WEBVTT 00:00:09.330 --> 00:00:12.630 All right, welcome to the Thursday edition of 00:00:12.630 --> 00:00:15.589 good news York Yeah, a lot of thing. I'm Mike 00:00:15.589 --> 00:00:18.570 Brindisi. Of course the great Matt Mazer Danny 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:20.429 on the ones and twos back there I don't even 00:00:20.429 --> 00:00:23.550 know what that means when people say it a special 00:00:23.550 --> 00:00:26.210 guest, but I do want to mention it is our last 00:00:26.210 --> 00:00:29.559 show of the week, but but It is an exciting show 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.500 because it is the beginning of the Masters, and 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:33.359 I can't wait. I have an idea of a little bit 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:35.439 I want to do with you after this. You just gave 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:37.880 me an idea. Now I want Danny to have a whole 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.659 DJ set up, and he can... We need a house DJ. 00:00:42.460 --> 00:00:44.560 You're right. Like Ellen? Like, you know, when 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.740 she had, like, a DJ? Ellen? Of all the things 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:49.979 you think of, Ellen? I don't know why the hell 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:55.899 I just... Anyway, I should probably let us proceed 00:00:55.899 --> 00:00:58.539 with the guest. Yeah, anyway, we'll talk about 00:00:58.539 --> 00:01:00.640 the Masters and all that stuff, but first, I 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.579 am joined by... Wait, I'm sorry, is it like a 00:01:03.579 --> 00:01:06.599 football competition? Oh, perfect. You're setting 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:10.439 it up perfect. No, it's golf. Oh. But we'll just 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.000 go with football for now. The old swing in the 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.079 woods. The old sports ball. So we are joined 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:23.149 by comedian, and I can again say friend. Steven 00:01:23.149 --> 00:01:25.310 Brown. You got a lot of funny friends. I do have 00:01:25.310 --> 00:01:27.230 a lot of funny friends. Hi, Steven. What's up, 00:01:27.230 --> 00:01:29.930 buddy? I was ready for you guys just to vamp 00:01:29.930 --> 00:01:31.769 and do folly sounds for 10 minutes. I was happy 00:01:31.769 --> 00:01:34.689 to wait. I mean... Well, we can. It's a folly. 00:01:35.129 --> 00:01:38.030 Yeah, folly, folly. But I knew what you meant. 00:01:38.590 --> 00:01:41.109 With you, it's folly. When you're around, words 00:01:41.109 --> 00:01:45.870 are just funnier. So, Steven, I'm so excited 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:48.370 you're here. We found out right before we went 00:01:48.370 --> 00:01:52.109 on the air that... This is an anniversary for 00:01:52.109 --> 00:01:55.109 you. Yes, this is officially the fourth year 00:01:55.109 --> 00:01:57.409 anniversary of my very first open mic I ever 00:01:57.409 --> 00:02:01.269 did. That is awesome. And I want to lie to the 00:02:01.269 --> 00:02:03.769 viewers and say that is why we booked Stephen 00:02:03.769 --> 00:02:07.430 today. We knew it was going to be his four year 00:02:07.430 --> 00:02:10.509 anniversary. And so that's what we're celebrating. 00:02:10.889 --> 00:02:13.110 I got to ask you right out of the gate then. 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:16.189 What was that first open mic like? How bad did 00:02:16.189 --> 00:02:20.159 you bomb? Actually, I had a very, very friendly 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:22.960 room, so I did okay because the power of friendship 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:26.520 is better than the power of punchlines. But it 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.439 was a lot of fun. I ran through four and a half 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.560 minutes of material in about two and a half, 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.800 the same way that one normally would when they're 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.199 afraid of every word that's about to come out 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:43.000 of their mouth. Any of those original jokes still 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.000 stick around? Any of them? One of them. Yes, 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.580 one of them. That's awesome. Only recently that 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:50.580 I started phasing it out a little bit just because 00:02:50.580 --> 00:02:53.379 I've been telling it for four years. Sure. That's 00:02:53.379 --> 00:02:54.460 fantastic. When I'm still kicking around in the 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:56.479 master set. I love it. You got to have a hit 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:57.900 once in a while. You know what I mean? Yeah, 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.900 you got to hold on to those three or four that 00:03:01.900 --> 00:03:04.340 you know they're guaranteed laughter. Yeah. And 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:05.819 even if you don't put them in the set, you leave 00:03:05.819 --> 00:03:07.919 them in your back pocket in case you start bombing. 00:03:08.259 --> 00:03:09.620 And then you're just like, I'm going to throw 00:03:09.620 --> 00:03:13.699 this joke about old people's vaginas. What's 00:03:13.699 --> 00:03:15.819 bombing? I've never done that. No, I don't know 00:03:15.819 --> 00:03:18.639 either. What's bombing? That sounds very violent. 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:22.159 You know, Steven, what I love about you other 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.819 than you as a person, and I think you're just 00:03:24.819 --> 00:03:31.360 an amazing dude, I love watching you work because 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.400 every comedian has a different process, different 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.800 cadence, different style, whatever you want to 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.569 call it. What I love is you... You can see your 00:03:42.569 --> 00:03:45.569 evolution if you go back to the videos That you 00:03:45.569 --> 00:03:47.569 put out on your tik -tok which will will tag 00:03:47.569 --> 00:03:50.610 your your handles on all that, you know Obviously 00:03:50.610 --> 00:03:52.689 like any comedian, you know, you were good, but 00:03:52.689 --> 00:03:55.669 you you watch yourself just get better and better 00:03:55.669 --> 00:03:58.229 and better But it wasn't by doing shows like 00:03:58.229 --> 00:04:00.590 you've done the work of hitting open mics I feel 00:04:00.590 --> 00:04:05.030 like at this point you're doing a comedy Five 00:04:05.030 --> 00:04:06.870 seven days a week. I don't even know. What do 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:08.789 you do? What's your schedule like with that? 00:04:09.409 --> 00:04:11.969 I would say most weeks it's between, you know, 00:04:12.210 --> 00:04:14.349 two to five times a week. That's great. Depending 00:04:14.349 --> 00:04:15.830 on the mic schedule that's available. That's 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:18.649 wild. The weather, yeah. Yeah, that's the way 00:04:18.649 --> 00:04:21.930 to go. I mean, I know a lot of comedians who, 00:04:22.009 --> 00:04:24.660 like myself, don't have... the schedule anymore 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:27.300 to be able to do that at the moment, or they 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:29.300 don't care to do that. And I just see you putting 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:31.199 in the work, man. And I just want to tell you, 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.180 if I haven't already, I respect that so much. 00:04:34.300 --> 00:04:35.980 It's like one of those athletes that's like, 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:37.300 you know, I go to the gym three hours a day. 