Speaker 1: When your old career gives you lemons throwing some ice
mix in some vodka. Call it a podcast from the
Mac of All Trade Studio in Fairport and driven by
Victor Chrysler Dots. Gee Rahm, It's Billified, the Bill Moran Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on. Thanks
for telling a friend. That's how we spread the word
about the pirate ship.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, that nosles leading the way out there? Holy shit,
what that woman had a nose that could lead the
fucking parade.
Speaker 2: Hen Jesus Christ. You know I've often thought should I
buy another camera? With what money? I'm not sure?
Speaker 3: You can just put it in the window. You could
have done it today. You got an extra camera.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: I can't. I still can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what if our guest shows up, because
the guest is gonna be on the computer maybe every
once in a while if we see something, will just
pop over and see if he reacts to it. Move
the camera here, that be funny. Oh my god, I
have I don't know what what end is up anymore.
I have. I got to make some some changes and
things with my son living with me. I got it's
it's just becoming a lot here, Bill, now stop one, Okay,
I get three next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2: And you've got tag team people there.
Speaker 3: You're not alone.
Speaker 2: You got a tag team partner.
Speaker 3: She's alone. I don't. But I'm just like I'm being
a grade tag team and with Bob. And by the way,
I'm not.
Speaker 2: Even I'm not even saying I don't mean to selling
him complaining, but that those were choices that were made
right and circumstances that be. But it just you know,
and it's good. It's just a lot, and I have
to just change some schedule things.
Speaker 3: When she sent him up, did she say no takebacks?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that's terrible. And you know, he's it's
been a year of an academic year of transitions, and
he's done really well. He's actually done really well.
Speaker 3: That's what you were worried about, coming from the non
traditional school to go into five days a week. You
got it.
Speaker 2: That is exactly right. And then I just have had
my own. Yeah, I just have those days once in
a while, just a day. I don't know, if it's
the weather, I'm not sure. A little cranky, you're not
drinking as much, That's what it is. That could definitely,
that's definitely true.
Speaker 3: I am not. He's still plumped up.
Speaker 2: I am fifty pounds heavier than I think I've ever
been that I can remember. I don't remember seeing these numbers.
Speaker 3: On the scale.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to the club. A fuck off, dude, I
have got to drop it and every Okay, So this
is I want you to know that it is a
battle for me. It's a battle. And I must not
have been sleeping enough. So I'm trying to get like
seven hours of sleep a night. But podcast stuff, Jamison stuff.
I go home and I go I'm not gonna eat.
I'm not gonna eat when I get home.
Speaker 3: Do you have energy? Are you lacking energy? Sometimes? Sometimes
low tea? I probably do.
Speaker 2: I would like to go. I've been seriously considering trying
some testosterone stuff. I might be a little pep in
my step or I could. I may have to start
first with working out and see on a regular basis
and see because that always does make me feel better.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll get your fat ass on. Danny's prayerless, so
he'll start praying for your fat to go away.
Speaker 2: It's just gonna melt away. Abrak Jesus so yes. So
I go home and I I say this to myself
all the time. I'm just gonna tell you, like last night,
last night, I think I came here and I'm like,
you know what I ran. I got Jamison all set
up with dinner, made the dinner for him, I said, buddy,
and I grabbed two protein bars. That's all. I'm gonna
eats it eating anymore from here the podcast. Go home,
and I'm like, you know, got them peanut butter and jelly,
and I like a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 3: I almost made the exact same thing that last I
was gonna toast what.
Speaker 2: Peanut butter.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just do the toasted bread yeah, with peanut butter, okay,
and just slap together in a sandwich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, toast your bread and pean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just go that route.
Speaker 2: So I have I picked up some kind of natural
peanut butter. I don't know. So I go home and
I I'll kill you.
Speaker 3: Look at the look at the ingredens. I'll kill you.
Speaker 2: I have a yes, I so I have one of those.
Actually I start out with half one. Then I noticed
I forgot I bought him ice cream, so I have
a spoonful of ice cream, and then I remember that
I bought them the crunchy Cheetos. I like those. So
I decided to sit down and watch a little of
the Warriors Rockets game. As the Rockets are blowing the
Warriors off the court at this point in the game.
I think they did end up winning, but not by
the margin that they were up. I think at halftime
honestly was seventy six to forty two or something close
to that. So I watched that. I eat a handful
of that. Then I go back. Then I have like
two more po jelly sandwiches. I can't fucking stop eating,
and I think I think it's because I'm thinking about it.
I'm thinking about it, and I go, don't eat, don't eat,
don't eat, and it makes me eat.
