The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Josh Gondelman: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Stories (The Andy Richter Call-In Show)

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Comedian Josh Gondelman joins "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" this week to hear your GOOD DEEDS GETTING PUNISHED STORIES! Want to call in? Fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER or dial 855-266-2604 with whatever you want to discuss!This episode previously aired on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio (ch. 104). If you’d like to hear these episodes in advance, new episodes premiere exclusively for SiriusXM subscribers on Conan O’Brien Radio and the SiriusXM app every Wednesday at 4pm ET/1pm PT.

Conan O'Brien Radio! Conan O'Brien Radio! Hello! Happy summer everybody! Hope you all had a good fourth. It's Andy Richter here on the Andy Richter call-in show. Good Fourth, it's Andy Richter here on the Andy Richter call-in show. We are talking today about good deeds going punished. You know, you try to do the right thing

and you get fucked over for it. God damn it. It's not like I'm mad about it, but it's pretty much the story of my life and you fuckers are gonna have to hear about it, but it's pretty much the story of my life, and you fuckers are gonna have to hear about it. No, I'm kidding. So if you have one of those stories, give us a call at 855-266-2604, and I am very lucky and very happy today to have sitting with me the very, very funny comedian and writer, Josh Gondelman. Hey, thanks, Andy, thanks for having me.

Hi, Josh, I'm glad you're here. And also, too, you are an East Coaster, so this is... I'm delighted and jet-lagged to be here with you in Los Angeles. When did you get here? I got in Saturday afternoon, and I just have not got my sleep schedule right. I'm up at like 5.30 in the morning.

Yeah, it's brutal. Oh, well. What are you gonna do? The thing is, too, is if it's only a week, it's like it's you might as well right stay on that same schedule. Because otherwise you just have to reset twice. Right. Exactly. Yeah. But it's it's so fun to be here. Thank you for having me. Thanks for having me. For you being here. You're welcome. I thought I'd give you a shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. So what are you out here doing?

I... Specifically. Very... Okay, well, I've had a couple great breakfast burritos. Nice. I am out here. I put out a new stand-up special on YouTube. It's called Positive Reinforcement. It came out about a week and a half ago with Blonde Medicine, the record label I work with,

and that I want... I've been doing a bunch of podcasts and stuff to promote that. And my wonderful wife, Maris Kreisman, put out a book almost exactly a week ago called I Wanna Burn This Place Down. It's an essay collection, her first essay collection. And she did a great book launch on Monday night at Skylight. So I kind of used that as an excuse to come out here, do podcasts, promote the specials, see friends.

It's been really lovely. I love visiting Los Angeles. Pre-tax dollars. Yes, that's right. You get to spend, I mean, yeah. You know, you get a coffee while you're here. Pre-tax dollars. That's that's right. You get to spend, I mean, yeah. You get a coffee while you're here, pre-tax dollars. That's right. It's all written off. If anyone understands what I'm talking about.

No, it's like, you do one thing and it makes a nice little trip with your wife a business trip. It's very nice. And we went to a nice dinner. Yeah, it was a lovely time. And she's gone. I've had the-

Oh, is she off now? She's on her book tour all week. Yeah, so she's in San Francisco now. And I just get to hang out at the Airbnb and see friends, and I have a very leisurely time of it. And the book is called Burn This Place Down. I want to burn this place down. I want to burn this place down.

It's the quote that Peggy and Joan's seen from the end of Mad Men, where they just got out of the lunch and they've been acquired and they are sick of men. Yeah. So, yeah, let's plug that. I mean, she's not here, but might as well plug it. I mean, yeah, let's plug that. I mean, she's not here, but might as well plug it. I mean, it's gotta help you.

I think so. The family's bottom line. Oh, no, she does not share. No. She's very clear. That's my money. Her own money. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You went Dutch on the dinner that you had after the book launch. Is it? She was like, it's so Dutch, we're eating out of wooden shoes. But she's the greatest. Her book is so good. And like, I am really proud of this special too. So it's been really fun to like get to chat about it. Yeah, everybody check it out.

Well, you do such funny stuff. You're such a good comedian. Are you touring now? Are you like... I am ramping back up. I've been been in New York for most of the past year, kind of regenerating the well of material. And I've just gotten to the point where I'm like, okay, this is the seed of a new headline set. Like, I have 25 minutes that I'm like, this is good, this is new. People haven't heard it yet. I can bring it back out on the road.

And especially now that the special is out. So people who like me and come to see me will have seen that already. So I can't really skate on it anymore. Yeah, see that's, I always, that's the thing about being a standup that I think is, I mean, I just, just seem so shitty. Is it like, you know, like you work on stuff and then you put it out and then, and it's like,

well, I can't tell any of those jokes. Even if they're good jokes, you know, like. People are, people are like, no, next thing. Which is the opposite of how a band is, right? Yes. When a band writes a great song, if they don't play it, know, like... People are like, no, next thing, which is the opposite of how a band is, right? When a band writes a great song, if they don't play it, people leave mad. People are pissed, yeah. And I kind of feel like, I don't know,

you know, I wouldn't be, like, I wouldn't be angry if I went and saw you and heard a joke that you told before. But then I also, too, am used to having friends who are stand-ups, not so much, you know, but like when I was younger, because I don't leave the house nowadays. But, you know, you have a friend who's a standup.

I'm appearing here, you go see him and they're great. And then a week later they're like, Hey, I'm going here. And I'm like, Oh, I want to support my friend. I'll go and, Oh, it's pretty much the same shit. They just said, yeah, okay. And then I'll go to the next week. There's another, I'll go see him again.

And like, Oh, it's all pretty much the same. I love you, but I think I'm done. Yeah, I'll take a couple of weeks off. Until you get this thing, you know, like pushed out of you. Yeah, ship shaped. Yeah, until this baby is birthed and we can go to your next offspring. And so it is nice, and I do like that process.

Every time this is like, I've learned this about myself over, I think 21 years in standup as of this week, which is why I started... Does that kind of blow your mind? It really does. I've been doing it now longer than I wasn't doing it. I turned 40 this year, and I've been doing it for more than half my life,

which is kind of bonkers to me. Isn't that weird? It's so weird when those moments hit you and you're like, holy shit, I'm old. I am a grown-up. That's right. And I went bald young, so there was no other... Like, I couldn't chart my course like, ah, there goes my hairline.

