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Demetri Martin - "Overthinker" with Marshall Couch
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Nick and Bryan welcome Marshall Couch to overthink Demetri Martin!
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SPEAKER_03That was you embodied you embodied the butchering part. Thank you, Brian. That's somehow it worked. Our guest today is Marshall Couch. He is my friend. You want to tell us about our comic comedian today, Marshall?
SPEAKER_00Sure. I chose uh Dimitri Martin. Um I because I didn't want to choose Nate Bargazzi, um, who I think Nate Bargazzi might be the best comedian out there right now. Um hot take. Uh and then I'm a favorite comedian in this, isn't it? And then no, but Dimitri Martin is is probably number two. Um and I feel like it was a millennial thing where I was like, well, everyone loves Nate Bargazzi now. He's been on like Saturday Night Live and stuff. And so I was like, I can't choose that. Like, I need to be a hipster. And so so Dimitri Martin is my hipster option. Uh wow, though.
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SPEAKER_03That's like the perfect segue into the name of the special. What's the name of his special?
SPEAKER_00Oh, Overthinking. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the Overthinker.
SPEAKER_00Overthinker. Yeah. Um I've been a fan of his for a while. Um, he had like a series um for I don't know if it was like what TV channel it was on or whatever, but it was on Netflix for a bit, and it was like 13-ish episodes, I want to say. Uh, please don't fact check that. Uh, but it was you know, like a TV show kind of entertaining. And he had some like, you know how like you can watch a TV show and then just like you're like, oh man, that was really good and really funny, but I don't remember anything about it. There's like one joke or maybe two jokes that I remember from it. Um, one of them was about rollerblades, and he's like, the inventor of rollerblades is like rollerblades, was like, I wish there was something where I could like get around a little bit faster than walking and let people know that I like men. And like that's just one that's like stuck with me forever.
SPEAKER_03That's hilarious. I a couple of point little, I guess, tidbits not directly related to this episode. This if everything goes according to plan, is a Dimitri double. The start of a Dimitri Double will be doing another record shortly after this with another Dimitri um special. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00No, can't oh we've gotta figure out someone else then. My hipster pink in the world.
SPEAKER_03It's not a big deal, Marshall. This is exactly what I didn't tell you till now. You have to be on your best behavior. We're recording.
SPEAKER_04It ruins everything.
SPEAKER_03The other thing is I got a new kitten, and she is here with us, so we have uh a half guest with us as well. Her name is Luna, and she's a little snow tiger house cat.
SPEAKER_01Ringing the bells.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she's she's adorable and she knows it. Looks a lot like Nermal from Garfield, if you're a fan.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Didn't realize that until two and a half days after we got her. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Head cut right there. Lasagna.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, she's she's got a little bit of the white of the moon and a little bit of the shadow of the craters of the moon in her. So we called her Luna. It's a stretch, but she stretches.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, all right, back to Dimitri, back to the podcast. We have a sheet to help keep us on track. Uh newly updated sheet. Yes, newly updated. Um Marshall Marshall's sort of our tester of sorts.
SPEAKER_00Right. Perfect. We'll see how this goes. I didn't fill it out, so uh perfect. I'm I I didn't I didn't say that. Never mind.
SPEAKER_03That that is its own best feedback. Thank you for that. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_00It was just because of being a dad, though. It wasn't because of well, anyway.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that's actually good because that we that means we're gonna get like actual reaction on the fly. Yeah you know what I mean? Like live reaction. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Just do do fill it out as you go because we will ask for the total at the end.
SPEAKER_00Yes, I will definitely fill it out as we go. And definitely calculate up the total.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Capable of that to six decimal places.
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SPEAKER_03Um, we we did not work this out before hitting record. Brian, do you want to lead us through this one? Through the question.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I can. Um well we already got we already got uh Marshall's take on his fandom of this. Um yeah, okay. I guess we can just dive right in. Uh comedic style. Let's start with Marshall. Uh there's at the top of the sheet comedic style. Yep. I can read what what uh what boxes would you have checked?
SPEAKER_00If I were to check these, I think uh one-liners, observational, satirical, um maybe physical, maybe not physical, musical, definitely. Um well, even musical in this one was kind of like uh was it there? Um no, but probably one liners, observational, satirical are probably the three big ones.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Storytelling, I guess he did do a slight bit of storytelling.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, that is true. We'll get into that. Nick, what about you?
SPEAKER_03I agree. Um in previous episodes I've I've commented that there should be some kind of gradient that we can do on these boxes. Um I would agree though, Marshall, like one-liners, observational, satirical. I I didn't actually catch satirical, but I I agree with you. And then for storytelling, I put like 10%. Like he he he did it, yeah, but it wasn't it's not his thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Physical comedy, he did it, but it's not his thing. And then for musical, like he is a musical comedian. Like he's had specials where it was 40-50% of his set. Whereas this one I felt like it was just 10% of his set. Yeah. He just he did it because he's done it before almost, and then he Yeah. How about you, Brian? What did you do? Yeah, so I had the same thing.
SPEAKER_01I had a like a little half check mark for storytelling, um, one-liner's observational, um ventriloquism slash proc prop comedy, just just because he had uh a little bit of prop in there in terms of just his section on pictures um that he drew or that somebody else drew for him. And then the the musical comedy was one that I was gonna zero in on just because it's funny to me because he plays a guitar. I've listened to other other specials he has, and he plays a guitar, and a lot of times he's just like playing a guitar behind jokes. He's not like actually it's not it's not like weird Al Yankovic or it's not like uh Bo Burnham. We did Bo Burnham earlier, right? Bo Burnham like writes songs that have the jokes in the songs, right? Whereas he's just like, I'm gonna accompany myself with the guitar for this section of jokes. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00It's like it's a weird flex because he's like, Yeah, I'm gonna memorize these jokes and then tell them to you while I'm playing guitar. And it's not like they're completely separate. And it's right, like you don't have to play guitar to tell those jokes, but then like he's just like, I like to play guitar, so I'm just gonna do it. Yeah, right, exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I think um, I mean, I still consider that a musical comedian, except for just different than what you would think a traditional musical comedian would be, like if somebody said musical comedians. So anyway, so that's what I had.
SPEAKER_03Um I would agree with you on prop more than I realized. I I thought his only prop was when he did the metal detector thing, but then I forgot about his features.
SPEAKER_01His flip chart, yeah.
SPEAKER_03His flip chart, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And actually, if you think about it too, like technically, the the going to get water bit was like, you know, where he had like the inner monologue. And I'm sure we'll get into the inner monologue thing too. But like he walked over and did that, and he like worked that in as a bit because it was like the inner monologue, is like, oh man, I'm thirsty. And then he comes, he's like, Oh, you guys are odd, it's awesome. Like, I how'd your how'd your going to get water bit do? And he's like, Man, it killed. It was awesome. Yeah. So like technically, prop, you know, you use the water, his cup of water as props, you know.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I think, yeah, I and this probably happens later on, you know, but like just like the I guess the crowd control, the ability to like make people laugh and cheer. Just like, how long can I keep this silence going? Yes, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh he he had opened up too saying that this was um this was some of the best improv. I'm glad I opened with that. So to me, that was one of two things. One, he he just sort of made that up to like you know be f kind of funny, or like he actually did something before starting the record to warm up the audience, maybe clue them in on what he'll be doing, not to be surprised if he he does play some noise or sound over the speakers that gets edited out, like yeah.
SPEAKER_00There were a couple of cuts that was like you're not like because I think the metal detector bit, like that was one where like cut to him doing it, and it was like that was an abrupt cut of like what what did you just cut out or or it was like almost like that was before, and they're like, Oh, throw in the part where I was doing the metal detector thing, you know, like you know.
SPEAKER_01Is it metal detector improv?
SPEAKER_00Like what?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, maybe Yeah, there were there was meta for sure. Like parts where he he made it seem like he was recording himself in the editing process, yeah, and he's like, which which bit do I want to go with next? And he's like, and it shows up three options and he picks one, quote unquote, picks one, and it and that slides into the mainframe.
SPEAKER_01I know he likes to do that in one of his other uh his other uh albums or you know comedy specials. He at the beginning, he's like, Come into the stage is the person's voice you're hearing right now. So it's like him announcing himself coming on stage. So like he does that meta kind of stuff like that, you know, right, quite often. All right, what about subject matter? Subject matters covered. Um, Marshall, you want to start us out there too?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I think like social commentary, a little bit of that. Um, there's a little bit of personal life. Oh, yeah. Um and then I think mostly he dipped his toe in dark humor, but I think mostly he's absurdist. Like I if I'm understanding absurdist correctly. Uh and the stuff that he talks about and like jokes about in that vein, like I feel like he's one of the few comedians that's like very unoffensive. You know, like a lot of com comedy is like making fun of a person or people or something like that, a group. Yeah. Whereas he's like, I'm gonna make fun of birds. Right. You know, it's like, okay, I guess that works.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like nobody I like there, there's not gonna be people like writing in the comments, like, how dare you? You know, like I can't believe you're making fun of mallard ducks, you know, or something.
SPEAKER_00You know, like how dare you defame t-shirts? Like that the name of t-shirt comes from a long history, and you just and you just brought up P-shirt would you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, maybe they're I think the the closest he came to being offensive when he was talking about techno Americans and whether doing the robot would be offensive.
