The Digression Sessions - Ep. 208 - Josh Kuderna & Mike Finazzo! (@JoshKuderna @TheeMikeFinazzo)

Episode Date: January 8, 2017

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Hello, this is Nigel from the Tony Kornage Show, and you're listening to the Digression Sessions. Did I say that right? Do I get paid now? Can I leave? My little baby boy, my little papa. Hey, everybody. How are you? Happy New new year welcome to the digression sessions podcast josh gaderni here sitting in my palatial kitchen on a snowy day in baltimore maryland with my good friend and co-host mike fanazo how are you i'm doing good joshua how

are you i'm very well just waking up i have rubber bands on my teeth and uh love and life ah like you can hardly notice you have two giant triangles sort of looking like holding your face together yeah if you take these out my whole jaw just drops out for sure like a like uh one of those uh rapey cartoons from looney tunes you know what i'm talking about i know but it sounded funny yeah like you know like they would uh that was like a big uh trope like uh a sexy cartoon would walk by and then a male cartoonist jaw would like fall on the table like i sure would like to fuck her you know yeah that's what it said yeah bugs bugs buddies like why I ought to fuck her I wouldn't mind getting my carrot in her pussy

If you know what I mean Yeah, let's grab her by the pussy Hey, hey Well, happy new year, everybody I hope you enjoyed the live episode with Ben O'Brien That was fun I like that guy a lot I had a good time

Mike, how's your new year? Are you doing alright? 2017, man We're coming back bigger and stronger than ever. Right. Now you say we. Is that America? Is that the royal we? No, me, myself.

Okay. We as in myself? The collective we inside of me. It's been going well so far, Joshua. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I saw you the other night. That was fun.

Been working. People are like, oh my you the other night. That was fun. Uh-huh. Been working. People are like, oh, my God, these two. Jesus Christ. Yeah, no, I always think that, like, you know, they do the podcast together. They make movies together. It's like, do they just live together? Yeah, right. You're like, Josh and Mike have bunk beds.

Yeah, so we have room for activities in the room. Exactly. And then they think if we live together, then, of course, like you and Ubar just share a bed. Like you guys have the top bunk. He's a package deal for sure. Absolutely. Yeah, man. Yeah, so it is funny.

It's like, so what have you been up to? It's like, you know exactly what I've been up to. Don't bullshit me. Or the people listening to this. No, we hold some stories, so the podcast is fresh, right? I think so, yeah. There's some stuff we don't talk about yeah we did uh well i did a show at mcgoobies last minute thing on thursday and you

came out to that and that was really nice i wanted to support you yeah you were very sweet um you know support my friend auditioning to feature and how did that work out josh it worked out well yeah do you have a date to plug out of that? Well, I might be... I'm texting with the owner of the club, but I think I'm going to be featuring there on January 27th and 28th for Mike Vecchio. That's not me,

but still good. I would have loved to feature for you. Apparently, I wasn't ready. Now, a few days later... I advocated pretty hard yeah over several different times at bagoobies after not much change but that's that's so and i mean that's just most people too like you have like you can't be like hey i think this is a good idea it's like why because you said it fuck you no it's not even if they like agree with you and then they're like no

no i figured it out on my own terms that I want to do it this way. Like, oh, good. Because it really was like I was booked a headline. Like he booked me a few months ago. And I brought it up at least three times. Yeah. And like one of the times it was after he was like, yeah, like maybe we could bump somebody else. I'm like, well, what about Josh? He's your best host.

And also we do the podcast together. So we could like make it like a digression sessions kind of thing. And then he's like, like no he's not ready literally four days later you were auditioning at the club so well i think like two weeks but right like no i was there last weekend oh that's right yeah you're right it was the first show since i thought it was like two weeks but no you're right yeah it was i headlined New Year's weekend. Right, right. Exactly. And then a few days later.

Then the show I did was like the fourth or fifth or something. Jesus Christ. But then you auditioned and then he gives you a whole weekend two weeks after that. Yeah. But, well, I guess he just wanted to see it because, I mean, he really never has seen me do more than like 15 minutes. Right, right. I think so.

