The Digression Sessions - Ep. 137 - JT Habersaat! (@JTStandUp)

Episode Date: October 15, 2014

Hola DigHeads! On a very special, bonus, Digression Sessions, Josh and Mike have a phone-convo with punk-comedian JT Haberssaat. JT has apperaed on Comedy Central, has performed with Henry Rollins, Doug Standhope, and Brian Posehn, and even acted alongside Ron Jeremy in the (technically, non-pornagraphic) Toxic Avenger 4. He is currently headlining the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, the Bmore stop of which will be featuring Josh and Mike as openers. The boys get in depth with JT about his DIY, “Black Flag-style,” of touring, and why he prefers to avoid the mainstream comedy circuit, and just do the whole damn thing himself. Thanks for the call-in JT, this was a very fun and interesting conversation! And thank you, DigHeads, especially all the new listeners we’ve recently rounded up! Please check-out all the other great east-coast podcasts in the Thunder Grunt family! We love youuuu!  

hey everybody i'm josh kaderna and i'm mike moran and you're listening to the digression sessions podcast a baltimore-based comedy talk show hosted by two young, handsome stand-up comedians slash improvisers. Join us every week as we journey through the world of comedy and the bizarreness of existence. As we interview local and non-local comedians, writers, musicians, and anyone else we find creative and interesting. Yes. Who's the guest this week? J.Tt habersat is the guest on this week's program yes he is comedian jt habersat you can follow him on twitter he is at jt stand up and his website is at no it's not at christ i keep fucking this up well you can find it at is what you meant to say that's what i meant to say you can find that at worldwide web dot jt comedy dot computer that's that's what

i meant that's what i meant uh jt and uh he's bringing the altercation punk comedy tour that he's currently in the midst of um they're they're going all around the country him and some really funny friends of his and uh they will be in baltimore actually they'll be here on friday october 17th at zissamos in baltimore girl you best come to that show uh she thinks she cute michael and i are both on that show as well as uh mike finazzo and stavros Halkias and Brian Preston. Yes. And so there's going to be a lot of funny Baltimore-based people. And then the tour is coming through, and it's going to be a lot of fun.

JT was nice enough to talk to us while he was in Alabama this morning. And I think he was a little hungover, like he said. But it was fun, man. It was cool getting to know this guy for a little bit and uh talk about the tour and it's really cool it's just uh inspiring like that uh comedians are just booking shows all around the country getting in a van and doing the work lewis and clark style just going for it yep with a native american guy of course well they hired that guy to drive the van yeah and uh yeah this was really cool man so i hope you guys enjoy it follow jt uh come see us live uh we got a bunch of other shows coming up

um this thursday i'll be at the auto bar i'll be doing a podcast with someone else a comedian out of dc his name is david twighty and his podcast is called sadness town it's going to be at the upstairs of uh auto Bar here in Baltimore. And it's a really cool podcast where the guest puts together a playlist of eight songs they listen to in high school. And then you go over the wreckage of your high school day. It's a really cool idea. So the whole idea behind the podcast is you weren't cool in high school. I feel like I would how tempted to lie about

like mike that came out in 2012 yeah i know i was ahead of the game i was ahead of the game um but yeah mine's gonna be a lot a lot of new metal into uh into some pop punk and uh it's gonna be yeah it's gonna be good mine would probably be mostly like bach and miles davis you know some string quartets in there just you know what you listen to when you were studying yeah uh so come out to that glass yeah come out to that it's gonna be eight o'clock at the auto bar this thursday and then friday we will be doing that show at zissamos and uh michael anything else to plug sir uh I'll be doing improv at the Mercury Theater on October 16th, 8 o'clock. That altercation comedy punk show on the 17th.