SPEAKER_00Well, and this was eight years ago, so it's like age like fine.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Yeah, that is funny, by the way. That's and I talking about the subject matter, like it's interesting going through these things and looking at what the data is because this is pre-COVID. And so like I always try to feel like if you can if you can feel that in it, like, oh, we were so innocent, like we didn't we had no idea what was gonna happen in like a year and a half, you know what I mean? Yeah, um like it's sort of like when we reviewed when we reviewed uh Robin Williams, who was like just post-9-11, like immediately post-9-11, like six months after 9-11 or whatever. And so it's like you could feel that, like it was it was infused in the whole thing. Yeah, you could you could tell Dimitri Martin had never worn a mask outside, you know. You could just feel that. He did have some vaccination jokes. So I mean that that I thought that was really funny because I was like, oh, he doesn't, they don't we don't know what's going on, like the audience doesn't know what's coming.
SPEAKER_03Like he has no idea.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03What is was it little did he know?
SPEAKER_01That's the classic third person on the part of me feels like maybe blow dart, you know, vaccinations at the time would have been good for the people that are like, I'm not getting a vaccination. You're like, really? Oh yeah, you are. I didn't even think about it like that.
SPEAKER_00I just thought about from like my kids, you know, like yes, yeah. And I don't like needles, so I was like, Yeah, blow dart would be good. And like I was thinking about it, then he got to that next part of the joke where he's like, until they have to go to the doctor again, then they're gonna Yeah, and then they're like, Where is he?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was good.
SPEAKER_00It's good, it's good once. You know, it's one of those you really gotta pick your time to use that trick uh to blow dart someone with a vaccine, you know, because you only do it you can only do it once, otherwise they're gonna be suspecting it for the rest of their lives.
SPEAKER_03You just gotta get better at psychology, you know. Right. You you can coax them and calm them or do it in a different room, yeah, wait until they don't expect it, or they just learn to stop expecting it. There's all kinds of dark psychology you can apply to get the blow dart trick to work indefinitely.
SPEAKER_00You know what they say blow dart me once, shame on me, blow dart me twice, shame on wait other way around.
SPEAKER_02Whatever shame on the world.
SPEAKER_00After I got blow darted twice, I realized I should stop trusting this person.
SPEAKER_03The first time this up the reason this episode is great is because Marshall's easy to talk to. The reason this episode is off the rails is because he's gonna be like, Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01I'm never gonna get through this this sheet. It's just gonna be not be like, all right, let's just tell what we scored, okay?
SPEAKER_03Um, what did what about your subject matter, Brian?
SPEAKER_01Like what I had I had uh social commentary. I had I I checked personal life after Marshall said it because I was like, oh yeah, he told the story about his family and in the thing and all that. And that was one of the restaurant, yeah. Yeah, um, definitely a little bit of dark humor. I think you're right though, absurdist is what I would categorize him as is just sort of like or like if there was a maybe not absurdist, but like off the wall, like if off the wall humor or something like that. I don't know. Maybe that's an antiquated term, but antiquated, I think antiquated is antiquated, actually. If I use that.
SPEAKER_03So seen scuba divers from a fish perspective, or seen a skydiver from a bird's perspective, like that's kind of absurdist, you know? Yeah. Or maybe off the wall, but right, right.
SPEAKER_01Both. What about you, Nick?
SPEAKER_03Uh I had all all the same. I didn't detect dark humor.
SPEAKER_00I think it was it was the peanut. It was the peanut joke. That was the one that I was like, ooh, that's pretty dark. Suicide, suicide by peanut. Yeah. Reese cup even, because he's like, I could just go to a 7-Eleven and grab a Reese Cup. That's right. Yeah. Which you know, if you're you know, if you're being honest, Reese Cup's a good way to go. Yeah, for real.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so if you're gonna be bad with peanuts, interestingly, interestingly, like I don't think that he's one few, he's one of the few comedians who really is like stays completely away from ethnic slash cultural. Like, oh yeah, he doesn't do accents, he doesn't there's no like racial jokes, if that makes sense. Um, yeah, at least I didn't detect any, which most of the time that's sort of like fertile ground for comedians. They just like go to the like the oh yeah, this will get a laugh, or like, hey, there's some people in the audience that are different colored skin, so we're gonna go this way to try to you know get a laugh or whatever.
SPEAKER_03To to surf the tension, right? Like you can create instant tension by yeah, making racial jokes. He did say pandas are biracial. That was it.
SPEAKER_00Can you believe he said that? Oh my gosh. I know. He's he is pretty much like a particular like flavor of comedian. You know, like I feel like he's very he's probably polarizing. Like, there are probably people that are like Dimitri Martin's a comedian, yeah. And then there are people like me who I'm like, he's number two.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's like an I don't get it crowd. I don't get it, you know? Like, yeah, definitely. Did we get yours, Nick? Yeah, you said yours, basically. Yeah, all right. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So do we care if we didn't? No, not really.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00You know?
SPEAKER_03Uh there was a joke I saw a mile away that but I still laughed. Okay, we'll come back to it. I'll find it and come back to it.
SPEAKER_01What I thought was funny. Well, actually, we'll get to it. Uh, let's start, let's start with our content, or excuse me, start with our scoring criteria. Number one is content quality. So that was how well written were the jokes and stories. Um, Nick, why don't you start us out there?
SPEAKER_03Sure. I put strong creative writing. We definitely did a lot of prep. Um I I chose eight on on that because that's a seven to eight out of ten. I chose the eight side of for that for strong creative writing. Um definitely thought thought things through, you know, as the other thinker. And I'll leave more commentary for you all.
SPEAKER_00Marshall, how about you? I put a nine. Um because I I I think it's pretty well executed. Like I don't want to get into the other questions or the other things, but yeah, like it's they're very ups again, they're very absurd things, um, but I feel like his timing, his tempo, and stuff of delivering the punchlines is really solid. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm I'm I'll jump on that as well. That's I gave him an eight and a half out of ten. I I am always baffled when I listen to him because his jokes require a specific specific words to be used at sp and specific timing, and it's like a nightmare for me, like as a Toastmaster. There you go, Toastmaster. I said it. Um, so it's a nightmare because I, you know, having to say very specific words, and if you miss those words, then it doesn't hit the same way. And he and everything is memorized. Like he's not there's no teleprompter up there. Like he's got like that's too that's just amazing to me. It just doesn't, it doesn't even compute like how he does that. I understand he probably has been on that stage telling a bunch of jokes for this, and he has a set list in his head, probably, but you know, that's still crazy to me. So, but definitely strong, well, well written jokes. Um, interestingly, I think I was having this conversation. Was that with you, Nick? Is that sometimes there are comedians that become writers, and sometimes there's writers that become comedians. I think he's a writer that became a comedian. Like, I think he I don't know if it was concurrent or not, but like I know he's done a writing for a lot of different shows and a lot of different things. And so some comedians don't write for outside other things other than like my themselves, and but he actually you know does writing stuff.
SPEAKER_03I I imagine you're right that he's right. I imagine that's correct that he's a writer who began a comedian. Like it seems to me, especially with with his doodles, his drawings, and things that he probably has a journal that he maybe started when he was nine or in middle school, and he just filled it up with random, silly ideas, little doodles, little writing, and then he ran out, you know, he used that up and he did some more. Yeah, he just had so many that he couldn't contain them anymore, and he had to like start sharing them with people.
SPEAKER_01I got really curious when he was telling the story about his him and his wife and his kids at the diner, whatever. And like how because like whenever I try to do weird, absurd jokes, my wife's just like I get a sigh or just an eye roll or whatever. I'm like, Does his wife like, yeah, I get it? Yeah, okay, yeah. It's yeah, birds flying. Yeah, okay, skydiver, birds. Got it. Yeah, funny, honey. That's great.
SPEAKER_00Uh the best part of that was like, you know, it's like a long story, uh, and it's like midway through, he's like, and it's about to pick up, I promise.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. He actually acknowledged that the audience is like, get to it, buddy. Come on.
SPEAKER_00It's like they're like, this isn't your normal cadence of joke, what's going on here?
SPEAKER_03Right. I don't did y'all notice that he did a setup though to that never paid off.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_03Which one when he he talked about how he he sometimes sees that his whole life is a maybe and maybe maybe that I missed it, like maybe it did pay off and I just wasn't there to pick up the check. But like the way he introduced his story about the restaurant um, right? With Brian. Yeah, he before that started with you know, you ever seen moments in your life where you just realize that your entire life in that moment is a joke, like the perfectly concise joke, and he's like, Where's my tambourine? Yeah, where the next one's I I guess I I thought that was a setup to a joke.
SPEAKER_00No, that's hilarious. You don't think that's hilarious?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think it's so I think it was funny, but it felt like it it was a punchline that was begging for a tag, like it needed some something else to to finish finish it off. It it was a shake without it was a milkshake without um the whipped cream and cherry.
SPEAKER_00Oh I laughed at that.