I was like 25, very little hair, and I was like, well, I know I'm still numerically young, and now I'm like, nope, I'm caught up to my forehead. You grew into it. You grew into your dome. I grew into the dome. I love it. But it's... I love the feeling of I record something, and I go, great, But it's, I love the feeling of, I record something,

and I go, great, now it's time to start on the next thing. And then I have three months where everything I write is like absolute utter dog shit. And I go, that's it, I'm cooked, I'm done. I'll never have another thought. And then after about three months, I'm like, ooh, here it comes. And it just starts to like percolate.

And it, because I'm not like thinking about the edit for the special or the album. I'm like out of that head space. And I'm like, instead of just scrambling to be like, oh, what are my new thoughts? I'm having experiences and reflecting on them, which is so fun. After you record a special, do you still do that material

around because you know, well, it's not it hasn't been? I do. Yeah, yeah. Nice as well. I'll still do it if I headline for a little while. And then I kind of, my process is the way I think of it is like I try to write enough new stuff that it like squeezes out the old stuff.

Like the first joke I write, it's like, well, there goes the worst joke from the last hour. That's gone forever. And then now when I tour, it'll like, you know, the next hour, the next time I'm on the road, which is I've got a little stuff coming up. I'm doing the headline in the Borsch Belt Comedy Festival up in the Catskills, which is really fun.

I did the groundbreaking of their museum, like either a year or two years ago. Time means nothing to me. And then I know I'm going to Minneapolis in the fall and Toronto in a couple of weeks. And so this will be like two thirds new stuff. And then I reach back and go like, well, if I do 10 minutes of very old stuff,

the people who just watched the new special won't know. They won't know. Like the new fans won't know that that's a 15-year-old joke or a 10-year-old joke. On the menu, you got specials, and then you got the standbys. You get the classics. Yeah, yeah.

Sometimes you go to the steak house and you want a steak. Right, exactly. Get some mac and cheese and shut up. That's right. Well, our theme today is punished for doing good. You seem, first of all, like, well, you know, you and I have known each other mostly online. We were Twitter pals for years. And there was such a hilarious running joke of you being a coke addict, which just,

it was just so, it's just so funny because you're like the last person to be, you should just become one, just like, I feel like- Because it would be so unexpected. I feel like the way you can kind of tour the hour after you've recorded, but before it's out, I feel like I could get a year of free cocaine

out of people just being like, okay, I'll try it for the first time. And then once I start going back to the city, you say like, we're onto you. Wait a minute. Yeah, yeah. But I could get, I could really could get a year of free cocaine out of people just being like, okay, I'll try it for the first time. And then once I start going back to this, and you say like, we're onto you. Wait a minute. Yeah, yeah. But I could get, I could really party for a year. I don't even remember what, how did that start?

It was my friend, Matt Kauff, who's a really great comic and great writer for The Daily Show, tweeted at me. He said something like, Josh, will you do cocaine with me? And he doesn't, also doesn't do cocaine. But this is like a long running bit that he was doing. And I said, Matt, I can't promise that to you. And Paul F. Tompkins seized on this and started a change.org petition

that was like, make Josh Gondelman do cocaine like he promised. And it immediately got 1,000 signatures and then was immediately taken down. Because they're like, this is not what change.org is for you animals. And that became such an infallible road about it. Yeah, this is for getting change.org is for, you animals. And that became such a vulture road about it. Yeah, this is for getting health insurance for a sick cat.

And so, and vulture wrote about it, and it's just been like in the ether. And what's so funny is like, when friends do it, I'm always like, that's fun. It's like fun to be known and to be teased. Strangers do it, I'm like, oh, that's enough of that. But I think there must be at this point, people who don't know my work at all

and just know that about me. They think you're a copian. The false thing. The copian guy, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is, it's like an extreme, cause that's been going for, I think, roughly almost five years at this point. I think it was-

Well, there have been, I just, there have been so many, and I don't remember the specific ones, but so many like perf, like where you're just talking and being yourself, but you just like would open yourself up so perfectly to being, you know. It happened today on Blue Sky. I said, you know, I had too much caffeine and I'm still tired, but I'm just talking more.

And someone went, you know what else makes you talk more even when you're tired? I was like, god damn it. You did it, you did it to yourself. Yeah, I really left my chin open or my nostrils. The reason I bring that up about that joke is because you are so kind of a clean cut and very kind and you also are very pro positivity. Like probably one of the most sort of openly forwardly,

like if you want positivity, I'll give it to you. You know, which is not always funny, you know? It's like people have said to me about this show with the topics, why don't you do good stuff? And I'm like, cause it's not good. It won't be really funny to hear about your good relationship with your parents. Like, I don't want to hear that.

No, it's funny when things go wrong. Yeah. Years and years ago, I did a comedy festival in Atlanta. My friend Andy Sanford, who's a very funny comic, introduced me to a couple mutual friends, or a couple people I didn't know, friends of his. And he says, oh, this is Josh. He's very funny. And I could see people's eyes go, huh.

And then he goes, he goes, he's very nice. I'm sorry. He goes, this is Josh. He's very nice. And you can see people go, losing interest. He goes, but also he's very nice. I'm sorry, he goes, this is Josh, he's very nice. And you can see people go losing interest. He goes, but also he's very funny. Because you do kind of, in comedy circles especially, you kind of have to clarify. Because it is the backhanded, it's like a very pretty face as kind of the old sexist version of like,

it's what you're not saying. It's like, mm. Right, right, right. Or a really good personality. Really good personality. Yeah, I think that's a better one. And you go, oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Or a really good personality. Really good personality. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think that's a better one. Yeah, yeah.

And you go, oh, that's because they've got like a tooth coming out of their nose. Right, exactly, yeah. Or, yeah, missing a chin. Yep, that's right. Well, so, but what I'm getting at is that I'm sure you have been punished for goodness. All the time.

Is there one that you... Yeah, this is one, and I think where I get in trouble is like, I get this complex of like, I'm just gonna do this nice thing for a person. I'm gonna go out, you know, go above and beyond. The one that I always think about, cause this is kind of the, my wife wrote a book this year,

I wrote a book a couple of years ago called, Nice Try Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results. So this is my life. But when we started dating, I was like, let me cook you dinner. That's a nice thing I can do to show that I'm a thoughtful person, I've got some domestic skills.

