Comedy and Beard Oil: Blending Humor, Self-Care, and the Lighter Side of Life

Ever found yourself chuckling at the notion that beard oil could be the pumpkin spice latte of the grooming world? You're not alone. Buddy Holly joins me, and his experiences as a comedian and beard care aficionado manage to tangle humor, life lessons, and self-care into a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining. We traverse from the joys of a well-maintained beard to the realm of laughter that breaks down barriers, and Buddy's candid stories add a rich flavor to the mix.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:18

Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great guest for us today. He is a comedian and a beard care connoisseur and he has his own beard care line. Buddy Holly joins the show. Buddy, thanks for joining, brother.

Speaker 2: 2:41

Thanks, brother, I really appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 1: 2:45

Okay, not a problem. First and foremost, beard care stuff is phenomenal. We're gonna get into the comedy. But ever since you've sent me some stuff to use, the beard care like I never thought I was gonna be a beard oil bomb wash kind of guy, like I never took care of it. I'm sold, like with one little bad example stuff, man, I was sold.

Speaker 2: 3:09

Dude, it's a wild game to be a part of and, you know, honestly, I think that's what made comedy easy to transition to. You know, because when you're doing craft shows and stuff, you're really just interacting with people and trying to have a good time and you know if you're laughing with somebody, you know, and it doesn't feel like a sales pitch. People are a lot more relaxed and they're receptive to the information and guys are really hard to get them to understand that. You know, you got to take care of yourself and a lot of beard care is really just skin care, you know, but taking care of your beard is really just, you know, trying to promote. You know, taking care of yourself, yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:56

I think a lot of guys struggle with yeah, for sure. I get told probably 35 times a day from my other half that you know, I need to watch what I'm eating. I need to eat more vegetables. I need to do this. I need to do that. I need to watch my blood pressure. It's like, yeah, no, I was 75. There's like there's no way coming down yeah, I mean, you know I had.

Speaker 2: 4:26

I was pretty strict on my diet for a while and out of nowhere my body, like I can't eat like dark leaf, like dirt, dark green vegetables anymore like it makes me like super sick.

Speaker 1: 4:38

It hit me out of nowhere see, same thing happened to my wife. She can't eat like lettuce or salad or anything like that, and he came out of nowhere and she loves salads like that's one of what, like the meals that we'd like to have is just make a big salad and that's our right dinner. It did messes her up yeah, dude, that's I was.

Speaker 2: 4:57

I was on a open or acoustic show. See, I had a supporting a buddy of mine and forgot all about it. And I like spinach, I really do, and I ordered it. I was trying to stay healthy. You know, we were at a bar. I was like, all right, I'm just working this. You know the salad. And I'm sitting there and like it's like 20 minutes later I'm like I don't feel great, like what's wrong with me, like something, like something has just came over me and I feel terrible. And my other half looked at me and she looked down and she goes oh my goodness, that salad was like all spinach. I'm like, oh no, it was terrible, man, it was like the worst of the worst so, yeah, I mean, but you didn't mention something though.

Speaker 1: 5:40

You know, making people laugh, you know, and and your beard care company doing like these craft shows and stuff like that I I work a sales job too comedy isn't the the main thing. And like, I think I blew my boss's mind. When they're like, well, what are you doing to sell like these higher ticket, these bigger buildings? Like what are you doing? I was like I'm getting them to laugh and I'm bringing the barrier down, like, cuz, everybody comes into any type of retail location with this, they're guard up, like I'm not getting sold today, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is. And I just I make them laugh and I work out material. I'm not gonna lie like, and I get more material from them, like, and as soon as they find out like, oh, he's a comedian too, so like, yeah, it loosens the interaction up. But, yeah, making people laugh is definitely something that I've always, always is. It's oh, my god, if I could talk tonight, that'd be great expired to do so. Yeah, yeah, I mean, what? What got you into comedy?

Speaker 2: 6:46

you know, I think every comedian I've met so far or had I've looked into, I think everybody's dealt with some form of mental health issues or whatever, and it's realistically a coping mechanism, I think, for for a lot of a lot of comedians. And you know not that I feel like I had a traumatic life, but I mean, if we were to go through the timeline, you know, some of the stuff that was just my normal has always been like, oh my goodness, do you need a hug? I was just how I grew up, you know, and I make jokes, you, about both my parents having MS and stuff and going through that, having a dad in a wheelchair, but it just made my life a little different. Yeah, and you know I tell people I'm unfortunately with you know, like what do you mean unfortunate? Like well, depends on what side of that weight you're on. You know, and, yeah, some of the stuff that you know, some of the stuff that I joke about or even say I'm like you, I'm hearing the joke for the first time when it slips out of my mouth, like sometimes I don't filter it and you know it.

Speaker 2: 7:54

It was just something where, if I love live entertainment in general, you know with a name like Buddy Holly. Yeah, I always get a joke about you know that reference and stuff. And I'm a huge supporter of music. I do play more as a hobby, not necessarily something where I'm trying to go out and do anything, but I do it for myself and as much as I love and support that and I have friends that are doing great things with, with, with their bands and stuff, those those moments are even if you see somebody pay top dollar to go see a sh like a music event. Everybody's on their phone and nobody's living in the moment. And when you do comedy not necessarily where I'm at so far, but you know at least for you know people way past my tenure right now the phones are put away, you're in the moment and nobody's scrolling mindlessly and nobody's trying to film. You know, or take pictures, unless you're as pretty as Matt right for me, nobody's gonna be yeah, pretty the cameras right you know there's a reason I have a beard.

Speaker 2: 9:07

It's not because I have a great job online and but people live in the moment, that they're in that moment with you and if they had a bad day, a bad week or whatever, and within whether it's a five-minute set or somebody's up there doing you know an hour, and those people are enjoying themselves and they're laughing. They're at least finally, you know, connecting with other humans outside of a screen.

