Sometimes I'm a soft talker myself. I all the time on stage will ask whoever's running the sound booth I'm like I'm a soft talker. Can you amp this up? I like to have the control to do voices and stuff like that on stage rather than I hate eating the mic.
Yeah Yeah, it's interesting. I I'm usually a soft talker off stage, but then when I get on stage I don't know if I just like instinctively talk louder into the mic but like and sometimes I don't know depends on the acoustic like sometimes I'll talk I'll try to talk so loud so that I can hear myself coming out of speakers. Sometimes they're like facing away so if I do that I feel like oh I'm probably overcompensating now. Yeah.
Yeah I'm just blowing out speakers left and right. Dude I'm blown out of a speaker too much. I think I've broken on accident every piece of equipment at some point. Oh Hurricane Watkins.
I mean you know me. You know me from so many mics and so many shows and so many bits that and soul train and soul train and so many things that no longer have see the light of day. Yeah. I still laugh about in Bruco the chair that you always have fun on.
Yeah. Well you weren't even on stage. You're just someone else was on stage and you were like pretending to laugh so violently. He like broke the chair.
Yeah. Yeah. Looking back at fun for us pretty obnoxious moment for George did not appreciate. Yeah.
That was his name right George. Was it? I think so. The owner.
Oh yeah. Well there's a chair there's a little back story on this. There's a chair that's already breaking. Yes.
And I was like wow. Alright we could dispose of it or we could do something fun with it. Let me do him a favor. Let me do him a favor.
So basically there was a comic on stage and there was like none of us at this open mic. There's hardly any of us there. It was the end of the night. Whatever audience that would have been there had already left.
Yeah it's just comics that are like trying some out for each other. So it wasn't that disrespectful. Where I'm doing this though comic who's like in front of a full crowd. So I start so the comic tries out a joke.
I forget even who's on stage. I don't remember. But I basically start acting like I'm laughing so hard and hitting my my knee and then I start going back and forth. That I fall out of the chair and then when I try to get up back on the chair I keep putting all my weight onto it because I know it's breaking.
Pressing down like all your weight and it just starts crunching and then like there's wood starting to fly. Yeah. Did anyone catch that on video? I feel like there is a video of it somewhere.
It's got to be somewhere. I don't know who though. Yeah. Did I?
Maybe it was one of those things where back in the day we used to randomly just like. This is really before our cell phones really took off with video. So like everybody always had like a flip camera. Yeah.
Or like a camcorder. Granny. The worst quality video. The worst quality.
I still have the video of you singing to these random girls outside of Ruko. You had the guitar. What on it? Yeah.
You just like made up a song on the spot. Uh huh. And they were digging it. They were like at first very dismissive of us because you know they probably thought we were like hitting on them.
Of course. I'm sure some of us were. Yeah. But um.
It was like I was trying to tell Ryan Coleman because it was his guitar. I think. Yeah. I was trying to tell him like dude just just hit on that.
Sarah name. I was with the guitar. You're good at music. Oh he was doing voice.
He has great voice and he could play guitar really well. Yeah. But he was like so like bashful. He's like.
Remember his little giggling? No. I don't know if I could do that. Yeah.
And then you just stepped in. I go. I literally I was like really you're not going to do this and you're a great guitar. And great singer.
I said give me your guitar. And I kind of showed him up like like. Yeah. In the moment.
It was great. Yeah. Uh. Uh.
Uh. Welcome back to another Jeremiah Wonders Roadcast. We're on the road right now. We're headed to Sunnyvale, California.
Sunnyvale. Me and my buddy Omar Nava. One of my longest running pals and comedy. Uh we started together in LA around the same time doing open mics and I've just been friends for it a very long time.
Thirteen years my friend going on 14. That's great. Yeah. Cause I moved here 2010.
I think you were here just a little before that. Yeah 2009. But I started standing up in 2010. Yeah.
Uh January. I was one of those New Year's Resolution comics that you hear so much about. Those guys. Those guys.
And girls. And girls. And and days. You know.
Them's. Yeah. All the above. Uh.
But yeah. We're just reminiscing about. We were talking about earlier in the car. Just about some different stuff.
But yeah. There's this. There's this place. Bruco that we used to go to.
That is now a crab place. Yeah. Like a. I don't know if it's an official crab shack or crab shack knockoff.
Right. But yeah. They do crab. They do crab.
It's like a boiling crab or one of those. Something like that. Yeah. Uh.
But it was on the campus right outside of UCLA. And we would park and get college students. Uh. Uh.