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:38.540 When you had the schedule, you weren't doing 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:42.540 mics either. I know. I never just did the mics. 00:04:43.019 --> 00:04:47.129 No. and it shows. He is the Mike. Yeah, I am 00:04:47.129 --> 00:04:50.430 the Mike. No, but I met you through homebrewed 00:04:50.430 --> 00:04:52.730 comedy. We've had Mike Peters on the show. We've 00:04:52.730 --> 00:04:55.730 talked about homebrewed. It's fantastic. But 00:04:55.730 --> 00:04:57.990 you're you're doing a little booking of your 00:04:57.990 --> 00:05:01.589 own now, right? Talk about that. Yeah, I run 00:05:01.589 --> 00:05:05.370 a monthly open mic and two monthly shows at Crooked 00:05:05.370 --> 00:05:08.829 Mouth Brewing in Endicott. And we're doing just 00:05:08.829 --> 00:05:11.600 one show a month. Then. Towards the end of last 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.819 year. We started transitioning to two shows a 00:05:13.819 --> 00:05:16.360 month including like a brunch show Wow, and we 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.139 had the festival last year We're doing that again 00:05:18.139 --> 00:05:20.720 this year in October. So it's a lot of fun We've 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.680 got some some big names lined up coming through 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.139 really exciting like guys who are like theater 00:05:26.139 --> 00:05:28.060 comics coming in and doing our little bar So 00:05:28.060 --> 00:05:30.040 that's a little fun. That's awesome. Anybody 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.420 you can tell us yet or no, is it still kind of 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:35.420 a secret? The biggest one coming up is a Jim 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:40.290 Florentine That's fantastic I actually did a 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:42.209 couple shows with him when I started comedy. 00:05:42.389 --> 00:05:45.610 I was the house emcee at a comedy club, and he 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:48.910 came through a bunch. I love that dude, and I'm 00:05:48.910 --> 00:05:50.910 a big Howard Stern fan, so he was a big part 00:05:50.910 --> 00:05:55.629 of that show, too. It's awesome. I want to go 00:05:55.629 --> 00:05:58.810 back a little bit. Sure. Because I noticed on 00:05:58.810 --> 00:06:00.769 your bio, and even though we're friends now, 00:06:00.769 --> 00:06:03.589 we never really talked about this, I didn't know 00:06:03.589 --> 00:06:06.689 you two were involved in music before comedy. 00:06:07.370 --> 00:06:09.610 You never heard of you two? No, I've heard of 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:12.509 YouTube. I never heard of YouTube until I got 00:06:12.509 --> 00:06:19.149 that iPhone. Yeah. No. Yeah. When I came up, 00:06:19.230 --> 00:06:21.930 I grew up going to punk rock shows and stuff 00:06:21.930 --> 00:06:26.050 like that. And I was sick of driving to New Jersey 00:06:26.050 --> 00:06:29.389 to go see the bands I wanted to see. So I just 00:06:29.389 --> 00:06:31.110 started booking them to come play Binghamton. 00:06:32.230 --> 00:06:34.370 That's perfect. Make them come to you. I love 00:06:34.370 --> 00:06:36.810 this guy. Yeah. Yeah. So we did it a few times. 00:06:36.889 --> 00:06:39.209 We had some bands that got like Pretty big. Come 00:06:39.209 --> 00:06:42.250 through, like, you know, like A .F .I., the Ataris, 00:06:42.370 --> 00:06:45.649 stuff like that. That's awesome. All over MTV 00:06:45.649 --> 00:06:47.410 and everything. We're coming through and doing 00:06:47.410 --> 00:06:49.230 our dingy skate parks and bars. That was a lot 00:06:49.230 --> 00:06:52.449 of fun. So you were booking the shows? Booking 00:06:52.449 --> 00:06:55.910 them. I played very, very poorly in some bands. 00:06:55.970 --> 00:06:58.990 There is some very bad video on YouTube of me 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:00.790 drop kicking a buddy because we had no talent. 00:07:01.129 --> 00:07:03.009 So we had to put on a show another way. And we 00:07:03.009 --> 00:07:05.170 will be showing that clip in post -production. 00:07:05.490 --> 00:07:07.939 Absolutely. I'll get you the link. Get me the 00:07:07.939 --> 00:07:11.459 link. It's bad. That's fantastic. Did you play 00:07:11.459 --> 00:07:14.079 guitar? Sing? What did you do? I played guitar. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.720 You played guitar. Nice. I played guitar. I wore 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.120 white air walks. That was very cool. Ah, dude, 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:20.879 air walks. That's sweet. Remember the air walks? 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.740 I do. That's the coolest bands. I feel like they 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:27.720 were comfortable. I don't remember. There was 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.220 one that it just felt like you were stepping 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:35.089 on like a... A boulder like it. Yeah, there's 00:07:35.089 --> 00:07:36.769 some of these trendy shoes are the worst Yeah, 00:07:36.790 --> 00:07:38.470 they're the worst but air walks were like chucks 00:07:38.470 --> 00:07:40.029 are horrible. I love chucks the most uncomfortable 00:07:40.029 --> 00:07:42.930 sneaker on the planet Yes, I love chucks too. 00:07:43.269 --> 00:07:45.990 Anyway, actually aren't you? Welcome to sneaker 00:07:45.990 --> 00:07:48.170 totally having to transition out of my dunks 00:07:48.170 --> 00:07:51.529 because I have you know, I'm old and fat so I 00:07:51.529 --> 00:07:54.329 need more support I'm coming to air max guy and 00:07:54.329 --> 00:07:57.029 they're all so ugly. It pains me you you are 00:07:57.029 --> 00:07:59.810 a sneaker guy though, aren't you? Am yeah, how 00:07:59.810 --> 00:08:01.389 many how many shoes you have least you're not 00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:04.389 rocking the New Balance yet? I've got a couple 00:08:04.389 --> 00:08:11.069 pairs of NB's We support the NB's around here 00:08:11.069 --> 00:08:18.250 Hundred pair yeah, and you will Transition like 00:08:18.250 --> 00:08:21.110 you'll you'll go through that and just pick different 00:08:21.110 --> 00:08:24.750 pairs of shoes Or you like shelf them and they're 00:08:24.750 --> 00:08:27.759 retired. You know what I mean? I wear them I 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.699 wear them, I transition them daily. What's your 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:33.100 fancy pair? There's certain ones I won't take 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:36.440 out when there's puddles. You know that. What's 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.720 like the pair, if you really want to dress up, 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.740 what's the fanciest pair you got? My favorite 00:08:42.740 --> 00:08:45.279 pair would be the Jordan High Palaminos. They're 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.860 like a chocolate and black. All right. What if 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:52.169 you're going on a date? Depends on what matches 00:08:52.169 --> 00:08:55.570 my shirt vest. See, this guy, this guy. This 00:08:55.570 --> 00:08:57.389 is the real deal. He's not fucking around. I 00:08:57.389 --> 00:08:59.509 thought it was only basketball players that were 00:08:59.509 --> 00:09:03.990 on TV cribs that had this, what do you call it? 00:09:04.370 --> 00:09:07.190 Don't you remember Turtle from Entourage? I do 00:09:07.190 --> 00:09:08.929 remember. He was like the original sneakerhead. 00:09:09.289 --> 00:09:12.610 He was. That was a great show. It was a phenomenal 00:09:12.610 --> 00:09:16.210 show. Not a good movie, but great show. I'm like 00:09:16.210 --> 00:09:18.610 that with hoodies. You are a hoodie. I'm like 00:09:18.610 --> 00:09:21.419 the hoodie connoisseur. Yeah, that's that's for 00:09:21.419 --> 00:09:23.620 sure. But yeah, it breaks my heart We're going 00:09:23.620 --> 00:09:26.039 out of hoodie season because when it comes t 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:27.460 -shirt time, you can start seeing my titties 00:09:27.460 --> 00:09:31.059 again I'm a hundred percent with you do My favorite 00:09:31.059 --> 00:09:32.740 part of the year. He's speaking a lot of truth 00:09:32.740 --> 00:09:37.139 right now. Absolutely. So Started booking bands 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:42.059 You started playing in a band how did you and 00:09:42.059 --> 00:09:44.120 obviously we know you four years ago is when 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.039 you What inspired you to transition over to comedy? 00:09:47.059 --> 00:09:52.720 You're obviously very funny Thank you So shortly 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.700 after I got divorced, I guess it was a while 00:09:56.700 --> 00:09:59.580 after. It's been a long time. But I reconnected 00:09:59.580 --> 00:10:01.860 with a buddy who also was going through a divorce. 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:03.919 And the only time we both had a night off without 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.639 our kids was every other Monday. So we started 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.419 going to the Kelly's Open, Mike, just to hang 00:10:08.419 --> 00:10:11.519 out and have a beer. And we probably went to 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.539 those for about a year and a half before I ever 00:10:13.539 --> 00:10:15.659 went up. And he started seeing a girl named Emily, 00:10:15.899 --> 00:10:17.700 who also happens to be her birthday today. Happy 00:10:17.700 --> 00:10:21.029 birthday, Emily. Look at this. She told me, she 00:10:21.029 --> 00:10:22.570 said, hey, in three weeks, it's my birthday. 