TPS172: Behind The Produce Stand With Al
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Tonight the tables are turned on The Produce Stand as Kacey puts Al in the hot seat with a one-on-one interview.
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Live stream of tonight's podcast, is made possible by our buddy, Ian service over at podcast accelerator.com. Hey everybody Trace from the Takeover crew here. This episode is going to be a little different tonight. We start a series that has us turning the tables on the host of the produced and themselves. Each episode will focus on one of our favorite, fantastic foursome and where else do we begin? But the guy who started it all we all know award-winning podcaster and professional cat herder Al griego, whether it's as endlessly entertaining attempts at controlling the chaos on the podcast. Cast to just Shootin the s*** in the Discord group Alice the definition of accessible well we're going to see just how accessible we have all heard owls interviews with the various cast and crew of Letterkenny. Now let us see how he does when the tables are turned Casey from the Takeover team is here. And she's armed with a live mic. A stack of questions and Alum self in the hot seat. This is behind the produce. Stand with El Greco, that's fresh. Produce stand there. That's a beauty. What do you listen to my favorite murder podcast? Tagging torn. Podcast, the produce stand f****** sexy. You're hanging out with us. Now, I know what you're thinking. There are plenty of other Letterkenny podcasts out there, but this is the only one, like Trey said, turning the tables on. It's our host itself. Our hosts, I don't, I don't know. I am Casey. Hi, and joining me in the zoom tonight, on this very special night. Please help me. Welcome to his very own podcast. He's the award-winning host of three podcasts an s*** for several others. An amazing dad and husband, a real rock star and A good guy. I mean he's a really good guy, please join me in making some noise for the Pod father himself. How that feels a little different when it's only two people on the zoom, right? Yeah but also that's the first time I believe that sound clip has been played for me, so that was kind of cool. No, no. Yes feel. We're done that to yourself. No I don't know. How do you usually give myself a unicorn? Yeah so this is going to be a night where we explore you exploring yourself. Hmm. Hope you're ready. Welcome to your podcast L since this entire episode was a big fat, how are you now? We're going to just do some housekeeping first, and then we will Jump Right In. Okay, yeah, okay. So yeah. So, so settle down. Grab a cup of diabolical coffee. Hey there, wait, what are we doing again? The sponsor read. Okay, wait, we have a sponsor. Yes, it's Eric. Oh, I know Eric, he's a good guy. I know that, you know, he sells coffee. Yes, of course. I think it's called diabolical coffee. Can we just sit devilishly? Like good coffee, you don't say he also sells diabolically awesome, swag. Terrific. Got a roast for all tastes the right. Yeah, you can order whole being poor standard grind and express espresso book, whatever. Hey, don't you antenna use K-Cups? You know, we do, I think she has those two wonderful imagine if we could use promo code, like produce stand to get 10% off coffee or merge from a store. Yes, that would be cool. Wait a minute I just had a brilliant idea. Let us see. We should get diabolic, coffee to sponsor the podcast said, yes, why have we never thought of that before? I give up, thank you, Eric, for always supporting the Pod. Despite the fact that the Takeover team hijacks it every now and then and thank you to everyone who recently, followed us on Twitter, which is having some source code leaked of itself this week. I don't know if anybody's following that. That's weird. Did you hear about that? No, I didn't. But I like headley's nothing surprises me with Twitter anymore, right? So it's a cult, but we have already established that. So, thank you for following and hopefully for listening. That's my cue. I do this. This is what I do. Here we go. Why is this way? Lesbian Letterkenny? And he will last week to buy some Michelle. Join the Pod family to Regale us all with Tales from there, and I am going to say it here. That was downright magical Mysteries period. Or this week, we're getting into it with Al so be pitter-patter. We're doing it right now behind the produce stand. And I don't know if we have a Pearl sound. I don't think I can find it so many l heard it. Which is hold on. Here it is. There it is. Are you now good? And you not so bad to say this. It's hard to find good help these days and I could help. I mean I am referring to myself right now. Me about it. That, was you? Listen, I just do what you tell me to do, but it's all good. Now, we're settling in this is, I have been thinking a lot about this. Okay. And I was just I just, I appreciate you. That's this is what I appreciate about you. Trey said it, Aaron's going to say it and everybody says that about you, but you just need to hear it in front of everybody on the live stream. We were so grateful that you have done basically what like key so does right open up your creative space to people that you trust and that you believe in and like you know don't doubt them until they give you a reason to like it's very Letterkenny it's very in that spirit. And That kind of generosity I think is important in the current like world that we're living in. So, we love you. Thank you for sitting down. I appreciate it a lot. And, I mean, some people, I don't trust and I still let them on like Victor. But, you know, it's, it's all. It's all about balance. Right? Right, right. You can't be, can't talk into the echo chamber. He's got to be there. Exact everybody has to have a Victor Anyway, we will get to him. So maybe for people who haven't are just starting to listen, right? So we just wrapped season 11. There's Buzz about schwarzy season to shooting, and we're all waiting for season 12. When is that going to drop? So there are a lot of people maybe just picking up the Pod right now. Take us back to like the beginning. Maybe even a little before the planning episode like, who are you? Who is Al before the produce stand? Well, case it all started back in 1975 and the little town in Ontario and called New Market. Just kidding. Yeah, you mark it Ontario? Yes, that's it. Stan. His hometown new markets, it's working. New Market, Virginia. This is about oh, very nearby where I am. There you go. I am just laughing, because on the livestream errands out, Aaron said, Al blushing. Anyone have that on the bingo card? Am I blushing? I can't. I feel like I am getting a little Warm. But that might just be the beer. It's the beer. Yeah. So what how far back to you? So, you know, so you're got this bug for Letterkenny and you're getting ready to do the podcast. Like, what are you doing at that time? How do you get there? Here's a confessional and if you listen to our interview on, Disco Posse it Letterkenny, it wasn't a passion for Letterkenny. I am going to, I am going to confess right now. I just wanted to have a podcast. Could have been on anything. I just didn't know what and for years and years. I wanted to do podcasts but I didn't know what to do about her. You know, I thought I am a musician that can do music podcast but there's a million of those out there. I love movies I could do movie podcast, but there's a million of those out there as well. So for a while, there was just kind of lot of paralysis by analysis. So what I am going to do and if I want to do something but I want to stand out, I don't want to be one in a million, right? So in the end, I mean, pop that the whole idea of podcasting comes back from my education, as an audio engineer and producer like music production back in college, 20-plus years ago and growing up loving radio, listening to the radio, listening to theater the mine on Sunday nights, listening to music on Radio rock radio and stuff like that. So, all of that combined. And then this concept of podcasting which came up around 2003, 2005. I am like, I want to do that and I started listening to a bunch. And again, just years and years went by and nothing came up. What was the first podcast you listen to that? You remember, listening to? Well, I talked about this to jail. I didn't hear this interview. I am sorry that my research. No. But you know what? I don't think. He will you know, those who haven't listened to disco, Posse would appreciate this. So I will be repeating these answers but that's right. No, it's okay. Um, J and that J and Dan, The Lost podcast, by Jay and Dan. At all, it was back when loss is a big thing and just like Letterkenny lovers. Now, you know, between Seasons between episodes were starving for more content. Same thing with lost between, you know, and loss is one of those shows. Those water coolers shows where you'd watch an