Speaker 1: 9:39

I gonna say that was the realest answer from any comedian that I've ever asked. That dead answer that question to is you know why comedy? And I appreciate it like cuz I. I've always said that you know, laughter is the best medicine and I believe that wholeheartedly and you're right. And I think you know when you're at a comedy show you don't see people on their phones. I mean, maybe somebody might take a quick video of it or something like that, or maybe take a quick picture where they're at or anything like that but for the most part they're engaged into the show, which I appreciate.

Speaker 1: 10:18

I've been doing comedy 11 years now. It'll be 12 years in November of this year. So, yeah, it's been a journey, man, like it's been right, it's been. It's not always been fun I'll be the first to say it's not always been fun and but I think you know people when they get on their phones at a comedy show, they know the comedian is now honed in on them and I think a lot of it's stems from a lot of people like I don't want to become the butt of a joke from this professional shit talker who's just gonna right, who's just gonna ruin my night, and like I've, I've, I've started so many shows saying, like you know, I love hecklers. I do mainly because I have a microphone. You are all in proximity to this speaker system and I will ruin your night. Like please, by all means. If you think you have something to say, you will see how quick what it I am because after almost 12 years of comedy, there's no filter from my head to my mouth if I think it's coming out of my mouth and gets me in trouble a lot of the time, especially at my day job, I have to really fight to not be that asshole because I hear stupid questions on a daily basis, daily basis. I hear the dumbest shit like you will ever, ever think to say like a quick little story here.

Speaker 1: 11:50

But I worked for spectrum in their call center, in the billing center, for not that long. It wasn't that great of a job, but a hundred calls a day and I actually had somebody call in and they were like I'm just trying to pay my bill. Great, how would you like to pay? We can take a card or check over the phone and he goes well, I want to pay cash. I said that's great. You have four stores within a 10 mile radius of you Just go into one of them. You could pay it there. He goes. Why can't I pay over the phone with you, I said? I said I'm sorry. How do you plan to do that, sir? You're in Colorado, I'm in Ohio. How do you plan to pay me cash over the phone? He goes. Well, can't I just fax it into you? This fucking guy thought he could put money into a fax machine and it was going to magically travel across the country and end up in my hand.

Speaker 2: 13:02

I'm not 100% certain. His buddy didn't convince him to go. Hey, we're going to fuck this guy on the phone today. I want you to call and try to pay with cash.

Speaker 1: 13:11

I'm really hoping that was the reason, but I've heard so many questions and shit like that that it's like there's no way that was a serious question, because we went back and forth for like 10 minutes to finally I was just like sir, I can't help you, and I just hung up on him.

Speaker 2: 13:25

Yeah, that's wild.

Speaker 1: 13:27

I got in so much trouble for hanging up on him but I was like listen to the tape. They're all recorded. I think I was pretty calm for the most part. Somebody's there, it's fine. We're not that serious of a podcast there, man, it's fine.

Speaker 2: 13:43

What's that? Yeah, oh, you got a ball and chain rule on that.

Speaker 1: 13:51

I got it no worries. So we got to work together briefly Black Friday at Towns Family Billiards in New York, ohio. That was a fun show Like I've never done a Black Friday show and I was nervous that there wasn't going to be a crowd Like I thought people were going to be shocked at it. But it was an awesome show and I loved it and some of your material like where do you come up with your material?

Speaker 2: 14:22

So I made a lot of. At least right now, what I have in my sets is just stuff that I've experienced and thankfully my other half is a role with a bunch of type person man. She's a very thankful. It takes a special woman to deal with my antics, for sure. Oh yeah, and I have, like most millennials I'm late life diagnosed ADHD and my brain has wandered at the wrong times during certain activities. They shouldn't.

Speaker 2: 15:05

And she's like what are you laughing at right now? And I'm like I think I just wrote a bit in my head and she's like really Like we're having sex right now and you're thinking of comedy, and I sure am. At least it's a joke about you. I mean, it's not anything else.

Speaker 2: 15:24

A lot of it is just like that quick wit where in the moment where I'll say something or whatever and I get a good pop, and it's kind of like the two most recent things that she's went through is she got a food job about two years ago and then recently had that Interstem device put in, essentially a pacemaker for her bladder, and I got those bits about that. And as I thought of those, she just dropped her head on my chest and she goes. Everybody's going to know. I have a pacemaker for my bladder and I go. If you don't want me to say it on the stage, I promise I won't. And she goes. It's fine, I go. I got your blessing. I mean, it was reluctant, but it was a blessing, and I'm not looking back because I mean, you get the OK, you get that OK yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:27

Yeah, there was no second chance or something like that. So a lot of the stuff is just either I've rift with her or I've joked about my life experiences and just how I've responded to them, and the stuff pops into my head when we're going through it. And now I've just kind of cleaned it up to where the delivery is. There's not as much setup to it. That's the one thing that I've been really working on is not wasting a lot of unneeded details to make a joke work. So that's just been one of the things that I've done and, like I said, humor is a coping mechanism for me and if I deal with something that most people would be like, oh well, it is me. You're making a joke about it first.

Speaker 1: 17:21

Yeah, I believe you have to find the funny in any situation, regardless of what it is. I've told the story on here plenty of times, but we made a joke out of my grandfather's funeral. And I say grandfather, it was my mom's real dad. I didn't really know him until I was like 25, 26 years old. He left and I never known him and it's still. You're losing a family member, but it was my grandfather on my Italian dad side, Like off the boat, doesn't wear his hearing aids, doesn't know he's yelling and he thinks he's whispering.

