record holder thrive for yeah i'm not sure that's a record you want though is it i mean i don't know i wouldn't want to be on that page you don't ever see guys that do those kind of things what about the the guy that went last wouldn't he get to be on there too because he'd be like the thousandth guy you know does he win an award well i mean he'd be listed too like the thousandth guy you know he did all the dudes too yeah oh that is messed up yeah but i'm saying there's no there's no events where guys go, I'm going to bang 1,000 chicks. We were like, whatever.

There's not 1,000 women willing to stand up and wait. That's right. There is not anywhere in the planet 1,000 women that will stand up and wait for that guy. That dude is a mac if he does, man. Yeah, there would be dudes taking notes. Where did you meet these people? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, there would be a whole new dating

service those thousand women right there would be chad's exes yeah that's great man chad's exes it's a whole dating service which one of chad's exes will you match with so she does only fans but she doesn't do is she like a adult film star well no she just does only fans i mean that is more or less an adult film star? Well, no, she just does OnlyFans. I mean, that is more or less an adult film star now. I guess, you know, you have your professional movies, but why? I mean, that's kind of synonymous to what we're

going through in comedies. Like, you just have all these amateurs out there. I wonder if the adult stars feel the same way about the OnlyFans people. I'm sure they do. Look at how they're destroying the industry. Just no... No credence about this no morals at all man you didn't have to sleep with the hedgehog the stripper i know hates only line crossing over there i know he's only fans

yeah the stripper the one stripper you know. It's not regulated. That's what I'm talking about. Well, he's no more. It's not regulated. We have to go get tested, make sure we ain't got AIDS. They could just fuck on camera and nothing. We need a union, yeah. Yeah. We need a union. We need to lock down on those OnlyFans people. Let's get somebody over there.

Man, that's too much, man. i can't even imagine uh basketball players have you seen that what now comparing that what they make on their only fans compared to like nba oh no i haven't seen that man it's pretty male or female nba you're right right male nba well look though but but in all honesty, if you took the only fans across the board, the average, and this is a real number, is about $212 a month. So, you know, yeah, you have the top end. Right. Who are making ridiculous amounts of money.

And you have to wait. Like, they only pay out, like, every 30 to 60 days. I just know, man, look, that's not an easy gig as much as people might think it is because you got to stay randy or whatever for hours at a time okay and and and you got to work that thing like a rib bone with sauce on it non-stop stream yeah yeah so i'm saying i mean that's that's a that is a damn job i don't give a damn man i mean yeah it is acting i mean it's something you know and to do to do that for a whole month i don't give a damn man i mean yeah it's acting i mean it's something you know and to do to do that for a whole month and get 200 bucks would be a little demoralizing to me

i'd be a little like wow man maybe this isn't for me they got to be thinking about the like the end product you got to build an audience you got to build an audience i'm going to be making you know i mean so when when i wouldn't you know go to strip clubs whatever and i was talking to them it's kind of like you know kind of like us like we have to go city to city to city kind of performing and then you hope to get in TV. So the reason they did porno was to, um, they would, you know,

put a porno out and hopefully it would go nationwide. And then they would tour off the, you know, the viral or the successful porno. That's right. Um, so I'm not sure how only fans, people build their fan base without that kind of the nucleus of having a showing up and

and meeting people and yeah doing what they do okay i guess they do like a lot is it like well they do they do a lot of interactive stuff i guess you know where you can chat with them where you can pay to talk to them and i mean they've got like a it's a menu bigger than the mcdonald's board of stuff they do you know what i mean yeah they'll they'll make videos for you they'll say your name i mean you just got to pay certain amounts to get these things like the cameo videos yeah kind of like cameo yeah except except it's live you know i never even thought about that i mean so do they do they associate with each other like do they talk to do they meet and like the only fans people you're like yeah they like link up with each other and exchange you know yeah fluids like this is this is the bit that's getting everything for me like you know i got a

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A serious culture problem? Are you freaking kidding me? Well, first things first, there's a lot more than whistles being blown at this VA, I'll tell you that. But dead ass here, what's this alleged cultural problem? If there were 12 of them, sounds pretty damn inclusive. We want to be inclusive, right? And I think everyone who's been in leadership understands the value of team building. It sounds like they were really building some bonds here. Who can you trust more than someone who was in a naked dog pile, eyed a brown eye with your corn pocket?

It sounds like somebody wanted to be number 13 in the orgy but didn't get drafted and feelings got involved. No, Peggy, you weren't invited to the Wang Tang Bangalang because you're a stiff and you always smell like Virginia Slim 100s and Tiger Bomb. That's not a recipe for sexy, Peggy. And this is everything wrong with the bureaucracy of the VA. Here you have a manager or leader who wants to bring the staff together for team building and motivation. Obviously, every motivational session can't have everyone there. So you have a great leader, clearly some engaged teammates, and because of one bitter Betty who wasn't invited to play Diddy Twister, it becomes a scandal. Do you know how long the VA has had a reputation for bad care? Now, what do you think

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That's the biggest drop since the U.S. began administering the test in 1995. Well, in fairness, we did have a pandemic, you know. Are you kidding? 27 points. Did we just start serving lead gravy in the cafeteria? Just kids sitting in there dipping lead paint chips in cheese like a targvart nacho. Now, while I think many foods in the cafeteria could kill the kids, they're not that dramatic. This isn't a food-based issue.

It's not just attendance. It's a case of the missing carry. You see, several years ago, okay, several years ago, there was what you called carrying the one. Okay, do you follow me? Do you remember carrying the one, anybody you follow me do you remember carrying the one anybody remember that shit yes okay well listen the great minds in education decided that the math we use the math that accomplished every single equation since the egyptians you know that math was determined to no longer be good enough why well i can only assume some highbrow

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I know it's there. I can't taste it. I can't smell it. I can't see it, but I'm alive. I'm breathing. And when I carry the one, I don't have to wonder if it'll work. It always has. And it always will. You just can't come to school one day and say everything we ever taught your parents and every other successful human was not right. We're going to make it better. The government saying they can make anything better is the worst thing you can ever hear. Look, man, we aren't carrying the one, but we can add pronouns. We can't do an equation, but they can tell you how many genders there are. They can tell you we're the worst country in the

world, but can't even do the math for their own economy, much less understand the country. You know, I don't care what side you're on on we all have to admit this is working about as good as a hot dog stand in the gaza strip i say fix it or get the hell out of the way and let the adults get back in charge that a bunch of folks who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel you know what i'm saying i'm saying? I said, I'm done with that. I'm done with that. All right, let's move on, shall we? Yeah, it's Friday, baby. It's a good kind of Friday, man.

Now my mouth's all dry and shit, man. What number was that? 802. Oh, man. That was rant 802. 802. Yeah, that's a good number of rants to do every week, you know? That's awesome.

That's more than some TV shows. I remember when it was zero. You did? Man, I can't believe it. Well, I remember you from fourth grade, Mike. Well, yeah. Right. I rode the bus with Mike.

All right, now. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I started, when I first started comedy, I kind of started out doing a rant style. Yeah. You did? Yeah. Yeah. What was that based on? How did you?

Just, you know, subject stuff. You know, it's kind of like trying to be like Dennis Miller or whatever. Okay, like Dennis Miller. I would, you know, that's what I did a lot of time. I think I was, that's when people, that's before people had TVs in their pocket. Yeah. So I would do, you know, an hour, hour and a half on stage. The longest time I've been on stage is like three hours. Oh, yeah. That's a great set when you do that. Yeah, you know. But I had to leave because I had to pee do you know hour hour and a half on stage the longest time i've been on stage like three hours oh yeah that's a great set when you do that you know and i had to

leave because i had to pee you know yeah listen to this this is a true story now my wife is um she's also a stand-up and she's way better than i am way better than i am and she's oh thank you so much she is uh it's hard to explain you know know what I mean when you say you meet, you see certain comedians who have a connection with an audience that defies expectation, you know? And she's one of those people that she connects with the audience, you know? But she did a show one time for three hours, and she took two pee breaks. She made them wait while she went and peed,

came back, and kept going. That's a Laura move, man. That's a Laura move. And they wanted, they couldn't get enough wow i only because i said you've got to stop this show did she stop the show she was three hours in man and she was going and going oh man they were eating it up because you know most audiences i mean after an hour and a half they're pretty fatigued right i mean laughing will wear your ass out you know and there's nothing worse than having the guy before you go way long and eat up those

laugh zones you know and you're like thanks man i appreciate you dude burning up my time there laura was always really good at seeing what they wanted oh yeah yeah that's right she just no she does she works the audio read a crowd no she has an instinct that's second to none and uh you know people because of my character angry patrick they they you know they didn't heckle me much imagine that no and i would shut it down pretty quick but i'm gonna tell you nobody was more brutal than her oh man you didn't want to try to help oh no you didn't oh she put you in your place man no man you you know she'll give you a couple warnings and then after that it's bad it's real bad dude i told you yeah i've told the story once before but we did a show many years ago in conway at the bears den it's a it's a bar there you know just

a regular college bar right you know and uh but all kinds of folks uh you know of all ages come in and she was on stage and this lady started yelling from the audience you know know? And so she, she warns her a couple of times. Well, the third time she said something, Laura kind of keyed in on her. She could see her standing there and she recognized the woman was pregnant and had a drink in her hand. Oh no. I was there. The fetal alcohol joke started coming out right away.

