The Digression Sessions - Ep. 206 - Josh Kuderna & Mike Finazzo! (@JoshKuderna @TheeMikeFinazzo)

Episode Date: December 19, 2016

Hola Digheads, this week Finazzo performs at a private event for rich white folks in Virginia, opens for Hannibal Burress (technically) when shows up in Timonium, MD, and Josh buys tuff from IKEA. What a god damn week! Oh and Trump does some dumb shit.   Follow the podcast, Josh Kuderna, and Mike Finazzo on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Josh - @JoshKuderna on Twitter and @JoshKuderna on Instagram Mike Finazzo - @TheeMikeFinazzo on Twitter The Pod - @DigSeshPod on Twitter The Pod's Facebook page - Dig Sesh on Facebook Thanks for listening, all! Do the pod a favor and rate and review the pod on iTunes & Stitcher plz!

Hello, this is Nigel from the Tony Kornage Show, and you're listening to the Digression Session. Did I say that right? Do I get paid now? Can I leave? Yes, the mood lightened. My wife says hi. She said congratulations. What a sweetheart. What a sweetheart of a lady your wife who's real yes yeah now on a lost episode of the podcast not a real episode so it doesn't count we don't know trouble drinking water there

started out hot harder than it looks harder than it looks oh really when uh you hear that sound people have already turned the podcast off oh i thought you were gonna say success that's what that sounds like uh welcome to the digression sessions podcast everybody how the hell are you good oh not me. We haven't done this in a while. I've already forgot how to do it. Josh Koderny here with my good buddy and co-host, Mr. Mike Finazzo. Hey-o.

Hey. He's doing good. Hope you guys are well. Sorry we missed a week. I was moving into my new palatial estate, which we are recording this podcast in. And yeah, so now we're kind of settled. Had an Ikea day yesterday. And now we're trying to set all that stuff up.

And didn't have a hammer, so I went to Rite Aid to get a hammer. And that was nice. Did you not know you had a hammer? Or didn't have a hammer? Well, I thought I did have one, but in my toolbox that my dad gave me. Just said, I owe you. No, I don't know what I did. I don't know what I did with it.

He gave me a saw once, and it just stayed in my trunk for like a year. And it was kind of embarrassing at one point when I think he was giving me something or we were at the store and we were going to put stuff in the trunk. And he's like, is that my saw? And I was like, it's like you haven't taken out of your car it's like nope haven't had a need to yeah it's like an electric saw like i i didn't set up like the saw horses to saw stuff like i i don't know um but uh yeah like uh so settled in here so hi everybody hope you're well um got the holidays coming up, don't we Michael? Big Christmas, big Christmas.

Big, big Christmas. Assume we're going to skip next Monday too. You better assume that. Now we'll figure something out. Maybe, I don't know. We'll do something. Don't know your shit, it's free. Chill out.

Yeah, calm down. Yeah, settle your dick down. We're giving you a free thing. But yeah, if you want to come to a show, we'll be at the Single Carrot New Year's Eve. You've given me no details about this. I have. Well, the last podcast, I asked you,

like, hey, did you ever get details about that? You said, I'll message him. And I've never talked to you about it. I invited you to the event page on Facebook. The last time, I'm not trying to fight on the podcast. Oh, we can fight, because I have invited you. The last time two co-hosts of this podcast fought, it got me for years. You'll go down.

No, I asked you the other day. I was like, because you told me it started at eight. And I said, I thought it started at six. And you said, I'll get back to you. And I haven't heard from you. I invited you to the event. That means nothing to me. Who looks at Facebook events? Everybody. That's why we have nine people that are going to come to the event. That means nothing to me. Who looks at Facebook events?

Everybody. That's why we have nine people that are going to come to the thing. Let's see here. Upcoming events. Let's see right here. No, you're right. I thought I texted you about it, though. It's okay.

You have a lot going on. Okay. Don't say it like that. What? You say it like that and you condes like that and you and you you condescend like i'm in the wrong it's okay hey we all make mistakes hey it's okay it's all right little buddy it's okay it's okay all right let's see here what do we got here saturday december 31st 6 p.m okay good so i know what time it is 6 p.m to 8, good. So I know what time it is now. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Okay. What time's the after party? All fucking night, baby. But Single Carat Theater, North Howard Street in Baltimore, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Got to book a guest for that one. But yeah, it should be fun. We're going to do it with the Hobo Radio Boys. Okay.

That's their full name. i guess we could talk about the logistics of the show after the show we're doing yeah yeah i don't know how it's gonna work but either way we're gonna do a live fun yeah you have a good time we're gonna figure it out we'll have a couple we always do we'll bring uh we'll bring a boo a little dog little boo radley so look forward to special uh surprise guest scottund. Yeah. Can't wait. He'll be the audience member and guest at the show. Young Scotty Mac, Mac Murder. Yeah, so come

to that and then stand-up dates upcoming this Thursday. I will be at the draft house in the front room for the Cool Cal Comedy Show. And then on the 14th of January, I'll be doing comedy kumite at the DC Improv Lounge. Good times. So yeah, and then Cool Cal Comedy Show. And then on the 14th of January, I'll be doing Comedy Kumite at the DC Improv Lounge.

