Afternoon Pint
Afternoon Pint is a laid-back Canadian podcast hosted by Matt Conrad and Mike Tobin. Each episode, they invite a special guest to join them at a pub or microbrewery to get to know them a bit better. Conversations cover a wide range of topics, including Entrepreneurship, business, Arts, pop culture, music, science, society, Life stories, experiences, you get the idea...
Our aim is to create a show for everyone (even non-Canadians.) We create a welcoming atmosphere where guests can share their perspectives with transparency. Essentially, Afternoon Pint is like heading to the pub after work to catch up with some friends through your headphones or stereo. We are Nova Scotia's #2 podcast, but we pretend we are number 1!
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Afternoon Pint
Kristyn Green - Comedy, TV, Craft Beer & Sci-Fi with Halifax's Funniest Host
Kristyn Green shares her story from growing up in a small town in New Brunswick to becoming an award-winning performer, comedian, actor, director, writer and tv personality host. She has a wide range of projects on the go and she is one who promotes that in order to make it in the world you want to be in, you might have to create the role yourself.
Kristyn shares the challenges of live performance, her love for craft beer, (You can catch her in her own show about local drinks called Sláinte on Eastlink TV, as well as a show about being a bartender at an Irish Pub on Fibe 1 (O'Dons & Car Wash Wars)
Thank you to Garrison Brewing for the accommodation and tune in to hear what Kristyn's special drink there is. She might be on to something!
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just uh talk for a second hello my name is christian green and I'm excited to be here today oh my jesus, okay, I just did carrots and peas carrots and peas.
Speaker 3:Carrots and peas carrots and peas, but that works too I know you gotta take the time.
Speaker 2:Anytime you have the opportunity to improvise your own song, you gotta take it. You take it. You've got to take that 100%.
Speaker 1:We did a Christmas song you did we did. You should listen to our Christmas special. You should listen to our Christmas song.
Speaker 3:Why would I?
Speaker 2:listen to it when you're here and you can sing it to me right now.
Speaker 1:It's not going to happen. No, we have guitar and auto-tune.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, cheers, cheers welcome to the afternoon fight.
Speaker 1:I'm mike tobin, I am matt conrad. And who do you have with us today?
Speaker 2:I'm kristin green kristin green.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, kristin, kristin, kristin, our paths have somewhat crossed over a little bit of time here, but we haven't actually met the most hall of famous person in halifax, according to the coast magazine there in 2024.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was last year, is that?
Speaker 3:right, yeah, she was nominated for Hall of Famous Best Actor, but you won gold for comedian.
Speaker 2:I did, I did do that crazy thing that you just said. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:Amazing. Thank you, that's one level above us. We only got silver, so we got silver podcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but how long have you guys been doing this?
Speaker 3:A year Well there you go, there you go, maybe, not a year, maybe a year and a half Two and a half years or something like that. No, it's a year and a half we started in. You didn't count the work beforehand, dude.
Speaker 2:We started in July. Well, yeah, there's no way of knowing. I. Congratulations on gold. That's huge Thank you. That is very kind. It's been. It actually was crazy because it was like that one was one where I literally remember when I started doing standup in like 2016 and the Coast was coming out and I remember it being that best comic and I was just like and I was just like literally remember this 2016 Christmas, being like, oh my gosh, what if it was? That was you one day.
Speaker 1:And then I friggin' said it and arguably it's a good feat. There's a lot more comics in Halifax now than there was even 10 years ago. Oh my gosh, there's so many and I have to say on top of that is that.
Speaker 2:What means a lot to me is that I haven't really been doing a lot of stand-up, and there are a few reasons for that, um, but I so, so I haven't even been able to explore my comedy like through stand up in a while, but like my hosting, which is something I do, yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:Now I like host uh burlesque and drag shows and I and I'm yes, and I love being like comedic through that, so it just means a lot to me that someone thought best comic and like you just did the new year's eve thing down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did, yeah, I did, yeah, I did. That's pretty awesome, that's pretty fun, that's cool.
Speaker 2:That was my second time doing that and that was like uh, that's a wild one, like the way I explain it to people, or it's like I either host live events or I host television, but that is the one thing where it's like both of them at the same time and it does hurt my brain like it is so such a weird thing, because you're trying to get people like energetic and be like, wow, yeah, we're here.
Speaker 1:But then you also know it's so epic cold like it was so bad after the first one.
Speaker 2:Last one wasn't as bad as the first one after the first one, like I went home and I went right in the tub like cranked the boiling heat in the tub had a bottle of champagne.
Speaker 1:It was just like.
Speaker 2:I'm like cranked the boiling heat in the tub had a bottle of champagne. It was just like it was like, ah, anyway, the happy new year or whatever, but no, it was. It was warmer this year. But it's just like a weird funny, like someone's in your ear too and talking and telling you to do stuff, and then like.
Speaker 2:So even there was this one part in the show where I went down and I interviewed somebody, this sweetheart, her name was Blair, and she was like in the front row and I was starting to interview her and then all of a sudden, my mic and the thing in my ear were having a frequency thing or like being like okay like interfering.
Speaker 2:So I'm trying to talk to her and and on national live television, and then meanwhile in the ear is just going oh my gosh. And I have to act like I'm not hearing that and still be like oh and so, blair, what do you think?
Speaker 3:What do you think about that noise in my ear?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly Did you see, what is it Kristen? What's the comedian there that did the New Year's Eve on CNN there this year? She said some wild stuff.
Speaker 3:Whitney Cummings. We're talking Whitney Cummings. Whitney's one of my favorite, favorite like she's great.
Speaker 1:Whitney Cummings. She's awesome. She's been a comic for like she's been around for a while 15, 20 years easy. Yeah, she had a TV show that kind of flopped. I liked it but it flopped. But uh, she, she, yeah, like she's a.
Speaker 3:She was seeing how much you could get away with saying on cnn oh and it was crazy, oh, really it was awesome yeah, so just go listen to that clip if you get a chance. Yeah, just go just go whitney cummings and like she has all the stuff posted, like all the things like on there. Okay, you definitely need to check it out. She's she's good, she, she's coming here in. August.
Speaker 1:No way.
Speaker 3:She's coming with Bert Kreischer, oh cool.
Speaker 1:No way. Well, that'd be fun to see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we also need to get them on the podcast.
Speaker 1:I would love to have all those guys on the show. You would have to.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Bert would be fun to have a beer with I imagine.
Speaker 1:Bert is one of my favorites.
Speaker 3:We're at Garrison. Yeah, we're at the Oxford Tavern. Oxford Tavern, great spot.
Speaker 1:This episode's coming out in February. Yes, february, the first week of February, I believe. But I'm doing a dry January because I'm having. Well, I'm trying to get healthy because I'm getting a little chunky around the midsection and I have hernia surgery next week. Yeah, I'm getting my hernias. Do you know how that is? No, next week, yeah, getting my hernias, like, do you know how that is?
Speaker 3:Um, no, no it's not cool, it's not think of like. It's like he has an alien in his belly. Really, it's like that. Is it bad? I'll show you the video.
Speaker 1:I'm actually going to put it up on the Instagram page here, but maybe when your video comes. I was having a lot of fun. I got an ultrasound. They showed the little thing moving around like an alien in there. It's crazy, wow. But a hernia is when your gut kind of pops out of your abdominal wall? No way, and it comes from lifting stuff or being generally weak. One of the two, I won't say which one, it is A little bit of both, maybe a little both.
Speaker 2:No way. Well, thank you for sharing that medical condition that you have. You feel comfortable to say I have my first hemorrhoid. Oh, wow, yeah, that's not fun. It's not fun. That's how I entered 2025 my very first time. No way, what's happening that's?