But, no, I love that guy love that guy and no he was honest and he was cool and uh no he still gives like really good advice and stuff i think it's just like he wants to reward people or give people things when you know of what he feels like is his time but yeah not be asked by somebody right right and uh no so i appreciate you coming out and i told you that too it's like no thanks for coming to the show and it was really nice of you and you're like yeah well you came to my headlining show oh wait and i was like i know i'm sorry a little passive aggressive and no but you're right i wanted to go and then um yeah i'm sorry i feel okay you had a good excuse right yeah of course you were getting drunk around a fire pit

that's just like a good friend yeah you know i had stuff to do 10 miles down 83 josh was there in spirit getting drunk around the fire pit throwing uh ikea leftover cardboard into a fire pit which is probably illegal and uh had carcinogens flowing through the air so yeah it was important it's the same same thing yeah exactly exactly but uh now the show was like uh it was this past week so it was snowing and it was on a thursday night and kind of a last minute show so there were literally 15 people there and it's like oh good what a great audition that's the worst place to do a show for 15 people like we do shows for that little people or less all the time right right but like when

it's a room that holds 370 people yeah it no matter what you do in the ceilings like a million feet in the air so uh no so but they they were cool they were they were excited that was one thing i had to learn in stand-up when you do, like, a not well-attended show or, like, a shitty mic where there's, like, four people. Like, you don't go up there, like, ugh. Because, like, they want to be there. It's not their fault.

Yeah. Right, right, right. Yeah. I remember one time I did Beer Baron and there was literally just two people in the crowd at this place in dc and uh it's like i went up there and i literally said like why are you here and the guy's like we're having fun it's like oh yeah you're having fun right the show is kind of about you okay all right and that was a big lesson to be like yeah just treat them like they're people like not just like

oh you fucking you're not enough yeah and then you wonder why you have a shitty set it's like because you treated them like garbage right yeah like man those six people sucked that's a lesson that some comics never learn yeah that it's always their fault like it's always the audience's fault that no one else is there or whatever. Yeah. So, no, that was really good, and I was excited for that. And it was nice that Andrew gave me a shot, and I'm excited about the weekend. So we'll see how it goes.

And, yeah, man, let's see what's been going on with me. Just more house stuff, more domestication. Got a rug from Bed Bath & Beyond. Looks nice. Trying to flatten that thing out. It's got some wrinkles. How long have you been trying to flatten it? Since last night. Since last night.

I did some real yuppie stuff. I went to Mom's Organic Market. Okay. Faggot. That's the full, yeah. Mom's Organic Market colon faggot. I went there and I got my faggot juice. I mean, carrot juice.

And yeah, it was so funny. I went and got the hoity-toity black bean burger and then a carrot and ginger and kale juice. And I was like, wow, I kind of have some energy. This is kind of fun. And then was doing stuff around the house. I'm like totally that guy now yeah i'm like well maybe let's wipe down the counters and you know it'll be nice

you're like this for like two weeks though yeah and then like by march you're just like yeah whatever i'm over it yeah isn't how everything goes with life i guess yeah right right i'm at my first feature week i'm gonna be like i should headline yeah fucking no i don't actually believe that at all but maybe no but human nature you'll still be bugging him the headline in like six months no i really don't think you have a good feature here two times yeah what's for larry noto for people yeah if you count larry noto for 15 people i've done it like seven times so whatever uh but uh no that was such a fun night because um umar he had his show here in baltimore gin and jokes the first thursday of every month uh joe squared pizza not a sponsor of the show not a sponsor but they should be they should be with plugs like that uh yeah if anybody wants to sponsor the show of any business, we'll accept it. Like, blindly. Wow.

Blindly, huh? Yeah. Like, if the alt-right wants to sponsor this podcast, like, I don't know what that is. You can come on in. Alt-right presents. Yeah. Digressions. Yeah. Just you and I.

Just like, speaking of Jews and how they're ruining the country, that brings us to our sponsor, the Alt-Right. But he had this guy come down from New York, this guy Tim Dillon, really funny comedian. And he slept on my couch that night and we stayed up talking, like all of us, about comedy until like three in the morning. It was great. It was such a good night of comedy, of hanging out at Magoobies and doing the show. That guy Tim was so nice and talking about comedy. Speaking of indie people,

what's up, Umar? Are you going to release this? Yeah, I'm going to release it. It's okay. It can't hurt you, Umar. Your name's not on the podcast. This could be any Umar. I don't like it when people don't like white people when are we gonna have a break right that's what i'm getting at which

brings us to this week's sponsor the alt-right see even without it being a callback it's funny i like that somebody like just skips the first few minutes of the podcast right right it's just a bullshit intro like get rid of the intro you oh we're just like and we can put music under the alt right like it's square it would be funny to sandwich it in between like other ads like uh me undies the all right blue apron uh like yeah bill simmons is just like doing his uh his blue apron ad and then he goes into the alt-right ad. He goes, check out Sig Ha Ha, our new column on The Riggers. Sig Ha Ha.

Yeah. Who says a racist can't laugh once in a while? Let's have a good time. Oh, man. But whatever. Yeah, it was just fun to just kind of talk about comedy and get that guy's perspective and stuff. It is.

