Gilded Trash
Ride shotgun with Comedian Scott Reed and Creator AlannaB as they travel the country in search of ...what? When they figure it out, you'll be the first to know!
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From the eclectic artsy vibe of Hubba Hubba Tiki to the unique atmosphere of the Harrisburg Comedy Zone, our adventures have been nothing short of memorable.
And yes, we're rallying for Joe Rogan to open a comedy club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania because this city's comedy scene is just waiting to explode.
But it's not all laughs and giggles. We also explore the dynamics of audience interaction at comedy shows, sharing our personal encounters with hecklers and the pros and cons of crowd engagement. From Dan Soder's masterful handling of disruptive spectators to James McCann's colorful crowd work, we discuss audience respect in comedy clubs and the wild ride of live performances.
Get ready for an episode packed with laughter, intriguing insights, and a few star-struck moments with celebrities. Who was it?
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This is an urgent news bulletin brought to you by your local Waste Pickers Union. Since the last episode, we've got t-shirts, truckers, hats and beer koozies. We got YouTube, patreon and even a Discord. So head on over to gildedtrashcom and find all of our links and merchandise. I'm Scott.
Speaker 2:And I'm Alana B, and let's dive on into the dumpster of comedy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, stop the presses.
Speaker 1:Before we get started on anything, we got a few things to revisit from the last episode. First off, on the last Kill Tony episode that we watched, red Band was wearing a Rax roast beef t-shirt. It was kind of sexy. I want it. I want a Rax roast beef t-shirt. Are you kidding me? Yes, a Rax Roseby t-shirt. After we just talked about it, never heard about it in my life. And then, boom, there, it is right in my face.
Speaker 2:You know, I like to refer to those as synchronicities, babe. It's just the universe telling us that we're talking about the right things, we're saying the right things, we're doing the right things. Also, from last episode, a little bit of good news you found on social media today was that Noah West and Presley Tennant are definitely releasing the song, if it was easy.
Speaker 1:Great song.
Speaker 2:Yes, amazing song. We talked about it in the first episode and it's releasing on eight 30, I think Eight 30 or eight 31. Go check it out. I mean check it out, Take it from them, not from us.
Speaker 1:Right, we're just relaying the message relayers.
Speaker 2:Don't kill the messenger.
Speaker 1:Right, we're going to talk about going to all the different places that we've done Open mics, all the different scenes that we visited in terms of, like, different cities. You know what I mean. Cool people that we've met along the way. Uh, cool people that we've met along the way, cause we've met some really, really cool people. And also we're going to make our argument for why we think Joe Rogan should open up mothership East in Pittsburgh, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:I really like I've come to that conclusion. First of all, I grew up close to Pittsburgh, so I'm already a Pittsburgh girl, right, I love Pittsburgh, Um, but it's going through a transformation right now and I just think that it's ripe for the pickings. What's the feature topic for this week's episode?
Speaker 1:Well, we're going to talk about, as we know maybe not everybody else, but I started doing comedy back in March open mic comedy and we're just going to talk a little bit about some of the things we've come across, some of the people we've met, you know, some of the things that we've encountered. All that good stuff.
Speaker 2:All right, I mean I do have an agenda here, but yeah no, it started really.
Speaker 1:The comedy journey started back in March. We went up to harrisburg to the comedy zone, which is a comedy club it's awesome actually isn't it it's. Yeah, it is pretty awesome, it's the nicest thing that we so outside of like shows that we've got, comedy shows that we've gone to that were like at places.
Speaker 2:Right, like actual. I mean, that wasn't actual comedy club though, right, but that's what I'm saying, but it is and it isn't.
Speaker 1:It's not the improv.
Speaker 2:It's not the improv, but it had an improv, like feel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely a cool place. It's like a mid tier. It's improv, like feel.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's definitely a cool, it's like a mid-tier it's like it's not an open mic at a what's happening right now, that I think that was the computer. So it makes a noise like that it does now because I fucking turned something on that I wasn't supposed to and jack something up and I'm gonna have to factor your whole thing already. But that's it. No, it gave me a feel of standup. New York.
Speaker 1:I mean I would count standup. New York is like a little bit better because that feels like it was in New York. Well, and it also felt like when you think a comedy club like standup New York is like the stereotype of like a. It's like down in this little room there's like it's brick right, you know what I mean. It's small it's very intimate.
Speaker 2:It's in new york well, right, but like thinking about the murals that were all over the wall at the harrisburg comedy, like it just had a very comic feel to it. Yeah, yeah, oh, it's a great place. Yeah 100%.
Speaker 1:And it's big and it's in a hotel, so that's what really makes it awesome. It's in a hotel with a bar, restaurant, with a comedy club, with, like a game room. It was like a sort of a different version of like JD Legends. Yeah, yeah Not quite as much activity, but like still with having a game room, having a bar, having a comedy club.
Speaker 2:So I was trying to research earlier what the name of the hotel was that it was attached to, and it could be one of two. It's like the Magnuson Harrisburg hotel or or the budget in cause.
Speaker 1:they all have the same address, which is one-on-one line kiln so like, or the budget in because they all have the same address which is 101 Lime Kiln.
Speaker 2:I think it was the budget in, to be honest with you, Right, but if you look on the side of the marquee there where it says what's the name of the restaurant? Again Boomerang. Oh, their food was good.
Speaker 1:Their wings were good yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's really nice inside.
