Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night.

Whenever you're listening, we appreciate you being here this is the public figures podcast a podcast

where three Nashville based stand-up comedians talk about nonsense my name is aaron weber alongside

my co-hosts dusty sleigh and brian bates okay we're three professional comedians we got some tour

dates coming up we're going to tell you about very shortly but before we do that i want to introduce

the first guest in the history of the public figures podcast.

She's a friend of ours.

She lives here in Nashville.

She's a touring stand-up comedian, one of the fastest rising comedians in the country.

Headlines sells out comedy clubs all over the country.

Everyone, please welcome Fiona Collie.

All right. that's everybody welcoming

Brian gently claps yeah all right happy to have you here Fiona thank you for

stopping by thank you are thank yeah I'm pumped to have you here we're all so pumped we're

giving you a moment to say something and I didn't know I thought you would be you know we all

go all right

okay I just smiled and forgot it was a podcast we all wanted you to be our first guest

we did yeah I appreciate yeah yeah yeah we're pumped we're doing it yeah yeah all right good

episode thanks for coming in we like to start real hot and then kind of wind down after that. It's two hours, you know. You don't want to come in, you know, too fast. If you set the bar too high, you ever be having a really good set at the beginning and you know that you can't keep it up the whole time? Yeah. And you're like, I kind of just want to end

early on a win. Do you ever have that? Well, I sometimes want to have a bad joke that go, and then

you can say, well, they can't all be good. And then you can say, this show, I felt like this show

was too hot and I needed to slow it down a bit.

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