"Jokes On A Train"

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Hey is comedian Marcus fro You know me from those
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videos where you stand up on the subways different characters.
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Or you're listening to the Infinite Banter podcast. It's my
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buddy Mark. Enjoy it Infinite Banter podcast. Baby.
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Hello, right now you're tuned in to the Infinite Banter podcast.
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Checking out Infinite Banter.
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This is the most special moment in your life listening
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Show because we will be to all forever.
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And you're listening to Infinite ban with.
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Pop band DJ sound Wave. You are the man. Love
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Called Infinite Fancy with DJ sound Waves.
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So I hope you don't lose your little podcast, Infinite Banter.
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Uh, you know, enjoy it.
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Here it is another episode of the Infinite Banter podcast.
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What is Happening? My name is Mark Jolliffe, also known
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as DJ Soundwave, otherwise refer to as some dude who
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does content that sometimes you've heard about and you press
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play like you did today to hear the So thanks
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for checking out the show. Got a little bit of
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a different one here, but one that I'm really ecstatic about.
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I haven't had many comedians on the show before you know,
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because I'm not funny. So we need somebody to come
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on here to bring some comedy to this this podcast.
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Amp up the comedy level, get it above seat level.
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So we got Marcus Monroe coming on the show today.
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He's a stand up comic, he's a juggler, but he's
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probably most known, at least currently as somebody who might
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have popped up on your Instagram feed or your Facebook
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feed as somebody who will dress up as a character,
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go on a train, generally the New York Subway trains,
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and you'll start doing stand up based on the subject
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material of the costume he's wearing. So, for instance, he
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might be dressed up as Harry Potter and start doing
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jokes about Harry Potter and he's holding a microphone stand
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I mean, the whole thing is very much like a
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stand up show the way he presents it to the
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unwilling passengers on the trains. It's pretty cool because these
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things have popped up on my feed for a couple
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months now, and I'm like, these are really really fun. Yeah,
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I kind of want to know more about it. I
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want to know how he got started doing this and
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more about his comedy. So I looked him up, I
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reached out and he's on the show today, so I'm
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really pumped. He's taken time off of wearing costumes that
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look like, you know, a block of cheese or we're
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dressing up like Jesus, and he took some time to
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come on the podcast here and we're gonna talk about
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all kinds of fun stuff with Marcus Monroe. And you
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could see his stand up show. He's actually coming to
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Chicago in August. I got to make sure I get
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out there. Just go to punch Up dot Live slash
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Marcus Monroe. I'll put a link in the show notes.
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Some of you are probably you're not gonna remember what
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I just said, so it's in the show notes. Make
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sure you follow him online on Instagram Marcus Monroe. And
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have a lot of fun coming up here, so stay
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tuned for that. But you know, this train can't go
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forward without going back. Let's go back to the last
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episode where I had you know, one of the icons
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in hip hop music, Chill Rob Geon. We talked about
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a lot of things in an episode. Definitely go check
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it out. But here's a clip from the most recent
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episode with Chill Rob g here on the Infinite Banter
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podcast Flashback.
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The first time I tried to write a song, you know,
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it was everybody was, you know, grabbing a mic and
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doing they little yes yes y'alls back in the day.
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And I kind of took it a step further when
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I did mine. You know, I wrote like a little
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little rhyme to go along with it, and then, you know,
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my homeboys just kept gassing me up, like, Bob, you
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gotta you know, you gotta write some more of that stuff,
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and you gotta write that stuff there.
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So you know, I started writing.
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The rhymes, and slowly but surely it progressed until I
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had like one hundred bars worth of shit and I
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just went to my man's crib and laid it down
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on the on the track. I didn't have any real
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song structure. I just rhymed and rhymed and rhyme, and
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every once in a while I would stop and say,
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I'm a Winner. And that was the name of the song,
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I'm a Winner. So that was my first song, way
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way back in the day.
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Definitely go back and check out that episode with Chill
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Rob you. I had a blast talking with him. We
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didn't just talk about music. We talked about seafood and
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poisons and food and things like that. It was a
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lot of fun. Make sure you seek out that new
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album from him, Survival the Better, produced by my guy
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see Doc who's been on the show before. You can
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find that album on all platforms. Band Camp has it,
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Spitslam Records dot Com if you want actual CDs, and
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you know, if you go to Spitslam, they've got all
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kinds of different artists on there with CDs and merch
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and things that you can buy, so make sure you
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go check them out. Chill Rob g the new album,
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Survival of the Better. Speaking of better, let's make this
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episode better. We got Marcus Monroe coming on the show
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talking about the origins of this subway thing that he
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does thor does stand up comedy to unwilling passengers just
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trying to go to work or come home from work
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on a New York subway. It's just funny because you know,
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if I'm ever on a train in Chicago, it's usually
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the Blue Line, which kind of goes from like you know,
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O'Hare Airport basically to downtown and then even goes further south.
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So if I'm ever on a train more time than
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not that's the one I go on. I mean, I'll
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go on the Red Line occasionally, Brown Line whatever, but
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that's the main one. And if I'm ever sitting there
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and somebody gets on the train car and they start talking,
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which happens a lot, I'm really not paying attention. My
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rule is you don't make eye contact with strangers. Usually
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you just look at your phone, you stare at whatever
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you're doing, you look out the window, whatever, and generally
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they're up there talking they want money or something or
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giving you their story, and they're usually not dressed like,
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you know, like a cool character from Star Wars or something,
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and you're just like, oh please, just you know, don't
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start any trouble. Just go through the next car like
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you always do and bother those people. It's like, when's
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my stop? So this is kind of taking to another
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level because I think if somebody walked down the Blue
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Line train doing what he does, I probably would pay attention.
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I might even laugh, which would probably ruin the video.
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So be thankful, Marcus that I'm not on those train cars.
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But anyway, we're gonna talk about the origins of all
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that and much much more. Stay tuned, Marcus Monro's on
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the show, and later on in the episode, talking so
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much about trains, I started thinking, like, you know, there's
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a lot of movies that I've seen in my life
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that are based on trains, and I haven't done a
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list in a while, so I thought of writing down
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my favorite movies that are based on train travel. Came
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up with six. I know, it's kind of a weird number.
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Usually top five or top ten, I don't know. I
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just had six instead of writing them down, and then
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I counted how many I had and it was six.
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So you know what, I'm not gonna eliminate one of
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these just to make it a nice five number. We're
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gonna do six. Because who's doing top sixes? Nobody is
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this show does. Maybe I should just make that a thing,
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the top six. What's your top six? Why you had
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to do a top six, I don't know, because that's
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just what I do. So stay tuned for that. I'm
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gonna talk about my six favorite movies that involve train travel.
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It's a pretty cool list. Hopefully you guys enjoy it
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and have seen somebody these movies so you know what
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I do see they got the three pack of day
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If I ever get that, I will definitely do a
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If you guys buy stuff on there, well then I
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could take that money. I could buy those day Lost
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Soul figures. You see how this works. You're helping me
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by helping you or not? All right, let's get into
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the show. Marcus Monroe is here. We're gonna talk about
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train movies and a lot lot more. But before you
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do anything, we go out to Queens to talk to
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the one and only DMC. He gets on, he says this,
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and now it's official, Yo, Yo, what's up?
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This is me DMC to Ki and g the greatest
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MC in historyad And right now you're listening to Infinite
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Banter because we will banter on forever. Because if this
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is the only place for all of your to ever be,
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I be infinite Banta.
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So all you Infinite Banter podcast fans know the deal.
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This is the spot where I would play a song
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to help introduce the upcoming guest. Marcus Monroe, as far
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as I know, does not have recorded music out there.
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We're not talking about any music on here. So what's
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actually gonna be a good idea, in my opinion, because
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I have great ideas, is that we're gonna play one
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of these videos that have gone on your favorite social
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media platform where he does the subway humor that we're
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talking about. So in this particular one, he's dressed up
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as a stormtrooper talking about Star Wars. Pretty hilarious. Of course,
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the visual helps a lot more because you could see
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him dressed up and you can see the reactions of
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the people on the train car. If you haven't figured
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it out by now, this is a audio medium, so
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I can't help you with that. I would recommend after
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playing this whole episode, jump on Marcus Monroe's Instagram or
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it's Facebook and watch all these videos and you'll get
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the full feel for it. But here's this little taste.
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Does he get you ready for this interview? To get
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you warmed up? Marcus on a subway dress as a Stormtrooper,
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and I believe he dropped this on May fourth? You
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know that's Star Wars holiday that you non Star Wars
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fans always confused. Why are people walking around with Star
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Wars crap? What is this holiday? Is this a holiday?
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Is what is going on? Why are people doing this?
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The coincidn's a comic book day, so it's always a
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big deal. All right, Enough bantering, let's get to it.
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Marcus Monroe right here, dresses a Stormtrooper, talking about Star Wars,
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doing Star Wars jokes and the other side of this.
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Talk to the man himself about this particular bit and
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a whole lot more. But here you go, Marcus Monroe
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doing Star Wars material here on the Infinite Banter Podcast.
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Let's go.
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I'm obsessed with Star Wars so much so my wife
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is leaving me because of it. She's like, may divorce
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be with you.
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I'm like, but you're the only one for me.
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Now.
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I left a hand soulo myself.
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But I'm a good guy.
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I would never use the force, even though I like
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things hop and spicy. Sorry, Lady President Fellows. Darth Vader
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couldn't find love. He was looking in all the wrong places.
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Oh r, does Darth Vader like his coffee? You think
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black button?
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No? Do you think black? But No?
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I want saw loose Skywalker shock me at a second
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hand store.
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Kind of fun.
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He's my favorite jet I hand down.
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Yes.
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I'm really hyped to bring on my guest, a comedian
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that has caught my attention with his hilarious New York
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Subway videos where he does stand up based on a
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theme or a character that he dresses up as. You
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could see him dressed up as a Stormtrooper or Michael
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Jackson or cheese. He could check out his podcast called
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The Boyfriend's Podcast. He's also on tour. You can see
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him at a show coming up in Chicago on August
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thirteenth at the Comedy Bar. Welcome to the show, podcaster,
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juggler and comedian Marcus Monroe. What's up, Marcus?
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How's it going? Mark? You good for having me on
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the show.
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Man, I appreciate it. Thanks for coming on.
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Man.
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It's funny like yesterday or the day before, a friend
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of mine send me your Stormtrooper, a Star Wars video.
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He damned it to me and I was like, oh, yeah,
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I was bugging that guy. I gotta bug him again.
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Thanks for reminding me. Yeah, this is great the Stormtroopers.
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I'm a start Wars nerd, so you know, I was like,
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that's right up, my alley. Let me go ahead and
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follow up in Marcus and have him on the show.
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And man, just thanks for doing this. It's really really I.
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Love that that Stormtrooper video did really really well, and
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I posted it on May fourth for like Star Wars
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Day made the fourth of course, right, And it's really
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funny as I was booked to perform on a cruise
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ship like that same week. Oh and so I.
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Got the virus or whatever it's called. You don't want
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to do that?
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No, yeah, I was. I was only there for like
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two nights, and so I got on the ship and
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then the cruise director is like, what do you want
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me to say? It's your intro and I'm like, I
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just you know from New York Award winning comedian. This
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is fine. And he's been like, okay, cool, and then
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I was like talking to him and I was like, yeah,
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do you see this is a I did this thing
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where I dressed up as a stormtrooper and did stand
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up on the subway and he looks at me and
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he's like, well, there's already a guy that does that.
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I was like what. He's like, there's already a guy
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that dresses up in costumes at the stand up in
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the subway in New York. I'm like, no, I know
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I did that. He's like, oh, we shouldn't do that.
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Someone else does that. I was like, no, that's me.
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You're talking about me. He's like what. I was like, yeah,
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And I showed him a video. He's like, oh, yeah,
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that is you pretty funny.
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It's like the Spider Man meme. Right, You're pointing at each.
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Other exactly like this is me, brother, What are you
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talking about against?
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Still for myself, did you ever get to a point
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where he's like, oh, yeah, my mistake or was he
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just like oh yeah too, okay. Anyway he was.
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He was so perplexed as to you didn't know like
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I did actual comedy, I on things. It was like, oh,
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I didn't know you could have you here without your
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your banking costumes. I'm like, this is my live show
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is very different than my social media. Although you talk
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about it on stage, I don't really get into like
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the puns and the and the costumes when you come
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see me live and people I don't. I think people
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understand that's what I do on socials. That's not what
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I really do. Like in a live show, that would
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be so bad. Oh yeah, so early yeah.
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Right, you're changing costumes in between sets and everything. I
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got to go backstage and.
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A lot of downtime, I mean a lot of filler.
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It would be so awkward. We definitely talk about it,
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but it's just like, yeah, doing it on stage is bad.
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Well, I would imagine a lot of people who are
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there are maybe a are familiar with you because of
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the stuff on Instagram and YouTube and things like that.