And we will be doing a night of tribute stand-up on October 29th, paying homage to dead comedians and comedians whose careers are dead. And that is at the Auto Bar's Halloween show. And we'll have a nice Halloween tie-in. Everybody's dressing up and stuff. Very nice. they'll have a nice Halloween tie-in. Everybody's dressing up and stuff. Very nice. We'll be playing some

Halloween songs as well. Very nice. All right, guys. Well, yeah, this was a quick little bonus ep, but yeah, we just wanted to talk

to JT before he came to town, promote the show, and yeah, he's a really cool guy, so check out his stuff. He's got some albums out there,

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Please write and review. Write, rate, and review. Write, rate, and review the podcast on iTunes. And feel free to say something about our rambling intros. Sure. All right, guys. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks, everybody. Let's get into this episode with Mr. JT Habersack.

We love you. We love you. Hello. Hey, JT. Hey, man. How's it going? Good, man. This is Josh, and I'm here with my co-host, Mike. Hola. Can you hear me okay? I'm hungover in Mobile, Alabama. Yeah, man. We can hear you. We're hungover in Baltimore, Maryland. Excellent. Nah, we're okay. I just had some eggs. We're actually having a nice, productive morning here in Baltimore. Yes. Friends was on the television.

What's a productive Baltimore morning? What's a productive Baltimore morning on a Saturday? What are you guys up to? Well, you make some eggs and you watch a rerun of Friends. And then from there, it's just gravy. Oh, Jesus. Relatively speaking,

that's pretty good for a Baltimore morning. Yeah, that's pretty good to the alternative of doing heroin and that's it. Good option. Yeah, that's pretty good to the alternative of doing heroin and that's it. Good option. Yeah, man. Well, thanks for taking the time out to talk to us. How long have you been doing the tour?

It's the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour. You'll be coming to Baltimore this Friday, October 17th at Zissimos. Mike and I will be doing that show. Yes, very excited yeah yeah man i want to ask you all about it because i think it's so awesome that you just kind of got your friends together and then you just decided to go all up all around the country like i think that would be one of the funnest things yeah man it was you know there's obviously a lot of explaining that goes into it. This run is like three, seven straight shows. So it's a degree of hook and rein advance and all that sort of good shit.

But yeah, we're stoked to get back to Baltimore. We've always had really fun times at the sidebar. I know this time around, the devil himself rented it out for a filming thing, so we moved venues. Yeah, I don't know what you did to piss Kevin Spacey off, but... We have history. I'm sure you did. That's cool. We're excited to see... I was really looking forward to Sidebar, as usual, but it's always cool to play new places, too. So we're stoked.

Yeah, yeah. It's been too long. Yeah, Sidebar is a great spot. It's actually pretty cool that House of Cards is using it, but yeah, it sucks the venue had to be changed. Yeah, no, it's totally cool. There's worse reasons. That's the best reason I've had for a venue to change.

All right, Kevin Spacey. Okay, Netflix, you can do that if you want. Right. Yes. All right. Yeah. How long has the tour been going on? How many cities are you guys doing overall?

Or how many shows, rather? Jesus. Yeah, we're about five or six shows in. Myself, a.k.a. White Cotton, who's my primary on this, is on every day with me, and we're doing, I think it's like 36 shows in a row. Wow. So we're hitting, right now, we're in the South.

We did Pensacola last night. We're in Mobile tonight. And then we hit Gainesville on Sunday, and then go up the East Coast, through the Carolinas and everything, and eventually end up in Chicago with Junior Stocker for Halloween, and then down through Memphis, and everything finally ended up, fun, fun, fun, just in Austin in early November.

So it's a show every night with no nights off. Holy shit. That's the way to do it, man. That's how I would do it. Jesus. But that's, I mean, that's pretty brutal, especially when you add drinking into the mix. Let would do it. Jesus. But that's, I mean, that's pretty brutal, especially when you add drinking into the mix. Well, drinking never not figures into the mix.

I'm an old black flag kid. It's like, if you're not doing a show, then there's no reason for a night off if we can get a gig. I'd rather work. There's a reason we're out here. Yeah, that's cool. And, you know, fortunately, you know, sometimes trying to route a Monday

in Georgia isn't the easiest thing but fortunately there was enough interest that we were able to, you know, make it work.

