The Ben Mulroney Show - Mail Bagdry Januaryf This House Comedian Deric Cahill

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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All conversation, no cancellations, all across the nation, let's go. That's right, it's the Ben Mulroney Show, all conversation, no cancellation on this. Thursday, the 8th of January, 2026. And once a week, we like to scour our social media, scour at all points where you can leave us messages, letting us know what you think of the content we're putting out there, the conversations we're having, the tone that we set, ideas for what we can do in the future, observations about what we're getting right, what we're getting wrong. Yes, it's that time of week. It's time for the Ben Mollerney Show mailbag. Doop, do up. Welcome friends to play and sing. This is reply.

the Ben Mulrooney mailbag. Yes, indeed. And so I'm going to turn the microphone over to Mike Drolle, who will be speaking on your behalf, you, the listeners and viewers of the Ben Mulroney Show. And unlike on Friday, I'm not trying to stump you here. Yeah, no, no, no. You're just, you're the conduit between the Ben Mulroney family,

Ben Mulroney show family, and I, Ben Mulroney. If I was a true conduit, I would say I would read these in the people's voices who wrote. Yeah, let's not do that. No, it would be inappropriate. Okay. So this one starts out with Ben. It finally sounds like his authentic self. I couldn't do the whole entertainment thing.

Shalalala lo. Yeah, that's from a star is born. No, listen, I think that they thank you. Thank you. And I'm glad you're joining us. I was my authentic self. You know, like we, I always say you don't behave the same way at a party on Saturday as you do.

at church on Sunday, but you're the same person. It's a different, yeah, it's a different arena and therefore you present in a way that's appropriate for that arena. And doing my entertainment show was me, but it was me doing the entertainment show. This is me doing the radio show. Actually, my family has told me that they think one of the reasons I enjoy doing this show so much is because I'm a very agreeable person in every other aspect of my life. Okay.

I'm not, my family listens to this show and says, you agree, you're so nice and you go with the flow and all other points in your life. But on this show, you give people no quarter. Like, you shall not pass. And so my parents, my family could argue that this is a version of me that is different from a version of me at dinner. I just think it's, it's, you're always the same person. Ideally, you're the same person just in difference. circumstances and you respond differently by presenting a little differently.

That's it. Perhaps it's the cattle prod that I, that I, yeah, this one's a comment from Kigsberg. And I'll see if I could short this one up a bit, but he wrote, this is regards to the Harry Potter story out of Vancouver, where they were so upset with the fact that they were having an event. Yeah.

And then it ends up becoming the most popular Harry Potter event of all time. So this man wrote, speaking as a game. the far-leftist LGBT have gone insane, particularly the trans community. J.K. Rowling has literally stated that she respects and appreciates the rights of trans people, but that denying biological reality hurts the rights and protection of women and gay people. The ironic witch hunt, that's the trans and their supporters, have now gone on against JK, is ridiculous. They literally send her death threats. This was just a fun event for all to enjoy, and still they had to make it about their self-perceived slights.

I am done with bending the knee to fringe activists. Yeah, look, you as an individual will always get my respect. Show me respect and I'll show it to you. Actually, I'll show it to you first. I'll always show respect first. And if you don't show it back to me, lesson learned by me. But in terms of a group and in terms of the priorities of an activist group like this, I don't have any time for you anymore.

I'm actually quite done. I'm done with being told that if I disagree even, if I step out of line even a little bit, I am somehow creating a clear and present danger to your well-being. And I'm going so far as to putting the lives of people at risk. That is so dumb. That is so disingenuous. It is so cynical and it is destructive and it is unhelpful. And so I'm not doing that.

I'm not playing that game. If you want to have conversations about real issues in a trans person's life, I want to hear that. I want to be there to support that person. But if you are saying writ large, somebody who thinks that a little girl, 12 years old, should be playing volleyball with a little boy 12 years old who's a foot taller than her, sorry, someone born a boy who now is, presents as a girl, I'm going to tell you absolutely not.