And she's like, great. And I go, I'm going to make fish tacos. And she's like, I like this guy. I'm not going to tell him that I don't like fish and that because I have type 1 diabetes, I can't really eat tortillas. They will make me feel sick from the carbs. And so I'm just in her kitchen.

I like bought pans. That is so not your fault, though. It was, I should have asked. I should have gone, hey, what would you like for dinner? And I'll make that. And that's the lesson I keep learning, is like, there's only so much you can do to like surprise someone before you're just

kind of like throwing your own party and fighting them to it. And so I made the fish tacos and she, oh, they're great. And she kind of choked down the fish and then just kind of was not feeling well. She was like, oh, my, the night was ruined. She was like, my blood sugar is too high. I'm going to take, I don't know. I'm laughing now in retrospect of her being able to go like, I liked you, so I ate these stupid tacos I ate.

Which is really sweet. But I like ruined her night by not going, hey, wait, how about I make a burger? Yeah. Right, exactly. How about pork chops? Yeah, right. How about some chicken?

Would've loved it. Yeah, roast chicken. Would've been a great night. But instead, I went, I just learned how to make fish tacos, and I'm going to cook you up some fish tacos. And she went, you're sweet. Yeah, but see, you weren't punished a great night. But instead I went, I just learned how to make fish tacos and I cook you up some fish tacos. And she went, you're sweet. Yeah, but see, you weren't punished for it.

She was. That's right. So I guess- I mean, you got to feel guilty. I do, and I still do. We've been together 11 years and she makes me eat fish out of a shoe every day, out of a wooden shoe.

And I go, yep, you're right. I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have done it. Yeah, cause this topic for me, when I was thinking like what I would share, cause there's one that happened just recently, which was an airplane one. And because if I was to tell you like the really big ones,

I would probably be like violating a divorce decree or like, or making my mother cry, you know, things like that. Just breaching HIPAA. Yeah, yeah. So like I just, I'm getting, you know, things like that. Just breaching HIPAA. Yeah, yeah. So like, I just, I'm getting, you know, the real ones, the real sort of like, you know, bullseyes of being punished by being kind. Yeah, yeah.

But I was recently on a flight cross country that I was paying for, so I was in coach, you know, there's the difference. If somebody's paying me to work, they gotta go by the guild rules and I ended up at least business class. But so I'm in the back, I'm in the, you know, and I had a aisle seat

because it's a real toss up for me because I'm a large, broad person. But the aisle is better, get a little more leg room and I get clobbered while people load on, but so I'm in my aisle seat and there's a couple with a baby that come on and they know no English. And I think they were Cambodian or Thai or Vietnamese. I'm not exactly sure, but the husband sat

I'm not exactly sure, but the husband sat in the middle seat next to me and then the wife sat in an aisle seat a couple rows away. And I said, oh, you know, like I'll trade with you so you can sit next to your husband. And so she did and she sat, but she hadn't understood that she had a center seat. And so I was just, I mean, it's not the end of the world, but it was like, I was in a center seat between people larger than me for a cross country flight,

which... And she sat down and went, oh, that was great. Well, no, I don't think that she understood that sort of, you know, where you were supposed to sit anyway. So, you know. That's tough. And the people around me were like, oh boy. They saw that it was happening like, oh, that sucks.

I'm like, yeah, well, what am I going to do? Like, tell her like, no, you get back here with that baby. You sit in the middle seat, and I'm going to sit next to your husband. I had one this week that I'm just remembering, which is I went out to a bar after Maris's book event with some friends, and there were outdoor tables, and there were a bunch of plates on one,

and I stacked the plates. I was like, well, I'll bust the table so that they don't have to come out and do it and we'll just sit, because they weren't seating people. They were just coming to you. And so I brought the plates, and she went, what are you doing? And I went, well, these are on the table you. And so I brought the plates and she went, what are you doing? And I went, well, these are on the table.

And I thought it'd be, and she went, leave them there. And so I brought the plates back outside and put them back on the table. And I was like, oh, yeah, this serves me right. Wow. Well, yeah, serves you right. Serves me right? Yeah, you probably, those plates were there

for a specific reason. This is a feng shui. But it is, it's one of those things where you never know whether you're doing a nice thing for someone or they're like, well, we have a system and you just fucked up our whole system. Oh, wow. All right, here we go. We're going to the, we're going to the calls,

going to callers 855-266-2604 is our number. And first up we have David, who's outside Boston. going to call us 855-266-2604 is our number. And first up we have David, who's outside Boston. Oh my God. Hi David, you're here with Josh and me. Hi David. Hello Josh, hello Andy. Hi.

It's great to be talking to you Andy. Can I just tell you real quick, whenever I hear your voice or think of you, I've like been following you for a while. I think of you with that giant Q tip cleaning this like 10 foot the ear on this 10 foot head on a Conan show So long ago Was it a giant bobblehead of him him? I can't remember. It must have been. It was so goofy and stupid. And I'm like, it's in my head now. It's never left. There was like a 25-foot bobblehead that was made for a road show,

like somewhere where we went and it was put in like a public square. And it was literally a bobblehead of him, but like as big as a bus turned on its side. Wow. And then- It's huge. And then we brought it back to the studio and it just lived in the backstage of the studio for like five years. I don't even, I have no idea what even happened to it. But it is like one of those things like, ha ha, that's funny. And it's like, oh fuck, now we gotta-

You're like, do you know what it costs to get a truck big enough to take this away? Yeah, a ton and a half thing, you know, image of Conan, which, you know, he just loves. Just loves. I'm sure, yeah. Can't have enough of a graven images of himself. Yeah.

I have a Conan story for you too, which is not like no good deed goes unpunished story, but it's actually a better story. But what do you want to hear? You tell me. Tell me about your mom. I know you're going to tell us a story about your mom. Okay. Well, okay. She's old. She's like 88. She's got dementia and she's in a home Not too far from my house. All right. It's all right

We're cooking yeah, huh, right are you laughing yet? So So for my wife's in Florida, I'm by myself and I get the call in the afternoon. Your mom fell. She's in the ambulance. She's going to Lahey clinic. I'm like, okay. My day just changed.