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Yeah. And then the greatest adversary, our nemesis. Our nemesis. The karaoke room.
Yeah. So a lot of. Probably contributes, honestly, to part of. I always like singing and stuff.
But I probably contributes to why I still sing in part of my act and stuff like that. Oh, you think so? I think a little bit. I've always liked doing it.
But I knew that when I did singing bits in the Bruco room, I was like, yeah, forget that karaoke room over here. If I'm doing a little bit of singing within the comedy, it'll keep them engaged. And those bits always did well. And I mean, I still keep writing new music bits that end up in my act and stuff.
Here's the thing. You can sing in comedy. You can't make jokes and karaoke. Hey.
Hey. Very true. But a lot of these kids will just go sign up for the karaoke and while they're waiting for their turn, just come watch us. I just had the image of somebody signing up for karaoke.
And they're like, hi, can I do any Murphy Raw, please? They're just doing like it has all like the words on screen and stuff like that. That's so funny. That'd be a fun.
That'd be a fun. Yeah. I don't know. Something.
I don't know. I don't know how you get that. It's something that's a sketch maybe cut away. Yeah.
What are all these plants that you see out here? Do you think? These look like trees. This looks like a baby orchard.
I'm going to get some weird frequencies on this drive. I'm wondering if it's the semis or if it's even showing up. I think we got it. Anyway, if it doesn't show up in the audio, people just think I'm having a stroke or something.
OK. What are these weird? Why does it smell like toast out of the way you think? Yeah.
What are those? You call them trees? It's completely. Have a full mouth out.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, we're going to sunny day. So yeah, I'm going to do cardio all the time.
All the time. We were talking about this kind of blew my mind a little earlier. We had this in common where we were first starting to go to the comedy store together. There's a talent coordinator that was kind of feared by a lot of people.
He had a lot of swing. He had a lot of pull. He had a lot of power. And he liked to kind of remind you of it.
Not explicitly, but he would definitely would wield. He knew that he would put you in your place a lot. He liked the power of wielding the gatekeeper title. He really enjoyed having that over comics and over people.
And having comics, do some groveling, honestly. He liked them because what it felt like is at the comedy store when you walk up in the original room, there's about four or five stairs before you enter to the ticket booth of where the original room is before you're led into the original room. Yeah. Now, as an audience member, this is a very normal set of stairs.
But the comic who's intimidated and maybe not 100% self-assured, not totally confident in yourself yet, in your developing, your really inside your head, to me, those flight of stairs, when I would see him in that booth, it felt like a castle that you were like walking up to battle a dragon or something like that. It was like he was the figurative gatekeeper, but also the literal gatekeeper. He would work the box office for the open mic and just stand there. So he's also decided like as a comic, if you wanted to hang out, you'd have to go through him.
He'd be like, hey, can I come in? And he's literally the guy and the decision maker who's you're staring and looking at. And he's keeping time. That was another intimidating thing.
If you ran the light back in the day, he kept the time. You had the answer to him at the mic and all the shows in the original room. So that added intimidating fact. You're like, oh, I can't run the light.
Literally, the guy who's booking me is literally on the light timing me. So he knows if I run or not. Yeah. I'm very intimidating.
But he got let go from the comedy store. We'll say to put it nicely. And Omaha told me that years after he was no longer in the store, Omar went and visited him in Honduras. What the frick?
Talk about this for a quick second, because anybody who knew Tommy at the comedy store, and this is very inside LA baseball. So I'm trying to break it down for our listeners. Basically, this guy was a big shot. He was a big deal.
He held a lot of power. That's what you need to know. And he held a lot of power for what? A decade almost?
In the way? I'm not exactly sure when he started. But yeah, for quite a few years, he was the guy who, more or less. I think there was a little more input also.
But I think he was the guy who said who would get passed. No, he was. And there wasn't a committee. Like there is kind of now where there's a little bit more checks and balances where there's a showcase process with multiple people that have to see you.
He was the guy, maker break, to both, I think, Omar and I, which is a frustrating thing, kind of alluded and kind of promised and kind of dangled the carrot of, hey, I'm going to make you a paid regular. Like a few times, kind of teased it. I don't know if he was teasing or if it was actual true. Yeah, who knows?
If there was a real fault or an honor, he got fired before he passed either one of us. He made it seem like it was right around the corner for both of us. Yeah. And then he was let go.
Yeah, sadly. And then he was like, I'm going to go to Honduras because you're working at Cruz in the area. Yeah. So I used to work on cruise ships, doing stand up on cruise ships.
