The Digression Sessions - Ep. 41 - Grant Lindahl! (w/ special co-hosts Mike Finazzo & Bryan Preston)

Episode Date: June 25, 2012

“The Young Republicans” Hola Digheads! Similar to a group of sweaty juggalos in a field in the mid-west of America, we have quite the gathering on this show! Mike Moran was shampooing his hair, so Josh had Mike Finazzo and Bryan Preston take up co-host duties to interview the young, the wonderful - comedian Grant Lindahl! Grant’s stand-up style is a mix of traditional joke telling, musical integration, dramatic intros (ie being carried on a stage in a papoose), possessing spirit animals, and sometimes – he takes his shirt off (ladies!). For instance, Grant shares a story of orchestrating a ninja fight at the DC Improv and pretending to be in throws of an acid trip on stage. You can see that here. Grant is also freelance animator and director based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently working on his BFA in Animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Grant recently published, “My Expensive Hobby,” a book about his experiences in the Baltimore comedy scene over the course of four months. We also discuss a number of topics for this episode including, but not limited to: growing up on a farm, cursing in front of grandparents, pogs, ninja stand up, alt comedy, art students, and so much more! DO NOT forget that Mike Finazzo’s album “Stupid Genius” is available via Josh’s record label Better Robot Records on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify!? Only $3.99 on iTunes! (BetterRobotRecords.com) Have something to say about this ep? Or do you have anything else Digression Sessions related / unrelated to say? Should Mike Moran cut his hair?!?! Say it on our forum!! DigressionSessions.com !! PLEASE rate, subscribe, and provide a nice comment on the iTunes!! It’ll help the podcast climb the charts! Follow us on the Twitters:  @DigSeshPod @JKuderna @MichaelMoran10 @Gvlindahl @ThatMikeFinazzo @TheSkullBase  

all right i'm just gonna do very serious discussions yeah let's make this like a charlie rose interview with this music in the background yeah i'm just gonna pretend i'm a young republican you're not a young republican i know shocking welcome to young republican talk talking about the things dems don't want us to talk about The only joke you'll hear on this show is global warming Oh boy Welcome to the Digression Sessions podcast everyone I am one half of your favorite pair of earbuds Josh Coderna

Sitting to my right My main mayonnaise. Mr. Mike Fonazo, everybody. Hi, Josh. How's it going? Good. How are you, Mike? I'm good. I'm going to act like we did not talk with G-Chat earlier. Every day. How's the wife? She is well. How is your spouse? She is good. How is your dog? At my feet. Okay. Yes. You guys are married? Grant, shut the fuck up.

No one has introduced you. Speak what's spoken to. Jesus. Do you not know how podcasts work? Don't answer that. You haven't been in... Jesus. You wouldn't do this on fucking Mark Maron. Yeah, I heard you, Mark. He has a nice garage. Hey, I brought you into my office. I left the air conditioner on.

I should probably turn that off. Yeah, I'll keep it rolling while you're turning it off. I can talk. Last time you said that, the computer caught fire when I gave you the rant to the pod. So I'll interview Monzo while you... Okay. See, I'm glad you're here with great ideas like that yeah so i don't like entourage it's not a good show and personally i don't want to talk

about it yeah i don't want to talk about it it's the end of that conversation i know that i brought it up but i don't want to talk about it yeah uh my phone's ringing I should turn this off. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. There he is. Holy shit. There's a half of a black man in our house. Professional podcast here. Here we go. Oh, man. That's part of our open door policy.

Brian Preston just walked in, everybody. Hey, hey, hey. Come on, say, chill out. You know what's weird is we actually talked about we were going to start the podcast and Brian was going to walk in. And he did. Yet I was still scared when a black Bob Dylan walked into the room. I was like, fuck, we're going to get robbed.

Will, here to steal your TV. But we haven't introduced him yet. No, not yet. So he better not say a fucking word. Hey, don't even think about it. Grant, I've only told you about three times now. Damn it. Jesus Christ.

Oh, that is not energy shit right there. Black Bob Dylan, I'm getting angry. In case you guys are just tuning in, we still don't like Odd. You guys are keeping up at home. Still not fans. Alright, well, should we bring our guests into the fold, Mr. Fonazzo? Okay. Two of

my favorite comedians, Brian Preston and Mike Fonazzo. Also, Grant Lindahl. Bam! Shock, shock, radio. Bam, bam, bam, bam. It's all good. I kid.