Speaker 1:like, like an aging milestone, it's just like your first hemorrhoid you never had one, you never held, are you?
Speaker 3:39.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's wild yeah no, I did and I came out and then I was like to my husband, I was just like, so I think that I have my first. He was like oh God, and he just like immediately ran and got me some medication and stuff. So that was really nice.
Speaker 1:Awesome Preparation age.
Speaker 2:Yeah, preparation age All right, so sorry.
Speaker 1:Sponsor of the show. Should we still say we're at garrison? Brewing so we're at garrison brewing um, you guys had a.
Speaker 3:You are interesting. This is your idea, your little concoction here.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much so, oh my gosh, thank you. So I I really like flavorful beers, like I don't like my husband's, like pilsner only you know what I mean like I always love like really hoppy, or I love like fruity or like whatever. Um, so I usually go for ipas, but I also feel like a full ipa sometimes gets me a little bit too drunk and so um, but I also feel like a fruit drink, sometimes too fruity.
Speaker 2:So then I found out, if you combine like half of a ipa with half like a fruity kind of a beer, then it makes this like lightly fruity, hoppy, easy drinking this is a good combination, though, thank you, so this is my. This is the one like. I only drink this here. When I come to garrison I get half little juicy, half georgia peach. If I want to be silly, then I'll do half um double ipa like the juicy.
Speaker 1:They were like. They were like no, they were like beer cocktail and I'm like beer cocktail. I didn't know that was a thing, but I guess that's a thing, no way, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I thought that they were going to be like Christian, because now when I come, I've been to here a few times and then they're like oh, you, like, oh. I remember this order and I'm like it's really good you should try it Really good.
Speaker 3:The Georgia peach matches well with the juicy.
Speaker 1:I love the Georgia peach beer. It actually does work.
Speaker 3:And I like the juicy.
Speaker 1:So I can't see it going wrong, Honestly it works, it works, it really does work.
Speaker 3:Like you can miss it a couple times, right, Like the peach does actually match well with the juicy, Like if you were to put something else in there, I find that you know it can be thrown off, Like, and you throw some fruit in there, it can really throw it off, oh yeah, Because you'll get like this weird bitterness with some fruit flavor and it's blah blah. The Georgia peach works well with this.
Speaker 2:Thank you, it does, it does. My other best example is from Good Robot. I'll do half their jalapeno and half, and this is my best example. Actually, like you can't just do any IPA, I can't do jalapeno and creature feature, because that's like a fruity IPA, that's too much so I have to pick, like a bitter IPA to go with that jalapeno. So you're right.
Speaker 3:There is like more science to all this. I bet you, if you got like, if you got an IPA that has like those nice like pineapple flavors, that would go well with the jalapeno. Oh my God, that's sick, because I'm thinking like you know what that's awesome. I like pizza. I know people get pineapple on pizzas, but I like pineapple pizza. I like bacon, pineapple and jalapenos. Because you get salty, sweet and spicy. It's like flavor party in your mouth pizza.
Speaker 2:It's the best. Oh my gosh that sounds. And spicy, yeah, it's like flavor party in your mouth pizza, oh my gosh that sounds like a little too overstimulating for me, maybe, but but I'm not.
Speaker 1:You're onto something here.
Speaker 2:These beer cocktail things are pretty cool ideas, thank you, and it is like well, it is not even because people say beer cocktail is like beer and juice and it's like. I'm not doing that, I'm just combining beers, two beers just combining your beers together and they also have it.
Speaker 3:They also have their, the Garrison. They were doing this for a little while when they had their raspberry, and they're not brown. You put them together and it's called the PBJ sandwich. Pbj, okay, that's it.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:It was so good and that's actually what I was thinking about, because, anyway, I've known of that before. So there's actually a show on Eastlink that I host called Slancha.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was only going to bring it up because it is where. Slancha. Yeah, how do you say it Slancha?
Speaker 3:Like Slancha, like cheers, it's cheers. Oh, okay, in Gaelic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Slancha, okay, great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know it T-E. So everybody's like Slainty and it's like no, no, no, Slainty. Okay cool and anyway I host this show. It's Snow Dog Productions. My friend Holly is the one who produces it, but anyway we like go and visit all of these breweries and I get to interview people about like all these brewers and like all around the province and in PEI and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:It's so awesome and I actually have asked brewers like. One of my favorite questions is being like are you okay with people mixing your beer, because you have this like idea in mind, and then I'm just like kind of fucking with it and I feel like a lot of the time they're like no, that's what beer is about.
Speaker 1:It's about expression.
Speaker 2:That's a good answer, and it was such a cool answer and they're like like no, it's not, we're not trying to gatekeep this recipe or whatever. Like you should explore, you should do do whatever with it.
Speaker 1:So when does that show air like what times of year, oh?
Speaker 2:my gosh. I wish I knew this answer. That's so embarrassing no, that's all right uh, I should have known that at the top of my head. We've done the show itself. Is has done, I think like eight seasons now wow, okay I've hosted four of them, um, and so our next one. I think it should be coming out in like spring Cool, but that's on East Link and that is. It's so cool. I just literally get to go around to, like even just right now I'm like okay, brewery on Quinn's, we went there.
Speaker 1:Haven't done.
Speaker 2:Garrison, yet, unfortunately, but like Propeller, like just all of the breweries and wineries. And it's so, so it is amazing. So I got excited when you guys were talking about, like that you talk about beer on your show too, because I'm like, I love talking about beer like I get really excited what's your favorite style of beer?
Speaker 1:like we just say like what are you a seasonal person you kind of stick with, like you always have a favorite type so great question.
Speaker 2:um, I'm usually just like go to IPA all the time, like always an IPA, because I love a really hoppy, like hops are my favorite thing, Just so you know.
Speaker 3:he calls that the psychopath of beers.
Speaker 2:No way, why. Why do you say that it's also that's the premier? That's okay, it's okay, it's our favorite, it's the premier.
Speaker 3:It's his favorite as well. No way yeah.
Speaker 2:It does, I think maybe because not a lot of people can handle it. You know what I mean. Like, I have some friends where they're like oh, IPA, Like oh, I can't oh.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Like. You know what I mean, right, but I love it. I love something that I want a beer that's going to punch me in the fucking mouth.
Speaker 3:Like that punches you and I don't know if you guys are. I know you are. You're a Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan. You a Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan.
Speaker 2:I like watched it when it came out, but I haven't really seen it ever since, Okay so there's a guy on there early seasons, a guy named Teddy Okay.
Speaker 3:He dates one of the main characters and he's a Pilsner guy. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:He's a Pilsner guy, you know what? It's so funny because it's like here's the thing I'm not going to make fun of your husband because I like Pilsners. No, do it, do it, roast him.
Speaker 3:I like Pilsners. I do Like a good, good, good Czech Pilsner is like I get real nerdy sometimes. I'm like do you guys have Zotz hops in there?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's not a real Czech Pilsner.
Speaker 3:And they were like, oh, just a second, we'll look it up. And they were like, oh yeah, it does have Zotz hops. And I was like, oh, I'll try it then, right. So I get real nerdy because good, really good, czech Pilsners are awesome a little more bland. And so this character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, everything about this guy is boring, like everything about him, and like eventually like they don't, they don't stay together, because it's just kind of like he just everything he talks about is Pilsner's all the time, and it's just like it's so anyway, when he said like oh, my husband's a Pilsner, I immediately went to this guy.
Speaker 2:It was so I will, I will. I promise, my husband is not this Pilsner guy. He does have a Mohawk and he's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Oh well, okay, he's not completely boring.
Speaker 2:No, he's not completely.
Speaker 3:He's not completely. He's not Teddy.
