Fuck the game!

Alright let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuckin' ears? What the fuck nicks?

What the fuckables? What the fuckoberry thins? How's it going? I am Mark Maren. This is WTF Welcome to the show.

Today, double header.

Portland, it's a Portland double header with Ian Carmel and Ron Funches.

Now the one thing about having these guys on today, I interviewed them at different times,

but I put them together because there was sort of a theme to it in my mind, is that I

know a lot of you realize that comics all know each other, a lot of us know each other,

but a lot of us came up together and what that really means is that we were part of a comedy

scene and when I was starting out in New York, it was very specific.

I mean, there were comedy scenes in other places, but the primary comedy scenes when I was

coming up, well, yeah, New York, yeah, LA, yeah Boston, yeah, San Francisco, they had healthy

comedy scenes where you could live and work and do comedy and develop and maybe even make

a little money.

Now almost every fucking city in the country has a comedy scene.

There are comedy scenes everywhere.

A lot of that has to do with the evolution of comic-produced shows.

There's a lot of alternative venues that have happened and changed the face of comedy.

But these guys, Ian Carmel and Ron, both come from, and Ron Funches, both come from the

Portland scene.

There are a couple of generations behind me, but you talk to these guys, they both knew

each other and at, you know, that one time Portland only had one club and they had a fight

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