WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.880 on the iHeartRadio app. Big stories that we are following 4 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.720 today include the fact that La Mayor Bass has apparently 5 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.919 fired the chief of the La Fire Department. She has 6 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.519 removed Chief Kristin Crowley, effective immediately. According to a statement 7 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.199 that was issued by the Mayor's office, the mayor is 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.399 expected to make a news conference or hold a news 9 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.160 conference here in a few minutes. About twenty minutes ago 10 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.079 is when they told us originally, So when that happens, 11 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:33.600 we will dip in and listen to it. A couple 12 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.840 other developing stories. Three people killed after shooting at a 13 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.280 Louisville driver licensing office today. Louisville Metro Police and they 14 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.159 were called at about noon Louisville time for a shooting 15 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.960 at the driver Licensing Regional office in Valley Station. One man, 16 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.039 apparently the gunman, and two women died. The two women 17 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.280 apparently died at a hospital. There was also an explosion 18 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.920 in Hawaii at a resort on Maui. This would have 19 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:01.960 been last night. Several people were hurt. Police and firefighters 20 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.840 had to show up at long Conopoly Beach, the Whaler Resort, 21 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:12.159 where they said it looks like a propane tank or 22 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.840 a propane line natural gas line possibly exploded at one 23 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:22.879 of the group barbecue areas in that resort. The Senate 24 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.959 has adopted a budget resolution intended to serve as a 25 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.040 blueprint try to deliver the first part a President Trump's agenda. 26 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.560 Senators voted fifty two to forty eight, most of those 27 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:35.400 along party lines on this resolution after the overnight voting 28 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:38.159 session went for hours and hours. In fact, the final 29 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.319 vote didn't come until about five o'clock in the morning 30 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.959 DC time. Senator Ran Paul was the only was the 31 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.599 only Republican who voted against that measure. So, as we 32 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.879 stand by and wait for this announcement from Karen Bass, Well, 33 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.200 I wanted to revisit some of what she had said yesterday. 34 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.879 Karen Bass of course did an interview I guess the 35 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:02.239 day before yesterday, she had done an interview with Alex 36 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:07.319 Michaelson from Channel eleven regarding what happened on January seventh. 37 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.639 If you remember, she was in Ghana. She was in 38 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.680 Africa at the time that the fire started. Even though 39 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:17.120 we all knew that there was a massive weather issue, 40 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.639 this very dangerous weather situation of the incredible Santa Ana 41 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.120 Santa Ana wins that were driving fire danger higher, plus 42 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.599 the fact that we hadn't had rain in several months, 43 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:30.680 and then. 44 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:34.479 That type of preparation didn't happen. If that had I 45 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.680 will tell you, Alex, I wouldn't have even gone to 46 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.759 San Diego, let alone leave the country. 47 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:40.439 But what do you mean there were warnings you weren't 48 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:42.360 aware of, because I know we were talking about it 49 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.080 on the news. A lot of people were talking about 50 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.520 the problems at warning that this was going to be 51 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.319 a huge So it. 52 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.000 Didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible 53 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.400 could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the. 54 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.520 Trip, Well I didn't, But to me, I don't know. 55 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.280 I mean, I think that that's one of the things 56 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:57.759 we need. 57 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:58.840 To look at now. Again. 58 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.560 That was one of the stories that I had a 59 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.960 hard time with her story about that, and Alex at 60 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.759 least pushed back and said, listen, we in the media 61 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:11.080 knew well ahead of time that this was a dangerous event. 