The Days Grimm Podcast
The Days Grimm, "arguably Indiana's most comical, thrilling, and controversial podcast", This three-pronged mandate acts as a primary filter for their guest selection. The "comical" aspect is reflected in its official genre of "COMEDY INTERVIEWS" and its history of hosting local stand-up comedians. The "thrilling" component is evident in interviews with individuals who have extraordinary life stories, such as people who survived shootings, rare medical conditions, and combat. Finally, the "controversial" element is demonstrated by Brian & Thomas’ willingness to engage in difficult or unfiltered conversations, touching on topics like homelessness, artificial intelligence, and religious hypotheticals.
A crucial element of the show's tone is its tagline, "Brought to you by Sadness & ADHD (non-medicated)". This self-aware and raw positioning signals a modern comedic sensibility that embraces vulnerability and finds humor in personal struggle. The podcast's brand is not built on polished narratives but on the authentic, often messy, intersection of hardship and humor. The most compelling guests are those who have navigated a "Grimm" reality and emerged with a story to tell, and ideally, a sense of humor about it. This dynamic is the core of the show's appeal and the primary filter for identifying a story worth telling.
The Days Grimm Podcast
Ep.240 Paul Bragin Returns: Drunken Game Shows, Church Chaos, & Supporting Veterans
Welcome back to The Day's Grimm!
We're joined by our great friend Paul Bragin (Brian's most religious listener ) for a wildly unhinged conversation that bounces from the weather in Southern Indiana to the geopolitics of the Middle East.
Brian Michael Day, Thomas Grimm, and Paul Bragin discuss:
- Sanctuary on the Hill: A major shoutout to Paul Lindbergh’s incredible 92-acre nonprofit that provides support for veterans returning from warzones with PTSD. Learn how to support the project and why they have the "right of first refusal" on additional land.
- Mass Mayhem: Brian recounts a hilarious, unconventional experience at St. Boniface Mass where a visiting African priest engaged the crowd in a way he’s never seen before, including high-fiving children in the pews and leading a standing ovation.
- The Adult Grand Prize Game (Bozo Beer Pong): Brain and Paul pitch an instant-classic reality show idea: reviving The Bozo Show's Grand Prize Game, but with adults competing to pay off their mortgage by tossing ping pong balls into cups filled with shots like the Vegas Bomb and the Irish Car Bomb.
- The France Trip & The Obscure Joke: Paul breaks down his two weeks in France and explains an obscure joke he texted the hosts about the cathedral town of Chartres (pronounced "Shark") that only a handful of people would ever get.
- The New Studio: The guys show off the brand new Day's Grimm studio space, debate where to put a logo, and talk about the challenges of job hunting while running a chaotic podcast.
Tune in for the chaos, the comedy, and a serious discussion about helping our veterans!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Welcome Back, Paul & The Crazy Southern Indiana Weather
02:31 - Tour of the New Studio & thedaysgrimm.com
06:14 - The Hilarious African Priest at Mass Story
08:39 - Bleeps, Censorship, and Working in Radio
12:39 - Sanctuary on the Hill Shoutout (Veterans PTSD Nonprofit)
15:39 - Paul's France Trip and the "Chartres" Joke
18:32 - New Show Idea: Bozo Beer Pong (The Adult Grand Prize Game)
20:40 - Explaining "Bomb" Shots (Vegas Bomb, Irish Car Bomb)
LINKS
Check out the podcast website: thedaysgrimm.com
Support Sanctuary on the Hill: Follow them on Facebook and check their website for a donate button
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Sadness & ADHD (non-medicated)
That'd be sick, man. Yeah, you can turn us down on the headphones. So, Paul, how the fuck you been, man? Doing okay? Pretty good. How you guys doing? Uh I'm okay, man. I just you can call your people and get the weather changed.
SPEAKER_03:Fuck. Dude, it's fucking snowing out here. God damn. Goddamn 20 degrees outside. Like it was 60 yesterday.
SPEAKER_04:It's funny, dude. Fucking insane, dude. Your people are getting out of control, brother.
SPEAKER_01:If you don't like the weather in southern Indiana, just wait 15 minutes. It'll change on you. That checks out. And also I feel like that's something you say on the radio a lot. I I have said that on the radio a lot, actually. Like that's a go-to phrase for you. Well, I I've mentioned at my radio station, 99.9 FM WBNL, on the TuneIn Radio app and on radio1540.net. The station owner comes in every day around noon. We do a show together where people call in ahead of time and want to buy or sell things. And he'll be like, oh, you know, today's a sunny day in Boonville, and yesterday it was rainy and cloudy, and he'll just talk about weather for like twenty minutes if you let him. And then it changes by the time he's done. Yeah, and then it changes, yeah. Woo!
unknown:I'm sweating already.
SPEAKER_02:Lucky for you. Why do you wait for the show to start? I panicked. And now I'm like no hello or anything, just straight, hey Paul, how's it going? Oh, by the way, I I know we're 30 seconds in. Let me take my shirt and hat and glasses off and then uh put it all back on.
SPEAKER_01:First of all, luckily for you, I do have some ones in my wallet, so I can give you an appropriate tip for that. Also we have a bucket for after the podcast, you just drop it in, drop the bills in there. I wish more people, mainly the ladies, would you know, introduce themselves to you, and then 30 seconds. Oh, you know what? Let me take this off.
SPEAKER_04:It's toasty. Uh well, I think what it is is I always forget how like bright and warm the lights make me. I always get like crazy fucking hot. Anyways, uh Paul.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I was gonna say, Paul, our most viewed episode ever. Thank you. Uh how you like the new space. I love this. Welcome, dude, by the way.
SPEAKER_01:It's solid, yeah. What do you think? I think well, I am thinking, so I don't know what people can see if they're watching this on the YouTubes, which is my preferred way to watch the weekly episode of the Days Grim podcast. All the walls are like white, maybe off-white. My question is, how can we get the Days Grim logo plastered all over this?
SPEAKER_04:I thought you were gonna say they're not white enough, and I was gonna, you know, just because I know you both.
SPEAKER_01:Well, we can we can put up uh pictures of we can put up pictures of friends of the show, Alan Walker and Antonio Edmonds. There you go.
SPEAKER_04:There you go, dude. No, I uh I think it's we talked about like hanging stuff up on the walls, but like I think A lot of it wouldn't be in frame. Yeah, we're I think we're gonna try to just keep it clean, sure, not cluttered. Even this table was like a big decision. I was like, I don't know. This just came in like what, a few days ago?
SPEAKER_02:Wednesday.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Wednesday. And we're still playing with the space. I mean, the episodes that you've seen in the space had way bigger chairs, and we just swapped chairs out.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'm a tiny individual, so I don't need the huge chair. Yeah, that chair would have swallowed you all.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, dude, you would have looked like Jonah and the whale.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, Jewish reference. I was gonna say a baby in a high chair.
SPEAKER_04:Uh also, if you guys had that on your Jonah and the whale on your bingo card uh in the first five minutes. Excellent reference.
SPEAKER_01:What if we make a drinking aim out of the podcast every time I'm on and every like we'll just like every time I mention something out of the Bible, you take a drink. Or anytime I mention like a bump in the road in my comedy career, you take a drink.
SPEAKER_02:Have you uh have you seen Brian at Mass lately?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah, I've been out there, boy. I've been getting after it. Been chasing the Lord on his knees. Yeah. For Jesus.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it might help to be on your feet to chase somebody. It's yeah, I get it. Unless, like, if you're chasing a and you want to make it like a a fair chase, then then maybe on your knees is appropriate. And you can't say you might have to believe Small person.
SPEAKER_02:A little person. Oh my god. I just found out you can't say.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. We talked about that in Comedy Cachet number two.
SPEAKER_02:I'll never believe it.
SPEAKER_04:A dog's age ago. About the same time we found out we couldn't say a gun's age anymore.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so that being said, we mentioned we mentioned the Cher song. Uh the Cher song. In uh in Comedy Cachet, because I said the Cher had a song called Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves. Oh, you're right. Yeah. And uh again, we will for the time being crazy that you can say tramp, but you can't say we will, for the time being, not disclose job number two that I work at. That's gonna be like, you know what, when I'm finally not there anymore, that'll be like a big reveal, maybe it's like, hey, job number two was this, and I moved on to something else. But like You don't have to be ashamed of it.
SPEAKER_04:You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:Well, we can talk about it. He's already getting in trouble for speaking Spanish to Hispanic women, so those are primarily the dancers that work there.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I'm just joking.
SPEAKER_01:But at job number two, you know, they got music playing in the background the whole time. This is only playing into like an exotic. Well, but but they'll play they'll play the Fleetwood Mac classic gypsy, and nobody freaks out about it. Not yet.
SPEAKER_02:Not yet, dude. Until some blue-haired Karen comes in that bitch.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know how much time you guys spend on uh how long until you can't say Karen anymore, you know? I'm sure it's probably frowned upon already.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know how how much time you guys spend on the interwebs. I'm I'm on there a lot just because I have a lot of free time at WBL. But I saw a meme somebody posted and it said, What if we found a group of people and who hated each other and gave them only pianos, guitars, and cocaine, and Fleetwood Mac said, sign us up.
SPEAKER_04:Nice, yeah, dude. Also, I was thinking about uh so okay, funny thing, real quick, short story about mass yes uh today, this morning. Um so my my priest is Chris uh Father Christopher is out in the Middle East for the 1700th uh anniversary of the crucifixion. No, that was in 2000. The Niacene committee so this is the 1700th anniversary of that. So he's out there doing the Lord's work. I don't know what he's doing.
SPEAKER_01:So is this like on the west side somewhere? Because you're out on the west side. Oh my church? Yeah, is this like a on the west side?
SPEAKER_04:It's uh St. Boniface. Okay, Spinner Heart, St. Boniface. I've been there for a wedding a couple times, yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. Um anyway, so uh he's traveled away in the last two weeks, um, while he's been out, we got this like we got this priest from Africa, dude. Okay. He is sick.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Like he is I can't understand a word this dude is saying, but I get fucking pumped. Like really Father Christopher will spit bars, yeah, right? Like when it comes to the part where he talks about the thing in the book that we're talking about for that day, he'll just rip, dude. He just rips for like 20, 30 minutes. Yeah. This dude, same thing, just uses a lot of chest and like gets the crowd involved, which is weird. Like today, he was like in the pews, like high five and five-year-olds. Nice. Like, cause this kid knew where the Pope was from. And I was like, Yeah, I was like, dude, that's fucking nice. The kid also knew that uh what number Pope he was.
SPEAKER_01:They're up to like 260 something now.