And, you know, that also makes for some bizarre stories because, you know, we're doing it at all ages,

no drinking policy DIY joint in Erie, Pennsylvania on a Monday later in the month and I have no idea what the fuck that's going to be. no drinking policy DIY joint in Erie, Pennsylvania on a Monday later in the month and I have no idea what the fuck that's going to be. So, if nothing else, even if it's a bad show, we'll get the good story out of it.

Yeah, well, I just hope you guys don't wake up in a tub of ice or anything afterwards. Right. Yeah. Well, we'll see. But far so good. If that's going to happen, I think it'd be this week, because there are some scary places in the South.

So far, everything's been real cool. Yeah, it's always doing danger to the Spoon, but it's been great so far, so no complaints. Speaking of Black Flag, you've actually opened for Rollins. Yeah, that's true, yes. As far as I know, he's never had an opener for his speaking dates before. How did that happen? Yeah, that's also true. He rarely lets anybody do that.

And how it worked out, I had done some shows on the Warped Tour way back when. One year they had comedy on it. Wow, I don't even remember that. That's crazy. Exactly, yeah. 2007, and there was six comics on it. I was one of the six, and I did like two weeks of it, and everybody else did the whole thing.

And, yeah, the other guys kind of terrified children, and that was the last they ever did it. My buddy Matt Lindsay, who I work with as much as I can, he's in New York right now, but, you know, it was a lot of very no-holds-barred material, and I guess a lot of Midwestern mothers got up to that material. Just bring on SR-71. Right.

But what happened there was, you know, I got to be kind of buddies with Kevin Lyman, who runs the Warped Tour, and he's always been very, very cool to me. And the Warped Tour was having a 4th of July bash in Austin with the band Gallows, who you may be familiar with, who are not really active anymore. Yeah, are they like a British hardcore band? Yes, they're a fantastic British hardcore band. Their singer, Frank Quick, and they have a new singer guy now who I'm not really into,

but they were a fantastic band. And it was Gallows and Rollins doing Spoken Word and they asked me to open the show. That's awesome. Yeah, it was kind of a perfect storm once in a lifetime opportunity. Rob's was cool shit to me and watched my whole set from the

side stage. He was very supportive. He gave me some cool advice. I had interviewed him before so we knew each other a little bit. Yeah, he's great. He sent me a very nice little put this in your press kit I interviewed him before, so we knew each other a little bit. Yeah, he's great. He sent me a very nice little put-this-in-your-press-kit quote from a Rollins quote.

We'll go on the poster. Really? He specifically gave you one? What's that? He specifically gave you a quote so you could use it? Well, you know, we were talking or whatever. I was just talked about promo stuff and i emailed him after just said thanks a lot and uh i was putting my press kit together and i said here use this oh nice right on awesome i would just use that for everything like like

going to get a cup of coffee like you know what henry rollins has to say about me and i'll take and i'll take a grande pumpkin spice, please. Thank you very much. Yeah, exactly. He was very, very cool. Yeah, he seems like an awesome guy. We saw him when he came through Baltimore a couple years ago. Yeah, like two and a half years ago. Yeah, just the energy that guy has. He just nonstop talking for like two hours.

It's insane. Dude, it's almost too much. Because I've seen him so many times back in the day. I've seen him do three-hour shows with one sip of water. Right, yeah. Jesus Christ. But, you know, it's never boring. Yeah.

And often wickedly funny. Yeah. Yeah. Almost unfair. I will always take good things about Rollins. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly I was going to say it's almost unfair how funny he is and interesting

it is too bad that he's so lazy though yeah yeah for real he needs to work out more he needs to work out more he needs to be nicer to fans speaking of speaking of if you're on the road

what does that do to your health is this the first time you've done a tour like this you said you did the Warped Tour this is definitely not the first time I've done a tour like this it's been a while since I've done one this long I've been doing over the last few years as you hack up a lung.

