Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is nice. It's pretty.
[00:00:03] Speaker B: Oh, we're going there different.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to Indiana Success Happy Hour. We're glad you're here. Brian Quinlan here from Daniels Real Estate and the newly named first home indie on YouTube.
[00:00:17] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:18] Speaker C: Switching it up.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:19] Speaker C: That's pretty awesome.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: No, thanks.
[00:00:21] Speaker C: I'm Brad.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: What do you do, Brad?
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Nest Mortgage Group.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Anything else?
[00:00:27] Speaker C: Tasting tequila with bread. All right.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: I bet there's a few people out there watching that have seen that show.
[00:00:31] Speaker C: Maybe it's possibility.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Usually you have more words.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:36] Speaker C: My, my. At least my tongue is tied today.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: It's bizarre.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: A man whose tongue I'm sure is not tied is our new guest. Sir, tell the folks who you are.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: My name is Hoss Ridgeway and I'm a stand up comedian and a minister, so nice combination.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:00:51] Speaker C: It is.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Well, thanks for being here.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: You got it.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Appreciate you coming on out today.
[00:00:55] Speaker C: Are you still going to be able
[00:00:56] Speaker B: to do comedy while sitting?
[00:00:58] Speaker A: I don't know. It's stand up.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: You can stand. You might be out of the picture, though.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Bringing it to a whole new low.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: Awesome. All right, well, we've already kind of touched on this cool mi gente bottle.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: We did touch on it.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: We did.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: We started the show with that anyway.
[00:01:16] Speaker C: I missed that.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: I guess I was holding it when we started the show. Then you clapped us in anyway. Tell us about Mahinta, sir.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: Mihinta is a fantastic tequila. This is a brand new series that just came out on Monday. This is a series symphony series.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: Ooh, sounds delightful.
[00:01:31] Speaker C: What they did is they took four different oaks of four different oak barrels and they take those staves and then they put them together in one barrel. So your barrel now is made up of four different oaks. And they aged the Mahinta Blanco for 18 months in there.
And you're getting a little Virginia oak, some Pennsylvania oak, I think, Missouri and Minnesota oak.
Okay, so it's called a symphony, apparently at 45 ABV, 90 proof, pretty good stuff. And like I said, it's a limited release. Not coming to Indiana, but I got a bottle.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: All right, well, good for you.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: Mine is a timeless classic. It's literally what it's called.
American lager from Hop lore, which is located in Gas city, Warsaw, Indiana.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Oh, Warsaw. Except my stomping ground.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: And I shall be enjoying a cold, refreshing Diet Coke.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:02:26] Speaker C: Nothing like some aspartame in the.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: That's right, aspartame out of the Coca Cola bottle. And come.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Wait a minute,
[00:02:34] Speaker B: sir. Thanks for coming in today. We got one more Wait, there it is. All right, well, cheers to you all.
The sound isn't often picked up by
[00:02:44] Speaker A: the microphone for whatever reason, so hopefully
[00:02:46] Speaker B: that one did because it was a good one.
All right, well, Hoss Ridgeway, a. Once again, thanks for being here.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Where did you come from? To get here today?
[00:02:55] Speaker C: Before he tells, I want to tell a little story.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: I'm flying to Guadalajara. I'm sitting, waiting on the plane to come, and there's this big guy sitting next to me. And we started talking, and I said, what do you do? And he said, I'm a standup comedian. And I turned off my phone and went, really? Like, that is so cool.
So we talked there. It was. It was great. You were super nice, and I'm really excited about having you here to tell your story because the story that you told me was pretty awesome. And it's great the way you don't really know how life's going to go and people are put in the right places to meet new people.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: Absolutely. I think that was a good morning.
Yeah.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: What, were you headed to Guadalajara that day?
[00:03:37] Speaker A: No.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't think so.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: I was headed to Dallas, I think. I was filming a comedy special down there.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: So cool.
[00:03:44] Speaker C: And I flew into Guadalajara, and I probably was considered the special person that people laughed at.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Do you speak Spanish?
Well, he wants to know where the bathroom is.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: He does.
[00:03:57] Speaker C: No problem.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
A little bit.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: That might be more than Brad can handle.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: Okay. It was quick, too.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Well, I learned it in the Dominican. And they talk fast out there.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that they do.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: Well, I'm going to say the people in Guadalajara don't speak any slower.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: I bet not.
What? Yep, Absolutely.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Okay, so I'll go back to my question. Where did you come from to get here today?
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Franklin, Indiana.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: No way. I'm a Southsider myself.
South Indianapolis, specifically.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: But I'm a Southsider, too. South of Franklin, you know, south side.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. No, it's okay. I'm a Perry Township guy. Okay.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: Gotcha.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Awesome.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: So you're south side of Franklin.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:40] Speaker C: Where the men are proud and the
[00:04:42] Speaker B: sheep are a little nervous.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: I don't.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: I don't know about that part.
There is a lot of corn.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: So there's a lot of corn. There is.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: When I see children playing in the field, I get nervous.
[00:04:52] Speaker C: As you should. Children in the corn.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Though, of course, that reference is completely lost on the actual children in the corner.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. That movie scared me to death. When I was a kid, I only saw parts of it. I'm like as an adult and I thought it was the dumbest movie I'd ever seen.
[00:05:08] Speaker C: I. I was so terrified as a child. I've never even attempted.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, it's so cheesy now. I'm like watching it now. Go. Really?
[00:05:14] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: And the special effects are terrible, so.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah, special effects have come a long way.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: What about Poltergeist? Like that one was terrifying as a
[00:05:22] Speaker A: kid when he starts ripping his face off.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: I've never watched they move the gravestones.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: As a realtor, anytime I see a house that's anywhere near a cemetery, I'll be like, okay, have you seen Poltergeist? Because it's a little sketchy.
[00:05:35] Speaker C: Right. They're not really going to sell the house. Very well doing that.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Then we move on to another house. I'm just pointing it out because I am not living next to the cemetery.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: It's not happening. Nice.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm with you.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: You know, it's giving my own personal information and that's important for my clients to know. I don't recommend that.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Right.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: But hey, you can live wherever the heck you want.
So how long you been doing standup?
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Since the 1990s.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Oh, the 1900s.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: The ninth, back in the. Before the turn of the century.
So much fun, right?
[00:06:06] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So about 97, 98, I did some like two person comedy bit stuff like improv. And then in the early 2000s, I started doing some stand up and it kind of happened by accident. I didn't, I didn't even plan to do stand up. Okay, and what did you plan?