62 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.280 That way back on January second, the National Weather Service 63 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:17.400 had put out alerts that we were going to see 64 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.199 a very dangerous situation on January seventh. On January third, 65 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.759 they upgraded it. On January fourth is when she left 66 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.400 for Ghana. The Mayor's office, even at least the communications people, 67 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:35.960 put out a statement that suggested that Wednesday, January seventh 68 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.599 was going to be our particularly dangerous day, and she 69 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:45.560 really didn't do anything. She knew that that was I 70 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.840 shouldn't say she knew. She claims that she didn't know 71 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:50.080 that it was going to be that dangerous a situation 72 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.199 and suggested that it was Chief Crowley that has the 73 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.639 responsibility to let her know when there is a dangerous 74 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:56.400 situation like that. 75 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.919 I think that that's something that has to be assessed. 76 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.639 I need to understand why things were handled differently this 77 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.159 time than they've been handled before. 78 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.039 And again I'm not sure exactly what she meant by that. 79 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.639 If you also remember she did come back from Ghana, 80 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.919 She got on an airplane, made her way back to 81 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:17.279 the United States, and on January eighth, stood alongside the 82 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.639 governor in a news conference. Later on January afternoon of 83 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.839 January eighth, while the fires were still burning, so she 84 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.120 had the wherewithal and the smarts to turn around and 85 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:30.319 come back to California while the city was burning. But 86 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.560 if you remember, there was an episode where she was 87 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:36.639 just off of an airplane waiting to be escorted down 88 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.360 to the tarmac. She gets VIP service, so they get 89 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.519 a suv or a limo basically waiting for her on 90 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.319 the tarmac and she could be walked out of the 91 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.160 jetway down to the tarmac get her out of there. 92 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.920 She was waiting for that to happen, and an Irish 93 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.399 reporter stopped her in the jetway and was yelling at 94 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.959 her and asking her do you have nothing to say? 95 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.720 The helms are burning, do you have nothing to say? 96 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:02.639 And all she did was look down at the ground. 97 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.279 She said that that was a surprise to her. 98 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:07.439 Yes, it was an ambush and I wasn't sure who 99 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.279 he was. And that is unfortunate because I see the 100 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.680 way that looks as though I was avoiding. But when 101 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.240 you're getting off a plane and you've been on a 102 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.600 plane seventeen hours and somebody hits you with a camera, 103 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.399 I wish, in hindsight, my response had been better. 104 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:27.680 Again, all this now coming to a coming, No boy 105 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.800 coming to a head, because there was a statement that 106 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.040 went out just from the Mayor's office this morning that 107 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.839 said that Mayor Bass met with and removed Kristin Crowley 108 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.399 as the fire chief, effective immediately for the city of La. 109 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.560 Mayor Bass announced that she appointed former Chief Deputy Ronnie Viennaweva, 110 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.680 who is a forty one year veteran of the La 111 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:55.199 Fire Department, as the interim chief. She said, in this statement, 112 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.279 acting in the best interests of La public safety and 113 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.839 for the operations of the La Fire Department, I have 114 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.120 removed Kristin Crowley as fire chief, she said. We know 115 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.120 that a thousand firefighters that could have been on duty 116 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.199 on the morning of the fires broke out were instead 117 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.399 sent home on Chief Crowley's watch. Furthermore, a necessary step 118 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.240 to an investigation was President of the Fire Commission telling 119 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.920 Chief Crowley to do an after action report on those fires, 120 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:26.160 and that the chief refused those require her removal. We 121 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.639 haven't seen any sort of reaction. It's pretty early on, 122 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.560 but we haven't seen any reaction from Chief Crowley. We 123 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.759 do know that in the past she had suggested that 124 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.199 in fact, it was the city that was responsible for 125 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:44.040 the condition of the fire department. On January seventh, she 126 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.120 did an interview with Gigi Grossiert on January tenth of 127 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:47.519 this year. 128 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.279 It's my job to stand up as a chief and 129 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.120 exactly say, justifiably what the fire department needs to operate. 