As I hack up a lung. The last few years, I've been doing a lot of fly-out gigs where I fly out, I tour around for a week and then fly back, you know? And we did punk rock bowling this year out in Vegas

and that was a two and a half week run. And yeah, basically, you know, it had been too long since I've done a really long tour. And so I said, all right, I got to jump at it and just get back in the van. So, I mean, I first started the tour in 2008. We did five week runs a lot, you know. Right. But, you know, in terms of what it does to your health, you know, last night we tied one on pretty good

but we're all adults in our 30s so it's the worst thing in the world when you're on a tour is to lose your voice I gotta be real careful mainly post show not blah blah blah

loud party voice I never actually thought about that before what happens when a comedian loses her voice on a tour? It sucks. It's essentially your job. I had that happen actually. Can you like lip sync to a CD?

Wait, sorry about that, J2. What did you say? We hit the desert and whatever, you know, the combination of just the air out there being super dry.

I got a ton of nosebleeds, and my voice was really shot by the time we hit Tucson. Jesus. And, yeah, you know, a lot of fishermen's friend. And, I mean, I had a nosebleed when we were in Arizona in Walgreens. I thought I was going to die. Which is a great headline, you know,

tweeting on the way to Las Vegas story writes itself and then the Henry Rollins quote yeah put the Henry Rollins quote on my tombstone yeah exactly fucking

Rollins take back his quote because he takes up doing bloke but it's you know it's like anything else. You've just got to pay yourself. And this long of a run is definitely a marathon and not a race, you know? Yeah, yeah. And, yeah, I was looking at your Twitter feed earlier.

Do you have family back home as well now? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I got, you know, I'm married. I got a house, all that shit. And that makes it got, you know, I'm married, I got a house, all that shit. And that makes it difficult, you know. But at the same point, you know, my wife's very supportive of it and knows it, you know, makes me happy. And I have a lot of family out east in New York. My folks are out there.

So, you know, we got friends everywhere by this point, too. You know, in Gainesville, we're going to hang with Bill from the Bell Tones. He moved down there, so it's not like it's, you know, a Bob Seger song every night. Encountering angry, long-haired locals. Right, right.

Didn't you just... Wasn't there something recently joking about you quoting Bob Seger lyrics on stage? Oh, God, yeah. I think that was on my record. I think that was an off-the-cuff. It's on your permanent record.

If you turn the page, you'll horrify yourself. Lonely out there. Last night, actually, we were all hammered and got in the van, and fucking Journey came on, and it was like this weird movie moment. It's like, God, this is so corny, but it fits so well. Highway, run! That's one of the few things I miss about drinking, is like three in the morning, singing some horrible song together

and getting completely passionate about it, throwing your hands to the sky. Fucking Steve Perry gets it man he gets it you know it'll make you appreciate terrible music yeah I think the last time I did that me and my friends

had a running joke of getting drunk and listening to Stains It's Been A While and just Jesus yeah you like some candles and punch your girlfriend that's terrible no just trying to say it's been a while, as ridiculous as possible. Like, it's been a while. Yeah.

Anything off the Scorpion King soundtrack is great. There's got to be a Godsmack song on that. It has to be. Yeah, exactly. We put on Voodoo and just go nuts. It's a lot of fun. Oh, Christ. Wow.

Knowing all the names of this shit. So, yeah, obviously with the punk tie-in, did you play in bands coming up? You know, I did. I was in a band called Goblet for a while, which was like a Dungeons & Dragons, spinal tap band. It doesn't sound too punk-like. Yeah, it was straight up like a GWAR side Dragons final tap band. It doesn't sound too punk rock. Yeah, it was straight up like a GWAR type thing. Yeah, I played in this band

called 20 Sided Die. It was pretty awesome. Oh, well there you go. You're picking up the gist. Yeah. You know, we had Fire and fucking Dragons and all sorts of crazy shit. And, you know, we opened Fire and fucking Dragons and all sorts of crazy shit. And, you know, we opened for Bad Brains.

We actually opened for GWAR. Cool. And that was fun, but it was limited in terms of, you know, some of the guys in the band had kids and stuff. Right. Couldn't really tour. And I was also doing a lot of show promotion, like putting on punk rock shows around New York.