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So yeah, and I wonder, you know, I wouldn't be
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that person, but I could see somebody cider like, when's
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it gonna dress up like a golfer? What the heck
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is this?
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Right?
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He's just a guy doing real.
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Stand up what the hell bait and switch?
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And I bet that guy the cruise ship just to
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go back to that for a second. He's probably like, oh,
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thank god, there's only one of these. Okay, I thought
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there was another guy doing this. I'm never taking a
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trade again.
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And the funny thing is there is I don't even
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want to give him any credit. But there was a
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guy in another country who wrote me an email and
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he was like, hey, do you mind if I do
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your subway stuff in my country? And I was like, well, yeah,
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I kind of that's kind of my thing. And He's like,
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no one in my country knows who you are. I'm like,
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well you do. You you're in that country and you
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message me, so I'm sure people in that country know
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who I am, right, and then he's like, oh, okay,
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I won't do it. And then he wrote me an
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email like a month later he's like, I'm actually gonna
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do it.
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He went to the proper channel and said He's like, oh,
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I thought he would say yes, yeah, No, I'm still
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gonna do it.
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Yeah yeah. And all the comments are like, you just
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stole this from the guy in New York, So I
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got people in your country know about it.
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Wow.
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Crazy, that's crazy.
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That's that's on another level, right, because you're you're doing
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something else that you came up with in your idea,
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and to think that somebody wants to just do it,
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but it's in another country where in theory he thinks you, oh,
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you won't mind, you'll never come here.
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Yeah, you never see anyone anything from the internet from
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someone else from another country. I'm like, you do all
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the time when he's talking about doesn't stop.
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So it's called the internet, dude.
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Do you know how many videos of snakes I get from,
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like people in India playing with cobras.
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Maybe that's your next on your next bit total snake charming.
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I had a snake I was so I was so
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fact infactuated with snakes growing up that I went up north.
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I was like from Wisconsin, so it was Milwaukee, went
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up north Moe Door County or something. On summer vacation,
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my dad and I we found a snake. We put
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it in a box, and we wanted to bring it
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home as a pet because I had like a nice
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big aquarium for it. Oh jeez, but the snake we
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brought it home. We had it for two days. Then
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it gave birth to like fourteen little babies. So there
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was a point in my life where I had fifteen
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snakes in my house.
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Now you need fifteen rats or whatever to.
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Feed exactly exactly. They hit like crickets. They were too
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too small for rats at the time. Oh gotcha bugs.
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I grew up in Chicago, live in the suburbs of
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Chicago Mount Prospects. As a kid, there was a park
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by my house and I did catch a garter snake
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and brought it. Oh, and I thought, oh, yeah, I
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could just feed it bugs, or I'll just catch a
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bug outside. And but like you said, two days later,
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not that it was pregnant. It just got out of
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the take like because I was put like saran wrappid
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punched holes in it like an idiot. Oh yeah, I
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throw a stick in some grass in it that would
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be like a tabitat or whatever. And it got out,
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and you know, we never saw it. I don't know
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what happened. We were moving. So maybe the next people
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who lived in an apartment found a garter snake under
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the sink or something.
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Kid. I like looking at snakes totally when they're like
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in glass and protected, like they can't come out. Like
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like if I see a snake in the wild, I
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jumped like a little, like like a little kid. I
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get so scared.
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I hate that, right, I mean, who's got that time?
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Because I know, like there's the one that's a king snake,
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and I think it's a coral snake or something you have,
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like the does the color pattern that tells you which
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one's venomous. I don't have time to remember which one
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is which at all. I'm running not at all, man,
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uh uh, I don't.
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I was at the Bronx Zoo one time and his
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snake just like came out of the bushes and just
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like right in front of me on the path. I'm like,
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I'm done. I'm gonna go in the car.
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Uh uh.
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I was a dumb kid when I grabbed that snake
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and brought it home. But the version of me, now,
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no way in hell am I.
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No, I don't have health Insurance's not gonna go get
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a snake bite and then not know what to do.
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But it's a good transition. I have a couple of
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pet turtles and you dressed as a turtle on the subway. Yes,
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my favorite part of the video is that you did
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the whole thing where he you know, turtles go in
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their back and they can't get up. No one person
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helped you. No one helped you. I was like waiting
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for someone to try to help. They don't care.
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Yeah, that was sow where it was like I was
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on the ground of the subway for maybe like twenty seconds,
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but it felt like four It felt like minutes hours
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for me because I'm just sitting there, not knowing if
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people are gonna kick me, curb stop me, like if
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they're like tell me to f off around. Yeah, yeah, totally.
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And I thought I was gonna cut the video, like
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the cut that part, like just what while I'm still
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on my back, But I decided to keep it in
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where like I stand up because it was so awkwards
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me standing up, and then the microphone falls over, and
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then I didn't know what to say, but that that
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Actually I remember that whole train ride that in that
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one car, all those jokes hit like for some reason,
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everyone in that car, not saying everyone laughed, but like
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everyone I think understood the jokes and got the bit
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even though their faces didn't show it. I think they did.
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And because I remember leaving that car and people like
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clapped for me, That's what I think. They were either
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clapping because the jokes are funny, or clapping because they
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were happy I was leaving the car.
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There's probably that one, probably, but that was kind of fun.
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That was like, whenever I'm filming these things, it gives
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me so much anxiety. So whenever I get like a
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little bit of a smile or a laugh or a clap,
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it's just is validation. It keeps me going. Because sometimes
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I dress up as a character, I'm like, oh, no
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one likes this one, Like the Charecrow from the Wizard
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of Right. No one was on board with that one
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at all, And I thought that was gonna be such
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a good crowd pleasers.
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A class one like that.
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I thought so too, but no one cared, no one
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liked it.
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I always been a tin man person. Maybe that's what
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you got to do next time.
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I think I wasted all my uh Wizard of Oz jokes.
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No more writing. That's so hard. That can is empty.
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But yes, exactly for people listening for oil.
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We're oil, so for people listening. In case you didn't
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catch on, So Marcus here he does stand up comedy,
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but he also will go on a subway train and
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he'll dress up as a character and you'll do stand
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up and the jokes are you know, like you said,
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sometimes they hit. You could tell from the people in
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the train car that they're looking and they're like, what
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is this guy doing? And some of them laugh, and
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some of them are not even they don't even look up.
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It's almost like I don't care that this guy is
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dressed like a ninja here on the train. I am
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not no, no thanks, no money for you.
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Yeah, yeah, I never for the for the record, I
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never ask for money because I'm just like, I'm just
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doing this for socials. So I like, you know, if
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I was asking for money, it would be like it
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would change the dynamic. If nothing and I even tell
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people once I get into the train, I go, hey, guys,
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I'm gonna take you some starry to bother. You're gonna
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take you some jokes for one stop. I'm not asking
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for any money, so they're free jokes. Feel free to listen.
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Just please don't beat me up. Let's I'll say something
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like like along those lines to disclaimer, yeah, because like
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I want people to like to listen and not feel
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like they have to pay me money, because like I
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don't want people to like it. Well, if I show
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any you know, any like interest, he's gonna expect money.
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I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. I want people
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to know. It's only one stop too, so like I'm
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not gonna be like bothering them the whole time. Thirty
487
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seconds top, you know, maybe a minute depending on would
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stop her at but they're usually I'm usually not in
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the car that long. And then I go to another
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car in another car, and I just I just keep moving.
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I do both like eight stops and then I'm home.
492
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I think I did notice I've come back up.
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Yeah, when I when I noticed the videos, like sometimes
494
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they are in a different car, like you know sometimes
495
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oh yeah, I've watched them. I binged them for the
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last two days. Marcus, so I feel like, I'm sorry, no, no,
497
00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:21.160
it's all good man.
498
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You're gonna you're gonna start repeating your punchlines. You're yeah,
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righting for lunch today. For lunch today, I did play
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my daughter the because she likes Taylor Swift. Travis Kelcey
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uh Taylor Swift half and half uh. Yes, the jokes
502
00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:40.559
didn't land, but she's, you know, I don't know if
503
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she's the right audience.
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So I thought, maybe like this one, Hey, look at this.
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No, okay, she's like nope, nope. That was the fun one.
506
00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:50.640
So that costume came about because I wanted to do
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like a half and half, and I looked up on
508
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the internet, like how to make a Travis kelcey uh
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Taylor Swift costume, and there was like a tutorial the
510
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guy that made one. I was like, oh my gosh,
511
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I'll just follow this tutorial. Then I realized he lived
512
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in New York, so I like became like kind of
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like a detective and started stopping him and like added
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him on Instagram, on Facebook and just kept messaging him.
515
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He was in the band, so I like followed the
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band on Instagram and started like messaging the band, and
517
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then this guy finally was like, oh hey, sorry, I
518
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.559
was on social media this week. What's up? And like,
519
00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.319
do you still have this costume? I'd just stand up
520
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in the suboy and he's like, oh yeah, yeah, you
521
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can borrow it. So I just met this stranger about
522
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this random guy in New York turned out to be
523
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a really cool guy named Jared and uh yeah, and
524
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and I'll be like whenever I have like an interesting
525
00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.319
costume idea, he like, he's like a costume enthusiast, so
526
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he helps me out.
527
00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:39.839
Man, that's a good link.
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Porter from time to time. Yeah, he's got another another
529
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half and half costume I might do. I think it's
530
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like Mike Myers and Michael Myers. So it's like Mike
531
00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.000
Myers and like and uh from from like It's like
532
00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:55.119
it's like I think Austin Powers and half like Mike
533
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Myers from the Halloween.
534
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Oh that's great. Oh yeah, I was gonna ask because
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I'm a big horror fan. I love Jason and Freddie
536
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and Michael and all that stuff. I was like, I
537
00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:04.319
didn't see any videos for that, but maybe that's too
538
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scary to go on a train, you know, unless it's
539
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like Halloween. But you know, I.
540
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Did a zombie when I first started. The first one
541
00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:13.759
I ever did was a zombie. So that was kind
542
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of scary, I think, right, and I'm trying to think
543
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of anything else that's like.
544
00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:19.960
I mean, it is a train. I mean, you know,
545
00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.440
people have seen worse than you know, some guy dressed up.
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00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.160
Like Jason totally. I did a centaur. I mean that's
547
00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:29.880
not really that's more sci fi fantasy. But yeah, I
548
00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.119
mean I did the devil. That's kind of cool.
549
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There you go.
550
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You see that one.
551
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I did that one, and I think the scariest costume
552
00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:37.799
you war, and I think it's more scary for you
553
00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.079
than the passengers was the Trump shirt.
554
00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.599
Oh my god, that was terrifying. Uh.
555
00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:46.680
I watched that. I was like, oh man, you know, God,
556
00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.440
bless you for doing that one, because that's a that's
557
00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:50.920
a tough gig there. And I think one guy gets
558
00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:53.000
somebody's like fuck off or something.
559
00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:55.640
He was he thought I was an actual Trump supporter,
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probably talking shit. But if if he stayed in listen
561
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to the jokes, I think he would have really appreciated
562
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where I was taking it.
563
00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:04.359
See he didn't get it.
564
00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:08.240
It was all all satire. But yeah, yeah, no, he
565
00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:10.759
definitely didn't get it. But I think, like also, some
566
00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:13.400
of the scarier ones are like ones that like people
567
00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:16.640
might be offended by just like Jesus, or like I
568
00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:19.200
have a priest coming up. I haven't recorded it yet.
569
00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:21.880
I'm doing a priest or like Stephen Hawkins. People might
570
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have been offended that I did that, right, but it's
571
00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:27.079
been It's been pretty good. People kind of get People
572
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.480
are pretty cool, I think, and they understand like, it's
573
00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:31.319
not worth my time get energy to like beat this
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kid up who's just dressing up as someone and trying
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to tell jokes.
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I hope right after they heard the first couple of
577
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:38.880
jokes they realized, like, all right, this guy is you know,
578
00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:41.920
he's not doing anything harmless, right right, it's pretty harmless.
579
00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:44.119
You might even think it's dumb. You could either look
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up or keep looking at your phone, whatever you want
581
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to do.
582
00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:48.920
Yes, And there are some jokes that I say that
583
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are like a little bit more edgy, and those jokes
584
00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:54.519
I usually will wait until I'm like two or three
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jokes in and I'll start like so I'll kind of
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like you know, loosen up the crowd a little bit
587
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with like some good like my favorite ones or whatever
588
00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:04.240
character I'm doing. And then if there's like a joke
589
00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:07.920
that's kind of like maybe like insensitive or like on
590
00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.720
the line, you know, like I'll wait till, like, I know,
591
00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:13.359
the car kind of likes me, and then I'll say
592
00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:16.240
like an inappropriate joke, and then I usually can get
593
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.160
a bigger reaction from them if they kind of like
594
00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:22.200
me at first, and then I'm just like just yeah,
595
00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:24.000
it's warm them up and destroy it. Yep.
