WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.879 Something you should go time out for. Something you should know, brought to 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:07.639 you by GENESISGOLDIRA dot com. That is also something you should know that you 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:11.439 can put your retirement plan on the gold standard. Genesis Gold Group is the 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:15.400 only IRA backed by physical gold and silver. Learn more right now and get 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:21.519 a free gold and Silver guide at Genesis goold ira dot com. Super excited 6 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:24.399 a VI is it right now with a very funny stand up comic, Tom 7 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.120 Tokar, And he is all over the country doing comedy and we are so 8 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.159 blessed to have him in Soup Falls on Saturday, July twenty seventh. It's 9 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.159 before you know it, he'll be here. Tom, thanks for joining us 10 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.640 today. I'm excited to have you in Sioux Falls. Thanks for having me. 11 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.079 Ton excited to get up to suit Falls for the first time. Well, 12 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:44.240 we're excited to have you here. And I get to open the show 13 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.399 for you, so we get to work together in a couple of weeks. 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.600 That's very exciting. John. What kind of material you doing up there? 15 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.119 You know, it's all pretty much just dumb stories of things that I've done 16 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.000 because I keep doing stupid things. That's the sort of thing. I don't 17 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.439 know if you got my I ruled for my openers. But no stupid stories 18 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:07.280 about things you've done. That's all about I have nothing but fart jokes then, 19 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.560 so I guess we're in for a treat. That's also no part joke. 20 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.400 No, don't know your family? Oh no, no dirty, no 21 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.760 work, no clean stuff. I have in so much trouble now I am 22 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.400 so excited. First of all, how long have you been doing stand up 23 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:27.159 comedy? Tom? I started about two ten, so about fourteen years now. 24 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.640 And what was it? What was it? The kind of drea to 25 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.200 that is? What was it that made you decide I am going to get 26 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.200 on stage and bear my soul to these people? Well, you know, 27 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.760 I was. I was obsessed with watching comedy as a kid. My mom 28 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.319 made the mistake of letting me have a TV in my bedroom, and so 29 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.760 I would watch Comedy Central all the time, and I was like, man, 30 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.319 I want to I want to do this. This seems so fun. 31 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:57.159 I also assumed that everybody who was on Comedy Central was like a multi millionaire, 32 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.280 And now that I have done that, assure you that is not true. 33 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:06.760 Yeah, but yeah, it's a club opened up in my hometown. 34 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:08.680 When while I was in college and I was like, oh, man. 35 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.639 I was working at a hospital at the time, and I was like, 36 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.800 man, I want to go over there and try out the open mic. 37 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:22.840 And soon enough I was no longer going to med school and I was just 38 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.000 doing comedy full time, and one thing led to another. It is kind 39 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:28.759 of one of those things where I was like, I'm going to try this 40 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.360 out. It seems like it would be cool if I if I could make 41 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.319 it work, and then I just became obsessed with it. And as you 42 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.680 look at the opportunities you've had come along, is there something along the way 43 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.639 that you look back and go I still think this was like my favorite thing 44 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:43.800 I've ever had a chance to do. Oh yeah, getting booked at Too 45 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.159 Fall one, Well, let's take that one off the list. What else 46 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.080 on the list? There? No, there were a couple. But I 47 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:57.680 felt really lucky that I grew up watching Conan O'Brien, and I got really 48 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.120 lucky that I was able to perform in that show before ended. And so 49 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.039 I look back at that as something that's really cool, because I'm like, 50 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.280 that doesn't even exist anymore, and I got to do it while it was 51 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.599 still around. But the big things for me were I grew up watching those 52 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.439 Comedy Central half hour special so when I got to do one of those myself, 53 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.759 I was really that felt like full circle, like oh, I'm doing 54 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.120 what made me do this, what made me get into this. It's crazy 55 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.360 and to think like, oh, maybe I can be that for some kid 56 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:27.520 watching this right now, and that probably has happened. I bet there's some 57 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.520 kids that have been watching that and they see you and they go, man, 58 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:31.639 I want to do what he's doing. What he does. I bet 59 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:36.599 that guy's super wealthy because he's on Comedy Central. Yeah. One of the 60 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.680 things that I've always noticed is like when I when the Forbes list of the 61 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.280 most wealthy people on the planet come out, I always look to see how 62 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:45.680 many of these people are comics, and well, yeah, I don't think 63 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:50.680 any of them. Maybe you want yeah, and you've like never even heard 64 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.599 of where You're like, how is that possible? Yeah? I mean that 65 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.400 I had never heard of. Like it's usually a guy who has puppets, 66 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.680 but not just and you're like, I was, what is it? I 67 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:05.479 got the wrong? Maybe I'll bring a puppet to to ball'd be fun. 68 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.240 I've never done you work with that, But I'll wear a mat. I'll 69 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:13.719 wear one of those face mats that that you can't tell if I'm talking or 70 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.000 yeah. Twenty twenty would have been the best year to break into ventriloquism. 71 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.240 Really, it wouldn't matter if your lips are moving or not. It would 72 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:24.560 be funny because there was a time where we had to wear mats on stage. 73 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.279 It was really weird and I was thinking, like, man, going 74 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.800 to see a puppet guy right now? You just after keeping like truck me. 75 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:34.319 I'm doing it. My lips are not moving, I promise. The 76 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.519 other thing you could do is you could bring a ventriloquis dummy on stage and 77 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.800 then just never have the dummy say anything. Just do your entire set completely 78 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.000 straight without even pointing, like pointing out the fact that you have a dummy 79 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.360 on your lap, right, and just have him make faces like you just 80 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:54.959 judge it like I really only learned that part of it. Or you can 81 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.959 have him laughing. You know, he's laughing at all your jokes. No, 82 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.079 I'm kind of how can you do that? Well, I'm excited. 83 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.120 I'm excited. I'm excited to work with you. I think it's gonna be 84 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.399 a whole lot of fun. I'm gonna throw a link to make it easy 85 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.240 for folks to find tickets. And you've got a bunch of stuff between now 86 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.560 and then, but I am excited to have you in sou Falls. Thank 87 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.199 you also for taking the time to chat. Hey, of course, thanks 88 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.839 for having me. John excited to work together man absolutely again, Tom Tacar, 89 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.759 He'll be in Sue Falls at the Icon Lounge. It is coming up 90 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:25.759 on Saturday, the twenty seventh of July. So if you don't have tickets 91 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.879 that you can get them now. All of the details at Sue Falls Comedy 92 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.399 on Facebook, so Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls Comedy. But I also 93 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:36.040 have a link at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash 94 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.639 Sue Falls News. And that is something you should know. Something you should 95 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:46.800 know. Something you should know is brought to you by Genesis gooldira dot com. 96 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.879 Put your retirement plan on the gold Standard. 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