Speaker 2:But no, but also Pilsner. You're right. It's like I don't like the up with IPAs. You can mask it. You know what I mean. You can you can and then put in the hops or whatever. So it is like it's, you have so much appreciation for it when it's like really good and you know what's funny is all. That being said, my favorite beer right now is a Pilsner, but here we are here we are do you guys like smokehouse?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, have you had their strawberry pilsner? Yes, I did. Actually. It's amazing. Uh, there was a christmas market on, uh, uh, anyway, north end halifax. It was a christmas market and my wife and son and I stopped at smokehouse and we went there and we and I tried a flight and I tried this strawberry pilsner.
Speaker 2:It's good it's fantastic and it's one that we were like drinking in the summer because it was like, oh, strawberry, that fits, and then. But then it got colder and colder. It's like, no, I just want to drink this, I just want to drink this. And now, even when we go there, I'm off the IPAs there because I'm so onto this strawberry pilsner. It is so good.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2:I just love beer, I love talking.
Speaker 3:I could quite literally talk about beer all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should make a podcast about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, funny thing about that, we started on beer but then it kind of went on a tangent and then comes back to beer and lands and then the plane just goes up and down. Yeah, we talk about the guests and then we talk about beer and then talk about the guests and a little bit of that. Things like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3:So yeah, okay, so you get to this awesome show on Eastlink which talks about beer, but you do a couple things on Eastlink.
Speaker 2:I do Thank you for asking. I also host a show Sorry, so Sláinte. I host that for Snow Dog Productions which goes to Eastlink, and then I have the show Maritime Inc and Maritime Inc. I direct it, I write it, I production.
Speaker 1:Was that?
Speaker 2:tattoo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, tattoo. Yeah, so I didn't know you were directing in that.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, I direct it and I write it and I coordinate it, oh wow, and I host it and what's wild is like, that's actually the show I'm in pre-production for right now, and so it's just like. That's why, when you were asking my availability- and I was like oh my God, I have, like I have barely I mean, because I you're just off with that so much.
Speaker 3:No, no, that's that. Then that's fair. And, like I said, like you know what, don't ever apologize for making a living, right, yeah, that's awesome, but cause I actually uh, well, it was kind of like, you know, going through the whole creeping thing and everything, yeah, um, for this it uh, just for the episode, just for the episode just to be clear. No, the uh. No, you know what? Actually, because I want to dive down in, because you often talk about 16 year old you, oh, I 2016.
Speaker 2:Kristin was so just. That was when my life changed forever like okay and so literally like my okay even further before that. Okay, my whole life I've always been like very entertained. I've always been like an actor and like a and like entertaining and I've always been like like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:We should start off that. You are from like the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, oh, my god, I am. I'm from, I'm from Lower Knoxford, new Brunswick. Probably like 90 people live there, but then the closest town to us has like 600 people and anyway. So it's just like in the middle of nowhere. But at the same time, it's this community that like we were really lucky that we had this incredible like drama teacher Weldon Matthews, who ended up teaching these other incredible drama teachers like barb dingy and like um derek tracy and like all these people so like there are. It's a weird little hub where it's in the middle of nowhere but there have been so many talented people come out of this region. It's like my. It is weird and it's like myself. My brother, tommy green, is a huge musician, like he's a headliner.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I'm reading the book right now. The the revenge of the tipping point. Malcolm gladwell, do you know who that is? Yeah, so he did the tipping point, like so many years ago. Now he's doing the revenge of the tipping point. Okay, it's all about small areas and things in the alchemy in those areas that made certain places wow. So when they think that there's that's just oh, it's just weird, yeah, there's almost always seems to be a hidden kind of alchemy there of what made this town this way and those people are that way. But the thing is in these small towns like.
Speaker 3:All you really need is one person. It's similar to like to sports. You have, like the coaching tree, right. You have the coaching tree of sports. You have one guy who's known as a great coach and then he coaches his like assistant coaches or coordinators and stuff like that, and they come up and eventually they get really good at their job and they leave to go become head coaches somewhere else. Yeah, and they look at the coaching tree of like. You know well this person who's now like, and then it's like next thing. You know, you look, it's like wow, six head coaches in the nfl all came from this one head coach. And it's like. You look at the coaching tree, right. So it can happen very easily in a small town. Yeah, it takes one person right, who can?
Speaker 3:inspire. Six, ten, fifty.
Speaker 2:There's so many people and you know what like it's like it's my, it's, it's like me, my brother, um x, who, in my opinion, is the best drag performer in the city is also from my hometown um sandy hunter. Who's like the producer of two shows that I've started now um he is from my hometown and the craziest is that Mike Allison, who's the showrunner of this Hour, has 22 Minutes is also from my hometown and it's like yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2:There's this guy, clem McIntosh, who like he's like a crazy actor and he's it's just like so wild actually, and to the point where now actually we're in talks, being like we have to create something all together and in our hometown that would be cool. Yeah, we're kind of talking about it. Actually I should have asked Sandy before now if I'm allowed to talk about it or not, because actually I realized we are chatting and we have some stuff and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about it?
Speaker 1:Stuff is coming.
Speaker 2:And when it comes just let.
Speaker 3:We'll bring them all on the show and we'll do it with everybody. Oh, you're so sweet.
Speaker 1:I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3:You can be the Tom Holland of the Maritimes.
Speaker 2:They don't tell him anything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, tom Holland Spider-Man.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, so he's known through Marvel for the last 10 years or whatever, being Spider-Man and everything. He's known as the guy who reveals things. Right by accident In interviews known as the guy who reveals things right in interviews and he'll say something and he's like oh, I don't think I'm supposed to say that. So now, like he actually some of the later ones. They were like yeah, they didn't tell me until like last minute that this was going to happen, because they know that I was going to say something, all right.
Speaker 1:So you have this hometown bunch of creatives that are kind of concentrating this very small area. How did you break out or find oh yeah, okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:This is so, so helpful because it was like I was I was always in drama and all the shit like that, but then. But then when you graduate high school, it's just like oh, you go to university, that's what you do, period period.
Speaker 2:So, like I went to university, um, I got a ba in geography because, and I was just like, and I and I almost dropped out a couple times because I had a rough time. It wasn't who I was, but I kept forcing it and I kept, whatever anyway. So then I graduated and then I spent like a year and a half or like two years like not knowing what I was doing. I was working as a harbor hopper tour guide, okay, um, in the summers, which was- sick.
Speaker 1:I did that for like six years actually. I don't like that for so long.
Speaker 2:But I was working at a catering company, the Canard Center, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just like anyway, anyway. And but thank fuck, thank fuck, guys. In 2016, like literally in January, my brother, tommy, called me and was like on a Friday maybe it was literally to the day, cause this is friday, anyway, yeah and he was like, hey, what are you doing sunday? And I was like nothing, why? And he was like I just booked you on a stand-up comedy show and you have to wait five minutes. And I was like oh, oh, fuck, okay, anyway.
Speaker 1:Uh, pretty well actually it went good the first time.
Speaker 2:It did go well, that's awesome I do have a theory everybody who ever does stand-up for the very first time, their first time, will always do do well.
Speaker 1:First time is okay. First time is always good. First time is always good because you have this charm. It was the third time for me. Did you say Mount St Allison University?
Speaker 2:I'm from Mount Allison.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went to Mount Allison, Okay that was the first place I bombed, I think.
Speaker 2:No way Shut up.
Speaker 1:It was there or Fuck. I don't know the names of places or things I just kind of flow through life. If it's a noun, he forgets I went to this university and I had a joke where I was making fun of myself, okay, but it offended people and it wasn't a bad. I'm not gonna tell you it wasn't that funny, but uh, but anyways, yeah, that was the first time I massively bombed my crickets. Yeah, yeah, it hurt and and that's it.