Speaker 1:It's like a really nice sports bar it's huge and it has the patio out back it's huge or the tiki bar or whatever that's yeah, it's got like a little tiki bar outside thing going yeah, checked a lot of boxes, but what I was saying as far as it being like a mid-tier, it's like it's not your. That's when the computer beat oh right all right, the it's not an open mic bar or like brewery that you're at doing comedy and it's not like a nice club where you're gonna get like a headliner, like a national headliner.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying, you're not gonna get dusty slay there you're not gonna, I'm just saying, but you'll get him at like the improv right or something like a club like that or mcgoobies like right dan soder is not going to harrisburg comedy zone, but he's going to mcgoobies right, right, but I agree it also does get so-called national acts you know what I mean like touring comedians that aren't your like name brand so aaron weber would play at the harrisburg comedy zone. Aaron weber has played at the harrisburg comedy zone okay, okay, that gives me an idea of tears.
Speaker 2:It's probably a little above baits don't be mean to baitsy. It's probably a little above Bates. Don't be mean to Batesy.
Speaker 1:Try a little above Bates.
Speaker 2:Oh my lanta. But like okay. So March of this year 2024, was your very, very first open mic ever.
Speaker 1:However, like before that, yeah, I mean I always wanted to get into comedy but but I, you know, just never did I. Uh, I used to. I mean I used to think about it all the time. I mean, obviously you know this, that I've been like I'm a comedy nerd, like some people. Like sport, I mean I like sports too, but like I love comedy, like, and like when I was a kid, I'd run around and I mean I doubt anybody remembers this, there might be somebody but, um, that I would walk around with like sheets of notebook paper which is words written on bits that I and it would be like a bit. It would say like uh, jerry Garcia and I knew a bit by Nick Di palo that he talks about jerry garcia, and like I wouldn't, so it would just say one word or phrase or whatever, and I would have all these bits memorized. And then, of course, like I would do jerky boys non-stop, like for everyone that would ever listen, and my friends and I would make our own jerky voice tapes.
Speaker 2:I literally got to hear the first week we were dating. I think I heard every jerky voice through you, through your impersonation of them.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I had heard them before, but not the way you. But yeah, but.
Speaker 1:I'm saying so like I've always. Like I'm saying that's how I really got started doing voices, though Like that I do you know how to do a million voices. Um so like I always was like kind of geared towards that, but like I uh well, first off.
Speaker 2:I didn't know you could even like, really do that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know you could just be a comedian, right? You know what I mean. Right, when we were younger, that was right.
Speaker 2:It fell out of reach, like it didn't feel like what somebody grew up to do.
Speaker 1:Right, you just didn't really think about it because it was like how would you even go about that? Like as a kid, like there's no, because when you live, like in the country, it's not like there's a comedy scene or anywhere, even nearby. Right Even now we drive an hour and a half to get to a scene Right At a minimum, really. Right, you know what I mean. Like it's.
Speaker 2:And the closest place you would have been able to go pre-Comedy Zone days would have been Baltimore.
Speaker 1:Right or DC.
Speaker 2:Or DC. Yeah, I mean which?
Speaker 1:I mean even still, even from there, like you're talking, I mean you're going to have to drive to the city, right to the city.
Speaker 2:Right? Well, there was always the alternative, though, for you, which you also didn't pursue. Well, you kind of pursued, but didn't. Your dad said that you could always be a megachurch leader.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I think that goes into being a comedian, because you're just full of shit.
Speaker 2:But you are ordained.
Speaker 1:so I am ordained, yeah.
Speaker 2:The comedy preacher, the preacher comedian.
Speaker 1:Not really. I think that one guy he's like a legitimate preacher.
Speaker 2:He's a legitimate preacher. I'm not legitimate, that's my thing, no.
Speaker 1:I'm illegitimate. I do weddings for people that are not looking to stay together.
Speaker 2:Matter of fact, he's zero for three right now zero for three.
Speaker 1:But uh, but if you need somebody in a pinch and no professional, person would touch it. That's where I specialize.
Speaker 2:That's where I specialize uh what did that one kid say I can't believe I met a pastor that smokes weed or something.
Speaker 1:I say so we were hitting the vape pen, it was called the shit. What was it? The devil's something. It wasn't the devil's lettuce but it was called the devil's sunrise or something like that. And he's like so I was like it's called the devil's sunrise. He's like you mean to tell me that I smoke a weed called the devil's sunrise with my pastor? And I was like first off, nobody's ever said the word pastor. That's a different connotation. I'm here as a legal officiant and I ordained something or other something internet, ordained internet.
Speaker 2:So so then, like we were just like so I don't even know where, how it, just kind of overnight I was like we're doing a podcast and you're going to start doing open mics. That's what we're going to do, that's what we're going to put like our time and money into. So here we are. That was in March.
Speaker 1:We're now in mid-August, already coming up on football season, um, and you've got a little bit of practicing already, some yeah yeah, some, not as much as I probably like, but uh, yeah, but we've gotten to do it all over, which has really been fun yeah, we've done it at lots of different, lots of different places, locations not just. I mean lots of different towns, I should say right as opposed to, and we're going to be.
Speaker 1:We found out that there's one in altuna yeah, that sounds really, which is like really sort of outside the box because it's like you don't really get open mics in places of you know that size right right I mean you might get a comedy show at a bar or something like that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Kind of like here, where they might bring in a couple of people right like it's not it's never a comedy open mic right, you know what I mean like so that's, that'll be cool, or if it is to check that out yeah, or if it is, it's like not for for an area like this.
Speaker 2:I I haven't seen one that was like really well promoted or put together yet I haven't seen one open mic for comedy, for music no forever for comedy. There was one where that you didn't go to that was not for comedy.