And one of the routes that was a very common, like for this cruise line, Caribbean route, always stopped in Roatan, Honduras. So I've done this route a handful of times. And for those who don't know, Roatan, it's like this island right off the coast of Honduras. And they have really good snorkeling there.
I guess it's like a pretty big, but also big, but also kind of secretive, not too many people know about it. But yeah, I come still friends with this guy on Facebook, Tommy, and I saw something about him performing in Honduras. And because he also, he would do guitar and like play music. He's like a singer songwriter type as well.
So yeah, like after he was like, oh, the store, I guess he moved down there and was just like performing. And so I messaged him. I think I googled like what hotel he was at. And it turned out to be on Roatan, Honduras.
So I just messaged him like right before a cruise, a contract that I had that was going to go out there. And I was like, hey, Tommy, do you live on this island? Like I'm going to be there for my cruise. Like we always stop there.
It's going to be these days. Are you going to be around? And he was like, yeah, come on down. I'm on this side of the island.
Just lets me at this cafe or resort. And I was like, all right. So I went down there. I asked the other comic that I was working with that week if you wanted to go with me.
And I also just assumed he knew Tommy. Because like I was telling you, like how we were saying, he's this big gatekeeper of like the biggest comedy club in LA. And you find out like later on, you're like, oh, like we built him up in our bubble in our community. Yeah, yeah.
Because he was the gatekeeper of our club that we had to kind of answer to if we ran the light that we had to like robble in front of to. And it feels monumental. Yeah, yeah. So we're starting out where like this is the guy.
So we just assume like you know Tommy is right. You know, Saint Peter comedy at the Pearly Gates. Yeah, so I just assumed anyone who passed to LA and wanted to perform at the Comedy Store knew this guy. And I asked this other comic friend of mine from the cruise his name's Mike, he's based on a Cleveland.
I was like, yeah, yeah, Tommy, you know, Tommy. He's like, no. By the way, Tommy is notorious for giving good advice to some people, but also saying some pretty rough things to some different comics. Like I guess Hannibal Burris came in and he wouldn't put him up.
He goes, I see he was more of a writer. I was like, what the frick? And this is like when he like had a lot of stuff going on. And stuff like that.
I feel like Tommy would hear stories of what mitzi would do to people back in the day. And he's like, well, I'm going to do something like that. Like, and I feel like he would do his own interpretation of like saying like really extreme things of different comics just so stories would kind of circulate about him. Yeah.
And I also think he he I think he had a sort of almost outdated idea of like what a what a roster like a comedy roster should look like. Like, I truly think he was trying to check boxes. No, he was. Yeah.
Because so I used to have really long hair when I moved to LA. Like it was like down to here to my shoulder. And a lot of people thought I looked Native American. And then I like wrote jokes about how I looked a Native American with my hair.
And I was told this by Tony Hinchcliffe, we went to do La Hoya Comedy Store together. And on the right back, he told me, he was like, yeah, man, shouldn't it cut your hair? And I go, what? He's like, yeah, Tommy was fast tracking you because they didn't have a Native American comic like on the squad, on the roster.
Oh my goodness. Even though I wasn't Native American, I had the look. And I could have checked that box. So I cut my hair and sabotaged my career.
But yeah, so see, I think he just had like a, like he said, maybe he picked things up from Mitzi from like the 70s or 80s. So like this is Lally need. Yeah. But yeah, so my friend Mike, he'd never heard of this.
I think he like maybe, you know, I'd heard of him, but he there was no like awe and like reverence like we had. Yeah, he's like, OK, something's there. Yeah. Yeah.
And so we go and we meet him and he looks just like he did. Tommy was his muscle shirt, his classic, you know, whenever he'd take off his like his comedy store shirt, he just had like a white muscle shirt on. Yeah. And he seemed very happy.
Like he seemed like happy to be there. But then the conversation just, like I don't remember a lot of the specifics, but the general vibe I got was that he was still very bitter about getting ousted from the comedy store and I think having all that power basically stripped from him. Probably was pretty hard. Harsh reality check.
Yeah, because like, you know, I can't imagine what's going on in his head. But for me, it's like, because this was years later too. It wasn't even like the month after he was like, oh, it was like years later. In my head, I just assumed, you know, you might have like moved on and just been happy to live in paradise every day performing for tourists and.
That are probably so happy to be there. But he just like was talking about the comedy store and people and like kind of like you could tell there was like a sort of disdain for people who like kind of, he felt wronged him and how he felt the whole situation was like unfair to him. Well, you stop having also like people give you free stuff and like treat you a certain way because you don't have that power anymore. So it's probably just like, oh, this sucks.