SPEAKER_04:272, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. It's 67 or 72. Can't remember. But yeah, the kid knew it. And then he also knew he was from Chicago, and then the priest like took his mic off and he was like and said, I didn't couldn't hear what he was saying, and then he like handed it to the kid, and the kid was like, Yeah, Chicago, and everybody just like uproared and like applause, and like the priest is just going through pews. And I was like, what is happening? I'm at like a Jerry Springer live filming. I'm like, this is not the I mean, you've been to Mass. Father, father, father. It's like, dude, what are we? This is not the mass that I'm used to, but yeah, they shredded today, dude. It was nice. So I've been getting into that lately. Uh so how's your uh undercover operation going?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Mosletov. It's gone. Oh, we might have we might have to edit that out. A certain, a certain person might get very upset with it. I'll tell you guys a story when the podcast is over.
SPEAKER_04:Dang, did I blow your cover?
SPEAKER_02:You might have blown my cover. Dude, we did a bit on that uh in the last comedy cachet.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did the with uh Dylan and um Zach. Yeah, yeah, I did watch it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, there's probably a few segments that just bleeps. Somebody was talking to me about that. They were like, I could understand what was sent happening, but they were like, dude, the first 10 minutes in there was a lot of dead air.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, do you want to have a job tomorrow?
SPEAKER_03:You know, that's what it fucking boils down to. Yeah. I texted you guys a picture.
SPEAKER_01:So Yeah, they own my type of work. My parents came late. The jewelry industry. Yeah, 100% banks and jewelry, dude. My parents came late to the game. I texted you guys a picture one time. I was over at my parents' house and I took a picture of they were sitting on the couch watching my first episode. And this was like more than a year after it came out. Because like I told them, I was like, hey, I'm doing a podcast. They're like, well, let us know when it's out. And I was like, uh, I just kind of said it's out there, and they like it took them a while to watch it just because they couldn't find it. It took them a year. I didn't well I didn't. Paul was trying to edit it. I didn't I didn't give them acted version. I didn't give them explicit instructions on how to find it. And then like I was talking to my parents earlier today. I was like, oh, I'm doing the podcast today. My mom was like, you need to be careful he tell you about the podcast. I was like, yeah, I'm not I'm not telling Mayor Stephanie Terry, hey, check out this podcast. Like, I'm not telling the chief police, hey, check out this podcast.
SPEAKER_02:Mayor Stephanie wants to come on.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, dude, honestly, yo, Mayor Steph, come on down. I'll chat with you. Um, I'd love to, honestly. That I I know we don't ever talk politics, but I would legitimately entertain having a politician on just to hear about the inside world of like small town politics. Oh, yeah. I think that would be fascinating. Uh, that being said, it's funny that you mentioned be careful who you tell about the pot because I'm always dancing like that fine line. Yeah. Especially now, like I'm job hunting. Um, so I'm like trying to dance this like very thin, like be professional, but also become unhinged on your own time. You know what I mean? Like, I have to dance this dance, and uh, I'm like just starting to go to church like a couple months ago. And I meet Father Christopher, like I met him a couple days before Mass, and then I go to that mass, and then he stops me after mass, and he was like, Hey, hey, hey, don't run away. I want to talk to you. I was like, Okay, cool, cool, cool. So he stops me and we're sitting in the back of the pews talking after mass, and he was like, Hey, I just wanted to stop, chat, everything going okay, glad to have you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're doing the whole bit back and forth. And he was like, Paul, our buddy Paul Lindbergh, who's been on the show, excellent interview. Yeah, uh, shout out to Paul. Yeah, excellent dude.
SPEAKER_01:Everybody here, uh, should I interrupt or should I let you continue? Let me get through this, and then I'll let you get it.
SPEAKER_04:But anyway, so uh he goes, you know, he brings up Paul and he was like, Yeah, Paul's been great. And I was like, Yeah, Paul's awesome. He's like the best person I've ever met, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, Yeah, he introduced me to your podcast.
SPEAKER_03:And I was like, Oh shit. Forgive me, Father, for our sin. Bro, when I say my stomach dropped, my stomach dropped. And I was like, I was like, ah, father.
SPEAKER_04:Uh, before and he was like, No, no, no, don't worry about it. He was like, dude, I've I love it. He's like, I'll see you in confession every week.
SPEAKER_01:Bless me, Father. Friday send. I dropped a thousand F bombs on the podcast this week.
SPEAKER_04:So uh I don't know if he's like a regular listener, but Father Christopher, hope you traveled safe. And if you hear this, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, Father Christopher, hope you had a great time uh over in Israel.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, Father Christopher, I apologize for all my jokes thus far.
SPEAKER_04:Thank you for being open-minded, uh, Padre. I really appreciate it. No, but yeah, what were you gonna say about uh Paul?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, let's give a quick shout out since I'm always trying to promote other people's stuff. Sanctuary on the Hill is once again his uh his nonprofit that he started to help guys who are coming back from uh Warzones with PTSD. So check out Sanctuary on the Hill and follow them on Facebook.
SPEAKER_04:I think they have a donate button on their Facebook page. Um they definitely do on their website. Um but yeah, they're super sick, dude. They've actually got foundations poured. Um I think they're doing like framing and stuff. Like framing on one building's done. I think they're framing in a second. Yeah, they're like putting structures up now. Cool. So yeah, super sick. There's gonna be like a dozen buildings, and there's like three lakes, it's like 40 acres.
SPEAKER_02:No, 92 acres. 92 acres with the ride of first refusal on additional 50 acres. What the fuck are you saying? Right of first refusal. It's like if land goes for sale up around it, they get the first first choice.
SPEAKER_01:Be like, yeah, we'll take it. Oh and then if they say no, somebody's like, oh, I'll take it.
SPEAKER_04:I didn't know that's what that meant. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, sick, dude. Like it's yours if you want it, and if not, we'll go to the next person. Oh, nice. So they just acquired it's like calling acquired it that way.
SPEAKER_02:Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. So then they they can get an additional 50 acres if the land goes up for sale. Pretty neat.
SPEAKER_04:Nice, but yeah, Paul and uh Sanctuary on the Hill, great folks. Uh the the other dude that kind of heads that project, Sean, great dude. Uh Tom's done some work with Sean.
SPEAKER_02:Right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:He came on Zach Parsons. Uh Sean, yeah, great dude. Oh, yeah, and then uh Zach Parsons also crushed that interview. So um, but yeah, man, we've been busy, as you can tell, Paul, trying to move in here. That's why we've been hit and miss, and then we're taking on like extra projects and clients and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that's why we haven't been on one of your shows yet. You like our new website? I okay. Yeah, what do you think about that, dude? Oh, by the way, this is uh thedaysgrim.com. Get in there, and uh you don't have to subscribe or anything, but it'll like tell you about our podcast. Uh Lexi, you can kind of scroll down a little bit and let them look at it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, there's blogs on there too, of every episode.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I'm gonna have to check that out. I think when I first got on here, like I checked it out just briefly, but mainly what I do is every Tuesday, 8 12 AM, like I'm on YouTube watching that week's episode.
SPEAKER_02:I know if the episode's not live by 8 15, I expect a text from Paul.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I also heard you were well, you told us you were in a little bit of a funk. You were like, I may not be up to date on all the the episodes. Did you like lose internet or something? Oh, oh no. You said you were gonna tell us about it. Do we not want to talk about it on the podcast?
SPEAKER_01:Oh no, it's this this could be this is this might be This is my favorite part too.
SPEAKER_04:It shows you uh episodes that just aired. Yeah, and then if you go up a little bit more up a little bit, it'll show you the next one that's gonna drop. Yeah. And the date that it drops.
SPEAKER_02:We actually have one that comes out before this, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, sick, dude. Yeah, so it's you know, it's 80% accurate. But yeah, super dope website, thedaysgrim.com. Check it out. Uh, but yeah, why why were you why'd you kind of fall off the wagon, dude? What happened? Okay, so I had my most religious listener.
SPEAKER_01:Uh my phone was in airplane mode for the better part of two weeks. Uh I went to France in October.
SPEAKER_04:What the fuck?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, dude. No. What some sort of pilgrimage or like well, so I sent I sent you guys a text when I like got back to America and and put my phone on regular mode again.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:And I had a really obscure joke in there that I don't think you guys got. Like, you most people wouldn't get it unless like you were standing there next to me, because I sent you guys a picture from the trip with like I I sent you like church. I remember the cathedral.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. And what was the reference or what was the joke?
SPEAKER_01:Okay, hang on.
SPEAKER_04:Let me pull out, let me pull out my phone here real quick.
SPEAKER_01:No, yeah, please. This this break in the action brought to you by day uh by old Forester.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Old Old Forester. Hopefully someday. Hopefully, someday a sponsor of the Days Grand Podcast.
SPEAKER_03:Dude, I think about that and I'm like, who the fuck would sponsor this podcast?
SPEAKER_01:Dude, I bet I bet if you reach out to Okay, so I'll say this. I'm thinking ponytails. Uh maybe if we're lucky. I've told you guys about and you've been to the after parties for the uh the film festival they have here over here, the Victory International Film Festival every September in Evansville. They have had sponsorship for several years from the Stella Artois Beer Company. Ooh. So yeah, I mean it's one of those things like it never hurts to ask. I don't know if I'd want Stella. I like I like it. Well, like who would you who would you go with? I don't know. You get a phone. Can I get Anheiser Bush on the phone? You gotta take whatever sponsorships are available. No, I don't.
SPEAKER_02:I don't.
SPEAKER_01:I mean I mean it's free money, dude.
SPEAKER_04:It's free money.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so the text the text I sent you guys said, I ate something that disagreed with my stomach, but I have to be careful so that I don't and then there's a picture of a cathedral.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I was so confused. So I don't steeple?
SPEAKER_01:No, and so the name of the town that this cathedral is in, it's spelled C-H-A-R-T-E-S. This is like one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, and the the pronunciation of the town is Shark. Gotcha. Yeah, C the S. Yeah, it's a really obscure.
SPEAKER_02:We're not like geo map people. What's that game where they like show you?
SPEAKER_01:Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Love that show.
SPEAKER_04:Call back to the 90s. That was dude. And it had an awesome intro song, too. Rocapella? Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, that was Yeah, dude. That was a banger of a show. People sleep on where in the world is Carmen San Diego. Honestly, they should bring it back. If we're able to bring back Fear Factory, I'm fucking we need to bring back where in the world is Carmen San Diego.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so here's what I'm thinking. Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? But with adults instead of kids.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, of course.
SPEAKER_01:Kids are stupid. And also, here's I I I I just thought of this joke a couple days ago that I wrote however many years ago that I just forgot about, and something put it in my mind again. Did anybody else watch the Bozo show growing up on WGN?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, you remember Bozo the clown, dude?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I don't remember what it was, but I remember him.
SPEAKER_01:But do you remember they had this every day they would do this game called the Grand Prize game, and this kid would stand on a spot. God bless you.
