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Hey man, grab a stool, deli up and get over served.

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Well, I got a good rock, got a good dude, read it steaks, cooked medium merit.

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Okay. Was that not working before?

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I thought I looked down and saw it recorded. But so now we're tightening up. How about we pop this as soon as we get out? It's the successful button test. Maybe finally. Maybe the so we are recording. The audio is working. I'm with Gary Brightwell. For the fourth time. We've been making right. Technical gremlins. We're having a big technical gremlins.

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Jesus Christ. The first two were technical gremlins. This last one was KDD Gremlin.

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We are recording. It is recording.

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We're doing it right.

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There you go. Let me close this right behind you. Because that's bad. And here we go. So welcome to Overserf. Thanks for coming on again. And uh if you don't uh know Gary's a good buddy, he lives here in the South Bay. He's from the South Bay, all raised, longtime comedian, just got back from Chicago.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah, I was uh working out in uh I did shows in Chicago and and Grand Rapids, Michigan. And it was crazy cold, especially for this beats boy who lives in shorts most of the year. So uh but yeah, I was out there open eye open for Brian Regan. I'm lucky enough that he lugged me along and one of the great guys of comedy. One of the great guys of comedy, nice and comedy. Yeah, he's just he's he's just the greatest. So yeah, I'm very lucky that he lugs me along.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

It's gonna be It's great. I mean, that's the the pinnacle of comedy. You work in the kind of rooms that he's working, yeah, and then you get to work theaters, like so.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

I've met him years and I met him like probably 15, 20 years, no, maybe more than that, maybe 25 years ago. Uh he was we were working the improv in in DC, Washington, DC. And it was kind of weird. I was hosting, and uh he was headlining during the week, but they brought in Ellen de Generis over the weekend. Uh so it would be me, Brian, Ellen DeGeneres, like on a Friday and Saturday. But they would then would there would be you know guest sets that people would come in and do a guest set, and one of the guest sets was uh a young Dave Chappelle, yeah, who destroyed the place. He was amazing, and he's actually talked about the first time he met Brian. He said how how amazingly funny Brian was. He says it is, I don't even remember. He says, I think it was Ellen DeGeneres. He says, but he says Brian Reagan, you know, was the funny guy then, yeah. Anyway, so that's why I met Brian, and then we would cross paths. Yeah, I worked with him a handful of times in Atlanta, the quenchline in Atlanta, and then uh the Tempe improv a lot like this, and then so we became friends, so then he would kind of ask a request fee. This is still when he was doing clubs. Right. Then when he transitioned into theaters, he would free me along and then still do it. So and it's great, you know. So you're doing like how's what's the biggest theater? Um we did four thousand in Phoenix at the Dodge Theater. It was the Dodge at the time. I don't know what it, you know, they changed names all the time depending on their sponsorship. I think it's four or five. I've never done an arena, but that's pretty close. Five thousand. That's a small college arena. Yeah. That's not, you know, that's not the stable store, but it's a big fucking. Yeah, but then like said he'll do you know, there's some smaller theaters in the Midwest and stuff like that that are, you know, between five and nine hundred, you know. But usually the the sweet spot for him is anywhere between fifteen and twenty-five. He does we don't run those theaters. So we did the Chicago Theater, and I think that's three thousand. And that was pretty that's an amazing theater. That's a just cool? Yeah, cool history. Yeah, it's just, you know, probably Capones in there at one time. But you'd actually, you know, just the the you know, see who's performance the walls in the back and stuff. It's like it's really kind of fun. It's kind of a who's who. You know. And like I said, they they're the shows are great because they're all Brian fans. So they're they're ready for comedy. So I don't have to have that first five minutes of like, uh, is this gonna, you know, who's this first guy? Is it gonna be they're just ready for comedy. And like I said, uh Bru Brian he doesn't introduce me or doesn't introduce the show, but he he brings has somebody that brings me up and he makes them say a certain thing that that uh when he was opening at one time for Seinfeld, Seinfeld would do this to him. Like in the intro would be, Welcome to an evening of comedy feature. This is how it is. Usually, welcome to an evening of comedy feature with Brian Regan, and everyone cheers. And they say, but first, please welcome Brian's special guest. And then so that kind of gives you a little bit of a leg up. Right. People will go, oh, this is somebody that that Brian chose. Right. Oh, that's smart. It's very smart, and I and it's it really helps a lot. Yeah, you know, you know, and then they give him my credits, and then I go out and and you know, I'll do 25 minutes, and then Brian comes out and does an hour. Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

You know, so does he stick to that?

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Um it depends. Yeah, if he's having a good time, usually for sure he he I think he's contracted for at least 50 minutes. So I do like 25, and then he does like 50, and then he comes back and does an encore, but usually about another 10. So he's like, you know, he'd go full hour, but if he's really having fun, if that you know, if the audience is really into it, uh you know, he's he's playing along and they're you know, so he'll try new things and goof around and dopey little tags, and if the audience is really into it, then you know, next thing you know, it's like he's been up there, you know, hour ten. But then the audience isn't into it. I've he's gotten off. Like, he just got off. They're gonna run back out of there and I was like, let's bring him back because then he'll come back and then he'll cock to it. He goes, Mike, I there's a clock, and I I didn't know what time so I I you know, I'm back up. He'll talk to it.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

It's pretty fun, but he's a great guy. I always liked working.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Yeah, so I'm lucky, I'm lucky enough to be doing that. Yeah, you know, and then uh we'll do the shows and then sometimes we'll go out afterwards. Sometimes we'll go for a nice dinner. Nice, nice like steak dinner or something like that. We'll have some fancy wines or some Are you a wine? Do you like the wines? Hi can you? Yeah, yeah. I like good reds. I like I'm not a big white wine guy, you know, but uh I could drink like a wine, like one wine with a steak.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Yeah. Maybe two.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