Good times. So, yeah. And then you have... Those are good shows, by the way. Oh, the Kumite shows? Yeah. I mean, you've got DC Improv. You've got Draft House.

Those are good shows. Oh, yeah. Good venues. Good shows. And you're headlining very soon. Yeah. Can I plug another thing instead? No.

Okay. Did I tee you up for another thing instead? No. Okay. Did I tee you up for another thing? Did I tee you up for it? You were coming at me today. No. We're so out of practice and touch right now. Yeah, so I am headlining McGoovy's Joke House December 29th and 30th. Whoa.

There should be good shows. But more importantly, this Wednesday, December 21st, go to our website, witsendfilm.com. Watch the movie. It'll be one for everyone to see. The film Wits End? Which Josh Koderna stars in. I am the titular character. You hold it together.

It's a Good Will Hunting type thing. Yes. Yeah. Charlie Wits is at his end. Yeah, exactly. I did. I was having lunch today Witts is at his end. Yeah, exactly. I did. I was having a lunch today before I got here. And my friend,

uh, Ben Schwartz, he goes, I support everything you do. I've never listened to your podcast. And then he goes, the guy you do it with, is he the guy that does the podcast of the movie?

And I'm like, yes. And he goes, is he that stupid? I'm like, most of the time. No, but I didn't even know the cameras were on. Yeah. He just, I was like, I was like, yes. And he goes, see, that's stupid. I'm like, most of the time, no.

You didn't even know the cameras were on. Yeah. I was like, do what you do. You just be you, okay? But yeah, I thought that was funny that someone picked up the correlation between fake digression sessions and real digression sessions. That's good.

That's good. But yeah, so check out Wits and the movie and you could pay whatever you want for it. Quick little sidebar your dad thought i was retarded too right didn't he i don't think it was my dad my dad's met you before i know that's seen us do a show together right right right but who wasn't there somebody there was somebody that was like is there something wrong with you no it wasn't you it was joey someone thought was like it was my mom thought joey oh that's right that's right yeah because

and that wasn't wits and that was home run jim and then it wits said she was like is he just that way all the time right and home run jim is like a short that you did uh okay so yeah let's break this down because this is exciting as far as plugs go your film wits end available online at uh what i was like you said as far as plugs go this is exciting this is exciting every other thing we say is just bullshit so we know you're not gonna go no yeah we're throwing it out there if you do great yeah i mean it's happened a few times but i don't bank on it you know i've had a few people at shows yeah that i've already known without being at that show yeah yeah yeah like the podcast wait you do the digression sessions? Yes.

Like, in fact, I do. Yeah. Usually I get it as like digression sessions. That's still a thing. That's a thing, huh? Yeah. I thought Josh quit doing that after the other guy left. Yeah, yeah.

He was the heart and soul of the pod that decided to press on. Yeah. So, yeah. Exciting. As far as plugs go, this this is exciting what do you got what's on the movie yeah uh at what's on film.com hang out uh check it out you can watch the whole movie on the website like if you go to the website you'll be able to watch the movie yes um simplest

website in the world you can read a little. You can watch the movie and you can, if you'd like, if you like the movie, you can donate anything you want for it. It's like the Radiohead album in rainbows. Exactly.

In that it's like you could take it for free, but you know, throw me a little cash. Yeah. And I think this is a better way too because people will see it on iTunes and to get it on iTunes

costs a lot of money and to recoup any money, you'd have to charge like $15, $20 or something like that and so we give the movie to people for cheaper yeah uh we cannot spend and we had like avenues where we could have released the movie like there were there's a lot of like online distributors now because like everything's streaming yeah and there's aggregators out there that like we could have done but it would have literally taken us years to like make money back on the movie right right right so like we could have done but it would have literally taken us years to like make money back on the movie right right right so like we'll do it this way we'll cut out the middleman

we'll put it on our website and like anyone can and probably like realistically the same amount of people are gonna watch it yeah and and this way too that you know if somebody versus like somebody not watching and you make zero dollars and somebody watches it and gives you a dollar like that's way better so more importantly i just want us people to see the movie yeah and i think that's easy like it the easiest way to do it now for people too it's like what's the website i'm gonna watch on my laptop right whatever i did like when you shared it on facebook it was mostly like your older relatives or like yeah this is fine and good but a d DVD would be nice. Yeah, that was my dad. You're like, okay.

But, yeah, we're excited about releasing it. It's weird, like, because when Radiohead did that with an album, like, that was such a big deal. Like, we know we're ahead of our time. Right. But we're going to pull a Mike Farnozzo on this one. But, like, no one's done it with a movie yet. So it's like it'll be interesting to see how this experiment works.

Yeah. Smart man. Yeah, I think it'll be fun. And yes, so Wednesday the 21st, check it out and I hope you like the movie. And yeah, if you have a few dollars, we give you free entertainment almost every week. Almost every week. Almost every week. We say it's

going to be every week. If we, there's a 50-50 percent chance we're going to deliver, which is pretty reliable by today's standards. Sure, sure. So come on. You know, we help you out every week. It'll be there eventually. Just watch the fucking movie and throw the guy a couple shekels. Yeah, like what more do you want in life?