SPEAKER_04:Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:And there were like six solo cups glued to like a wooden plank, and you had to toss a ping pong ball into each cup, and so like you toss it into cup number one and you get a prize, and you get more prizes, and like if you got it in the last cup, you got like a bike and a hundred dollar bill and a trip to Disney World, I think. Oh yeah, dude. And so I thought of this joke every kid's dream in the 90s. Yeah, I thought of this joke years ago and just completely forgot about it. But let's bring back the bozo show and have the grand prize game, but with adults, and then if you make it in that last cup, the prize is like they pay off your mortgage or something.
SPEAKER_04:Or, dude, even better, even better, dude, that those prizes, but we just make it beer pong.
SPEAKER_01:Well, and the other thing I oh the other thing I thought was um you have to drink while you're playing the game. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04:So each cup has a beer's worth of beer in it.
SPEAKER_01:Like, okay, but what if we're if we're paying off somebody's mortgage, what if instead of beer, it's you have to do as you go further and further, a shot of old Forester, hopefully one day a sponsor of the Gadace Gram podcast. Yeah, shout out to Old Forester.
SPEAKER_04:Uh God, I love that shit. I gotta get a bottle. I gotta get another bottle of Forrester. Um, yeah, I like that, dude. I like that. Like make them take a shooter, like every time they make a cup, and by the time they get to cup number six, they're just fucking tanked.
SPEAKER_02:I think you should do it like a like do each cup something different. Like the first one's like a four horseman, dude. Like the first one's a Vegas bomb, the second one's like a Jaeger bomb, the next one's like an Irish car bomb, and then the n, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04:A lot of bombs. Uh, you're feeling awfully violent today, putting out a lot of violence vibes, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, I pride myself on, you know, I I like to enjoy a nice adult beverage every now and then. I've had an Irish car bomb, I've had a Jaeger bomb. Please explain to me what a Vegas bomb is. I've never had that.
SPEAKER_04:A Vegas bomb is Red Bull, peach Knobs, and then then it goes in a beer. Doesn't it go in a beer? No.
SPEAKER_01:So similar to a Jaeger bomb, just you swap out a couple things. You did say Red Bull, right? Was that Red Bull? Yeah, and there's Red Bull and a Jaeger bomb, I think.
SPEAKER_04:That's all a monster in Jaeger. That's all a Jaeger bomb is is just Jaeger in a Red Bull.
SPEAKER_02:Jaeger and a monster. I don't know how many times I have to say monster. Is it monster or I thought it was Red Bull? No, Jaeger bomb is for like trash. So what is the Red Bull one then? A Vegas bomb. Oh, I then you have the Irish car bomb. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And that one's a beer. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That one's that one's like a Guinness that's mostly full. And then you take a shot, it's like half Bailey's and half Irish whiskey, and you drop it in at a I I don't remember the exact science. Yeah, then there's because is it because the Baileys will curdle, and I don't know if it curdles because of the beer or because of the whiskey.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know, but you can't play the whiskey because the whiskey is so volatile. It has such a high uh percentage of ethanol in it, it's gonna affect and then they have the massad bomb, which is just a pager. Yeah, yeah. Good. I like that. Also, check out the merch store on thedaysgrim.com, get you a massad bomb. Uh I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_02:Brought to you by Motorola.
SPEAKER_03:We sold pages. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I gotta scream.
SPEAKER_02:Hang on. It just goes off every Tuesday at 8 12 in the morning. Let's you know, hey, that new drop. Uh that new new is out. That gas is on the loose. Can we pull up the chrome? Just so I quit looking at the TV.
SPEAKER_01:Mossad, I got I got one. Mossad pagers. I'm gonna wait till you're done taking a sip because I feel like you might spit out your beer when I say this. Mossad pagers, brought to you by Scrotorola. Scrotorola. Scrotorola. Because you had the pager and it blew their genitals off. Scrotorola, yeah. Okay, maybe it's not as funny as I thought. This is anxiety inducing.
SPEAKER_02:This is not another.
SPEAKER_04:There's like all of our cameras are up on the TV. I'm like, oh god, my chest hurts. Yeah, just pull up a Google tab, uh, just a Google box, and we'll we'll Google something funny here in a minute. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, and then uh speaking. What's that saying in French that there like is the trend right now? Socroy blue? No. Six seven, that's the thing. No, it's not six seven. No, it's the uh it's the one where like something to do with a seal.
SPEAKER_04:No, it's like uh where she says fuck my po. Yeah, but it's like in a seal pushed me over in French. Yeah, there's when you say like fuck my pousset in French, it means something completely different in English. It's like I was pushed over by a seal or something.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I I tried to learn French for my trip and it didn't go well. It it went even worse than me learning Hebrew for the Israel trip.
SPEAKER_02:I think you just need somebody to follow you around with a camera, Paul.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, honestly. I've come up with a couple ideas for a show. Do you guys watch a show in practical jokers? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, here's my idea for a show for those guys. Like, I love the impractical jokers. I want to see a spin-off show. It's it's those guys, they go on vacation together, and they all write down like what they want to do on vacation and just randomly pull out of a hat, and then they gotta go do whatever is. Yeah, that could be cool.
SPEAKER_02:I think they should go to countries where people don't know who they are. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01:Well, I feel like that's most countries. I feel like that's and and here's the thing they they've been able to do spin-offs of the show in other countries, so there's like, you know, a Turkish version of Impractical Jokers with like four Turkish comedians but swapping out the sea she show to something different.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You're talking about following me around with a camera. I don't watch as much as I used to, but I used to watch a whole bunch of travel shows. Like and why is that so appetizing to I don't understand it.
SPEAKER_04:I I don't go out of my way to like turn on the travel channel, but like when I go to the dentist or when I go to the doctor and the travel channel's on, I'm fucking locked in. And then I've even missed my name being called. They have to like come tap me on the shoulder and I'm like, oh sorry, I'm in Bangladesh right now. I don't even know what the fuck is happening. Where am I? I mean, from what is it? Yeah, I don't understand.
SPEAKER_01:Well, from my perspective, it's like if I want to go to the place they're traveling to that day, it's like, okay, he's going to these places, I should check out those places. And some of it's like, you go, okay, you're in Rome, you're gonna go to the Coliseum and the form, all the big fun places that you know you read about in the history books that were there two thousand years ago. Yeah, I want to go to Rome so bad now. Oh, it was I've I got to spend a weekend there. Should this be a should this be me just talking about my travel experiences for the entire episode?
SPEAKER_04:We're actually this is the day's grim travel channel.
SPEAKER_02:Uh that's what they see, and that's can I pull up a map of the world and color in every spot that Paul's been to?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, that's one one of my potential dream jobs is I would love to be a travel host like on TV. And I'll I'll throw out a.
SPEAKER_02:That's how Chris her got his start. Really? Yeah, you're Jesus. He went to Egypt.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Bert Chris. Burt Kreischer.
SPEAKER_04:Gotcha. How did you get to Jesus?
SPEAKER_01:Chrysler kind of sounds like Christ.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, gotcha. I see what you did there.
SPEAKER_01:You're half a beer in. It's kind of weird.
SPEAKER_04:Uh yeah, I'm a beer and a half in. I get it. Uh no, but yeah, he started working, uh, he had contracts with uh the travel channel. Okay, now that you mentioned that, that's uh he had a show that wasn't his, but it was like him and like three other people that would like travel places. Okay. He would have episodes like dedicated to just him or whatever. But yeah, I don't know how or why. He's talked about it with Rogan on podcasts and stuff, and I don't remember how or why he got out, but he just comedy picked up and then he just chose comedy instead of I don't think he ever did like a TV show or anything.
SPEAKER_01:Like there are two names that stick out in my mind that I would watch a lot in the past. One guy is named Rick Steves, and he focuses on like going to different places in Europe, and it's a good show. It's the way I describe it, and I'll s I'll send Rick Steves this podcast when it comes out, and hopefully he won't sue me. It's it's like the show that that the teacher you crack me up. It's the show the teacher puts on when either you have a substitute teacher, yeah, or the teacher's like, I'm afraid, I'm gonna throw up, so we're just gonna sit here and like you're gonna watch this show. He like it's I mean, it's it's on PBS. So it's geared towards education. And this the sad thing is like I I was watching an episode one time and he said something to the effect of don't get in a rut where every place you visit it goes castle church museum, castle church museum, just over and over again. Yeah. It's like, okay, let's go on to our next castle church or museum right now. Because that's like that's a bunch of what he does is castles, churches, and museums.
SPEAKER_04:Dude, castles are dope, man. I think about it. Like if I ever actually made it, I think I would build a castle. Like small scale.
SPEAKER_02:There was a castle for sale here in Indiana. I saw that.
SPEAKER_01:That's been a couple years ago, I think.
SPEAKER_02:Was that New Albany?
SPEAKER_04:No, it was like middle of nowhere. Yeah. New Albany is like the middle of fucking nowhere. Yeah. I I I vaguely remember seeing a picture of it. But yeah, I think I would just build a castle. Yeah. I think I think that would be like my home. I would just like build a building out of limestone. Nice. Yeah, it'd be fucking sick, dude.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, Rick Steves is the one guy, and then I'm sure you guys know the name Anthony Bourdain. Yeah. Goat, rest in peace, brother. Dude, his uh I never met the man, obviously.
SPEAKER_04:Too soon.
SPEAKER_01:But his was one of those deaths that kind of hit me a little hard because again, that's sort of my dream job, and for him to for him to throw it all away, and sadly, there's a there's a conspiracy theory out there that maybe got capped. Yeah, can we look this up?
SPEAKER_04:Uh can you Google Anthony Bourdain conspiracy theory? Don't ask me how to spell Bourdain.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, yeah, it's yeah. And we might have to because like again, conspiracy.
SPEAKER_04:It's it'll figure it out. That's Tom's go-to. When he can't spell something, he's like, Yeah, Google knows what I mean. You're getting there. Yeah. You're already a way better speller than Tom is.
SPEAKER_01:Um, okay, so let's see what we got. Yeah, you might we might have to just read this in silence because we m we might get capped if we read it. No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_04:Let me let me get into this. Let me go back to the top here. Let me go okay, okay. Conspiracy thin uh theories surrounding Anthony Bourdain's death primarily claim he was murdered to prevent him from exposing a high profile network of elite pedophiles slash sex traffickers, often linked to the Clinton body count, quote, Clinton body count, and quote, conspiracy theory. Um to the Lamontsky office. Yeah, dude, uh Lewinsky doing the Lord's work. Um so then we get into the allegation. Uh proponents of this theory claim that as an outspoken supporter of his His then girlfriend Asia Argento and the hashtag MeToo movement. Bourdain was investigating powerful individuals, including those in the Democratic Party, parentheses like the Clintons, uh, who were associated with Hollywood, Mogul, Harvey, Hawaiian.
SPEAKER_02:It's funny that his girlfriend's name was damn near two countries.