Well, I've been in ministry my whole life.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: So I mean, I just, I just like helping people, you know, I mean, that's just really what it's about is just in people's lives and making their lives better. That's all I want to do. That's super cool.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: So, yeah, now as a former teacher myself. Yeah. You know, oftentimes when you got the class clown, you look at that kid and maybe even say things out loud. Is your plan to be a stand up comedian someday? You can tell jokes for the rest of your life, sayings like that.
Did you have that issue growing up?
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I was definitely.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: See, I like sadly voted class clown.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: I don't think they voted. They may voted me off the island, but they didn't.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Sorry I cut you off.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: No, it's okay. But basically when I was growing up, I just waited for a moment. I wasn't even paying attention to learn. I was just looking for a. A Moment to throw in something funny.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: And I did it all the time. All the time.
[00:07:15] Speaker C: Well, I.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: Like you're saying I did the same thing.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:19] Speaker C: I was often in trouble a lot.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: I got paddled in kindergarten.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's pretty early. Yeah.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: Actually, it was every grade until they couldn't do it anymore.
Then I figured out they'd kick you out for a couple days for doing something. So it's like, oh, this is cool.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: I get in trouble.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: I get in trouble on Monday. I don't have to come back to school till Friday.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Now, I always buttered up to all the teachers before I tried all that stuff and, you know, made them appreciate what I was doing. So I didn't really get in trouble for it. It was kind of like.
I mean, I was always redirected. You know how.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: All the time.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Little hand on the shoulder, cost.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: You need to, you know, need to start working on your assignment. I was like, why would I do that? I'm not going to use this stuff. No. And now I use algebra. I didn't think I would.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: You used real.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: I. I didn't think I would ever use algebra. And I. One of my other little side hustles is I have a company called River Ridge Estate Services, and I help people sell stuff.
[00:08:15] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: So I have, like, a website called I can sell that for you dot com, which should have been a realtor's website, but I got it.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: That's okay.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: And so I just help people sell. And so recently, I. I come into some gold rings and stuff in a big estate I purchased. And. And that's where I learned that I used algebra again. Because you got to be like, what's the price of gold is X, you know, times it's 10 karat gold, 0.412 divided by 20. And you get the price per spot weight. And then you have to. You know, and all of a sudden I'm like, how did. I hated math?
I mean, I was. I got a D in college in math, and I was like, finally, I passed.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Right.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: And I'm like, you're using it all the time.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: So the majority of my 20 years of teaching, I was a middle school math teacher.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: Oh. Sixth grade. God hated you.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: And that's not true, but I. Often people would say to me, you know, when am I ever going to use algebra? I don't use that. Honestly, algebra is a way of thinking.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: It's less about the math of it, more about getting you to kind of logically think through processes of Things and in our lives. The X that people talk about from algebra is all about the unknown.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: What do I got to do to figure out this thing? I don't know. And that's truly what algebra is.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: I used to say.
Yeah, right, true. I used to say that I broke up with math when they added the alpha, it. You know, and I was like, I don't care what your ex did or why she did it. And if she doesn't want to be found, why are we looking for her?
[00:09:38] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: But that. Now I'm using it.
[00:09:42] Speaker C: Yes, you are.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: I'm good for you. X marks the spot for gold is what I'm saying.
[00:09:46] Speaker C: See, I. I'm in the mortgage business. I don't know how algebra works, and I don't use it. And in the 8th grade math class that I finally passed my senior year of high school, it took four times to get through Mr. Leech's class. He said to me, Mr. Nickum, you think you're gonna walk around a calculator in your pocket everywhere you go? I have a mortgage calculator in my
[00:10:06] Speaker A: pocket everywhere I go, compound interest.
[00:10:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know how that works either. Me neither.
[00:10:11] Speaker A: I just know they get it. Get it from me all the time.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: You know, when you. You the mortgage, you're getting it all the way till halfway.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: Finally, at halfway, they're giving up a little.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: You still better in rent, though.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: That's.
[00:10:24] Speaker C: They say. So I never rented.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: Well, they kept moving my rent in Franklin up towards almost a full mortgage payment. And when they did, when they got to that, they're like, you're gonna be paying $2,000 a month for this tiny little box that I can't even put a nail in the wall. I'm like, I'm out. Yeah. And I bought a house.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: That's awesome.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: So.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: All right, so stand up comedian and preacher.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Right.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Where do you preach?
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Turning Point Church in Franklin.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: How long you been doing that?
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Well, I've been in Turning points and for seven years, but I've been in ministry since 1992. Wow. When I was 18.
No kidding. I was a youth minister, which, believe it or not, I was the same age as the seniors in high school.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you were.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: So there's a 52 year old person running around going, hoss was my youth minister. I'm like, please don't tell people. I'm not that old.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: I'm not that old.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: Good for 84.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: I'm looking great for 84.
It's crazy. So
[00:11:22] Speaker C: what got you into ministry?
[00:11:23] Speaker A: Well, my father's a minister. Okay. And my uncle was a minister. And so I just saw that my whole life. And so in kindergarten that's what I wanted to be. And I have three brothers and two of them are ministers.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: And one of them is a disappointment. Yeah, no, he's good, he's awesome. But he just doesn't do ministry. He's a surveyor.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: He says he's a surgeon.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he's the successful one.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: He's making money.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Right. He actually gets a paycheck. No, we do too, Skip.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: So when did your, I guess, official or professional stand up career start?
[00:11:59] Speaker A: 2003. Okay. So basically I was at this big conference for youth ministers in Nashville, Tennessee. There were like 500 people there and a band was going to play that night and they were running late and my friends convinced the emcee of this big event that I was a touring, national, touring comedian.
And dude gets up there and friends, yeah. Gets up there and said the band is running late. And so we, we're going to ask Hoss Ridgeway the comedian to come up and entertain you for about 10 minutes. Look, most comedians start at like open mic, right? And, and do all that.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: This was your first.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: This is number one.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Oh my gosh.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: This is number one.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Pooping your pants. At this point, I don't know.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: I, I, I'm one of those people that I don't know any better than to try.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: I just guess we're doing this.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: I'm not afraid. I, I, I did look at those three steps and said, well, it's now or never. And I did it. I did 10 minutes, just did Chris Farley imitation for did you kill the whole time? It did, I did. Well, I walked down that stage, went back out in the foyer to kind of catch my breath, and there was like six or eight guys coming up to me saying, hey, can you come to Colorado? Can you come to Michigan? Can you come to Washington state? It was like I started being booked all over the country and they're like, do you have 45 minutes?