I kid. Is it Lindahl? Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah, Lindahl. Comedian, Grant Lindahl. Also, animator, graphic designer. Animator, graphic designer, triple threat. Mm-hmm. Novelist?

I'm too dyslexic to write a full novel. You'd be all backwards. Right. But you did write 51 Shades of Grey, the follow-up, right? That's my next book coming out. Next illustrative documentary journalism. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Mr. Brian Preston. Sup, sup. Mr. Brian Sup, sup, Preston. illustrative yeah documentary journalism absolutely absolutely mr brian preston sup sup mr brian sup sup preston hey hey hey i love your new catchphrases they're awesome where did the turn um well grant how long you've been doing a stand-up i'm going on a year in like three months right i think i started uh march of my sophomore year i did a contest at sully's uh-huh um and it was interesting i'd say that about most of your sets that they're they're interesting there's a performance artist piece of to it yeah that's a big background at art school yeah because you go to uh micah i'm going into my senior year at maryland institute college of art yeah that's it i knew it i knew it

that's where they send you often get people to help you out with your shenanigans on stage for some reason they just oh sorry no no i was just gonna say your answer is like how do these people where do you find these people? Because you've gotten, at the last show, at Umar's show, you rode somebody's back up to the microphone. Yeah, a guy built a papoose. Wait a second. That was not, that wasn't real? That was real.

Okay, good. Yeah. I thought that was a performance. Never mind, I'm going to stop telling jokes. No, it's weird. You'd think that people that look at performance. Never mind. I'm going to stop telling jokes. It's weird. You'd think that people that look at Facebook while they podcast, it goes well. But I don't know.

It's the first time ever. I'm in tune. Hey, Mike. I like that picture, and I think that little girl is going to make it. What? All right. Because he's looking at Facebook. See?

And people keep putting up those pictures on Facebook, you know, like this if you don't think bullying is right. Shit like that. Here's the deal. I had to stop looking at Facebook because I couldn't keep staring at the fucking headphones growing out of Brian Preston's hair.

If you don't know what Brian Preston looks like, Google John Holmes pubic hair. Can we start this over? No, we're doing good. This is the worst podcast ever. I have a weird thing to say about Brian. For the longest time, I thought his name was Tommy Sambazo.

So when people would be like, oh yeah, I saw Tommy Sambazo. I'm like, oh yeah, that guy looks like a black Bob Dylan. And they never corrected me. I just walk away. They'd be like, yeah, that guy looks like a black Bob Dylan. And they never corrected me. I just walk away. Yeah, I guess. And I've been crediting your jokes as Tommy Simba.

Oh, but mine are new. I can say that. We're good. It's all good. But Grant, when I asked you, I was like, how do you find these people to help you? Like when I saw the time I saw you before that, somebody was playing, like, Public Enemy in a boom box or something.

Oh, the Death Grips, yeah. Yeah. And then I said, where do you find these people? Do you remember what your response was? I just, they kind of come to me. You said, I don't remember. You said, I go to art school, man. Exactly.

That explains it. Yeah, when you're there at art school and you just have any kind of idea, either they're just naturally willing to do it or they're on something and they'll do it. It's just weird stuff. And the best ones, the best performance things happen when they're in my car and we had nothing planned and they are like hey you do that one bit how about i do interpretive dancing behind you and then i just go okay because when you do comedy no like even if you do something wrong it doesn't matter right when you're in a band you can't be like hey we're gonna incorporate the banjo last minute i don't know maybe i can't play music i guess you could but it wouldn't be as awesome

yeah i have a question for my good friend brian preston sure well it's like we're doing two podcasts at the same time grant we'll get back to you all right yeah we're gonna people are gonna vote on the winner we're gonna bury you fuckers. So Brian Preston, what makes you tick? Well, dare I say it, it's a few things. One, it's like a commitment to family, friendship. You know what I mean? Just doing something for the community. And two is my unending hate of Whitey.

I'm kidding, actually. Sub-question, what did you think of the Breaking Bad finale? Oh my fucking God. That is soion. What did you think of the Breaking Bad finale? Oh, my fucking God. Exactly. Oh, it is so good. That is what I said. What is this, like the summer of 2011? What's going on here?

Oh, come on. Some of us have to catch up illegally online. Yeah. Can you believe they were all zombies at the end? It blew my mind. Fucking crazy. Fucking crazy. Dr. White couldn't keep Carl in the house to save his fucking life.