So, yeah, that was kind of my intro to the world of it, more or less. And, you know, people always ask about the punk angle of the tour, which is expected, but it's really more about just the, you know, the get-in-the-van work ethic and the rebellious attitude we bring more than, you know, none of us have a mohawk or any shit like that. Right. It's really about doing the work for us. Yeah, kind of that thing of just doing it yourself, kind of carving

out your own path, which is really cool. Like, I'm going to book all the shows and load up the van and we're all going to just go do the show. You know what I mean? Like, nobody's waiting for us, so let's just go do it. That's exactly right. Playing alternative venues like Ty Bar

and stuff is where it's at for us. Comedy clubs right now, when we do do them, because it happens, they treat us well and it's fun generally, but it's got to be on our terms as far as a lot of clubs will make you, you can't curse this much, you can't talk about this or you know and the audience can sometimes be you know a

couple out on date night eating chicken wings while you're trying to do some shit right i'd rather play to 20 kids in an all ages joint that are going to get it and really you know stick with you than some people that are just out for a comedy date night and like, oh, let's go see whoever the comedian is. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Ultimately, it's a little more difficult initially, but at this point, fortunately, people kind of know about it and it's been going good.

That's awesome, man. Yeah, the Thursday show at the Green Room in the Arlington Draft House, that'll be cool, too. That's a fun spot. Is it? Yeah, we've never been to Arlington, so yeah, I'm excited for thatraft House. That'll be cool, too. That's a fun spot. Is it? Yeah, we've never been to Arlington, so, yeah, I'm excited for that. The cool thing on this run, too, is, yeah, it's a lot of places. Either I haven't been in literally years or it's the first time we're getting there.

So, you know, we're doing Raleigh. Never done Raleigh before. You know, Gainesville, we did the fest a few years ago, but it's been way too long since we got back there. So, yeah, no, we're looking forward to few years ago, but it's been way too long since we got back there. So, yeah, no, we're looking forward to all the shows. Keeps it interesting. Very cool.

Okay, so did you start out in New York? Because I know you're based out of Austin now, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm a New Yorker. I lived in New York my whole life up until about nine years ago. And we've been to Austin for South south best and stuff and really dug it my wife got a good job offer down there so we uh we picked up and moved and uh yeah but i'm a new york kid man i i you know used to go to cbgb's all the time and the first time i got on a comic stage was 16 in new york city so yeah i'm an I still have that. Fuck you, get out of my way out of here.

Yeah, yeah. I'm touring with love calling me a Yankee, which is fucking hilarious. This Yankee

with all his teeth. Look at him. Yeah, look at him. Thinking he's better than us. With his

tolerance. Yeah. Wearing pants in public like he's the governor or something you probably don't think the civil war was about states rights yeah exactly um so when uh yeah i was checking out your podcast man the road podcast and uh i think it's really good man like uh it's cool to just hear a different perspective from other dudes and you know the road stories and all that stuff. I liked your, what were you guys calling it? The Swapcast with Doug Stanhope.

I remember. Yeah, Swapcast. Doug coined that term. Yes, he's very proud. He's like, it's a Swapcast, you know? Comedians will just share a podcast. It's a Swapcast. It's like, all right, Doug, you can have that you can have that but uh when did you uh when did you hook

up with that guy because he seems like one of like the most uh like the coolest genuine dudes especially like especially the comics just seems like such a nice guy yeah he's great i mean the uh i'm glad you actually brought that up because my i guess my brain is still top webbed this morning but uh you know doug sandhub celebrity death pool is presenting all of our gigs they're like official sponsor of the tour can you uh can you explain what the uh celebrity death pool is i guess it kind of the name kind of explains it but uh i know it's a website basically it grew out of you know of Super Bowl parties that we've been to a few times. And, you know, everything, they bet on everything.