You know, the fetal alcohol. So she just went in on that late. Listen, that lady tried everything she could to get to my wife tried to climb over a wall to whoop her ass did everything she could she was so mad but they threw her out of the bar but i was like yeah that's what you get man i mean really i would never have gone there but she she's not afraid to go anywhere man she'll nuke you man uh have you ever had hecklers that you've had i'm sure you've had i mean you know like when we're not hecklers maybe just people uncontrollable yeah yeah i've had that and um i mean early on i was

it was like i was almost pushed to the point where like i was like fighting about to fight people yeah you know what i'm saying because they would get so upset i could see them like you know so that's like and to when you embarrass somebody good it's like they're ready especially guys right yeah yeah oh yeah no you know at that point, I'm looking for, like, where's the, do they have security here? Yeah. Where's the back door? I got to get out. Like, have I got a pay yet?

You know? Will Smith. I'm not going to be able to sign autographs tonight. See you later, guys. I'm out. Yeah, yeah. So, that type thing. So, it's like, you know, walking off stage, and if you get somebody good enough, you know,

I'll just go straight to, like, whoever the, you know, whoever the bouncer guy is and, like, just watch that guy. And sometimes you have people pretend like they're not upset But you could tell they really are just to kind of get close to you to hit you or whatever. Yeah Oh, yeah I can tell the difference between somebody who's kind of light-hearted and somebody who's genuinely just a jerk Guy versus the asshole like I could tell doing Before I'm on stage like now after 25 years I could tell. Like, I could tell during, before I'm on stage.

Like, now, after 25 years, I don't even have to get on stage. I can walk through a room and look around like we did last night. It's like, okay, they're going to be a problem. Or they're going to be a problem. I already know, like, just how you come in and sit down. When you identify them like that, do you target something that you do to mitigate that before or during the show? It depends on where I'm at in the show. Sometimes I still open for bigger celebrities or whatever.

I'm not always headlining. Then I try to kind of address it or throw a blanket on it. Sure. Some kind of way, kind of, you know, let the bum explode on me. Get the big thing over with. Whatever the big outburst is going to be on me. And then, you know, make once you point those people out and kind of you know begin to kind of you know massage the situation you can get it to you know

yeah you can manage it like okay we i know who you are you're a jerk yeah you know saying we see each other now now let's let's get you under control yeah that's that's the thing yeah um you just don't want them popping up out of the blue sometimes liquor triggers people you know no liquor triggers a lot of people. That's what people don't understand. A show is an hour and 30 minutes. It's the second drink that makes you angry. Your first liquor... The fifth one makes you a dumbass.

Your first drink makes you happy. Everybody gets happy with that first drink. That first drink is like a happy drunk. That's why there's a golden period in a show. Maybe 20 minutes after the show starts to all the way to like maybe 15 minutes before the show ends yeah that's right people can't control what they laugh at they just laugh at everything right that first liquors hit them they feel euphoric it's magic now when you when you see them ordering that second set of drinks that's when you know that's when you're gonna get

the jerk and the assholes start this is why alcoholism exists because you know, that's when you're going to get the jerk and the asshole start to come up. This is why alcoholism exists because, you know, you feel great on one drink. So it's like, well, I got to keep the train going. You don't like, you don't know what the jerk, you know, button is going to be. What drink is going to bring the asshole out? Now you mentioned that you'd opened for, you know, some folks who might have names or whatever in your career. And you've been doing it a long time now, what was that moment for you where you go, I can't believe I'm standing here talking to this person

or working with this person right now. This is crazy to me. When Cedric, the entertainer's manager, came up to me in L.A., it was like, yeah, Ced likes your stuff. He wants you to do some dates. How much do you charge? And I didn't know how much to charge him. I had never been out, and I ain't had no time to ask him. You know, I had never been out and I hadn't had,

I ain't had no time to ask nobody. That's a tough place to be because you know, you don't want to say no, you want to say yes to it. So I kind of was like, I was like a thousand, you know, whatever it was, it was super low. And then I got on tour and I realized what everybody else was making. You screwed yourself? Yeah, man.

I looked at the, he gave me like three days, three like theater and arena dates. And I look at the ticket sales, you know three days three like uh theater and arena dates and i look at the ticket sales yeah you know and the tickets were what they were paying me like one ticket yeah did you go back and say can we renegotiate because i didn't want to feel like i didn't want to come across like you know yeah it's like stupid or whatever but uh yeah they should have hired you again at that rate uh no i mean we did we did a gang of shows together it was just um you know it was amazing to just share the stage with that guy and to watch him work every night um but you

know uh the thing about the blacks is when they're there to see somebody that's who they're there to see yeah that's that you know everybody i get that i get what you're saying kind of like yeah you know uh you know get on through with it so we can get to where we're going how it was so bad one night i was opening for a big act and um you know they thought if they it so we can get to where we're going how it was so bad one night i was opening for a big act and um you know they thought if they didn't like me i would get off stage earlier and i was you're at the apollo yeah like they felt like okay we're here to see this guy we're gonna gong show you yeah so i had to go like no i'm contracted to do 30 minutes you guys like i'm going to be up here 30 minutes whether you like me or not yeah and then they kind of relaxed and was like oh okay yeah we're gonna ride one way or

another how do you want the ride to go we talked about it i think so it's not as fun like a lot of comics start out trying to want to open for you know big acts um it's tough yeah you got to earn it that way you do you do i mean you're really happy especially if they're really excited to see that person and they think they're ready to see the big act when they first get there it's like no you just you know saying you still ordering your food you're still you know saying kind of walking around so what's a textbook uh you know there's always a comedian that you know and you respect who uh you've seen take over a hostile crowd in an amazing way who what's it what's the time you've seen that over a hostile crowd in an amazing way.

What's a time you've seen that from? Somebody, you know, talking about taking over a hostile crowd? Yeah. No, I've never seen that. I've never seen that. We talked last, maybe a couple weeks ago, about Bill Burr. Have you seen that set? Yeah, the one from D.C., right?

Yeah, where they're outside and everybody's been pissed all day and he just comes and just starts destroying them. But that wasn't the plan. I'm pretty i'm pretty no it was not the plan but it was like they had a regular set he was no he was gonna do a regular set lost his shit on stage yeah and just went that that was the moment that cemented him as a legend to me when he just took turned them around like that because he just you want to talk about double and triple down i mean he just said no screw that i'm going all in you know and and to be at a place uh like like kat williams with the interview uh yeah so where you you know you feel like you got nothing to lose and you could just let it all hang out um i you know i'm still at a place in my career where i care and I'm trying. Right. I get it. I get that now. It's nice. We all want to have those magical sets where you just,

you know, you reveal your heart. Yeah. But you want to reveal your heart in a place where it matters. You don't want to just be somewhere where, you know, no one's going to see it and you just did some amazing shit or it didn't work and now you just look stupid. You know what I'm saying? Right.

Those gung-ho moments don't always work like that. No, they don't always work like that. Sometimes they backfire. With Karen that's, you know, writing the letters to the club. Oh, God. Yeah. No, that guy you had was awful tonight. Yeah, no, I love the letters, man. Can I put up the card on you? awful tonight yeah no i love the letters man the card on you yeah

if he comes down and yeah the comment card yeah it's like whatever okay i wish i could come to your work and give you one of these cards that's what i always think you know i'm saying like i wish you could turn the tables and come to your job yeah that'd be great just to rate the audience. Y'all can't leave till I rate each of you. Once you get to a certain level, you really don't see bad audiences. No, you don't. You see people that really dare to have a good time and dare to see you.

Yeah, if you have any kind of name or recognition. The craziest thing I saw, I saw Paul Mooney before he passed away. Oh, okay. Yeah, and, you know, he was in his wheelchair, and they were really just kind of just, you know, he could still sell tickets. And if it's his business, you can sell tickets. They're going to prop you up.

They'll put a stick in your back. Yeah, no, they definitely. And he was rolling them out and, you know, whispering into the mic. Yeah. And the people were still trying their best to. To embrace it. Yeah, I mean, you know what I'm saying? And they weren't, they were, and he had like five openers.

Like, they want you to make sure you got a quality show before he got out. Yeah, it was probably necessary in case he died during the show. Oh, man. Is that wrong? I'm sorry. Sometimes he did. Yeah, he might have, yeah. Tell me the greatest.

Okay, where was I? Tell me again. But like these, when they come out, they, you know, it's not like neutral no more. Back when, like, it was just, like, when I started, Emery Emery or, you know, like, Alex Ortiz or just, like, it was just neutral. No one was a huge celebrity.