Speaker 1: 18:11

For the new listeners out there, what he said was is he leaned into my wife, thinking he was whispering, no more than 20 feet away from the casket and he goes. I don't know who's going to come to this. He was kind of an asshole when nobody liked him Talking about the deceased. I really wish I was yelling for effect. But that is exactly how loud he was talking the whole time and it just like him and my grandmother got into like they've been married 67 years argument, Like they've just had enough of each other, like in the middle of the funeral home, and we told everybody that story that came. Yeah, that's fantastic. What should have been a sad day. We laughed through the whole fucking thing and my wife still laughs about it to this day. That was, I think, two years ago now. Yeah and yeah, she laughs through the whole thing and you can either let life define you or you can make a career out of it.

Speaker 1: 19:25

Like you said earlier, comedy for a lot of comedians that I could either pay for a therapist or I can get on stage and just unload by issues and do a crowd full of unwilling people, knowing they're going to hear some shit.

Speaker 2: 19:37

Right, which I mean if one bit connects with somebody, it just makes it a little bit better for them that day. Awesome. And for me right now, as new as I am to this, I've really struggled with the idea of trying to be clean, and it's such a broad term. Everybody has a different view on what they define as clean. I think and I don't think it's just specific to family friendly for that. But I don't want to get on stage and grab a mic and not sound like I'm authentic. You mentioned being in sales and my day job is very sales oriented and I just celebrated nine years there and the customers that I've maintained and have followed me the whole way through up until they got rid of the car, it's because I think I'm authentic with them. It's just I don't walk. I've never tried to communicate with one of them about their car and not be honest about what I think is happening or what's going on.

Speaker 2: 21:03

And jokes get floating in here and there and you have to be a person. The moment somebody thinks you're reading from a script, they lose trust. Oh yeah, and even with writing, I've seen so many different forms that people say they do and they write, and I think Gabriel Iglesias. He's never written a joke down and for me, when I did the town show, I recorded myself on a 10 minute speed run of what I had the goal of doing and I wanted to try to flow and I didn't write it down. And I sure didn't write it down verbatim, because I'm not going to remember something verbatim. Well, it's going to be very serious, it's going to be very similar, it's going to be very close, the punch is probably going to be the same and the setup is probably going to be about 80% there, but I don't possess the ability to write something down and remember it exactly as I wrote it.

Speaker 1: 22:23

I think you have a leg up from when I started, because when I first started I was literally word for word writing down everything I wanted to say on stage. And then I quickly realized it's not what I wrote down. I mean it's close, it's in the ballpark, like you said, probably about 80% there To now. I write down the premise of a joke and I just I riff off of that. I'm way better off the cuff than I am.

Speaker 1: 22:51

I don't even want to say scripted, because I hate that word, but like the scripted written joke, especially since I'm known as a storyteller or, as I was dubbed almost 12 years ago, the angry white comic, because I go on these long-filled rants on stage because Buddy of Mine asked me to do an open mic night and he howded me for months and I finally broke down and got on stage and he didn't have any time limits. When he first started he was like just go up there, when you run out of jokes you can get off stage. Like that's not with me. And I did 20 minutes my first time and I didn't even realize I was up there for 20 minutes. Yeah, just awesome, bitchin' about my day. And like and lo and behold, 12 years later, we're still trying to make a career out of that. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 23:44

Yeah, which I mean again, it's therapy and I don't know like the comedy, the thing really tracked and I've been very thankful. I would probably say the majority of the comedians that I've had the pleasure of breeding and networking with and actually really talking to. I've been very thankful for them and that's all started from essentially because of the podcast Bert Kreischer taught them they do like experiences type stuff for each other for birthday gifts, and a buddy of mine ran with that, so this would have been two birthdays ago. He said I have something I want to get you for your birthday, but I need to know that you commit eight weeks. It's on a Saturday and I go, ok, like I looked at my calendar, I go, I got it. And so then for my birthday he goes hey, I got you improv classes for your birthday and I said, all right, what I didn't know is it reminded me of just. I think as we get older and we get numb to society, we kind of forget how to just have fun and be creative and just kind of just be playful, even with other adults, and improv really brought that out. And my second week there another good comic friend of mine, she goes by Lesuckubus Asatire Mary Beth. I don't know if I had a chance to chat with her yet, but she's been on Destin's podcast and she's a phenomenal human. And she goes buddy, I need to get you to an open mic and I go. I don't know Right now, I'm just trying to enjoy what this is. I'm not trying to look much past what we're doing right now. And so I did that and here we are.

Speaker 2: 26:00

The follow up to that was I tried to figure out how to be. I wanted to try to figure out a way to get him something that did at least something beneficial for him, and I knew that improv class is supposed to be for him kind of thing, and I didn't want to obviously get him the same thing. He got me and I'm like, well, I mean, he's one of those like wants the aspiring to be outdoorsy type guys and he had recently bought a compound bow and I'm like, well, I'll get you our tree lists here. I am thinking I'm going to be awesome, right, like, hey, I got you. I texted his wife first. I'm like, hey, is he going to be able to do this, like however many Sundays this is? And she goes yeah, that's fine. So that I confirmed with him. Can you do this? He goes, yeah, I'll do it. Like awesome, all right, man, happy birthday. Here's these archery classes.

Speaker 2: 26:59

The first day he texts me dude, what did you get me into? I'm like, what do you mean? He goes, man, it is like two lesbians and a bunch of kids. And I'm like and you got this white Harambe like built dude, like he just looks like a silverback gorilla. And I'm like, bro, I'm so sorry, like I, I didn't mean for that, like it wasn't a joke, like I was trying to be sincere and he stuck it out, he wrote it through and they ended up letting him bring his compound bow and by the end of it, he goes. I did get some great information out of it. I did lures and stuff and I'm like and I even just texted him here recently that that, or told him here recently because we actually worked together too I told him that's the man. Like I can't thank you enough for what that has done for me so far. Like I don't know where this path is taking me, but I've had enough things happen to me since I've started this that I know I'm doing what I'm supposed to right now.

