IDS #270 - Meet Georgia Warder - Comedian, Dog Walker, and Tuba Player

Mike and Darin had the pleasure of chatting with up and coming comedian Georgia Warder. She's awesome! You're going to love this episode!

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Irritable dad Syndrome was videotaped before a live studio audience

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome was videotaped before a live studio audience.

>> Mike: All right, so, we're actually good. We have video, we have audio.

>> Darin: Yay.

>> Mike: We're connected. Okay, let's go before this thing blows up.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: No matter what happens up here, I want you all to know I can't possibly disappoint you any more than I already have my family.


Irritable Dad Syndrome features comedian Georgia Warder from Pittsburgh

>> Dave: It's time for Irritable dad syndrome, or open 24 hours for your convenience. Give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 270.

>> Mike: We are excited because we have a special guest on. We have Georgia Warder, who is a comedian from Pittsburgh.

>> Darin: A standup comedian.

>> Mike: Well, she lives in Pittsburgh now. She's originally from West Virginia. So close up. Best. And I saw her when she was opening for Steve Hofstadter. M. at the Funny Bone.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Liberty Center. Fun fact, Bess does not like to be near the stage. I like to be near the stage.

>> Darin: Oh, that's where. That's when we were buying. The bank for your buck is up close.

>> Mike: If we were buying the tickets, it's like, five bucks. You can be close to the stage. So, of course I did that. Let her know. She's like, oh, my God, we're going to be right there. He's going to yell at me. He's going to whatever when we're there. And then Georgia comes out. And I think I forget at what point you said you were from West Virginia. All of a sudden.

>> Georgia: Bess was, like, pretty early in the set.

>> Mike: Oh, my gosh, she's from West Virginia. And then she was all in. We were all in. we're listening to all the stories. you're naming off things like Weston and Morgantown. We were super excited. And then I was like, you know what? I'll message her, see if she wants to be on the podcast. And she has so little to do.

>> Darin: She's so down to earth that she hasn't reached that level of fame where she won't speak with the commoners.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: With the. Yeah. The circus freaks like us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So that's pretty cool.

>> Mike: Yeah. So how are you doing?

>> Georgia: Doing all right. You know, I think you overestimate my comedy career. no, it's so nice to be on. And it's always fun to see, like, a person that's from West Virginia in the show, because I make jokes about that. They don't like that. Portion of the set where I'm kind of poking fun at my hometown. But people always love it. Like, they immediately get it.

>> Mike: Nobody, digs into West Virginia more than people from West Virginia. I. Whenever I meet someone from West Virginia, I'm immediately judgmental.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: I'm like, you're from either. Whoever it is, you're from Charleston. Huntington.

>> Darin: Dear God, please say you're not from Beckley. Or.

>> Mike: Yeah, you're in, well, what we call the demilitarized zone down there.

>> Darin: Rundy. God. Have you ever been to Grundy? Grundy is, like, the nastiest part of the United States of America. It looks exactly like it sounds. Grundy.

>> Mike: Yeah. So my family.

>> Darin: No offense to anybody who lives in Grundy. Welcome to the show. Hi.

>> Mike: My family came from, like, Beckley, Welch, Colwood, that area, and then found their way to Proctorville, which is actually in Ohio. I claim West Virginia because no one's ever heard of Proctorville. And when we're talking, being a hillbilly, being redneck as you can be, there's no one in West Virginia more hillbilly and redneck than the people in Proctorville. So we're like a suburb of Huntington. And, I mean, it's bad. We've got our own Tudors over there. I know Tudors is all throughout West Virginia.

>> Darin: Tudors, Biscuit world.


So my first question is what's your favorite West Virginia breakfast food

>> Mike: So my first question. What's your Tudor's order?

>> Georgia: Oh, I get the, What is it? There's a BLT one, but in college, it used to be the minor, and I can't remember which one that had. But this is West Virginia, so it meant, like, mining, not young.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So when you said, I'm gonna go get a minor, it's, like, completely with.

>> Darin: An E, not an O. I've only been to Tudors one time, and my wife and kids, we all got, like, the biggest breakfast you could get. And I had biscuits with country ham, and I had the, the fried potatoes and the fried eggs. And then you'd sop your country, ham. Do you sop stuff in West Virginia? Georgia. Georgia. Georgia.

>> Georgia: I think so. I think. I think. I think we pretty much eat it all.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: My hometown's very big on, hot dogs.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: Because we were the starting place for t. l. Hot dogs that kind of blew up there for a while. They had it all through North Central. They had the best biscuits and gravy, though. So I kind of missed it when I was, like, going to Tudors, because that's what they had in Morgantown Was.


You've said trauma is the best way to build a comedian

>> Darin: It last year, Mike, or was it two years ago where I was bitching about driving through West Virginia and I had to, the way we went down was different than the way we went back up. And I had to stop at all the toll roads. And I think it was a $75 a. A stop. And I said that it, like the three stops, it cost me 20 bucks. Right. Because that's the joke. Bad math is the joke. And then I got, you're a grumpy old bastard. And then someone's like, learn how to do math. And then someone else was complaining about. Oh, someone took offense that I was talking bad about West Virginia. But that was fun. But no, I was raised in a little town in Virginia called Belfast, Virginia, which is extremely small. I mean, you have to drive 15 miles either direction to get to a grocery store. So, yeah, Mike and I both have our hillbilly back road roots.

>> Mike: So you've described your act as gay for straight people.

>> Darin: Nice. That goes well on a bumper, which I love.

>> Mike: So. And. And then you also said that trauma is the best, way to build a comedian. The more trauma you have, the funnier you're going to be. I'm thinking about that. I'm thinking of all the funny people. I know. This dude's pretty funny.

>> Darin: I agree with you.

>> Mike: He's been through some trauma.

>> Darin: I have.

>> Mike: I could tell some stories.

>> Darin: I mean, we.

>> Mike: This is our Clean Funny podcast. We've talked about what we're going to do eventually. The other podcast where we just tear into it.


You went from Weston to Denver and started comedy there

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: So you were in Weston and then you went to Denver and you started comedy there, correct?