Right. So you might get a crowd like that that was just kind of ruckus. Now it's like they're only coming for fame. They're only coming to see a specific person. Yeah. So you really don't get those unruly audiences. It makes makes sense yeah now a lot of people might not know uh rickshaw mike uh mike what all you had uh back in the day leg up promotions and um leg up promotions for those who don't know was uh your music uh uh promotion company and you uh promoted bands all

over arkansas and other places i'm sure as well at some point i mean it was pretty big for a while took some local bands to other states yeah it shows yeah yeah so uh how did you get involved in music mike um i got a tattoo that did it while i was at the tattoo studio, they were playing this music. They were fixing to do a tattoo convention. And a local band named Monoxide Project had sent them their music. And these two people were sitting there dogging the band. And how they were like, oh, these mother-in-laws, they they call me five times he was just doing what he

had to do to get booked yeah uh and they were opening up the the show was opening up for travis meeks okay days of the new yeah and uh so while they're doing this seven hour tattoo on my leg they're playing this music and i started just jamming out to it this is this is one of the best bands i've ever heard in my life yeah they were real big for a little bit they were amazing yeah no they weren't really they they had peaked before i met them and they still sold out i saw them i saw them open for uh smile empty soul yeah at juanita's Main Street and the place was completely packed wall to wall and when they went off the stage

by the time Smile Empty Soul came on there were five people in the bar. That's frustrating to be Smile Empty Soul in that moment, I'll tell you. He was pissed. I would be too, probably. He still put on the best damn show. He was playing for me no i i've

done that before and and and uh you'll understand what i'm saying you know i remember when i was mentoring laura and comedy and we we did a show in hot springs and that's a weird real weird down you know sometimes you have great crowds sometimes you don't but this particular time there were like 12 people total and she's like do i have to do a set i was like you damn sure right you do these 12 people paid for it you're going to give them the business you know yeah stuck around yeah no and and we did now the bad news is you know you can make 30 people sound like 100 12 people sound like like 12, no matter what you do. You know, it's hard to beat that one, you know. Yeah. You have to do some crowd work or something

because you can't give your regular set on 12 people because your laugh pocket isn't long enough. You'll go through everything too fast. Yeah, so it's like when you got 100 people in front of you and you say you got 15 minutes of material, when you're pausing, 15 minutes can be 40 minutes. Yeah. If you're getting good quality laughs, lasting 20, 30 seconds per laugh, you can stretch that 15 improv and crowd work for 40 minutes. Yeah. You know, 12 people, the laughs are, even if you're doing well, those, the laughs

is ha ha stop. You know? Yeah. Because they're all self-conscious first of all, you know? Yeah. Yeah. You know, when you, when you're in when you're in 100 people laughing, you're not worried that your laugh sounds weird. When you're in 12 people, you can hear yourself, and you're like, eh, I sound weird. I'm too loud. I'm too happy. I did a show. It was Christmastime.

Baton Rouge had to be like 20 years ago. No, no, maybe 17 years ago. And the rule is if you show up, you're supposed to get paid. Whether it's a crowd or not, you're supposed to get paid so it was like 1500 bucks for this but it was a college town all the kids went home for oh for a holiday right yeah so i get there it's basically two people the club owner and uh the one waitress oh wow and uh guy was like well i still gotta pay you i was like yeah you gotta pay did. He's going to pay me and me leave. He was like, no, I want a show. Yeah, no, you're going to give me the show for $1,500, dog.

So he sat there, lit a cigarette. He's like, I want the hour show. Hey, give me the show, son. I was like, man. I didn't have an hour just like something. For one person? No. Oh, hell no.

So basically, I just started talking about my life. I was like well i went to i went to kindergarten and you know you came from the beginning when i swam up my mom's birth canal and then i got like to like maybe 40 minutes, I started my material. That's what he's saying. You got a 15-minute set, you know, and a good 40 minutes of life story. That's how it was. Like, you know, comics, you know, like these guys, like I talked to these kids going viral,

and they's like, well, how do I do it? I was like, okay. You know, they want them to put together an hour. You know, they maybe got five minutes of material. I said, okay, go out there and do crowd work. Try to push the crowd work as far back into the set as you can and start to only start your jokes when you absolutely have to yeah and then don't do all your jokes you know if you got seven minutes do two minutes of jokes and go back to

your crowd work and piece it together yeah and uh i remember i was working with uh ari spears a long long time ago man what i'm glad to see him back by the way you said what i'm glad to see him back out there well he kind of disappeared you know yeah yeah yes i work with him and uh yeah so it was crazy because he was on med tv stand-up wise he had about maybe i don't know if you agree or not back then maybe he had 20 minutes, but he had an L.A. 20 minutes. Yeah. So L.A. 20 minutes was like a showcase. It would be like an hour of just regular roll time. Yeah. It was killer. Like, it was a murderous 20 minutes.

Yeah, he was phenomenal, man, in every possible way. But sometimes, and I host it, sometimes he was doing that method of going to kind of bush in the crowd. Yeah. Doing some impersonations. And then some nights, he was killing so hard, he was just due to 20 minutes straight yeah and you know we have another club owners like i need you to go back up there i was like fuck i know no no you don't need me to do anything so he would have to go back up there and uh and bullshit him you know yeah kind of pull some shit out his ass because he would just be killing so hard he would forget to do the stop yeah let him calm down you know to eat the time up right right now but man what a great performer

what a great voice actor uh voice characters i mean uh his uh you know impersonations of uh some of the rappers phenomenal his control and like the pitch and just sounding exactly like them yeah no it's it's crazy uh and jay pharaoh is uh real good like that too but his stand-up is not as aries is really good like he's top tier stand-up he does it like uh him who's the other guy that does uh does the uh the football player oh are you talking about uh frank uh caliendo yeah caliendo uh maria banford yeah he he's not his stand-up is not seamless he doesn't know how to uh transition it as well yeah to make it you know like a blanket like it all feels

natural the ones that do the characters great it just feels like a natural story you know you don't want to feel a guy setting a character up you know when they go imagine uh you know eddie murphy richard pratt and blah blah walk right that's a bad version you know somebody just kind of seamlessly does the characters mix it in that's what you want i agree with that i think you're right about that i sure do uh mike now you know you guys uh back when you were doing music and stuff you uh have run into lots of big bands uh who is this celebrity that you met the music star that uh you know you were like, I can't believe it. Uh,

the entire band tool. Oh, really? Yeah, man. That's, that's pretty phenomenal. Really?

No, actually tell you the truth. Tool was, they were great, but corn corn, I was waiting to get paid. And, um,

and I'm sitting at this big ass show and corn walks by off the stage with full yeah they're regalia on yeah they all like looked at me you know shook my hand because we had been talking earlier when they were normal people yeah they were it was like it was better than seeing kiss in makeup and yeah and for our era kiss was yeah well they were big yeah they were the juggalos of the of the 60s yeah something like that yeah and uh oh my god they were good ivan moody super nice same situation i'm waiting to get paid and ivan walks up and stands in line behind me and i turn around so i will have it man that's a hey man it's great to meet you and he asked what my name was he was just i mean just like any other dude yeah standing behind you yeah when i met him he he was absolutely the whole band as a matter of

fact was absolutely as nice as they could be i mean they they were really now they they were newer than uh and i'm sure but i'm brand new almost every story i've ever heard about them other than you know his drinking issues has been that people love them yeah you know they do a lot for veterans they do a lot of things you You know, they're real good guys. They are really good people. Yeah, they are. Alter Bridge. Yeah.

The whole band, Alter Bridge, came. I brought my son to Edges Twisted Christmas. Yeah. At University Cinema. Mm-hmm. The Big Potato. Yeah. And.

The Village. Yeah. Yeah. And they all, the whole band walked over and and passed me by and talked to my 10 year old son oh really wow that's cool hey that's cool they were epic that's dope yeah i get a little emotional about it because they were like you're staying out of out of school or you're going to school you're staying off drugs yeah uh you know you need to you need to mind your your they're staying off drugs here's a joint yeah they were amazing uh alter bridge that's awesome yeah i was just

talking to someone the other day about tool and i was like uh you know i wonder you don't see mainer just talk a lot do a lot of interviews and stuff like that but i was know i wonder you don't see maynard just talk a lot do a lot of interviews and stuff like that but i was like i wonder if you know he was an arrogant guy but your take was they were pretty nice oh they were super nice miles kennedy especially yeah so that guy's phenomenal yeah of course everything he does he's top-notch yeah roller oh my god but uh especially i don't even remember the drummer's name, but that guy, he was acting like a cool uncle to my kid. Yeah.

They were, during sound check and everything, that was just awesome. That's dope, man. Awesome. Yeah. That's cool to have those kind of experiences with artists. You know, you love it when you meet an artist and they're actually, and that's something we've been talking about lately,

is you're seeing a real shift in the mentality of what we call celebrities um because you know you got a lot of people leaving hollywood and they're going to nashville they're going to atlanta uh and you're seeing the success is coming from the post malones and the jelly rolls and these artists out there who are really connecting to fans i mean look i i don't love taylor swift's music at all a matter of fact i i don't think i could recognize her song in a lineup but but nonetheless i do recognize and respect the fact that she connects with fans really powerfully you know that's what's working now versus the old you know i'm i'm up here and you're down here mentality.

