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Hey everyone, Scott Ackerman here, and welcome to another bonus bang.

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They are previously recorded episodes of Comedy Bang Bang that we are trotting out in front of the paywall.

And this is the fifth and penultimate episode of our series, Nuts for Snuts.

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Each week we've been re-releasing some of our favorite Randy Snuts episodes from the archives.

And this week we have a great one.

This is episode 820 called Limo Karaoke.

It originally aired on July 9th, 2023,

and it features filmmaker Vera Drew.

We also have Tim Baltz as Randy Snuts and Casey Faye as Joey Salsa.

This week, Randy has another new job, apparently, as a traveling karaoke station operator, plus music from Joey Salsa.

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This is, of course, used to be the show where we talk to interesting people.

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We have a great

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We have a

person,

I don't even know how to describe him, a person who used to clean ice out of urinals.

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We also have a person with an exciting opportunity coming up after that.

A packed show, I have to say.

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some of these shows, I gotta tell you, the worst fucking guests come on this and this week we have a guy who used to clean ice out of a urinal

someone with an enticing exciting opportunity i should say but let's get to our first guest uh she is the uh a writer and a director uh used to uh full disclosure

used to edit the comedy bang bang television program So you know, there will be softballs.

Although, I gotta say, if you were just walking down the street and someone threw a softball at you, that would be dangerous.

So, who knows what this is.

This is the safest kind of softball somebody could throw at you.

Exactly.

I have seen that.

Close up.

She has a new

film that she co-wrote and directed called The People's Joker, which was embroiled in controversy at Tiff

earlier in the year, but it has its premiere this Saturday at Outfest.

Please welcome Vera Drew.

Hello.

Hello.

Thanks for having me on.

Great to have you.

It's nice to see you again.

I was so

nervous to do this because I've been listening.

You've been on the other side.

Oh, you've been listening too.

Well, yeah, I mean,

I got to admit, like, I haven't, I have fallen off a little bit in recent years.

Like, having you.

Was it COVID?

Oh, having me as a boss.

You're about to say.

You see the

behind the.

Yeah, you see all the bullshit behind it.

Yeah.

Surprisingly, though, I have, I've revisited the I've seen Comedy Bang Bang quite a bit over the years like it's I think I heard

yeah, yeah H is like fine wine which seasons did you work on my impression of it was four and five, but I don't know I started

so I was on set for season two as as a

DIT.

And if people don't know what DIT is, it's basically dip, right?

Yeah, exactly.

I'm still not quite sure what that job was.

It's a person who basically would run in all the time and go, you have to stop.

We have to stop.

We have to do the DIT.

And then everything would shut down for like 15 minutes, right?

Yeah, most stressful job I think you could have on set, just constantly telling people, we're running out of media and I need to back up everything.

I think we lost that entire take.

We would also do, we would do long-ass takes, which was a DIT is basically the person who takes all of the things recording everything, transfers it, wipes it clean, and then comes back with those because they're all expensive and you need to recycle them as much as you can.

But we would do super long takes, and it would be like, and every once in a while, it'd be like, we need to stop.

Yeah, because you're just running out of memory, which you never want to do like while somebody's like in the middle of like a, like a, like, you know, an improvised.

Yeah, if they're on a roll, but that was hardly ever a problem on our season.

So you were, so second season, you were the person doing that, and I gave you Neri a glance.

Yeah, no, I don't think we talked maybe once.

I think I talked to Reggie that season more than you.

I doubt he remembers.

Well, he's a real glad Andrew.

He's out there

meeting all the crew.

Yeah.

Learning.

One thing about him, he likes to learn what everyone does, what everyone's job is.

And he memorizes their name and he memorizes all their children's names.

Yeah.

So I couldn't remember his lines.

He learned everybody's name and the occupation on set.

But yeah, then I came in.

I think my first

episode was the Kevin Smith episode.

Oh, season three.

Season three.

Late in season three.

Late in season three, and then, yeah,

came in strong four and five.

And four was the

mammoth season.

So you were basically on for more than half the show because

you essentially did about 65 episodes out of 110.

Yeah,

it's crazy.

Like, it's crazy just having that many things that I've edited.

And, like, I feel like, particularly, like, that season four, like,

it kind of was like an impossible task,

like of trying to deliver that many episodes.

It was hard.

Yeah, it was.

And I made you guys work weekends, but you had a weird schedule.

You had,

was it Wednesdays through Sundays, I believe?

Because I had to shoot Monday through Friday, and then I would Saturday and Sunday work with you guys.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You'd come in very, very tired on the weekends.

Yeah, apparently doing that job was not good for my health, my sanity.

Yeah, yeah.

I can only imagine, especially like the days where you were like filming multiple episodes in a day and then coming in and like hanging out with like a bunch of sweaty editors.

You guys were not sweaty.

I want to make sure that is

expressly expressed.

I was playing into the stereotypes, I guess, a little bit better.

No, you guys actually used to take baths in the middle of the day, didn't you?

Yeah.

Well, that was when we flipped and became a union show.

Union guarantees.

Yeah.

They make you take one communal bath per day.

But that was more from our side.

Yeah.

Let's get these guys to be.

That's in our contract.

So you worked on that for a while.

And

then you

then see you for a while.

Well, you were working at that public access station for a little while.

It was stony.

And then I didn't see you for a while.

And then you, now, another full disclosure.

You hit me up.

I'm actually in this film.

Yes.

Yeah.

I'm a movie star.

You play Mr.

Freeze in this film.

Let's talk about the film because you hit me up to be in it, and I didn't really know what it was, but I'll do anyone any kind of favor.

I was shocked that you said the lack of context that was given, I was so blown away that it was an immediate yes.

No, honestly, like anyone I've worked with, if they want me to do something, I'll do it.

Also, I'm offer only, and your offer was $0.

And I was like, well, that's a loophole.

Yeah, yeah.

But

what is just this film is, I wanted to have you on to talk about it because it's had a fascinating journey to its now premiere this Saturday.

Describe, first of all, just describe what is the film.

It's so it's it's about an unfunny transsexual clown named Joker who starts

an illegal comedy theater in Gotham City.

And it's very um

it's I mean, it's a Batman parody.

Um, that's uh what I say to, you know, legally cover my base.

And that's what it is.

Um, but it's really

like autobiographical, just about my experience

working in comedy and coming out as a trans woman and kind of being on,

you know, because I've, I've gotten to work on like really cool stuff like comedy bang bang.

And I can't do that.

God bless you for remembering.

But you also did, I mean, you worked through absolutely, right?

So you did it.

What else did you do?

You did.

I worked on Eric Andre's show.

I was on season one of Nathan for You,

Kraft Punk's political party, a handful of Tim and Eric things.

I co-directed and produced Timon Eric's Beefhouse, which nobody watched.

Not even me.

I don't even know what it is.

It came out right at the start of the pandemic, which just kind of

killed it.

Yeah, yeah.

That was by design.

We didn't want anybody to do it.

March 20th.

Yeah, on Adult Swim, too.

When alt comedy was essentially.

There was a time early in the pandemic where you would watch anything.

I remember watching that Will Farrell,

what's the big music festival in Sweden or whatever that they do?

I forget what that movie's called, but

oh, the Eurovision.

Yeah, Eurovision.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow.

And just something would come out and it'd be like, thank God, something's here.

Yeah.

But apparently not Beefhouse.

But yeah, I was really, I mean, I've made, I've had a handful of like web series and like video art projects and stuff throughout the years where I was very much on like the fringe and very like kind of unfunny and kind of figuring out my identity through like the art I was creating.

So and I really I wanted to make a movie about that and I'm obsessed with Batman.

The Cape Crusader, some call him.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

Is that a good chime in?

Yeah, yeah.

Just stops the train of thought immediately.

Great chime in.

But yeah, that's kind of the long and short of it.

It's a comedy, but it's also like a very kind of tender, queer coming-of-age story.

And you, are you in it?

Yeah, I play a character called Joker.

The titular Joker.

Yes, the titular Joker.

I'm the first trans woman to ever play Joker.

Let's go through the Jokers.

You have Cesar Romero.

Yes, possibly the best because he refused to shave his mustache.

I did that on a show that Paul F.

Tompkins was on where I put on a fake mustache and makeup over it.

Amazing.

As a tribute to Cesar Romero.

But, and then you have

Jack.

Yeah, there wasn't anybody till Jack.

Right.

And then, of course, you have,

I forget who else.

But anyway, some good people.

And then you're the first trans person to play the role.

Do you think you'll be the last?

Probably based off of the legal response from

Warner Brothers.

Let's talk about this.

So basically, the show was, or the movie rather, some people call things shows when you're yeah, when you're in uh, uh, when they go, I'm working on this show, but it happens to be a movie, yeah.

Like, you'll hear like grips gather around be like, I just got off this last show.

Do the grip voice.

I just got off this last show, you know.

They're talking about like the last Indiana Jones or whatever, right?

It's not that's a movie, actually.

So, so this you just slipped up.

I don't know if that's probably did slip up.

Um, uh, thank you for keeping me honest.

Um, but uh, this was scheduled to come out at TIFF.

It, it show, there was one showing, and then

you mentioned before Warner Brothers put a gave you a cease and desist.

Is that right?

Well, yeah, so we never, we never got an official cease and desist.

Like, we really just got like kind of this strongly worded letter that was like, we don't think this is a parody.

What makes something a parody?

Because if you can put out, you know, Batman, a porn parody,

people in Batman costumes fucking like Batman's been fucking Joker and Robin and Catwoman on screen screen for years, but somebody can't make like a tender, gay Batman movie.