[00:13:14] Speaker B: And, and yeah, I didn't know I had 10.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: I didn't know I had Right. But I was sitting there going, I'll, I'll be ready. And I went home and the kids in the youth group were like, you're going to do a whole standup. You should tell this story. You should tell this story. The stuff that I told them made them laugh. And I put together 45 minutes and I went out, did my first show in Denver Colorado and Killed. Dude. It was nuts.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: So cool.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: And I've been just booked ever since.
It just a couple years later, I had like 36 shows and I was still a full time minister.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:13:45] Speaker C: Now, so have you done the Mothership in Austin?
[00:13:48] Speaker A: No.
[00:13:49] Speaker C: Joe Rogan's place?
[00:13:50] Speaker A: No, I haven't.
Hopefully he's watching this.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure he's sure. Yes.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: He knows what good comedy is.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: He does know what he does. Yes. What do you think of Kill Tony?
[00:14:01] Speaker A: It's an interesting concept. I don't want to do it.
[00:14:04] Speaker C: I think Kill Tony today.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Is that a Joe Rogan thing?
[00:14:07] Speaker C: No, no, it's a touring thing.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: No idea.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: I think Kill Tony is today comedy.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: What.
[00:14:12] Speaker C: What The Tonight show was for comedy years ago.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: It.
[00:14:15] Speaker C: It breaks new comedians.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: It does. I mean, they come in, of course, they're. They're going to bust their chops if they don't do well. So that's why I'm like, I'm. I'm not their style of comedy.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: Right.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: You know, I'm not a. So there's, there's a misnomer like that because I'm a minister. I'm a Christian that I do Christian comedy, y'.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: All.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: I do stand up. It's just regular standup. I just don't cuss. And I don't have dark comedy or blue comedy. I just have clean. And so I'll go anywhere. I mean, I've been at Helium in, in Indianapolis when Crackers was open. I was doing that all the time. Been at Madam C.J. walker Theater and I'll be the only clean guy there. But I'm there doing it and I'm just doing stand up.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: You know what I mean? Nate Bargetzi, right?
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:56] Speaker C: Clean. And then Jim Gaffigan's had a whole career.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: We went to see Nate when he was here at Indy last month.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: And he had. It was either four or five openers.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: And I have no problem with cussing. It doesn't offend me. I have no problem cussing myself. All of that.
What stood out to me at the end of the night was there were five or six comedians and not a single cuss word the entire time. And it was hilarious. And it's not religious comedy. It's just telling stories and being clean about doing it.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: Do you remember any of the names of the openers?
[00:15:27] Speaker C: I wish I could. I don't.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Johnny W. Was he one of them?
[00:15:30] Speaker B: It doesn't sound like they're like several
[00:15:32] Speaker C: guys that he's like bringing up and comedy.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So Monday, this last Monday, I performed five minutes on Nateland Live in Nashville, Tennessee at. So he sponsors a clean comedy night at.
At Zany's. So I'm in the green room sitting next to Nate's sister who's producing that show.
[00:15:53] Speaker C: Oh, very.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: And so that was pretty awesome. And I did my five minutes. They didn't know me, so I only had five minutes. And I was the first comedian and I was like, I'm walking up to. I mean, there was a. A host, but I'm still kind of the cold open. Right. And I'm like, it took me a minute even.
[00:16:09] Speaker C: Did you kill?
[00:16:10] Speaker A: I did, but it took a few minutes to get there because they're just like, is it safe to laugh? You know, I don't know why people feel that way, but yeah, when I, I did a bit about my daughter found my record. Record player before she, you know, before records were cool again, she didn't know they had two speeds, so she thought I listened to music that sounded like shock to the heart.
You too? Good. And that's when I won the crowd.
[00:16:37] Speaker C: Right.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: They were mine for the rest of the.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: That's a great joke.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: It's a great joke and it's just fun to do that, you know, she's like, it's the demon music. I was like, that's what your grandma
[00:16:46] Speaker C: called it on 78.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. The chipmunks are bad Chipmunks.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: That's awesome.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: I could have gone that way with that one. Yeah.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: You go the opposite.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
Put Michael Jackson on the slow speed. He sounds normal.
[00:17:03] Speaker C: Right. Put him on 78 and you're summoning like Martians.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: You know, I've always wondered, in the world of stand up comedy, like, what's the process for you, like to develop a 45 minute show?
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Normally you, you go to open mics and you try out new bits. They'll give you like three to five minutes and you're just basically trying new material. And most of the time it's to other comedians. And so that builds your. Your conf. Not your confidence, but your ability to make it through when you're not winning the crowd. Because you do that every week. Some of these guys go three nights a week at these little places and do. To do that.
Basically, you know, you start with. For me, I start with a concept of where I want to go and you know where I want to start. What's the opener, what's the closer, where's my callbacks? You know, the Callback is just when you're referencing something that hit earlier and you use the same phrase again.
And so you just kind of construct it that way. And I. I used to write a set list and all that, but I've been doing it for 20 years, so now it's just kind of like, how much time do I have? Right. Give me a light when there's, like, four minutes left so I can land the plane. And then I just go and have fun with whatever comes to my mind from all of my material.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: How often do you change your show?
[00:18:27] Speaker A: As often as I can. I mean, but it. Truthfully, when I go to all these places that I've never been before, I get to use the tried and true, right?
[00:18:36] Speaker C: Yeah, sure.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: But I'm always trying to write something. I'm always texting my friends going, hey, this is an idea I have. And, you know, I'm trying to put. Put things together. And, you know, like, hopefully you're.
[00:18:48] Speaker C: I can see I just got a new leaf blower. Listen to this.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: Right, Exactly.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Obviously, you rely on your friends and your family members because they're the ones you kind of start the material with, Right? In a way.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: Like, I.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: You know, when my wife tells me a story, I might be like, oh, that's hilarious, or that's great. But I also might be feeding her a bunch of crap.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: When are you gonna finish this?
[00:19:08] Speaker B: Just to move on.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: Right?
[00:19:10] Speaker B: So obviously, you have to rely on their honesty and doing this for 20 years. I'm sure you're at a point where, like, they're gonna be brutally honest.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And. And my friends that are comedians will be honest with me because they know I'm reaching out to them. Like, they reach out to me going, I have this idea. Right? You know, and. And, like, so we, you know, culture shifts, Carlos, Constantly. And I used to make fun of myself a lot, and I don't do that much anymore because it doesn't hit like it used to.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: It used to be funny if you're a big guy and you make fun of yourself, now it's like, he's fat shaming. And I was like, who am I fat shaming Me.