Jeez. Well, speaking of local films, Mark Colgrove asked me to, he's going to be on the show, but he asked me to plug his movie, which is also available online now. So a movie that I was in as well with Mike Moran and another Bizarro Digression Sessions film podcast, film podcast whatever um so we were in that and that movie driven to succeed is on amazon prime yeah so it's on like amazon instant if you're a prime member you can watch it now so so yeah it's another film that was uh created here in baltimore so check that out if you're a prime member written by brian danger preston hey now i love that guy yeah he's the best there was one time where we were hanging out uh it was uh when they were doing um the brothers nobody at mcgoobies they're just kind of like doing the hurry up and wait thing and i was talking to brian i think this was then but

i was like so what have you been doing man he's like you know i'm just viewing it from the six it's like okay okay i don't think that's yeah it's like i get that's a reference to drake but i don't think that's what kids say i don't know that's slang just viewing it from the six man he's one of the funniest people in the back of a comedy room ever like he's so quick it's so funny um i love that guy he cracks me up but uh all right well let's let's get into the show proper. Okay. We got our plugs out of the way.

We mentioned Scott Macklin. Brian Preston got in there. Let's get started. Okay. You came at me a little bit. I don't think I came at you. You're coming at me again. Oh, my God.

Let's see. So, yeah. So, I was mostly moving for the most part. But you had a uh a private gig oh yeah i had one too that we could talk about a little bit but i feel like yours is definitely more interesting so now and again in stand-up you get these uh like people like we want to get a comedian for a holiday party or whatever private event and so like through through uh like a booker around here you got an email that said like somebody's looking to book a comedian you approached them they they said great right

and so that already is like an uphill battle yes um just it's just a weird environment because they all know each other like a comedy club it's like it's dark nobody knows each other they're they're drinking they can be free sometimes with if they're worth like friends or family they don't want to be the one that's like whoa did jeff just laugh at an anal joke you know like so they're a little more uptight there's also a level of like for me in particular i think less so for you like i'm not everybody's comedian like oh yeah i think there's a lot of people that would get booked for a party or something right it's that they can appeal to everyone and they're great that's not necessarily Oh, yeah. I don't think I am either. I think there's a lot of people that would get booked for a party or something. Right. It's that they can appeal to everyone and they're great.

That's not necessarily what I do. Yes. Like, for instance, the show that I did was the holiday party for the Eastern Savings Bank. Okay. And the headliner was a favorite on Carnival Cruises was one of his plugs. Yeah. And he was was cool but he knew that he's like he's that guy so like if you're gonna be on a carnival cruise like you have to be the everyman right you know you can't be up there like i don't know being pretty edgy i think on a cruise so uh yeah just guys like oh blacks huh anyway i'll see you guys tomorrow in the mess right right right uh so okay yeah so

you kind of have to be like that person's like i'm just funny funny's funny and you're more of a specific type so so yeah it's already an uphill battle and then you get to the gig which is in virginia right well actually so here's actually more specifically what happened yeah so uh originally it was like we just want one comedian. Yeah. And I was like, maybe I'll book a host. And I asked them, I was like, can I take money out of the budget or whatever and just throw it? If somebody could do a few minutes up front.

Because I think it's always awkward when you just start out. It makes it way easier because it has somebody kind of set the tone. And you look more official if somebody else brings you up. It sets up that a comedian's gonna so i asked you if you could do it you were booked i asked dalen if he could do it and he was booked and so i was like you know what i'll just do it myself and then the next morning the guy emails me he's a really nice guy and he goes uh please call me for details about this show and uh my first thing was my first thought was just getting canceled

yeah and you're very positive rosy outlook yes yeah i got filtered through that real quick yes yeah um he wants to book me for two shows um so then he told me he goes so i had this great idea and uh he's like which is automatically horrible. So no one knows the comedy is going to happen. Oof. And in my head, I start getting the sinking feeling. Yeah. And he's like, I think it'd be funny if you come in at the end of dinner. I was like, is this the Bernstein Hanukkah party? And people would be really confused.

They're like, well, I'm a comedian. I got booked to do this Hanukkah party because I'm here anyway. I'm just going to start doing my jokes. Mazel Tov. And as he's describing this, I'm like, I'm going to get a host. Yep. Which I'm really glad I did. So I ended up getting Ryan Nazer, who I don't think has been on the show.

Yeah, maybe. But a good comedian. And he's actually like somebody. I could never do a bit like that and not have it seem condescending and shitty or like apathetically because you would be so half-hearted yeah yeah yeah like there's some comedians that were like are great for stuff like that i can commit that are hilarious and commit to it i can never do that yeah just out of the gate you're like oh this is gonna suck yeah yeah yeah and so uh i got ryan to do it

and i will give him credit. He was committed to it. Well, actually, it was funny. He still did it? So here's why. He walks in the room. So the guy, when we get there, he's like, I'm just going to text you when to come in.

All right, let's set the scene a little more. It's like a banquet hall? It's actually, I'm sorry, I should have described it. It's at a country club. Country club. Beautiful country club. And it was weird because it's huge, like the place where they're doing this.