episode and you couldn't wait to get to work the next day to talk about it. Right with? No binging. Yeah. There's no binging. And it was like you're starved and Was between weeks. Can you imagine between Seasons? How, like the suffering we all had. Like, I don't know if you were lost fan, but I was, yeah, she was there with. Yeah, yeah. So I found this thing called a podcast, and it was Jay and Dan, the last podcast, and it was a couple of guys, and they did Episode by episode. It was, it was an after show is the first time I have ever heard of the concept of an after-show and I loved it. Like, I know I have been changed that and was, I became an Ardent follower of theirs and then after that, I Michael, what other podcasts are there because once I caught up to there's I am like hungry for more. So I think I got onto Adam Carolla for a while there. Smodcast Kevin Smith's, This American Life Soul like NPR a lot of their podcasts. I would listen to ya Vinyl Cafe up here in Canada on CBC and I just yeah just became like it replaced radio for me like which is weird because I am a musician but yeah I have these long commutes and instead Music. I was listening to podcasts and so yeah, I got the bug early. Yeah. And then so yeah. Fast forward to now, I want to do my own, and I am having a hard time figuring out what I am doing. Yeah, at work. I mean we kind of you know I was kind of doing the same kind of work that you're doing but you know in corporate, but I was doing it in corporate training. I started using podcasts at work as a way to as a way of training, but also just to bring attention to that the available. Training when you're working in a corporation, it's really hard to get people to spend any spare time with all self-improvement with professional development, right? So I started doing this by weekly podcast called the nearest minutes. I worked at a company called Benares, and all it was a hey this is what trainings available this week, and come check it out. And it was like, just know, two or three minute long. I tried to write it so that it wasn't corporate speak. I tried to be Funny on it and everything and people started enjoying it and looking forward to it. So that kind of got people noticing that I was doing that but also got me practicing. And then, you know, when you have like, when you work with people and sometimes I like at lunch, you have these really interesting conversations and you're like, man, if only, we could record these conversations, everyone thinks that their conversations are the most, you know, the most Entertaining and what would make great podcast? Well, we started doing that at work in the office and I had a studio. We would grab our lunches of select two of us. Victor was one of them I remember. Yeah, I remember you telling this story. Matt was another. Yeah, and a few other people, and we would, you know, spend our lunch hours having lunch and chatting and I would record it and I would actually you know put it to out to a select group of people, so they can. Into it, and we were kind of again. We were just having fun with it, but we were also unbeknownst to us. We were practicing. What would become the Protestant, basically? Yeah, yeah. So yeah. And then, during one of those lunchtime conversations, Matt, and we one of the topics we frequently talked about, was what movies are. What TV shows you're watching and as I call, you should check out this show this Canadian show called Letterkenny, and I am like, I think I have seen ads for that, it looks Interesting. And, but it's on crave. I don't have craved, I don't know. Yeah, so I am like, yeah, maybe I will watch it, maybe I won't Whatever. Well, the pandemic it's were at home. We're slicing through everything on Netflix, slicing through everything on every streaming, platform running out of stuff to watch. So finally, I gave I get crave. And I watch little craving misbehave. Yeah. And I watch Letterkenny, and I am like, you know, two or three episodes, and I am like, holy f***. Yeah. Why did it take me this long? Actually, the very first scene when Wayne says, I think you come in men for all of us and for all of us that was the line that hooked me. Like after that, they could do no wrong. Like after that, it was just icing on the cake. And I even remember, I think on Facebook I was still on active on Facebook at the time. I said, why didn't anybody tell me laughter? Kenny? Was this good? Yeah, and it's funny because only a handful of my Facebook contacts even knew what Letterkenny was but um So yeah. So now I am like, alright, so that's a really fun show. I wonder if there are any podcasts about it and I looked it up and there was the Letterkenny podcast that I believe everyone starts off with. And I kept on looking like, okay there's this other one out in Seattle. How are you? Now they seem to be more active, and they're doing really well, so I can't remember if I reached out to Dean before we began this or after But it was almost around the same time as I just want to say, hey, I am thinking about doing this too and you guys are doing great just so, you know, you know? Yeah. We don't have computer, whatever you're doing your thing. We're going to do our thing and blah. But we do, maybe we can have, maybe we can. Have you on our probably, maybe we can trade, appearances, kind of thing. Yeah. And you know, to their credit they're like, oh yeah, no problem. Welcome to the, welcome to the fraternity and circle. Yeah, there are great. Yeah. So then, so we started ours and When it came time when trying to decide who to have on, it was kind of again Victor and Matt, I knew that work but yeah, haven't done them for very long like in the grand scheme of things, I have known both of them around 78 years. As long as I have worked at Mars, the idea to have 10. Ian was more practical than anything else. I am like because you know, at the time we were in a pandemic but you know we thought that was gonna be over soon enough and I have bands and stuff, and she was already Meaning that I had too many extracurriculars, some, like, adding one more, I don't know if that will fly something like, well, she could join. And I remember how much she hated whenever she. She caught a couple of scenes from Letterkenny, especially for our book. She's like, what the hell are you watching? This is herbage. Hot garbage. Yeah so fast. Move you made? Yes. Bring her on dude. So I asked her I like To do a podcast. And she's like let us that well she knew that she didn't last but you know, her in technology. I said, now this what I want to do Victor and Matt she didn't know mad at the time as she barely knew Victor. I don't think she really need either one of them very well. I think about. Yeah and as said, so we're going to have them on and I would like to have you on, and we're just going to talk about the show. And well you mean if you lose, Listen. So, you know, at the beginning, she was like, okay, so yeah, I will just do this. I will just do this because Al wants to do it whatever, it will be fun. No one's listening until people started listening. Yeah. And now, everybody who's listening needs to go back in this? Yeah. No. Give me two facts about you that we maybe would be pressed to find through the internet. Mm-hmm. I don't know. I am pretty open book on the internet. I probably more than I should be. Tangy hates how much ice As share on. How are you like one of those just here, I am world. I mean, I am not bragging about it. I just like, you know, I just put it out there like hey, this is what I am doing, who won't, who wants it? Yeah, that's it. Probably why? I am in marketing and it's funny my boss at work. He's like yeah, we don't need to tell you to put yourself out there. You just do. I am like yeah I guess I do which is weird because I don't feel like I have that personality but so Okay, well one of the one thing you know that I had to kind of work on at work was public speaking. I wasn't the greatest public speaker. Well, like as a musician, I can get up. I can get up in front of people as long as I am really prepared. So, so with the band I am rehearsed, I feel prepared. But if you put me on stage with a microphone and just say, hey can you, you know, just warm the crowd up for 45 minutes. All right. Right I wasn't I can do that. So I joined Toastmasters when I joined Benares and I and that's actually where I met, Matt, Matt was until his master's. So the both of us got to know each other through the different speeches. We'd have to do there. If you're, if you're familiar with Toastmasters, you know, that it's public speaking and you have to learn how to speak on your lap. You're smiling. Is it something that you did or know? My coach is, did Toastmasters and that was the first time I would hear about it, but it makes sense. Just, I am noticing threads in my life and the types of people and this circle will get to that. Yeah. But like the relationships that