But, I mean, I try to sneak in some of that stuff. Like, I was in Africa and did comedy in a cafe there a few years ago, and we went on safari, and we went on the Nile river and saw all these hippopotamuses or hippopotami, whatever they're called.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Hippopotamus. I think the first one was correct.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: We're gonna Just go, hippos. Yeah, I saw all these hippos. And the. The tour guide on the boat, he was like, the hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal in all Africa. And I was like, you have the lion. He's like, kills more people than the lion or the shark. And I said, so what you're saying is in. In junior high, when they called you, they were complimenting me. Exactly. Absolutely. It's a brilliant joke. It is. And I did that down in. In at the N Land and I got. Oh, you know. Which means they loved me. Right. And I made fun of me. And they're like, don't pick on Hoss. He's our friend. I was like, I'm the one doing it.
[00:20:44] Speaker C: Right.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: You know, it's just a fun. It's kind of like when you go to a ventriloquist and the guy in the crowd gets mad at the dummy. You're like, it's the same guy, you know, but you know, that. That. That's a very good ventriloquist.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: Or this is true. Yeah. When people separate it completely.
[00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah. When you think that. That that puppet is alive. Yeah. That guy's good at what he does. And for me, when they. When they do that, I realize I have just turned and tipped the room to love me.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: And so some of those are a little test in the water, you know?
[00:21:17] Speaker C: You know when you're a big guy and you're on a safari in Africa.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:20] Speaker C: And let's say you're wandering out, you get a little bit away from the group, and the lion sees you, buffet.
But then he turns and walks away.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Does it make you go, am I not good enough?
[00:21:31] Speaker C: What's wrong with me?
[00:21:31] Speaker B: Like, I think you're just happy he's turning away.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I. I think I would be like, wow, thank you, Jesus. I don't know. I don't know what I. I would feel a little offended. Like, bro, am I not good?
[00:21:44] Speaker C: Dude, look at me. Like, I. I am a meal over here.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: There's some real muscle in here. You know, it's insulated, but it's there.
[00:21:51] Speaker C: I'm a little spicy even, right? Yeah. He just walks away. You gotta. You have to be self conscious about that. Because the lion decided to go hang out with a hippo.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: You probably just see me and say, he had Taco Bell on the way over. I don't.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: Maybe it's more offensive if the lion attacks, but attacks someone else that's smaller.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: Oh, right next to you.
[00:22:10] Speaker B: Right.
[00:22:10] Speaker C: And then Looks at you like, I'm right here. This one's good.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Because if it turns and walks away, you can think, oh, he just ate. He doesn't gotta eat for a while. But, you know, if he's attacking a little person next to you, like, come on, man.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: That's the thing about being a giant person, you know, if we did see a big, ferocious, you know, apex predator out in the wild, they're not going after the biggest guy. So I'm. I'm good.
[00:22:35] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: I may be slow, but those guys are easier prey. That's all I'm saying.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: So how was that going to Africa?
[00:22:43] Speaker A: It was absolutely fantastic. I went to Uganda.
[00:22:47] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: And. Okay,
[00:22:51] Speaker B: continentally speaking, where is Uganda?
[00:22:53] Speaker A: So it's over right next to Eureka. Yeah, get out. So you got Somalia and Uganda, Kenya, and below it is Rwanda and so centrally. So Africa. Yeah, it would be like.
It's on the. The east side of Africa.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: And it's, you know, towards the north. It's really on the equator. Right on.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: On the equator.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: Gotcha. Thank you.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: You're welcome.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Sorry to test your geography.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: It's okay.
[00:23:22] Speaker C: But I still don't know where I
[00:23:24] Speaker B: can put the map on the screen.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: I mean, you. I mean, we've all been to zoos, right? And we've seen these animals in captivity, but it's another experience to this to. To be. We don't know what we're going to see. And we're out driving, right? And we're just hoping to run into. And so we did. We ran into some lions. We ran into elephants and giraffes and. And so many, you know, deer type looking. I forgot what they were.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Antelope, maybe. Antelopes or whatever. And then we had the. The wilder beast and the. I mean, the monkeys. Saw some good stuff. It was amazing. It really was.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: That's really cool.
Did you do comedy while you were there?
[00:24:05] Speaker A: I did at a cafe for NGO people, says non government officials. So there's about 130 people from, like, Australia and England and Germany and France and Canada and America all assembled in this cafe for my comedy. And I'm telling you, my best joke there was.
That's funny in America,
[00:24:29] Speaker B: right?
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Because some things just did not hit. Yeah, they're like, I don't get your husky jeans joke. Sorry.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: But, you know, I'm Brian, your Indianapolis realtor. If you are looking to buy or sell a house in the Indy area, I'm your guy. If you're coming from out of state, want to Make a move to the Indy area. I'm your guy. Check out the show notes for a link. We can get in touch and get you started. Thanks for watching. Now back to the show.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: You know, I'm like, well, that's too spells in America.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: It does.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: It really does.
[00:24:58] Speaker C: So, okay, this is a. I, I, I listen to a lot of. I listen to a couple podcasts and some talk about comedy, and one of the things I'm hearing is, you know, the woke kind of ruined comedy for a little while. And now, now that's kind of going away. You that because you said, oh, you know, it's fat shaming. But I hear that that's.
People are going, come on, be funny.
I think a little less of the, oh, my gosh, we're going to cancel that guy.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: I think the people in our generation, I don't know how you guys are, but, I mean, I'm 52, but 57.
So in our generation, I think that we, we kind of were like, oh, we care about people. So everybody kind of got a little woke, you know, but then after a while, we kind of got to the point where, like, I can't even talk right? And we're like, I'm done. I'm done. I'm gonna be respectful and I'm gonna be loving and friendly, but I'm done trying to make everybody happy. And I think that that's kind of the shift. So we, we kind of landed in the middle where, you know, there's extreme guys and they have their followers and then they have their haters, right? And so, and then you have those people that are on the other side on woke who want to just get up and make jokes about our president or whatever else. And, you know, everybody has their place in their lane, and I stay in. It's somewhere in the middle. Not trying to be safe, but it's just, that's my interest. You know, I'm not, I don't have interest in being the shock guy, but,
[00:26:18] Speaker C: but we still can come home and watch Blazing Saddles and realize that was an absolutely hilarious movie that could not
[00:26:24] Speaker B: nearly as good today as it was then.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: It could not.
