Hi folks, many of you know that Gallagher, the comedian, has passed away.

And we generally do this when someone I have interviewed passes away.

We did this interview Gallagher and I on January 27th 2011.

We posted it four days later.

And when a former guest has died and their episode is behind the paywall, which this is,

there's a lot of episodes that aren't, but this one still is, we want to make sure people

can hear it and don't have to pay for it.

And this one's a unique interview because it's really the first time where a guest has

died and frankly, might not want this episode remembered.

But it's an honest representation of who he was 11 years ago and also who I was.

Most of the intro is self explanatory.

And you know, since this interview, I've set out and I had set out then as well to sort

of give people the respect they deserve and contextualize them into the history of comedy.

It usually revolves around the comedy store.

There's conversations in this episode about Tom Driesen and Alan Bursky, both people

who I had not interviewed yet and did not know the full story.

My education was still unfolding and I got this opportunity to talk to Gallagher in a

hotel room in Portland.

And I took it and I tried.

Now, the thing went sideways pretty quickly because he's a singular type of person.

And right out of the gate, it became not contentious, but I was just trying to have a conversation

and it got intense.

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