Speaker 1:They were doing that for music and you asked them if I could do comedy.
Speaker 2:Anyways, I'm not going to argue that. So I mean, but I think one of the very first things that we did when we very first started dating was we went to see the Gaff.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, we've seen a ton of comedians. Yeah, we've seen a ton of comedians. Yeah, I mean it was that's. We've seen a bunch that wereians. Yeah, I mean it was it that's. We've seen a bunch that we're all really really, really good. There's still a lot that we haven't seen. Oh yeah, I mean for sure 100. I mean I can go to a comedy show once a week and probably not get through all the people that I wanted.
Speaker 2:Right, absolutely, absolutely, so like. And now that we're doing this whole journey with all of this, I feel like I've become some kind of crazy, like stage mom where, like every place we go, I'm trying to wiggle you into an open mic and you're like, I'm not doing that here.
Speaker 1:She's had me do it at a party, like just somebody's redneck party in an orchard. She's got me out there doing comedy for people. That ambush style of comedy is not fun.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. But that guy laughed no at the bar that day. I can't help it.
Speaker 1:That's one thing that I learned immediately.
Speaker 2:Don't tell people you do comedy, don't ever do that?
Speaker 1:because the immediate people are like tell me a joke. You feel like Rocco and Boondock Saints.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Make me laugh.
Speaker 2:Right. It's like it's so weird. It's weird because it's like one of those things like people, as if you're just like loaded with like knock, knock jokes I mean if it was like uh, what's his name back in the day, the one-liner guy um rodney dangerfield, like if it was something like that even so, but it's still a pain in the ass like you don't walk up to the musician and say play me a song.
Speaker 2:No, you don't. But to be fair, like it's happened to me as well, because I grew up in this area singing, so like if I would go anywhere where there was a band, people would think they could go up to the band and say they wanted Atlanta to sing. And it's like not fair to the band, right, it's not fair to their fans, who might not want to hear me sing and I have friends that do that too. It's just, it's awkward, yeah, it's it's the most annoying thing ever.
Speaker 2:Plus we're both like really introverts. So if you learn, anything, it's don't ever.
Speaker 1:if you learn anything from this episode, nothing else.
Speaker 2:Take this home, If somebody, if you find out that somebody does comedy in a conversation, do not be like, well, tell me a joke no, don't do that.
Speaker 1:Do not do that, it's terrible it's, it's awkward. It's awkward, it's not going to be funny.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's not going to be funny. Jokes aren't meant to be like I said. They're not knock knock jokes right, like I can, that's.
Speaker 2:What you really just need to do is have a little list of knock knock jokes for people like that.
Speaker 1:That to me is even more annoying, just being like no no, I hear you all right.
Speaker 2:so, um, so, your first open mic ever was in Harrisburg and I thought you did amazing, but I'm like a diehard fan. So then again, that's what I was talking about with Stage Mom, because then I had this bright idea that we were going to go see Shane Gillis in Nashville and that Scott was going to do some open mics in Nashville. So we went down there and the timing was a little bit off, but I have one word Joyland.
Speaker 1:That chicken sandwich, son? Oh, my dear Lord, that was. If you learn nothing else from this, I think If you're in. Nashville. Go to Joyland in East Nashville.
Speaker 2:What was mine?
Speaker 1:The Smashburger they only have two things Chicken sandwiches and burgers.
Speaker 2:But it's a Smashburger right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're Smashburgers.
Speaker 2:Hand-pattied right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean like they kill the cow on sight.
Speaker 1:They kill the cow right out back. They're the only cows in Nashville. No, it's uh, top notch. It's like just those two things, but they do really really, really, really, really, really really yeah, joyland was amazing.
Speaker 2:We we did. We had a lot of good food there. We had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Shangillas obviously was amazing, but um, we did that because we were going to. There was an open mic that we were going to at a place called Hubba Hubba Tiki.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, that was that same night, so we were looking, we were killing time. Yes, hubba, hubba Tiki.
Speaker 1:I need to go back there. I want to go back for open mic. First off, it was awesome.
Speaker 2:First of all, the kitchen. There is fucking off the chains Like the bathroom kitsch baby. It's like the.
Speaker 1:I was like kitchen. No, it didn't happen.
Speaker 2:But like remember the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's, it's very. It might not be everybody's vibe, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like it's as if the eighties threw up all over the place and then and then add in some like tiki stuff. If you're cool, you'll like it Right, like the people there are, just like, and it was very eclectic in terms of the mix of people that came in to do comedy. Yeah, like it wasn't like one group of people or like.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It wasn't one type of comedy, it was a little.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a bunch of 30 year old white guys, right, I mean there was some, but like you know, you've got like no offense but like comedy zone yeah you know what I mean. You got I mean even a lot of the open mics we do in pittsburgh and stuff. It's mostly 30 year old white guys 25 to 40 year old white guys yeah, yeah, that's comedy's bread and butter, but like it was just an eclectic mix of people it was.
Speaker 2:It felt very artsy, not that there's no diversity in pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1:I want to throw that out.
Speaker 2:No, no there absolutely, is there absolutely? Is and there's, and even at the comedy zone there was. But yeah, this place just felt different. It felt a little artsier, it felt I don't know, it just felt you felt like anybody could walk in there right right anybody did walk in there oh, that's right, but before we go there, I do want to give a shout out to brandy legs on instagram. It's brandy legs l-e-g-s on instagram or misguided spirits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's misguided-spiritscom.
