Dead Men Walking Podcast Greg Moore, Jason Hamlin, & Chris Wineland Episode 13

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Exploring theology, doctrine, and all of the fascinating subjects in between, broadcasting from an undisclosed location,

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Dead Men Walking starts now. Well, hello, everyone.

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Welcome to another episode of Dead Men Walking. I'm your host, Greg Moore, here with the co -host, the co -host, the one and only,

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Jason, not Josh. Jason Hamlin. How you doing, Jason? You remember my name. Thank you.

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I appreciate that. Only known you 15 years. Yeah, yeah. I've called you Josh twice in the last two weeks. It's been like 24 or 25 years, man.

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We're old. Yeah. You know, it starts going after a while. Well, normally, Jason and I, we do a little banter, but we have someone on the line that I'm very excited about.

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He's a stand -up... I almost said stand -up comedy. No, that's all right. He's a stand -up comedian. Oh, geez.

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It's going to be a long, long day. No, it's all right. We can edit this in post. It's all right. No, we don't edit anything. He was a former writer for Jimmy Fallon.

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He has a new book out called The Great Heckle. He was recently on The Kim Commando Show, which is the most popular weekend show in the

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United States. Very nice. We have Chris Weinlein. Chris, how are you, sir? Hey, I'm doing good. I didn't know if I should have helped in that intro, you know, for a second.

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I feel bad. I think he's calling us not funny. Ah, dang it. Do I need to bring some fun to your show?

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Oh, look at me coming in and heckling you guys. I'm so sorry. I apologize. No, I love a good roast. That's great.

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Why not? You know, you only roast the ones you love. Yeah, yeah. I agree. So, Chris Weinlein, stand -up comic, you know, brother in the

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Lord, works clean, getting all kinds of views on Instagram and YouTube.

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Real funny stuff. I came across your set on, I think it was the Mike Huckabee Show. That was a little while ago.

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But if you type in your name, that thing has so many darn views. It comes right to the top. And I was a Huckabee fan when he ran for president.

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So, you're all over the place. Well, I mean, I was a fan in that, you know, I think he was a believer and, you know, you rooted for him.

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Oh, okay. Yeah, I liked him less when he lost all that weight. He plays bass. Oh, he's a bass player.

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He does. He looks like a bass player, right? He had that against him. He plays bass. Yeah, he did.

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I'm joking. I'm sure he's an awesome guy. So, Chris is calling in and tell us a little bit about yourself.

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Tell the listeners, I don't know, give us a little short bio and fill us in on who Chris Weinlein is. Yeah, for sure.

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Well, first off, I am also calling from an undisclosed location. I enjoyed that in your intro.

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But yeah, no, I'm a stand -up comedian. I've been doing that for over 11 years now.

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I started in 08, so whatever that is, 12 years. I started off as a writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and then just kind of kept going.

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I actually got saved a year before stand -up. I had always been a clean comic.

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And then, you know, God had just opened up the doors for me to do with so many different comedians that I started to, when

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I was doing clubs and I would be with comics late at night, you know, because you'd be with the feature or the headliner.

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Or if I was headlining, I'd be with a feature MC all weekend. And so I started to realize, man,

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I wish I had something to hand them about the gospel because we would start off in all these conversations and as much as I wish

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I could have stayed with them for a whole week, I couldn't. So then I just wrote this book called The Great Echo and that was currently out.

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That's my latest passion project. That's awesome. And that book is about sharing the gospel then through comedy or kind of adventures of it?

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Yeah, a little bit, kind of a little bit of both. It's tribal mission work. So it's like in the same way that when Paul was up in Athens and he saw the, you know, all these different gods and he said, you know, he saw one that said the unnamed

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God. He said, hey, I know the name of that God. And then he started talking about the one true God.

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And so in the same way, they call that tribal missionary work, where if you go into a tribe, you start to speak their language and explain the gospel to them that way.

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And, you know, just kind of a, I guess you could say a really unfortunate thing that has been trending in, you know,

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American Christianity is that we tend to just say like, hey, you got to kind of learn our vernacular in order to belong into what we're saying.

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So basically what I did is I took the gospel. I didn't grow up Christian. I got saved at 17 on my parents' treadmill.

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So I knew nothing about church. And so, yeah, that's it. Wait, did you just say on your parents' treadmill?

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That's correct. I knew I was going to be a comedian. Yeah. Yeah. I had no real church experience.

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I was just. OK, let me explain the treadmill. I was going to say, you're going to have to. It kind of makes sense.

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As someone who loves carbs, let me say when

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I'm on the treadmill, sometimes I see God too. Yeah. Sweating. Yeah. Yeah.

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I had to lose that punch. But yeah. So how does that work out? You're saved on a treadmill. Yeah. So I got saved on a treadmill.

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I was basically, OK, it's not as happy as it sounds. I was extremely depressed and I was considering suicide.

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But, you know, that's a great way to start a story. But I didn't know if that's where I was going to go.

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But that's definitely where it seemed like my life was leading. And so I just knew something had to change in my life because of my depression and everything like that.

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And I remembered somebody saying, if you exercise, it takes the stress away. So I thought, all right, let's go down to my dad's basement, turn on the treadmill.