Yeah, why is Carl always making mess out of the house? Shitty parents. He has like the worst mother on television. Wait, are you guys talking about Family Matters? Carl Winslow? It's all good. All right. Back to Josh's podcast.

What was I going to say? Oh, yeah. And then the first time I saw you was at Chuckle Storm. Oh, what was I going to say? Oh, yeah, and then the other time, the first time I saw you was at Chuckle Storm, and your grandmother was in the audience. And my grandpa. My dad called me last minute,

and he was like, hey, got a surprise. Grandma and Grandpa are in town. Guess who's come to the comedy show? And were you like, that's a bad idea? Extremely. All right, this is going well. So what was it like having your grandfather and grandfather? Follow-up question.

Grant, what did you think of the Breaking Bad series finale? I'll answer them both at the same time, yes. Fucking awesome. That's my answer. I don't know. My grandparents are from rural Kansas. Well, technically, western Missouri. Where are you from?

I'm from northwestern Maryland. I live in a small town called Thurmont. But before that, I lived in the Air Force. Shout out to my people in Thurmont. Yeah. T Street Posse. No. Really? Not really. There's no. Two Street Posse? No, not really. It's all fat white people that hate themselves.

If anybody from Thurmont's listening, suck it. I hate you all. I just want to say that on any media. I would say you lost some listeners, but they don't have computers in Thurmont. Podcast? Sounds like work of the devil to me. I just got this AOL disc i got 50 free hours on it

honey plug in the modem i i was in my hometown i went to my local grocery store and they had a big bargain bin that said art and it was framed art pieces of like chevys and like cats. That's high art in Thurmont, Maryland. Cats driving Chevys. Dogs playing poker. That might be too classy for Thurmont. What was the question? What makes you tick? Where does the anger come from, Grant?

So much. My grandparents came. What's great about that is hearing my sister's or reading my sister's text of my grandma's experience in the car ride back from the comedy club. And she was like, the auto bar. I'm surprised I didn't get syphilis in there. And my grandpa was like, he said the F word a lot. And that was his response. All right. So they never heard you cuss before that?

No. No? I have a really strict family. And my parents don't care. But my grandparents, again, really. Like, I was so nervous. And I don't usually cuss that much in my bits. You were just so fucking nervous.

I just kept looking into my evil grandmother's eyes. And her just going, what's going on? And me just going, F this and F that. I like how you censor yourself now. I try not to because if I go home, my mom's going to. I feel like I'm. How old are you guys? I feel like I'm much younger than you guys.

I'm 25. Okay, not that much. You're 20, Mike? 31. Mike's not that much. You're 20, Mike? 31. Mike's 20. Wow. First legal drink coming up soon, buddy.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Follow-up question. How do you think Walter's going to handle being the new drug lord of Albuquerque? I don't know. I don't know. Who is that addressed to? Who is that addressed to? That was Grant, of course.

Oh, okay. Brian was not addressed to you. Okay, fair enough.. Oh, okay. Brian was not addressed to you. You can take it, Brian. I talk too much. Hey, it's cool. We all talk too much. Who do you think you are? Stavros? I don't get that. But I want to feel included. I appreciate you laughing. Thank you.

Well, here's what I think is the more he hates... Next question, Josh. Yeah. Do you think Stavros talks too much? I think he talks a good amount. He's got the gift to gab that kid. All right. So, Grant, who were your favorite comedians growing up?

And when I say growing up, I mean in the future when you grow up. When I hit puberty. Yeah. I'm still working on it. It's going to be awesome. The only problem, you're going to realize the movie Aladdin, not as good as you thought it was. It's still pretty good. It's going to be awesome The only problem You're going to realize The movie Aladdin Not as good as you thought it was It's still pretty good It's a whole new world

The Sega Genesis video game Is still But Pee-Wee's Playhouse Will become even more awesome As you grow up What? It evens out What becomes more awesome?

Pee-Wee Pee-Wee As a kid I don't understand Any of your guys' Reflections Wow Crets?

Creatures? I don't know who Have you seen the jurassic you were mentioning pogs to me at umar's thing and i was like i cannot stop talking about pogs i don't know for a second i didn't know what pogs were are you serious yeah i wasn't loved as a child how the fuck do you not know i actually still have pogs somewhere like i mean it's not a big age grab but like i mean i was pretty. It was also a limited time frame. Pogs were popular, too, so I could see why he wouldn't get that. But they were so

popular. It's not like... But I was not very popular. Look, it's like you're dropping a slammer on my ego right now. Am I right, guys? Yes. I'm not gonna high-five that. Okay, pog humor. Okay, I do have vague recollections of a babysitter with goosebump pogs that scared me.