130 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.480 To meet the demands of the community. Did they fail you? 131 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.199 That is our job, I tell you, That's why I'm here. 132 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.560 So let's get us what we need so firefighters can 133 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:04.199 do their jobs. 134 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.480 Did they fail you? Yes? 135 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.360 Yeah, I mean this was I don't know if this 136 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.120 was just a matter of time, but she said the 137 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.720 city failed them. Mayor Bass said it was Chief Crowley 138 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.079 that never told her that the fires were that the 139 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.480 potential for fires were as bad as they were on 140 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.800 January seventh, and then in this interview this week, Mayor 141 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.319 Bass said she felt horrible for not being on the 142 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.160 ground here in La when the fire started. 143 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.360 I felt absolutely terrible not being. 144 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.199 Here for my city, Yes, and that it was very painful. 145 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.800 When I say it was a mistake. Absolutely, the idea 146 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.680 that I was not present was very painful. 147 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.199 All right, So we are standing by for this news 148 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.279 conference when it comes up. 149 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.720 We'll definitely bring it to you again. 150 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.079 Mayor Bass has fired the chief of the La Fire 151 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:56.079 Department in what appears to be a pretty significant passing 152 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.000 of the buck. But we'll see what happens, especially when 153 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.839 we get a state from now former La City Fire 154 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.000 Chief Kristin Crowley, friend of the show. I think I 155 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.399 can say that because in all honesty, I don't think 156 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.920 we've had a guest on three times. They get here 157 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.240 once and maybe twice and then they realize they've had 158 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:13.879 enough of us. 159 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.560 Comedian TJ. Miller has joined us. 160 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.279 You got an all weekend of the Irvine improv tonight, 161 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:20.519 tomorrow and Sunday night. 162 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.079 Really excited for that. I thought you were going to 163 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.959 say that people just kind of don't want to come 164 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:26.480 back on, because I was also back on. 165 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.759 There's also that we actually we interviewed you. You came 166 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.799 by in our old studio down the hall, like mid 167 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:38.679 February of twenty twenty, and it was things were just 168 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.039 heating up and we didn't realize the world was about 169 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:41.399 to end. 170 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.159 Yeah, and that was before it was global. Yeah, you know, 171 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.960 it was kind of everyone was gone, this is maybe 172 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.960 it's affecting China, maybe it's oh there's some people that 173 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:57.759 are getting it, and then yeah, what a thing. And 174 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:01.559 my you obviously we were able to keep working. Sure, 175 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.159 but my sort of world just was put on pause. 176 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.399 Well, now is it your wife also has was potentially 177 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:10.320 susceptible to it? 178 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:17.159 Right, yeah, sort of immunity compromise. Yeah, whatever, that should 179 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:23.279 be a shorter name. Screwed I, I kind of yeah, 180 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:26.639 And so it was really difficult. So I went I 181 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.960 was touring. When I started touring again, well, first of all, 182 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.120 we had seven months where I just was at home 183 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:36.799 because we live in New York City, so we were 184 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.360 just kind of trapped in our apartment thankfully has a 185 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.080 little bit outdoor space, but I just was not touring. 186 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.879 So we were just hemorrhaging money. And you know, luckily 187 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:48.879 we get along or I get along well with her. 188 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.720 I don't know university, I don't know about all that, 189 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.720 but I really felt like, uh, you know what's going 190 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:58.480 to happen here. And then as soon as I was 191 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.840 able to start touring, I thought, well, here's a really 192 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.840 weird sort of situation where if people are willing to 193 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.399 come together and laugh, then my job is suddenly very important. 194 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.399 That's what I felt. So because of that, I said, 195 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.360 all right, we gotta you know, I gotta go on 196 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:20.480 the road. But because she's immunocompromised or well, it's it's screwed. 