I think the Internet has shifted that to where we're no longer willing to accept that, you know, because everybody's so accessible now. Yeah, you know, used to be to see a celebrity was something special. That's why people watched award shows, not because they like award shows. Award shows have always sucked ass, but it was the only time you'd see a celebrity, you know, unless it was in a movie or once in a while in an interview. So just to get a peek at Ryan Reynolds or whomever it may be, you'd watch the Oscars. Now nobody watches the Oscars because they suck. I don't have to. I can just get online and see anything I want with Ryan Reynolds, you know? And so now the demand of

the consumer is you be approachable and not a dick or you're going to start losing money. Yeah. You know, and that's a good thing really. I like seeing people be, you know, more humble, more down to earth. I know that, you know, like uh five finger death punch came here when um uh jelly roll came here um both of them were doing things in the community for people wow and like five finger death punch i think the time before last they came uh they were helping the van which is a charity that helps the homeless here and uh they they brought it they bought a bunch of sleeping bags and and things like that for them so you know seeing

these folks get in the community is really i think a bit i think it's changing the game you know uh you watch like mr beast online do you know who that is mr beast um you don't know who that is that's all right that's all right he he's a um an internet celebrity who's become massive uh but his uh his thing is he gives stuff away all the time you know he's always giving money away he's giving people in stores and stuff yeah yeah i mean it's it's just a lot of these things are helping regular people now okay and that's that's the big thing you know you like mr beast i like the stuff that he does i like his content yeah lots of people in the stores and like you can stay here i'll pay you a hundred dollars an hour whatever it is and they

tried to get like a million dollars a hundred thousand that's pretty cool man yeah yeah they had one poor bastard on that show that uh and and i guess he does this every once while he has his own channel on roku and um they do a lot of reality type contest you know where people are competing for things but then this guy they said we're going to give you a quarter million dollars here okay uh but you're going to have to you know cover it and all these things because what we're going to do is we're going to try to blow it up with these mortars we have here you know we're going to launch bombs at it and if there's anything left you get to keep it wow by the way there was not a damn thing left it was charred and gone man i was like oh you poor bastard man you know he did he worked for hours putting concrete stuff over and all these things over blew it all these things over it. Just blew it all to hell.

Yeah, it didn't matter. It just didn't matter at all, man. It didn't matter. What do you, you know, when you're not doing stand-up, what are you watching? What do you enjoy watching? You talking about outside stand-up? Yeah, yeah, outside stand-up.

A lot of documentaries. Man, I have to kind of pull myself, whatever my lady wants to watch. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good answer. That's a good answer, yeah. Army Wives. to kind of pull myself whatever my lady wants to watch yeah yeah that's a good answer it's a good answer yeah army wives i mean you know i'm so hypnotized into it it's like i have to kind of follow her guide you know you know she kind of pulls me away like you know saying because i

spent so much time kind of focused on it so yeah whatever you know okay you know mike uh what are you watching uh what's what's hot right now for you what are you watching? What's hot right now for you? What are you into? Besides porn. I just watch YouTube all the time. That's my TV. No, that's fine. What are you watching on YouTube? What's your channel?

What's your thing? I've just been watching news. Okay. I like the news. I hang out news. There's a channel right now called Escape from rural france the guy who just bought a chateau in france from great britain okay he bought a chateau in france so he's redoing the chateau and oh that's cool that's interesting i like yeah he's he's remodeled i like i've been

architecture guys since i was in architecture school yeah uh i just love that sort of thing okay what are you watching right now chad what's hot for you i mean i'm like him like whatever streaming like mainly on like stars or something like that like i'm just and whatever the wife like i follow soup man like yeah a hundred thousand percent for that but yeah okay yeah i've been uh unfortunately watching uh some reality shows wow yeah well i watch lots of different ones really but uh my wife had me watch house of villains is the name of it okay it's a newer one it's only been on a couple years and it's you know it's all the dc list celebrities they bring in and

yeah uh they have to compete to be you know the the greatest villain and um it's hosted by joel mckell who i like joel male. I think he's very funny. I like snarky comedians. Joel is high up there for me in snark level. We watch all of that. Then we just finished another one called The Summit, which is where they had a group of people trying to get to the top of a mountain.

It's all about voting somebody out along the way. Everything is a vote now. My lady likes The Voice, that show where you have to see people stand in line and they turn around. I kind of like The Voice, too. It's been around a long time. It's very popular. I've seen it before. I don't watch it regularly,

but she likes that a lot. Those kind of shows like America's Got Talent and all the different talent shows. Idol. What else? The reality date shows. like america got america got talent and all the different talent shows idol or what else uh like the reality the reality date shows where like they're coupling people oh yeah they're like you know temptation island yeah like stuff like that where like their couples are trying to make it as a club island they're always on an island huh cheaters oh hell yeah cheaters is a classic

man i used to love it i still still watch Cheaters sometimes, man. That's great. Late at night, like 11, 30, 12 o'clock at night on Saturdays. Yeah, that dude with the glasses was way too excited to tell you that your girl was doing something, man. You know, you could see he was fighting it. You think she's faithful? Let me show you something. Yeah, yeah.

You love her, right? You think she's good, right? You want to be with her, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't you watch this video? Did that change? Is that her mouth there, right? You want to be with her, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't you watch this video? Is that her mouth there, sir? Is that her mouth? I don't know.

I can't tell. What is she doing? But she said she loved you, right? Yeah, you watch these guys break in real time. This is like the scared straight in reverse, you know? You're just like, oh. This is her leaving the house limping. This is her leaving. Yeah, her leaving with his ball cap on

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Back in 2023, they tried to do it, but it didn't pass. But they're hoping that with the addition of a few changes, like adding more restrictions on who immediately can buy it, it'll make a difference. What do you think, man? You think that nonviolent felons, should they get gun rights back? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think, man? You think, uh, that nonviolent felons should they get gun rights back? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think, man? Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I people carry in the safer we are. No, I, I agree with that too, actually,

to be honest with you. I mean, look, if everybody's got one, you're probably not going to pull yours out. You know? I mean, that's just a fact, but I do think it's great that, uh, they get the rights back to them. I think all the rights, basically, you know, that's what we talked about earlier. You know, prison sets you up for failure instead of success. And I know that sounds weird to say, but, I mean, the truth is you come out and you're branded. You got a scarlet letter, and it's hard to overcome that when you get back out in the real world. A lot of people come out with an attitude to...

Well, yeah, wouldn't you? Yeah, I would be. Get on the mic though, Mike. Yeah, I'd be like, you know, can I use the bathroom, boss? You know, that sort of thing. I've seen a lot of people who've been in prison for years that come out defeated. I don't know if it's some kind of a... Sure. Well, I do think some of that is, you know, we were talking about that yesterday.

Some of that's a state of mind. You know, some of that is is what you want to do with your life when you get out. And because, you know, there are people I know who went to prison, who've come out and who have very successful careers and lives right now. Yeah. Very successful. Yeah. Some people who also went for the same reason same time same situation have not you know and some of that is state of mind it's making a decision that when you get out it's not going to be the same and i know that's easier said than done but it doesn't help if um you set them up to fail where it's hard to get a job or you know hard to do anything defend yourself whatever it may be. You pay your dues. Yeah, you should have a clean slate when you come out.

I mean, that's what's supposed to happen, but that's not what happens. And that's a problem. By the way, if you didn't see Joe Exotic yesterday when I interviewed him, great interview. He was extra spicy. He'd been in the hole for four days, and he was pissed off and had a lot to say about it. So be sure and check that out because it was a great interview with him. Really interesting

talking to him. He calls in every week now. How's he doing? How's he doing? Man, he's not doing well. I mean, he's not. No, he's really not. He's struggling because he can't get his appeal heard. And if you go to i i feel for him because if you go to joe exotic official.com and you look at a large volume of stuff they have their videos people confessing things documents all these things that seem to exonerate him uh from from most of the crimes that he was charged with. And so he's very, he feels, I mean, he's fighting, but he feels defeated a lot. I guess he is happy he met a guy in prison and they want to get married now. And it's a federal prison. It's not like he, I asked him about it.

It's not, he said there aren't any bars. There's no lock. It's like a dorm basically. He said there aren't any bars. There's no lock. It's like a dorm, basically. But he still had to go to isolation for four days, and he was pissed off about it.

Now, he's Joe Exotic. He speaks his mind sometimes, and that may not always be the environment where they invite that. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes they don't exactly solicit your opinion, and when you give it, it can be a problem you know but uh how much more time yeah they gave him life damn i know right that's that's the problem that's exactly right that's the same thing i say is look i've seen look i watch the id channel i've seen people kill mugs or take them hostage you know and they get 10 years 12 years they're back out on the. This guy was allegedly in a conspiracy to commit murder,

never made it to the state where the person was to murder him, never tried to murder him, but you're going to give him life in prison? I mean, come on, man. I mean, at least you got to get a shot off to get life in prison, I would think. You have to attempt. Yeah, I mean, yeah, and a lot of it seems contrived and set up i i think honestly that i really do believe he was railroaded now i'm not saying that he's helped himself at times you know at times he's very spicy you know and that can cause problems a lot of

pushback yeah a lot of it come from that car, Carole Baskin. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's how the whole thing started, wasn't it? That's how the whole thing started, wasn't it? I went back and watched some of his old videos that he did. Oh, my God, they were so great. Oh, no, they were phenomenal, man. He's entertaining as hell. He had his own TV channel.

