[00:00] Let's do it.
[00:02] That's very Midwest. A lot of welps and hopes. Yeah. Was it Puff Daddy? How's he doing?
[00:09] Producer Chris might be the most interesting person you've never met. I don't think I like being touched by strangers. Chris, look that up. I'll look it up. I'm on it. You got it. You can look it up. No, I'll look it up.
[00:20] Here we go. We're professionals. Did they have batting cages at birdies? Um, not officially.
[00:26] Yeah, he had shingles. I don't know if that thing is too.
[00:30] So, what do you do? You can't possibly do this for a living.
[00:45] Hey, welcome in everybody to HamCo Live Hot Ticket Podcast. It's your
[00:52] favorite hour and a half or so of the week, I'm sure. This is season 1, episode I want to say 13. Yeah, I think that's right.
[01:00] That feels right. I am your host uh Josh, Cecil, editor-in-chief of hamcolive.com.
[01:07] With me as always, by God, he's a global icon and a national treasure. That's Tyler Mechem. Tyler, say hello.
[01:12] I'm concerned about you. You sound ill like we should be doing this in the infirmary.
[01:17] No, no, no, no. I'm just working on my Sam Elliott impression. That's all this is. You got the mustache started.
[01:22] Sometimes you get the bar. Sometimes the bar gets you. Is that Roadhouse?
[01:27] No, that's uh The Big Lebowski. Oh, okay.
[01:32] Yeah. It gets witness. Look at this. We got a special treat for you guys today.
[01:37] A former student of mine. Back when I used to teach high school, my second year of teaching, I had this guy in
[01:44] class. Now he's doing all kinds of things, but he's a stand-up comedian. He's producing shows. Look at this guy.
[01:52] Quinn Schlegel. Quinn, what's up fellas? How are you?
[01:55] Thank you for the invite. And yes, Cecil was my teacher. What a blowoff class that was.
[02:04] Now, wait a minute. You said senior year. I had you for junior English, I thought.
[02:09] Yeah. And junior English. And then I took film lit. Yeah. Which was just the greatest class of all time. So, but I'm actually like a movie nerd, so it was actually a good class for me. But thank you.
[02:18] Kate took it. my wife this year and uh she said it's the only class she's ever fallen asleep in.
[02:26] Now listen, here's the thing. There's a difference between your year and her year. So I my second year I got film lit
[02:35] and I was like, "Okay, this is great because I'm a video editor and I can kind of teach the kids, you know, how to how we think about editing and all this
[02:43] different stuff." And I thought I'll show classic movies. So Katie, you called her Kate. Does she go by Katie or K?
[02:51] I call her Kate. Everybody else calls her Katie. Okay. Yeah.
[02:54] Katie, I have her in class and she babysat my kids a couple times, but uh bless her heart. We were watching
[03:02] Citizen Kane, which is widely considered the greatest film of all time uh by the American Film
[03:10] Institute, ranked number one by anybody over the age of 35 years old. Pretty much. Yeah.
[03:16] So I was like, "Well, I got to show the kids this. They'll love it. This is like cutting edge for its day and the story is still relevant." And Schlegel's
[03:24] over. Well, Katie at the time was just as were most in her defense, most of the kids were. So yeah,
[03:32] and the line was she still remembers it is, "Gump, how was the movie? From the back of your eyelids." That's what I said to her.
[03:42] And she she was like, "I've never fought." She's a much better student than I ever was, which goes to show the class, you know, like maybe the kids who
[03:49] were kind of dumb did better in your class than the kids who were That's kind of like our audience. Good education.
[03:57] Sorry, I didn't mean to just come in and No, no, no. I love this.
[04:00] That's That's on brand cuz here's the thing. Like, so me, Tyler, producer Chris, by the way, producer Chris not with us this morning.
[04:09] He's on special assignment. uh getting a little physical therapy. Physical therapy. We'll tell that story. That's someday. Yeah.
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[06:27] Do not Do not screw this up. No, I don't even want to touch them. Uh, let's go. How's your weekend?
[06:35] Good, man. You and I got to play a gig together. Been a while.
[06:38] It's been a long time. I'm averaging about once a month.
[06:41] Yeah, more like once every 45 days or so.
[06:44] Yeah, I try to do three a month, but I forgot to book gigs, so that slowed things down. Makes it tough.
[06:51] It's tough when you don't book anything to stay busy, for sure. So, we played Bar Ellis Saturday. Yeah. What'd you do Friday?
[06:59] I I don't even remember. Wow. I know. That good.
[07:03] Well, Friday was the prelude to Saturday. I was probably practicing. You probably were.
[07:07] Yeah, I sure wasn't. I can tell.
[07:10] I wasn't practicing and I like to think it shows. We heard. Yeah. Uh, anything Sunday?
[07:17] Sunday had the boys and uh just kind of hung out, cleaned the house. It was time for that, man.
[07:22] Yeah. Four dudes in a house can get nasty quick.
[07:26] So, full disclosure here, Saturday. So, Tyler Quinn, you don't know this if you haven't watched the podcast, but Tyler
[07:34] is notorious for forgetting things for his gigs. One time he forgot his guitar.
[07:39] One time I forgot it at the end of the gig.
[07:43] So, we get to uh Bar Ellis about 8:30 and Tyler goes, "Oh man, I forgot that
[07:51] cajon." which is the instrument I play for the gig. Like, okay, well, I'll go get it. Luckily, we're very close, like
[08:00] walking distance. So, I went to your house to get it, and I can confirm it was time to clean.
[08:07] It was I thought something had happened. Yeah. I thought there was a disaster. Yeah.
[08:13] There's not four women that live in this for sure. That's true. Yeah. I could use a woman's touch.
[08:19] Yeah, I know that. Mamy and she's done it before.
[08:24] It's never looked as good since then. It was for the historic home tour when the house is on there. Yeah.
[08:28] She's like, "You can't have people come through here." Yeah. It was like a two-day Yeah.
[08:32] stint. It It was like a episode of Hoarders.
[08:36] But it was just pizza boxes away. He's like, "But I'm caving it." Yeah.
[08:42] You never know. Might need a pizza box for kindling or something.
[08:47] Uh, did I ever tell you about the Well, I definitely didn't tell you, but I think I may have told you this the story uh when I helped clean up a hoarder's house.
[08:54] No, just another job.
[08:57] This wasn't a job. This was uh community service kind of.
[09:03] It was a volunteer thing like uh this person lived with their parents or parent, I can't remember, and the parent
[09:11] died or they had to be moved to a facility or something like that. And so
[09:17] somehow in that process, the county or the city got involved and said, "Hey, like we're going to have to condemn this. You can't live here kind of
[09:26] thing." Um, and so me and some buddies jumped in and just said, "We're going to help you clean out your house." And I'm not
[09:33] kidding. It was you had to walk through probably two feet was your path and stuff piled up to your shoulders.
[09:44] through this house like and you'd find money and like just newspapers, magazines, uh junk mail and stuff like that. Yeah.
[09:53] And then just stuff, knick-knacks and whatnot. It was wild.
[09:57] You finding dead animals like underneath books or anything? Had to have.
[10:00] Yeah, it definitely smelled like there was a dead animal or two in there. I am loving my voice right now. It's intriguing.
[10:07] If it wasn't so painful, I would want this all the time. I would love to have those low harmonies.
[10:12] Yeah. M uh Quinn, pick up a cigarette habit. You'll get your voice right. No problem. Yes. This is great for your voice.
