Ryan: Welcome to Offline Days. I don't even know what episode this is, but we are excited to be back. My name is Ryan and I have my co-host.
Coley: and we have a very special guest with us. Mo, do you want to introduce yourself?
Mo Vida: I'm Moe. I'm Moe Vita. I'm
Coley: Hahaha
Mo Vida: a stand-up comic and I'm excited to be on guys. Thanks for having me.
Coley: Yeah, I don't know if you remember me Mo, but I opened for you in one of Joe for one of Joe's shows back in like, oh, I want to say it was like July, June or July or something like that. It was at the
Mo Vida: Where was it? What was the name?
Coley: Superior Theater in the flip side, I think it is.
Mo Vida: God. You're asking grandma to remember things, but no, no, no, no,
Coley: Yeah Anyway, that's it. You get around.
Mo Vida: I get around. I get around. That's the problem.
Ryan: and get around.
Coley: That's that's OK. You're memorable to me. So.
Mo Vida: I don't always know if that's a good thing.
Coley: No, I got to tell you, I had a bunch of family at that show because that's what I do. I bring my families to my shows.
Mo Vida: Yeah, man.
Coley: Yeah, and they loved you. They thought that you were super funny. yeah, no we're not. We talked
Mo Vida: Really? You're not just saying that are you?
Coley: about that. We talked about that show for probably a good couple days after it.
Mo Vida: wow. Well that's great to hear because you know how it is comedy. We hate ourselves so.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: I like to say comedy is, basically comedy is just people sharing their mental health issues. That's all it is.
Mo Vida: I mean, you know what, that is very true. I think the best comedy does come from a very real place without like turning into a therapy session or a Ted talk, but I always laugh because. It's very different being a woman comic and a man comic when it comes to like the fans after the show. And it's so funny, like some guy comic will go up and be like, yeah, my dick doesn't really work that great anymore. And I got a drinking problem. And then all these girls will be like, my God, you should like hit me up.
Coley: Hehehehehe
Mo Vida: I'm like, girl, he means it. His dick won't work.
Ryan: Yeah, I mean, and how does the, what does the women
Mo Vida: Whatever.
Ryan: counter to that? And it's like, you know.
Mo Vida: Mine, I can only speak for mine, but for my experience, but it's been, well, one, it's very funny because I mentioned being a cougar, but the whole thing is, is how I'm like lazy and leave me alone, but I'll still get young guys who are like, hey, so you like dick? And I'm like, I covered this. Yeah, I like, I just want to put on my
Coley: Did you not listen?
Mo Vida: eating pants, you know, like. But yeah, it's, I don't know. mean, luckily I've had pretty good stuff, but you know, there's always this people, men and women who come up to you, I don't really like female comics, but you
Ryan: really?
Mo Vida: were funny. And I'm like, well, then I guess you do like women comics.
Coley: Hahaha! Yeah.
Ryan: So people actually say that?
Mo Vida: all the time. And
Coley: It's it's kind like
Mo Vida: they say it as a compliment. Like they genuinely mean it.
Coley: It's a left-handed compliment or whatever it is. It's like, I don't know. Yeah.
Ryan: or backhanded compliment. I mean, that's just, you have to just kind of be so stupid to just even like breach that, you know, like you have no like, not stupid, but sense of aware, your sense of awareness is just non-existent.
Mo Vida: You know this, like, you'll be standing next to all the other comics and people will come up and be like, you are the funniest. And, you know, that's of course, I mean, it's nice to hear that the person thought you were funny. But to your point, Ryan, it's like, they can hear you. You know, like, and also
Coley: Hahaha!
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: these are my coworkers. I like these guys. I think they're funny. Like, I don't... I don't want to be the funniest on a show. I want the show to be a banger all around. You know, like I've told my friends that I'm like, I'm going to invite you to shows where I feel like you're going to enjoy the entire show.
Coley: And you have to, you you have to enjoy the entire show. It would be weird if you know, went to a comedian and you're like, that opener was awful. It does happen,
Mo Vida: I mean, it does happen, but.
Coley: but at the same time, it's just like, well, but you went to the comedy show, you chose to go to this comedy show. That was you.
Mo Vida: Just have fun. I'm like, what else are you going to be doing? You know what I mean? Like, it's rare if you're paying money for a ticket that you're going to a show that's just trash.
Ryan: And let's be honest, like any kind of art, comedy is very subjective. Like everybody has a fucking different taste, a different style. Some
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: people like Jerry Seinfeld, some people like Richard Pryor, some people like, you know, Chelsea Handler. Some people like, you know, it's, it's, it's a spectrum. So.
Coley: Yeah, and you find your audience and you crush it for your audience. I think that's my favorite part.
Mo Vida: Yeah, I had a comic tell me once because I met him at a show that he was doing. I was just hanging out and then not too long after we were booked on the same show he was headlining and before the show we were all just kind of gathering and he was like, I'm excited to see you. Like, you know, your stuff. And I was like, I'm not for everyone. And he goes, good. And I'm like, sorry. He's like, good, that's not how you build your fan base. You know, you build your fan base by really resonating with people who want to come out to your shows and you you connect or they connect with what you're saying, what you're talking about and you grow it from there. If you're, if everybody in the room always loves you all over the country, you know, great. You're either a pro pro who's been doing it 30 years or you're hack.
Coley: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so it's nice to have you on. mean, we are super excited that you came onto this show. Again, this is Offline Days. You can find us on our social media on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. You can also listen to the podcasts on Apple Music and Spotify and... That is offline days, D-A-Z-E, like dazed and confused. Yeah, exactly. Mo, do you have anything you want coming up or anything you want to promote?
Mo Vida: In what is that? Loveland? I was is that bad that I get Loveland and Longmont mixed up? only verbally by the way to be very clear. It's only
Coley: Nope, I do the same. Yeah.
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: like verbal. I know exactly the towns are different, but yeah So that's gonna be Wednesday the 25th. And then I actually run a monthly show out of the Louisville underground and that's every second Friday. Those are a lot of fun. And we're gonna try
Coley: Excellent.
Mo Vida: doing some special events. So if people want to follow me, I'll be posting those as well. So.
Ryan: I love Lewisville. Lewisville's a cool spot.
Coley: What are you... Yeah. What are your social...
Mo Vida: I love it. It's Louisville Underground is attached to Tilt, which is the arcade. that
Coley: I did.
Mo Vida: goes with
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: your, you guys, I mean, this is analog we're talking about, right? Pac-Man and all
Ryan: Damn right it is.
Mo Vida: that. They have like even their
Coley: Little pinball action.
Mo Vida: bathrooms. It's like the women's bathroom I think is like pretty and pink or something, you know, like it's a really cool spot.
Ryan: That is cool. That is cool. So what do you like kind of in the 80s like what do you remember? Like what is, you know, what sticks out to you? What do you get nostalgic about? What does that mean to you kind of?
Mo Vida: I I think I just, miss people being more present. know, like I miss, you know, I mean, I'm older, so my friends and I still have this. So when we get together, a lot of times we don't even know where our phones are. You know, we're just talking for hours, drinking, you know?
Coley: You
Mo Vida: But that obviously is gone. I mean, I think, the I miss going to concerts and just everybody's, you know, it's not a bunch of this with the phones. I mean, that's kind of the mentality these days is if I don't put it up on Instagram, it didn't happen. And I fall into that. And I wish I didn't. But as a comic, it's a necessary evil to like do the social media stuff. I miss comedy being in. showrooms, you know,
Ryan: Yeah?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: and being a true craft versus now I think it's shifted to people wanting to get into it to be famous and not really wanting to hone that craft. and also like there are very good comics, who I have known for a really long time and have had the privilege of watching them, you know, on shitty little stages in New York City, try to work out stuff. And now when I see specials, not that they're bad, I would never go so far. They're not bad, but you can kind of see how even the really great comics have had to dilute. because they're also
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: doing a podcast and this and that, know. So I miss, I miss that comic who is just a comic.
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: think about that as, know, even in the 90s, when you look at Jerry Seinfeld, when I first started to try comedy and then I did not do well, you would understand that I went on to an open mic and I didn't realize open mics were mostly comics and I didn't realize that open mics were you know, where people were trying to work their kinks out. And I went up and I didn't get any laughs. And I was like, well, not doing that ever again. And, and so, you know, Jerry Seinfeld was one of my idols back then. And now comic, so many different comic styles that are out there, but it's like, when you look at Jerry, you know, Jerry Seinfeld, that was it. And then, you know, he from, you know, like, 1975 to like 1989 was his comic career where they were like and then they were like okay now you have a tv show
Mo Vida: Yeah. But here's the thing that most people don't recognize, and it's shifting a little bit, but comics who are new to the world have been at least grinding it out for 10 years. know,
Coley: yeah.
Mo Vida: everybody sucks when you first start and... you're supposed to suck. I that's the whole thing. I miss going to open because there's something nice here in Denver about going to open mics and there are real people there. And it's not just comics. But I do feel like it's a double edged sword because then I personally find myself wanting to perform a little bit more. Right. Whereas if it's just comics and they understand it's batting practice, like on I'll have a few beers and go up and just talk and see if anything comes out of my mouth that's a good premise that I can work on. Like it's genuinely nothing. It's nothing funny. Like, and I know
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: that I don't go up there thinking to myself, I'm going to be funny. I go up there like, okay, let me really just go and see what happens. but I don't know. You're not supposed to be funny when you start.
Ryan: Well, I'm about
Coley: No, no, Yeah.
Ryan: to get that experience. I'm doing my first stand up with one of his shows Friday, so I can't wait to not be funny.
Mo Vida: I really?
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Well, I mean, I think you will be, but you know, you can't, the problem is, is if you're comparing yourself to Jerry Seinfeld, right? And you're like, I want to be
Ryan: Nah, nah.
Mo Vida: like him. I mean, you're not there yet, right? It's like anything. I mean, you watch the Olympics, you watch figure skating, they make it look easy. And then you realize you can't even stand up on skates.
Coley: Right.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah. So I'm just going to just go in with no real expectations. Kind of like whenever I go talk to any woman in general and just...
Coley: Hahaha!
Ryan: and just get re- No,
Mo Vida: That should be your comedy album, Zero Expectations.
Ryan: I was gonna, a different idea. was like, six inches used to mean something was gonna be my-
Coley: Yeah
Mo Vida: I have a joke about that actually. I mean, yeah, I think I made a promise to myself and I was like, the day comedy isn't fun anymore. I'm going to quit.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: You know, and not every of course you have bad shows and bad road gigs. I don't mean that. But once it starts to be a chore, I don't find it fun anymore. I'm on autopilot every single show, I'm not
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: engaging with the audience, then I think it's time for me to step away.
Coley: And I do feel like there are comedians who are at that point who they're the big comedians where it is kind of on autopilot where, you you read articles about how Ron White has to have his lead writer go work open mics to see if the jokes are funny because are people laughing because it's a funny joke or are people laughing because you're Ron White?
Mo Vida: Yeah, probably both for him and listen, it's a tough paycheck to say no to at that point. And
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I don't know, I'd probably do it too. But it is kind of crazy because you're like, well, go do something else then.
Coley: Well,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: that's kind
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: of what I got at why I started to get into it because I was I'm a teacher right now and I and I loved I still love teaching but like It became it became it like a toll on me it became a task, you know, and it was just one of those things that It was like, all right, gotta see if there's something that we, you go back to what did make you happy.
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: You're happy when people are laughing at your jokes. Go back to that,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: you know?
