Hey, everybody, it's me, Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab

yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, and let's talk about what's been going on.

Turn on the lights, fire!

That's pretty loud, right? Episode 1. Back from Grand Rapids.

Rapido, and detois. Destroyed. All the shows are sold out. Everybody was so

fun. Grand Rapids, if you're ever downtown, I went to the cottage bar for lunch,

actually went twice. It's the oldest bar downtown. It was opened in 1927 by

Earl and Marie Koon. They made it through prohibition and everything, and it's got

a new owner, John Verhill, became the third owner of the interior as it

changed. It's so cool. It's like an old Irish like the floors are crooked.

There's a little fireplace back there, not that they needed it at this weekend,

but that was a wonderful little treat. Then Detroit, I didn't really get to go

anywhere because I had two shows. But my friends came. The guy who owns a

comedy club in Detroit, Mark Ridley's, that I've been going to for a thousand

years. He came over, my little friend Marie, she came over, and Dick Parton, the voice

of Detroit for many, many, many years. His daughter's everything was great. And then

so much stuff backstage. I'm not going to go to everything because I think

people will get bored, but I want you guys to know I do get this stuff. I bring

some of it home, some of it I eat with the staff, and then some of it I give to

whatever human dumpster is basically the opening act. It amuses me to watch. Like

Michael Palisac opened this weekend if you're wondering who that was. That was

like he's so funny. But I never seen somebody eat like that for a being of

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