>> Georgia: Yeah. So I went from Weston, did, school at wvu, and then from there I moved to Denver. It was like two weeks before I moved that I figured out I was moving across the country kind of on a whim because I was a little impulsive then. And then I started doing some open mics out there. I got a corporate job. And then as the mics were ramping up for me, the pandemic hit. So, like, the first, I'd say, like, semi successful open mic set I had was the Wednesday before the Friday when everything shut down in March of 2020.

>> Mike: Do you think your act caused the pandemic? Do you think that was part of it?

>> Georgia: You know, I, Could have been. Could have been.

>> Darin: Way to go. Way to go.

>> Georgia: I shouldn't have done that open mic and wuhan, you know.

>> Mike: But so had you, had you been wanting to do that before or were you just. Were you bored? You decided to do it or what happened?

>> Georgia: I always kind of knew that I wanted to get into comedy. Like I always tell the story my. When I was a kid, my parents loved stand up and funny movies, all that kind of thing. Like I grew up with like Caddyshack and Fast Times at Ridgemont High and all of those movies. Cause my dad loved them. And they also loved snl. The guy was obsessed with SNL as a kid. And I told my mom that I wanted to do comedy and she told me that one of my parents had to die first. Cause I just had to have some kind of real trauma. So that came from her. And then when I was 19, she disowned me for a year like a good mom. So, you know, just for a year helped the.

>> Mike: She just kind of put you on layaway for a bit and then came back.

>> Georgia: I will say this for her though, she, she had a rough year after I came out. But she's, she's like full gay pride mama bear now. It's very funny. I think she owns more rainbow things than I do. And I keep telling her, like, it's okay.


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Mike Myers says he dabbles in stand up comedy

>> Darin: I don't know if Mike told you, but I've dabbled in stand up comedy myself. I've been paid to do it before so I can call myself a professional. you get paid one time, you're a professional comedian. But, I was going to ask, was there a specific comedian that made you or was there someone specific on Saturday Night Live? Because for me, I remember as a kid I was watching the Muppet show and Steve Martin was on there. Had the banjo, had the arrow through his head, he was juggling. And I'm like, I want to be Steve Martin. I didn't want to be a comedian like Steve Martin. I wanted to be Steve Martin. I can't do that. But you know, I did learn to juggle. I own a banjo and I Can't play it, but I do dabble in stand up comedy. And, But was there someone specific that led you on this path?

>> Georgia: So as far as SNL goes, I had a best of DVD for Will Ferrell and Mike Myers, and I loved Mike Myers. Like, Will Ferrell's, of course, hilarious. But Mike Myers was like, the one. When I was a kid, Austin Powers was, like, my favorite movie. And my parents had to, like, tell me not to quote it at school. And so. And I didn't even get half of the jokes until later. Like, I remember rewatching it as an adult and being like, I can't believe you let me watch this. That's so funny for you guys.

>> Darin: George is at the cafeteria. Hey, who wants to shag after? I know pe.

>> Georgia: I wasn't allowed to watch Harry Potter, because it had witchcraft, but Austin Powers I could watch.

>> Mike: Oh, so we're older. I was. I grew up in the 80s in the satanic panic. And also Dungeons and Dragons came out at the same time. So I'm a kid, and I don't know how many times I bought Dungeons and Dragons stuff. And then it gets thrown away or burned because everyone burned stuff in the backyards where I was.

>> Darin: Yeah, they were.

>> Mike: And these were expensive, but these were like 20, 25 books in the 80s.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, you know, of course they have a dragon and everything's evil. It's got a sword, so they have to throw it away. so it kept getting thrown away until finally they put Dungeons and Dragons on computer. So their computer game, literally the same dragon, the same dude holding the sword, hitting the dragon. But it's a computer game now, so it's fine.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: That's. That must be educational. It's okay. So I had the Dungeons and Dragons games, and I tried to explain to my family later, I was like, look, you realize that as a dorky little nerd kid with, few friends and nothing to do, you basically took the one game that makes you, like, talk to people.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Said, no.

>> Darin: Somewhat popular like that.

>> Mike: You have to worship the devil at the computer, not with other friends, sitting around the tables.

>> Darin: I remember when the Harry Potter stink was going on.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, oh, God, here we go. Dungeons and Dragons again. And, you know, Harry Potter amazed at the millions and millions of children who started reading books. I'm like, you guys need to let this go, okay? Harry Potter is all these kids with their phases in books. And it couldn't have been more, great, in my opinion. Even Stephen King reached Out to Rowling, congratulating her on her success and everything that, has happened because of that. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And then she went nuts.

>> Darin: Yes, she did.

>> Mike: Lost her mind.

>> Darin: Thanks.

>> Georgia: A lot of money will do that.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Georgia: I did a gig one time and it was at a pool

Now, Georgia, I was watching some of your videos on YouTube and you and I have something in common. It was, a. You were performing at a distillery or something, and they had you camped right in front of the bathroom. And you're telling your jokes and then you see some woman coming out, you know, drying off her hands. And it's like if you lean close enough, you can almost hear the flushing. And I did a gig one time and it was at a pool. Not a, not a pool house, not like a country club that had a pool. It was at a pool. And they parked us right in front of the bathrooms. The men's on the left and the women's on the right. And you would hear the flushing. And the guy who I opened up for at one point leaned back, he's like, is everything okay in there? Nothing awkward about that.


What other awkward situations have you been in when you, uh, performed

What other awkward situations have you been in when you, performed? Like, what's the worst place where you've performed?

>> Georgia: I always think of my first time getting paid to do comedy. I was so excited for it. And I was outdoors at a family friendly festival and they did not tell us that. And I thought this was about. This would have been, I think, six months into comedy. So really the jokes that I had were what I had at that point. You know, you're just figuring it out, right? And these poor families. I was told it was inside of a smoke shop, like where, you know, you buy all of that stuff. It was outside of that, talking to people, pushing strollers. And my jokes aren't exactly clean, so I was trying to like, I'm always very careful when there's kids around because I don't know, maybe it's because I was pretty sheltered as a kid, but I'm like, I don't know, I don't want to say anything crazy that sparks a conversation. And this one lady just came over and she covered her kids ears, but still stood there and watched my set. And that was when I was like, maybe there is something to this. You know, I made like $10 today and this lady covered these ears and we're really, we're out here crushing it, you know.

>> Darin: $10, good gig.