are forming, and so, it just hears that you and Matt met there and that Sean had done that. It's just You know, family, it's like that. Same group of people like, oh, okay. Let me, I mean, I have become a huge proponent, a Toastmasters. It's a worldwide organization. Yeah, you can join a local Club anywhere, they're all over the place and I really firmly believe Toastmasters should be in every High School. Like I would love my son needs to learn how to communicate better when that be cool and like there should be a Toastmasters Club in every High School in my opinion because it's The stuff you learned there and it's not just about speaking in front of a bunch of people. It's just learning how to think on your feet and being a good like having a conversation with somebody. I think Toastmasters really helped me with that immeasurably. Even now, before we started, this podcast, tenure was considering joining the local Toastmasters chapter, because she saw what it did for me and wanted to do the same, right? I feel like the podcast replaced her Toastmasters training, but either way, However, you get there, you know, you get thrown. So yeah, that's one thing. Yeah, I was kind of nervous in front of, you know, speaking in front of people. And I mean, I don't know, I mean, the other thing, you know, I am a musician. I started my first music lessons were on an organ like, you know, like church organ or hockey arena, that kind of thing, because that's what we had in our house. Sent three of you. I grew up Catholic. So no, I am Catholic, but so, okay cool. I could do both. Oh yeah. And I sang in the church choir. So the term ass, were you an altar server? My mom. Is the guitar player. Yeah. So, there's a few things that definitely aren't out there, but if you grew up with me, you knew that but otherwise you wouldn't know that guy. Though early comedic influences. Top three early. I mean Robin Williams right to the top? Mmm, that's obvious. But why particularly, because he's complex, right, and he's got, he's got an arc from like the 70s through to like sure. But before I even knew what comedy was or was a fan of Comedy, which tang and tell you, and I went, you know, love going to the Comedy Club. And stuff before any of that Rod, I knew Robin Williams. You know, I watched Happy Days. Mork & Mindy, any movie? He was in. I was a huge, huge Robin Williams fan. I loved him. His manic energy and just how brilliantly funny he was, you know, you know, who knew the darkness that laid underneath that. But, yeah, he was definitely. That's when you say that first name, that comes up is Robin Williams? Yeah. Sure. Before we knew To what kind of person he was. Another big one was Bill Cosby. Yeah, you know, I remember my buddy and I in early high school maybe even lay down my tree school, he had recordings of his that we would listen to, and we hadn't memorized his Moses routine, his dad, his Dental chair routine. We knew these. And actually, and I mentioned before we saw it, we got to see him in Toronto, you know, before all hell broke loose and that was a thrill, and he even close the night off with his dentist routine like a band would do an encore right? Like he did all new stuff but then for his Encore, he did a routine that everyone knew the punch lines to and it's still killed, right? So there's that, and I am going to say a more recent addition to that Pantheon would probably be Mitch Hedberg. Yeah. Hell yeah. Huge fan of Mitch had Berta. I was happy to be able to see him live ones as well at a Yuk. Yuk's Comedy Club in Toronto and that was a thrill, you know, and gone too soon because I think the guy was a genius. So, yeah, it did, he did he translate live the same way he did, like, on stage versus what you saw like on screen? Well, when he was, when we saw him use at Yuk's. So it's, you know, it's a Regular-sized Comedy Club. Not like a sock seat Stadium or Arena or anything like that. And he had a, he was on stage wearing his sunglasses and stuff. And he had an upright bass player playing like, so it's like a very Jazzy thing where he's just the guys just playing these Jazzy bass lines, and, and Mitch's, just delivering his one-liners. And it was funny because No one else knew who he was? I got all excited. Mitch Hedberg is coming. We gotta go. See this, who's he? And like, oh, you're going to love him. He was on That 70s Show. This is kind of before you can kind of pull up your phone and show me YouTube video or whatever is like, trust me. He's hilarious, and so I don't know if it was kind of like Expectation, you know, was too high or whatever, but they kind of sat there and didn't laugh too much at, but I was in tears laughing the whole time because I loved it. I just loved everything about it, so I think he was brilliant. Yeah. And I think it's see Russell Peters in that same club before he became massive as well. And the thing I loved about him was like, before he became huge, a lot of his references were very local to the Toronto area and All they really hit nerve with everyone there because we all kind of grew up with the people. He was making fun of and stuff like that, like the, the kinds of people he's making fun of. So that was a lot of fun too but I wouldn't put them in the pantheon. I just say that's another notable one. I got to see live. Mmm, I love. Good comedy clubs me too. I haven't been to a comedy club and a really, really, really long time. When was the last time you went that? Was that, Mitch. That was the last Comedy Club here in wallabout might know. I mean, you went to Yuk's a lot. I think the last comedy show we saw was Jeremy hot at. Look at Casino Rama. I don't know if you know who Jeremy hot is, I don't, if you saw me probably recognize him kind of big nose, he had a bit of a weird, kind of Anxious Persona that he would put on, okay? If you saw him you'd know, I think you would know cause and you're giving me too much credit, but only because I don't think he was just Canada famous, I am pretty because that he's been in the future like movies and stuff, so I think people would know who he is. So, I think that was the last comedy show we saw, was that, like, we went up to the Casino Rama here like north of Barry. Which we have there, we have seen Jon Stewart. We have seen Johnny boy. Um, oh man. What's the guy's name? Italian guy? Very animated? I mean, I know it's pretty Italian guy ever redundant. Sebastian's something, or other, and a Colour, or meant manic. Whatever. Anyway, yeah, Scott says, Jeremy Hearts is hilarious to. So, yeah, I mean, I have gotten to see now. See a lot of really great shows, but it's been at least, First two or three years since we have seen a good show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let us talk a little bit about recent events, the threat of connection, and relationships, is really strong in the universe, right? Like we have seen it across 11 Seasons, how the cast have developed their characters, and how the relationships have sort of deepen and crossed like with, you know, lost dog. It's a perfect example of that. What's been the most surprising Saying bit of your sort of growth through the podcast? I mean talking about those first early interviews. Like, have you talked about like what it was like to land those interviews? It was early interviews. We were each. One of them was surreal when we got them right? I mean, Patrick McNeil started us all off and God bless them. He's the silence kid and probably Ali of all that cast was the easiest to get. But at the same time he opened the door for the possibilities, right? And that's right. Yeah. When I started the podcast, I had no intention of even trying to get interviews, really know what made you reach out. I don't remember it could have been, you know, it's probably just a Twitter exchange as much as we like to, you know, slam Twitter. It does have its usefulness and this is one of them. Found each other. It's what we all found? Each other. Absolutely. I shudder the day, you know, shudder to think of the day when it's gone because I wouldn't know where like my whole struggle with the idea of a life like a world without Twitter is Discovery like it's the perfect place for Discovery because that's where everyone is like I don't understand podcast that say they can promote themselves through Instagram, like how do you promote an audio show on Instagram? Where you Link to anything and you can't, you know what I mean? You can do audiograms and stuff. It's just not salt, witters just easier anyway, where we roll? So yeah, I believe he was posting some stuff on some of the videos he was working on with. And but he was also posting, he was tweeting about mental illness, mmm, and that's something that, you know, touches close to home. And, so I, you know, I Lied to him, you know, to let him know how much I appreciated. His, you know, his bringing light to these things right to the land subject. Yeah. But he would