SPEAKER_01So if the audience wasn't like a I didn't notice. But but he did say, I mean, to be to be you know, to be quite honest, he he did say in that through that chart that he lives in the area of like expectation of where it's gonna go versus what actually happens. So, you know. So that was one of the ones where he's like right in this area, you know?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Almost meets expectations. That's right. Dimitri Martin.
SPEAKER_00You've just never been in a situation where you were really wondering where your tambourine was and and it shows.
SPEAKER_01I like also that it in the bottom of the screen, it's like it was in my backpack. Like it had he had like a little like subtitle, just so you know. Which I thought was as funny as the joke. Like that you he had to actually feel justified to give you like closure, you know?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, maybe that maybe that was the tag. Maybe that was supposed to be the tag, but it just stayed in, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So he felt good enough about it. Right. I like that.
SPEAKER_01He did it for what about performance and delivery? Um, Marshall, you want to start? How effective was the comedian's stage presence and delivery? Which you've already sort of talked about this a little bit. I'm gonna give him a 10.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna give him a 10 for the water bit. Nice. Yeah. Where he just walks across the stage silently. And it's like, and because there are times, right, where he's doing like the voiceover part. And so, like, as a viewer of the the special, you're like, This how long did this like what did this feel like to the audience members?
SPEAKER_01That's what I wonder. That's what I wondered. They didn't get that piped in, right? No, like probably not. They didn't hear that. I wouldn't think so.
SPEAKER_00Maybe they did. Now now that you mention it, I guess we have technology.
SPEAKER_01I mean, that would affect their reaction, I would think, though. You know what I mean? Yeah. If it was, if it was, if that if that model inner monologue was going while he was doing it, they probably wouldn't have this like the woos that happened there. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03I have a theory on that. All right, what is it?
SPEAKER_01I I think it is a conspiracy theory or a regular theory. He's like, hey everybody, here's what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00I need you. It was wrestling.
SPEAKER_01It was wrestling, it was all staged. When I say the word transfusion, you guys all need to go crazy, okay? Like, you know.
SPEAKER_03That he he did prep them, and I think there were moments where they did pipe stuff in. He might not have been written yet. Yeah. Like I think he he he said, okay, uh what they heard was something like, okay, this is the part where I'm gonna vamp, or in the special, I'm gonna talk over. Yeah, just sit tight, it's almost over, and here we go. And then he that's what was playing over the speakers, or maybe it's what he intended to record over the speakers, yeah, but he had full editing, you know, license afterwards to dub whatever he wanted if he changed his mind. And then there maybe on those occasions where there was the woo, because the woo kind of interrupted some of that, um and he he had to kind of pivot and respond. Like I think the audience kind of that audience member I was gonna say ruined it, but it obviously wasn't ruined since Dimitri, you know, pivoted with with the quasi-health heckle there. Right. Um and there was one moment I noticed where he he did talk, like he was talking, like the Dimitri on stage was talking to the audience, he was talking into the microphone while the Dimitri in the editing room was dubbing over some stuff. So like it was a joke or comment or something that we all missed, yeah that the audience got. Um, and I guess it was wasn't good, or his commentary he felt was better in his edit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But uh, you know, I I do feel a little robbed like, what did he say?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, not Nick is just you're you're cynical. You need to we need to go see a live comedian like doing the live show so we can see the behind the scenes and see what how it actually happens. That's like my full then we can know.
SPEAKER_03My my full name is Cynical Sager. I'll just go by Nick for short.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, I'm just one of those now that you bring it up, I'm like, oh, I was just believing in the magic. Is the magic really there or not? You know, you just ruined it. It's like, is Santa Claus real? Don't know.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say, do you go to Disneyland and you're like, wait a minute, is there a person inside that bad mouth?
SPEAKER_02Megatron isn't real?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Wait, you're telling me that waitress wasn't being nice to me just because she likes me? So what's your what's your performance delivery?
SPEAKER_03What oh, what's my score for oh performance? Um you guys got me to bump it to a seven out of ten. I thought we got those some awkward moments.
SPEAKER_00From a ten. That's like a static out of ten. Come on, Nick.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's yeah. I they weren't intentional awkward moments. Like he wasn't in control of the awkward.
SPEAKER_00So I I think that was just his mastery of awkwardness, you know. Right. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03I mean, guess what, guys? This is all subjective, and we we put our scores together to come up with a compiled scores.
SPEAKER_00I just want to make sure Dimitri gets a good bonus this year, and I can see you're trying to take it from him.
SPEAKER_03Look, you you're not gonna change how jealous I am of him and how I should be up there and serve him.
SPEAKER_00It's true. Actually, one of the things I was kind of thinking was like, this feels like Nick's humor, you know, like yeah, like if Nick were a comedian, I feel like it'd be in this neighborhood, you know. It's at least adjacent, yeah. You know, like it's there. Yeah, definitely. Nick's like I hate it.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Nick's like, hold on, I gotta go change all my points now. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Y'all, y'all are right, but but my narcissist and my inner narcissist is sufficiently satiated, we can we can move on to the next question.
SPEAKER_01Well, I gave it a nine, I gave it a nine out of ten uh on that one. So uh not much else to say except what we've already been saying. So all right, how about diversity of material? One out of or one to five score. Did the comedian keep it fresh and interesting? Um, Nick.
SPEAKER_03Thanks, Brian. And this one's one we I think we changed recently, isn't it? Like we changed the scale.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think we I think we modified it.
SPEAKER_03I like the language a lot better. I chose four out of five, wide range, kept it fresh. It might have been a five if he didn't have to tell me multiple times the story picks up. As an anecdote, like that's that's a good way to present why I didn't give them a five. That's not the only reason, but just little things like that.
SPEAKER_00All right, Marshall, what about you? Uh I think I'm just gonna start adding one to whatever Nick adds. So I'll give it a five, I'll give it a five. I thought I it's it's it's very diverse material, lots of different things going on. Jokes about squirrels, birds, the pictures, the random facts while playing guitar, you know. Yeah, the cruise, the cruise joke. I like I really like the cruise joke. Yes. Um you like hotels? What if it could sink? Yeah, well, now that you mention it, um I would love to drop my bedroom.
SPEAKER_03Um I had a comment on that. Not the hotels thing. Oh, oh, we we already said a second ago that he he didn't cover racism or any kind of racial.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. How can you?
SPEAKER_03So they can't be fully diverse, you know. It's not sorry, we have to not diverse by definition of all of his jokes.
SPEAKER_02Didn't cover any kind of diversity or inclusion.
SPEAKER_00You you didn't cover the classic comedian areas, so we're gonna have to dock you for that. He didn't he didn't raz a uh one of the audience members, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he didn't he picked on the woo guy.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's true. I think he didn't pick on them so much as like I don't know. It's just like a conversation. That's what he said, right? So it's like a conversation, but it only works here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Brian, what about your scores?
SPEAKER_01Uh I give four out of five. And I think I think it's weird in this one because you're like, is it diversity of material or is it diversity of delivery? And like I think it can be either. And in him in his case, I think he does like the hey, I'm picking up my guitar now, so now it's your mind is like, oh, he's doing something different. But he's doing the same kind of jokes, it's just music behind it, and then the flip chart, same kind of jokes, just has a flip chart. Like, so it's almost like he's adding in something else to make his own style so that you don't get, you know, like if because he be I think if he just did the same thing for the whole time without the guitar and without the flip chart, and I think maybe by the end of it you'd be like, wow, okay, it's a little like it's a little much, you know.
SPEAKER_03So you're saying there was literal diversity of material. Right. He had jokes in the air, yes, he had jokes on paper, jokes on guitar.
SPEAKER_01That's what I'm that's how I'm using this. Yeah, in this context, that's what I'm using this for. All right. What about impact and memorability? This one is a one to ten score. How well did this did this performance stick with you? I need I have a typo in there. I need to change it.
SPEAKER_03What's your score, Brian? Let's start with you.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, so I said eight out of ten, uh, strong, memorable set. I think he is he does we talked about this in the last episode that we we recorded about Jeff Dunham. Um, you know, when you have a number of different albums and a number of number of different specials, I don't know that I could remember which joke. Like I earlier you said like Marshall, like, oh, I remember this specific joke from this specific special, but I just remember Dimitri Martin jokes, like in general, and because they're they're all, I mean, he just has a very distinct style and he st he knows that he does it well, and also there's not much competition in that area, too. Like, I I think he's one of the only ones that does this type of humor. Um, and so, but I still give him a four out of five, or excuse me, an eight out of ten, sorry, um, strong memorable set. I wrote down a lot of jokes that he told, like a lot. My whole pay back of my page is is nonsense uh things like Walker for Nose and Black Balloons at Funeral and Near Death Near Death to Death Experience.
SPEAKER_00And oh my gosh, the near death to death experience is fantastic.
SPEAKER_01Autobiography, autobiography that turns into a biography. Like it's like, dude, he tricked me into learning about Ben Franklin.
SPEAKER_03That was a tricky. That's I felt like that. The the autobiography turning into a biography, that's kind of um our podcast episode right now. It's a comedy review that becomes just a conversation between three friends.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly. Exactly. All right. Uh I started on that one.
