What's going on guys is the building years. I'm Jeremiah Watkins. I'm Justin Alexio. It's Friday. Yeah it is and we have that means it's a guest time. Yeah.

Freaky Friday. Freaky Friday. Please welcome to the show. Our good friend. He is a writer for new hit smash NBC sitcom,

Undatable just recently renewed for season two. Please welcome John DeWalt to the show guys. What's up guys?

Did not know it was Freaky Friday. I was trying to make it sound cool. Yeah. Well now everyone knows what to expect. This is the fun time.

All right. Isn't that the movie where they switch bodies? Lindsay Lohan at her finest. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I should be more specific. There's like seven movies with such bodies.

But the Lindsay Lohan body switching movie. Yeah. There's the Rob Schneider one. Yeah. Yeah. Judge Ryan Holt and Kevin from the Wonder Years have a good one. You should check out Ryan Reynolds. Jason Bateman. That's a good one. That premise is just so strong. Yeah. Just keep finding new ways. You know what?

You want to sell a movie? You should pitch that premise and see what happens. Battle tested baby. Yeah.

Dude, so thank you for coming by. We just had your buddy on recently. Chris Alvarado. Yes. Yeah. That was a great one. I listened to that. That was good.

Oh, thanks. And we're talking to him about Chicago. You are also you also trained in Chicago. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that?

Yeah. Totally. That's where I started. I grew up there. And when I was a little kid, my dad would always take me to second city shows.

And someone like when I was eight years old, I remember going to see like Tina Fey's main stage show and like people like that, like right in the prime Rachel Dratches show.

So your dad was just a comedy nerd or he was a comedy nerd still is. And so then I started training there after high school. And I was able to convince my mom to let me drop out and just pursue it full time.

And so I was the hyper annoying in high school, super annoying 19 year old kid who's at every show in Chicago and taking every class and laughing way too loud.

And I did that for a couple of years. And then I did a short stint and Amsterdam. And then I moved that way.

Oh, cool. Did you do was it boom? Yeah. I did a little three month or I did not know that. I had to do a year in boom.

I did a three month or I wasn't a full. I was a I was at the time they had a TV show as well. So they needed extra ammo. And then I came in. I had some fun. The TV show got canceled.

Wamp, Wamp. And I moved to LA after that. That was perfect. Now was it hard to convince your mom to get you to be at a place where she was comfortable with you not going to college or were you hyper enough.

And she knew you're funny and over. She's like, all right, this makes sense. We'll just like to undo this. I think they're on a way a lot of money. Yeah, I start.

I think I did one year at Illinois State. And I think she knew because during that year, I commuted from Illinois State, which is at the bottom of Illinois by St. Louis all the way up north to Chicago.

I would do second city class on the weekends and then come back. So like we party all night at college. And then I take this long trip through the entire state of Illinois.

And one time I fell asleep at the wheel. And I rear ended this family in my car. And I like wrecked my I just fell asleep. And I just wrecked this car. And luckily everybody was OK. And it wasn't like the biggest deal. But it was like, OK, you should probably make a decision.

And I was at that point where like if I was going to continue at school, I was going to have to take on student loans. And it was going to be a whole thing. So it was just like, I know what I want to do. So I have to go just go do it. And she was pretty supportive of it right away.

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