I love... That is something that, to me, never gets old. I's perspective and stuff. It is with, I love, uh, that is something that to me never gets old. Like I fall in and love in and out of love with comedy, but it's like, I do feel like that comedians, it is this like weird fraternity. And it's like, if it's somebody who's a new comic or if it's somebody that's way more

successful, it's like, I still feel some kind of bond with that person. Right. And just like talking comedy with them. Yeah, no, that really is the best.

Like they're one of my favorite things is to do a show and then hang out after the show because you have to like i like the the feeling of accomplishment and the relief too and then it's somebody that like has been through it with you right you know what i mean so you already have that that like shorthand and that connection it's like absolutely yeah yeah and they're usually the funniest people and they're not offended by anything either so you can just say whatever so um always a good time yeah so that that guy tim dylan was really cool and he's actually gonna do a big hunt on the 13th and 14th if people want to check that out in dc and. And then we're going to try to get him on the podcast, too. Cool.

So, yeah. It was a fun time, man. And, yeah. Other than that, yeah. It's really just been kind of working. Went to the orthodontist, which was a good time. Yeah. So, yeah.

I've got these big rubber bands on my face. Really liking that. So, the rubber band, like the thickness of it they they equate it with an animal so like if it's like thinner you might get like a bunny or something on the bag which of course is all adult stuff very adult stuff these are so fucking thick they're like cables and the animal associated with it is the galapagos giant turtle wow great thank you this is good really really good and i think it's gonna be okay my teeth they seem to be coming together braces coming off may in theory okay so like yeah like five months cool man in theory yeah your teeth look open your mouth

uh-huh your teeth look good yeah they're much straighter yeah yeah this tooth is up there for the audience at home mike is uh masturbating yeah oh my pants have been off this whole time that's how we podcast that's the way we like to podcast good yeah they're coming together so like the rubber bands are supposed to kind of like fix, I think, my under, not an underbite, but like my teeth aren't lining up right. Like your front teeth are supposed to be in front of your butt. I don't know. I don't know.

Look, either way, I'm going to get pussy. You know what I mean? Right? Knock the bottom out, right? Yeah. Right? Knock the bottom out. So, did you fuck her?

Yeah. You better believe believe it and that's what my orthodontist said too she's like whatever happens to your teeth either way you're gonna be getting mad puss and i was like oh thank you doctor i appreciate that thank you yeah my orthodontist didn't talk to me that way really yeah they were just like yeah you should sue yeah yeah you're probably not gonna get puss but at least your teeth won't look like your fucking hills have eyes or something. I was like, you know what? That's still inappropriate, but you could have been more encouraging.

I guess that's okay. Yeah, that's all right. That's not bad. So, yeah. So, how was headlining, dude? Great shows, man. Yeah. It's always nerve-wracking because you're worried about uh seven we headline clubs like holiday weekends or like i've like when i've

headlined the funny bone it's like a wednesday night so yeah and you've done and you've done other headlining stuff of like yeah like local shows or even stuff that's like not like good shows but they're not necessarily like a club and so to headline a club it's like to some people like they don't understand like okay what like right like all the time I'll talk about like featuring or whatever. And they're like, my friends, like, I don't know what the fuck. Right. Right.

What does that mean? You know, like, like my friend Ryan Cornwell bust my balls all the time. He's like, oh my God, who's going to feature? They don't get what it means. But it's a huge fucking deal to headline a show. And especially at a club too. Yeah. And especially like at Magoobies when you look at a club too yeah and especially like it begubes

when you look at like the schedule and it's like uh mike finazzo then carlos mencia then david tell it's like so it's it's weird to it's like all right which one of these things doesn't belong here it's so cool to have your face on the on your computer too yeah yeah didn't you uh didn't you use that to show off at work too yeah it, it was It didn't exactly play out like my Facebook status But a friend Like a dude I'm training at work Was just like, you do comedy? And I'm like, yeah

He goes, I went to Baguabi's recently And I'm like, you mean Magubi's? He's like, yeah, it's about you And he was like, I saw this guy, he was really funny He opened a show, he was stuttering Yeah, Omar has a problem And he was like, I saw this guy. It was really funny. He opened the show. He was stuttering. Yeah, Omar has a problem.