If I drink wine, like three, I've got whoa, woah, woah, woa, woah, goodbye. I like like when you open the rear windows of the power. That's what it's it's like that's how my ethics sound. So they said, No, you're allergic to sulfates, you're not drinking good wine. I'm like, drinking what they had at like Ruse Chris or whatever. Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

I have a couple friends that are really big into wine and stuff. Like I said, Brian's, we were all sitting down there ones. Brian was like, What's the most expensive bottle of wine you think you've had? And I'm like, I don't know. I think I had I think I had one that was like like $150, something like that. Somebody bought it, I just had a glass like this. And he goes, All right, let's what about you? And somebody goes, I've had a I've had a $500 bottle of wine like this. So Brian was like, all right, what's uh let's like what is like this one? He'll have the the wine and they're well that's uh that's $600 like this. Let's just let's do a $900. You have a $900? It's just so generous, you know. Yeah, but like I said, it you know, we're and and if we don't do that, uh if we're at the um if there's a comedy club where we just did a show, Brian likes to go to the comedy club. And he likes to hang out, and you know, because I don't know if it's it's a I think he just likes comedy. Yeah, likes to meet young comedians and whatever, or somebody we might know and hear it as if we just kind of bought in and they're like, what? You know. And we'll hang at the bar if they have a front if they have a front bar and stuff like that. But a lot of times we'll go in and watch part of the show and then afterwards come out and run around and goof around and you know. And he's like me. He's a beer drinker, tequila, tequila, or he drinks uh jack and ginger.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

Jack? Yeah. You gotta talk to him. Get him on a Kentucky.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Get him on the Kentucky, but I'm just telling you. Uh tequila, he's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

He'll do a beer and a shot of tequila.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

What kind of go, huh?

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Well, we were for a while when we first were going out, he was drinking Cuervo gold. And it was nasty.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

But now that was when I was that was the pinnacle of tequila. It was. And the at least in the east. I mean, I'm I'm not on the border of Mexico. Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

But but uh yeah, we've since moved. We've moved up to the the Don Julio 18, what is it, the 1800, or what does it really have? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Don Julio 1942.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We'll do those.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

I saw uh whatchamacallit, the USC quarterback uh Sanchez, Mark Sanchez. Mark Sanchez. Can I him and two buddies drank an entire bottle of it? Tipped tipped great. Oh, good. Super nice kind of. Uh bigger than I thought. Yeah. He but uh yeah, he came in great time. I like tequila. I just, you know, I didn't grow up with it. I don't know. Right. Uh I don't know from tequila very well. Uh but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

It's not my favorite. Like I said, I was for a while I was trying to figure out I can usually do two with him. And then then I'm done. I have to figure something up. But I wanted to get another something I could shoot that didn't hurt. And so for a while I was doing uh Tawaka. Which there's a lot of sugar in that. Yeah, that's a headache. Tawaka Tawaka headache is banana.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

Towaka, man. Yeah. We've got three or four bottles of Tawaka. We got bottles of stuff nobody ever drinks anymore, you know.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

So there's something else I would I still can't think of what not Jim Beam, it's some something else. But you gotta UConn Jack. My dad dressed UConn Jack.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Yellow UConn Jack, man.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

My dad, like I said, my dad had uh seasoned Ram tickets. Oh, man. Back in the day.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Roman Gabriel, Deacon Jones, Jack Snow. Well, who's the guy that was on uh TV on uh little house on the Merlin Olson?

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Merlin Olson, yeah, Merlin Olson, Deacon Jones. Rosie Greer. Rosie Greers, that's the fearsome foresome. The fearsome foresome, yeah. Anyways, but my dad had stuff, and so he would take the family to certain games, you know, and then certain games he would just go with his buddies, but they would they would sneak in wicker. They would have you know he could buy beer at the stadium, but they would sneak in liquor. And so my dad had all kinds of like novelty flasks that looked like, you know, so he had so he had some flasks that kind of looked like uh uh binoculars. So he had unscrew one of the eyepieces and then like that drinking over there. He also had one that looked like a transistor radio. No, but I found a picture of it online. I was like, uh where'd you drink out of? You un you unscrewed the uh uh uh what it looked like the antenna would pull up. You know, you unscrewed that. My dad almost let's check the score of the video.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Yeah, I don't know. Drinking out of a radio over there, man. It's drinking's different than it used to be. First of all, people aren't doing it as much. Right. Uh but you know, you're talking.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Do you think that's because of uh kids now with with social media and stuff like that? There's they already know what everybody's doing. Because maybe they talk to each other either texting or they're you know through TikTok or Facebook. They're probably not Facebook, grandpa, right? You know, Instagram or whatever. They kind of know what people are doing, so they don't need to go out and socialize and s and and come up and drink and and socialize that way so they don't because I remember, like I said, my my nieces and stuff, uh they like barely got their, you know, when you're 16, you just were itching to get your driver's license. Oh they had no, they had no um My daughter didn't drive until she was like 20, I think. Urgency to to drive a car. I was like, what?

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Yeah it's like Well, and I think price is part of it.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Well, price is yeah, and you have lots of options now with Uber and whatever. You can get places.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

But I talked to my daughter, she goes, Yeah, we don't go drink unless there's something going on. If there's you know, if there's something going on, we will, you know, if there's like karaoke, and not that she's a karaoke person, but there's gotta be something. She goes, I'm not gonna pay $12 for a well vodka when I can get good vodka and sit at home and have a party with my friends, you know. That's their kind of thing. So I think part of it is social media aspect, though. Right. Plus, I think people just are trying to be more healthy, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

But the days are California or is that the one that's everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

Everywhere. From what I read, you know. I don't know if you could trust what you read in the face media, you know. But maybe they're all sitting at home and uh in the in their basement bars, man. Right. Yeah, maybe. But the big uh your family have a basement bar? We had we have no basements.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Oh, that's right. You know what?