Speaker 1: 28:06

Yeah, and you know I think every comic goes through this law, especially where I guess where we're at, you know we're still the up and coming comics and all that. But you know you grind so hard and trying to make a career out of this. Every comic has this is like well, is this really for me? Type of thing is like is this something I really want? To keep beating my head against the wall moment. And it's always when I'm sitting down finally relaxing for a minute and watching TV with my wife and then all of a sudden, something happens on TV and something comes out of my mouth and she looks over at me and just starts dying laughing and it's just like yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do, I'm supposed to make people laugh and that happens more often than I would like to admit.

Speaker 1: 29:03

But she is my joke tester, if you will like. I run everything by her, whether it's about her or not, and I now know, after nine years of being with her, like how to, how to judge where to put the joke into the set. And if she laughs, it's a good joke. It's probably an opener. If she looks at me and goes what the fuck is wrong with you? That's a closer, like that's my new closer. That is exactly what that is. And there's sometimes like I keep. I keep saying like I'm going to bring her to an open mic and just force her to go on stage Because she is quicker than I am when it comes to comebacks and being quick-witted. She's like, but I can't write anything down. I was like that's the beauty of it, just go up there, pick somebody out in the crowd and roll with it and people will eat it up.

Speaker 2: 30:03

And it was an open mic that I just did and it's one of those things where you know you never know what to expect. I haven't done a lot of open mics and you know I feel like I do get a little bit of grief for that.

Speaker 1: 30:18

By the way, for my other comics, A lot of comics will tell you that you have to go to. You have to go to these open mics to work out material, hitting a couple here and there. Yeah, I mean, I've been in this 12 years. You know, unless it's like in my backyard, I'm not wasting my time and energy on an open mic at this point in time in my career.

Speaker 2: 30:42

Yeah, yeah, like for me I had an open mic, like I got to either know that I have nothing going on or like really plan it, because you know, being in Newark like we don't really have an open mic, and for me to go to Columbus if I'm lucky enough to get a bucket, like one of the first open mics I did or they just put a bucket at the end of the show and I didn't go on to like 12, 31 o'clock in the morning and then I turn around and had to open the shop at 730 in the morning and I'm like this is rough, like man, like I can't, I'm just not built for this.

Speaker 2: 31:19

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a person of that. You know, I got to actually interact with with the public the next day and be, you know, a genuine human with some of these people and I'm, like I said, I'm not a morning person. I've had a customer call me out like you're a completely different person in the afternoon. I'm like, yeah, I finally woke up.

Speaker 1: 31:41

Like you know, I'm not, you don't want to talk to me before 8am, unless you have to, right? Yeah, I'm pretty much a bear in the morning too as well, unless I have my coffee in me. Like you're not going to want to talk to me right now. Like, even waking my son up, like he gets one one nice. Come on bud time to get up. You got to get ready for school After that, if I have to come up and walk up 13 steps one more time to wake your little ass up, like I say little, he's almost as big as me, if not bigger, and he's 15, I'm going to be 15 here in a couple months, but still like it's.

Speaker 1: 32:22

Like after that, like I'm coming in like the way in the Rock Johnson and dropping elbows on him to wake him up. Like dude, I said, get up once. Like that you get one nice one. Like you know this. After that, I'm not. I'm going to get progressively meaner as the morning goes on. Like that's getting up at 6am every day to get him up and warming it. Yeah, like coffee is a godsend For sure.

Speaker 2: 32:50

Yeah, I love my caffeine for sure. I yeah, that's how I was. One of the things that made me realize that I probably had ADHD was I started kind of finding stuff out about it. You know, and like looking into it and the doctor's like, how many drinks do you drink in a day? I go too many. That's why we're here talking about this. Yeah, and he goes yeah, you're self-medicating. I'm like really, doc, like you didn't think I didn't have an idea, like I kind of figured this out now, like that's why I'm here.

Speaker 2: 33:24

Yeah, like what do you mean you? You're not drinking it because you're tired. I'm like no, I found out as slow as my brain down, like it's a weird feeling.

Speaker 1: 33:35

Yeah yeah, my son was diagnosed with ADHD and we found out that sometimes we got to fight fire with fire and we got to give him caffeine to even him out.

Speaker 2: 33:47

Yeah, it's a wild ride some days, man, and, like you know, it's awesome that, like I don't have to like take medicine for it every day if I don't want to, but like the days that I know I got to be, like you know, a productive member of society. Like I can't go out there and just you know I'm going off the couch with it. I can't Like it's.

Speaker 1: 34:15

it's a lot of stuff gets lost. Yeah, absolutely yeah, especially like in my line of business. I mean I'm dealing with thousands of dollars of sheds and buildings. Like one little screw up and I could cost a customer a good bit of money or I can cost myself a good bit of money by missing something. You know what I mean. Like it's, it's something that it's just like yeah, I need to be on it today. I need to be so. We need we need an extra cup of cowboy blend for me today in the Bono's Brew cowboy blend that will take the enamel off your teeth. It's, it's. It's strong stuff. Like I like a strong cup of coffee. I took a sip of it when we first came out with the cowboy blend and looked at my wife. I want this will put hair in your chest. I'm just letting you know that now, like this is this is good coffee.

Speaker 2: 35:11

And I feel like if you drink it you might smell like like that brew after shave and Marlboro Reds.

Speaker 1: 35:16

Yeah, absolutely 100%, that's. That's actually what it smells like when you open up the package.

Speaker 2: 35:21

It's not coffee.

Speaker 1: 35:23

It's. It's leather and Marlboro, so that's what it is.

Speaker 2: 35:30

Yeah, man, that's I. I remember when I got into cold brew and that was wild at first. Like for me, like this is a really strong cup of cold brew, like hit me the first time and I was just bouncing, like just running, I'm like this is terrible, like I don't think I'm supposed to feel like this right now. Like I think, yeah, that was, that was pre diagnosis, and like it actually hit me. I'm like is this how people feel when they like drink caffeine? Cause like this is wild.