And that's cute. Just love going around. For listeners at home, Omar's fucking the new carpet. Got to get those wrinkles out somehow. My man got to knock the bottom out. And it was Donnie Sangstack. stack and he was like you ever work at mcgoobies and i just literally turned around my computer to show my headshot on the mcgoobies website such a nice move i would just do that all the time yeah it doesn't get you that far

at work though all right still handed your shit on time right like cool you're on the internet great job great job but yeah so like with uh especially like because what i've headlined my goobies have been holiday weekends so like this year it was new year's and i was worried about the crowds but um yeah they were awesome yeah now when you when you do when you get to that next level are you like are you not is there like a part of you that's kind of dreading it of like because i feel like each step of the way like like personally like me like oh i would i want to host or i want to do this like sometimes i'll get jealous of somebody that's just doing a guest spot and like oh five

minutes and then you're done like are you like god i wish i was doing like the feature thing or not necessarily this time right like but i felt that before where it's like oh man middling is so easy right like especially like at mcgoobies which is my home club and i've probably featured like a few dozen times at this point yeah and you're so comfortable there yeah it's like i really do feel like um you and when you perform at the same place a lot it's like you do worry about like the repeat audience members and like regulars and stuff so it's like for me it's like i've gotten used to like the last time when i featured there it's like i did like what i consider like b-sides like it was like i did like new bits and i did a bunch of old bits and i did like stuff i don't normally do and had great sets like i'm comfortable enough

towards like i could try out new shit when i'm doing a feature weekend there and that's good too because it keeps you in the moment like you can fuck around the moment and it also like just helps you get better too you're doing stuff you don't normally do and but it's like i'm still confident that it's like there i can kind of do that and kind of like not have to like completely put the pedal to the floor and like do all my slam dunk stuff yeah i could still have great sets yeah and then it also kind of becomes like rote too if you're like this is my set list you know what i mean right right you're not really trying to sell it as much and it's boring to you maybe not as like fun but there is like a level of like with your headlining it's like oh man the feature does 20 minutes and doesn't have

to worry about the check drop yeah exactly the crowd's already warmed up they've already ordered they have their drinks right in the sweet spot yeah but then on the other hand it's like i do feel like when i do headline shows like even at like mcgoobies like there's still a level of like to the audience it's like oh well the show is real now it's like that we paid to see the headliner yeah this is the guy as much as there's like an expectation there's still like a courtesy of like all right well now it's like the like it's kind of like when you see like a band like you show up late when the opener's up sometimes right right and it's like i feel like even though it's a comedy like i've i'm an opener more times than i'm a headliner right and it's like i know that they're especially now knowing comedy it's like there are many features that are way better than

a lot of headliners at comedy sure sure like we know people that only middle clubs that are the funniest people right now totally um but yeah i still think that like it yeah at clubs especially there's a level of just like all right well let's lock in because like the show's starting yeah yeah and so it's like i like that extra attention and it it is a good point i never thought of it like that where it's like oh this is the guy from the website who right this guy kept showing us the picture of him on the website just walking around the audience with your iphone like when there was a line outside i'm the guy on the website you must be the other guy just showing it to everybody that's a new sketch we're gonna do mark walberg headlines a comedy club i'm the the headliner. You must be the other guy. That's him in the green room meeting the feature.

The one thing I did think was funny, I think it was the Friday early show. Or maybe it was Thursday. But I was just like standing in the lobby like right before the show was about to start. And this older lady comes up to me and she's like, you're the comedian. And I'm just like yeah yeah i am she was i thought you'd be more italian oh finazzo yeah hey yeah and i like in my head i was like well you saw my fucking headshot on the way like you know who i am because you came up to me right right it's like you came up to me like you don't look italian enough to be the guy yeah yeah it's

like you already knew what i look like and also was that the decision in making you made it coming here picturing her like clicking like on the website like check out putting her credit card information and then she's like she looks back and forth between the comedy factory of my goobies and she's like not italian enough over there eating a stromboli right all right yeah this is my guy right here uh but they were like great shows like even the thursday show i closed out new talent yeah so it's like an open mic essentially and it was fun because there weren't as many comics on the show so i could go like usually when the headliner does new talent they just do like 25 minutes yep but because they're only like seven comics like I kind of went on for a while right kind of treated

it more like a regular headline set and yeah yeah um it was uh it was nice and like the crowd was all like there was a lot of people there just for the show not to support a particular comic so it didn't feel like a bringer show as much as a regular show and then the both Friday shows were awesome so hell yeah dude it's cool that's great man thanks for we had a bringer show as much as a regular show. And then the post-Friday shows were awesome. Hell yeah, dude. It was cool. That's great, man. Thanks for... We had a few people show up.

Oh, some big hits? Hell yeah. Was that the show where that one guy confused me for another guy? Or was that your feature weekend? That was a while ago. Yeah, that was the Ran as Easy weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was for listeners at home.