197 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:27.480 She she she was sort of, you know, we just 198 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.120 kind of couldn't take any risks. So I would go 199 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.960 and perform Friday, Saturday, you know, usually sometimes Sunday, also 200 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:37.440 sometimes Thursday. But I would perform Friday Saturday. Then I 201 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.639 would come home Sunday and we would quarantine from each 202 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:45.639 other until Thursday, and I would be able to get 203 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.399 We'd calculated we'd have some doctors and so even then 204 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.799 we calculated that if I get the I would have 205 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.440 to wait two days get the rapid test. But I 206 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.320 been at a hospital, so it was the real test. 207 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:00.200 They just could turn it around really quickly. 208 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:01.279 As opposed to a guy on the street. 209 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.360 But you know what, I like that guy, and I 210 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.639 think he's just trying to help out. 211 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.440 He wants you to spit in the cup, that's all. 212 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.720 His name's Darren, and he loves spit cups. It's easy 213 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:15.840 for me because I always do spit takes. Wednesday. I 214 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.039 would get the test Thursday morning, would know if I 215 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.120 had it, and then I and I never got it, 216 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.639 and then she and I would sleep in the same 217 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.039 bed Thursday night, and then I would go and do 218 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.000 the whole time, and so it's really something, you know, 219 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:36.039 And I think for me, not having sex in marriage 220 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:41.600 during the pandemic is the same as not during the pandemic. Kidding, 221 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:46.919 but I really feel like that did something to our 222 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.759 marriage in a positive way. It just felt like I 223 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.919 was sleeping downstairs and it's and I think in the beginning, 224 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.360 I was kind of everybody was sort of drinking more. 225 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.600 And then you get kind of to a stage where like, well, 226 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.200 that's not how we're going to help. Yeah, it's not 227 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.600 gonna I weighed fifteen pounds more than I. But I 228 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.200 think it really showed sort of a real commitment to 229 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.399 one another because we were so much trying to protect 230 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.200 each other. And you know, for the first you know, Sunday, Monday, 231 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.840 Tuesday or whatever, I didn't know if I had COVID. 232 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.279 I mean, I'm going to these places like Nashville, Tennessee, 233 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.080 and they're just laughing the COVID at this. 234 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:30.159 Great your own spit coming yeah on stage. 235 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.919 And so I kind of yeah, so I I you know, 236 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.279 it was sort of a weird time. But after about 237 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.360 a month and a half, I realized, all right, I'm 238 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:44.039 not I'm not going to get this necessarily from performing. Right. 239 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:48.000 You mentioned Nashville Zany's Comedy Club in Nashville. I've been there. 240 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.759 I had a blast when I was there. It's a 241 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.919 cool club. You did a special there, and if I 242 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.879 remember correctly, I think that's the last time you hear 243 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.840 is you were talking about Dear Dear Jenny, and it 244 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.120 was the story was basically that you were there to 245 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:06.120 record a special, to do an hour that you had prepared, 246 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.399 and without giving away too much for people who haven't 247 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.840 seen it, there's a guy in the audience who kind 248 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.679 of overtakes the story, and it was I loved it. 249 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.639 It was what I sat my wife down and we 250 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:19.639 watched it and we absolutely. 251 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.519 Really thank you so much. I mean that means so 252 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:26.200 much to me nowadays because nobody will watch anything it's 253 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.879 longer than a minute, right to get somebody to do 254 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:34.600 forty three of those. But it was exceptional. It was 255 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:37.960 like beautiful because I couldn't believe I kind of talked 256 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.559 to this guy he's sort of special needs or however 257 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:44.919 you can say that without people screaming at you. But 258 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.840 and then throughout the show we kind of interacted and 259 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.840 then he became kind of the star of the show. 260 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.399 Its name's Jonah and and it was just so fun 261 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.360 because the big thing for me and what a lot 262 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.840 of people say online is that I was just so 263 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.159 kind to him and to me, that's like, well, yeah, 264 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:02.960 of course you should do that with everybody, but it 265 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.799 was it was interesting to see the response. 