Speaker 2:spirits made for the people, that pour them by the people that pour them, by the people that pour them you know what I mean. Right that it's unsafe, but that part is unsafe For the people. That pour them.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's exactly it Made by the people that pour them, but anyways.
Speaker 2:So I was stalking her Instagram earlier and I found out that Shabuzy follows her, which is effing huge, but she's just a little gal in Nashville slinging spirits, but I love her, yeah, and good times.
Speaker 1:That's what the thing was we walked into that place and they made us. You would have thought that we lived next door.
Speaker 2:Right by the way that they treated us.
Speaker 1:They let us try this liquor. There was nobody else really there, so they were just like bullshitting with us about their lives as if we'd known them and were their friends forever.
Speaker 2:We were just part of the conversation. They were having their conversation and we were included. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it was very cool and the host there was of the open mic. Yeah, he was very cool, very cool, very, very cool he was very cool, yeah, but yeah no, it was a great mic at a great time, um.
Speaker 2:Oh, one other thing I wanted to say about misguided spirits, though, is, even if you don't drink, their merch is hella cool. They have a lot of tarot themed merch, like shirts, um coasters playing shit like that, but they also have a collab with um tattoo artist, matt adamson. Um, he has a tattoo shop in brooklyn, new york, and it's called old bone society, and so that merch is slightly different. It's more flash art and stuff like that, but it's really I feel like it's really cool, really cool.
Speaker 2:So, but any who's all back to, who just randomly popped up at the open mic and hubba, hubba right.
Speaker 1:So we were just there, we were watching um. I went first yeah, it was so weird because it's like I mean, first is actually not. Not that I'm saying it's coveted or anything like that. Obviously you don't want to be, but like early is better usually. Right, you know what I mean Because like, if you're wanting outside people there, they're there, whatever. Or I guess that's really what it depends on is when is there going to be people there that aren't just comedians?
Speaker 2:Right, exactly.
Speaker 1:But regardless of any of that, um, what was I saying about that?
Speaker 2:you went first. Oh yeah, I went first.
Speaker 1:So the the first time that I did comedy I was just like in the middle of the pack, and every time after that. But my second and third time doing comedy I was first both of those times. So it was like if I was a lot to deal with because I was like whoa Jesus. But regardless of any of that, so we're sitting there, we're watching comedy and this guy's up there and I'm like he looks really familiar. We're in Nashville. I don't know this guy, but he looks really familiar. I'm just thinking that in my mind that he looks familiar. He stands out to me. For some reason he gets up there to do I had noticed him prior to that you know, he's like talking to everybody.
Speaker 1:people knew who he was, like obviously been there before, um, and he gets up there and he's doing his and he did a joke about this was at the time that the whole nickelodeon documentary come out and he said that he was a child star and that he worked for Disney. And that's when I put it together because Disney ABC. He was on a show called Step by Step which was on TGIF, and he was one of the kids on the show JT. He was JT's friend and Rich, I think his name was on the show.
Speaker 2:I don't remember, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Regardless, it doesn't, rich or no? No, I think it was Rich, I don't. It doesn't matter. Regardless of any of that. So we don't even. This is all we know about him at the time.
Speaker 2:No, right, this is all we know. However, I still wasn't putting anything together because I'd never seen that show, right?
Speaker 1:like I didn't care about that kind of stuff right, and we had heard brandy actually talked about how he was a. He was max, the voice of max at a goofy movie right, so by the end of the night that we were leaving the bar right. We knew those things, that he was on the show step-by-step and that he was on. He was Max in a goofy movie.
Speaker 2:Right, that's all we knew.
Speaker 1:That's all we knew.
Speaker 2:And just real quickly though, because this plays into what you're about to say. When I came out of the bathroom, you were having a conversation with him and he shook my hand and said said, oh, I heard you're the one that doesn't like step by step, and so well, yeah, I just I before the end. It was a joke before the end of the night.
Speaker 1:I just introduced myself and said that you know. I asked him if he was right the guy that I thought that he was and he said, yeah, yeah, he was and that that was that. Right, you came out, had that. He said, uh, he was like. Oh, you guys are from pennsylvania.
Speaker 1:He remembered because I had a joke about the roads yeah and he was like oh, you know, whatever, have a good night. You know, nice to meet you, yada, yada. So we thought that was cool. You know what I mean? Just to have just that alone was I was thinking that you know, this is awesome. I was a guy like watching on tv when I was growing up, and then we'll read his wiki page first of all jason marsden, and he said his name was mars at the show right, that's how he was like right, and that's how he goes.
Speaker 2:He. He goes by mars on instagram um follow him, because he's got a lot of crazy shit going on and I'm going to tell you about it here in a minute, but anyways, so we get to his wiki page and he was the voice of the cat in hocus pocus zachary binks.
Speaker 2:He was zachary binks in hocus pocus. I am a middle-aged woman who clearly, just by looking at me, loves everything. Halloween, mars, mars. If you're watching this, you could have led with the fucking fact that you were in hocus pocus, because I wouldn't know what that was. I would have known, but anyway. So he started in 87 on like webster. He did an episode of Webster and that was like the first thing that I could find. And then, like he's done, like you said, he was Max in the Goofy movie, step by step, but he's still working. Brandy said that he's friends with a bunch of the kids that were in the movie Hook, I think that he is.
Speaker 1:I think I saw some pictures Because he does a lot of like cons.
Speaker 2:He does a lot of cons.
Speaker 1:Was he even in that movie? No, he wasn't. I looked it up, I did look it up.
