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Mark Marren here. This is WTF welcome to the show.

A full show! A pack show! Again.

We do these little interviews these days occasionally, sometimes in a few minutes I'll be talking to Jordan Brady about his documentary, I am Road Comic, which I am in because I am Road Comic.

Well, I come from that, I come from a history of that, I come from that weird post comedy boom time before the advent is that the word advent before the appearance or the reality of alternative comedy venues when all you had was a comedy club and the three swats they had available for their regular shows and their open mic night maybe once or twice a week where you'd go and you'd wait and you'd try to get on to do your three days

five minutes in hopes that you might land a guest spot on a real show and then maybe get that coveted opening slot as host and then after years perhaps move up to feature act and then because it's your hometown never be able to headline unless you get too big for them to say no to that's the way it used to work that's the way it was.

So before I talk about that a little more before I lead into Jordan Brady who also did the movie I am comic he was a comic himself after Jordan Brady I'm going to talk to Jay Baker the the son of of Tammy Faye Baker and Jim Baker about his his spiritual quest and his quest through a through addiction and through trying to establish his own church of sorts is also a fairly prolific writer about religion and spirituality.

I was excited to have the opportunity to talk to him he came down to talk to me for Minneapolis he's a fan of the show and I thought it was a story that had to be talked about and had to be told to me I was interested to meet him sweet guy so before I get into those talks let's talk about what I got coming up Nevada City Film Festival that's in Nevada City California that's this Friday that's tomorrow for those you who are listening to this show on the date is released I will be back on the show.

I will be doing two shows with the with the wonderful Nick Thune I said I also have a few odd ball dates coming up September 7th and Denver September 12th and Mountain View California September 13th and Irvine California September 19th and Dallas September 20th and Houston September 21st and Austin those are the last of the odd ball dates also be doing several

trip in the house dates here in Los Angeles at the trip in the house that is in residency at the Steve Allen theater here many of you came to these shows it's a cheap ticket there's parking I don't know what's going to happen it's a no pressure situation for me but I do know I will stay on stage for at least an hour that September 16th 23rd and 30th and October 14th and 21st and of course the L.A. podcast festival Saturday September 27th I'm trying to book a fun show for you but there's all kinds of deals.

But there's all kinds of deals to be had over there you can go to again WTF pod dot com and get the links to these to these shows and these tickets long strange trip yes yes it's provoked me to dock you when I'm talking to Jordan Brady to remember where I come from to remember the path here to this mic the path to the odd ball festival standing in front of 15,000 people the path I took and could not get off of nor did I know how to get off it nor did I get off the

door did I entertain any other real choices with any with any momentum I there was nothing else to do but be a comedian for me I'd hung around the comedy stars at the comedy store the

other night talking to the to the master Joey Diaz just thinking about what it was like standing on that patio and knowing that I stood on that patio 25 years ago trying to be a

comic trying to find my way in I tried to find my way in in a lot of different cities but once I started working in 1988 in the one night circuit of the Boston New England regional area doing one

night is driving five and a half hours to matchias main in my VW golf to open up for Frank Santos the X rated hypnotist at a college in a in a town that is the furthest point east on the coastal United

States much I as main I remember driving hours upon hours into the new England landscape for doing to do one nighters I remember doing feature work you know on in clubs across the country thank

God I moved to San Francisco in 1992 and I was a pretty strong feature and it didn't take me long to start headlining I was able to to sort of skip a lot of the tedious feature work just

because I just had the goods and I worked hard to get them that's what doing one nighters in New England and anywhere you can get them will do it makes you tough man but I think a lot of people don't really

appreciate what some comics go through to different world now comics can sort of choose their own path and pick their own room and avoid the club system entirely what's left of it and find their own way and that's fine it works.

But some people don't quite understand what the what the job of comedian is necessarily guy came up to me at the comedy store last night and a new comic been in a two years he said

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