SPEAKER_00Um, Marshall, what about you? Impact and memorability. I can't say until Nick goes, I think. Uh no, I I will say no. Uh actually, I can I could probably answer this one because I think it's just my memory that's the problem here. But like the type of jokes, like I do not remember them. Like they're hilarious. Like Dimitri Martin is someone I can watch like over and over again because I'm like, oh man, you know, I forgot about this one like every single time. Yeah. Um, there were a couple that I'm like, oh, I can remember that just like off the top of my head. And it's like the last two because they were the most like story, um, which was like the tambourine and the uh and then the toast, where you know, it's like those were just more story-based and um easier to remember. But like all the other ones, I'm like, oh, that was just like a joke. And uh it was like in one ear, out the other. You know, it's like if you're ever like, tell me a joke, if someone ever asks you to tell them a joke, you know, it's always like, uh, let me remember any joke I've ever heard in my life, and you're like struggling. Like that's like I feel like a lot of those jokes are in that vein where it's like, I don't think I've ever heard a joke in my life all of a sudden. Right. Yeah. Nick, what about you?
SPEAKER_03Uh what did you put? What was your score, Marshall?
SPEAKER_00Uh, did I say one? He didn't, you didn't. Good. That's it. I got around it. This is the loophole. I think I think about I th I'd say like five or six. Like in the middle of the road. Yeah. I mean, because I don't remember them. Okay. I had to write about it. Okay.
SPEAKER_01You know. I mean, that's about what you described. That's that says some standout moments. So I'm sure they were all hilarious. They weren't memorable. Got it. Yeah. Makes sense, Nick.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Um, well, uh we're we're breaking with our pattern because I gave an eight out of ten, like Ryan.
SPEAKER_00That's because it's your humor. I think you're gonna you're you put all those in the vault for Nick jokes later on. Oh, for sure. He's like, he's like a lot of retellables here for he's like every single one of those is gonna get that's so true.
SPEAKER_03There's so many previous comedians, especially when they cover the the racial stuff. I'm like, I can't retell these jokes. Right, right. But yeah, there's there's lots here I can retell. We'll we'll get to that. Um, yeah, but so I gave it an 8-10 on impact and memorability. Strong, memorable set. I didn't write as much down as I did for say like Robin Williams, but was that because you just remembered Robin Williams better?
SPEAKER_00That's why I had to write him down because I wouldn't remember him.
SPEAKER_03Oh, oh. Well then yeah, that that's by that standard, I remember Dimitri better than I do Robin Williams.
SPEAKER_01Well, the next one we're gonna go to Nick first because it's his favorite of all time. Callback effectiveness. One to five, how well were jokes referred back to?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_03And this was definitely one we changed because we we defined callback in the question for our friends who or audience members who maybe don't study comedy terminology.
SPEAKER_01I So like everyone. So like every every single people except us. Is there like what's c commodology or something? We're the only people who do this, like, oh yeah, hey, let's let's come up with like defined terms for comedian, like, and we're gonna actually analyze. Anyway, go ahead, Nick. Sorry.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so yeah, the the callback effectiveness is my second most favorite segment next to our unofficial one about puns. Which isn't a real one, so you're right, it is the first. Alright, so callback effectiveness. I had to give them a three out of five. Um maybe I missed some that were super subtle or not so subtle, but I only catched one callback.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, me too. Which that's I only got the one and I don't remember what it was. Wait, which one which one was it that you caught?
SPEAKER_03So that I he he had uh talked, he had kind of confessed about you know personal life observational about how he would take before photos whenever he started working out.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03And uh the callback to that was when he joked about putting pictures of himself in picture frames before he bought it to freak out the cashier.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like he was one of the random people that they put in photos.
SPEAKER_01That's the same one I caught, and I didn't catch any other ones.
SPEAKER_03And he's like, Oh, did you get one of my before photos? How did you get one of my before photos?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So so then you got the mental image of him in his underwear. Like she's showing a picture of a lady of himself in her underwear, goes, some lady to the checkout counter.
SPEAKER_00Which I think is also just absurd that people do that. Like, do people actually do that? People actually go take before photos or is that pictures? Yeah, or is that just for if you're doing a study? You ever you ever taken a before photo?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I have I I have twice. And of those, I relate to Dimitri in the fact that I don't know. You never had an after?
SPEAKER_01No, honestly, yeah. Every once in a while I'll be scrolling back in my pictures in front. I'm like, why do I have a picture of me here shirtless in front of my front door? What what's what's happening here? You know?
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I think I'd go the other way and only do an after photo, you know. Right. Like, I don't have a before, but here's the after.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, exactly. If I ever get there, but if I could show you what I look up before, you you'd tell that this looks really good.
SPEAKER_00So now you could just AI the before photo and just be like, make me look worse, please. This is that I want people to think I look better now. I could do that now, I could do that today. Yeah, just like this is people like wow, you look okay. Like, yeah, but you should see the before photo. Oh man.
SPEAKER_03I I think I might have more before photos of my clutter, like the times where I've resolved it like cleaning my room or office or house.
SPEAKER_00I just don't take many photos, I think is the problem. Yeah. I need to take more photos. Agreed. Maybe of myself shirtless, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03I at the risk of tangentializing this conversation further. Do you not take many photos because like you always have a camera? Like it's it's not special anymore. Or you know, maybe so easy you don't think about it.
SPEAKER_00I never think about it. I think I'm just too lit. I'm I live in the moment. Uh I'm like, what's what's the what is that?
SPEAKER_02Well, that's a good gesture for you two and not the audience.
SPEAKER_00No, I think, yeah. No, I I think it's just like uh I try not to live in the past. I'm not very sentimental usually. Um and so and I don't like I feel like the point of taking photos is going back to look at them. Um and maybe someday future Marshall is gonna be very upset with Past Marshall.
SPEAKER_01But uh, but what about your but what about your spouse? Because my spouse takes a lot of photos, so like I always think, oh, I don't really need to because she's sort of handling that, which means her phone is full and can't do anything now because it's full of pictures. Yeah. Mine is like, I never remember, like, I'll go a whole day of like just with the family and everything, and like I didn't take one picture, you know. That's or I took like one and it's a really bad one of just like nothing, you know.
SPEAKER_00That's probably close to it. No, actually, funny story is um whenever we had our second kid, my wife was like, You need to take better pictures in the hospital. Because with the first one, she's like, You had like one picture and it was terrible. And I was like, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01This isn't it. Hey guys, we had a photo. Look at this.
SPEAKER_00One photo of our it's like her, it's like because it's like right after delivery, like slimy baby, I think, you know. Yeah, you're just like, come on.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Sweaty, sweaty mom and slimy baby, like yeah, yeah, it's like perfect.
SPEAKER_00That one's going in the Christmas card. Thanks, honey. I appreciate it. Yeah. She's like, this is National Geographic material that we get. Right, right. We don't send that in the Christmas card.
SPEAKER_01You have to you're gonna have to blur some parts out, you know.
SPEAKER_03Just so to call back to our fifth question, yeah. My score was three out of five on callbacks. Okay. Which is some effective callbacks. That's kind of generous.
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SPEAKER_01I think that's a good one. Marshall, what about what about you, Marshall?
SPEAKER_00I'll agree with Nick on this one.
SPEAKER_01Three out of five?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I did a four, but the part of the reason why is because we had this conversation, Nick, about like it's not the quantity of them, it's how effectively were they used. And I thought that one was really effectively used, even though there was only one that I could count. So effective. It was so effective.
SPEAKER_00It was it was perfect.
SPEAKER_01So effective that I was like, oh, callback, call back, call back, it's like, I could do that too. Like, I'm gonna go do that right now. I watch comedy now is like uh is like I'll be like, oh, that was a callback. That was a callback. I gotta write it down. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You know, like I get all excited.
SPEAKER_03I don't I don't want to change your answer, Brian, but I'll simply say that if I order ice cream and get sprinkles and I only get one sprinkle, I'm pissed. I don't care how good that one sprinkle is.
SPEAKER_01All right, I'm gonna do three and a half then. I'll bump it down half a point.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I I told you I don't want I don't want you to change your answer. Okay, no.
SPEAKER_01Let's go to style quality out of ticket.
SPEAKER_00Has there been a time you ordered ice cream and got a single sprinkle?
SPEAKER_01That would be hilarious. Like that'd be really hilarious.
SPEAKER_00Is that a thing that happens? Well, no, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_01But if it was like a big sprinkle, like this big, and they just split a sprinkle because the thing is callbacks.
SPEAKER_00Is that what you're trying to say?
SPEAKER_03Well, I'm saying like in previous episodes and iterations, I've made the case that callbacks are like sprinkles. Like you can have too many and you can have too few. You know, part of being effective is applying the right amount relative to your content. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I'm sorry, I like ice cream too much. Also, I don't get sprinkles on my ice cream. My daughter does.
SPEAKER_03It's a metaphor, guys. Let's get it.
SPEAKER_00We have sprinkles here at the house. If you're ever over, I'll get you some sprinkles for your ice cream. Nice.
SPEAKER_02No, no, sprinkles are for winners.
SPEAKER_00And I'll make sure you get at least two. You're like, boop. I mean, it's like and sprinkles are hard to pour too. It'd be really difficult to get a single sprinkle, you know.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say, and that that is really weird if you're asking. Yeah, I would I would like sprinkles on my ice cream, and they ask you like how many? How many would you like? I don't, yeah, you know what?