>> Georgia: Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, no, that's that open mic set in Denver before the pandemic happened. a lady bought me a beer. This was back when I Was drinking, but she bought me a beer. And I was like, I made it. Like, I have. This is everything.

>> Darin: I remember I did a show. this friend of mine, he got like 8 of his comedian friends to do this gig. And I think you got paid 10 bucks, but then you also got a $10 food voucher. So basically you get a burger and a beer or whatever. So I had. I did my set, did pretty well. The guy who went on before me, got no laughs at all. And before he walked off the stage, he spit marbles out of his mouth. Apparently, the joke was he had marbles in his mouth the whole time. So when I got up there, said, if you're walking, be careful. There's marbles on the floor and they're wet. Anyway, so I. I did my bit, and then I'm done. And I went to the back of the place because I'm, you know, trying to eat and not have everybody watching me. And this guy comes up, he goes, man, I had a mouthful of food. He says, I don't want to bother you, but you were really funny. And I wanted so bad to go, hey, I'm eating here. Do you mind? But that moment when the guy. When I had someone come and interrupt my meal, I'm like, I've made it. That's was the big one of the biggest nights in comedy for me. Somebody interrupted my meal to tell me they enjoyed my set.

>> Georgia: Oh, it's so very real. even in that. So the week that I had that outdoor show, I had yet another outdoor show at a festival where they did not turn the lights on. And this was. They had one green light shining on us. I was later in the show, so it started to get dark outside. And as I was, like, going through my jokes at that point, I needed notes, and I couldn't see the notes, so I just started riffing and trying to make jokes about how I looked like alphaba. And Wicked was not a popular thing at that time. So it was like one of the worst bombs of that week. And then the show I had the next day was inside and well produced. And I was like, well, I'm back to making it. So this is just a roller coaster the whole time. And I still feel like that.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Have you had a bit that kills one place and does great elsewhere

Have you had a bit that kills, one place and does great somewhere else? I mean, we're not talking, you know, it's a different audience, or this was indoors and this was outdoors. We're talking, like, same circumstance. Because that's something that bugged me was like, you know, this material works. I'm. I can't lose. Oh yeah, I can totally lose this material. I've learned. Yeah, I learned that the hard way.

>> Georgia: Yeah, it was, it was interesting when I was figuring out what was even funny because I would want to burn a joke anytime it didn't work, but then I'd do it enough times that it would start to work and I was like, well, what did I do differently? And sometimes the answer was nothing. I didn't do a thing differently. It was just, just a different room. I find that when I do rural rooms in areas that tend to be more conservative, I can do my jokes about like gay books and like myself and covering those kind of topics. As long as I say that I was raised straight.

>> Georgia: And then everybody's on board. It's the, it's the wildest thing because I'll explain.

>> Mike: Like raised straight but just dog legged over this way all of a sudden.

>> Georgia: Yeah, right. It's like, it's like I really am. I'm more like you guys than, you know, like I was born in this kind of a town. I, I've used a gun. I used to own a gun. It was purple because that's what happens when you buy a gun when you're 15. Like that is.

>> Darin: Wait, who's selling purple guns?

>> Georgia: Right? No, I think they, my, my dad was friends with a guy who owned a gun shop and I think he convinced me to make it purple so my dad wouldn't shoot it. It was pretty funny, but nice. You know, I think, but it's always, it's very fun to. It's gotten to the point where I know if a joke is funny. So then if a crowd doesn't like it, it's always just interesting to see which jokes they'll buy into and which they won't. And like, maybe there's a way to tweak it, but I don't know. It's just fun at this point. It's like a survey.


So one of our favorite comedians is Norm MacDonald. It's just, it's his delivery

>> Mike: So one of our favorite comedians is Norm MacDonald. and I remember, I remember watching him on what was. It was one night stand.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like when he started out, like when he was in his 20s or something?

>> Darin: I think so. Yeah.

>> Mike: Young. Young.

>> Darin: Oh, he was like, he looked like he was nine.

>> Mike: And the first few times that I saw him I was just like, he's not really that funny, but there's something about him that's just, it's. You just want to keep watching him. And then as he, you know, kept going and going and Going. I mean, some of his, his stuff in his later years is. I mean, I would stop breathing, I'm laughing so hard. But you really. I mean, if you look at a transcript of it on its face, it's. I know. It's just, it's his delivery.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. On paper, it's not funny at all.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I think with Norm, the fact that he, he believed in it and a lot of Norm's stuff. He even said that he liked the joke.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So even though it wasn't funny, he liked it and he wanted to tell it, so he told it. And I've seen a few comics who will. It's like, yeah, I know this joke bombs every time, but I like it and I'm going to keep telling it. So I'm like, okay. And you know the. I always call it the Johnny Carson. Do you remember Johnny Carson, Georgia?

>> Georgia: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay.

>> Mike: Way back when dinosaurs roam the earth, we watched Johnny.

>> Georgia: I've seen the, the footage.

>> Darin: Johnny bombed almost every night doing the monologue. And he could pull it off, the reaction and look and, and sometimes he would tap the mic and, you know, but he would get away with it. He could bomb better than anybody. And he was still hilarious.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I remember, George Garland was big on the rhythm of language.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And getting that right. And when you were mentioning there's some. Sometimes a joke works and sometimes it doesn't. You keep working on it, keep going. Is some of that just getting the rhythm down and the timing or 100%.

>> Georgia: That was the biggest growth I saw from that. So you saw me. I think towards the end, it would have been the second tour I did with Steve, but I had just gotten off of a two month solid tour of getting to perform every night in a new place. it was like constantly running this set. And it's funny how, like, I can watch the footage now from the beginning to the end. And the improvement was that I actually ended up cutting out a joke most nights by the end because the timing of it is what fixed some of those jokes and got the laughs where I, like, I knew it was funny, but I didn't know why they weren't laughing. And so I got to, like, figure that out on the road and like, suss that out to where they became more consistent. Just on delivery alone.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm jealous. I have,

>> Mike: I haven't even gotten on stage yet.

>> Darin: I haven't performed enough in a row to work out a routine. I did a gig. How long? Three months ago.

>> Mike: I got to tell You.

>> Darin: I've got one coming up at the end of September. Oh yeah, two a year. That's enough to keep the chops in.