SPEAKER_02 15:14

You never had a basement? No. Steve May's hunt. Did you ever go to his house? He had a basement. It's the only basement I ever saw in a I never saw the basement. Yeah, man. He had a basement. The only basement I've ever seen in in Southern California. He didn't kill you down there. Oh, it was good friends.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

They'd never seen that basement. That's why he makes the drifter jerky.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Drifter Jerky.

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Ah.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

That's a t-shirt. You get anything about that product. So dub, but uh, you know, where where people have their bars, man.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Yeah, I know I do know that. But my dad had just a remember we we did a um they remodeled the house, and in the plans it was my dad who's gonna have the small bar and we had that. Uh and oh, yeah. So he had whatever he was drinking. He had like, you know, very similar to like this, but his boss gave him it was a gigantic bottle of uh Galeano. That yellow, uh yellow liquid. Yes. But it wasn't just the bottle, like it was the it was the display of one that had a had a stand and a light under light under and a spigot. And a spigot where you get it.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

I love the buggy. That that is identified liqueur. Nobody can't turn the bottle up. You have to turn it with a yeah, nobody drinks it. Nobody drinks it. I was I was I was at the punchline. This is why I love it. I'm trying to bring the Harvey Wallbanger back. I got a couple people that come in and they uh was talking about Guyano, and they're like, what do you even make with that? So I started serving them Harvey Wallbangers. But I was at the punchline in Atlanta, like I think I think it, like I said, it was either Pen Wilson or Foxworthy or uh Ricky Mokul, uh Greg Turner, and me, I can't remember who else was there, and Ron D'Anunzio, the owner, right? And I just made a quip. I'm like, the Guyano salesman is the loneliest guy in the world. There's always that bottle. And he always comes back once a year and hey, you need it, ah, damn it. So Denunzio, Denunzio goes, that's the original bottle we ever bought. I don't know how long the punch money had been open back then. And so I can't remember. I said, let's just all drink shots and we'll give that guy a day. Call him up, hey, we need more galliano. We had a gut run on Galliano. And so we drank shots of Gallano until it was all gone.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

That's what I said. No one ever drank that stuff at my at our house, except when the boss would come over for like a dinner or something like that. And he my mom served like vanilla ice cream once, and he he put gallio, he opened that spit, you know, baby, and galeato over vanilla ice cream like this. And I was like, okay. And I'm gonna go to, I'm I'm not an Anist guy, though.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Not like uh I don't really like licorice, man, you know. Do you do uh like Jaeger? I did at one point. I swear to God, I think we, my group of guys, my buddy Kevin O'Brien, I think he might have been the first person I would bring Jaegermeister. We were like Christmas shopping in the mall. Right the year after we graduated from college, and he pulls up this little bar, what do you drink? He goes, Jaegermeister. I'm like, Jaegermeister? What the fuck was Jaegermeister? He'd try it. We're like, yeah, that's pretty. And then I went to stay at my sister's house in New York City. Me and my buddy Stuart are walking around Greenwich Village, and we go to this bar, and uh, I go, you know, got any Jaegermeister? This is like 1987. He goes, he goes, Well, I've never even heard of it. And then this guy sticks his head around the corner and goes, Did that guy just ask for Jaegermeister? I go, Yeah, he goes, We got something like it on. He goes, Well, some salesman just brought it. Like yesterday or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

But you were like a cutting freaking guy.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

So they put it on ice, and by the end of the night, the whole bottle, we drank the whole bottle of Jaegerme. Yes, sir. And then it became this big thing. And when I started bartending LBs, I'd never seen place drank too much Jaegerweister. Oh, yeah. No, nobody drinks it. Like two or three guys. That was some wicked stuff.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

They have a cooler. Right, yeah. Oh, put the three bottles upside down.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

What are we scientists here? Come on. Anything's got a they didn't perfect it like Galliano did with the three, you know. No, I don't I don't drive. I don't you know what I don't like? I don't like thick stuff. I don't like schnaps. Right. I don't like uh anything that's thick when you drive. Right. I don't like it. I just don't like it, man. Oh, I don't want it sweet, I don't want it thick.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Yeah. Sweets, if you're doing shots, sweets like okay. Like said there's these people who are doing what's the cinnamon. Oh, uh fireball. Fireball. Oh, that's a headache.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

It's everything. Yeah, yeah. There's so much sugar in there. That's what, you know, that's why you get the champagne headaches and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so much uh sugar in that, but no. Although when I was in I was doing some USO shows. It was with Jeff Capri. I don't know if you've had Jeff on you. I haven't had Jeff on yet. Uh but we were over there and some guy was like, You want to do some shots? Let's do some figin. I was like, What's figin? Well, it's figin. Fig flavored vodka. And I'm like, Alright. Man, that was good. Next thing you know, we were where do we buy some figures? We got a tour bus out there. Where do we get some figin?

SPEAKER_02 20:54

They were good.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

They were good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, it depends on where you are and you know, especially who you're with. Right. Oh, especially that's always bad. You know, I did you I started out doing USO and then I I gradually moved into a uh a guy used to do this, uh did these shows called Comics on Duty. Right, right. And I did mostly his stuff after that. Ref after 9-11. After 9-11, uh everybody was going over to entertainment. Right, true. So it's what's the the war started? Everybody was going over. And then the USO came out with a they said actually sent an email to everybody who'd been working USO. People were like, all right, there's we're gonna go see some different things, and I guess they were like, Oh, we we're not really putting together comedy shows. We have so much high profile celebrity things now that we're gonna not do stand up comedy anymore. You're not high profile enough, is what they say. And we're like, what? You know. And so all the other bases out there, like especially in in Iraq, uh, they were getting shows because the celebrities all they came in and did, they were in Baghdad at the big base there. They might do two nights, and they stayed at a you know five-star hotel and a, you know, they weren't staying on base, they weren't being helicoptered out to the forward off, you know, operating bases like that. So this guy Rich Davis, who started Comics on Duty, he started, he was, I'm gonna go everywhere that their people aren't going. And he would put on like five headliners. He'd bring five headliners. Nice. And everybody did 20 minutes, you know. And it was great. It was great. And you know, you get along with pretty much everybody you traveled with.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