[10:20] Also, I I did door to door, so I ran into like a lot of crazy people. And the hoarder story I have is walking through. Get up on that mic.
[10:29] Oh, sorry. My bad. Her two dogs uh were just messing everywhere. So, like the whole house just smelled like dog.
[10:35] And I sit down and she pulls out a handgun, puts it on a table, and points it at me. And I looked at her and went,
[10:43] "Lady, there's nothing in this house I want to steal from you." I got out of there in like 10 minutes. I was like, "I can't do this, dude." What were you selling?
[10:52] Uh, I was doing Dish Network, so like satellite television back and like out in the middle of nowhere where they still don't have the internet. So yeah,
[10:59] I was in Iowa in Swisher, Iowa. Uh, and she Yeah, I got a gun pointed at me. How was the tip?
[11:07] It was metal. It was Oh, you weren't. You didn't sell. I was thinking like uh Door Dash or something.
[11:12] You were trying to sell. You were a solicitor.
[11:15] Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm the guy that ruined your day. Yeah. You didn't know I was going to show up and somehow by the end of it, I was getting your social security.
[11:23] You may be the only guest that she had over to the house in months.
[11:26] Oh, yeah. I'm sure it had to have been because there was not If you had a family member and nobody's saying anything to you about it, that's bad family. You've done something to
[11:34] Yeah. You deserve that squalor, you know.
[11:38] Nobody's going to come over there and be like, "Hey, mom. Things are good." You know, like you gotta you gotta fix that. Uh, well, what'd you do this weekend?
[11:46] Uh, Friday we went over to a buddy's house. I don't know if you remember Ashton Groot or not. Good guy. Um, he just had a baby actually.
[11:53] Congratulations, Ashton. Um, way to go Ashton. He did it.
[11:56] So, yeah. Uh, his parents have like this cool outdoor barn type thing. Uh, they've got like a retractable TV that comes down. So, we watched uh
[12:05] I think that was Citizen Kane.
[12:08] We all We all fell asleep. It was the best.
[12:13] Uh yeah, did that Saturday. Um I think we just kind of walked around.
[12:19] It was a nice day. So, we went down to uh we live in Pendleton now, so we went to downtown Pendleton. Live in Pendleton. Yeah. Nice.
[12:26] Yeah. So, it's a great little town, man.
[12:27] It's like what I grew up in Noblesville wise. It's kind of crazy to see how Noblesville and Westfield have exploded the way they have, but it feels a lot
[12:35] like when I was little growing up. So, it'll be cool to be there for a couple years. We'd like to get back to Hamilton County if we could afford it.
[12:42] Fair. So, you you grew up in Noblesville. Mhm. Um, all your life.
[12:48] Yeah. My family's from Cincinnati, but I was born uh in Lawrence and then when I was five, we moved here. So, like when I started school, I've been in Noblesville
[12:56] my whole life that I can remember. And I just realized I had your brother in class, too. Yeah. Yeah. He's up in Minnesota now. He works for uh Crew Car
[13:03] Wash. So Okay. Yeah. He's He went into the Marines, I want to say. Is that right?
[13:07] Uh he went National Guard. So his junior year, he did the thing where you can leave for your summer, your junior year, and knock out basic training before you
[13:14] actually graduate. So then his senior year when he graduated, he went right into AIT and knocked out his contract in like two years to help pay for school.
[13:22] So nice. Yeah.
[13:23] Smart. and then he didn't graduate and doesn't do something with the degree that he was going for. But that's college. Can't relate. That is college.
[13:32] Uh, so no gigs. How often are you doing standup? So yeah, I think I said you're doing standup.
[13:37] Well, so we just had our baby, so it's been We're on week 11. I think I've only performed twice. Uh, I went I go down to
[13:45] Bloomington every once in a while, perform at the Comedy Attic, and then I can I'm in Helium's rotation, so I can go down there. I got second place last
[13:53] year in Indiana's funniest. Um, thanks.
[13:56] I don't go up to Summit City up in Fort Wayne. It's just too far away for a drive. Um, but so is Bloomington. I just enjoy the Bloomington people down there.
[14:04] Um, but yeah, I've gone out to Austin, Texas. Um, did uh Chicago. I have not done New York yet. I'd like to, but I
[14:13] get to work with all the people when they come through. And then I'm running um the Don't Tell comedy series which is the way I like to explain it is like bar
[14:22] stool has bar stool national which like comes out of New York but then every college has its own bar stool account too. So don't tell nationally. I think
[14:29] it's out of LA but uh we run the Indiana one and it's um when performers come in and let's say like
[14:37] they only have a Friday or Saturday booked and they need a Thursday or Sunday show, we'll grab one of the main national headliners, we'll do a popup.
[14:44] So it's normally a Bob. It'll be like on top of a parking garage or down in like a speak easy that you've never heard of.
[14:50] We just did a basketball gym. Um so we find like unique places that you wouldn't think to put up comedy. It's normally like 50 60 people. So it's more of like a private show, kind of a smaller setting.
[15:00] You have to be in the know or like subscribe to Don't Tell.
[15:02] Yeah, there's an email list that you can get signed up for. Um it's just donttellcomedy.com and then it'll bring up all the different states and put up all
[15:10] the shows. So, uh, the only thing that kind of stinks about it is that they give you a week notice. So, like you have seven days to figure out put a show together or whatever. Yeah.
[15:20] But it's been cool. Like we just had Adam Gilbert on from Brooklyn and Megan Gaye who uh she just broke for Kevin Hart's roast and then she also writes for the Tonight Show. Okay.
[15:28] Um, so we get some really cool headliners and then I get to bring all the local buddies that I perform with all the time and they get to meet those people and connect with them. So that's awesome.
[15:37] Yeah. Our goal is to get like an Indiana kid to get picked up by one of these major headliners so they can start going on tour with them. So,
[15:43] well, uh, you were doing um, what'd you call it? Comedy on Tap or something like that at breweries. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[15:51] Will you start doing that again?
[15:53] Um, maybe I I started it last year during dry January because uh, there were a couple of the breweries around here that were really struggling and
[16:00] then this year I may do it again because all the construction down here since it's a lot harder for people to get to the places. So, the reason I started it
[16:07] was because Helium in Indianapolis is like the closest club we have. Takes 45 minutes to get down there. You got to pay for a babysitter.
[16:14] You got to pay for parking. You got to do a two item minimum. You've bought the ticket and then you got to drive 45 minutes back. So, like in total, it's like a 4h hour thing and it cost you
[16:23] close to $300 if you're taking a significant other out there. So, my goal was to like I have a I'm from Hamilton County. That's where my base of fans
[16:31] are. So, it was cool to be able to help out the community around here, the places that like I grew up going to and bring comedy up here. Yeah.
[16:39] Um maybe I don't know if I'll start them up again. I just don't know if I have time this year.
[16:42] I thought you did a good job, man. You had the video was great. The And it's not, you know, you're not doing a concert and you're setting up a full
[16:49] band. It's a microphone and like that's pretty sweet. That's a good deal.
[16:53] It's super easy. And also all the venues um did after my first one and it went well and we brought in like we never did less than 65 people. The most we ever
[17:01] did was 165. So like it built up over nine shows decently. We uh That's great.
[17:07] Do it when it's cold so that people want to go out. Yeah.
[17:10] Normally at summer months I just work on my own stuff.
[17:13] Okay. They were doing something at Bar Ellis for a while. I don't know if they still are or not. Um like on a Tuesday night or something like that.