Speaker 2:That was your third time that was my third time I that, I'm not even joking you this is my thing I go first time, you will always do great. Yeah, your second time, you will not do well. Your third time, you are the worst and then the fourth time, you, you are okay again right, all right.
Speaker 3:So stop it too. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1:Stop it too, okay yeah yeah, stop it, stop at one, stop at one, stop at one, because, yeah, it's hard and soft. Well, I think too is like all those things about you, like they're laughing at the nervousness and the awkwardness and shit, probably the first time, right Like my hands were shaking.
Speaker 2:You have a charm to you and like inability to remember things. I was reading my jokes off the paper jokes yeah, probably trembling hands and it probably seems like it was a little stage.
Speaker 1:It's even just like the first time you deliver a joke is the best time because it sounds. It's then when you get confident with that terrible joke, you're like that's terrible, that's a shitty joke. Why are you telling?
Speaker 3:everybody that yeah, exactly exactly, and you can easily just if you sound rehearsed at all, people just like don't, you don't sound believable, yeah I think and I don't know if we've talked about this before, but I honestly think that people don't realize how hard stand-up comedy is oh my god, it's, it's. You know, they think like you know, you can hang out with your buddies and you can sit there and you can make jokes and you can, like you know, kind of feed off each other and everyone's sitting there laughing and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:But that doesn't translate on the stage, no, oh my god, God, there's so many people who are like so many uh, and let's say it, they're all young white boys actually, and they're all like I could just stand up. Yeah, I have this really funny joke about uh, no, sorry, I could just stand up. I have a funny story about this time when I got drunk and then I and because you all like think that that's funny, but nobody else is gonna find that funny, right, anyway?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, so we started doing stand-up and then, and then from that I was like, oh shit, okay, I gotta like maybe, maybe, I am more of a performer. So then from that I moved to toronto and I went to second city okay to like learn about like improv and writing, and okay cool acting and sketch writing and stuff like that. Um, and then from that I was like holy shit, um, because I was trying to be a comedian for a while did you do something with neptune last year?
Speaker 1:theater I saw you do some theater last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hosted the um.
Speaker 3:I did two things you did fringe, yeah, and I hosted.
Speaker 2:I hosted the, the very first burlesque festival. Yeah, that's right too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah that was, like actually probably my favorite gig of the whole year.
Speaker 2:That was a yeah yeah, that was like actually probably my favorite gig of the whole year that was a huge, like that was a big thing. And then I did the fringe festival, yeah, with my friend, uh, greg puncher, we made this show called butt suckers what was it about?
Speaker 1:I saw the poster, but I have no idea what it's about. I didn't go any further. What was it?
Speaker 2:I have to say it was all Greg's idea.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Greg came to me and he was like look, Kristen, I have this idea for uh, for a play, and essentially it's like it's a breakup and and it's really tense and you don't know why people are breaking up and all this stuff. And then it and then it kind of teases about maybe some. You think it's butt stuff and like it's teased like that and all this stuff and like and all this stuff. And then it and then it kind of teases about maybe some. You think it's butt stuff and like it's teased like that and all this stuff and like and all this stuff, and it's sad and it's and it has heartbreak. But then at the very end it's revealed that, uh, we are breaking up because he wants to use, uh, toiletsets are the new thing and toilets, and he thinks that butt suckers are bad for you. And I say, babe, we've always used butt suckers. If they're bad for us, why would our own government be endorsing?
Speaker 3:butt suckers. Oh, this is awesome.
Speaker 2:Why would we? This is what it is. And then he's like what have I been telling you? Follow the money. It's all big poo and I'm like I find that part of me that's conspiracy theory. And we go back and forth and he's like look at the evidence. And then this is so funny.
Speaker 1:He's actually, he's like he was crazy, it was wild.
Speaker 2:And then like at, at the end, he's like and he, uh, he's like, he's like. Look at the evidence, your own evidence. How many hemorrhoid creams have?
Speaker 2:you gone through in the last month and I'm like I don't know what that has to do with anything, which is hilarious, because now I'm having my first hemorrhoid without knowing anything about it. Um, anyway, and at the very end it's any and anyway, and, and then, and then he. So I'm like he's like, oh, these new toilets are the best thing, it's gonna get recycled. And I'm like then what? He's like, oh, these new toilets are the best thing, it's going to get recycled. And I'm like then what? And he's like then it gets treated and then it goes back into our water system. And then I'm like so then I'm drinking my own fucking shit, like what?
Speaker 3:the hell.
Speaker 2:And so it's this huge allegory for climate change, but essentially, us only sticking with the way that things were, and even based on our own scientific evidence, we won't change. And like, but essentially like us only sticking with the way that things were, and even based on our own scientific evidence, we won't change. And at the end it's like even if you love somebody so much, but you are going to not. You love this, this is your soulmate, but you cannot agree on this very moral issue and therefore you cannot be together.
Speaker 1:Wow, and it was, and it was like it was fucking wild. That's some deep stuff about toilets, man it was so wild, it was all his idea.
Speaker 2:It was all his idea and I was like okay I love it okay, and then I wrote it he went away for future for us.
Speaker 1:And then he came back and I had so he had the idea and he took off and you wrote the thing and I wrote it amazing.
Speaker 2:And then I mean you're giving him too much credit, then yeah it's easy to come up with ideas.
Speaker 3:Hey toby, think of this, go and write it could you sorry?
Speaker 2:who could have come up with that idea? Okay, you know what I mean. Like I would never yeah it is a great idea does
Speaker 2:he smoke marijuana by chance yeah, we both do a lot good source for those types of ideas, for sure it was wild, it was so fun, and then it was his idea at the very end. We then faked this infomercial from the 60s being like turn on your butt, sucker, the butt sucker 3000. And then we made this thing, it was crazy. It was one of my favorite things I did of the year and we won best of venue, best of the year, and we won Best of Venue Best of the Venue for that show.
Speaker 1:That's amazing, thank you Actually crazy. Yeah, thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker 2:But everybody's like and my parents, I think, were just like butt suckers Like.
Speaker 3:Kristen come on.
Speaker 2:And. I was like a little nervous because I make community television. I was a bit nervous.
Speaker 1:Right, that's fair. It's good for you to take those risks in a sense, right, I love it. I just think it's you know.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, yeah, community television is fantastic, but you got to keep pushing yourself right and I feel like that's such a good point because it's like the point of art is like sometimes it does have to be kind of in your face and because it would be so easy for you to see that and be like, oh Kristen, why would you? You're making a bet we, oh Kristen, why would you.
Speaker 3:You're making a bet.
Speaker 2:We've struggled that with this. Yeah, I bet Big time. I bet people are like oh you make a silly beer thing.
Speaker 1:We want to go even further than that sometimes, but it's like we've been friends for 20 years.
Speaker 3:So it's like so we have dark humor.
Speaker 1:We have some dark humor. We bounce everything off each other and everything.
Speaker 3:And we, you know there's some safe space jokes.
Speaker 1:That happens and everything right, but it's. It's one of those things where it's like we come up with some ideas and then I'm like I put my little hat on of, like how's that going to affect our brand? Is it? Are people not going to think we got full-time jobs too right, like you know?
Speaker 3:so it's like how is that going to affect our careers? How's that going to affect our brand? Are people not going to take us seriously in here? Right, but we have some things that we want to do. That's kind of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, right. So I mean one thing we do is we and we did this today, we saw some friends and we just keep talking about the ideas that are risky, that we want to do, and if they get tremendous laughs, yeah.
Speaker 2:Then you're like that shit's worth it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty good. Let's take a risk, don't? Then sometimes I know that I'll think something super fucking funny and I'll just think it's the greatest thing in the world and it's crickets. My family, my friends, everyone's like Tobin. There is nothing funny about that.