You know, it's a blast. It just turned into a legal Vegas at his house for a little kid. And, yeah, they started, my buddy Joby, they started betting on when celebrities would die. Essentially. And so they started this website, Doug Stano, Celebrity Death Pool, and you can, you know, for entertainment purposes only,

not get bettied, right? Cordium Glove must get a lot of votes. It's like fantasy football, but with, you know, you ghoulishly try and determine who's going to die Right right I guess yeah They must have been like God damn it I should have had Joan Rivers

God damn it Right exactly Yeah I thought about Mr. Drummond I know that sounds bad How many times has Scott Weiland let you down? Oh right One can only imagine But yeah no Doug's been fantastic I just did a show with him like two weeks ago you down. Oh, right. One can only imagine. But, yeah,

Doug's been fantastic. I just did a show with him like two weeks ago, and he has been nothing but cool to me.

I kind of call him my comedy Yoda by this point because he's given me a lot of really good advice and just, you know,

just been a real big kind of cheerleader for what I'm trying to do. And, you know, like I said, doing a lot of shows with Junior Stopko,

who opened for Doug all of last year. And he actually was kind of a catalyst. He kind of called Junior and I out and said, you guys need to tour together. I'm in my wake, you know, like step up to his fucking three million Twitter followers or whatever. And we said, okay, we better do this.

Yeah. But, you know, it's a good confidence builder too when somebody like, believes in you, that matters a lot.

You know, it's a good way to kick you in the ass. Yeah, yeah, I like to, a better example than somebody

who did it on his own terms because he does not give a fuck. no. Yeah, because he did a lot of the DIY stuff too,

like a lot of his tours where he didn't do any comedy clubs and was doing the rock bars and all that stuff. Yeah, Doug actually was one of the very first pioneers to tell the clubs, go fuck yourself. You know, just basically saw the, you know, the financial benefit, too, of, you know, I could have a week-long residency at a club and get X amount of money, or I can do one show where all my fans show up and it's the same amount of money. So you're doing one night of work

and playing to all the people that want to see you. You know, so that's why we do one-nighters too. We try to make it an event, you know, rather than, you know, be trapped in Columbus, Ohio for five days. At a chuckle hut, Ohio for five days. Had a chuckle. I started doing shows with Doug about 2009

or so and we just hit it off and whenever he comes to town we hang out and whenever I'm in Arizona we hang out at his place. The podcast has been going really good, man. Thank you for that. Yeah, that's awesome. It seems like every comic has a podcast so been going really good man thank you for that yeah that's awesome i i was you know it seems like every comic has a podcast so i was really dragging sheet everybody's like

you need to do one i'm like i don't wanna mainly because everybody has one but uh once i started it and uh got it rolling it's been actually really fun and i've been pretty shocked by how quickly it's kind of taken off so it's good it's fun yeah yeah we we kind of had the same thing of just I'm sure every podcaster does now just like oh there's already so many but it's honestly like just a really cool way to talk to people yeah and like it's a good way for me to interact with human beings yeah it's a good way for us to talk talk to people outside of the sometimes. In the safety of our own home. Yes. Get some air.

It's like I have friends for an hour every week. Yeah. It's definitely, it's cool that it's, you know, free and everybody can get it. It's a great, you know, way to build fan bases more, you know, just people. Sure. I've already seen the results of it on this tour, people that listen to the podcast and stuff, so it's,

it's cool, man, it's fun. Yeah, excellent, excellent, yeah, and I like Doug supporting you guys by kicking you guys out of the nest,

I was listening to the podcast, and he was like, he's like, you guys would feature, you guys would, you guys would feature for me forever, which, which would be great,

but you need to get out there, and you're headliners in your own right, so do it on your own yeah yeah and that's exactly you know that that was a large part in this tour you know because you know man i'm like i said late 30s yeah you need some somebody playing a fire on your ass to say let's book five weeks yeah you know yeah he's like but i want to hang out with you yeah sorry god i was saying it's just like but i want to hang out with you doug like now go do it yourself yeah i mean it's it's that's exactly right i mean he explained it better than i could but uh you know the show we did together last week or two weeks ago was you know 900 people yeah and uh you know that that's

an energy that's you can easily get addicted to because people are fucking stoked in it. It makes you become a better comic in that, you know, you better have your shit together in front of 900 rabid Stanhope fans. Mm-hmm. But, yeah, you know, pretty much what he said. He wants Junior and I to kind of get out there and, you know, do a build towards what he's doing.