And if that one thing is enough for you to look at me and turn me into an enemy, then we got nothing to say. Then we got nothing to say. Good luck building anything because you will be the cheese standing alone. And yeah, it's if you don't play well with others, you shouldn't be playing. This next comment is from Matt Pearson speaking about, let's say, a Christian Freeland announcing that she's going to be stepping down, which is now she's made official. It's going to be tomorrow. I don't know if there's any sort of ceremony or anything like that. But he writes, honestly, Ben, I don't really.

care. Carney just sent billions to the Ukraine, to Ukraine. And now this Christy Meathead is their economic lead. They're laundering money right in our faces and the distraction tactics are everywhere. Look, I can't. Is that true or not? I don't think so. I mean, I don't know. But I'm not going to, I'm not going to live in a world where aid that we've sent to a country that is fighting for its very existence against an aggressive imperialist power like Russia is, I'm not going to view that as anything but a good thing. I frankly don't think we have enough. We don't have any money to be giving as much as we do.

But all I was trying to say is because Christia Freeland essentially thumbed her nose at the rules in place to ensure trust in the system, I have to mistrust the decision. that's and it's not on me i didn't start it i had had had had miss freeland and minister freeland exited uh in a way that was appropriate according to the rules i would be wishing her well but because she accepted this job whilst still a sitting member of parliament um it it it doesn't sit well with me i don't like it i don't like the i don't like the fact that this is that the liberals tend to tend to get away with this sort of thing uh scott freeland I mean, this is worthy of an investigation, frankly. If it were me, I would be asking to see the receipts and looking at emails and opening up phone calls and wondering who knew what and when they knew it.

Because it doesn't smell right. It could very well be that after an investigation we see it was an innocent mistake. I would like for that to be the case, but I don't know. You know what? I'm going to go off topic here. I'm going to go off the script and take a comment from our text line that just came in a few minutes ago. For God's sakes, Ben, this is reference to Minnesota and the shooting there. Yeah.

An innocent woman is dead. Do you shoot someone dead because they didn't get out of the car on command? We're not at war. Give your head a shake. She was legally protesting. Your dad would stand against you on this one. Okay. Did you suggest that?

I said none of that. None of that. I said none of that. I don't, you heard exactly what you wanted to hear. You made something up in your head. I said none of that. You also don't know that she was legally protesting. You don't know any of that.

and do not speak for my father. Unless you know him, unless you are him, I would humbly suggest, keep my dad's name out of mouth. But no, I don't know why you do that. You never said, we were very clear, very, very clear. Never said any of that.

We don't know. And I said it was a tragedy. I did say it was a tragedy. So I don't know what you heard, but you didn't hear me. You might have heard a voice in your head that sounded like me. If the voice in your head is me,

hang on to that. I don't know about that. Hang on to that. But the, the actual me never said that. I just thought that it was a good timing for that one. And I think we have time for one more. Sure.

Yeah, one or two more. So this one here is in response to the Minnesota, different story out of Minnesota. This was the, remember the rapid response choir? Oh, yes, the Oceanic Association sent their rapid response choir to show support for the Somali community that they believed was being persecuted for alleged crimes of fraud. Yes, and the comment is from Canadian luck.

A good job on bringing this craziness to the Canadian listener as mainstream media takes too long to report it, if at all. And we certainly did jump on this. Well, rapid response choirs. I mean, they're so quick. You need a rapid response because they're there and they're gone. They're there. They sing, they're gone.

So, of course, we had to catch them in the act, right? And I have to say, though, when I showed that one to you, you're like, I think that's the best thing I've ever heard. Like, of all the things, of all the things, of all that, like, that's an actual thing that the Oceanic Association has a rapid response choir and they're... And Minnesota's landlocked.

What are they doing being there? I mean, they got there real quick. Anyway, thank you to all of you. And I think we can all agree with the idea of dry January is a good one, but that doesn't mean the people who do dry January aren't exceptionally annoying. We're talking about that after the break. Paying for tax tools, our team doesn't even use.