596
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:26.200
You know a good example of that is, you know,
597
00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:28.920
I'm a big wrestling Fanitor is the wrestling one, and
598
00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:32.359
you eventually got to the joke with the RVD joke,
599
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.039
what do you get and even apologize to Rob Damn
600
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.039
in the video, which like, oh man, he.
601
00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:42.279
Watches my video, doesn't follow me, but he likes a
602
00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:45.200
lot of my videos. And I'm a huge wrestling fan.
603
00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:47.160
So I love Rob Van dam and I think he's
604
00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.920
so cool. He's still added, he's still doing it, and
605
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.279
RVD just to me sounds like STD. And he does
606
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:57.079
this like rv D thing where he points to himself, right,
607
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And so I did that in the subway saying what
608
00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:02.920
happens if you sleep with our Rob Van Damn, you
609
00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.960
get a S T D. And yeah, it was a
610
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.640
funny joke, but I felt bad afterwards that I don't
611
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.519
want anyone to think, like, you get an STD I
612
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:13.240
for you sleep with Rob vandam you probably don't. You
613
00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:18.200
probably get like a frog splash. And so I just
614
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.039
I felt bad. And he's never commented on that video
615
00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:24.920
or like, I never got a notification that he ever
616
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.680
watched it or liked it. But I'm sure enough wrestling
617
00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:29.599
fans have tagged him in that and stuff, and I'm
618
00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:31.480
sure he's seen it. I just feel bad because I
619
00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:33.279
never want to like make anyone. I never want to
620
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.880
make anyone in the butt of the jokes. You know,
621
00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:38.440
certain types of people fine, but not not necessarily. I
622
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.200
don't want to punch down on those people.
623
00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:42.079
Right, It's different if you doing like an Epstein joke
624
00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:45.680
versus a robbandamn joke. Obviously respect for right, Yeah for
625
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.680
Rob Van dam and you know Epstein is Epstein, But.
626
00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.119
Yeah, Epstein joke was fun. Yeah, there is a list
627
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:58.519
and he wrote it on a barely legal pad. That's great, Like, yeah,
628
00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.799
I have a little self Epstein.
629
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:00.599
There you go.
630
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:04.839
I hope this train stops on Sesame Street because that's
631
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.599
where I get off.
632
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:08.960
You think he said something like I want to retire
633
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.720
and have kids, and then you like.
634
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:14.799
Just any of this, I just want to retire, Yeah,
635
00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:16.319
get married, have kids.
636
00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:19.720
That was the punch line. You don't there's no more
637
00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:20.960
joke to that. That is the joke.
638
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:23.640
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes that's the funniest part too, when people
639
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.240
are waiting for another punch line, I'm like, nope, that's
640
00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:28.759
it just cuts off and gets gets to the next
641
00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:29.279
next joke.
642
00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:31.599
There were a couple others that really stood out to Uh.
643
00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:34.839
The Gopher one is hilarious because you got a cameo
644
00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:36.920
in there, Bobby I'm watching, Like, is that Bobby one
645
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:38.039
hand from Saturday Live.
646
00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:43.319
Yeah, so, like I was contacted by Disney on Monday
647
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.119
to do this, to like do this gopher video for
648
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:50.839
the movie Hoppers dressed up as like it a beaver.
649
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.200
Was that a goal of beaver? Yeah?
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00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.279
I don't know. I'm not I'm not an ex one
651
00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:56.359
of those two one of the.
652
00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.319
Two I can't remember, but that was like okay, sure,
653
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:01.000
but there were like you have to write, you have
654
00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.079
to get the costume right the jokes, and I was like,
655
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:05.359
oh my gosh, that's so much work. So I wrote
656
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:09.839
like four really like clean beaver jokes or gopher jokes
657
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.200
I think it was a gopher and and then submitted
658
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:16.480
them like that same day. They're like, okay, these are great.
659
00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.200
Then I had to get a costume. And there's this
660
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.200
costume company called Halloween Costumes dot Com and they sponsor
661
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:26.720
a lot of my videos, Like they provide the costumes
662
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:28.920
for free, which is something that they just started doing
663
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:30.920
like a few months ago, which is great because I
664
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:33.720
used this. I spent so much money in costumes last year.
665
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:35.640
That was one of my questions was gonna be like
666
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:37.519
are you making these? Are you paying for them? Are
667
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.400
you renting them and returning them like in Amazon?
668
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:43.880
I think both. Yeah, it's a little bit of both. Yeah,
669
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.599
I uh okay, So about the costumes real quick? Yeah,
670
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.440
So I do. I make a lot of them. The
671
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.400
ones I can't make, I'll buy online. The ones that
672
00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:54.400
the costume company like doesn't provide, I'll like have to
673
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:57.440
buy on Etsy, Amazon, eBay, just kind of like mix
674
00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:59.799
and match different pieces together a lot of time, just
675
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.920
wan I'll do. And I have so many costumes now,
676
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:06.599
so it's really nice. I don't really like recycle them,
677
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:09.519
but if anyone wants to buy some throw casters from me,
678
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:12.799
hit me up. So yeah, So this thing that so
679
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:14.920
Disney was like, ray, we really want you to like
680
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.119
help promote this movie. We can't pay you, but we
681
00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:20.440
can get like Bobby moynihan and Piper who's also the
682
00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:23.039
lead in this movie on the train with you. I'm
683
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.559
like great, And that day they're like, actually, we can't
684
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.559
be on the train, but can you do it like
685
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.319
outside the train? And I'm like what outside the train.
686
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:32.640
I'm like, no, that's not gonna work. It's gonna then
687
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.000
changes the whole thing. And I was like, if we
688
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:36.680
can't do it, we can't do it. I kind of
689
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:38.240
said it like that. So I was like, you know,
690
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.559
I'm not gonna like do make this video then have
691
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.720
them like it wouldn't work that way. If I just
692
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:43.960
like go up to them and tell them the jokes,
693
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:45.599
they're gonna be like, okay, what the hell? And they're
694
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:47.359
like okay, they can't. They could begin the train with
695
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.279
you for just for one stop, and I was like,
696
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:51.720
what is going on? I was like, okay, I don't.
697
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:53.359
I don't need them for that long. I just need
698
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.960
them for like a little bit. And then like ten
699
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:58.079
minutes before we shot, they were like, actually, we can
700
00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.759
do two stops. And I was like, geez is okay.
701
00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:03.799
I was like, you guys contacted me about this and
702
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:05.599
you're giving me it's you're making it so hard for
703
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.079
me to do this. But then we got we met
704
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:10.319
and everyone was super super cool. We got into the
705
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.880
train station. I was like, great, Bobby Piper, here's how
706
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:14.920
it will go. And they had like like seven other
707
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.279
people around them. They're like, it was like a pretty crowded,
708
00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:20.960
uh situation because I had my my videographer, they had
709
00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:23.920
their PR people and their handlers and assistants and everything,
710
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:26.400
and so we only really had like a minute to
711
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:29.839
make anything happen from that video. And thankfully, like Bobby's
712
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:31.799
such a great improviser, and I was like, let's just
713
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:34.440
improvise a scene or something, and so yeah, we just
714
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.200
we did it really quick and it worked out really
715
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.839
really well, and I was really happy how that video
716
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:40.799
turned out. And then the people at Disney were actually
717
00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:43.759
really great. Of course, I understand like schedules and like
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00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:46.240
insurance and like their stars of the Disney movie. They
719
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got to keep they got to be protected. I get it,
720
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:49.359
and they were awesome.
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Yeah, and you know, as a viewer like, okay, so
722
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.440
I'm not I am completely unaware of all of that.
723
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:55.920
So that's that's crazy that that was, you know, to
724
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.160
promote a movie and that they were quote unquote planted there, right,
725
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:01.920
But it m off as legit and you know, you
726
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:04.240
know organic, So that's what's great about And it just
727
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:05.880
felt like they were on the train because New York,
728
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:07.759
I mean you see celebrities probably every now and then,
729
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.319
so it seems logical that they would be sitting on
730
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:13.000
the train and you know, not even know who you
731
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.599
are and kind of like, you know, hey, here's how
732
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:16.799
you should do this joke. You know you're not delivering it, right.
733
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:19.599
Oh yeah, I've had and I've had people. I've had
734
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:21.920
celebrities on the train with me without me knowing, and
735
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:24.200
that's been fun. They'll send me like a message after
736
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:26.279
or something. It's pretty cool.
737
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:29.599
Yeah, I would imagine it happens a lot, right, Oh yeah, sure,
738
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.920
And uh, the Pinocchio one I might be my favorite
739
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.119
because there's the well, I don't know why it shouldn't
740
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:37.680
be it should have been the Star Wars at a
741
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.359
wrestling one. I like that because there's a joke in there.
742
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:43.720
He said his brother his brothers name was Pistachio and
743
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:45.720
when he lies, he grows a nut and I I
744
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.880
got the phone down and like, go walk away for
745
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.119
a second to come back to it. I'm like, that's
746
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:54.599
I don't I'm sure there's different jokes people recite to you, like, oh,
747
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:56.400
this is my favorite one, and you probably never know
748
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:59.240
which one's gonna land, And you're like, never know the one.
749
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.240
I really like you. I don't even think it's funny,
750
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:04.680
but you like this one, Okay, it is funny.
751
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:06.480
A lot of yeah, you know, you never know which
752
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:07.920
is going to be the joke that people are going
753
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.480
to like resonate with the most. And I try to
754
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:13.920
put like the best joke in the very first clip
755
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.240
so people like, Okay, you know, you don't want to
756
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.039
put a bad joke up the top. People will swipe away.
757
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:20.680
My favorite jokes are always like the first few jokes,
758
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:23.640
but sometimes like if you want to make a second video,
759
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:25.440
you want you want there to be good jokes in
760
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.519
every video. So if I'm able to make it like
761
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.039
a longer video or two videos, I'll put a good
762
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:33.079
joke at the end, or like something weird that happened
763
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:34.720
at the end. Like usually at the end of the
764
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.799
video it'll be like an exchange with someone on the subway,
765
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:42.000
if something happened, which I did, which the Harry Potter
766
00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:45.839
video today that I'm posting has like a weird exchange
767
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:47.960
with a fan at the end. It was pretty funny.
768
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:51.359
Guy who just like hated JK Rowland and was like,
769
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:54.119
I hate her. She's such a fucking bitch. I was like, oh, god,
770
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:57.799
you're right, I agree with you. And then he's probably
771
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.160
he goes you probably didn't expect an Indian act, And
772
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.559
for me, it was just like an Indian guy sitting there.
773
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:04.119
I was like, oh, yeah, where you're from. And then
774
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:10.039
he goes Upper East Side, like, Okay, it's great, it's great.
775
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:10.480
I love it.
776
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.200
It's New York, right, I mean, it's like, what do
777
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:12.599
you do?
778
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.440
I love it.
779
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:16.079
We're else, I mean Chicago, probably do a lesser extent,
780
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:17.160
but yeah, I mean you did.
781
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:19.640
Okay, So I did the l Trade, I did comedy.
782
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:21.119
On the I did see that one That's awesome with
783
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:22.240
the Bears out last.
784
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:25.839
Year, as a Bears player. That was so fun. I
785
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:27.799
was doing it. I had shows at the Den Theater,
786
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.200
so I was promoting those, and now I have shows
787
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.200
at the Chicago Comedy Bar. So excited.
788
00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.400
Yeah, man, in August, that looks like, is it just
789
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.880
one night I saw August thirteenth.
790
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:41.759
Yes, it's just one night August thirteenth. Really looking forward
791
00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.079
to being back. Chicago is such a good comedy town.
792
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.039
It really is. You had a lot of good comics
793
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.880
come out of Chicago, but you also have a lot
794
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:51.640
of It's just like a comedy hotspot, and the crowds
795
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:52.759
are so good. I love it.
796
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.519
Yeah, we definitely. You know, a lot of the improv
797
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.279
stuff starts here. You know, some SNL guys and even
798
00:33:58.359 --> 00:33:59.720
SETV people come from here.
799
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.079
Big. You have Second City, right, really good stuff. When
800
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:06.079
I did the L train, I was on the Red
801
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.480
Line and I don't really know much about Chicago, but
802
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:12.840
apparently like you get into Chinatown and then we were like,
803
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:13.960
I was told to get.
804
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.960
Off the train you go to the south side of
805
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:17.440
the city.
806
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:19.760
I guess, So is that bad?
807
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.559
I mean, okay, I mean depends on you know, your perception.