Question for Brian Preston. I'm going to derail your whole podcast. No, you're doing a great job already. I came in here with a mission. F. Mary Kill, Chipotle, Kadooba, Baja Fresh. Go. Okay. Here's what you do.

First of all, I'm going to kill Chipotle. Why? Constant diarrhea. Then I would probably, you know what? At this stage in the game, I'm going to want to say I would fuck Baja Fresh and marry Kadooba. I used to like Baja Fresh more. I'm coming over a little bit more to Kadooba. I don't know what it is.

I think it's the barbecue sauce. Brian Preston, same question. I pointed at Josh and said Brian. You've derailed your own derailment. White guy, same question. What about Grant? I don't know. Grant said to pass white.

Josh Caderta, same question. I'm going to have to go. I would probably kill Chipotle. I think I've had it so much. I don't really have the diarrhea problem. It's all Mexican food, so I think it's all pretty much the same. It's only there that I get. I think it's the one.

I think it's psychosomatic. I think it's the water they use to wash the rice at the one in Hot Valley. That's just me. Sorry, continue. You Mexicants say that. Grant, same question. Boom. God, these are so hard.

That's what she said. Go on. I can't believe I laughed at that. I'm just kidding. You're kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. said. Go on. I can't believe I laughed at that. Just be completely serious. Oh, God. It's the most serious anybody has ever said. That's what she said. That is what she said.

Go on. The economic issues. Kodoba facing Darfur. This is young Republican talk. I'm trying to get back to young Republican talk. I don't know. They're all the same. How old are you, Grant? I'm 21, but I to young Republican talk. I don't know. They're all the same. How old are you, Grant?

I'm 21, but I'll be 22 next month, which is exciting. For the podcast listeners, he just held up his hands and said this many. I did. The second set of hands. He has three arms. I had a shitty 21st birthday. I went back home for the summer, which is a mistake if anybody in college ever goes home. You must be the biggest oddity to go home.

I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. And to say I wasn't popular is kind of an understatement. What? Are you kidding me? But I worked landscaping on a big landscaping place with my brother, and we spoke Spanish. And when I say spoke Spanish, I took two years of Spanish in high school and passed a very basic Spanish language test to work the landscaping place. And I fucked up the whole time. Hola.

Hola, como esta? Que sorpresa. Biblioteca. Sorpresa. Biblioteca. Surpresa. I would say a lot of times I'd say, Que trabajo tienes para mi? Hoy. What work do you have for me right now? Thank you, Google Translate. And I'd also say.

We say gracias. I would say that a lot. And they would just talk shit about me. But they were cool. But I also had to work with work release prisoners on the landscaping place that I didn't know about. That was scary. They're scary dudes. You didn't know who was on work-release, so you didn't know when you

went to the job. I knew who was on work-release, but they always stuck me with the work-release guys on this big landscaping. We wouldn't go out and do jobs. We'd dig up the trees to send out to the jobs. I wasn't that skilled, apparently. They were just like, Grant, you're pretty. Was there anything like the movie Cool Hand Luke

when the guys were on the train gang? Grant, he didn't get a Pogs reference. Oh, did you think he was going to get a Cool Hand Luke? It's a classic movie! I study film and animation, so I know Cool Hand Luke. Wait, Grant. Was there anything like Cars 2? I want to see Cool Hand Luke, Fast and the Furious combined.

Cool Hand Furious? Cool Hand Furious. When you went back to Micah after a summer on the farm, were there any hipsters that were like, I wish I could farm ironically? Every girlfriend I've had at Micah goes, oh, I'd love to live on a farm. I'm like, I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about.

It sucks. The meth is better in the city. I didn't only just live on a farm. I'm like, I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about. It sucks. The meth is better in the city. I didn't only just live on a farm. I went to a farming high school. What does that mean? It's the biggest FFA program in the United States. It rivals Indiana's

or some bull crap. Was your high school mascot a serf? It was a cougar. I wish it was a serf. It's a pairougar. I wish it was a surf. It was a pair of overalls. It should just be like a racist person or something. My hometown. Somebody told me this.