They do weddings and shit. And down the hall, there was like this, it was some other like huge company Christmas party. Right. And they had a band. And people were like drunk and shit coming out. And it looked like middle-aged prom. Oh, really?

It was like a bizarre scene. Right. And then I see on the other side of the hall there's 30 you know i guess varying ages of you know uppity white people having dinner that's where i was going to perform and uh it really was like because i the guy said oh that's another thing so when the guy was uh like giving me the offer last thing he says to me go so if you want to make any anti-hillary jokes go for it yeah and i was like instantly like for what you're paying me i will suck your dick while taking a shit on a picture of hillary

yeah my closing bid i set a pantsuit on fire um so like yeah so i thought it's gonna be like rednecky but like actually and i made this joke what stage one of the it's like a family-run business one of the sons looked exactly like eric trump really like he had the slicked back hair yeah yeah and uh nice they looked like they were totally like the family was like rich as shit and loaded and sure like they so this is like the one percenters that voted for yeah trump um and then i also thought it was funny he's like so let's get a a schlubby poor comedian it'll be like that scene at eastbound and down where they made stevie dress up like a chinese lady did they

get that reference i didn't make that joke oh it's pretty apt they would not have gotten it yeah yeah um but it's kind of funny it's like uh tell us some jokes from your poor man's perspective um so uh look at his hands they feel rough so when we uh the guy texts us come in uh and ryan literally walked in and walked out and he goes am i really doing this he was like is that really what are you fucking like fucking with me and then another little caveat because you don't have microphones either oh yeah so that we found out when we got there there were no microphones right the guys look it's a small room you don't need them yeah and i made this joke what stage i'm like you know a comedian without a microphone

in this situation i just feel like i'm harassing people at dinner yeah oh totally yeah yeah like you're the worst major d um that being said ryan ended up committing to it yeah did great like he did a really good job hosting nice he's one of the better people for that situation that oh he's hilarious and he uh has a good energy and he's really affable and and then he brings me up and i ended up like instead of like doing like a lot of my bits i just did a ton of crowd work i just made the show about them yeah and they loved that and that's that's what you gotta do and uh the show went great the dude gave me a huge tip at the end of the night nice and um like sent me a really nice email the next day like they've really loved the show so that was that's really sweet that's fucking awesome man and uh no that's the smart thing to do too where it's like all right i'm

gonna do some bits but mostly especially at a surprise show like you can't just like launch into your stuff you have to make it personable right yeah so like i would like do crowd work and then weave in my marriage bits and weave in right that's about that's that's smart yeah um and uh yeah i'm glad that it went well because it sounds like everything was working against yeah that when i got there i was like there's no way this goes because surprise comedy is the worst it's like oh you thought you guys were gonna be able to talk to each other and hang out no you gotta listen to this fucking guy and i made that joke one stage like i uh like one of my opening lines was you know give it up for john for putting this together.

You know, some bosses don't give Christmas parties. He gave you two comedians you've never heard of. Right. And they love like that. Yeah. Because it just acknowledges the awkwardness of the situation. Yeah. It's like, yeah, who are you?

Yeah. Yeah. Boo. Sorry, Boo. He's just crying at the bottom of the stairs. So little Boo Radley, he's having trouble with the stairs. He'll go up them. And then when he went to go down, he was like, no, this seems like too much.

And you're like, what? He just went up there. He did the hard part, little buddy. Exactly. Just go down. Yeah, surprise comedy. Jesus Christ. But yeah, I'm glad that it went well.

It was good. What was your private event? So it was at McGoobies, and it was Eastern Savings Bank. It was their Christmas party. Okay. And I was just going to go up and do 15 minutes, and just the crowd was like a lot older, and I actually had this joke that I already use

that works really well, and I opened with it. It's my bit about western savings bank you know where i just go out and i go uh man fuck western savings bank and they went nuts for that because they hate western i did actually say that that was fun it's like i'm not it's like i'm not gonna it was like listen i'm just gonna do my act i don't have to be something special for you people that i did that it was fun, but no, they were okay. It's just, they're,

they're like a little older and it was fine. It wasn't like, like killer, but like they more liked the one who was about them and stuff. And they had a bunch of like inside jokes that I didn't know or who the people were. And like one woman said something, I was like doing crowd with crowd work with her and then i was like oh what's your name and she's like barbara and everybody's like

ah like okay i don't know who barbara is all right and uh it was funny and then i was joking i was like do we have any couples here it'd be kind of weird if we did and then like this guy's like woo it's like oh yeah so did you guys meet like before at did and then like this guy's like whoo it's like oh yeah so did you guys meet like before at work he's like before it's like okay so when did you start working together he's like about a month it's like okay that sounds good don't let this guy handle any money it sounds very dumb so yeah i was just like riffing on that type of stuff but uh yeah i don't know i was i was just kind of tired too and it was it was fine but it was just like you know older crowd and i was only doing a few minutes up top so

um but yeah it was all right and then uh yeah i did the crown on thursday that was a lot of fun the um the comedian matt brown was on the show and uh he's really funny and he has a bit about how his mom died but they still keep his facebook page he made that up that his mom died that fucked up i've seen her like every show it's really fucked up yeah he's like shh don't tell um but she uh is dead and uh so but yeah he just has a bit about how like they leave her facebook page open and then like you know a lot of people post like rip and stuff like that on her birthday but then there's some people that are like hey can't wait to see you and it's like no you know i'm dead and so he has a bit where he