SPEAKER_00I don't know how you mean how many sprinkles is normal. Like, is it like when they say how many ketchups do you want? How many ketchups? You're like, I don't know how many fries am I getting?
SPEAKER_01I want to like I want to have a decent amount of ketchup. What is that? How many is that?
SPEAKER_00Can I get one? One ketchup per five fries, please. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Okay, how big is your hand? I want a handful, but I want one is your handful, not my handful.
SPEAKER_01How many do you give me before it starts costing me money?
SPEAKER_00Like, I don't I don't want you guys to lose money on me buying these fries, but like, can we get close to that?
SPEAKER_03Right. One fewer than when you're then your manager will get you in trouble. Right. It's like I'd like I'd like one shy of a case, please.
SPEAKER_00One shy of a case. Get the box.
SPEAKER_03By the way, I hate ketchup.
SPEAKER_00All right. Really? I mean, ranch is better, but it could be hot sauce. It could be hot sauce. Buffalo. Marshall, Marshall likes buffalo sauce. I do. I know that. I do. My daughter does not. I have tried a few times. What? Um, the genetics didn't get there. Yeah, getting a four-year-old into buffalo wings is trickier than I expected it to be. It's like one of those things they don't tell you in the Lamaz class, and you're like, uh, excuse me, but like Buffalo, like when does that when do you start working that in? And they're like, uh what? We're talking. About breastfeeding.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah, but let's talk about what's important.
SPEAKER_00When they start eating wings, you know, I think if they do bone in, is that like three years old? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01All right. Uh where were we? Style quality. How effective is the comedian's style?
SPEAKER_00Uh which comedian are we talking about again?
SPEAKER_01Where what are we doing here? Squirrels. Squirrels. I'll go first on this one to keep us moving going. Yeah. I'm gonna say I said eight out of ten. Uh clearly a professional. I think um I think he probably could bump that up even a little bit, like eight and a half, but um, but yeah, he's the he's a guy who knows knows what his style is and leans into it and is like, yeah, you know, here and then writes material that works for his style. So I I mean everything is just works is coordinated. So um Marshall, what about you?
SPEAKER_00I I think I'll give him a nine for one particular reason, and that is I think probably the transition between the pictures and the can't like the easel and then the guitar is probably not as clean or cool as it could be. You know, like I just imagine like rock stars where like they throw their guitar off the stage and like the the roadie grabs it or the tart is thrown in. You know, like I didn't see that happen, so uh yeah, I'm gonna document a point for that. And the easel that might be a little more dangerous than throwing the guitar out, but uh I feel like those transitions were like a little weird. I think that's where some cuts were. Um, but other than that, like his actual like joke style and stuff, I think is awesome. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Nick well he did he did scoot the easel out with one smooth push. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That is okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Nine and a half? No.
SPEAKER_00Smooth push, uh it was okay. I've seen smoother easel pushes.
SPEAKER_03Um I I know you didn't ask Brian, not yet, but uh I gave I'll I'll say an eight out of ten. I was gonna go lower, but but Marshall bumped me up.
SPEAKER_00How did I bump you up? You're like, I like the guitar transition.
SPEAKER_03Well sure, but just I don't know, like he he part of me felt robbed by all of the awkward silence. Like it was it was strategic. The joke the jokes per minute were lower, you know. And yeah, the the jokes that were there were were funny, but it's like how many how many more things could I have laughed at besides the awkward silence if if he had oh it's like you're it's shrinkflation.
SPEAKER_00Dimitri Martin is like the shrinkflation of comedy.
SPEAKER_03I guess, yeah, maybe. But so that's why it was gonna be like a six or a seven. I felt like he maybe played up the bit the overthinking bit a little too much, or was leaning on it so much that I didn't get as many jokes. Um but hearing you out, uh I bumped it up to an eight out of ten.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_01All right, Brian, your score. I said I already I did mine first, and no, I didn't either. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Thank you.
SPEAKER_01All right, timing and pacing. Or should I say timing and pacing? One one to five.
SPEAKER_00Wait for it, wait for it.
SPEAKER_01Wait for it. Was the pacing effective for humor delivery?
SPEAKER_00Uh Marshall. I would say a four. I think it was pretty strong. Maybe not perfect to Nick's point. Um, but I think it was pretty good. Yeah, I like it. Nick.
SPEAKER_03Um what we have written for three is just the quote inconsistent. I'm I'm giving it three, but I'm modifying it saying inconsistent, barely better than ours.
SPEAKER_01Barely, barely better than ours.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, self self-deprecating uh critiques there.
SPEAKER_00Dimitri Martin could be on this podcast.
SPEAKER_03Like oh, I would no, I said it I said barely better. Like he's he's just a little too good for us. He's just a little beyond us, I think. Okay.
SPEAKER_01All right. I give him four out of five strong well-timed delivery and pacing, even though it doesn't say that. Yeah, I think he I think he has uh I think he paces the way that he's supposed to pace. I think he knows his limits.
SPEAKER_00He knows his limits, and he's like, you know, he doesn't he doesn't race anybody, right? He goes at his pace.
SPEAKER_01Well, that is a funny thing about him is like he he doesn't he doesn't have a lot of like speed up slow down. Like he's like just sort of like del like just delivers things almost a very consistent right like you know um his his singing facts that was that's probably the fastest pace he he gave every right yeah yeah he doesn't he's very he's kind of deadpan I mean deadpan's not quite right I think it's the vocal variety it's like his vocal variety is not a lot he's not he doesn't get like super animated about any joke he almost lets the joke tell the joke if that makes sense like he's not telling the joke, the joke's telling the joke.
SPEAKER_00It's like a joke purist, you know? Right, yeah. Like it's like it's an unseason.
SPEAKER_01When he was doing the flip chart, you know, he uh just I was like we we get the benefit of seeing the flip chart right when he flips it. Like we get that we can see it, we have a clear view of it, we can read it. And so like I'm I was almost laughing a little bit before he did the flip, right? Yeah, I mean before not before he did the flip, but right when he flipped it over, you just see the thing and you're like ha ha, you know, like you can sort of see where he was going with it. But then he did the bit of the intermodel like, hey, I wonder what the flip chart looks like from the balcony, and then it like showed a shop balcony, and you couldn't see anything. It was just white, just a white cat. It's like, oh, okay, and then he just cuts back, you know. So I was like, oh, okay, so that's what the you know that's why the audience is not laughing before he's telling the joke because they can't see it, you know. Anyway, not that it has to do with timing or pacing, but uh all right, do we hit all of our scores?
SPEAKER_00I mean, the the poster, it's like it is more uh it's just like just look at this and then kind of laugh, and then like what he says almost is irrelevant, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Well, I think what I think is funny is that he could he could have had a huge screen and like projected those onto a screen so that everyone could see it, it would have been like 10 feet tall, yeah, and he chose not to. So I feel like that was a choice, like that not everybody could see it and jump ahead of the joke, maybe. I don't know. Or or I don't know, what do you think?
SPEAKER_03You think that he was I didn't know he didn't project there.
SPEAKER_00I I feel like in a uh depending on how big the auditorium was, I feel like there would have been like a projector that had a camera on it. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, that makes sense. But I don't know. I now I need to go to one of these lives so I can see how the sausage is made and know what's magic and what's not, you know?
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Um physicality and expressiveness. I think this is one, another one we we changed a little bit, Nick. One out of five or one, two, five. How well did they embody their material? I'll start with this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out this one is hard to use there, and we chose embody.
SPEAKER_01So he's not a physical comedian. Uh he's also not very expressive either, as we were just talking about. I think we segued into that pretty well by accident. Um, but I think that I take that as part of his performance. So I gave him a four out of five on this. Just even though he's not a physical comedian, like he's doing what he needs to do in order to deliver his material the right way. Right. He's whatever physicality he needs to do, he's not or not do, he's doing it. So that's a good question. Because like part of physicality is also not doing something physical, not distracting from the joke when you need to do that as well. And I think he most of the time does that. So anyway, uh Nick, what about you?
SPEAKER_03Uh Ditto. You know, but he he even comments that he's not the most athletic or sports type person. And you know, yeah, he used his own lack of physicality in several dimensions to to make that joke work, you know.
SPEAKER_00Right, right. All those before pictures.
SPEAKER_03Call back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And even him like making the gesture like him getting a swole was hilarious because he's not like yeah, it was like a stick figure flexing, you know.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Marshall, what about you? Yeah, I think I'd give him a four because I uh the because the he embodies the style and the joke. I think you know he is um consistent, let's say. You know, like he's an awkward person, his jokes are are about like awkward situations, there's awkward, you know. Like, I guess I'll I'll give it to him for that. I'll give him an extra point for that. Okay. All right. Consensus.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Unanimous consensus. All right. Personal appeal one to ten. Is this is this comedian your cup of tea? This is another one we changed recently for our our regular listeners. Um Nick, you want to go?
SPEAKER_03Um I want to be best friends with them, or I like them a lot. That's nine out of ten or six out of eight, or six, and eight, or two, nine and ten. I twitchered that reference entirely. I'm gonna put nine point five. It's some it's right between I like them a lot, I like Dimitri a lot, and I want to be best friends with them. Okay. I have a semi-parasocial relationship with Dimitri Martin. Don't judge me.