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And that could get rid of some deep rooted issues, you know. Right. And it did not.

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And I don't know if you've ever tried running and crying and running in place at the same time. But it's very hard.

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And I had only been to church. You know, my family, we were Christer people, Christmas, Easter people.

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So I'd only been to church a few times in my life. My mom tried to take me sometimes. And all of a sudden, while I was on the treadmill and I realized that fitness wasn't going to do it either.

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I knew something needed to change. And even though I didn't realize I was listening to any of those sermons, it all came back in my mind about Jesus and how he died for my sins.

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And I just stopped what I was doing. And I said, you know, Jesus, if you're real, I need you in my heart right now. And it literally felt like I breathed for the first time.

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And it was insane. Yeah. And after that, I grabbed the Bible, you know, because we had them in our house.

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They were just collecting dust. And all of a sudden, everything made sense to me. Like my eyes were open and I started going to my parents.

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And I was like, guys, did you know that the Bible says this? Like, it was crazy to me. And then, you know, all the songs,

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Amazing Grace started making sense. Like God just opened up my eyes. It was a brand new life. And so, you know, you fast forward, you know, eight years later,

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I was living in Chicago. I was going to school at Second City, which is where a lot of people that ended up in Saturday Night Live, they went there.

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So I was going there. I was making friends with a lot of people. And every time I tried to talk about the gospel,

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I could tell that over the years, I had gotten just a little too churchy. Because, you know, when you say things, they just don't quite understand.

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Because a lot of comedians did not grow up in church. Either they grew up Catholic, they grew up Muslim, or they grew up in an atheistic household.

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That is pretty much what I learned through the Comedy Club side. So what I did through four years of researching and just praying and working on this book, and it's a very thin book, actually.

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It's only less than 100 pages. But basically, I took the mindset,

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I got rid of all the Christian -y that I've learned over the years. And I took this book and I said, okay, what if Jesus was the greatest performer to ever live?

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And not in the sense of saying like, you know, because sometimes when we think of performers, we think that they're fake or whatever.

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A true performer believes that they are here to influence the world with a strong message, and that they believe in justice, they believe in impacting with truth and everything like that.

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So I take that presupposition, that mindset, and I say, let's imagine, if you will, that Jesus was the greatest performer to ever live.

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Let's imagine it for two seconds. If so, Jesus was heckled more than any other person or comedian in the entire world.

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And that's how I, you know, and then really, you just open up such a big thing where now you can say, okay, John the

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Baptist was the greatest MC to ever live, because he led, you know, he opened the doors to Jesus, the headliner, right?

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So you really just start to use their vernacular. And then, you know, and then you just get these books out to comedians and stuff.

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And so that's kind of where we're at. And I've noticed that a lot of youth groups actually have started to get the books and started giving it out to the youth students, because I talk a lot about the history of comedy and stand -up and, you know, just American pop culture, if you will.

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And I relate it in the same way that Paul would, to say, hey, you guys have a lot of gods, and there's this unnamed god

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I'm going to talk about. So that's kind of what I did. Wow, that sounds interesting. That's a really neat perspective on how to present the gospel.

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And I have to imagine that you not growing up in a Christian house versus getting saved later in life, it gives you probably a unique perspective on, you know, your comedy and how to relate, right?

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Because I find sometimes church kids and kids who grew up in church that don't know any different, it's just totally foreign to them when they come to an unbeliever, when maybe they're in their young teens or young adulthood.

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I feel like you kind of had a unique perspective on that, having kind of seen both sides of it, and then also, you know, coming through depression and battling that as well.

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Yeah. Well, you know, what's kind of crazy, too, is, you know, you had mentioned that because I had that kind of background, when

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I do churches, and I'll do really big churches, I don't do Christian -y jokes. Like, I save that for the really great comics like, you know,

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Tim Hawkins and stuff. He does a lot of the Christian -y stuff. As long as you don't say John Christ, we can't speak to that.

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He's on the outskirts. Sorry, sorry, John. He came to my church,

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I hung out with him. Yeah, he was all right. Yeah, I worked with him before. You know, his comedy, if you watch his stand -up, it's fantastic.

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Yeah, sure. He started off as a club comic, and you'll notice there are, okay,

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I love every comic that gets up on stage, but I will just say, comics that start off in the club are, and this is bold, usually funnier than the comics that just started in the churches.

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And the reason I say that is because when you're in the clubs, you have to fight for a laugh.

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When you're in the churches, when you're in the churches, you're given a laugh. And so there were times after I, you know,

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I started in the club, and so I had to fight for laughs, especially since I was clean. I worked, one of my favorite clubs was in Cleveland, Ohio, and a really, really big club.

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They loved my stuff, but the one guy said, listen, I'm never gonna let you work in the big room because you're too clean.

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And I was like, what does that mean? Yeah, so then I had to work in the smaller room, and he wouldn't let me unless I would, you know, go blue.

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And I was like, that's just not me. That's not what I'm gonna do. So, you know, so you have to fight for laughs.

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And when you're at the church, when I started doing churches, I noticed that I could literally do anything

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I wanted. I could even take jokes from other comics if I wanted. And people would fall off their chairs laughing.