[17:19] Like a Yeah, Max Wampler actually. Um I think it's his mom or stepmom that owns Bar Ellis. So Max is a pretty decent
[17:26] comedian too. Like he's down at Helium every once in a while. I know he took I think this last year off because he got engaged. So I think he's been working to save up for a wedding, but yeah, he's a
[17:35] hell of a community. He's performed with like Big Jay Oerson and a couple other really cool names. So Max is a good dude. Bar Ellis is a great location, too.
[17:42] Yeah, you guys perform there, too. So great.
[17:44] Great staff. They're easy to work with and good people.
[17:47] Indeed. Well, my weekend, uh, of course we talked about it. Played Saturday night. Big music weekend for me. So Friday night we went to the Piper.
[17:58] um which is up in I don't think I think it's actually Noblesville but kind of Cicero Noblesville um off the uh off
[18:06] Morse Reservoir and Mike and the boys were playing um '90s rock like really
[18:12] really good like super impressed with these guys that the guitar player in particular starts doing Eruption by Eddie Van Halen.
[18:22] Wow. Okay.
[18:23] Yeah, that's pretty good. Uh so that was really good. Um, and then Saturday Ginger was working at beer and it was
[18:32] the bluegrass festival. So I stopped by in the afternoon, checked out some bluegrass. That was great. Uh, we had the Booze Hounds on last week and they were promoting that and they did a great job.
[18:40] Great crowd.
[18:42] Um, and then they play outside on the new stage there.
[18:45] Yeah, they were going back and forth. So there's two stages. They went back and forth.
[18:48] Yeah, it was really good. Um, Sunday we went down to, so me and Brandon Hopkins, who we've had on the show, and Mikey
[18:57] Garrett from Feverdream went down to Hi-Fi to support producer Chris, who crushed it with the Front Porch Records Takeover. You been to the Hi-Fi?
[19:06] I have not yet, but I'd love to. Yeah.
[19:09] Good show. Yeah. So, Fousey played and man, Fousey was incredible. Like, I wrote this whole thing up. I read it.
[19:18] You did? Yeah. That was great.
[19:20] It's It was like seeing I He just got He's got the it. I don't know what the it factor is exactly and how to explain
[19:27] it. He's just got it. Like he's just telling stories and playing his songs.
[19:33] And the band, I'd never seen him with a full band. Um or at least not this version of the band. And this band was
[19:40] like a jam band with hip-hop mixed. So you they they would just jam on some stuff and like
[19:49] they did so good at like playing with dynamics and like building building building dropping down. It was just
[19:57] it was incredible. And he was just kind of directing it. I told him after the show it felt like watching Bruce Springsteen at some dive
[20:05] bar in the 70s before he before he breaks. Before he breaks. Yeah.
[20:09] Yeah. It was really really cool. He did such a good job. So I had the similar experience first time I heard him. It was at a front porch music fest. I think it was this last
[20:18] summer and he was playing on Chris's porch and I was just walking around and I heard it and I like stopped. I was
[20:25] like, "What is that?" Yeah.
[20:28] I I had to stop and I I lost my kids for a couple hours and he showed back up. But I got to see Fousey.
[20:36] Yeah.
[20:37] And most important thing there is you got to see Fousey. Yeah. Yeah. He's got it.
[20:40] He's got it. He's got it. Go check him out on Spotify. Um, and he's got a new album coming out relatively soon, I think this summer. So, kids get hungry, by the way.
[20:50] Yeah, they they'll come back.
[20:52] Yeah, that's what my dad used to say. They don't have money to buy stuff.
[20:56] They're like uh like, you know, cats or pets that get lost and find their way home somehow. Milo and Otis.
[21:02] After a couple hours, they go, "Wait a minute.
[21:05] I've wandered." Uh, let's talk about you, Quinn. How did you get into standup? Here's here's what I'm going to
[21:14] say, okay? Having had you in class your junior and senior year, this is not meant to be
[21:22] um a disc. This is meant to be Here we go. You like how this is turning out?
[21:28] Great. You know, when someone says, "Hey, no offense, but Yeah. Yeah. Uh, you had a confidence level that I didn't understand why you
[21:36] were so confident, but I admired it secretly because I have zero confidence. And that's fair.
[21:44] That's kind of what I think about you or like what I remember of you in class.
[21:49] And so I think that probably suits you very well for comedy because you know, you've bombed at least Oh, yeah. So many at least one time. And I've done well.
[21:59] Yeah.
[21:59] Yeah. So, how did you get into standup comedy? What led to that?
[22:02] Um, I was working commercial insurance and I was on year two of being at a cubicle every day. So, like I went to Ball State for journalism originally
[22:10] because I was going to do sports journalism and then I realized I didn't want to be poor the rest of my life. So, I went into comedy.
[22:18] Uh, I I went into business and started uh doing that. So, I uh got into commercial insurance and I don't know. I
[22:26] was like a year in going I'm going to blow my head off if I don't start doing something creative and I'm like just not having a good time. So, I don't know. It just I've always loved standup. Like my
[22:35] dad brought home Blue Collar comedy. It was like one of the good moments I remember between my parents having a good night. Like they just came home both in a good mood and then played the
[22:43] DVD. And at first like Larry the Cable Guy when you're little is your favorite.
[22:47] But then as you get older, like each one kind of and then Ron White eventually becomes your favorite if you've got the humor for it. But and then Eddie Murphy
[22:55] Raw was like a big one that my dad and I watched growing up. Um so I always wanted to try it.
[23:00] And then um yeah, after doing door-to-door and talking to like I lived in every state west of the Mississippi and did that for four years. So after talking to
[23:08] everybody, you start to realize like people are all pretty darn similar. And it was a lot of practice of getting people to like you and laugh at you and rejection,
[23:16] right? So yeah, standup was like a super easy crossover from doing door-to-door. And I I didn't miss doing door to door. That sucks. You're hot and it's gross.
[23:25] But like, you know, you do make some people's days and you do like I was going out there and people were paying $3 and $400 to
[23:32] Comcast and you'd make their bill like 120 bucks or something. And so like I it felt good doing it and it felt good being creative and getting people to like you that didn't know you and you have like 30 seconds to right.
[23:43] Um so yeah it was an easy transition and I had a um do you know Jacob Kendall? I don't think so.
[23:48] Okay. He was Noblesville kid too but he was a couple years younger. I think you may have been gone by then but Jacob uh was doing standup and I saw it on Facebook at just like some open mic down
[23:57] at uh it's called Illusions Bar and Grill. It doesn't even exist anymore.
[24:00] So, like that's how long I've been doing standup is the places that I performed at don't don't exist. Um, but yeah, I went there uh as an all Black-owned bar,
[24:10] all black um staff, and then most of the performers were black. Like, Jacob and I were the only two white kids.
[24:16] Uh, and I had a comedian, Aisha Brown, who is actually one of Indiana's funniest. She won Helium's funniest. She
[24:23] performs all over the place. Um, she was like, "Hey, are you signing up?" up. I was like, "No, I'm just coming to support a friend and check it out and
[24:31] see some comedy." And then her partner, Mike Shaw, came up to me at the end of the night and went, "Uh, you only come here for two reasons. To either get envious or get inspired." Which one was it?
[24:40] Oo, yeah. Great line.