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BlueJay, AI for tax experts. Welcome back to the Ben Mulroney show. Thank you very much to the late great Jimmy Buffett, RIP. I had the pleasure of knowing him. No. I had the pleasure of knowing Jimmy Buffett. I didn't know him. Okay, that's a story to tell. So his daughter, Savannah, has been a great friend for years. The whole family was wonderful. He was a wonderful, wonderful man.

I had a friend who was the biggest parrot head, and I was like, what are you talking about? Because that's what their fans call themselves parrot heads. And I had never heard of Jimmy Buffett before, and this friend was so into it. He would go to the concerts wearing a grass skirt and like the coconut thing. Sure, yeah. No, I saw him in concert. and just a lovely, lovely man and just a wonderful guy. Anyway, we wanted to play that song off the top

to remind you it's dry January. And look, the reason we want to talk about is I've done dry January. Have you? No. No, have you? Stupid. No. But I mean, I do dry a lot of things.

Dry January is, it's that moment when you wake up from the fugue state of the end of the year, too much booze and during the holiday parties, and you say, that's it, I am not going to drink anything, no alcohol for the entire month of January. Now, I've done it successfully. I have failed at it.

As a matter of fact, a couple of times I actually went into the end of February. I did it two months. And it was great to do. I change other things in my life now. I drink so rarely now that it doesn't even matter. It could be dry January for all I know because I probably, will I have a drink this much? this month.

Oh, probably when we go to the conservative convention well, look, let me be clear. The conversation that we're having here is not making light. I want to be clear, the conversation we're having right now is not, we're not making light of people with issues with alcohol.

That's not what we're talking about. So if you feel that we're being glib or flippant, the context is we're having a light conversation. So you've been warned, okay? I don't want to trigger anybody. There's nothing to trigger you on here. We're talking about dry January because... And call in to talk about it as well.

Give us a call at 416-8-70-6400 or 1-3-8-2-2-5 talk. Because the question is, is dry January a wellness reset or is it a moral flex? That's what we want to talk about. Because it feels like for a month, the dry January people, they become like CrossFit people. It's so annoying. But also, is there a worst month to do it? It's cold. It's dark.

And now you can't go outside really because it's horrible and nasty and... Yeah, like the question is, dry January started as a health challenge, but now it seems to be turning into people's personality. Yeah, why do you have to post about it? I don't care. Well, I mean, some people say if I post it, then it's real, right? And I know, but like people know about it and they're going to hold me to it. I will be accountable if I tell people.

I feel like it's just a flex. Some people do. And there's, there are people who they announce it. it's a CrossFit challenge and social media, virtuous, I'm not drinking. What's your excuse? Why aren't you doing it? And there's a little bit of that.

There's a little bit of moral superiority that comes from it. Sober superiority as it's been called. Listen, if it makes you feel good, that should be enough, right? Totally. Yeah. Do it for your own health. I mean, literally everyone on my social feeds are doing either that or a cleanse, some sort of a, like, 10-day cleanse.

Like, I try to juice cleanse once. I try to juice cleanse. I'm so hungry. It sucked. It was awful. It didn't help. And I didn't lose any weight and I was angry. And no, it's terrible. All right, let's talk to Tina.

Tina, welcome to the show. You did CrossFit. You did Dry January three years ago. How'd it go? It went really well. So prior to doing Dry January, you know, we were in the midst of COVID. and you indulge a little bit on an evening glass of wine and drink a little bit more on the weekend perhaps. So I just decided to try dry January more as something

that I can accomplish from start to finish. And I did it even with a few extra days into February. And ever since then, I never really got back into, you know, the evening glass of wine, or anything like that. So I can easily go through the week. And I think that really helped with it because it's three years later and I still don't really have the itch to, you know, Tuesday night, have a glass of wine or anything. So I do think from a wellness really, reset it helps and then it adds to that flex, I guess, that I can personally say finish something that I put my mind to. Well, listen, you didn't finish it.