But yeah,

so they sent us that letter literally like two days before we were supposed to premiere.

And they had known about the movie.

Like I'm friends with a handful of people in like the Harley Quinn writer's room.

Yeah.

The penguin himself is my brother.

And, you know, they really waited to the last minute.

I think they were trying to kind of kill our

to

really get into the kill a big film sale.

And like, yeah, and there's no point in doing it two weeks before because then you would explore your options and learn that you could do it or whatever.

But two days before has meant that happened to me once when we were doing the Day the Clown Cried reading with Patton Oswald, which is this Jerry Lewis movie.

We were doing a script reading, and we would do it around town every once in a while.

And then they gave us a cease and desist like a few hours before we were supposed to go on.

And that it just is there to scare you.

Yeah.

And yeah, like really scare you.

And it, you know,

it freaked me out, I guess, but it's- It freaked your bean.

It's it scared my like team more and kind of the people that were sort of trying to help me put together a release.

And we weren't going to premiere, but I was like, I got a passport to go to Canada.

Like, we should do it.

Like, we're all here.

So we actually negotiated with the head of Warner Canada.

And we're like, we have...

like an army full of people that are already ready to see this movie tomorrow.

Let us screen.

So we had our screening.

It was great.

And then I

kind of paused after that to sort of go back to my lawyers and just make sure that we were in, you know, the legal green zone.

And like I had to finish the movie.

Like the movie still had some effects and stuff that needed to be done.

It's live action, but there's like a lot of animation and like every kind of animation, stop motion, 3D, 2D.

So there was a lot of moving parts that I needed to bring home before we started screening again.

And I also wanted to come back with a plan this time instead of because did you hope to get it sold when you were up there and then come back?

And is it sold?

Is that why it's premiering?

Or what's the status now?

We don't have any like distribution plan set in stone, but it is coming together right now.

I mean, really, like

OutFest in pretty much every festival that we've screened at since Tiff,

you know, because we've done a handful of secret screenings.

Like, I did like a whole secret tour with the movie in Australia.

Like, every festival.

Down Unda?

Oh, yeah, down under.

Does Batman, is he different down there?

Like, does he work during the day?

Yeah.

Jesus Christ.

It's so crazy, like, you know, like being 18 years old and listening to to like comedy Death Ray on a radio, on the radio, listening to you ask these kind of questions to somebody.

And they're funny when you're listening.

Yeah, and then when you're not so funny when you're sitting here, right?

Like breaking into a sweat.

But yeah, like every, like Outfest has just really gone to bat for us.

I mean, they're sponsored by Warner Brothers.

Gone to bat, by the way, is a pun.

Yes.

We should just really let everyone know that you meant to say that.

Yeah.

Moment of silence for that.

And yeah, that's that's kind of why we were sort of confident that we were able to screen.

That's great.

And you know, I mean,

the little I learned about parody law doing comedy bang bang, because we would have all these like conversations with lawyers all the time.

And

the closer you are to the thing, the better.

Like I remember there was one thing where we were trying to parody the ghoulies, which were the, I don't know if you remember the little monsters that come out of the toilet and like slight your butt or whatever.

And we put him in there and we called him something else.

And the lawyer was like, no, no, no, you got to call, you got to call them ghoulies.

That way, everyone knows you're parodying the ghoulies.

So, like, and you're parodying Batman.

There's like Batman costumes and Joker costumes and stuff.

So it's like, yeah.

You're not basically trying to fool people into going, like, this is the new Batman movie that's coming out.

Exactly.

And, like, I think, you know, the kind of like

deep, like, negative nerd response out of tiff was like why didn't you just call it like the jokester or something and it's like because i actually couldn't do that

that's actually not legal yeah like that is the that's trying to and although that's pretty good the jokester the movie goes out of its way to show that it is not a dc movie like like it's i mean there's there's a lot of canon references just because like i love Batman and and all the iterations of Batman, but like, you know, it's the worst Batman that you will ever see.

Like, he's, he's more like kind of just like an overweight cop in it.

And it is interesting because Batman, you know, when you really think about it, you go like, oh, this poor little guy, he got his parents' face blown off or whatever.

And so he goes and fights crime.

He's really a rich dude who's out there stomping on poor people.

Yeah.

And like is still, like, look, we all have trauma.

Like, it's 2023.

All of our lives are missing.

Go to one therapist, Batman.

Yeah, you'll get over it.

Like, this is not

the solution.

I don't, I don't.

I don't think that I don't know that they've ever shown him going to a therapist in the comics.

Which would cure that would cure him.

Yeah, it's

worse than that, he's like a super dick now.

Like, it used to be like, hey, okay, he's out there and he's at least like, you know, he had this shit happen to him, but he's out there, you know, trying to help out.

Now he's just an asshole, a Superman.

Yeah, I mean, I think that was the thing, too, making this movie.

Like, I really loved the, like, I mean, I grew up on the Schumacher Batmans.

Like, I loved the Tim Burton ones, but I loved Batman forever.

Like, I saw it

when I remember seeing it as a kid, and like, seeing Nicole Kidman in that movie was like an early, like, oh, I think I'm trans or gay or something for me because, like, just seeing her and the way Batman looked at her, and like the rubber nipples, like, you know, some

wires got either crossed or connected in that moment.

Just everything was pinging for you at that point.

Exactly.

Oh, boy.

And like, rubber nipples.

I just love the

colorful, campy fucking.

Did you like the

little projected question marks anytime the Riddler would come onto the set?

Yeah.

Although, like, all the, like, yeah, like, like, he said, like he's in there, like, setting up lights beforehand, like, or at least telling someone, like, hey, I want all these question marks projected all over.

It's like where all the money from like the diamond heist goes to.

The production design of his lair.

Yeah.

I, like, miss those.

I mean, I love the Nolan Batmans like as much as anyone, but

it was cool.

It was cool to see something like, hey, this is Batman realistically, but now we don't need to go darker.

It's like, how much, you know, already like this new one, you can't see what's happening on screen and it's too, it's way too quiet.

It's like, what's next?

Let's go back.

Let's go back to the,

let's out Schumacher Schumacher.

Yeah, no, yeah.

I really, I really wanted to make him proud with this movie.

And I, I hope, I hope, I, I hope in heaven he's watching down.

Do you think he's in heaven?

I'd like to think so.

Like Bat Heaven, at least.

Yeah, at least.

He's probably in a very specific type of heaven.

Like that, that's where Alfred went when he died.

Spoilers for the current comic book.

By the way, I know the current writer, Chip Zadarsky.

Oh, boy.

If you're listening, Chip.

You have a few notes.

Anyway, so The People's Joker, it comes out.

Well, it premieres this Saturday.

You You were telling me 9.15.

I'm going to check that

against the official record, but apparently that's your opinion.

It comes out 9.15 this Saturday.

Yeah, that is a weird time.

It's strange, especially like I can understand if it's an hour and 45 minutes, but it's an hour.

It's an hour.

It's a cold 92, so I don't really know.

And when you say cold 92, it was a Mr.

Freeze pun.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

You meant to say that.

Catching that one, too.

And I play Mr.

Freeze in the film,

which

upon your instructions, I recorded approximately 40 takes on an iPhone of my line.

Line lines, I don't know.

But I picked what I would describe as the most Scott Ockerman take.

I felt like I did about 40 reads, and I was like, oh, the 40th one was actually good.

Yeah, no, but that's but I bet you didn't listen to it all the way through.

No,

I definitely think the last one, like, if I may, do it.

Oh, sure.

Cool party.

Okay, sure.

The most fancy boy.

Wonderful.

And people know it's the craziest thing is there's nothing about the design of the character to suggest it's you, but it is like, I mean, to my credit, I guess I'm a good director.

Like, I did pick the Scott Ackerman take

because people know it's you.

And the other people who are in it, you have Tim is in it, right?

Yeah, Tim plays Perry White.

It's kind of a Alex Jones version of Perry White.

Bob Odenkirk plays Bob the Goon.

Elliot Glazer plays a character named Timmy Two Times.

Sarah Squirm is

Sarah

Maria Bamford now plays Lauren Michaels.

Sarah, Sarah was that's one thing you found you can't do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, Sarah was Lauren Michaels.

She was in the movie before she was cast.

That was one of the after Timmy.

That's why she was cast.

Yes, yeah.

No, I mean.

I heard someone does a good impression of me.

You're on the shoe.

Yeah.

Well, this is great.

The People's Joker comes out this Saturday.

And after that, we don't know, but how can people follow along with the saga?

You can follow me at Veradrew22 on Twitter.

I also am doing a behind-the-scenes podcast for my Patreon, patreon.com slash Veradrew22.

And yeah.

What's the 22 for?

Is that the year that you started it, or is it?

It just rhymes, I think.

I think there's also.

I think it does.

You're right.

There's some.

Hold on.

Let's test it out.

Drew 2.

Drew 2.

Yeah, and then the extra 2 adds a little bit of...

It adds like the syllable in between.

Yeah.

I guess so.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well,

people can follow it there.

We're going to take a break.

And Vera, you can stick around, right?

Because we have some exciting guests.

Did you hear who's coming up?

They sound exciting.

Yeah, someone who cleaned ice out of urinal once, at least.

And then someone with an exciting opportunity.

Pretty good.

good for this show?

Not bad.

No, no, you've landed some good guests.

I feel very honored to be among this illustrious crew.

All right, well, we're going to take a break.

When we come back, we're going to have more from Vera Drew.

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Vera Drew is here, the People's Joker out this Saturday at an odd time, 9.15.

I would suggest getting there by 9, just in case something happens.

It starts early.

I'm like wondering if I should show up early just to be on the safe side.

