Review: Slow and Steady, Joe Pera

Episode 1 October 01, 2025 00:50:40
Review: Slow and Steady, Joe Pera
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Review: Slow and Steady, Joe Pera

Oct 01 2025 | 00:50:40

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We spend more time than is seemly discussing haircuts before finally moving on to the subject of Joe Pera's 2023 offering Slow and Steady. The special is available on Youtube: Slow and Steady and you should watch it before listening to the review! WARNING: This episode is more hair-focused than comedy-focused. FUN FACT: This is the first episode in Season 2 of the podcast!

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[00:00:08] Speaker A: Okay, we're gonna start with me going, bill, you're a gobshi now. Bill, you're a gobshi. Let's get back to haircuts. [00:00:16] Speaker B: What are other words with gob that I can use? Gob. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Like gobstopper is a type of. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's gob Gobs. I never put that together. [00:00:26] Speaker C: Another day. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:27] Speaker B: No, no, like inappropriate terms. I thought we're gonna go through the profanosaurus. [00:00:30] Speaker A: Oh, I forgot. The next time, text me. Just a reminder. I'll put one aside. [00:00:36] Speaker B: That's the producer's job over there. [00:00:38] Speaker C: Profanesaurus. I got it. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Fantasaurus. Get that down. Book Ryan Ridley for this Saturday. Late night. Late night recording session. [00:00:46] Speaker A: 11Pm Whatever. [00:00:48] Speaker B: Would it be quiet enough in here? We'll give him a. We're gonna pick a show today and we'll give it to him, and he'll be ready to go on Saturday. He was very interested in it. He's a big Hollywood talent. [00:01:01] Speaker A: He was on that. He did that show that was really good. I loved. Was the spin off Acceptable tv. [00:01:09] Speaker B: I never heard of that. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Jack Black. Jack Black. What's it? Executive produced it to get it made and stuff. [00:01:17] Speaker B: I know what I was looking for. Some words of gob. Like gob. Oh, knob gobbler. Knob gobbler. [00:01:24] Speaker A: Well, gobble. [00:01:24] Speaker C: But that's gobble. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah, but gob. [00:01:26] Speaker C: It's got to be the same gobble. But it's. But that's. You're using it as a. As a verb. [00:01:31] Speaker B: Do you know what a knob gobbler is? [00:01:33] Speaker C: The knob is the noun. [00:01:34] Speaker A: In that case, I think I can make that leak. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Gob Gobsmacked. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Gobsmacked. Exactly. That just means, you know, you. You're dumb strong. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Meaning your gob is open. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Yeah, like someone just smacked you in the gob and you just can't talk. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Now that's a great one. You ever use the word ma instead of gob? Ma means mouth only. [00:01:57] Speaker A: It only when. Only appertaining to sharks. That's the only time I've ever heard anyone say maw. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Cotton is ma. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Sharks. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Sharks. All right, you want to talk about my hair and my haircut? So we had to push the appointment back. I looked at my phone the other day and it said 11 for my haircut. Which is when I texted you and said, can we do 12:30? Because then I could get there. And then I got a thing saying my haircut was at one. And I wonder if this fella changed the appointment on me and I didn't know. [00:02:30] Speaker A: But you accept it through some sort of Google app. Yeah, something so he could change it and he wouldn't be. Well, you would still see the change. [00:02:39] Speaker B: I'm gonna confront him on it when I get there today. [00:02:41] Speaker A: But to a lifelong slap head who never had hair, the concept of an appointment for it is hilarious to me. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Christian, do you have an appointment for your hair? You have lush hair. Yeah. You're not walking in and. [00:02:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I make an appointment way ahead of time with my guy Amir over at the hair mechanic. Yeah, he's converting his. His whole. Yeah, well, he's got this motorcycle. He's. He's always working on a motorcycle, like here, and he keeps all his hair cutting stuff and a craftsman, like, you know, tool chest and. And it used to be kind of like part like auto garage, like, but also like. I mean, he was just. Was working on a thing like all the time I was covered in grease. But he would just cut your hair right there. But now he's converting the whole thing into a restaurant. So he's got like a counter up front now and it's just a little room in the back by the bathroom that he cuts your hair in. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Do you remember Shay Shay, and he had that bit about. He had a friend, Shay Shay. [00:03:41] Speaker B: That sounds familiar. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Large African American. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Oh, sure, sure. [00:03:45] Speaker A: So he had this bit and he goes, black. He goes, was it black guys always want to blame the world for all their failings? And he goes, because, yeah, my. My friend had this business venture and it failed because, yeah, it's some bullshit. Remember? That was his catch. Bullshit. Some bullshit catchphrase. And he goes, well, what was the business venture? He goes, oh, it was. It was a. It was a hairdressers and barbecue place because, like, you can't do that. Get the. Get the hair in the. In the gu. What was it called? The. The punchline was what it was called. It was called the barber Q. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Pretty good. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I've noticed, you know, since. So when I was a lad, right, barber shops in England, I don't know what they were like in America. Very kind of austere places. Blokes went in, you just sat down, you didn't talk. The guy cut your hair and then he tried to sell you some rubber Johnny's. Something for the weekend, sir. [00:04:49] Speaker B: Condoms. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Condoms. There's some more. [00:04:52] Speaker B: What? [00:04:52] Speaker A: So that there was an association between going to the barbers and getting you Johnny's supply. And he would say, something for the weekend, sir. Right. [00:05:03] Speaker B: Really? And because you couldn't get Rubber Johnny's anywhere else. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Well, that was. It was a purely male environment. You didn't have the embarrassment of going into the chemist and. And a female of the species. [00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I see. Yes. [00:05:19] Speaker A: So barbershops cut hair. Just one haircut. Short back and sides. Right. Skin the skin around. Kind of like the, you know, the Peaky Blinders. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Right. [00:05:29] Speaker A: That's what everyone had. There was no, oh, bit off the back. Da, da, da. Get you. Get your Peaky Blinders. Buy your Johnny's. Get the fuck out of there. That was it. That was male hairdressing. [00:05:41] Speaker B: What does Peaky Blinders mean? [00:05:44] Speaker A: There was a gang called Peaky Blinders. They had flat caps and they sewed razor blades into the peak. And then when they got into a fight, they would take their hat off and straight across. What, straight across your face and blind you with the. The razor blade in the cup. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:06:02] Speaker C: I didn't know that. [00:06:03] Speaker B: We learned all kinds of British stuff on the show. [00:06:06] Speaker A: So anyway, now the show. [00:06:07] Speaker B: British Rubber Johnny's. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Now, I notice, like I say, and I've always been a slap head. Never, never had a full head of hair. So it's always been a closed book to me. [00:06:18] Speaker B: You've never had a full head of hair? [00:06:20] Speaker A: Never had. [00:06:20] Speaker B: When you were a lad, we talked. [00:06:21] Speaker C: About this once on this podcast. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah, we did. We didn't call it Slow flap head. Yeah, we called something we did. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:27] Speaker B: So you're born balding? [00:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I was. I never had any hair till I was three and then it never came in fully. [00:06:34] Speaker B: But in the 30 years I've known you, I don't think your hair has ever changed either. I don't think you've lost any hair. [00:06:39] Speaker A: I did have hair on the top. [00:06:40] Speaker B: I don't remember that. [00:06:41] Speaker A: I did. So anyway, I've always had a notion of men's hairdressery off to the periphery as a thing that doesn't really apply to me. And now I notice, like, all these hair, like the barbers, whatever you want to call them, they're all trying to make it look like a mechanic shop. You know that one down on the corner of Milwaukee, Armitage. Have you ever walked past that? [00:07:09] Speaker C: I haven't noticed that one. [00:07:10] Speaker A: No, it's just. It's like this faux industrial, you know, Edison bowl going on everywhere. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Yeah, there is that thing going on here everywhere, probably every barbershop. [00:07:21] Speaker A: And it's like barbers used to be real characters as well, not just hips. Like there was. There was a barber in our hometown called Crop Across. That's what everyone called him. And if you walked in, it didn't matter what you said, you were getting skinned like, like. And if you went in there and he was on the shitter, his wife would cut your hair instead. You know, if he was like looking at the race in photos, you just. [00:07:49] Speaker C: Had to take it. [00:07:50] Speaker A: You just walk in, he's on the. She would just cut your hair even worse than he did. And then when I was at university, obviously, you know, it would have been nice to have a good haircut at uni, right? But I couldn't because I was a slap it. So I used to go to this Greek place around the corner from where we lived. Two Greek guys, right, just cutting your hair. And every time a remotely attractive woman walked by, they would both just literally down tools and watch her walk by and just be commenting to each other. It took me with no hair about a hour to get a haircut because every two minutes these Greek guys with down tools and just be as someone walked by. And every time I go back to that town, I point it. It's. I mean, I have a lot of tedious repeated stories, but every time we drive down that road going into Leicester, I point it out to my sister and my niece, like, and tell them the whole story. [00:08:56] Speaker B: It's gone now, I imagine. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's. It's still there. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Sons are running it. [00:09:00] Speaker A: I don't know, I gotta go in one of these days and. And see if they're there. [00:09:05] Speaker B: That's funny. [00:09:05] Speaker A: Anyway. God, I did a lot of talking. All right, I'm gonna shut up. [00:09:08] Speaker B: I love when you talk. It's. It's refreshing. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Ten minutes of silence. Just you and Christian now? [00:09:14] Speaker B: No. [00:09:14] Speaker C: What do we. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Because I get depressed when I talk too much. [00:09:17] Speaker C: You do? [00:09:17] Speaker B: Why? Because someone shamed you as a youth? [00:09:20] Speaker A: No, Kelsey said it's because I'm an introvert. And introverts get exhaust. Like they get tired by the act of interaction. And when they're tired, they interpret it as, I'm depressed now. Oh, I only found that out recently. So 10 minutes of silence, you and Christian go. Okay, let's cover the world of American barber shops. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Reminiscences, anecdotes while I just sit. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Are we going to talk about this Joe Para fella or what? Yeah, I guess. Well, I'm going for a haircut right after this. And where do you go? I go to handcrafted barbershop plug for the guys down there, Isaac and the boys. My guy, Will Valentine. I don't know if that's A barber stage name, but this is a pretty. [00:10:05] Speaker C: Damn good one if it is. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah, it has a similar. Not a mechanic's vibe, but they have a coffee shop. [00:10:12] Speaker A: Is it industrialized, like bare brick? [00:10:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's down in grand in Ogden, you know, like, holy shit, dude. [00:10:21] Speaker A: So you're traveling downtown? [00:10:23] Speaker B: Well, they used to be by me, and then they opened a new shop, so I followed them down. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Boy, oh, boy. [00:10:28] Speaker B: But they have a coffee shop in front, right? With. [00:10:31] Speaker C: In the same building. Like, in the same building. [00:10:34] Speaker B: You walk down a little hall, and in the back is the barber shop. [00:10:36] Speaker C: That's cool. [00:10:37] Speaker B: It's kind of similar. [00:10:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:38] Speaker C: And this guy. His. His whole motorcycle thing was not like a front. Like, he would legitimately be working on this motorcycle. Like, wipe the grease off his hands and start cutting your hair and then go back to it when he left. And then now when I show up, he'll be, like, putting tiles on the wall because he's trying to open this restaurant. He's always, like, one step closer. Like, he's, like, hanging the vents and, like, you know, and then, like, complaining about the. The stuff that we always complain about, you know, like, oh, this didn't go right, you know, and the city came by and they told me that I can't do this. And, you know, and. And he still got the little chair in the back and just cuts my hair back there. And every time I show up, he's. I mean, the place looks closer and closer to a luncheonette, guys. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah. It seems like you couldn't have mixed licenses there where you're. [00:11:19] Speaker C: No, I don't know. I don't do it. I did ask him about, like, yeah, how are you going to keep the hair out of the food? And he didn't seem to. He seemed. He seemed to care, but he didn't seem worried about it. [00:11:28] Speaker B: No. [00:11:28] Speaker C: You know, he's like, no, it's gonna be in a completely different room. It's. It's fine. Luncheonette. That's not the right word, right, though. [00:11:33] Speaker B: No. [00:11:34] Speaker C: Is it? [00:11:35] Speaker B: I love a luncheon. [00:11:36] Speaker A: The. It must be boring if you're a, you know, a barber and you just sitting there waiting. You'd have to have a side hustle. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't be doing well if you're a good barber. You're not sitting around. You're. [00:11:48] Speaker A: No, you are. Because there's LOLs. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Not at my place. There's no lulls. This guy goes, if I cancel today's appointment, I ain't getting in for another month. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Wow. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that booked. [00:11:59] Speaker C: I can usually get in within a day. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Oh, really? Yeah. He must not be a very good barber. [00:12:03] Speaker C: He's. I mean, he's. I don't think he. I don't think he tolerates that many people. I think that's it. [00:12:08] Speaker B: Now, does he wash your hair? Because you have very lush, long hair. [00:12:10] Speaker C: No, no. I just walk in, I sit down, he gives me the same haircut every time. I don't have to tell him, you know, like, what I want done. We just. He's great because he'll talk. If you start a conversation, he'll carry the conversation. Well, he won't carry, but he'll engage and he'll go along with you in the conversation. But if you're not talking, he's not talking. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Just silence. Yeah, yeah. [00:12:30] Speaker C: And he's got a little bottle of Scotch there. And he'll say, do you want me to pour you a Scotch and say, yeah, sure, Nice. Sip a little scotch and get your haircut. [00:12:36] Speaker A: That reminds me of another anecdote. Can I just anecdote you one more time? [00:12:39] Speaker B: Sure. I love to hear you talk. [00:12:41] Speaker A: My best mate when I was a youth was very good. He became like a hairdresser. And A, he was interested in hair, but B, being the only straight guy, he had this pool of. Of, you know, and he was. He was. He was a player. And he was like, this is the. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Best rooster in the hen. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm the rooster in the hen house, you know? [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:02] Speaker A: So anyway, he convinces me one time, he goes, dude, you just look like. Like you've got to get a haircut, you know? And I'm like, okay, well, we'll get a haircut. So the next day I arranged to go, he used to crash over at my place in Leicester, where I was a student. The night before, we had this. This thing called the Bavarian Beer Stompers, where the student union had a Bavarian umpire band, and they sold pints of Molson, which is a shitty Canadian, for 25 pence. So you would buy two pints, you would drink one and dump the other, like, on somebody. You were allowed to do it for Barry and Bear Stompers, but by the end of the night, the entire student union is 2 inches deep in shitty Canadian lager, right? So I get up in the morning. I've done Bavarian Beer Stompers the night before, and I get up in the morning and my hair's just fucking like, you know, just all angles. Cause it's got. It's just caked in lager. It's Set. So me and him, toodle off. And he's like, let's get your hair cut today. So the late. That, like, young lass is, like, shampooing my hair, and it's brown just coming out of it. And she's like, what? Like, is this a homeless guy who's never washed his hair? And I'm just explaining like, oh, it's Canadian lager. [00:14:28] Speaker B: So then he cut it after the last. Washed it. [00:14:30] Speaker A: No, she. Because it was. He was kind of like a. You know, a surgeon can't operate on their own child. [00:14:36] Speaker B: Okay. He wouldn't do it. [00:14:37] Speaker A: He wouldn't do it. He said, you know, I know the. I know the lass who's the best one. She's gonna cut it. So I used to have, until I was about age 20, I just had, like, the dumb and dumber bowl cut, essentially. [00:14:50] Speaker B: It's a nice look. [00:14:52] Speaker A: And then he was like, we got to give this guy something. And I'm like, so they pulled it up into, like, a spiky thing. But of course, I've got the same hairline I have now, so I look like a complete tall. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Someone called me Beaker off the Muppets. [00:15:12] Speaker B: You do have a kind of a beaker hairdo. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Because I've got kind of like, bulgy eyes. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker A: So I look like a fucking Swedish speaker. No, not the Swedish. He was. The Beaker was. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah, the assistant to the assistant. Yeah. [00:15:28] Speaker A: That's what. I'm scientist, and that's what I look like. Until I came to America. Then the first haircut I got in America, I went to this old Slavic guy in Skokie, and I think, what. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Are you doing up there? You live in. [00:15:41] Speaker A: I lived in Skokie. I think the first time I got a haircut in America, I've been on the piss again. I got up in the morning, I was like, I'll just go and get my hair caught. [00:15:49] Speaker B: You're on the piss, meaning you're drinking? [00:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think, obviously, I just never said to him, I want it cut this way. And so he cut it how he perceived me to wear my hair, which I just got up in the morning, and that's what it's been ever since. [00:16:04] Speaker B: It's kind of a. Yeah. A tussled bedhead look. [00:16:08] Speaker A: I still maintain that if I'd have had the benefit of a full head of hair and a cool haircut, my life would have been totally different. Cheated by genetics. [00:16:23] Speaker C: In what way, though, would your life have been different? [00:16:26] Speaker B: Well, we got more chicks is what. [00:16:28] Speaker A: He'S trying to say not even that, like I was on the bottom social rung of my entire school life. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Because if you've got like, hair is where being cool starts, you know, it's. [00:16:45] Speaker B: Hard to overcome bad hair as a youth. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Yeah. You like, you can put on all the, you know, you could put on all the Sergio Ticcini tracksuits and all this other shit. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:54] Speaker A: If you got crap hair. [00:16:56] Speaker B: Yeah. You're not going, you're balding at 10 then. Yeah. [00:17:01] Speaker A: You know, let's say you're David Bowie. Right. But you've got a bowl haircut. You're not going to be David Bowie. [00:17:08] Speaker B: No, no. He's got great hair. [00:17:11] Speaker A: Hair is where it starts. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Hair is important. Yeah. And then you're, you know, I'm dead. [00:17:17] Speaker A: Out of the gate. [00:17:19] Speaker C: Do you think though, if you had good hair, you wouldn't have tried so hard, you know, to learn more and to, and to fight harder to be better than your peers? [00:17:29] Speaker B: You would have rested on your laurels. [00:17:31] Speaker C: Right. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Or your hair. [00:17:32] Speaker C: Your hair. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Rest. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Different then. Maybe not better, but different it would have been. [00:17:39] Speaker B: All you think about is chicks. You would have got more chicks. [00:17:42] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, obviously that's the crux, but like, even then you, you could be real. I, I knew a couple of lads who were really good looking but never got anywhere because they didn't, you know, like, have a sparkle. I mean, I think women like a good looking dude. They can deny it all they want, but they do. No one wants to walk around with a gargoyle. But you've still gotta have something. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Yeah. There's got to be something behind. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Behind them. Yes. Well, now I'm depressed. [00:18:18] Speaker A: That kind of segues into Joe Pera. [00:18:20] Speaker C: I was gonna say. Speaking of. Yeah, we're not done. [00:18:22] Speaker B: We're not done with this. I think we're gonna have to table the Joe Pera episode and continue with hair for the next one. [00:18:29] Speaker C: One episode. Just about hair. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Just about hair now. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but how are we gonna pitch that? [00:18:35] Speaker B: When I pulled up today, could it. [00:18:37] Speaker A: Be a Joe Hara. [00:18:38] Speaker B: There you go episode? When I pulled up today, I saw you futzing with the door and I, my first thought was he just got a haircut. You did recently just get some kind of hair trim? Yes. Where did you go? [00:18:52] Speaker A: Great clips. Whatever. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Where exactly? [00:18:55] Speaker A: See, it's in the mall on Elston. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Oh, across the Target Mall. You just walk over there. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Not the Target Mall, there's another one a bit further west where there's a Jewel and some other. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. You just walk in, whoever's available. Cut my slap head. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:14] Speaker B: But it's interesting that it's almost like a computer. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Number two around the sides. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Oh, they have it in the computer. So you go there. You're a regular there. Yeah, but what's interesting about your hair, like I said, is it's not changed. Although you say it has. It has not changed in 30 years. It's like you're balding but never going bald. Right. Will you ever go bald? [00:19:35] Speaker A: I mean, my dad did. Well, what is cool about it is being someone who's been bowling their whole life and taking from full head of hair. Guys, it has been nice to see them go bald. [00:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah. As you hold on to your balding. [00:19:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Join the club. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's been nice. [00:19:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that. Did you ever think about the Bruce Willis look and shaving it down on top? [00:20:01] Speaker A: See, before I came to America and became a fat bastard, I was very gaunt. You were very gaunt. And so my. My old boy told me one time, he goes. I'd said to my old boy, I go, should I. Should I get my. So he's to it. You know what I mean? And he goes, yeah, because the problem for you is you're gonna look like a. Like a Slavic hitman, if you know what I mean, because you're so gaunt. The. When you. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I think you can shave Peter Stormari, if you will. [00:20:32] Speaker A: That's you, though. You're Peter Stormat. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah, but you would look like him. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:20:37] Speaker B: You kind of look like him, too. Do we look alike, him and I. [00:20:39] Speaker C: I don't think so. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, there was so the. The place I used to go before I went to Great clips. At the top of my road, there's a whole row of sort of Bosnian, Croatian. You know that area, shops. Bayograd Cafe, if you know it. Right. And there used to be a barber shop in there. That was awesome. The guy was this huge. He was from Montenegro, he told me. Huge Slavic bastard. He looked like he'd done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. Right. And he used to cut my hair. But everyone in there was, you know, Croatia or whatever it is that there are up there. And me and literally everyone there looked like they could be hired to murder someone. Yeah, they were in the. Yeah, they were in the. You know, you've heard of the. The phrase Croatian tuxedo? [00:21:36] Speaker B: Like a sweatsuit. [00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Like a black and white, you know, added S3 strike. Yeah, I used to be. And like, he'd always Offer you chewing gum. And because I was English, he wanted to talk about soccer, football, but that's the only place I regularly went. And then he closed, and he was like a proper barber shop. Like, wooden panel thing with barber side. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Well, listen, I like to find you maybe, Christian, we can make this a job for us. I'd like to find you a good barber shop where you can go every time. Why? I love. You love your guy. I love my guy. We have, like, a relationship. [00:22:11] Speaker C: I've been going to this guy for over a decade now. [00:22:12] Speaker A: No point. [00:22:13] Speaker C: I know everything. Like, I. I remember when his kids were relationship. Yeah. [00:22:16] Speaker A: You can't put lipstick on a pig. You can't. [00:22:18] Speaker B: It has nothing to do with the haircut. It's about the relationship. It's about the consistency. You askew relationships. A shoe or askew a shoe? [00:22:29] Speaker C: Well, I don't know what he's trying to say. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Eschews. Like, I askew meat. I don't eat it. You askew relationships, you. You avoid them. [00:22:41] Speaker A: I don't eat them. Yeah. No, I'm not paying for a haircut. It's not happening. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Well, how much do you pay over there at the clubs? Great clubs. [00:22:47] Speaker A: I think it's like 18. [00:22:49] Speaker C: So that's pretty great. [00:22:50] Speaker B: What do you pay? [00:22:50] Speaker C: 70. [00:22:51] Speaker B: What? [00:22:55] Speaker C: You know, well, you know what's funny about that is I went to a different person for a while because I'd moved, right? And so I wasn't going to mirror for a while, and then they. They were 30 bucks. And then all of a sudden, one day, they were 40 bucks. And I was going to the same person for a long time. And then one day, she. At the end of the hair. At the end of the haircut, she said, now it's 50 bucks. And I was like, all right, screw this. I'm going back to Amir, who's 30 bucks, you know, and so I go back to Amir, and I'm like, hey, I haven't seen you in a couple of years. I was like, oh, I moved, you know, and so. But you made up an excuse. I made an excuse. Right. And so parents got divorced. Made up an excuse. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:28] Speaker C: And so. And so then the haircut ends, and he says, and so I'm expecting $30, you know, and the haircut ends. He says, 50 bucks. And so I'm like, God damn, I moved for no reason. Then, like, two haircuts ago, he's like, by the way, I have to raise my price to 60 now. And I always tip him 10 bucks. [00:23:45] Speaker B: Yeah, Reg. [00:23:46] Speaker C: And I'M like, well, you know, but I'm in too deep now. [00:23:49] Speaker A: There's something going on with the world of haircuts. Like when I first started going to that great clips it was $11 a cut. Pushing 20. [00:23:57] Speaker B: 1990. [00:23:58] Speaker A: No, no, no, three years ago. [00:24:00] Speaker B: What? [00:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's, I think it's up to 22 now. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like I always. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Oh yeah, I always get the coupon. [00:24:09] Speaker B: From Jewel and it gets you how much off? It gets me like five bucks off from Juul circular. [00:24:16] Speaker A: You know when you get the receipt Jewel. [00:24:18] Speaker B: Oh, it's on the end of the receipt? [00:24:20] Speaker A: No, it's on the Jewel I go to has loads of crap printed on the back. $10 off pet smart, blah blah blah blah. [00:24:26] Speaker B: On the back of the receipt. [00:24:28] Speaker A: On the back of the receipt there's the, the $5 off. But I know now, I know it's now Great clips or whatever the hell it is I'm going to is 22 books and that is double in the last. [00:24:40] Speaker C: You know, we should do, we should swap the next time. Well, I'm due for a haircut so maybe I'll go to great clips and then. Yeah, that's a good idea. We'll go to value in your hair and we'll see if there's a difference in how we look. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Well, he's a slap head. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, how am I gonna look? I'm gonna look like a guy with no hair. [00:24:58] Speaker C: But what if it looks super cool? [00:25:00] Speaker B: Well, I think I would like. What I would like to see is you grow it out, whatever that means. [00:25:04] Speaker A: No, because I end up looking. So it grows around this bit. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Yeah, like a turn. [00:25:10] Speaker C: He's got his hands on the back of his head by the way. [00:25:12] Speaker A: And then the top sort of doesn't really keep up. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah, but I'd still like to see it. And then we would work with that. [00:25:19] Speaker C: Yeah, it'll be. [00:25:21] Speaker A: This is funny one time a Halloween, first time in America. First year in America. So I hadn't met the Mrs. At that point. A few of us went out to Halloween and we did this, you know the lame ass 70s thing where you just get a big pair of flares from a thrift store. So I put a wig on, you know, 70s wig. And all of a sudden women were. [00:25:44] Speaker B: Throwing themselves at your feet. [00:25:45] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when we went back to the house to hang out, like I've got to take this wig off and everyone's. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Like, oh yeah, I did put it back on. What I thought 70s wig on. [00:25:56] Speaker A: What I thought Might be funny is when I go to. Home to. Ing England. One time is go back wearing a wig and just see if anyone says, like, a toupee. Yeah. [00:26:05] Speaker C: Put on a toupee temporarily and just. [00:26:07] Speaker A: See if anyone would ever take me aside and go, yeah, Gary, like, you know what I mean? That ain't cool. [00:26:16] Speaker B: I fantasize about wearing a toupee. Like, when I see a guy with a really bad toupee, I think, like, God, I almost wish I was bald so I could walk around with. That'd be so funny, Everybody. Yeah. Like, you bring joy everywhere you go. [00:26:27] Speaker C: Because everyone's like, holy, let's get this hair. [00:26:31] Speaker B: And it makes everybody happy, right? Because they think it's so absurd. [00:26:34] Speaker C: Yeah. It's true, Right. [00:26:35] Speaker B: You're just bringing joy everywhere you are. Yeah. [00:26:37] Speaker A: And why are all wigs ginger? But then. [00:26:40] Speaker B: I don't know. They are. They're all ginger. No matter what you think, someone should. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Go, hey, let's make a blonde one for the blonde guys. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Yeah. There's only one color. It's ginger. Yeah. I don't know why. [00:26:55] Speaker A: Well, you could shave a bit off and just splat it on. [00:26:59] Speaker B: I know, right? I was thinking about shaving my head down and wearing one for a while. [00:27:02] Speaker A: There is something joyful in a wig. Just. [00:27:05] Speaker C: There is. [00:27:07] Speaker B: It makes me so happy. Well, to conclude, I want to say that had you had that 70s hair that you seem to really wish you had to get more women, I wanted to. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Do you remember Howard Jones? [00:27:25] Speaker B: Of course. Still working. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Howard Jones haircut. [00:27:28] Speaker B: Well, you have similar hair to Howard Jones. He has. It's kind of a Jason fever look, right? [00:27:34] Speaker A: No, I'm prime Howard Jones. I don't know the real spot. [00:27:38] Speaker C: Oh, he did. [00:27:39] Speaker B: I don't. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Or Paul Young. He had wicked hair. Do you remember Paul Young? [00:27:43] Speaker B: From what? [00:27:44] Speaker A: From wherever I lay my hat. That's my home. Was his big head. [00:27:47] Speaker B: I can't picture him. But listen, had you had wonderful hair and you could have all these women that you had that night. [00:27:54] Speaker A: And it's not just that society looks at you differently. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm with Christian. I think you never would have been. Become the great man you became. Right? [00:28:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:07] Speaker B: You're fighting that uphill battle. Your whole life. [00:28:09] Speaker C: I've been Laurel resting. [00:28:11] Speaker A: The fight made me fit. Is it? [00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:28:17] Speaker A: There's nothing more cruel than a. Than a young. When I see a young lady who's, you know, battling a receding hair at an early age. [00:28:25] Speaker B: You talked. [00:28:26] Speaker A: I just. I just want to Go, dude. You know, don't sweat. Just. All it means is that women will find you physically repellent and the other lads will take the piss out of you mercilessly. Yeah, that's all it means. [00:28:41] Speaker B: That's it. [00:28:42] Speaker A: That's. This is only impact on your life. [00:28:44] Speaker B: No big deal. [00:28:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I have a friend like that. He was using Rogaine at 17. He was one of my closest friends growing up. He was like. He was always so worried about his hairline. And he looks. He's just like the same deal. He's like. He looks exactly the same now, you know, 30 years later than he did. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Except he took all that Rogaine and he can't stand up anymore. [00:29:01] Speaker C: There's that. [00:29:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:02] Speaker A: His fucking liver is falling. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Is that what it does? It messes you up. [00:29:06] Speaker A: You can't be taking stuff like. [00:29:08] Speaker C: I thought you put it on your head. [00:29:09] Speaker B: You do. [00:29:10] Speaker C: That was like a cream. [00:29:11] Speaker B: You do. [00:29:11] Speaker A: But it can't be doing any good. [00:29:14] Speaker C: No, it didn't do anything for him. [00:29:16] Speaker A: Did he go, you remember hair transplants in the doll plug? Doll haircut. [00:29:21] Speaker B: I mean, yeah. [00:29:24] Speaker C: I think eventually he grew up and he didn't care anymore, you know? [00:29:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, guys, I know a guy who takes Rogaine. He's got a lush head of hair like Christians. Whatever. I don't know how he applies it or in Jessa, but he credits his lash hair to the Rogaine. He felt many years ago he was losing it. And the Rogaine has made it what it is. [00:29:46] Speaker A: It's never been scientifically proven, has it? [00:29:49] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:29:49] Speaker C: Did he tell you this while you're both standing at urinals next to each other? Or was he. Did he tell you this from his stall. [00:29:57] Speaker B: In his living room? So maybe that's something we look at for you, Rogu. Yeah. Let's see what happens. [00:30:06] Speaker C: Right? [00:30:07] Speaker B: All right. Joe Pera. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Joe Pera. [00:30:11] Speaker B: He's got no 30 minute intro. [00:30:13] Speaker A: I thought he had lush hair. But he's. [00:30:15] Speaker B: When he's got a combo down. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Yeah, he's combing over. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he does, I feel is part. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Of the look of his. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Of course. Who first comes to mind when you turn on Joe Pero? Who do you think of Emo Phillips? [00:30:27] Speaker A: Oh. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't never. He never crossed my mind. But my first was Neil Hamburger. I know he's not the same actor or whatever, but that fake. Whatever this is. [00:30:43] Speaker A: True. But I thought he was closer to Emo because he's doing this cadence that you just can't get away From. There's a physicality to it now. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:53] Speaker A: And then he's even doing, you know, hyper surreal material. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Hyper surreal? What do you mean? [00:30:59] Speaker A: Well, Joe Perez material is. This. Is these. Wandering the good shit when he's not trying to do stand up is very intricate wordsmithing in it. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So you picked this one for us. I'd never heard. I'd never heard of this guy. Had you? [00:31:17] Speaker A: I'd heard of it. I'd heard him mentioned as, you know, a God in alt circles, but I. I'd never watched him. [00:31:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I'd never heard of him either. He just kind of popped up on my YouTube channel. I was trying to remember today why exactly I picked him because it was so long ago. We took a little break. [00:31:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:31:34] Speaker A: Because he's from Buffalo. [00:31:35] Speaker C: No, actually I. I had no idea until last night when I was re. Watching it and went on to his Wikipedia page to try to learn. I was originally trying to learn who the man they kept cutting to in the beginning was that was standing by the door. No, that's. It's an actor name. And he in that is credited on the IMDb for. For the Slow and Steady Special is credited as Sam the Doorman or Sam the Usher. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Oh, sure. Yeah. [00:32:03] Speaker C: Yeah. And so. But he is an actor that has been in a whole bunch of things over the years, like all back to 1986, as recently as 2019. And I think he was maybe like the talent scout or the guy that maybe like, helped Joe Pera get to where he is now. It was just kind of watching the show from the back, and obviously the camera cut to him a couple times. [00:32:24] Speaker B: Where was it? I don't think they said where this was recorded. [00:32:27] Speaker A: I looked it up. Opera House Williamsburg, which is the Virginia. No, it's the part of New York. Yeah. [00:32:39] Speaker B: All right. I don't know. [00:32:40] Speaker A: I thought the implication was that it was his dad, because he mentioned dad a couple of times and it's shortly after cut to him. Like, you. I looked it up. [00:32:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. But it's not the case. But yeah. Anyway, so. [00:32:53] Speaker B: So you hadn't seen him before? [00:32:54] Speaker C: I had never heard of it, and I. I think it was because of this podcast. I was just, like, going through YouTube one day and it kind of popped up and I was like, well, I do need somebody to recommend for the next episode, so let's see if this is any good. And I remember the first time watching it, having no idea what I was in for. And. And then after watching it, recommending it. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know what to say other than I hated it. [00:33:24] Speaker C: Really. I'm surprised. [00:33:25] Speaker B: No, no, let me finish, let me finish. When it came on, I was like, oh, God. The first thing I wrote down was unwatchable. I can't watch this. I don't know how I was going to get through this hour. The artifice of the character, the. The delivery. Like, here's a young guy playing an old guy, right? Basically, yeah. Grandfather type. But as it goes on and on and on, and as he gets away from whatever might be considered stand up to the written storytelling that he's reading off the paper or the book, I'm like, I'm enjoying this. I'm really enjoying. I don't know what this is, but I never laughed that much. But I was amused and interested and I got distracted at one point and I was like, fuck, don't distract me. I'm really into this. And so I ended up really liking it. From hating it initially to really enjoying it. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Yep, exactly the same as you. All the first bits, I'm like, going nowhere. Feeding the squirrel, going nowhere. His interactions with the audience weren't funny at all. And then a switch gets flicked where he talks. The first bit where I'm like, okay, this is good. He starts talking about William Hong. [00:34:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:34:46] Speaker A: And Sopranos not being the movie we needed. And then you're off to the races after that. Everything I've got. Good bit. Blah, blah, blah, blah. But that 20 minute preamble was shite. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And would you call that like him trying to do stand up? Yeah, that's a stand up. Yeah. [00:35:04] Speaker A: I think it's like this is someone trying to do jokes. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I did kind of like the crowd because it was so different. Right. Like the man in the checkered shirt. What do you have to say? You know? And he would just take it and not try to, you know, you know, spin it funny or whatever. He would just. It was. It was bizarre, right? I love bizarre shit. And this was the crowd work, made it feel bizarre and not just artificial. And then he gets mentions William Hung, which I would have loved to have heard a 10 minute bit about William Hung. But he goes off of that and then goes to the Sopranos. And then when he says, this was the hook for me where it brought me. It was right after that. [00:35:40] Speaker A: I know what it's gonna be. Say it. [00:35:43] Speaker B: I'm the type of guy whose wife dies young. Right. I was like, brilliant. That's brilliant. It kind of defines the character, this. It's not just a weird grandpa but he's just a sad sack. [00:35:57] Speaker A: That was like a switch in the whole goddamn thing. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:00] Speaker A: That we both saw. That was when it went from get this off to yes. [00:36:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:06] Speaker A: Really weird. [00:36:07] Speaker B: And the character doesn't totally change. It's still the same character. But the stuff at the beginning that you mentioned, that was shitty. It's. That's all just like surfacey nothing shit. Kind of like when Sandler did his last special that we looked at like all those like corny one liner jokes. The be like, this is going to suck. Right. And then he gets deeper and deeper and so doesn't this guy get deeper to the point where when we're at the end and whatever that bedtime story is, that I guess is really how his act started or something. Right. Leaves me like, shall I say, gobsmacked. Right. And. And being like, what the fuck was that? I just watched. Right. And. And whenever I'm left that way, in a movie or film or even music, I'm like, I don't know what that was, but I fucking like it. Yeah. [00:36:57] Speaker C: That's exactly what happened with me when I came across it on the YouTube thing when it first started out. I also, I mean, I didn't want to show my cards up front. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why I was hemming it. [00:37:06] Speaker C: Sure. But. But yeah, same, same deal. I mean, he comes out and everybody's first of all. The whole crowd is really behind him. Like they're really laughing at things that I'm not finding funny, which is something I'm like, okay, but they all know who this is. I don't. They know his. They're here, they're there to laugh. Like they bought a ticket to see this guy. I've never heard of him in my entire life, you know, so I'm. I'll give it a chance, you know, also with my finger on the button, ready to turn it off at any time, you know, because this is just. It's not something I'm watching for entertainment. This is something that I'm watching that I might recommend, you know, so if it's shit, then it's. It's not worth it. It's not worth the time anymore. So same deal. Then he flipped it and by the end it was. I mean, I don't want to repeat both of you, but yeah, just something where I was like, that was. That was interesting enough to review. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I drew. [00:37:53] Speaker A: I know, I know. A line. I became an alternative comedian at the tail end of the second. [00:38:00] Speaker B: I do love that. [00:38:03] Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. [00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Because obviously the art, the ice cubes for my boys. Call back and then the third thing, obviously the big ice block on the way. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that was really cool. [00:38:16] Speaker C: I thought it was really cool. [00:38:19] Speaker B: And who do we do recently? We did Birbiglia. He does a lot of callbacks and tries to tie it all in at the end. And that when he did that, that left me feeling like raped or something. And I just violated. I just didn't like it. But this callback, it was great. [00:38:35] Speaker A: It was a one off callback in the middle of everything else. [00:38:39] Speaker B: And there were no other callbacks really. It was just that one with the ice cubes. [00:38:42] Speaker A: I like that. I like when he kept mentioning Bob Reinhardt. Like he did. That wasn't really a callback. That was just like a. Through thread. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of little nuggets, kind of like, not like, but kind of like you really got to be tuned in like Maria Bamford, right where he's slipping in weird shit all the time and if you, you know, you're not really paying attention, you don't catch it. I thought he did that really well. And then the only thing I didn't like, and maybe I'll think differently about it, but is when he goes into it. And I stopped the special to make note of the time at 30 minutes and 40 seconds through this 56 minute special, he does that character and he's got me, whatever. And then he goes into this long, meandering story about dating, right? He was talking about dating that woman, taking her on a date. She was the lawyer, I think, and I think it was that bit. And then he goes, I don't know why I'm, you know, thinking so much about this. All I should really be thinking about is fucking or something or like how to fuck. And then he does like some blue. Making you come. He broke character, right? And he does break character a couple times, I guess, where like he, you know, starts to laugh or at the end when he's doing the crowd work and he's like, damn, dude. Right character there. Right. Which I liked. But that. Where he went from, you know, Nate Bargazzi, clean all the way through to. And it was obviously intentional, whatever I did. I don't know. How did you feel about that? That kind of was like, don't. You don't need to do that. [00:40:29] Speaker C: Yeah. I didn't get a big. They didn't get a big laugh. But I could see like o. I could see why somebody would think that's funny, you know, just because of the shock value and the, you know, like. Yeah, like the fact that like this, like straight lace, you never expect him to say it and all of a sudden he says it. [00:40:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:42] Speaker C: You know, like, okay, fine. I could, I could see why somebody that's. That likes this guy is conflicted on it. [00:40:50] Speaker A: I actually mentioned it when I was talking to my missus about the thing. I was like, yeah, he had this weird one minute, two minutes in the middle of it where he broke character and swore. Because when I'm saying when I say to my Mrs. Oh, I watch this thing, she'll always say, was it vile? Was it swearing? I said, oh, he had this really weird 1 minute character break in the middle where he did swear. But other than that, there was nothing. [00:41:17] Speaker C: Speaking of that, though, I did some reading on Reddit and people, you know, commenting on, on the comedy special and people saying, I mean, he's not like that in real life. Right. And then a lot of people replied, like, I actually have met him, you know, at like a party, like if he. He's a friend of a friend, you know, or whatever. And he, he kind of is like, he's a little more like giggly and talks a little faster. But I guess it's probably, it's. I think it's an exaggeration of his actual personality. [00:41:42] Speaker B: Like uber nerd or whatever. [00:41:44] Speaker C: Yes. [00:41:46] Speaker B: Huh? [00:41:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I saw that he did that. [00:41:50] Speaker B: He's psychotic if he's walking around talking and acting like this. [00:41:54] Speaker C: Well, that's what they said. They said. One person even said, I don't know if he's just like, never breaks character. Just like, is always. What is it? Method acting, you know? Yeah, but they said, But I mean, I met him and that's just how he was the whole time. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that, that's another thing tying into Emo Phillips. Like, Emo never ever really broke character. [00:42:14] Speaker B: He was always like that. [00:42:16] Speaker A: No, I mean, Emo Phillips was like that on stage. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Right. [00:42:20] Speaker A: I actually met Emo Phillips at. [00:42:24] Speaker B: Didn't he do the, do the comedy? [00:42:25] Speaker A: No, no, no. This was in the. I was sitting in the audience. I went to see this thing called Slava's Snow show, which is like an artsy East European thing. And he was in the row behind me. So I turn up to, I stand up to, you know, look at something holy. Emo Phillips is sitting behind me. And so, you know, I had to fanboy him. And, you know, and the only thing he said to me was, I really like your watch. I Used to have this watch, not now. It had yin yang design on the face. And he goes, oh, I really like that watch. But he wasn't talking all weird, obviously. [00:43:05] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I can't imagine this guy is always like this. But maybe, you know, when they create this character, they. Whenever they go out in public, they fucking. Yeah. You know, commit to the bit. [00:43:16] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Right. [00:43:17] Speaker A: The ice thing at the end, I want. Did you watch, like, the first few people coming out? [00:43:23] Speaker C: They're like, well, the first. The first woman that walked out didn't even notice it walked past it. And my favorite was this. The guy that followed her. He's just. His. His eyes are just. He's just in his phone, you know, like, his whole face is in his phone. And he just walks right past the Cuba Vice. And it wasn't until after that few. [00:43:37] Speaker A: People were kind of side eyeing it, like, oh, yeah. And then the first person who's like, okay, I'm gonna touch it. And then it just became like a frenzy after that, which I thought was kind of. I don't know if that was an intentional human experiment. Like, okay, it's gonna take one person to do it. [00:43:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:56] Speaker A: And then the gates are open. [00:43:59] Speaker B: I never seen anything like that. Right. Have you? I mean, no special ending like that. That thought out, like. And. Yeah, that was really cool. [00:44:08] Speaker C: Today, the version that you watched, I'm assuming maybe we all watch the same YouTube version. [00:44:14] Speaker A: It's noon. You're on. [00:44:17] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. You need to get your. Your hands, your fan, your handsome, fancy haircut. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Yes. Maybe I'll get a Joe Perry. [00:44:26] Speaker A: No, Frost the tips. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that doesn't do that kind of thing. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Frost the tips. I could see. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Are we going back to talking about hair? Because I have many other thoughts about hair. If you want to go that way. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Well, let's just nail Parachute then. It's. It's a special. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Right. Yeah. I want to see more. I. Yeah. His voice. I feel like I've heard his voice before. [00:44:50] Speaker C: Okay, so he's got a. He's got an Adult Swim show. [00:44:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:52] Speaker C: And so I want to check that out. And I guess there's also a podcast of Joe Pera talks you to sleep or whatever it is, which is what he was doing that bit at the end, you know, So I mean, he does have. It seems like it's such a natural progression of this. Like. Well, I have this meandering way of talking, and I've got this, like, this certain. This. This voice that could. I'm sure somebody Said you could probably talk somebody to sleep. And podcasts are free to make, you know, so he just did that. Appeared in a whole bunch of television shows. Like he was on a bunch of late night shows and then did his Adult Swim show. And then people were, they were saying about that one is that they're like, well, I don't really like his standup as much as his show because his show works because he's the weird one and the other characters make him seem funnier, you know, because I guess that kind of grounds the rest of it, you know. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know if he's done more standup, but I am. I'm also interested in seeing more of what Joe has put out there. [00:45:47] Speaker A: I think he's more like a performance artist and you have to just stand up to cash in because I watched a couple of those shorts and it's like he orders a pizza or something and the guy come. The pizza delivery guy comes in and the next thing they're just bouncing around, jumping around the room like, you know, it's very like, you know, performance arty, which I think is where. And you know, and people love. If people like a performance artist, they're going to be obsessed with them and. [00:46:16] Speaker B: They can do no wrong. [00:46:17] Speaker A: That's why this guy can sell 600 seats. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:21] Speaker A: Without being, quote, mainstream. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Well, I think I know where we all are on this. I mean, I'm giving it the. It's very special. [00:46:31] Speaker C: Oh, very. [00:46:31] Speaker B: I'm gonna give it very special. [00:46:33] Speaker C: Very special. [00:46:34] Speaker A: Special. Yeah. [00:46:34] Speaker B: Special. Let me know. Take away the very. It's special. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Very is a bit of a high accolade for any given thing. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it is special. All right, well, tell us, friend, where are we going next? [00:46:46] Speaker C: Yes. For the Ryan Ridley show, we are going back to 2, 2013 to review Sarah Silverman's special We Are Miracles. [00:46:56] Speaker B: We are miracles 2013. [00:46:58] Speaker A: Are we gonna bookend it with the latest one? [00:47:05] Speaker B: Unplug everything? [00:47:07] Speaker C: I don't. I don't know. I was, I was re. Reading. Just kind of like what people thought about both of them. And the reason I picked the 2013 one is it is reviewed by critics to be her best work. So I figured let's start there. [00:47:23] Speaker B: Okay. The latest Female. Yeah, about time. [00:47:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Misogynist. [00:47:29] Speaker C: It's been a while. [00:47:31] Speaker B: No, I love female. [00:47:34] Speaker C: You're going to, you're going to talk to your barber about this. [00:47:37] Speaker B: I will, I will mention that I plugged him. We spent an hour talking about a hair plug. [00:47:43] Speaker C: Hair. [00:47:44] Speaker A: I Bet he's never gonna listen to the podcast. [00:47:46] Speaker B: No, no. But we did get picked up for a second season. I don't know. I mean, this is our second begun the second season of the show. When you put it out there, will you package it a season one, Season two. Oh, can you do that? That would be nice. Well, it still look like we're viable. [00:47:59] Speaker A: You know, so I'm ending, I think. What was the last one I just. [00:48:02] Speaker C: Did, the last one that went up, the last one I listened to was God damn. Was it. It wasn't Gallagher, was it? [00:48:09] Speaker A: No, I think I did Stuart Lee for sure. Do you want me to cut off what I've published up to a season one and anything I now publish, I. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Don'T know about it if it's now, but definitely demarcate a season one. [00:48:23] Speaker C: I think we should start season two with the Joe Pera episode. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah, Season two. All right, Joe Pera. Nice. [00:48:31] Speaker A: All right, well, hopefully we can get listener two to go with season two. [00:48:35] Speaker B: A lot of people. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Fingers crossed. [00:48:36] Speaker B: A lot of people are listening. [00:48:37] Speaker C: I have two fingers crossed. [00:48:39] Speaker B: How we get more listeners isn't maybe you cut this. But we bring in more guests who will tell people that they're on this show. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Cynical. [00:48:47] Speaker C: Or any guest. Any guests. Or guests. Any guest. [00:48:50] Speaker B: We've got one lined up Saturday night. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And just FYI, so I. When I was Joe Pera researching, I did go to the contact me page on his thing and I thought, well, I'm not contacting the agents because I noticed he's in. Is it a festival in Indianapolis this coming Sunday? [00:49:10] Speaker B: Really? [00:49:10] Speaker A: So I said, he's perfect for this place. So I sent him just, hey, we like Joe Pera at the Lincoln Lodge. If you. Because a lot of people fly into Chicago rather than Indy. And I was like, if you're around, just drop by the lodge. We'd love to chat. So we'll see. Maybe we'll next episode. We'll be super excited that yeah, Joe Pera responded to my email. [00:49:31] Speaker B: That'd be cool. We can. [00:49:32] Speaker C: As the. [00:49:33] Speaker B: As the kids say, we can have him in here and glaze him. Is that what they say, Glaze them? Like if I'm ever like saying something nice about somebody, dad, why are you glazing him? You know, like a dumb. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Is that like. [00:49:43] Speaker B: It means like jizzle? [00:49:44] Speaker A: It's a jizz. Yeah. [00:49:45] Speaker C: Yeah, I think. [00:49:46] Speaker B: I don't know if they know that. [00:49:47] Speaker C: But that's what they probably. They've got iPhones. They know. [00:49:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe we'll glaze Joe Pera. [00:49:52] Speaker A: Or maybe they. Maybe they think they're going to his house and putting up some new windows. Glazing, maybe. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Maybe that's it. Are we gonna glaze anybody else? There's a couple other people I'd like to glaze. All right. Look forward to it. All right. Yeah. Yeah. What? I wanted to say something else, but I can't remember what it was. [00:50:13] Speaker A: As my dad would say, it couldn't have been that important then. [00:50:15] Speaker B: No, it was. It was all right. Oh, I. I bought tickets to a show at the Lincoln Lodge yesterday. Did you see me come?

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