>> Mike: So we go to see my wife and I get. Or no, I went, it was me by myself I think went to go see you at the funny phone at the, the mic.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Basically the same place you were right upstairs. Yes, in the bar. And I remember Darren leading up to it, he was telling me they were, they had all these rules about, you know, keep it clean.

>> Darin: Yeah, keep it clean. No F bomb, nothing like that. Yeah.

>> Mike: And Darren has a very clean act. Darren's got like a, it's like family stuff and. But you, you do a little bit of crowd work, but it's a clean act, but it's funny.

>> Darin: Well, thank you. Well, it wasn't that night.

>> Mike: So the dude right before him just gets up and he just stands there for a second. He's like, ah, it was his act to just keep saying as many times as different ways as he could. And people, I mean everyone's in a bar, it's an open mic. Most of them are hammered already and they're laughing themselves silly. And then Darren comes up.

>> Darin: Yeah, I bought my wife a vacuum cleaner.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was just dying. Georgia. It had been years since I had done stand up. I used to go to this comedy club in Dayton all the time when I worked up there at Joker's Comedy Club. It's no longer there, but I would do open mic once a month at Jokers.


I stopped inviting people to my open mics because nobody saw me

They wouldn't, they didn't want people doing it every week. They. So I would do it like once a month. And got pretty good. And the best night that I ever had it was the place was, had to have been sold out as me and one other guy. It was a competition. He killed, I killed. And nobody I knew was there to see it because I stopped inviting people to my show because usually you got to pay the five bucks to get in. There's a two drink minimum and then they gotta watch all the people up there. Just I, I bought a Honda, you know, it's like, okay, whatever. And I just felt horrible. So I stopped inviting people anyway. Nobody saw me when I was at my absolute best that night. So I said, I'm going to do this again. And I dug deep and I found all this material that had worked previously. This killed before. This killed before. This killed before. None of it worked that night. None of it. And since I hadn't been on stage in forever, like you, like you had Done. You just started riffing. I don't know how to riff at this time. I didn't know what to do. And so I just burned through my material. My five minute set. I think I did three and a half minutes.

>> Georgia: We've all been there.

>> Darin: And afterwards, my buddy Arnold, he's like, yeah, you were going way too fast. I'm like, thank you. Thank you for letting me know that Arnold. Also thank you for laughing. He. And it's like the friends that I invited just stared at me. M like, guys, you're supposed to laugh. Anyway, that's why I invited you. It was traumatic. Why I did it again, I don't know.

>> Georgia: I totally understand that because I used to, my friends were kind of spread out, so I would send them video of me doing awful open mics thinking that I had really done something. And it's so funny now because I will tell them, like, oh, I get to do this really great show. It's in your area. It's at a comedy club or a theater, and this is the time to go see me. And like, half of them are like, I'm good. And I'm like, that's so fair. That is so fair. I think so many people burn out their friends and family on it early on. but even like at open mics, like what you said about, you know, the guy just like cussing his way through it and everything. Sometimes, like, I have jokes that won't work at open mics. So at that point I usually adjust and as I've got better, gotten better at riffing, I will just start riffing on the darkest thing available. And typically, if it's a room full of mostly comics, they will start laughing even if it's a joke that I would never do in front of an audience of well adjusted people that come to a comedy club. But it's interesting how open mic culture, like, it's a good place to test out things, to try it. But if you're like the demographic that you're used to speaking to isn't there, you can feel like, like your material has nothing, you know, I remember early on having to explain elements of gay culture to people who were just getting drunk at a bar, like they might not have met a gay person before. And I'm like making this deep cut thing. And I realized, like, by breaking those pieces down, it actually made the set funnier, like two other people. And I find a lot of the time there are gay comedians that only want to do gay bar open mics. But I think it's better to, like, figure out how to make your message to, like, straight people as well. Like, maybe I have a line in there that's for the gay people in the audience, but I don't know, it helps you, like, expand it a little bit.


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>> Darin: What did you do before you pursued stand up comedies? Did you have, a. You said you did corporate. You had a corporate job. What was your corporate job?

>> Mike: There's a whole lot of things in corporate.

>> Georgia: So I, I worked in marketing. That's what my degree's in. I actually originally was going to get a degree in music education because I'm from West Virginia and I was like, teaching's a solid job that you can have. And then I got through the hard parts of music school and realized I didn't want to work with kids. I sat there with like 15, 20 year olds and I could not get them to stop fiddling with their recorders. And I was like, this isn't going to work. This is just not for me. At that point, I knew I wanted to do standup. Like, that was going to be the goal. So. So I got a marketing degree and thought it would be useful. And then I worked in, let's see, I've worked in apartment management. I've worked in logistics. I've worked for ad agencies. I had a boss that I called and this was actually about a year, it would have been a little over a year ago. I was between jobs and I told her, like, hey, could I get a reference? Like, I did really well at the company and, and she flat out told me. She was like, I will give you the reference, but I don't think this is what you want to do. I don't think that you enjoy it. You're good at it, but you don't enjoy it. So why don't you try to lean into comedy for a while? And then this year she got to see me at a club in the town that she lives in. So that was really cool.

>> Darin: Oh, wow, that's nice. Honest, good advice.

>> Mike: So what you're doing now is just, you're just doing like the straight comedy and then like dog walking, like on the side.

>> Darin: Well, it's straight comedy for gay people. Straight comedy for gay people, Gay comedy for straight people.

>> Mike: But.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I guess, sure, you're detached from having to do like, you don't have to do the corporate thing.

>> Darin: You don't have one of them nine to fives.

>> Georgia: No, I, it's funny because I quit my day job way too early. Like I was, I spent a period of time where, I was. Dog walking does not pay a lot and I thought it would.

>> Darin: Yeah, depends on the number of dogs.

>> Mike: Do some dogs pay more than other dogs like you?

>> Darin: Charged by the hour, by the dog.

>> Georgia: It's a little of both, but it's still never enough. And so there was a time period where like, you know, I had a lot of roommates and I was like, I don't know that. That was when I ended up calling that boss because I was like, I don't know how to pay for everything. And she was like, I think you'll figure it out. Somehow we made it through that. I don't even know how that happened. But yeah, so now actually the majority of my money now comes from comedy, which is like a really cool flip to see this year. Last year was definitely the most money I've made with comedy, but I was still making more dog walking in the long run.