You keep doing it. Mazel Tov. And look, you know, Tina, what they say is one of the positive knock-on effects for dry January is it indeed does that reset. A lot of people reevaluate more generally their relationship with alcohol so that now you've taken it in such a great direction. Some people do it just a little bit. You know, they went from prior to dry January.

They might have been averaging. I don't know. two glass of wine a night and then it becomes two glasses every three nights, right? So that is, I've read that, I've seen that. You know, for me, my relationship with alcohol

has gone up and down. There's times where I don't even think about it and there are other times where I get home from work because I'm like, I need a cocktail. And so it is what it is and it's different for everybody. And so long as people are cognizant of, you know, where they are with alcohol

and identifying being able to be self-aware enough to be able to say, I'm in a danger zone here. I got to fix this. But it seems like you're doing great, Tina, so keep it up. Thanks so much for calling. Who do we have?

We got Joe. Joe, happy January to you. Is it a dry one? Probably not. Probably not. Okay, let me tell you a story. I was in college. I was in college,

and a friend of mine went on an acid trip, right? And I was his guide to make sure he didn't, like, fall down and he stares. And I brought him back to his room and he was very annoying following him around for hours. But he goes to his room and the phone rings and I was too slow to react and he picked it up. And his mom was on the phone. He was failing out of university. Surprise, surprise. And his mom had just heard from the registrar and she was very upset with him. And he was just so out of it that she said, she asked him, are you on drugs? And you know what his answer was? What right now?

What happened to him? He's an investment banker. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, back to you, Joe. I apologize. Oh, no problem. That was a good story.

It really, okay, you were in college, that stuff that you do in college. Did you grow out of that? Of course. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I was telling your screener that I caught on to your term. Sober January. I can't remember.

Dry January? Dry January, but sober superiority. Sober superiority, right. Yeah. And so that's exactly how I see it. I think if you're a responsible adult, you want to have a drink or two as long as it's within reason. Yeah. And you're not going to get in your car and drive and harm anybody.

I don't think that you need to then have this sober superiority and say, look, I'm not drinking in January. Yeah. Your screener said it's virtue signaling. I also agree with that one. Yeah, it can be. It can be. Listen, Tina, our previous guest, Joe, I think she was the embodiment of what it's supposed to be, right? And good on her and good on you, Joe.

Thanks so much for calling. Who do we have? I think we had time for one more. We got John from Calgary. John, welcome. Hey, Ben, how's it going? That's going well, thank you. Long time listener, first time call her because now we're allowed.

I know. We're live in Calgary. We're so glad. All right. So tell us what January looks like in Calgary right now. Is it so cold that you're thinking to yourself, I need to warm up with a good cognac by the fire? No, we're above zero right now.

Is it the Chinook? Do you have the Chinook? Is that what's going on? It is, yeah. So let me tell you, here's another story about that exact same guy, the exact same guy in college. Yeah, acid trip guy. So he took a Canadian geography class

and I was like, what? I went to school in North Carolina. So he takes a and he says, he says, what do I need to know? So I gave them the basics of the country in terms of the geography, but I said, here's an expression you're going to need to know,

Chinook. And he said, what does that mean? I was like, it means it gets really warm in Alberta in the wintertime because the wind comes over the Rockies and warms everybody up and next thing you know, it's well above freezing.

And it came up on a test. No, he didn't know it. And meanwhile, they're good friends in Edmonton are freezing. Yeah. I love it. I come from Ontario. I was born in Ontario, man. And when I moved out here and experienced Chinooks for the first time, I'm like, this is amazing.

I can wear a full of January. I love it. Hey, listen, thanks so much for the call. Call back soon, John, from Calgary. We appreciate it. Anytime you want. Our next guest is going to be in Calgary. That's right.