00:10:22.730 --> 00:10:25.409 You're always funny at the table. You need to 00:10:25.409 --> 00:10:27.610 go do a set for my birthday. Oh, wow. So she 00:10:27.610 --> 00:10:30.710 gave me three weeks to write that set. And then 00:10:30.710 --> 00:10:32.649 for her birthday is when I went up and I did 00:10:32.649 --> 00:10:35.370 the mic. And you had you had no interest in doing 00:10:35.370 --> 00:10:38.470 comedy before she made you do that? At that point, 00:10:38.470 --> 00:10:41.330 I'd gone to the the dipping my toes in the water 00:10:41.330 --> 00:10:43.590 where I had like the no tap of funny thoughts. 00:10:43.669 --> 00:10:46.330 Sure. But I never thought I'd have the hood spun 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:49.090 to go actually up and do it. And do you do you 00:10:49.090 --> 00:10:52.129 find because, you know, the big thing is like, 00:10:52.370 --> 00:10:54.169 just because you're funny at the table doesn't 00:10:54.169 --> 00:10:56.549 mean you can be funny on stage. Did you know? 00:10:56.669 --> 00:10:58.649 Were you kind of like caught off guard? Did you 00:10:58.649 --> 00:11:01.049 go in thinking like, oh, yeah, I'm funny. I'll 00:11:01.049 --> 00:11:02.909 be able to do this. And then realizing, oh, wow, 00:11:02.909 --> 00:11:06.590 this is a lot harder. No, I knew it was going 00:11:06.590 --> 00:11:08.110 to be hard, except we've been sitting there watching. 00:11:08.250 --> 00:11:10.110 I've been a fan of comedy forever. I'd already 00:11:10.110 --> 00:11:12.789 been going to Mike shows here and there. I've 00:11:12.789 --> 00:11:14.570 been watching the Mike. So we watch people develop 00:11:14.570 --> 00:11:16.309 material and understanding is very different 00:11:16.309 --> 00:11:18.399 than just like. Bullshitting with your buddies 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.340 sure, you know cuz everyone's funny with their 00:11:20.340 --> 00:11:21.860 friends because you have so much of a shared 00:11:21.860 --> 00:11:23.759 frame of reference That's right. Absolutely. 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:26.320 So the biggest thing from going to being funny 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.379 with your friends to be able to write a joke 00:11:28.379 --> 00:11:32.320 is How to get that premise out as concisely as 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.919 possible? Because if you have to give you know, 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.100 six to eight sentences of setup your joke sucks. 00:11:38.220 --> 00:11:40.539 That's right You know, it's too much for you 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:41.919 to keep track of you can't have them doing the 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.600 mental math for you That's right. And you know, 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.620 the other part of that too is And again, I always 00:11:47.620 --> 00:11:51.399 talk about how in comedy, being an audience member 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.440 is way more psychological than people realize. 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.779 And when you're with your buddies, it's easier 00:11:57.779 --> 00:11:59.740 for them to laugh, again, because you have a 00:11:59.740 --> 00:12:02.179 shared frame of reference, but also because they 00:12:02.179 --> 00:12:03.820 know already in the back of their head that you're 00:12:03.820 --> 00:12:05.399 funny and what you're about to say is going to 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.340 be funny. When you're up there in front of a 00:12:07.340 --> 00:12:08.720 crowd that doesn't know you, they don't know 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:10.440 if you're funny yet. They're judging you through 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.980 the first, you know, 30 seconds to a minute. 00:12:13.460 --> 00:12:17.379 And it doesn't always translate. Well, that's 00:12:17.379 --> 00:12:18.879 in the psychology of shows, too. It's one of 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.200 the reasons where the crooked mouth shows like 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:22.940 instead of doing like a budget from the bar, 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.360 we do a paid ticket because a paid audience member 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.039 is a better audience member. Absolutely. That's 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.960 exactly right. Now, because they all have that 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.200 shared incentive now like, oh, no, I spent money 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.340 to be here. They're paying to have a good time. 00:12:37.340 --> 00:12:38.860 They want to have a good time. Yeah, I mean, 00:12:38.899 --> 00:12:42.700 I always talk about how, you know, I worked in 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:45.860 music venues and bars where they wanted to do 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:47.639 a comedy night and have it, you know, oh, we'll 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.460 just have someone get up there during happy hour. 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:51.820 And I kind of explained that same thing where 00:12:51.820 --> 00:12:55.279 it was like, dude, you know, when you can't just 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.740 pop up and do comedy in the middle of a happy 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:02.419 hour, people are going to just... you're interrupting 00:13:02.419 --> 00:13:05.100 their drinking. It doesn't work that way. If 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:08.080 you, you know, if you bill it as a comedy show, 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:10.639 you sell tickets, you have seats, people don't 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.460 realize it, but on the way to the show, they're 00:13:13.460 --> 00:13:16.259 already getting ready to laugh, and they don't 00:13:16.259 --> 00:13:18.139 even know that yet because, you know what I mean? 00:13:18.379 --> 00:13:21.940 So, it's just, the psychological aspect is so 00:13:21.940 --> 00:13:25.360 important and true. Let's talk about crooked 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:29.200 mouth, though. So, are you... Only booking at 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.100 is that the only venue you're booking for or 00:13:31.100 --> 00:13:33.039 are you doing other venues as well? No, that 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:36.259 that's it They are so fantastic to work with 00:13:36.259 --> 00:13:38.419 it's really spoiled me on working with anybody 00:13:38.419 --> 00:13:41.460 else I've done a couple one -offs here or there 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:44.139 and it was fine, but I just I love working with 00:13:44.139 --> 00:13:47.080 these guys It's so rare to have a venue that 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:51.220 really backs you They do their own paid advertising 00:13:51.220 --> 00:13:54.460 for the shows They give me carte blanche do whatever 00:13:54.460 --> 00:13:57.059 I want to do with the shows, which is amazing 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:58.740 But I mean, we've been doing it for two years 00:13:58.740 --> 00:14:00.740 there. We built up a lot of mutual trust. Or 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:02.419 if I say, no, this is going to be good. This 00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:04.799 guy's worth, you know, ponying up the extra money 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.419 or something like that. They get on board and 00:14:06.419 --> 00:14:08.720 they trust me. And it's just awesome having like 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.360 a real partner, not just something they deal 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.440 with three days a week or three times a month. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:15.539 You know, you're right, because, you know, I 00:14:15.539 --> 00:14:19.000 did a show at Crook in Mouth with Stephen. And 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.159 when I met the owner, unless I'm thinking it's 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.700 the wrong guy, correct me if I'm wrong. I've 00:14:23.700 --> 00:14:26.860 never met an owner. He is not a comedian. But 00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:29.720 he loves comedy. Is that the right guy, right? 