>> Georgia: But this year the majority of it comes from that. And I just like the dogs. And I won't exercise unless I'm being paid to exercise. So it's great for me.

>> Darin: That's awesome. Congratulations.

>> Mike: Have you thought about just getting a regular job and seeing how long you could last there? Just like telling as many jokes, messing around, making HR's life hell.

>> Georgia: I did that. That was my last corporate job I had. even that boss said, I don't know where your head's at, but it's not here. And we're not mad, we're just disappointed. And it was so fair at the time.

>> Darin: I don't know where your head's at.

>> Georgia: She was like, your head's not here. I'm glad other things are going well for you, but no, we need the Job done. So yeah, I tried it and actually I did really well in corporate world, when I couldn't do comedy. But the moment I started back at comedy, I really, I just couldn't care about anything else. And I was like, I can't do this forever. So I also hate mornings, which is why I walk the dogs, because that's the afternoon. so it's nice.


What did you do when you worked at the ad agency? So I had a couple different roles

>> Darin: What did you do when you worked at the ad agency?

>> Georgia: So I had a, ah, couple different roles. Like I went from doing just like social media to I had one job that I was like kind of the head of their advertising. so I was dealing with like big numbers, which was crazy that they ever let me do that. But I did like, marketing as far as like Facebook ads, Instagram ads, LinkedIn, all like social media, digital advertising, Google, all that stuff.

>> Darin: Okay. I asked because I'm fascinated. I used to do corporate. Well, I did corporate video production. I also used to do commercial video production at an NBC station here in Cincinnati for like 12 years. And I was always fascinated with the level or non level of professionalism that I got from certain ad agencies that I worked with. There was a time where I think I had 22 ongoing projects and they came to me and said, Darren, we need to do this Father's Day promo. Can you do it? I said, I can't. I said, I've got 20 some ongoing projects, I just can't. And they said, well, what if somebody provided all the material and wrote the script for you? And I'm like, okay. They bit my arm. And I said, okay. So I'm on the phone with this ad or I'm emailing back and forth this guy at an ad agency. And he said, I said, well, just send me the script. And he goes, okay. And he sends me the script. And I timed it out. It was 34 seconds long and it's a 15 second spot. And I reached out to him, I said, you script is too long. And he says, what do you mean? To which I wanted to say, what do you mean? What do I mean? It's too long. It needs to be under 15 and it's 34. So he says okay. So he cuts it down to 27. And I said, just get. I wrote a script that comes up with a 15 second spot, needs to be 12 or 13 seconds long. Okay. Because room to breathe at the top and the bottom said, will this script work? Yes. I said, okay, send me the, send me all the stuff that I need, the, the materials and he says, what materials are you talking about? I said, oh, dear God. I said, you're giving away tickets to a Reds game. Give me a Reds logo. You're giving away dry cleaning? I need the logo of the dry cleaner. You're giving away, suit. Give me the, the logo from the, My mind. I was like, you work in an ad agency?

>> Georgia: Yeah, that is. That reminds me.

>> Darin: It was all I could do to not just drive over there and just smack him.

>> Georgia: That's so real. The first job I worked at, so I was doing social media and some like, branding, advertising things for, it was like 30 different properties in the Denver area. And the idea was, was that I was supposed to be able to teach the property managers how to do some of it. Like, and I would do like the harder back end stuff for them. But half of my job was like, where is your logo? Like, you have to have a logo somewhere. Like, I can make all this stuff for you. But yeah, it's the craziest thing where people just think that marketing just like, appears.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Georgia: But.

>> Darin: And I asked this guy for a logo and he says, how do you need me to send it? I said, send it to me in a PNG file. He didn't know what a PNG file was. Oh, for the love of God. It has a key channel. You don't know what an alpha channel is? Oh, all I could do. But there's other ad agencies that are the bomb. They know exactly what they're doing.

>> Georgia: But, yeah, no, sometimes you do get the ones that they're just kind of, figuring it out.


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>> Mike: Do you still have family in Weston or Morgantown or that area?

>> Georgia: Yeah, so my family, my mom's side of the family is all in Weston.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Georgia: And then my dad lives over in Buchanan, so that's like not far from there. Yeah, but it's all that area.

>> Mike: But, yeah, you're in Pittsburgh, so you're, like, an hour and a half or so away from them, so you're far enough away to where you can just be not there.

>> Georgia: You figured out the map.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Georgia: Yep. Of where to go. But, yeah, I actually, I did the Asheville Comedy Festival last weekend. Okay. And my car battery died while I was at the festival, which was delightful. And I ended up. Yeah, it was a. It was a real. I said a lot of choice words. It was like I was at an open mic in my car. but it. It was not starting, and I called somebody to jump it because for some ungodly reason, my car's trunk will not open manually if the car battery dies. So I had a. Like, a battery jumper, but it was in the trunk.

>> Darin: I know what you're. And I was like, are you driving a Kia?

>> Georgia: It's a Volkswagen. That's what's crazy.

>> Darin: Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I interrupted. Go ahead.

>> Georgia: No, it's wild. I'm like, in 2014, it's a 2014 Volkswagen. I'm like, did we not need to get into our car? Like, what. What happened then? but in that, Like, me calling to get my car jumped, I was able to just drive back up to Weston and just crash at a friend's place. So it's always nice when I'm, like, performing relatively nearby because so many people there are still there. That's kind of how Weston works.

>> Mike: The only memory I have, I've only been there once. It was my. My wife's dad's 80th birthday. And there's some, like, fancy place. I don't even remember the name of it. I'm terrible with the names of places. We went to have his. His birthday party. But then I had, I got a nail or something in my tire. I had to drive into Weston and get it replaced. And I remember the. The place that I got it fixed. The only thing I remember about it was, I know around here. So we're in Cincinnati. If you're going to get something fixed, it's going to cost, like, hundreds of dollars. And, yeah, you need a new tire. You also need a new axle, and you could use a new engine. that may just be me with the Kia. But anyway, I just. They. They were. It was like. It was something ridiculous. It was like 3:45, and they close at 4. And I went in. I was like, any way that you guys could, like, do something with my tire? And the lady called me Honey. She m. Said, oh, honey, yes. And she said she was really nice. And then I noticed a dog coming out of the bathroom. I'd heard a sound of water. The dog was getting a drink, probably washing his hands.