Home ownership is the dream of so many people unless you are our next guest for whom it is. a pride, swallowing siege. But since he is a stand-up comic, we get to enjoy his hysterical misadventures. I'm joined by Derek Cahill after the break. You're listening to The Ben Mulrooney Show. So glad you've joined us on this Thursday, the 8th of January, 2026.

And look, homeownership. It's a hot-button issue politically. There's an entire generation of people that feel locked out of the homeownership at all. They don't think they will ever own a house. And there are those who are, own houses thinking, I wish I had maybe made a different decision. And my next guest knows firsthand the struggles and the responsibility that comes from owning a home.

As a matter of fact, he has built a cottage industry around it on social media, chronicling his, I would say love, hate, but I think he hates hates his house. Please welcome to the show comedian Derek Cahill. How are you, sir? I'm doing well, Ben. How are you? I'm good. So what's the status of your relationship with your house today?

it's a complicated relationship and love hate for sure and what's funny do you know the name of the show that I do? Yes, F my house F my yes exactly It was funny

Your producer 10 seconds ago came on he's like By the way no cussing I was like my brother Christ Do you know who you booked on the show

I mean I'll do my best Yeah I'll do my best So so so break it down for me Let's let's talk about the chronology When did you become a homeowner? 2016.

Okay. And what was the impetus for buying the house? Like in my case, we went for living in a condo to buying a house because we were having twins. And we got to get a house. And so why did you decide you want to jump into the owning a house? Well, mine, you know, the old preconceived idea of the American dream, you're not successful. Right. You don't own a house.

But that's that's ass backwards. That doesn't count. That doesn't count is a bad word. That's not. That's okay. Okay. And look, the thing that everybody knows about owning a house is things are going to go wrong every now and then. And if you love your house, then there's almost a joy in being, oh, I get to take care of her because she takes care of me.

At what point did you realize to yourself, you know, no, no, F my house. Immediately. Actually, the big thing for me, buy a house with a pool. And that's just constant. that's just constant tomfoolery. See, look at the words I got to use. Look at the words you're making to use. Shenanigans.

I'm losing all my credibility because of you guys. Tom, God, the guy that says tomfoolery? Yeah, dude, it's, you know, you turn a camera. I think the thing that starts adding up is when you start chronicling your journey. I should not have a catalog of thousands of hours of homework there. Okay, it's depressing. Yeah, well, let's listen to a little bit of one of the episodes of FMy House.

It could be a bunch of beeps. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of f*** this house. My name's Derek Hale and I have no idea what I'm doing. Yeah, oh, let's play the second one now. Do you know, every time I finish an episode, I'm always like, you know what, that's it. Content's done. I'm not going to be a f***ist house guy anymore. Today's episode is brought to you by my teenager who ran over not one, but two of my sprinklers.

You roll over a sprinkler? Shit happens. But fucking two sprinklers, dude? Do you think you'd more over one and be like, maybe I should fucking assess the situation? not him. He was like, blah, blah, blah. The fucking angel of death to my sprinklers and to my well-being and my psyche.

That's what I called it. Look at all those beeps, bro. So, okay, but walk me through it. So you've got this house. It's causing you a lot of trouble. You've seen the movie The Money Pit, right? I have. Okay, great classic Tom Hanks movie from back in the day. And Shelley Long, that's right. My favor is when he falls through the floor and gets stuck in the carpet.

I'm waiting for them to cast the remake. Yeah, I know. You're setting yourself up. You're trying to manifest you, right? So, okay, so at what point did you realize, okay, I'm going to, I hate this house so much, I'm going to, I'm going to make her a star. You know, I don't think that has ever happened in my head. And what I'm real, I think this is just normal because the amount of people that relate

to it is like, wait a second, this is everybody's house. Everyone's doing this. Yeah. No, I just started, I made, obviously, I was making very, videos before the whole house thing popped up. And I recorded one time of me fixing something at my house and it just popped off. And I was like, oh, all right. I guess if everyone loves it, I'll just keep doing it.