I was doing stand-up. Every time I do stand-up DC, somebody feels like they're obligated to come up to me and tell me, Thurmont, Maryland is full of racists. Like, I don't understand that. What? Like, some guy came up and goes, hey, you know, Thurmont, Maryland is home to the largest concentration

of Klan members in the United States. And I'm like, no way. That makes so much sense, you know? I thought my dad just loved white sheets. Or the cop down the street. They told me it was a masquerade ball you know i went home all i got was a rock oh god i went home recently and i went to the goodwill to um like get fancy things and you know that's what i do and uh across the street they open that rebel

store and we live in a really tiny small town town. What is that? Is it called that Rebel store? It's called that Rebel store. They sell Rebel flags, and they'll put them on anything. That's what the window says. Wow. I thought you were going to say, I went to the Goodwill to buy sheets, and when I came home, there were two holes in them. Oh, man, I should write that down. That was because the Klansmen used them.

I got it. We were going to scare the deets. Or there was a Jew DP. You know what scares me? Is when I do... You're cracking yourself up. I like the sheets thing. I may steal that and be like...

Go for it. Tell the joke. Do the joke. Every time I steal jokes, I just go... Tie somebody to some train tracks. I'll pull a Carlos Mencia, you know. Every time. I feel bad because when you told me Carlos Mencia sits on the stool and then he jumps up, I thought I'd try it once.

And I felt like I stole something from Carlos Mencia. It works, though. It's weird. Well, I always compare you and Carlos Mencia. Don't do that. I'm not that good. One time you were doing a bit, you were like, here's my boom box, man. I always compare you and Carlos Mencia. Don't do that. I'm not that good. One time you were doing a bit, you were like,

here's my boombox, man. I said beer a lot. I'm like, it's the key. Chat shoes. Question for Josh. Yeah, Mike Fianazzo. Are you excited about the Dark Knight Rises? Absolutely.

Is Arundel Mills doing the marathon thing that I've been hearing about? They're not, but Marley Station Mall is. What the French? I know. I went into job develop for somebody, my day job. And, yeah, there's a big sign they're going to play Batman. It begins starting, I think, like 2 o'clock. And then, yeah, Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises.

What do you mean? Like 2 p.m.? Yeah, they space it out a little bit so you can go get dinner or something. Oh, okay. It's a long fucking time to be at the mall because what does it go to? It goes until midnight, and then they would show the new Dark Knight, right? So it's like five hours worth of movie, and then, yeah, Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, Dark Knight Rises is like two hours and 45 minutes long. I'm not worried about it. I've heard people bitch about it. I'm glad it's long. Yeah, it could Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, Dark Knight Rises is like two hours and 45 minutes long. I'm not worried about it.

I've heard people bitch about it. I'm glad it's long. Yeah, it could have an intermission. I'd be like, great. It's perfect. Because I think people forget that Dark Knight was two and a half hours long. It's not like it was a 90-minute movie or something. Just a short romp, you know?

They play that, you know, the, why do you build me up? You know, it's the, why do you build me up? You know that song. But it could be. Yeah, it's always an indicator that a movie is going to be terrible if you see that in the trailer. Either that or... Owen Wilson is involved. Yeah, Owen Wilson's in it.

I like Owen Wilson. Cheap shot, I know. I apologize. He's a big fan of the show. My dreams come true song. That's the other way it's going to be a terrible movie. Yeah, the Hall & Oates song. Spin Doctors, that's always a bad sign. Were we watching?

Shit, I can't even think of a name. We'll come back to that. Okay. We'll edit that back in. We'll come back to you. Let's go around the room. Dark Knight Rises. Who's pumped?

I'm so pumped. My friend is one of the extras in the football arena scene. I actually know somebody who was an extra in that as well. I think everybody does. Everybody in the world knows one person. My friend Heinz Ward said he's in that movie too. I was actually really upset he didn't die in the trailer. I mean, Heinz Ward's the one that lives.

He's a motherfucker. Don't care for him. Go Ravens. I don't know what that is. It's all good. No, I'm football. I know what football is. It's all good. No, I'm football. I know what football is. Don't choke him.

That's weird. You look exactly like Ray Lewis. Really? I try. I get that all the time. They're like, hey, Ray. I'm like, okay, I'll sign it. All right, all right.

But that's just because you stab people. Yeah, I do. You wear a lot of Under Armour as well. My brother does, God. He does? He's a college pole vaulter. Really? Yeah.

He's okay. He's a lovable goof. He's one of the guys that does those weird performance things with me. He's actually why I got banned from the DC Improv for the college comedy competition. Explain. We have about five minutes here. Explain.