>> Georgia: He was washing his hands?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And he started sniffing me. And she was really nice. She's like, yeah, we can get that taken care of you. And then just leaned back. Harold, get out here and change his tire. And the dog jumped. I mean, she's yelling at Harold. Harold. And he's like, we're about to close. And she's like, get in. Change this boy's tire. Boy. at the time, I was almost 50.


Harold was raised in a small town in Virginia. Belfast, Virginia

She called me a boy. I think I was older than her. But anyway. And then I just sat with the dog in the. In the waiting room. And he sniffed every part of my leg. And I tried. It was. His nose was wet. I was trying to tell myself, dog's noses are wet. This isn't because he just had his head in the toilet. It's just his natural dog wetness. And then they came out and had fixed my car, and they charged me. It was like 15. It wasn't even. It was nothing. And they apologized. She apologized for how she had to yell because Harold should just come in. She shouldn't have to yell at him. But you know how they raise kids these days. Oh, my God. And she started going on about that. I was like, yeah, Yeah, okay. Thank you. And I left. And for a moment there, it felt a little bit. Just a little bit like Proctorville, like home, like the Huntington area.

>> Darin: Well, no, you're right about the small town, because, like I said, Georgia, I was, raised in a very small town. Belfast, Virginia. And my dad passed away. And so I was down there in Belfast and cleaning out his house, and I'm driving his truck. Okay. And this part of town, you had to haul your garbage off yourself. So I've got dad's truck loaded up, and I'm hauling up garbage down to the dump. And the guy working the dump is giving me the skunk guy like you've never seen before, ever. He. I am sus. That's what the kids say. I'm sus. I'm very suspicious.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. And he is looking like he sees that I'm gonna bring him some trouble. And I thought, this guy's gonna probably gotta call the cops. He is not looking at me right. What are you boys doing today? What's going on? I said, well, it's not been a fun day. My father Passed away and I'm, got his truck here and I'm hauling off stuff from his house. And he goes, oh, are you Marvin's boy? I said, yes, I'm, I'm Marvin's boy. 48 years old.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yes, I'm Marvin's boy. That doesn't go away. They call you honey. You get sweet tea.

>> Georgia: Yeah. And everybody knows when I was coming up in school, people didn't just know me by my, like, aunt and my mom that were teachers. They knew me by my grandmother.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: Like, it's like full lineages of people. They were like, oh, you're Ms. Hi. Choose like grandchild. Like, oh, my goodness. You know, like, I mean, there's.

>> Darin: Something good about that. I don't know. I mean, the kind of. There's something to be said for that. But also the, everybody had their nose in everybody's business, which once I moved away from that small town living, I didn't miss that at all. Yeah, yeah.

>> Georgia: I always say my hometown was Facebook before Facebook existed. Like, everyone knows everyone's thing, and all you have to do is call one person. You can get the whole lineage of how these people are related or if they've ever dated anybody. And even my friends from high school, they were always great at that. So if, like, somebody, you know, has a mug shot come out or something, I'm like, do I know this person? Because I vaguely recognize their face. And they'll be like, yeah, that's so and so's kid and all. Like, you know, that's. And I'd love to say that there's more positive news coming out, but there's not.

>> Darin: There's not.

>> Mike: No.


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Georgia, when you were in band, you played the clarinet

>> Darin: So, Georgia, I have a gift. Okay. And I'm going to try it, tonight with you. I heard that you were in marching band. My gift is 9 out of 10 times. I can tell you what Musical instrument. You played in marching band. And I'm not going to go into trance, but I'm going to say that when you were in band, you played the clarinet.

>> Georgia: Nope.

>> Darin: Oh, trumpet. Hm.

>> Georgia: Trombone.

>> Darin: Flute. Tuba.

>> Mike: I actually know that. I actually know that because I'm the stalker that listened to other podcasts. Yes. She traded the trombone.

>> Georgia: Yeah. I actually, I did switch to tuba at one point. Our one. We were small band.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'm,

>> Georgia: Part.

>> Darin: Right. Okay.

>> Georgia: Well, I was just gonna say we were in such a small band that our tuba player, he wrecked his four wheeler and broke both of his wrists before, like, a very important band competition. So we could not march with the tuba. and so we didn't have one. So I learned the tuba, in like three days to be able to do this band competition. And it was the most small town thing ever.

>> Mike: Did you learn this song that goes.

>> Georgia: Yeah, I used to follow people around and do that. They probably didn't love it. I also, the Veggie Tales theme song was my favorite.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, yeah. No, it's fun to follow around little tubby guys and then play that with the two of them. No, I was at a party one time and, I told somebody that. And I. This woman who worked with my wife, I predicted that she played clarinet, and I was right. And then another woman there played flute. I was right with that. And then a guy was there and he. Of course he played trumpet. Duh. People's, minds were blown. So this guy comes from across the room, he pulls up his phone, he goes, these. These are my kids. What do they play? And I'm like. And I swear to God, I just guess so they're, ah, marimba flute. Oh, my God. But I. I failed tonight. I. I'm very disappointed.


Were you in the band at WVU or was that like the smaller

>> Mike: So were you in the band at WVU or was that like the. The smaller. Okay.

>> Georgia: Yeah.

>> Mike: Are you required. Are you required to go back yearly and do the. The parade with them? like, once you're in the band at wvu, like, you're in there for that. That's like a big deal, right?

>> Georgia: Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think if. I don't think we had to try out after that first year. And even the. They're so focused on, or at least at the time. I know, like, the directors have changed everything, but they were so focused on a big band sound that, like, some people didn't make it in if they didn't know the instrument. But it wasn't hard. It was. The true showing was whether you stayed in band because on top of your full class schedule, you had two hours, like Monday through Thursday that were. Or maybe it was Tuesday through Friday, I can't remember. But, there were like four days a week that you were fully committed. Two hours on the concrete marching and doing all of that, so. But I loved it when I was in it.