SPEAKER_01:Asia, Argento. She was an actress. She is, I think she's still alive. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And awkward silence. I thought you were treading water there. I well.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. And I'm trying to I'm trying to think of what I was doing. I'm just trying to walk lightly. Yeah, I am trying to walk lightly on this podcast. I do not need to possibly get Bourdained after this podcast comes out. But no, his death. You definitely don't want to get Weinsteined. Catch that Weinstein wiener, dude. But no, Bourdain's death kind of hit me a little hard.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's brutal.
SPEAKER_01:Because I thought, oh, he's got my dream job, and then he unalived himself. And so in a perfect world, hypothetically. You know, actor comedian is like a dream out there. But then also, if I could be a travel TV show host.
SPEAKER_02:I thought you were writing short films now.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, I mean, again, I've got ideas. Again, I think we were talking about this in a text. You and I both have ideas and have put nothing in the paper.
SPEAKER_02:And I was like, yo, I should have written this down. Like that's been a move. Oh, I still remember. It was terrifying.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, then write it down, dude. Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_02:Fuck yeah, bro.
SPEAKER_04:Um, no, that's interesting. I could see you being a travel uh TV show person, just like watching you like waddle into different pubs and stuff, like trying their beer and cheese. Oh, yeah, dude. Just eating the shit out of some cheese and fucking Irish car bombs.
SPEAKER_01:You see, I would I would want to kind of bridge the educational side of of Rick Steves and like the more fun side of Anthony Bourdain and like kind of mix because Rick Again, I apologize, Mr. Steves, after I send you this podcast. Rick Steves is, I would say, like, too educational. And then Anthony Bourdain is too fun. I don't want to say too fun, but like it wouldn't kill him to go into a museum every once in a while.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, he's always like picking up dirty babies like all the time. Like he would be like getting a rice bowl made by some indigenous people, and he'd be like giving a baby a bath in a river. I'm like, dude, what are we doing here? Like, this is fucking wild, bro. But the thing that I love the most about Bourdain, I thought he was fucking crazy dope, but like his perspective just on life was like some of the most profound quotes ever spoken by a TV, like a television personality, by far, he takes the cake. By far. He just had like perspective. You know what I mean? Because he'd been to so many places and done so much cool shit and like tried so much cool food and like did so many cool drugs that like he just knew like he knew what poor was and he knew what rich was and he knew what the middle was. He'd been like literally everywhere, and some of his quotes are just like mind-blowing. Like they make you think.
SPEAKER_01:And if anybody is interested, I don't know when it's coming out, but they are making a movie of his life. Hell yeah, dude. And friend of the show, Shazab Riaz, is that his last name? Yeah. He's been on. He I think he he said he subscribes to a service called Is It Backstage? Is that the one he subscribes to?
SPEAKER_04:Is that where you apply for different roles and stuff? Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I was talking to him after at one of the after parties for the film festival and I was asking him which one he he subscribed to, and it might have been that one. And that pops up on my Facebook every so often, and I don't subscribe to it because it's because they're listening, Paul. Yeah. And but but when it pops up on my Facebook, it'll say sometimes, it'll say, Oh, we need roles filled for the new Anthony Bourdain movie that's coming out. And it's like, oh man, like I I want to do it, but I'm also too cheap to pay for the service.
SPEAKER_04:How expensive is it?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. It's like you can pay either monthly or yearly. Everything with subscription, it's like, well, if you pay for a year, it's cheaper than if you pay for three months at a time.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so it's like, dude, I ain't got 800 bones on me right now. Get them to sponsor you. Oh yeah, dude. There you go.
SPEAKER_01:Who's sponsoring me? Backpage.
SPEAKER_04:That is a different website. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I used to work. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go into it.
SPEAKER_02:I used to work.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no. I'm not gonna I'm I I used to be a pimp.
SPEAKER_02:No, I used to I used to create backpage profiles for people, like how some people build Shopify stores for businesses.
SPEAKER_01:I used to work the overnight shift at a particular radio station. Uh that they they didn't need my services. They got rid of their overnight position, which bugs me. Um, but when I was there overnight and basically had nothing to do, a lot of times I would get a phone call from this lonely guy who was a little bit older and you know, like wasn't married, didn't have kids, so you could tell he was just lonely and just wanted somebody to talk to.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so you'd charge him by the hour.
SPEAKER_01:So call the fucking radio.
SPEAKER_02:Jesus.
SPEAKER_01:He made a comment one time. He was like, Yeah, I'm I'm surfing on Backpage.com. You ever been there? And I'm thinking about like, I know that sounds familiar. I was like, Oh, it's been a while, I think. He's like, Yeah, it's you know, prostitutes. It's like, oh, that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:It's uh EP. Uh yeah, that's brutal, dude. I can't believe you and you did they and they just let that fly? They were just like, Oh, wait, Paul.
SPEAKER_01:Paul, you were off air. Oh, that was off air, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Thank God. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unknown:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04:Also, this uh radio station again that we won't disclose, but is this one of the stations where like now the overnight person is like based out of Seattle?
SPEAKER_01:I will neither confirm nor deny where any overnight people may or may not be based out of. They based it out of a new place, like that.
SPEAKER_04:They have an overnight show.
SPEAKER_02:They're probably largely just pre-recorded. Yeah. Are they really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's kind of fucking gay, dude. Yeah, the radio's been AI and out of the c out of the state for a while. Bro, we should make a push to have the radio come back. Yeah, but who's gonna be on local radio other than Paul?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, well, I will say this. We mentioned in a previous I think it was my first episode, that I spent like six weeks working at a radio station in Owensboro and then it fell apart. Oh yeah. But the station manager, the lady in charge of that group of radio stations, at the bottom of her emails, her signature was always something to the effect of studies show 93% of people listen to the radio every week. Not by choice. You say that. I'm the kind of when I get in my car, I normally listen to the radio. Every once in a while I'll listen to a song on a CD, but I'm not listening to podcasts in my car.
SPEAKER_03:Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul.
SPEAKER_01:I listen to podcasts.
SPEAKER_04:Paul, I I have to put my foot down here. Tom, I'll handle it. Have you heard of an AUGS cable? Do you know what an AUGS cable is? Yeah. Just plug your fucking phone in. There's something about the radio that's classic. I get you, I get you, but I'm just telling you. They don't fit a record player in the car.
SPEAKER_03:I'm not high. Yeah, I'm not spinning spinning 45s in the backseat of my fucking 98 Corolla.
SPEAKER_02:Dude, if I hear a radio commercial, I want to my brains out in traffic. Like, like, even if there's no traffic, I want to pull over my brain.
SPEAKER_04:No, but I like so I grew up in an era when like you had to have money to like buy a deck for your car, right? Like the decks that you would like that you could plug an AUGS up to. You know what I mean? If you didn't have 200 bucks to buy a deck and your parents hated you, like me, uh, I listened to the radio in my 99 grand am all the time. Nice. But then it was some point in like the late teens or the early teens, 20 teens, that like from that point on, I just never listened to the radio like ever again. I would write silence. I always yeah, he's a fucking problem.
SPEAKER_01:Psychopath just planning the next murder.
SPEAKER_04:I keep telling Lexi, she's gotta get him looked at, dude, because I think he's broken, bro.
SPEAKER_01:Dude, we all need to get looked at.
SPEAKER_02:I think we have my therapist in the episode before this one came out. Yeah, dude, she left here shaking after she was talking to me, dude.
SPEAKER_04:It was terrible. I felt so bad. Dude, no, uh Lori's so great. Um, she just came in last week, but all jokes aside, we were talking about this uh EMDR. EMDR. She's such a sweet lady. Whenever, uh, because I had seen her like two years before. Uh, and again, this is Tom's therapist who came in and talked with us for a podcast. And uh I'd seen her two years before, and she said, you know, two years ago I could see the pain on you or in you or something, and I was like, Yeah, I'm broken, dude. And she was like, You just look a lot better now. That's nice. And she said, I've been praying for you. And I was like, Why do you gotta be so nice? Stop being so nice. I don't want to like this many people.
SPEAKER_01:I already like too many people because she doesn't want she doesn't want people to unalive themselves. That's yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_02:You know what's funny is we were gonna have you meet us at like a location and we were gonna like black bag you and bring you here. Okay. Like we were gonna kidnap you. Oh, don't like a like an adult nap.
SPEAKER_04:We were gonna adult nap you.
SPEAKER_02:And then we got to thinking like, yo, like somebody's gonna call the cops on us for doing this. And then I was telling Lexi about it, and I was like, yeah, we're like, we're thinking about like you know, kidnapping Paul. And she thought I was talking about Paul the Paul.
SPEAKER_01:Paul, the former military guy that's like maybe Brian could take him. You like let's it'd be a struggle.
SPEAKER_03:Uh it'd be a struggle. We need about four Brians. Maybe, maybe two of me could put up a good fight. Uh no, Paul's uh she was like, Do you guys want to die?
SPEAKER_02:She's like, that's how you get shot. And I'm like, no, not that, Paul. Well, also, Paul, are you a firearm owner?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I guess we should have checked in beforehand.
SPEAKER_02:You know, Paul, before your next episode, uh do you carry, do you conceal carry by chance?
SPEAKER_01:I will neither confirm nor deny any uh firearms or other weapons I might own.
SPEAKER_04:Dude. Um, but yeah, so that was our goal. Uh we were gonna adult nap you. Um and then we just thought that two uh middle-aged Anglo-Saxon white males kidnapping what seems to be a semi uh handicapped Jewish uh child would probably not go well for us.
SPEAKER_01:So I mean you you might make some inroads into certain communities with that stunt.
SPEAKER_03:No shit. No, we were like, no, that someone will definitely call the cops. We should not do that.
SPEAKER_04:No, but it was uh yeah. Um here you are. We didn't have to kidnap you. Thank God. Yeah it could have got could have gone sideways real fast. Yeah. I don't know, man. So what else is new with you? Okay we didn't even talk about um the speed bump that you've hit recently. We we okay. Let's just get into it.
SPEAKER_01:Let's tell the folks let's rip the band-aid off, and then when I when I watch the podcast live, I'm just gonna turn the sound down on this part because it's sad and it's just gonna make me it's gonna make me a combination of sad. It's not sad, it's motivating. It's motivating. Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_04:Look at it. Sometimes you just gotta look at yourself and be like, what are you doing, you piece of shit? You know what I mean? This is your moment, this is your motivation. So let's talk about it.
SPEAKER_01:Any anybody who watches the podcast for any length of time, you always ask somebody, hey, what was your low point and how'd you get out of it? And in my first episode, I haven't had a low point yet because everybody's super supportive and we're all big cheerleaders for each other and all this stuff. Well, I hit my low point in early September. I I got asked to do a show in small town Indiana, and I I Is that the name of the town? No, no, no. I don't want to say where it is because you just said it so matter-of fact. Yeah, no, so so I'm doing a show in a small town, and I barely made any money, and and I'm driving back, and I I had my uh house in the GPS, and it said, okay, continue on this road for just 31 miles. Okay, fine. With about five to six miles to go, there was a stop sign that was turned that I couldn't really see, and it was a stop sign that I was supposed to stop at. My road dead ends into a field.