respond and like, oh, right? Because this is water. And, and it's Twitter and that's right. As long as you're respectful and not an a****** and not creepy. People might actually Tweet back at you, so, I probably again, and this question has been asked me before, in terms of like, how did this happens, how did this happens? I just started asking, right? And this is something I kind of picked up late in life. I wish I would done it earlier in life, but I feel like I picked it up when I started working at Benares is stuff, doesn't happen. If you don't ask first, you gotta ask that's a very first step. If you never ask, it will never happen. Like you can't will it into being unless yes, you first. Take that first step. You know, I was able to build a media Studio out of one of our classrooms at work because I asked because I had the audacity to say, Hey, you like all this work. I am doing I hate tearing this classroom down. Every time I need to shoot a video. What if I took one of these classrooms and just turned it into a, like, an around-the-clock studio, and they're like, oh yeah, okay sure, go ahead, right? And no one had ever asked so I did. So again, fast-forward, to I am having Of a conversation on Twitter with plywood under the K. You know, I am doing this Letterkenny podcast. Would you like to come on? And he's like, yeah, of course, I am more than happy to come on, cool, right? Yeah. And so, yeah, and when I went to Tanzania and Victor, and Matt and said, hey, I think we're going to have like an interview with actual cast member. They were like a what? Now, like you want it really is this happening? And then who's the next one? I think K. Trevor might have been the next First one and now is like, just to me like there's, there's like that one to get. Yeah, that was a massive get and that one. I can't remember whether it was me reaching out to but after a while I am like, oh s***. I can actually do this and, you know, I am also, you know, friends with Toronto Mike and I know the way he gets guess. I mean, he, you know, he gets guests by just calling their agencies up and saying, hey, you know, I am trying to hike and is your guests have anything, they want to promote, But they can come on. So I started doing the same thing. I said, I actually paid for an IMDb account for a while, nice. So that you can go in find who the representatives are and email them. Well, that's what I am DB is for right? Like well yeah, supposed to be. Yeah. So if you want to pay for it you can find representation and then email representation. So I think that's how we got Kate. Trevor. And then, well, the story of how we got Tyler Johnson is a little Infamous. I basically paid to write to have a phone call with him on what's that app called again? It's not actually, how sad what's the app? Let's see. Ya. So old, I am dying here because I am having an old moment. Yeah. Me too. What's the app people on the live stream? What is it? Is it that girl? No. The Cameo, thank you, Aaron. Can't word up, but it makes me think of that song. That's right. It's funny because with Cameo, I have never seen this happens before but there was that one moment where for you could pay 20 or 30 bucks or whatever was from a three-minute phone call with somebody. Right. I have never seen this offered since. I don't know if that was just like something they floated and maybe things went wrong with it. Like maybe people were calling actors up to ask them to be on their podcast. Cast. But anyways that's maybe you broke it out. Maybe I am the one who broke it. Yeah, I ruined it for everyone else. Al broke Cameo. You heard it here first? So yeah, I had a three-minute phone conversation, three minutes in heaven with Tyler Stewart eyes Tyler Johnston. Sorry nights and it wasn't my patient. I got one of them wrong. Go on sorry, and he said sure, yeah, I will be on your podcast but I don't know, you know. Again I had kind of forced him to say yes right. But I paid for the right to have him. Turn me down. He could have turned me down but good to his word, he came on. So again to like K, Trevor and Tyler Johnson to massive get. So if you, if you were to think of the top, you know, Ten cast members on Letterkenny, why don't you those are to the top ten right? Girlie dance. Really Dan and Stuart maybe two of the top five. Because, yeah, you got the, the for hix I would say, Stewart is probably number 5 in terms of that cast, right? Yeah, so it's just got to ask and the worst that can happen is they say no. And I have had knows I won't say who they are, but I have had nose. Yeah. Soon. Soon, it was a while ago, in those before we had the stamp of approval from Jared, right? So okay who knows, maybe now I don't have any stamps. Okay, it's not me. I am just take, I just take over things, I am a rebel Dottie a loner anyway. Um, so do me a favor and think about, like not just how the Pod has grown but like you all as people, Right? What were your? So you said a little bit that you started about all this but like how has it been to watch like Pena and Matt and Victor growth like as the Pod father? What is your perspective on your cast mates? Have you seen them? Well, okay, grow as people because it's important that you grow as a person II. Don't think Victor has had any personal growth in this whole thing. I think you Ventures just Victor. He I think I am just kidding. No Victors been great. Um Matt I love like he's basically blossomed into like he Hill he's up for anything now and I love it like even you know on social media and stuff I love watching his post, and I am really proud to tell you. I think she went from being very reluctant to being less, so she still you know organizing your trip to Sudbury. Yeah well most favorite she went from hating the show too. Yeah we're going to say Brie and I have got this spreadsheet. So yeah, I think what I the growth more is and you kind of mentioned alluded to it is more in our, you know, relationship like Victor and Matt were just co-workers, it's funny. Quick story, Victor was my boss for the first couple of years when I was in the Nares, and then he left the company to go somewhere else but and that, but after that, we stayed in touch. But I was at a show of playing a show in Toronto, once with my band and Victor came out to the show. And I remember introducing him as my former boss, and he looked at me with this weird look. And then later on, he said, you know, you can start introducing me as your friend if you want to hear him saying that. Oh yeah, I guess I could, I don't know I hear that. And I feel emotional, but I know Victor was, It probably with a little disdain, like, you know, you can call me your friends and, of course, my bad, right? Because, of course, he's my friend. The I am he's no longer my boss, and he's still coming out to my shows. Of course, he's my friend. It was just such an awkward exchange with whoever I was talking to him, like, oh, and this is Victor. He's my former boss. And he looked at me like, oh yeah, I guess you're my friend too, but and I mean, you know, actions speak louder than words. Words, when I went to start a podcast, he was the number one at the first call. I made after talking to Tanya. Obviously. Right, right, right. What about you? How do you feel like you have grown? I have just gotten more overbearing and you know, egotistical and think he goes groan. Okay good, good size, my head. F*** its massive on this screen. I mean the angle. Yeah this is the angle. No I mean again I wish I had known this earlier in life this whole like just asking and Taking Chances and stuff like a like I have been Doing it more and more. I mean, you know, like my Montreal experience was another example of, right? Like two years ago, two years ago, if you told me that. Oh, and you're going to hang out with this wrapper in his studio in Montreal. Who's on this TV show, I will be like, okay, and what weird turn of events is going to lead me to that. Well, you guys have basically Witness but that weird turn of events event. If we feel like it's like we're part of it too. Like, we feel like and this is the amazing thing. Like I wanted to be grown coup for you like you when I was watching your, your Instagram, I seriously, you are like Mandalorian and I wanted to be your girl go. And I was just watching you go off into these epic sunsets with all of the slough and just collecting s****, right? Like just Harry. Okay. Like let us run through for people who just don't have a clue yet, right? Because I know there's people who are here, who are listening to, don't have a clue yet, right? Terry Ryan. Andrew arneson at Antonin. Yeah. Incident Jonathan diaby. Yep. Don't know. Ryan McDonald. Brian, McDonald Milan Expo. Far Maxie Ford. Yeah Harlan. Yeah. I know it's f****** crazy. So wait like you kind of like knock them all out, right? Like you just knocked him out. You just took them down. There's taking down the slide eyes. You're a