Mo Vida: Yeah. And I mean, I think if I had to guess what you love about teaching is, you know, being able to really be in front of kids and see that they're getting it make a difference or if they're not getting it, help them get over that barrier, that hurdle. My guess is you're now having to deal with all these outside things, parents, administrators, standardized tests, all these things that really prohibit you from being the teacher that you want to be and that probably the kids need. And I feel like social media is that for comedy now, you know? And it sucks. So that's from the 80s. That's what I miss is comics being able to beat comics. Yeah, you can go on and, you know, get your sitcom or whatever. Also, back then, when you got a late night, that meant so much more than it does today.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Not that it, I should rephrase that. It means a lot today, but it wasn't, or rather now, it's not this like fail safe for sure golden ticket. Not
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to use a Kill Tony term, but.
Coley: And when Johnny Carson brought, so you would go out, there were comedians that would go out and they
Mo Vida: Yeah, you got to sit. Yeah.
Coley: would do their set. And if he waved you over, that was even bigger than even getting on Carson. Like if he waved you over, he's like, hey, I want to talk to you. And you're like, my gosh, this is exciting now.
Mo Vida: That was a huge stamp of approval and then your career took off and I know comics who are great comics have had a few late night sets and if I mentioned their names, you guys might know but like everyday comedy fan might not.
Coley: Sure, yeah, it's kind of the same thing when you think about even like music genres or something like that where it's like, can tell you Taylor Swift and I can tell you Garth Brooks and anybody, even if you've never listened to their songs in the world, they know those names. if I, Mike Berbiglia is my big one that no, everyone's like, who? And I love, he's like my favorite. he's so good.
Mo Vida: Yeah, and he's brilliant and he's perfect. mean, he is such a, you know, and that's the thing, like, I'm OK. Should I ever reach the point where like other comics are like, oh, yeah, like not look up to me. I don't need them to look up to me. But if they're like, oh, yeah, you know, like I know her stuff. I like her stuff, whatever. Yeah, it's it's really crazy. But that's the business side of it. That's the money side of it, you know. And sometimes I always laugh when I hear people and it's usually when they go to like certain clubs and then they'll be like, we're big. We're big comedy fans.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I'm like, no, you're not. You come to this club
Coley: Right.
Mo Vida: so you can see somebody who is famous or semi famous so you can get your picture with them and then tell your friends that you met a celebrity. So really what you are is a sycophant who likes a two drink minimum.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Ha
Coley: How long have you been doing it?
Mo Vida: I've been doing this since 2009. Yeah,
Coley: Okay. Okay.
Mo Vida: I didn't take it seriously at first, I kind of got into it. My hair. I love it when people were like, what got you into it? I'm like, my dad died. And that just goes, and I'm like, well, I'm
Ryan: Ha ha
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: sorry. didn't know you didn't want the truth.
Coley: Right?
Mo Vida: but yeah, I I was in New York, my father passed away here in Denver. It was the financial crisis. And I just kind of went, I don't know that all. be in New York forever and what are some things I want to try or do? And I took a bunch of writing courses and one of them was like a one day workshop in comedy. You know, we had to get up at the end and do like three minutes or whatever. And the guy was like, oh, we do like a 10 week course where you have to go to a club and really do a show. And I was like, that sounds terrifying. Let me sign up for that.
Coley: Ha
Ryan: Yes, I love that.
Mo Vida: Yeah. Yeah, and then we started going to open mics to practice. I met really cool people. But you know, I was older, what was I, 35, something. I was like in my mid, I was not young. And I had a career, full-time job and stuff, so I didn't really take it seriously. And arguably now I think people would say like, you know, I'm not grinding it out, doing the social media and all of that. And I was like, again, it's the promise I made myself.
Coley: Sure. Yeah, you know, and, and, you know, it's always one of those things where people are like, you want to find something that doesn't feel like work. Well, I guarantee you the Olympic swimmers that feels like work to them. I
Mo Vida: There we go.
Coley: you, look at Nikola Jokic from the nuggets. He hates, he looks like, it's like going to a, you might as well be working in a, in a cubicle.
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: We were just talking about that because we were watching the game the
Ryan: That's hilarious.
Mo Vida: other night and we were both laughing because the person I was watching it with is also Eastern European and obviously so is Jokic. We were just laughing because we were like, yeah, he won MVP. He won the whole shebang and they were like, you know, what's next? Are you excited? What are you going to do? And he's like, yeah, no, I'm going to go home. Like my job here is done. I'm going go ride my horses. You know,
Ryan: That's cool.
Mo Vida: he couldn't give two shits.
Coley: The best reaction was when they told him that he had to go to the parade and he's like, what? I have to what?
Mo Vida: Yeah, that's very Eastern European.
Ryan: Yeah. So what was the,
Coley: yeah, anyway, well.
Ryan: I was going to ask you like what, you know, we always like to, since we're talking about the eighties and nineties, like what was high school like for you?
Mo Vida: well looking back on it, right? It was my parents were very strict. So I didn't have as much fun as others but
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: again, I think it was just It was fun like, you know, we socialized we We're just in it like look, I don't have kids. So I just kind of hear it from friends of mine One of my friends recently mentioned to me he was at his daughter's high school graduation. This was probably not that recently, but anyhow, and he was like, hey, you know, go get your friends and I'm going to take you guys all out to a nice dinner. She's like, I don't have any friends because she went to high school during COVID.
Ryan: poor thing. Jeez.
Mo Vida: Yeah, so that kind of stuff really opens my eyes to the fact that like we really connected like I just ran into somebody who I went to high school with I think she was a freshman and I was a senior or whatever. She's like, I remember your name, which again, I'm not always thinking that's a good thing. But
Coley: Heh.
Mo Vida: just,
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: I don't know how to explain it. We were just present. We were there, we got to connect with each other. you know, we played a bunch of different sports. One of the things that I really value is you could fuck up and it didn't like end your life. It didn't end your career the same way. You know, like you were allowed to be a human being. You were allowed to learn from mistakes. And I feel like that. has caused a lot of anxiety because it's just not there the same way.
Ryan: Yeah, I feel the same way. You could get away with murder a lot easier back then. you know, that
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: was, you know, I mean...
Mo Vida: But I mean, I know you're being like, like hyperbolic about it. But the reality is, is these days, I feel like you can't even misspeak, you can't make a mistake.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Like, I like to go on Instagram and kind of run social experiments from time to time.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And I remember one was, it was during COVID. And there was a guy and he didn't have his mask on and the cop didn't have his mask on and the guy got arrested and he got covid and I said I made a comment and I said so the guy without the mask is suing the police officer who gave him covid right people piled on you stupid bitch he was eating pizza can't you fucking see the like the vitriol and and
Ryan: Jeez. Yeah.
Mo Vida: the first few comments I went and I shoot, sorry. I didn't see like for me. It doesn't show up I didn't see he was eating it just looked like you know He also didn't have a mask on then I had people like why don't you delete your comment? but at that point I was like no because I want to see what happens and then people start fighting with each other on your thing
Ryan: yeah. Yeah.
Mo Vida: and Because I also have
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: a master's in psychology. I'm like this this is Fascinating but this
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Popcorn.
Mo Vida: fucking sucks, dude This is sad.
Ryan: That's every day for a lot of people. That's all their, that's
Mo Vida: I'm home.
Ryan: their whole life is like just going on and just like piling on and you know, it's, it's, it's depressing.
Mo Vida: And that's what I miss. I miss being in a time where people's default emotion wasn't, fuck you. Like I've had that happen. I was pulling into a parking space and this woman had her door kind of ajar, right?
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And I didn't know she was getting in or out. So I'm pulling in and I stop and I do a very gentle honk so she knows that I'm there, right? So she doesn't swing her door open and she like looks out at her door. It gives me the dirtiest look and I'm like, bitch, I'm trying to help you.
Coley: Right?
Mo Vida: Like it is crazy. So that is a big thing I miss. I'm not saying people weren't mean. I'm not saying there weren't bullies and all of that. But I think it's Louis Sique who
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: said, you know, back in the eighties, when you bullied somebody, you had to do it to their face and you
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: had to watch
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: them cry or you had to run the risk of getting popped in the face.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, if you rain your mouth to someone, that yeah, you're gonna get hit in the face. You know, it's like, and yeah.
Mo Vida: Yeah. Or even watching them cry, right? Like, if you're not a complete sociopath,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: that's hard. You know, you have
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to all of a sudden sit with like, I caused this person real pain.
Coley: Right? Yeah, because when someone types something on online, I think I posted a video of myself and someone goes, why is Caesar Chavez doing standup comedy? And I was like... What? One what? I'm white!
Mo Vida: Well, and now you have bots, right? So
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: now when something unhinged gets said, I will go to that profile and I'll see like, you know, do they have zero followers and like three pictures and stuff like that? because then it's probably a bot or if not a bot but literally because what is it like they have rooms filled with people who are just trying to keep the algorithm up. Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, trolls. Mm-hmm.
Ryan: That is, that's bizarre to me. Like, like if you would have
Mo Vida: It is!
Ryan: told me like 25 years ago, we'd be dealing with this shit, I would have been like, you are fucking smoking something that I need to smoke because that's ridiculous.
Mo Vida: Yeah, it's I mean, again, I don't want to get too psychobabbly on this, you know, you are seeing a lot more. things presenting in much younger children
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: that just didn't exist in the 80s. And listen, when I was in high school, like the big thing was suicide, know, drugs, right? This is your brain on drugs, that kind of stuff.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Dare.
Mo Vida: After school specials about suicide. So it's not that these things didn't exist. They've unfortunately always existed in
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: humankind. But I just think it's social media has exacerbated it so much. I was, this is TMI, but I went to go get Botox, right? For my headaches. No, I did, actually do get them
Coley: Hehehehe... Hehehehe... Hehehehehe...
Mo Vida: for my, but I just get like a few here, right? For my 11s, but also for headaches. And I was talking to the woman and I said, listen, just to be clear, I'm a standup. I need my face. And she was like, no, no, no, I totally get that. And then, I don't know, we were talking more about it. And she goes, well, yeah, you know, like I try to really guide my clients who come in here and like, you know, they're teenagers. And I'm like, I'm sorry, what? Like, yeah,
Ryan: Teenagers? Huh.
Coley: You
Mo Vida: we get like teenagers coming. I'm like, is that even legal? But I get,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Is it? Oh yeah.
Mo Vida: I don't know, like maybe the parents are saying it's fine. I don't know.
Ryan: I think people are just, I mean, average probably teenager just so, feel so judged, so crushed by getting bullied by all the stuff that's happening online. Like, because if you think about it back in our day, like there'd be a few bullies. Now you magnify that by how ever many followers or people. So, so these kids are no wonder there's a massive mental health crisis right now is because of social media and 24 hour news cycles. And, you know,
Mo Vida: Well, that's the thing, right? You got to go home from it. So if I had a bully at school,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I could go home. I can hang out with my siblings or my friends. I could, you know, have a really nice evening recharge. I can have good,
Ryan: Decompress, yeah.
Mo Vida: you know, I could feel love.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And that would help me probably deal with that bully, if not come face to face with them, but like at least emotionally. But now it's just nonstop. then everything is, I would say follow the money, right? So all these algorithms, it's to get you to think there are all these things wrong with you and then you need the products, which absolutely existed in the 80s. However, You it would be women's magazines or teen magazines, right?
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: So if you didn't buy them, which I stopped buying them because I realized like after reading I get like all the you know Cosmo and this and that then I felt like shit about myself and I would want to go buy all the creams and makeups and all I still do but But my point is is that you could put
Ryan: Me too.
Mo Vida: it away You this is that what you look so good
Coley: Yeah. That's why he live. Yeah. Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm turned 75 tomorrow. So,
Mo Vida: Woo! You've drinking that baby's blood.
Ryan: you know, just, yeah, virgin baby blood. So, but no.
Mo Vida: Yeah, so that's another thing I miss is that you could, you know, cut things off like it was easier to remove yourself from bad situations.