Speaker 3: You ever do that, like, have you just to eat? Well?
I mean, do you ever?
Speaker 2: Like Like I've always been that way. If people told
me not to do something, it's all I can think about.
I end up fucking doing it. Yep. It's a it's
a bad thing. And the eating after late for me.
Speaker 3: For me, it's don't get drunk. Don't get drunk on
the weekend don't get drunk on the weekend and then
I get drunk cocked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine is don't get drunk and don't pay attention
to things that people are saying to you. Blah blah
blah blah blah, and the next thing I know. Sometimes
I'm in the back of a number.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a set. I'm doing a set.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a set. So anyway, yes, so that I have,
I blew that up like fifty pounds, and that is
a battle, a real battle that I'm having a real battle.
I'm not kidding, And it's it's just been funny, Like
I should write down the shit that I eat when
I go home, just to it'll make you cry. Come
in here and read it, because it would be that funny.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We had a story last night about a step mom
in Florida and the stepmom who got caught having sex
with her fifteen year old step son on the couch
by her husband. They kept calling him a blue collar husband,
the husband the boy. When he woke up to the
father as they're both passed out because they had been
smoking a THC I don't know weed pen, the boy
ran out of the house naked and the father went out,
got him to get some clothes on, and brought him
over to his grandparents and told him that he ruined
his life. The father ruined his life, and I look,
probably probably true, Probably shouldn't have said it all in
The father drank a beer on the way to dropping
off the kid at grandma and Grandpa's house. I mean,
it's just you know that that's sort of the thing.
But then I get a story today from a great listener,
Kim Kim sends me this and it has nothing it's
not it's along the same lines I'll say, but it's
not a step mom thing. And I think that that
stepmom stuff. I swear to God, it's like porn predicts
this shit before it actually happens, or it puts it
in people's in people's minds. But there is a story.
And I will have you guess the state that a
teacher is accused of sending an inappropriate letter to one
of his eleven year old students. What state do you
think that would be? There's only one state that can be.
Speaker 3: I always want to go Florida.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, but this guy, I can't read it
read in part you know, I truly love you no
matter what. That will never change. I can't tell if
this is a teacher who really gives a shit about
the kids and was using words that I don't know
where this school is. I don't know if these kids
are coming from I'll say rough neighborhoods or whatever. I'm
not exactly sure, but I think this is the news
story right here. We will check it out right now.
Amanate County mother and father are speaking out tonight after
they say their daughter was given an inappropriate letter from
her teacher at bad Gullett Elementary School.
Speaker 5: And on her side has learned that teacher has since
resigned and is being investigated by both the school district
and the Minite County Sheriff's office. Who chaneral is Nicole
Rogers Joys is now live at that elementary school in
Lakewood Ranch.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I didn't realize there was an eleven year
old little girl. But this guy writes, since you made
me mad the other day and made me throw away
my note back to you, I guess I will start over.
I'm sorry for putting slime all over you yesterday. That's
the kid of the teacher. I'm thinking this is the
teachers no, I think we could have some fun together,
but didn't think about getting upset you getting upset with me.
You know, I truly love you, and no matter what,
that will never change. I really love being your teacher.
More importantly, I love how close we have gotten this year.
That this is like, this is something somebody writes in
your yearbook?
Speaker 3: Then ktefund of her?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean don't they do? This is this
is insane?
Speaker 3: Here we go, Josh.
Speaker 6: Paula, the student's mother, gave the letter to the Mante
County Sheriff's office, but was able to share a copy
with eight on your Side. She says, this letter was
given to her eleven year old daughter by her fifth
grade teacher. Now we are not identifying the student for
her privacy, nor are we identifying the teacher because at
this hour he has not been charged.
Speaker 3: What's gonna be charged? Were started when we discovered a
two page letter.
Speaker 4: And Mitchell gave eight two page letter.
Speaker 3: This does sound like grooming?
Speaker 2: Does it not?
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Speaker 3: Earl, David Reed.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Earl? You know, I gotta tell you. You know, a
couple of years ago, you go on this little podcast thing.
Now Bilify, it's a big thing you got, you're working
with you now. I tell you what, man, It's good
to see you. It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: It's good to see you as well, Earl. Earl is
in incredible shape, has remained in incredible shape. Earl does
some like things that I don't know. Did you talk
about this a lot. I don't know if you did
or not. Bodybuilding, not really.
Speaker 4: I think I did a little bit when I was
on the radio, but I naturally bodybuild. My brother, who's
older than me, goes, uh uh, he goes, why does
a sixty four year old guy have to walk around
with abs? He goes, what's that all about? So getting older?