We've talked about those guys on the podcast yeah before yeah it's a father and son that are really awesome and support comedy yeah and andrew actually emailed me recently like we're like the dad like was asking who i was because he wanted to know when i'd be back because i'm right his favorite yeah he is one of those guys where you're like oh if you like us uh email the club he's like i'm going to yeah i believe you yeah and he's so like andrew ford be the email and the guy's so sweet he's like yeah seeing gilbert godfrey with my son was like awesome and he had so much fun and like yeah so nice yeah and um so he's seen you at least a few times yeah i think he's seen me twice yeah

because i was at the gilbert show and then another show whatever show what because I was at the Gilbert show and then another show. Whatever show. Because he came back the next night. I forget. I think Rodman was headlining that weekend. Because I hosted Thursday through Saturday. Yeah, that's right. So, like, at the Rand Azizi shows, there was just a dude, like, just standing around. Like, I don't know. They might have gotten a picture or something of me in the headliner.

Yeah. And the guy, like, I feel bad I don't remember the dude's name. Whoever the father is. and um the guy like the uh i feel bad i don't remember the dude's name whoever the father is we have so many fans mike it's really tough we should know them all at a first date i just you know what they're just all dig heads to me you know well the guy was talking to me and he was like yeah man it's so good and when i saw your friend here i was like i didn't i thought i was like oh i guess he's hosting tonight and he's pointing to the guy next to me it's just some random dude some random like then he started talking to that guy like about he was like yeah when you were here last time like you know it was great to see you

with gilbert then you did like you know the kind of you saw you did the same thing the next night with uh rodman or whatever yeah and he's like going on and finally like the guy's just like i don't think i am who you think he wasn't a comedian just some random audience right just in the lobby yeah so when i realized what happened i made them all pose for a picture yeah and tagged me in it yeah uh yeah that guy uh he's really nice he did throw out one little uh one little jab at me i don't know if intentional but uh he was like yeah like you um what did he say he's like he's like oh yeah you're a handsome guy and i was like oh thanks like yeah you know you got that jewish nose and i was like okay

that's uh not jewish so let's calm down it's a weird thing to throw out when you don't know if somebody's jewish you know you know it's like yeah you know you got your uh you got your dreidel and your yarmulke nose you got that uh budget nose yeah exactly exactly yeah you can barely see your tail in those pants you look good man you look good uh no like that guy and his son are uh both sweethearts like just real comedy fans you know they get it yeah good comedy you know and they yeah they're really sweet people. Digheads. That's how I see them. Nobody's better than any other Dighead.

They're all equal to me, you know? But no, man, I'm so excited for you. And that's so cool you got to headline and stuff. Thanks, man. And yeah, you're pretty much back in the game as far as stand-up goes. A little bit. I have a few more shows this month and um yeah i uh taught because i had a weekend i couldn't do at the draft house like they offered it to me so like i'll probably be there soon but um otherwise i'm actually probably gonna go work on other stuff

like in february so got a movie project we're working on so how's that going good okay moving on not gonna talk about it no you don't want to well no it's one of those things like I get sick of now that like because we both know a lot of filmmakers and just like artists in general and I think especially with like comedy and film we know so many people that are like into like the self-promotion side of it uh-huh even like if like the level they're doing something on, does it warrant all of the self-promotion? Yeah. So it's like,

I get sick of like when somebody has a web series and they're promoting it 20 times a day. And you're just like, by the time something comes out, you're sick of it. So that's why for this movie we're doing, like, I don't know exactly when we're going to film it.

I know it'll be soonish. And I don't really want people to know about who's in it or what the plot is. I just want to drop a trailer one day and be like, it's coming out next week or something. Which brings us to this week's sponsor, a new web series. It's called Everything Will Be Alt-Right

and starring Matthew McConaughey. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Scott Baio. Oh, can't wait. Cannot wait. No, that seems to be the way to do stuff too now is that like in a time where you can just put anything out at any time on the internet, like why not just do it that way?

And also like people like with our movie, Wits End, that came out, like we put it out online and it's one of those things to where like not everybody's watching it the first weekend it comes out. Like it's going to be a thing where it's like people could discover it two years from now or five years from now. And that's cool. So it's like there's no sense in like pushing stuff to where your friends are sick of it.

Yeah. In that first week. Yeah. Because it doesn't mean anything. We get it. Yeah. So yeah, I just want it like the next thing we do. Yeah, we're going to have like the premiere set up

and then we're just going to kind of just like drop the information like right before. I like it. I like it. Smart. I want it to be a surprise, yeah. I think that's smart. So really nothing's happening with the movie.

Is that what it is? Yeah, there's no movie. Is this your cage? Yeah. This was my excuse to shit on friends of ours with a web series. Right. Like, oh yeah, I'm working on it for sure yeah it's in the world let me tell you when it drops buddy let me tell you um no man i i think that's great and uh

i'm excited to see your next project i'm sure you'll know about it before i might be at it we'll see i think you'll be i i think there's a really good chance that you'll be in it. Can I be like your Jay to your Silent Bob in all your films? Like just be the shithead that shows up for like four or five minutes in a film? Yeah. Just a random pod. You have to get a podcaster. No, you're going to be the same character. Yeah, exactly.