Speaker 2:But if you're looking for something to do and you're in Salem Mass on October 11th, they're having a really cool costume party slash event. Uh, mars is going to be there. The girl that played allison, the girlfriend, the two little thug guys are all grown up. They're going to be there. Omri katz is going to be there, so like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2:The witches won't be there, but everybody else everybody else them. Everybody else who is. I don't want to see that. I don't care less about Bette.
Speaker 1:Midler. Well, Kathy, how do you say?
Speaker 2:her name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like her, but the other two I can do without her.
Speaker 2:Well, regardless, october 11th in Salem Massachusetts.
Speaker 1:Not that I don't like him in the video. Okay, move on from that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so he's still working, and he's still working really hard. And his girlfriend on Insta is hella cute. She does all the cons with him. Remedy, follow her too. So what else are we talking about?
Speaker 1:I don't know. What else are we talking about?
Speaker 2:So there's a whole Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, that's what we've been doing a lot of yeah, which is cool. I mean I like it out there. It's definitely cool. We're going to go to Austin here soon.
Speaker 2:Not only are we going to Austin people, but I've already hooked up with a real estate agent as a plan b but um, yeah, but uh, yeah, no, I mean I like the Pittsburgh scene.
Speaker 1:Like I said it, it's like we've learned a lot. You know what I mean by going out there yeah a when you go because, like, we watch the show while we're there we don't just just typically. I mean a lot of comics. We're coming at this from a little bit different place. Most comics start this much younger.
Speaker 2:Right, you know what?
Speaker 1:I mean Than I have. So I'm not going to go around, I'm not trying to hit 19 different places.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean I'll do two or three, right.
Speaker 1:But I try to stay, I try to watch other people, because not only that, but I like to watch right other comedians bad and good right, however, what's going on, however I'm fucking over it, dudes. I'm so over it we have made the mistake in this last time. I don't know why you wanted to do that, but um do you like to engage again?
Speaker 2:I feel like a stage mother. I want to show my support to the other comics. I want them to have a face. That's not one of the other comics and I'm the only one that routinely shows up with him.
Speaker 1:That is not one of the other comics, so yeah we get stuck like, and the problem with a lot of these is if, with the exception the scene in pittsburgh, you might be there on a great night the same, then you can be great and bad week to week you don't back, right, you don't know it might be filled with people. It might be nobody there right and we've made the mistake several times of like going into like the bar and we'll we'll typically like order something to eat.
Speaker 2:Right Cause again we're driving Right.
Speaker 1:Right, this is our whole night.
Speaker 2:We're out there for you know the time that we get off work to you know we get home, Um, and we've sat.
Speaker 1:Do not sit up front, do not be in a place where they can engage you, Because when there's nobody there, they're going to engage with the only people there that are engaging. Yes, and that's the problem. So then you end up in this spot where you're just like you gotta be like on your A game.
Speaker 2:I mean to be fair. I I'm very comfortable responding Right, because I did used to be a DJ, so it's not awkward for me to respond and I will say some awful bullshit on purpose, just to see if they're on their game sometimes. But it's no longer fun. I feel like I'm in the spotlight when I'm there and I don't want to be in the spotlight. I just want to relax and watch comedy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, spotlight when I'm there and I don't want to be in the spotlight Right, I just want to relax and watch comedy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so obviously you don't ever have to worry about that at like a professional show.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean you do if you're sitting up front Right.
Speaker 2:But I want to be up front when fucking Well, not maybe Matt Rafe, but no when Soders worked in the crowd. Right, we were up front, although, ari is a staunch defender of. Matt right or Tony.
Speaker 1:Tony Hinchcliffe is a staunch defender of Tony.
Speaker 2:I'm not anti-Matt, right, no, I mean I was prior to that, but he put his work in. He's doing what he's doing, right, he's working.
Speaker 1:He's making way more money than me. Exactly, people get Whatever dude, do you? If you can, crowd work your way to 10 million fucking dollars. Crowd work your way to 10 million dollars is what I say yeah if you can do it, do it I just like. It's just not for me yeah, it's just not for me either. I don't really enjoy it.
Speaker 2:But remember we went and saw uh soda that one time and we were close. We had like we've been we've been.
Speaker 1:Actually it's crazy how close we've been to most. Like we were close to shane gillis, we were up front yeah we were uh soda we were up from dusty sleigh we were up from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nate, every time I've seen nate? Yeah, well, not an arena, but like a yeah we.
Speaker 1:We had really good seats at state college though we did have. We were probably only like eight rows back or something that was really good, remember.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of when you're talking about like interacting with the comic or whatever. So one thing that cringes me out is hecklers, and I know that that's something that you guys have to learn to get used to. I'm a mouthy son of a bitch Like I have to learn to just pull back. And'm a mouthy son of a bitch like I have to learn to just pull back and be like it's not my right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's just that's the problem with it. Is you just it's? I mean you. Every situation that I've gotten into like that it's unique in itself because you're dealing with different people, so's like what may work to get out of it one time won't work on somebody else or vice versa. Right, Because it's like if it's just like you know, if it's one person, like being like overly answery.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You almost have to just get to the point and just be like shut up dude. Right, which is where most people get to is they're like dude, shut up, you know what I mean, like so, because it's just there's no other way to deal with that. Now, if it's just people talking you know what I mean that can sort of be corralled, like you. Just, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:You can just sort of get out of that because you can pull them out of it if it's the right you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, like, or. Let them finish. I'm sorry, am I interrupting you, right? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like you, just like yeah there's a lot of good ways to get out of it. But I think why it's cringy for me is because the couple times that I've seen it handled over the past couple months, um, it's been somebody screaming at the person, like screaming like shut the fuck up which I do that sometimes to you for no reason, like you're just like.