And every get air, did you ever get scary?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Yeah, a couple of times. We've just done a couple podcasts. One of the first time in Iraq, we were getting ready to uh board some helicopters to get to another base. And but there was a lot of soldiers and stuff trying to get lots of places. So we stood in the base, not standing in line, but stood around with all the other soldiers and stuff like that. We, you know, one of the comics uh brought a football. So we're throwing football with some of the some of the soldiers and stuff like that, and we're waiting. So finally they were like, all right, these next helicopters are coming, they're your guys. And we were like, All right, we've got all our stuff, we'll all get ready. All of a sudden, all of a sudden the helicopters would land, and all of a sudden the guy would come on and he goes, Alright, sorry, the next one, the next one's gonna be yours. Like that's when we were like, okay, we laugh, you know. And the next ones would come, and like, I know I told you these ones were yours, but we gotta get these guys somewhere. But for sure, the next ones are yours. Okay. So these next ones come down, and we start to grab our stuff. I gotta go, I need to do this one more time. He says, We gotta get these guys somewhere like this, so they other people get in those helicopters. So, as the new helicopters came and we were we got on those. We literally we got we uppered about 25 feet, and then all of a sudden we came back down. The guy goes, Everybody off, we had an incident. An incident. So the ones that where the guy says, This one's yours, and then they goes, Oh, the next, you know, those ones crashed. Oh, somebody shot a uh surface-to-air missile at it, and one of the helicopters to avoid it hit the other helicopter, and everything, you know. So and everyone was like, Oh my god, did that freak you out? You know, did you know it was like it I didn't it didn't bother me. What bothered me was it was like it was 17 families whose lives got tipped upside down, you know, just in that one weird incident. And so from then on, it was anytime we took helicopters, it was always at night and stuff. It was so that was the scariest thing. But other than that, I mean, you know, we would go to you know, we did shows in Saddam's palaces. Really? Oh yeah, we did all kinds of stuff. And you know, there was no drinking, you know, in the you know, whatever. Although, but this was a time when when you could bring liquids on the plane, and you know, you didn't they didn't say, oh, no liquids for drink TSA or anything. You just walked them through a metal detector. And so I we bought water bottles, I bought brought water bottles, dumped the water out, and just filled them with flavored vodkas. Right. Just shitty smear-noff straw, you know, raspberry smear-noff. Sudden, suddenly we just go. So we did that while we were over there. So what was the first thing you ever drank? Um probably just beers. Yeah. Yeah. Oh 15, 14, 15, 14, probably. Yeah. And like I said, I'm well Modell's today, but uh Pilsner guy. Pilsner, I don't know, I learned. Yeah. Yeah, I I I did a show with uh Brian once, and we went to a place afterwards, and it was a craft beer, craft bourbon. I don't like bourbon, so I uh went to the beer side and the guy goes, What do you want? And I go, I don't know what I want. He goes, let me ask you, what do you drink usually? I go, Well, now you're gonna make fun of me. What do you mean? I go, I like coors light. And he goes, he goes, Well, okay. He says, You're a pilsner guy. You like pills first. And I was like, okay. And he goes, try this. And he didn't like this. He goes, like, oh yeah, give me one of those. And from then on, that is that is like made every time I have to go to some craft beer place, it's just made it so much easier. I was like, what's your pilsner? And they go, Oh, it's this. And you're like, give me that, you know. So I'm just yeah, so you learn, I don't have to have an IPA and an A, you know, and Ah, this has got you know, it was kind of wheat and and barking.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Well, I mean to make in fun of things. Like Right, well, it they're yeah, they I mean, because like I've got to admit, when like when people before the pandemic, people would come up and order like a white claw, and I would go like, uh, you know, you want to tame fun with us or whatever, you know, some asshole move, you know. And then the pandemic hits, and I was like the only bartender. I was doing uh well, you know, four days a week, and it was just me. And it was there's no waitress. I would then all the tables are outside. I walked like one time I look at my my step thing, I worked 10 minutes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And then I got done one night. I was like, man, I do not want a beard, I want something cold. Or I opened a open a boy cloud and I drank, and I'm like, yeah, damn, that's pretty good. That is refreshing, man.

SPEAKER_00 28:05

I do that too. Like a toe fact in the refrigerator, and I don't always, I don't, but like every so often I'm like, I have two beards, I can't beard out. Yeah, I'll have one of those. I'm like, oh I had a buddy who drank all the time. And uh he was telling the story where he got in a fight at a bar, and he as he's telling the story, he's telling, he goes, and this guy's making fun of what I'm drinking. He says, Gary, bear in mind, I'm like a pile and a half in. I'm like, what the what? He goes, pile and a half, you know, claws. I'm drinking claws. He says, it's a it's a pile and a half, and he says, I'm like seven claws in.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Take it in the pile and a half. And I tell you another thing about white claws, man. You can't drink a beer the next morning sitting on your beds like anybody, you know, claw? Pretty good. Like I would also bad, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

The last one's that tangerine one. Oh man, yeah. Yeah, all those those were weird. All those, you know, like said you you were saying that they're um people are drinking the the vodka iced tea one.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Yeah, yeah, vodka iced tea, and I'm like, we got vodka, we got iced tea. You know, you know, it's yeah, but uh it's uh it's a thing that they want to make it more portable, I guess. And you know, I'm like, why would you drink it? Like when we used to have Bud Light, yeah, lime. Oh, right, yeah, and I'm like, we got Bud Light, we got red lime. Why don't you think the chemical lime today? I don't know they did Bud Light alone, but a lot of those things kind of went by the weight.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

Remember Zima? I remember like watching a show and they were making fun of some guy having a Zima. And I was like, oh, Zimas, remember that?