like responds back um but then um elizabeth norman was on the show and she brought her mom so i just kind of riffed on that i was like it's kind of fucked up you know matt's up here talking about his dead mom you're like oh your mom's dead i brought my mom and then so i just kind of like riffing on that and then she brought a friend as well that friend also brought a mom it's like not only did bring my mom i brought some other mom and so yeah it was uh it was fun man it was a good little good little show it was nice it was uh like nine degrees outside so outside. So it was a hot night for comedy, though. Yeah, yeah. Hot, hot night.

And yeah, man, but mostly I've just been moving and trying to get the house together and stuff. Can I have one more comedy story? Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know parts of this. So Sunday I was headlining High Tops backstage bar and grill. Oh, right. A little bit of a... Yes, yes. It was a weird show. Yeah, I forgot and grill. Oh, right. Yes.

Yes. It was a weird show. Yeah, I forgot about this. Yeah, it started way late. And pretty much all the comedians are bombing. Like, it's not going well. And there was this, I like asked, like, what was up with the audience? Because there were a few people there. And they're like, yeah, it's one group, one giant group of people, like 20 people.

Yeah. They've been here all day drinking because the one dude's son died yesterday. And I'm like, all right. And they were like heckling and like interrupting. It was like really just weird. Yeah. And so I go, and actually Matt Brown was on that show too. And he was one of the only people that did well right and um so i got interrupted in

like the first minute of my set by the guy talking about his son died i was like yeah it's really weird i'm not gonna talk about that because it's just gonna make me sad wow and then i ended up like riffing my way out of it like i ended up getting laughs by them it was one of those weird crowds where it's like my bits were eating shit but like doing crowd work it was fine and i'm doing a ton of crowd work yeah and then like one of the audience members brought up trump and they were obviously like a make america great again crowd so i did a trump joke it's actually was like pretty benign yeah you know let's make this guy's son live again and then we can make america great again exactly no so i told like a trump joke about uh it usually does fine even with trump crowds it's like i'm

sick of people calling trump a good businessman he inherited 10 billion dollars from his dad he's currently worth seven billion dollars that's like if my dad gave me a hundred dollars and i spent 30 i should also not be the president and it's just like an innocent joke that does fine. And so some dude started to interrupt. It didn't get a laugh, a single laugh. And this dude starts going, he only inherited $1 million from his dad. What are you talking about?

And I'm like, that's not correct. We had like a back and forth, and it got weird. This guy's pissed. Not even close to true. And as we're having this back and forth, I get the light. Right. That's weird. That's early.

Yeah. I'm like 20 minutes into my set at this point yeah and you're closing the show out so closing the show and also like t brad like i've done an hour and 20 minutes at high tops like he's like you could do as long as you want right the guy that runs the show and yeah you're last so it is kind of weird also to be like in the middle of trying to like dig yourself out of something yeah then i get the light and it's like yeah then you feel rushed a little panic like what the fuck's going on here and so i didn't think i was like oh he fucked up or like that's uh you did your time do as long as you want now like right let you know where you're at yeah so like i go into like a i like i riff my way out of this again it's going fine like i get a few laughs and like as i'm about to start a bit i get the light again and it i'm like what the fuck like yeah i'm like did i should i be worried

about something like and then i noticed that t brad is not only standing by the stage he's like on top of me at this point wow just like get the fuck off the stage and so i like say to him i'm like what's happening he goes i'll explain to you later right and i'm like i made a joke about how close he was and how weird that was and it got like a pretty big laugh because like the like the people there could tell something fucked up is yeah yeah and i noticed that there was also a security guard standing right there and in my head i'm like is this guy like threatening to kill me that's what i would think i think this guy is a gun a gun the two things happen right on top of each other yeah and so uh i just ended my set without doing another bit right and um as i'm walking off

like don't kill me in the parking lot yeah it's been my time yeah so as i'm walking away the first person i see off stage something's just like god i think it was an open mic or I don't remember he goes Hannibal Buress is here yeah and I'm like what is there another Hannibal yeah like why would he be here I like Hannibal Buress yeah yeah and uh yeah so then I see Hannibal yeah and I was like have you been here long he's like yeah I have and I'm like I'm so if I would have known you're here I would have gotten the fuck off the stage if you wanted time because oh I don't, have you been here long? He's like, yeah, I have. And I'm like, if I would have known you were here, I would have gotten the fuck off the stage if you wanted time. He goes, oh, I don't care.

Like, you were funny and really nice. Oh, that's cool. But I, like, apologized. I was like, I'm so sorry. Like, I got the light. I ignored it. Yeah. Like, I had no idea.