Speaker 1:You could always pull, michael Richards.
Speaker 2:Or not. Okay, let's not get canceled before we get up and running. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1:Well, how do professional comedians handle heckling? I mean, we saw Dan Soder, I'm not going to do it. Well, how do professional comedians handle heckling? I mean, we saw Dan Soder.
Speaker 2:Right, where were we? That was Magoobies.
Speaker 1:Magoobies, that's a frigging awesome venue.
Speaker 2:I love Baltimore to begin with, but yeah, as much as I love Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:So when we saw Dan Soder, he literally basically just said shut the fuck up. There was people talking.
Speaker 2:And they were talking a lot, and they were talking to each other, having a full blown conversation. A full blown conversation.
Speaker 1:Enough to disrupt the show, and we also should say this was right after COVID, so it wasn't even a full room.
Speaker 2:Right, right, Exactly. And it's like why the fuck would you pay the price to sit front row to see an awesome comedian and then sit there and bullshit with your friend?
Speaker 1:A show that you've waited two years to see because, remember, this was originally booked like 2020. We were supposed to go see him. They shut everything down. They didn't even start doing shows again. This is like the end of 2021, maybe the beginning of 22. I don't remember Right. You paid money, waited two years to go to a show, only to have a decide right when he's getting started to have a conversation from the front row Right and so.
Speaker 2:So Dan Soder handled it, but I felt I felt his energy get a little angry the rest of the show. So I don't like, I don't feel like it, like it didn't hurt. My experience is what I want to say agree it did not hurt my experience. I still appreciated everything he did after that, like I still he's. He's hilarious. I love Dan Soder, but um, didn't he say something at the end of the show then?
Speaker 1:I don't think he said anything at the end of the show, but I think he might've referenced it later on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like in a joke, you know like we've heard comedians do that before.
Speaker 1:Yes, where they'll reference back to the matter of fact. Shane Gillis, he wasn't the one that did it, it was McCann.
Speaker 2:James McCann James.
Speaker 1:Donald Forbes McCann catamaran plan Shout out to his podcast. That's the name, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:He's a funny guy. He is fucking hilarious. I don't know I had never heard of him before the Shane Gillis show.
Speaker 1:I can't believe we totally forgot about that incident. That was better than the Soder incident. The Soder incident was mine. That was just people talking repeatedly after being asked to be to be quiet.
Speaker 2:This lady, she was drunk, yeah, and she was shouting like bring out shane gillis like oh god, it was embarrassing good and every comedian after that happened called it back. Called it back, Called it back.
Speaker 1:Even Shane Gillis called it back yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but um, I mean props to the security guard because she fucking handled it and it was, and everybody clapped when the lady left and that was that.
Speaker 1:In a full, uproarious cheer.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Well, especially too, cause he called her a cunt.
Speaker 2:He did call her a cunt, which is one of my favorite words he did. He's from australia yeah, he's like get out of here, you cunt like that. It was great. In the rhyming auditorium he said cunt that was the best part.
Speaker 1:That makes it even better. The mother church of country music as as the?
Speaker 2:um stained glass windows were beaming light down on him, the word conscious drops. I love it now. So, but back to soda for a second. So true story like, and I I would waffle it on which way to say it, but ultimately at the end of the day, he tweeted about it after the show and I commented that she was still running her mouth in the bathroom after the show, which was true.
Speaker 2:So I go in to pee after the show. She's in there, she's in the stall next to me, I hear her talking to herself and when we both walk out to wash our hands, she's bitching. First world problems, because they didn't have the handlebars on the side of the toilet at a height where she could squat properly wearing heels, so you can imagine why they were having a fighter conversation in the front row, but this entitled Hussie. So I commented back on the tweet that Soder had tweeted and said that she was still running her mouth in the bathroom after the show. And it got me my very, very first celebrity like on a comment which was oh, my heart is just beaming right now, and it also caused my addiction to getting attention from celebrities. So now my whole goal is to TikTok um, TikTok, tweet or Facebook, something that will make you like my comment.
Speaker 2:But anyways what I'm getting at there is that, um, if you're at an open mic and you don't know it's going to be an open mic and you just came in to have food and there's somebody standing right behind you telling fucking jokes and you're like talking to your person because you want to eat your food, like no comic, you shut the fuck up like no, I totally disagree.
Speaker 1:Those restaurant people have made the decision to have an open mic there.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean well then, that's on the bartender to be like hey, why don't you guys sit down here, so you're not right underneath the hot breath of the?
Speaker 1:guy. Well, also at that place, though. They have the same open mic there for years, and those people should have shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2:No, I don't disagree. In that case those people were being fucking totally annoying, Totally annoying. So I don't disagree, but I just I'm just like if we were in a comedy club.
Speaker 1:That dude did scream at him Jesus Christ. It was a lot. It was a lot.
Speaker 2:It was extra, it was definitely a lot, it was way extra, it was definitely a lot, but that was cool. Anywho, that actually brings us to my campaign, which I am staunchly going to. I'm going to launch an internet barrage against Joe Rogan until he takes me up on this offer.
Speaker 1:He needs to open a mothership East in Pittsburgh, pennsylvania. And here's why because there's the big four of comedy New York, la, chicago and now, most recently, austin has emerged as damn near, maybe, a contender to take. I mean, if you ask Tony, it's the best in the country, it's better than New York, it's better than LA, it's where, all the up, it's like Hollywood in the late 60s, early 70s were to Starlet's.