And how long ago was that? A couple of years ago now, probably 2023. Yeah. Was the first video maybe? But Derek, you know, nobody forced you to buy this house. Like you did it of your own volition. Like you walked in. You know you had options, right?

Like you could go see lots of, okay. This is a great example, okay? It's like, you know those shape forming pants that people can wear that like pulls up to here and it hides all the extra that you don't want to show? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I bought. I bought a house that when you look. It's like, wow, this house. Yeah.

This is looking good. She shows well. I don't know what I keep going on here. I apologize to our female listeners. Listen, listen, my shape shifting was gender neutral. Yeah, whatever you want to do to make yourself more appearable. Yeah, and then, you know, at nighttime I washed the makeup off the house and I was like, what? Yeah.

But, okay, and then, but like, you want to F this house, I get that. But, you know, your family's living there. Families growing up there. There's memories in the house. There's nostalgia in the house. Where, like, if you had to humanize this house, if you had to anthropomorphize the house, is it, is this like an elderly family member that you're taking care of? of? Is this like an idiot kid

that you're trying to rear into a better kid? Like what is, what is this house to you? I would consider this house like my parents and I hate my parents. It's like, yeah, it's like having to take care of someone that you just, you're not a big fan of, but it's like

if you don't take care of him, you're kind of a bag of, uh, I hate you guys. I hate you guys so much for what you're doing to me. And how does it work? Because every down and then you're, You're not just chronicling the bad stuff, but you're like, I'm going to take on this project. Like, I'm going to do this thing to improve the house.

How much thought do you put into the home improvement that you do? A zero. The way I tackle home improvement and fixing stuff is pretty much like what's right in front of my face. Like what needs to be. I don't really have time to plan for home improvement. It's more just home upkeep. Like water leaking through my ceiling becomes a thing that I have to go fix. Yeah.

Give our listeners. and our viewers on YouTube, give them a sense of, like, the problems that you have been dealing with. Brother, literally, just recently, uh, my,

my kitchen sink pipe was clogged. So I, first of all, I thought it was this, the garbage disposal. I replaced that. That didn't fix it. Then it's a pipe clog that I get a huge snake

and I'm driving it into the, into the pipes. I call a plumber. The plumber's going to come out the next day. I was like, I don't want to spend $500 on a freaking plumber. So I try one more time. I get the leak out.

I fix it. I'm a, I'm a hero. Yeah, you're a golden god. Yeah. But my wife, as she's putting stuff back under the sink, she notices on the back, there's a little like discolored spot on the wall. And when do you ever look under your sink? Never.

You don't, you're not just looking. I go touch it with a knife and it just goes, just slides right into the wall. So now I've got, now she's like, I knew there was mold in this house. I knew it. I knew it. So I had to rip out the entire underneath of my sink. Dude, there was freaking mold everywhere of water, my spigot on the other side of the house. was leaking in the wall.

I don't know, ever. Yeah. It was, and it's just, that's the thing. It was just one thing after another. Then the upstairs toilet was leaking. I was like, brother. Do you, does your family find, find your take on the house funny? Are they saying, like, Dad, one day we're going to have to sell this thing?

And you're letting everybody know what's wrong with it. Have you thought about the potential resale ramifications of your, of promoting all the ills of this house? I'm fixing all of them. Yeah. This is going to be a. Brand new house. But you know, like it's, listen, I've seen a lot of great content, unique content from

standup comics online. This really feels unique to you. It feels like you've cut out on your own and done something really unique. I mean, perhaps at the expense of your greatest investment, but you'll burn that bridge when you get to it. I got to wonder. And maybe we can talk about this after the break. This feels like a brand that you could do a lot with.

This feels like, you know, I could see Netflix doing a reality show around your concept and you would host that show. I could see a movie being made about this and you being the star. I mean, there's so much you can do. So maybe we could talk about this after the break. Don't go anywhere. I've got more with my guest, Derek Cahill. He is the star of and the victim of F This House on YouTube. And he's a stand-up coming.