So I go to the Lahey clinic and she's like, she's out of it. She's on a good, they just left her like in the emergency room on a gurney and she's like covered in blood and pain. She's disoriented. I sat with her for like six hours and I'm telling you, I haven't been to the ER in a while, but it was, I think there must've been at least five or six gurneys there with just these crushed people

lying on them. There was wheelchairs of passed out people and people trying to sleep on those little chairs in the waiting room. There's people groaning. And I'm like, this is, this fucking sucks. Yeah. And I... Yeah, why haven't you been to VR in a while? Yeah, why don't you hang out there? I charge at the fuck. It's tempting, right? You know, if they had better food, then we would be using a vending machine.

It's the service. It's the service. I find the food good, but it's the service is slow. Yeah. What a good crowd. Good crowds. Nothing was happening. Nothing was happening. I went back, I was like, okay, this is gonna be a while. I know she's gonna be spending the night there. So I go back to her room and I have to go through like her underwear drawer and pull out clothes and stuff. And I pick up her dog and I put the dog in my car

and I go back and after like six hours, I go to the triage nurse and I go, look, I can't stay here any longer. This is, I'm like, I'm at my limit here and I gotta get up early tomorrow. And I was like, I know it's tough, but your night's gonna get even worse when I leave because she's gonna try to get up and collapse on the floor or something.

So within five minutes, within five minutes she was in there and I could leave. But before I could leave, I had to go to this house. My wife was working on a project and I had to pick up some stuff there. And so I bring the dog, I let him run outside for a second. Immediately he gets sprayed by a skunk.

No! Oh my God. I'm like, I love dogs. I really do. But that... But you had to put them down. There was a hole. I had to... You took the skunk home instead.

You know, without a weapon, it's not so easy to kill a dog. This is the wisdom that people listen for. I dug a hole with my fingers. I was like, this is it. This is it. Did you have to tomato bath the dog? Dude, that's a myth. Whoever came up with that is full of shit.

Wow. Tomato juice. So David, now you have skunk and tomato juice smelling dog. There is a recipe though. If you have a dog, I'll tell you what it is. It's, you should go online and look it up to get the exact combination, but it's baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and liquid Dawn soap. I don't know why it works. It's, I mean, it's gone. The smell is gone.

Wow. That's incredible. So did you have to, did you take the dog in the car? You need to take 60 years to find that recipe. Did you take the dog in the car, put him back in your car so your car then smells like it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it keeps getting better. Yeah, of course. And so my car stank for a while.

Yeah, I actually, I took a tarp from this project and I just covered the whole back with a dirty tarp and threw him in there. So like my car could have been worse. So I guess that's a silver lining. I had a tarp, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that's no good.

Could have been worse. Yeah. And the thing is, my brother and sister who are nowhere close to even being able to help with this situation, they're so far away. I just kind of texted them and I said, and the text just said, no good deed goes unpunished. Yeah. Yeah.

So when I heard your theme, I'm like, hey, wow. That's perfect. Kind of coincidental. And then a follow-up text, I will make sure you're written out of the will, brother and sister. Well, I do have legal power of attorney, so I can do whatever I want. Yeah!

That's good. No Hummel figurines for you. All right, David, well, thank you so much for the call my Thanks a lot. Have a good day. My dad told me years ago He used to get these terrible headaches and he went to the emergency room with a headache migraine so bad You needed some kind of emergency treatment and he when he came home a couple hours later, I said, what happened? He said, they came in, they gave him an injection or fluids or something.

He goes, I was sitting there for about three hours, and then I just had to lay down on the floor. I couldn't take sitting up anymore. He goes, when you're laying on the floor of the emergency room, they send a doctor pretty quick. Oh yeah. Yeah, the emergency room really does, it is, it's an awful place to be. It's so tough.

Yeah, yeah. And it's like, there are, I'm sure there are, like, it just seems like it's, nobody wants it to be like that. It's not like the doctors are like, you know, they're not running it like the soup Nazi from Seinfeld, right? Right. It's like, you can't take Chris. It's like, there are just people with that,

that need help and more than there are gurneys. Yeah. It's horrible. It is amazing place though for like, which by the way, I want to tell people 855-266-2604, 855-266-2604, give a call. Where if you, if you, and you know, if you get something other than this topic to give a call. If you get something other than this topic, to give a call, because I'm gonna be frank with you,

we need callers, we need callers. I've been doing this show for a long time, and this is the first time where it's just like, people hung up. Your listeners are degenerates. Yeah, come on people. They're just like, I've never tried a good deed. Yeah, just make shit up and give us a call. We don't care.

Or go out, do a good deed now, tell us how it turns out. Yes, exactly. Yeah, go get fucked over now, and then hurry back. Go outside, find the most dejected person you can find, buy them lunch. Yes, exactly.

Whether or not they're hungry. Right, right. They might be going somewhere, doesn't matter. Pull them over. And then have them throw it right back in your face. That, right. They might be going somewhere. Doesn't matter. Pull them over. And then have them throw it right back in your face. That's right. We need these stories. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, that does remind me, and it's on topic. Back when I first got the job on the Conan show, I was like the person making money. Like that was like sort of prior to most everybody that I know that ended up making a living and show business, making a living and show business. And I like to take people out. I don't mind picking up the checks. And there was this one guy that we,

that my ex-wife and I had worked with that on a stage show who was kind of like lonely older guy. He had worked in the box office, but we sort of like took him under our wing and like would take him out and he was kind of lonely and wasn't of good health. And there was one time, number of times, number of times, and he invited somebody to come with.

And I was like, oh, okay, sure. Bring this friend to come with. And I was like, oh, okay, sure, bring this friend of hers with. And when the check came, his friend, she went for her wallet and he went like, oh, you don't have to pay. He's like, he's on TV, he makes tons of money. And I was just like, you know what? That's, I think the last time I've taken you.

And it's also like, you wait for the offer. Yes, yes. That's all, we know how this game is played. Yes, exactly. Like I'm not gonna let you pay, you know. Right, it wasn't like if she got her credit card out, you were like, well, you were quicker on the draw. Right, right, it's up to you.

We, I used to host an open mic in Summerville, Massachusetts at this bar called Sally O'Brien's. Sure, we all know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We heard of it. Everybody's been, it at this bar called Sally O'Brien's. Sure, we all know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody's been. Sally O's. Sally O's. And I hosted this open mic there for a few years.

And there was a guy named Jude who would come by. And he was an unhoused person. He slept night to night, was kind of variable. One time I asked him, I said, I'm very curious. And he would come, and he would do time on the open mic. And I would always try to buy him dinner. I was teaching preschool full-time still. So I didn't have a ton of money, but like they gave me a good deal on the food.