But I'm still training and everything, so I mean, and
actually it's kind of helping me out in some other
things that I'm kind of branching off from the.
Speaker 3: Stand up from my wife fast, Why a forty eight
year old guy walks around with flabs? So it's the
same thing.
Speaker 2: But got go ahead, earl. What were you going to say?
Speaker 4: No, no, go ahead, I got you.
Speaker 2: And then the earl also has trained dogs, which what
are their doc dogs? Am I correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: One dog is a doc diving dog, Gabe and he
actually last year was his last year, so he done
and he ended up retiring like fourth in the world.
But they're rescue dogs. I mean, it's like if anything
teaches you anything, it's like, you know, people go out
and they buy these dogs that are trained to jump
and everything else like that, and then we got to rescue,
got the rescues, and the the rescues all of a sudden,
you know, just knew how to do it, you know,
and and there's pretty much so they end up really
really well. They came up on a truck from Alabama,
for God's sake, and then yeah, that rescue from Alabama.
Speaker 3: The Underground Railroad of dogs.
Speaker 2: What's that like, The underground Railroad of dogs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it was rough when we first got them
because they were racist. And I'll tell you what, I've
never heard the n word Bark before it was a
lot of fun. And they're doing well. They're doing really well.
So how you doing, man? How you hanging in there?
Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there, Earl. It's it's been an adventurer.
I've had my getting thick. I had my I'm getting thick.
I had my kid uh move up from Alabama to
live with me, so he's been living with me now.
He was living in Athens, Alabama, which is in the
northern Alabama near Huntsville. And when I was on radio
and I was doing I was on a station in
Huntsville too, so I would go down there and do
stuff out of their studios, which was like Earl was
on I got I think it was on like Farmers Roads.
It was nothing but fields around it. And then I'm like,
I remember follow the gvs going where the fuck where
all the time? W are ac But Earl, I would
like to talk to you. I've always wanted to like
talk to you, talk to you beyond just you know,
radio hallway stuff. Hey, what's going on? Because you've had
quite the run in comedy and I remember your first
in Rochester. You're part of Brother Weez's show and you
were beloved and then whatever happened there. But did you
leave to did you do pilots or something, or to
go out to LA to try out or I listen.
Speaker 4: I've done just about everything you can do in this business.
Bits Bowers, Pilots is concern, and anyone who wants to
get in this business, I say, fuck you. It's not
a business that likes anybody. It doesn't really care. Comedy
is one of these things now where you know, it
used to kind of branch into us some other stuff,
but there's so many people that are doing it now.
I mean everyone's a comedian. It's like if I put
on a marine uniform and parade up in downtowntown Rochester
and not the arena a marine, I can get screwed.
But you know, you can tell one joke and an
open mic night and you can call yourself a comedian.
So there's a ton of them out there now. I mean,
it's it's kind of getting really weird because also, you know,
the media has like maybe a good forty or fifty
people that they ram down your throat. So now people
are getting to the point where they go, hey, well,
oh it's not one of those forty or fifty, So
how good can they be and why should I go
see them? Pretty much? So that's the kind of fight
that you have to go on with it now, you know.
And I've had a really good run. I can't complain
if I could do it all over again a couple
of little laughs instead of little rights. But other than that,
you know, it all worked out fine.
Speaker 3: I think that's the one thing with Rochester though, is
Rochester seems to get all the comedians, not just those
forty or fifty. Because we've had the clubs here for
so long and Mark's done so well with promoting everything. Yeah,
that it it, you know, you could go see I
can't even remember the guy we saw that, the Indian guy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I can't think that's what you think
about March Club that you know, with comedy at the Carlton,
which I'll be there this weekend. Comment to Carlson, one
of the good things about his club is, see your
comedy club. Theoretity is supposed to be like your favorite steakhouse.
It's like you don't know who's making the steak, but
when you go, you know the state's going to be good.
And so that's why I think it's like with the
comedyom that's what Mark does. He brings in good acts,
So that's going to actually expand that horizon, you know,
other than that because now you've got to see people
lie because everybody has a special now, so it's like,
you know, a special is not special, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I agree with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting or I hadn't really thought about comedy
that way, but it is, you're right. I mean, we're
sort of oversaturated with stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and we're seeing it so much it pops
up on all your social or Facebook. You get a
quickens ptell is what I'm thinking of, okay, and you
get a ten second bit of him doing some CrowdWork
or something, and then yeah you move on, right, And
that's the thing.