Speaker 1: 36:03

Yeah, like the. The craziest thing is is my wife brought me this creamer from Dunkin Donuts and it's just called extra extra. It has sugar and creamer mixed in. Okay, I was like, cool, saves me a step in the morning. I don't have to worry about putting sugar, then coffee, then creamer, like it's all just coffee, and then add the creamer. Tell, kind of like what you were just saying. This stuff wires me for sound and my wife can always tell, like on Sundays, when she's sleeping in my body, just at this age, is just like, hey, it's six AM, you got to take a piss Time to get up. Like that's my only day to sleep in. Cool, I'm up at the same exact time I am every day, so I always have two cups by the time she gets up and I am bouncing off the fucking wall. She was like you had two cups of extra extra this morning, didn't you? I was like, yeah, with cowboy blend too, that makes it even worse. It's just, it's a crazy ride.

Speaker 2: 37:04

I know what I'm wondering we get off this podcast, yeah.

Speaker 1: 37:08

Absolutely Dude. I'm telling you, like that is, we have like every flavor under the sun and I even I even have pumpkin spice. I know it's not pumpkin spice season but I still carry it. It's still. It's still on the store. You can still get it for my basic white people out there and I say white people because it's not white girls anymore that I'm drinking it. I know a lot of dudes like, oh, I need a pumpkin spice. I'm like what did you just say to me? Like did you just say that out loud to another man? Like you need a pumpkin spice.

Speaker 2: 37:40

Like dude, I'm a sucker for pumpkin spice season. I have a beard oil it's called hashtag basic and people like at first, I like all, is this just like a regular, like a sense of beard oil? Like no, you didn't smell this. Like this is it's pumpkin spice dude. Like it's, it's great, it's fantastic. I I got a lady that catches me at the same show every year and she buys like six of them. She goes you have basic and like, of course, I have basic pumpkin spice season. Like it's, we're going into this. And she goes I need six of them. Like what do you need six for? And she goes I put them in my diffuser. I'm like no shit. Like all right, I.

Speaker 1: 38:24

Now know what I'm ordering this Christmas they. This is how Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2: 38:31

It's pumpkin, it's got nutmeg, it's vanilla, like it's. It's all the right spices you know to give like, not just like that pumpkin vibe, you know it's. It's a good seasonal scent, like it's fantastic. I'm definitely like it's.

Speaker 1: 38:47

It smells like you're about to go pick apples for sure. Like I'm definitely gonna have to try that. That's a hundred percent. I now know. Yeah, like you said, with the cowboy blend, like I'm yeah, I'm getting it. Some, some basics.

Speaker 2: 39:04

I'm pretty sure I sent you the one called gun metal. Yeah, so I did. When I brought that out, that came out on a whim. My, I had to pay the ADHD tax leading up to that show. It's it's my favorite share to do, it's called the backwards Fest's Thornville and I procrastinated and forgot to order some, some of my bottles. And I go, hey, I ordered these like a week ago. Like they haven't shipped yet. What's going on? Like oh yeah, that was a too big of an order, like it's not going to be shipped, and so we get the order from our supplier. I'm like, oh, that's not gonna work. What do I need to do? And she goes fight and cancel the order and then you can just place another order. I'm like, can I come pick up? And I like, yeah, that's an option.

Speaker 2: 39:51

So I drove to Cleveland to pick up my supplier, because I do try to use other Ohio based businesses. You know, get all my stuff. And as I'm in there, I'm like looking for a couple different things. I'm like you know this would go, I think, really well, so I get the stuff that now became gun metal and the first day I came out, dude, it's sold out and throw back in scholar was like my bread and butter, like best two sellers and I mean they were so closely, you know, tied together.

Speaker 2: 40:23

I came out with gun metal. We, we took a little man and I sold all of them on Friday. I'm like I've never had one set sell out. I'm damn like this is wild. So I go back and I make because many as we can, and we sold all of them on Saturday. I was like holy shit, what is going on with this? And I didn't have any for Sunday and I had people like going hey, people told me you couldn't get gun metal. I'm like, well, I'm out, it is not gonna be here until like Wednesday or Thursday so I can make more for the next show. But I had a lady smell it and she looked at me and she goes, that'll get me pregnant. And I go, please stay on the side of the table Like I can't, I can't. No say over there, don't Do. Women are so aggressive with beards like I can't tell you how many people like the silver lining to me for COVID. Those people stop touching my face like I mean you do have that, that big zz top beard.

Speaker 1: 41:20

Like it's hard not to want to touch it. I'm not gonna lie to you, even as a man like.

Speaker 2: 41:25

Yeah, I can't tell you how. Yeah, but I mean, yours are short dude, it's like Belkirk, I'm gonna get you close. Yeah, you know, but which coosie do you have? I?

Speaker 1: 41:34

have, the Stroke it like you mean it.

Speaker 2: 41:37

Yeah. So that came from a lady aggressively grabbing my face. Um, so I'm doing a show and I'm still pretty fresh and I don't really have much or anything yet, and this lady like sees me and be like some of these two words, like am I about to get my ass kicked? Like what's going on? Like she's coming in hot, and she doesn't even like introduce herself. I don't know her at all. And she comes around my table and she goes I just gotta know. And grabs my beard and I go damn lady, at least struck it like you mean it, like you know you're coming in hot, like that. So I was like, oh, that's, that's merch.

Speaker 2: 42:17

So yeah, you know we uh, that uh and plus with you know Buddy's beard care the acronym there. You know we, we ran with all the innuendos and stuff and Uh oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 42:32

I've been. I've enjoyed it. You know we we hold signs and stuff to try to get people laughing and carrying on. Like one of my, my popular sign is if you beard it, she will come. That's a good one, dude.