I would try to buy him a sandwich. I just wanted to make sure like sending him out as okay as I could. And one time I said to him, do you, I go, do you go to, where do you sleep at night? Do you go to a shelter? And he goes, no, man. I go, well, how come? And where do you sleep at night? Do you go to a shelter? And he goes, no, man. I go, well, how come?

And he goes, too many homeless people there. It was like incredible timing. But he would go up and this one night I bought him dinner and he waited, I always had him go at the end because his performance was very dynamic and hard to follow. And it was like a night that people were doing a lot of dating material. They were going, oh, I took out this girl.

She didn't want to see me again. I spent all this money. You know, just like bitter young comic stuff. And he gets up and he goes, you pathetic bastards. He goes, oh, I'm dating so hard. He goes, I'll never forget this. He goes, I'll never forget this. He goes, I sleep in a graveyard, and I could get laid any night that I want.

And I was like, OK, Mike's over, Jude, but thank you for your perspective, man. Were those two things connected? Did the graveyard, like, mean like, you know, ass on tap? Because you're in the graveyard. Kind of an alfresco situation. All right, wait, we have a caller. Thank you.

Holly. Hello. Holly from Truckee. How are you? Hey, I'm doing great today. Thanks so much. You're my first caller from Truckee ever. And I've always wanted to say somebody from Truckee calling in from Truckee.

Hello. I'm glad I can help you out and I'm here to share my worst date story ever love it yeah I mean I'm sorry but I think I'm gonna enjoy it the thing I'm most proud of is that I didn't sleep with the guy and that plays into it so I'm glad I that's good yeah sometimes know, getting laid is fun and the opportunity's there. And even though things have gone shitty, it's like, well, you know, still might get this out of it.

Yeah. Yeah. So go ahead. So the deal is I was in college and I broke up with my boyfriend. And so I ended up reconnecting with a guy I had dated in high school. And we were in separate colleges about 600 miles away and decided to get together for

the weekend. So we both drove and we met at this hotel and we went out to dinner. And he said, I got to tell you, you know, you can't be a jealous person because I get asked to dance a lot. So when we go out, you got to be ready. And oh, what a schmuck. So I went to the bathroom and he said, okay, the dinner's paid and everything else.

Later on in the night, I realized that while I was in the bathroom, he'd stolen my credit card and was being such a gentleman by paying for dinner with my credit card. Wow. And so- He's really playing the short game there because you're gonna get that statement eventually.

Yeah, so I didn't sleep with him that night when we were at that hotel and I was getting ready to leave the next morning. Were you staying in the same room? We were, yeah. Oh, okay. But he was, yeah, and he was so mad at me because I guess I didn't give it, that he left before me and he stole all my clothes.

He took everything. No. Wow. What did you drive home? Did you have clothes like that you slept in to drive home wearing? Yeah, that I was in. So I got into my car, which was a 1960. Well, let's see. That would have been like 87. Okay. It was a 1964 Volkswagen Beetle. Wow.

And so it was a great little bug and I was driving my bug home and I had hundreds of miles to go and there was a snowstorm and it was a one lane highway. For those of you that know the area, I was driving from Bend, Oregon back to Washington State where I went to school. So it was this lone highway, probably like 395 North if I think about it. And so one lane highway snowing and my master cylinder went out on my car. And I didn't know what it was called at the time. I just knew I didn't have any brakes, but I didn't want to go backward anyway. So I kept going forward and I drove home like 400 miles

with my handbrake on my Beatle. Wow. Like a stunt driver. It was and I had to find gas in the meantime and I found this exit that was going uphill and then it went downhill to the gas station so I had to roll past it and then come back. This is a horrendous day. There's no purpose in me stopping because nobody else who was in college had the money to drive and pick me up or something. Right. So I just refueled and kept driving and I got home and all the way home I planned this back road going back to my And I got home and all the way home, I planned this back road, going back to my school apartment so that I wouldn't run into stoplights and things like that. And I just crawled through town and I came to a slow bump against the bumper stop of

my parking spot in my apartment complex and, you know, held the breakup and released the button and I started to cry. And then I was ready to walk in my house, but I hadn't yet gotten the key back from the boyfriend I broke up with. And that weekend he had used my house to party in and I walked in and he and a bunch of guys were doing lines on my coffee table.

And I lost it. I told him to get out, but it was the worst probably 36 or 48 hours of my life. Oh, and the stress of that drive. Reminiscing all the long guys. I know that feeling of being clenched and driving in the snow. Yeah. And all because you did the nice thing

of buying dinner for an old friend from high school. Yeah. And wait, did you say for an old friend from high school. Yeah. And wait, did you say you dated this guy in high school? I dated him in high school, yeah. But did you have any inkling that he was a reckless sociopath? Only my mother did. My mom didn't like him and told me not to date him. And then years later, of course, I saw, you know, then

that proved it. Years later, I moved back to LA. I'm from LA. And I was in a park in Balboa Park, where all the baseball fields have a track around it. And so I was walking and there he was in the middle of, and he saw me and recognized me. And he said, Hey, you want to catch up sometime and have lunch? And I said, who's paying? And they just kept walking. And I haven't seen him since. But I have a feeling he's going to appear somewhere

at some point in my future. So. Did you, I mean, did you contact him at all and say like, where are my fucking clothes? Please just give me my clothes back? No, no. No, I'd learned enough by then. Just cut your losses. and say like, where are my fucking clothes? Please just give me my clothes back or no? No, no, no, I'd learned enough by then. Just cut your losses.

He didn't see a positive resolution. We were like, oh, I packed your bra. My bad, I thought it was mine. And did he put your credit card back in your purse? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, he was like, oh yeah, it's all paid for. And then I realized he'd been stealing from me

to entertain me all night. That is though, if I ever get single again, that is a pretty good scam. It's a pretty good one. Right? That is roofing. And then there's like stealing, you know, I'll watch your porn, go ahead and go. Many different scams.