SPEAKER_02 29:56

Let's get a Zima, man. It's like eighth grade. Zena, Barnells and James. Yeah, Barnes and James. The first one I remember is Barnes and James. Yeah. And then uh who was uh well was Bruce Willis's big first role. It was Seagram's golden wine cooler. Yeah. And it's just you know every once in a while they've gotten that long drink, which is out of that's a gin one, you know. Yeah. Smearing off ice. Ice? Would you ice somebody or something?

SPEAKER_00 30:29

No, it would it look like fog. Give me a glass of fog.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Uh I like it. It's just it's kind of like the menthol cigarette.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

Let's make something go you know. But I mean, do you think Zima could make a comeback?

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Surely something. Yeah. When reebops come back. I'm having a Zima, where am I reboxed everyone? Exactly. Parachute pants. That's a great, great look, man. I'll see you forever 21. The uh I was gonna ask you something. Um have you ever been did you ever get drunk on the stage? Before yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

And then about never. I was like, I'm never doing that again. And then one other time it happened. And it's not good, so I try not to.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

Yeah. I never did it. I was I smoked weed one time. Oh yeah. Yeah. Fucking stupid. I'm stupid on weed. I don't I don't be weed. Just like up there chuck losing it, and just like, what the hell? And I remember I was reasonably felt some guy that said, I know I shouldn't have had four beers on it. You shouldn't have told those fucking jokes. It wasn't the beers. I was a drink.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Would you drink on steak?

SPEAKER_02 32:03

Yeah, I'll take a like second show Friday, and I'll take a I'll do a Ron Wine, take a glass of scotch on a rock out there or something like that. You know, but I'm not doing it the first show. You know, I'll I'll crack it when I walk on stake. But I mean, I saw I've I'm not gonna mention any names, like I saw God do the same joke three times.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

I remember doing uh Alaska, Gnome Alaska, with Via Pongo, Danny Viapongo. And the crowd, we were late getting there because of of weather. So by the time we got there, the crowd, they were it was packed. Right. They've been waiting for us. And all they wanted to do is is they all they wanted to do was get drunk, and they were already pretty drunk, and they want to get you drunk. Right, right. And it was one of things that was just Danny and I, so one night I'd headline, and the next night Danny would headline. It just so happens this was the night that I had the headline. So Danny does his 45 minutes because it's only a two-person show, so he does 45, and then he's introducing me. It's such that sort of fucking He goes, all right, you're you're your next comic coming to stage. You might have seen him on blah blah blah. Uh you might have heard him on this. He's a very funny guy, but here's what I really you guys really need to know. He loves Yeager Mike. What a dick.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

What a dick move, man.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

I don't think I have two jokes out of my head. And I have four shots of Yedeman on the stool. And um, and then literally, like 20 minutes in, I slur a word, and the audience just goes, like, we got it.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Oh my god. I was in Alaska. You know killer bees? Uh-huh. Save up. Save up, save up. So I fly to Alaska to meet killer bees. And I get there the night before and I go to sleep in the color-down. And uh then I hear bees talking to bees F. You know, she's in there. I'm like, I wake up. He goes, hey Lords, what's up? I go, not much. He goes, You want to get high? I, you know, I know. He goes, come on, let's get high. And I go, okay. I flew eight hours a day before, and we smoked this pot. He looks at me, he goes, We gotta go to the radio. I'm like, what? Fucking hunger, man. The most highest I've ever been. And I'm not a good weed smoker at all. We go to the radio. And you know, weed just, he goes, by the way, that pop's called Manafusca Thunderfuck Pot. I'm like, did you like make it a club? And I was so fucking high. We're on the radio. And he's, you know, weed just takes the edge off of beast. He's like, and I'm just like, and it's close enough to where you can understand what. At one point, the DJ looks at me and goes, this is the fat climb guy you brought with you. Just wiped out, man. Just uh and we walked outside and there was a moose in the parking lot. And I was, I was like, a moose. And I ran over to my camera, and bees was like, Lord, he'll kill you. And the things are going on. I cannot smoke weed. And we got the breakfast and the club owner goes. I told you I'll stay up that man who's got thumbs up.

SPEAKER_03 35:36

I didn't know what it was.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

Can't smoke, you can't, you know.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

Yeah. Uh I know I was like, I we were in Alaska doing a comics on duty thing. And uh one of the comics I can't remember. But he was we were gonna go to the they have like an outdoor park that you could walk around, you know, and those in you know in the park they would show where they had like the large earthquake where there's part of it's like like six. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Six feet where where the ground split and stuff like that. And this guy did not want to go, like this wanna go and we kept saying, yeah, maybe we'll see some some moose like this as a joke. It is like, I don't need to see no moose, I'm not gonna see no moose. And like when I, you know, we're not gonna see any moose, we're not gonna see any moose. And sure enough, we said, especially if if you see a moose, let's just hope it's a male moose, not a female moose, and a beat, you know, and we're literally walking down this thing, and you see a baby moose come through, I'm like, oh, look at this. And then then you see the mother come, and this mother is big. They're big. Oh, yeah. Geez, they're big. Big ass. And this guy, he freaked. He freaked out. I told you, motherfucker, I told you guys I didn't want to do this. And now, now we're stuck in the between a mother and a baby. They just kind of mossy down in their own way, but he oh, he snapped.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

That's a different world, man. Up there. Jump Jeff something, his name was. Jeff.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

Tell me about that thing you drove up at. Oh, my speedster. Oh yeah, I have a uh it's a 19 it's based on a 1957 Porsche speedster. And it's uh a replica. It's not a real one, because the real ones are if you see a real one, they're 300,000, 250,000, 300,000. And the people who own the real ones don't want to drive them because they don't want anything to happen to them, and they don't want to put mileage on. But it's always been my favorite car. And I found a place uh here just outside of Long Beach that builds them from scratch, and uh I had one built over the pandemic. I had money and I was like, that's it, I'm buying this thing. It's a beautiful card, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

I love it. Is that the uh the James Dean card?