Speaker 2: 42:47

There has been one of my buddies that helped with most of the shows. I've had some old ladies say some stuff to him and passing that like he just turns and looks at me and he is beat red like these old ladies are embarrassed in the hell out in. So but yeah, man, like this I try to keep. I try to make sure anything that I'm putting out for the big care, even like you know we do with comedy. You know there's a lot of parallel thinking, I think, in certain aspects, but I try to make sure it's something that organically came to me, because I get people to send me stuff all the time where it's like, hey, this would be really funny on a shirt. I'm like, yeah, but like that didn't naturally occur to me and like there's somebody else already putting that on everything, like I don't want my brand washed down with something everybody else was doing.

Speaker 1: 43:37

Yeah, with my merch store. The stupid should hurt merch store that I have stems off of my stupid question joke, you know, and I do think that stupid should hurt. I try to come up with, you know, funny slogans, like we just came out with our St Patrick's Day collection for this year and I know this probably isn't gonna air till after St Patrick's Day, but still one of the slogans that I came up with was like what drinking is my job? Obviously for that one. But then there was another one that on the front it says I'm here to drink beer and kick ass and I'm all tired out of kicking ass.

Speaker 1: 44:27

Like, I'm just like and yeah, as much as I hate to say it, my 15 year old came up with that. So, like I was sitting here it was a Sunday, it's normally where I like to sit and do a little bit of a little bit of work on the merch store and try to think of like slogans for new designs and stuff like that and he came up. He was like what are you doing? I was like I'm trying to think of new slogans for a St Patrick's Day line. I gotta get this out pretty quick. St Patrick's Day is gonna be here before I even know it, so I gotta think of something funny and I need to catch you lying. He was what about? I'm here to kick ass and drink beer and I'm all out of beer. Like, I'll switch that up a little bit.

Speaker 1: 45:14

Yeah, change up will get beat up Like dude.

Speaker 2: 45:18

I love funny apparel and stuff like that. Some of it I've realized, like some of the shirts and stuff that I've bought over the years. It's like hey, this was really funny to me, but like I'm not either trying to get my ass kicked or I don't wanna deliver a message that I joke a lot you know to where. Sometimes I'll say something just for the shock and all of it. Anyway, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2: 45:52

And you know I have no problem arguing with anybody about anything. Yeah, and sometimes if I know you're irritated with what we're arguing about, you know, if I'm wrong or don't believe it, if it's firing you up, I'm probably gonna lean into an ardor. I love doing that with like stuff, like politics, and you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 46:14

Like I don't care what side of the fence you're on, but if you're that passionately upset over somebody just voicing an opinion, I have no problem making you think I lead the other way, just to piss you off. And I just really selective now on some of the shirts and stuff that I wear just because you know I've had interactions where it's like, yeah, I think I brought that all myself.

Speaker 1: 46:38

Yeah, yeah. Like there was some like I had it typed out to put onto the shirt and get ready to hit. Like, yes, submit that. And I looked at it and it was like I'm gonna get either my ass kicked or whoever wears this shirt's gonna get their ass kicked. I can't, I can't in good conscience put this on a shirt. Like I've had people come up to me I was wearing your shirt that you sent me the size does matter. And they looked at me and they're like, oh, does it? I was like it's for a beard, like you see, the beard care company, Like I'm supporting one of my fellow comedic buddies here. Like, yeah, but yeah, size does matter. You know, just keep it engine in a little bit more.

Speaker 2: 47:23

Right, you know that's. That's like one of the things where you know there's always there's always a joke somewhere. And you know the reason I just kind of left the BBC like kind of out there in the open with it is cause there's just so many entertaining jokes with that in my opinion. And one of two things have happened with the shirt that I used to have. It didn't sell as hot as I wanted it to for me to walk around a bunch of merch to all the shows, but I had a shirt it said ladies love. And then, and beside it was just the beard with the BBC next to it. So it's like right there. And I had this guy come up to me. He goes, dude, I was getting gas in Alabama. I go, okay, here's, I'm wearing your shirt. Like all right, tell me what happened. He goes, this big black dude comes up to me and he just he looks puzzled. I'm like all right, he goes. He asked me really aggressively what my shirt say and the guy's like all tem, he goes ladies love, bbc. And he said the dude's demeanor change. He's like I know that's right and got all hyped up and started high fiving the stuff and I'm like some of a bitch like why couldn't that happen to me? Where, where are my four interactions with the shirts I put out? I want that for me. Like I'm jealous, it didn't happen to me and I.

Speaker 2: 48:58

The second thing that happened was one of my cousins goes to a very rural school like drive your tractor to school type place, right For you know, on certain celebration days. And the kid is just a specimen of a human. He's 15 and wears like a size 16 shoe. I and he's mixed and he texts me and I'm out of, I'm out of craft show and he goes I need a shirt. I'm like you need a shirt. Like okay, like which one do you need? He goes do you have a ladies love BBC shirt? I go yeah, besides, you need me. And he goes I need a three X. I go big bet, I think I'm pretty sure I got one left, like I'll bring it to you.

Speaker 2: 49:43

I drive past your house on my way home from the show and so I get there and I was like hey, like why do you like all of a sudden like need this shirt? Like so aggressively. He goes I got suspended from school. I go this is honestly like this kid is the sweetest kid, the definition of a general giant, great kid and I go. What happened? He goes. I said the N word and I'm like wait a minute, they suspended a black kid for saying the N word. And he goes, yeah, and I go. I mean I kind of see it, but like I don't know if I'd have died on that hill.

Speaker 1: 50:31

Right.

Speaker 2: 50:32

And I go. But I got a hoodie for you too, so I gave him the size does matter hoodie and I said I need you to listen to me If you get any grief for the apparel, because obviously you know the hen you induce there. I said if you get any grief for the material, you just got to stick to your guns of it's my cousin's company. And it's a beard care company. Like there's no, this isn't a dick joke, this is. They're talking about a beard. And so it finally happened.

