The Opening Act with Comedian/Musician Henry Phillips
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4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're finally at that hot new spot, the one your friends keep raving about, sitting across from your date. |
| 0:06.6 | It's going another round. |
| 0:08.3 | Really well. And that dish you've been dying to try? Oh, it's headed your way. You can smell it. |
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| 0:30.9 | Hey folks, it's Hanna's Finney. Thank you for supporting Storyworthy. Not only the people who actually |
| 0:36.3 | give us money, but the people will give us thanks. Sometimes you go on Twitter and you say, I like at Storyworthy. Not only the people who actually give us money, but the people will give us |
| 0:37.7 | thanks. Sometimes you go on Twitter and you say, I like at Storyworthy. That's all it takes. Thank you. content. |
| 1:07.6 | Hey guys, it's Henry Phillips, and I'm drinking my fucking coffee right now, and you're listening to Storyworthy. Welcome to the Storyworthy. |
| 1:19.6 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney. |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:43.7 | My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from the grounds of Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the world's largest music festival. |
| 1:47.8 | This is like the 44th time we've come from Summerfest. |
| 1:49.7 | But this time we have a really good excuse. |
| 1:50.2 | Why? |
| 1:53.2 | Because our topic today is the opening act. |
| 1:53.9 | Okay, the opening act. And I opened for Robert Klein at Summerfest in the year of Harmer, Hi, Harmer, Haram. |
| 1:59.0 | Now, what stage were you on exactly the comedy stage how many comedy |
| 2:02.9 | stages were there at that time one it's a it's a music festival that has one comedy city it's got like |
| 2:08.0 | eight to ten music stages various genres and then uh so what they did is in the old days they had like |
| 2:15.9 | a big amphitheater where i once saw the almond brothers Brothers. Yeah, you heard me. And then next to it for some reason, next to the big amphitheater was the comedy stage. And so I'm watching Jay Leno there once. I know the names are dropping like flies. And he's talking, what about Wonderbread? And all of a sudden, Eric Clapton starts his show. It's about 100 feet. It's like, d'arn down, down, jail. I was like, no way you can hear me. It was completely insane. So then they took, they tore down the old amphitheater, built a brand new amphitheater, which they turned around because it's on Lake Michigan, the whole thing, so that the |
| 2:50.8 | sound would go out over Lake Michigan and not into the city. So it'd bother anybody. Brilliant. |
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