That's what I mean. I want to be the constant. They're like, well, if you follow Mike Fianazzo's films, Josh is this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and even if you do a prequel, I can be a younger me with more rubber bands on my teeth. We can do that. I like what we're saying. Yeah, I like that, too.

I want to be the through line of the Mike Fonazzo films. I like the idea of just shoehorning a podcast. Yeah, exactly. I would like that you get really famous somehow, and you're doing a biopic of World War I or something. Just me in the bunker like uh jifucker yeah the new scorsese movie silence there's a random podcast exactly if i don't make it get this podcast to my wife that's what i want to do man um man so uh our Man, so our boy Donnie Trump, he's doing well. Oh, man, we got another week and a half, right? Well, what's today?

Oh, yeah, two weeks, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's when it all becomes real. Yep. Yeah, I'm re-watching West Wing. I have been, too. How far are you into it? I kind of bump around, but I think I'm on, like, season five. Well, so, because I feel like I started watching it before you, it um i kind of bump around but i think i'm on like season five well so because i think i feel

like i started watching it before you because i started re-watching it like a month or so yeah yeah yeah yeah and um because i have actually never seen it from the beginning oh so this is my second time watching okay yeah so i'm like in the like middle of the second season right right oh oh yeah it's so good yeah it's. But every time something kind of serious happens or like the president shows restraints and is very thoughtful and kind of mulls over all these tough decisions, I'm like, wow, this is, wow, great writing. Oh, my God.

Right, right. And then you're like, oh, fuck, Donald Trump is going to be in these situations. Like he's, you know, like if somebody's testing a nuke or something like that, like what are they going to do and appointing Supreme Court justices and everything. So, yeah, it should be a really good time.

I liked, but go back to Westwick for a second. I like, because I watched, like I said, I'm just starting the show. So, I watched, like, the newsroom first. And I'm just like, man, Aaron Sorkin's really figured it out. A little shaky there with newsroom, but he kind of got it together. Like, there's some of the kind of got it together some of the ideas but you could see some of the impetus is there but like he really improved yeah yeah no west wing is fucking great it is really good and i think it's but what i uh and i think

obviously sorkin's really talented and i even like steve jobs where he wrote that and yeah i like that movie i like it a lot too but i think that something that with that and with newsroom and social network which he wrote yeah um like some of the characters are just so hateable yeah and it's like west wing it's like oh it's really all the similar beats but like all the characters are really endearing yeah they're all the smartest people on the planet yeah and speak at a million miles an hour right and like know everything about everything and he made a good actor out of rob blow rob low's good he's really good on that show you know which brings us to our next sponsor rob low the country's hit a new rob low that's why we need the alt right and buy his book low life yeah i think that's what it's called low life i'll be

with donnie it's fucking scary dude and uh nah we good things are good yeah at least we have like a reasonable you know congress and senate to keep him oh yeah it'll be good it'll be fine man it'll be totally fucking fine you know i mean i think we'll be okay yeah yeah exactly we'll be fine umarar. Oh, Umar. Buddy. It's going to suck because I'm going to have to kick him out of my house when they knock on my door and be like, where are your brown people? And I'll be like, upstairs. He's playing my guitar, so if you could get him out of here, you know what I mean?

I'd appreciate it. I would appreciate it. Yeah, we need to get these brown people that play Blink- blink 182 what a stratocaster out of the out of the house they took my umar who played blink 182 and i said nothing and just as he's being dragged out of the house people are going to build that wall and he's like you what's my age can i stop at hamden to get coffee first i'm murdered last night i love that guy love that guy man it is really like it's kind of snowing out there um um so yeah okay so you got the movie going on so you're kind of in just like writing mode for that it's done writing we're casting it and gotcha

um yeah i don't know what we'll shoot it though okay okay anything else going on um i've got some more stand-up shows yeah working a lot yeah yeah hanging out doing the podcast you know right on right kind of almost getting good guests on the show all my well hey we'll keep almost getting guests for sure let me tell you uh we did get a lot it's weird because we haven't uh been kids we'll be at the live show which is kind of different yeah and with the holidays but we got a lot of nice feedback about the steve ran as easy episode oh awesome whenever i've been at uh open mics or whatever i feel like everybody's listened to that episode yeah i mean it's almost like if you have a famous person on

the show people listen to it it is weird too well like getting feedback on i think people like like the solo ones too because it's a little more like personal you can kind of get engaged in a conversation but the steve reines easy one is just interesting too because such a unique point to like be in comedy of the to be like he lied about 9-11 yeah and then like how do you kind of come back from that it's really interesting plus he's like already a super nice guy yeah so and like you know it'd be cool to interview him anyway but then there's some intrigue there of like how do you bounce back right is that the first guest we've ever had that had like a controversy i think so yeah we need to do that more i think

nate bargazzi raped somebody but i don't know just throw that out move on anyway so i'm buying carpet nate bargazzi what uh no he did not uh please don't tweet at nate bargazzi yeah please don't he was so nice i love that guy guy. I love him too. God damn. Steve Ranazzisi told me I reminded him of Nate Bargetti. Huge compliment. Huge, huge compliment. I take that as a huge compliment. Yeah. Did I ever tell you my Nate Bargetti story?