Speaker 3:There is something funny that we have. We'll talk about that offline, but we were talking about you today with our friends. We have an idea that the three of us we want to do.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about it afterwards. Oh yeah, yeah, brainstorming sessions today, right, yeah, the brainstorm session and we thought you'd be the good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so intrigued cool. I'm the person.
Speaker 2:I'm the person you're gonna give $500 to wow.
Speaker 1:That's amazing how about a cool five?
Speaker 3:so dumb. So you start in your stand up comedy but then you did your comedy and hosting and stuff like that on cruise ships thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was like I was in Toronto at Second City and then I was trying to be a comic for a while that I didn't have any money and I was like, yes, hilarious being an artist. So then my brother, because he's been working on cruise ships forever, um, as a musician, he was like yo go and do this thing. There's this job where you can be an activities host and you can host trivia and karaoke and games and whatever, and it's funny, you get to see the world and so I did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true and it was actually sick. I, I did I. My ship was out of australia, so I got to see australia and all of new zealand, wow, um, which was insane. And then I got to you literally do like every day I host at least five things a day and it is different.
Speaker 2:I will do like a morning like Zumba class and then like and then a napkin folding class, and then a trivia, and then a karaoke and then a game show, and it's just like and that's, and you don't get a day off when you work on cruise ships. So it was like doing that every single day for six months and that was how I learned to be a host. So it was like doing that every single day for six months, um, and that was how I learned to be a host.
Speaker 3:So that's the best school every day for six months straight.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And this is the reason, like so, it's so weird because I say this now, like so, I actually give a hosting workshop now, because this is my, like, first job, my day job is being a host.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And um, and so I say like, if you want to be a host, going on cruise ships is the best, like you do. There's nowhere else you could try to hustle in the city. You're going to even hustling. Maybe you'll host one thing oh, we just don't have a day off, that being said and you get to travel the world. That being said, it also for me, really, it was like a microcosm of the world's problems onto one thing, onto one little ship. So there's classes among the crew there's classes among guests there's racism there's everything.
Speaker 1:I never think of it that way there's classes among guests.
Speaker 2:Right there are like there's racism, there's everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's, there's. You know, I never think of it that way.
Speaker 2:But yeah, there's so much homophobia even Like there's still like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you think it's like a paradise on the water, but but in the crew, like it's fucked Right and the worst, like the worst is Canada, that I'm just doing this for fun and my contract is seven months. I left early because I had a medical condition, but anyway, doesn't matter, my contract seven months, I get paid so much money and and it's fun and whatever. And then there's all the other people who are there working as stewardess and like all these places that are from like India and China and Philippines and are there because they have to be there to send money home to their families and their contracts are longer than mine, their shifts per day are longer than mine, their contract is longer than mine and they get paid less than me.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And it's like Just because they can, because they can, and so you have these people and then you have all the white privilege dancers who are so entitled and get days off and are like I'm a dancer, so I get the privilege Anyway. So it all still fucked me up. It is like a catch-22. I needed it to be where I am today and if you want to do it. It is the best way to learn.
Speaker 3:Would you say it's more of a young person's game, though Kind of you can't really go and like I'm 39 and I have a family, it's not like I can go on a cruise. No, you couldn't.
Speaker 2:No, exactly it is like you'd have to have no ties. You need to have, like no other job you have and do that for seven months. It is a young person's game, I think, just because you don't have as much if you don't have as much responsibilities in your life. But if you are like 40 and have no responsibility and want to do that go, fucking go for it.
Speaker 1:But if you just got divorced, they're like you know, get on a boat and go live life for a minute. You get to go travel and see the world.
Speaker 2:There you go, there you go. To anyone getting divorced.
Speaker 3:We have the perfect recommendation for you. Yeah, we have the perfect recommendation.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, you might have to be white by the sound of it. That's a terrible part of that, but otherwise than that it sounds okay. Yeah, it's not bad Awkward, it's not that bad Okay.
Speaker 3:So the other thing that you've been hosting, though, is this is where we actually crossed like almost crossed paths, paths. I did cross paths, but I missed you. I was like I recognize you and as you walk by, and I was like man. I hope she doesn't think I was just like staring at her, but I was like she looks so familiar, and it was like after I just want to go back to the part he's like.
Speaker 1:I researched it a lot. I know because I was and you walk by and I was like it was for the episode.
Speaker 3:I was like no, no at this time, at this time, at this time, it was just like why does that person look so familiar? And then I was like I went, I went home.
Speaker 1:No, we both spotted you on on the escalator. Yeah, yeah, at the Halcon. Oh, I see At the Halcon.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then I was like wait a minute, that's because we are on Instagram. And was like that's it, that's where I've seen her, that's who it was, and because I saw you, you were.
Speaker 2:I think it was a comment you made to tanner um, and you know, yeah, but how con. So so how con is this a hosting gig or is this a passion gig? Thank you for asking. It is a.
Speaker 2:It's a bit of both, because I know you're, I know you're into cosplay a little bit because, okay, because I was gonna say it's a bit of both, because I actually um, how that came about is because I how with um, oh, fuck, okay, sorry, when kovat happens, yeah, and then kovat, and then things were opening back up. I saw this announcement that was like halcon, specifically, was only, was only going to be able to be open at half capacity and so when I heard that I was like that sucks.
Speaker 2:You know, there are half the people who have always gone who now just can't go that's right, and so I am lucky enough that I know a couple like I have a really good film co-op, so like I had a couple friends like chelsea camille and noah brown, and anyway we essentially we went out and I made a halcon special where I went out and interviewed people and it was kind of like if you miss this, you get to watch this and it's on youtube.
Speaker 2:It's just like halcon 2021 right or whatever, um, and so I made this, I gave it to east link and they put it on um, cool. But then from that they got to know me and then and then so they reached out to me and they were like, hey, we need another moderator and your name came to mind because of all this, and so this was my first year that they asked me to moderate, which was so. It was so cool and fun, but especially because I'm actually a huge, I am a big like nerd and kind of geek, like I used to really like doing like Star Trek.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw that yeah.
Speaker 2:And like I like, like I'm kind of a geek.
Speaker 3:Seems more like a Deep Space Nine. All the things I saw were Deep Space Nine. Really Okay, so that's.
Speaker 2:Deep Space Nine, I've come to say, is my favorite Star Trek, but it's like I really I really appreciate the sci-fi community.
Speaker 1:I am not as versed in everything as everybody else is, and that's why I'm like it is such a passion. I fell a little out of my league there because it was like they were like they just know things and I'm like, I'm like, can I? Fit in anywhere, for Christ's sakes. I can't even fit in with the nerds. I'm like I like that movie and they're like you don't know nothing about the show.
Speaker 2:I went there thinking things and I go in there and I was like yeah, like you know, my wife, my wife thinks I'm like a huge geek when it comes to that stuff, because I'm like watching movies.
Speaker 3:I'm like, well, that's not really happens in the comics and everything right, yeah. And she's like okay, geek. And then I go there and I'm like, oh, my god, oh yeah, this is crazy. I'm like the biggest loser here because I'm the one who doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah it's wild like and so, and so that's the only reason where I'm like oh, it is a passion of mine, but I do feel a bit like an imposter when I'm there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fair A little bit.
Speaker 2:Because I'm such a nerd and geek, but probably only about Star Trek. Star Trek is my ride or die. I could talk about Star Trek for God damn ever. And now I'm nervous that we're on the subject. But you will not me off of it, but I love star trek so much that's okay, moving on because, I'm yeah, we're, we're not, we're not trekkies like not
Speaker 2:at all no barely oh my god, okay, I'm gonna talk. Oh, my god, I gotta get you on it so I microwaves, came to star trek right you know what I didn't really like?