[24:42] Yeah. And I was like, "Inspired, man." He goes, "Cool. Like, everybody's walking out. Why don't you get up there and just try some stuff for like three minutes?" I was like, "Okay." So, I got
[24:51] up there. There was a black fraternity that was having like a gradu or like a alumni party or whatever and I went up
[24:58] and tried to tell them to show me some of their steps like you know how they do the steps which I didn't know apparently like you don't tell other people you
[25:07] like you do the performance in front of people but knowing the steps is like a very sacred thing that you're not allowed to shake your handshake or something like
[25:15] so I'm just pestering these days and Mike's looking at me in the corner going, "Quit, quit it, quit it.
[25:23] And I have no idea that I am being very offensive at this point. And so, uh, yeah, I got done. I don't think I got a
[25:31] single laugh. Uh, it was miserable. I got in the car and then I went, why didn't anybody laugh?
[25:38] Um, but yeah, the community was just so cool. Like, everybody was so inviting and it made me go, man, I'm going to come back because it was a good beer. It
[25:45] I laughed at some people. Some people I watched and was like, I can do this. you know, like some of them had an open mic you watch and you're like, "Okay, I can
[25:52] do better than that. I can get a couple of jokes, you know, I'll figure it out." So, yeah, I went home and wrote a joke and then came back the next week and
[26:00] killed and like had actually put something together and tried and I was like, "All right, this is fun." And then the next week I went back, I bombed with like the same stuff and went, "Wait a
[26:07] minute, this is like golf. You can do the same thing and get a completely different response. This is crazy." So, yeah, it's been fun, man. It's been
[26:15] cool. Yeah. Just boredom. like I just had to go do something creative and write again because I hadn't done it in a couple of years. Yeah. So that's great. Yeah.
[26:23] Um so when I was teaching this would have been after you um there was this class
[26:30] called innovations where uh students were encouraged to take the semester and you know the 90
[26:39] minutes every other day to work on whatever they wanted to work on. Right.
[26:42] So there's this kid gosh what was his name? can't remember his name. Uh, but he was really into standup and he wanted to do a a stand-up show.
[26:53] So, he somehow talked Barley Island into letting him run a show out there. And he was like, as a high schooler? As a high schooler, that's impressive.
[27:00] Yeah. Yeah.
[27:01] Um, and he was like, "Mr. Cecil, you should come do standup."
[27:10] Now, listen, I don't want to toot my own horn, but as a teacher, I was pretty funny. Sure. Yeah, back me up on that, please. I thought you were humorous.
[27:17] Where's the cricket?
[27:22] Uh, so he goes, you should come out and do some standup. And I had secretly always wanted to do standup. Um, I love
[27:29] it. I grew up watching standup. And, uh, before Comedy Central was Comedy Central, it used to be Laugh or something like that. And there was, uh,
[27:38] the Short Attention Span Theater, which is like all these clips of comedians.
[27:42] And I used to just gorge myself on on standup comedy. And I read Jerry Seinfeld's book, Ellen DeGeneres's book,
[27:49] and I was uh an MC for the talent show at my high school. Cool.
[27:53] And I was just stealing other comedians jokes.
[27:56] I didn't realize you like standup like that. That's cool. Yeah. Very cool.
[28:00] Huge fan. Um so anyways, this kid says you should do it. So, I go out there and uh I had some ideas of like
[28:09] things I would do. And so, I just kind of wrote something up. Got up there, did 15 minutes. 15 destroyed. Wow.
[28:17] I was like, "Okay, yeah, I'm pretty good at this." And so, then I was like, I kind of got the bug a little bit, right?
[28:24] So, and that was an easy crowd because it was a lot of students that already kind of knew me and some friends or whatever and parents that are out there to support.
[28:30] So, they're going to give you easy crowd, right? Funny. Yeah.
[28:33] And then uh so there used to be a place in Indy called Morty's comedy joint. Yeah.
[28:39] Which is over by District Tab in in Keystone. Um and they had an open mic competition like I forget what they called it. The great American mic or something like that. Um so I did that.
[28:50] So I went down there my first time. Um there's a guy named Joe Bates that was there and Logan Bert who's out in LA
[28:58] right now. Uh anyway, so I signed up to do the thing. I get up there. Round one, I win. Right.
[29:07] So, round two, um, get up there, I do a completely different set. Um, and the,
[29:15] uh, I take second place on that one. So, I'm out basically. You have to win each round and advance on or whatever. But that second both of them at Morty's
[29:24] because that's like a true comedy club and it's like a real crowd that is expecting good comedy. Yeah. Yeah.
[29:30] They did not get it. I mean, they I feel like they got it for me, but there were some, like you said, open micers there.
[29:35] There was a guy fresh out of prison that like his buddies all thought he was funny, so they convinced him to go up there and he he clearly had nothing.
[29:43] Yeah.
[29:44] You know, to write I can't imagine just going up there and like off top of your head just trying to make people laugh.
[29:49] Like no way. That's like one of the most frightening thoughts to me is to have to do a comedy bit on the spot or even write one. I that it's terrifying to me.
[30:00] the people that can like there are a couple around here that can just go up with almost nothing and and just impressive whatever they're thinking about they can
[30:07] make it funny. Yeah. And really what you realize is that's the thing that comedians talk about with their voice.
[30:12] Like when they find their voice and it normally takes like they say they say whatever they know or whoever they are but like 8 to 10 years is how long it
[30:20] takes for you to realize like it's not necessarily even what you're saying.
[30:24] It's the timing of everything. It's um how quickly you can get to what makes your voice funny and not even
[30:32] necessarily a punchline which is so interesting to see done cuz when you watch like a guy that can take bread you know Nate
[30:40] Bargotsi is like I think the perfect example of it because I've seen him just riff off of his stuff where he just goes up and starts kind of talking about
[30:47] whatever and and he's dry one which makes that easier but two like he just knows that Nate is funny like the bones
[30:55] funny in the bones. right? He knows his pattern that he can say any joke in this same sequence and it will hit the same way. Doesn't matter what the punch line is. So, yeah.
[31:03] Yeah. Really cool.
[31:04] There the interesting thing about comedy for me is here's this thing that I've I
[31:11] would typically write out my I was like a storyteller kind of comedian I guess.
[31:17] Um, but I would write it all out and you know, you're writing this thing that you think is funny, but then you have to get up there and tell it and you don't know
[31:25] if anybody else is gonna think it's funny. And when you think something's funny and no one laughs, oo, that's that's painful.
[31:33] Very painful.
[31:34] So, here's what I think is so like mystifying about getting into comedy.
[31:40] So, as a musician, you can go up and and play your song and there's 12 notes in the key and if you hit the right ones,
[31:47] it's palatable to everybody. You know what I mean? It's it's it's fine.
[31:52] Whatever it is, if you play the rightish notes, it's fine.
[31:56] But with comedy, like there there's so many options and so many people think something is different than somebody
[32:03] else that or offensive or whatever. It's like it's just such a risky proposition to go up there and think
[32:11] that you're going to resonate with them because there's no Yeah. There's no hiding, I guess, behind the instrument, right?
[32:18] Like the instrument can give you the buffer between the crowd.
[32:21] Yeah. Or there just the structure of music, you know what I mean? Like it's going to sound like music, but a joke might not even sound like a joke. Yeah.
[32:30] the uh gosh, Mike Birbiglia has this bit where he talks about being delusional.
[32:37] You have to be a little bit delusional to be a comedian because you go up there and you bomb so many times and you have to convince yourself that it was good,
[32:46] that it was good enough to go back like Yeah, I think every comedian's like a narcissist a little, which was probably the high school confidence that wasn't deserved. Yeah.