I met him a few times now. No, I don't think so. The first time I met him, I was doing a show in New York. It was at Caroline's. It was like their new talent contest. It's not a contest, but it's basically a place to get good tape, and they always have a good crowd and stuff. And they actually put me on second, and it was Liz Mealy was hosting,

and I didn't know her either. I don't even think she would remember this if I talked to her about it. Did she murder somebody? Anyway, go ahead. Yeah, she formed a cast too. Right, right. Yeah, she killed somebody. She murdered him.

She crushed Amanda to death. But it was one of those things where there was a big crowd, but they were, like, weird. And she, like, didn't do well. And then I had no idea who Nate was. And he went up right before me. And if you, like, see Nate, he just looks like a regular dude. Yeah, he's kind of an unassuming guy. Yeah. And he didn't have a good set and then like afterwards i was almost like talk because

the the the show was like a mix of like people have been doing it a while but also like just whoever could bring a shitload of people and right so like there were some horrible comedians on the show when i was talking to him i was just like yeah man you're really funny man just keep at it and um patting him on the back yeah i was just like good i liked it like yeah yeah um and you know keep scribing yeah and i had no idea who he was no like literally like a month later i'm watching conan and he's the guest or he's so it does the same exact set and crushes so what i'm hearing is you're the reason he did so exactly yeah he was gonna quit if i hadn't he was gonna hang up his mic cord that night and then but it is like it's just such a weird thing when you see some comics and you like see like i don't know if it's like crowd reacts

or stuff but there's some people you assume that like there's something off or something like right like i'm sure people have seen me and they're like that guy sucks yeah based on the night but then it's like oh no if you see me two nights later in front of a different crowd, you're like, this guy's great. And he was the same way where it was just like, oh, I know these jokes are funny, but I had no idea how successful that guy was. Right, right.

Yeah, it is weird how sometimes some crowds just do not like you. Or I mean like me or just anybody. That was one of my early things. I was really into Nick Swartzen. And then I remember watching his special in, like, his Comedy Central half hour. And, like, this guy is so funny. And then seeing clips on YouTube of him at the Laugh Factory getting, like, nothing on his closer. And you're like, Jesus.

Or, like, barely anything. And you're like, what's wrong with these people? That's a good, no? That's, like, yeah, it was really hard to like first starting comedy, like doing open mics. You're like, well, I've done about three open mics. I think I got this figured out. This is gold.

And then it doesn't go well. And you're like, what's happening? Like you're losing your powers or something like that. I still feel that way. Yeah. Seven years in. Like a local comic who we've had on the show is really funny. Dark Mark Joyner.

The business. Business. Listen to that episode, everybody. That was a really good one where he went to, Mark went to prison for 10 years. And for a part of it, he pretended to be Jamaican. Because he thought that would get him more like street cred um but yeah he's so funny but he he has a bit about um

how like if you're a comedian and you're you don't feel funny you feel like you lost your superpowers and he equated it to uh the movie superman 2 with the ch Chris Reeves where I think Superman loses his powers. Yeah, yeah. He becomes a regular guy. Yeah, and so he's like, yeah. And of course,

like black comics can do this and just liberally use the N-word. It's one of the funniest things to me when you call somebody the N-word that you should not call the N-word. So he's like, this N-word's Superman 2, which is so funny

because you're calling him the N-word and you're treating it like that's his character name. Right. Like Christopher Reeves as Superman 2. He's like, this N-word's Superman 2. You trying to fly? Can't fly. God. It's so funny.

Like I just, oh, man, that guy's so good. Anyway, speaking of N- n words the alt-right our proud sponsor long time sponsor the alt-right yeah we gotta do this live read yeah exactly um yeah man well uh fuck i'm trying to think if i haven't really been doing much else besides like a little bit of stand-up what did this podcast turn into a bad open mic was like what else what else is going on what else man what do you guys anything you guys live here you guys dating you eat but sir say i'm fucking you sir isn't it sir uh some episodes of the baltimore voice hopefully will come out soon

recorded some more of those over the break and uh how many are there now that's probably like four or five but like scott's putting them in the vault yeah it's not released um but shout out scott macklin yeah super fan yeah check that off the list right there uh but yeah man so i'm just uh i don't know just trying to like of course like i just keep doing Yeah, we got to check that off the list right there. Yeah, man. So I'm just, I don't know, just trying to like, of course, like I just keep doing stuff for the house. And like I'm just like, well, maybe we could put a different fixture in the bathroom. And like I'm just doing all that stuff.