I got banned because I got an email after the show because I didn't win, but it was really fun. But my brother and two of my friends dressed up as ninjas, and we were so nervous, and it's really hard to direct that many people because at the DC Improv, they have this weird pit thing that connects the green room from like the stage so they don't see you walk up i guess that bothers the people or something i don't know gotta be some mystique

yeah and so you actually see if you're sitting in the audience you actually see like the curtain move and stuff oh they heard my boom box so i mean like i was like they just hear a trail of sound right you know like rap music blasting and then we cut off the mc because my brother bum brush the guy and so as a ninja and grabbed the mic and so the mc was pissed and just walked off i felt bad but you know whatever and so i got up and fought them on stage like we choreographed a fight because all these other guys were like doing regular stand-up. Fucking assholes. Whatever that means. It gets tiring sometimes to orchestrate this bullshit.

Comedy's tough. Sometimes you wonder, am I funny? Or what am I doing is funny? Am I just a sad clown? Or am I an intellectual? Or a ninja. But my brother, I fought him, and he hit the wall. And they have fake brick that they glue on there.

I didn't know it was a fake brick wall until my brother hit it and knocked over five bricks. Because the brick is not glued. And then I got up on a stool, and I pushed on the ceiling and pulled down some stuff. How long did all this? How long was this? It was like a five- minute occurrence of a tornado do any stand-up at all did you Mike just a little bit yeah I just want to say if Allison Jaffe from the DC improvs listening you have a great club and like

who's grant I don't appreciate grants actions I'm sorry I felt bad but they gave me some earlier address so we're good But they gave me some really. I'm Tommy Sabazo, actually. That was earlier addressed. So we're good. They gave me some good tips. And they were like, you can come back next year. But we're really mad. And I was like, OK. What is it?

Along that line. Is it an old prospect to run the DCM job? I wish it would be better than her telling me, Grant, you're late. And I'm like, I had a drive from my landscaping job. Or not my landscaping job. From school. Dios mio. Dios mio. grant you're late and i'm like i had a drive from my landscaping or not my landscaping job from school and dios mio dios mio uh just i feel like the more i do comedy clubs the more paranoid they get of me like what i'm gonna do yeah like like i love david chauffeur like i never done any of his shows but he always gets worried about the stuff i pitch him yeah like for he like this

westminster stable shows coming up competition i can't like for he like this westminster stable show is coming up competition i can't see you doing well in westminster um i don't care i mean yeah i mean your stand-up would be good but i mean like your like the intros like the like performance art piece of it i just don't see them being receptive it's more fun for me to watch their faces if you enjoy it then that's great yeah yeah we're writing could go really well. I just think it's awesome that somebody for the first time in history said, I love David Schofer. When he was just born, one of his parents said that

before they knew. Before they left him on a black family steps. Anyway, see Benjamin Button? It was actually the curious case of David Schofer. He's going to get younger? Yes.

He's actually 70 years old. Did you guys hear about his seafood place? Because I refuse to do bringers because they're just frustrating for me. And I just feel it's too much of an effort. We're going to have to cut all this shit out. Yeah, we're going to have to cut it out. Because I want to work again. Hey, you shouldn't have said it.

You shouldn't have said it. By the way, I'm Brian anybody that I offend I don't mean any of it and you probably won't hire me anyway because I'm pretty unemployable as a comedian. Alright, let's go out on a high note. That's pretty sad. No, I do alright. You do well. I do a lot of open mics. Mike Fonazzo said before these mics

got hot that you saw him do some of the funniest stand-up at an open mic you've ever seen. I wouldn't call it stand-up. It was hilarious. I love your laugh, by the way. You have a great laugh. I'm not a fan of what's

mostly considered alternative comedy because I think there are a lot of people... I'm sorry, Grant, if I offend any of you. I never think of it as I'm going to go to alternatives. I think that there are a lot of people that do things like eat muffins on stage and do stupid shit. Yeah, it's very annoying.

Bagels are way better. They do things calling it comedy when it's like, all right, we don't have to try or do jokes with punchlines. They're like, this is so deep. I kind of don't like the idea where they just make fun of stand-ups. Why don't you try real stand-up before you can make fun of how silly it is? So there's a lot of what's considered alternative comedy that I just flat out don't consider comedy. No, I agree. I will say, in Coco Laid two weeks ago, and I posted this on Facebook as it was happening,

that Grant's ten minutes he did, I don't know if it was considered stand-up or what it was considered, but I have not laughed harder during a set not ironically. As a genuine, this is fucking hilarious in my life. What was he doing? Do you want to explain what you're doing? You should put it on the podcast page. You have a video of it? Yeah, yeah. Okay, absolutely.