266 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.320 Well, I know there's a probably I don't know if 267 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:10.960 there's an actual debate that goes on between comedians on 268 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.600 the road. There's a lot there's a down playing I 269 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:16.799 guess of a lot of crowd work. Crowd work is 270 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.960 what makes a lot of uh makes a lot of 271 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:23.399 viral videos where you know, watch watch comedian TJ. Miller 272 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.840 take down the heckler or whatever. But that was like 273 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.320 the most positive version of I guess you would say 274 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:31.279 crowd work, right. 275 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.840 Yeah, I think so. And I it's very frustrating to 276 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.600 me because my tour is called the crowdsourcer or Tour, 277 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.840 which I need to change because of what you're saying. 278 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.279 And you know, I I'm I think there's about ten 279 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:50.039 comedians who can improvise an entire show and I am 280 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.960 one of those comedians. And I don't really talk to 281 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.480 the crowd as much as I talk about them and 282 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.240 it's it can be. It's frustrating a little bit that 283 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.799 people go, you know, do your act do material right, 284 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.679 that's only really happened once that somebody yeld that out. 285 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:08.639 But it's frustrating to me because I am that is 286 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:12.639 my strength. And now there's so many young comedians that 287 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.679 are like, well, I don't want to burn material, so 288 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:16.960 I'll go out there and go, hey, what's your name, 289 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.080 where are you from? What do you do? And then 290 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:20.759 and and a lot of it's the same. 291 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.480 You know this tour, like you said, the crowdsource or tour. 292 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.879 Last year you released an album Smooth Peanut Butter. 293 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:27.360 Uh. 294 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.399 There was a there was a time when stand up 295 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:34.559 comedy was all audio. It was all albums, cassette CDs 296 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.360 like that was that was the way to get stuff 297 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:40.279 out there. And now you've got that plus all of 298 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:43.000 the streaming services. You've got YouTube where you can control 299 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:44.159 a lot of your own content. 300 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.399 Yeah, which is where that's the only place that people 301 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.960 really watch stuff. Netflix kind of had a moment, Hulu 302 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.240 is trying to have a moment, but it's really all YouTube. 303 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.080 Is that beneficial for that for you in that career 304 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.960 that there's there's so many different places for you to 305 00:15:59.000 --> 00:15:59.480 put it up. 306 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:04.600 Oh, I it would be beneficial if everybody was watching 307 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.559 all these but your attention is so divided that you 308 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:09.759 almost have to do all of it to get that 309 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.679 one TV appearance. But yeah, it is for me because 310 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:17.120 also I do so much stuff. So I have on 311 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.960 my channel, I have the Spokane Special, which is forty 312 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.200 five It was an hour, but like forty five minutes 313 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.679 of me just riffing on Spokane. So if you don't 314 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:34.759 live there, then you have no idea what I'm talking about. Spoken, Yeah, right, exactly. 315 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:41.440 Every restaurant ends their name with and wine and beer, beizza, 316 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.440 burgers and beer. We have beer. There's a place called 317 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:49.080 the the Soup and Sip and all they serve as 318 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.519 soup and alcohol, which I always whenever I'm having clam chowder, 319 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.759 I'm like, vod Katonic would really pair with this, Well. 320 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.240 Sounds like a gastrointestinal disaster. 321 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.440 So I kind of I did that, and then I 322 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:06.400 did it kind of a Halloween special where I do 323 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:09.519 stand up making fun of the Stanley Hotel and we 324 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:11.839 also do like a ghost tour and I talk about 325 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.680 and then I have Dear Jonah and I'm coming out 326 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.759 with the Philosophy Circus, and I have a special on 327 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.519 me doing stand up in Chicago when we talk all 328 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.480 about kind of the food, and there's a special about 329 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.759 being in Philadelphia during the Super Bowl, the last super 330 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.119 Bowl that the Eagles were in, and that's sort of 331 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:35.000 stand up, but it's also us getting ready for the 332 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.119 game and talking about the game and seeing Philadelphia. So 333 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:43.039 I couldn't do those with Netflix, you know, because they 334 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:45.680 just wouldn't want that much material, with that much content. 