SPEAKER_04:Right through it.
SPEAKER_01:And then as a result of trying to get back on the road, I end up in a ditch. Uh-huh. Had to, and because they needed a bobcat to pull me out, I had to pay extra for that. And then my car went into the shop for significant repairs as a result. So that was my low point in the world of comedy, is just just completely eating it one night at a at a show.
SPEAKER_02:Trying to go mudding and afford focus.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. I feel like you have to. I feel like if you don't eat it, you know what I mean? Like you'll never appreciate it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you'll run out of material. Well, you say, okay, so if we're talking about just having horrible things happen to you, and this is a little bit different. I don't know if you guys know the name Sam Morrell. No, but I know Morrell Mushrooms. He's a comic. Yeah, he's famous.
SPEAKER_04:New York comedian.
SPEAKER_01:And he randomly like I don't follow him on Facebook, but he popped up on my Facebook, and actually I'll pull it up if because let's let's tell me you DMed Sam Morel, and I'll I have not I have not DM'd him.
SPEAKER_04:I will fucking touch your penis tonight, Paul.
SPEAKER_01:I well, I mean he's thinking about it.
SPEAKER_04:He's like actually a DM. I got my phone out already. I'll DM him right now.
SPEAKER_01:Uh so Sam Morrell posted on his Facebook like yesterday, right after I had a rough set in front of Yankees legend Don Mattingley. One of the strange things about this career is sometimes you will bomb in front of heroes at a private event. So he bombed, but Don Mattingley was in the crowd. And then I don't know if we can see this on camera or not, but here is a picture of Sam Marill with Don Mattingley. And so I I shared that. There is a goat. There is a Facebook group if anybody wants to join. It's Tri-State Comedy Collective. I think I invited both of you guys to join. I think maybe one of you did join me. I'll I'll see if you want to join me. But I posted that, I posted Sam Morrill's thing in this Tri-State Comedy Collective group, and I said, let's see if we can convince Sam to perform in Evansville. Because on Sam's post, I responded and said, Hey, you should come to Evansville. It's Don Mattingley's hometown, and we've got some great local comics if you want some of us to open up.
SPEAKER_04:Redeem yourself, brother. Yes. Give him some redemption. Let him find the Lord. Uh I think that's a great idea. I think he could come back and be like, yo, Donnie, check this set out.
SPEAKER_02:I think even the pros bomb like William Montgomery just got booed off stage this weekend. Is he a pro though? I mean, who's he's still very amateur?
SPEAKER_01:William Montgomery?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, he's the crazy red-haired guy that ends every show on C.
SPEAKER_02:You should try doing your sets like his.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, just get strung out on Coke and then cold turkey stop and then go do a set. Yeah. It's gotta be like a two or three week bender, though. You gotta get deep and then cold turkey.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, so two to three weeks of sugar sugar. Yeah, just all and then just and then just stop?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and then just stop. Yeah, and you're also freaking the fuck out trying to stay alive because you're cold turkey and okay. Yeah, it's that's basically his set. He yells a lot, he's very angry. It's like, okay, he needs a pick me up.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so I don't know if you guys remember this name. Like it was before we were around. So this is this is like the 80s, but Sam Kinison.
SPEAKER_04:A lot like Sam Kinnison. Okay. Very much like Sam Kinnison. Uh does a lot of not one-liners, but like two-liners. Like he his jokes are very like one-line setup, one line punch, one line setup, one line punch. Like very short jokes. So kind of like a one-liner, I guess. Um but yeah, he's interesting. I wouldn't call him a pro. But I really do, I think there is something to that. And um God, who did we talk to about that? We've talked to one of the local comedians about eating shit, and I Chris's name is sticking out in my head.
SPEAKER_02:I like how Pollard ends it when that's going like shit. He just starts telling the audience they're terrible.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah, he just like berades the audience.
SPEAKER_02:Who's this? Pollard.
SPEAKER_03:Zach. Zach Pollard. He'll just be like, You guys fucking you suck, dude. I don't know if I've ever heard him say that.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know if he'd I've never been there when he's done it, but he talked about it on the podcast. I feel like every time I've seen Maybe he said he just did it that one night. I don't know. And I'm not sure. I don't know. We don't go to comedy shows. You need to. I do. I just haven't had time.
SPEAKER_01:I I need okay, I'm debating whether or not to just rattle off because every every episode of mom is like, hey, here are all the comedy shows you people need to check out.
SPEAKER_04:Hold on, we'll get to that. Yeah, sure. And then we gotta, and also we're gonna have to look at the calendar and see when this is gonna air. So that way we're not like we'll have to go to if you want to go ahead and pull up.
SPEAKER_02:It'll air in December. December?
SPEAKER_04:Okay, early December.
SPEAKER_02:Happy Christmas, Hanukkah Kwanzaa, everybody. Okay, it's the first uh like first Sunday or first Tuesday of December. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So we'll get to the dates. Uh but that being said, there we did talk to a comedian, one of the local guys, about like eating shit. And I really I'm a thorough believer in that, like, yeah, I feel like you have to.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Because like, and by eat shit, I don't mean like bomb a set. I mean like you should really feel like what am I doing?
SPEAKER_01:Am I wasting my life? Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:Because anything in life that's worth doing is challenging struggle. Yeah. And funny you say the word struggle. I was just listening to a uh God, what do you call? Is he like a philosopher or something? Anyways, this this contemporary guy was talking, and I don't even know who his name is, but he was talking about uh like love and struggle. Okay, so like you have to struggle to find true love. You have and you can't love without true struggle. Yeah. And you know, that can apply to almost everything in life, like sports. If if you really love football, if you're gonna play in the NFL one day, you better be ready to fucking struggle. Like, because you're gonna you're gonna need to struggle to get to the NFL. If you want to be on stage and make millions of dollars as a comedian, you better be ready to struggle because you need to struggle to to you know check that box before you st you know start stair stair stepping your way up to you know hundreds of thousands of people in a fucking arena or whatever.
SPEAKER_01:I remember seeing some sort of a quote from legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. Shout out. Um and I'm paraphrasing a bit here.
SPEAKER_04:Go pack go.
SPEAKER_01:But he he made some comment, I think, and it was something to the effect of I never met somebody who who loved what they did, who at the same time, like and he was talking about football specifically, he said, I never met a football player at the highest levels who on some level didn't appreciate the struggle and in a sense enjoyed the struggle. Have we all seen the movie the movie A League of Their Own?
SPEAKER_04:He was low-key a shitty football player, though.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but he was a coach.
SPEAKER_03:Somebody just said that. Oh, it was Paul that said that the other day. That Ruby actually sucked.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Rudy. Oh, yeah. Rudy, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Rudy actually sucked.
SPEAKER_01:But have you have you seen A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks, Girls Baseball? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:They filmed it here. Or part of it. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:My dad my dad was in it. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Shout out to Mr. Bragan.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But there was a line that Tom Hanks' character said, you know, somebody said, Oh, this is hard. He said, Of course it's hard. The heart is what makes it great. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
SPEAKER_04:Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Or the thing I the other thing that r it reminded me of, uh, I was in the Boy Scouts growing up, and the Boy Scouts own a Well now it's Eagle Scouts.
SPEAKER_04:Well, Eagle Scouts is like the award. That's the award. But they don't do like Boy Scouts anymore. Well, it's the girls are in now. But yeah. Oh, it's Cub Scouts, you're right. Sorry.
SPEAKER_01:But uh they have a what do you call it? A tract of land, I guess, out in New Mexico that Boy Scouts can go and hike and camp and stuff there. And the tallest mountain is called Mount Baldi, and there's like three different Mount Baldies out west, and this is one of 'em. And it's like twelve.
SPEAKER_02:I think Brian went there and lost his hair. Yeah, yeah, it's a true story.
SPEAKER_01:And it's like twelve thousand feet up. And I was reading something that another Boy Scout troop put together like a list of here's how to have a great experience out at Philmont. Uh no, that was not part of it. Damn it.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't know if it was like a scallop leader.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This was all on the up and up. This is all on the up and up. But it said it said if if your group is hiking up Mount Baldy, it said there's an easy side up and a hard side up, and it said go up the hard side, because then when you make it to the top, you'll feel like you actually accomplished something.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Hey, Lex, can you just search real quick uh on Google quotation mark? Or well look up who said, quote, um you have to struggle to find true love, end quote. And I wonder if that philosopher will pull up so I'm not full of shit. Or something along the lines of that.
SPEAKER_01:Fred Rogers.
SPEAKER_02:Is Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers? Yes.
SPEAKER_04:Philosophical and religious tradition, da da da. Rogers famously stated, love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. That's not it exactly. Fuck. I wish I could remember the guy's name. It was a pretty profound quote though. It was nice. So to your point, um I think it's only gonna get worse for you.
SPEAKER_01:Uh just for that vote of confidence. You paid five thousand dollars for your car repairs last time. Next time it's gonna be ten thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_02:Uh$10,000, you might as well get away. Just get a new car at that point, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I think it has to get worse. I mean, I don't know Tom's take on this, but my take is like I think football's kind of gay.
SPEAKER_02:You got dudes touching each other on the grass. Do we listen to football dude? Football. Have you just listened to it?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Penetration.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I've never seen a gap that big. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:He really came all over him.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Something in inches. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Fourth and the dude got smashed, you know, fourth and short. Really taking a pounding.
SPEAKER_04:Came in the backside. Right. Um yeah, there's all kinds of innuendos in the in the beautiful game of football. And honestly, that's why I uh that's why I watch it. Um you know, it's a good pregame ritual. No, but I'm talking about what are your what is your take on that, Tom? Like I relate it to the podcast. Like, we're gonna eat a lot of shit before this ever goes huge. I think. I mean, right?
SPEAKER_02:Like you've we've we've had setbacks.
SPEAKER_04:We have.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they're called the comments.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. So if you're feeling like talking shit, you know, feel free to hop in the comments on the YouTube or say it to my okay.
SPEAKER_01:Here's a podcast idea.
SPEAKER_04:Record a video of yourself. Well, no, no, I'll send it in turn.
SPEAKER_01:Find somebody who leaves a negative comment and be like, hey, you want to come on the podcast and explain yourself? And then just see if they show up.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we had a guy comment or whatever. Uh we just had, you know, uh Mr. Lawman, tactical Brian Bishop in uh a few weeks back. Big shoot, Brian Bishop talking about how like their training programs like a matter of like three, four months. Like of the ride-along, like that's what Brian Bishop was saying.
SPEAKER_04:Tom's not explaining it well, but yes.