I think you should show up early.

No matter what.

I'm so traumatized from TIFF that I worry that it is just not going to happen in some way.

You might get one of those cease and desists literally because of this show.

Like some, you know, the brothers Warner are listening or something like that, and they send you another one.

So we'll see.

I mean, you're tempting fate by being on this show because it's a very popular podcast, humanities podcast, and of course, the animal kingdoms.

We need to get to our next guest.

He

is the aforementioned person who used to dump ice in a urinal or clean the ice that was in it or

take ice out.

No, I used to dump the ice in the urinal and then the urine cleans the ice out of the urinal.

That doesn't sound very sanitary to me.

Well, we've talked before about how cold your urine stream is.

That's a good point.

Everyone else's is incredibly hot and it melts the ice, which gives you a sense of

mine would make the ice even more ice.

Yeah.

Essentially.

Yeah.

It would be a glacier.

Hence your perfect casting as Mr.

Freeze.

Thank you so much.

Barry, you must have known.

By the way, as far as A-block interviews go, no shade.

That's the best, most interesting, informative interview you've ever conducted.

I learned something.

You were at attention.

And every time you got called out, I was like, dang.

I mean, it's not bad.

I think I'm getting okay at this after 14 years in my 15th year i'm like yeah i do all right uh this was at he used to do this job at my favorite restaurant which is called what the domios

the apostrophe the domios domeos that's my favorite restaurant yeah uh and he has his own podcast called uh what is it called again hey randy a randy snuts show uh and that's over at cbb world please welcome back to the show uh randy snuts himself hello randy i how could i possibly top that introduction what are you does every guest come on here trying to top their introduction?

I mean, come on, you can just be yourself.

I couldn't do better myself, though.

Well, you don't have to.

You're the guest.

Oh, you set a high bar, Scott, and I'll never reach it.

You are very complimentary today, Randy.

I'm not used to it.

Well,

you know, it's a new year, so I have new habits.

Okay, that's good to know.

This is Vera, by the way.

How are you doing, Vera?

Hey, nice to meet you.

Likewise.

I really admire your work.

Oh, really?

What do you know of Randy Snuts' work?

The ice part of it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the particularly, I think I really resonate with like the that feeling of power, like when the ice is melting.

And

do you, would you, that was the other thing I didn't know.

Like, would you dump the ice and that's the end of your relationship to that particular batch of ice?

Or would you come in and check on it all the time and see its progress?

Yeah, you have to come in and check to see if more ice needs dumping.

But, but would you check on it just to see how it's going without that part of it?

So

you're saying, would I have a personal relationship with this batch of ice?

Like, you just want to know, like, is is it melting?

Yeah, absolutely.

I do.

I want to know that other people are feeling their power.

Like, say, you dumped a big thing of ice and they were like, Randy, you're off the clock.

You gotta go home now.

Would you like wait another half hour?

Can't do it.

I'm giving you work for free.

I gotta wait until that last cube of ice is melted.

And then watch someone else put the new batch of ice in.

Uh-huh.

They'd shake their hand.

Then we wash our hands together.

Then we walk out.

Wonderful.

Randy, it's so good to see you.

You, of course,

a longtime guest on this show.

The saga of all of your comings and goings is legendary.

Oh, thanks.

You have your friends Amber and Stu, of course.

They're on my podcast.

My duplicitous girlfriend, Carissa, is on the podcast.

And, of course, our ne'er-do-well moron libertarian friend, Mark Cadavano, is on the podcast.

And what is going on with Carissa?

You mentioned Carissa, but

are you guys because sometimes you come on here and you're broken up, sometimes you're back together.

Absolutely.

I mean, it depends on

how her devious meter is flowing.

Right.

And where is it?

Is it off the charts or something?

Right now, no, we're in a good place right now.

Oh, good.

Yeah.

So we're together.

I've started a new endeavor.

Obviously, I haven't worked at Dodomio's in a long time.

And why is that?

I never knew why you didn't work there anymore.

Suddenly I got there and there was no ice anymore.

They just, they didn't have an ice budget or what exactly happened?

Yeah, they lost their ice budget, and I was the first one cut.

Pandemic hit.

Pandemic hit, and they were like, hey, we got to scale back.

We're going to takeout.

And I was like, so you don't need.

would you maybe did you pitch like maybe i could throw some ice in the bag yeah i should throw it to take out and they could put it in their own toilets oh ah i mean you're reading my mind i had written little handwritten things stapled to little bags of ice that's like little like little fortune cookies but it was they all were the same thing what was it well they all said if you dare dump this ice in your toilet at home and pee in it to get a sense of power why isn't it like it kind of sounds like a threat yeah if you dare why why put the if you dare there?

If you dare?

Yeah.

Well, because it seems like, first of all, you're calling people who don't dare cowards.

True.

Implicitly.

Yes, absolutely.

Why are you afraid to feel this power?

Right.

Why are you afraid to melt ice with your urine stream?

It's hot.

It's inside you.

But you bring up a good question, though.

Why don't we have ice in our toilets all day?

If it's so great in the urinal at restaurants, like, why don't we do it at home?

Well, because, well, first off, you have to have like an ice machine.

Not everybody has that.

Sure.

But if you, but I mean, you could make the cubes yourself, like overnight.

True.

Dump them in in the morning.

Uh-huh.

Then refill them.

Yeah.

And then by the time you need more ice, you know, maybe they're ready again, you know?

I think that it might take away the special sensation of visiting, you know, an establishment and going into the bathroom and being like, I have to do my dirty business again.

So it's basically why you don't have a matri D at your house.

This is for the restaurant.

Yeah, and I'm not going to be a matrix myself.

You know, I'm not going to be like, Carissa, right this way.

Sit down.

I ordered pizza.

Although it sounds nice.

Yeah, she might like that.

She might like some special treatment once in a while.

Yeah.

What do you do for her?

What do I do?

Do you do special things for her?

Yeah, absolutely.

Like what?

I say things like, that was not duplicitous.

You know, so I affirm her good behavior.

Right.

So you think the way that she treats me, I should be nice to her?

I don't know.

Personally, I think you guys should break up.

I mean, I've always said that.

Yeah, well,

that's coming up soon.

Oh, you think so?

Well, you said you were in a good place.

Oh, I've broken up like 785 times.

We're going to get back together.

Right.

You know, because I love the way you lie.

Are you going to get married?

I mean, do you see that in your future?

Children, marriage?

I don't know.

Right now, we're, we're a dink couple.

What is dink?

What does that mean?

Double income, no kids.

Where does she work?

I don't even know.

Yeah, I don't know.

She's between jobs right now.

I mean, it's her.

You're kind of like a sync couple, right?

Yeah, yeah, true, true.

But I got a new endeavor.

Oh, yeah, your new endeavor.

So, you know, like a couple of years ago, I bought a limousine off of Craigslist.

I guess I didn't know that, but okay.

Oh, you didn't?

How would I have known that?

I announced that on the show.

Okay, sure.

Okay, I don't remember every single thing we've talked about on the show.

I barely remember the name of my favorite restaurant, which is apparently Dodomio's.

Yeah.

Okay, got it.

You probably haven't been in a while.

No, I mean, you know, after COVID, no ice.

No dice.

No visit.

No ice, no dice.

That's one of those rhymes that we were talking about with Vera earlier.

Dice.

That's another one.

I know.

Fries.

Yeah.

Well, now four four times.

But yeah.

Fries.

Fried rice.

Yep, there we go.

Hey, there we go.

That's the Pentagon.

I wonder how many times they have fried rice at the Pentagon.

Do you think they deliver?

Did they get food delivered at the Pentagon or are people not allowed to bring food in there?

Because if so, that would be a major security breach, I would think.

This is one of those chime-ins Vera was talking about not being good for the podcast.

Why?

I'm interested.

You want to take a tangent to talk about fried rice at the Pentagon?

Yeah.

Okay.

I bet they have it every other day.

I hope so.

I hope that for them.

They probably do eat it a lot there because I think there is a food court that's like one of the staples of food courts.

Is it right there in the center of the Pentagon?

That would be so cool.

Yeah, it's so big.

That's why they had to build it.

They built a food court first.

There's like an Orange Julius and a Derwiener Schnitzel.

Sabaro.

Generals are going up there.

Pizza spooks.

I'm like, could you take a paper napkin and kind of press the oil out of that slice of Sabarro?

See, this turned out to be a good chime-in.

It was.

It was pretty good.

Okay, good.

Anyway, so your new endeavor.

I have a new endeavor, so I converted my limousine into a traveling karaoke station.

Oh, yeah, I remember something like this.

So you would pick people up.

I pick people up.

It's B-Y-O-B.

They can bring in whatever they want.

Really?

Well, then you have to park if you want to drink.

Oh, okay.

If you want to drink.

Well, well, I mean, no, if they want to drink, you can't drive around with it.

I've always wondered,

what is the legality of having liquor in the back of a limo?

Is it just because it's a limo and there's like a window in between?

Yeah.

And the window on mine is busted.

Oh, okay.

If we get pulled over, they're going to be like, well, the window wasn't up.

Well, like if you were drinking in the backseat of my car and I get pulled over, could I just go, no, this is a limo.

Test your luck, my friend.

Just install a window, I guess.

I guess.

Yeah.

There.

See, I installed TVs.

I got a karaoke machine at this vintage shop in town.

I installed that, and now we're good to go.

All right.

So how you did that how long ago?

About a year ago or so?

Well, no, I bought the limbo a couple of years ago, but I just recently converted into a karaoke station.

Oh, okay.

Which is, it's been great.

It's been very fruitful.

And people love my hosting skills, too.