[00:26:26] Speaker C: You can watch the version that hasn't.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: I'm like, it has nothing to do with woke or anything like that. It's just like watching the show, I'm like, it's just not as funny.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: I don't know. Well, it, it was in its time, as you might already know, was very important because it made fun of racism and all these other things. It made it so, like, ridiculous and that. That people could watch it and go, wait a minute. Okay, I get it. Right. Right. Just like Sanford and Son did. Right. And all in the Family did. They made fun of racism and. And the. The problems in society in a way to make you go, okay, really? That is kind of dumb. Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. Like, because Sanford and Son, like, you know, Fred Sanford had his Puerto Rican neighbor and he hated him. And. And. And you see all this bantering going on between them and. And it kind of showed how ridiculous it was. Right. You know, Archie Bunker had Archie Jefferson. Yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Still hilarious shows, though. Like, you go back and watch it was.
We. We shouldn't be afraid to approach different subjects. Right. In a comical way to make people think, you know, another way. Instead, you know, it got to this point where you couldn't say anything.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And luckily, I didn't have anything that I had to take out. Really. That's good. Except for making fun of myself, you know, And I didn't really do political humor at all. And I. I kind of get. Can not cancel, but skipped over because I did appear on the Mike Huckabee Show.
So, I mean, when you Google my name on or on, like, YouTube, the.
There's three or four clips of me on the Huckabee show, and you see the word Huckabee over there, and people are like, he must be this radical whatever. And I'm like, I may have a lot of the same beliefs, but I don't talk like they.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: Right.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: You know, so switching gears slightly here as a standup.
[00:28:24] Speaker A: Right.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: Obviously, hecklers are going to be part
[00:28:27] Speaker A: of what you deal with.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: How do you deal with that?
[00:28:30] Speaker A: I try to ignore them because if you give them attention, it gives them life, and it does not end. Because in Kentucky growing up, they would always say this. You can't out puke a buzzard.
You know, that's true. I'm not gonna out puke this guy. And I'm gonna try to push right through it, you know, and. Or I try to sometimes I played off, you know, and like, one time, this lady was answering every rhetorical question on the front row. She's every single. Like, if I was like. And I. Which was a great thing for. To happen for me, because now I don't ask so many rhetorical questions, you know, I kind of just tell the story. But when I would say the little idioms that we throw out, like, you know what I mean? You know? Yeah, yeah. She'd be like, I don't know what you Mean, you know, things. And so I finally. I stopped and I said, ma', am, you're gonna get me in trouble with my wife. And she said, what do you mean? I said, I gotta go home and tell her that I've been talking to a strange woman all night.
And she didn't say another word.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: She didn't.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Not at all.
[00:29:31] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Kind of a polite way to put her in a place. Yeah.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: And I was at a camp one time with teenagers, and this kid kept trying to heckle me. And I said, look, I am working here. I don't go to Chuck E. Cheese when you're in that suit and bother you. Right?
[00:29:45] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: And the whole room turned on him, and it was awesome.
[00:29:48] Speaker C: That's great.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: And he loved it.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: So.
[00:29:51] Speaker C: So. So it's kind of like, don't bother. Don't. Don't deal with the heckler. Just like, you don't read the comments.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:57] Speaker C: On social media. Like, just leave the comments alone.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Except I can't stop reading comments. On my Drive, our comedy special. They. They're all. 90 of them are great.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: But the ones that bother you, it just takes one crushes you.
[00:30:10] Speaker A: Well, that one guy on. On my Dry bar comments, he said he eats his feelings because I'm a big guy. And I was like, actually, I still have a few feelings left, but I'm not really that hungry or something. I was just missing. It's like, how dumb of a comment is that? You know? Or an old man was like, I did this joke about getting the lyrics wrong when I'm singing along with radio and it changes a love song into maybe a stalker song.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: Right?
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. You know, like, you can't live if Living is Without Me is a stalker song.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Right.
[00:30:45] Speaker A: You know? Or when I'm like, singing John Legend is like, your head's underwater, but I'm breathing fine. You know, it's like. He's like, I don't get it. I guess you have to know. But I'm like, stop trying so hard. Comedy is about shutting your brain off and enjoying the ride. Right? Yeah. Too many people go in there.
[00:31:04] Speaker B: Why.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: Why do you go to a comedy club if you're not going to go in there and be like, I'm going to be entertained. Too many people go in there going,
[00:31:13] Speaker B: make me laugh, funny boy.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Let's see what you can do. You know, do your little dance on the stage. And I'm like, stop it.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Do you dance?
[00:31:21] Speaker A: No.
[00:31:21] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: I've been in musicals.
[00:31:23] Speaker C: Oh, I can dance. You know how to dance?
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I was in Shrek, the musical. I got to be Shrek.
[00:31:28] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Once upon a time, there's a little ogre named Shrek, you know, but there was only Shrek boys. Yeah, it is. Okay. There was only one time in that whole musical that I had to dance.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: Oh, all right.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: It was the ending number, and it was such a simple dance. And I was like, thank you. Because I'm. Yeah, that was not.
I didn't do that growing up. So I was like, we're trying.
[00:31:50] Speaker C: Brian did a lot of dancing as a child.
[00:31:52] Speaker A: Did you? No, no.
[00:31:54] Speaker B: The one and only musical I was ever in, I was a teacher and typecasted, actually. No, no, no. It was when I was a teacher and.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: And you played a teacher. That shouldn't have been hard.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Shut up.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: So the teacher who was in charge of the show asked if I. She's like, oh, I think this would be hilarious if you did this.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: I was like, okay, tell me about it.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: It was a modern take on a Shakespeare show.
Anyways, in the show, I had to.
I was playing a character that was going to be in a play, which typically happens in Shakespeare.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: Right.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: In this play, I had to dress as a woman, which I had always vowed to my wife. Like, even on Halloween, I'm like, I'm never wearing a dress. This is not happening. Well, in this show, in front of, you know, the entire school, I'm in a dress, and I get the comedy. It was funny.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: It was great.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: The last bit of the show was everybody up on the stage doing a dance to Beyonce, all the single ladies. So here I am on the stage doing that. Oh, 100% doing that. And so anyway, yes, I have dance,
[00:32:58] Speaker A: but that's really about it.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Now back to the question.