SPEAKER_00 38:13

It's not the James Dean one. James Dean, he had one, but uh James Dean, the one he died in was an actual was a Porsche spider. And those were the ones that uh they were still street legal, the spiders were, but they were also a race car as well. So they you could drive them on the on the street and everything, but you also could take them out and race them. So and that's what he he crashed on the way to uh one of the racetracks uh up there in California. You ever race a car? Nope.

unknown 38:46

No.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

That was the fastest you ever been in a car? I'm gonna say probably 120. And it was it wasn't it was a surprise. It was one of those ones where you're in the middle of nowhere, two-lane highway, there's not not a lot of cars, and so you know, I didn't realize I was even going that fast. I just like going in the radio, going all of a sudden I looked down and like, oh, that's that that's faster than I probably should be going. I did that.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

But uh my buddies came out here from uh Little one time. We got a Pina Ferrini. We're going to Vegas from here. I lived in Venice in 1908. Like a Pina Ferrini spine or like a fiat spine or Pina Ferini like that. And uh we were drove to Vegas, we had like a hundred dollars in our pocket. Like we're really gonna tell we're gonna win. We don't need it.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

We drove from here to Vegas? Here to Vegas.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Like Venice when I lived in Venice. Oh, okay. And we got it up to like 103 or 110, and I was scared to death. Yeah. It was just rattling and sure that you know, like this was just in a regular, like a you know, a regular car.

SPEAKER_00 39:54

Just fucking that had hitting the gas. Yeah, I think it was a BMW or something. I was just homing along and didn't have the you know, should have been using cruise control, but I wasn't just my foot was just stuck in it. What about your scooter? How fast is it about it?

SPEAKER_02 40:11

70.

SPEAKER_00 40:12

70. Yeah, mine's uh I have a two I have a Vespa Gran Turismo 200, which is 200 uh 200cc. And it's freeway legal. But I would never. Ever. But I did have it like I think I had it up to 70 uh just past Elsa Gundo, you know, right on the coast right there, and there's no and I think I had it, and I think I had only had it up to 70s to kind of keep up because everybody was gone goddamn fast. Uh and that was that was like, no, not never again. Because you know I mean out of like I said, California boy, I wear shorts, t-shirt, yeah, no half helmet. I don't even have the full, you know, I don't I'm I'm not I'm not dressed gear-wise. You're not putting on the chaps. No, it's just it's it's stupid.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

I took the I took the bigger I'm just on the freeway once. Yeah. I didn't want to, but I did. Because it's just it's street legal or freeway legal. And I got on there, I've been with my cousin up in the hills, and I was going to like it so it was Thanksgiving Day. Right. And so the freeways was nobody on it, Harley, and I got on there. I was only going like three miles from out by the rock store down the 101 to like Woodland Hills or whatever it was. Right. And I mean, I was in the right hand lane, just going, down the wheel 101, Trump's wizard pass me, and I was like, whoa, blowing out. I was fucking terrified.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

My investment is just for going to the bank, little errands, and like and and I found that, like I said, I would always try to stay off of like the big streets. I would stay off of Pacific Coast Highway and Sepulveda and stuff like that. And then I found later on that those are more safe and more, they don't go as fast. Right. You know, you can go, you can do 50 down a little, small little side street, but you're in regular traffic, people do it 40, 45, you know, and that's perfect. I don't lane split. I don't I don't try to I do it red lights just to get to the front. Sometimes I do, but most of the time I don't. And then people I see guys go, you know, you can go up there. I'm like, yeah, I'm fine line. I have shorts on.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Drink. That's you you've got I like I don't drink if I'm you know the spooner at all. You know. I might have you know. Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

No, I don't uh made me a it's made me a better driver. Yeah if I hadn't a Vespa. Yeah. Yeah. I look out for you know with my with my Vespa, I just always assume no one sees me. Especially with the speedster's the same way. That thing sits so low, no one sees you. So I gotta really keep an eye out and people drifting into your lane and stuff like that. I put a 90 decibel horn on my Vespa. Yeah, because usually the Vespa horn used to look like this is a 90-decibel air horn. Yeah, it's loud. And I've seen people where they've kind of weirdly drift over like they're coming in and I've laid on that thing. Oh, that's good. They jerk back, you're like, what the hell am I coming into?

SPEAKER_02 43:38

And I'm like, oh, it's fucking great. Yeah, I need that, man. Because I'm like, I'm so AD dude. Everybody goes, You need a full helmet. I'm like, man, if I had a full helmet, I would just feel like playing a video game. I wouldn't notice anything, man. I need that wide open space around me, man.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Except when I'm driving on the freeway now, if I'm in like uh if I'm in like the diamond lane and I See, you know, in my in my rear rear, I see a motorcycle coming. I give them all the room to fit. And they always give me the wave down below or whatever the signal was. Like I said, I think it has made me a better driver and looking out for you know other possible bullshit that's out there.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

Yeah. So young drinking in Hermosa Beach. Yeah. When you were young and when you were first starting off and all that stuff. Yeah. How'd you get your beer? How'd you get did you have a friend or I had a buddy that would spot?

SPEAKER_00 44:35

It was like you stand out where you you sit in the car and you like look at people going in and out of the liquor stores. That guy looks cool. Yeah. I didn't know I'd never heard that term before.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Oh wow, man. Would you ever do that? No.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

No, not at all nowadays.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

What an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 44:57

Yeah. I don't know what you mean. So different though. I mean. Yeah. That's true. Yo, kids, like I said, I think my parents live across the street from a grammar school. No one lets their kids just walk home. It's crazy. I mean it's like, that's all we did. During a weekend, your your your mom would just you'd get up at nine and and all your buddies would get on your bikes and you just go. You'd be gone all day. They had no idea how far you went.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

Your parents would be like, Where are you back?