Ryan: I mean, it's almost like now to remove yourself from internet and stuff like that, you would have to like move to like a remote farm in like South America and start herding sheep or something like that. You know, it's like, or just a remote something because
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: it's everywhere. You go to the gym, it's like there's 50 TVs all showing like the worst things that are happening, everything, you know? So you can't... It's hard to escape it. And I'm sure that just manifests psychologically for everyone. And that's why everyone's just kind of panic mode all the time.
Mo Vida: totally. And just even like when I stopped watching the news, which by the way, polysci major, huge news junkie, but I started to really pay attention and I'm talking about like the news, like a CNN channel or first of all,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: 24 seven news doesn't exist. Right. So it's a lot of the same. and then one of the big shifts I noticed from when I was growing up,
Ryan: huh.
Mo Vida: First of all, you didn't have the 24-7, right? So you would watch the morning local news You would watch the evening local news and then you'd have the national news but Also, if it was like breaking news, it truly was. It was like the challenger exploding, right? Now everything is breaking news. They're like Trump farted, breaking news, you know?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And, and, but what that does is it does create this anxiety because when it flashes on the screen and it's red and you know, the music, like these are all psychological things. It's not by accident. It's by design.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And yeah, the level of anxiety, I mean, we had anxiety too, because we thought the Russians were going to,
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: you know, bomb us with a nuclear bomb and
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: obliterate us. You know, we had
Ryan: Hahaha
Mo Vida: the AIDS crisis. But again, I think the difference was we could turn it off. We could go back to just what's going on in my life, my family, my friends.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, the breaking news would interrupt a program and it would be a real thing. And it was really, truly breaking news. I know this is in the 90s, but it sticks out in my mind is when 9-11 happened. It's like literally watching something else and then they were like, shit, this is happening right now.
Mo Vida: Yeah, I was in New York for 9-11.
Coley: Yeah, gosh.
Ryan: wow. Where were you? How far were you away from all that? You know, the kind of the center.
Mo Vida: Not far. I was like, basically, well, the financial center is all the way kind of at the tip. And then you have like what's considered downtown. And then I was between downtown and midtown. But, but yeah, I mean, that's the thing, right? Is that that is breaking and it is stuff that should get, you know, anxious about like, okay.
Coley: Totally. This is an important thing.
Mo Vida: Yeah, but now it's like.
Ryan: not not chloe kardashian's next round of like liposuction you know like i mean
Mo Vida: But you know, that's the thing is, again, it's follow the money because they've got to keep the advertisers. They're now competing with other. channels but also things online. mean it's really bonkers and honestly it's I'm happy to hear I'm hearing rumors what is it Gen Alpha that they want to go back to analog like they're not is it am I saying that right? Have you heard this? Or maybe even
Coley: I, Jen Alpha would be, yeah, I think, yeah, Jenna.
Mo Vida: Gen Z I think Gen Z might be but like I
Ryan: Yeah, I think it.
Mo Vida: think they're starting to realize like this is
Coley: Ahem.
Mo Vida: really fucking us up.
Ryan: And it's not, it's like, we're not, no one's asking for any of this stuff. It's all being like thrusted upon us. And there's not like a, it's not like we can like, and it's like you said, it's all the clicks. It's like, you know, the positive articles aren't going to get clicks, right? It is the,
Mo Vida: they're like drug dealers because if you think about it
Ryan: the negative articles that are going to get clicks. so, so of course.
Mo Vida: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But sorry, you're you're freezing on my end. That's my bad.
Coley: Yeah, you're a
Ryan: Nah.
Coley: prison on my end too. He's just a free. He's just a frozen guy, so don't you have to excuse him.
Ryan: I'm cold. I'm cold-hearted. Cold-hearted.
Mo Vida: No, I'm not trying to interrupt you, you froze.
Coley: Hahaha
Ryan: Oh no, I forgot what I was saying.
Coley: Yeah, that's what you do when you're
Mo Vida: Thank you.
Coley: 75, you forget.
Ryan: I did. I'm 75. I still occasionally smoke marijuana too. do you
Coley: Heh!
Ryan: remember this?
Mo Vida: I feel bad, I was like, this isn't very funny you guys. I'm sorry.
Ryan: None.
Mo Vida: I'm like very Oprah right now. like...
Coley: No, but seriously, this is what we, this is, I we've been talking about it. We're like, we would love to do a show on like mental health and just, you know, just on how much it has changed. truly it, like, it's insane how, I mean, literally you look at your phone and you open it up and everything is news. Like, it doesn't matter whether it's, whether it's politic news or, your buddy's dog dying or whatever. Like it's just news all over the place.
Ryan: Also, people having access to you all at one time, too. That's another thing. You're getting ear fucked from 50 different angles and you're like, I forgot to respond to this person, that person. Before, it's like someone just calls you on the phone and now you just... Think about young vulnerable kids that are just getting into relationships as teens or something. It's like they don't get a text back. Someone forgot to do it. they killed themselves because of it.
Mo Vida: they're not. That's the other thing is now we're in this crisis of young people not even connecting. had this is bonkers. Um, so when I moved to Denver, which was what like 2016 I moved back here. There was an open mic, and it was in a coffee shop that was in the bottom of an apartment building. And it was basically the parking garage, this coffee shop and then apartments above. I pulled up, I parked on the street at the same time some dude was parking in the parking garage. We looked at each other and I smiled. And at the time I was like, oh, maybe he's a comic. Like he was a white guy with a beard, right? Pretty good chance. I assumed he was coming to the open. I genuinely was like, oh, maybe he's smiling at me because he's a comic. He saw me in another open mic. Anyhow. So he comes into the coffee shop. We start chatting. Turns out, no, he just noticed me. I noticed him. I smiled. He lived in the building and I told him, hey, it's an open mic. he was a nurse, he's a nurse, and I
Ryan: Mmm.
Mo Vida: actually convinced him to go up at the open mic.
Ryan: my god, that's hilarious.
Coley: That's awesome.
Mo Vida: But anyhow, the reason I share this with you is like weeks later I was telling somebody that I was going on a date with this guy and how I had met him.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And she's much younger than me and she goes, he followed you? my God, you should have called the cops.
Coley: Huh?
Mo Vida: You're going to go out with them? Are you terrified? And
Coley: You
Mo Vida: I was like, you realize you wouldn't be here right now on this planet if your parents hadn't have connected like,
Coley: Right? yeah.
Mo Vida: but it was such an eye opener to me
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: because I was like, I feel much safer that he came into a public space with me. I got a vibe from him. got a gut feeling from him.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And, you know, we've been made to believe that the dating apps are telling us everything. And they've become phenomenally more dangerous on so many more levels than
Ryan: Mm.
Mo Vida: going out on a date with somebody. You know? Right, right. Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry. Yeah.
Ryan: or meeting someone in like the physical, but also a meeting.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: I like to just say meeting in the wild, you know, it's like it's meeting in the wild, but the dating apps are just, they're, terrible. And, you know, and that's why I, know, I'm single, I'm 44. I'm like, I'm not going to die alone. So I'm going to just start going out and like meeting people in Yeah, because the dating apps, it's a skewed kind of percentage anyway. Like every dating app is like the biggest sausage fest you've ever been to in your life. It's 80 % guys, 20 % girls.
Mo Vida: Is it?
Ryan: It is like if you look at the actual statistics and it makes sense because a lot of women, you know, they're able. Yeah.
Mo Vida: I like classic.
Ryan: I mean, me too. I just had a sausage pizza earlier
Coley: You
Ryan: today. It was, was very good. but, but you know, it's like, yeah. So, so there's like this. I think there's a huge kind of percentage of guys now that don't are afraid to go out and meet women. And then they're,
Mo Vida: in Hush.
Ryan: and they're not able to have any success on the dating apps because of these percentage differentials there. So, so they're just kind of like in the basement mom's basement. So,
Mo Vida: Yeah, and but you know, I also think they're afraid to go out because now women and that's what I realized when this girl said this is if somebody approached her in the wild,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: she would probably say no regardless because she genuinely would feel afraid. You understand what I mean? So that's what's
Ryan: Yeah, I know, get it. I get it,
Mo Vida: scary
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to me is that We have young people now who don't trust their intuition. They don't trust their instincts. They don't trust other human beings to the point where, like you said, now they're just not engaging.
Ryan: Yeah. And I get that too. Like if you get to a certain point where you've tried and nothing happens, you kind of like get to this point where you're just like, well, it's not like you're just going to give up, but you're just, your brain like goes offline
Mo Vida: You do.
Ryan: with it. You know, you start to do other
Coley: You do.
Ryan: things and you know, you start to,
Mo Vida: That's where AI girlfriends come in and porn. mean, porn is a huge issue.
Ryan: Yeah, or... or you just join a cult, you know?
Coley: Do you miss porn from the 80s?
Mo Vida: no porn from the I missed the plot. They had some good plots. There
Ryan: This story.
Mo Vida: was always like the sorority and there was rush and you know, hazing. They had good plots back then.
Ryan: or like Guy shows up with a pizza box or something like
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: that.
Mo Vida: Yeah, you know like I need my TV fixed. Why don't you plug your
Coley: Eeyup!
Mo Vida: dick into me?
Ryan: yeah, but but seriously that's an
Mo Vida: But the access, you know, having access to porn, it's crazy. Like I remember my next door neighbor, her dad had a huge Playboy collection, but it was like the top of a shelf in his office, you know,
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: he had to work for it. Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, you had a word for porn.
Mo Vida: It was, you had to hide your porn. mean,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: it was a whole, whole thing. and now I
Ryan: And now it's the complete opposite.
Mo Vida: literally watch guys watch porn on the subway.
Ryan: Oh my God. Yeah. And I honestly, I mean, I used to do it more, but I feel like it does something to your brain that's fucking terrible. Like if you do it like all the time, you know, it's like, so now I'm
Mo Vida: It is? Yeah, there's tons of studies.
Ryan: only once a day.
Coley: Okay.
Mo Vida: Gotta clean the pipes, I get it. I would encourage you to try to use your imagination. Everyone's...
Ryan: No, no, that's
Coley: man.
Ryan: it. I mean, that's the truth, though. It really is like a poison, kind of like a hidden poison that people just are like, eh, you know. But some states have made it to where you can't. And I found this out when I was in North Carolina and I couldn't log on porn. I was like, well, looks like there's no porn in North Carolina.
Coley: What the fuck is wrong?
Mo Vida: Yeah, I mean, that's they're doing it for different reasons that, you know, I don't necessarily agree with. However, it is a very I would I would go so far as to call it an epidemic, to be honest with you. And I am not a prude. I watch porn from time, but there's definitely. And again, it goes back to the way social media is set up, these sites are set up, they're all set up dating apps, they're all set up to get
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: you addicted. And
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I use that word seriously, it is
Coley: No, it's a-
Mo Vida: to get people addicted. So then it's like, well, if they're trying, I mean, they're drug dealers, basically.
Ryan: Yeah. Yeah. And not to mention the dating sites too, always target the guys from obviously a monetary perspective. It's like, it's like girls get in free at the club and guys have to pay, but that's like the way it is for the dating apps. They're, like charging them like, yeah, we're going to put you, pay $20 a month and we'll get your picture in the top 5 % of whatever, you know? So yeah, but it's like a perfect.
Mo Vida: Yeah. I mean, it's ridiculous. And you know, you brought up a good point that I was going to say too, cause you were talking about access, right? And the fact that people have access to you all the time and that I definitely miss from the eighties and also just it, it really fucks with your head to constantly have notifications going off.
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: I mean, I have ADHD and it's ticked off
Ryan: Me too.
Mo Vida: diagnosed, but,
Ryan: Hahaha
Mo Vida: But it is, it's really disruptive. It's not how the human brain is made to work. And, you know, I've worked for companies where they're like, well, we're on Slack and also, you know, we've got GChat and all this. And I'm like, just send me a fucking email.
Coley: Yeah, seriously.