little bit away from those interviews. Like what is that all about? Yeah. And I am thinking back to like that was a crazy. What was that six weeks after Christmas? Like it one by one. I thought like weird. But it's okay like I kind of need a break to we will get there but you know hopefully we can get some of those female cast members. On. That's been The elusive thing is to get the women. You need to. You need to put uni sandanista. They need to meet Tanya. That's all. Yeah, I agree. Excuse me Tanya don't understand why. Yeah. Oh Tanya I want to talk about Tanya. All right. What do you think? Tana wants to see most out of the rest of Letterkenny. So she was reluctant, right? She's bought it and now she's made the spreadsheet. Where do you, where do you predict? And yet his ultimate like evolution is in this letter to any University, and she wants more story. Obviously, she's always wanted more story but I think as long as it's the women kicking ass, she I don't think she that's all she wants to see is Women kicking ass. She loves Katy, she loves Tanis, she loves those characters. And, you know, we have a daughter. So as much for her, as it is for tonya's benefit, we love seeing those stories, featuring strong women roles, and I mean, in the last ladies night, you guys went. And you talked about her love for Xena. She's not making that s*** up. I remember when we first started dating? Xena was her jams. She couldn't miss it. She loved that. Show, and I character because she wanted, she wanted so much to identify with that character takes her power from identifying with, with stronger characters, like that, right? So yeah, I think she just wants more good things from Katie. More good things for tennis more good things for all the women on that show. I think that's a good thing to all of us. Want for all women in all universes, right? Yes, absolutely. And We can extrapolate that out of the Letterkenny universe. That would be dope. Just extrapolate. So who is your favorite? S*** to interview? That's a good question. Probably Ryan McDonald, why, and I am not saying that because I know he's your favorite easy. Yeah. I was at the top of his Twitter feed, for a couple of weeks, they were all great, and they all brought it, and they all brought some really fun stories for some reason. Maybe, because it was like, reality versus expectation. I didn't know what to expect from that interview, but what we got from it was really like Very in ordered it. He's like the prettiest of the, of these slumps, but he was the most down-to-earth and I don't know, maybe because you just had a kid and, you know, or whatever, and he lives, like literally half an hour from or 40 minutes from here. I feel like I had that kind of local connection even though he's not from Toronto, but that's where he is right now. I feel like, you know, I had the same kind of feeling of Alice, bakui where when you think you can just baby run into them on the street. Street one day, there's there feels like there's a bit of that kinship there already. Right? And you know, Ryan we're he said he was living like, oh s***, that's like I drive by there all the time. Like I could maybe see him on the street one day. He's a musician. He's just a really good guy to very approachable and stuff and new father and I don't know just for some reason. Now in there was the easiest of the slots to have it. They will again they all had Great moment. We're great. They all made great stories and stuff like that. But yeah, the one that I probably felt most comfortable with was him All right, so one of the give you, your magical 90 minutes if we could possibly swing it. But I also wanted to give plenty of time for listener questions, okay. Oh man. Oh, there's a list. All right. And I also encourage people to drop in the chats, we're going to get into it. Do you want a serious question first, or do you want a lighter? Austin first. Let us keep the lighter ones to the end. All right, okay. So Mike asks how's it feels when new people joining the TPS family say they were nervous speaking to you for the first time? Yeah. It's, it's wild. It's wild to hear that, because we don't feel, you know, we're not, we're not celebrities. We're just people who started a podcast, and that's something anyone can do. But I also get that feeling because I remember, you know, my first time meeting Toronto, Mike in person again, he's just a dude who lives down the street, from where I work. And I went over to his house and checked out a studio and stuff. The first, when I sat down at his desk and put on the Phones. And he played the intro to his podcast. I got Shivers as if I was like, you know, on the set of my favorite TV show or you know what? I mean, it was weird, right? But when you spend that much time listening to something or someone and then you finally meet them, it doesn't matter who they are. It's going to be kind of strange feeling at the beginning, right? So I get it. It's just so weird. That people are saying that about us, right? Yeah, right, right because you Right. It does it demystify it as soon as you are in person. Yeah, exactly. I mean we have all met in person now so now we're all like whatever. We're all regular people. You know we don't have families and kids and problems and whatever say but because we know that we're all, you know, flying with each other. But yeah, you're right. When you're meeting somebody for the first time in all, you know where C is, what your given either on the TV show or on the podcast. Yeah. First time meeting them, it's going to be a little nervous. Sure. What will your eyes are going to, you know, go real wide, maybe blink, less drool a little more and when it's a podcaster, a radio personality, that's even better because they never look like they're their voices. Uh yeah. The face for radio. Very rarely do. They look like their voices like, huh? Oh, that's it. Okay. All right. Yeah, sure. I mean you know I grew up listening to 0 Q, 1 07, Toronto's rock station and I remember the first time I saw one of their DJ's. I mean, coming through the FM, you know, signal they have got these this bigger than life, voice and personality and stuff, and he seemed in their like five foot nothing. And they got a bit of a beer belly and no hair like, oh, okay, right? Nice to meet you. You look that's correct. It looks like my Uncle Ed that is that has been my consistent experience as well, in the industry. Yeah. So we took a chance when we started doing these live streams. You see what we look like him? Well, but that's the thing, right? Like that's the beauty of the world that we live in now. So how do you feel? In what ways went adding the live stream and doing the videos change? Did it change this for you? Did it change your approach? Did it? How did it change for you to go from Audio Only to this? Now, it did. And at first I didn't want to do it tonight when into a Kicking and Screaming because I am a radio show and podcast purist, I guess it is such things as purest. It's Audio Only. We don't need to see things, right? Develop a relationship with the person I am listening to. You know, with audio and I don't some you know, sometimes it little I am never going to be a person that's going to sit there and watch YouTube channel of my favorite podcast. I am not going to do that. Like all right, I enjoy podcasts in my ears and I always will. So when it came to, you know, putting cars out there. Yeah, I didn't want to do it because a, you know, how much I love editing. I hate editing and the amount of work and because this is just a ABI, and I am not making any money at it. I didn't want to spend any more time at it than I had to, so, recording and posting immediately after recording. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to keep doing that, but I understood That, you know, certain people were like, you know, or the natural progression of a podcast for it to go anywhere and I don't even know what I want from this podcast, but if we want to evolve, we have to start doing stuff like that. And I mean, what broke, you know, what broke me out of? It was those first off-season episodes were, you know, we're doing best stubs and stuff or the was a Letterkenny memes or something like that. Well, one of them, we had to have Visuals. We had to make any sense, not to have visuals, whether his traces best silence scenes episode or the memes, whatever it didn't make any sense. So we're at the very least half had to have the option if you're listening to this. But you want to see what we're talking about, go to YouTube and you can watch it. So I understand that. I mean, our YouTube numbers are miniscule there, nothing. So to me I put it up there. Just so there's an option but I have my focus is always going to be on the audio Channel. Well, the live stream, I love it. Just because of the immediacy of this I can see people reacting and I love that part of it because, you know, as a performer, you want feedback, you know. Absolutely. I musician as a musician. I want feedback. Yeah, this is the closest thing. We're going to get to feedback. I mean I guess the next Step might be figuring out a way to do this live one day in front of an audience. Like one of the my God baby. Well yeah I mean one of the podcasts I listen to It's called f*** buddies there. It's a really fun podcast, a couple of guys from Toronto who do like a sex advice podcasts are really good really funny. And recently they started doing a few live shows at a place in Toronto which you know, sounds amazing but again but our listeners are all over the place. A psych how we don't know how we could do it. I would love to, but there's no way, I don't know. I can't figure out how we can do that with more than like two or three people showing up and be the four of us and maybe Miriam and Juan coming out to watch us, which would be fun, but maybe not as enjoyable. Maybe the next letter Kenny live tour. Yeah, pretty open for them. Sure. Yeah. If it could be like a traveling thing but again, I am making no money at this. So there's no budget for any of that, right? Right. Right. Right, okay. Well, let us not talk about sad things. Next question is a follow-up from Mr. Mike what values and experiences from the early days of Alan gray. Go do you carry with you today and what impact do they have on your podcasting both career and hobby? This sounds like a job interview question. I thought it was Good question. It's a great question. I mean values and experiences. Look, I love. I like most are like, what do you carry from your childhood? Yeah, I am trying to think, you know, says, a latchkey kid. I spent a lot of time alone watching TV and just doing stuff on my own. So being creative because I had to be creative because, you know, there were no computers or whatever. So, it's like, TV brought me up. So I feel like what's helped me produce like, you know, produce podcasts and do it and you know, I am tooted my own horn a bit here but doing it as proficiently or as well as I have been able to do it out of the gate, without the Growing Pains of some other. You know, people is I am a consumer of media of all media, whether it's television radio, and then when podcast came, you know, became a thing. I listen to Hundreds and thousands of hours of podcast before I started making my own. So when I started producing my own, I kind of already knew what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it and because I had that audio, engineering background, I was capable of doing it. So yeah, you know, this whole, you know, with my work. The yes, we're open podcast traveling around and doing those remote interviews. I would never done that before. I am not a reporter, I don't know what the f*** I am doing, but for some reason I was able to do it and make it sound like I knew. Knew what I was doing. So yeah, I am huge consumer right from as a child, a consumer of media and art I have got a creative streak in me that a creative need to do something. So during the pandemic out of boredom, I started a podcast, right? This need for performance because as a musician and I couldn't perform live anywhere. So another reason for starting the podcast, so yeah, there's a bunch of drives their that manifested into this, for sure. Yeah. What's like good to know about yourself as your sort of navigating things like a global pandemic, right? Like Good information has. Yeah, so question is from koala MOS. Oh, this is our friend, Jack down under for Al have you found the transition from how the podcast started? As your first idea up to now letting fans of it, run with it at times and of course when are you bringing the Pod down under? But mostly the first thing I can't wait to one day, so I think I made mention this before. But ever since grade 8, my dream is gone been to visit Australia. We migrated a teacher and I don't know if he went rogue on the curriculum or whatever, but for some reason and all grade 8, we learned Australian history and geography. Yeah. And even music, he played as Midnight Oil and Crowded House and stuff like that, loved it. And ever since then I have always wanted to visit Australia one day. Jack one day, I am going to be sleeping on your couch but in terms of look I had no idea what it was going to be. It could have lasted 20 episodes, and we could have fizzled out. I mean, I feel like the pandemic had a lot to do with a sticking to it for as long as we did well and but I am glad, you know, I mean, if anything good came out of that, it was this and everything else, the growth, you know where it's gone with the users, with the community pitching in with you guys. It's all again, it's all been just me saying, yes, let us try it. Let us try it. Why not? What do we have to lose? Hey, no one's making money at this. If, if it's no good, you know, no one listened, but that's the worst thing that can happen. But if it is good. Wow. Like and I mean, I love sharing like those kind words. You set off the top about, you know, he's so sharing his creative. Space. I am yeah, absolutely. I am very much a collaborator. So I worked better in collaboration without. I mean, I weird, I start off working better alone but then once things get going I like inviting collaboration. Mmm. When did you figure that out about yourself? If I could probably just now enough. Yeah, yeah. I have always known this about me. I am a really good starter of things, but, but after I do find that after a while, I, if they eat, they either get stale. Hmm, or not interesting or not exciting anymore, I will drop them. So, maybe doing all this stuff that we have been doing is my way of not letting it go stale because if it goes sale then I will want to do it anymore, right? So let us try new things, let us try different things so that we can keep this going, right, because I want to keep it going, but if it becomes too much work for too much of a chore, right? Yeah, right. But for now it's just been fun. It's been really fun. So, a follow-up from Tobias would sort of wrap up what you said so you has a couple that kind of tie into what you have just been talking about. So what have you learned about yourself and your fellow panelists since the start and what has surprised you most about doing TPS awhile? Learn for my panelists is that they're all useless when it comes to helping these last useless like none of them are any help. Not just I am just kidding I have yet to see Matt Victor or Taney around the soundboard. Well no none of them going to do that but it's my sound board so it's literally got my name on it, so yeah. Yeah, that's right. So I don't want them to do that. No, I am just kidding. What about learn? Well, I guess that lets, so I am a better starter than I am a finisher but I have become a better Fisher as of late. Thank you for, for choking back. The Laughter there. Let me put it in a different way. I have always enjoyed the excitement of starting a project. Yes. Yeah, okay, yeah. The excitement of starting a project, but it's never been. So how do I say this? Without, you know, triggering your you like working with people? I like, when people passing. Yeah, I am also not the greatest at finishing projects until recently. I have been, I have been better at it recently and a lot of it has to do with what I do professionally because I have been forced to write, but yeah. Cool. Who's been your favorite cast or crew guests from Letterkenny? Some Letterkenny? Hmm, this is from Tobias. Yeah, well I mean for the longest time it was Tyler Johnston because he was such a fun interview and so is an interview once he relaxed everyone relax, and we had a really great time with him well again, but then Jeff McHenry came last and it's never been the same as he was so amazing, and he had us all giggling. Like, yeah, good. And yeah, he was so much fun. So I mean they have all again they have all had great moments but yeah, Johnson John Tyler Johnson, Jeff. McHenry were two of my favorite from Letterkenny and then you said, Ryan McDonald was your favorite from Shore Z? Yeah, so far. Yeah, so far, that's it so far. Okay, more along the lines of playing favorites. You saw Miriam wants to know who is your favorite? Blueberry crew member and I feel like I need to ask you this because you asked the slots who their favorites are? They all go? I can't say the aisle hedge so let us see. Who is my favorite? Blueberry crew member. Well, you're the only one interviewing me, so I am going to see you It's Cassie. If a person has the correct answer first Casey. That's not a fair question. You shouldn't ask it Al you're. So if you want to talk about, you know, having that weird feeling meeting people in person for the first time. Yeah, I had that when I met all you guys, it was weird but it was in a really good way like when we were standing in their parking lot, waiting for the train to take us into