As a comedian, obviously, you're. You're feeling out the room. You know, you can tell when stuff's going well and when it isn't.
How do you deal with when the show is just going to shit?
[00:33:15] Speaker A: I backpedal, go to my favorite stuff, and I usually switch to something a little bit more dramatic, like my sound effects stuff. Stuff and things like that, which I wouldn't be able to do unless I was hearing it, you know, but, you know, I make all these. I can do one thing. Like, I just go into this thing about. Like, when I was a kid, I learned how to whistle without puckering up so I could just mess with people. So I can just sit there and be like, that's awesome.
You know? Or when my dad was driving, I'd be Like, you know, that kind of stuff. And I move in quickly to what I know works great, but it.
You also have to just know.
Sometimes you're not hearing laughter, but you see them all happy. Yeah. And you have to. Sometimes it's weird. It's a phenomenon. I'll never understand that in a club. Sometimes the Gigglers and the Smilers all come to the same night.
I never will get that.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: You're not getting me there.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Right.
And so I'm like, I'm. I've been there where, like, I did this show down in Gallenburg, Tennessee, about a month or two ago. There's like 5,000 teenagers at 8:30 in the morning.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: So it's like, this is hard.
[00:34:33] Speaker C: You have to have some weed candy.
[00:34:37] Speaker A: But I'm there going, okay, I've got to win these kids over. Right. And they were loving it. And I could hear the laughter. I could see it on their faces. But if you were in the very back, you'd have been like, dude, he's struggling because it's early in the morning and nobody's awake. This guy came up to me, he's like, tough crowd. I was like, actually, it was pretty good for eight in the morning and, you know, teenagers who weren't ready to have a comedian do anything.
[00:35:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Would you think There's a couple kinds of bits. There's the. The bit that's just hilarious that you belly lap out loud.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:35:09] Speaker C: And then there's the bit that maybe you didn't get, but you. You appreciated how good of a joke it was. So still funny. Great joke. But it didn't make me laugh out loud.
[00:35:16] Speaker A: Right.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: I appreciate the joke.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: Like, I've sat there in awe of some of these young comedians who cleverly put things together, you know, And I may not belly laugh, but there's this moment where I'm going, man, that's.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: That was a great.
[00:35:30] Speaker A: That was brilliant. Yeah. You know, great writing.
[00:35:33] Speaker C: I've been there, I think, back as a kid, you know, I. I'm 58.
[00:35:37] Speaker A: 57.
[00:35:38] Speaker C: 58. 57, 57. I think I was 56 for two years because I. I didn't know that happens. Pretty sure I'm 57, going back and listening to, like, Richard Prior records and Eddie Murphy records and those old, like, the comedians of those days.
Some of that stuff was just incredibly funny. But I haven't found, like, that edgy, funny comedian that I can point to today, in today's world.
But I love, like, Gaffigan and what's Mark Normad, is that his Name.
[00:36:13] Speaker A: I don't know that.
[00:36:14] Speaker C: I don't know that one. He has a Netflix special out. Sure, you know him.
[00:36:19] Speaker A: If I think there's so many of these guys that have like Netflix specials and, or multiple specials and they have like, I mean, everything's good and you hear that everybody's enjoying it. Right. But there's like three or four really killer bits strewn about in the show. Mediocre.
[00:36:35] Speaker C: Nobody's like a davitel that kills the entire time every single show.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: Hard to find that guy now, you know? And if you go to like a showcase like I did Monday, everybody's doing five to 10 minutes, depending on how well the house knows them. And I was a five minute guy because they never met me.
They're. We're all doing our favorite, best stuff. We know that works. And. But when you have, when you're given 45 minutes or an hour, you are.
If you can't hold them, you're going to get in trouble. One of my, one of my favorite guys, Dave the King Wilson, used to be on Bob.
[00:37:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: So he's a good friend as well. And he does some jokes that take a long time to get to the punchline. Right. But he knows what he's doing.
[00:37:22] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: So he does this bit about he could tell you who won the Indianapolis 500 based upon the year you were born. So the crowd will give him like 1965, and he'll be like, you know Ray Haroun. Yeah. And he'll be like, first of three, and he's the first guy to do this and blah, blah.
[00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: It never, never misses a beat. He does that for a few minutes and nobody's really laughing, but we're all, like, in awe. Yeah.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: You know that, right?
[00:37:46] Speaker A: And he says, I tell you all that to tell you this, that he like. And I don't know what the actual punchline is, but it's something to the effect of I, I still don't know where my keys are when I have to leave out.
But it takes him five minutes to get there.
[00:38:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: And it's worth the payoff to him.
[00:38:04] Speaker C: Right?
[00:38:05] Speaker A: So you, you got to know if they're. What, what. My friend Bob Smiley, who's a comedian down in Texas, he says it's called Laugier. You gotta know, is it working?
Some guys are so married to their set, verbatim, like, they have, they've put every word down, all that kind of stuff. I'm okay to pivot. I will pivot in a second. You know, this isn't Working them out. Yeah, I'm just gonna. I'm gonna give me my punch and I'm gonna go into the next joke or I'm gonna start doing some crowd work. You know, I have the crowd work that I do is I just stop what I'm doing and I say, I hate cats. And it's like everybody's like, what? And I was like, I know that's the worst transition in comedy history. And I was like, I really like dogs, but names of dogs are kind of fun. And so I start asking people what kind of dog they have and what their name is, and I get to
[00:38:51] Speaker C: make fun of them.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: One guy said he had a Rottweiler. And I said, what's the name? He said, elsa.
I said, well, don't let it go.
You know, things like that.
[00:38:59] Speaker C: I have a. I have a Lucy.
[00:39:00] Speaker A: You have a Lucy? Yeah.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: It's in Newfoundland.
[00:39:04] Speaker A: It's in Newfoundland.
[00:39:05] Speaker C: No, it's here.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: Okay, good.
[00:39:06] Speaker C: She is in Newfoundland.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: That's a big dog, isn't it?
[00:39:09] Speaker C: Yeah, she came from Dildo Bay.
It's a place in Newfoundland.
[00:39:15] Speaker A: No comment.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Bob and Tom show. That's how I know Dildo Newfoundland. Yeah.
[00:39:20] Speaker C: Captain Dildo.
[00:39:22] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:39:22] Speaker C: In the town.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: And it's a real thing. As you know. I just got back from Iceland last night and why would you go to Iceland? In Iceland is the Phallic Museum an absolutely fascinating place to visit.