Right. Like just to all of a sudden lose all that respect or fear that you thought was respect. Well, there's also another infamous story that he passed one guy so he could get free studio time with him. Oh really?
Yeah. As a musician. Yeah. Because he had a legit like studio setup and he's like, all right, I'll make it pain regular.
Wow. Yeah. But yeah, so that was like the conversation. Like I said, I don't remember exactly what we talked about.
It just, you I got this sense of like, oh, he's not over it. Like he still feels important. Like he still feels like he deserves to be on the throne. Yeah.
And yeah. And then like he did most of the talking like afterwards, you know, like at the end kind of asked me a few questions. Like how was the cruise house comedy, whatever? But like the most the majority of the conversation was him talking at us.
And afterwards Mike and I were leaving and he was like, man, that guy's an asshole. I was like, yeah, I know that type just like self important. Like, he didn't even talk to us. Like he didn't ask me a single question.
I'm a comedian. I've been doing it for like 30 years or whatever. Didn't ask me a single thing about my life. And I was like, yeah, that's one of the number one signs of a narcissist is never asking the other person, like if it's all one side of conversation the entire time, then that's yeah.
I think it was I'm not defending him, but I think another thing was he might have Tommy might have been dismissive of Mike because Mike mostly does cruises and like golf clubs and things like that. Like I don't know that he performs it like many like clubs. Yeah. Or at least like not the big city club.
I think he performs like clubs around the Midwest. Well, and also Tommy, you know, the store was the ultimate. So it's like, if you didn't perform there, then who are you? Yeah, exactly.
I kind of think I think he did ask him like maybe like once like at the beginning, like where do you like where have you performed or whatever? And he told him like, I do cruises or I do whatever in Cleveland. And this guy's a boat yugger. That's the way it's the way it's the ship gig.
Yeah. So yeah, so I think he when he found that out, I think he immediately dismissed him and sure focused his. I are on me. Yeah.
But yeah, it was it was it was crazy. And I took this photo with him and I told myself I was going to post it on social media. Like, you know, like it would have just been literally for us. Like you were saying like inside baseball, just like the LA comedy community.
And I just been like, yeah, this cruise was great. The that see the sights of Roatan. But then I just kind of forgot to can we include it in this episode? Sure.
Yeah, I'll text it to you. Here's here. Here's the picture. Right.
And all it's glory. Wow. The joke with Tommy was that he looked like a. Was the Tom Petty Tom Petty with the hair.
So yeah, you might see that in the photo. Yeah. It's just a good reminder is some things are completely out of your control. Yeah.
And sometimes it doesn't matter how talented you are or funny you are as a comic. There's other things and other motives that are going on that you might deserve the spot or you might deserve to be at a certain club or this goes for certain jobs too. But like sometimes it's out of your control and you just got to keep pushing for it because in my opinion, those people get phased out and you will find your your right space if you keep working hard. I just I truly believe that.
Yeah. Because it's just there's so much behind the scenes stuff. Sometimes that we're unaware of that we're like, Oh, this has nothing to do with like whether they even think I'm good enough or funny enough or whatever. Right.
They're like, I was planning on, you know, booking this type of person. Like this slot to be filled. Yeah. So yeah, keep that in mind was like JFL showcases and comedy club.
Yeah. Like sometimes sometimes they are like checking a box and it doesn't have to be as racist as we need a Indian comic, but you know, it'll be like, you know, we need like a low energy or like we need a high energy physical act or whatever. So yeah, you never know what people are thinking like why they make their choices. Now we're going through some golden wheat fields.
It looks like. Ah, yes. Reminds me of selling this island nation I once visited called Katan. Oh, dude, we've got down on some Katan over the years, my friend.
Yes, sir. I love me some Katan. Am I the best player? Absolutely not.
But I have a good time doing it and I have a good time losing and it fuels me to want to play again, because I'm the kind of player who as soon as I lose, I say, run it. But reset the board. Reset the board. Nobody's going anywhere.
Lock the doors. Your boy is playing again until he gets at least one W. Do you do you do you like to build alliances or are you pretty quick like burn bridges and like, you know, I try to build someone alliances like like are we cool? We cool.
But then like I see right after a while, if somebody's starting to make certain moves, I'm like, oh, I'm just done with you. Screw you, dude. Yeah, pretty much. I I'm usually like, there's a nice like I won't I won't be like vindictive like, oh, no, you put the rubber on me.