Yeah, no, he was super entertaining when he was running for governor that was one of the greatest things i've ever seen in my life it was awesome he said what was he said he said uh i'm gay but that guy right there is a lot gayer now yeah no he was great man i mean look he, he had two guys at the same time that he was married or dating or whatever you want to call it in the series. Both of them were straight before him. Yeah, and I'm like, man, his conversion rate is high. I mean, man, that's a great conversion rate

because that's every guy thinks that, you know, oh, you give me a chance, I'll turn them. I can do it. It's me, man. I'm the one, you know, oh, you give me a chance. I'll turn them. I can do it. It's me, man. I'm the one, you know. But, you know, I'm like, wow, that's pretty impressive, bro, that you can convert like that. You know, it makes me a little nervous.

He was like, how do you know you're not gay? Like, hold on, man. I don't know. My ass would be like, I don't want to know I am. You know what I'm saying? I got nothing against it. No, it's just an instinct. You know, I feel like maybe I'm not. You know, I don't know. I don't want to know i am like nothing against it no it's just an instinct you know i feel like maybe i'm not you know i don't know i don't feel gay yeah well but 20 minutes later

they were three hours later dude's knocking teeth out you know i mean but i mean if you my problem is like if you turn me gay like like at least you're just gonna be with me like i'm not gonna share i'm not gonna share the guy that turns me gay so if you turn me gay, like, at least you're just going to be with me. Like, I'm not going to share. I'm not going to share the guy that turns me gay. So if you're going to be gay, you're going to be monogamous. Yes, sir. Come on now. Just gay for one person?

Are you gay? I mean, like, now I got a husband-in-law or something or whatever. Yeah, right. It's a real mixed-up situation in here. I'm confused enough already. Yeah, I've still not figured out how to master the one species I'm trying to work with women. You know what I mean? I'm still struggling

there. Mastering is baiting. I don't know what that means. I have no idea what you're... Yeah, no. I'm not doing that one. Not going down that rabbit hole. Alright. Not doing that one. Not going down that red road. All right. No, no, definitely not.

I'm not even good at that. No, don't say that. Hey, as a matter of fact, let me switch gears here. Let me bring up this amazing artist, Christine DeMayo. Come up here. Christine. Yeah, just come. Come have a seat.

We'll just visit for a minute. All right. Before we do something, have some music from you so let me pull this and just get right you have to get right on this mic because it filters out the background how are you today first of all um i'm awake well good yeah it's early yeah it is early yeah i see i see it i see it you know i get we hey we're thankful that you jumped up and got in here early for us. Absolutely. Thanks for having me out. Yeah, so if you don't know, Christine is an amazing artist and vocalist. Tell people about your music, a little bit about, you know,

kind of how you came up and how you got in music. Oh, gosh. I think everybody in Arkansas starts off playing music in church, honestly. Yeah, a lot of them do. That's true. It is common. Then I realized that I didn't want to be in there anymore, so I got out. I started playing the bar scene and just kind of started doing my thing

and playing acoustic guitar and playing, just singing. I didn't actually like playing covers, man. I liked doing original music all the time. And now I'm just a hoe for the money, honestly. No, that's great. I appreciate your honesty in that. Sometimes that's what we got to do. We got to play some covers here and there.

Oh, that's all I do now. And honestly, I prefer it just because it's easy. I want to play stuff that people are going to enjoy yeah and you know they're going to get up and have a good time so if i play don't stop believing the drunk dude in the corner is going to lose his damn mind and we're going to have a great time and no you're right somehow some way that song continues to work it does it's it's honestly one of those uh low-hanging fruit songs and i have no shame in playing that for people. No, no, it's like a comedian doing a dick joke.

I mean, it's low-lying fruit, but it works. It works. So how did you get, you know, who are artists that inspired you? Oh, man, I've got some old-school ones that I just really love. Obviously, like Hall & Oates. Oh, that's a great one. I really, I do actually really like Journey. I'm a big Neil Sean fan.

Neil Sean's a great guitarist. Holy moly. So, you know, he's older now. Yeah, of course he is. But I saw him with the new singer. Steve Carey? Yeah, with the Verizon Arena. I think it was back in the day.

And, man, Neil Sean was just like shredding it on the guitar. yeah well with the with the verizon arena i think it was back in the day yeah and um man he that neil shawn was just like shredding it on the guitar his hands are so big and he's he's you can tell his hands probably hurt yeah like he's still ripping that guitar and so that's a good band that i really was into when i was growing up and then i like sarah barellas i like some some norah jones oh yeah norah jones is great but uh yeah you know a couple of couple of different but you sound like you like a lot of soulful music yeah I do I like um I mean I wouldn't consider myself a soul singer or anything like that or a bluesy or anything like that but I do like some singers like I think Melissa Etheridge has a lot of guts to her singing

yeah I think uh Sara Borrella's has a lot of uh guts to her singing um so you know i just i like a whole bunch when did you realize at what age did you realize that you sang better than other everybody sings but you were better than a shower singer when did you recognize hey i i really got something here i I know I do. Just yesterday. Well, congratulations. Yeah. Today, actually, right now, you just told me that. Great. Yeah, I actually didn't feel that I was a good singer for years and years and years. And I think other people might agree with that sentiment.

But I think, really, it just came down to, I was was told if you want to play music for a living you gotta a play an instrument you gotta be you gotta know how to sing and i i can hear harmony which is a huge like i guess tool in the arsenal and so i just thought oh i'll be a harmony singer you know i'll be a backup but in order to play music full-time for a living you can't be a backup. But in order to play music full-time for a living, you can't. You can't be a backup. You can't be a backup. Right. You've got to be the star. Yeah.

And I hate that. I don't want to be the star. I just want to be able to play and make money. You're a musician's musician. You love it for the love of it. Yeah, I do. I would love to, if someone picked me up tomorrow and said, hey, come play acoustic guitar for me and this band

i'll take you around the world you don't have to do it you know you don't have to talk to anybody yeah just play your guitar i i'd probably do that tomorrow yeah so so the celebrity aspect of it is is not even remotely attractive to you you like just the playing part of it the connecting with the audience through your instrument and your voice 100 it's and it's just really for me i it's not even about like the art of it too much anymore it's about the entertaining art of it yeah i love music i'm always gonna love it but to see someone out in the audience really just enjoying what i'm doing and i'm creating a vibe and atmosphere for them i'm just like oh okay this is this is what I'm doing and I'm creating a vibe and atmosphere for them. I'm just like, oh, OK, this is this is what I like doing here.

You know, yeah. And I have to say that that of all art forms, a singer songwriter, you know, who's up on stage by themselves is as close to stand up as you get. Would you agree with that? Yeah. You know, and you can see, like what she said, the effect on people. You know, you're affecting the person doing your performance yeah yeah yeah because that's that's how you know when we're in stand-up we're gauging that non-stop just the same way and uh yeah that's that's amazing you're a thermometer that's what you are you're up there just taking the temperature of the room constantly well but the same as you you know know, unfortunately, when you're a solo like that, it's hard to cover mistakes. You know, it's a very naked art form. I just tell people, like, listen, if you're not having a good time, it just means that you're not drinking enough.

Because I can guarantee you that the more you drink, the better I'm going to sound, the more fun we're going to have, and the more you're going to tip me see i i do not say that at a comedy show because i do want them to drink but the more they drink the worse it's probably going to get in the long term i guess it's opposite no comedy not quite opposite but uh but yeah sometimes man they get too rowdy but with music it's different now uh when you're playing do you just play a complete amazing variety of music you have oh man how do you approach it so i don't have a set list anymore unless i'm playing like with a band right but when i'm playing solo you just go do whatever you feel i was sitting at the ohio club last night in hot springs and i i just do a all request show oh that's cool yeah i have a sign you can text me your request and i just sit up

there and i banter back and forth with the audience and i just play whatever they want to hear all night long you banter back and forth with the audience yeah like you know if i'm sitting there and and they're just really dating i'm like oh you like this backstreet boys song it's okay we know about you you know right right right right right i get all the guys that are jamming out to the cindy lauper songs that i play i'm like we see you over there i i just want to you know i see you that's great that's great no that's great that's good interaction it sounds like you're kind of sort of doing a little i mean anecdotally a little comedy along the way you're kind of having fun with the audience i would say i'm sometimes funny you know which which works for

me i'm okay with that i don't need a hundred percent success rate all the time you know i understand it's not necessary but i noticed uh musically that a lot of artists the bigger artists uh have started incorporating more of that into their uh stage persona like an example garth brooks uh i mean hell half his show is stand- up now i mean really it's stand it's straight stand-up comedy oh he's talking and kind of absolutely he stops playing music and he starts telling a story with punch lines with a comedy setup wow i mean it is a stand-up half music half stand-up comedy okay yeah now it's not to the level of comedy that you might do on stage mine yeah i mean henry it's

not not your level um no clearly you are uh you know it's not not like that but it is stand-up and and it entertains the hell out of his audiences apparently yeah you know but i think um you know a lot of you know a lot of people they want to hear that um that you know you know like a T.I., the rapper, he's doing stand-up now. Is he really? I did not know that. Yeah, he's doing stand-up now. Really? Yeah.