Speaker 2:That's what Austin is to comedy right now.
Speaker 1:Right, it's just all the young comics want to go there because there's opportunity. Yes, that's the name of the game in comedy is opportunity to do comedy when you offer the most opportunity. That's where people want to go. But that brings us to pittsburgh right pittsburgh, which like so.
Speaker 2:I am a planner, I am a designer. Logistically speaking, I could design the whole infrastructure for you. I already have the business plan, because we've got communities that are lovely and have houses that are in the low 30s and $40,000 that might need some attention. We've got a workforce that's already used to a college town, ruckus. We've got bars out the wazoo in every little corner of the city that are ripe for hanging out.
Speaker 1:It has. It's already doing its own thing with a resurgence, with health care, with technology. So you already have a city that's transforming itself. You already have a great comedy scene that's already in place. Comedy scene that's already in place. I've told you this out of every place we've really been a part of. Pittsburgh offers the best comedy scene in terms of that size of a city.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Without being like I said, I want to make it one of the big five. The big four are behemoths and every other city is on a different tier and it's equal with those, but Pittsburgh is at the top of that next tier and there's room.
Speaker 2:Austin's already starting to overflow and there's a lot of kids over here on the east coast who just cannot make their way. They're all they're like getting over to austin and they're struggling right because they're living out of their cars. We see it every week, yeah at least one of the hat pulls a week is fucking, either living out of their cars we see it every week. At least one of the hat pulls a week is fucking, either living out of their car or just shacked up with somebody that they met.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean part of that that's part of the fun and the experience. I get it. Yeah for sure, but.
Speaker 1:but what we're getting at is that the infrastructure is already in place If you open up a mothership East.
Speaker 2:You've already got a booming comedy scene in terms of there's a ton of good comics there there's a ton and you're so close to morgantown, you're so close to the freaking um turnpike, jersey, people can come in, people from you know. Uh, as you know, west virginia, tennessee, can all get there easily enough right, that's the thing is.
Speaker 1:So you would turn it, you would have people, so the scenes that are all right now basically at the same level, like Cleveland, buffalo, you know what I mean. You're going to have people that are in those comedy scenes moving to Pittsburgh, to up their game.
Speaker 2:To up their game Right.
Speaker 1:But it's going to like. That's what has to happen, though, but you, the mothership East, Joe Rogan, get it done.
Speaker 2:Get it done, get it done Y'all.
Speaker 1:No, but I'm going to start everywhere.
Speaker 2:What does he? What does he? What's his name? Well, farrell say let's get her done, y'all.
Speaker 1:Well, no but that's what I'm saying, though. Be like one of those, like it needs to just catch fire, and to the point that, every time, somebody is talking to joe rogan.
Speaker 2:They're, like they mention it right, like what about that?
Speaker 1:mother, I've been hearing rumblings, but just make it that, just start rumblings that it's happening somebody please start a rumor that joe rogan is opening up everybody start a rumor, tell your friends, tell everybody you know that you heard this through the grapevine and eventually it'll manifest itself true because he'll be so bothered by it he'll be like what? I keep hearing this, and then eventually he'll be thinking it'll just make so much sense to him that he'll have to come over and do it mothership east pittsburgh, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:I just say that I'm making that a hashtag, um, and so okay, so we've talked about hecklers in pittsburgh and, well, we've talked about a lot in general. Um, there's more to talk about in pittsburgh that we want to get into, um, so we're going to go there. But let's talk about your favorite topic.
Speaker 1:Food, some good food, like you find cool bars you find great places to eat. Look how many great places to eat we found, how many great bars we found that I would go to outside of comedy.
Speaker 2:Like I never partied in Pittsburgh when I was younger. I was on the South side once or twice and I've been to concerts or whatever. Whatever I've been to things in Pittsburgh, but not like somebody. Like my cousins live on the South side or did at some point. I don't know if they still do, they're grown, but so like I, there's a lot of really cool fucking hiding spots in all the bars. Like all the bars there have like a secret back room or two different venues in the same space or an upstairs lounge. That is only where the it's all really effing cool like I love yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:And, like I said, back to the food thing, I mean we have eaten some good food, not just at like places we've gone to either with, but like they might be next door oh yeah, what's that place called next door to uh?
Speaker 2:uh, roland's roland's seafood oh my god that, that lobster quesadilla boy.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you what they were losing money on this thing. Cause there was so much lobster in it, cause there was so much lobster in that thing and it was real.
Speaker 2:Like I'm a seafood connoisseur.
Speaker 1:Like I might, I might sound podunk when it comes to city bars maybe or might sound produnque when it comes to going to big concerts in the city, but when it comes to seafood, I fucking know seafood, let me just tell you so it was. Oh, my god, it was so good, so good, yeah, I mean. But yeah, we've. And not only that, but like the people that I will say this about the pittsburgh comedy scene it's been very, very welcoming yeah, like, I mean, like everybody has been so nice to you yeah, well, they just act like.
Speaker 1:The thing that I like is they don't there's no I this is the wrong word but there's like no to do about it you. They just like you're just another person. They're trying to do it and they just right they treat you the same, like if you've been there the whole time, right? Is what I'm getting at, like they treat you as if you've been there the whole time. You're not like they treat you the same.
Speaker 2:Like if you've been there the whole time, right Is what I'm getting at Like they treat you as if you've been there the whole time.