SPEAKER_00Do you? What, huh? Okay, had no idea.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Parasocial is not a euphemism for something to be clear.
SPEAKER_00I know a parasocial. For those listening at home, parasocial is like when you watch streamers and so you don't know them, but you feel like you know them because you watch them so much. That's right. Okay, like the definition of well.
SPEAKER_01Listen to podcasters or whatever. Yeah, podcasters.
SPEAKER_03Like Swifties are have an overly developed parasocial relationship with Keller Swift.
SPEAKER_00Or K-pop stands. Yeah, Marshall. What are those people like? I I've never met one. Uh, don't know anything about them.
SPEAKER_03You got a mirror behind you. Check it out.
SPEAKER_00I'm like, you can I'm like, do I? When did I put that in there? No. I do have mirrors in my house though.
SPEAKER_03So uh yeah. Figuratively speaking, you have a mirror behind you.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_01Um, let's see here. Personal. Okay, so Nick, you did yours. Marshall, what about you? Uh 10.5 because I did a 9.5.
SPEAKER_03I did an eight, I did an 8.5.
SPEAKER_00I did you do 8.5? Well then I guess 9.5. I'm gonna bump this up to a 10. 10. Uh, yeah, I think I'd I I feel like Dimitri Martin would be a really fun person to hang out with. Yes. And uh it's probably one of those I shouldn't just because you know, don't meet your heroes. But I feel like, yeah, you know, I feel like we'd be, we'd be I well, I feel like I would be like way too into him, and he'd be like, Marshall, please stop, you're being weird. And I'd be like, sorry, over and over again.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I feel like I would constantly want to help him write the things. I would be like, Oh, oh, that's a good you should do, you should do this. It would be really funny. And he's like, Brian, no, come on.
SPEAKER_00Dude, you're so funny though, Demetri. You can make anything work. Why haven't you done more specials? You should do more specials.
SPEAKER_01That's what I do every day with him. I'd be like, I got some I got some material for you, man. He's like, No, you don't.
SPEAKER_03Or you'd be like, Demetri, you remember that time you you said that joke about the cruise ship?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was, yeah, dude. Yeah, I would you're you're telling the jokes back to the hit the owner. He's like, stop. It's like you know, you went up to Bon Jovi and you're like, I'm living on a prayer, man. You know, like yeah, I get it. All right, great. Thanks, you know. Yeah. Um, no, I'm with you, Marshall. I I want to be friends with him, hang out, and I think it would be I think it would just be really funny to see his mind work because he I think he's just an everyday guy who's just like has a pad and paper in his pocket and it's like, oh, did you see that bird? It fell out of the tree. And he just writes like bird fell out of tree, and he's like, I'm gonna make that, you know, like it's like things like that, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's his um the the jokes that he tells are so out there. Like I his creative process, like I feel like there's some creative process, you know, maybe it is just like a notebook and stuff that he's kind of vamping on and working on ideas and stuff, but like yeah, what's going on in his head feels interesting to me.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_00He's like, dude, what if I did a joke about squirrels and like bird perverts?
SPEAKER_01Yes, right, yeah. What? Yeah, bird pervert he's like bird perverts. You know, bird baths, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, bird verts, if you will. Birdverts, if you will.
SPEAKER_01He's like, I forgot about that joke. That's hilarious. He's like, Oh yeah, yeah, bath, yeah, get get all clean for me, you know.
SPEAKER_00Just like, yeah, who's what why did your mind go there?
SPEAKER_01He does a lot of birds there's like in one of his other specials. He does a bird, uh, does a joke about birds where he says, birds are one of the only animals that build their own house. They're also one of the only animals that we build houses for. He's like, How insulting is that? Like they build their own house. He's like, that's not a house. I'll build you a house here, here. Yeah, I know you fly, but I'm gonna put a roof on it. I don't care. It looks like a little people house there. Live in that, you know. Like it's true.
SPEAKER_00We also make like condominiums for them and like apartments now that are just huge. Have you ever seen like the ones where it's like 20 different rooms in a birdhouse?
SPEAKER_03And it's like have not.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but we still make them look like people houses though. We can't get out, we can't get away from that, you know? Just anyway. Um, all right. How about innovative techniques? Did the comedian bring something new or unique?
SPEAKER_03I just realized we're we're exporting our culture to the bird kingdom. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly. Well, of course, yeah, that's what we do. Yeah, you don't have roots. In that joke, he like personifies the the the birds that are living in the house, and he, you know, the the husband in that you know relationship is like, I'm so embarrassed. We're living in a house with it, people are gonna think we're little people, and then the wife is like, hey, it's a free house, shut up. And she's like, Hey, and don't poop in here. Go outside to poop, okay? You know, like so like that.
SPEAKER_00So you think birds call them bird houses? Or do you think they just call them houses? Houses, yeah, exactly. They just call do birds say nest? You think birds say nest? Okay. What was the question?
SPEAKER_01Innovative techniques. Did the comedian bring something new or unique?
SPEAKER_03I have no idea.
SPEAKER_01This one's hard because it can go either. It depends on how, like, yeah, go ahead. I'll let you say it.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna throw a seven out of ten at it. And that's highly the low end of highly innovative is the the term for those listening at home. I don't know what I would cite as innovative. Like he himself is original. Yes, you all you all have already made cases about how like these these are Dimitri Martin jokes. You know, you won't necessarily cite the joke to the special, you'll cite the joke to him. Um I don't know how well, if at all, he branched out from himself. Branched out for Dominic Birds. I said branch.
SPEAKER_00Callback.
SPEAKER_03Callback pun.
SPEAKER_00Ooh.
SPEAKER_03But uh, yeah, so I'm throwing a seven that I don't know how to qualify it.
SPEAKER_01Okay. What about you, Marshall?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm gonna say nine, and I don't care what the numbers mean. Good. Perfect.
SPEAKER_01Honesty. This is what we're going for. I think Marshall's the first guest that actually gets it. You know, like that just doesn't matter. None of this mappers. Yeah, just say whatever you yeah, it doesn't. I give him an eight, um, highly innovative. I just uh I think that he I as I said, I don't think he has a lot of competition or people in his lane. Um and I think that that is pretty innovative. I think um I don't know. I mean, there's there's other deadpan comedians, there's other prop comedians, but like the other person I could think of that's like him is like Gallagher. Like Gallagher used to do like flip charts and like sort of prop-ish humor that was like he has a whole flip chart that he's like, you know, like it's just different words spelled, so to be like T-O-M-B. Oh, that's tomb. And then he's like B-O-M-B, so that should be boom, right? No, bomb. And then he's like, you know, and he keeps flipping it, and it's like sort of that English wordplay of like English doesn't make sense kind of thing. Um and so I think Dimitri Martin's a little bit like that, like just off the wall, kind of like, you know, how come we don't say this or whatever? You know, sort of like the what was the one that had a different energy.
SPEAKER_03What was the different energy to go with? Bubba J.
SPEAKER_01It was like Bubba J on the the the and when he said, you know, the things about like how come when you uh go to a garage sale, you can and you can never buy a garage. I don't understand, you know, like that. The drinking and thinking, the yeah, drinking and thinking. That was a equivalent of shower thoughts. Yeah, that was one of Jeff Dunham's just for your benefit, Marshall. One of Jeff Dunham's puppets. Okay, gotcha. So they're not puppets. Sorry, personalities, uh, as Dory said. Anyway. Um, oh, did we get all three of us on that one? Yeah, I think we did. So cinematic quality. This is one that doesn't have anything to do with the comedy, but the sh the editing, editing, editing of the I'm just trying to get a reaction out of Nick. Something else. The editing of the special, and also was it good? Did it distract you? Did you like it? Um, Marshall, we'll go with you on that.
SPEAKER_02You you just did a did it reference without even realizing it. What did I say? Did what did I say? Did it distract you?
SPEAKER_01Did it I'm gonna throw in maybe did it again. All right, that's we're like doing inside jokes, and Marshall's like, what are you guys talking about? You know, like there's a I'll just go over it so that this will be a new reference for our listeners, also. Is Pete Holmes does a uh a joke about the words, like if you say I edited it, and he said that doesn't it doesn't make sense? It's it's too many did-id-dits in there.
SPEAKER_00You can't did yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So hilarity ensues anyway. Yeah, what did you think about the cinematic quality of this?
SPEAKER_00I thought it was good. Um, I'll be honest. I watched it while I was doing dishes. So I think I didn't, you know, I I tried to watch it, but yeah, you know, a lot of it was that was some of that was lost on me. Um so I'll give it a three. I did you know, I did notice some cuts and stuff like that. And yeah, with these, I think it is cooler um if it's just like straight through and you don't have really any cuts that are noticeable at all. Um, but this one there were a few that was like, oh, that was clearly a cut. There was like the part where he's like, which bit should I do now? Where it's like, did you reorder the bits for this? You know, stuff like that. Yeah. Um so four, I guess. Okay. Nick?
SPEAKER_03Wait, was it a three or a four?