You're excommunicated. I'm very petty. I'm not. I'll still like trade with people because it's like whenever I'm trading, it's to help me, you know, it's like I'm just going to trade to help someone else.
So like I'm like nice about it. And Kylie hates that. They get a nice. Well, you'll still do business with people after they screw you over.
It's not even that it's just because like because when I'm nice and like I don't burn any bridges, I'm still like, you know, happy to trade with anyone. Yeah, then it ends up helping me. And so not that I win more often than not, but whenever I play with Kylie, I win more often than not. Sure.
And so she just gets mentioned like, this is what he does people like. Why? I was like, no, this is what he does. Yeah, he gets on your good side.
You might be trading to help yourself build a road, but he's going to drop like three cities right now. And so are you going to be an optimally? I think so. It's been so long since I played, but also the game never ends.
So I don't I don't even know. It's true. Yeah. Yeah, I love monopoly.
And people are down to play. I freaking love monopoly. My brother and I had like, did you ever have those games that just last it for weeks? Yes.
We would like move the board ever so gently to make sure nothing shook and anything. And like, I think we like tried to have like our other brother like count the money to make sure, you know, like none of us is cheating, putting it back out. God, that's a fun, simple time. Yeah.
You know, when you're just so focused on that we had we had a did you have the different kinds of monopoly? Did you ever play any of those? Yeah, we never owned any, but I've over the years have played some of those random ones. We owned a Star Wars version and that was fun.
Oh, yeah. So like Baltic was like the swamps of Dagobot. All right. Yeah.
So that was cool. No, I know. Yeah, exactly. You snap the head pieces.
But yeah, that's cool. What were the little icons? They weren't still the shoe and the iron, were they? No, it's dope.
It was like a tight fighter, an X wing, a Y wing. Yeah. Yeah, that was cool. I think there was even like a Han Solo in carbonite as one of the pieces.
Oh, that'll be fun. I think so. Yeah. I might be making that last one up, but I feel like yeah, if it wasn't, it should have.
I know. Yeah. Yeah. I felt like I'm like, I don't know if I'm like suggesting ideas to them now or like he literally was a life size.
Yeah. Peace. Right. I believe he's right.
That's cool. I recently played this. God, this like crazy speaking of nerds. This like crazy board game that like it drop a comment of you nerd just to listen right now.
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This game it's called like return to dark tower and I showed up to a friend's house recently and they just had it already set up. Did they make a movie out of the dark tower or is it something completely different? Maybe so they apparently this game the dark tower was a game in the 80s and there was this tower that was like like mechanically operating like you put batteries in and it had like little motors and stuff and it would like turn and like drop things and stuff and I think this is an Idris Elbow movie. Oh interesting maybe maybe so I guess like this this game is like pretty sought after by like collectors because the tower you know like the 80s so like the electronics like fell apart like broke very quickly.
So if you find a version with like a working tower an original I'm assuming it goes for like thousands of dollars. Wow. So my friend he like his dad had it but the tower's broken so he never got to play it so he saw like a Kickstarter for this company like you know bought the rights to like make the sequel or make a version of it so they made a sequel but it's like got they're using like current technology so the tower's like huge it's like this tall like it looks like an obsidian obelisk but inside it's got like all these motors and stuff and it's connected via bluetooth so like you run it's kind of like Dungeons and Dragons meets Katan so there's like a dungeon master but it's like an app that guides you through the story and after every turn it like the tower does something in the app updates whatever it was pretty intense. We played for three hours and lost.
Yo I'm low-key excited about this. You want to go play? I mean might have to happen. We can go uh remember that episode of Seinfeld where they go to that girls house and she has all the old school games and Jerry like gives her like turkey and wines that she falls asleep and while she's sleeping he just like plays with a game.
That's so fun. We can do that with that. Okay cool. Except we need them.
We need four people because it's a collaborative game. So the the improv just had their 60th anniversary and I was actually surprised. There were some old school comics that decided to show up. I saw Jay Leno there.
I saw Larry David and I was shocked that Larry David showed up. Yeah and I guess I was talking I forget who it was. I was talking one of the comics and they decided to go up to Larry David. I'm laughing because he already told me he already told me he was going.
I haven't shared it on the podcast yet. This girl is a giant fan comic as well. Walks up to Larry David. It goes Larry I just like interrupt this whatever where he's like Larry I just want to let you know.