Well, I wrote, do you want me to like the whole bit or just the best part? I've heard it once. Well, I wrote, do you want me to like the whole bit or just the best parts? I've heard it once. Well, okay, I hadn't done it in a while, like for like two weeks. I went on vacation, and so I had a lot of time to write. And so it tends to get pretty weird with what I'm writing because I write a lot. And I decided that I would, I had this opening joke that wasn't that great so i was

like how can i just make this into like kind of like an animated world because i do it the same way like i write animations and with animations you can do those weird cutaway kind of things yeah so like i did this joke and the the the closing line of the joke is like, notice, notice. But then I started going, notice, notice. I'm a snake. I'm a snake. And then I pretended that I was on acid and that I needed a spirit animal. So I got an audience member, the guy that runs the Coco Lane, who's awesome, Eric Woodworth, to be my spirit animal. And he was a possum.

And there's narrative structures to these bases. He kept touching the brick wall go Mike Fidaz's face is so warm Yeah, it's the wall turned into Mike Fidaz's forehead. I was trying to get you to be like he had a fever Because my friend started doing drug testing on John Hopkins So I he was telling me all this weird shit of like how he does puzzles and smokes weed all day for John Hopkins. I thought it was awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

But I feel like they're going to trick him eventually and give him like something terrible. And I'll have like five testicles or something. But then he closed with a online dating profile over music and an interpretive dancer. And it's one of those things to where like i feel like i've seen stuff like that before to where it's like if it's done too big it's like this is just weird it makes me uncomfortable if it's done not well it's just stupid but it was just done so

perfectly that it was just hilarious right just walk the line of funny but also and yeah i i appreciate i i could never do anything like that and i appreciate that you did and pulled it off it's cool because yeah now every time i do it girls get really into it yeah girls usually hate my stand-up like they get creeped out a lot of times because i do like weird things you know not necessarily stand-up sure no that's like no no no i agree and it's awesome when uh girls get into it because i was doing a show once and this guy's grandparents were there and the old lady was like i'm so wet right now and i was like i didn't know that was possible and then the old man's like my

grandson curses way too much bringing it all back wow those people sound exactly like my great I'm just picture sliding off that stool Question grandmotherly or due to grandmotherly wetness. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's that diaper starts to leak My boner starts to Have a serious question for Brian Preston slips up break it down and then we we're gonna we're gonna get out of here Okay, I just want you to say something because you haven't talked a lot. So will you say words, please? Okay Words words about what man just. Words about what, man? Just general. Words about words with friends.

Good, you covered it. Can you add laughs? I just wish I could ask stuff about you guys because I see you guys all the time. Yeah, well, you're going to have to come back. Well, maybe sometime this week or sometime in the future i'll have to get all you guys six months from now yeah exactly cold winter night yeah i feel bad i we had to reschedule grant like 17 times he's like he's a good kid or something yeah somewhere in there you guys live busy lives yeah yeah it's wild just sit in my cardboard all right let's let's wrap this thing up mike mike you did great

grant stellar as usual is okay brian get the fuck out hey man i just wanted to chill out at home video games brian texted me like i know that son of a bitch you could take text on your phone um of course i can take text because it looks like michael douglas's phone from wall street yeah i know i also get telegraph messages man it's really hard to' phone from Wall Street. Yeah, I know. I also get telegraph messages, man. It's really hard to have phone sex via telegraph, just saying. Sex messages through carrier pigeon. That's kind of a hipster thing to do, to have phone sex through telegraph. I know, that would be.

Let's wrap it up. That's my wrap it up music. Grant, you want to freestyle? It could be really dumb. You don't have to do it. I know a Christian rap that I had in middle school. I'll do it. Can you do it to this beat?

Probably not to the beat, but I'll do it. Okay. I got no money, but I got lots of love from my mama, my daddy, the one above. Baby Jesus sitting in the sky. Nobody knew he was gonna die. Go Jesus, go Jesus. There you go. It's, it's, it's, it's all good.

Yeah. All right, cool. Thank you for having me. Awesome. Is there anything you want to plug? There's grantlindahl.com. Um, yeah. I need to update that.