808
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.960
I don't say that it's necessarily bad. But you know,
809
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:27.760
people who how do I say it, People who don't
810
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.159
know the area just see something on the news and
811
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:32.079
they think, oh my god, Chicago, they shoot everybody and
812
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:33.960
they kill everybody, and it's it's a murder town. And
813
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:35.760
it's not really like that. It's like that every big
814
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:39.159
city has stuff, right, But I wouldn't say you were
815
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:41.480
in trouble, but you might have. Okay, let's just put
816
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:42.840
it this way. It would have been like the Apollo
817
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.039
crowd if you you might have gotten more more of
818
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.360
a tougher crowd as you want.
819
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:49.639
To suburban, more of an urban. Yes, right, right, I
820
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:51.199
don't mind that. I think that's kind of fun. Like
821
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.760
sometimes there's certain trains in the city that I could
822
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:56.079
take that will take you more like to the Bronx
823
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:58.440
or like to Harlem, and then you know it's gonna
824
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:01.679
like be a little bit you know, not like like
825
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:04.760
Scarier Dice here, but like a lot of like, you know,
826
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:08.360
a lot of interesting people want to talk to you
827
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.159
when you get into those areas, and it just it comes.
828
00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:14.199
It becomes a way more interactive experience than I wanted.
829
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.199
I did that one. I learned that when I was Columbus.
830
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.119
I don't know if you saw the Columbus video Christopher
831
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:24.440
Columbus for that one, but I'm not when I made
832
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:28.639
all like throw indigenous people jokes that were all anti Columbus.
833
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.800
But if you've seen me at first sight, you're like, wow,
834
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.360
that guy loves Columbus. You know, he's dressed up as
835
00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:35.920
as Columbus. Right. And I was on the train that
836
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.239
I usually don't take, and I went up went uptown
837
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.599
and it was h this guy wanted to beat my
838
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:44.360
ass and uh he made that very clear and very
839
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.599
loud in front of everybody. So yeah, if you want
840
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:49.199
to see me almost get my ass kicked, man, watch
841
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:49.800
that video.
842
00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:52.679
Everybody take a note. Watched the Christopher Columbus video.
843
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.920
See Mark never dresses d dressed up as Christopher Columbus.
844
00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:59.719
Ever again no no, explored jerk off and it was
845
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.599
a hit or something, all right, it's I didn't get.
846
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:04.280
To stand one, thanks thankfully he didn't do that, but
847
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:06.079
it was it got dicey.
848
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.360
Yeah, man. And and just to clarify that, the Chicago
849
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:10.840
thing in New York same. You know, I'm from the
850
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:13.199
North Side. It's we got our bad parts, we got
851
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.039
a good parts. South Side's got good parts of bad.
852
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:17.039
But everything's kind of you know, that depends on your
853
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.079
point of view. But yeah, if you go up north,
854
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:21.199
maybe you have a little more of a crowd that's
855
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:22.960
not as tough, right. I think if you go southside
856
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.159
you might get a little more heckling or somebody tonny
857
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.559
to fuck off or when I've taught you more north side,
858
00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:29.760
so I might just give you a stare.
859
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:32.559
I lived in Harlem for like ten years, so I
860
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.519
understand like the culture and the spirit of that part
861
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.239
of the city, and I do love it a lot.
862
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:41.760
It's just not conduced him first stand up in the subway.
863
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.079
Right, and you know, let's get to the origins of that.
864
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.840
So do you remember the first like thought you had
865
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.159
It's like, I'm gonna do stand up on the subway
866
00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:50.960
and dress up as whatever the jokes are based on.
867
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:52.679
It was there like an origin to that, and it
868
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:53.880
just kind of pop in your head.
869
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:56.199
Yeah, So what happened was and if you go on
870
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:59.360
my social media, you go like way down two three years,
871
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.039
you can see what happened. So I was trying to
872
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.039
figure out what to do on social media. Every performer,
873
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.159
every comedian, if you're trying to make a big on
874
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.039
social media. You're trying to think of a thing that's
875
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:11.519
like yours that you can do and repeat, and no
876
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:13.320
matter what you know, you can just people will always
877
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:15.960
be expecting that type of content from you. And I
878
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:17.639
didn't know what I was going to do, so I
879
00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:19.920
was trying a whole bunch of stuff. I was like
880
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.679
going up to people in the city and just telling
881
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.519
telling them jokes like they'd be like walking by on
882
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:27.119
the street. I just kind of like hit them with
883
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.880
a one liner, like a drive by and just see
884
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:32.800
their reaction. And that was kind of fun. And while
885
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:34.719
I was doing that, I went down to the subway
886
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:38.239
and started doing my own jokes on the subway as myself.
887
00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:40.920
I was doing like, you know, like little tweets or
888
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.400
one liners I would do in my show, and it
889
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.480
like it was funny, but I bombed terribly. I would
890
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.159
just it was, you know, it didn't didn't work well right,
891
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.079
And I think, oh God, I can't keep doing this
892
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.119
as me, but it's really funny. I want to keep
893
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:55.039
doing it. So I decided I was like, oh, Halloween's
894
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:57.239
coming up, I'll do a zombie and do like a
895
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.639
cool zombie that tells jokes. And like all right, so
896
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.440
I did and it worked better. I didn't. I wouldn't
897
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:04.440
say like I had the delivery down or like the
898
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.000
double delivery on the punchlines. I didn't really understand like
899
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:10.360
how how to edit the video that well, but I
900
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:12.239
was like I knew, I know there's something there. So
901
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.559
then I did it again for Thanksgiving and I was like,
902
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:18.880
I'll just do holidays and I did the Grinch for
903
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:21.519
that for Christmas, and that the Grinch really took off,
904
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:23.440
and I was like, Okay. After the Grinch, I was like,
905
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:25.920
all right, this might be something. We might have something here.
906
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.519
So that I did Jesus for for Easter, and the
907
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:31.239
people got mad at me. So I did the Devil
908
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.480
like to kind of balance people who got mad at
909
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:35.719
me that I did Jesus, and that just made people
910
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.199
even more mad, but it got it got a lot
911
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:40.599
of attention, a lot of views. I was like, oh,
912
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:43.039
this is funny. And so then I stopped doing the holidays.
913
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.320
I just started doing like types of people, you know,
914
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:48.480
I'll do like an homage sky or Night, and I
915
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:52.639
was impersonator, you know, just like not not necessarily specific people.
916
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:55.639
And then then I started like after like a hundred
917
00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:57.000
of them. I was like, alright, I need to do
918
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.079
specific people. I'm running out of ideas. And then I
919
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:03.280
started doing like, you know, certain people like I mean
920
00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.320
looks like a person like like Harry Styles or Justin
921
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:10.440
Timberlake or Michael Jackson to people like that. So yeah,
922
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.440
it was it was like, you know, like everything. Some
923
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.320
of them do really really well. Some of them don't
924
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.440
do well at all. I never know which ones are
925
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.119
gonna do well. The ones I think are going to
926
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:21.719
do well never just never perform well. The ones that
927
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:23.039
I'm like, oh, I don't know if i should even
928
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:24.920
post this, those are the ones that always tend to
929
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:27.480
like get like, you know, a million views or something
930
00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:29.800
like that. I don't understand it. Uh yeah, but yeah,
931
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.280
it's been it's been super fun. It's been great. Yeah,
932
00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:35.880
they're fun to do. I enjoy the process of coming
933
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.519
up with the costume or the character and then writing
934
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:40.920
the jokes and then like seeing it through and going
935
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.920
on the train and doing it and seeing which ones work.
936
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.639
Though that is it is a fun little experiment. I
937
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:46.039
will say.
938
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:47.960
Yeah, that was even to think, like a lot of times,
939
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.760
I'm sure like for instance, like the wrestling one, when
940
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:51.480
I watch something like get These people don't even know
941
00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:53.559
Roman Ranges are not going to get these jokes. But me,
942
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:55.880
as a wrestling nerd, I got all. They all landed,
943
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:57.440
But I'm not in the train car, so you're not
944
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:58.960
going to get that instant you know, just like when
945
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:00.800
you're on stage doing stand you know, you don't have
946
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.000
that instant gratification of knowing that Joe landed you. You
947
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:05.440
can do it on the train. Oh man, I think
948
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.079
I bombed. And then you, like you said, you put
949
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.559
it online somewhere and people are sending it everywhere and
950
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:11.639
it's you know, going viral, as they say, right, And
951
00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:14.480
it's like because the audience you know that you wanted
952
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:16.559
to hit, they actually were able to find it. I'mlike,
953
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:18.360
you know, they were on the train that day, so
954
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:19.239
he just so far.
955
00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:22.920
Like the cringiest, the cringier the audiences, the more the
956
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.480
people on the train don't get the jokes, it seems
957
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:29.280
like the better the video will do. Yeah, But but
958
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:31.320
it's also like makes it a lot harder for me
959
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.599
to film it because I'm thinking, oh my god, everyone
960
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:35.559
hates me. I don't like and I'm a people pleaser.
961
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.159
I don't like confrontation. Don't like the ruffle feathers. I
962
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:39.800
don't want to get in anyone's way. You know, I'm
963
00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:41.880
from I'm from Milwaukee. I'm like, I mean, I'm trying
964
00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:44.519
to be like a nice, like Midwestern guy, you know,
965
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:47.119
and then you know, people are That's why I filmed
966
00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:48.719
during the day and I try not to film during
967
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.519
like rush hour or anything. But you never know, all.
968
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.239
Right, because yeah, people are chamming in there and they're
969
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.119
gonna hit you or it's just gonna be uncomfortable and
970
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:56.159
the exactly to deal.
971
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:58.000
With you exactly. And of course you need the train
972
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.159
to have people on it, otherwise you won't get any
973
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:02.559
reactions at all. But you just want to make you
974
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:04.599
want to get like a good balance a lot of
975
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.000
you know, some open space and some people. It's good.
976
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:08.840
Yeah, talk about that with you know, as far as
977
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:10.480
like doing it on stage, mere doing you know, an
978
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:12.960
actual stand up act, which is not anything like what
979
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.559
you're doing right subway cars is it was it hard
980
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.280
at first because you're seeing like like you just said,
981
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:19.360
like it's kind of cringing and always really reacting to it.
982
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:21.199
Now you know that it's a good thing. You don't
983
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:22.679
because I think if you're on a train car and
984
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:24.559
they're all like, you know, rolling in the aisles laughing
985
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:26.559
at your jokes, it kind of it steps all over
986
00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.440
what you're doing, right, so you almost need them to
987
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.880
not give a shit, where like a at a club,
988
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:33.440
you want them to be like laughing and kicking and
989
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:37.199
you know everything. So, yeah, it's a dynamics a different yeah.
990
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.119
Yeah, it's two different types of performance in comedy too.
991
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.519
Like when I'm performing on the subway, you know, I'm
992
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.880
kind of just trying to get the lines out, trying
993
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.599
to get the jokes out without me stuttering, and I'm
994
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.480
not really worried about if people on the train are
995
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:55.480
going to laugh or not. I'm just kind of like
996
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.760
I want to get it out clearly, and I want
997
00:41:57.800 --> 00:41:59.559
to like have a good take, you know, because I
998
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:03.159
don't have much time, and I want I probably repeat
999
00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:05.960
each joke like three or four times on the subway, right,
1000
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.360
And I'm just trying to get him out clearly and
1001
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.000
so like and like without my video guy shaking too much.
1002
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.760
My buddy Drew Jordan films me. He's a great dude,
1003
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.079
really talented video guy, And in my live show, I'm
1004
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.280
just trying to connect with the audience. I'm trying to
1005
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:26.039
It's you know, it's a it's an energy exchange between
1006
00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:28.760
me and the audience. It's a back and forth. It's
1007
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.320
a banter. The subways more one sided, more me telling
1008
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:36.639
jokes to Drew or to the crowd who's there. But
1009
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.559
my live show is me trying to engage with the
1010
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:43.000
audience and tell them jokes. I know, I'm still telling
1011
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:44.440
the jokes. You know. I'm not saying like I want
1012
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.400
everyone to talk to me, but I'm saying it's more
1013
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.000
of an even exchange versus being on the subway, which
1014
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.559
is like a one sided agreement. You know. Yeah, people
1015
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:55.199
on the subway did not agree to be on a
1016
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:59.039
comedy show. People are agreed to see me. So it's
1017
00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:01.679
more of like a bet official thing for like, okay,
1018
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:04.840
like we we came to the club tonight because you
1019
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:06.400
want to hear my jokes, and I want to tell
1020
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.440
you my jokes. On the subway, it's I'm gonna tell
1021
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:09.920
you my jokes. I don't care if you don't want
1022
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:10.360
to hear the.
1023
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.519
Jokes, right, Yeah, it's gotta be you know, I'm sure
1024
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:14.079
at first it was a little bit probably like you
1025
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.480
just had to figure out how this is gonna work out, Like, Okay,
1026
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.079
they're not gonna laugh at these jokes, but that's okay because,
1027
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:20.840
like you just said, this is this is not a
1028
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.599
contract or they paid, see me, I'm kind of pushing
1029
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:25.960
my comedy on them and they're gonna have to sit
1030
00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.559
through it. And the reaction is you know, I can't
1031
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:31.079
really judge what I'm doing based on their reactions, so
1032
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:33.039
I'm sure it took some time to kind of figure
1033
00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:34.719
out all that as a comic, right.