Oh, so you're are you driving while you're hosting?

I'm driving and I have a microphone up front.

And then there's one microphone in the back.

What's that one for?

The people singing?

Yeah, the guests.

Okay.

Well, that was implied.

It's not karaoke.

You said it like it was a special thing.

Well, it seemed like you were implying that the karaoke was I drive around and sing karaoke and people just sit in the back and booze it up.

No, I was not implying that.

Okay, I just find it funny that you're hosting while driving.

That's that's all I asked you.

Well, it's just hosting, you know.

I kick things off, and then you know, I get the mood going with a song.

You know, I have a couple standards that I'm really good at.

What are you good at?

Which ones?

Oh, you want to hear it?

Uh, not the song, but I just want to hear the title of them.

Okay, La Villa Rose by Edith Piaf.

Are you singing it in that language?

In that language, like you name it, absolutely.

Yeah, I could give you 15, 20 seconds.

Sure, let's hear it.

I've got bars.

Okay, Okay, hold on a second.

Desieux qui font bes c'est les mien

rir qui se per sur sabouche.

Voila le portre son retouch de la moquer

ja partien.

Canti mer pronta, c'est bra est ma parla.

Toubas.

Hold on a second.

It was beautiful for the intro part of it.

It was.

I'm not a trained singer.

No, it sounded amazing.

And then suddenly, like, what happened when the chorus came?

I'm not a trained singer.

I'm not really sure.

It all sounded the same to me.

But I don't have an ear for music.

I don't have perfect pitch.

Why sounded like range to me?

Like, you've got...

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I've got no range.

Nope.

My music teacher.

You're like Bruce Hornsby when he went solo.

Oh, my God.

The amount of times I've gotten in bar fights because people are like, hey, motherfucker, you sound like Bruce Hornsby when he went solo.

And I'm like,

that's it.

I'm going to cut you off.

So, if you have no ear for music, why are you doing this?

Just, it's a money-making opportunity?

Absolutely.

I'm an entrepreneur at the end of the day, yeah, like anybody else.

Yeah, here's here's my Venmo code.

Go ahead and scan it.

Uh, all right, here we go.

There we go.

All right, now I'm gonna request some cash from

why you because I just serenaded you.

I didn't, I mean, I guess I did ask for it, but you offered.

You're asking for it all the time, my friend.

Look at that outfit.

Bare feet in the studio.

Hey, this is my home oh still okay i can have bare feet in my own home i'm not saying you only have to ask for it out in public clearly you're asking for it at home as well hopefully i get it at home no kidding you're making uh i got a joker smile looking at those feet

right bear how about you i'm not gonna participate in this part of it okay my friend is my friend is looking uh exfoliated and hydrated down there down there

hey my eyes are above my feet okay somewhere

you got to find them, but they're up a little bit.

Okay, I'm going up the body.

I haven't seen them yet.

They're usually towards the top.

This is a feast for the senses.

The sense of sight.

Oh, there they are.

Wow, beautiful.

That took you so long to climb up his body.

Yeah, he's like 6'2.

Yeah, you're really resting on the midsection there for a long time.

I thought I'd see the eyes.

There are a few things down there that look like the eyes, but it turns out it's just buttons and belts.

And bulges, of course.

Ah, yeah, that's true.

The eyes, the crotch of the face.

For a minute, I bet you thought that one of my eyes was popping out like a cartoon, but no, that was just my boner that I have while I record this show.

Yep, your single eye-shaped boner.

Single cartoon popeite.

You got

an early Matt Groenig-looking eye boner down there.

How would I describe my boner?

Well, 1987 Matt Groenig eyes.

Well, this sounds great.

So you, I mean, how much business have you received?

Pretty good business.

You know, all you got to do is like you post a couple of things on Craigslist.

Local Craigslist is really active for us.

There's a lot of people that have not abandoned it.

Really?

There are a lot of sex workers there.

Sure.

Okay.

Do people expect that from you when you come and pick them up?

Are they like...

Maybe.

I mean, that explains some of the comments that I've gotten, but I don't discriminate.

You discriminate what?

People who...

Against sex workers.

Oh, sure.

But no, but so when you say you don't discriminate, if they want sex from you, you just give it to them?

No, I don't discriminate that that's what they think I i offer and then i say no no i was gonna say your definition of not discriminating is very different yeah they come expecting a sex worker you don't discriminate so you do it no no no i'm not discriminating you're intimating that i am i'm not intimating anything i'm just merely asking you questions random okay well my answer to that question is i say no thank you i'm not looking for that would you like to listen to some karaoke of the do some and then usually they're like when they say and then that do they say when you say do some what do you mean they do say that

They do say that.

Yeah, absolutely.

And then I'm like,

what do you think I mean?

Wink, wink.

And then they're like, why did you just say wink, wink?

Because that's what I say when they say that.

Okay, yeah, but I'm imagining them saying, why did you just say wink, wink?

Oh, yeah, that's exactly what they say.

And then I say,

I'm just, I'm winking at you.

You must know what I mean.

That's the thing.

Winks have gotten a bad rap, haven't they?

Because anytime you like, you wink at someone, it's suggestive, supposedly.

It's like, no, it's just fun to do.

You know, go do it to your friends every once in a while.

Winking at me right now.

No kidding.

It's fun.

Those toes are twinkling as much as your eyes.

See, now you're turning it into a weird thing.

I'm just winking at you.

Why is it weird?

Like a friend.

Okay.

The foot is the part of the body.

I can't argue with that.

There we go.

You got me there.

I'm not being weird by looking at your bare feet in studio.

You're parading around showing us right now.

I'm not prancing.

I'm not parading.

For those of you listening at home or at work or I mean, wherever the hell you are, Scott's got his feet up on the table.

He's twinkling his toes at us.

I'm doing sort of a wink with my toes.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So this sounds great.

I mean, what does Carissa think about all this?

I mean, she's against anything that gives me a sense of independence.

Yeah.

So at first she was not happy about it.

And then, you know, I took home a little bit of cash and I took her out to eat.

Taco Bell Cantina.

Oh, the fancy Taco Bell?

I love that.

Yep.

That way you don't have to sneak booze into the Taco Bell.

Right.

Yes.

Because they serve it?

Or I haven't been in one.

Yeah.

it's like Starbucks Reserve.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I love, yeah, I should do Comedy Bang Bang Reserve or something like that, or it's like a better version of this show.

Oh, Comedy Bang Bang After Dark.

Oh, yeah.

We always do a dink and have a Matt groaning boner whenever you want.

Yeah, exactly.

Like Peach Pit After Dark, but it's Comedy Bang Bang.

I always, I used to love that because Peach Pit was just the squarest business in the world.

It was a 50s diner, and then it turned into the hottest club in Beverly Hills.

In the back, yeah.

And by the way, it was who used to run it?

Nate?

Was that his name?

I don't remember.

Whoever the owner was, he was like, oh, I got this.

Oh, I got this space in the back.

It's like a gorgeous club.

Yeah.

In Beverly Hills.

He just had like diner supplies back there.

Yeah.

And then they cleaned him out and it turned into the hottest club in Beverly Hills.

And by the way, where are these 50s diners in Beverly Hills?

I don't think I've ever seen one.

They got run out of business.

Yeah.

Aaron Spelling pulled the plug.

Yeah.

Cease and desist.

Ciso and DeSisto.

You a big fan of CISO?

I used to be.

Still got the app on my Apple TV.

Oh, really?

Yeah, it'll kick back to life someday.

And guess what?

It'll have technical difficulties.

That's right.

Well, this is great, Randy.

You made some money.

Yep, I made some cash.

It's a cash-only business.

So if you want to ride my limo, just bring some cash, bring some ideas for karaoke songs that you want to sing.

Ideas.

Well, what about just like names of them?

Of songs?

Yeah.

You're splitting.

You're splitting hairs right now.

I just find it funny of someone coming and going, I have a few ideas I want to throw against all some.

Yeah.

Like maybe something with like music in it, maybe something in 4-4-time.

Yeah, I'd be like, you're on the right track.

Keep going.

Give me the title of a song and I'll plug it in.

There we go.

Yo, bangers-only.

I'm not sure.

You're a banger-only business.

Bangers-only business.

You're BOB.

Yeah, absolutely.

Because I couldn't, you know, I haven't been able to afford like entire catalogs.

Right.

So I'm just.

You're not on the internet on YouTube because

you might try that, but I was doing it here at the house and you got to play an ad before every song.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

No, I don't want to do that.

No, I don't want to.

That would weigh people down when they're trying to make their decisions.

So, do you have CDs or are they downloaded?

Yeah, you need to CDs nuts.

Randy's nuts.

They're not on cassettes.

Yeah, we have CDs.

So it's bangers only.

And, you know, it's, I mean, it's pretty good.

People are, people are pretty pleased.

How many CDs do you have?

Probably like 14 CDs.

Okay, this is not a lot of songs.

You maybe fit 15 songs on a CD.

Yep.

Yeah.

Well, Violent Femme's Greatest Hits, that's like 21 songs.

There's a whole karaoke CD for Violent Femme's Greatest Hits.

Well, it's not the karaoke tracks.

No,

it's actually just the greatest hit CD, and I turn it down every time the lyrics pop on.

Like a DJ at a club.

Like a DJ at club.

Like everybody wants them to sing.

Yeah.

So it's like, you know what?

Okay.

I mean, that counts.

I would sing along with it.

Yeah, absolutely.

You seem like a Violent Femme's head.

Sure.

Why not?

Cool.

Milwaukee Zone.

In a battle to the death, who would win?

Violent femmes or the Bodines?

Well, the Violent Femmes, I mean, it's all about the branding, you know.