Um, okay, there's grantlindahl.com. Yeah, I need to update that. Okay, there's grantlindahl.com. I have a book out called My Very Expensive Hobby. If you just go to HP or MacCloud, go to maccloud.com and type in Grant Lindahl. Or just look at – I'll send you links. Okay, awesome. And people can click on it I'm in that book he's in that book

I think he might be in the book as Tommy Sabato 30 copies sold all by my mom it's a book just about your experiences in the local comedy scene, improv, stand-up. Yeah, I do three, every three months I publish

like a little magazine book. Because it's not really a magazine, it's more of a journalist kind of. It's like a zine? Would you call it a zine? I really hate that term. Okay, all right. No, because I actually put work into it.

Oh! Facial. God, but yeah, you can check it out. My very expensive hobby. Cool. Twitter, any of that stuff? I don't remember what my, I have a Twitter, but I don't know what my Twitter name is. It's at Rob Delaney, right?

It's at Rob Delaney. Okay, I thought so. I thought so. Definitely that. I'm a very funny man. You'll see me in the speedo. Yeah, you look great. Yeah, I know.

I look good. Absolutely. Brian Preston, what's going on, man? Not a whole lot. I don't really have anything really to plug at the moment. That's good. I got a pretty killer best man speech coming up this week at a wedding. You got to show it back.

Ooh. You going to do a type 5? It's going to be a type 5. It's going to get, honestly, it might get a little dark. Not going to lie. Ooh. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of talk about life, love, teen suicide, things of that nature. You know, the sort of shit you expect.

Your standard best man speech. I might reflect a little bit on human rights violations in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. That usually goes over well. Sure. It's going to be a big old pole pot of golden laughs. All right. All right, bros from Stalin. Oh, I have one plug.

Grant, well, you fucked up. I'm sorry. Because you already had your turn. It's like high school all over again. Mike Fonazo? Yeah, you could never plug anything, could you? I'm sorry. Go ahead, Grant.

Just July 20th and 21st I'll be hosting two shows at Sully's. Cool. The last time I hosted it was really,

really just scary. So please, young people, if anybody likes weird things, come out. Okay. Where is it?

Sully's? It's in Parkville. It's in the basement of the Bowman restaurant. The boning restaurant? Bowman. Bowman. I thought it? Sully's? It's in Parkville. It's in the basement of the Bowman Restaurant. The Boning Restaurant? Bowman. Bowman. I thought it was the Boning Restaurant.

It's across the street. It's really an alleyway. I know. It's all you can eat. There's still sawdust on the floor. Yeah. You know, collects liquids. Mike Fonazzo, we're out of time.

Okay. Go ahead. Buy my CD, Stupid Jesus, because track nine is about how shitty Sully's comedy song is. That's what that one's about. I won't be welcome back there anytime soon.

Burning bridges. Fuck it. Burning town bridges. That's why they put me. No, I used to feature there, not host. Fuck, what am I doing? Stupid Genius out now. Listen.

My book documents Stupid Genius. I was there. You can hear my annoying laugh. You don't have an annoying laugh. You have a great laugh. I enjoy it. Yeah. I'm working on new material now, so I'll be at the sidebar every other Monday throughout the summer.

Oh, tell them it's going to start to be every Monday, right? Every Monday starting in, I think, the first week in September. Oh, that's exciting. Come see me. Come see Grant Lindahl. Come see Brian Preston. I think I dropped a clap. Come see Josh Kaderna, or as I like to call him. Breeze.

Come see Mike Moran. Come see Stavros. Mike Stork. Oh, man. See, I speak. God, everybody after this, everybody's going to just hate me. And they're going to be like, God damn, Grant's that dysfunctional Florida comedian. No.

No. You're funny. You just do it. You have a different take on your traditional stand-up. I do like No. No. You're funny. You just do it. You have a different take on your traditional stand-up. I do like it. Yeah. And you do it well.

Come on. The energy was down. Everybody clap. Party for Grant. No. Grant, you're doing great. All right. Yeah, everybody,

check out Stupid Genius. Still $3.99 available on iTunes. One more plug. Absolutely. The Entourage movie comes out next year. Are you kidding me? Six seasons and a movie, baby.

Just a reminder, guys, once you go white, you stay tight. Okay, ending on a high note. Check out digressionsessions.com and we have shirts, too, so email me if you want a shirt, because I haven't set up the store page yet.

So hopefully I'll do that. All right. Enjoy your taco. Bye everybody. We love you. Thank you for having me. All good.