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Hey friends, welcome to the podcast.

It's, um, what is it? It's Thursday.

It's Wednesday here, but you're getting this a day. You guys know the drill. I don't need to say this every time, but happy Thursday to you the week's almost over

I am sitting here in my dad's home office in St Louis, Missouri with my good friend and opening

comic for this first run of shows after quarantine hit.

First shows I've done in 97 days we figured out.

Was that it?

I'm here with, he drove all the way from Bloomington, Indiana. He's open for me a ton. I've probably known him like a year and a half now. Is that how long?

Yeah, but he's one of my favorite people. It's Emil Waukem even on the show before welcome back yeah

I'm returning yeah what you've been on a bunch I might be five or six at this I think so you

always you always do a good job in this you know it's we'll see about this one. I

thank you for coming into town to do these shows. I mean what else were you doing

really? You just graduated college and you were supposed to move to New York, like right out of college, right?

Were you supposed to be in New York from like May? I was supposed to be there currently right now.

Oh buddy, okay. I had a place, I had a place, I had a place in Brooklyn. I was living with comics. Like it was going to be, it was going to be like, I was going to be living the life.

You really, I told you this last night, but you were like your type of comedian, you like early 20s just on the brink of like really

setting out on your own and digging into stand up as like your career are all

are the ones I thought of so much when this first hit of being like

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