335 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:48.839 But I can do that on YouTube, so I think 336 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.720 that's really helpful. But no, if I could go back 337 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.319 and be a part of when Steve Martin was making records, wow, 338 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.799 I mean imagine that, because I would be the only 339 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.920 one releasing, you know, a record every month or something 340 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.279 about Spokane, I would strictly do Spokane right comedy. 341 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:10.160 The entire decade of seventies was you in Spokane, and 342 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:11.519 you know what, it's good. 343 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:17.680 But I released my first sort of independent stand up 344 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:22.960 comedy album with aid fund Gorilla uh, and that's called 345 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.319 Smooth Peanut Butter because I love peanut butter. I sell 346 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:28.920 it on my website. TJ. Miller does not have website 347 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.000 dot com. I eat it. It's in my rider there 348 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.279 it is. And bananas from my friend Cash Levy. I 349 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.920 do a podcast with a guy, Cash Levy called cashing 350 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.759 In with TJ. Miller. But Smooth Peanut Butter is like, 351 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.880 really really cool. It was really cool to kind of 352 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.160 do that, And it's drawn from Deer Jonah, but there's 353 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:50.440 no material that's the same. 354 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.640 How do you determine where you're going to record a special? 355 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.079 How do you figure out which is the best? 356 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.039 You're so inquisitive that it feels inauthentic. 357 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.079 Is this what are you talking about? 358 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:05.079 You just you know so much and you genuinely love 359 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:07.960 asking questions. But I think to the people that you're 360 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.720 talking to, they're like, is he serious? Is he seriously 361 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:12.519 that interested? 362 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:13.759 Is it the architecture? 363 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:13.960 Is it? 364 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.440 Do you know what's going to look good visually? Is 365 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:16.079 it the crowd? 366 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:18.640 Is it because you have a special personal relationship to 367 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:19.359 the city. 368 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:24.119 Or I chose Nashville. Again, that's a very funny question 369 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:28.640 that I've never been asked. I chose Nashville because in 370 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.279 the backdrop when you're on stage, there's this really silly 371 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.680 sign that says like Zany's and a couple of the 372 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:39.200 letters are like a little off kilter, Oh no, And 373 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:42.039 I just came up with this idea. It's a great club. 374 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:44.599 I mean it's it's one of the best clubs. But 375 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.559 I came up with this idea that like, what if 376 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:50.759 I made, you know, fifteen of those and they were 377 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:54.720 all fake names for comedy clubs because Zany's is so stupid. 378 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:59.720 So it was like the chuckle Bucket and like crickets 379 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:08.000 and was pun ponderful something like that, you know, And 380 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:09.440 and that just stuck in my head and I thought 381 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.000 it was so funny. So I said, that's where I'm 382 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.559 gonna do what became Dear Jonah. But then I did 383 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.799 one in Tampa that's the Philosophy Circus and that's not 384 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.960 out yet, but it's really really I'm very proud of that, 385 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.599 and that I wanted. It's kind of juggling and vaudeville, 386 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.599 and so I thought, it's got to be in a theater, 387 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:31.839 and so the Tampa improv is an old theater. I 388 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:36.400 couldn't in San Jose, but those California audiences aren't. They're 389 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:41.519 not my speed as much Northern California obviously, right, And 390 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.319 then you know, and then I did one called the 391 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:49.839 gentle Giant, and that's really very personal. It's about me. 392 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:52.960 It's about my brain injury, which is maybe lightheaded, and 393 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:57.319 why I came in a little bit late, but that 394 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:59.359 I wanted to do in San Diego because it's so 395 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.400 small and so personal, and it's such a like club club. 396 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:05.960 You know, it's almost like the Comedy Seller, but with 397 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:06.880 better audiences. 398 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:09.720 Comedian TJ. Miller, You're going to be at the Irvine 399 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:11.240 Improv tonight, two shows. 400 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:12.839 I'm so excited Brown Night. 401 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:13.799