Speaker 3:deep space nine was one that I liked, yeah, and I liked voyager, mostly like seven and nine, but mostly like seven and nine on but voyage.
Speaker 2:But deep space nine was probably my favorite no way, because that's one that gets all the shit. People love shitting on ds9 because they're like oh that's not real star trek. Because they're just like if they call it like a fucking western. Because they're like oh they're just at a station, they don't go anywhere and it's like um first of all.
Speaker 3:That's what makes it go to another dimension or another quadrant, literally.
Speaker 2:I'm like that's what makes it so fun, it's not it's not all like. It's not all like morals with them, like, which is also so, which is what I love about star trek, but like indie space, indie space time, they like get drunk and shit.
Speaker 3:That's true.
Speaker 1:They have a bar.
Speaker 3:It's fun. I'm sorry. It's silly, come for me Trekkies, come for me. Sisko's the best captain.
Speaker 2:Really Sisko.
Speaker 1:From Thong Song.
Speaker 2:I'm just joking.
Speaker 3:Sisko came to my head. He got dumped like a truck. That'd be dope. That'd be the best thing to see in the world. You know what? The thing that, the thing that sold me on that is, I really like the whole, like jedar war and all that stuff, right, like I thought that was pretty cool, dominion war and all that is fascinating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just what my, what I love about it like especially the space nine, is that they had the first same sex kiss oh yeah on television okay and like dax's character is like very trans coded.
Speaker 3:Because she's a parasite, yeah, so she can be male or female or whatever, and there's like that.
Speaker 2:There's like that Well, it's like she's been so many like the same thing. Yeah, exactly, has gone through. And so there's like that classic meme where it's like even Klingons are not transphobic or like whatever, because there's the meme of being like oh, curse on my old friend. And then she's like I'm Jetsia now, did you?
Speaker 1:ever watch the Orville that one Seth MacFarlane did.
Speaker 2:I watched like a little bit of it, but I didn't.
Speaker 3:That was so good. Really it got so good no way, If you're, if you're a Trekkie.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you.
Speaker 2:I know he's so smart, he knows Star Trek.
Speaker 1:He dropped his comedy he was doing that slapstick kind of family guy thing in the beginning and I mean he drops it, but he drops it about three or four episodes in and it starts becoming some very serious undertones.
Speaker 3:I've only seen one, because I only saw one.
Speaker 1:I think it gets more serious yeah.
Speaker 3:Season three. You feel like you're just actually just watching a version of Star Trek. What? But a little bit funnier.
Speaker 1:No way With a little bit more humor Shut up, yeah, but he gets into some great social issues in that he does. He does a great job on it. No, it's awesome. No way there were episodes of that show that I felt emotional watching Really.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, that was heavy. There was heavy, there's a couple, there's a couple heavy ones. You were the one who got me on that show. You were like saying, hey, man, you gotta try it. And I was like I remember seeing it on netflix and I was kind of like, yeah, I'm not really a trekkie outside of like really deep space nine kind of thing. I was like I'm not really a trekkie.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't know and you're like give it a try and I watched first episode was like okay, this know why I fell off of it.
Speaker 1:If you get I think it's about four or five all of a sudden it just changes. Okay, he is so smart.
Speaker 2:I do really respect him a lot, like I think he's very funny and uh uh, my husband and I actually like were uh like just anyway in a bad mood and put on like a million ways to Die in the West. And I did laugh my goddamn head off.
Speaker 1:We both did.
Speaker 2:That was a funny movie he's a smart guy. He's a smart guy.
Speaker 3:No, I agree, it's good. So I mean back to the TV shows and things like that, because you are now a lead in two TV shows. That's correct. So like you host two TV shows and you're leading in two TV shows, that's correct.
Speaker 2:That's busy. It is pretty busy.
Speaker 3:It's pretty good honestly, though. Thank you, like to make a living? In the film industry and stuff like that is hard.
Speaker 1:In Nova Scotia, oh my.
Speaker 3:God, it's wild, it's very hard, it's impossible, it's very hard.
Speaker 2:You know what I will say yeah. I will say to that two things, one being that for me to do this full time, I have to supplement my income with doing production coordination and directing and writing. So it is like I feel, like a lot of people, it would be easy to see me and be like oh, she's just the talent and that's how she's making all of her money. Where it's like, I want to be like. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I have to do all that shit too. You're doing the work so you can be the talent Exactly. That's crazy and that is what I teach people.
Speaker 2:It's like most of the time to get gigs, you do have to make them yourself, and actually my best example is Hal Pond.
Speaker 3:That's a great line.
Speaker 1:Thank you. I'm going to ask for the best advice, because that's really good advice that's from direct for my hosting workshop actually um, we're getting a sample.
Speaker 3:No, we're gonna get it again because you do.
Speaker 2:That's how I got health on like you could. People are like oh wow, you moderated health on. It's like well, actually two years before then I produced my own special everything, you guys created from your little new brunswick crew there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, from nothing Was from nothing, oh my gosh. Right and people don't understand. Like that's where everything comes from. That's creative, like truly creative and different. It comes from nothing. Yeah, like you know, this show came from nothing. Yeah, two longtime friends Want to do a podcast together. Excuse me, I always have a beer.
Speaker 2:You got to do it, we just gotta do it. Uh, you know, manifesting it, putting it on our vision wall, which sucks, but it's so true you have to like if you're like using the power of magic and light bulbs no but there is no alchemy other than just doing the work.
Speaker 1:It's like you just said and like I love it you gotta do it if you want to.
Speaker 2:If you want it, then you got to make it first and then people, and it's, it's hard I'm not saying it's not um, but then those. That doesn't really apply to these uh tv shows, because I will say, like sandy hunter, the producer of that has been like he. He actually came to me to audition for the first one um, which is really nice.
Speaker 3:It's a car wash wars and the odon yeah.
Speaker 2:So what happened was odon's was the first one and odon's was so. Sandy hunter, because he knew me from home, asked me to audition for this show. Odon's was the first one and Odon's was so. Sandy Hunter, because he knew me from home, asked me to audition for this show, odon's, and then I got it and I didn't know it was the lead until when you get the call sheet when you get a call sheet which is like for viewers.
Speaker 2:If you don't know what a call sheet is, it's like the information that you get about the schedule and stuff like that, and every actor or character has a number associated with them and so like, and it's usually based on how many lines they have or their importance to the whatever or anything like that, but anyway, so it was literally like a couple days before we started shooting odon's that I got the call sheet and realized that I was number one on the call sheet, and that blew my goddamn mind.
Speaker 2:I will say that because I fucking didn't know and that was crazy. Um, so that was that show. And then from that show, though, I met steven centuries, who created this show, car wash wars, and we were. We were like so, uh, we worked together so well in odon's that he actually asked me to help write car wash wars.
Speaker 1:So I was there for like the preliminary uh like creation of the storylines and stuff like that I wrote on episode I'll tell you like I thought about this literally today, like looking at what you were doing on east link and what you've been doing with bell yeah and these community channels, and when you went on the trailer for the dawns, which I, which I checked out, like it, like the first comments, I wish I could watch this streaming, like you know. They should totally do this, I know, and find some sort of way to make a $4.99 thing that throws all your stuff up there so they can still get money back to the community television, make it bigger, stronger, like I was. Just that all came to me, nick, because I'm the same way, I mean in the younger generation. Unfortunately, it's just going to be more and more cable cut. I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2:And it is because their solution right now is like they have. Apparently I just found out Eastlink has one through a different whatever, but Bell has one.