I'd be scared to go up against the Violent Femmes until I'd met them, you know.

But the Bodines, it's like, I don't know.

They're probably Christofascists now.

Well, this is great, Randy.

I really respect your hustle.

your get up and go.

Thanks.

Ain't no bustle without the hustle.

Good point.

But how long do you think this is going to last?

Probably a few months, like most of my other endeavors.

Then I'll either get bored or sick of it or I'll get fired from my own job.

How does that happen?

How do you get fired from your own thing?

I mean, have you ever fired yourself?

Absolutely.

You just get in a, you get in a fight with the boss, a verbal altercation.

You know, I eat enough CBD.

I'm bound to start talking to myself.

If I say something to myself, I'm bound to disagree.

You're eating so much CBD that it's having a psychoactive effect on you.

I mean, you've been eating from like, I mean, it's just goop, essentially.

It's like, it looks like a massage oil or something like that that you've just been chugging right now.

Really sticky stuff.

I melt down all the CBD gems that I can find.

You know, because most of them don't have more than 0.3% of THC, legally.

Right.

So you got to melt them down and separate the THC from the actual gem part of it.

You got to separate it chemically.

Yeah, you got to keep it separated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, when I said chemically, I was quoting brain candy by kids in the hall.

Oh, you were?

Oh, interesting.

I didn't realize you were a KITH fan.

Well, I am a K-I-T-H

BC fan.

Before what?

Brain candy.

Brain candy.

Oh, that's the only thing you missed.

Everything they did pre-Euras.

Jesus Christ.

Well, Randy, this is fantastic.

Can you stick around?

Because we have a great guest coming up, and I would love for you to stick around.

I'll stick around for the podcast and I'll stick around afterwards.

Oh, for what?

Oh, just ask you advice on how to get your feet so clean and hydrated.

When you say hydrated, I mean, they're not wet or anything.

Yeah, but they're not flaking.

Okay.

Do feet in your life tend to flake?

In my life?

Have you seen my friends?

Stu and Amber.

Yeah, I met them once.

Will you finally give me your phone number?

I'll send you pictures of my friend's feet after this.

I don't think I don't.

I don't want to do that.

But Randy Snuts is here.

His podcast, Hey Randy, is out there on CBB World.

We also have Vera Drew, the People's Joker.

And coming up, we have someone with an exciting opportunity.

So this is, I mean,

do you think we'll be excited for them?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

We'll share in the excitement.

That'll be incredible.

Let's do it.

Let's bring it on.

I can't wait to get to this ad break.

Faster.

Then we'll be beyond the ad break.

That will be beyond the ad break.

Yeah.

All right, so let's do it.

We're going to all sit here in anticipation of the person's exciting opportunity.

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We'll have more Randy Snuts.

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Comedy Bang Bang, we're back.

Vera Drew is here, director of The People's Joker, going to be premiering this Saturday at Outfest, and then hopefully in your homes after that at some point, where all of America and the world can see it.

Yeah, I'm hoping.

Yeah.

I mean, mean, I really do want people to see it in a theater,

you know, because I worked really hard on it.

And also, you want that Nicole Kidman thing to play in front of it because you were so into her in Batman forever.

Oh, that would be...

Do you have the same kind of thing when you see her going,

you know, talking about AMC movies and all that kind of stuff?

I, you know, I actually really am, you know, when those ads started, they did kind of give me some warm nostalgia pings, but I feel like the ironic

initiation now is kind of

a little bit everyone enjoyed it ironically to the point where like three weeks ago I was there and people were applauding.

And then in that three weeks, now people are not applauding for it anymore.

Like everyone's over it again.

Yeah.

We might see like another cycle of that.

But yeah.

Yeah.

But that would be cool to see it play before your movie.

Yeah, no,

it'd be great, especially since we do have a fully CG version of her in my movie.

Oh, so really?

Cool.

Here's what she looks.

What was her name in that movie?

Dr.

Chase Meridian.

She's a psychologist, fascinated with bats.

Because that's what psychologists do, is they grow fascinated with someone in the animal kingdom.

Yeah.

We also have Randy Snuts here.

Are you a fan of Batman?

Absolutely.

I love Batman.

All the works.

I just remembered the other day that Burgess Meredith is the first penguin.

Yeah.

That's that blew my mind.

What reminded you of that?

What made you were you watching Twilight Zone episodes and suddenly he went?

I was scrolling Twitter and Burgess Meredith was trending.

This is weird.

He's been dead since 97.

What's going on?

What was going on?

What did you find out?

I have no idea.

It was just the new algorithm sucks so much.

It was burping out Burgess Meredith.

And I was like, oh.

And then I saw him with Cesar Romero.

I'm like, oh my God, that's right.

He was a penguin.

Yeah.

Amazing at it.

I grew up watching the first one.

I mean, I like them all, but you're right.

It's gotten too dark.

Too dark.

Let's go back pre-Nolan to Batman having fun.

How about Batman in Godspell?

Yeah.

That's fun.

That could be good, right?

As Jesus or as John the Baptist?

I guess he'd be John the Baptist.

Yeah, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Yep.

That's something you could bring into the karaoke boss.

That's right.

I sang that in high school.

I was,

I, I, I played that role in in high school, and uh, I came from the back of the theater and I walked down the steps toward the stage.

Barefoot?

I tried.

And then apparently the choreographer who was

a former student who was maybe a couple of years out of high school, who came back to help out with choreography, I was not there for one rehearsal and she made fun of the way I walked.

It didn't impression.

It scarred me for life.

Oh, Jesus.

Wow.

Scared the shoes right off you.

That's great.

Well, yeah, you should absolutely sing that.

I'd be honored if you sang that.

I would love that.

Let's set that up at some point.

How do I get a hold of you?

Do I call you or how do you?

You can leave a voicemail on my voicemail.

We're always taking voicemails.

We love our callers.

779-366.

Wait, this is the voicemail from your program to book your Uber.

I have to call and you sift through those.

Yeah, I sift through those.

And hopefully, you just give me an address and I pick you up.

But it's 779-369.

It doesn't seem like the most expedient.

That'd be get through the number.

I'm trying to promote a show on your Patreon.

Okay.

Our Patreon.

But go ahead.

779-379-2679.

I'm just saying it doesn't seem like the most expedient way to book your services.

Oh, yeah.

Because so many people are calling for your podcast.

Well, you could text it as well.

Okay.

We take texts.

You take texts?

Uh-huh.

So you sift through those to find out who wants to book your

Uber for a karaoke?

Yep, absolutely.

Okay.

All right.

Well, we'll see.

Give it a call.

Maybe some people, you might get some business after this comes out.

I hope we get voicemails pertaining to the podcast, but if I get business too, sure.

Okay, great.

Well, speaking of business, we have someone who has an exciting opportunity coming up, and he's been on this show once before.

Please welcome back to the show, Joey Salsa.

Thanks for having me.

Don't expect me to top that intro.

That was fantastic.

I don't expect anyone to top any intro.

I mean, I don't even think that intro was all that good.

You were on once before.

You gave my name.

You said the information.

I've been here once before.

That's true.

And I got to say, as a frequent listener, this time and the one other time I've been on here, best B block I've heard, best A block.

So, wait, you listen to the one episode you were on before.

Yeah, you make us sit here before we talk.

I don't know if people know that.

So, I mean, where else are you going to be?

I could be running errands.

What kind of errands would you run?

You can give me an estimate of what time I needed to be here, and I could walk in.

But no, it was fantastic.

I learned the phrase dink, never heard that before.

Vera called you a fancy boy in A block.

I like that.

You kind of just let it roll right off you.

We named it.

I didn't take offense at that.

No, should I have?

No.

Tone Tone complimentary.

Right, yeah.

Based on his feet, how could he not be faded?

We named the look of your boner.

It was all fantastic.

There was also some musical stuff in there.

And that is my wheelhouse.

I am.

That's right.

You're a composer, is that right?

Yeah, I like to write musicals that my hope is that they're musicals that don't exist.

Last time I got burned a little bit by that.

Yeah, last time you came on, and I guess you were doing,

you got deep into the role of you were writing a musical about Alexander Hamilton, and you got very deep into the process where you weren't even looking at phones and you didn't realize that a very popular musical had already come out.

Yeah, I was living like Alexander Hamilton at the time.

My musical was called Alexander the Great, not the one you're thinking about, Hamilton.

And then I started presenting it and you said that a lot of my songs were very similar to the song.

It was very weird because musically they were note-for-note.

And that could be my stepson writes most of my music and he turns these tunes around real quick.

Okay, and he wasn't doing the whole process of not.

I'm writing the lyrics and then I give him these lyrics and he just comes and he's like, I got the track.

And I'm like, wow.

It sounds to me like he's not a writer.

He's a guy who bought an instrumental CD of the latest Hamilton.

I honestly could be.

I went home.

I tried to talk to him, locked himself in the room for weeks, didn't let me get a word in edge-wise.

But anyway, I realized my mistake was that I'm not Alexander Hamilton.

So if I'm writing about...

Hold on, your mistake in writing this musical is that you're not Alexander Hamilton?

Well, yes, because what do they always tell you in writing?

Vera can help me here.

Write what you know.

Write what you're doing.

Correct.

I would have made the same mistake.

Right, yeah.

So I'm writing about, I was trying to write about things that people might not know about, but then I was like, no one knows about me.

Why don't I start writing about myself?

Then it can't be anything that's ever been done before.

Okay.

Well, great.

This is actually my life.

Every human being has a unique perspective upon this world.

So

this sounds good.

So you've written a musical about your own?

Yes.

So I was trying to think, what's my best time of my life?