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And it just, it really made me upset, to be honest. I was like, stop laughing. This isn't a good joke, guys.

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It's not funny. No, Seinfeld talks about that a lot where he says, you know, he doesn't like the fact that he gets built in jokes just because he's

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Seinfeld. He wants to earn that laugh. And if you watch his latest special on Netflix, just came out a week ago, you can tell,

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I mean, when he's taking a sip of water, the guy gets a, you know, 10 second applause break for doing nothing because, oh, it's

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Seinfeld. And he says it annoys the heck out of him because he wants it to be funny. And, you know, he wants to earn that laugh.

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And you're absolutely right. I'll tell you what, you go to a club, and when I go to comedy clubs, there's a whole section of people that are just sitting there kind of with their arms crossed, like, hey, all right, you said you're funny.

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Let's hear it. And you got to earn that. To where when you're in a church, yeah, I can see that.

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You're kind of given some of those laughs. And I know if you're an artist like yourself who's trying to, you know, craft something and want to be proud of it,

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I would imagine you want to earn that as well. Yeah, that's really, really true.

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I would say this too. I think, and I'm not in your industry, but I have to imagine that going clean has to be so much harder.

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You know, you listen to like the Gaffigans and the Brian Regans and the Jerry Seinfelds, and they're so brilliant.

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They're just on another level. And on top of that, for the most part, they run clean. And you're just like, how?

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It seems easy to go into an easy joke or use a certain word or a certain premise that automatically has some uncomfortableness in it that's going to get a laugh.

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To go clean like you do, I feel like it's an additional challenge. Do you feel that way? Or do you just go, no, it's just writing jokes in general is hard?

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Yeah, you know, I've had a lot of dirty comics that will tell me that they think that it's harder for me to do what

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I do than what they do. And I've never done dirty, so I don't really know if it's harder or not.

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But I do feel like writing jokes is, you know, it's difficult no matter what,

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I would think. Especially even the dirtier ones that are really, really talented, they're really spending a long time crafting the joke and crafting the story and the way they tell it.

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So I feel like either way it's harder. But for me, I never grew up listening to dirty comedy.

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I didn't know it existed until my first comedy club at 18. You know,

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I don't know why, but my parents only listened to clean comedy. So that's what I grew up in. So when

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I did my first set, it was so easy to say, okay, you know, because that's all

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I thought existed. I didn't know. And then I went to the first club and my eyes were very wide open.

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And I was like, what is this stuff? So you were doing all poopy jokes? Yeah. Poopy.

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Right. After that, I was like, oh boy, I got to go repent. I think I've got some jokes. Yeah. No, no.

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My mindset always just went with relatability because that's what I grew up with.

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Like Seinfeld and Ellen DeGeneres and Louis Anderson. You know, how do we relate to things?

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And I said, to this day, I still think it's funny. But, you know, I've learned to kind of understand why comics would say, you know, when you studied

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Richard Pryor, his life was dirty. He grew up, you know, I mean, his mom was a prostitute.

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And he lived in a drug house. So it's like, how do you expect him to do clean comedy?

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That's going to be hard. Yeah. Yeah. His entire life was blue. It really was.

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I get with the relatability. I'm going to slaughter your bit. But there was something like, oh, Jason and I were just talking about it.

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And I said, I related to it. My father, when I was younger, said, oh, no, you don't want to play football. You don't want to play football.

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Insurance. Yeah. And then I just realized the only reason was because we were poor and we didn't have health insurance. And you have something that's, what was the bit?

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We were just listening to it. Oh, yeah. That my mom really cared about me.

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Yeah. She really cared. She's like, oh, no, we were just poor or whatever it is. And those are funny when a group of people can get together and go, yeah,

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I relate to that. That's how I grew up. Or, you know, I understand that. You don't necessarily have to go to the lowest common denominator to get a laugh out of that.

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Yeah. So are you mostly doing churches and clubs then or just exclusively churches?

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Or what's that look like when you're out doing comedy? Yeah. I went through a lot of phases.

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I started out in the clubs, like I said, and then churches just started hiring me. And I really, well,

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I didn't know if I wanted to be in the churches because in my mind, I wanted to be in missionary mindset.

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Right. So I thought, OK, let's stay in the club. So there's a couple of problems with that. One, clubs do generally want dirtier comics, especially for the weekend.

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Sure. And so it's hard to headline. And after the stuff that I've had on my resume,

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I've been put in this weird place where it's like churches. I can do an hour, two hours straight and I'll tour.

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And I love it. Whereas clubs, they really only want me for 30 minutes or 20 minutes.

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And they're not going to pay me very well. Right. That's just how clubs work. So now

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I pretty much do most churches, but I love to do clubs because my wife, who is also, she's my co -comedy writer now, and she, her and I, we will spend time with the comics.

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So I will purposely be a feature instead of a headliner so that I can influence the headliner.

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And we can spend time with them throughout the weekend. We'll take them out to lunch the next day, all weekend. We'll go out to dinners.

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We'll do everything. And our whole goal is to do missional living. Let's talk to them about Jesus and ask them, did you grow up in church?