That's shocking to me. Actually, he seems like the last person in the world I thought would do stand-up. Well, it's two different gears. Like, gangster rap versus stand-up. You know, gangster rap is all about bravo and kind of being braggadocious. Sure. Stand-up is about humility. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And kind of like, you know, being the, you know. Self rap is all about bravo and kind of being braggadocious. Sure. Stand up is about humility. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And kind of like, you know, being the, you know, self-deprecating. Self-deprecating and pointing out your flaws,

which is like two totally opposite things. Very different. But the audience, you know, the audience gives them room and is very patient with them in this process.

That's interesting. Now, how long has he been doing that? I think maybe three or four years. Really? Yeah. Where is he doing it at? A lot of places there. He's how long has he been doing that? I think maybe three or four years. Really? Yeah. Where is he doing it at? A lot of places there.

He's selling out. He's selling out places. I mean. Have you brought him? Are you? Are you really? Wow. That's amazing.

I would bring him, too, if I were you. I mean, no doubt. He's selling out. He's TI. I mean, he's going to pack houses. Yeah. And he doesn't rap. He lets people know he's not going to rap.

But is he doing comedy rooms or is he doing, like's doing theater he's doing like i think he's basically doing clubs and i maybe as he gets better he'll probably yeah back up to theaters and arenas okay yeah that's very interesting i'm gonna have to check that out so when you said garth books i was like you know i think just as entertainers um to have that audience to you know kind of practice on that they let you you know and you know that muscle memory you can build it yeah absolutely you can do that and and probably over time just like yourself you know garth brooks and you know ti they probably recognize and through their crowd work over the years oh hey i kind of yeah i gotta have something

here i kind of got a knack for that yeah you know we there's a like there's a running joke i don't know if comedians say it too but we us musicians say everyone's a musician you know seriously there's always some guy in the room that could play guitar oh yeah somebody who can sing and i'm just like yeah everybody does it no that's that's that's a fair point you know i, I love karaoke. I'll sing once or twice, but I like to watch it. These people take themselves so seriously at karaoke, man. I mean, like, when they get it, some of these people, now most people are just drunk and having a good time.

But there's 20%, 25% of them that it's life. It's their life. They don't need to read the song. They don't have to read it. They've been working this song, bro. They put in more hours than Mariah did, you know, and they think they're about to bring you that Mariah experience. They don't.

They do not bring that experience. But they sure think they do. And they're looking for you to see it, you know. It's wild. All right. Well, what we do want to do, I'm going to take a quick intermission just so we can get Christine set up to perform for us. It's going to be an amazing acoustic song from her. So give us just one moment to get this set up, and we'll be right back. you you Oh, that's fine. Since I can download it offline, I don't need more.

All right. Let me hold on one second, everybody. Just let me get this situated here. Get this lined out. Okay. Here we go. All right. And we're going to take it in like this.

All right. and we're gonna take it in like this. All right, hey, get out of the camera now. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let me bring to you an amazing musical performance by Christine DiMaio. Go ahead. I don't know how amazing this is going to be. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing. Cause you're the type of person That believes in making out once Love them and leave them fast I guess I must be dumb Yet apocryphal horses Trojan and summer lamb are used Well it was Saturday night

I guess it makes it alright To say baby what am I gonna lose Honey are you sailing in red carpet It makes it all right to say, baby, what am I going to lose? Honey, I say a little red carpet. Baby, you're mine super fast. A little red carpet. You need love that's gonna last I guess I should have closed my eyes when you drove me to the places

where your horses run free Cause I felt a little ill when I saw the pictures of the jockeys that were there before me Believe it or not, I started to worry I wondered if I had enough class Well it was Saturday night, I guess it makes it alright To say, baby have you got enough gas?

Honey I can say a little recommend Maybe I'm my super fast. A little red carpet, you need a love that's gonna last. See, I'm partying like you're a certain being, yeah Cause it's on the verge of being obscene Move on, well, baby, give me the keys I'm gonna take me a little red love machine I say a little red carpet Maybe much too fast

A little red carpet You need a love that's gonna last Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Baby Little red carpet. You need love. It's gonna last.

Hell yeah. That was awesome. That was awesome. Hold on one second. Let me put this camera back here. Where can they find you online? You can find me at thechristinedomeo.com. It's my website.

Or just thechristinedomeo, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. Just, I'm on there. All right. So, thechristinedomeo. Yep. You can find her on YouTube. Find her on our website. Find her anywhere on social media.

Follow her. And get out and see her where's your next show at oh gosh my next show is i think it's at the ohio club i want to say again in hot springs okay and when will that be do you know thursday this coming thursday yeah the next thursday coming up all right so if you're hey if you're in the hot springs area or anywhere near get out there and see her because you can see it's going to be a hell of a show. How much are tickets? Oh man, it's free. Oh, hell yeah.

That's the best kind. Yeah. Just come on out. Have a drink. Put some money in the tip jar. All right. That's not required. Man, that's awesome. That's awesome.

Well, thank you guys very much for coming out and doing that. That was awesome, Christine. All right. We can bring everybody back in now. That was amazing. That was great. That was great. No, I'm so glad. Stick around. Don't you know, I have to leave. Yeah, please feel free to stick around. Just learned so much about the G chord watching her do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, you can play a guitar.

I don't even know anything. The only chord I know are the ones on the floor here. Apparently, I could only play one G chord. There's like eight in her song right there. That's right. I got a hammer on. I can't even. No, I can't hammer on with my pinky or with my pointy finger who's your my say again oh yeah absolutely you can yeah who is your

I mean in obviously there's so many but sentimentally who's your favorite guitarist of all time Oh Prince Prince is this is the best guitar player ever yeah yeah you think so? He was phenomenal, for sure. Oh, my God. Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray Vaughan? Stevie Ray Vaughan's another great one.

Yeah. Do you have a favorite guitarist? Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix? That's a great choice, too, man. What an innovator he was, man. And to be able to play guitar on acid is quite a feat. I'm going to be honest with you.

That's a special talent right there. Staying on fire and stuff. Yeah, no, I mean, that dude was crazy. He was using eyedroppers to put LSD in. That's how he was doing it, was via eyedrop. And that was back when it was very, very potent stuff they were dealing with. So you can imagine where his guitar solos came from. I mean, it was, you know, but man, what an awesome artist he was.

Yeah, I still, Eddie Van Halen is sentimentally my favorite. I still love that. You know, I think that style appeals to me. I miss solos in songs. You know, in the 80s, every song had a guitar solo in it. Now they don't all have guitar solos, and I like the guitar solo. I wish they'd bring it back more, you know in the 80s every song had a so a guitar solo in it now they don't all have guitar solos and i like the guitar solo i wish they'd bring it back more you know uh who else did you like on guitar uh well locally you know i don't know if people know this uh arkansas has

some of the best musicians in the world luke shoemaker man i mean luke shoemaker is phenomenal yeah obviously a normal dude yeah from arkansas yeah oxide yeah so you got uh kish moody uh kendall right that my buddy kendall right has has the ability to not only write songs and music and he can put together a band of phenomenal people yeah i've done it twice yeah uh fire in the park was a hellacious band back in the day and then at war's end was the band that i helped promote yeah of course yeah and man they're both you could search for either one of those bands on youtube and you will find videos that are phenomenal of both these bands he kish uh kish moody is from an oxide project yeah he was phenomenal phenomenal good yeah i need to

have him in here by the way oh just let him know i won't i'm out to you man come on need you in here buddy uh who is a music uh you know an artist that uh is a guilty pleasure for you you like like you know you listen to it on the down low i'm exposing you now who is it? It doesn't matter what it is. I don't give a damn. Seal. For me, it's Seal. Seal. I love his vocals. Man, we were listening to Seal last night, believe it or not, at the house.

Yeah, man, we sure were. We were listening to, it was old school soul R&B last night. Yeah. So we were getting down to some Keith Sweat and some, you know, some Avant and, you know, folks like that, man. Yeah, we were getting down man what what you want to you want to switch places oh no no you just you just sang once come over and talk come over here and talk she's listening she i i i feel her i feel her energy i got you christine you're all right uh yeah who's your guilty pleasure song or you know artist uh i want it that way

i love that i love singing that song i love singing it oh my god man i do i do drunken karaoke on my youtube you have like a theatrical stage performance for it like you know you've got the dance moves just a lot of moonshine sometimes moonshine in the middle of a song in a vomit session and come yeah yeah no that sounds right i would vomit if i sang it but i mean i know i love it for you jab scooch over here hat boy i'm out of play and i yeah uh my name now hat boy yeah um so what's uh what's your guilty probably us Usher. Why would you feel guilty about Usher? I don't know, man. It's just not my... Because it's not your genre, typically?

Yeah. Oh, hold on. Let me fix that camera. Let me go back. Hold on. Here. Hold on. I got to fix this.