Speaker 4: You're right. And the thing about that now is like,
you know, this is why a lot of people don't
want anyone filming them, because it's like, well, listen, you're
gonna film it, and you're you're gonna you know, you're
gonna put it up there and it's not basically what
I want up there or something like that, and it's
not the interpretation of it like someone I catch someone
filming me, I go well, let me see the footage
and then I can have my people edited to wait,
it's gonna make me look good instead of something that's
out of context, right, you know. But but that's a
whole other problem now. And the crowds are getting a
little funkier now too. It's like they're getting a little
bit more trickier. And it's turning out to be a
lot more women than it is men nowadays.
Speaker 3: We that are that are meaning misbehaving in the clubs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: I see it because no.
Speaker 4: One really wants to throw a woman out, you know,
and so they have a little bit more latitude.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Well that's when we went. We went and saw Cam
Pattison has been a regular on Kill Tony. Yeah, and
he has three different camera guys walking around shooting reactions
and shooting his shot. I'm like, this a freaking te
production here. You got three camera guys.
Speaker 2: It's all about attention, though. It's all about attention. And
if you can get the attention, you can get the eyes,
you can do that sort of thing. But if you're
not able to do that.
Speaker 3: Boy, it's a I'd never thought of it because Earl.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you go see Earl because his
you talk about crowd work, and that's become like now
the thing that we see everybody doing. Earl does CrowdWork.
I don't I didn't know you had a memory.
Speaker 3: I I like that Saturday a Saturday Late show the
last time he was in town, and the entire set
was crowdworking. It was fucking hysterical.
Speaker 4: Well, and that's the funny thing. Now it's like all
of a sudden, now people are looking comedy goes in waves.
You know, there's still people that don't respect the crowd
work sort of thing. And the reason why I actually
got into it is because long before I'm Matt Rye
or someone else like that and everything is because back
in the day, you would do these comedy clubs and
they would go Wednesday through Sunday. You know, it wasn't
just a three day thing, and it was like a
Funny Bone in Saint Louis, and they'd have a show Wednesday,
which was the open mic night, and then you had
to go on after that to do ten minutes to
show the people that what they would get a they
game on the weekend. She had one show Wednesday one
on Thursday, two Friday, three Saturdays going on. And I
did it one week of that and I went, I can't.
It's easier for me to work what's in front of
me than to try to remember what I've said before.
And I'll tell you what. You get to a midnight
show on a Saturday after two other shows. Yeah, and
you can't remember anything. You can't remember anything us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many shows are you doing now days?
Speaker 4: But I only do two comedy clubs. I do one
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the night before Thanksgiving in Harrisburg, and
then pretty much comedy the Carlson I do like a
lot of small theaters and everything I found out, which
is really interesting is when they started teaching me as
a a a as performance art and not comedy. For
some reason, that seems to work better really, Yeah, because
like I and all of a sudden, I just start
like being myself. So there's a little bit of truth
in there, a little bit of motivating in there, a
couple of really cool things that I found out about
myself and I share that with it. So it's kind
of turned in this whole thing. So once I change
it from just being this regular stand up thing. I mean,
you come to a show and it's me, and if
you don't know me, you see me walk out in
the stage and I got this big state set that
looks like a construction site and everything. You know, people
are like, Okay, this guy must be something. But once
I tweak from the hey, uh you know, joke, joke, joke,
jo jo jo joke, because first of all, I don't
have that kind of skill to be able to do that.
But it seemed to work out better for some reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's great. Yeah, you do do a lot
of theaters. Theater shows are that's fun, that's where you
want to be.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I think what it is is like for me.
I have a sweet spot for me. I like, I
do a five hundred seat thing. You know, if I
can do that, I can I can depend on that.
You see, like these guys like like the brick prisers
and these guys doing these freaking arenas and it's like
it's it's a great money grab. But why would I
pay seventy five dollars at least for a ticket to
sit way up there just to wait and forward to
see him walk out live? Basically, But the only thing
that really bought. I missed about radio is once I left.
There were some topics that were really really that got
really good that I wish I could have discussed, you know,
but that was the thing. But the second time they
brought me in for the second time in Rochester for entertainment,
and then you had all this political stuff and you had, uh,
what was the guy that got killed by the cops
and everything, So everything became you know, white people calling
up going to her, why can't we do this or
why can't we say that? People would have a totally yeah,
they would have a total mis interpretation. Like I would go,
I said, well, you know, I was talking to you know,
you know my world, you know whatever, and people, but
what do you mean your world? You weren't growing up
in the in the in the in the hood or
anything else like that. And I go, well, my world
doesn't necessarily mean the hood, you smoke the white son
of a bench. It means my life in my world.