Speaker 2:But you do have to be the cable, like a cable subscriber, to then do that, but it is like you're right, like same as a lot of the easeling stuff, yeah it's like, oh, I hope that they figure out a little workaround to just be like, oh, just let me on the app and that's it, because it is like it's so sick, um, but then and then, yeah, but that was how I met then, and then I got to do car wash wars, which was really fun, and then I'm actually uh, filming season two of odon's at the end of this month and that's also why again I'm so busy, right Because?
Speaker 1:I'm going. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's in Miramichi at the end of this month, which is crazy. I don't know if I'm the lead of it this season. I'm going to have to find out because so does that show out, yet I? Don't know Pretty.
Speaker 1:Does that show out?
Speaker 2:yet Odon's came out last year.
Speaker 1:No, not Odon's, oh sorry, the Car Wash Wars one.
Speaker 2:It's coming out soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, very soon, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Very soon.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 2:And that one's just so weird, Like the idea with that.
Speaker 3:I just think of the title and I can think of lots of things. Yeah, yeah, I look at the synopsis.
Speaker 2:It's like do you guys know? Where are you guys from?
Speaker 3:from here, you're from here from here okay saint john new brunswick, have you been there?
Speaker 2:oh yes okay, I don't know if you know this, but saint john, new brunswick, there, it is only there that they have manual car washes, and what I mean? I do not mean that you go and pull into a place and then you wash the car yourself.
Speaker 1:No, you've got to do it. It's common washing your car.
Speaker 2:But this guy comes and just washes your car.
Speaker 1:That's really popular in America.
Speaker 2:What? Yeah, yeah, yeah, super popular. I haven't seen this anywhere, Nobody.
Speaker 3:I've heard of have you ever?
Speaker 1:seen the. Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre movie the Wash no it's like a whole movie about those two dudes working at a car wash like that, where they're kind of going in the vehicles and getting into shenanigans and then I was like my cousins are from there.
Speaker 2:And then we were like at my grandmother's funeral in the summer and I was like telling everybody being like this is the show. And then and everybody else was being like that's so fucking weird. And then my cousins from st john were like yeah, don't you know this?
Speaker 1:this is normal and I was like california will get it this is what I'm thinking now.
Speaker 3:Now, what it is is like. On one side of the street you have, like you know, a bunch of women in bikinis doing car wash.
Speaker 2:On the other side, you have, you and I with our shirts off, rubbing our bellies against the windows. Oh, don't use that joke yet. And you are, of course, more successful. Yeah, of course, dad bonds car wash Dad bonds car wash.
Speaker 1:I love it and have a pint Exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we drink beer while washing.
Speaker 1:We wash your car. Would you like stout service? Pilsners no, pilsners, pilsners, pilsners.
Speaker 2:Only thing that's worth washing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So you also open yourself up for conferences and boring things like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I love it. Yeah, you know what it's funny.
Speaker 3:you say that no, no, no.
Speaker 2:I love that you say that, because I do find obviously conferences are boring, and what I love is I try to make them as least boring as possible. Good challenge, yeah, I've been trying.
Speaker 1:James Mullinger is a comic that's went across the country doing that and making. I mean it's a really hard gig for a comedian in a conference and he does a tremendous job of it. It a hard gig for a comedian in a conference and he does a tremendous job of it. It's hard, but he combines like motivation and comedy, I think and he does a good job of that.
Speaker 2:And sometimes it is just like god, I need somebody who's just like okay, like you, just energy, like the energy. I'm so tired of going to places and they're like okay, and this is what about our. Here we go and you're like do you think anybody's gonna pay attention to you? Like I need the loud, I need the physical comedy, I need everything. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Listen, as someone who has been in a corporate world, in an industry that is kind of deemed a little boring in insurance I've gone to conferences and I've gone to, you know, week-long conferences yeah, to conferences, and I've gone to week-long conferences, and those week-long conferences are always it's like you immediately leave the conference room and they welcome you with alcohol because it's like sorry, we made you go through this here's booze to make it better.
Speaker 3:So it's true, and some of them I listen to and you have great speakers and you remember those people forever and you're like, wow, that was really great, that was like awesome. And then you have ones where it's just kind of like when's when's this over? Can I keep texting? I'm gonna answer work emails instead of listen to you yes, yes, that's how bad it is.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna do work instead of listen to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, if you can make it a little bit more fun. But how do you like, when you go into something like that, do you do some research on, like the business that you're going to be talking, or like you know hosting or anything at all?
Speaker 2:That's a great question. So I haven't um the ones I've done so far.
Speaker 3:Um, I did a supernova conference and that one that one was we had, we had, we had Jacqueline on here. You did yeah.
Speaker 2:She's a sweetheart.
Speaker 1:She's pretty awesome. She's a sweetheart. She's pretty awesome, she's awesome.
Speaker 2:So I was going to say like I actually haven't had to do like a bank one yet I have like put it out there. I technically own like a hosting production company kind of a thing. It's an entertainment company, I think, anyway, and so, like I'm open to it, I haven't done one yet, which is good, but I love. Sorry, what was that question?
Speaker 3:Just you know, oh my God, If you've done any research. So the answer is no? Oh yeah, the answer is no. The answer is no.
Speaker 2:But if you ever do research.
Speaker 3:Because, like, do you make jokes about banking?
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to end this. The two of you guys are going to talk all night. The long answer.
Speaker 2:I'm getting excited.
Speaker 1:Here's the producer I ran you guys in with some questions, yeah you know what I think it's time to do it.
Speaker 3:Let's do some 10 questions.
Speaker 1:We always play this game at the end of our show. This might not be the end of the show. Our show might go on for another hour.
Speaker 2:Crazy Okay.
Speaker 1:Or two minutes.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's no way of knowing. There's no way of knowing.
Speaker 1:Never know, never know.
Speaker 2:Okay, hit me, okay, but wait if I want to say no, I'm supposed to have a sip.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:We told you the rules right, so I don't need one, are you okay? Oh, I don't need one, I was just curious.
Speaker 1:Matt has some hard drugs in his left pocket. He'll get you to take one of his pills I do have two joints in my pocket there you go.
Speaker 2:Just walk with the back door. Yeah, alright.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll go number one, Matt, alright. Alright In. Okay, I'll go number one, matt, all right, all right. In Odons you play Zoe, or Zoe, yeah, a bartender at an Irish pub that's been purchased by a narcissist. What do you think is one good skill to?
Speaker 2:have when dealing with narcissistic personality types? Oh my God, that's a great question. You know what I think it's With narcissists? You can't be like, yeah, with narcissists you can't be like, yeah, like you can't give them anything. You also can't take anything away from them, because then they'll also be shitty, and so I actually think that you just, you're just pleasant, just okay, don't compliment them, don't put them down neutral oh, alright, expert answer.
Speaker 1:Thank you, expert. My mother was a guidance counselor.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go. Neutral, oh, alright, expert answer. Thank you, expert Expert. My mother was a guidance counselor.
Speaker 3:Oh, there you go. So question number two If you woke up and teleported a hundred years in the past but had none of your modern technology or fashion, how would you convince them that you were from the future?
Speaker 2:Oh, how would I convince them that I'm from the future? Oh, how would I convince? Them I don't know, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to be like oh, I could say bad stuff but they wouldn't believe that good stuff. Maybe they wouldn't believe I was gonna at. My immediate was like uh, I have, I have bleached hair. I don't think they had bleached hair 100 years ago there you go okay bleached hair? I don't think they had bleached hair 100 years ago.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:Okay, bleached hair and tattoos.
Speaker 1:Bleached hair and tattoos. There you go.
Speaker 3:So just do the little finger trick, yeah, trick them all. Don't do that.
Speaker 2:Or that I have armpit hair.
