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The Cripescast Podcast

Episode 103 - Jon Reep

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up comedian and actor Jon Reep joins Charlie on the Cripescast this week. You may know him from "Last Comic Standing", from his own podcast "Country-ish" or from his special "Ginger Beard Man" on Amazon Prime. He and Charlie compare their similar career paths and talk about how they both spent time working in the entertainment industry in LA and made their way back to their hometowns to continue creating content. Jon shares about how he finds humor even in dark times, how social media has changed the comedy scene and his approach to it all. Jon shares about his creative process for stand up, his worst experience on stage, and Charlie offers him some travel advice for when he visits Milwaukee.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Cripes cast. I'm your host, Charlie

0:03.2

Berenz, and we are brought to you by Charlie Goodsoda. Today, my

0:07.4

guest is John Reep. He is a standup comedian and an actor. You

0:11.4

know him from the last comic standing. He's also the host of the

0:15.6

podcast, country-ish. For my Milwaukee fans, John's going to be

0:18.9

playing at the improv on June 11th and June 12th. He's very

0:22.4

funny, comedian. Make sure you check him out. And our

0:25.3

conversation coming up in a second, little bit about me right

0:29.4

now. So I'm in Hawaii, because we had a show here the other

0:33.5

night. Huge thanks to everyone who came out. Show was at the

0:36.8

bloom note in Honolulu, or Waikiki, I guess. And it was sold

0:43.0

out. And I, like, if you asked me a year ago, if I thought I was

0:47.8

ever going to sell out showing Hawaii, I'd be like, yeah, no,

0:51.9

but no, yeah, we did. And I'm just very grateful to all of you

0:57.0

for your support. I am a lucky duck. Yesterday, though, I

1:03.2

wasn't so lucky. Boy, this story is a real humdinger. I

1:08.6

tell you that right now. So I met a friend here, and we decided

1:12.6

to go snorkeling at Shark's Cove, which is a distance away

1:19.2

from where I'm staying. And I borrow my buddy's car, who lives

1:23.2

here, who lives about an hour and a half away from Shark's

1:27.1

Cove. So anyway, me and my other friend, we get there, and we

1:30.4

decide we're going to snorkel first, and then hang out at the

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