My world is my world. It's not the world you
think it is. So it got to be a little
annoying after a while. And then it was like, you
know what, I'm not even here to be entertaining anymore.
Now I'm just fielding questions of people who feel like
they're oppressed.
Speaker 2: What's it like to be black?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it is. Now I'm saying, it's whole
lot of fun. Actually it's a lot more. You know,
I had to sit here, I tell jokes, you know,
like reparation checks. It gets a bit of a worse
idea quite frankly, I don't know if this is going
to get me in trouble, but hey, no black people
come see me anyway. So how about this is the thing.
It's like, they say, well, reparation and I'm going, well,
how do you decide who gets what? Okay, how do
you decide who gets what? And listen, as a culture,
our spending habits aren't the best. So it's like people
were like, well, you know this, this and everything, and
I guess you know what it is. I'll tell you
this is for true. When I was growing up, my
mother sat me down as a little kid. She says,
you know what, there's gonna be some people in this
world that are gonna not like you because you're black,
but you still have but you still have to like
people for their character. And I grabbed on that and
I just ran with it, and I got to hell
with that to this day. So it's really weird. So
when I sit there and I watch TV sometimes and
I look around my house and I go, boy, if
I'm a victim, I'm sure doing it wrong, you know. So,
I mean, it's just one of these things where where
that's what I like about comedy because it's the last
thing that's trying to pull us together. And I'm almost thinking,
you really can't offend anybody comedically anymore. You know, you
get people that get a little crispy over it. But
you know, yeah, I think we're past that part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're past that part of it too,
at least I would hope it's interesting because I see
a lot of comics today as almost modern day philosophers
pointing out the absurdity of things. And the way you're
doing your show now, I mean, I would love to
see this because I liked the way you even tied
in and you did you talked about your dad and
things in your previous shows. I don't know about the
failures and things, but I love hearing you like sort
of examine that a little bit, because I think failure
is such an important piece, but we all hate it because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we hate it.
Speaker 4: But sometimes you know, it's like, is there really a failure?
It's like it's a perfect example. So the other day
here at the house, my alarm goes off in the
middle of the night. Okay, my my security alarm. So
I think, I think someone's breaking into the house. So
I get up there, and I don't have a bat
because I'm not cool enough to have a gun. I
know there's a lot of gun I'm not against guns, yeah,
but I don't. I just I just know I'm not responsible,
And I mean, I dropped my phone three times a day,
you know, and it's uh. And I don't have to
wory about shooting off my penis when it hits the ground,
so I don't worry about that. But so I turned
out to be a water alarm. So I went downstairs
and my my srumpet stopped and the basement had semi flooded. Yes,
And that was a pain in the neck. And then
I was like two nights before that, if not the
night before. I was sitting there and I was down
in my family room because I have the family room,
have the theater room. And then I have like a
like a gym there, and I was looking at the
carpet in there, and I was like, man, you know what,
I said, Oh God, help me just make some extra money.
If there's such a thing. That changed his rugout, okay,
And he did it. He flooded me. He said he
wasn't gonna do it by flood again.
Speaker 2: But he lies.
Speaker 4: So out of all of that stuff, I get new
carpet out of it. And it's like, sometimes I just
look at life and I just try to figure out,
you know, sometimes things happen for a reason. The guy
that came out there to clean up it was he
they sent him out. He did a fantastic job. It
was his first job. Okay, really and so and then
it was his first job. And then the person who
came out to do the base boards, he was his
first job with his son, because his son's kind of
wanting to work with him and everything. So I said, well,
sometimes I'm just in the way of a higher being
trying to help other people.
Speaker 3: Something.
Speaker 4: I get used as that person, you know. Yeah, And
then I thought about that. Meanwhile, I get look, he
could have just hit me up with an instant scratch
ticket too.
Speaker 3: But let me are you. Would you consider yourself a
religious guy?
Speaker 4: I think I'm spiritual.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, I.
Speaker 2: Would say spiritual, That's what I would say. I and
I do believe in what you're saying. I don't know
if I would use the same god as source or whatever,
but I often think that things happen for a reason
and it's all our fault. It's just what frequency are
you vibrating on that's bringing or keeping something away?
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 2: I always found you really interesting in all. I wish
I had to talk to you more. It was just
our schedules were a little off because you were doing
afternoon and I was trying to get the fuck out
of it.