Speaker 2: 51:08

One of the teachers goes you need to take that shirt off. And he goes why, I know what that means Take the shirt off. And he goes it's a beard care company. Like it's my cousin's company. And she's like yeah, funny, ha ha. Like no, that's not. And so he turns around and I sure had my logo huge on the back and I mean that kid's a walking billboard Right. Like I love him for it, you know. And so she's like yeah, whatever. Like that better be a real company. And he goes well, he sponsors the youth football team. So, like I'm one of the school sponsors too, I'm like so you, you want to upset me? I send the school money, yeah.

Speaker 1: 51:55

That's something that will never happen with my merch store. The stupid should hurt. Burst store is never going to sponsor any yeah.

Speaker 2: 52:03

It's like. It's like that Tik Tok dude yeah, I don't remember his name, but like you know the GFC stuff and how all the kids were wearing his merch and he started calling it the great friends club, yeah, you know. So I get fucked and just riffing with it, I'm like man, that is such a great marketing thing for him and I'm a sucker for great marketing, like I love it.

Speaker 1: 52:28

I do it all the time with the stupid should hurt, cause I just put the SSH on my hats and everything like that and logo is SSH. And a lot of times people come up to me and they just go shhhhhhh. And at first I'm like fuck, are you talking about? And they're like your hat. It says shhhhhhh. It was like no, no, no, no, no, no. That stands for stupid should hurt. They're like oh, I thought it stood for sexy, sultry hunk. Like you know, they say stupid should like that to me.

Speaker 1: 52:56

It was like. It can mean whatever you want it to mean, For sure it's 100% up to interpretate, but it definitely doesn't mean shhhhhhh.

Speaker 2: 53:06

But I mean, I think stupid should shh.

Speaker 1: 53:09

See, I mean, I've said it on stage. You know, like I said, I think stupid should hurt, and I'm not talking about killing anybody, I'm not that type of person. I just want them to stub their toe and bend their little toe 90 degrees the wrong direction.

Speaker 1: 53:22

Like that's where I'm at Like hit their shin off of a tailgate or a hitch or something. You need to know some pain when you do something stupid. I'm no stranger to do it. I do stupid shit all the time and it's like instant karma for me Ever since I started this merch store. Anytime I do anything stupid I'll hit my head off of something because I'm 6'5". So there's no way. Boom, I don't have.

Speaker 1: 53:51

Yeah, like, and we real quick story. We'll have to run it down near the end of the episode here, but we bought a fixer upper house about a year ago a little over a year ago and I was looking at my wife and I was like this house isn't gonna work. She was just like it needs a lot of TLC, but I think we can do it and make it our own. I was like I'm not worried about that, let me show you something. And I walked to the door frame and the door frame was like right at my temple, yeah, if you can believe it. So I have to duck. We have that house. That's where I'm at right now. Like I have to duck everywhere I go and like I'll do something stupid and I'll go to walk into the bathroom and then I just crack my head off of something and it's just like it's not since I started this damn merch store Like that's it now. I hurt myself every time I do something stupid.

Speaker 2: 54:47

Yeah, that's you know the day jobs, automotive based. I had an instructor tell me that you can't make something idiot-proof and the answer is or he follows up with you can only make something idiot-resistant, because the moment you idiot-proof something, you meet a bigger idiot.

Speaker 1: 55:06

Yeah, it's like what Ron White's old joke is you can't fix stupid.

Speaker 2: 55:13

Yeah, you can't man it's, but we can riff on that for the rest of our lives for sure.

Speaker 1: 55:23

We're gonna be limited on time here because we are running down near the end of the episode. I do have to get this segment in, though, here, buddy. Yeah, go for it. It is one of my favorite segments and that is the Fast Fitty 5 5 random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny Fitty Falcone. And for the new listeners out there, these are kind of rapid fire, but you can elaborate if you need to, and I love the look on your face, because I don't tell any guest about this segment. Yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1: 55:54

Because it's fun, because if you could live in this man's mind, you would have material for life. Come and treat, and these have nothing to do with what we've been talking about for the entirety of the hour that we've been on here. So if you are ready, buddy, we will. Yeah, fire away, I'm ready, Alright. Question number one who wins in a fight? 10,000 Rats vs 5 Silverback Gorillas locked inside of a Rocketball court?

Speaker 2: 56:29

I'm going sober back.

Speaker 1: 56:30

I'm biased, I get it. He sent these to me today, by the way, for the new listeners out there. I didn't get to pre-read these, but like a minute before we started and I was looking at it like that's a good question.

Speaker 2: 56:42

but you know, I'm going gorillazed Five sober backs. I mean.

Speaker 1: 56:49

Back and ball courts are small, Like that's.

Speaker 2: 56:52

I feel like they have an advantage, just stopping at like 10 of them at a time. Yeah, they would have to be something where, like it was like a pit, like it would have to be, the only way the rats are winning, in my opinion, is if they're literally you have to anticipate they're not turning on their fellow rat, right? So I'm going sober back, unless I mean I guess you could say the same thing about them, but there's enough rats there. I don't know if they're going to be able to see each other.

Speaker 1: 57:19

I get it. That's a solid answer. Question number two would you rather be Vinnie from Jersey Shore or Vinnie from my cousin Vinnie?

Speaker 2: 57:29

Oh, brogan, it's a tough one I know. Yeah, man, I'm being.

Speaker 1: 57:37

I try to. I'm going Jersey Shore.

Speaker 2: 57:42

All right, All right, that's his. I mean you.

Speaker 1: 57:47

It's a simpler life, man, I get it.

Speaker 2: 57:52

You know, I don't have that, I don't, I don't have that simple life 100% with you on that one. I get it.