Yeah. And you can't do that when there's a crowd delivered to you. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. What? There's not 900 people. What the hell's going on? Yeah.

We call it bullshit. There hasn't been 900 people every night. It's kind of fucked up, actually. I'd love to do that. Right. Is that the biggest crowd you've performed for? Actually, no. We do pretty well with festivals.

I mean, punk rock, that's mine. Punk rock bowling this week, this year, was 600 people. I'm going to fight you for my apple pie, Charlie. And we did Fun for Fun Fest, and that was 1,100 people last time. Jesus Christ. That's a lot of people. Yeah. But I always tell people, too, that big of a crowd gets me stoked like i i uh you know it's it's it's it's definitely uh easier to get psyched up and then try and deliver when there's that many fucking people looking at you i get

nervous when there's 10 people yeah yeah i'm like buddy you know because it's all energy man it's right you feed off what they give you yeah Yeah, and with the smaller crowds, you definitely have to, you can't have any artifice there. Like, no, that's just a dude. That's just a dude in the room. But if there's a thousand people and you're on a stage,

you can kind of play into that like, hey, I'm this larger than life guy. But if there's nine people in a bar, they're like, no, you're not any better than me, bro. That's why I tell the audience over and over, I'm better than you. But also,

you know, if you have 1100 people watching you and they're going to see fucking, you know, Murder City Devils next or Danzig

across the way, you better not suck. Just come out with your shirt off. Woo! Yeah, exactly. Some fans for our hair. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Some fans for our hair.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Screaming some dick jokes. Uh-huh. Yeah. Man, well, let's see here. Let's see here. So the tour is going well. You're enjoying it.

Ultimately... So far, so good. So far, so good. Can you tell me just some crazy road stories? Just anything crazy happened so far on this tour? I know you're only a few dates in, but... Yeah, this tour has been relatively calm in that regard, which is cool. We actually, well, Jay Whitecott and I were at a Waffle House the other night,

and this cop tasered his breakfast. That was entertaining. Aw. We were sitting there like two in the morning we were we turned around and he was just like sorry my eggs need to

warm it up no way yes that really happened that was that was something did he spice up his eggs with his pepper spray too

mm-mm mm-mm yeah yeah right he should have pepper sprayed on the fish I just want to impress these like lady EMTs

and uh I don't know you impressed me I've never seen that before yeah Yeah, right, you should have pepper sprayed on the teeth. I just want to impress these, like, lady EMTs. And, uh, I don't know, you impressed me. I've never seen that before. He's like, no, bring my eggs. You know, I mean, back in the day when it was a little more, you know, unknown of a thing, people were like, you know, punk comedy in a punk club, what the fuck is that? We did a West Coast show at a costume shop and uh

the lead singer we were playing with this Misfits cover band and uh we didn't know they had all just gotten out

of prison and the guy we had opening insulted his girlfriend and the entire crowd that had previously loved us like ran us

out of town and they were all in costumes so it was fucking the most insane thing. It's like driving a car out of town as fast as we can with kids in werewolf costumes chasing us throwing rocks at our cars. Wow.

How the tides have turned. Yeah, I mean, the only way to get those stories is to go on the road, that's for sure. Right, right, right. Man. It's rarely boring. What's that? It's rarely boring yeah yeah do you feel like you've chilled out like as you've gotten older you're like i'm in my late 30s now i just want to get a good night's sleep and find a nice place to take uh take a poop uh yeah there's definitely

something to be said for that yeah uh yeah i mean uh i have texas is choking on good way to a certain degree of you know my east coast it probably added five years to my life because i'm not as much of a fucking rage maniac as i was in new york um but yeah you know it's we like to drink and have a good time and everything, but, you know, fucking 40 shows or whatever, man, you can't just, you know, burn it to the end. Every night you'll die. Yeah. No nights off.

So we try and be reasonable adults. Exactly. And I do like to, you know, sleep. Yeah. So, you know, we usually get into the hotel and kind of chill out and have a good time at the shows, you know? Right, right. Well, that's awesome, man.