Yeah, as the check arrives, it's like you probably should hit the john before we leave, sweetie. Right, you're just going, yeah, you're just going, hey, you look a little parched, you should drink some more water, because otherwise, dinner's not getting paid for. Maybe you ought to go powder your nose. All right, well Holly, thank you so much. I hope I've earned my spot here, because my goal is to be on as many radio programs as I can. So you are next in my list behind Science Friday, Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh. And now I can say the Conan O'Brien Show with Andy Richter. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. You're welcome. I'm better than Dr. Laura, that's for sure. And I'll tell you what, Rush Limbaugh shows have fallen off lately. Yeah, yeah, they are not as good as they used to be. Not at all. All right, Holly, thanks so much. Bye. All right, 855-266-2604 is the number. Just call us.

Well, you know, the idea is we're talking about your good deeds going punished, but you can talk to us about anything. And Dennis from St. Louis, though, I believe you're on topic, are you not, Dennis? Yes, I am. Okay. So go ahead. We got me and Josh Gondelman. Tell us your tale. Well, it's great to talk to you. The only problem with your show is that it isn't on more often.

Sorry. Well, you know, you can replay it for yourself and just imagine that you haven't heard it again. Hit your head in the shovel with something blunt or hit yourself in the head with something blunt and then it'll seem new. It's all fresh. Yeah. I'm gonna give that a shot later.

All right, well, thank you. A few years back, was went into a gas station in Morris, Illinois on route 47. I'm from Yorkville. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so I go into the gas station. It's kind of a gas station coffee shop. There's people sitting in the windows looking out at the highway and I See a guy open his the door of his beat-up truck scrape his arm across the seat and throw all of his trash into the parking lot and I took exception with that. Yeah, that was all and I thought you know what I've turned the other way

Enough times I've got to tell this guy that's unacceptable. Yeah, so I hop out of my car I go over to this one doing it said hey, what are you doing? You're poisoning mother earth. Who do you think's gonna pick that up some poor guy making minimum wage? And I see some guys in the gas station waving at me and I'm thinking yes They can see that a righteous decent human is reprimanding This this awful person and I waved back I go Yeah, I'm showing him and they keep waving and I'm like, okay something else I Driving away without me. Your car was?

And yes, I got to put it in the car. And, uh, at the time I was driving a smart car, uh, because I'm so secure in my masculinity. The car goes across the parking lot and blasts. Oh, you cut out. We lost you, Dennis. Wait, you said the car goes across the parking lot and bluh? And it hit a brand new $60,000 pickup truck. Oh, shit.

And of course, the Smart Car is the smallest car sold on the planet. Yep. And it's made out of plastic. The body's plastic. Yeah, yeah. So it just bounced off this truck, but this big farmer's truck, the bumper falls off. What?

And I look over, yeah, the bumper falls off after getting hit by a smart car. So now you're living. And the guy that threw the trash, the guy that threw the trash out just laughs his ass off and drives away. And the farmer came out and I had to write him a big check and vowed never to reprimand the litterer again. That's right.

You gotta start littering. Yeah, yeah. That, Dennis, I, my favorite part of the story is the moment where you're like, you know what, I'm standing up for what's right. And you think that the people in the gas station waving to you are like cheering you on. Yeah, like you're getting applause. Yeah, you're that, you're that keyed in. I felt really, I felt really good about myself and it all worked out.

All right, well, Dennis, thank you so much for the call. Keep up the great work. Oh, thank you. And you too. You go ahead and scold those literars. That's right. They deserve it. In St. Louis, they carry guns.

Yeah, that's why I was actually just about to say that is a regional specific thing though, because depending on the gun laws is when you have to really think about your road raging sort of behavior. All right, thanks Dennis. Take care. All righty. 855-266-2604 is the number. We got a wild card.

Rich. This fucking thing's broken. Oh no, the wild card sound is broken. Ah, that's all right. I don't blame you. No, listen. Normally when we say it's a wild card call, which is off topic, whatever you want it to be,

it goes pew pew pew pew pew. So I'll just do that. Hey, we got a wild card. Pew pew pew pew pew. That sound worked seamlessly. Thank you Jake from Baltimore Jake's got an off topic Do you have it now? No, I was gonna say okay. Hey Jake. How are you?

Calling from a BMO. How are you guys today? Good good. Hey, thanks for coming. They tell us what you got Alright, so here's a wild card for you Tell us what you got. Great. All right. So here's a wild card for you. So a few years ago, I was doing an AmeriCorps program in Western Maryland. Shout out Maryland Conservation Corps. Woo!

One of my favorite conservation corps. Oh, one of the best. Oh, yes. Stemmed from the original CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps. We know. But I was living pretty close to where the office was where we met daily. And my little bungalow that I was living in flooded because I had to go home to my parents' house and take care of some stuff. And I come back to a big mess.

So just east of there about 45 minutes I was staying with my close buddy in his frat house at Fallsburg State University and I was commuting from there to Deep Creek Lake which is about as Western Maryland as you can get. Somewhat mountainous as well. Beautiful part of Maryland. And so one morning, um, as I was, um, on my way to work and I was leaving pretty early cause we started at seven in the morning and it was, uh, easily an hour, sometimes more, but, um, and I'm driving, I just got a fresh cup of coffee and I'm leaving the campus

and kind of climbing up the mountain to get onto the interstate. And a guy, massive guy, the sun is still dark out, jumps in front of my car and I hit him. And to put in to visualize, you know, like an old action movie where like the cop like runs the like scoots his butt across the hood of a car. Yeah, it was kind of like that. And so his ass hit my radiator and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I just hit somebody. I got to go help

them. And then I started replaying in my head. I said, wait, wait a minute, this, this guy did this on purpose. So I'm not going to get out of this. Wait, did he go up over the car or was he deflected off like, you know, like, you know, like on a, from a snow plow, like to the side? It was more, it was like bounced off. Like he was a massive dude. And he went, led with his ass into the hood of my car. It almost looked-

Not the standard street crossing protocol is ass first. But if you've got cat-like reflexes, it is not a bad choice. That's right. When the car's going to hit you, let it hit the ass. Yep. Yeah. And this is not a crossing area.

This is like an off-ramp to get onto an interstate, a pretty lengthy one that's like climbing up pretty steep grade. Yeah. And so I just, you know, holy crap, this guy did this on purpose. So let me go back to, and I had my cell phone at the time. This was like, I don't know, right after flip phones, it was barely a smartphone, but it was not working. So I couldn't use my phone that I had,

because it wasn't charged. So there was a hotel, like a little holiday inn, and my radiator is like smoking and stuff like that. And I get to the, run into the lobby and I said, somebody just threw themselves in front of my car. Please call the police. I have them come quickly because I don't know if this guy is alive, dead or whatever his status. And so I'm hanging out at the, in the lobby and police are dispatched.