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Where do you stand with God? All that kind of stuff. And we've started to see that it really impacts a lot because these people are going to be in the club for a long time.

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And they're going to be talking to two, three, 400 people a night. So how can we influence them?

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And now with this book, which is a beautiful tool that we can give at the end, it just really works.

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So we do that really out of passion. And then we do churches because I love it too.

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I feel like they get my humor more than probably a church or more than a club. I invite a club. That is so cool because probably what you just explained is probably the most gospel -based type of living that Jesus talked about.

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He said, as you go out into the world, preach the good news. Meaning as you're in the marketplace, as you're living life, as you're raising your kids, as you're loving your wife, as you're going to work, preach the good news.

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Meaning live of life that's reflective of who I am and my character. And too many times I think

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Christians, especially in the United States, thinks preaching the good news means, oh, I have to go out on the street corner and hold a sign or thump a

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Bible or invite a friend to church. And what Christ was really saying was, take care of your little part of the kingdom.

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Whatever your little part of the kingdom is, be missional, reflect my character, and I'll draw men onto me.

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Matthew 28, great commission. Yeah, the way you take your profession and like you said, live it missionally like that.

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I think that's such an awesome thing because if anyone who follows comedy too, comedy is full of broken people, man.

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They make us laugh and they make us feel good when we're walking out of the club or the church. But when you really sit down with these guys,

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I mean, like everyone, everyone's broken. Don't get me wrong, but you get a special, you're in a special group.

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These standup comics, I just go, oh my gosh, I don't think I know one standup comic that hasn't had some type of issue.

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And I'm not saying that derogatorily. That's actually happy? No, no. My mom used to tell me, she used to say, comedians are so funny, but most of them are really not doing too well emotionally.

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Well, I mean, there's a lot of, I'm not saying that it's everyone, obviously.

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Jeff Dunham wrote a book and it's a boring book because he even said in the beginning, he's like, my life was fantastic.

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I'm like, okay, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Not worth the read, you know. He's got those puppets to fall back onto.

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You don't need that book money. He's got that puppet money. Exactly. And that's what's interesting is a lot of comics, they have persevered through humor.

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I grew up in a divorced family, so that's really how I found humor. It's like everybody was upset.

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Everybody was depressed. Everybody was crying. But I learned that when I was six years old and I had no teeth, I could pretend that I was an old man and everybody would laugh.

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Right. Because I already had no teeth. Like, you know, where did that come from? I don't know. But I learned like, wow, that made my parents that were crying laugh.

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So let's keep doing that. Wow. That's cool. That's great. So I wanted to ask you, how did the Jimmy Fallon writing come about?

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How did you even connect on that? Yeah. So I would say one of the things that I like to tell people when people say that or they ask that question and they say, you know, how do

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I end up doing the kind of stuff that you did? It is work ethic and obsessive comedy.

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So like the moment I started stand up, I was so obsessed. My first year I did 200 shows.

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Wow. And I say shows very loosely because I started in Niles, Ohio, where there was only one comedy club and they would only let me up on a

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Wednesday because I was brand new. That was our open mic night. Okay. So then I went everywhere.

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There was a Taco Bell near me and I would go up to people that were eating their tacos at night and I would say, hey,

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I'm a comedian. Can I tell you some jokes? And I, they would just go, all right. And I would just stand there and I would do five, 10, 15 minutes.

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And then I would, you know, I would go anywhere I could possibly go to. I would go to birthday parties.

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I would go to truck stops. I would go, if I was walking down the street and I heard a bar with a microphone,

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I knew, okay, great. And I would go there and I'd wait until the band was, you know, taking a break and I'd say, hey, can you give me five minutes?

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And I would just practice, practice, practice. And I did 200 shows that first year. And then by my second year,

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I felt led or, you know, I felt like comfortable enough to start going to clubs and saying, hey, why don't you have me

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MC? I would love to be a part of that. And so within my second year, I, um, had, or I, I opened,

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I was an MC, I was a host for a headliner who happened to be the writer, one of the head writers of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at the time.

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And he really liked my writing and, you know, I mean, I, I was writing three to five jokes a day and I was just putting them in this box and they were all very terrible.

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I just, I just resurfaced them the other day. I was like, oh boy, I need to burn all of these notebooks. But you know,

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I have like hundreds of notebooks and it was just me practicing, practicing, practicing. And so by the time that I got there, he said, hey, you know, you're a good writer.

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Would you like to write for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? And I said, as somebody who's been obsessed with Late Night, I was like, uh, yeah.

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And so then I just wrote jokes all night and, um, you know, I'm still traveling and then I, it was for monologue jokes.

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So I would be, I would send monologue jokes every, every day at 11am and then they would choose monologue jokes and, you know, and go from there.

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And so I was writing hundreds of jokes a night and I was working on my standup. And, um, so it really just kind of grew from there.

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Wow. Yeah. In monologue jokes have got to be, uh, you know, a little different. One, they, they generally have to be cleaner, but two, they're usually topical too, which, you know, is, is a little different than, you know, doing something observational or physical comedy or something at a club.

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So it's working a different muscle, you know, it seems like if you're touring and also, uh, you know, doing the topical stuff.