SPEAKER_00 45:29

I don't know about. We had a guy. And you know our bikes up in Manhattan. We live in Redondo. Yeah, I know. I like seven miles. I like seven miles back.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

What'd you do up there? Yeah. We had a guy in our neighborhood. I've been talking about perverts and fucking everything that's going on. We had a guy in our neighborhood that used to expose himself to fucking kids. Really? And we never fucking told on him. We just harassed him. We call him back. We called him dick man. We would go by his ass and yell at the front door. Hey, dickman, come on out! Throw shit in his ass and stuff like that. It's a totally different thing.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

Yeah, so I don't think I would, you know, even think about buying beer for somebody that's gonna be. Oh, we do. Just the the ramifications. Like, well, are you guys gonna give me a lose gun? And then next thing you know, you're gonna knock at the door and you're going to jail.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

We asked people to buy us playboys, man. So the fucking level of gun. Yeah, I buy a playboy cat. You ask for you. Man, then the guy bought you a plant house and that changed your whole world.

SPEAKER_00 46:42

Yeah, and then we like said drinking in high school, and that was about it, you know. Back of my brother's Chevy Love truck with a camper shell. Traveling the road. Before the football game, you know, you'd go and you park, and then everybody sitting at back thinking, you know, you drink three. Yeah. I I I'm back. I mean, you go to a football game. Yeah, man. Uh so now you've been a bartender? Bartender. All my bartending stints have been uh Comedy Magic Club, or I would like be at like a private party. A friend of mine would go, you bartend, do you ever want to do like a you know somewhat like a party at somebody's house, you know, when I could bartend there? I was like, I could do that.

SPEAKER_02 47:31

How the how did how'd you get the gig?

SPEAKER_00 47:32

How'd you hear a ran a catering company? We need to have a you know, somebody who bartend, and then we have, you know, the people that hand out odorbs and stuff like that. But it was weird, it was like sometimes it was uh I was the house MC at the Company Magic Club for a lot of years. And when I left there, it was I would I would bartend catering stuff. It was weird every so people would go, then you used to, didn't you still work Comedy Magic Club? Yeah, you don't do that anymore? I'm like, well, I don't do stand-up, but um it's about a week off, so I'm just doing this, you know. But it was that weird. What happened to you, man? What went wrong? What went wrong? You man, you can get the comedy magic club. My buddy Kevin's house. Yeah, it was kind of a how'd you get started with the Comedy Level? Comedy Magic Club. I was I I I sold shoes when I was in college, and and that comp that the shoe store went out of business, and I wanted something that I could put maybe work at night, uh so I could and it was in summertime too, so I wanted to go to the beach in the daytime and then work someplace at night. So uh I went to a bunch of places. A friend of mine had a uh was a waiter at some fancy restaurant. I went into to be a bus boy and then and uh went for the interview, and the guy goes, I really need somebody with more experience. I go, to pick up the dishes? Really? I can't yeah, I can't pick up the reads. Yeah, exactly. So I just so I just went, okay, fine. You know, he goes, Yeah, if you had more experience, I'm like, I don't know where I'm gonna get more experience. So I went to the Comedy Magical, put it in an application there, and the uh the lady, I remember her name, she was uh Lori Gurdy. She goes, Do you have any experience? I go, No, I don't. I go, but I'm smart, I can pick it up, I'm not stupid, you know? And you know, she goes, All right, let's just we'll give you a shot then. And I was like, all right, cool. And he taught me how to do it. And this is at the time when Company Magic Club had cocktail waitresses and food servers. So those would be either male or female, and then cocktail waitresses. So it was two people, yeah. So it always sucked to come everybody, you know, when trying to drop the checks. Right. The table might get two checks, and they're like, well, can't we just put this all on? No, it's separate, sorry. That's some weird. It was weird, but that's just how it worked. Uh but like you would split that room, come to medical, so I'd have like 25, 30 tables at a night. And not everybody eats the whole time, but you you worked your ass off. Nobody busting tables, so you so you took the orders, you brought the food, you bust the tables, and then you had to go collect all within the hour and a half or two hours that the comedy show was, you know. So you worked hard, and then then I became like the house MC. Uh so I wasn't big, I wasn't doing tables and stuff. But then when I was a house MC, I kind of wanted to learn how to bartend because I had all my buddies that worked there were bartenders of stuff. So uh I said, I don't want to bartend like this. And you go, okay, well, what's you want on a ship? I go, should I go to one of these one of these bartending schools? Because remember I had those I have a scholarship. Uh and he was like, no, I'll teach you everything's basically, you know, you know how to make a gin and tonic gin tonic. That's all it is. He says there's other things you just have to learn. Uh and I go, what about a certain species? He goes, When in doubt, add sweet and sour and blend. And that was our motto. Mantra. You know, because yeah, we people come in. Crazy great pink squirrel. What's in a pink squirrel? He goes, I don't know. It just makes up pink. We got a book. Yeah. Read the book. So I did that. And then, like I said, so I worked Sunday nights at Comedy Magic Club then. So it was like that was just extra drinking money at the end of the week.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

So did the comedy drive the bartender? I mean, did you become did you go to the comedy magic club and apply because you wanted to be a talent?