Speaker 4: Might be my last time coming through there what Rochester
as far as as far as the club is concerned
for a while anyway, because I want to work on
some other things, and and like I got my training
going on, and and I actually went to somebody who
sat down and and was able to a friend of
mine in LA and just said, listen, just assess who
I am as a performer. I know you'd like me
as a person, but doesn't assess who I am as
a performer. So what he basically did was tell you
where I could be a little bit stronger at some
things that I wasn't taking advantage at.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 4: You know, particularly my age and the shape that I'm
in and stuff, and you know that might be you
know it, I mean, and he says, listen, he goes,
I'm not saying you got to get up there and
take your shirt off on stage. But Brick Pristor takes
the shirt off and need are the worst shape ever.
And that just seems to be a thing. And that's fine.
But so he just went over this whole different thing
with me to find out how I can be a
better person going into whatever I have left this far
this business is concerned. You know, I would have done
I should have done that a little bit sooner. But
coming to the crosson this weekend, man, it's always gonna
be a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Slayton's retiring. Wait, you're not retiring, though, are you?
Speaker 4: No? No, No, I'm not retiring. I'm just gonna situate
on a couple of other things. You know. It's so
funny too, is I see that club in and Mark's
got a lot of talent coming in there, you know,
and uh, you know, and I look at it and
I go, well, there's a lot of talent coming in there.
I know there's people he wants to get in there.
I'm not saying he's doing me a solid because I
earned my spot to perform there. I didn't DEI my
way in there, my perform there. And so but it's like, okay, well,
you know, maybe it opens it up for a couple
of other people, and then I get to go and
perform and work on some other things that I'm working
on performance wise too, I actually have a better angle
of getting to another level juxtapositioning this at this point. So,
but that's still my favorite place to play, is the
I mean, it's the best thing. Mark has worked his
ass off for that club, and and and and and
so rests too with you. They both did. They worked
their asses off. Remember that place was over there in Webster,
you know, next to the Mechanical Bull, for God's sake,
you know. Yeah, and so he's actually worked it out
and and it's a better place now.
Speaker 2: Yeah the uh you almost said a little melancholy.
Speaker 3: I don't like that. I don't like the tone here.
Speaker 4: No, I'm good. It's like, you know, it's it's it's
it's one of these things where I'm going, Okay, I'm
excited about what I'm getting ready to do. But sometimes
you have to sit there and you go, okay, you
got and not cut the fat, but you just have
to streamline some of the things that you're you're thinking.
The good thing about what I like about Mark is
anytime I call, Mark picks up the phone. You know,
he picks up the phone and he'll chat with me
and he'll say, hey, man, this is what I need
to do, or you know, he'll put me in sometimes
and I know he gets is I got a movie
to hear, a movie to hear or whatever or stuff
like that, and you know, and I get it, and
I mean, I just I understand him. And it's just
a great it's a great club. And like you said,
they bring a lot of lot of big names in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah they do, but you are certainly one. I think
that that is worth checking out and seeing. And I'm
excited for you. If you're working on new stuff, I
think that's smart. Everybody should have sort of a coach,
right because we get too close to it. So I
have some flash eyes or fresh ears on whatever you're
doing is interesting, and sometimes because we're so close to it,
it's almost.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, you know, your baby, it's like your arm.
Speaker 2: Somebody's saying something that it hurts and you almost have
to give yourself a day to swallow it and go, Okay,
I get it, I get it for what it is
and not. You know, there's the business side and the
emotional side of things. And I think that a lot
of times when you're a performer of any kind, the
emotions are what you feel first, not the messa out
You're right.
Speaker 4: But it's the funny thing too, It is like you
do get really close to all of this stuff and
it becomes a part of you, of who you are.
But I gotta tell you, when I started out and
did TV and all this other stuff in the beginning,
I wouldn't have want to start out at a better
That was the best time to start out. Now it's
like there's so many people. I mean, Rochester has the
funniest person in Rochester contest and it's like three or
four weekends there's like one hundred people coming out, you know.
And the funny thing about being a comedian is there's
no one to tell you you can't do it.
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Speaker 3: I always liked Dryl.
Speaker 2: I think I love Earl got A. I think he's
great on stage. I really is.
Speaker 3: If you have not seen entertainer and the time you've
lived in this town, you gotta go Cyril.
Speaker 2: He's a great entertainer and I and he was always
very nice to me, and uh, I just I think
what I was gonna say to him and I didn't
is it's hard when you who are replacing, like he
was brought in to replace kimber Leg and Beck who
the foul.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like that they were step the foul.
Speaker 2: The thing is, like people used to always go, you
want to be the guy after the guy. You don't
want to be the guy after the guy. Who want
to be guy after the guy after the guy?