SPEAKER_02:And somebody in Canada was like, Oh, it's only f three months. Up here in Canada, it's two years. And I'm like, Yeah, but in Canada, you don't have guns.
SPEAKER_04:Like, you gotta take like Crab Maga and like baton beating classes, and yeah, like low-key, I would trust some of those Eagle Scouts more than I would a Canadian with a firearm.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like uh plus you're not even real people, so like I mean, does it matter?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know, dude. He crossed a line. Yeah, well, dude, honestly, they had a president that did blackface, so all I'm saying is, dude, set your standard higher, Canada. You know what I mean? Like, set your fucking standards higher.
SPEAKER_02:All your all your people live on our border. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you look at your population, they want to be American.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, they they're trying, dude. They're trying. Although Join us be the 51st state.
SPEAKER_02:We'll get you straightened out. As long as you can California or New York.
SPEAKER_04:Isn't there a national anthem like O Canada?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they I mean you're off key, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you get it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they do have a national anthem, and it is called O Canada.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, Christ. They need to shut that shit down. They need to be annexed already.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they need to move all the AI cooling places up there. Or here's another here hang on, hang on. I'm thinking out loud here.
SPEAKER_03:Shout out to Trudeau, though, for real.
SPEAKER_01:Hang on. Not really.
SPEAKER_03:Trudeau. Trudeau, dude. Trudeau bull.
SPEAKER_01:How about this? How about this? How about we give the Providence, the the province of Quebec back to France, and then we give the rest of Canada back to England.
SPEAKER_02:Why? So when we go to war with them, they just fucking empty out their pocket and be like, oh, here you go.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, sure. I don't typically trust the French. Yeah, they just roll over. Yeah, they're not like good battle companions.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I saw a lot of that when I was over there.
SPEAKER_04:Very soft people, but also very rude for how soft they are.
SPEAKER_02:Language of love and angry people.
SPEAKER_04:Y'all are y'all got a lot of angst in uh France, dude. You gotta go.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, all angst until it comes to fight, and then there's no bark.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, no, yeah, no bite, just all bark. Um, we looked it up not too long ago on the podcast.
SPEAKER_02:All throat, no teeth.
SPEAKER_04:I was talking mad shit about the French, right? I was like, dude, I bet there. If I I was like relating it to sports, you would have enjoyed this. You probably heard it. Um but I was like, I was like, how many wars have they even won? Like, what's their record? You know what I mean? Like, so I was like, what are they like one in 134 or whatever? Because they've lost they're notorious for losing wars. They've lost everything since Napoleon. No, we looked, we looked it up and they had actually they've won like a lot of I they were calling them wars on Nepal, but I think I think they were like battles. Yeah. And they were like dark age battles, too. Yeah, I think Napoleon's their only W is. Yeah. Yeah, he was like the Tom Brady for the French. You know what I mean? He just set the le the standard for like ten years straight and then he fucking died of dwarfism, and then they fucking went back to sucking dick. No, the French are okay. I don't know. I just Canada's hot button topic. I don't know that uh I don't know that I'd want to annex him, dude. All that French up there. Ugh. You think they'd change it all to English?
SPEAKER_01:I mean most of it is English. God bless you, yeah. Quebec is the only part that is French.
SPEAKER_04:Isn't that like a third of the country though?
SPEAKER_01:Oh no, it's like uh I mean if Canada hang on, let's if Canada's this long.
SPEAKER_04:It's like Quebec goes from like the north and south to the Canadian border.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, if Canada's this, Quebec is like this.
SPEAKER_04:This is like a fifth of the country, dude. No, nothing. That is way too much French for me. One fifth? No, thank you. Better than two fifths. I don't get it.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's too simple math. God damn, I'm dumb. I still don't get it. Don't worry, I I also the the the comment I've made for action is not my strong thing. The the comment I've made before is I used to be able to memorize things like song lyrics and sports statistics.
SPEAKER_04:Mostly Hootie and the Blowfish. I get it. I get it.
SPEAKER_01:And and then my parents, who were well-meaning but misguided, sent me to high school where teachers tried to teach me algebra, and they were also well-meaning but misguided, because not only did I not learn algebra, I also forgot how to memorize sports statistics and song lyrics. Like there is nothing going on up here anymore because they tried to teach me algebra. Like my brain just did a factory reset and stayed shut off. Wait, were you homeschooled before high school? No, no, no, no, no. I'm I'm saying, like, you know, eighth grade, like you can you can struggle through eighth grade stuff and still like make it out. And then you get to high school and you try to learn things, and if you don't learn it, it's like I'm just dumb. Yeah, this is gonna be.
SPEAKER_02:Did you download an app to try to learn French, or were you just like the pamphlet?
SPEAKER_01:Somebody was like, hey, here's a here's a five-minute video about 10 French French, and it was all stuff you basically knew already, like bonjour and au revoir. Yeah, it was I learned I learned one or two new French words, and I don't think I used either of them.
SPEAKER_02:Or you should go to France and treat it like it's Greece for everybody else, like, oh bah, and like they bring out your food and you're like bon appetite. Yeah, like we beat them to it.
SPEAKER_04:They just fucking beat your ass. Actually, they wouldn't because they're not violent. Uh just violent speakers. Dude, France is a wild place. I really want to go to Europe for leisure. I've been before, I've been to Germany, but like ride a train.
SPEAKER_02:Did you ride any trains? Did you see any castles?
SPEAKER_04:Trains, planes, automobiles.
SPEAKER_01:I rode a train from okay. Let me think here. We were on one train uh when we left Paris. So we I'll give you a basic itinerary. We flew into Paris.
SPEAKER_06:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:We then got on a bus for two hours and we're up in the northern part of the country for two days, and one of those days were there there probably were mountains. Oh well, no, no mountain uh uh hills maybe. Because one of the days of those two days we were up north, we went to Normandy where the D-Day invasion happened, and that was fun. Yeah, like I took I might have taken way too many pictures in the D-Day museum. Hell yeah. I mean, you'll love it because you're a military guy.
SPEAKER_04:Will you send Tom some of those pics? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So as we're talking about this, you're seeing it on screen. Oh, okay. Yeah, you want me to say that. Oh, well, you don't have to do it at the moment. Oh, God, you can edit it later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll edit it.
SPEAKER_01:The magic of editing, awesome. Yeah, post-production. So we were up there for two days, and then we went back to we got on a bus again because it was like two hours away. We went back to Paris for three days basically, and then we took a train from Paris to the southern part of France and were in southern France for three days. So we were on it.
SPEAKER_02:Did you take one of those pictures with the Eiffel Tower where you're like leaning on it?
SPEAKER_01:No, I I should have done one like that.
SPEAKER_04:It's Did a Did a small part of you like from your like familial history, like a small bone in your spine or something tingle when you hopped on the train and you're like, ooh, danger.
SPEAKER_01:No, because this this was a much it was it here's the thing. That train, the train, the train was a little bit cramped, but we weren't exactly packed in like sardines. And there were there were USB ports that you could plug in your phone, so it was uh it was a whole different thing. They did not have that back between 1939 and 1945. Never forget. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:We need to get those, uh we need to get the the luggage picture on screen for this too. That's a really good one. I don't know, man. So you never really explain why you went to France. Was this something like that?
SPEAKER_01:Somebody offered a trip and I yeah, somebody offered a trip. I was like, I'm going. I Did you have to pay anything? Oh, yeah, yeah, to pay. Yeah, yeah. What'd you dump?
SPEAKER_04:Like$2K?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, more than like five? Closer to that, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know what it costs to get to Europe. I know a plane ticket's like$1,500. Oh, yeah. Probably like two grand.
SPEAKER_01:But I mean, well, and that the plane ticket.
SPEAKER_04:Like round trip is probably like two grand, right?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I don't know about that much. Because everything was included. It's like give us this amount of money and and like everything is basically you know, you had to pay for some meals on your own, but like but all the transportation and all the hotels and stuff, all that was covered.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's just called portation now. I don't think you can say the first part of the card.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you gotta leave out the the T R A and S.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. Um you know.
SPEAKER_04:PR. Yeah. Or PC. You get it.
SPEAKER_01:But it was it was it was a good trip, and I was gonna make some.
SPEAKER_04:So a friend of yours was already going.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was some.
SPEAKER_04:And they just had like a spare ticket and they were like Oh no, no.
SPEAKER_01:It was like, hey, anybody wants to go on this trip, sign up. I was like, yeah, I'm signing up. Um, okay. When we've talked about it, invites us to all the comedy shows, but not the show. No shit.
SPEAKER_04:He doesn't invite me to Normandy, fucking France.
SPEAKER_02:Would you well we would have spent 10 days on the beach.
SPEAKER_01:We would have brought my Hasbro. Everything on this trip was like very organized. And so even if we wanted to even if we wanted to stay in Normandy for ten days, like they would have made us get on a bus and go somewhere else. So that's kind of the thing. Well, they wanted to make you.
SPEAKER_04:I don't like the way you said that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that was a little You're fine, you're fine. I mean, you might want to apologize to the rabbi next time you see it. Leave it in.
SPEAKER_02:He said I'm not Kanye, I don't apologize. He said I wouldn't have made you.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Okay, Tom. Um, but that's sick. So you stayed exclusively in France? Yes, we were in France like the whole time. That's kind of gross. You never got to leave the country to like hop over. And then also, another question, because I've never been to Europe on leisure. Um, like if you fly into Paris, right? Uh you get there, but like you want to go see Spain to the southwest. Four-hour bus ride or whatever, but what do you have to fill out to cross that oh that's a good question because I don't think you do. Because you have a passport. You do. Yeah, they just stamped it. And they're gonna stamp it. Yeah. But is there any like additional I think once you cross the border they stop like that? If I want to go to fucking you know what I mean? Like Czech Slovakia, you know that's not a country anymore. You know what I'm saying? But like whatever. Like if I want to go to the Bolshevik fucking mountain range.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's a lot easier once you're over there to go in between countries, especially with like trains. And there's a Did you have to get a digital ID? I don't think so, no. What is that? And they also didn't, like, right when we were getting there, it's like, oh, the day before we got there, France was rolling out some new security measure at the airport where you might get fingerprinted, and then they didn't fingerprint any of it, which is uh like I hate to be that guy.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, uh stole the artwork from that museum. The Louvre? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, dude. Dude, shout out to the Louvre.
SPEAKER_01:Was that in France? That yeah, that we we were on the train from Paris to southern France when we found out it got no So you had by the way. We were on if we were on the bus going to the train station when we found out the museum was robbed. Gotcha.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, wait, it actually got robbed?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, where have you have you not watched TV for the last time?
SPEAKER_02:No one lives under a rock unless it's dudes touching each other on grass. That's the only time he turns on his TV. I want to be mad about what you just said, but it's pretty accurate. We look up uh the art museum being robbed in France. How do you spell it? How do you spell it? L-O-U-V-R-E. Just art museum in France being robbed. Let's simplify it, guys. We're not trying to spell in fucking some foreign language. Thank God.