What a, like, weird mix of adrenaline, like, fear, and then just, like, confusion. And all I could think of is Hannibal saw my trumpet bomb and saw me doing shitty crowd work right right i was like i wish i could have at least seen him but have him see me bombing with my bits or something yeah yeah yeah like bomb with pride fuck you guys or whatever but yeah then uh so then i got to watch hannibal do 20 minutes uh-huh at a shitty bar show it's so insane i mean that's so cool that hannibal was there but what are the fucking odds like i know it's really weird because timonium's an offshoot then high tops also isn't even like you know in like dc like i'd have to say like big hunt is like

a b club now for sure you know like but high tops it does a show like every sunday and they have for a while but it's more just like a mic essentially you know what i mean and it can be good no it totally shows there it totally can be but i feel like you know when you roll through towns you're like all right so what are the places to do if i want to pop in like big hunt has shows almost like seven nights a week right you know high tops every sunday like how do you it's crazy i guess maybe sean knew about it maybe sean joy speaking a big hunt i don't know because hannibal knows him so maybe that's yeah i'm just like does t-brad know how he ended up no t-brad was like what was the other thing t-brad t-brad

didn't recognize him when he came up to him like hey can i get some time yeah you gotta email me yeah pretty much yeah and then then he found out like who he was like because he do and I could see like you haven't seen Hannibal for a while he doesn't wear glasses anymore yeah he has a hat like I didn't like put like I must have seen him at some point like when I was on stage because he was standing off the side but like I never thought like oh there's one of my favorite comedians right i was like oh it's a dude in a hat like yeah yeah yeah he's a little incognito yeah he's a low-key guy yeah and um yeah then t brad like apologizes to me i know he's like i'm so sorry i'm like dude i don't care like yeah i feel awful like that like i was like wasting time

but just like dicking around well you couldn't have known either so it's it's weird it's not like there's like like the bat signal it's not like right right but i even would have had like if he would have handed me a note or something or like yeah um but i don't know so yeah then i saw him do a set it was weird to see like somebody who's like one of the most successful comics working doing like a rowdy bar show yeah yeah they don't i don't think like those people knew who he was like well that was the funny thing i did you send me the picture of uh somebody posted like hannibal on stage oh yeah it was keith paradise's picture yeah yes uh keith paradise really funny uh pennsylvania comedian um just showing like so he's like, the crowd didn't care about me.

Or like, the crowd didn't care about Hannibal. What did you think they would like think of me? Because he posted a picture of Hannibal on stage. And then like circled a guy in the audience on his phone texting with just like the blankest look. No, he was actually talking on his phone. He was talking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was he talking about Hannibal?

Or was he just like taking a call? No, unless he was, he did it all night. Like, yeah, that was another weird thing too. Is like, so like it was this group who's like a family member tied. Yeah. During my set, a few of them left just because like they'd been there all day. And it was so distracting to have three people leave and say goodbye. And I was like literally killing time when that happened. So it already bizarre like they're there just killing time poor choice of words come

on show some respect so like they're like so i'm just like trying to like get through that yeah hannibal goes up like some dude just starts heckling the shit out of them why just because just to interrupt and to be part of the show and even hannibal was like you know i appreciate you but i'm trying to work on something and he's like i know you just want to be part of the show. And even Hannibal was like, you know, I appreciate you, but I'm trying to work on something. And he's like, I know you just want to be part of the show. And your dad didn't like you and stuff like that. It was pretty vicious. Right, right.

So Hannibal's like killing for the comics, but like for like the 20 audience members, like they don't care. Yeah. They're just so apathetic and shitty. I think that's so rad that he does stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. That he just pops into places. that's awesome yeah but i guess so what did he have like a gig in dc the next day and he was like stopping through yeah like new yorkers said he talked to him and he said he was

you know in dc tomorrow and just looked for a mic and this was what was available interesting interesting um so then after he gets off stage one of the people from the party had apparently um like the dude whose actual son died wanted to get up and like he just talked about his dead son for 10 minutes after hannibal burress gets off and it was really weird wow and did you see that or i saw parts of it yeah another part of me i I ended up talking to Hannibal for a minute or two. That's cool. And he was like really nice and stuff. Yeah.

But if I had the podcast gear in the car, I would have asked him to do a podcast. That would have been fucking awesome. We might have to start doing that. Just travel everywhere with him. I know. Just in case Hannibal pops up somewhere. Well, that's the thing. So I have your stuff, but I also have my Zoom recorder that I just usually keep in my book

bag that I didn't have with me. So sometimes I do have it with me anyway. Interesting. Yeah. That is the thing. Yeah. If we just have the Zoom, we could just use the internal mics. Yeah, yeah.

Interesting. Interesting. I always have that in my backpack. Smart. Smart fella. for some reason i was just like i'm not gonna bother bringing my back tap it's only high top yeah what what could happen i don't need my notebooks or anything yeah yeah um wow what are the fucking odds that's so weird man but i also got paid into 20 minutes right before hannibal so i featured oh totally

totally new credit you know he had to follow you you know yeah and not an easy not an easy task especially when the audience is there from a funeral essentially and what a weird place to go like high tops is like if you saw the people you'd get it you'd get it yeah just like are they just like man kevin loved those fucking loaded cheese fries we should go there like it was like another weird so like i forget how it came up but like yeah uh like i said i was like someplace and like like i think i said i was at like wegmans or something okay and they're like where were you like where was it and I was like Crofton they were like why don't you go to Glen Burnie I guess they're like and the guy said something like there's a shop right in Glen Burnie you got a problem with shop right bag it so so I just went it was MVA shop

right and I just like started naming places yeah here's the that started killing for them when i just started naming random places like he's right he's right that stuff's big lots uh-huh you better believe there's a coals yeah yeah it's so weird yeah that's such a weird point of pride it's like yeah we have a grocery store it's like yeah i know every town does but this one was closer to me like what the fuck you're too good for that one huh it's like i guess uh okay uh man so yeah what uh yeah i'm sorry i spaced on that one but that's that's a interesting uh week of shows yeah it was um yeah interesting because that was sunday and then thursday thursday was the Christmas party.