Speaker 3: Right? Right?
Speaker 2: You want to be like the next because they're not
going to instantly love whatever comes next. Right.
Speaker 3: But it was the name recognition with Earl. Yeah, but
then they didn't put the right people around Earl.
Speaker 2: Whether they did or didn't, I I don't know. Here's
what I would say though, is I think what happens
a lot of times in any company, and if you
run a company, the purpose is to make money, and
so what will happen is they'll be like knee jerk reaction. Hey,
this isn't the way they did it or what brought success.
And you start getting too many hands in the pot
and too many people trying to direct you to the
point where when you're the talent, you can no longer think.
And now you start trying to go, well, let me
do something that's going to get them off my back,
or let me do something that's going to make them happy. Well,
that's not necessarily what the audience wants. And so that's
why it might not be your stick either. It may
not be your stick. And my thing was always like,
if you got to be authentically you or and some
people love you, some people hate you, but somewhere along
the line they'll it'll somehow balance out. And I think
that I always felt like when he was here, I know,
I know that there were meetings every single fucking day,
meetings that they had to go to with management every day,
and I go, you can't do that.
Speaker 3: That would drive me up.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, you can't do that because that's
putting a governor on And I taken away from radio.
Any job, if the boss is on your ass every day,
going I don't care if you're putting spark plugs in
a lawnmower and they're going, did you turn those clockwise?
Speaker 3: Did every day?
Speaker 2: Hey, let me see, you're gonna fucking hate it. I would,
or you would get to the point where you're gonna
look to them to make sure that you're not getting
snapped that today. And maybe that's a bad analogy, but
it just becomes hard to do your job because you
feel like there's no room. Earle never fucking complained.
Speaker 3: Ever. Never I would have bitched up a buck, he
asked Danny.
Speaker 2: When we worked together, I was always bitching, but I
would bitch to them, going, you need to back the
fuck off because this is now. Okay. It worked out
for me in those situations, but I felt bad for
him because you know, you were coming in after people
who had done very, very well.
Speaker 3: It's got to make him happy that I know that
he was replaced by something that just was an absolute abomination.
And it hasn't gotten much better after that abomination. Really Yeah, no, no, no, no,
I don't mean that.
Speaker 2: I mean I was thinking of those two guys, what
was the name, Rizo and Jeff they're now I see
them on social media sometimes they're somewhere in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought they were doing well. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hey, look you got a dream and you want to
do it.
Speaker 3: I try.
Speaker 2: I will always say like, I'm not gonna knock you.
I get how hard this can be or not be.
I get that there's always gonna be somebody who thinks
they're better or funnier.
Speaker 3: You've put up with my make and wish for three
years now, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: I not, No, I don't feel like that at all.
But I'll say I remember being in radio and trying
to figure out what can I do that's gonna get
them happy instead of just being me. Because there were
bosses that loved me for me, and then there were
guys who are like, well, you know, you should do
a little more of this, you should do a little
more of that, And so you start questioning it and
you can't because those guys have the shit runs downhill.
They're getting pressure on them, so they're gonna pressure on you,
and no one can figure out anything.
Speaker 3: The whole lot of those can't fucking do it, and
that's why they're on the programming. Well, it's it's I
think of one in my head.
Speaker 2: There's a couple and I I would just but in
any job, right that middle management is the worst place
to be because the ship runs onto them. And then
if they're not good at controlling their emotions and stuff,
they convey a message.
Speaker 3: Like I've seen. I have seen this happen.
Speaker 2: I have seen a boss and I was in a
meeting ONEm to go in and go, you gotta you
gotta talk to these guys. I don't know what the
fuck they're doing in there, but they got to be
rained in and blah.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blahlah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So the guy goes down and he starts like kicking,
what are you guys doing? And he's yelling and instead
of take what the message you just got, digest it
a little bit and then go, how would I want
to hear this if I were on the radio, And
how do I steer these guys? I'm telling you, most
of life is about being a fucking matador and getting
people to come over here, you know, come over here,
come over here, come over here. I say that all
the time about my son. I am a matador. I
see what's happening if I come in because you're much
like my personality.
Speaker 3: My kid, I go.
Speaker 2: If they told me I don't want you doing X
Y and Z, I'm doing X Y and Z when
every chance you can't find I will find a way
to get X Y Z And I'll even throw a
new ABC in there that you have no idea about.
I don't want that, I don't need that. He doesn't
need that. So my thing is, let's be a matador.
I see what's happening. I recognize it, not gonna I'm
not standing up and cheering about it, But hey man,
why don't we try this? And that's how I do it.