SPEAKER_04:Uh, because again, I have a deep uh dislike for the French. Louvre. Oh, there's an R in there. Yeah. The Louvre robbery. Uh in late October 2025, a group of thieves stole eight pieces of 19th century jewelry valued at approximately 88 million from the Apollo gallery in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The brazen daytime heist involved thieves using a ladder on a truck to enter a second floor balcony, uh, breaking into display cases, and escaping on scooter.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, they got away on the picture in the middle of the bottom. This is like a a little like truck that like you would use to put out a fucking fire? Like to paint a billboard or some shit. You know what I'm saying? What is happening? What? Like somebody's pulling up in front of the museum with that, and you're you're not the one's asking questions, dude. Scooters on standby, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03:This is the fucking Louvre, dude. This is like rolling up to the fucking White House with a ladder going over the fence, dude. Like, what are y'all doing? Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02:I watched National Treasure one too many times, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yay, whoa, whoa, whoa. You cannot watch National Treasure one too many times.
SPEAKER_02:They got away with it. I'm still waiting. Some of them got caught. I think is there still one person?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I don't know. I haven't kept up with like all the arrests and stuff.
SPEAKER_04:Can we find out if they got caught, Lex? I want to know if these bad boys got nabbed up. Seven people were arrested in connection with the crime. But eight people with four formally charged. The suspects are believed to be part of an organized crime group. AKA, the French mafia. Stolen items have not been recovered.
SPEAKER_01:French Mafia needs to be a band name.
SPEAKER_04:You know, I'm not against it. French mafia.
SPEAKER_02:Softest mafia in the international game, dude. I'd be more afraid to say that on air than anything else. I'm gonna get whacked by some dude and he's gonna wee on me.
SPEAKER_01:He'll just hit you with a baguette a thousand times until you die.
SPEAKER_02:You know the baguette was actually named after a king's mistress? Really? Yeah. I did not know that. Good old baguettes. They're the worst diamond ever. Don't fucking get one. What's a baguette? They're like the square uh the rectangle looking ones. Oh, the real gaudy looking ones. It's also a piece of bread.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. That's what I was referring to, the bread.
SPEAKER_04:You called it a bugetti.
SPEAKER_01:Bag baguette. Baguette.
SPEAKER_04:Well, he called it a baguette. What is it? Is it just potato tomato at this point? They're baguettes. Okay. Got it. Um, yeah. Wild, dude. And that was in October. Holy shit. That was like fucking nine days ago. Yeah. Whatever, dude. I'm so fucking ignorant to the rest of the world. And I don't know, man. I think I kind of prefer it that way. I think I kind of do. It's a balancing act, I would say. There's just so much hate out there. Like And that's something I'm like the whole he had to explain to me what the fuck was going on in Israel, and I was like, Oh, they've hated each other ever since one man or two different wives. But the whole point is like the new names, like the Hamas and blah blah blah, all these all these gang names and shit.
SPEAKER_02:Whatever.
SPEAKER_04:He was explaining it to me, and I was like, well, it just sounds like two people that disagree fucking hate each other enough to kill each other. Yeah. Cool.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Why do I want that in my daily diet? I don't. I just like all I'm gonna do is live my life, do the best I can with what I have around me, and hope for the best for Hamas. Or honestly, whoever's winning at this point. It's not Hamas. Okay, well then I'm on the team that's winning, I guess. Is that the Jewish folks? Are they winning? I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:I I mean I know the wars, but I think. Are they winning?
SPEAKER_04:Okay, then I'm on their side. Yeah, I'm with them, dude. For sure. 100%. I'm a bandwagon fan, dude. I just sign me up. Like except for when it comes to the dolphins. I just I just hope that like it's both sides have fun. Yeah, I hope that they're doing it for the love of the game. You know what I mean? No, I I just hate it. I hate that there's so much fucking hate around like that thing in Israel is strictly religious, right? Oh yeah. Well Judaism versus uh Islam and who owns the holy ground.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's basically split in half.
SPEAKER_04:The holy ground split in half. Well then why the fuck can't we just leave it alone, gentlemen?
SPEAKER_01:Because everybody wants all the ground.
SPEAKER_04:So fucking dumb. Us as human beings are just fucking flawed, man.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_04:Just be wrong. Or be right. It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_02:Like Well, that's why uh 3A Atlas is coming, you know?
SPEAKER_04:Dude, I hope they piece us up, dude. I hope it's aliens and they look at us and they're like, dude, y'all are a bunch of turds. Yeah. Exterminate. And I want to be here for it. Honestly, I'm fucking so ready.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I think by the time this episode airs, the aliens will have come and gone or come and stayed, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, just hang out, have some tea and crack.
SPEAKER_02:Or just wait for the aliens in the ocean to fight the aliens in the sky, and we'll be alright.
SPEAKER_04:Dude, what if it's like a coalition effort, dude? What if the aliens underneath the water just like they're almost here, guys? They're like putting their pads and shit on, they're like, it's almost game time.
SPEAKER_03:Like doing calisthenics, like warming up. Play like a champion today. Look good, play good, feel good, win good.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they just got the Brazilian torpedo and Michael Phelps out there.
SPEAKER_03:Dude, just a little smudge of human just flying through the water like a dolphin. They call those pace cars.
SPEAKER_04:Dude, shout out to that guy. That guy's a monster. I don't know, dude. But yeah, I'm tired of it. Do you get tired of people hating people? Yes. It's so annoying. I don't think people hate people enough.
SPEAKER_01:Explain yourself.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, talk.
SPEAKER_01:Explain yourself, sir, Paul. Okay, I'll just talk to you.
SPEAKER_03:Tell us to the folks at home about what the fuck you just said, dude.
SPEAKER_02:Sometimes I just say stuff, Paul, and I don't expect people to call me on it.
SPEAKER_04:Sometimes I just make noises with my mouth holes.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm just trying to get more angry comments, you know, in the comments. Anything for the algorithm. Right. Hey, uh our TikTok's not banned, by the way.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it is not banned. You can actually uh I don't know if she can pull up TikTok and find our page that's not banned, but it would be nice for all the YouTubers to know what our actual TikTok looks like if you can search the Days Grim on there and let's see what it looks like and find the actual name. Um I don't think that's right. Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. Cancel. Just search, yeah, get out of here. Just get out of that, and then just search the Days Grim podcast. And I want to show the the universe that we are not banned. I think the original one did get banned for something about uh we were talking about dwarves and underwear or something. So we had to shut that TikTok down. Yeah, this is the one. So if you just if you just search at the Days Grim with two M's on TikTok, you'll find us. And this is kind of what it looks like.
SPEAKER_01:Not a lot of traffic, but it's so are dwarves not supposed to wear underwear then? No, I think it was derogatory. I don't think you can say dwarves. That's no, that's like a legal medical term of the person.
SPEAKER_04:Dwarfism is a diagnosis.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's a I you know, I that oh, the baby got diagnosed with dwarfism.
SPEAKER_04:It would make sense that Paul's a doctor also, like part-time. He moonlights as a physician. Diagnose a baby with dwarfism?
SPEAKER_01:I feel like you have to hit like There's gotta be genetic testing in utero that, oh, your baby's gonna have these things wrong with it.
SPEAKER_04:Your baby's gonna have weird-shaped thighs and elbows.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sorry, Mrs. I'm sorry, Mrs. Bragan. He's going to be a comedian and not make any money at it.
SPEAKER_04:Dude, shout out to the cripple threat of comedy. Um Andy Imlay? Yeah. No, the Antonio Edmonds. No, the the fan the really, really famous guy.
SPEAKER_01:Josh Blue.
SPEAKER_04:No, the guy that calls himself the Cripple Threat. And we actually talked to him a little bit. Actually, I think Andy was the one that put us. He's got the the hands.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, oh, Ryan Neemilla, you talked to that guy?
SPEAKER_04:No, Andy knows either you or Andy knows him. Oh, I wish I knew him. So Andy did a show with him then. That's awesome. We were DMing back and forth. He Neemiller and I.
SPEAKER_01:I first saw him, he was on America's Got Talent.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's where he goes.
SPEAKER_01:And then like after he was on America's Got Talent, like six months later, he was in Princeton. I was gonna go to the show and I just forgot about it.
SPEAKER_04:Like, I didn't know I think Andy was there, and that's how they got hooked up.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my, he is so funny.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, he's fucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_01:Ryan Niemiller, if you're watching this uh podcast, which I will send you the link, come somehow Evansville. Please perform at Evansville. Let a bunch of us open for you.
SPEAKER_04:Bro, we'll do a show at the fucking uh here at the damn uh LT, dude. You know what I mean? Do they have space to put on like an event where you could I need to talk to him about that? That'd be killer. I wonder what we could draw out here.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, I don't want to I don't want to get into details. Don't push your luck, but I do not want to get into details, but we probably shouldn't. Well, I I'm gonna be as vague as possible, I think, as I explain this.
SPEAKER_03:You probably shouldn't. For legal reasons.
SPEAKER_01:I was at a bar a couple nights ago, and the bar is moving from one location to another.
SPEAKER_02:Like they're picking the building up and moving the building, Amish style. Ooh, I knew a church once.
SPEAKER_01:Uh they're just moving into a they're moving all their stuff into a vacant building that hopefully it'll be, you know, better form. And and I was talking to the bartender, and he is under the impression the old building, it's gonna be owned by somebody else, but whoever the new person is is maybe hoping to turn it into a comedy club. Oh, yeah. Which would be awesome because shit. Uh we we've talked about this on the podcast, and any comedian that talks to me, I sound like a broken record. I want a legitimate comedy club in Evans because in we talked about this in my first episode. We have open mics and comedy shows right now in bars, and half the people at an open mic are performers, and the other half are just bar flies who either don't really care or maybe are hostile to their being entertainment, but maybe if you're lucky, they're too polite to say they're hostile to their being entertainment.
SPEAKER_04:I was Well, you say that, but you also have to think about the people that the entertainment brought, so family members and friends and stuff like that. But that's a majority of the crowd is like the people performing, the people they brought, and then the people that have no fucking clue what's going on. They're like, what the fuck is this dude doing with a microphone in his hand? I'm just trying to do my laundry. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01:Like We mentioned multiple times, I think, maybe, or maybe just once, uh, Spanky's Una Cafe at 15 Jefferson Avenue, they have a weekly open mic on Tuesdays. Yep, down in the arts district. And so one day I was there for the open mic on a Tuesday, and then that following Saturday, Moe's house that you guys filmed an episode there.
SPEAKER_04:Love Love Mariah.