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But I did want to ask this cause I do ask a standup comics as I love to hear these stories.

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So first time you ever did stand up, can you tell us a little bit about it, the experience and then did you bomb, did you murder or was it somewhere in the middle?

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You know, I'll tell you this right, right off the bat. Anybody that tells you that their very first open mic night was incredible.

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They are delusional. There is no way that the first time you take the stage that you're fantastic.

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It doesn't happen. Yeah. Um, but you know, my, my very first time, the whole reason

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I've done stand up, the whole reason I do stand up is because my mom made me, which is true.

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She, you know, most moms are like, go be a doctor or something. My mom always said, Chris, you need to be a, you need to be a comedian.

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Wow. So, so yeah, so I always told her, fine on my 18th birthday, I'll go to a club and I'll get on stage just for you.

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And I thought I was just going to do it once just to appease my mom. Um, but the moment I got on stage, I said a joke,

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I don't remember what it was, but the moment, you know, I got a laugh from someone that wasn't my mother and I was hooked.

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I was like, wow, this is what I want to do forever. And so, you know, I paired a five minute set and I was nervous.

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I was shaking, you know, my five minutes probably was rushed into like two minutes or a minute and a half.

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And, um, you know, I was really nervous. But the one thing I got at the end was somebody came up and say, wow, you are so confident on stage.

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And then somebody else asked me, how long have you been doing that? Ah. And I thought, wow, to get that question your very first time, that must be fairly okay.

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And that kept you going to the next time, didn't it? It did. And I mean, I, it was, I'll just tell you, it, it,

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I got the bug so much that that night I couldn't sleep. I still can remember like the adrenaline rushing.

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It, it is very similar to when people jump off of planes. I mean, I would assume I'm never going to do that, but people have told me,

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I know that you stand up and they jump out of planes and they say, man, I'm telling you it's the same feeling.

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It was like, great. Then I'll just stay on the ground. Yeah. Oh no, Jason, Jason and I talk about this because, uh, in, in a former life,

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Jason was a, uh, internationally touring musician. I was assigned to a label for a little bit.

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I was in the backstreet boys. And, uh, you know,

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I'm an elected official in my community and speak in front of, you know, thousands of people at a time and have absolutely no qualms about that.

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He doesn't have any qualms about being in front of people. And it's, and it's funny though, because we both said there is a certain type of adrenaline that goes with that.

26:25

Yeah. Especially if you're like an extrovert or a sanguine type personality like myself, where you enjoy being around people, you get in front of some people and feed off of that feed off of it.

26:35

And it is, it's kind of addicting. It really is. It was the hardest part for me. Uh, when exiting, uh, my band was,

26:42

I really, you know, when you're, we opened, I think for kid rock once and there was, you know, it was so early.

26:47

It was the opener, opener, opener at the time. So there's only 8 ,000 people of the 20 that were coming. You were on a side stage.

26:54

You know what I mean? If we were in the parking lot, honestly, but even that was that there was some adrenaline there, people watching you, listening to you, enjoying your music.

27:01

And Jason knows all about that too. So I totally get, you know, that adrenaline rush. I just look at it and go, man, I don't know how you guys do it.

27:08

I don't know if I could sit there and write and think of funny things all the time. Yeah. With just a microphone.

27:14

That's, I mean, I couldn't imagine just getting on the stage with a micro. I was a guitar player,

27:19

Chris. you know, I always had my guitar to just play little, little medleys and whatever.

27:26

But, you know, if, yeah, if somebody just put a microphone in front of me and was like, go up there and say something, say something real quick.

27:33

I mean, even when, when Greg, like, you know, we'll walk in the other room to get a pen real quick. And he's like, just keep it going.

27:39

I'm like, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah.

27:45

Were you the guy in high school that took the acoustic guitar to campus and that's how you picked up? No, man.

27:50

I was the guy with the, with the gym bay. I was like, check out these bongos in the gym, but no, oil and a ponytail.

27:57

Hey man, I love patchouli oil. Leave it alone. So before we get into our next segment and we'll jump into that in a minute as we wrap up,

28:06

I did want to ask you, Chris, so how do you write? Are you one of those guys that you just journal? Like you were saying, you had all those, uh, the monologue jokes.

28:14

Do you, do you just furiously write things down and then revisit it? Is it, uh, you know, index cards as it comes to your mind and then you just flow with it.

28:22

What's your process? Yeah. So for late night writing is a little bit different than standup writing, but, um, you really, it really is.

28:28

It's just such a different flow. Now I love it. I think late night writing, like monologue show writing is probably my favorite thing aside from improv, but basically, you know, you, you look at the subject, um, you, you read the first pair, you read the headline and you read the first paragraph because that's usually where the gold is.

28:45

You can find stuff to make fun of. Yeah. And then you think about, um, what, what pops up in your mind as a comedian, what, what makes you laugh about that subject?

28:54

And then you try to connect the dots with it. And, um, you know, so like this morning I was just looking at one, uh, somebody in Alabama, I wish it was

29:03

Florida, but some guy in Alabama just got caught. He had been staying in AMC during an

29:10

AMC theater during the quarantine and ate all of the popcorn and snacks and sodas.