When did I really get happy?

And I was thinking it was mostly when, for a little while, I would go to small town to small town and I would try to.

Why the small town?

Well, because I'm...

Why not big towns?

well I after I finish my sentence you'll figure out

because I was trying to scam these people into thinking that I was a a music guy and that I would try I'd get all the kids to buy instruments and then they'd give me all the money and then I would leave town and so if it's a big town this is something you used to do I used to go from town to town as a musical instrument salesman loved it yeah and but they would give you half the money for how much would you take would you take all of it as much as I can yeah so hey come on don't worry I know the guy I know the guy let me place the order so you they would place the order for these instruments you would skip town

before the instruments.

So,

it was amazing.

And so, then I said, Well,

let me write a couple of songs about that, you know?

I mean, it's a very interesting life.

Do you have a song?

I do have one.

I actually have a few, but why don't we start with the first one?

Okay, so this is based on your life as a traveling salesman or as a traveling con man.

Correct.

All right.

76 trombones let the big parade.

That is way too many trombones.

There's only 82 kids that are even in the band.

Why did everybody pick the flag trombone?

Here's my theory: why it happened.

Randy Johnson picked first, and he's a cool kid, so everyone did what he did.

But now I got so many trombones, and I got no flutes or drums.

And two kids carrying the front the flag, they die.

So now it's mostly trombones, and the song doesn't have trombones.

And what are you gonna do with all the trombones?

And everything and and it's okay

hold on hold on hold on

okay

let me

joey sawsome yeah first off i

i i have to say when you mentioned the premise of this

you know the execution can differ everyone can have the same idea there's a lot of parallel thinking in in art you know

discovery yeah

are we getting a deep impact exactly but but the execution you hope is a little different and yours is a little little different.

Great.

Maybe not different enough.

I do have to say that the song 76 Trombones exists in a musical with the exact same premise as your life called The Music Man.

Oh, okay.

Well, mine's called The Instrument Guy, so it's different in that way.

It is the song all about how there's too many 76 is way too many trombones.

No, it's the perfect amount in that.

Whoa.

They love the fact that there's 76 trombones.

In a small town?

I know.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

I mean, yours makes more sense.

Wait, yeah, okay.

I guess like, the thing that doesn't make as much sense is why do you care how many trombones there are?

Because you're not even.

Well, that's the one, that's the one town that I stayed in.

So I actually did.

Actually, again, that's kind of more of an ending song, but I want to start strong.

That's how the musical ends.

Well, I don't exactly remember, but it's pretty close to the end.

It's pretty close to the end, yeah.

And so, and so it's, it's like, um, and so that's me actually leading, and I lead the band through it, but then it's just that's when they get their instruments, you know,

trombone after trombone after trombone.

Yeah, how many many trombones is too many trombones?

Would you say?

I'd say over four.

Yeah.

Wait, so, but you had 72 more trombones to sell to this small town?

Your inventory must have been pretty big.

Yeah, no, well, because I just do it on Amazon.

Right.

So once they tell you that.

Are you a prime member?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I joined.

I joined.

It gets so expensive.

Yeah, just to watch the show.

So the title makes sense.

You're a third-party instrument guy.

Right.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And so, and again.

Did you consider calling it third-party instrument guy instead of just the instrument guy?

I'm open to that.

I was trying to go.

I thought last time I made the mistake with too many words in my title.

So I was trying to go.

What was it the last time, the Hamilton?

Alexander the Great, the one you're thinking of, Hamilton.

Right.

And so this time I thought I'd just keep it compact.

I mean, it definitely tells you what you're in for, the third-party instrument guy.

I mean, you know, he's not a guy who's like out there making the instruments.

Right.

Yes, absolutely.

He's not a guy who carries them around with him.

No, no, no.

I sometimes do this with my hands, which I know isn't great for podcasts.

By the way, yeah, for podcasts, he's like sort of conducting an imaginary orchestra.

Conducting like tar.

Yeah, exactly.

Lydia or Sean, I saw you, Linda.

you a big tar fan yeah i watched it on an airplane you a tar heel i'm absolutely a tar heel i'm one of dean smith's boys i love the movie tar

uh rest in power dean smith anyway yeah of course yeah uh well that's okay well that's i think it's a little too close okay it sounds like the same is your your stepson yeah your composer still because it also sounds exactly like

music from yeah it sounds like he just got an instrumental track from okay okay all right well maybe sort of like the instrumental tracks that Randy here plays on his.

Yeah.

Maybe you could hook up with his.

Yeah, I'm also not a music guy.

This is just, this is all temp audio.

If anyone's wondering, I'm not, I don't think

I don't think I need to be the star of this.

I'd love to borrow those, or I'd even reward you handsomely for it because, like I said, I mean, almost none of my tracks are instrumental.

Yeah.

Oh, fantastic.

Yeah, that's almost like, that's what, yeah, I'm here just to make money and stuff.

So if that.

Yeah, if we want to set something up, that'd be awesome.

Right.

Well, here's some cash in my pocket.

Oh, heck yeah.

Thank you.

How much did you just give him, Randy?

$3?

I don't know.

That's enough.

But for one song, I got some more.

So maybe by the end of this, I'll have like $15.

Okay, well, you have five songs?

Okay.

Yeah.

Oh, let's get to the second one.

Well, yeah.

So, okay.

So, there was this one town where this, this kid, he was a real wiener here of a kid, you know, but I was trying to sleep with his mom.

And so I'd hang out with him, and he'd always ever get there.

Uh, I think at maybe at the end of the music, I'll like, I'll, I'll grab her butt a little bit and wink so you so you think that it might happen.

Now, is that a wink like a suggestive wink, or is that a wink between friends?

Good point.

That one actually was suggestive, but my shoes will be on, so it'll be confusing for the audience.

So this next one, he would always sing about how much he loved his town.

And so this would be, this is this, and this one, musicals, I've realized, are long.

They take forever.

And so this song.

To write or to watch?

I mean, to both of them, really.

They want them to be like, you know, a couple hours because they want intermission.

They want to sell drinks.

So I had to get.

I saw six the other night.

It was 90 minutes, no intermission.

Well, there you go.

I felt a little cheated.

Oh, see, and that's my point.

And that is exactly my point.

So this song, it's about...

It's like a six implies it's going to be six hours.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that makes sense.

I was thinking.

It turned out it was the number of performers.

I was thinking six songs.

It's like, it could have been either.

I thought it'd be the one.

Hours, number of performers.

The woman from Blossom.

Yeah, while we're doing topical Beverly Hills 90210 stuff, let's dip into a Blossom reference.

Poor six.

Oh, poor six.

She was an icon, and we didn't recognize it.

Hats.

She started hats from what I remember.

Yeah, she did.

She was the first person on TV to wear hats.

Yeah.

No one was allowed to.

It was like, remember the I Love Lucy where they couldn't even go to the bathroom or mention she was pregnant?

That's right.

And then, like, no one was allowed to wear hats until Blossom.

And then suddenly, like, like, everyone's wearing it and people don't remember it.

First toilet was on Leave It to Beaver.

Whoa, whoa.

That's what Joey said when he saw Sex's hat.

Yeah.

He's like, You can't wear that.

That was his catchphrase.

That's catchphrase.

You can't wear that.

You can't wear that.

So, you have another song.

So, yeah, and this, and this song I'm going to have to be really long.

I'm thinking, like, maybe a 45-minute song for me.

45 minutes on

just to pad out.

Chill up some time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is number two.

Yep.

Number two.

Yeah.

All right.

Here we go.

This is from uh

the instrument, third-party instrument guy, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome,

also not Buffalo, but Phoenix, or Seattle, or New Zealand, or Madrid, or other cities.

Here are some Minneapolis and Glendale, and there is another song and another city that I'll tell you about.

And it's not that

I gotta stop you here.

So, your plan is to do a 45-minute song where you just name places that are not Gary Indiana, even though you've named Gary Indiana at the very top of the song.

Don't tell me that happens in the other one.

No, there is a song called Gary Indiana in the other one.

Okay.

But it's a point of pride about the little child is very proud to be from Gary, Indiana, and sings about its qualities, not just what it is not.

Oh, okay.

Huh.

This does sound like an interesting, like nihilistic, kind of depressing version of

the music.

Yeah, depressing, boring.

Okay, yeah.

I mean, those are qualities that I think I connect to.

Yeah.

Really flips it on its head, though, when it's just not these other cities.

You're like, dang.

There's a lot of cities that are not like Gary, Indiana.

Yeah.

I would probably around like the, you said that song was 45 minutes long?

Yeah.

Probably around like minute 30, I'd say Gary, Indiana again and be like, whoops.

Oh, right.

No, it is Gary Indiana.

Sorry, everyone.

Then go back to other cities.

Or put a reminder in there.

Oh, yeah.

Reminder, I am in Gary, Indiana.

Not and then go back into the knots again.

Absolutely.

I mean, to be fair, I guess I didn't realize how many cities there were.

I thought there were maybe 20, but it seems like there's a lot.

Yeah, and even in my thing, he lists some countries too.

Oh, okay.

Like which?

Well, Zimbabwe.

Not

Paris, France, New York.

That's not a country.

France.

That's not a country.

France?

Paris, France.

Okay.

France, you got one.

Not Paris, France.

And then Louisiana is a state, which, so it's not just cities.

I'm opening it up, I guess.

Oh, okay, got it.

Yeah.

All right.

You have a third song?

I do.

Yeah.

Okay, so this one, this one, I think women

should learn from men about when to kiss.

So I wrote this song.

This is not part of the play?

This is just a song you wrote about what you think women shouldn't kiss.