And also, because I'm headlining High Tops, I've been looking for long sets to do. Or Magoobies. Yeah. I'll be back at High Tops. Another funeral. You did so well. Yeah. So I'm going to be at Magoobies and I've been trying to look for long sets so I can get ready for that and actually parse my bits out.

Yeah. And so Cellar Door was last week and that was like a small crowd that was like a little rowdy and i ended up doing crowd work for 45 minutes yeah high tops was all crowd work and then a christmas party where i did 40 minutes of just dicking around yeah so it's not really like putting together a club i know i could be on stage for 45 yeah you're gonna know what to do too and like yeah i think you'll feel it out as as the weekend goes on too but they'll be good so it's what three shows or it's well so thursday's their new talent contest so i'm gonna headline that but i'm only doing like 25 minutes well that'll be good yeah yeah and then uh friday i'm doing two shows. Awesome, man.

Yeah, it's really exciting. Yeah, go see Mike at Magoobie's closing it out. That's fucking great. It'll be fun. I'm really excited for you. Thank you. And I will be headlining the Ikea Hems set. Got a nice little TV stand.

Nice. Karen and I are working on some nightstands currently. Nice. And yeah, rooms are really coming together. Got a new headboard, you know. Sounds like it. Yeah, yeah. It's really nice. Really nice. But yeah, I've just been doing a bunch

of like domestic shit. I've actually like really been enjoying it. We went to Ikea yesterday and I didn't hate any of it. I thought it was great. Did you go to the one in White Marsh? Went to the one in White Marsh, which I think is offensive. Why has it got to be Did you go to the one in White Marsh? Went to the one in White Marsh, which I think is offensive. Why has it got to be White Marsh? Where's the African American Marsh? Right?

They don't have an Ikea there. What do they have, Michael? They have Value Village. Okay. I mean, College Park has an Ikea on the urban side. How come they ain't got one in Glen Burnie? They can't afford one.

No, we did all the yuppie stuff. I guess besides Value City Furniture, which isn't too yuppie, but they have some nice stuff. Yeah, they do. But yeah, I went there, went to Target, went to Bed Bath & Beyond, got one of those little trays you can put on a tub, so you can put a book on there. Or who are we kidding?

Alcohol. Or an iPad. But yeah, I got little stuff like that, and bought a bunch of stands and stuff like that. And I'm really getting into the whole domestic vibe. little stuff like that and uh yeah bought a like a bunch of like stands and stuff like that and i'm really getting into the whole like domestic vibe i'm like wow these are some nice corresponding nightstands this will be great so yeah i've been in like been into that and uh i like your kitchen a lot thank you man yeah it's uh yeah for for the listeners at home it's pretty big so i gotta try

to figure out what to do i might try to put an island in here i don't know you know well you got plenty of time to figure it out you know we really do we really do plus you know so we'll get some subway tile in here maybe you know we'll just play it play it by ear really and uh yeah um but yeah man that's that's all i got it's just mostly boring domestic stuff which you know hot know, hot pod. Hot pod right there. It was a good pod, I think. I feel good about it. I don't feel bad about it. I never feel bad about it.

Well, I wouldn't go crazy. I never feel bad. I've walked away feeling bad about things before. Feeling bad? Well, just because of the Nambla thing. Was that the only thing? I felt like an idiot after that one. No.

I beat myself up about Nambla for a while that was fine um nafta nabla is the new nafta uh okay well let's uh let's close out with a little trump talk because that seems to be part of here it's going but uh um we got uh we got our boy donnie gearing up to take the office and now he's out there saying thank you to the people that put him in office doing a nice little thank you tour and you saw him that clip of him saying drain the swamp was full of shit did you see that i didn't see that dude it's so good so he he's uh because you know he's like walking back the hillary thing yeah yeah so he did that too he was at some rally and uh like i think he mentioned hillary and then the crowd started doing the locker up and he goes uh he goes no no no that played well before the election now we don't

care what a piece of shit he literally says that he literally said that played well even if he would have said come on guys the election's over You know, we all say things when we're heated. But, you know, she's not a bad person. Like, remember, like, when Obama ran against McCain, John McCain had this great moment in the election. He was an older woman. Yeah. He was at a town hall. And the woman said, like, I know he's a Muslim.