[32:55] But if you think you're the shit all you got to do is say it out loud and people start to kind of believe it.
[33:00] whether you are or aren't, you know, I don't know. Um, yeah, I I think for every comedian wants to be a rock star and every rockstar
[33:07] wants to be a comedian because what I think is impressive about music is the exact opposite of what you think is impressive about the comedy. You know,
[33:15] like I'm just up there with my thoughts and I got to hope that other people think that those thoughts in the right order will make them laugh, right? With
[33:23] music, like I don't have a musical bone in my body.
[33:27] I can't I can't sing. I can't play anything. Like I never have. I've never been able to. I tried to play guitar. I tried it for like a week and then I quit because it hurt my fingers when I was
[33:35] like seven or whatever. You know, there's a guy from Ben and Ari that like was teaching guitar classes that my mom signed me up for. It was like a high schooler for like 20 bucks or something.
[33:43] But yeah, it's just so impressive how I it is more impressive to go to a concert and have someone blow you away
[33:51] with music than any comedian. It's just not as impressive. And the crazier thing is
[33:58] You you have some jokes that you've registered in your head that like are some of the greatest jokes. One of mine is the Eddie Murphy when he's throwing the shoe down, the mom's throwing the
[34:06] shoe down the stairs, she goes, "Don't you talk shit." And it comes back or whatever. Like there are some that you can do, but I can sing full songs front
[34:14] to back, quote, the entire song. And because there's a melody that goes with it, music is so much more memorable than
[34:22] whatever the best joke is that you heard that night. I think it's way harder to get somebody to walk out of a comedy room and have them repeat whatever was
[34:31] just said. People be like, "Oh, and that one thing he said about," but they can't actually go back and repeat it. Whereas Cecil comes up with some decent lyrics
[34:39] that are catchy. It's going to be stuck in my head for weeks and I'm going to repeat it and repeat it and repeat it.
[34:43] So, well, because you have to even if you can remember the joke, it's all in the delivery.
[34:50] Yeah. Right. Right. So you you can't it's like I wouldn't ask you to start doing your set right now because it's
[34:57] not like the right time like it has to be a shared context kind of thing and it's like a performance right and you can go sit down on a street with
[35:05] a bucket and start ripping and people are going to stop. It's like I' I have a couple buddies who will go down to Indy and set up a speaker and and just start trying to do man on the street stuff
[35:14] and you can get maybe one or two people to stop. But if there's a guy playing a guitar, well, you got a whole group of people and they start, you know. So, I
[35:22] just think it's like I think people in general like music more than they do like comedy. There's a weird stat. I got to look it up before I just start making stuff up.
[35:30] No, you can make it up. We do most of the stuff.
[35:32] We don't do our research. 30% of every comedian audience, if it's a real club, not like an open mic bar or whatever, but if there's like more than I think 40
[35:41] or 50 people, then it's like 30% of the crowd has never been to a comedy show before. Really, it's just not common practice as a date
[35:48] night compared to everyone's been to a concert, you know, like you even remember when your first concert was and what age and who played and what song was played.
[35:57] Most people are like, "Oh yeah, we went to Helium one time and we saw who did we see?" Yeah. He had that one joke about it, you
[36:05] know. So, it's just way more memorable for some reason, I think, than that jealousy.
[36:09] You know, for me, why I don't go to comedy shows as much is cuz I'm so nervous that the person's not going to be funny and I'm going to have to be the
[36:16] guy in the crowd that gives them all the sympathy laughs cuz I don't want them to be uncomfortable. So, I feel like I'm going to have to be that guy that supports him if nobody else does.
[36:26] I catch myself doing that with some of my buddies. Like I'll sit there and when they're joke bombs I'm laughing, you know, because I'm trying to be like,
[36:33] "Everybody get in on this. This is funny. We can do it." That's great. I have a question. So,
[36:41] this is what I I think about because I think about it in terms of like, man, a musician versus a comedian. So, I feel like we can go play gigs and play just
[36:50] about the same set every time and it's going to get reality. You don't have to change it up every time.
[36:57] I don't feel like hearing the same joke the second time is as funny as hearing the same song the second time is as
[37:06] effective. So, do you feel like you have to have new material more often if you're going back to the same place?
[37:13] I guess I would say that was going to be my first answer was depends on how much I'm traveling because if I'm going around a different place like I'll go down to Bloomington and do stuff from
[37:21] last year because I know nobody's heard any of it, but I can't show up to the same open mic and repeat the same stuff.
[37:26] Now, we do have um Helium's funniest comes up next week. So, or I guess it's the Midwest Funniest.
[37:32] A bunch of open micers will go back to open mics and repeat their best stuff and they don't care whether you're listening or not. They're just trying to do their timing in their head and make
[37:40] sure that it's good. I would say for any major I here's the one thing I will say about that is I have had a couple of
[37:48] people where I've hosted at Helium Downstairs call it two times in a month and it was two comedians that that audience member wanted to see so they
[37:56] bought tickets for both shows so they've seen me now do basically the same because in a month I don't have enough time to do better stuff and I want to do really well at Helium so I'm doing my
[38:05] best material which is the most practiced and means everyone's heard it I did have two people come up and go man that one joke that you have we heard
[38:12] that a couple weeks ago and it is so funny. So, it was kind of cool to see like there's a flip to it. One, no, you're not going to like the joke as
[38:20] much the second time you hear it, but it is cool to be the guy that knows the joke and when it's coming and watch everyone else around you react to it.
[38:28] There's almost like you get to be curtain peeled back in the writer room with them because now you know when it's coming. And then
[38:36] unlike the songs, I think every performance is just a little bit different because you never say anything the same exact way twice. You can sing
[38:43] the same lyrics the exact same way, but you can still pitch things differently or hold out a note a little bit longer. And I think that's every
[38:51] standup performance is making that pitch a little different or holding out that note a little bit longer. So, it's cool for people to be like, "Oh, I've seen this. I love that one." Yeah.
[38:59] I've even had people come up that for the um flyover shows because I was doing it once a month for nine months. So, or Yeah. So, for nine shows
[39:08] by show six, I was like, I'm out of stuff. Like, I don't have anything new.
[39:12] These people are going to hear the exact same stuff that I've done. I'm just going to have to put things in a different order and change how the setup comes to the same punchline, you know?
[39:20] But they were like, "Man, I love when you do that one." And they don't mind for the most part. I've had to like let go. So, I used to be like, I cannot repeat anything ever again. Every set
[39:28] needs to be different or else people are going to think that I'm a wash or whatever. And then I realized like people actually just enjoy Quinn. They
[39:36] like that person. So, whatever I'm saying on stage is important and needs to be funny, but it can be repeated because people like laughing. And if they've already laughed at something
[39:45] once, most time you laugh at it. I think there's like a I don't know if nostalgia is the right word, but like my favorite comedian is Gary Gulman and I've heard
[39:53] all of his albums, right? And then I went to New York, I don't know, five or six years ago and went to the comedy
[40:01] eller and Gary was performing like it was kind of a random happen. I didn't go there to see him, just he just happened to be there that night. and he goes into
[40:10] uh a bit where he and his girlfriend like to do role play and she's a college co-ed and he's a professor.
[40:19] It's so good. But like I I I could probably have said it word for word along with him, right? But just to be
[40:26] able to see it live because all I've ever heard is the album. So it's kind of I don't know if you call that nostalgia or what, but it's it was really cool
[40:34] just to see one of my favorite bits live like Yeah.