But like so far it's been great, man. Like I've been loving having the house and all that stuff. That's awesome, dude. I love this place. Oh, thank you, buddy. But yeah, man, if you want to wrap it up there, I'm good. I feel like we got all we're going to get i love this place oh thank you buddy but uh yeah man if you want to wrap it up there i'm i'm good i'm fine i feel like we got all we're gonna get out of i think so right we squeezed a good little listen right it's a good i'm gonna change how many

minutes has this been we're like 40 and change that's fine yeah i'm gonna i think just play the whole song at the beginning at the end. It'll seem like a normal podcast. I'm going to change the iTunes bio to say like, it's a good little listen, right? High pitch, right? It's not the worst thing you've ever heard, right? Yeah. Come on.

What? But yeah, thanks everybody for listening. Come see us live. I got the DC Imp improv on the 14th um i'll be at mcgoobies on the 27th and the 28th i'm gonna do 50 first jokes in dc on the 12th um let's see what else we got there um and uh that's that's it for now got some other stuff down oh on the 19th i'll be doing uh two benefit shows i'll be doing one at beer baron in dc at eight o'clock that's gonna be a benefit for uh the aclu and then i'm gonna hustle over to jam and java in vienna virginia and that's gonna be um yeah it's gonna be a benefit show for Aleppo.

Good friend, Ramin Mastafavi. Yeah, I know, I know. It just sucks. He's the worst, but he's actually doing good shows for a good cause. So I guess we'll plug him. But he's doing a lot of shows kind of in the area to benefit Aleppo. So if you go to coolcalcomedy.com, you can go to those shows

and then all the proceeds are going to go towards really good causes. Like it's going to go for Doctors Without Borders. There's another foundation. I think it's called the White Hats or something. Because I was asking Ramina, it's like, yeah, I want to do something for Aleppo, but I don't know what to do. he's like found a few good um organizations

to work with and the white hats is uh started by um oh my dad just got here but it was started by a guy in aleppo who just started digging people out of the rubble he's on like a white hard hat and just started like trying to clean up. And then that inspired other people. Like other people just came and started to help him. And now it's this whole thing that you can donate to. So yeah, so go to coolcalcomedy.com and go to one of those shows if you can, if you're nasty.

And yeah, man. So yeah, follow me on Twitter, at Josh Koderna, on Instagram, at Josh Koderna, Facebook page, all that stuff. I have a Facebook page. TheDegressionSessions.com. TheDegressionSessions on Facebook.

At DigSagePod on Twitter. So much to plug, huh? So fun. And yeah, come to a show. Say hi, FNAZ. I have shows to plug. What? Yeah.

Save it for your own time. Okay, I'll save it for. David Koechner, take us out. Listen to all my plugs on the Baltimore Voice, which will come out in 2018. Yeah. No, next weekend, the 14th, I will be at the Avalon Theater headlining a good show there. Fucking A. I don't think tickets are sold out yet.

I think there's like 15 left. Nice. Get them before the show because there won't be any left at the door. Who are you taking with you there? Pete Bergen and Jessica Murphy Garrett. It'll be a good show. Well done. I love that Petey Berg. Both of them are great. And Jess is really, really

fun too. She's awesome. Oh, and Chris Lawrence is hosting. Nice. I don't have a feature. They're going to do 15 in the middle and then Chris is going to host. That's awesome. And then Sunday, I'm doing a taping at the DC Improv for SiriusXM, which will be a good show. What day? That's Sunday the 15th.

Nice. And yeah, it's a stacked lineup. Weems is on it, and Ramin. Yeah. In spite of him, it'll be a good show. And that'll be an awesome show. They're taping it for the SiriusXM comedy channel. That's fucking great, man.

That's really exciting. Yeah, we're all pumped for that one. And then, yeah, check out witsendfilm.com and watch our movie. Goddamn right. And give the guy a couple shekels. Yeah, a couple shekels. Come on, you got an extra dollar. Come on, give him a goddamn dollar.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right, everybody, thank you for listening We love you and we'll talk to you next week Got an episode with Chris Milner In the can that will come out I love that guy

And yeah, that's it everybody David Kekker What's up Dick Russian Sessions Coming to an end. Thank you. Oh, yeah.