Toronto, and I am just standing there, looking at it. Looking at Robbie. Looking at Josh, looking at you look at awesome going Oh yeah, this is happening. All right, this is weird. This is so we took that magical picture. We're like I had to block the sun with my head because it was F Ed up the lighting but it ended up making it look like magical, and we're all delighted in our base holes that was intense. Look back on that moment and go look at but like not a single. One of us doesn't look equally as pleased as the other. You know what I am saying? Like nobody looks like oh he's not having a good. Time, like, everybody looks stupid. Happy you guys went on to have an amazing adventure up in Sudbury, but that day for me, was a perfect day. I mean, any number of things could have gone wrong and but it all went, right. It all went so well up until even like that dinner that night with Billy and at the Japanese place getting the party room. I mean, it was just, yeah, it was a perfect day. Strawberry man, Jack, that's what I am calling it. Something about it because it continued that magic continued which you know, and we have talked about before and this is about you not use, and then we can perform it and record it and all that. Do it in the theme of Sudbury Saturday night by stomping. Oh, I don't know if I can do. That would be hilarious though. See what chat GPT comes up with just for fun. So Cassie has a question for Al. I would love to ask. What is the greatest lesson or take way you gain from podcasting? Overall, if you haven't already answered that, I really admire how outgoing, welcome and fun out is and I wish I could just reach out to people. Make connections a seemingly easy as he does. So you have talked about this just at this concept of just asking is that the biggest Lesson. You have gained from the podcasting experience as a whole. Yeah. I would say so. Yeah. And There's a I mean, there's a way to try to draw a good performance out of people to write that. I have I am getting better at. I am not quite there yet. But even, you know, doing this for work and Performing interviews in the corporate setting, trying to get people to kind of relax and give me more of their authentic selves instead of whatever they think. I want them to give me. Yeah, its great knowledge. I am not saying I am perfect at it, but I am getting better. ER, at it and I feel like the best way to do that is to be authentic myself. And that's a, that's something I struggle with still too. So, I think we all struggle with it, like till the day we die. But some people are better at it than others. It's I find it pops up as a question of like, who am I At this moment with these people? Like how am I processing? All the stuff that's happening. And then, who am I sure? And I mean staying in the moment is real. I mean it's a challenge for me for sure. I have got a million things running through my head. Like what's the next link? I got to click on the soundboard. Oh was that too long of a silence there? Do I need to fill that with a question? When is that person going to stop talking? So I can answer the I am asking the next question like all this s***'s happening, right? And at some point you can get like, you can start panicking about it, or you can just say, hey, you know, stop and listen. And, you know, I think I did a lot of my interrupting early on with Chad and I learned my lesson and sorry Chad. And you know, I think I am a little better at that. I think Chad helped me learn that part. The young can teach the old a yeah, no question from Mike. This is more fun. You have a three-day weekend free with? No responsibilities. The kids are all on school trip or otherwise. Accounted for what are you going to do for those 72 glorious hours in my alone? Sure okay. Start no, I am because like if I am at and you then have to find something that we're both enjoy doing, but if he will like be open endedness of this question indicates that's up to you as well. It's just me. I am watching it. I am just watching a lot of movies that I know. I can't watch with it with her for example because I know she won't enjoy them or whatever for example. Like some kind of weird. Oh, what was it? I just watch those like, really bizarre the unbearable weight of massive talents of talent Nic cage and Pedro, Pascal movie and I know, 10, you would just be like, this is so s***, but I loved it so. So probably like start off watching a bunch of those movies, and I would go out and try to find a live music somewhere. Like I kind of went through this. When I was in Montreal, like afterward was done. I had the whole city and nothing to do, so I found Self frantically looking for like online 4K. What bars got live music tonight and I would probably go do that. Yeah, nice. Nice. Matt wants to know scrolling Matt from an acoustical standpoint. Do you feel that your absence of a Maine has had an impact on your velvety smooth? Vocal chops and how so is your voice, more aerodynamic, as a result and as a sub note, he wants you to that. Question is from the state of Massachusetts. My absence of main what like my baldness absence of a man. Main ma any, right? I am just reading what he wrote. I am going to ignore his question because it's coming from that but I will say this, especially at work again. I always go back to work when you know, you know, people hate hearing their voices record it right? Well, and I am always having to say to them. Look, I know it sounds weird when you hear yourself back like in a recording but just so you know that's what everyone else. Hears. All the time. So the sooner you become okay with that, the better you will be And I give them that advice because I had to learn that myself the hard way. I hate, I hated hearing myself, especially, you know, on a recording for singing like, which is funny. I am an f****** singer. But, you know, I used to hate listening back to myself sing until I got over. Say look, this is whatever else went out, what everyone else is hearing, and they seem to think you're fine to be a singer. So get over it. Get over yourself. They said we just have to get here. Get over yourself. Yeah. Sort yourself out. Yeah. And that was like, I was listened back to my recordings like, okay, I can listen to myself back now, more critically. And I can say, okay, I am I was okay there. I was really good there, not so much there and right, but it took a long time to get used to that. YYZ cord asks looking back. What is Al's proudest? Accomplishment from where TPS is to today like so far? What is your proudest accomplishment? I mean, the proudest I have ever been at this podcast is when we recorded from The Farmhouse kitchen. I mean, we could have signed off right there as last episode of TPS. And it would we're done like We have done. I mean short of having key salon, right? We're this basically is a sign off that what we have been doing has meant something to not just us not just to our listeners but to them to new metric to Letterkenny to shore, Z to them, right to him. I mean I think we're all I think what I was looking for his approval. I guess. But yeah, you know, I was talking about this, and I am after party. I know I went off the rails a little bit but it's I am fascinated. He's like a Pied Piper. I am fascinated about like and it was it started with watching do low on Instagram live, and he was like rapping about Jared. Yeah. And I was like, whoa. Okay? And I commented something and then dhola mentioned like Yak he says the s***, he's a genius and then Terry said it and then Ryan said it and then Andrews it. And then everybody says it. Yeah, right. And yet there's no. When you think about Geniuses like textbook, you know, oh, they're not approachable older. This other that, and he has built this like, A weight that is extended even passed and that out of this setting up for Aaron's question. She has a couple questions, but how do you feel about the impact that this community has had on? So many people because that, like, you have heard people talk about the opportunities that Jared is made and just how eager people are to work with and for him and do the thing, right? You have that same Vibe around you, right? So, how does that feel? Well, I mean Beyond, you know, the Apex of recording in The Farmhouse Studio kitchen. Now, I am getting equal if not more satisfaction in the community and hearing, you know, and hearing how people Embrace newcomers. How newcomers who come in? Feel welcome. So readily honestly. Every once in a while I step back like is this a cult that I just f****** start a cult I like, and I am like, I hope what I just posted. They don't take it as like, okay. You know? When I say the word, we're all going to drink the Kool-Aid because it isn't that right? It's not that I just want, it's interesting that you say Back because that's like the dark side of it, right? And I wondered, do you ever like wake up in a cold? Sweat, going what