Ryan: Dude, in my current job, have like, there are like 70 Slack channels. It's like, here,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: this is for this, this is for this, this is for this. And then I'm like, sitting there every time I hear it now, it's like PTSD. I hear it in nightmares. I'm like, it's that
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: little pop sound. You're like, good Lord. It's like whenever
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: you get a prank call from like an Indian guy, you hear that little boop, like right before, then they come in. Hello, this is Sam.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: you Yeah, so I mean you so you know it's really bad for the brain and I miss It goes back to what I was saying. I just miss that people were present and you were allowed to be present. How about this one? taking a fucking flight and Being able to sleep or read a book or just
Ryan: Right?
Mo Vida: listen to music. Now, you know, your boss is like, hey, you know, let me know once you board and then get on wifi and you're just not allowed to not be connected anymore.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah, it's like I remember my dad, said, I mean, he was working Fortune 500 companies. Like when the day ended, the day ended, you know, it's like, it was over and you didn't have people like, I know it's 7 PM, but I really need you to log back into that fucking blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and get into that Excel file and go fuck yourself over there.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I remember my dad, he was a civil engineer and I remember the first time his job gave him a pager and he told him to go fuck themselves. And that's beautiful to hear
Ryan: ha ha, nature.
Coley: You Yeah
Mo Vida: in like a Hungarian accent. What? No, go fuck yourself. You're like,
Ryan: God of... Vakna.
Mo Vida: sorry.
Ryan: Mwah!
Mo Vida: Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. I worked for a boss who would email me at like two and three in the morning and you know, and then it becomes boundary setting. And now you really have to learn how to set boundaries and things like that.
Ryan: Or you just start planting the mental health seed to where you can just fucking hammer them with like a fucking lawsuit from,
Mo Vida: Not that.
Ryan: I told you I have ADHD, you keep piling this on, now I'm in the insane asylum and I need... Yeah,
Mo Vida: I personally prefer sexual harassment, but...
Ryan: well, you know, as a guy...
Mo Vida: I'm 80s that way.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah, some good old, I feel like back in the 80s, like just watching movies, like it was like normal, like just like a boss like grabbing his secretary's ass or something like that. And she was like, you're so silly, Bob.
Mo Vida: Well, that's what like the movie nine to five is, right? It's about like secretaries
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: and this boss and, but do you guys go back and watch movies from the eighties? And there are moments that
Ryan: I love movies from the 80s.
Mo Vida: are a little cringe where you're like,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I forgot they use the word retarded that many times in this movie.
Coley: Yeah, I just watched
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Pretty in Pink and it was not, like it did not age well. I mean, it's a great movie, but there's so many things in there.
Ryan: But some, but I don't, I still don't,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: but I mean, even though they're saying that stuff back then, like I still don't like the movie any less. It's just, it was just a different time, you know?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Yeah, well, and
Ryan: So.
Mo Vida: I don't agree with people who kind of want to take everything all of that away because it's like, no, we actually need people to watch and first of all, be able to decipher between like. the entirety of it and the story it's
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: telling and those things. And I think it's important to be like, this used to be acceptable, right? And now it's not. And it's okay to have that visceral reaction and be like, don't really, because that teaches your kids, hey,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: we don't use this word anymore. And this is why, because
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: this is what it means, you know? But we didn't know back then. I mean, ARK, I don't know if you guys ever donate to ARK.
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Mm-mm.
Coley: I have donated art.
Mo Vida: Yeah, well, go look at what the R stands for.
Ryan: man.
Mo Vida: Yeah, yeah. But you have to understand
Coley: That's probably why they go by Ark now.
Mo Vida: that it's important to learn from our mistakes, which goes back to what I was saying, where now I feel like people are just not allowed to make mistakes.
Ryan: Yeah. And that's ridiculous. And another thing is a guy, you know, like think about guys that grew up in the 78, 70s, 80s, 90s, like the whole toxic masculinity thing, right? It's like they were, we were just brought up on that, you know, it's not like, and it's kind of baked into the culture a bit. So it's like, we've been trying to wean ourselves off of that for years, but you know, that's just, you know, what you grew up around, you know, like And, and, you know, sure it's changing slowly, but surely, but, you know, you can't, you can't hate people that still have a little bit of that because they just haven't shed it all completely yet, you know, and it's just a remnant of a prior time.
Mo Vida: But I think you guys know this as well as I do. It's about intentions, right? Because,
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: and I've had this conversation with people who are trans, right?
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: Or choose they, them. I mean, mostly what they have told me is that if they know somebody is trying, then that's what matters. And so if
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: they misspeak, but let's say they misspeak and they correct them or they misspeak and correct themselves or whatever, like that's really to them more meaningful than when you can tell somebody who's like, well, no, fuck you, I'm not gonna respect you. And that's why I'm not doing it.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I again, I feel like with the way social media is and the way we're interpreting things is we're missing those nuances. It's very, things feel so black and white, but at the same time. like a complete mishmash of things. Like it's very confusing. I'm very glad that my youth is grounded in
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: the 80s
Coley: Same here.
Mo Vida: and 90s.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I would hate to be young now. I mean, they don't know any different.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Right, but it is definitely different. is, I mean, like it is so much, it
Ryan: It's night, night and day.
Coley: is so much worse. But yeah.
Mo Vida: the anxiety. My heart breaks
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: for the level of anxiety. They're not allowed to have childhoods. Kids today
Ryan: No.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: don't have a childhood.
Ryan: They can't
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: go out and ride bikes as much or kind of do the things we used to do as kids that everybody freaks out about.
Coley: that our theme song talks about,
Ryan: that our theme song talks about. Yeah, yeah.
Mo Vida: There's that great
Ryan: But that's what...
Mo Vida: meme, right? Have you guys seen it? Where like how we used to know where everybody was and it was just a bunch of bikes piled on the lawn. I love that.
Coley: Yeah, yep, yep, exactly.
Ryan: my god.
Coley: That was the old social media. Yeah. man,
Ryan: I mean, yeah.
Coley: I love this conversation. This was so much fun.
Mo Vida: Was it?
Ryan: Yeah. Now this was our first like super real conversation. We've had like a lot of like fluffy, fluffy
Coley: I think this, it is true. We've had a lot of fun.
Ryan: conversations, but this kind of cut. No, no, no.
Mo Vida: I'm sorry. I know I'm supposed to be funny, but...
Coley: Hey, don't apologize at all. This was great. I think that this was one of our best ones that we've done so far. I mean, we've been talking for almost an hour, which is insane. we're,
Mo Vida: really? Oops.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: yeah. No, no, it's okay. It's totally fine. It works and I think it needs to happen like that sometimes.
Ryan: Yeah, and mental health conversations need to keep happening and, you know, and that's, it's, something that's, it's not getting better. And, you know, we need to figure out as, as a society, how to better support people, you know, in these situations as they are growing up, you know, even though I don't have kids, but, you know, I still don't want to see them angry or depressed.
Coley: But you know, you see, mean, say, yeah, but you, but the, you know, like they say, the kids are our future. And if we can't, you know, if we can't figure out how to help them, then, then, you know, our future is going to be rough. Yeah.
Ryan: I believe children are our future and treat them well. Who was that?
Coley: I'm going to log off and you guys just finished. I
Mo Vida: We won't talk about how she died from a crack.
Coley: was going to say, I'm going to log
Ryan: Ahaha!
Coley: off and you guys can just finish this, finish the segment with karaoke.
Ryan: my god, do you do karaoke, man?
Mo Vida: If I'm really drunk, I'm first of all, I can't
Ryan: Yeah, yeah.
Coley: Hehehehe
Mo Vida: carry a tune to save my life so
Ryan: Okay.
Mo Vida: If I'm doing it I'm very probably not sober and Everybody in the room is gonna regret being like just do it you can do it and then they hear me sing and they're like
Ryan: Yeah, you'll be great!
Coley: You
Mo Vida: You guys do karaoke? What are your songs? What's your song? I love it. I just can't sing.
Ryan: I love karaoke. love karaoke. I do a lot of,
Coley: Yeah, I do.
Ryan: I do like, I like to do.
Coley: Mine's Cheeseburger in Paradise or Johnny B. Good.
Ryan: Ugh, nice. Those are both...
Mo Vida: Wait, wait, what was the first one? my God, that's so funny. What do you do, Ryan?
Coley: Cheeseburger in Paradise or Johnny B. Goode. I crushed it
Ryan: Jimmy Buffett. Yeah.
Coley: in Mexico.
Ryan: I like to do some, I'm a classic rock guy, I'll do some some Leonard Skinner, I'll do some Allman Brothers, I'll do some like 90s sublime stuff. But yeah, I just like to get into it. And after, like you, after having a few drinks, I'm just like, I'm the greatest singer in the world.
Mo Vida: Well, I try to get people to come up with me because
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: this is the stupid thing. I still can't sing well. So I didn't realize this by the way, but karaoke like the songs and the words are always off by a little bit so they don't have to pay for rights. And I noticed
Ryan: that's interesting. Okay.
Mo Vida: that because I know songs and I sing songs and I'm
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: like, this seems off. Like I feel like I know this song and the words aren't going where I'm going. But anyhow, So if I can get people who can carry the tune for me up with me, I'm okay. So I'll either make somebody do like a duet with me or I'll do Proud Mary back when Ike was still beating Tina. And I got the dance down too. We're like friends in low places. That's a fun.
Ryan: that's a good one. man. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. I'm... yeah. Our little summer lovin' had me a blast. Yep. That's a good one.
Mo Vida: yeah. So if I if I do, I try to like bring everybody in on it.
Coley: Nice.
Ryan: Have a little help from your friends. Yep, of
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: course, of course.
Mo Vida: Exactly.
Coley: All right, well, we've taken plenty of your time, Mo, but we appreciate the conversation. I had a lot of fun with it. Yeah.
Mo Vida: This was super fun. Thanks for having me.
Ryan: Yeah, me too and hope to meet you in person and get to see one of your shows and have a couple of beverages with you at some point in time.
Mo Vida: We'll go do karaoke.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah, comedians karaoke. That should be interesting. Yeah, I'm trying to figure
Mo Vida: It will be fun. Well, and good luck with your, you're going to do standing. So good luck.
Ryan: out whether to do like a, I got like eight minutes down. yeah, so I'm like, where
Mo Vida: that's good. Where is this? Where's your show?
Ryan: is it at, Colie? It's at a.
Coley: Westminster brewing in Westminster.
Mo Vida: Westminster.
Ryan: Yeah, you're doing like a free comedy show, right? With like four or five people.
Coley: Yeah, fair love is gonna be there and... I can't think of what's after that on my head.
Mo Vida: Really fun.
Coley: Yeah, we get that.
Ryan: Yeah, so that'll be cool. I appreciate you.
Mo Vida: Well, luck and yeah, we get to work together for sure.
Coley: Thanks. Yeah, absolutely.
Ryan: Yep, yep.
Coley: So, we're Offline Days, that's us. Find us on social media. YouTube, TikTok, Facebook.
Ryan: You porn?
Coley: Yeah, no, not yet, Ryan. We've
Ryan: You
Coley: discussed, corporate has discussed that. We have to get that, we have to get it approved.
Ryan: Hahaha
Coley: Well, it's approved now. All right, there we go. Corporate approved it,
Ryan: See
Coley: there we go. yeah, all right well it was a pleasure talking with you and honestly I had a blast. I can't believe how long we've been talking and that was so much fun so.
Mo Vida: That was fun. Thanks so much, you guys. I had a lot of fun, too.
Coley: Yeah. All right.
Ryan: Alright, have a good evening guys.
Coley: and we have a very special guest with us. Mo, do you want to introduce yourself?
Mo Vida: I'm Moe. I'm Moe Vita. I'm
Coley: Hahaha
Mo Vida: a stand-up comic and I'm excited to be on guys. Thanks for having me.