Hold on one second. Because I messed it up. That was my shot. There we go. Now, there we go. Now you can control the cameras again, Brandon. Now, tell me again who was it usher yeah no no man usher's awesome i just wouldn't be riding around town just blaring

out i would i would definitely do that with us yeah no i'll still i'll still bump yeah with little john and usher that's the oldest oldest hell i'll still challenge you look a little weak man yeah oh i can see what's out there okay i had a buddy who'd be driving down guyer springs and he'd be bumping two live crew we want some action oh yeah he's like looking at pulling up next to chicks and yeah no that did that work for him i think ever not once not one time no y'all were laughing at him but like you're just ruining it yeah no two live crew never helped a single guy one time i'll be honest with you sing that song too though no i don't want you to nobody wants that you can rap the hell out of that no i bet you could yeah no that's that's impressive by the way who's your favorite hip-hop artist man uh hip-hop uh you

know like we're just talking about like straight rap ll cool j stuff like that rap hip-hop whatever yeah yeah yeah ll yeah old school ladies love cool james yeah man yeah man you know what he was uh really uh a pioneer and um quite a wordsmith in the day you know but really what it was about him uh two things number one girls really love how he looks and he goes and licks those lips about 80 times a song and that that helps but uh it's crazy like he was a vibe you know um how important like you know like even in my career choice how important vanity is you know saying it's you know like looks matter yeah no that's true and they do and uh they they he says he's never smoked drank nothing he's never put anything in his body that that wasn't healthy for him.

And he looks like that. I'll be honest with you. He doesn't look like the rock that steroided out. I think he's pretty natural. He's talking about the rock. Now, I also happened when I finally started drinking, I was upset with myself that it took so long. That it took that long?

Yeah. Why did it take so long? Because I was trying to be like what you know be healthy and not not not you know not yeah but i had my i was just going up uh sober for years years on stage and just you know and um i i started drinking it helped me to deal with the people not liking me right so you know until they you, it's like just having people stare at you like you suck. Yeah. It does create anxiety. It does wear on you.

It's like, so that's what, like, I start drinking to kind of be numb to their mean faces. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So. Yeah, when you don't care, it doesn't matter. Yeah, no. You can work through, like, it takes, sometimes it takes an audience six or seven minutes before they kind of get you. Yeah.

And before I would just stiff that whole time before I start to relax, know just relax and then now i can kind of now you can you can understand what that tension that's building is so now it's like you know it's i you know people say you don't have to you have to not care i don't i don't agree with that because not caring means you're not there right if i don't care that means i'm not there no you're not giving your all like i don't give a fuck because if i didn't give a fuck i wouldn't even come up here right no i care on some levels um i just need to uh i just need to be more cavalier and i take myself so seriously so that for me that's what the alcohol was for no i get that just to not take myself so serious that's the only way i can karaoke too there's no sober karaoke for me yeah there'll never be a sober karaoke moment it's like you know that's i mean that's what alcohol does for me it's like okay you know i don't need it as much

anymore you know definitely leaned it on a little bit more yeah when i went my past i think alcohol was my talent for like 10 years that's a special skill i was like, I need my talent. I'm just walking to her. Yeah, no, it was such a part of my wife's act. She had a special cup made, a bedazzled cup that says it's not vodka, you know. I remember that. Because it was vodka all the time. It was always vodka. Whenever I see a comedy special and someone's drinking, like, water out of, like, a water bottle or whatever, I'm like, that's vodka. Yeah, no, that's not water, man.

Come on, man. No, no, definitely vodka. You're right. Yeah, what about you, Chad? As far as favorite rap artist? Probably Lil Wayne. Okay. Lil Wayne, to me, is the GOAT.

Yeah, he's the GOAT. Yeah, no, he's, to me, the best. Except setting, he's not going gonna be on the superbowl man screw that man that's that's crazy man i'm sorry i mean but you gotta go they had to go with the you know the hottest person at the time you know you know kendrick is the it's the hot guy right now it's it's his town though man yeah i i could never put kendrick above wayne but i understand what you're saying i mean he he had that big hit song, because of the beef with Drake, you know, and it is a good song. I mean, it's catchy as hell, you know,

and I like it. I mean, it's hard not to like the song. I'm just, I'm a Drake fan, so I'm kind of mad at Kendrick right now. I'm Team Drake on this one. I'm on Team Drake. You know. They got the gang. You can't be Team drake what's the problem with that man

i can't be team drizzy i mean i'm not i'm like i'm more of a wayne fan than both of them so yeah it's like you know we're talking about lyricists drake is kind of a ladies man yeah you know you're very melodic and you know storyteller and just kind of like that guy they are like okay cool wayne said he he never wrote anything down he says he does it all he did in person and he stopped yeah he googled when he found out jay-z didn't write stuff down he said he found out jay-z and biggie didn't write stuff so that's what he kind of stopped i don't know about biggie write my jokes all my jokes are me too i can show you all my material well i mean i think uh most comedians at least write a skeleton yeah now when you're on stage you'll have ad libs that become incorporated into the longer term set.

Yeah, yeah. But you're right. Yeah, I mean, there's always a skeleton, at least. You know what I'm upset about now is that, like, hot topics don't last that long. You know what I'm saying? Like, so, you know, back in the day before, we just had constant news coming to our pockets and our phone every day. You could, you know, if something happened, like remember the Clinton years, or something happened, you could talk about that for like six months to a year,

a hot topic. Now the news cycle changes so quickly. If you think of a good Trump joke or a good whatever joke. It's gone in a week. Yeah, like by the next week, there's a totally new different thing. No, that's so true. And that is one of the things, that 24-hour nonstop news cycle. Yeah, it constantly changes.

And then you start to forget, like, what were we excited about last week? Right. No, you don't remember. Like, I can't even remember what we were pissed off about or whatever. I'm pissed again, but I don't know why I was pissed last time. Yeah, like, it's crazy, man. No, everybody was just pissed for a minute. We're talking about the CEO guy, but, you know, two weeks from now, it's going to be something totally different.

Oh, no, you're right. I mean, it's hot for the moment, but you're exactly, but two weeks from now, it's going to be something totally different. Oh, no, you're right. It's hot for the moment, but you're exactly right. Two weeks from now, something else will happen. Elon Musk will have something happen, and we'll be talking about him again. Diddy will pop back up. Diddy, yeah, Diddy. You don't want Diddy to pop.

You don't need to pop nothing. Enough popping. What do you think in reality about the Did enough popping what do you think uh do you think uh what do you think uh in in reality about the diddy situation do you think that there's where there's smoke there's fire or do you think it's a pile on what do you mean do you think did he did it is did he that guy is did he you know i you know i don't think he's any more of a villain than what he was set up and uh made to be uh-huh i think he was more of someone who's just kind of a villain than what he was set up and uh made to be uh i think he was more of

someone who's just kind of go between between you know artists regular people and super rich and famous um he was probably a pimp to the you know to the fame and fortune yeah and uh when they get tired of you you know whoever the powers be is like okay we're done with you and uh i just my interest is like who's the new diddy who new Diddy? Because they're still doing it. Oh, yeah, somebody's the new Diddy. Those parties are still going on in those situations. Those demons are still being fed. Somebody's still supplying them the things they need.

Well, I do think that the Hollywood sex lifestyle still goes on. I don't know. I think that maybe I'm hopeful that we're beginning to break the ditties, so to speak, that do that, you know, where that people admit it out faster, you know, because everybody knew about R. Kelly. Yeah. You know, everybody knew about apparently Louis C.K. But they seem to have lost their ability to recognize talent.

Like, it's like they don't know talent unless they can fuck them you know what i'm saying no but you're right i have sex with you first before i know if you're you know actually got the gift or not well and i know that yeah right yeah i'm gonna give you the gift so well you know you look at uh all all these artists who in a rearview mirror it's like wow did you mess up bieber is that you did you do that i mean yeah did you really do usher up i mean what's what's up man i mean now i don't know i get that they were probably to some extent complicit in their own issues with this you know because they showed up for the party. You know what I mean? But, but.

As an artist myself and people I communicate with, they're like, you know, you shouldn't be willing to sell your soul. There's certain things you shouldn't be willing to do. But, you know, when it's right there, like it's almost like a heaven. Right. And it's, you know, you're one penis away. You know what I'm saying?

That's right. Just one. One penis away. One know what I'm saying? That's right. Just one. Just one. And you think. One penis away. You think you're like, I'm one penis away. And this album dropping. And if you're a great way to look at it. You're a child performer. Think about it.

And you've been performing since your parents have been grooming you to perform since you were like two or three or four. Now you're in your 20s. And, you know, this is, you know, your dream, like your whole life. Yeah. Going to the NFL or going to the NBA. Yeah. And this guy's like, okay, just, you know, I'll, you know, your dream, like, your whole life. Yeah. Like, going to the NFL or going to the NBA. Yeah. And this guy's like, okay, just, you know,

I'll just come around this desk real quick and you'll be on your way. Yeah. And I think the problem is the people that, you know, did it and didn't ever get it. You know what I'm saying? Those are the people like. Oh, but they're the ones that are really mad. Yeah, like, yeah, you know.