1034
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.880
Totally, Yeah, totally. And I think people that also come
1035
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.559
to my show, my live show, they know I'd say
1036
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:43.679
ninety percent of them understand what I do in the
1037
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.280
live show is different than the subway because it wouldn't work,
1038
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:49.920
like if you're expecting the dad jokes and the costumes
1039
00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.119
and the puns. I definitely talk about it and like
1040
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:55.360
we can, I'll do a few, but to make a
1041
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:57.920
whole hour out of that when people would just be
1042
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.840
so mad and I think they would just leave right away.
1043
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:03.400
Oh yeah, man, how long were you doing stand up
1044
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.280
before you started doing the subway stuff? Have you been
1045
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:06.320
doing it years and a year?
1046
00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.880
For a long time, like over ten years? Yeah, it's
1047
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:11.679
so funny because like I've you know, I've been doing performing.
1048
00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:14.519
You know, I started, I started as a juggler, right like,
1049
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:18.440
I started performing juggling shows, and I would perform at
1050
00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:22.440
like Summerfest and Milwaukee all the festivals and street perform
1051
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:24.880
and then I got really I got better. So I
1052
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:29.480
started performing inside and I would do like cruise ships
1053
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:34.599
and performing arts centers and theaters and comedy clubs doing
1054
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.000
my juggling act. And then in like twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen,
1055
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.639
I got more into stand up and lesson to less
1056
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:43.719
focused on juggling and decided to really just like put
1057
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:47.159
the emphasis on the on the stand up and writing jokes.
1058
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.079
And then I got you know, passed at the Comedy
1059
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:51.840
Cellar in New York, which is like one of the
1060
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.320
hardest clubs to get into. Oh yeah, so I performed
1061
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:57.599
at the Comedy Cellar. I perform at all the clubs
1062
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.039
in New York City doing stand up. And now a
1063
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:01.960
lot of my friends don't even know that I used
1064
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:03.679
to juggle, even though it was like something I did
1065
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.480
for over twenty years. It was making my bread and butter.
1066
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.039
And now I've kind of just like shifted and started
1067
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.840
doing stand up comedy, and so then it's great that
1068
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:16.000
the subway videos are popping off because a lot of
1069
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.400
people come to the shows now because of the subway videos,
1070
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:21.039
not because I used to juggle or they want to
1071
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.119
see jugglead or they've seen my stand up clips. It's
1072
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:25.199
all because of the subway clips. I'm so happy that's
1073
00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:28.320
the reason, because it's a lot of it. I'm new
1074
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:30.440
to a lot of people, so a lot of people
1075
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.599
who haven't seen me before, they've only seen my clips
1076
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:35.679
on the subway, don't really know what my life's stand
1077
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.599
up is like. So it's so fun for me to
1078
00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:41.599
then like prove myself as an actual comedian to the
1079
00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:43.400
people at the show, and everyone loves it. We have
1080
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.960
a great time. The shows are so fun. And I
1081
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.599
should say after every show I do photos of free
1082
00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:50.880
meet and greet with the whole entire audience. I stay
1083
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:52.400
for as long as it, you know, as long as
1084
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:54.239
everyone gets a photo and we can chat for a
1085
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.119
little bit, stay till everyone has their photo. It's a
1086
00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:59.719
great time. I love meeting the people at the shows.
1087
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:03.440
It's I'm I'm really really enjoying it, really happy that
1088
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:06.599
people like these videos. It's great. I never I never thought,
1089
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:08.320
you know, when I started doing these videos that it
1090
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:10.039
would change my life the way it has. But it's
1091
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:11.039
so it's so crazy.
1092
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:13.320
Yeah man, I mean it's it's almost like you found
1093
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:16.400
something like a niche to help propel your stand up,
1094
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:18.079
which is, you know, the base of all this, right,
1095
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.079
the foundation of it. But I actually, I guess you're juggling
1096
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:21.800
is too, because but I was watching your Went down
1097
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:23.360
the rabbit Hole on YouTube, was like, wait, he's a
1098
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:26.480
juggler too. This is wow, this is pretty cool. I mean, like,
1099
00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:28.480
I'm a big Steve Martin fan, so media life sticking
1100
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:30.239
of like stand up to do juggling. He's the only
1101
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.280
guy came in my mind at all that has ever
1102
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:34.280
done that, you know, kind of had the two togethers.
1103
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:36.039
I was like, oh, that's awesome. You know, you don't
1104
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.559
see many people doing juggling and also being funny at
1105
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:41.119
the same time, usually doing the juggle thing and then
1106
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:44.000
you know they go off stage like this is pretty cool. Man.
1107
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:46.599
When you start doing stand ups, you started doing open
1108
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:48.679
mics or were you did you have like a pretty
1109
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:50.559
good you know, foot in the door when you started
1110
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:51.800
doing some of the stage.
1111
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:53.280
Yeah, I kind of already had a foot in the
1112
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:55.679
door from the juggling thing, and so what I would
1113
00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:57.880
do is people would book me on their shows and
1114
00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:59.639
I would do like a little bit of juggling. Then
1115
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.599
I would just like do mostly stand up, and then
1116
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.559
like I just eventually like phased out the juggling. I'm yeah,
1117
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:08.559
the juggling, so it's like all stand up. So I
1118
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:10.360
never really had to do the open mics because I
1119
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:14.639
was already like performing as a juggler doing comedy. And
1120
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:16.760
then people I just stopped all of a sudden, just
1121
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:19.639
stopped juggling, and no one really seemed to notice, or.
1122
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:22.519
It's a pretty funny thing to say, they stopped noticing
1123
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.119
that I don't juggle like something.
1124
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:27.519
That's this is what he does. So you know, it's
1125
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:29.480
pretty fun, and you know, people trusted me. I think
1126
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:34.559
I'm probably you know, I kind of you know, proved
1127
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.480
my worth as like a juggler as a performer. You know,
1128
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.239
so many shows as doing like juggling comedy went so well,
1129
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:42.760
so people like kind of had faith and trusted me
1130
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:44.960
as a performer that I wasn't gonna go up there
1131
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.920
like bomb terribly if I just tried stand up because
1132
00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:50.679
the juggling the comedy act I would do was so strong.
1133
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:52.880
So I think people kind of understood. And I'm not
1134
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.119
trying to be like cocky about it either, but like
1135
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:57.760
I wouldn't go like as a performer, I wouldn't go
1136
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:00.280
on stage with something that's like just half baked and
1137
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:02.360
just try to wing it. You know. I'm one of
1138
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:05.199
those people who wants to always give my best, you know,
1139
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:07.480
even if it's a show for ten people. You know,
1140
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:08.880
I want to I want to do the best show
1141
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:10.920
I can for those ten people. So I think people
1142
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:14.400
appreciate that. And they saw that, I mean, like didn't
1143
00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:16.119
I guess just didn't care that I didn't have a
1144
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:17.480
bag of props with me. Yeah.
1145
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:19.320
Man, I mean I'm sure you've probably ever from other
1146
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:21.199
comics like you know they had to go through the
1147
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.320
open mic circuit, right cause I remember I did a
1148
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:26.000
few like fifteen years ago, so like maybe I should
1149
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:27.320
try this, and I did it a couple of times,
1150
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:29.480
and it's like, I don't know, man, this seems like
1151
00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:32.559
a lot of free work to be doing to eventually
1152
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:35.519
get to the goal. Yeah, so I'm sure you've heard
1153
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:37.000
from comics are like, yeah, I had to do open
1154
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:38.760
mics like three or four years before I ever got,
1155
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:42.239
you know, a spot somewhere. So that's amazing that juggling
1156
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:44.400
was your your kind of foot in the debts. That's
1157
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.199
pretty cool. Nobody else woul probably.
1158
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:48.519
Say, yeah, I mean like it was my foot in
1159
00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:51.239
the door. But I don't think if I wasn't if
1160
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.119
my jokes weren't good, like, I don't think I could
1161
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:55.480
sustain exactly, you know what I mean. So like, thankfully
1162
00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:59.480
I'm still here right, you know, a while after I
1163
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.199
start stopped like jruggling full time. Not to say I
1164
00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:04.840
won't juggle if you come see me live. Sometimes I do,
1165
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.320
sometimes I don't, just depends on the mood I'm in,
1166
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:10.159
what kind of show it is, you know, if the
1167
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:13.039
audience wants it. I don't ever like travel with my props.
1168
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:15.280
But sometimes like I'll find like three knives in a
1169
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:18.719
kitchen of a comedy club or something, and some bottles
1170
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:19.760
just go crazy.
1171
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.079
We couldn't get your your steak cut for you, sir,
1172
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:26.119
because some jerk off still all the knives from total kitchen.
1173
00:49:26.199 --> 00:49:27.719
Oh he's on stage, that guy.
1174
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.320
Yeah, dude. I did a birthday show and at the
1175
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.320
Dojo comedy in New Jersey at the beginning of May,
1176
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:36.119
and at the end I asked the owner of the
1177
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:37.800
club to bring me like the three of the biggest
1178
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.360
knives you could find in the kitchen, and he brought
1179
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.119
me three of the I've never seen knives this big before.
1180
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:46.000
I druggle with all three of them, and uh, luckily
1181
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:48.360
I didn't drop anything or cut myself.
1182
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:50.800
What wou'd be Just like that conversation though, like can
1183
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:52.599
you imagine like on the other side of it, like
1184
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:53.320
you want me to do?
1185
00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:53.480
What?
1186
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:59.480
Give you three knives? Of people here? Come on, man,
1187
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.239
I trust you give me the knives.
1188
00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:05.440
And then I have my own insurance. I tell them, Hey,
1189
00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:07.880
I have insurance, so don't I have a performers insurance.
1190
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:10.480
I don't have health insurance, but I do have performers insurance.
1191
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:13.360
Shoulder shrug like yeah, sounds legit to me.
1192
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.519
Yeah, totally. Like just step back, don't don't be close
1193
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:19.800
to the audience. I'm like, all right, it's in the
1194
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:22.719
stage is like two feet length and length and diameter.
1195
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:26.119
It's like a very very intimate venue. Oh man, that's fun.
1196
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:29.719
That's that's awesome. And uh, you know, not just the
1197
00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:31.719
subway videos but if people go on your YouTube. I
1198
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:35.239
watched the air fryer one holy crab dude. Oh yeah,
1199
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:39.119
that is genius because it hits it hits home. Because
1200
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:41.519
my wife in January went to Costco. It's like we
1201
00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:42.960
got to get air fire. I'm like, I don't even
1202
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.079
know what that means, Like what is an air fryer. Like,
1203
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:47.000
we don't use a stove anymore, and we bought the
1204
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:49.360
stupid thing and we rarely use it. I think I
1205
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.199
used it like three times in like five months. But
1206
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.199
I was like, you know what, maybe I'm not treating
1207
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:56.800
my airfire right because you treat yours great. You give
1208
00:50:56.840 --> 00:50:59.480
it eyes. Yeah, you took it on a plane.
1209
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:01.719
I just that video, man, thank you. I got to
1210
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.159
I got to rewatch that. I forgot about the plane part.
1211
00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:04.440
Yeah.
1212
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.960
It was like a brand deal with this air fier company.
1213
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.679
I wanted me to make a video about it. So
1214
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:11.480
I was like I kind of made a video where
1215
00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.559
I like fall in love with the air fryer and
1216
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:16.920
then oh the ending video, Oh god, wait, was that
1217
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:18.559
was that in the video where I like I'm in
1218
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:19.119
bed with it.
1219
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.440
Yeah, you take off your robe or whatever and you're
1220
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:24.880
liked to the camera.
1221
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:27.159
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. They asked me to
1222
00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:28.800
take that part out the company. I was like, no,
1223
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:29.679
I'm leaving that in there.
1224
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.760
Oh when I saw I had it, yeah yeah. I
1225
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:35.760
didn't see the official website version that was I was like,
1226
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:37.360
this is this is so awesome.
1227
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:39.760
That was fun. I love I love making I love
1228
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:42.840
making videos for companies. That's the best fun.
1229
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:46.079
Well, you know, the thing is like, so if some
1230
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:48.039
other company sees the air fire video, they know what
1231
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:51.719
they're getting. You know, they expect that kind of you know, silliness,
1232
00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:53.000
so they gotta get it there you go.
1233
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:54.320
I gotta have a little bit of an edge to
1234
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:56.519
hire me. But it's all good. Like Morgan and Morgan
1235
00:51:57.559 --> 00:51:59.639
the law firm. We did a video together where I
1236
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:02.159
was saying but I was injured Santa, So I was
1237
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:04.840
like Santa and crutchers and then a neck bracet and
1238
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.519
stand up on the suboy. That's great with like Christmas
1239
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.000
lights strung around me, like I just had a bad accident.