Coley: Yeah, I don't know if you remember me Mo, but I opened for you in one of Joe for one of Joe's shows back in like, oh, I want to say it was like July, June or July or something like that. It was at the
Mo Vida: Where was it? What was the name?
Coley: Superior Theater in the flip side, I think it is.
Mo Vida: God. You're asking grandma to remember things, but no, no, no, no,
Coley: Yeah Anyway, that's it. You get around.
Mo Vida: I get around. I get around. That's the problem.
Ryan: and get around.
Coley: That's that's OK. You're memorable to me. So.
Mo Vida: I don't always know if that's a good thing.
Coley: No, I got to tell you, I had a bunch of family at that show because that's what I do. I bring my families to my shows.
Mo Vida: Yeah, man.
Coley: Yeah, and they loved you. They thought that you were super funny. yeah, no we're not. We talked
Mo Vida: Really? You're not just saying that are you?
Coley: about that. We talked about that show for probably a good couple days after it.
Mo Vida: wow. Well that's great to hear because you know how it is comedy. We hate ourselves so.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: I like to say comedy is, basically comedy is just people sharing their mental health issues. That's all it is.
Mo Vida: I mean, you know what, that is very true. I think the best comedy does come from a very real place without like turning into a therapy session or a Ted talk, but I always laugh because. It's very different being a woman comic and a man comic when it comes to like the fans after the show. And it's so funny, like some guy comic will go up and be like, yeah, my dick doesn't really work that great anymore. And I got a drinking problem. And then all these girls will be like, my God, you should like hit me up.
Coley: Hehehehehe
Mo Vida: I'm like, girl, he means it. His dick won't work.
Ryan: Yeah, I mean, and how does the, what does the women
Mo Vida: Whatever.
Ryan: counter to that? And it's like, you know.
Mo Vida: Mine, I can only speak for mine, but for my experience, but it's been, well, one, it's very funny because I mentioned being a cougar, but the whole thing is, is how I'm like lazy and leave me alone, but I'll still get young guys who are like, hey, so you like dick? And I'm like, I covered this. Yeah, I like, I just want to put on my
Coley: Did you not listen?
Mo Vida: eating pants, you know, like. But yeah, it's, I don't know. mean, luckily I've had pretty good stuff, but you know, there's always this people, men and women who come up to you, I don't really like female comics, but you
Ryan: really?
Mo Vida: were funny. And I'm like, well, then I guess you do like women comics.
Coley: Hahaha! Yeah.
Ryan: So people actually say that?
Mo Vida: all the time. And
Coley: It's it's kind like
Mo Vida: they say it as a compliment. Like they genuinely mean it.
Coley: It's a left-handed compliment or whatever it is. It's like, I don't know. Yeah.
Ryan: or backhanded compliment. I mean, that's just, you have to just kind of be so stupid to just even like breach that, you know, like you have no like, not stupid, but sense of aware, your sense of awareness is just non-existent.
Mo Vida: You know this, like, you'll be standing next to all the other comics and people will come up and be like, you are the funniest. And, you know, that's of course, I mean, it's nice to hear that the person thought you were funny. But to your point, Ryan, it's like, they can hear you. You know, like, and also
Coley: Hahaha!
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: these are my coworkers. I like these guys. I think they're funny. Like, I don't... I don't want to be the funniest on a show. I want the show to be a banger all around. You know, like I've told my friends that I'm like, I'm going to invite you to shows where I feel like you're going to enjoy the entire show.
Coley: And you have to, you you have to enjoy the entire show. It would be weird if you know, went to a comedian and you're like, that opener was awful. It does happen,
Mo Vida: I mean, it does happen, but.
Coley: but at the same time, it's just like, well, but you went to the comedy show, you chose to go to this comedy show. That was you.
Mo Vida: Just have fun. I'm like, what else are you going to be doing? You know what I mean? Like, it's rare if you're paying money for a ticket that you're going to a show that's just trash.
Ryan: And let's be honest, like any kind of art, comedy is very subjective. Like everybody has a fucking different taste, a different style. Some
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: people like Jerry Seinfeld, some people like Richard Pryor, some people like, you know, Chelsea Handler. Some people like, you know, it's, it's, it's a spectrum. So.
Coley: Yeah, and you find your audience and you crush it for your audience. I think that's my favorite part.
Mo Vida: Yeah, I had a comic tell me once because I met him at a show that he was doing. I was just hanging out and then not too long after we were booked on the same show he was headlining and before the show we were all just kind of gathering and he was like, I'm excited to see you. Like, you know, your stuff. And I was like, I'm not for everyone. And he goes, good. And I'm like, sorry. He's like, good, that's not how you build your fan base. You know, you build your fan base by really resonating with people who want to come out to your shows and you you connect or they connect with what you're saying, what you're talking about and you grow it from there. If you're, if everybody in the room always loves you all over the country, you know, great. You're either a pro pro who's been doing it 30 years or you're hack.
Coley: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so it's nice to have you on. mean, we are super excited that you came onto this show. Again, this is Offline Days. You can find us on our social media on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. You can also listen to the podcasts on Apple Music and Spotify and... That is offline days, D-A-Z-E, like dazed and confused. Yeah, exactly. Mo, do you have anything you want coming up or anything you want to promote?
Mo Vida: In what is that? Loveland? I was is that bad that I get Loveland and Longmont mixed up? only verbally by the way to be very clear. It's only
Coley: Nope, I do the same. Yeah.
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: like verbal. I know exactly the towns are different, but yeah So that's gonna be Wednesday the 25th. And then I actually run a monthly show out of the Louisville underground and that's every second Friday. Those are a lot of fun. And we're gonna try
Coley: Excellent.
Mo Vida: doing some special events. So if people want to follow me, I'll be posting those as well. So.
Ryan: I love Lewisville. Lewisville's a cool spot.
Coley: What are you... Yeah. What are your social...
Mo Vida: I love it. It's Louisville Underground is attached to Tilt, which is the arcade. that
Coley: I did.
Mo Vida: goes with
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: your, you guys, I mean, this is analog we're talking about, right? Pac-Man and all
Ryan: Damn right it is.
Mo Vida: that. They have like even their
Coley: Little pinball action.
Mo Vida: bathrooms. It's like the women's bathroom I think is like pretty and pink or something, you know, like it's a really cool spot.
Ryan: That is cool. That is cool. So what do you like kind of in the 80s like what do you remember? Like what is, you know, what sticks out to you? What do you get nostalgic about? What does that mean to you kind of?
Mo Vida: I I think I just, miss people being more present. know, like I miss, you know, I mean, I'm older, so my friends and I still have this. So when we get together, a lot of times we don't even know where our phones are. You know, we're just talking for hours, drinking, you know?
Coley: You
Mo Vida: But that obviously is gone. I mean, I think, the I miss going to concerts and just everybody's, you know, it's not a bunch of this with the phones. I mean, that's kind of the mentality these days is if I don't put it up on Instagram, it didn't happen. And I fall into that. And I wish I didn't. But as a comic, it's a necessary evil to like do the social media stuff. I miss comedy being in. showrooms, you know,
Ryan: Yeah?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: and being a true craft versus now I think it's shifted to people wanting to get into it to be famous and not really wanting to hone that craft. and also like there are very good comics, who I have known for a really long time and have had the privilege of watching them, you know, on shitty little stages in New York City, try to work out stuff. And now when I see specials, not that they're bad, I would never go so far. They're not bad, but you can kind of see how even the really great comics have had to dilute. because they're also
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: doing a podcast and this and that, know. So I miss, I miss that comic who is just a comic.
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: think about that as, know, even in the 90s, when you look at Jerry Seinfeld, when I first started to try comedy and then I did not do well, you would understand that I went on to an open mic and I didn't realize open mics were mostly comics and I didn't realize that open mics were you know, where people were trying to work their kinks out. And I went up and I didn't get any laughs. And I was like, well, not doing that ever again. And, and so, you know, Jerry Seinfeld was one of my idols back then. And now comic, so many different comic styles that are out there, but it's like, when you look at Jerry, you know, Jerry Seinfeld, that was it. And then, you know, he from, you know, like, 1975 to like 1989 was his comic career where they were like and then they were like okay now you have a tv show
Mo Vida: Yeah. But here's the thing that most people don't recognize, and it's shifting a little bit, but comics who are new to the world have been at least grinding it out for 10 years. know,
Coley: yeah.
Mo Vida: everybody sucks when you first start and... you're supposed to suck. I that's the whole thing. I miss going to open because there's something nice here in Denver about going to open mics and there are real people there. And it's not just comics. But I do feel like it's a double edged sword because then I personally find myself wanting to perform a little bit more. Right. Whereas if it's just comics and they understand it's batting practice, like on I'll have a few beers and go up and just talk and see if anything comes out of my mouth that's a good premise that I can work on. Like it's genuinely nothing. It's nothing funny. Like, and I know
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: that I don't go up there thinking to myself, I'm going to be funny. I go up there like, okay, let me really just go and see what happens. but I don't know. You're not supposed to be funny when you start.
Ryan: Well, I'm about
Coley: No, no, Yeah.
Ryan: to get that experience. I'm doing my first stand up with one of his shows Friday, so I can't wait to not be funny.
Mo Vida: I really?
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Well, I mean, I think you will be, but you know, you can't, the problem is, is if you're comparing yourself to Jerry Seinfeld, right? And you're like, I want to be
Ryan: Nah, nah.
Mo Vida: like him. I mean, you're not there yet, right? It's like anything. I mean, you watch the Olympics, you watch figure skating, they make it look easy. And then you realize you can't even stand up on skates.
Coley: Right.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah. So I'm just going to just go in with no real expectations. Kind of like whenever I go talk to any woman in general and just...
Coley: Hahaha!
Ryan: and just get re- No,
Mo Vida: That should be your comedy album, Zero Expectations.
Ryan: I was gonna, a different idea. was like, six inches used to mean something was gonna be my-
Coley: Yeah
Mo Vida: I have a joke about that actually. I mean, yeah, I think I made a promise to myself and I was like, the day comedy isn't fun anymore. I'm going to quit.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: You know, and not every of course you have bad shows and bad road gigs. I don't mean that. But once it starts to be a chore, I don't find it fun anymore. I'm on autopilot every single show, I'm not
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: engaging with the audience, then I think it's time for me to step away.
Coley: And I do feel like there are comedians who are at that point who they're the big comedians where it is kind of on autopilot where, you you read articles about how Ron White has to have his lead writer go work open mics to see if the jokes are funny because are people laughing because it's a funny joke or are people laughing because you're Ron White?
Mo Vida: Yeah, probably both for him and listen, it's a tough paycheck to say no to at that point. And
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I don't know, I'd probably do it too. But it is kind of crazy because you're like, well, go do something else then.
Coley: Well,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: that's kind
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: of what I got at why I started to get into it because I was I'm a teacher right now and I and I loved I still love teaching but like It became it became it like a toll on me it became a task, you know, and it was just one of those things that It was like, all right, gotta see if there's something that we, you go back to what did make you happy.
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: You're happy when people are laughing at your jokes. Go back to that,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Coley: you know?
Mo Vida: Yeah. And I mean, I think if I had to guess what you love about teaching is, you know, being able to really be in front of kids and see that they're getting it make a difference or if they're not getting it, help them get over that barrier, that hurdle. My guess is you're now having to deal with all these outside things, parents, administrators, standardized tests, all these things that really prohibit you from being the teacher that you want to be and that probably the kids need. And I feel like social media is that for comedy now, you know? And it sucks. So that's from the 80s. That's what I miss is comics being able to beat comics. Yeah, you can go on and, you know, get your sitcom or whatever. Also, back then, when you got a late night, that meant so much more than it does today.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Not that it, I should rephrase that. It means a lot today, but it wasn't, or rather now, it's not this like fail safe for sure golden ticket. Not
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to use a Kill Tony term, but.