SPEAKER_00No, he said three at the beginning. Did I say three? No, I don't think I said that. Well, it's a good thing we don't have a recording of it. I know. We're not I'm not gonna run the tape back. Let's give it a 3.5. We'll split the difference.
SPEAKER_013.5, Nick. What about you, Nick?
SPEAKER_03I I said four. Okay, well I'm gonna change mine to a five then. I I I appreciate the the idea of how he he leaned into the overthinking and let that play into the editing process.
SPEAKER_00The voiceovers were sometimes funny.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes. Um although, like, you know, in our three assessment it says the filming and editing was not a distraction.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And I agree with Marshall that it was kind of it took me out of a little bit as opposed to that one long cut. Uh so that's why it didn't get a five, is because though I liked the notion, I liked how he used that to lean into his theme. Yeah. Um there were times where it just kind of took me out of it.
SPEAKER_01And so I mean that's what I I feel like I feel like one and two and four and five on this are you noticed it. Whereas that's why dead center of the road is like I didn't really notice the editing. I just, you know, it didn't take me out of it. Just because to me, if it's really, really bad, you're distracted and you're like, God, this is terrible. I can't even listen to the comedy. And if it's really, really good, you're like, man, look at that shot. That looks really good. So you're like either way, you're getting taken out of it good or bad. But in the dead center of that, you're just like, I mean, yeah, I guess, I mean, I didn't really notice anything. It just didn't, it didn't distract me at all. It didn't, you know, take me out of it. So although I will say this one was good for you, Nick, because it didn't do your at all any of it. We didn't even see the audience. We didn't even see any part of the audience. We didn't like even out of like a corner of the shot, we didn't see, you know, it didn't flash the audience or anything like that. So, you know, that was good for you. I would, I would think. Um, I'd give it a three as well. Just um, I did notice some of those cuts like you did, Marshall, where it's like that seemed like abrupt or some like I don't know. Yeah, the background, you know, he had that background color, like when the back one cut, it like the background color like went to a completely different color. Like it cut from one shot to another. And I was like, wait, what just happened? Like it, like almost I was like, did you know? Um, so you could sort of tell that there was something going on there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. That is interesting. I didn't even think about the fact that they didn't ever show the audience, but we know there's at least one guy who's like wooing, and maybe a few other. There's they kind of joined in.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's sort of a thing, like we talk about, like I know Nick doesn't like it really when they flash to the audience. Where like you flash the audience and you see people laughing or reacting. Because if you'll if you watch enough specials, you'll see some of them they flash to the audience and you'll see people there. Um, other other ones, they sometimes they'll do like a shot like um between head the heads, like as if you're an audience member. So it's like gives you that sort of like in the audience feel. Um, but then this one, they didn't even like I said, there could have been noises piped in for all we know. Like you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_00That's how you never think that's how he made that water bit work so well. He's like, it's all it's all it's all uh smoking mirrors.
SPEAKER_01He's like in an empty st empty theater, you know. It's just cardboard cutouts. In fact, there were a couple that there were a couple of shots from the back of the stage that were facing out, but the the theater was so dark that I don't know that you could even make out. Might have been able to see like a silhouette of a person in the front row, but that was about it. So cardboard cutouts. Yeah, exactly. You'll never know. You'll never know. Uh we'll say Americans.
SPEAKER_03It wasn't I I can say with like 90% confidence that there were people in the room. Like I don't know, like if you hear someone talking to me.
SPEAKER_01I wasn't trying to like call it. Yeah, yeah. I think he's a liar.
SPEAKER_03No, he's lying to us, you know, like well, maybe for I don't know, anybody who's like taking it and running with it. But like if if you talk into a mic, yeah, and there's it's an empty room, it picks that up. There's there's an echo, there's like this like a resonance that is there except unless there's something there to catch the sound waves and just a bunch of sandbags, could have been anything.
SPEAKER_00Right. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Just no, those sound different too.
SPEAKER_00You can hear the soundbags in the auditorium there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Nick's an audio pile of a different kind. He's like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Nope. Nope. That's that room is about 15 feet wide, 17 feet deep. Um, let's see.
SPEAKER_00It sounds like there's a cup of coffee in the middle. Huh. That's weird.
SPEAKER_01I wasn't expecting that. Hold on, I'm getting some. Yep, yep. That's not water.
SPEAKER_02That's vodka.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That vodka sounds way different. All right. We're getting close, guys. All right. Last last uh category here. The our namesake laughs per minute or LPM. We increased this to a 15 out of 15. So how frequently do you feel the comedian generated laughs? This is not, as Nick usually says, not an actual number. That would be really, really dorky of us to actually be like, I counted the laughs and it was this, you know. Um this is just a, you know, how do you think that the uh, you know, that the person was hitting on all cylinders, if that, if you will. Um Marshall, you want to go first?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I guess the first question is like, is ha ha and like ha ha ha, is that one or like two and three? You know, is it matter there? I don't know.
SPEAKER_01It has to have at least two.
SPEAKER_00It has to be at least two. It's like a chuckle.
SPEAKER_01The the you know, that doesn't ex a sl a slow exhale through the nostrils doesn't count either.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, did you and and except except for three exhales from the nostrils, that counts as one lap.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's like yeah.
SPEAKER_00Do you do you extra counts for Gaffas, or is that just completely out of the question?
SPEAKER_03Gaffaw's one and a half laps. One and a half laughs. That means I don't know. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I'd wait that maybe a little higher if it were me, but this is your show.
SPEAKER_03We've inspired competition, but you guys are doing another Dimitri Martin.
SPEAKER_00So he's gonna he's gonna do like giggles per minute. Giggles per moment.
SPEAKER_01Per moment. Yeah, giggles per moment.
SPEAKER_00Um uh let's see, uh 13 because it's a unlucky number. Um but it's close to 15, but not at 15. I think there were a lot of a lot of laughs. Uh then I think depending on, you know, depending on the section of the show, they're more clustered. Um but I think overall, pretty good. I uh I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Dimitri Martin, so uh I gotta give him at least a 13 on this one. Yeah, then we'll see what Nick says, and then I'll change mine. Right, Nick, where say you.
SPEAKER_03Uh I wanted to say 13, but I'll make this easy for Marshall and say 12.
SPEAKER_00Oh, perfect.
SPEAKER_03I think there was only one or two times where he sought laughter and didn't get it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And then also, I don't know, like I love self-deprecating humor, but I don't like it when they talk about how funny or not funny their joke is or how they are.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So like when he the whole playing with the middle took me out of it a little bit, you know, the chart that you referenced earlier. Yeah. Yeah. So that's where I'll give him a 12 out of 15.
SPEAKER_01I was with Marshall. I have a 13 out of 15 frequent strong laughter. I think he's he does a big portion of his show is almost one-liners-ish, so you get a lot of clustered laughs laughs because of that. Right. Because it's sort of like joke then punchline then joke then punchline and joke, and there's no storytelling, there's no, it's just sort of hit, hit, hit. And and he was getting pretty good laughter for most of the I would say most things, if not all. Um yeah. That's about it. All right. You want to to do our oh, we're gonna do our totals at the end, but um what was your favorite joke or bit in the special, Marshall? Oh man.
SPEAKER_00Um I think it might be the back two if you want. No, I think it might be the tambourine joke. Like, that's one I think is just absurd and hilarious. Um just because it is one of those like tambourine of all things to be like, where's this thing? Yeah. That one and then the toe story. Those are the ones that I'm gonna remember. I think I mentioned that earlier. So yeah, I guess I probably should go with one of those as my favorites. The cruises, also hilarious. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um Nick.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh there's a lot of points where I laughed. The bit I would say, uh I and this is my name for it, pastry kinks.
SPEAKER_01Wait, what was it?
SPEAKER_03The it was remembered in in the special donut holes. Yeah. And how he once put a lady finger in a donut hole. And like there was there was a lady who like she really enjoyed that joke. And and then he talked about cupcakes and you have to undress them to get the swamp out.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you gotta get the swamp, yeah, the to take their underwear off. Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01That's pretty hilarious. I didn't even that's like grouping jokes together in like a subset.
SPEAKER_03And and I really liked the mental picture of the the baby bottle in the paper bag.
SPEAKER_01Oh yes. Like drunk baby.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03He didn't have to add anything else to that. Like him him trying to walk us through the mental imagery of all of it. Only served to put the joke at risk. Like the mental picture he gave me just at the start was enough. Yeah. Anyway, so that that's probably my favorite bit was the uh pastry kinks.
SPEAKER_01I had so many things, it was so hard for me to find one of these. You know, like I already mentioned, like the we already mentioned quite a few of them, the all before picks, um giving away the story for the field reporter. Where like, well, that was my story. Thanks a lot. Back to you. And threw in a good M M effer there for good, you know, good measure. Um the black balloons at a funeral. Um, here, uh, I'm I'm really sorry for your loss, you know. And they're like, uh, thanks. I guess I'll tie these to the casket, you know. Like um, um, but I think the I think the one that I like. Oh, the other one is when you change things around, um, it changes things. So you're not you're I'm not saying your dad's a garbage man, he's a garbage person, you know. Like he's like, no, I'm saying your dad's a horrible person, is what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03You know, like exactly, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um making it more inclusive doesn't always work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the GPS tone of voice was good. Um driverless cars for dogs. I I thought Nick would jump all over that one. Like all your dogs in the driverless car, you know. Yeah, um, everything happens for a reason and then you smack their face. You tell me, you tell me why that happened. You know, right.