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And this guy is recounting how he bought a house from 150 years ago and he loves it so much and he's been gently renovating and expand. landing it. Now he's got a 50 person sauna and a 50 person pool and he's got 100 different veggies in his garden. And I just when I when I say that to you and like when I when I say that to you and like when you see people doing their home rentals on social media, what do you think to yourself? Yeah. Words that I can't say. Yeah. On your show. Now I yeah, dude, I'm like the antichrist to like your traditional, uh, you know, influencer on the internet man. It's like, Like, life isn't polished, you know? Yeah.

And I think that's one of the biggest reasons that people resonate with the stuff that I post is it's not, look at my 50-person sauna at my $3.5 million home built in 1865 that I've gently rid. It's like, what are you talking about, brother? Yeah. I'm actually in the market, Derek, for a new fridge. I hear the LG fridges are pretty good. Do you have any recommendations? You know what, dude?

go with God. Go with your heart. Yeah. You know. Yeah. But when you're not doing that, every now and then you get a respite and you get to get away from the house because you go on tour. And you are in the next little while, if I'm not mistaken, you're going to be in Edmonton and in Calgary?

I'm in Edmonton. I actually heard you talking about that before I hopped on here. I heard someone told me that it was prepared for nuclear winter in Edmonton. I'm going to be there in actually just like a couple weeks from now in the dead of winter. And then Calgary, I'll be there when it's warmed up a bit in June. Oh, yeah. Listen, summertime in Calgary is amazing.

Here's what you've got to know about Edmonton. Like, you're going for the right reason. Money. Someone's paying you. No, listen, we love our fans in Edmonton. Fantastic new hockey arena as well. So if you're a hockey fan. Where do you live?

You're in Georgia, right? I'm in Dallas, Texas. Oh, you're Dallas. Oh, brother, you don't know what. There's a saying up here, the air hurts my. face, why would I live somewhere where the air hurts my face? And I'm saying that from probably one of the warmest places in Canada. You're going to go to a place that laughs at the cold that we have here. It's, uh, I hope, do you have, do you have warm clothing? Do you have, um, a parca? Do you have

something that's stuffed with goose down? I think I'll figure it out for sure. I have a couple of jackets, uh, but otherwise I'll just freeze to death and hopefully the people of Edmonton will warm me and revive me. Oh, no, you will definitely die. You will die. I don't think you're ready for this. Dude, I saw it. Yeah. I saw it. It was like 9018 degrees Fahrenheit. I was like, oh my God. Yeah, and they're fine with it, by the way. I mean, they've, they've made, not only have they

made peace with it, they thrive in that environment. You know what, dude? I'm just going to wear shorts. Yeah. So you're going to think it's funny for a second and then you're going to turn right back around into the hotel. No, but let's talk about this because I genuinely think

Derek that you have a brand on this that you've built that you can I mean, you could move if you did the right things with this thing. Have you ever thought about writing a book about home improvement or working with a tool company? I see that you go to Lowe's a lot. Is there the possibility doing something like that? I see that I think you are scratching the surface of what you can do with this. Yeah.

You know, I'm kind of in this position where a lot of this stuff over the last couple of years has been coming to me. I agree with you, man. I think there's a ton of opportunity. I'm actually working with a production team right now to start building and pitching something in this realm. I think a little bit more reality focused, like following me around on the road, but also my life includes my house.

It's tough, though, because I really enjoy what I do. I love doing comedy. I love making these little videos. So there is a little bit of me that is hesitant to murder it with capitalism of growth. Yeah. You know, I think I've got, I'm slow, bleeding it, I think is what I'll say.

I'm waiting for the right opportunities. I had a couple calls last year. I said no to. Yeah. To things that just didn't feel right. So I'm just trusting myself that I'm going down the right road with what I'm building and we'll see what happens. My very first job ever was working at the Just for Last Comedy Festival in Montreal. And I did that for three straight summers and I loved

every second of it. I fell in love with stand-up comedy and how hard it is to do it well. And personally, for me, the definition of doing it well is Can you buy a house based on it with that as a skill? And you clearly have. At what point did you know that it was something that would be able to sustain you? Comedy?