Coley: And when Johnny Carson brought, so you would go out, there were comedians that would go out and they
Mo Vida: Yeah, you got to sit. Yeah.
Coley: would do their set. And if he waved you over, that was even bigger than even getting on Carson. Like if he waved you over, he's like, hey, I want to talk to you. And you're like, my gosh, this is exciting now.
Mo Vida: That was a huge stamp of approval and then your career took off and I know comics who are great comics have had a few late night sets and if I mentioned their names, you guys might know but like everyday comedy fan might not.
Coley: Sure, yeah, it's kind of the same thing when you think about even like music genres or something like that where it's like, can tell you Taylor Swift and I can tell you Garth Brooks and anybody, even if you've never listened to their songs in the world, they know those names. if I, Mike Berbiglia is my big one that no, everyone's like, who? And I love, he's like my favorite. he's so good.
Mo Vida: Yeah, and he's brilliant and he's perfect. mean, he is such a, you know, and that's the thing, like, I'm OK. Should I ever reach the point where like other comics are like, oh, yeah, like not look up to me. I don't need them to look up to me. But if they're like, oh, yeah, you know, like I know her stuff. I like her stuff, whatever. Yeah, it's it's really crazy. But that's the business side of it. That's the money side of it, you know. And sometimes I always laugh when I hear people and it's usually when they go to like certain clubs and then they'll be like, we're big. We're big comedy fans.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I'm like, no, you're not. You come to this club
Coley: Right.
Mo Vida: so you can see somebody who is famous or semi famous so you can get your picture with them and then tell your friends that you met a celebrity. So really what you are is a sycophant who likes a two drink minimum.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Ha
Coley: How long have you been doing it?
Mo Vida: I've been doing this since 2009. Yeah,
Coley: Okay. Okay.
Mo Vida: I didn't take it seriously at first, I kind of got into it. My hair. I love it when people were like, what got you into it? I'm like, my dad died. And that just goes, and I'm like, well, I'm
Ryan: Ha ha
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: sorry. didn't know you didn't want the truth.
Coley: Right?
Mo Vida: but yeah, I I was in New York, my father passed away here in Denver. It was the financial crisis. And I just kind of went, I don't know that all. be in New York forever and what are some things I want to try or do? And I took a bunch of writing courses and one of them was like a one day workshop in comedy. You know, we had to get up at the end and do like three minutes or whatever. And the guy was like, oh, we do like a 10 week course where you have to go to a club and really do a show. And I was like, that sounds terrifying. Let me sign up for that.
Coley: Ha
Ryan: Yes, I love that.
Mo Vida: Yeah. Yeah, and then we started going to open mics to practice. I met really cool people. But you know, I was older, what was I, 35, something. I was like in my mid, I was not young. And I had a career, full-time job and stuff, so I didn't really take it seriously. And arguably now I think people would say like, you know, I'm not grinding it out, doing the social media and all of that. And I was like, again, it's the promise I made myself.
Coley: Sure. Yeah, you know, and, and, you know, it's always one of those things where people are like, you want to find something that doesn't feel like work. Well, I guarantee you the Olympic swimmers that feels like work to them. I
Mo Vida: There we go.
Coley: you, look at Nikola Jokic from the nuggets. He hates, he looks like, it's like going to a, you might as well be working in a, in a cubicle.
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: We were just talking about that because we were watching the game the
Ryan: That's hilarious.
Mo Vida: other night and we were both laughing because the person I was watching it with is also Eastern European and obviously so is Jokic. We were just laughing because we were like, yeah, he won MVP. He won the whole shebang and they were like, you know, what's next? Are you excited? What are you going to do? And he's like, yeah, no, I'm going to go home. Like my job here is done. I'm going go ride my horses. You know,
Ryan: That's cool.
Mo Vida: he couldn't give two shits.
Coley: The best reaction was when they told him that he had to go to the parade and he's like, what? I have to what?
Mo Vida: Yeah, that's very Eastern European.
Ryan: Yeah. So what was the,
Coley: yeah, anyway, well.
Ryan: I was going to ask you like what, you know, we always like to, since we're talking about the eighties and nineties, like what was high school like for you?
Mo Vida: well looking back on it, right? It was my parents were very strict. So I didn't have as much fun as others but
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: again, I think it was just It was fun like, you know, we socialized we We're just in it like look, I don't have kids. So I just kind of hear it from friends of mine One of my friends recently mentioned to me he was at his daughter's high school graduation. This was probably not that recently, but anyhow, and he was like, hey, you know, go get your friends and I'm going to take you guys all out to a nice dinner. She's like, I don't have any friends because she went to high school during COVID.
Ryan: poor thing. Jeez.
Mo Vida: Yeah, so that kind of stuff really opens my eyes to the fact that like we really connected like I just ran into somebody who I went to high school with I think she was a freshman and I was a senior or whatever. She's like, I remember your name, which again, I'm not always thinking that's a good thing. But
Coley: Heh.
Mo Vida: just,
Ryan: You
Mo Vida: I don't know how to explain it. We were just present. We were there, we got to connect with each other. you know, we played a bunch of different sports. One of the things that I really value is you could fuck up and it didn't like end your life. It didn't end your career the same way. You know, like you were allowed to be a human being. You were allowed to learn from mistakes. And I feel like that. has caused a lot of anxiety because it's just not there the same way.
Ryan: Yeah, I feel the same way. You could get away with murder a lot easier back then. you know, that
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: was, you know, I mean...
Mo Vida: But I mean, I know you're being like, like hyperbolic about it. But the reality is, is these days, I feel like you can't even misspeak, you can't make a mistake.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Like, I like to go on Instagram and kind of run social experiments from time to time.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And I remember one was, it was during COVID. And there was a guy and he didn't have his mask on and the cop didn't have his mask on and the guy got arrested and he got covid and I said I made a comment and I said so the guy without the mask is suing the police officer who gave him covid right people piled on you stupid bitch he was eating pizza can't you fucking see the like the vitriol and and
Ryan: Jeez. Yeah.
Mo Vida: the first few comments I went and I shoot, sorry. I didn't see like for me. It doesn't show up I didn't see he was eating it just looked like you know He also didn't have a mask on then I had people like why don't you delete your comment? but at that point I was like no because I want to see what happens and then people start fighting with each other on your thing
Ryan: yeah. Yeah.
Mo Vida: and Because I also have
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: a master's in psychology. I'm like this this is Fascinating but this
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Popcorn.
Mo Vida: fucking sucks, dude This is sad.
Ryan: That's every day for a lot of people. That's all their, that's
Mo Vida: I'm home.
Ryan: their whole life is like just going on and just like piling on and you know, it's, it's, it's depressing.
Mo Vida: And that's what I miss. I miss being in a time where people's default emotion wasn't, fuck you. Like I've had that happen. I was pulling into a parking space and this woman had her door kind of ajar, right?
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And I didn't know she was getting in or out. So I'm pulling in and I stop and I do a very gentle honk so she knows that I'm there, right? So she doesn't swing her door open and she like looks out at her door. It gives me the dirtiest look and I'm like, bitch, I'm trying to help you.
Coley: Right?
Mo Vida: Like it is crazy. So that is a big thing I miss. I'm not saying people weren't mean. I'm not saying there weren't bullies and all of that. But I think it's Louis Sique who
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: said, you know, back in the eighties, when you bullied somebody, you had to do it to their face and you
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: had to watch
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: them cry or you had to run the risk of getting popped in the face.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, if you rain your mouth to someone, that yeah, you're gonna get hit in the face. You know, it's like, and yeah.
Mo Vida: Yeah. Or even watching them cry, right? Like, if you're not a complete sociopath,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: that's hard. You know, you have
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to all of a sudden sit with like, I caused this person real pain.
Coley: Right? Yeah, because when someone types something on online, I think I posted a video of myself and someone goes, why is Caesar Chavez doing standup comedy? And I was like... What? One what? I'm white!
Mo Vida: Well, and now you have bots, right? So
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: now when something unhinged gets said, I will go to that profile and I'll see like, you know, do they have zero followers and like three pictures and stuff like that? because then it's probably a bot or if not a bot but literally because what is it like they have rooms filled with people who are just trying to keep the algorithm up. Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, trolls. Mm-hmm.
Ryan: That is, that's bizarre to me. Like, like if you would have
Mo Vida: It is!
Ryan: told me like 25 years ago, we'd be dealing with this shit, I would have been like, you are fucking smoking something that I need to smoke because that's ridiculous.
Mo Vida: Yeah, it's I mean, again, I don't want to get too psychobabbly on this, you know, you are seeing a lot more. things presenting in much younger children
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: that just didn't exist in the 80s. And listen, when I was in high school, like the big thing was suicide, know, drugs, right? This is your brain on drugs, that kind of stuff.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Dare.
Mo Vida: After school specials about suicide. So it's not that these things didn't exist. They've unfortunately always existed in
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: humankind. But I just think it's social media has exacerbated it so much. I was, this is TMI, but I went to go get Botox, right? For my headaches. No, I did, actually do get them
Coley: Hehehehe... Hehehehe... Hehehehehe...
Mo Vida: for my, but I just get like a few here, right? For my 11s, but also for headaches. And I was talking to the woman and I said, listen, just to be clear, I'm a standup. I need my face. And she was like, no, no, no, I totally get that. And then, I don't know, we were talking more about it. And she goes, well, yeah, you know, like I try to really guide my clients who come in here and like, you know, they're teenagers. And I'm like, I'm sorry, what? Like, yeah,
Ryan: Teenagers? Huh.
Coley: You
Mo Vida: we get like teenagers coming. I'm like, is that even legal? But I get,
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Is it? Oh yeah.
Mo Vida: I don't know, like maybe the parents are saying it's fine. I don't know.
Ryan: I think people are just, I mean, average probably teenager just so, feel so judged, so crushed by getting bullied by all the stuff that's happening online. Like, because if you think about it back in our day, like there'd be a few bullies. Now you magnify that by how ever many followers or people. So, so these kids are no wonder there's a massive mental health crisis right now is because of social media and 24 hour news cycles. And, you know,
Mo Vida: Well, that's the thing, right? You got to go home from it. So if I had a bully at school,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I could go home. I can hang out with my siblings or my friends. I could, you know, have a really nice evening recharge. I can have good,
Ryan: Decompress, yeah.
Mo Vida: you know, I could feel love.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And that would help me probably deal with that bully, if not come face to face with them, but like at least emotionally. But now it's just nonstop. then everything is, I would say follow the money, right? So all these algorithms, it's to get you to think there are all these things wrong with you and then you need the products, which absolutely existed in the 80s. However, You it would be women's magazines or teen magazines, right?
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: So if you didn't buy them, which I stopped buying them because I realized like after reading I get like all the you know Cosmo and this and that then I felt like shit about myself and I would want to go buy all the creams and makeups and all I still do but But my point is is that you could put
Ryan: Me too.
Mo Vida: it away You this is that what you look so good
Coley: Yeah. That's why he live. Yeah. Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm turned 75 tomorrow. So,
Mo Vida: Woo! You've drinking that baby's blood.
Ryan: you know, just, yeah, virgin baby blood. So, but no.
Mo Vida: Yeah, so that's another thing I miss is that you could, you know, cut things off like it was easier to remove yourself from bad situations.
Ryan: I mean, it's almost like now to remove yourself from internet and stuff like that, you would have to like move to like a remote farm in like South America and start herding sheep or something like that. You know, it's like, or just a remote something because
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: it's everywhere. You go to the gym, it's like there's 50 TVs all showing like the worst things that are happening, everything, you know? So you can't... It's hard to escape it. And I'm sure that just manifests psychologically for everyone. And that's why everyone's just kind of panic mode all the time.
