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Speaker 1: up comic, Tom Tokar, and he is all over the
Speaker 1: country doing comedy and we are so blessed to have
Speaker 1: him in Soup Falls on Saturday, July twenty seventh. It's
Speaker 1: before you know it, he'll be here. Tom, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us today. I'm excited to have you in Sioux Falls.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Don excited to get out to Suit Falls for the
Speaker 3: first time.
Speaker 1: We're excited to have you and I get to open
Speaker 1: the show for you, so I will see you on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. We get to work together.
Speaker 2: That's very exciting. John. What kind of material you're doing
Speaker 2: up there?
Speaker 1: You know, it's all pretty much just dumb stories of
Speaker 1: things that I've done because I keep doing stupid things.
Speaker 3: That's the sort of thing I don't know if you
Speaker 3: got my rule for my openers, but no stupid stories
Speaker 3: about things you've done.
Speaker 1: That's all about I have nothing but fart jokes then,
Speaker 1: so I guess we're in for a treat.
Speaker 2: That's also no part joke. No do know your family?
Speaker 2: Oh no, nor no work, no clean stuff.
Speaker 1: I have in so much trouble now I am so excited.
Speaker 1: First of all, how long have you been doing stand
Speaker 1: up comedy?
Speaker 2: Tom? I started about two ten, so about fourteen years now.
Speaker 1: And what was it? What was it? The kind of
Speaker 1: Drea to that is? What was it that made you
Speaker 1: decide I am going to get on stage and bear
Speaker 1: my soul to these people?
Speaker 2: Well, you know I was.
Speaker 3: I was obsessed with watching comedy as a kid. My
Speaker 3: mom made the mistake of letting me have a TV
Speaker 3: in my bedroom, and so I would watch Comedy Central all.
Speaker 2: The time, and I was like, man, I want to
Speaker 2: I want to do this. This seems so fun.
Speaker 3: I also assumed that everybody who was on Comedy Central
Speaker 3: was like a multi millionaire, And now that I've done that,
Speaker 3: assure you that is not true. Yeah, but yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a club opened up in my hometown when out while
Speaker 3: I was in college, and I was like, oh, man.
Speaker 2: I was working at a hospital at the time.
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, I want to go over
Speaker 3: there and try out the open mic. And soon enough
Speaker 3: I was no longer going to med school and I
Speaker 3: was just doing comedy full time. I love that, and
Speaker 3: one thing led to another. It is kind of one
Speaker 3: of those things where I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: try this out. It seems like it would be cool
Speaker 3: if I if I could make it work, and then
Speaker 3: I just became obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: And as you look at the opportunities you've had come along,
Speaker 1: is there something along the way that you look back
Speaker 1: and go I still think this was like my favorite
Speaker 1: thing I've ever had a chance to do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, getting booked at Too Fall one.
Speaker 1: Well, let's take that one off the list. What else
Speaker 1: on the list?
Speaker 2: There? No, there were a couple. But I felt really
Speaker 2: lucky that I grew up watching Conan O'Brien, and I
Speaker 2: got really lucky that I was able to perform in
Speaker 2: that show before it ended.
Speaker 3: And so I look back at that as something that's
Speaker 3: really cool, because I'm like, that doesn't even exist anymore,
Speaker 3: and I got to do it while it was still around.
Speaker 3: But the big things for me were I grew up
Speaker 3: watching those Comedy Central half hour special so when I
Speaker 3: got to do one of those myself, I was really
Speaker 3: that felt like full circle, like oh, I'm doing what
Speaker 3: made me do this, what made me get into this.
Speaker 3: It's crazy and to think like, oh, maybe I can
Speaker 3: be that for some kid watching this right now, and.
Speaker 1: That probably has happened. I bet there's some kids that
Speaker 1: have been watching that and they see you and they go, man,
Speaker 1: I want to do what he's doing. What he does.
Speaker 1: I bet that guy's super wealthy because he's on Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I've always noticed is like
Speaker 1: when I when the Forbes list of the most wealthy
Speaker 1: people on the planet come out, I always look to
Speaker 1: see how many of these people are comics, and well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them.
Speaker 3: Baby you want Yeah, and you've like never even heard
Speaker 3: of where You're like, how is that possible?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean that I had never heard of, Like
Speaker 2: you know, it's usually a guy who has puppet, but
Speaker 2: not just you're like, what is it? I got the wrong?
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll bring a puppet to to ball. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2: I've never done any work with that. But I'll wear
Speaker 2: a mat. I'll wear one of those face mats that
Speaker 2: you can't tell if I'm talking or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty would have been the best year to
Speaker 1: break into ventriloquism. Really, it wouldn't matter if your lips
Speaker 1: are moving or not.
Speaker 2: It would be funny because there was a time where
Speaker 2: we had to wear a mat on stage. It was
Speaker 2: really weird and I was thinking, like, man, going to
Speaker 2: see a puppet guy right now? You just after keeping
Speaker 2: like truck me. I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: My lips are not moving, I promise. The other thing
Speaker 1: you could do is you could bring a ventriloquist dummy
Speaker 1: on stage and then just never have the dummy say anything.
Speaker 1: Just do your entire set completely straight without even pointing,
Speaker 1: like pointing out the fact that you have a dummy
Speaker 1: on your lap.
Speaker 3: Right, and just have him make faces like you just
Speaker 3: judge it like I really only learned that part of it.
Speaker 1: Or you can have him laughing, you know, he's laughing
Speaker 1: at all your jokes. No, I'm kind of hoping do that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited. I'm excited to work with you. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a whole lot of fun. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw a link to make it easy for folks
Speaker 1: to find tickets. And you've got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: between now and then, but I am excited to have
Speaker 1: you in Sioux Falls. Thank you also for taking the
Speaker 1: time to chat.
Speaker 2: Hey, of course, thanks for having me. John excited to.
Speaker 1: Work together man absolutely again, Tom Tacar, He'll be in
Speaker 1: Sue Falls at the Icon Lounge. It is coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, the twenty seventh of July. So if you
Speaker 1: don't have tickets that you can get them now. All
Speaker 1: of the details at Sue Falls Comedy on Facebook, so
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls Comedy. But I also
Speaker 1: have a link at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio
Speaker 1: and Facebook dot com slash Suit Falls News. And that
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