E370. Dave Landau Is A Comedy Genius

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Original Air Date - 8/22/24 Comedian and host of Normal World, Dave Landau, sits down with Bridget for a fun conversation about how they should start their own morning show, Dave’s childhood in Detroit, their respective struggles with addiction, Agent Orange, AIDS, parents with mental illness, dealing with Satanists in rehab, their experiences in mental hospitals, how Dave’s teacher suggested he get into stand up, the ups and downs of his career, and stumbling into the culture wars. The...

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0:00.0	I'm with Dave Landau, everyone.
0:02.3	Welcome to Walkins.
0:03.3	Welcome.
0:04.8	I think it should just be the new show.
0:07.7	I'm still trying to like gun for us having a show together.
0:11.8	Oh, I'm down with that.
0:13.3	We just have a, we should have a morning show, but like a fake morning show.
0:18.4	Yeah, we should pretend that we should have the coffee cups and the suits. And it wouldn't be in the morning. It would be like at 4.30 in the afternoon. Yes, but it would be as if it was the morning. It would still feel like the morning to us, just not to the viewership. We feel like, good morning. They're like, we just got off work. I'm glad you feel like. I'm good. You feel like it's early.
0:38.8	I'm glad you guys are just getting started with your day. You degenerate. And that would be our audience, degenerate. Yeah, that's who we need. Yeah. That's who we appeal to. It is. It's already our audience. Yeah. I want to know everything. But you have kind of a pretty crazy story in general from what I understand from a lot of it informs your stand-up.
1:00.8	But you also seem like there's a lot behind all of those jokes that is, you know, hinted at, talked about.
1:12.4	Have you written a memoir and thought about becoming vice president? I have. It's called Hillbilly Elegie. It's, I hope it becomes a
1:20.8	decent movie. As long as I want the movie to just be okay. Yeah. And then I have actually written a memoir, but I have not
1:31.8	published it yet because I'm very, very sensitive about it because it's very deep. And I don't know,
1:39.5	it's, I have it though. I have it ready to go now. Now I'm ready to put it out. So you're just waiting for the right president? I'm waiting for the right guy. Yeah. I was hoping to become VP today. And then I was hoping for RFK to be VP. That's who I was hoping for for real. Really? Yeah. In my weird dreamland, I thought it would be RFK. Why? Because it's like a unity ticket or something.
2:01.2	I thought after the assassination attempt, it made the most sense. Maybe that's stupid, but I thought it would be like,
2:08.8	this guy gets it. Yeah. You know? So then I thought they could work in- He comes from a long line of
2:14.7	assassinations. A long line. Yeah. And silly planes go down.
2:18.8	So they get tragedy.
2:21.1	Yeah.
2:21.3	So I thought they could work well together.
2:23.3	Yeah, but no.
2:24.4	I guess not.
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