29:17

And so obviously, you know, it's like, you're, you just look at things and, you know,

29:23

I mean, I, I didn't even write a joke because in my mind I thought we all did quarantine wrong. Like we need to be that guy.

29:30

Right. He's a genius. You guys living in 3000. We're back here in 2020. Exactly.

29:36

Yeah. I mean, I love that he did that. Hey, that's, I mean, he's arrested now, but you know,

29:43

Hey, if you're going to stay somewhere, go to the theater. Yeah. And he, he, he also, he learned how to screen the movie.

29:49

So he was watching all these movies. So did he sneak in? Is that what the story was? Yeah. He was just chilling in a living in a theater.

29:56

He, yeah. And nobody was in there because they all closed it down. So he, he lived the whole time.

30:01

And so people came back. Did now work there or he just, no, it was a random guy.

30:07

He wasn't, he wasn't home. He had a house. He just goes over there. Jason, write this down. Next guest on dead men walking is this guy who, we got to talk to that guy to find out what's going on.

30:18

Yeah. Cool. Well, Hey, Chris, would you mind sticking around a few more minutes with us? I want to play a game. Now, normally our listeners know that we play a name that to 1990s

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Christian music edition. We're going to try something different today. Okay. We're going to try. Since we have a comedian, a very good standup comedian on,

30:36

I am going to play eight clips. Okay. Okay. And they're from comedy movies, famous comedy movies, uh, from about 1980 to just a few years ago.

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So they, they span a couple of decades. All right. Okay. Uh, I'm going to play. It's going to be actually funny.

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Are these ones that you are just like, man, this is funny to me. It ended up being really dramatic.

31:02

It's like, there's like, there will be blood funny. I thought it was hilarious when he stole the guy's land.

31:09

No, it's not that these are pretty well, pretty, pretty well known. There's a few in there that might not be as well known, but here's what

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I'm going to do. I'm going to play the clip and then Jason and Chris, you guys listen. When you, when you think you got it, when you think you got the name of the movie, just say, got it.

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And if, if you get it right, you get a point. If you get it wrong, the other guy has a chance to guess.

31:30

And then if they get it right, they get a point. So hopefully we don't tie here. I didn't think about that. Usually I do an odd number, but I did eight.

31:36

If you tie you're both winners. Yeah, that's all right. We're both winners anyway, right? It worked out.

31:43

Yeah. I'll put this on my resume. If I win. There we go. There you go. Former writer for Jimmy Fallon has a book out and won a game on a podcast.

31:52

On a podcast. Yeah, I know. That'd be good. Okay. Are we ready? I only have a few minutes left, unfortunately, but I'm all ears.

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I'm ready. All right. We'll run right through it. Ready? Here's the first one. Just say, got it when you got it. 60 % of the time.

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Got it. Oh, what is it? Jason? Did I, did I say it first? Anchorman. Anchorman. He got it.

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Yeah. I love that movie. Oh, that's okay. So we're back. I get it. Okay. This is lightning round.

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Ready? Number two. Here we go. Got it. Oh, Jason.

32:26

Back to the future. One. Oh, I three. I couldn't even hear that. That was crazy. I didn't cheat it.

32:32

Okay. Are you guys in the same room? He didn't write it down for me either. I'm, I don't have these answers by the way.

32:39

Okay. I don't know if he, if he didn't hear that one, we won't count that. That, that way. Okay. That was back to the future.

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Not technically a comedy movie, but some funny moments in it. So that'll take us to seven. 21. We'll call it one to zero.

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And here we go for number three. You've had this pair of extra clothes this whole time.

32:58

Dumb and dumber. It is dumb and dumber. Can you give our guest a chance, Jason? Geez, just act like you don't know it.

33:06

I'm sorry. I swear he's not really getting much over here. I'm not competitive. Can they just say, ah, at the beginning? Yeah.

33:11

Yeah. I'm not competitive at all. I promise. Savannah Martin could tell you about that. okay. So this one is, so it's two to zero.

33:18

This one is a little older. Ready? I'm so disappointed in Cameron. 20 bucks.

33:25

He's got it. Chris is in the game.

33:30

It's a barn burner. Here we go. Ready? Next one coming up.

33:35

It's a short one. So you really got to listen. I'm going to turn it up all the way. Here you go. Did we just become best friends?

33:42

Oh, step brothers. Oh, step brothers. I think, I think Jason rang in just a split second before.

33:49

I'm going to give it to Jason. Yes. Three to one. All right. We got two more left. So we got a chance to tie here,

33:55

Chris. Ready? Okay. Here we go. This one's going to, might be an oddball for you. This one's a little newer. Wait, you changed your name to McLovin?

34:04

No, stop. That is going to be, that is going to be, oh, it's not bad.

34:10

Hold on. Hold on. Super bad. Super bad. That's right. That's right. I couldn't think of the name either. All right.

34:16

We got two left. Here we go. It is three to two. It is a close one. Oh no. Anyone's game. Ready? Here we go.

34:22

Yep. A message. What number did you call? Two, four, niner, five, six, seven.