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:33.000 Yeah, Josh. He's obsessed with comedy. He watches 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.259 comedy. He studies comedy. He's kind of like 00:14:35.259 --> 00:14:37.080 those friends that you had that never played 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.860 an instrument, but like like an Andy Lamaca. 00:14:40.019 --> 00:14:43.659 Yeah. But just knew everything about music and 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:45.799 they were sure a rock star without being a rock 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.299 star. The owner of Crooked Mouth Brewing is. 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.299 Is big is a comedian as much as you can be without 00:14:53.299 --> 00:14:55.320 actually being a comedian and that really helps 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.580 it for you I'm sure oh Yeah, one of the reasons 00:14:58.580 --> 00:15:00.919 he said he wanted to have a brewery so he could 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.120 do comedy at it. That's amazing We all took a 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.019 trip to go see Nate Bargassi together, so my 00:15:07.019 --> 00:15:10.000 first time meeting him was comedy really that's 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.440 awesome Well, and you do such a great job there. 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.299 Are there set dates that you can plug now that 00:15:15.299 --> 00:15:19.820 you do shows there or open months? Yeah. We have 00:15:19.820 --> 00:15:23.179 Patrick Holbert coming to headline on April 18th, 00:15:23.179 --> 00:15:25.539 and he has his new special coming out on Amazon 00:15:25.539 --> 00:15:30.059 on April 22nd. Awesome. Then on May 4th, we have 00:15:30.059 --> 00:15:32.240 our next brunch show. Gray West is going to be 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.200 headlining that. He's done festivals all over 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.299 the country. He's the regular host at The Comedy 00:15:37.299 --> 00:15:39.379 Cellar. He's there three or four nights a week. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.360 So obviously you don't get past there without 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.240 being legit. That's for sure. We got Cody Montane 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.200 coming in May from Albany. Very funny guy. Jim 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:50.519 Florentine. And then we were booked all the way 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:52.600 through November. We had the festival. All the 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.200 headliners are booked on that. Some excellent 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.039 comics, some nice names. But we're not going 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.399 to release those just yet. And are you doing, 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:02.440 in addition to that, are you doing your own shows 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.779 or are you just kind of doing your time at these 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:07.940 shows opening it up? Oh, I have like other dates 00:16:07.940 --> 00:16:09.779 going everywhere else Yeah, but this is kind 00:16:09.779 --> 00:16:11.799 of like I use crooked mouth is kind of my writing 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:13.940 unfortunately every show there for me is like 00:16:13.940 --> 00:16:16.279 an open mic No, that's always the worst person 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:17.820 I'd every show because they have so many repeat 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:20.299 customers Where I try to have like a new eight 00:16:20.299 --> 00:16:22.960 to ten minutes for that every month No, but I 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.100 think that see this is brilliant. That's a lot 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:27.899 of work It is a lot of work, but see this is 00:16:27.899 --> 00:16:30.320 such a fantastic thing for any comedian to have 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.200 which is you know we've talked about this on 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.919 the show to where In music, it's like you can 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:36.779 rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, and then you kind 00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:39.440 of know when you're ready. The only way to rehearse 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.279 in comedy is to get in front of people and do 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.440 it. But that's not always easy to find venues 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:47.360 or open mics or get booked on shows to do that. 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.100 Sure. I think that's fantastic. You have, you 00:16:50.100 --> 00:16:52.080 know, booking for Crooked Mouth Brewing. You 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.860 now have all these shows to kind of tighten that 00:16:54.860 --> 00:16:57.360 material out, try it out, and then you... Go 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.679 do your own dates. I love that for you. What 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.320 dates do you have coming up? I want to make sure 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.259 we plug those as well. I have to look. Excuse 00:17:05.259 --> 00:17:07.380 me while I look at my phone because I don't have 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:11.960 it memorized. I'm just going to guess. May 10th. 00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:15.420 I'll tell you if you're right. No, not May 10th. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:20.240 Oh, let's see. He's off that day. We've got I'm 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.160 going to be up at a contest in Syracuse on April 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.019 25th. That's right. Yeah. And it's going to be 00:17:26.019 --> 00:17:28.619 a lot, but there's like 15 comics on it. They've 00:17:28.619 --> 00:17:30.259 already sold 200 tickets. That's going to be 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:34.119 a lot of fun. Where is that? April. That is at 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.279 the Polish home, I think. I'm a judge on that 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:40.799 show. Are you really? Yeah. Well, what a conflict 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.420 of interest. The next thing after that is on 00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:47.619 April 29th, I'm going to do Molly with my friend 00:17:47.619 --> 00:17:51.319 Stormy. I'm excited for that. That's how you 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:52.759 know you're old, when you're scheduling doing 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.259 drugs. Oh, you're really, you're doing Molly. 00:17:55.380 --> 00:17:57.259 He's serious. I thought it was a gimp thing. 00:17:57.779 --> 00:18:00.359 Okay, holy shit, okay, yeah, we're doing Molly. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.259 I mean, he's right though, you gotta plan these 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:05.700 things out. Yeah. Yeah, got the day off of work, 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:07.799 make sure we're hydrated, time for a nap before 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:12.160 the kids get around. Smart. See, drug dealers 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:17.059 are not bad people, they are smart people. All 00:18:17.059 --> 00:18:20.700 right. Crooked mouth you also have a festival 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:23.400 coming up. Yes, sir. Yeah, you mentioned a couple 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.299 times I want to hear you know, obviously you 00:18:25.299 --> 00:18:27.339 can't give us the lineup, but tell us just what 00:18:27.339 --> 00:18:30.339 is this? Festival that you mentioned a few times. 00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:34.019 Yeah. Well last year in February I think it was 00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:36.559 I went to do a festival down in the Hudson Valley 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:42.680 and it was terrible and I was like oh I Can do 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.160 at least better than this and that's when the 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.700 germ of the idea started And we ended up just 00:18:48.700 --> 00:18:51.339 picking a date six months out and we did five 00:18:51.339 --> 00:18:54.619 shows over four days. They all sold out. We had, 00:18:54.619 --> 00:18:56.559 you know, comics from all over coming through. 