Welcome to the podcast! Come be part of the conversations that happen around my kitchen table.

He's John Branyon and he's been a stand-up comic for more than 30 years.

She's Amanda McKinney and she's been my daughter for her whole life.

Our family believes laughter is a gift from God.

We often discover it while discussing culture, faith, and family.

So go ahead and pull up a chair, neighbor.

Can I call you, Carl?

There's plenty of room here for you.

So, do you want constructive criticism?

Yes.

I don't.

I want brutal soul crushing.

I don't want it to be constructive.

I want it to be constructive it's terrible I want it to be

destructive it's terrible I want destructive hurtful criticism your intro needs work

the intro that I wrote myself recorded myself and we've used for over four years is bad.

But anytime I do any sort of criticism, I'm always met with, well why don't you make one a little better?

So Carl, if anybody's out there that can ghost write a song for me

and then I could just kind of slip you like a 20.

Our music for Starving Comics was entirely user sourced.

The one with the pirate kind of thing, right?

No, JT wrote the pirate shanty, the sea shanty, both of them then yes we use JT's intro or theme song for the better

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