Some come to me, some go to like where the scene was. And I'm giving an account of what happened. And then this other officer comes, interrupts our conversation and pulls the officer aside. And then they both come to me and say, son, you didn't hit anybody. Are you on drugs? Maybe you hit a black bear because, you know, it's a pretty, you know, black bears in this sort of a mayorhood. And I said, no, I'm telling you, it was a pretty, you know, black bears in the Maryland. And I said, no, I'm telling you, it was a big black man. And there's a college nearby. And so they're where you're

partying late last night. Did you take any drugs? What's going on? I said, no, I swear that it was a person. Sure enough, somebody who's still up at the scene says there's a baseball cap in the middle of the road. I think he's, you know, telling the truth. Which bears famously, they're more of a football loving. Right, right. Like if it had been like a ranger's hat. That's right. And a picnic basket.

Right, yeah. You know, that might've been a bear. Sure. Exactly. And so I said, I told you so and whatnot. And so then the guys know where to be found. And then some time passes, then a helicopter comes out. I'm like, oh, gosh, this guy is dead. They're like, in a helicopter and shock trauma. Like I just killed somebody. I can't believe this. I'm like beside myself. This, that and the other. And what he had done was he had gathered himself and

threw himself off the, um, side of the road, which was a massive steep downhill and tumbled like down into pretty much like, uh, uh, onto a golf course. Um, and I mean, it was, and it was, it was a crazy situation. I could not believe that this had happened. And then in all of it with the coffee, I had just been slugging down and everything.

I had to like, can you guys just give me a sec? And I had to like literally crap my brains out. And they're like, yes, go ahead, take your time and everything and- Don't gloss over this part. I thought he, and you know, I didn't have much information. I did follow up a couple of days later.

And this guy was, you know, mentally unstable. This wasn't the first time he had done this. And so he's like a habitual like. I don't know. I think he maybe has perfected his craft into jumping in front of cars and not getting hurt and. Wow. And that's my wild card for you. I will say it was wild.

Three months to get my. I took like three months to get my Jeep back. Yeah, because the stupid auto place that the insurance where they're like recommended this place that literally bellied out, closed the door, file for bankruptcy. I could see my car in like a lot for like three months. I've got this like little rental car and you know, that was a great Jeep by the way. I did it and I think it shifted to some other place. So yeah, that's what I got

and I was trying to stay on your theme, but I didn't have anything as good as that. That's all right. That's all right. That's all right. This is a good one. Yeah. I mean, you know, when you, when you hit someone with your car, that's, you know, that's always a good tale to tell. That's the story.

Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you, Jake. And, and yeah, absolutely. And you know, no matter the time of day, it could be a black bear, it could be somebody. Just keep your, keep focused. Yeah, yeah absolutely there's a moral to everybody out there

don't hit living things yeah yeah even if you really want yeah right even if you really want to or you got great stuff on your phone keep your eyes on that's right all right thank you right. Thank you, Tori. I once, just in my neighborhood, I was going, this is years ago, I was turning right onto a busy street that had a hedge wall right next to it, going to pick up dinner. And as I turned the corner, two people on bikes just showed up like right, like coming at me on the corner. And one of them was like a young dude on like a, you know, like way too old to be riding a BMX bike. And I heard, and I, something slam into like the back door. And I thought he like, it, what it seemed like

is he rode up and like was mad that I had pulled in front of him and kicked the back of my car. So I drove a few blocks and then somebody pulled up and said, hey, you know, you hit that girl. And I was like, what? So I turned around and came back and they were, they were still there.

And, you know, and I was like, hey, I'm sorry. I didn't, and I didn't hit her. She hit me. She drove, she drove her like literally 50 year old bike with no brakes into the side of my car. And the boyfriend was like super hot and like and I had to say, hey look I'm here, I'm taking care of it. They called the police and then and then her wrist was injured. She said her wrist hurt. So I put their bikes in the back of my car, called my ex wife and said, Hey, you're gonna have to go pick up dinner. I get it. I took them to the hospital. I sat with them for

four or five hours, then drove them to file a police report at the police station and then drove them home to their apartment. I spent like, almost six hours with them. And when I dropped them off, the boyfriend who had like I said, had wanted to fight me was like, well, I gotta say, you were like really nice about this. And I was like, well, you know, I'm sorry that it happened. I said, and at the time too, I didn't even think about it, but like it wasn't even, they were going the wrong way. They were going against traffic on the sidewalk and like, you know, and like I said, I saw

the bike. Yeah. It was like, it was like a 50 year old Schwinn collegiate. And I, but then I thought like, okay, no big deal. And then I found out later that they had sued me, but they, you know, they ended up suing the insurance company and she ended up getting some sort of back surgery. Oh my gosh. Like the out of it, that I found out from the person

at the insurance plate, at State Farm at the time, who said like, yeah, this is not, he's like, this isn't an injury from a car. She had a pre-existing. Yeah, she had a pre-existing thing, it's like, oh, here's a good chance to sort of... That is kind of what we have for healthcare. Yeah, it is.

Is that you have to hope you get into a tangential accident. It is. And I mean, it was nothing, you know, I mean, the insurance company was handling it all, but it still was just like really disappointing. What a wild situation. You know? Yeah, yeah. And she did, she worked at a juice company, and I have always had a bias against that juice company

No, I feel like they hired dishonest people scammers Anyhow, we got we got another call. It's probably our last one here. We got Mike Mike's calling in from New York half moon, New York. Is that upstate Mike? Yeah, not full moon, half moon, but I feel like sometimes you wanna see the full moon. Did I say full moon? I said half moon. I think I said half moon.

No, no, no, you didn't, but I was just thinking that way. All right. After all these crazy stories. Yeah, yes. But yeah, it's upstate New York. We're right by Saratoga, the race course. Oh, sure. It's a cool place to ever get out here.

Pretty. But before I get to my story, got to say I think you're my Retirement plan after hearing that I got a fine where you're driving Yeah, maybe you'll take me to dinner. How good know it's just bike Yeah, no, it's just you gotta you gotta have a pre-existing condition. That's and then seek me out. That's right. Yeah Or wanting to retire early. Yeah like Something like that, like an office space. Yeah. But I gotta say this.