And I was thinking about Dildo Newfoundland
[00:39:39] Speaker C: often while walking through there.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: But, yeah, it was fascinating.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: But it's real
[00:39:44] Speaker C: bad when gay guys don't hit on you.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: But they do.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: I'm a good looking man.
Do you said, you know you can pivot easily, right? So you have a plan. He pivoted on us right now.
Is there ever a time where you just kind of riff and just.
[00:40:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
A couple weeks ago, I was doing comedy up at Goshen, Indiana, and I was at the same place the year before, so it's the same kind of fundraiser. And I went to do it. I'm sitting there going, man, I remember writing down in my notes of my iPhone what I did last year because they said, we want you back next year. So I was like, I better write this down.
And I couldn't find those notes. And so I panicked just a little bit, thinking, I don't want to give them the exact same show. And so I started riffing all these ideas that I had that I hadn't really done much with. I just said, it's time. And so. And it was working. That's what I love Because I could hear that this was a crowd that liked to laugh. So I'm like, we're going to try this stuff, you know, And I'm trying all my Africa stories or my. I do this thing about English is not the easiest language in the world.
[00:40:56] Speaker C: No, it's hard. Like, if.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: If I told you to pronounce the word W I, n, D, what is that?
[00:41:03] Speaker B: It's either wind or wind.
[00:41:04] Speaker A: That's my point. I'll get everybody. Be like, wind. I was like, no, it's wine. What are y' all reading?
So I have a whole list of those. Like, closed and close are the same spelling and. Right. And I was like, you just got to put the right in fastest on the right saliva if you want to get this correct.
And so I did a whole thing of that. And I'd not done that anywhere. And it was just kind of, you know, riffing a little bit, having fun with the audience, picking on people when they get it wrong, you know? And so.
And some of my handwriting was purposely not done right, so they can't even read it. And they're like, we don't know. And I was like, y' all are illiterate, you know.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: Well, some people probably came in horse and carriage and Goshen, that's a possibility.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: I did make it.
I said, I got here yesterday, and all I could hear is.
And there. And there's some groaning in the back. And I was like, is there an Amish person here? You know, Turn off the lights.
Don't let him see the switch.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: Is this thing on?
[00:42:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I didn't know.
[00:42:04] Speaker C: I get some of your bread and butter.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: I didn't know. I was just using one of those cones, you know those.
[00:42:09] Speaker B: That's right. It's a megaphone night.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: I did do a show in Neosho, Missouri. That's a weird name of a city. Yosho, Missouri. And the power went out right before my set.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: Oh, Nelly.
[00:42:19] Speaker A: And so I'm like, what are we gonna do? And this guy goes, I have a battery operated Bluetooth speaker. Oh, wow. Get it. And then every person in the room had their phone light on.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: We're in this room and I'm using a handheld microphone on this battery power and killed. That's 30 minutes. 30 minutes I did in the dark. It was great.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: That's fantastic.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: I recently, I do some PA work
[00:42:43] Speaker A: and MC stuff every now and then.
[00:42:45] Speaker B: I was recently PA for the indoor percussion show down in Center Grove.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: And in the middle of the show, my speakers and microphone went dead. Actually. The microphone went dead. So as they're scrambling to find me a new microphone, I'm looking at the guy downstairs in charge of timing the
[00:43:01] Speaker C: groups, which is very important for indoor percussion.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: And I was like, as we all know, I can't. Like, the time doesn't start until I announce that, like, I got nothing. I go, I can shout it if you need me to break out the old teacher voice there. And then somebody runs up with a microphone. And I was good, but. But, yeah, I know what you're saying, you know, sometimes, like, well, gotta go with what we got.
[00:43:23] Speaker A: That's right. And one time I.
Since I have ADD really bad, I. I'll trip over my words because I'm thinking of not just what I'm saying now, but the three things I'm gonna say after all at the same time. And I was in Kentucky, and I was trying to do this bit about I used to think I listened to rock and roll, but it turns out 80s rock and roll is really country music.
[00:43:46] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: And it's so true. And I started singing all of Jon Bon Jovi songs with the country twang shot to the heart. And you're to blame Darling, you give love a bad name and everybody's cheering, you know. But right when I'm leading into that bit, I said, I used to like to rock. I just. I mean, I was trying to do. And I was contra. I thought I was. And I'm, like, falling apart, Right. So I stopped and I started hitting on the microphone. And I was, like, looking at it like it was broken. You know what I mean? Like, so riffing is there. And then I brought it back up to my mouth and I was like, being vendidos. Like, sorry, I put it on Spanish.
And those two things.
I stole those ideas on stage in my mind that fast from two different movies.
The Spanish was from Toy Story.
Get. You know, switch him back to English. He's on Spanish plus, like, you was on. And the other was just from Fletch when I started, you know, and he would do that on the phone kind of thing. Yeah.
So, I mean, I instantly remembered those two scenes and put them together as my recovery. And it was actually really good. Video on Tick Tock. That.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: That's great.
[00:45:02] Speaker A: I'll put up there. Like, here's how you recover on stage.
[00:45:05] Speaker C: So which makes you more nervous, stepping out on stage at a comedy show. Okay. Or showing up on Sunday morning before you're going to preach to a crowd,
[00:45:14] Speaker A: man, I'm going to say comedy because, you know, it's It's a weird thing in my mind because almost all of my bits have some truth to it, but all of them absolutely have a whole lot of storytelling.
[00:45:29] Speaker C: Sure, sure.
[00:45:30] Speaker A: As in not true.
Right.
And as a person who believes in truth, you know, I'm being truthful. I. I get the backstage, and I'll be like, they're gonna find out I made up all this stuff, get mad at me. And then I go, oh, yeah, that's comedy. Right? So I think that comedy makes me nervous in the sense that I just want it to go well. I care about the people who paid money to come see me or the person who paid me, you know, $50,000 to do the show. No one has yet, but I'm hoping speak it into the universe, you know, it's like, you know, and here's my Venmo. No, I'm just kidding.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: So, you know, screen.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Keep going.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: But I have something to say about Venmo.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: So I. I get really nervous for that, for preaching. I used to, but I've been doing that since I was 12.
And so I'm usually just excited to get up there and share everything I've worked on all week. So.
[00:46:26] Speaker C: Jason Dunn, Danger Nunley. Yeah, Justin Danger. Justin. Yeah. So he showed a video of the day. There's a guy that said, you know, people. When people tell me I'm broke, I just. I'll give you $2,000. I'll just Venmo to you.