[40:37] Yeah. And Hozier came a couple of years ago. Um, and Hozier is someone who like when you hear him on the radio, you're
[40:45] like, gosh, that voice is crazy. Then you see it in person and it is, I mean, dead on. The guy sounds exactly like he
[40:51] does on radio and it was moving. Like I had like almost a tear shed on a song cuz it was like, dude, how are you
[40:58] sounding the ex? And it's just better live. Like you can I've heard Well, you're there with an audience, too, right? I've heard a thousand times.
[41:06] Yeah. They played that song on the radio all summer. The whiskey sweet or whatever that one.
[41:11] And when you see it live, you're like, I just saw it live. It's that cool. It's even cooler live than I've and I've heard this song a hundred times. But yeah, it's the same thing.
[41:19] When you see it with other people, too.
[41:21] Like comedy, same thing. You can listen to it in your car and listen to it in a room full of people laughing, too. It's like two different experiences.
[41:30] All right. Hey, you know what? Let's uh let's get into the top five. Let me find the song. Is this it? No, this is it.
[41:38] Nope. Trivia top five
[41:45] top five top five.
[41:51] All right, we're doing the HamCo Live top. Take a cigarette break here real quick.
[42:00] Um, HamCo Live top five. I gave you the topic this morning. I apologize. I'm usually much better about getting the topic out ahead of time. Uh it's just been a been a weird week. Um here we go.
[42:13] Top five guilty pleasure songs. So I thought about this a couple different
[42:20] ways. One is like a a song that when you think of me, you wouldn't associate with me.
[42:27] Yeah. or a song that is widely considered bad or corny or whatever, but I still
[42:37] kind of like it. So, that's that was my thinking. Uh, you got you want to start? Yeah. I just just found one yesterday.
[42:46] Um, I shouldn't like it because it's AI generated. Oh, boy.
[42:51] Um, but it's so catchy and so fun. Have you heard the Puerto Rico song? No. Oh my gosh. Have you heard this?
[42:59] Not yet, but I've heard people talk about it.
[43:01] First time in Puerto Rico. I I think the the plot of the song is this guy visits cities and he just takes videos where
[43:10] he's while he's there and then AI creates songs from his videos, which is wild.
[43:16] Yeah. And just takes lyrics from makes the lyrics based on what's in the videos and what he's seeing. And it's about how there's um you know slot machines in the
[43:26] bus stop station and just Barack Obama statue and it's so catchy.
[43:32] It's like pure 80s pop but it's it's just funny and it's like going viral right now and it's AI.
[43:40] I shouldn't like it. I shouldn't support it but I can't stop. Perfect. That's a perfect example.
[43:47] Quinn, what do you got? Uh, first song I ever learned all the lyrics to. Uh, so it's sentimental. It is Maroon 5. She will be loved.
[43:57] She will be loved.
[43:59] That's also a great uh time stamp on when puberty hits because you go from being able to hit that note.
[44:06] Hey, I think my balls. Yep. I remember when they came out.
[44:11] Never did. So, yeah. That's why he's harmonies.
[44:16] I thought they were a boy band when they came out.
[44:19] They kind of were like the I don't know if this is such a reference you guys probably don't know. The Click Five used to be a band. Um and I thought Maroon 5 was going to be a lot like the
[44:27] Click Five, which was just like a bunch of boys playing in a boy band. And then yeah, Adam Levine totally uh blew up. That guy changed.
[44:35] Had a grow up. A glow up. A glow up. Blow up. Grow up.
[44:38] I saw them um when was that? 2001 maybe something like that. um whenever that
[44:46] first album James when they were still a band it was just the Adam show I thought they were great yeah talented band
[44:54] and then I saw him open for John Mayer and uh the guitar player from Maroon 5 came out with Mayer and they went back
[45:02] and forth like wow he can actually play so everybody except for Adam Levine very Mormon really is that right
[45:10] yeah most people don't know that but yeah they're all very Mormon So, I'll be dipped. Yep. Know that.
[45:17] All right. My guilty pleasure. I'm going to go with um I almost strictly listen to singer
[45:25] songwriter Americana type. That's sort of my wheelhouse, right? So, for me, a guilty pleasure is uh Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.
[45:38] I love that song. It's a great song. That's terrible.
[45:41] What? How dare you? Oh man, Bruno Mars in general. So annoying.
[45:47] Oh, I think he would be amazing in concert.
[45:49] I'm sure he's amazing in concert. Do you know why he hasn't been on concert in a long time?
[45:53] Why is that, dude? He went to Vegas and racked up so much debt with MGM that they made him stay there for like the last I don't
[46:01] know, however long. The reason he hasn't released any music in a long time is cuz he didn't own the rights to any of his stuff and it was basically the mob that
[46:08] had him in debt and he's got a terrible cocaine habit. I don't like that. But he racked up he racked up so much debt that he had to stay in Vegas for like
[46:16] the last 10 years and hasn't put out any new stuff because they own all of it. So that's why just now he's coming back out on tour and releasing stuff is because
[46:24] he finally got out. It was like a Jersey boy story. Like dude was in so much debt that they were like, "You're going to stay here and perform every day until you die." Wow, that's fun.
[46:34] He's got like a mob supplied ankle bracelet on like going out to tour.
[46:38] We see you're in Indiana today. You better not stop at the casino, buddy. We own that one, too.
[46:45] That's That's great. I didn't know that.
[46:48] I kind of heard he had some debt, but I didn't realize it was like that. That's interesting. Huh. All right. What's your second one?
[46:55] Uh, okay. This is like out of my wheelhouse, too. I feel like this song is for like
[47:02] beautiful, sexy people to dance to, and which I don't check any of those boxes.
[47:07] Uh, well, you sit in your kitchen. No, no. Uh, Pony by Ginuwine.
[47:17] Right. I can relate to that. Yeah.
[47:19] Yeah. That is a fun song, but like I wouldn't be in that music video.
[47:23] Yeah. No, you would not. And if that song came on somewhere, I would secretly want to dance to it, but I would be far too embarrassed to try. Wouldn't do it.
[47:31] Yeah. That's a good one. All right. Give me your second one.
[47:34] Uh, it's Picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. Uh, it makes me sad. Every time I'm in the car, I always think, "Oh,
[47:42] man. What would happen? This would be me and my wife in a hotel room going, I miss you, baby. I miss you." That's true. Uh, you're talking to two
[47:51] big Sheryl Crow fans, though. So, actually that when I saw Maroon 5, they were with Sheryl Crow. Okay. They opened for Sheryl Crow. Cool.
[47:59] Um, yeah, I think that's a good song. I mean, say what you want about Kid Rock. We have on this podcast a lot. Yeah.
[48:06] Again, he comes up again. What is what? I don't know. He owes us money, I think.
[48:10] Yeah. Uh, okay. So, my second one is such a sappy song. Like, first of all,
[48:19] in the 80s, so I grew up in the 80s. Uh, most of my friends and contemporaries were listening to, you know, like poppy
[48:28] stuff and, uh, your boy bands, your New Kids on the Block, that sort of thing.
[48:35] I liked the hair metal bands. I was obsessed with guitar players and whatever. Uh, so this is one that feels super sappy, but dog on it, I love it.
[48:45] More Than Words by Extreme.
[48:48] It's I don't think you need to be embarrassed by that.
[48:52] Yeah. I don't know. It's It's a little too too sappy, but I like acoustics.