Mo Vida: totally. And just even like when I stopped watching the news, which by the way, polysci major, huge news junkie, but I started to really pay attention and I'm talking about like the news, like a CNN channel or first of all,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: 24 seven news doesn't exist. Right. So it's a lot of the same. and then one of the big shifts I noticed from when I was growing up,
Ryan: huh.
Mo Vida: First of all, you didn't have the 24-7, right? So you would watch the morning local news You would watch the evening local news and then you'd have the national news but Also, if it was like breaking news, it truly was. It was like the challenger exploding, right? Now everything is breaking news. They're like Trump farted, breaking news, you know?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And, and, but what that does is it does create this anxiety because when it flashes on the screen and it's red and you know, the music, like these are all psychological things. It's not by accident. It's by design.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And yeah, the level of anxiety, I mean, we had anxiety too, because we thought the Russians were going to,
Coley: Thank
Mo Vida: you know, bomb us with a nuclear bomb and
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: obliterate us. You know, we had
Ryan: Hahaha
Mo Vida: the AIDS crisis. But again, I think the difference was we could turn it off. We could go back to just what's going on in my life, my family, my friends.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, the breaking news would interrupt a program and it would be a real thing. And it was really, truly breaking news. I know this is in the 90s, but it sticks out in my mind is when 9-11 happened. It's like literally watching something else and then they were like, shit, this is happening right now.
Mo Vida: Yeah, I was in New York for 9-11.
Coley: Yeah, gosh.
Ryan: wow. Where were you? How far were you away from all that? You know, the kind of the center.
Mo Vida: Not far. I was like, basically, well, the financial center is all the way kind of at the tip. And then you have like what's considered downtown. And then I was between downtown and midtown. But, but yeah, I mean, that's the thing, right? Is that that is breaking and it is stuff that should get, you know, anxious about like, okay.
Coley: Totally. This is an important thing.
Mo Vida: Yeah, but now it's like.
Ryan: not not chloe kardashian's next round of like liposuction you know like i mean
Mo Vida: But you know, that's the thing is, again, it's follow the money because they've got to keep the advertisers. They're now competing with other. channels but also things online. mean it's really bonkers and honestly it's I'm happy to hear I'm hearing rumors what is it Gen Alpha that they want to go back to analog like they're not is it am I saying that right? Have you heard this? Or maybe even
Coley: I, Jen Alpha would be, yeah, I think, yeah, Jenna.
Mo Vida: Gen Z I think Gen Z might be but like I
Ryan: Yeah, I think it.
Mo Vida: think they're starting to realize like this is
Coley: Ahem.
Mo Vida: really fucking us up.
Ryan: And it's not, it's like, we're not, no one's asking for any of this stuff. It's all being like thrusted upon us. And there's not like a, it's not like we can like, and it's like you said, it's all the clicks. It's like, you know, the positive articles aren't going to get clicks, right? It is the,
Mo Vida: they're like drug dealers because if you think about it
Ryan: the negative articles that are going to get clicks. so, so of course.
Mo Vida: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But sorry, you're you're freezing on my end. That's my bad.
Coley: Yeah, you're a
Ryan: Nah.
Coley: prison on my end too. He's just a free. He's just a frozen guy, so don't you have to excuse him.
Ryan: I'm cold. I'm cold-hearted. Cold-hearted.
Mo Vida: No, I'm not trying to interrupt you, you froze.
Coley: Hahaha
Ryan: Oh no, I forgot what I was saying.
Coley: Yeah, that's what you do when you're
Mo Vida: Thank you.
Coley: 75, you forget.
Ryan: I did. I'm 75. I still occasionally smoke marijuana too. do you
Coley: Heh!
Ryan: remember this?
Mo Vida: I feel bad, I was like, this isn't very funny you guys. I'm sorry.
Ryan: None.
Mo Vida: I'm like very Oprah right now. like...
Coley: No, but seriously, this is what we, this is, I we've been talking about it. We're like, we would love to do a show on like mental health and just, you know, just on how much it has changed. truly it, like, it's insane how, I mean, literally you look at your phone and you open it up and everything is news. Like, it doesn't matter whether it's, whether it's politic news or, your buddy's dog dying or whatever. Like it's just news all over the place.
Ryan: Also, people having access to you all at one time, too. That's another thing. You're getting ear fucked from 50 different angles and you're like, I forgot to respond to this person, that person. Before, it's like someone just calls you on the phone and now you just... Think about young vulnerable kids that are just getting into relationships as teens or something. It's like they don't get a text back. Someone forgot to do it. they killed themselves because of it.
Mo Vida: they're not. That's the other thing is now we're in this crisis of young people not even connecting. had this is bonkers. Um, so when I moved to Denver, which was what like 2016 I moved back here. There was an open mic, and it was in a coffee shop that was in the bottom of an apartment building. And it was basically the parking garage, this coffee shop and then apartments above. I pulled up, I parked on the street at the same time some dude was parking in the parking garage. We looked at each other and I smiled. And at the time I was like, oh, maybe he's a comic. Like he was a white guy with a beard, right? Pretty good chance. I assumed he was coming to the open. I genuinely was like, oh, maybe he's smiling at me because he's a comic. He saw me in another open mic. Anyhow. So he comes into the coffee shop. We start chatting. Turns out, no, he just noticed me. I noticed him. I smiled. He lived in the building and I told him, hey, it's an open mic. he was a nurse, he's a nurse, and I
Ryan: Mmm.
Mo Vida: actually convinced him to go up at the open mic.
Ryan: my god, that's hilarious.
Coley: That's awesome.
Mo Vida: But anyhow, the reason I share this with you is like weeks later I was telling somebody that I was going on a date with this guy and how I had met him.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: And she's much younger than me and she goes, he followed you? my God, you should have called the cops.
Coley: Huh?
Mo Vida: You're going to go out with them? Are you terrified? And
Coley: You
Mo Vida: I was like, you realize you wouldn't be here right now on this planet if your parents hadn't have connected like,
Coley: Right? yeah.
Mo Vida: but it was such an eye opener to me
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: because I was like, I feel much safer that he came into a public space with me. I got a vibe from him. got a gut feeling from him.
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: And, you know, we've been made to believe that the dating apps are telling us everything. And they've become phenomenally more dangerous on so many more levels than
Ryan: Mm.
Mo Vida: going out on a date with somebody. You know? Right, right. Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry. Yeah.
Ryan: or meeting someone in like the physical, but also a meeting.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: I like to just say meeting in the wild, you know, it's like it's meeting in the wild, but the dating apps are just, they're, terrible. And, you know, and that's why I, know, I'm single, I'm 44. I'm like, I'm not going to die alone. So I'm going to just start going out and like meeting people in Yeah, because the dating apps, it's a skewed kind of percentage anyway. Like every dating app is like the biggest sausage fest you've ever been to in your life. It's 80 % guys, 20 % girls.
Mo Vida: Is it?
Ryan: It is like if you look at the actual statistics and it makes sense because a lot of women, you know, they're able. Yeah.
Mo Vida: I like classic.
Ryan: I mean, me too. I just had a sausage pizza earlier
Coley: You
Ryan: today. It was, was very good. but, but you know, it's like, yeah. So, so there's like this. I think there's a huge kind of percentage of guys now that don't are afraid to go out and meet women. And then they're,
Mo Vida: in Hush.
Ryan: and they're not able to have any success on the dating apps because of these percentage differentials there. So, so they're just kind of like in the basement mom's basement. So,
Mo Vida: Yeah, and but you know, I also think they're afraid to go out because now women and that's what I realized when this girl said this is if somebody approached her in the wild,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: she would probably say no regardless because she genuinely would feel afraid. You understand what I mean? So that's what's
Ryan: Yeah, I know, get it. I get it,
Mo Vida: scary
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: to me is that We have young people now who don't trust their intuition. They don't trust their instincts. They don't trust other human beings to the point where, like you said, now they're just not engaging.
Ryan: Yeah. And I get that too. Like if you get to a certain point where you've tried and nothing happens, you kind of like get to this point where you're just like, well, it's not like you're just going to give up, but you're just, your brain like goes offline
Mo Vida: You do.
Ryan: with it. You know, you start to do other
Coley: You do.
Ryan: things and you know, you start to,
Mo Vida: That's where AI girlfriends come in and porn. mean, porn is a huge issue.
Ryan: Yeah, or... or you just join a cult, you know?
Coley: Do you miss porn from the 80s?
Mo Vida: no porn from the I missed the plot. They had some good plots. There
Ryan: This story.
Mo Vida: was always like the sorority and there was rush and you know, hazing. They had good plots back then.
Ryan: or like Guy shows up with a pizza box or something like
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: that.
Mo Vida: Yeah, you know like I need my TV fixed. Why don't you plug your
Coley: Eeyup!
Mo Vida: dick into me?
Ryan: yeah, but but seriously that's an
Mo Vida: But the access, you know, having access to porn, it's crazy. Like I remember my next door neighbor, her dad had a huge Playboy collection, but it was like the top of a shelf in his office, you know,
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: he had to work for it. Yeah.
Coley: Yeah, you had a word for porn.
Mo Vida: It was, you had to hide your porn. mean,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: it was a whole, whole thing. and now I
Ryan: And now it's the complete opposite.
Mo Vida: literally watch guys watch porn on the subway.
Ryan: Oh my God. Yeah. And I honestly, I mean, I used to do it more, but I feel like it does something to your brain that's fucking terrible. Like if you do it like all the time, you know, it's like, so now I'm
Mo Vida: It is? Yeah, there's tons of studies.
Ryan: only once a day.
Coley: Okay.
Mo Vida: Gotta clean the pipes, I get it. I would encourage you to try to use your imagination. Everyone's...
Ryan: No, no, that's
Coley: man.
Ryan: it. I mean, that's the truth, though. It really is like a poison, kind of like a hidden poison that people just are like, eh, you know. But some states have made it to where you can't. And I found this out when I was in North Carolina and I couldn't log on porn. I was like, well, looks like there's no porn in North Carolina.
Coley: What the fuck is wrong?
Mo Vida: Yeah, I mean, that's they're doing it for different reasons that, you know, I don't necessarily agree with. However, it is a very I would I would go so far as to call it an epidemic, to be honest with you. And I am not a prude. I watch porn from time, but there's definitely. And again, it goes back to the way social media is set up, these sites are set up, they're all set up dating apps, they're all set up to get
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: you addicted. And
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I use that word seriously, it is
Coley: No, it's a-
Mo Vida: to get people addicted. So then it's like, well, if they're trying, I mean, they're drug dealers, basically.
Ryan: Yeah. Yeah. And not to mention the dating sites too, always target the guys from obviously a monetary perspective. It's like, it's like girls get in free at the club and guys have to pay, but that's like the way it is for the dating apps. They're, like charging them like, yeah, we're going to put you, pay $20 a month and we'll get your picture in the top 5 % of whatever, you know? So yeah, but it's like a perfect.
Mo Vida: Yeah. I mean, it's ridiculous. And you know, you brought up a good point that I was going to say too, cause you were talking about access, right? And the fact that people have access to you all the time and that I definitely miss from the eighties and also just it, it really fucks with your head to constantly have notifications going off.
Ryan: yeah.
Mo Vida: I mean, I have ADHD and it's ticked off
Ryan: Me too.
Mo Vida: diagnosed, but,
Ryan: Hahaha
Mo Vida: But it is, it's really disruptive. It's not how the human brain is made to work. And, you know, I've worked for companies where they're like, well, we're on Slack and also, you know, we've got GChat and all this. And I'm like, just send me a fucking email.
Coley: Yeah, seriously.