This is part of the play.

It's my friend.

He's my sidekick, and he sings about when women should kiss.

Okay, here we go.

Now, a woman who kisses on the very first date is usually a hussy.

And a woman who kiss on the second time rout is anything but fussy But a woman who waits till the third time round head in the clouds feet on the ground She's the girl you glad you're found she's your shapoopy shapoopy shapoopy shapoopy that girl is not a whore shapoopy shapoopy

It was exactly the same until

until the chorus no way there's no way that a musical about a music man has a character just singing when when women should kiss on date no no there is.

Your interests and the original writer, Meredith Wilson, I believe, interests really align

incredibly.

But the only difference was the original, of course, is Shapoopy, Shapoopy, the girl is hard to get.

Not the girl is.

Well, modernized, I guess.

Yeah.

Too modern.

Yeah.

It's the song choice, the melody itself.

Your stepson is fucking you.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because if it were a different melody, then, you know, it would probably be unrecognized.

Does he give you the melodies first and you write the lyrics to to it or vice versa?

No, I write the songs.

I write the songs and then it just he gives me the song and the tracks they match up perfectly.

I thought it was like Elton John and his writing partner perfectly.

Bernie's helping.

Right.

Yeah.

But much like I love.

You know, if you're going to be a songwriter, you should like learn the names of other songwriters.

Well, much like me and my stepson.

I don't want anyone to think of my stepson.

What's his name?

Let's not even get into that.

Let's not get into it.

No, because then all of a sudden I'm going to be like, oh, where's he getting these songs from?

This guy's a genius.

All of a sudden, you know, but then Elton John, me, Joey Salsa, is what it's all about.

You're the Elton John.

Yeah.

It's still going to be about you.

Okay.

We're not trying to give your steps on credit.

We're trying to give him criticism.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Then his name's Doug.

Oh, Doug Salsa?

No, I wish he refused.

You want it?

You want him to take your last name?

Yeah, I'd like to.

Nothing else has my name, except for, of course, the stuff you dip in.

Right, yeah.

That's the one, the one thing that shares the dance.

And the dance.

Oh, okay.

I feel better about it now.

Yeah.

But what would it give you if he took your last name?

Oh, I guess I

a feeling of power, much like peeing on ice, yeah.

It feels like I maybe feel as if my life might be worth, you know, I've created something, I left something behind, not just a failure at every attempt I try to create art, and I'm

failing again and again.

This is only your second appearance, right?

Well, yeah, you'll fail many more times.

Okay, fantastic.

All right, great.

You have another song?

I do.

Well, so, okay, this one wasn't going well, obviously, I can tell.

So, I will let me just adjust completely.

This is a different time in my life.

I was, I was, it's kind of a complicated story.

I was learned music by a nun who came to live with us and have sex with my dad.

And she would teach us kind of like.

She came there expressly to have sex with your dad.

Yeah, I guess the nunnery was like being really mean to her and like telling her, they would like write songs about how she, I don't know, was a weirdo or something.

And so she came here.

And then they were like, I think they were actually trying to do it in a weird way.

I think they were winking.

This is a different musical?

Or this is part of the same

third-party instrument.

Yeah, yeah, this is a different one.

I'm adjusting.

This one isn't fully finished, but I do have this song.

So, you came here prepared with two musicals.

Well, yeah, and then I do have, if I need to adjust again, I can adjust again.

Okay,

right.

So,

what's this song about?

Well, this one's about this is like kind of me learning about how to sing, basically.

So, you learning how to sing.

She would teach me, and then I would also.

This is like my as a child, this is me learning with my siblings and stuff.

So, we're all singing

this:

Doe, a deer, a female deer, Ray, a drop of golden sun.

Me, a man looking for Russia poopy.

Girls, they always kiss too soon.

So, I tell them they're a slut,

or I'll tell them they're a whore.

I can't bring you to meet my mom.

It's the third date when you kiss duh-duh-duh-dum, you slut.

All right, all right, I have to stop.

I don't like that kind of talk.

Okay, fair.

On this program or any other.

But dear?

No.

No.

How dare you bring animals over this?

The shaming of that kind of language is not for pleasant conversation.

Does anybody hurt you?

Oh, good, great question.

Well, that was actually, what I was trying to do on that one was I was going to show you as a child and then

how I changed.

So that's me as a child thinking.

Those are children.

But what happened to you personally to give you this sense that women should kiss on the third date?

And if they don't, don't, they need to be denigrated like that?

Well, I think that's just the perfect time to kiss.

Based on what?

You have a wife because you have a stepson.

Well, guess maybe here's what we're not going to understand.

It's like, I'm a man, and I think that I know what's best for women.

And I'm not getting that.

No, that's kind of cross-class.

That's part of it.

Yeah, it's very clear.

Well, yeah, maybe it's my dad used to whistle.

He used to have a whistle, and we'd all line up and then line up to do what?

To just be inspected.

Oh,

I thought you meant to take turns on the whistle.

Oh, no, we'd never get to whistle.

There's a lot of patterns here.

I wish we could whistle.

I wish we could whistle.

But okay, I'll just do one more because I feel like maybe I'm not representing

two more tracks.

Okay, well,

you're just going to do one.

Well, I'll do one and then you can decide if we're going to.

We'll call the audible.

All right, what's this next one?

So this is now this is to show you how I've grown as a human.

This is I

much later in life.

I was living in New York City and I was at the every I lived in this place at the first of the month.

The guy who owned the building always wanted me to pay money.

And I hated to do that.

Yeah.

I hated giving money.

I think we know where this is.

I hated giving him money on the first month of the month.

And so, this is a song just about how I hated giving this guy money at the first of the month.

And so, you gotta understand, this is me in New York City with all my stuff.

No, I understand all of this.

Yeah, it seems like you're failing.

525,600 minutes,

525,000 moments so dear,

525,600 minutes.

That is too long to wait to be my ship poopy

it's the third date it's the third date i cannot make this clear okay i can stop you before you before you

oh no i don't say any of the this i don't say anything

but no it's good stuff yeah it was a good stop

don't don't don't don't inflate again wait so you didn't denigrate women in that one well no because this time they waited too long i think

they waited a full year and i think that is i think we can all agree if you what if the dates only come like one every four months oh then it'd be

the third date, but it would be a full calendar.

That's perfect.

I think I gotta add a second.

I gotta add a second.

You gotta add a second.

No, that's from a different musical already.

Oh, yeah, from a different one.

Yeah, no, no, no.

This is from a different one that also exists, named by the name of Rent.

Doug fucked you again, man.

What does your wife say about all this?

Because you're like, you're actually like, you're being deceived by your stepson.

What's your wife's name?

Well, would you believe it if I actually don't have a shapoopie?

What?

What?

You have a stepson without a shapoopy?

Yeah.

What happened to the shapoopy?

Well, I started talking about some of my beliefs about other people.

You know, she'd introduce me to a friend.

She'd say, have you met Carolyn Brand?

And they started dating.

And then I found out that sometimes they would kiss on the first date, and I'd be just horrific to them the entire time they were over.

And so she eventually, yeah, she eventually.

She left.

She left.

But she also left.

She had a full custody of

the game system set up in his room.

He was just used to that.

So he didn't want to.

I see.

You know, kids these days, they're always playing their games.

They love their gaming.

What gaming system is he onto?

I think Twitch.

Switch?

He's playing Switch on Twitch.

Yeah, he watches Switch on Twitch.

Yeah.

He just watches it.

Yeah, he's not even.

So when you say the game,

it's a TV.

Yeah, he could go anywhere.

He puts it in CPU mode and demo mode and he watches it on Twitch.

That's right.

I'm going to get Doug in here.

Sounds like an interesting game.

Yeah.

Can Doug come, Doug Salsa?

Okay, yeah.

Or Doug, whatever his name is.

Yeah.

I would love to talk to him at some point.

Sure.

Because honestly, like, these songs have been a bust.

Okay.

If truly this is parallel thinking,

I have to say it's really impressive that you keep hitting on these things that are very, very popular with minor, slight alterations.

I'll take, I heard a couple positive words in there, so I'm willing to take those.

Yeah, minor, slight.

Yeah.

I would love to hear a song that's just about how you, the positive things about kissing on the third date.

Yeah.

What do you like about kissing on the third date?

What feels good about it?

Is it the anticipation, the buildup?

I've had two dates that went well.

We know each other now.

We're not kissing just to kiss.

We actually want to.

If we waited for the fourth date, of course, then there'd be too much pressure on that fourth date.

Because then it's like, well, we haven't kissed.

Are we friends for a year and a full year?

I mean, don't even get me started.

Of course,

asterisk, unless it's once every four months, like you busted me on.

But otherwise, yeah, once every four months.

Always looking for that technicality.

Yeah.

Sorry.

The loophole.

I do have one final song.

It's about.

Do you know?

We could always save it, but it is.

No, no.

Why save it when we can spend it right now and never talk about it ever again?

So this actually is well, when my wife was leaving, I was texting.

You can hit six.

Oh, I can.

Oh, I can play?

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Six.

Put a hat on.

So I was texting with my wife's sister, and then she texted me something.

And because of where the comma was placed, because of where the comma was placed, I figured maybe she actually likes me.

And maybe she was trying to date me.

And so this is a song.

Put his butt next to my blower.

Butt-bubble, I invented that.

Yeah, we invented two buttons.

I'm making a bubble.

And fucking sucking.

And I want to fucking suck him.

I wanna fucking suck.

And that's what I wanna do to him.

It would be a nice end-up, but don't forget I invented that.

And here's the part where I acted it out.

Please don't act it out.

Oh, God.

Oh, Jesus.