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.079 We had over 50 comics on it all together. And 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.599 I learned that was too many. So we're going to 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:03.940 cut that down a little bit this year, but it's 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:06.440 going to be from October 16th through the 19th. 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:08.660 All the shows will be right in the same spot. 00:19:09.019 --> 00:19:11.299 We're going to do a Thursday, a Friday, two Saturdays, 00:19:11.299 --> 00:19:13.859 and of course the Sunday brunch. And I'm just 00:19:13.859 --> 00:19:16.720 looking forward to really stacking up that lineup. 00:19:16.970 --> 00:19:19.589 This last year was kind of for the homies a little 00:19:19.589 --> 00:19:22.809 bit Pretty much anyone who helped build this 00:19:22.809 --> 00:19:25.150 scene at crooked mouth to make this even a possibility 00:19:25.150 --> 00:19:27.490 If you want to be a part of it, I'm happy to 00:19:27.490 --> 00:19:30.109 have you there, but it was just too many people 00:19:30.109 --> 00:19:32.329 Yeah So this year we're gonna cut that down to 00:19:32.329 --> 00:19:34.750 hopefully about 30 comics give everyone a little 00:19:34.750 --> 00:19:37.289 bit of a longer set and I just want people to 00:19:37.289 --> 00:19:39.950 show up and see Killers from start to finish 00:19:39.950 --> 00:19:42.289 not just the headline. Yeah, but everyone's coming 00:19:42.289 --> 00:19:45.089 to bring in their best eight to ten minutes and 00:19:45.089 --> 00:19:47.380 yours getting you know laugh, laugh, laugh from 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:49.759 dough. And is that, you know, as a festival, 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.920 is that something that somebody can get tickets 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.900 to multiple nights kind of simultaneously? Or 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:57.359 how's that? Yeah, we did individual tickets or 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.759 we did weekend passes at a significant discount. 00:19:59.819 --> 00:20:02.559 That's awesome. And anyone who bought the weekend 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.359 pass will do it again this year. Also got like 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.599 a festival t -shirt. So that's great. Now, you 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.759 also are involved. Well, you're involved with 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:16.720 a lot of things, but in addition to the Crooked 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:18.660 Mouth and then the Crooked Mouth Festival, all 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:21.420 the dates, you also, I've noticed you've been 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:23.859 doing a lot of, or some stage time at the Funny 00:20:23.859 --> 00:20:26.000 Bone. Are you there regularly? What's going on 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.839 there? That's right here in Cuse. Yeah, I've 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:31.660 been lucky enough to crack the rotation as a 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:34.640 regular host up there. Usually get up there once 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.240 every two or three months, which is great. Cause 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.720 again, it gives me time to take that new material 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:42.640 I've written over the last few months and really 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.400 test it out in front of, you know, we love, you 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:46.680 know, I know, you know, like you love doing a 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.819 show for 20 to 40 people. Those are great, but 00:20:49.819 --> 00:20:52.880 really taking the training wheels off those jokes 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:55.900 and doing in front of 300 people. It's a lot 00:20:55.900 --> 00:20:58.039 of money to be is really like a good test of, 00:20:58.180 --> 00:21:01.319 okay, is this. Yeah, this is work or you really 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.759 know yeah when you step into I started in a comedy 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:06.859 club I went the other way I started in a club 00:21:06.859 --> 00:21:09.119 and then you know now things are different right 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:11.160 you can do it at breweries you can do it at the 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:13.420 Polish home you know there's pop -up comedy everywhere 00:21:13.420 --> 00:21:15.599 but back in the day it was like you had to do 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.519 it in a comedy club and I don't care how ready 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:20.819 you think you are when those lights go down and 00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:24.119 there's you know anywhere from 100 to 300 people 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:27.000 that have paid money to see and it's like a show 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.400 show with an mc and the music plays and you walk 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.220 up that's intimidating and uh that's different 00:21:32.220 --> 00:21:34.519 animal that's what separates the the boys from 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.240 the men i guess is what they so to speak and 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:38.960 about a month ago i had the opportunity i was 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.680 hosting for josh blue oh yeah was incredible 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.660 and um you know all sold out shows it was really 00:21:44.660 --> 00:21:46.920 the first time i was like oh i i belong up here 00:21:47.069 --> 00:21:49.509 But then you know this comedy humbles you very 00:21:49.509 --> 00:21:51.690 very quickly. They had to come back to host for 00:21:51.690 --> 00:21:55.829 a tiktok superstar And when I tell you I eat 00:21:55.829 --> 00:21:58.589 the biggest shit of my life Oh in front of those 00:21:58.589 --> 00:22:00.970 300 mooks who just wanted to talk about meatballs. 00:22:01.809 --> 00:22:05.410 Oh That it was really bad. I love good bombing 00:22:05.410 --> 00:22:07.490 stories. I always ask comedians Do you have a 00:22:07.490 --> 00:22:10.029 great bombing story? Not because I want to like 00:22:10.029 --> 00:22:13.049 laugh at you Because I get it, and you know, 00:22:13.069 --> 00:22:16.109 as a comedian, you love hearing bombing stories, 00:22:16.230 --> 00:22:17.750 because you all have to do it. It's a rite of 00:22:17.750 --> 00:22:20.829 passage, you know? There is very, very few things 00:22:20.829 --> 00:22:22.769 that are more fun than bombing in front of your 00:22:22.769 --> 00:22:24.970 friends and just sharing that. I know. Like, 00:22:25.009 --> 00:22:26.869 I remember at that show, that Sunday show I went 00:22:26.869 --> 00:22:29.650 to, my buddy Jerry came up, and I got two laughs. 00:22:29.970 --> 00:22:31.470 Like, I crushed all weekend, and this time I 00:22:31.470 --> 00:22:33.210 got two laughs on a pee -jitty joke, and when 00:22:33.210 --> 00:22:34.950 I said, you hate me, I'm going to hang myself. 