1240
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:10.840
That was really fun.
1241
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:12.840
See And like you said earlier, you know a lot
1242
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:14.840
of this stems from just what we live in now.
1243
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.280
The world we live in and everybody's on their phones
1244
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:18.800
and social media, So like, I don't watch Saturday Night
1245
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.719
Live like I used to, but I catch the clips
1246
00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:22.880
all the time, so I feel like I watched the show,
1247
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.000
but I don't really watch the show. But they know
1248
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:26.360
that and that's why they're putting I.
1249
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:28.639
Watched it on YouTube in bed the next morning.
1250
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:30.000
Right, and you know it's like I was like, oh, yeah,
1251
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:31.639
pau McCarty was under I didn't know that. So Will
1252
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:33.199
Ferrell's on, Like I had no idea, and I'm watching
1253
00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:35.599
all these clips and videos and things. It's like, this
1254
00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:38.719
is how we consume this stuff now. And you've hit
1255
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:40.679
a You've hit a spark there with that where you
1256
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:43.559
put them on Instagram and I'm scrolling through and like, oh,
1257
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.800
the guy just like a Stormtrooper. I'm totally gonna watch
1258
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:47.960
this because I like comedy and I like Star Wars.
1259
00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:49.400
There's no way I won't watch this.
1260
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:51.039
And man, I appreciate that.
1261
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:51.599
Yeah.
1262
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:51.840
Man.
1263
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:53.960
Another one I wanted to ask you about too, was
1264
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:59.440
the stakes on a plane yheo, Yeah, it's ridiculous.
1265
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:02.559
That is a little bit of a bummer. Yeah, a bummer,
1266
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:05.320
but I yeah, during the pandemic, I wanted to make
1267
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.039
a video. This is before the subway stuff that would
1268
00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:11.119
go viral, and it wasn't. You know, first of all,
1269
00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:13.239
you never you're never really sure what's gonna take off
1270
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.960
or not. So I made this video where it looked
1271
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.559
like I was grilling the steak in the bathroom of
1272
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:21.719
an airplane during a flight, and I had a flashlight
1273
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:25.719
in the toilet that flickered like flame, and the editing
1274
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:28.119
just looked really good. It looked like a real fire
1275
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.679
in the toilet. It looked like the steak was actually cooking.
1276
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:34.559
It was just you know, some editing effects, some little
1277
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:37.360
editing tricks. But I posted the video. It did. I
1278
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.400
filmed it in an actual Delta bathroom during a flight.
1279
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:42.440
That's great. But I posted that video and.
1280
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.559
That it wasn't Spirit by the way, I know, I
1281
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:47.480
maybe could have got away with it more.
1282
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.639
I know, I know, actually you expect that.
1283
00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.599
You expect that in the Spirit bathroom.
1284
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:56.280
Totally, totally. And then so it went super viral. I
1285
00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:58.280
got a call from Delta the next day. They put
1286
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:00.320
me on the no fly list. I still can fly
1287
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:04.440
on Delta six years later. That's cross. It's it's so crazy,
1288
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:07.559
and I like the reason it's ridiculous is because you
1289
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:10.880
couldn't actually get away with that. You couldn't actually gorilla's
1290
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:13.800
steak in the bathroom of an airplane without anyone noticing,
1291
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:16.320
take it back to your seat and eat it. And
1292
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:19.159
they're like, well, there could be copycats, and like, no,
1293
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:21.519
you're still not going to get away with it. You
1294
00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:23.599
couldn't even you know what I mean. So like it
1295
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:25.800
just doesn't make any you know, you know, they're a
1296
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:28.880
private company. They can they can you know, ben anyone
1297
00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.599
they want to. I get it. It does suck because
1298
00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:35.960
I was like a frequent flyer on Delta Gold Medallion status.
1299
00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:38.559
I had, you know, I had forty thousand miles in
1300
00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.519
my bank, Like I lost it all to just close
1301
00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.360
my account, and I tried to fly on them again
1302
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:48.199
because I let's just see what happens, you know, if
1303
00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:50.639
I can, I really not fly, and like say I couldn't.
1304
00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:52.519
They wouldn't even let me check in, and they're like
1305
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:54.960
you're on the no fly list. I'm like, oh man still,
1306
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.079
so yeah, it kind of sucked.
1307
00:54:57.239 --> 00:54:59.599
So that's just for Delta. You can still do United
1308
00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:03.880
or I still do United American Gentleman Southwest, so there's
1309
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:07.079
still a few options, but they're they're all gonna merge eventually.
1310
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:07.519
And I don't know what I'll to do.
1311
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:11.159
Yeah, because you're obviously your job, which you do, requires
1312
00:55:11.199 --> 00:55:15.039
you to travel. So unfortunately, yea, yeah, Delta thing probably
1313
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:17.519
you know really and now I'm making jokes about Spirit,
1314
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:19.880
but unfortunately with them not being around, You're right, it's
1315
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:22.840
gonna be monopolized and there's less options and therefore the
1316
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:26.760
airline tickets are costing more because there's less you know, competition.
1317
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.000
So yeah, it's got to be a harder, harder gig
1318
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:30.440
for you to figurely how to hol a. I'm gonna
1319
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:33.880
get to you know, Utah it on.
1320
00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:38.199
Delta totally, totally it does. Yeah, it sucks, and uh,
1321
00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:39.840
you know, but I you know, I talk about it
1322
00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:42.960
a lot of times in my shows about that takes situation,
1323
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:46.480
and it's definitely as a crowd pleaser, Like a lot
1324
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:48.719
of people really like that story. I show the video,
1325
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:52.000
I talk about it. Yeah, I'm you know, I really
1326
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.280
wish I did it on like an airline. I never fly, right,
1327
00:55:55.679 --> 00:55:58.280
But I didn't know it was gonna be such a
1328
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.400
big deal. I didn't know it was gonna up in
1329
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:02.840
my face. And I have stakes on a plain T
1330
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:08.079
shirts now I sell cars are expensive and yeah, just
1331
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:10.239
trying to monetize it, you know, any way I can.
1332
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:13.280
But yeah, my bad. Sorry, Delta's unbamned me if you
1333
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:13.599
hear this.
1334
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:16.639
It's so great though. I mean, here's the thing, like
1335
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:19.760
it was it worth it? Maybe not, but it's hilarious.
1336
00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:21.920
It's gonna live on YouTube forever, the videos. You know,
1337
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.599
everybody listening, please go check it out and go watch it. Yeah,
1338
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:27.639
you know, unfortunately, yeah you got some blowpack from it.
1339
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:29.079
But you know, at the end of the day, it
1340
00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:31.760
was still a good bit and exactly glad you did.
1341
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:33.159
Exactly at the end of the day, I made a
1342
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:34.480
good video. I should be proud of it.
1343
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:36.719
There you go, there you go speaking of it? Was
1344
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:38.599
there ever, like an idea you had to scrap like
1345
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:39.920
you were gonna go on a train. You're like, you
1346
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:41.800
know what, I can't tress up as this person. You
1347
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:43.559
just didn't feel like it was a proper time, you know,
1348
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:45.519
maybe like something that's too like you talk about something
1349
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.559
scary or political. Has there been a couple that you've
1350
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:50.320
hit the shelve because of times that we're living in
1351
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:51.079
or anything like that.
1352
00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:55.239
Nothing, that's a great question. Nothing. Nothing too crazy. I
1353
00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.239
try not to get too even though I've done like
1354
00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:00.800
Ice and Trump supporter on the train, I never tried
1355
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:03.880
to get too political, you know. I like I like
1356
00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:05.960
when people like kind of fight in the comments or
1357
00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:08.719
you know, have a lively discussion in the comments, not fight,
1358
00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:11.000
but I like when people are you know, respect full
1359
00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:13.320
to each other in the comments. And that usually happens
1360
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:16.719
when I do some character that's more controversial. But there's
1361
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:19.400
never been one where I've had to scrap or you
1362
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:21.800
know I did. I did Jeffrey Epstein on the subway.
1363
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:25.159
I felt like that one could have been insensitive with
1364
00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:28.000
the jokes I did, I thought were pretty like they weren't.
1365
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:28.920
They weren't too bad.
1366
00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:31.840
Right, You're not for Epstein. You're not out there telling
1367
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:35.119
jokes you know, that make it look good or anything, right, So.
1368
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:37.719
Right, of course, yeah, just like if Epstein was doing
1369
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:39.280
stand up, this is what I think it would look like.
1370
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:43.039
So I think because I'm also playing the character and
1371
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:46.840
it's satire, people are are understanding of Like most people
1372
00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:48.760
at least on the Internet. Maybe not on the subway,
1373
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:50.360
but on the Internet, they're like, Okay, we get that
1374
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:52.719
this is satire. And if they don't understand it. There's
1375
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:55.800
enough people who do get it back me up that
1376
00:57:56.039 --> 00:57:58.440
that's good. But there's nothing really that I had to
1377
00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:01.280
have has said no to. I wanted to do a
1378
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:04.360
nudist on the subway, but I wasn't sure. I wasn't
1379
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:07.960
sure how to do it, Like so I actually looked
1380
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.199
like completely naked without you've seen anything. I'm not sure
1381
00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:14.519
how to do that, but that's that's something I've been wanting.
1382
00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:16.159
I've been wanting to do for a while. I have
1383
00:58:16.199 --> 00:58:19.039
a list of like subway characters that I haven't done yet.
1384
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:21.679
I keep in my notes app and there's like fifty
1385
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:23.760
that I have written down that I haven't done yet.
1386
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:26.079
So as soon as I like, none of them are
1387
00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:28.519
too crazy. They're just like I just don't know. Like
1388
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:30.639
a FIFA player for like the you know, the World
1389
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:33.440
Cup would be a good one because right, you know
1390
00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:36.039
it's happening in New York. Freddie Mercury would be a
1391
00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:39.119
good one. But then I have like insane clown posse
1392
00:58:39.239 --> 00:58:42.639
written down, like people really know who ICP is, right,
1393
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:46.599
maybe it would be funny. I think I think I
1394
00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:48.480
have to do that. Actually, that would be pretty funny.
1395
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:51.840
There a clown makeup, right, So yeah, yeah, I just did.
1396
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.199
I just did kiss on the subway and I wore
1397
00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:56.719
you know, kiss makeup and that kind of when you
1398
00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:59.360
ask if anyone was kind of scared, you know, I
1399
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:01.760
did like the whole old Jean Simmons outfit. And I
1400
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:04.119
don't think there were any young kids on the train,
1401
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:06.360
but I was worried that I was gonna be a
1402
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:09.239
little scary for people, like young kids. And I never
1403
00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:11.920
want to be scary, so whenever I see young kids
1404
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.119
or like, you know, I try to just like avoid
1405
00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:17.440
them at all costs, or you know, be silly in
1406
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:19.599
front of them so they know I'm not like a
1407
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:22.840
monster or like no, no, no.
1408
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:25.760
You just reminded me of some years ago. I dressed
1409
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:27.280
up as Rick from The Walking Dead. Don't if you're
1410
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:29.079
a fan of the show or not, but oh that's cool.
1411
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:31.960
I had fake blood. I took off mostly everything, but
1412
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.079
I forgot about the fake blood on my face. So
1413
00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:36.079
I went to a Panda Express and some kids like
1414
00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:38.719
screams scared. You know you're scared. I'm like, oh shit,
1415
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:41.599
what happened. I'm like, they coded a car and wiped
1416
00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:44.199
this off before I order my rice and you know,
1417
00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:48.599
orange chicken or whatever. But so I got that's so fun.
1418
00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:50.159
I could see that happening, you know, where you get
1419
00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:51.880
on the train and you know, maybe there's some small
1420
00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.159
kid who was like, holy crap, he's dressed up as
1421
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:56.480
a zombie. You know, Mike, I gotta go off the
1422
00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:58.239
next stop because my kid cannot handle this, you know.
1423
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:00.519
So I'm sure there's very few and far if even
1424
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:03.639
happens to you, right, So totally yeah. But yeah, man,
1425
01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:05.360
if you're a new Walking Dead one, I'm all over it.
1426
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:06.119
You know, put it on.
1427
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:09.679
I'll be good. Yeah. I mean I did a zombie right,
1428
01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:12.079
so you're right there, you're you're, you're, you're right next
1429
01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:14.599
to it. Yeah, yeah, I love that.
1430
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:16.199
And I'm a big hip hop fan. I saw you
1431
01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:18.920
did some some rapper versions. Now I'm an old school
1432
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:20.719
hip hop heads. So you know, if you ever do
1433
01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:23.079
like a run DMC or BC boys, like an old
1434
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:25.719
school guys one, that would be pretty cool to see
1435
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:27.400
as well. Not nothing make you, you know, you're like
1436
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:29.159
a jukebox. I'm not trying to give you ideas that
1437
01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:32.199
you have to do or don't think, but but man, yeah,
1438
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:33.639
I'm just thumbing through I'm like, oh, what else has
1439
01:00:33.679 --> 01:00:33.920
he done?