SPEAKER_03It's your favorite bit, not your I have to go over these.
SPEAKER_01I also have to mention that the guy carrying the toast was named Brian. So and by the way, when I wrote him in my notes, I didn't I spelled it with an I because I'm like, there's no way a Brian with a Y is gonna carry his toast. I wouldn't have done that. Okay, anyway. All right, sorry.
SPEAKER_03No, my favorite Brian Metzger, you said that.
unknownI know exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, he's gonna be like, oh, I by the way, Brian Ness, just so you know, he's gonna be on our podcast. So that'll be the third Brian that'll be on our well, yeah, including me.
SPEAKER_03So all right, my favorite football spin diagram. The oh the football?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was really good. Manly, was it man-ex and manliness or something like that football diagnosis?
SPEAKER_03The only way place they go together. We all remember the is the football, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh sorry. No, so mine, my favorite one, we already mentioned it before, but the near death to actual death experience where it's like grandma's like, oh, welcome, and then grandfather's like, hello, young man, you know, and stuff like that. And the dog's like, you know, and stuff like that. And then you go back, and then they're like, it comes back again, and grandma's like, oh, uh, you're back again? Oh, I sorry. And then like the guy putting out the cigarette trying to do the bright light, you know, like, oh, oh no, he died. I gotta get the light back, you know, like all this stuff. I thought that was hilarious. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's like it's like that awkward, uh, that awkward moment you see someone at the store and you're like, oh no, how do I how do I handle this? I've still got like half of my shopping list to do. Yes. And then you're like, I gotta run into them a bunch more. It's like, oh well, I'm gonna continue and see you, you know, and then it's like, but then what if that happened when you died? That'd be terrible, you know?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Well, he did another joke about that in a different special. He did, he said, I don't I don't think that people that do murder suicide are thinking about the afterlife. And he's like, bang, you're dead. Bang, I'm dead. Oh hey.
SPEAKER_03One of one of uh I figured you would go to heaven. I I was trying to go to hell so we wouldn't ever be in eternity.
SPEAKER_02This is how you doing here. No, there's what did you do to go to hell? I know what I did.
SPEAKER_00The uh one of his specials, he did a thing on like the uh the um going like going into the afterlife experience. You know, it was like people, it was like a room like with you know a bunch of chairs, people talking about like whenever they had their near-death experience, and then but then like the joke was it was actually like a clown with a chainsaw, it wasn't like a white light that was comforting, you know. So everyone's like saying, like, oh, it was a white light. Yeah, it was beautiful, I just felt so comforted. Um, and then like one person, you know, is like, I saw a clown with a chainsaw, and then everyone else is like, me too. And like everyone's talking about really the near-death experience of the clown with a chainsaw.
SPEAKER_01That's absurd. It is a little absurd. Yeah, all right. What about on a slightly different vein? The most retellable joke. You want me to go first on this one? I'll go first on this one. Sure. The reverse horn. Like, I'm gonna use that. Like, man, I wish I had a reverse horn. Like, and be like, honk, and then be like, sorry. Like, sorry, I didn't like some different sound or something that you could say, like, I didn't mean it. Like, you know, I also like that he was referencing like an old man that was going across the street, and he's like, now I look like the guy that's like, hit him, hit him, just hit him, you know.
SPEAKER_00Like, so anyway, so I love it. I love he's trying to like flip himself off, and he's like, No, we're on the same team here. Like, I'm sorry, like I did that. That was my fault.
SPEAKER_01Like this, me, like you're from your perspective to me.
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, I cut you off and I realized that, and that's my bad.
SPEAKER_01Like, I hate what I did too.
SPEAKER_00This is I wouldn't have liked that. Anyway, um, it's memorable. Oh no, most retellable. Most retellable.
SPEAKER_01Something that you might retell to other people.
SPEAKER_00Yes. What might I retell? I've already retold the story of the toast story. I already told my wife that, so I'm gonna go with that one. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a really good one.
SPEAKER_03That's ambitious. You're gonna hold your wife's attention telling someone. Don't worry, it gets better, honey.
SPEAKER_00I did, I did truncate it a little bit. I made it a little bit shorter, you know, got to the got to the joke part faster.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you you you make it shorter for your wife. Okay. Uh for for me, the most retellable, and I'll I'll tell it here, you know, when he's he um you know, one one of the fun facts about humanity is that our ears and our nose are the things that continue to be. Oh yes, even into and past adulthood. Um, so he's like, Can you imagine this thing to face when I get if I live long enough, it's gonna be a shit show. Yeah. Like so, yeah. That's it. That one was good.
SPEAKER_01The walker the walker walker for the nose, you know? He's like, you got a walk, he's got like a walker out in front of the just holding his nose up, you know. Like anyway, that one's yeah.
SPEAKER_03But I I also, Brian, relate to the reverse horn and that whole shtick. Like, I I agree with his premise, and I I hope that that that little bit actually maybe creates change in ecosystem where we come up with better ways to communicate.
SPEAKER_01Like you have a horn that's like, hey, you're doing awesome. Like, you know, like that that's a special horn that was like, oh, he just did the you're doing awesome horn to me. Thanks, thanks, guys.
SPEAKER_00You know, like you can put like a uh put like one of those uh marquee things on like the front of your back of your car, you know, or right.
SPEAKER_01It's like you're doing great as a driver, you know, like positive affirmations for other drivers.
SPEAKER_03Even just an emoji, right?
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly. All right, calculation. Um I'll go first. I had I gave out of scores, I gave him an 83, but I gave him also an additional five likability points, so 88. Good old Dale Jr. Every time an 88 comes up, I'm like Dale Jr., yeah, come on now.
SPEAKER_00Was it Praise Dale, Raise Hell, Raised Hell, Praise Dale with that? I'm like Raised Dale, Praise Hell. Yeah. Nick, what about you?
SPEAKER_03Ross score 76.5, but I added 20 like ability points. Wow. As y'all said, it is my style.
SPEAKER_0176.5.
SPEAKER_03I I walked through the so many retellable jokes and favorite bits. I know I I scored them kind of low, but like these, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I think this is one like Marshall mentioned. Like, I'll I'll watch this, like I'll go back and like watch it again at some point because I'll probably it'll be like a fresh take again. Yeah, you know, and I don't think the jokes age, I don't think the jokes like go out, you know what I mean? Like they're not time stamped, they're not, they're just you could listen to it over and over. So anyway, Marshall.
SPEAKER_03Until blow it, blow darts become standard, then it's like what? No one's a before time? What?
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00We've been we've been blow darting vaccines forever.
SPEAKER_01All right. Did you actually total up Marshall? Are you gonna make it up?
SPEAKER_00Uh 90? And does it matter? No, no, doesn't at all. No one's going back and counting or checking things. Yeah, right. Uh if anyone does, I will. No, don't do it. Do you remember what I wrote? Did you write down everything that I wrote down? Nick's a better Marshall than Nick keeps track of stuff. Wow. Uh, and I'm gonna give him five likability points. Get him up to a 95, I think. That's what I'm gonna do. Okay. And then we'll see.
SPEAKER_03I gave him the highest score.
SPEAKER_00You did? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's my first score over 90, Nick.
SPEAKER_01That was that's pretty high.
SPEAKER_03After likability, mine was 96.5. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that is a lot of likability points. Yeah, it is. It is. I didn't know we had that many to throw around. How many likability points do we get? Like a hundred? As many as you want.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, see, out of a thousand, I give him a I get I mean, out of a hundred, I give him a thousand.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, just like it's all likability. He's a terrible comedian, but a great guy. Yeah, but you know what? Really cool guy. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Bombed, but you're my favorite person ever.
SPEAKER_00Nice. So what's my score? What's my score, Nick? You done? You tallied up?
SPEAKER_03I didn't know. Why did you you said you would, and then you didn't. I still like I don't know. We'll we'll find out what I said in the record, but I I have better uses of my time than counting up your points.
SPEAKER_00Right, fine. Exactly. I apparently have feel like I have better uses of my time.
SPEAKER_03You had you had one job, Marshall.
SPEAKER_00I'm just here to hang out. I would we appreciate that.
SPEAKER_01We appreciate that a lot, you know. And again, we did talk about this for longer than the actual special. That's a tradition on our podcast here. So an hour-long special, talking for an hour and 25 minutes. That's pretty good, guys. Um, but as it's shorter if we did react. Having Marshall here is always always refreshing. And uh you know, could it be very buffalo, very buffalo saucy, you know, and stuff like that. So but appreciate you, appreciate this podcast, and had some fun today. Until next time, which we do know Dimitri Martin again. Darn uh is there anything you want to plug, Marshall? Uh no. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh watching, go watch Dimitri Martin's Overthinking.
SPEAKER_01I just thought you were gonna be like, you need to go join Toastmasters, or you need to, you know, be part of the Marvel universe.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, go uh check out my stuff on smash that like button.
SPEAKER_01Smash the like button. Yeah, so I can influence you. Alright, that's it. We're out, guys. Have a good day. Be good.
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