[48:59] Yeah. Like that was one of the first like sort of unplugged songs I remember hearing and the the harmonies from Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt.
[49:09] Do I know their names? Yeah.
[49:11] Plus, you can always be like, I listen to the band Extreme. Yeah.
[49:14] And people would be like, "Oh, yeah." And then only this one.
[49:20] Yeah. So that's uh that's the least extreme song of theirs. Yeah. Okay.
[49:25] Anyways, well there's six. We really only have to eliminate one.
[49:30] I think we got to get rid of this Puerto Rico song. One, I've never heard it.
[49:34] Okay, fine. But you're going to be regretting it. You're going to know. I'm I'm find it as soon as I leave here.
[49:40] It's going to pull up on your phone the minute you I guarantee if you scroll far enough in Instagram, you're going to come across somebody lip-syncing that video to that song.
[49:49] Just scroll. You'll find it within 30 minutes.
[49:52] You might be overestimating my algorithm. I'm not sure.
[49:56] Last night I sent a couple reels to the kids of this guy that like gives tips on how to clean your house.
[50:04] If that gives you any idea where my algorithm is broke through baseball facts and guitars, it might get there. Who knows?
[50:11] Yeah. All right, dude. My algorithm is just people fighting each other. I don't know. I don't know what I did, but it's literally just dudes getting in fist fights. I get those crowded.
[50:22] I don't understand it, but I do love a good knockout. I don't know what there is.
[50:27] Especially when it's the little guy takes down the big guy. Yes.
[50:30] I like the guy that gets all cocky at first and then the other guy's like, "Okay, let's go." And then he starts backing down.
[50:36] Yeah, that's a fun one. Well, there he goes. The HamCo Live top five. We got to make it quick. We're on a tight deadline here.
[50:44] Top five.
[50:46] That's good. We got to make it quick. I got to see if Joe Rudy sent me trivia.
[50:53] While I'm figuring that out, going to take a quick break to look at the calendar. We'll be right back. That's right. We're just taking a quick look at the calendar. HamCo Live.com. Our online
[51:02] calendar has all the live music happening around Hamilton County. And of course, you can sign up for the newsletter. Get that delivered right to your inbox and you'll find out uh the
[51:11] best way to plan your live music weekend. We're just going to look at a couple of the highlights. Uh great. go to the calendar uh to see the full
[51:19] listing. But uh Thursday night, you saw him on the podcast. He's a global icon and a national treasure. That's Tyler Mechem. He'll be playing at Songbird
[51:27] Social House in Carmel. If you're in Noblesville, head on down to Courthouse uh Courthouse Club. Yeah, Chris Oaks.
[51:33] Our buddy Chris Oaks from uh Hill and Oaks. We had Zach Hill on the podcast not long ago. Chris is the Oaks. He puts
[51:41] the Oaks in Hill and Oaks. People, don't worry about it. He's playing at Courthouse Club tonight, Thursday night.
[51:47] Uh if you're in Fishers, you can make your way to King Jug Brewing and you'll enjoy some music from Zack Day. That's just some of the great music happening
[51:55] on Thursday here in Hamilton County. Go to hamcolive.com for the full calendar.
[52:00] Looking at the live music calendar for Friday night, you've got Clark Witson. He's going to be at Voodoo Brewing.
[52:05] That's over there in Fishers. Our buddies Chris and Spencer, they're playing at the Ale Emporium in Fishers.
[52:12] And if you're out there in Westfield, head on over to Joe's Grill and catch the Y store. That's just some of the great music on Friday night. Let's look
[52:19] at Saturday night. Saturday night, if you look at the calendar, you'll see really a bunch a lot of music happening around the county. I'm just going to point out a few of the highlights.
[52:30] You've got, hey, kicking off uh your summer concert series at Ruoff. You can go check out Hardy uh country tour there with Hardy. Uh you've got Rosie Inman.
[52:40] She's going to be playing at Peacewater Winery. And don't forget Jason Salyers.
[52:45] If you're in Noblesville, go check out Jason at Prime Brewing. Again, that's just a small sample, a mere taste of all
[52:52] the great music happening around Hamilton County. Go to hamcolive.com for the full schedule. Now, let's get back to the show. Hey, that's right everybody.
[53:01] Make sure you go to hamcolive.com, check out the live music calendar. You can find everybody that's playing all around Hamilton County. Uh, make sure
[53:09] you sign up for the e-newsletter. It gets delivered right to your inbox once a week. It has, you know, all the shows coming up that weekend. Helps you plan
[53:17] your live music weekend. And make sure you're subscribed here on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast and also follow us on the Facebook and the Instagram. Here we go.
[53:28] We're going back with some trivia. Now, Quinn, here's here's how this works.
[53:32] First of all, trivia brought to you by Rudy's Recycle Shop in Cicero, Indiana.
[53:37] Do you need to get your bike tuned up for the summer so you can ride down the Monon? Sure you do. Why wouldn't you? Go see Joe Rudy at Rudy's Recycle Shop
[53:45] right off State Road 19 in Cicero, Indiana. Oh, that reminds me. Gosh, I forgot about that. Friday, my live music
[53:54] weekend, I went up to the Red Bridge Beastro uh there in Cicero, like just a little bit down from Joe's shop and uh saw John Gilmore and Kelly Ray Yates.
[54:04] Oh, cool, man. Did a good job. That's a sweet venue. We need to get in there. Let's do it. Yeah. They got a great patio.
[54:09] Let's throw that HamCo weight around and force our way in there. That's right.
[54:15] The weight of HamCo behind us. Yeah. All right. Here we go. So, here's how this works. I'm going to give you the subject. All right. It's kind of like
[54:23] Final Jeopardy. Um, if you've ever watched Jeopardy with your grandparents, it's kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah.
[54:28] So, you uh we're going to bet 1 to 30 and based on your subject matter
[54:36] knowledge and then I'll give you the question. Write your answer down on your phone. That's fine. And then we'll go around and share our answers. All right.
[54:43] So, here's Oh, boy. Here's our category. Hardcore hip-hop.
[54:51] Hardcore hip-hop. What? I can tell you exactly what I'm betting. It ain't much.
[54:58] Hold on. Side note, I heard of a new music genre. What's that? Uh, Mexican grindcore. Mexican grindcore.
[55:06] You ever heard of this? No, I had it the other day at uh Bajas.
[55:12] I had the Mexican grindcore, but make sure you get the corn salsa with it. Makes all the difference.
[55:20] Go ahead. Sorry. That's all. What is Mexican grindcore?
[55:24] I don't I don't really know. Mesa. Isn't that ground corn? I don't know. Masa. Masa. Masa. Okay.
[55:31] I was listen I was listening to a podcast about interesting band names and they were a Mexican grindcore. I was like I need to find out what that's about.
[55:40] Sounds like a fiesta. Uh. All right. Ready for the question? My throat hurts. I'll be honest. Okay.
[55:49] Excuse me.
[55:52] All right. Here we go. This 1963 horn track from Bob and Earl's song Harlem
[55:58] Shuffle was sampled for the intro in the 1992 hit Jump Around by this Irish rap act.
[56:08] Read that one more time. You're going to give me the Irish rap act. This 1963 horn track from Bob and Earl song Harlem
[56:16] Shuffle was sampled for this for the intro in the 1992 hit Jump Around by
[56:23] this Irish rap act. I should have bet more.
[56:27] I know the name, but I cannot think of it. And I should know this.