I, if you, have you guys, first, I love the show. Thanks for all the laughs. Oh, thank you. Thanks for listening. But, but no, no, thank you for everything. Have you guys seen the movie, The Accountant or Accountant 2? I have not. With Ben Affleck.

Yes. I've not seen it. Yeah, Ben Affleck. Awesome movie, but I think I would be the lame version Affleck. Yes. I've not seen it. Yeah, Ben Affleck, the awesome movie, but I think I would be the lame version of that in real life. You know, and where I'm calling from is, so I do my own taxes, I do my kids' taxes. I got one that's in college,

one that's about to go to school, so I have to do the FAFSA, and those goddamn forms, you got almost like, you know, claim, you know, blood type of your third child, and this and that and i'm overly honest you know my taxes to the point my wife doesn't want me to do my own taxes because she feels like you know we might find someone that could do them for us they could like hide a few things but yeah it's one of those things i'm always worried that i'm gonna knock on the door at three in the afternoon at my job and get taken

away by the irs so i'm like whatever it says i, I'm going to do. Uh, so any week, my son gets an email from his college saying, you know, Hey, we need some extra information after reviewing your taxes for your financial aid. There's a few things we have to ask you about. So they wanted W like W two from two years ago is, is, uh, yeah, is 10 40 from two years ago. And then they're like looking for a schedule C. I don't even know what the freak that is. So I had to look that up.

And you know, thinking that he's like a sole proprietor of something, he has his own business, which he doesn't. He's just a lifeguard and a student. And yeah, my wife and I, you know, we have to turn in our taxes and our information too for him. And you know, we both work, you know, for different levels of the government.

And anyway, we send in the stuff that they're asking for. And then he gets another email, it was just like hours ago. And I was dropping off my daughter at work, they work at the same town pool. And he goes, you know, they're looking for more information, dad, I don't know what's going on. Let's get them on the phone. So we call up his financial aid folks and they were asking like, oh, you know, we're asking about this $500 that he made in 2023. And I'm like, well,

that was a scholarship that was given to him by like the school administrators association for our state. And I said, you know, in looking at tax law, you have to claim any scholarships that are given directly to you and not to school because you can use that as other types of income. And you're like, oh, we thought he had his own business. And it's basically me putting every little thing in. I would be like one of those guys, I can never be a waiter

because I actually claim all the tax tips and all that stupid stuff. Because I'm a freaking idiot being too honest about that stuff. But it all came down to, we've had issues with the financially people. I'm a freaking idiot being too honest about that stuff. But it all came down to like, we've had issues with the financially people, cause I'm like overly honest and apparently no one else is. Like, you know, you're, you're saying you have all this money.

What are you a millionaire? And we're far from it working for the government. But my wife is, you know, she can tell you stories galore, but I probably overpaid taxes for years. But it's like, you know, you never get anything like, you know, a thank you or money back to the government. No, it's, you know you never get anything like you know a thank you or money back no course no it's and you get yeah and you know so I think I just gotta hire someone to cheat on the taxes for me and financial aid

from now on like everyone else all right Michael thanks for calling being a good guy doesn't pay off it sure doesn't maybe I'll take the you know just like you did Andy the people that you hit and they cause back surgery. Yeah. I could take out the financial aid people for like dinner and drink. That's right. Yeah, yeah. Butter them up. All right. Thanks, Mike. All right. Thank you for your time.

All righty. Bye bye. Yeah. Every time I have, and I've, on a few times, I, in show business terms. Yeah. In show business terms, I have heard, you know, I'll remember this, and you know, and I owe you one, and never. The one, I did a movie called My Boss's Daughter with Ashton Kutcher and Tara Reid in Canada, not good. Um.

That's a review of Canada. Yeah, yeah. But in between making it, Ashton Kutcher had a hit movie, like, sort of a romantic comedy. Yeah. And they went back to recut it, because it was kind of a madcap adventure,

and then they recut it to be, like, a romance between him and Tara Reade. And Ashton Kutcher had decided he was not going to promote the film. And so they got me on the phone with Bob Weinstein, Harvey's brother, because it was for New Line or whatever. And he said, I need you to be the, you know, like, to go and promote this thing

and be the front man for this, because Ashton's not going to do anything. And I was like, all right, yeah, sure, OK. I mean, I'll talk about this movie that I'm in for 10 minutes. And he's like, OK, because he goes, believe me, I'm going to make it up to you. I'll make it up to you.

Never made it up to me. Never? Never made it up to me. Those Weinsteins seemed above board. Yeah, yeah, they do. It's surprising to me. Classic. I mean, it is surprising that a Weinstein would be shady.

Um... Um, well, uh, Josh, thank you so much for coming. We pick a favorite caller. Um... Oh, gosh. Gosh, I don't know. That dating story was so many twists and turns. Yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah.

Um, I just... I was kind of hoping that, uh, she got sprayed by a skunk. I know. That would have been good if she'd been sprayed by a skunk. The skunk was really a twist, too. Skunk had been in there doing cocaine with the guys, and when she walked in... You're like, that's what the white stripe down the back is?

I'm forever in my mind those things are gonna be combined. and when she walked in. You're like, that's what the white stripe down the back is. Yeah. I'm forever in my mind those things are gonna be combined. So anyway, yeah, let's say Holly. Thank you, Holly. Thank you, Holly. From Truckee. And thank you, Josh, for coming in. Andy, thank you so much for having me.

This is such a treat. Where, plug your special again. Stand Up Special, Positive Reinforcement. It's on Blonde Medicine's YouTube page. You go on YouTube, you search Josh Gondelman, Positive Reinforcement will pop up. It's a fun hour comedy. You can watch it with your parents. If you have cool parents, watch it with your kids,

if you have cool kids. My kids are not cool. Uh, and any dates? Uh, dates, I'm gonna be in Canada. I'm gonna be in Toronto on, uh, August 1st and 2nd. Uh, I'm gonna be in Ellenville, New York at the Borsch Belt Comedy Festival, July 24th. And then I co-host a show in Brooklyn every first and third Monday of the month at Union Hall.

Excellent. All right, well, thank you, Josh. Thank you, Andy. And thank all of you out there for listening. Stick around. Laurie Kilmartin has got her show week I love you all Conan O'Brien Radio Conan O'Brien Radio