Okay.

Stop.

Joey, you sang this last time.

Yeah, I did.

Did you forget?

No, I just, I liked that one.

That's a banger.

You got bangers?

You can sing that one in my bus.

Oh, heck yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right, so I made $3 $3 and I got a gig.

Well, I'll give you some more cash for that one.

Ah, two more dollars.

$5 and a gig.

Yeah.

Wow.

Well, Joey, look,

I would wish you luck, but I don't want you to have luck because I don't want someone like you to succeed.

Okay.

I get it.

You know, not.

A new boundary drawing for Scott.

All right.

We're running out of time.

We only have time for one final feature on the show.

That is, of course, a little something called Plug.

I am sitting in the morning listening to the podcast.

I am waiting for Scott Ackerman to open up the plug bag.

And he opens it only halfway, but then opens it fully.

And we're hearing all the plugs the guests have to share.

I have a feeling someone watching me, and so I raise my head.

There's a man on the outside looking inside.

Does he see me?

No,

he doesn't really see me because he sees his own.

I love how original this song is.

Scott Ackerman.

Hey, Scott, Scott.

I'm listening to Comedy Bang Bang right now.

Scott, I'm a piss pig as well.

Scott, Scott.

Hey, can I get some more coffee over here?

That's for Michael.

Fill this up halfway, then start talking to our customer.

Come on, Tom.

You gotta do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do your job.

Okay, thank gosh.

Wow, that was Plug's Diner by Michael Muto.

Or Muto, not sure, but this might be one of your most musical episodes of all time.

It truly is, yeah.

I mean, from the comedy bang bang theme to that.

The singing earlier, my song.

Maybe we should.

Is there a way to get get this?

I wasn't going to include that.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

You want a soundtrack put out?

Is that what you're angry?

I was wondering if there's a way that we could advertise to music lovers that this is the episode to check out.

Like, could we somehow get this in the Broad?

Is there like a Broadway museum or something?

There should be a Broadway museum.

Where they have Broadway theaters in there?

Yeah.

Like a songs Hall of Fame.

Songs only.

Songs only.

So there would be one wing that's just for songs only?

Yeah.

What?

No, the Hall of Fame is for songs.

Just for songs.

Yeah.

So what?

You walk in and you just hear the songs?

Yeah, then it could be a small museum.

It's a fucking mess.

All the songs at once.

People would go crazy and they'd run out, but they have to pay admission first.

Maybe we open it next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And then if you can't get in, or if you want to go to another one, you come over to Songs, make a little bit of money on the top.

You guys are really on the same wavelength.

You have to overflow.

Yeah.

Seems to me like you're getting excited by this idea and you might abandon the limo idea.

Absolutely no.

Okay.

Sorry.

No way.

It's all bangers.

Everything's going great.

You know, Joey's going to join me in the limo.

It's going to be fantastic.

Okay.

All right.

I don't understand these new boundaries, Scott.

What new boundaries?

Look, I want you to succeed, Randy.

Oh, thank you.

If you're happy, but you want Joey to fail.

Yes, I want Joey to fail.

All right, let's plug things.

Vera, what do you plug?

Obviously, the People's Joker is coming out.

How do people get tickets for this?

On the Outfest website, I will say it's a very confusing website.

Okay.

But yeah, what's confusing about it?

The way, like,

I'd say I'd describe it as top-heavy.

There's just a lot of links.

Sort of like that.

Yeah.

I mean, that could be complimentary in other contexts, I guess.

Top-heavy bottom feeder right here.

If you Google.

So when it applies to a woman, it's great.

But a website, it's bad?

What are we even doing?

Joey, you should write a song about that.

Got it.

I'm already done.

Yeah.

Just follow me on Twitter, VeerDrew22.

Yeah, you'll direct everyone there.

Anything else happening for you that you want to plug?

This is your plug time.

No.

I mean,

yeah, just be on the lookout for the people's joker.

Be constantly vigilant.

Yeah.

And bother James Gunn.

Jacob nervous.

Like, tell James Gunn to not sue me.

I'm sure he won't.

He's pretty chill about these things.

Again, that's a pun.

Based upon my character, Mr.

Fitzgerald.

You're still in character.

I've never left.

Yeah.

Surprisingly.

This was like two years ago.

You contacted me and I recorded this for 60 seconds on my phone.

I'm hoping for a theatrical theatrical release, obviously.

I love the magic of the theater, just like Nicole Kidman.

I think that's when the Venn diagram feels good in a place like that.

Absolutely.

The Venn diagram of me and Nicole Kidman is we like movies.

Right.

And nothing else.

Have you ever found all of that?

Oh, sorry.

Right.

Is there a VOD release plan?

There will be.

I'm very confident about the VOD release plan.

The thing we're holding out for is theatrical, and that has been the kind of big sticking point.

But I can't get into the specifics, but I do have people

smarter than me, hopefully, helping us put together an art house run

the end of this year or sometime early next year.

How about December 25th?

That's a great day.

Perfect time for a third date, too.

Right at the end of the year.

Randy, what do you want to plug?

I'll plug season three of Righteous Gemstones on HBO.

That's right.

It's out now.

At Stream on Max.

Yeah, sure.

I don't know what that means, but okay.

That's an Instagram handle.

Check it out.

Yeah, so that's coming out right now.

Catch up on that.

Shrink is streaming on Peacock.

I believe it's been extended for another 12 months, which is great.

Oh, that's wonderful.

And what else?

I think I have plans to put out the hentai zine that I made for you.

Oh, great.

Oh, you do.

Limited release, maybe a little sale for charity.

That's right.

You were at our live show in Los Angeles and you made a little hentai magazine for me.

I did, yeah.

And since then, I still have no idea what hentai is.

Sure.

Yep.

I think there's something up in the sky.

It's a bat signal that says bullshit.

I think I mentioned it to Kulup, and I said, is it this?

And she said, well, not really, but.

And Joey Saul said, what do you want to plug?

First, I'll get to the bottom of that hentai mystery for you and I'll come right back.

I'll text you.

I'll call whatever, whatever was your thing.

What's your hentai musical?

Yeah.

If you're in LA, you can watch Holy Shit Improv Live.

It's a great comedy show with all your favorite comedy bang bang performers.

You can also watch it from anywhere in the world at our Patreon.

And on this Saturday, we made sure to end it before.

Even Communist China?

Especially.

Especially.

It's not jailblocked in Communist China.

No, we have a workaround.

We have a great workaround.

So we're excited.

And we have an all-day improv festival that we're ending at 9 p.m.

this Saturday.

So everyone can come to the improv festival and then go check out Ver's movie.

No, it ends right at 9.

It ends right at 9.

That must be why.

That's why you did 9:15.

We're 1 p.m.

15 minute travel time, and you're there.

And you're there.

We got Edie Patterson, Lily Sullivan, John Gabris, Lisa Gilwa.

Is Lisa back in town?

She confirmed that she's doing the show.

Wow.

So we'll see.

And yeah, we're just keep checking it out.

Check out all of our shows.

We're going to start being every other week at UCB.

And I think we're the only streaming show at UCB.

So if you want to see what UCB looks like on an improv thing, go to Holy Shit Improv.

Guess what?

You're going to be disappointed.

Well, but we have some camera angles.

Not we, they have a camera angles lighting.

It's pretty cool.

I want to plug.

Look, first of all, the comedy bang bang book is still out there going strong.

There may be some news about it coming up, about a new edition.

So

stay just tuned to this show.

One of these episodes, I'll tell you about it.

But people can get the info for that anywhere books are sold, but also at cbbworld.com slash book.

While you're at CBB World, look, we have so many great shows.

Hey, Randy.

779-379-2679.

That's right.

Hey, Randy is now out twice a month, from what I'm told.

And

it might be.

A lot of other CBB presents.

You heard it here first.

That's right.

We have Heinz, I'm Prov to Meet You,

as well as This Book Changed My Life.

Bill Walton.

Yeah, Walton on Walton, as well as what's his other show called?

It's the

not Walton on Walton, but I mean, he did those, but,

you know, he travels the world and stuff like that.

So many good shows over there, as well as ad-free episodes of this show, as well as our back catalog.

Don't go too far back, maybe one or two years.

wait, wait, so you're saying that people can go far back, but you just you're saying a lot of them don't go.

Yeah, just one or two years, maybe.

But you stand by everything that was said in this episode.

Not everything you said necessarily, but I mean, when did you stop listening, Gira?

You

maybe, maybe like around

like up till two years ago.

Okay, yeah.

So, I mean, before then, dicey, right?

Yeah, I was outraged and I stopped listening.

But all of that is over at CBBWorld.com

as well as all of our other shows.

And

an exciting time over there right now.

All right, let's close up the old plug bag.

That's good.

Look at her.

What are the lyrics that?

Yeah, that was Simply Closing a Wonderful plug bag by Chuck Dunker Dippy Dots.

What am I doing with my life?

I want to

thank my guests.

Hey,

Grazi, Grazi, Grazi, Verdru, Grazi.

Great to see you.

You revealed your real accent.

Finally, finally.

A barefoot contesso.

Randy, always good to see you.

Please come back.

Joey,

you told me that you want me to play track six again for you.

Is that right?

All right, here we go.

This is Joey Salsa.

Thanks for listening.

You have to understand, it was a text that my ex's sister sent me, but because she put the comma after deer instead of the comma after another spot, I thought maybe she's interested in me.

So then I wrote this little song that goes a little something like this.

I wanna fuck, I wanna suck, I wanna fuck him.

All right, we'll see you next time.

Thanks, goodbye.

I wanna fuck, I wanna fuck, I wanna fuck.

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