Yeah. You know, man, I've actually taken a really windy path to get back to where I am right now. I started doing comedy about 15 years ago. And I, you know, a couple of years after I started, I had a kid, I got married, and I quit comedy in the sense of pursuing it as a career. I went into corporate America. Really? And got every, yeah, man, got everything I ever thought I wanted.

the money. I was a VP of sales in corporate America. You don't have to tell me the company, but what kind of, what kind of work was it? We did like tech research and advisory. So we were helping big, you know, corporations make technology investments. And I was leading a few sales teams in education. Yeah. Yeah, dude, I did the thing, you know, and one thing I've always been really good at, well, and bad at is taking risks and walking away from areas where I don't feel like I'm fulfilled or feeling good. And I hated my life, man. And walked away. from it. I started a few companies over the last few years. One of the last was I started a chocolate

company. And over the last like five years, I quit that job in 20, late 2020 and between starting a chocolate company and posting videos on the internet. It's been a rocky road, man. Yeah. But that is what ultimately circled me back into comedy about two and a half years ago. The club I'm actually going to this weekend at Phoenix, Mike Drop Comedy Club. They randomly reached out to me and wanted me to come to a show at their club. And that's what got me back writing and performing again. And now that's been two years

now over 200 shows I've performed across the country in Canada. Yeah, dude, that's amazing. Listen, it's the beginning of a new year and some people do resolutions and other people don't, but I think that's a really interesting sort of nugget to share with our audience. What would you tell somebody who's listening to this show

right now who may find themselves in a similar position to you who has almost everything that they want, but they're unfulfilled and you know they they they may say to themselves secretly quietly when in the quiet parts of their brain where nothing else can I hate my life I got to make a change what do you say to someone like that you know man everyone's everyone's scared it's common to be scared it's uncommon to kind of face that fear especially publicly and there's a quote there's a couple I'm a big quote guy but one of the ones that resonates for what you're looking for is uh motion

causes motion uh in the sense that like if you're just sitting there safe in your life and you're not doing anything. Nothing is ever going to change. You could wish, you could want. I bet you everyone listen to this show right now has a book idea or a video idea or any any idea, but they all do that tomorrow. I'll watch TV tonight. And I'm not saying don't watch TV. I'm not saying, you know, hustle culture, but like the first, dude, the first thing that you do is going to suck. So go do the first, go suck so the second thing you do could be a little bit better. But that's one thing I just couldn't rattle that out of my chest is when I wasn't feeling happy or fulfilled, man. like I physically couldn't go on.

Yeah. And I don't know how to give that to people because that's going to be something you feel so viscerally. You can't look without it, you know. Well, lastly, let's circle back to the house. Let's circle back to your one true love. Yeah. I mean, is she, if you're being honest with yourself, is she perfect the way she is or does, like, how long until she's going to be perfect? No.

And I don't, this is, I'm going to cheat on this house for sure. This is, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to go home to her every night. Okay. But you know what you could do. Listen, you said you don't want to kill her a capitalism, but if you get, if you get as successful as you want to be, like you could have a,

you could have an apartment on the side, you know? Yeah, you know, I think, you know, maybe look at like a Mormon lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, you say you can have a sister house, right? Yeah, exactly. Hey, Derek Cahill, if people want to find you, how can they find you? My social medias are all just my name,

D-E-R-I-C-H-H-H-I-E-H-E. All my tours are my website, oldfam.com. And for your specific Canadian squadron, I've got, I just did Toronto. I did Vancouver earlier this year, but my upcoming shows, like you said, I've got Edmonton coming up in just a couple weeks. I'm going to freeze my butt off for you guys. So come buy tickets to that show. And then obviously Calgary in June.

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