34:30

Wait, I think he said it. I think they said it at the same time. Same time. I'm giving tie to the guest. Go ahead. Go ahead,

34:35

Chris. Okay. Two, four, niner, niner. Is that airplane? No. Oh, no.

34:41

It's Tommy Boy. What are you calling from? A walkie talkie? I love Tommy Boy. That's okay.

34:47

It's three to two. Here's our last one. This one's really quick, so you really got to listen. Ready? Chance to tie for Chris.

34:53

Last one. Here we go. You can do it. Oh. Oh. That's going to be. Left behind.

34:58

Left behind. Left behind with Kurt Cameron. Comedy, right? Comedy. Oh, I see what you did there.

35:05

All right. Where's the clap? No, let's. Wait, what did that one end up being? No, we didn't say.

35:11

He got it wrong. You can do it. What is it?

35:16

That's little Nicky. Yeah. Oh, it's. What is it? Oh, it's water boy. It's water boy.

35:25

Sorry, Chris. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm just really good at everything I do, but I'm, I'm joking.

35:32

You want to, what we'll give you guys both the applause. Good job. We'll call you both winners. That was pretty darn good.

35:39

So, hey, Chris, thanks so much for being here. Hey, for our listeners, can you give a shout out one more time where they can find you on Instagram or websites and the new book, you know, in the new book?

35:48

Absolutely. Yeah. Just go onto my Instagram or any of the social media pages at Chris Weinman's comedy.

35:54

That's wine land. You drink too much wine, you land on the ground. You're going to be at Chris Weinman comedy everywhere.

36:00

Awesome. And I do really enjoy your memes on Instagram. So guys, if you're listening, check him out on Instagram. Chris, if you get back out on the road, if you get in the club here around Toledo, Ohio, or Detroit, Michigan, that's the region we're in.

36:13

Make sure you look us up, hit me up on Instagram and we'll bring a group out and we'll have fun. We'll do.

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38:20

And now back to dead men walking. Well that was cool.

38:25

Yeah man. Real nice guy. But that was a cool connection on Instagram because I saw some of his comedy and I just messaged him and said,

38:32

Hey, you're clean comic. There's not a whole lot of clean comics that are doing well. I saw you wrote for Jimmy Fallon. That's kind of cool.

38:38

He was on Mike Huckabee show. That was neat. Yeah. And he said, yeah, I'll be on the podcast. Let's talk about it. That's great.

38:43

But I did think it was very cool how he said he's like, he'll take the other comics out. Yeah. And then like talk to him and witness to him.

38:49

Right. Right. They give him his book. Yeah. That's kind of a cool in as a comic. Kind of very missional.

38:54

Yeah. Yeah, man. I mean, it, it, it reminds me of whenever we were on the road, we were trying to be more inclusive than exclusive.

39:01

Yeah. You know, and, and bring the gospel in our, in our tunes, you know, and, and just the way, you know we were living and then, and then you know, it, it turned into something completely different.

39:13

So I, I really will be praying for him for sure out there on the road because it can be hard on the road.

39:19

I mean, but it's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I know exactly what the road is like. Right. But, but it's awesome that his wife is with him.

39:27

How awesome is that? That's cool. Like that's so rad. Yeah. To have that team. Yeah, man. It'd be tough to do it.

39:32

Oh my goodness. If you're married and you're out there. Right. Yeah. Right. Were you dating or anything when you were in, when you were touring with your family?

39:39

Off and on. Yeah. You know, that was one of those. One of those. Off and on.

39:44

Yes and no. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. And then I met, and then I met my now wife and all of a sudden. And it all changed.

39:50

It all changed, man. You know. That's the story we're sticking with. Yeah. We love you, Mandy. Right. Amen.

39:56

But yeah, the road is tough. I know. Actually, you, you were out for a little bit, right? Not like you.

40:01

Okay. Okay. Just like just under a year. Gotcha. And it was regional. But still, I mean, that's, you know, I mean, going from club to club, venue to venue.

40:08

I mean, that's a really hard gig. Speaking of Mandy. Isn't, have you ever seen the movie?

40:15

Can't Hardly Wait from the nineties. Okay. No. And it's not worth mentioning.

40:22

Because isn't there a Barry Manilow song? You're going to edit this. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah, man. I sing it to her every day.

40:28

Yeah. No, I'm joking. One of the characters is obsessed. He thinks it's a sign because he loves a girl named

40:34

Mandy. Oh, gosh. And he hears Mandy on the radio and he's like, it's a sign. Well, when

40:39

I was six years old, whenever that song came out, I loved it. Really? I mean, oh man, I loved Barry Manilow. You were not a

40:44

Barry Manilow fan. Oh yeah, dude. Yeah, man. You guys do kind of have the same hair. I was hip. I was hip.

40:50

I'm hip. I'm with it. I do that to my kids all the time. The Dr. Evil.

40:56

I'm hip. Give your dad a hug. And they don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, exactly. Because we're old.

41:01

Because we're old. That's the way it works. I love getting into, and I'm sure you're the same way. I just fully embrace the whole classic dad culture.

41:09

Oh, yeah. I'm into the dad jokes. Right. I'm going to embarrass the crap out of my kids within reason.