Ryan: Dude, in my current job, have like, there are like 70 Slack channels. It's like, here,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: this is for this, this is for this, this is for this. And then I'm like, sitting there every time I hear it now, it's like PTSD. I hear it in nightmares. I'm like, it's that
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: little pop sound. You're like, good Lord. It's like whenever
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: you get a prank call from like an Indian guy, you hear that little boop, like right before, then they come in. Hello, this is Sam.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: you Yeah, so I mean you so you know it's really bad for the brain and I miss It goes back to what I was saying. I just miss that people were present and you were allowed to be present. How about this one? taking a fucking flight and Being able to sleep or read a book or just
Ryan: Right?
Mo Vida: listen to music. Now, you know, your boss is like, hey, you know, let me know once you board and then get on wifi and you're just not allowed to not be connected anymore.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah, it's like I remember my dad, said, I mean, he was working Fortune 500 companies. Like when the day ended, the day ended, you know, it's like, it was over and you didn't have people like, I know it's 7 PM, but I really need you to log back into that fucking blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and get into that Excel file and go fuck yourself over there.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I remember my dad, he was a civil engineer and I remember the first time his job gave him a pager and he told him to go fuck themselves. And that's beautiful to hear
Ryan: ha ha, nature.
Coley: You Yeah
Mo Vida: in like a Hungarian accent. What? No, go fuck yourself. You're like,
Ryan: God of... Vakna.
Mo Vida: sorry.
Ryan: Mwah!
Mo Vida: Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. I worked for a boss who would email me at like two and three in the morning and you know, and then it becomes boundary setting. And now you really have to learn how to set boundaries and things like that.
Ryan: Or you just start planting the mental health seed to where you can just fucking hammer them with like a fucking lawsuit from,
Mo Vida: Not that.
Ryan: I told you I have ADHD, you keep piling this on, now I'm in the insane asylum and I need... Yeah,
Mo Vida: I personally prefer sexual harassment, but...
Ryan: well, you know, as a guy...
Mo Vida: I'm 80s that way.
Ryan: Yeah, yeah, some good old, I feel like back in the 80s, like just watching movies, like it was like normal, like just like a boss like grabbing his secretary's ass or something like that. And she was like, you're so silly, Bob.
Mo Vida: Well, that's what like the movie nine to five is, right? It's about like secretaries
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: and this boss and, but do you guys go back and watch movies from the eighties? And there are moments that
Ryan: I love movies from the 80s.
Mo Vida: are a little cringe where you're like,
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I forgot they use the word retarded that many times in this movie.
Coley: Yeah, I just watched
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Pretty in Pink and it was not, like it did not age well. I mean, it's a great movie, but there's so many things in there.
Ryan: But some, but I don't, I still don't,
Mo Vida: Yeah.
Ryan: but I mean, even though they're saying that stuff back then, like I still don't like the movie any less. It's just, it was just a different time, you know?
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: Yeah, well, and
Ryan: So.
Mo Vida: I don't agree with people who kind of want to take everything all of that away because it's like, no, we actually need people to watch and first of all, be able to decipher between like. the entirety of it and the story it's
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: telling and those things. And I think it's important to be like, this used to be acceptable, right? And now it's not. And it's okay to have that visceral reaction and be like, don't really, because that teaches your kids, hey,
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: we don't use this word anymore. And this is why, because
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: this is what it means, you know? But we didn't know back then. I mean, ARK, I don't know if you guys ever donate to ARK.
Coley: Yeah,
Ryan: Mm-mm.
Coley: I have donated art.
Mo Vida: Yeah, well, go look at what the R stands for.
Ryan: man.
Mo Vida: Yeah, yeah. But you have to understand
Coley: That's probably why they go by Ark now.
Mo Vida: that it's important to learn from our mistakes, which goes back to what I was saying, where now I feel like people are just not allowed to make mistakes.
Ryan: Yeah. And that's ridiculous. And another thing is a guy, you know, like think about guys that grew up in the 78, 70s, 80s, 90s, like the whole toxic masculinity thing, right? It's like they were, we were just brought up on that, you know, it's not like, and it's kind of baked into the culture a bit. So it's like, we've been trying to wean ourselves off of that for years, but you know, that's just, you know, what you grew up around, you know, like And, and, you know, sure it's changing slowly, but surely, but, you know, you can't, you can't hate people that still have a little bit of that because they just haven't shed it all completely yet, you know, and it's just a remnant of a prior time.
Mo Vida: But I think you guys know this as well as I do. It's about intentions, right? Because,
Ryan: Right.
Mo Vida: and I've had this conversation with people who are trans, right?
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: Or choose they, them. I mean, mostly what they have told me is that if they know somebody is trying, then that's what matters. And so if
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: they misspeak, but let's say they misspeak and they correct them or they misspeak and correct themselves or whatever, like that's really to them more meaningful than when you can tell somebody who's like, well, no, fuck you, I'm not gonna respect you. And that's why I'm not doing it.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I again, I feel like with the way social media is and the way we're interpreting things is we're missing those nuances. It's very, things feel so black and white, but at the same time. like a complete mishmash of things. Like it's very confusing. I'm very glad that my youth is grounded in
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: the 80s
Coley: Same here.
Mo Vida: and 90s.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: I would hate to be young now. I mean, they don't know any different.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: Right, but it is definitely different. is, I mean, like it is so much, it
Ryan: It's night, night and day.
Coley: is so much worse. But yeah.
Mo Vida: the anxiety. My heart breaks
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: for the level of anxiety. They're not allowed to have childhoods. Kids today
Ryan: No.
Coley: Yeah.
Mo Vida: don't have a childhood.
Ryan: They can't
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: go out and ride bikes as much or kind of do the things we used to do as kids that everybody freaks out about.
Coley: that our theme song talks about,
Ryan: that our theme song talks about. Yeah, yeah.
Mo Vida: There's that great
Ryan: But that's what...
Mo Vida: meme, right? Have you guys seen it? Where like how we used to know where everybody was and it was just a bunch of bikes piled on the lawn. I love that.
Coley: Yeah, yep, yep, exactly.
Ryan: my god.
Coley: That was the old social media. Yeah. man,
Ryan: I mean, yeah.
Coley: I love this conversation. This was so much fun.
Mo Vida: Was it?
Ryan: Yeah. Now this was our first like super real conversation. We've had like a lot of like fluffy, fluffy
Coley: I think this, it is true. We've had a lot of fun.
Ryan: conversations, but this kind of cut. No, no, no.
Mo Vida: I'm sorry. I know I'm supposed to be funny, but...
Coley: Hey, don't apologize at all. This was great. I think that this was one of our best ones that we've done so far. I mean, we've been talking for almost an hour, which is insane. we're,
Mo Vida: really? Oops.
Ryan: Yeah.
Coley: yeah. No, no, it's okay. It's totally fine. It works and I think it needs to happen like that sometimes.
Ryan: Yeah, and mental health conversations need to keep happening and, you know, and that's, it's, something that's, it's not getting better. And, you know, we need to figure out as, as a society, how to better support people, you know, in these situations as they are growing up, you know, even though I don't have kids, but, you know, I still don't want to see them angry or depressed.
Coley: But you know, you see, mean, say, yeah, but you, but the, you know, like they say, the kids are our future. And if we can't, you know, if we can't figure out how to help them, then, then, you know, our future is going to be rough. Yeah.
Ryan: I believe children are our future and treat them well. Who was that?
Coley: I'm going to log off and you guys just finished. I
Mo Vida: We won't talk about how she died from a crack.
Coley: was going to say, I'm going to log
Ryan: Ahaha!
Coley: off and you guys can just finish this, finish the segment with karaoke.
Ryan: my god, do you do karaoke, man?
Mo Vida: If I'm really drunk, I'm first of all, I can't
Ryan: Yeah, yeah.
Coley: Hehehehe
Mo Vida: carry a tune to save my life so
Ryan: Okay.
Mo Vida: If I'm doing it I'm very probably not sober and Everybody in the room is gonna regret being like just do it you can do it and then they hear me sing and they're like
Ryan: Yeah, you'll be great!
Coley: You
Mo Vida: You guys do karaoke? What are your songs? What's your song? I love it. I just can't sing.
Ryan: I love karaoke. love karaoke. I do a lot of,
Coley: Yeah, I do.
Ryan: I do like, I like to do.
Coley: Mine's Cheeseburger in Paradise or Johnny B. Good.
Ryan: Ugh, nice. Those are both...
Mo Vida: Wait, wait, what was the first one? my God, that's so funny. What do you do, Ryan?
Coley: Cheeseburger in Paradise or Johnny B. Goode. I crushed it
Ryan: Jimmy Buffett. Yeah.
Coley: in Mexico.
Ryan: I like to do some, I'm a classic rock guy, I'll do some some Leonard Skinner, I'll do some Allman Brothers, I'll do some like 90s sublime stuff. But yeah, I just like to get into it. And after, like you, after having a few drinks, I'm just like, I'm the greatest singer in the world.
Mo Vida: Well, I try to get people to come up with me because
Ryan: Yeah.
Mo Vida: this is the stupid thing. I still can't sing well. So I didn't realize this by the way, but karaoke like the songs and the words are always off by a little bit so they don't have to pay for rights. And I noticed
Ryan: that's interesting. Okay.
Mo Vida: that because I know songs and I sing songs and I'm
Ryan: Mm-hmm.
Mo Vida: like, this seems off. Like I feel like I know this song and the words aren't going where I'm going. But anyhow, So if I can get people who can carry the tune for me up with me, I'm okay. So I'll either make somebody do like a duet with me or I'll do Proud Mary back when Ike was still beating Tina. And I got the dance down too. We're like friends in low places. That's a fun.
Ryan: that's a good one. man. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. I'm... yeah. Our little summer lovin' had me a blast. Yep. That's a good one.
Mo Vida: yeah. So if I if I do, I try to like bring everybody in on it.
Coley: Nice.
Ryan: Have a little help from your friends. Yep, of
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: course, of course.
Mo Vida: Exactly.
Coley: All right, well, we've taken plenty of your time, Mo, but we appreciate the conversation. I had a lot of fun with it. Yeah.
Mo Vida: This was super fun. Thanks for having me.
Ryan: Yeah, me too and hope to meet you in person and get to see one of your shows and have a couple of beverages with you at some point in time.
Mo Vida: We'll go do karaoke.
Coley: Yeah.
Ryan: Yeah, comedians karaoke. That should be interesting. Yeah, I'm trying to figure
Mo Vida: It will be fun. Well, and good luck with your, you're going to do standing. So good luck.
Ryan: out whether to do like a, I got like eight minutes down. yeah, so I'm like, where
Mo Vida: that's good. Where is this? Where's your show?
Ryan: is it at, Colie? It's at a.
Coley: Westminster brewing in Westminster.
Mo Vida: Westminster.
Ryan: Yeah, you're doing like a free comedy show, right? With like four or five people.
Coley: Yeah, fair love is gonna be there and... I can't think of what's after that on my head.
Mo Vida: Really fun.
Coley: Yeah, we get that.
Ryan: Yeah, so that'll be cool. I appreciate you.
Mo Vida: Well, luck and yeah, we get to work together for sure.
Coley: Thanks. Yeah, absolutely.
Ryan: Yep, yep.
Coley: So, we're Offline Days, that's us. Find us on social media. YouTube, TikTok, Facebook.
Ryan: You porn?
Coley: Yeah, no, not yet, Ryan. We've
Ryan: You
Coley: discussed, corporate has discussed that. We have to get that, we have to get it approved.
Ryan: Hahaha
Coley: Well, it's approved now. All right, there we go. Corporate approved it,
Ryan: See
Coley: there we go. yeah, all right well it was a pleasure talking with you and honestly I had a blast. I can't believe how long we've been talking and that was so much fun so.
Mo Vida: That was fun. Thanks so much, you guys. I had a lot of fun, too.
Coley: Yeah. All right.
Ryan: Alright, have a good evening guys.