1440
01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:34.079
What?
1441
01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:35.719
What else has he done? That's up my alley, you
1442
01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:37.559
know what I mean, Because you know, I'm I'm all
1443
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:39.639
into his nerd soot that's his podcast is about his
1444
01:00:39.719 --> 01:00:42.159
nerd crap and and you know, pop culture stuff. So
1445
01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:43.280
you're you're hitting all.
1446
01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:46.400
That thinking about doing a wrestler again. That'd be great
1447
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:48.239
because I'm a huge wrestling fan.
1448
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:48.719
Yeah.
1449
01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:52.480
Man, I'm going on the Jericho Cruise and a lot
1450
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:54.519
of my friends are wrestlers, and I'm like this, I
1451
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:57.000
should I think a wrestler again would be good. I
1452
01:00:57.000 --> 01:00:59.039
think I have enough jokes, you know, with t KO
1453
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:02.119
now taking over and like all this. Yeah, no, aew,
1454
01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:04.079
I think I think there's a lot of more stuff
1455
01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:04.519
I can do.
1456
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:06.920
Yeah, man, I just had Barry Horwitz on the podcast
1457
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:08.599
about a month or so ago. I don't if you
1458
01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:10.719
remember him really from the eighties. Yeah, he's got used
1459
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:12.199
to pay him stuff on the back because I grew
1460
01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:14.480
up on you like Macho Man and Ricky Steamboat and stuff.
1461
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:16.360
But I still watch not as much as I used to,
1462
01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:17.599
but I still watch, you know, a lot of the
1463
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:20.679
aw stuff in w WE, you know. But that's cool, man,
1464
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:22.360
I mean that's right there, you go. You could you
1465
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.079
could work out some more jokes with them, and if
1466
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:27.079
you're you're around them, your audience there, then you'll know
1467
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:28.880
for sure that that you're definitely, you know, telling the
1468
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:30.719
jokes that the right audience there, if you're gonna have them,
1469
01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:32.400
have them there. That's pretty cool.
1470
01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:34.159
Man, totally. Yeah, I think that'd be awesome.
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01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:36.119
Yeah, so you brought up the T shirts. I know
1472
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:38.000
they can get them on the website if you want
1473
01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:39.400
to promote the website and if.
1474
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:43.719
You go to marches merch dot com for T shirts posters.
1475
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:45.960
I signed a poster, put in a tube, mail it
1476
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.280
to you and I'll throw in some I got Subway
1477
01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:51.239
stickers some of my characters. I made it into stickers.
1478
01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:52.960
So if you buy a poster, I'll put those in
1479
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:54.960
the poster tube for you, and I also make a
1480
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.679
custom video thanking you for buying a poster. I'll send
1481
01:01:57.679 --> 01:01:59.679
it to you as well. It's only twenty dollars. What
1482
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:02.039
a great deal. Yeah, you get stickers of video and
1483
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.320
a poster. Pretty good. Yeah, my shows you can find
1484
01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:16.800
out at Marcus Monroa dot com. Coming to Chicago, Froyd Pittsburgh, Charlotte's, Rochester, Lafayette, Mobile, Birmingham.
1485
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:22.480
I'm going every New York, New Jersey. Uh yeah, yeah, Sunnyville, California, Phoenix,
1486
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:23.360
I'm going all over.
1487
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:26.360
That's awesome. And these are such different cities too, so
1488
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:29.440
your crowds are gonna be just all over the map, literally,
1489
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:32.079
because you're gonna have different, different types of vibes throughout.
1490
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:34.239
I mean I can't even imagine it. Yeah, man, like
1491
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:36.719
at Detroit crowd versus an Arizona crowd. It's gonna be
1492
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:40.039
so different, but so different. But that's cool, man. And uh,
1493
01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:41.679
you know, obviously I could be on Delta going to
1494
01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.039
these places, but nope, no getting there some kind of way.
1495
01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:47.760
Thanks for reminding me. I appreciate it.
1496
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:50.480
No, no, man, it's I didn't. When you said it
1497
01:02:50.519 --> 01:02:52.079
was you're on the no fly list, I was like,
1498
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.079
maybe that's it's a bit like, no, he really is.
1499
01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:58.119
Oh that's yeah. I made a mistake.
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01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:01.400
Hey, kids at kids at home, make sure you don't
1501
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:03.360
make steak in the bathroom of a plane.
1502
01:03:03.519 --> 01:03:05.159
Yes, please learned from my mistakes.
1503
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:07.679
Unintended, but try juggling because it's fun.
1504
01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:10.800
Dugon's a good time. Jargons is a good time, good
1505
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:13.320
eye hand coordination. Yeah, you can learn a lot.
1506
01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:16.679
Man August thirteenth in the Chicago area here, make sure
1507
01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:18.800
you go out to the comedy bar where Marcus Monroe
1508
01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:20.559
will be and he named off a bunch of cities.
1509
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:22.280
If you're listening and you happen to be in Arizona
1510
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:24.400
or New Jersey, he's gonna be there too, So make
1511
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.280
sure you follow him online. And you know your Your
1512
01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:28.639
Instagram is where I first found you, and I'm assuming
1513
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:31.119
after most people watch a lot of your videos as Instagram,
1514
01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:32.480
and I say you have a YouTube as well?
1515
01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:36.679
Yes, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, I'm I'm on everything. If
1516
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.239
you send me a message, I'll try my best to
1517
01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:40.920
get back to you. But yeah, come see the live shows.
1518
01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:43.960
It's a lot of fun and I meet everyone afterwards,
1519
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:44.880
so come hang out with me.
1520
01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:46.519
That's right. And you have a podcast too, right, I
1521
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:48.920
don't want to let you go without promoting.
1522
01:03:48.519 --> 01:03:51.039
The Boyfriend's podcast. I do it with my buddies Corey
1523
01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:53.559
b and Matt Lopes, who also are pretty big on
1524
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:56.639
the internet. I love those boys, and we talked with
1525
01:03:56.760 --> 01:04:02.239
other comedians, other celebrity o their musicians and we have
1526
01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.920
it's a great podcast. Everything that comes out every Monday
1527
01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:07.760
on YouTube and Spotify, The Boyfriend's Podcast.
1528
01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:09.960
There you go, everybody, make sure you check out the podcast,
1529
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:12.159
check out the live show, and of course watch the
1530
01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:14.800
subway videos and check out the air fryer video. There's
1531
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:17.199
so much content. I'll put links in, you know, with
1532
01:04:17.239 --> 01:04:19.519
the show notes, and I post the episode here. Hey, Marcus,
1533
01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:21.599
thanks so much for coming on the podcast. It was
1534
01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:23.440
such an honor. Yeah, man, it was fun and you're
1535
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:24.719
a pro at podcasting.
1536
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:24.559
Is it.
1537
01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:26.280
I'm looking at the timer, it's like exactly an hour.
1538
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:28.639
So he did not go out perfect, did not do
1539
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:30.960
the full infinite banter like I sometimes do, where it's
1540
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.079
like an hour later than I wanted. But thanks so
1541
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:36.559
much for doing this man, and everybody out there, make
1542
01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:38.519
sure you check out Marcus Monroe and on all your
1543
01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:41.119
social media platforms and check them out in a comedy
1544
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:42.000
venue near you.
1545
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.119
Yes, absolutely, thank you guys. Thanks for listening.
1546
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:47.119
To see you on the road, yeah, or a subway train.
1547
01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:49.079
You know, you see a guy just opy a piece
1548
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:51.719
of cheese. Don't get scared. He's gonna give you some
1549
01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:55.079
good jokes. Totally, absolutely, man, that was a lot of
1550
01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:58.760
fun talk with Marcus Monroe. Really really was looking forward
1551
01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:01.960
to doing this episode. Big up to Marcus Monroe. Make
1552
01:05:01.960 --> 01:05:04.880
sure you follow him on Instagram and Facebook, check out
1553
01:05:04.920 --> 01:05:06.840
his YouTube channel, and once again, if you want to
1554
01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:08.679
see him do a stand up live, you could check
1555
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:12.159
him out at punch Up dot live slash Marcus Monroe.
1556
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:15.239
You'd also go to a shop shop dot Marcus Monroe
1557
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:19.000
dot com. And uh, that's a true story I was
1558
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:21.880
telling about on Halloween. This had to be like two
1559
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.360
thousand and fourteen. You know, I was dressed up as
1560
01:05:25.599 --> 01:05:28.159
Rick from The Walking Dead and I had put fake
1561
01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:30.880
blood on like my cheeks or whatever to you know,
1562
01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:32.800
anybody who watched the show. I don't have to explain it.
1563
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:34.440
I had never It was the first time I ever
1564
01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:36.719
went to a Panda Express. I had never eaten there before,
1565
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:38.239
by the way, So that was the other part. I
1566
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:39.719
didn't think of it at the time I was talking
1567
01:05:39.719 --> 01:05:41.760
to Marcus here. Of course, I left my you know,
1568
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:44.239
fake machete in the car, but I forgot that I
1569
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:45.599
had the fake blood on my face. And there was
1570
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.280
a kid who saw me and he's like ah, and
1571
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:49.440
then the mom's like cold. Explain to him, this is Halloween.
1572
01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:51.960
People do stupid shit and walk around with fake blood
1573
01:05:51.960 --> 01:05:54.840
on their face and scare kids. So it wasn't my intent.
1574
01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:58.119
But as I was ordering my Kung Pole chicken or
1575
01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:00.239
orange chicken or whatever, I ordered that this was the
1576
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:02.880
first time I ever ate Panda Express, and I remember
1577
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:04.400
thinking at a time like this is kind of like
1578
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:07.639
a McDonald's, you know, version of a Chinese restaurant. It's
1579
01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:13.239
it's fast food, it's very you know, sugary, it tastes good,
1580
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:17.039
probably not good for you, isn't authentic whatsoever. But here
1581
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:20.079
I am, so I don't think I've eaten it too much.
1582
01:06:20.599 --> 01:06:22.920
Maybe in my lifetime I've probably been there I don't
1583
01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:25.480
know ten times, that being my first time over ten
1584
01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:27.840
years ago, so it's like once a year. I haven't
1585
01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:29.280
been there yet. This year, I think I'm due for
1586
01:06:29.320 --> 01:06:32.719
a Panda Express without blood on my face visits. I
1587
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:36.199
think I need to go get some Governor's chicken or whatever.
1588
01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:38.679
But yeah, it was really cool talking to Marcus, and
1589
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:41.840
he's coming to Chicago on August thirteenth, which is a Thursday,
1590
01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:44.880
seven o'clock. I'm definitely gonna make sure I get out
1591
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.119
there and check them out, encourage all my Chicago listeners
1592
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:49.880
to go do the same. I saw he's had a
1593
01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:53.119
bunch of other cities, so definitely go check him out. Unfortunately,
1594
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:56.679
he's got to find different airline to fly. Go check
1595
01:06:56.719 --> 01:06:59.719
out that Steaks on a Plane video because of you know,
1596
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:02.360
I've see what happened with him. Make it worth it
1597
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:04.159
and make that thing go viral. Go watch it a
1598
01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:07.360
bunch of times. It's pretty hilarious. I would never thought
1599
01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:10.440
of something like that. It's pretty funny. It's on his YouTube.
1600
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:12.800
Go check him out. He's got juggling videos on there.
1601
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:15.039
He's juggling with Neil Patrick Harris. I mean, I'm just like,
1602
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:17.159
what is this? This is crazy? You know? I love
1603
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:19.480
falling down the rabbit hole when I go on YouTube,
1604
01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:23.079
and his channel is definitely a rabbit hole worth falling into.
1605
01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:27.440
Fall down that hole. All right, let's wrap up the
1606
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.360
show and talk about my favorite movies that are based
1607
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.679
on train travel here on the Infinite Banter Podcast. My
1608
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.440
top six, My six. It's gotta be a better way
1609
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.400
to present that, the six, the Sinister six. There we go,
1610
01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:43.320
I got it, The Cinema six. Does that work? This
1611
01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:43.719
thing on?
1612
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:45.400
Hello?
1613
01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:50.039
Stay tuned for that? Hey, Hey, what's up world.
1614
01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:51.360
This is Irony Singleton.
1615
01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:53.960
Just give it a plug from a man Mark Jolliffe
1616
01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:57.119
of Infinite Banter. Y'all better check him out, you understand,
1617
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:00.760
because he is a WWF fan, and you a fan.
1618
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:03.639
That means he's got wrestling chops and you'll conceal about
1619
01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:09.760
you check. It's hard for you to leave Ashold.