00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:40.480 That crush. And then I come off and Jerry's just 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:42.859 shaking his head like, that was bad. Yeah. I 00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:45.140 know it. Yeah. It's great. It's good to have 00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:46.799 that attitude, though, because if you can just 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:49.859 accept that, like, hey, this is part of the deal. 00:22:50.220 --> 00:22:52.380 I've never met a successful comedian who hasn't 00:22:52.380 --> 00:22:56.000 bombed or or is still bombing. Yeah. It's just 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.960 if you can embrace it as it's it's hilarious 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:01.140 because listen, there's been times where it's 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:03.319 debilitating, where, like he said, you crush, 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:05.400 you crush. And then you have this show where 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:08.730 you just. You bomb. Yeah. And it is hard not 00:23:08.730 --> 00:23:11.970 to just want to quit right then and there. It's 00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:13.869 tough. So I love that you have that attitude 00:23:13.869 --> 00:23:16.109 about it. One of my favorite things you ever 00:23:16.109 --> 00:23:19.589 did when we talked about this with Mike was when 00:23:19.589 --> 00:23:23.690 you created the funeral for Mike Peters and we 00:23:23.690 --> 00:23:26.109 basically did. Oh, he was one of the guys behind 00:23:26.109 --> 00:23:28.250 that. He was the guy behind. Oh, wow. It's a 00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:31.170 hired all of us to to to do it. And it was a 00:23:31.170 --> 00:23:35.200 wild success. Yeah, hired. But. I wouldn't have 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:38.480 paid us anyway. What are you still doing shows 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.299 like that? Or do you have any other kind of gimmicky 00:23:41.299 --> 00:23:46.720 shows like that coming up? No, I had last summer, 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:49.140 I had a guy coming up and he was a Braves fan. 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:51.779 They're playing the Mets that weekend. And I 00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:56.460 had made a bet that whichever team won, the other 00:23:56.460 --> 00:23:59.480 comic would get a tattoo of the other person's 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:01.640 choice during their set at the show that night. 00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:07.539 So he backed out. Dude one of my quick quick 00:24:07.539 --> 00:24:12.500 story is one time I'm Coming up to do a show 00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:16.099 Through a homebrewed comedy and I walk in and 00:24:16.099 --> 00:24:19.420 Stevens there With his kids and I'm thinking. 00:24:19.420 --> 00:24:21.059 Oh, hey, buddy. What are you on the show? He 00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:23.079 says no, I'm just here to that's the other cool 00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:24.779 part is he'll just come out and support sure 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:27.859 but he's got his kids there and This happened 00:24:27.859 --> 00:24:31.559 to be the set where I had like four jokes about 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.279 cum And it was the most uncomfortable set. But 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:37.119 you were like, no, no, no, it's fine, man. They've 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.259 heard all heard it all. But I just remember as 00:24:39.259 --> 00:24:42.119 I'm telling the thing, I don't want to say this 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.380 word. I can see the kids sitting there. But so 00:24:45.380 --> 00:24:47.740 thanks. We say come all the time, right? Yeah. 00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:50.799 My 14 year old is walking through the kitchen 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.339 right now, even though I told them not to while 00:24:52.339 --> 00:24:54.319 I was recording this podcast. We say come all 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.059 the time, right? He says he's dying. So that's 00:24:57.059 --> 00:25:02.230 fantastic. Before we get out of here. Is there 00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:05.910 anything you wanted to ask or add? No, I think 00:25:05.910 --> 00:25:08.750 this has been awesome, man. It's really, I love 00:25:08.750 --> 00:25:11.690 hearing the stories of how people come up and 00:25:11.690 --> 00:25:14.490 find success in this. Because honestly, so many 00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:17.869 people don't, unfortunately. It doesn't work 00:25:17.869 --> 00:25:20.109 out for them, or they just don't get the passion 00:25:20.109 --> 00:25:23.750 for it. And we meet the folks that do. And work 00:25:23.750 --> 00:25:27.309 hard at it. Yeah, and turn it into a business. 00:25:27.509 --> 00:25:31.460 I've got nothing but respect for that. He's not 00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:36.339 trying to get rich, being Chris Rock. He's figured 00:25:36.339 --> 00:25:40.200 out how to help other comedians and probably 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:41.640 make a little bit of a living in the process, 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:43.519 and I think that's pretty awesome. It is awesome, 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:46.059 and that's kind of the recipe I think everybody, 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.099 I made the mistake early on of not looking at 00:25:49.099 --> 00:25:52.220 it this way, and I know you do too, Steven, is 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:55.869 that, you know. If you were in it for the money 00:25:55.869 --> 00:25:58.869 or the fame, you would quit the second day because 00:25:58.869 --> 00:26:01.910 it doesn't work that way. You've got to do it 00:26:01.910 --> 00:26:03.410 because you love it. You've got to put the work 00:26:03.410 --> 00:26:05.589 in. And if you're funny, the success will come 00:26:05.589 --> 00:26:08.170 along. That's it. That's pretty much it. No. 00:26:08.450 --> 00:26:10.390 And I think one thing I want to say, piggyback, 00:26:10.730 --> 00:26:15.369 is no one gets any success doing this on their 00:26:15.369 --> 00:26:17.829 own back. That's right. Right. Obviously, anyone 00:26:17.829 --> 00:26:20.049 who's had success, they're doing the work. But 00:26:20.049 --> 00:26:22.710 without Mike Peters, without Joe Becker, without 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:25.720 the funny bone, without Dave Dayo, all these 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:28.039 other people, Jason Gowan at the Legacy Lounge, 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:31.359 all these local places are really making it a 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.519 point to support the local scene, give each other 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.960 time and grow this together. Because that's the 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:39.819 biggest thing. You know, we don't have places 00:26:39.819 --> 00:26:42.259 to do this and people will. Running shows sucks. 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:44.660 It's the worst. It's stressful. It's not fun. 00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:46.940 You know, worrying about other people's money. 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.819 It's terrible. Yeah, but. You know getting to 00:26:51.819 --> 00:26:53.960 give people their first show is really fun or 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:55.519 have bringing a headline area That's never done 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:58.259 the town before to have them come out with crush 00:26:58.259 --> 00:27:00.660 It feels great that you're giving the community 00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:03.160 something valuable, especially since the boho 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:05.819 closed down Mike has is don't tell but there's 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:09.980 not a lot of Comedy going on in Brim County proper 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:13.160 So it's nice to be able to kind of fill that 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:16.009 void. You're so right about Booking show sucking 00:27:16.009 --> 00:27:18.130 because I've had like five opportunities where 00:27:18.130 --> 00:27:20.730 someone's called me. They've heard my name They 00:27:20.730 --> 00:27:22.309 want to book me and they want me to set up a 00:27:22.309 --> 00:27:25.190 show and I just push it off onto Mike. Maybe 00:27:25.190 --> 00:27:26.890 I'll start pushing it off on you, because I know, 00:27:26.910 --> 00:27:29.029 like, I just want to do my set. I don't want 00:27:29.029 --> 00:27:31.349 to go down. Yeah. When I was in my band, I was 00:27:31.349 --> 00:27:33.950 the booking agent, the singer, the songwriter, 00:27:33.950 --> 00:27:36.609 everything. And it was too much. And so, yeah, 00:27:36.710 --> 00:27:38.490 I get it. That's why I respect even more what 00:27:38.490 --> 00:27:40.789 you do. Is there somewhere we can go to get all 00:27:40.789 --> 00:27:42.470 these dates that we talked about? I wrote them 00:27:42.470 --> 00:27:44.589 down, so we'll make sure we put them in the caption, 00:27:44.650 --> 00:27:47.490 in the comments. What's your website? Website, 00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:50.009 social handles, what do you got? Linktree, OnlyFans, 00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:53.420 all that fun. Put it all, right? The comedy's 00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:57.160 website is cricketmouthcomedyfest .com. I'm on 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:00.059 socials at Stephen Brown on Facebook. Otherwise, 00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:04.599 it's SteveisJewish on TikTok and Instagram. And 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:09.119 YouTube. All right, my man, Stephen Brown, friend, 00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:14.059 comedian, promoter. We love you. I'll be seeing 00:28:14.059 --> 00:28:16.559 you soon. Good luck with everything, buddy. We 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:18.720 love having you on. Really enjoyed you, man. 00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:20.539 Come back any time. Yeah, seriously, come back 00:28:20.539 --> 00:28:23.539 and put up those things. Yeah, all right. And 00:28:23.539 --> 00:28:25.460 we'll be back. I've got a little something I 00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:28.819 want to do with you regarding some sports. Interesting. 