What up?

What's going on, man.

Bro, I just went to the Luis C.K. show at Madison Square Garden this past weekend.

Oh, nice. How was it? It's been a long time since I've been to a comedy show.

Have you even been to any comedy shows? I don't know

you've ever told me. I've been to lots of comedy shows back in San Francisco, like pre-pandemic. I used to go with Celeste all the time. I wasn't seeing Louis C.K. He's a pariah. He's been, I mean, he like masturbated in front of a bunch of women and I thought that was a rap for him. Yeah, exactly. So actually, you know Dan Shively, right? Yeah. My best friend from San Francisco, he was a comedian. And he's the only reason I would have gone to the show because it's all super controversial is like, Dan just messaged me out of the blue. And he's like, hey, man, I got three tickets to Luis C.K. Like, do you want to go? It's going to be in Madison Square Garden. He was flying from Arizona. So I'm like, all right, man, yeah, absolutely. And I brought my girlfriend along.

She didn't tell any of her friends that she was coming. We get there. It's hilarious. It's like,

you know, 10 men for every woman that you see, like, just around in Madison Square Garden.

Every single one of the women clearly is just

like the wife or the girlfriend of some guy that they're with. There are no groups of women.

There are no like gay men, right? It's exactly the kind of crowd that you would expect, like a bunch

of like white like 20s and 30s guys. And then even the show itself was hilarious because

the first joke that he makes is like,

thank you guys all for coming. I know every single person here has someone in their life that

doesn't know where they are. Like you lied to about what you were doing on this kind of Saturday night.

I don't know. I'm not going to spoil the set. But it actually was really funny because I was

there with Dan. Dan spent five years like really seriously trying to become a comedian. I don't know,

did I tell you about the time that Dan and I went to an open mic in San Francisco? Yeah, you told me.

This is because you did stand up yourself too, I think, and you had

never done stand up before, so you just kind of like did it. And then did you do good? Did you bomb? I can't remember that. Exactly. The exact same thing is like, it's like, I don't even agree that I did stand up. It was he wanted to do stand up and he's like, hey, I'm going to do open mic. And I need you to be a good friend and come with me so that if I bomb, like, you can bomb before me. And it was a worst experience I've ever had. It was good. It was a fun learning experience. But dude, I don't know if I told you like the details. We had like a gentleman's agreement where we're like, okay, I'm going to have like a five minute set. He's going to have a five minute set. We prepared him. But we're like, we're going to walk in separately. This is like, you know, in San Francisco, just a small bar, like 50 people and a, you know, a lonely mic on a stage. And we like went in and pretended that we didn't know each other. And the idea was that, like, he would sit in the middle and be...

You would support each other.

And, like, laugh at my jokes.

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