And he's like, you got. You got holes in your sweatshirt. How you. Here, here's my venmo. Send me $2,000.
[00:46:49] Speaker A: Course, nothing happened, right?
[00:46:51] Speaker C: But he posted that video. So then somebody said to him, well, I'm broke. You send me $2,000.
So he thought that was funny. He said, so I'm going to request $2,000 from that guy.
But he paid him $2,000 on accident.
So he. He realized when you're going to play jokes with Vinmo and money, you have to really pay attention to what you're doing.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:14] Speaker C: So keep. He said, fortunately, the guy was nice enough that he realized I accidentally sent him the $2,000. So. So he sent the $2,000 back to him, and I sent him $200 because his daughter's bike got stolen and he was waiting to get a paycheck to
[00:47:26] Speaker A: buy her a new bike.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: And then there's a video of the. The dog, thanks to Justin, and he's like, so next time you're screwing around the Vinmo and you think you're being funny, pay attention.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Make sure. It's on received, but if somebody does
[00:47:38] Speaker A: have an extra $2,000, it's at Hoss Ridgeway. Okay.
[00:47:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: And when my phone dings, I'm just gonna be like, I'm gonna name my next pet after you because we're not having any more children.
[00:47:50] Speaker C: I'm glad that I was on this Success Happy hour.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:47:53] Speaker C: So how can somebody book you?
[00:47:55] Speaker A: So all they have to do is find me on social media, like on Facebook. Just look for Hoss Ridgeway. I'm pretty much the only one. You can go on to Instagram.
[00:48:08] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: At Hoss Ridge or at Hostage. H O S S A G E.
Nice. Yeah. And. Or you can just go to hossridgeway.com and fill out the form on there and.
[00:48:17] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: And we'll get with you and work with your budget and.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:48:21] Speaker A: Hope you have a really big one.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: Earlier in the show, you mentioned dry bar comedy.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: What is that? So dry bar is made by Angel Studios out in Provo, Utah, and they've filmed like over 200 comedians. Like Rob Schreiner just did his. Is that his name?
[00:48:36] Speaker C: Rob Schneider.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Schneider.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Schneider.
[00:48:37] Speaker A: Schneider just did one. And I mean, like Adam Corell did one, you know, and it's all clean. Right. And Adam was struggling to be clean.
He, he's, he can be right now.
[00:48:50] Speaker C: He's very political. I know that, but I didn't know.
[00:48:52] Speaker A: So he went out and he did a clean 20 minute set. And so they put all these guys out.
And so about what, three years ago or so, I flew out to Provo and filmed my 20 minute. It's, it's, it's.
You can see it on YouTube or on Facebook on their, their site. And it's about to be on Angels television channel. And I think that's through Comcast.
[00:49:17] Speaker C: You can.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: So hopefully I'll make money in the future. I haven't yet, but over the last.
[00:49:23] Speaker C: There's always a. There's always that chance.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: Right. But over the last couple weeks, they started dropping some of my little clips and it's 4, 400 and some odd thousand views at this point.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: Oh, very nice. And we've put your Venmo on the screen, so money's just gonna start.
[00:49:34] Speaker C: That's what she's gonna ding. And everywhere you go.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I could use it because the, you know, the time chain went out in the truck and I'm driving my son's car.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:43] Speaker C: Good grief. Timing chains always have bad timing.
[00:49:45] Speaker A: They do. Yeah. Especially in my truck.
Got them out of tequila. Yeah. Oh, that's what's up.
[00:49:51] Speaker C: We're about to.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: Well, we know it's empty because you've made a bad joke. Is that what. What he's saying?
[00:49:55] Speaker C: When I run out.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: Bad joke.
[00:49:58] Speaker C: You're gonna pour more of that? That's really hard to get. I can't get any more of it.
[00:50:05] Speaker B: Anything else for the good of the show?
[00:50:08] Speaker A: No.
So, funny story about. I. I was golfing in a. In a fundraising tournament once. I'm not very good golfer.
[00:50:16] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: And you could pay $10 to get to drop your ball in this hula hoop out.
[00:50:25] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:50:25] Speaker A: 100 yards out of a par five. And it was. But you get entered into this whiskey kind of thing. And I was like, well, I don't drink, but I'll give the $10 and get to that. A hundred yard. Yeah, baby. You know, and they're in this big room, and everybody knew I'm a minister, and. And they announced. And the winner of Angel's Envy.
[00:50:46] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Was Hoss Ridgeway. I'm carrying around this bottle of whiskey that I'll never drink, but it says Angels Envy. And I was like, they would give that to Hoss.
[00:50:55] Speaker C: Right, of course.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: So. And it's an expensive bottle.
[00:50:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's great bottle. I don't know. The Angels actually envy it, but it is good.
[00:51:02] Speaker A: They probably can't. Can't hold their liquor.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: All right.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: They can't hold their liquor. Ready to wrap.
[00:51:07] Speaker A: But they can.
[00:51:08] Speaker C: Their spirits. They can.
[00:51:10] Speaker A: That was a terrible joke. I apologize.
[00:51:12] Speaker B: We're going with it on that. We're. We're ending on that note.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:51:16] Speaker C: That's the last one out.
[00:51:17] Speaker B: Well, H, it was a pleasure to meet you.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: Got it.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: And definitely glad you came out. Really appreciate that. And we'll be looking for you on YouTube.
[00:51:23] Speaker C: Can we go see you anywhere locally?
[00:51:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:51:25] Speaker A: So let's see.
Not anytime soon.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Right?
[00:51:30] Speaker A: We need to have a fundraiser if you need. Let's. Let's do something is all I'm saying.
[00:51:36] Speaker C: So let's get Hoss's show in Indiana.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: Let's go.
[00:51:40] Speaker C: And we'll come. We'll come to it. We'll film it.
[00:51:42] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: I just did, like, four shows around here, so it's not something you want to be like, I was at.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: It's always. I was at that. That racetrack.
[00:51:51] Speaker B: All right, cool. Well, thanks for coming out.
[00:51:52] Speaker A: You got it. Thanks. H. Absolutely, bro.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: Glad I met those of you who watch today. Thanks for being here. We'll see you next time on Indiana Success Happy Hour. Cheers.
It's Brian and Brad, grab your seat.
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[00:52:10] Speaker A: in? Don't even blink?
[00:52:13] Speaker B: Cause real estate makes us drink.