Speaker 1:There you go, armpit hair, because I don't think women were allowed?
Speaker 2:I don't think women were. I think they more likely would have 100 years ago, maybe, probably.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, because they didn't have all the, because they had a hiding place of shit back then.
Speaker 2:Anyways, probably right Now. You're right, yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Blue chair yeah. Tattoos Okay. Question number three Go ahead All right.
Speaker 1:Do you have any superstitious beliefs that may have guided your life or well-being at some point? So any superst.
Speaker 2:Genuinely, my only superstitious belief that I truly believe in is I do believe everything happens for a reason and I hate that sometimes, but it has helped me so much and I truly, because it's crazy. There are times that we're like things don't work out and you're so frustrated and then later, when you look back on it, you're like wait, no, that actually was, but this was, and so I think it is like the universe whatever's supposed to happen will happen, and I've taken a lot of. It's helped me a lot.
Speaker 1:You're getting all the points here. Thank you Really?
Speaker 3:Question number four Would you rather lose your hearing or your vision?
Speaker 1:Oh fuck, or one eye and half your voice.
Speaker 2:Okay, you're right, I cannot lose my voice. That would be bad. You know what? Maybe my hearing. I would have a very hard time not being able to see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I agree with that. I've gone back and forth on this question but honestly, you can still drive your car. I can't really see that.
Speaker 1:Good now, you can still drive I can't really see that good now, so I'm just gonna let you still drive your car.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can get places like you, can you?
Speaker 2:can still read lips. Yeah, exactly like, yeah, exactly. I think and I feel like I've I've in the past like learned sign language a little bit and I'm like I feel like that is would be easier for me than being like it's a lot easier things and then not knowing where that was coming from At this point, losing your hearing too.
Speaker 1:You could probably still conceptualize music somehow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly Like mentally If you lost your hearing, yes. If you never had your hearing, no.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly. So yeah, no good point.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm picking.
Speaker 1:We've already covered this Favorite beer type IPA. All right.
Speaker 2:We've already covered this Favorite beer type IPA.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:That was easy.
Speaker 2:Number six, if your life was a movie, what would you call it? Fuck?
Speaker 3:With three exclamation marks, maybe with a question mark at the end.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we touched for a second on your 16-year-old self. What do you think your 80-year-old self will be like?
Speaker 2:Oh wow, I think. I genuinely think she's going to be dead. I do think that I just think that.
Speaker 1:Can we just roll the number back to 60? Okay, yeah, so you're still an older person, right?
Speaker 2:60's better then, because I was like I just think. I'm going to be dead by 80. Just the way I live and I live loud I don't think I'm going to make it that way, Cool 60,. I think that I'm going to be still pretty. I think I'm going to actually be the exact same as I am right now.
Speaker 1:That's perfect.
Speaker 2:I think I'm still going to be loud and zany and, if anything, knowing that I'm old and can get away with it, I'm actually probably going to be more obnoxious.
Speaker 1:You'll be worse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll be worse actually, I will be a lot worse.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's true, I'll be worse. Number eight. So yes, I love this. This is a Tobin question for sure. Who should really win in a fight between Godzilla and King Kong?
Speaker 2:Emphasize on the really Thank you so much for asking this, because I do really respect King Kong, I really do. I have such Like I just there's something. There's something where I'm just like no, godzilla is king of the monsters. He has laser eyes Like literally, and he's like and like, just, he's just like.
Speaker 1:He's made out of armor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's amazing, and I literally actually my I just love. I actually just love him very much too.
Speaker 1:So I'm biased To our good friend Mark Wilson. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Point. Yeah, really no. So our very first guest and good friend, mark wilson. Uh, they have been debating for 20 years. Who's better? Tobin's team, godzilla.
Speaker 1:Mark's team, king kong we've gotten a ski lift fight one time and it was bad. There was a kid in between us. I think he was almost in tears by the time he got to the top of the hill.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no way. Two adults yelling at each other over godzilla and you're like, it's like eight you're like.
Speaker 1:Can you please stop?
Speaker 2:can I say, above my door my aunt made this for me, I have.
Speaker 1:May Godzilla destroy this house last oh my aunt made me that another Godzilla fan what's up Mark fuck you Mark.
Speaker 3:Two points. What's up, Mark?
Speaker 2:Fuck you.
Speaker 1:Mark, I'm not going to tell him when this episode comes out, we'll just see if he listens to it by this year, if we get a text.
Speaker 2:My favorite is I have these headphones on, so I don't know how loud I'm being in the actual bar.
Speaker 3:It doesn't matter, everybody's chatting and all of a sudden fuck you.
Speaker 1:Mark, some guy in the back is crying.
Speaker 2:Some guy named mark it's like he just told me fuck you, and I don't even know him all right number nine finish this rap lyric with something fresh okay okay, this is a classic hip hop rap.
Speaker 1:Lyric mo money mo problems no, but you gotta get something fresh.
Speaker 2:Oh, I gotta do something else. You said that Okay, mo Money, mo Fresh.
Speaker 3:Mo Money, mo Jail Time.
Speaker 2:Everything that's coming to my head is so inappropriate.
Speaker 1:Go, please go. Really.
Speaker 2:I just this is so, but all I want to say is Mo Money, mo Pussy, it's all I want to say there you go.
Speaker 1:Really Sorry, mom, that's the first time this was said on this show.
Speaker 2:My mom always listens when I'm on podcasts. Sorry, mom, okay.
Speaker 1:I also like more money more fresh. That was pretty funny. More money more fresh. Either one works.
Speaker 3:Okay, so number 10, you so we ask every guest this question.
Speaker 1:This is the same guest. Close your question. Yeah, close your question.
Speaker 3:What is one piece of advice that you were given that you would like to take with us or whoever?
Speaker 2:Oh, I have a really good answer for this. This is from my father. My father always said my whole life never underestimate the influence you have over others, and when I was growing up I didn't really know what that meant. And now I've realized for my own.
Speaker 2:Whatever like, my best like is that there have been times that I you, think something nice about somebody and you should tell them, because like there have been times that I've been like, oh, I love this, and then I found out later that that really meant a lot to that person to be able to compliment them and so from that I've been like well, if you think something nice about somebody, then you should. You should tell them the worst case scenario. Worst case scenario is that they think that you're weird. The best case scenario is that you made their entire day.
Speaker 3:So I think I may have mentioned this on the show before, but just because it's on point there's, I saw I heard a quote that I really liked, and that was we should be saying to people on their birthdays the thing we say about them at their funerals.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah exactly Like I feel, like people are so, especially like I don't know this weird like social media generation is so obsessed with being cool and I'm so fucking sick of it, I want to be so emotional and I want to tell people like we should be lifting each other up as much as we can. So I do believe and it goes back to my dad he was like you think that you, you don't know, when you are making people's days, Like, don't underestimate your influence. And I think the best way to do that is the easiest way to do that, is if you think something nice about it. Somebody you have to tell them. Yeah, you have to. It is your obligation to tell them.
Speaker 1:I like that. That's a really good closing thing, yeah. Bye girl, All right so everybody still listening to this show. If you made it this far, say something nice to somebody. Yes, Like someone you don't normally say something nice to Do it on the street.
Speaker 2:I do it all the time where it's a stranger and I'm just like, oh, I like your scarf and yeah, half the time they Animals included, or just people? Animals as well.
Speaker 1:They love it even more. People or animals, just say something nice to them yeah, like, not your cat, somebody else's cat, somebody else's cat, your cat's not enough, except for Mark and Godzilla. Yeah, Mark's an amazing person.
Speaker 3:Tart coffee and we'll close on that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 1:Thanks to garrison for hosting us yeah, thank you, that was awesome, that was great yeah very good.