>> Darin: Yeah, I was in marching band. My wife was in marching band. My oldest son did four, years of high school marching band and then two years in college. And then my youngest son did two years of marching band just to get the PE credit. And then he was done. He couldn't leave fast enough. It's like, no more saxophone for me. No more hot days, no more getting fitted for your shaker or shaka or whatever the hell it's called.

>> Mike: Shake.

>> Darin: What's the hat? It's not called. Don't call it a hat. It's. I can't remember what they called the hat. It's a shaker or something. I don't know what it's called.

>> Mike: It's a hat.

>> Darin: It's a hat. Yeah.


Are you wanting to get into writing for a show? Where do you want it

>> Mike: So where are you going to next? I mean, ah, you're doing, you're doing Stand up now. You, ah, want to expand that career, but are you wanting to get into, like, writing for a show? Where do you want it?

>> Georgia: Funny, I, I have, some ideas that I've been, like, starting to write, but I am definitely at the point where every script I have attempted is objectively terrible. And the idea is at some point I will be able to come back to them having a better understanding and I will make it better. But, yeah, for right now, Stand up really seems to be the, the method. But, you know, obviously someday I would love to write for like, any of the, like, late night shows while they're still around.

>> Darin: Yeah, while we still have late night shows. Yeah.

>> Georgia: Yeah. But, you know, I really love, like, John Oliver, Daily show, all that stuff. But, you know, the YouTube half version that we will be left with after this dictatorship will hopefully hire me, you know, but.


Do you still keep notes with you when you go on stage

>> Darin: Yeah, do you still keep notes with you when you go on stage, or are you so comfortable by now that your material is ingrained in your head? But one of my biggest problems is that I forget what I'm supposed to say next. And so I just always keep notes with me.

>> Georgia: Yeah. So funny that you ask. I have gotten better at not using notes because I find that my sets, they're just better overall because I will figure it out along the way. Like, I know enough jokes now that if I totally blank. I'll just start doing a different joke. If I'm doing new material, I'll keep my notes app down. But for the longest time, I had, like, a nervous thing where I would always look down at the stool, even if I didn't have a set list, because I was just so used to doing that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Georgia: But I also have the memory of a goldfish. So we're really figuring it out.

>> Darin: What's over here? What's over there?

>> Georgia: Yes. Yeah. I am the epitome of adhd.


Darren Criss: Sometimes I'm surprised by audiences

>> Mike: Have you ever changed so you have your set in your mind, what you're going to do? Have you ever walked out in front of an audience and just seen who's there and done, like, an audible, like, oh, I can't tell this joke. This joke, this joke. I'm gonna switch over this way. Just from the makeup of the audience, 100%.

>> Georgia: I have had, There was a time where I either couldn't or wouldn't do that. And I remember bombing so incredibly hard on this show. And, it was the week before I actually got started getting booked at clubs. It was very funny. It was, like, my lowest and my highest. Those are always paired together somehow in my comedy world. And I. I bombed so hard because I was performing to an older audience, and I had this whole joke about Pokemon Go, and these poor people had no idea what that was. I mean, half of them were, like, being pushed in by, like, they had, like, wheelchairs because they. It was like performing at a nursing home that just happened to be at a bar. It was wild, and they could not get it, and I just didn't want to adjust to it. I was like, this is my set, and you guys are going to like it.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Georgia: And that doesn't work. So in a way, I will, but there are times where I'll still stick to certain jokes to see how they respond to those. And then if it totally bombs, I can take it another direction. But sometimes I'm surprised by audiences. I did a show in Charlotte, last week where there was this one guy, and he just had the full look of somebody who was not gonna like me, who was not gonna like the gay books joke. They were not gonna hear it. And it was so funny because he was laughing harder than anybody else. And I even called it out in that moment. Cause I was like, you know, he, like, cheered at another point in the set, and I was like, I didn't make eye contact with you earlier. So thank you for breaking my expectations, because I was so sure. You were gonna walk out of here?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: I don't shy away from it as much as I used to, because I think part of it is, like, confidence in, like, the material that you're putting out. And I have tested the jokes that I have enough to be able to put the extra. Whatever it needs behind it. So I don't know. I try not to switch it up, but sometimes I'm like, absolutely not. We cannot make this reference here.

>> Mike: I've told the story on the. The podcast, but, you know, I'll tell part of it again. When I. When I came to see you and. And Steve Hofstadter, I ended up in the meet and greet with Steve. I had not planned to be in it. I just. I ended up there. And apparently you were supposed to prepare a question, which I didn't have because, up until five minutes before I walked in the room, I didn't know I was going to be in there. But I had started following him, like, 10. I don't know how many years ago because of the heckling, you know, videos. And then I just started naturally. I only saw him on the YouTube. It never even dawned on me that we live right next to a comedy club, and he may come around every once in a while. and then when it did dawn on me, it was the show that we went to. Like I said, we. I ended up going back there and meeting with him. I had no question. There were five or six of us back there. I know that Steve is political, but I had never. I just hadn't come to him that way from the political side of things. I just came with the humor, and then the politics came with it. And I think I was the only one that was there to see him as a comedian. These people, like, the questions they were asking. Like the one. This one lady asked, do you have a bodyguard? Are you fearful for your life? Are you scared that you may not make it out of here? And I'm like. I'm thinking. I scared that I may not make it out of this. Right out of this room. And I was telling. I was telling Darren. It just. It was like every question was like that. And I was telling Darren that, you know, we're. We're huge Breaking Bad fans. I don't know if you've seen the.

>> Georgia: The whole.

>> Mike: Okay, so there's a episode where it's after the plane crash. They're in the high school. All the kids are given their stories about what it means to them for the plane crash. And Walt is up there and as the kids are talking about this thing, he goes, oh, Jesus Christ. I. That happened in the room with Steve. I was like three feet away from him. I doubt he heard it. He was, he was professional. He was listening to that. But I couldn't help. I was like, you got to be kidding me. Yeah, I'm thinking. And it comes around and then you get up later and you're doing your set. And the people that were in that room did not seem like your target audience. They did not seem like they were there for Georgia Bess. My wife was behind me. You said something and we both laughed. And my wife hit me in the back and I turned around to, you know, just kind of laugh with her. And I saw that whole group of people that had been back there and they looked confused.