I just think that you're so amazing and uh I love all of your work and he just goes. I got legit so happy when she told me that story and she was even laughing when she told the story because she's like she got a Larry David moment out of the story David reaction. Hi. What are you doing?
I'm talking here. Yeah. You think I was 60 years? You're not.
Oh that's so funny. Yeah dude classic. Classic LD. Classic Larry David.
Yeah. You didn't talk to those guys right? Jay Leno or Larry David? No I was uh yeah this is just constantly showing you where where you're at on the totem pole.
I was uh trying to step onto the uh the red carpet for a photo and uh Jay Leno pulls up and they like all but threw me off of the red carpet to get Jay Leno on so he could walk straight on because they didn't want to wait. You know. No. Because otherwise they probably would have lost their their one chance at getting a photo of him.
Yeah. And I get it. But it was very like I was like hey and they're like excuse me Jay's here. Like like I was like okay.
Can you move your nose? I'm like oh that's gonna take a while. I'm gonna have to walk around. Yeah it was uh definitely uh I was like I'll come back later.
It's not a deal. Like some people think that you are gonna be aggressive and you're like dude I don't I don't care. It's fine. It's a photo.
I can Photoshop myself in there later. Yeah hugging Jay Leno. Yeah yeah yeah dude. My nose and his chin and one picture.
That's a sight to see my friend or somebody Photoshopping my nose on his face. The profile is just like yeah yeah yeah. They finally like are in harmony. Yeah.
Who is this? Quarter Crescent Moon face going on. Somebody needs a Photoshop that whoever's listening or watching. If you can Photoshop my nose profile on Jay Leno.
There you go. There you go. There you are. Yeah you heard about this uh you heard about this uh I'm congested and um also uh can't get any of my chin straps that work on my football helmet.
Classic Jay Leno joke. Classic. Passing by some power lines. I actually didn't grow up with any power lines that looked quite like this.
I mean these are like special power lines. These are like industrial. Yeah I mean they're like providing power to like you know a whole city. It looks like yeah.
It looks like in your city or town. Yeah they're just like regular like telephone pole type. Yeah. Yeah this looks like maybe it's maybe they're coming from like a solar farm or something or a wind farm or yeah uh you guys can't see but oh my oh my oh my those are your birthday like one karaoke birthday.
Do you remember? No wait there's Michelle there's Michelle's uh yeah Michelle Livios birthday yeah it was her birthday. Yeah that one night that was like that's like a time stamp to me when I was like I'm gonna be friends with Omar forever because we both sang Journey. Karaoke and we both stopped believing.
I mean it's yes it's a hack song at this point but 10 years ago was it? Had it been hacked yet? 13 years ago? It probably was.
Yeah I mean we were opened my comic so we were like yeah yeah exactly so we're like we're gonna choose something that's gonna tear the roof off the place. I bet you guys never heard this one. Oh no no no no no no so we sang a duet of that and that was to me like a stamp in time where I like this guy's awesome and we went in it wasn't just like uh don't stop. It was like dude fully going for it fully committing hitting my battle.
Yeah I had long hair you had your longer hair. Yeah yeah I did. Yeah it was uh yeah same I think of that memory and I'm like oh yeah me and Jeremiah are gonna be buddies. And also me you and Gil Garibaldo and I'm sure there's a couple other comics as well but us riffing in the rain for like hours outside of cafe muse.
I don't know if you remember that but there's just some nights where like we're just be raining but like we didn't want to go to our cars we didn't want to go home so we'd just be standing in the rain like riffing outside where we'd go back to my porch. That porch we used to have the spot on where I used to live in my first place in LA where there was an old school magical energy that brought all these comics together at the end of the night where everybody would go do their own mics or we'd all hit our the same mic together but we knew that if we needed to hang out really really late that the porch was available and it felt like this magic area because dude we were so freaking loud. Oh yeah on the front porch and we never got noise complaints ever. No because it was like the place you lived in it was like a house in front of an apartment building but the porch was facing away from that building.
Yeah so the noise would go out towards a public park on the other side and it was part slash community pools like that hour it's closed no one's there so you just do whatever noise would go out that way and then on the left side was crackheads and meth heads and stuff like that and then on the other side it was like it was like an Armenian apartment complex like that like mainly Armenian people live there and like I feel like they don't want to call the cops like so they're just like they're like whatever kind of thing. Yeah so it was kind of a perfect bubble. Yeah it was so centrally located like you're saying like even if we all did different mics across the city your place was like in the middle of it all. Yeah it was in Hollywood and then there's tons of just parking where you could just park on which is rare for Hollywood.