SPEAKER_01:They had a paid comedy show with, you know, I think Andy Imlay was on the show, and maybe Andy Russell was on the show. They both been on the podcast, and then they had some they had some guy from out of town, like a bigger name as like a headliner. And so I went to that show, and after the show, I was walking around the area and I walked by Spanky's, and the bartender at Spanky saw me walking outside and waved at me, and so I went in and walked in and ordered a beer, and there was a guy sitting at the bar who I haven't seen him for a while, and I hope he's okay. But he would Did he is is he diagnosed or I don't know. He I mean, I you if you haven't seen it.
SPEAKER_03:I hope he's alive.
SPEAKER_01:I mean I haven't seen the guy for like two months like he might be dead. Jesus, Paul. And so I'm I'm there on a Saturday night, you know, when I'm not normally there. And he said something to the effect of, Yeah, I don't think you guys are funny. And was talking about how he thinks we're punching down maybe and making jokes about LGBT or whatever. He has not met me.
SPEAKER_04:And that's good. We keep it that way, Tom.
SPEAKER_01:And I think the the the bartender even said, like, hey, calm down, guy. And she even said, I think you guys are funny, which was very nice of her.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah. Yeah. You miss your spot or you missed your story about the guy moving the bar. Oh, well, you finished it. Oh, yeah, yeah. So hopefully hopefully hopefully. What side of town is this uh vacant spot gonna be potentially turning into a comedy spot?
SPEAKER_01:Uh also in the kind of Haney's Corner Spanky's um Moes area. Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Sick. Nice area. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Nice area.
SPEAKER_04:And I think people down there would be uh open to like they're all artsy fartsy down there, so their creative drive is you know I mean that if you were gonna do it, like I mean, mid town essentially is a good place to do it, and in the arts district is as good as any. I don't know, man, but we do need it because we had the funny bone for like two decades or something, and it fucking killed and then they just fucking stopped.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and from what I understand, like you know, we were too young to be going there, so you gotta be 21 probably to get in, I think. But I heard through the grapevine, people said when the funny bone was here, if you were a comedian at the funny, obviously, like you weren't making a million dollars performing at the funny bone, but if you were a comedian on stage with the funny bone, like you got paid.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it was well, and then the other thing is like reputable names coming through town on a regular basis. That's what we're missing. We don't have Tom Segura's and Burt Chrysler's coming into town with frequency to small intimate rooms like they do have in Nashville, like they do have in Indy up in uh the attic and at the do they have a funny bone there? Anyways, I digress. You know, Cincinnati, St. Louis, like Dayton fucking Ohio has a fucking club. You know, why the fuck does Evansville, Indiana not have a fuck Dayton? Yeah, fuck the whole town. You know what I mean? Like, no offense if you're from Dayton, but like Oh, I got I can't show this pod.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, like it's every Tuesday night I play trivia with a guy who I think he's from Dayton. I think he went no, he's I don't know where he's from originally. I think he went to college in Dayton because he's a big Dayton Flyers fan.
SPEAKER_04:Ah, I gotcha.
SPEAKER_01:Like he goes to their tournament every year for basketball. I absolutely can't show him this podcast if you're gonna crap all over Dayton. We might have to edit out all the Dayton hate on this podcast.
SPEAKER_04:No, we're gonna actually leave it in and we're gonna put it uh we're gonna put the hashtag Hayden on the clips.
SPEAKER_02:Hayton on Dayton.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, Hayton on Dayton. Hayton Dayton. Uh town sucks. How do they have a comedy club when we don't? Is the point.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Paul, as we go to wrap up, you want to plug every single comedy show?
SPEAKER_01:I wanna I want to plug comedy shows on the club.
SPEAKER_04:Again, let's let's assume like December fucking 10th, whatever. 13th. Yeah, December 13th. Let's just whatever that Tuesday is.
SPEAKER_01:Not only do I want to plug comedy shows, I need to tell you guys I think I might have sent you guys a thing like a year ago when it happened. But friend of the show, Chris Izzy and I were on a show together at it's now six strings on Franklin. I don't know if this came up in a podcast or not. At the time, that show has not happened yet, it's coming up. At the time it was well, oh, if you're talking about a pr uh uh a show in the future, I'm talking about something that happened a year ago.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, never mind.
SPEAKER_01:So when it was still chasers, Chris Izzy and I were on a show together there, along with another local guy, Gavin Eddings, who maybe get him on the podcast. And then uh I know you're trying to get Rebecca Bradfield on the podcast, and it hasn't happened yet. She was also on that show. Okay. So she probably doesn't like us. I'm sure. Well, she's got to meet you. She has to meet you before she makes a judgment.
SPEAKER_04:I'm a very in-person, likable person. Uh not what you see on the podcast is what you get in person.
SPEAKER_01:So the four of us, the four of us were at a show at Chasers, and there was a guy, like the guy who put on the show, he's a guy out of town, I don't know where he's, he's from Illinois somewhere. His name is Jeff Bats, and killer name. He's been doing comedy for like 35 years. Okay. And he is working on a TV show called comicinvasion.tv. And when he came to Evansville, he told us, he said, I have season one of my show done. So right now I'm working on getting stuff together for season two. So I'm filming the show and like hopefully you'll all get on TV. And when every when everything is figured out, you'll get paid, you'll get on TV, you'll get clips of yourself that you can send out to people. And so that show was in late October of last year, and then in early October of this year, they put something on the comicinvasion.tv Facebook page. It said, We are proud to announce that we have signed a contract with Comedy Dynamics, a nay cell company, the largest independent producer and distributor of comedy content in the world. Comedy Dynamics produces everything comedy, including Netflix comedy specials, Grammy Award-winning albums, and other award-winning projects with the likes of Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Ali Wong, Zach Efron, and countless other giants in the comedy world. The contract means that Comedy Dynamics owns the worldwide distribution rights for seasons one and two of Comic Inv of the Comic Invasion series for the next ten years. We are thrilled to be partnering with an industry giant uh like C D and Naycel. So stay tuned for more information later this year. We will update posts here and on our website to inform followers to where and when our show will begin airing in America and around the world. More details will follow, and we will be reaching out to all the comedians that have been featured in the show over the last two years of production. Our thanks go out to all of our supporters and the comedians that we've had the pleasure to work with. This relationship will most definitely result in all comedians associated with our brand gaining more traction in this business, more followers on social media, and more quality, better paying opportunities in the near future. Congratulations and thank you to everyone. Hell yeah, brother. So I I haven't talked to uh Chris or Gavin or Rebecca about like I nobody's reached out to me yet saying, Hey, we've got two minutes of you that we're gonna put up on TV and all this, but again, hopefully sooner rather than later, you can see me on TV on a show called comicinvasion.tv. Oh, yeah. And so if you would all be so kind, uh if you have a Facebook page, go to Facebook and type in comicinvasion.tv and like their page and reach out to them and say, we would like to see Chris Izzy and Paul Bragan and Gavin Eddings and Rebecca Bradfield on the show, please. And use as much of their content as as possible.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_01:So there's that that's like the that's the big thing I'm crossing my fingers for right now.
SPEAKER_04:Hey, and a big plug for the comedians that you mentioned that have not been on the Days Grim podcast yet. Um if you're watching this, which I'm sure Paul has told you to watch this, and he has told you to fast forward all the way to the end, hopefully, where I'm actually directly speaking to you. Um we cut clips on all of our episodes, and you can just have those. Like it's free PR. So that's a plus for your like page, and when you're dealing with people like Mr. Bats, like got a potential show coming up. Like, hey, look, I was on a podcast. I'm pretty funny.
SPEAKER_01:And let me shout out Jeff Bats' uh number two man, David Kirk, who also like they work together on this comic invasion. So now this way, when I reach out to them on Facebook and say, hey guys, I mentioned both of you and this podcast. Please watch it and share it with people.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, and bring us uh bring us along for whatever you can do, help out the days of grim because we're drowning. Yeah, hello. I'm just joking. Uh we're doing fine.
SPEAKER_01:Let me shout out some other people. I know I'm I think something got cut uh in the episode with Cole Simpson that we had to scrap because I mentioned Jacob I mentioned Jacob Bolinski in a recent episode. Yeah. And uh he cast me in a play called Rope. That was last year, but still thank you, Jacob Belinsky, for casting me in the play rope. I appreciated that. Also, I want to shout out I mentioned when I first appeared on the show, you guys were like, hey, we're looking for podcast guests. Give us some names, and I rattled off a bunch of names, and I two names I gave you David McCracken and Josh Reedford. Uh thank you to the two of you. Uh they filmed a feature-length movie many years ago in Evansville called Daylight. It's free on Tubi, so if you have the Tubi app, uh type in Daylight David McCracken, and it'll come up. I was a producer on that movie. Hell yeah. Uh so yeah, I need everybody to watch that movie so I can make my next mortgage payment.
SPEAKER_04:Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah. Dates, though, you got uh December dates.
SPEAKER_01:Uh well, every Tuesday night there is the open mic at Spanky Zuna Cafe at 15 Jefferson Avenue in Evansville. That show starts around 8, 8.30-ish. Uh lately we've been having a weekly open mic on Wednesdays at Tiki on Maine, uh right across from the Ford Center. That's around an 8 o'clock show. Uh there's also the Sunday night open mic at Lyle's at the corner of 41 and Morgan. That's another show that's around 8 o'clock on Sunday nights. So we got three of three weekly open mics, it looks like now at this point. And then of course, every first Thursday of the month, we have the open mic show that's at Haven's Bar on Jennings Street in Newburgh. And I'm at any or all of those as much as I can be. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Um, well, it's been uh it's been a few months since we've seen you in the podcast, so we figured we'd uh you know give our number one viewer and uh episode viewers. Yeah, some FaceTime, man. It's always a pleasure to sit you down, uh, check in with you. I love doing this, yeah. Yeah, dude. I love uh and you have a very good uh radio voice with with all your experience. Let's get a plug in for 99.9 FM W B N L Boonville, Indiana. There it is, dude. Uh shout out to Boonville. Also, please fix your downtown area. Um but yeah, man, short of that, nothing but a pleasure, Mr. Paul. Could have done anything on a Sunday night, but you came in and talked to the Days Grim. We greatly appreciate you, sir. Um check out those dates, check out the check out thedaysgrim.com, check out that film. Uh what was it called again? Daylight.
SPEAKER_01:Daylight on YouTube starring David McCracken and George Watts. Yep.
SPEAKER_04:If you don't hate commercials, check it out. Yep. Um, but yeah, short of that, it's been another thrilling episode of the Days Grimm. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grimm. And this has been Paul Bregan 1G. Good to see you, sir.
SPEAKER_01:Great to be here.
SPEAKER_00:Just stop for me, cause we need a little. Nobody listens to techno. Now let's go. Just give me the signal. I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults. I've been goats a pencil with a pencil.
SPEAKER_04:Ever since pinched. Oh, and thank you, Lexi. Damn, we should have shouted you out. Thank you, Lexi. I gotta make sure to leave. So this must mean I'm disgusting, but it's just me.