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.539 On Good News York after this. Peace out. All 00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:36.420 right, so you want to, you want to see how dumb 00:28:36.420 --> 00:28:40.130 of a sports guy I am not, I guess? I don't. Did 00:28:40.130 --> 00:28:44.289 you just have a stroke? I might have. Those were 00:28:44.289 --> 00:28:47.450 all words. What the hell? What the fuck are we 00:28:47.450 --> 00:28:49.069 doing? That's what I'm trying to figure out here. 00:28:49.069 --> 00:28:49.970 I'll tell you what the fuck we're doing. God 00:28:49.970 --> 00:28:53.009 damn it. It is the Thursday of the Masters tournament. 00:28:53.190 --> 00:28:55.910 The Masters is the most coveted tournament in 00:28:55.910 --> 00:28:58.630 golf, maybe even in sports. It's a huge deal. 00:28:58.670 --> 00:29:01.829 OK. So I'm excited. I was going to wear a green 00:29:01.829 --> 00:29:04.329 jacket. Is it a Tiger Woods thing? Is he still 00:29:04.329 --> 00:29:07.960 in it? Great start. Yes and no. He plays golf, 00:29:08.059 --> 00:29:10.759 right? Yes, he does. Okay. So, for those of you 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:14.319 that don't know, Matt does not follow sports. 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:18.440 And that's okay. I'm a computer nerd. Yeah, and 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:20.539 we love you for that. Yeah. Right? Because when 00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:22.759 we're all watching golf... Much more money in 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:25.279 that. Yes. And when we're watching golf and it 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:26.960 goes out and we're like, I can't get it to work, 00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:29.980 I'm trying to... We call you. So, anyway... You 00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:31.960 become an expert in golf simulators, I'll tell 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.039 you that. Those are great. Yeah. Thought it would 00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.359 be fun if I just throw out some some golf terms. 00:29:37.500 --> 00:29:39.420 Okay. All right, specifically golf not other 00:29:39.420 --> 00:29:42.619 sports. Nope Okay, great. Yep. That's it. I want 00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:45.079 to make it a little easier. That's fair and I 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.900 don't want you to overthink it Oh, I won't try 00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:51.200 like just tell me what if you want to try to 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.700 get the right answer, obviously That's fine. 00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:54.480 But I'm trying to define these words. Yeah, just 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:56.140 tell me what you think. What do you think they 00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:58.240 are? Okay. All right. I love this All right. 00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:01.059 Here we go. All right. So if you are golfing 00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:05.650 and you are to get A birdie. A birdie. Yeah. 00:30:06.829 --> 00:30:09.589 My immediate thought is that it was a good swing 00:30:09.589 --> 00:30:12.250 and you somehow hit a bird that was in the air. 00:30:12.829 --> 00:30:17.009 Sure. Sure. I actually do know it has something 00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:19.490 to do with scoring of some sort, but I'm not 00:30:19.490 --> 00:30:22.250 honestly sure what that means. Maybe it can't 00:30:22.250 --> 00:30:28.529 be a hole in one, right? No. So maybe it's maybe 00:30:28.529 --> 00:30:31.720 slightly, you know, maybe a hole in two. Okay, 00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:34.319 you're actually, unfortunately, it's not that 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:36.960 funny because you're not far on. Okay, what is 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:39.180 it? The idea is each hole has its own par, so 00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:41.720 if it's a par four, that means you have to get 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:44.160 it there in four strokes to get par. But if you 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.359 get a three, that's a birdie. With that being 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:55.019 said, what is a bogey? It's not the big scary 00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:56.839 guy that stands in the crowd in Happy Gilmore? 00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:03.869 No. I actually have no idea a bogey also scoring 00:31:03.869 --> 00:31:08.410 if it's a par four and you get a five Okay, so 00:31:08.410 --> 00:31:12.029 it's like one over That's it. Okay, or a double 00:31:12.029 --> 00:31:13.809 bogey if you're two over. All right. All right. 00:31:13.809 --> 00:31:15.589 I kind of already told you what par was seems 00:31:15.589 --> 00:31:17.390 excessive You know at what point do we stop saying 00:31:17.390 --> 00:31:20.329 book? Can you go to like a four bogey? At that 00:31:20.329 --> 00:31:22.069 point you can go to triple bogey and then it's 00:31:22.069 --> 00:31:24.309 just four over it seems except I call it anyway 00:31:24.309 --> 00:31:27.430 bogey because that's how I shoot Yeah, uh, I 00:31:27.430 --> 00:31:29.130 think you know this one. You kind of alluded 00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:32.450 Hole in one yeah, I mean that's fuck come on. 00:31:32.450 --> 00:31:35.890 It's in the fucking words. I well you never know 00:31:35.890 --> 00:31:42.230 What is the fair way the? It's got to be part 00:31:42.230 --> 00:31:48.170 of the the grass there, you know I'm think okay. 00:31:48.210 --> 00:31:51.579 I'm gonna guess that it's like The the stretch 00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:55.240 between where you hit in and the green like the 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.920 in between that's gonna be my guess Damn it. 00:31:57.940 --> 00:32:00.279 You're too smart. See computer nerds figure shit 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:03.619 out I mean, yes, the fairway is the ideal spot 00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:06.579 that you want your ball to land between the T 00:32:06.579 --> 00:32:09.119 I won't tell you what that's called between the 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:11.519 place where you hit. Yeah. Yeah and and the green. 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.380 Okay. Okay. Okay I used to have a roommate back 00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:16.819 in the day who used to say I could watch golf, 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:20.539 but I'd rather be bored And I fully agreed. That's 00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:29.119 fair. Okay. What is the tea box? It's got to 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:34.240 be where you stand to tea off, right? God damn 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.940 it, man. Yes, the tea box is where you drive, 00:32:38.059 --> 00:32:41.460 you know, or tea off. That's where British guys 00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:44.519 get their drink. Now we're gonna rev it up though. 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.140 Okay, here we go. We've got four more. Alright. 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:54.869 Hit me. What is a slice? There's gotta be something 00:32:54.869 --> 00:32:59.250 to do when you hit it. I'm gonna say you hit 00:32:59.250 --> 00:33:03.769 it off to the side. God damn it, man. Yes, if 00:33:03.769 --> 00:33:07.049 you're right -handed and you slice it, it... 