Speaker 1:You're not like an outsider. You don't feel and I even see that they're like, even when we see people come from out of town and they say they're from out of town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they always like treat.
Speaker 1:Treat them real good, Like nobody's ever Comedy in general, though, Right. It's a very welcoming community. It is.
Speaker 2:Well, no, I Let me backtrack that though, because I think the first night in Harrisburg it felt very clicky.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to tell you the reason for that.
Speaker 2:There's one club, there's one place to do comedy yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's why it's so big. There's 60 comics there on a night, or whatever.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It's because there's no other opportunities like that. There's one shot there.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And not only that, but you're jockeying for position, because there's a big difference between going first there, one through 10 or four hours later.
Speaker 2:Right, you know what I mean, right.
Speaker 1:Right After everybody's cleared out and the only people left are the last four comics, last comic standing. It really gives all new meaning to that right, it does because it's like that's who's left right and if you're not going up after you are there, so it's like it's a very competitive. I think it's a more competitive environment it is Than anywhere else that we've been.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you're right, and it has a lot to do with location, right, because it is the only one there. And so when we got to Nashville, I mean so I mean just welcoming all around we're talking about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a welcoming scene.
Speaker 2:And East Nashville is its own vibe altogether like for sure and a lot of folks that I talked to who are really like just laid back people. They said that they would they wish they would have known about east nashville before they got down there, rather than planning the trip around like broad street oh yeah, people from east nashville don't want people to, and because we? It's funny, because what the fuck killing trash is? Dude, we're finding the treasure.
Speaker 1:No, I know, I know but I'm saying like no, because it's funny, because we've run into people since we've been there and talking about how great it is and they're like, yeah, it's getting to be like everybody's finding out about it. So now it's becoming like the rest of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they don't want it to be. But like so you bring up. Another good point, though, is the very first open mic that we went to in Pittsburgh. We ran into a guy that was from he's Nashville.
Speaker 1:We had just gotten back from Nashville a couple of weeks before that. Yeah, and it was just funny to talk to somebody that was there, you know yeah, that we.
Speaker 2:You know, it was just a connection and he decided to go up and try his very, very, not you, the kid from Nashville yeah, yeah, he did it very. I wish I could remember his name, but he had, like he has like a, um digital art studio in east nashville, shit. Anyways, regardless, he was really funny and, um, he tried his hand at stand-up because he always wanted to do it yep, he did and everybody welcomed him because yeah, that's what comedians do.
Speaker 1:That's what comics do.
Speaker 2:That's what comics do I feel like a goddamn groupie, though it's so weird because, like to your point, like so, if you live in pittsburgh, right, then I could be like babe, no, I'm doing my thing tonight, you go do your comedy and I can do my thing. But because it's a whole night out, I'm gonna not make him drive to pittsburgh by, although I've thought about it no.
Speaker 1:I haven't. It's fun though it's, it's we were stuttering.
Speaker 2:We both work from home during the day, so five days a week we're glued to the house, no matter what, and so, like that's, it's just a fun getaway too, but, um, I'll be sitting in the back from here on out, for sure. Be sitting in the back, yep. There was something else I wanted to talk about in that vein, too. You were talking about the food. Oh, that's. What I'm really excited about, though, is that we're getting ready to be into college, is going to be back in session, so that means there's going to be way more kids on the streets of Pittsburgh that you can bark and get into the shows, which means that you're going to have potentially better crowds, um, so, I mean, maybe you'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1:That's just an assumption.
Speaker 2:One thing ah, but Alana B has a plan and she's going to be bringing gilded merch, trash, gilded trash, merch, merch, gilded Trash, merch to the shelves and hawking outside to get people in, and if they come in I'll give them a beer koozie, now you're going to be working for them, the bars. I'm working for the comics to get you guys in.
Speaker 1:I know, I'm just saying you're working for them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that keeps me out of front and center, so I don't have to answer stupid questions Like how long have you two been married?
Speaker 1:Right At this point you all should know, because we've only been asked 37.
Speaker 2:We've been married for 15 years. Um oh. So what are we doing next week? Well, not next week, Not next week, Two weeks.
Speaker 1:I said it's a true crime special, Tune in to find out. No, but no, we're going to. So we love true crime. Lots of people else love true crime. So we're going to talk about different podcasts, talk about our murder tourism, talk about, you know, just also talk about cases that people because there's a lot of like homegrown detective work that people are doing that solving cases when the police aren't out there doing their jobs, which is a lot, and so, yeah, we're just going to dive into and have a true crime episode.
Speaker 1:We're not covering any particular no, we're not, we're just talking about the love of true crime right like and talking about all the things that you can get into when you go down these true crime rabbit holes right.
Speaker 2:I mean there's a lot of cases that we might mention a case or two no, there's a lot of cases that I would like to sink my teeth into um just here, full time but I need to retire first, because that's a lot right, you almost have a have a full-time job to be a true crime detective like to be. There's a lot of research. Yeah, to be a good.
Speaker 1:Really like really be out there helping solve case, cold cases and stuff yeah, you really got it, but we'll cover all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll cover all that. Yeah, we will cover all that.
Speaker 1:But before we go, I just want to leave everybody with this little bit of advice from the great philosopher Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, otherwise known as Lil Wayne, I always believe to be the best. Gotta dress like the best. Gotta dress like the best. Act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage, can throw it in better than anybody else who ever threw trash in a garbage can. Oh my god that's it.
Speaker 2:Until next time, see ya. Oh my lanta, you're out of control.
