Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode 433 of the JV club with my marvelous boy of summer,

Gaster almonte, he is awesome. I had such a blast talking to him. He is a wonderful comedian and I could not love his origin story about becoming a comedian more, which of course you will hear about on the episode. I hope everyone is doing

okay, continuing to have a safe and happy summer and just a reminder that if you

have not checked out Braving the Elements my podcast with Dante Bosco for Nickelodeon about all things.

Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Cora, although we are moving chronologically,

so that has not started yet.

Please check it out. It's so much fun and it's just been a complete joy and I hope to see you

over there, whatever that means. I'm not sure how I'm going to know that you're over there.

But you know what I mean.

All right, enjoy the episode. Oh, I'm an expert on percussion so you know that's what I'm here for.

Hello hello let's get into that when did this? Should I call you doctor drums? Dr drums? Is that what we're looking at here?

Oh man. You know like weirdly enough like I used to do audio engineering like right out of high school.

Oh sure. Yeah like I went I wanted to like be like this guy Dura who there was a famous like

hip hop DJ Kloo.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

Yeah, so like all of his albums, they're engineered by the same guy,

Duro.

So I went to like the same school that he did and I did that right out of high school

and I got used to like being around like audio equipment so like to this day like I do

stand-up comedy now but I have like a drum pad that I keep on my writing desk and it's the only way I write jokes is by like tapping it

So like I still tap it. Yeah like whenever I'm having like brain rust

I have to like tap it out. I just keep sounds loaded on it and it just helps me like

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