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.700 Is it intentional though, or is it something 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:12.579 you do accidentally? Okay. If you're a real good 00:33:12.579 --> 00:33:14.059 golfer, you can say, I'm going to give it a little 00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:17.140 slice so it goes. But typically when you slice 00:33:17.140 --> 00:33:18.759 it, it's a bad thing. I'm left handed and if 00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.720 I hit it and it goes like that, that's a slice. 00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:24.359 This is way less funny than I thought it would 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:30.640 be, but I'm impressed. What is a divot? It's 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:36.890 got to be like a hole in the grass. Like you 00:33:36.890 --> 00:33:39.710 swing and yes, it's a hole in my heart now because 00:33:39.710 --> 00:33:41.670 you're fucking this whole segment up. Yes It's 00:33:41.670 --> 00:33:43.650 when you I've heard that term before I'm sorry 00:33:43.650 --> 00:33:46.130 it's fine No, this is what I'm testing you and 00:33:46.130 --> 00:33:48.009 clearly you're better than I thought so you know 00:33:48.009 --> 00:33:52.230 what a putt is Well, yeah, the putt putt is what 00:33:52.230 --> 00:33:54.349 they call every mini golf course on the planet 00:33:54.349 --> 00:33:58.349 so okay, and then last but not least What is 00:33:58.349 --> 00:34:00.579 a shank? I like that you think I didn't know 00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:02.940 what putt was. Well, I just kind of wrote it 00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:05.420 down. A shank is a homemade weapon that people 00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:10.519 in prison use to kill each other. Yes. And no. 00:34:10.820 --> 00:34:13.820 Yes. Golfers shank each other too? I don't know. 00:34:13.940 --> 00:34:20.239 It's a more violent game than I thought. No. 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:23.880 Arnold Palmer was the worst. He would just come 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:26.820 up drinking toilet wine and he would take a blade 00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:29.909 and just... I genuinely have no idea what it 00:34:29.909 --> 00:34:31.769 means in the context of golf. You know, honestly, 00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:34.690 a shank is almost, it's like a slice or a pull. 00:34:34.869 --> 00:34:37.469 It's just when you shank it, you hit it. It's 00:34:37.469 --> 00:34:39.489 another bad hit? Yeah, just like... All right. 00:34:39.570 --> 00:34:42.570 See, I had no idea. Dude, you... I learned on 00:34:42.570 --> 00:34:45.949 that. You should not be upset. I'm upset because 00:34:45.949 --> 00:34:48.650 I thought this was going to be funnier. I should 00:34:48.650 --> 00:34:50.030 know. You're just too smart. I've never played 00:34:50.030 --> 00:34:51.730 a round of golf in my life. Well, we're going 00:34:51.730 --> 00:34:53.269 to do that. I'd live across the street from a 00:34:53.269 --> 00:34:56.579 golf course. What? Dude, I'm gonna murder you. 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:59.579 Wait till you find out I'm also a member. You 00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:03.340 are? I'm telling you right now, any golfers that 00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:05.539 are watching are furious. Yeah. You'd be killed 00:35:05.539 --> 00:35:07.820 to live that close to a course and have a membership. 00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:09.619 What are you gonna do? I'm gonna murder you. 00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:12.599 I'm gonna shank you. I gotta go be an IT guy, 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:14.739 so. Well, you're the best I know, and the best 00:35:14.739 --> 00:35:16.440 there is. It's true. All right, Mike Brindisi, 00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:19.059 Matt Mazer, this is Good News York. The Masters 00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:22.039 is on this weekend. We'll be back Monday with 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.300 a brand new show. You can tell me who got shanked. 00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:26.780 I will tell you who got shanked. Awesome. Yeah, 00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:29.599 we'll do that. Cool. Hopefully it's not Tiger. 00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:33.440 He's got way too much child support. He's not 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:38.179 golfing right now. Oh, is he retired? Is this 00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:39.980 kid golfing? Is he one of these guys who's now 00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:42.619 starting to golf? It's NEPO baby time. It's NEPO 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:44.619 baby time. We're getting there. Awesome. Is he 00:35:44.619 --> 00:35:47.440 any good? Yes, very, very good. They've done 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:49.400 some pro -ams together. Genetic? Are they going 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:51.360 to just start cloning him to make, you know... 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.139 Well, they put their... The PGA is going to put 00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:57.980 their DNA on ice somewhere? The PGA... I would 00:35:57.980 --> 00:35:59.480 imagine... They're going to grow tigers. ...a 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:02.780 form of secret service to guard this kid because 00:36:02.780 --> 00:36:05.739 ratings, dollars... Yeah. It's just got to keep 00:36:05.739 --> 00:36:08.500 the women away from him. Yes. Well, right now, 00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:11.039 I don't think, biologically, he could do anything 00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:12.679 with him. He's still pretty young. How old is 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:18.039 he? Twelve? Is he that young? 12, 13, maybe 11? 00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:19.679 I don't know. Oh shit. We'll have to look it 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.900 up. I thought he was an older teenager. But yeah, 00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:25.659 no, but they have golfed together at like these 00:36:25.659 --> 00:36:28.260 these kind of Pro -M events and they put their 00:36:28.260 --> 00:36:30.739 swing side -by -side. There was this one time 00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:32.260 not only did they swing... He's probably been 00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:34.780 being trained from before he could walk. Exactly. 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:37.400 But I mean they even did like the same reaction. 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.159 It's absolutely stunning. There was a very wholesome 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.289 moment which you can look up. From so on Wednesday 00:36:44.289 --> 00:36:46.369 of the Masters it starts on every golf tournament 00:36:46.369 --> 00:36:48.630 goes Thursday to Sunday, but for the Masters 00:36:48.630 --> 00:36:50.570 on Wednesday They have a par three tournament 00:36:50.570 --> 00:36:53.170 Which is where they just play par three holes 00:36:53.170 --> 00:36:57.190 and and caddies can play and and golfers play 00:36:57.190 --> 00:37:01.610 and their kids play anyway the Daughter who had 00:37:01.610 --> 00:37:03.650 to be four years old Rory McElroy's daughter 00:37:03.650 --> 00:37:07.309 four years old Putts like she just kind of taps 00:37:07.309 --> 00:37:09.849 it And everybody's watching. Now, the greens 00:37:09.849 --> 00:37:12.530 at Augusta, which is the course for the Masters, 00:37:12.769 --> 00:37:15.789 are known as the most pristine greens in the 00:37:15.789 --> 00:37:18.909 world, okay? Like, I'm talking, it's like putting 00:37:18.909 --> 00:37:21.469 on a parking lot. They're very fast. She taps 00:37:21.469 --> 00:37:23.429 this thing. This guy really likes golf. I love 00:37:23.429 --> 00:37:26.730 it. And at four years old, the thing falls in. 00:37:26.889 --> 00:37:31.289 She putted like a 20 -foot putt. Whoa, wrap up 00:37:31.289 --> 00:37:35.829 trap. Wrap up trap? I don't get it. All right. 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:42.239 You're gonna Chappelle wrap it up box. Bye. I'm 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.539 Matt. He's Mike. We love you guys. Merry Christmas