[56:32] Oh gosh, now I'm blinking on the name. I got the lead singer's name. I got the singer's name. That's it. Dang it. Oh, there I got it. Came to me.
[56:41] I'm wagering two.
[56:44] Yeah, I went with one, but I should have done more. I think I already used one.
[56:48] I'm not going to get this. And I did 15, so I think I'm in trouble. That is embarrassing.
[56:53] Hardcore hip-hop was supposed to be something I was going to beat you both in.
[56:56] Yeah, but this isn't going well. No.
[56:59] Well, I think if I had enough hour to think about it, I' it would come back.
[57:03] But we're on a time limit. We're on a time limit. Yeah. Got a hard stop in 8 minutes. Uh, all right. All right. Not right. Cypress Hill.
[57:12] M. No. Decidedly not Irish.
[57:14] I know. But yeah. Well, I know mine's not right.
[57:18] What's your problem? Are you Are you insane in the membrane over there? All right. What do you got? I wrote down Patty.
[57:28] Cuz it's Irish. P A D Y. Love that. Yeah. Perfect. This is so patio.
[57:36] famous Irish rapper Paddy O'Houlihan. Do you remember the lead singer's name?
[57:43] I thought it was Cypress Hill and whatever his band was. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[57:48] Cypress Hill is the uh I think they were Mexican, actually. At least one of them was. Were they grind?
[57:55] They may have invented Mexican grindcore. Cypress Hill. What was his name? MC.
[58:03] Cypress Hill MC. I want to say search, but I don't think that's right. Chris would know this.
[58:07] He would. Yeah. Oh, producer Chris, we miss you. Uh, no. The correct answer.
[58:12] Well, I haven't looked yet, but I'm pretty sure this is right. Um, House of Pain. Oh, yeah. And the lead singer is Everlast.
[58:20] Oh, I those guys confused. Uh, let me just scroll down. Answer.
[58:25] House of Pain. And Joe Rudy says, "Peace." Yeah. So, I win. Wait, who is Cypress Hill with?
[58:32] That was the name of the group. Oh, sorry. That's not a gentleman.
[58:39] I think they used to tour with Paddy O'Houlihan if I'm not mistaken. So, that's probably where they were the opening act. Yeah. On their Belfast takeover.
[58:47] They had the line that I always think of, fat boy on a diet. Don't try it. I'll check your ass like a looter in a riot.
[59:01] That's good. Okay. We're on a tight timeline. Uh we end it end the show every week same way. Well, first of all,
[59:09] where can we find what you're doing and you'll be performing?
[59:13] This Wednesday, uh the 10th, I'm at Helium Comedy Club. They last year it was Indiana's funniest. This year they opened it up to the entire Midwest. So they've got Chicago, Cincinnati, St.
[59:23] Louis, uh the other states.
[59:25] They just said Indiana's not funny enough. Let's bring in some of the Yeah. I got second place last year and they went this this is second.
[59:32] So we better get some better talents in here. Widen the net.
[59:36] Yikes. Yeah. So that's good. I got that coming up. And then um uh uh the fifth actually. So this Yeah.
[59:44] Tomorrow I've got a Don't Tell show. So if you want to check it out online, uh I think Can you say where that's at or you have to don't tell?
[59:51] I think I can. It's at the Estuary. It's uh Oh, no. Sorry. It's at the COhatch in uh Indianapolis.
[59:58] Okay. So, it used to be like an old church and they renovated it out and there's like a golf simulator and stuff downstairs. So, come through, play some golf. B. Uh, I had a lady show up with
[01:00:06] Panda Express and beers last time and she sat there and ate her Panda Express while she watched comedy. It was great. Sounds delightful. Yeah.
[01:00:14] All right. So, Don't Tell, what's the website there? Uh, donttellcomedy.com.
[01:00:21] Don't tell. Okay. Uh, what are you listening to, Tyler? Um, I'm getting ready for my Billy Joel tribute band that I'm playing in. So, I'm learning a lot. Yeah. A lot of Billy Joel.
[01:00:32] Is this with Brett? Mhm. Where are you guys playing?
[01:00:35] Um, first one I'll be on is uh Federal Hill this summer. Really? Yeah. August 29th. Son of a gun.
[01:00:43] Yeah. So, um I won't be doing any of the cool stuff. I'm doing all the auxiliary stuff.
[01:00:49] Strings and extra guitars. And So, your dad's doing all the He's doing the heavy lifting. Yeah.
[01:00:56] Does he ever get tired of carrying you? He should. He should.
[01:01:01] Hey, he carries the show for us on Saturday for sure. Yeah, he's got broad shoulders. All right, that's fun. Yeah.
[01:01:08] Uh, so you listen to a lot of Billy Joel?
[01:01:09] Uh, almost exclusively. Those songs aren't easy.
[01:01:13] No. Uh, are you guys going to do for the longest time? And can I sing bass? Um, not in this set, but yeah, we're gonna
[01:01:21] need some extra singers for like Uptown Girl and stuff like that. I'd love to. Yeah. Okay. Throw my name in that. All right. All right.
[01:01:28] I know a guy who sells H. Sorry. Oh, Billy Joel.
[01:01:34] If you really wanted to fit the part, you know, I don't really know a guy that sells H. But did he have a problem? Oh, yeah. Billy Joel did. Yeah.
[01:01:42] I don't know.
[01:01:42] I thought you guys were the musical guests. Why am I the one that does all the things? Clean cut.
[01:01:46] Yeah. Well, it sounds like you know more about drugs than actually does media. Yeah. Mobs and drugs and age. What am I is this the comedian scene?
[01:01:55] The underbelly. We don't know about the CD underbelly of very much comedy. Uh what do you listen to?
[01:02:02] Uh right now I've been jamming out to a guy named Jed Harelson like jazz/country infused soulful singer.
[01:02:10] Yeah. Um I love him. I've seen him twice when he came up to town. So I've seen him live twice and Yeah. Where does he play when he comes down?
[01:02:18] Oh man, Irvington was the last one that he did. And then um what's that new venue that's kind of over in um Broad Ripple?
[01:02:26] Oh, Round Table. No, not Round Table.
[01:02:28] Um yeah, it might be Round Table, I think. Round No, that's the recording. Recording studio.
[01:02:35] Turntable. Tablet I think up above the Vogue table. Yeah. Cool. That's a great That's a great venue. Yeah, that'd be good for comedy, too.
[01:02:43] Yeah, it would be I think about it. be a good one.
[01:02:46] Uh, I've been listening to a lot of dolls. Dawes.
[01:02:50] Oh, I thought dolls. Not the dolls. No, just me sitting around talking to the dolls. What are you What are you up to, girls?
[01:02:58] Spill the tea.
[01:03:01] I'm losing it. Uh, no, Dawes. Uh, Taylor Goldsmith and his brother. Uh, hey, thanks for being here, man. Thanks for having me, guys. Nice to see you again.
[01:03:09] Yeah. Yeah. Good way to start the morning.
[01:03:11] Yeah. All right. Now, go make some money. All right. Good to work.
[01:03:14] I'll try. Hey, uh, thanks for you guys for joining us, too. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and, uh, we'll see you at the next show.
[01:03:22] HamCo, over and out. Wrong song.
[01:03:34] Hit them all. This is producer Chris.
[01:03:44] We're professionals.
[01:03:56] Sticky floors buzzing ears I've seen for years. Tiny stage big time sound.
[01:04:06] Every lost kid down
[01:04:12] the light bar every night.
[01:04:25] Like we're going to be every