I think he needs to do that with it. I'm
not gonna say it's gonna be an easy thing and
it's gonna happen all the time. But middle management needs
to learn that strategy because when you know this, and
there are some great middle managers, wonderful, like truly great
people who can protect you from from some of the
onslaught that comes, you know, and then there are ones
that just they have no fucking clue. They just get
run over.
Speaker 3: My boss is that exact way? He listens to what's
coming down. Yeah, he listens to what's coming up. And
he finds that middle ground where we're right there.
Speaker 2: Here's what we need.
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna bitch about this and this and
this and this. Yeah, they're gonna bitch about this, this, this,
this and this. How can we avoid everybody?
Speaker 2: You need somebody who can be a thinker and see
it for one of this. That's all you got to
see it for one of this. And and that's why
I always say nowadays, I think that our knee jerk
reaction is the first one is usually the wrong one
that all of us have in certain situations, whether it
be a kid, a relationship, a job, anything, road rage,
The first reaction is usually gonna be the one that
you go, fuck, I wish I didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Shoot first aymore, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying, that that sort of thing. And
I think if you, if you can give yourself that
proverbial beat, some kind of I don't know, a little pocket,
but between knee jerk and and reality, yeah you'll do Okay,
everything will be okay. That's the way I see it.
I don't know, but it's so funny. I have to
tell you, like today too, I think that I don't
always say this without like totally blowing my cover on
a lot of stuff. But there was a lot of
like little flirtations towards me today. I think, I think
someone telling.
Speaker 3: Me from the situation last Thursday.
Speaker 2: No oh, the situation lands Jesus Christ is making me
sound like good. No, no, I went somewhere today and
but the Yeah, there were a lot of things that
were said, uh huh, A lot of things.
Speaker 3: See, you gotta be careful with it.
Speaker 2: And to the point where somebody else that works there
came over commented about her outfit, wondered why she was
wearing it, and then said I looked at the book
and I saw who was coming in. How about that?
I was flattered a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's here borrow one of Laura's extra rooms.
Speaker 2: I will never do that ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever.
But I'm just saying like there were things, and I
think and sometimes in those situations, like I just you know,
I hear about the person says they're a lot of fun.
I'm like, okay, I get it.
Speaker 3: You and Earl could go on one Webster Mom's double No,
absolutely not on that note.
Speaker 2: Coblestone, We're coming well, I do love Cobblestone on Maine.
Speaker 3: That is a great place.
Speaker 2: Cobblestone on Maine, right there in the heart in the
heart of downtown beautiful web the village of Webster. Really
it really is, and it's it's nice there and uh,
you go out the Cobblestone, a main upscale bar. They
always have great food.
Speaker 3: My wife doesn't drink that much, she will always have
a drink or two at Cobblestone because no make something
for her. Yeah, so just like this is fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll go buy the stuff.
Speaker 3: Turn make it a home. And she's like this tastes
like shit.
Speaker 2: It's great craft cocktails, great craft beers, upscale bar, fun
place to hang out, really really good atmosphere. Dan Bresnahan
and his family have done a fantastic job over there.
The food is really it really is. I mean just
down to the shareables, like the nachos that don't get soggy,
but the nachos so long, but the pork chops that
they do, and the variety and how they change it up.
It's really really impressive. I don't I have no idea
how to cook any of that stuff, and like that well,
and every time there isn't anything on that menu that
you go wishld. I tried something out.
Speaker 3: We were gonna go a couple weeks ago and she
was finishing up work. So I had a started having
a drink in the garage and and I'm like, I
can't make it all the my webster now, which sucked
because I was really looking forward to going out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well we'll have to do uh. We
got to get it back to our nights or fun nice.
We said we were gonna do him, and I didn't
do him. It's my fault, nobody, that was your fault.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: It is. It is for Kevin Muir, who will be
at the Earl David Reid show.
Speaker 3: I hope him what I think to go on? If
I go up, probably do it late Saturday, Okay.
Speaker 2: Earl David read show comedy at the Carlson. You can
go to Carlsoncomedy dot com. Earl David Reid. I thought
that he's a lot of fun. I'd like to see
this because Earl he was kind of I was hoping
he would go into some stories about the days on
you know, coming up in comedy and trying out for
sitcoms and doing that sort of thing and earl used
to be much heavier, and then he lost all the
weight and got himself an incredible shape. He's been in
shape for nearly thirty years though, and.
Speaker 3: He dressing a white guy in that one picture.
Speaker 2: On that note, I'm Bill Moran, will see you Monday.
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