93-3-WMR Audio on Demand presents the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Our next guest has a lot of fans in Philly and a lot of fans in this room. Right here and he's going to be playing punchline. One night only. There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Redd. Yeah. Yeah. What's up, everybody? How are you, man? I'm good. I'm tired. Tired? Yeah, y'all love early, man. Yeah. Bless y'all hearts. Each and every one of y'all individual barbecue eating hearts. We eat it early. Yeah. We eat the barbecue early in the morning, man. I know. I was like, oof.

I don't know if my stomach could do it. Take one bite and you'll be on board. Oh, I did. I'm lying nightshed, but I'm taking something to go. It's a weird thing because we get, so I'm up at 3.45 and like, you know. On purpose. On purpose. Yeah, you got that, but we all got up early, and so people come in and see, seeing stuff like that. But it's your whole day gets screwed up because it's like our lunch is occurring hours before most people's lunch. Yeah, so it just wipes out. But you're no stranger. Obviously, on SNL. Yeah. That's known as one of the most rigorous schedules for, you know, putting a show together, for writing and all that stuff.

But if you take your story back, you're from Chicago, right?

Yes, I was born in St. Louis.

I know I got to say that.

Okay.

And I was there for seven years, and I moved to Chicago.

But my family's from Mississippi, so they made sure that we were kind of raised out there, too.

Presence is from St. Louis. Yeah, I heard you from St. Louis. Where at? Chesterfield, I'm West County. Yeah. How about you? In the city proper, and then we went to St. Charles. Okay, sure. Yeah, yeah. And then from St. Charles, we went to the west side, the Chicago, then the West suburbs. and then I went to the city.

In the city.

I would be in that close in St. Louis going, we would go to Chicago from time. I love that town, man. Yeah. Love at town. I love Chicago with all my heart. I have a special appreciation for St. Louis. I went to church with Ozzy Smith for a long time. Is that right? He was my

favorite baseball player because he flipped, which is not

the right reason.

Right, right. You know what I'm saying?

You're a kid. I'm like, yo, he's a baseball player and a

ninja. Why would I not love that?

Could have been the greatest shortstop at all time as well. Yeah, yes, exactly. But I never leave with that. No, no, no. You're right. You do remember those ones. I remember for years and years and years, there was a guy Ron Swamoda on the Mets years ago who made a diving catch. Didn't do much else. I was like, the dude dove. Yeah. And it was like, it fly. It builds the legend. I caught an Ozzie Smith foul ball. The only time I ever caught a foul ball. Yeah, it was Easter Sunday, like maybe 1990, something like that. He just screaming down the left, like third base line. And I mean, I didn't actually catch it. But I knocked it down on my hands. Wait, this story is breaking down, the more you talk, man. He's like, I caught it. Wait, well, I didn't catch it, but I looked at it. I didn't see it. I wasn't there. It was on TV. Okay, we were listening to the radio. Right. It was a radio not my radio I was I was hanging at somebody's

house they told me about it you go to Chicago and but music is your first love right yeah I mean

I wanted to be a rapper I wanted to be a gangster all that and none of it worked out the way I

thought it was going to but it circled back when I was able to do music comedy, which is like a beautiful thing.

And it's very cool because so but you found out you're making people laugh and correct me from wrong, but you used to get free food at McDonald's for making people laugh at McDonald's.

Yeah. So, okay. So the story is people that are just sitting here randomly yeah uh yeah i so i was in between

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