With Steve's crowd, if they're upset by it, I'm okay with that

M. The guy, he was a tall older guy. He just mouth and gave just like. And people were laughing like left and right. And he looked like he needed someone to explain, explain it to him. So I, was like, I was wondering at that point, are you like, I'm just going to keep going because I have like 80 to 90% of the people here and Fred here is just going to have to figure it out along the way.

>> Georgia: If I had noticed Fred, I probably. I don't remember if I did this joke, but I have a joke about blowing a tire and like stopping at the side of the highway. And that joke is built specifically for the open mouth middle aged man that is typically confused by the rest of the set. And it is the moment that I will break him if it is. If he is arms crossed. I don't like gay. I will break him with that joke and I will watch only him when I tell that joke. It is so much fun for me. You know, some people are going to be. For me, some people aren't. I find that Steve's crowd though typically is very like, they're excited to hear like a gay voice, you know, because they're asking questions like, is he. Does he have a bodyguard? So they're like, oh my gosh. Like when we were touring across the west coast, people were asking about. Because we were going to Canada for part of the tour and everybody was asking like, are you scared to cross the border? Like all of these things? And I was like, I don't know, man. Like, probably be fine. They were worried about getting back in. And I was like, well, I'm definitely not going to wear like I heart butchers when I cross the border. I don't think they're going to love That I did have a border crossing guard, that he saw my passport, and he came around to the side of the van and was like, I just need to see you. And he was like, oh, you do look different from your picture. And I was like, yeah, I had, like, a shaved head. And I was like, much bigger than I am now. It was so funny. He didn't, like, question that it was me, but he was like, oh, Steve wasn't kidding when he said, you look very different in the picture. I was like, yeah, it's an old picture. I don't know what to tell you, buddy. But, yeah, if. If 90% of the audience is having fun, I usually am not super worried about the 10% that isn't sure. And with my set, especially with Steve's crowd, if they're upset by it, I think that it has more to do with it being dirty than it being gay, which I'm okay with that. Like, if somebody's clutch pearls, they're like, this isn't things that we talk about. Yeah, like, whatever. That's fine. You won't come buy tickets to my show at some point. That's okay. The ones that, like, bother me are the ones that I can tell it's because I'm gay. And so then at that point, sometimes the set just turns into me, just seeing if I can break them. Like, I will sprinkle in things just to see. But honestly, my set's not that dirty. It's like, I call it adorably dirty. It's like, never crossing that line. There's nothing graphic. There's nothing crazy. It's just adorably dirty.

>> Darin: Yeah. Do you do Q and A's after all your shows?

>> Georgia: not if I only do them on Steve shows.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Georgia: Currently. yeah, because those look fun. They are. And if I get to the point where I'm consistently, like, headlining, because right now I pretty much hosting, and featuring is the most that I'll do. Like, I'll headline smaller shows. I headlined a show recently, actually, a couple of them. Until I have my own fan base, I think it's probably not beneficial for me to open it up to the general population. To me.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Georgia: Questions? Yeah.

>> Darin: What other comedians have you opened and worked with?

>> Georgia: Let's see. if you know Rosebud Baker, I was able to host and feature for her. She's like a writer for snl. She is a very funny a couple. She just got a Netflix special. most of them are ones that have toured through the club, like, in Pittsburgh. So, like, Joe Dombrowski. I got to host for his. Stephen Ho. TJ Miller was one. Okay. Okay. And yeah, yeah, so there's been a few. Like, Samuel J. Comra was one. he was actually. He got me my first hosting spot at the Improv because he told them he wanted somebody specifically that had never done it. And then I did really well on the set, and then I said his name wrong when I brought him up. And he was so kind about it. He was like, this is exactly why I asked somebody to get their first time with me. Because he was like, you know, he was like, we'll have a fun weekend. I don't care if you call me Craig.

>> Darin: Just nice.

>> Georgia: You're funny. And we're going to be fine.

>> Darin: Well, good.

>> Georgia: But it was funny.

>> Darin: It's important to, to be supportive and to encourage and to raise people up on their strengths and not break them down on their weaknesses. I believe that wholeheartedly.

>> Georgia: So that's what I think Steve's great at, honestly, like, out of the people that tour with him and, like, all the things he's done for me and my roommate and all this, he loves helping new comics develop, like, and gives them a chance, which is great.


Georgia Warder performs on Irritable Dad Syndrome podcast

>> Darin: Well, Georgia, if people listening wanted to know where you were performing next, what would they do? How would they find your information on the Internet?

>> Georgia: So, you can follow me on Instagram. It's just at Georgia Warder, or you can find all of my social medias on Georgia Warder comedy dot com. And I typically will post my shows there and pin them to the top of my profile on Instagram, but I'm getting better about sharing it on the other platforms, so.

>> Darin: Oh, good, good, good, good. I had a lot of fun.

>> Mike: I did, too. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, I didn't, you know, I just emailed you said, hey, do you want to be on this? You're like, yeah, Yeah. I was like, I don't know if she's, actually going to show up.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But here you are.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: It's awesome.

>> Darin: And to be completely honest, of the 14 or 15 guests we've had on this podcast, I have booked them. And so M. Mike's like, hey, I've booked a guest.

>> Mike: I got one.

>> Darin: And I said, oh, boy, here we go. See how great this goes. And you're fantastic. You're just a ray of sunshine. And again, I enjoyed watching all your videos. And the next time you come through, I want to come and see your show. All right.

>> Georgia: Awesome. Yeah. Thank.

>> Darin: Ah, you well, thank you for being with us. And we want to tell everybody out there, you know, you can go to irritable dad syndrome.com and if you want to be a supporter of this podcast, you can go to Patreon and do that. You can go to all of our, we're everywhere on Instagram and YouTube and, and ah, Facebook reels and if you like and share our videos and it helps get the word out and you could help us do that. And so but most importantly, we want to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is a Mike Odle.

>> Darin: Darren Cox production for the next five or six years, whenever you do a show, will you mention that you were on Irritable Dad Syndrome?

>> Georgia: Absolutely.

>> Darin: That would be cool.

>> Georgia: It's the only thing I'm shouting at.

>> Darin: That would be great. People like, hey, have you ever been a guest on a podcast? Well, you know what? I was on Irritable Dad Syndrome.