Speaker 1: 58:03

Question number three which one of these guys wins in a fight against the other in a dark alley? Conor McGregor, jake Paul, steven Seagal, kurt Angle.

Speaker 2: 58:19

He didn't elaborate. Are we talking Steven Seagal now or like?

Speaker 1: 58:23

He just says Steven Seagal. So it's you know what I would say? All in their prime.

Speaker 2: 58:28

just to kind of make this Again, though, like I mean, they're meeting all, they're meeting each other in the alley at the same time, and that's just they're about it right now.

Speaker 1: 58:40

Yeah, ooh, it's the way I'm reading the question.

Speaker 2: 58:45

Yeah, for sure I'm due to the lack of explanation of the thought I'm going McGregor, Solid choice.

Speaker 1: 58:53

That was my choice too. Question number four are baked or mashed potatoes better?

Speaker 2: 59:04

Ah see, you know there's variety of that, but I'm going baked because it's easier to doctor up a baked potatoes and mashed potatoes. You can easily have shitty mashed potatoes, but you can salvage a bad baked potato.

Speaker 1: 59:16

Solid, Solid. Question number five would you rather go on a trip by train or boat?

Speaker 2: 59:24

Man, I'm not a fucking patient for anything. The slowest forms of transportation I'd want to fucking jump off a boat Like if I was on the Titanic. I'd be like we need some adventures. We could go towards that iceberg. Dude, I can't sit still that long. I fucking hate boats, those choices. I'm going train because if I had to sit on a boat and just look at water I think I'd get pissed off.

Speaker 1: 59:56

Okay, I would say boat, because he didn't specify what type of boat I'm going. I'm thinking like cruise liner. You can get up and go to a bar, a restaurant, there's places to go. But I get what you're saying though.

Speaker 2: 1:00:13

Yeah, but if we're talking about forms of transportation, you can get up and move around or train too.

Speaker 1: 1:00:18

That's very true.

Speaker 2: 1:00:20

They got dining cards and stuff like that. You have options. Obviously, you're a little bit more limited on a train, but at least the scenery is changing. If you're telling me that I'm going from mainland to mainland across the ocean, I'm going to go to the. It had been more entertaining to ask Buddy Holly if he wanted to fly. But you know, yeah, I think I'm going to train, just for the fact that, like you could, at least, if you were bored, you could look at the changing scenery.

Speaker 1: 1:00:51

I get you. I'm not mad at that answer either, but yeah, that's wow. He brought the thunder for these ones, buddy, I'm not going to lie to you here, like those were some of the more elaborate questions that he's come up with at a long time.

Speaker 2: 1:01:07

Dude, the baked mashed potato one. That's because I mean I've had terrible boats.

Speaker 1: 1:01:13

You know what I mean yeah, see, you know my wife's full Irish. So like there's potatoes in every meal that we have, like that's not even an option, Like we're getting potatoes like no matter what it is.

Speaker 1: 1:01:29

So yeah, but that was the Fast 55. I like it. It's a fun way we've come to end the show. We were thinking about it back in season one when we started the show. Well, when he came out of the show and I was like you know what?

Speaker 1: 1:01:44

I was just on one of my buddies podcast and he, he had a really interesting way to end the show and he came up with like the Mount Rushmore of and it was whoever he was talked to, like me, was comedian, so it was the Mount Rushmore of comedy and comedians and was like oh, that's a loaded question, but that's it, let's roll with it. So I was like I want to come up with something like that. And I was like, dude, wait a minute, you come up with the most random questions every day. He was like dude, it's called the Fast 55 and I'll come up with my. I'll just say some of my random questions, because like that silverback gorilla question with the rats and like the Conor McGregor question are questions he asked me on a daily basis. Like this is how this man's mind works.

Speaker 1: 1:02:32

I love him to death. I've known him since college and he would come up to me like in college he'd be like hi, bono, I've got another one for you. And just be like alright, batman, conor McGregor and a gorilla trapped in a racquetball court who wins. It's like racquetball, or is it a fight like I need? Like, what are we talking here? Like, and yeah, we would get into these heated debates like just off of these fucking questions, so we take them up with the Fast 55. That's great, and I don't tell guests, especially that haven't listened to the show or anything like that, or that you know that that's gonna happen, because I want to see their genuine reaction.

Speaker 1: 1:03:14

Yeah that's great, a lot of people are like wait a minute, you didn't tell me about this before we were going on our pre-show preface. Like yeah, it was on purpose. Like that's 100% on purpose.

Speaker 2: 1:03:25

Those are great.

Speaker 1: 1:03:27

But alright, buddy, we are running down here at the end of the show. I give every guest this opportunity to end of the show. There's anything you want to get out there, whether it's for your beard care company, your comedy career, anything like that. I'm gonna give you about a minute, man. The floor is yours.

Speaker 2: 1:03:40

Well, the beard care is simple. You can find me on BuddyHeadBeardCarecom. We also have Facebook and Instagram. Under BuddyHeadBeardCare, the comedy stuff I got must be the buddy on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook it's BuddyHollyComedy and for based off of the shows airing, my next beard care event is going to be in May. If you follow me on social media you'll be able to find me there. I'll be at the Ashland County Fairgrounds here in Ohio. For let me double check those dates here, so I'll mix that up. Yeah, the 11th, the 10th and the 11th. So right after sink to the mile.

Speaker 1: 1:04:22

Alright, that is right. You got anything else? Nope, I'm good man. Alright, appreciate you. That was Buddy's beard care, and that is gonna do it for this episode of the Ride Home Rans podcast. Again, I want to thank my guest, buddy Holly, for joining, and his beard, because I feel like there's a tag team coming on on the show. It is phenomenal and I wish I could grow mine that long, but I don't have the patience. As always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just because you didn't. That's gonna do it for me and I will see y'all next week.