And he literally grabbed the microphone back from her and was like, that's not true. He's a good man. We disagree on things. But it's like Trump, like, has an opportunity to be like guys come on we need to come together you know i like hillary yeah my fucking wedding he couldn't say that oh and my fucking wedding i was at her you know whatever and uh you know but instead he's like i played well for you idiots before yeah okay so then when he gets to the drain the, the swamp stuff, it's so great because it's sort of like his crowd, like he should just be a comedian. That's basically what he wants to be.

He wants the rallies. Yeah. Like he should just be a shitty comedian. Because that's what he does. Like he just likes the attention. He likes being like, you know who sucks? Hillary Clinton. They're like're like yeah you the man so but now it's like when he's doing this tour it's kind of like the crowd's like i love this guy but his new stuff kind of sucks

am i right i don't really like his new stuff like uh because then so um he was uh the the clip shows him like kind of like getting on a roll. And he's like, yeah, then we're going to drain the swamp. And people are like, drain the swamp. And then he just kind of stops. He's like, that's a funny term, isn't it? Drain the swamp. Yeah, first time somebody told me to say that, I was like, what?

That's a little hokey. And then I was like, I'll try it. So I said it. Place goes nuts. I said it again. Place goes even crazier. Then I start saying some more and I actually start to kind of almost mean it. You're like, what?

Like he literally said like, and then I started to believe it or something like that. Like he's just telling him and then you could see the people like, I don't get it. Like he's literally telling them like, I fucking lied to all of you. Drain the swamp. It's suggested to me. I said it was hokey. Yeah. And I started to believe it or whatever.

That's insane. Yeah. I love it. The Electoral College votes on Monday. Yeah. They got a choice between World War III and a civil war. So let's see what happens. I think either way.

War, I'm all about it. Did you see what he tweeted this morning? No. Well, yes, I did. And it bummed me out. And I decided not to look into it. He's like shitting on China. He's saying China stole something from us.

Yeah, well, and he also said instead of unprecedented, he said unprecedented. Oh, hey, I wish he was unprecedented. You know what I'm saying? Nah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's been going around all morning. But I think my favorite part was Webster's Dictionary. Actually, because they usually tweet a word of the day.

They just tweeted unprecedented is not a word. Oh, that's great. That's awesome. Yeah, I don't know. I just wish somebody would have told us before the election that this guy sucks you know yeah i wish it would have gotten out there a little bit but uh hey better luck in eight years you know because he'll he'll be there i like when he tweets that too he's like uh when he said why he doesn't take the intelligence

briefings he was like i don't know yeah i'm smart and i don't need somebody telling me the same stuff for eight years it's like do you so you're smart and so you know what's going on around the world all the time like you you know the same thing as a cia intelligence brief he's turned down most of them you know what happened in yemen at two in the morning last night you know that you're just a smart guy yeah he knows what's going on guy. Yeah, he knows what's going on. He watches Fox News. He knows what's up. He loves watching TV. He loves it.

And that's why I voted for him. I love TV, too. So that's my boy, Donny J. You know what the J stands for? Jesus. Second coming. He's going to make everything right. But yeah, man.

Yeah, that's all I got for this week. I'm sure some other stuff happened. But yeah, I'm just doing kind of like boring house stuff and getting excited about like little stuff here. You should be excited. I love the house. Thank you, man. Thank you.

Love that things are working out. You're funnier than ever. You got a nice house. Oh, come on. You got a new car. You're buttering me up here. You got a kind of a dog here. Got a little rug rat running around.

Yeah. Got some Ikea furniture. Just leaning into this yuppie thing real hard. Going all in. I'm into it, man. It feels nice. Feels nice. So, yeah, buddy, I'm excited for you, too.

You're getting back in the swing of things with comedy. And, yeah, check out your movie online, everybody. Yeah, Wits End. Josh's entity is hilarious. Jason Weems is hilarious. And what's the website one more time, fella? Witsendfilm.com. Witsendfilm.com.

Pay what you want. Yep. Throw them some change. Yeah, you can donate via PayPal. You can watch the movie. It's going to be a very simple website. You've got two choices, to watch the movie or to donate money. You can do both.

You can do them simultaneously. Yeah, I think so. Open up that PayPal in another tab. We all know how you're watching porn. You know what I mean? You've got a lot of tabs open. You're like, all right, which is going to be the one? Yeah.

You don't want to play porn roulette. Land on that wrong one. Yeah, exactly. You got six tabs open. How horny is this milf? You don't know. That reminds me of the Nick Mullen joke where he was talking about how you see ads for porn on porn websites. Yeah. And then he's like, I don't like the ones that are fake where they try to get you to click on like a fake Facebook and it's porn.

He's like, I mean, you know I'm into porn. I'm already here. Yeah. Right. I'm already on board. You don't have to trick me. I love Nick Mullen, man. He's so fucking funny.

He's very funny. Yeah. Check out his podcast, Comptown. Very funny. Yeah. So that's all I got, man. I i'm gonna go put some fucking ikea shit together and uh yeah that's about it man so if we don't talk to you guys have a merry christmas yeah yeah and uh hopefully we will but yeah have a good uh have a good christmas watch la la land it's really good oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you went and saw your boy, Ryan Gosling.

The Goss. Yes, man. I thought you'd be like John Legend. Yeah. That's your boy, right? Okay, yeah. So that's it, everybody. Follow us on Twitter.

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