Like, hold on, I did that for nothing. Yeah, yeah, those are the people, you know, those people you're having problems with. Well, you know, it interesting uh to watch it play out because so many of uh because they said they had a list of names that a list names right but all these a-listers have come and paid off the complainants you know so they all get millions and walk away yeah they basically buy the tape you know i mean but they put you you know i guess when you when it when the system works correctly they put you in a position to where you won't be affected by the consequences of what's been what's taking place so um and everybody's being real hush hush and no i was never there you know you know five years right

like yeah i was there i had a great time yeah this year's like i was never there or i was only there for a couple minutes yeah no jimmy fox that he said. He said, I left at nine o'clock. Yeah, I was like, did you leave at nine? No, I don't know. Did you? It's just for me, I'm just really interested in, you know, six or seven years from now when we begin to see, like, what the new, I don't think any of it is going away. Like, I don't believe it.

Yeah, I hear you. You just think you moved the, it's a shell game. It's a different, yeah. Whack-a-mole a shell game it's a different yeah it's a different terrorist now we just don't know they're just like going under underground you know before it was hitting but it was kind of in plain sight now they kind of learn from their mistakes all right so let me ask you this r kelly i know that uh we we all agree that what happened was wrong what do you mean well whatever he did you know what he was convicted of okay okay um underage girl he done somebody yeah yeah uh well that's not illegal at all yeah but when she's underage it might be um but do you disavow his music now

i mean first of all like i was raised in the 90s and i went to i lost a lot of girlfriends to older men you know saying like guys that were just picking up chicks yeah in their early 20s that would be circling the high schools yeah so it was just so and and those girls weren't sad you know like you know saying those 16 17 year old girls you're right they were getting picked up by adult men they weren't they didn't come back to school unhappy no you're right came back with new shoes and new clothes and yeah you know and and kind of parading and masquerading like around us like we were like the people that were just having sex with no we always had the high school girls dating the college guy like that they weren't

sad so i think they kind of did uh r kelly the same way you're doing pd he's like after you stop making hits and you stop feeding the machine with money or whatever influence, then it's like, okay, the time is up. I was never a big R. Kelly fan, so it wasn't like it was a hard choice. I never listened to his music. I'm just saying, I know he did wrong, but if Ignition comes on, I'm still

turning it up. I can't not. It's that good. A lot of those guys just got so, like, blatant that, like, you know, like, even the dudes that, you know, did it, like, they knew to, they knew it was wrong. Like, you know, when you're doing wrong, you should see it. Well, of course you know. Yeah. Like, when you're around that couple and they just start fighting right in front of you,

like, you guys are going too far. Right. Like, this is, you know, like, you're not being sensitive to us that don't do that. Well, no, you can't tell me Harvey Weinstein didn't know he was doing wrong. I mean, you know, and he's like, yeah, you want the role? I can give you the role. I got you the role. Yeah.

And I have enough power influence that even if you tell somebody, they're not going to believe you or they're not going to invest in you. Yeah. I'll destroy you before you can do anything. Yeah. And he probably did. Yeah. You know?

Yeah, he could. Yeah. Are we ever going to see the Jeffrey Epstein list? No. Too powerful of people. Find out what happened to him. What do you mean find out what happened to him? You know what happened.

He hung himself, right? Right. So. Yeah, he sure did. And OJ didn't do it either, by the way. Yeah. I just think they got a new system. They just had the main Epstein guy on The View. Which main Epstein guy?

Bill Clinton. Oh, is he the main one? They had that picture of him in a dress doing this shit. Oh, he did have a picture of Bill Clinton. Right when you walk in the mansion on Epstein Island, there's this giant picture of Bill Clinton in a dress. That is actually true, which is an odd painting to have but i mean that shows you power like you got the president in a dress like that that's i don't know if that's power but it's weird it's weird but he comes there

regularly yeah yeah that is uh yeah that is a good point he did visit a little bit here and there that's weird yeah i mean in fairness he was married to hillary oh man i mean almost i've met i've met i don't i don't think there's anything wrong with you know being a feminine man or being a masculine woman i agree with that it's not illegal no nothing wrong with it you know saying having having having sex or putting putting poor people in a position where they have to prosecute themselves. Oh, man. That's wrong. That's wrong. Well, yeah, of course it is.

Yeah, absolutely. So that's the crime, not the man in the dress. No, no, that's definitely not a crime. If I found out Bill Clinton was a cross-dresser, I would not be upset. Oh, no, I'm not offended. When I found out he was on a list. That would be the least offensive thing about him. When I found out he was on a list to have sex with underage kids.

Like, okay, that's a problem we have. No, no. Everybody wants to have sex, but this is what you want to do with kids. It's a problem. We have sex. No, no. Everybody wants to have sex, but this is when you want to do it with kids. It's a problem. Poor children. No, it's not a good thing. Never.

All right. So the Looney Bin tonight, right? Yeah, tonight, tomorrow night, two shows tonight, two shows tomorrow night. Yeah. All right. Now, obviously, we can go to looneybinlr.com, right, and find out. But if they want to learn more about you henry where do they go uh just youtube me google me youtube me uh you can see more

google me bitch that's right i'm henry coleman google me bitch okay all my stuff is online and uh yeah hopefully you know you enjoy it and come out yeah that'd be great my my eye track uh 50 50 white black whatever whoever's there they go left and have a good time. Yeah, no, I get it. That's it. One time I opened for Carlos Mencia. Yeah, did you? Yeah, worst crowds ever.

Really? Yeah, but no, not the jokes. He attracts old white people and young Mexicans. Really? Yeah. How interesting. That was interesting. But it was a bad crowd for you?

Terrible, because young Mexicans want Really? Yeah. How interesting. That was interesting. Was it a bad crowd for you? Terrible because young Mexicans want the machismo. They want the swagger. And then old whites want you to be like Wayne Brady. He just said fuck. He needs you to be Wayne Brady before Chappelle.

So it was like, how do I relate? I've had a chris the one and only christmas party i ever did for a company okay they booked me you know and i warned them before you know i mean i you've heard me on air right i mean you know yeah yeah yeah yeah and then i i showed up and then not the guy who booked me the owner comes out and he goes so i I showed up and not the guy who booked me, the owner comes out and he goes, I understand you're going to do a clean set. And I was like, oh, let me just go over my set list with you real quick here.

And he gave me the green light, but about 15 minutes in the white towel comes. He started doing that. I was like, oh, yeah, it was great. I walked some blue hairs they ran their their hair was on fire when they left you know now the young people up front were loving yeah i was killing with them the elderly people were like get this police show uh it was for a town hall meeting style but it was mostly the police and fire department okay and before you know i was like you know it was like when you want to go on and i was like uh one or more two more acts than

me you know i was just trying to see let the room settle yeah before i go on they do a tribute to a fallen officer oh no not right before you right before i go oh no like uh you know bring her bring the wife up and do a whole little thing oh jesus Jesus. Can you get more of a buzzkill than that? I bummed for like. 15 minutes? Yeah. And I almost didn't want to take the guy's money, but I needed it. Yeah, I get it. I was like, yeah, technically you're supposed to pay me.

I really don't want to take it. There was never a time I didn't want to take their money. I'll tell you that now. Every time I want the money. Yeah, I don't care. That's on you, man man you know so all right so um what all if folks want to follow you find you where do they do it man uh i'm on instagram facebook sometimes is it uh what what's the what's your is it mike what all what's what's your name online for them to look for what all you can uh google me

You can Google me. But what will come up is the question. Besides an arrest record. It would be a collegiate wrestler, actually. Google my name. But, yeah, just look for Lil Doggy on YouTube. I used to do a lot more videos. Because of COVID and the algorithm and the way they cracked down on information information during covid i had to delete a year's worth of videos wow yeah now i like a lot of

people and then they demonetize me after 12 years of being monetized yeah on youtube you know youtube regular checks from freaking google yeah well you know sometimes they don't like to pay anymore oh my god that sucks but anyway I don't do anything anymore. Well, you do. You're still around. You still have stuff. You have recipes. You have cooking things.

I'm just Patrick's old friend. No. Stop the bullshit. Chad, what's going on with you? Are you doing bonus holes today for people? Yeah, hopefully doing bonus holes today. Okay. Doing $5 off piercings and $5 off gift cards.

All right. $5 off piercings, $5 off gift cards. Go see Chad at Primal Urge Tattoo and Piercing. Where's that at, Chad? 1008 East Oak Suite 104, Conway. And while you're there, when you get done getting your bonus hole, go next door to Crazy J's and get you something to get you a vape or get you a little smoking apparatus for your you know electric lettuce this weekend yeah all right uh

well i want to thank uh christine de mayo for an amazing performance awesome performance i want to thank henry coleman amazing comedian for coming in and sharing time with us thank you to rickshaw mike mike woodall for coming in of course thank you to chad sledge for having me and vainly thank you guys uh very much for making us successful making it work sharing it getting us out there we couldn't be more grateful or thankful that uh we're you know almost two months in and doing the numbers we're doing it's unbelievable but it's all because of you so please don't stop keep pushing it uh we love you and have a hell of a weekend, all right? Peace. Later.