Well, thanks for talking to us, man. Yeah, thanks, man. This has been fun, man. And, yeah, we're looking forward to seeing you guys. Yeah, same here, man. Yeah, yeah, if you're ever coming back through and doing a tour again, feel free to do the podcast again, and we'd love to interview you in person, too, man.

Yeah, no, right on, dude. I mean, if you're at, you know, I'm assuming you're going to be in Baltimore, you know, if you want to do another one, I'll try and be coherent. If you're not here, whatever. Yeah. But, yeah, no, we're stoked to get back to Baltimore,

for sure, and looking forward to seeing all of the comics you guys have there. It's been too long, so... Cool, man. Thanks for your interest. Yeah, no, dude your interest yeah no dude this is i just think it's so cool it's really inspiring just to like uh just to know that this is possible and there's people out there doing that because like i started out playing in bands and that was always my dream just to like get in a van with your friends and just travel around like playing the music and doing doing the shows would be really fun but just kind of hanging with your friends

going to each town seems like a fucking blast. Yeah, no, it is. But it's also, you know, it's my only job

these days is comedy so it's, you know, we take it serious and have a good time and all that shit but it's like anything else

you gotta work. You know, you gotta, as much, you're willing to work is as much as the benefits are gonna pay off for that. You know, you gotta as much, you're willing to work as much as the benefits are gonna pay off you can go out and do just a weekend and have a great time and see some new cities

but going out for five straight weeks is uh it's definitely like a marathon, not a sprint right, right, yeah I got you it's like as fun as it is, it's still this is a job, this is a grind we're driving a shit ton yeah, the driving can definitely Right, right. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, it's like as fun as it is, it's still, this is a job. This is a grind.

We're driving. We're driving a shit ton. Yeah, the driving can definitely be a toll, you know. But, you know, the exciting thing, too, is, man, you know, for me, getting to see new comics in each city, you know, that's fucking cool. Because otherwise I would not, you know. So, you know, we're comedy fans, and it's cool to meet new folks. and, you know, the best way to do that is just to get in there and go. Yeah, hell yeah, man. Well, yeah, so the show is this Friday, October 17th at Zissamos in Baltimore. Anything else you want to plug, JT?

Website, Twitter, all that stuff? No, really. I mean, check out the Doug Stanhope Celebrity Death Tools. You'll have a good time with that my podcast is theroadpodcast.com and jtcomedy.com has all of our dates

that's the best place to keep tabs on all our upcoming stuff and that's it man thanks so much for calling

me and looking forward to seeing you guys this week yeah hell yeah man well drink some water and take a nap, okay? Yes.

Thanks so much, man. We appreciate it. That's exactly my plan. All right. Bye, JT. Bye. See you, man. All right.

All right. Later. See you. See you. Hell yeah. Bye. JT Haberset, everybody. Bye-bye.

Oh, we're still talking? I guess. I put down my bye Oh we're still talking I guess We're still kind of talking That's it That's the episode That was a good one man Yeah That's how you do a phoner

That's how you do it Yeah Keep it This is going to be a bonus episode We're going to put out two this week So it's a boner This is a bonus phoner We got a bonus phoner

A boner Do we have a boner sound effect? Yeah So come out to So come out to the show everybody uh october 17th yes at zissimo's eight o'clock a bunch of funny people who can have some locals and then uh that tour is coming through and as always you can follow us on twitter i am at better robot josh and i am at michael moran 10 now. And the podcast is at Dig Sesh Pod. Find us on Facebook.

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Rate and write. Rate. It's going to be, I like it it's too close to rape yeah making that accident don't forget rape and right wait

well hold on hold on wait no like there's no way I did that it's like oh crap

everyone's gonna hear this forever so yeah do that yeah and we have a bunch of other shows coming up to it you can always go to digressionsessions.com

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Yeah, that's right. We brought it to life. We did. Let's face it. Let's face it. Alright guys, that's right. We brought it to life. We did. Let's face it. Let's face it. All right, guys. Thank you so much. Thanks, everyone. We love you.

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