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Or did this no, I just wanted to be around comedy. I was a huge comedy fan, grew up videotaping stand-ups and stuff. I mean, when I was like, it was crazy. When I was like uh just a uh when I first got the job and I was just waiting tables like this, I would be people thought I was crazy. I'd be like come in the back room and go, hey, Whitney Brown just walked in. I go, who? They were just so busy, they didn't know comedy. He's from San Francisco, he's like a pro you know, prolific writer. He's like this, you know. Now they became friends with you know people like Gary Shanley, things like that, you know. Even before I was, you know, on stage, you know, he was like super nice, and I would go back and you know, serve him to dinner and stuff. What's your name, Gary? Okay, I'm in. Gary, how are you doing? So it was like really, it was so great just to be around it. And then they uh the House MC uh at the time wanted to become a road comic. So he left, and then they needed somebody, and I kind of weirdly filled that that that role, which was I didn't have jokes or anything like that. They said you have a nice, you have a good personality, you don't have to be funny just to welcome the people, you know, ask people who were happy birthdays, thanks for coming, blah, blah, blah, and just find the axe. And I was like, okay. And then I would write a couple things just to try here and there. And then at one point, there was a comedian, uh, his name's Pat Hazel, still my one of my best friends. He pulled me aside and said, You don't realize that you have this amazing opportunity here. I go, What do you mean? He goes, You have 10 minutes stage time every night on one of the premier comedy club stages in the country. Right, yeah. You need to start working on this. So I was like, oh, okay. So I started, he says, just do some new things, try it out, change some words, blah, blah, blah. Once you get it right, put it in the bag, put it in the bag, you know, just build an act. And that's what I How long before you went on the road and did um well, I would I did a lot of baby step road stuff. Like uh there was a an owner slash manager of the improv that used to come in and see some shows to see what we were doing and and and stuff like that, and it was Pam Felix, and she was like she took a liking to me. She goes, You should come down and work uh our San Diego room. And so when I had to take a week of vacation from Comedy Match Club, San Diego, I just went to San Diego and worked as a as an MC there. And so, you know, and that was like a vacation, but I was working and it was I was doing stand-up, it wasn't great. So, and then she would go, Oh, our Irvine room every so often needs somebody, and I would like I'd take a week off and work at the Irvine Club and stuff like that. And you know, finally it, you know, yeah, started doing stuff after that.

SPEAKER_02 55:19

So it worked out the legend of our podcast. Exactly. We're having beer, beers. Oh, yeah. We got uh Sun Lukon looking at us. The king of the monkeys, the monkey the monkey king. When did you start parking? Here, here. Uh yeah, I've got a divorce. Right. And uh I'm walking across the parking lot of my daughter's school, and the owner of the bar goes, I'd get a divorce. I go, Yeah. Because what are you gonna do? I go, I don't know, man. I guess we're gonna have to get I want to be around my kid, I want to come off the road. You know, I've been on the road for 20 years, right? I didn't have a day job in 20 years. And uh he goes, Well, I think you'd be a good bartender, I'll put you back in the bar. I'll go, I've never been a bartender. I mean, I just did a living in college, beer and wine. He goes, Yeah, we got a book. You can get so I started on Saturdays, you know, took over somebody's Saturday shift every other week. I was just a filling guy, and then it turned into a you know a gig man, you know, and it's been a good guy. You know, it's it's fun. It's uh, you know, what are you, you know, you you got talking to people just constantly and all that stuff. But I mean, I like it. I've had an ocean view for 23 years because of bartending and comedy and acting and painting man work and Airbnb and whatever, but I've but I love that beach, man. I like I like it here. I was gonna start a radio stage people moving out of California, like go get the fuck out of it. I like it here, man. I want to be the last fucker standing if I can, you know. I mean, I love the stuff, I like where it comes from, but yeah, it's pretty good. And it compliments it, you know. You can be, it's hard though. Like when I first moved, you know, bars fucking people are like, okay, man, fucking over until they're raised a stand-up comedian, you know. I'm like, well the fuck. Yeah, I don't need shit from you. I've done I'm not working, you know, I've I've been on TV, fucker. Yeah, you know, you have them, you know, shit like that, but you know, that's kind of my hope. Yeah. Yeah, they've been good to me. And uh I like it.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

I'm good, you know, I love comics and uh it's like I said our our our friend, uh mutual friend who recently passed away, Becky Petigel. She was uh kind of the same thing. She had a she had a coding set for special.

SPEAKER_02 57:48

Yeah. And she one of the I mean, I was talking about what he coding, she was he goes every female comic in America, I would think Becky Petigo. She was like, yeah, she kind of that was a fucking great special. Yeah, yeah, and like that's every I mean that's it.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

If you want to get off the road, she's tired of being on the road. She was still, you know, she would still do do shows here and there, but um, but she, you know, decided, oh, I'm I'm gonna be a you know bartender slash you know waiter, waitress um at like a bunch of these folks, you know, make good money. Nothing better than gonna do it. Like I said, there is there is something to say about you go in, you do the job, and then you leave. And it's no more, it's not on your head new, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:34

But that's even a misnomer. No job is like that. You think, well, this is a no-drama job, and then you're like, you got waitresses fighting and you got stuff like that, you know. And you're like, what about I'm 62 years old? About your boyfriend, or who said who, or what that fucking bitch said to you. I don't care. But then you get wrapped up and it doesn't have anything. Yeah, Becky, I'm Becky's the first person I ever pitched this idea to them. We should do a podcast together. Two bartenders that used to be comics and still do comedy. And she goes, Lawrence, I don't like talking to people. I'm like, fuck you.

SPEAKER_00 59:12

She was a bartender in a waitress. I had to talk to people, yeah. But yeah. But like I said, she was, you know, she was a solid comic and just was tired of flying and she didn't like to fly. You know, and so you know, it was one of those so I get it. You know, there's certain there's just getting to a time where you go, can I do this till I'm well I mean everybody's on the boats, man?

SPEAKER_02 59:38

So you know, when I was done on it, you're gonna be a boat guy. That's the only thing. I wish I would have jumped right the boat, but for getting to fucking record on a goddamn podcast. Microphone's not working and shit. I can't tell you my love yet. All of the topic out. Thanks for coming up. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:09

We'll do it again. Yeah. Let's do some shows together, man. Let's get some shows. Okay. Up on the scooter.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:16

Let's go on uh go on the s um on the road and do some shows, man. That's what we need to do. But anyway, thank you very much. No problem, but always thanks for coming in, guys. We appreciate fade to black.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

Oh, we got it. We did. All right, buddy. Who's better? I mean,