41:14

Yeah. But they're still young enough now to where they still think I'm kind of funny. My oldest, who will be 11 this year, is kind of getting to the point where I'm like, dad.

41:22

Right, right. But the two younger ones are like knee slapping. Oh, that's great, dad. I'm like, oh, five more years.

41:28

They're your biggest fan, man. They're my biggest fans. I mean, man. That's the same at home with me. Yeah. I love it.

41:34

At least I got my comedy career going on at home right now. Yeah. I actually always wanted to be a comic.

41:43

I really did growing up, man. But I wrote some jokes. Yeah. And I think

41:49

I referred to them before on this podcast. Like, I could never use them now at all.

41:54

But again, it is very hard. Yeah. I mean, to some degree,

42:00

I'm sure, to be a clean comic. Yeah. You know, if that's not your life, you know.

42:06

Yeah. I mean, like, I don't know, being a believer and having, you know, having a different worldview.

42:14

Now, I'm sure I could write some much better comedy. But back then, it was much easier to use.

42:22

Can you remember any of your jokes? I could never say them. And you would never say them out loud? Maybe. No, I won't even say them off the podcast.

42:29

I'm a different man now. I've been clean from the inside out, my friend. And this is what's going to happen now.

42:37

You just do your standup as a fire and brimstone preacher. Yeah. You know what

42:44

I've always wanted to do? And I suggested it to some friends is do a roast.

42:49

We actually did one for a fundraiser up in Monroe. Who was it? It was for... Just a friend.

42:56

I didn't know if it was a local official or... The local officials were the ones being roasted and that roasted. And I can't remember what organization.

43:03

It was one of the most successful. Really? Yeah. And here's the funny thing. There was three being roasted, six people doing the roasting.

43:11

Not a one of them with comedic timing or halfway funny jokes. Yeah. The one guy that had decent jokes,

43:19

I wrote 90 % of them for him. Oh, really? And he was like, where did you... And here's the thing. I sit down. I can't write an observational joke to save my life.

43:27

But if you need me to put someone down... Yeah. So I'm a little wary because it's like, why can

43:33

I easily be so mean and funny at the same time? Whether it's on someone's appearance or their...

43:40

And I love it too. Yeah. So I suggested to some Christian brothers and sisters that we should have a roast.

43:45

Uh -huh. And it never really got off the ground, but I think it would be the coolest thing. It would... Like, don't get super mean.

43:51

Keep it semi -clean, obviously. It's too hard to not be, though. I mean... I mean, be mean, but don't be dirty.

43:56

Yeah, yeah. But you don't... I mentioned it to my wife and she goes, Greg, not everyone has thick skin like you.

44:03

Like, I would love it. If you put me in a chair and you just make fun of me for an hour, I'd go, oh, that's hilarious. I do do that. Yeah. But most people aren't like that.

44:09

It would be like the... There'd be a lot of... The Office. Do you remember that one? When Michael... Boom, roasted!

44:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your teeth called, your breath stinks. Boom, roasted. Yeah. Stanley, you have a terrible heart or something.

44:21

Yeah, you're gonna have a heart attack. Boom, roasted. Yeah. So I don't think it would work too well for our...

44:27

With my friends. I think the few friends I do have that can put up with me, I'd probably lose the rest of them. I have video of the roast that I did for my buddy's 30th birthday,

44:37

I think it was. But yeah, that's, again, not something that I can share on this podcast for our brothers and sisters.

44:46

Before Chris? Yeah, that was before Chris. That was definitely BC. Yeah, yeah. I was going through some stuff back then. Right. And yeah.

44:54

So did he do a full -on roast or was it like a... It was, yeah, yeah. We had like 10 friends just get up there and just...

44:59

What was the reason for it? It was his birthday. Oh, first... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you said first birthday, sorry. Yeah, yeah.

45:04

My awesome listening skills. That was... Yeah. It was a good time. Sorry, DJ, about those days.

45:10

I don't know. What do you think? Should we wrap it up? Sure, yeah. That was a good episode with Chris Weinlein.

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Make sure you guys check him out on Instagram. Like I said, hisgram is funny. He's got a lot of funny

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Christian memes on there too. And, you know, if he's in a... Go to the website and if he's in a city near you, check him out.

45:29

Definitely. And hopefully he'll reach out to me. If he ever gets down here or around here, we should take a couple of guys out and support him.

45:35

I'm in. Always try to support those comics that are out there grinding. Yeah. Because they don't exactly...

45:40

They're not making that Ford money. Yeah, yeah. That Ford money. That realtor money. Yeah, yeah.

45:45

They're out there grinding it out, but he seemed like a good guy. Right. Oh, yeah, man. Well, Jason, thanks for sitting in once again.

45:52

Yes, sir. Thanks for having me. Do I have to thank you every episode now? Yeah, you do. Or are you officially co -host to where... Yes, you absolutely do, sir.

45:58

No, I'm joking. No, this is fun. I'm loving it. Yeah, I can just go with it. As long as nobody's writing in going, oh my gosh, get

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Jason or Josh or whatever his name. No. No, I'm joking. No, they love you.

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They really do. All right, guys. Well, thanks for listening. As always, make sure you are checking us out on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

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