1620
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:11.159
Right, Dad is kirk Ossavelo tell him to get out
1621
01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:12.960
of here. That's exactly what I'm going to do. But
1622
01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:15.440
as always, it's not my stop. Gotta stand the train
1623
01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:17.880
for a little while and talk about what I tease.
1624
01:08:17.960 --> 01:08:20.680
At the beginning, all this talk about train travel and
1625
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:23.600
everything we've talked about with Marcus Monroe had me thinking
1626
01:08:23.640 --> 01:08:26.279
about some of my favorite movies I've seen that are
1627
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:29.560
based on trains. There's actually a lot more than I
1628
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:31.439
could you know that I even thought of. I started
1629
01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:33.760
looking like lists of you know, people who made their
1630
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:35.640
favorite lists or whatever, which I didn't know. I thought
1631
01:08:35.640 --> 01:08:37.119
it was the first one to ever do this. I
1632
01:08:37.159 --> 01:08:39.359
didn't know other people thought of this subject before. I
1633
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:41.760
thought I was the only idiot who thought making a
1634
01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:45.079
list about movies based on trains was something to do,
1635
01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:47.560
and I thought I started it apparently others have done
1636
01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:49.800
it before. I'm not copying their list. I just wanted
1637
01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:51.560
to see I there's a movie I forgot about. There
1638
01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:53.319
were a couple that popped up like, oh yeah, that
1639
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:56.279
movie before I get into the list. I do not
1640
01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:59.479
count planes, trains, and automobiles, even though train is even
1641
01:08:59.520 --> 01:09:01.920
in the tight. But those of us who've seen that movie,
1642
01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:05.039
we know the train travel in it is very quick.
1643
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:08.159
It's not even that memorable, to be honest, So I
1644
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:11.640
don't feel like it counts because there's other methods. That's
1645
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:14.000
a travel movie, that's a holiday movie, but it's not
1646
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.760
a train movie. If I'm wrong, let me know because
1647
01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:18.600
it would be number one if it is. But I
1648
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:21.199
don't count it as a train movie. I think it's
1649
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:24.560
more of a burned car movie. Whatever. But you know,
1650
01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:26.600
if someone out there says that I'm wrong, I will
1651
01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:29.119
amend this list because it would probably be my number one.
1652
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:33.479
But I feel like it's not really a train movie.
1653
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:35.359
I want. I want to worry the train is the
1654
01:09:35.399 --> 01:09:37.960
sole purpose of the movie, Like it's got to be
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about a train. The train is what the movie is.
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And a couple of these have trained in the titles.
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So here we go and this is my favorite. I'm
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not saying he's the best. There's better ones than probably this.
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I did notice a lot of the train movies that
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I was looking up are older, like a lot older,
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like before I was born. Older, And movies that I've
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01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:56.279
never seen, I've heard of them. Obviously. It has to
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01:09:56.319 --> 01:09:58.479
do with, you know, the times. I mean, people travel
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01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:00.880
by train a lot more in the you know, early
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days in the fifties, sixties, seventies, where now people are
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01:10:04.039 --> 01:10:05.680
on the train just to go to work or whatever.
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It's more commuting. But back then people traveled across the
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01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:10.720
country to get to A to B, so you'd be
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01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.520
on a train for days. So therefore making a movie
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01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:15.880
about it was more realistic. I haven't even been on
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an No, I did go on an amtraktor what are
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we talking about? I went this year. I went from
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01:10:19.319 --> 01:10:22.000
DC to Baltimore, but that was like three stops. It
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01:10:22.039 --> 01:10:25.319
didn't feel like, you know, I goes doing that. I'd
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01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:27.680
never done the go from you know, this part of
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the country. Did that part of the country on a
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train before? I've never done it. So here here's the list.
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And of course, I you know, if I had done
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something a cross country, Marcus, can you do like a
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01:10:38.119 --> 01:10:40.920
you know, a four day set on the train car?
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Is that possible? So here we go my my six
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And as I said earlier, I just picked six because
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I just wrote six, you know, movies down and that's
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why I got the six. So here are the six.
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My number six is Terror Train from nineteen eighty. When
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I named these three people that are starring in it,
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you're gonna be like, wow, wow, I kind of want
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01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:02.319
to see that, or you're gonna be like, no, that
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01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:05.039
sounds horrible. It's Jamie Lee Curtis and this's writer her
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Heyday right after Halloween and everything. David Copperfield, Vanity, and
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01:11:09.399 --> 01:11:10.920
you know who I didn't write down on my notes.
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01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:12.560
I don't know the actor's name of the guy who
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01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:15.279
played Ellis in Diehard. I believe he's in this as well.
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01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:18.680
So Terror Train is exactly what the title sounds like.
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It's a horror movie on a train. There's magic because
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01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:25.439
David Copperfield's in it, and stuff happens and it's pretty scary.
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01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:28.399
It's actually one of those horror movies that feels very underrated,
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01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:31.000
doesn't get a lot of props, but it is my
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number six so go check out Terror Train if you've
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01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:36.720
not seen it. Speaking of trains, there's also Trained to
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01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:39.000
Bussayns are gonna stick with the horror theme. That's my
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01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:41.720
number five. This came out in twenty sixteen. Probably the
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01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:43.720
newest movie. Yeah, it is the newest movie I have
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01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:47.079
on here. It's a Korean horror movie. It's basically zombies
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01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:48.920
on a train. There's a father trying to get his
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01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:52.479
family out of the city to Boussain and get away
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01:11:52.479 --> 01:11:55.880
from the apocalypse that's starting, you know, behind him, and
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01:11:56.199 --> 01:11:57.680
there's a lot of action in it, and he's moved
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01:11:57.720 --> 01:11:59.319
from a train car to train car and trying to
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01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:02.039
get away from these zombies as a commuter start changing.
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01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:04.880
I think I saw this around COVID time and I
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01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:06.720
was just blown away by it. So if you've never
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01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.079
seen it. I love zombies. I like those kind of movies.
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01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:13.560
Go check out Train to Bussain from twenty sixteen, really
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01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:16.039
great horror flick. My number four is a movie that
1716
01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:19.279
actually has a remake that I like, but the original
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01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:21.520
I think is better, and that's Taking of the Pellom
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01:12:21.560 --> 01:12:25.680
one two three, and that's starring Walter Mathow and Robert Shaw.
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01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:29.720
You remember from Jaws. He was in Jews. The remake
1720
01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:32.319
is actually pretty decent too. It's got Denzel Washington in
1721
01:12:32.399 --> 01:12:34.640
it and John Travolta. I believe that was directed by
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01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:37.479
Tony Scott. That remakes pretty good as well. But the
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01:12:37.560 --> 01:12:41.399
original is just a little more grimier, grittier. You know.
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01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:43.560
I think the first time I heard about that movie
1725
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.880
was there's a beastie boy lyric we're in sure shot
1726
01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:49.359
taking out the Pello one two three, And I remember
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01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:51.439
I had no idea what that lyric meant. But when
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01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:53.880
his movie crossed my path, I'm like, oh, they're talking
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01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:56.359
about this, I get it. So yeah, definitely go check
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01:12:56.359 --> 01:12:57.880
out the original if you haven't seen it. But like
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01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:00.319
I said, the remake is really well done. I definitely
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01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:02.000
recommend the remake as well. But if I had to
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01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:03.960
pick between the two, it would be the original of
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01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:06.960
Taking the Pillow one two three, where a bank Robert
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01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:09.920
takes over the train in New York and there's a
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01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:12.000
policeman who has to try to get everybody off that
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01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.439
train before he makes things worse. North By Northwest and
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01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:17.439
Alfred Hitchcock movie. As you could tell, a lot of
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01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:20.119
these movies have an element of suspense in them. So
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01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:23.640
Alfred Hitchcock's classic north By Northwest with Carry Grant is
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01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:25.600
my number three. I remember it's the first time I
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01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:28.439
ever saw Mount Rushmore on a you know, on a
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01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.960
TV or whatever. And there's like a scene where Cary
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01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.920
Grant's characters like, I think he's fighting some guy Mount Rushmore.
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01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:37.520
It's pretty crazy. Definitely, north By Northwest should be something
1746
01:13:37.560 --> 01:13:40.600
you watch. I'm a big Alfred Hitchcock fan. It's not
1747
01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:43.159
my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, but it's definitely in the
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01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:46.199
top five for sure. And north By Northwest is one
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01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:49.000
of those classic It's a throwback you watch and you
1750
01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:51.159
just feel like you're in that time. And of course
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01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:52.560
Carry Grant is, like, you know, one of the best
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01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:55.000
actors of all time. So go check out north By Northwest.
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01:13:55.079 --> 01:13:58.039
Wrapping it up here. Number two is from Russia with Love,
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01:13:58.039 --> 01:13:59.800
and it fits that it's number two because it's the
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01:14:00.279 --> 01:14:03.199
Bond movie, so that would make sense. Nineteen sixty three
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01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:06.520
Sean Connery. There's some great fight scenes and it was
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01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:10.279
I won in the really tight train corridor room or whatever,
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01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:13.600
And I would definitely recommend if you're a Bond fan
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01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:15.560
at all. A lot of them hold this movie with
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01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:18.439
high regard as like their favorite came out after Doctor No.
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01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:21.520
Some would say this is the best Bond movie. It's
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01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:24.319
not my favorite, but it's definitely high on that list.
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01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:27.199
And From Russia with Love should be high on your
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01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:29.239
train list as it is on mine. That's number two
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01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:32.359
and my number one. It's Silver Streak with Richard pryor
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01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:35.079
Gene Wilder Man. I love this movie to death. I
1767
01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:37.880
used to watch it all the time as a kid. WGM,
1768
01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:41.079
which is a superstation here in the Chicago area, which
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01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:44.039
would blast out to other cities as well. They would
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01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:46.840
have like a Prior week or a Gene Wilder week,
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01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:49.159
and this movie would come on along with you know,
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01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:52.640
stir crazy, and I would just be so geeked, like, oh, man,
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01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:55.800
Silver Streak is coming on. I love this movie so much.
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01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.439
There's some great cameos in it, like Richard Keel is
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01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:00.760
in it, who's also in a Bond movie. There's that
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01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:04.399
goofball policeman who's in this movie who you saw and
1777
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:08.359
also in a Bond movie. Clifton James who popped up
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01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:11.119
in other James Bond movies like The Man with the
1779
01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:13.479
Golden Gun and Live and Let die. He was. He
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01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.079
was like this bumbling sheriff who couldn't figure things out,
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01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:18.760
but he was along for the ride with Roger Moore
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01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:20.640
in those James Bond movies. So it's kind of a
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01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:22.960
connection to you know, the the last the last one
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01:15:22.960 --> 01:15:25.479
I listed from Russia with love. So Silver Streak is
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01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:27.760
a great one of my favorite movies of I could
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01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:30.159
watch that movie any day it pops on the TV
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01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:32.640
and I could just watch it. Big fan of Richard
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01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:34.920
Pryor and Gene Wilders, so I would That is my
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01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:38.119
favorite train movie, unless you're telling me planes trains on
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01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:41.560
Oobieles count but Silver Streak, No, no, you know what.
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01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:43.880
I'm a hold my ground. Silver Streak is my favorite
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01:15:44.119 --> 01:15:46.560
train movie. You can't move me on this. There are
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01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:48.560
some other movies I thought about, like throw Mama from
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01:15:48.600 --> 01:15:51.560
the train and what was it like under Siege two?
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01:15:52.279 --> 01:15:54.640
Isn't that on a train? There's some other ones, but
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01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:56.680
now these are the These are the six that I'm
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01:15:56.720 --> 01:15:59.600
gonna run with. So number six is terror train five
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01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:02.800
train Bussain for is Taking of the Pelm one two
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01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:05.439
three the original, not the remake. Number three is north
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01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:07.880
by Northwest. Number two is from Russia. With love and
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01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:11.039
number one is Silver Streak. I actually watch Silverstreak as
1802
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:13.159
soon as I stop recording this podcast. That's how much
1803
01:16:13.159 --> 01:16:15.479
I love that movie. All right, we're back in the station.
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thanks to Marcus Moanrowe. Thanks for putting up with my list.
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I tell you do another one of these. Maybe I
1819
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:04.399
should get on the train and see if somebody will
1820
01:17:04.439 --> 01:17:07.439
be dressed up as some character. Although in the Chicago
1821
01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.239
trains and they're dressed up like something. It's not for
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01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:12.319
fun and lamps. All right, that's it for me. I'm
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01:17:12.319 --> 01:17:13.960
out of here until I do another one of these.
1824
01:17:14.119 --> 01:17:15.960
I'm out Hey, asshole, get off the road.
1825
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:23.760
You couldn't actually gorilla steak in the bathroom of an
1826
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:26.680
airplane without anyone noticing. Take it back to your seat
1827
01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:36.600
and eat it. Being on the infinite fan of with
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my man Mark has been a pleasure.