have I done? No, and no, it's just one of these fleeting things. Like, especially whenever we add a new person in. Like, today, we added a new member to our Discord group, right? And I am trying to be as welcoming as possible, but I am also listening to myself going. This guy doesn't know what he's getting into and is what I am saying to him. Does he think that I am like, grooming him for something? I am like, I am not, I am just like, welcome, we have a good time here. All really chill. Really, really cool here really. So have fun and I will see you later crazy but maybe take 20% off their album. Yeah, I know because I am you know, the more people we add to it and so far it could have backfired a long time ago and hasn't yet right. There could have been some Degen in there that could have stirred s*** up. And You know, we have been lucky. Well, that was a beauty of the Twitter DM group, right there was a limit. Yeah. Right. Because I even remember the days like when I first joined up it was very, I just remember, we were apologizing a lot and I pulled in really quickly to that, but like new people show up psycho. We got to be on our best behavior and there was like every time a new person showed up in the Twitter DM s the jokes about being on your best behavior. Yeah, I was just me because you know I am living in to the pie. Father monikers. Like, all right, here's a new friend. Everyone behave, you know, don't, don't let your freak flag fly too early or else. We might scare them away. Looks like daycare for D. Jen's, it was Degen daycare. Yeah, it's okay. Here's another one play nice. That's like what happens at Doggy Daycare Zell you can be baked, but I mean, again, One of the things that, you know, I mean, I remember, I remember our first interaction online and, you know, and seeing your posts and thinking, huh, and I mean, that's why I reach them. Like, do you need to talk? Do you need, you need somebody to listen? I have got a great group of people here who will listen? So yeah, it was a rough time that was 20 21, right? Yeah. Early 21 and I mean, I don't know any details and that, you know, you share as much as you want to share obviously. But I know what it's like to feel isolated and may be looking for somebody who just want, you know, who isn't going to judge or isn't going to tell you what you should do. Just listen. And I knew that we had a group that could help with that. Yeah, so that your yeah, every time you do Monday mental illness. I always think about that. My mental health Journey has been interesting. I am a late bloomer Gen-X, the like, you know, my parents didn't believe in it, right? And I grew up around so would like we're sort of the Pioneers I think of therapy so it's been good. It's been a journey. Life is a journey that is a Holloway. All right. That's all I am going to say about that because I could focus on the past and I alluded to some of It on the ladies night to episode but it's it. I can thankfully say that like I am looking in a different direction now, so it's good. It's okay. Like I can look at that and go, huh? Yeah, that happened and I didn't think I would ever get there and there's a lot of good stuff ahead and that's what I am focusing on. Yeah. It's good. I mean, I know, I know I am the type that needs to have something to look forward to at all times as well, and when there's nothing on the horizon, that's exciting. I need to look for it or else who knows? Like, I don't want to, I don't even want to know what the or else is. I just tried. Yeah, I just try to keep something to look forward to at all times. Something in the Horizon, right? Yeah. And that's, you know, that trip, that trip that I took with my kids was so important to feel that again because we have been Down. And I am a big road trip or from back in the day. Like, I will drive a car till the wheels fall off. I literally have done that before. Yeah. So putting the kids in the car and doing that road trip, was a big, a big deal. One more question from Aaron, which Universe character would have been close friends with you in childhood or college or now. Maybe do all three childhood college. Now, you know What? They're all. Probably the same, and it's probably Dairy. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit goofy. Let us the word kind of sentimental goofy, but loyal and just Dairy. Yeah. For yeah, yeah, I love it. Last question is from Victor, Victor? Really? Okay. Do you still create or have aspirations to create original music? No, songwriting was really hard for me. I did it. You know with an original band for 10 years. I don't think I was great at it and whatever songs that I did. Right. I was really proud of but they were really difficult. Do I do't enjoy that? The process of songwriting I enjoyed recording it and finishing it and stuff like that and then performing it but writing it because a lot of it came from, you know, when I was in college, and I was asked again spending a lot of time on my own in the city, a lot of this stuff, I wrote for that first band plays for the worm came from that experience, which was very isolated and very lonely. You know and you know a lot of our good art comes from that I guess. But yeah I never, I never thought I was very good at the songwriting part, so I love performing. So that's why I can cover band is my is more my jam but I didn't like the creating of it which is weird because I am creative otherwise but with the songwriting I just I don't think I was just never any good at it and to me if I can't be good at it, I don't want to do it. Well, music is its own thing. Yeah. Right. Like it's that one thing that we create that is like that close to Magic like creating music is a magical thing. I mean and I love the creep watching and witnessing the creative process like the Beatles doc was I can watch that over and over again, all 2:00 of it, whatever it was, I loved watching that and being in dolo Studio last month. Same thing. I am I was in my element. There is one of my favorite Parts. What am I? Even places in the world to be in is in a recording studio. I love being a recording studio and witnessing. That was great. I loved it. How long were you there? You alright. Yeah, we're I was there for a couple hours and channel. Yeah, it was great. Just sitting on the couch and watch watching them. Go at it and try my best not to say, Hey, you know what'd be great here, you know, just it's not stay out of it. This isn't about Adam download down enemies, okay. The white boys, the white old man's recommendation for right, what you should put in This brilliant. Hip-hop number you're working on here. Yeah. Have you used auto-tune recently? I had an idea dull. Oh I think I mean one country says said, I think it's triangle would sound really good in here. Ding dong bell. You need more cowbell Well, if there are any more questions in the chat, I am going to actually open it up to the live stream now. Okay. Is anybody in the livestream? Have a question that they want to throw it out because I am determined to hit the post on 90 minutes. So do it now or forever? Hold your peace. This is his last chance. This is the same offer I gave made to Jerry key. So this is your one and only chance to meet me in person and ask me whatever you want, and he turned me down lightly. But with respect respectfully respect it respectfully. All right, well, seeing none, I will say Al, do you have any final thoughts? Oh, Michelle had one. Aaron's question from Michelle a wait, wait. She did, and I didn't get it in, hang on. That's what she said. Favorite song to sing with my band. Okay, let us see. Thing by The Tragically Hip, only because I have been told I sound a lot like Gore Downing when I am performing and the hipper one of my favorite bands. So and they usually get really great reactions from the crowd. So really, anything that gets a good reaction of the crowd, I enjoy singing, But The Hip especially, and actually anything by The Killers, The Killers have this great sound. That just, it's a rock, but people can dance to it and want to dance to it. And it whenever we do anything by the Ehlers, the Dancefloor just fills. It's so much fun, so yeah. Do a pretty good version of Mr. Brightside, so, Mr. Blake, tough song for the guitarist. We used to do it, and I am okay with that one. My favorites want to do actually is when we were young, but we do, when we were young, all everything that, what's that called? All the things that we have done, all the things we have done that one and, oh, one more somebody told me. So we do those three songs. Yeah, and Mr. Brightside used to be in there, but it's just a really repetitive but also difficult song for guitars to do. But we will When We Were Young there's a part in the middle of the near the end of the song, where Brandon Flowers like scream not screams, but he like he lets out a like a yell and I love doing that part. I just love it. It's so much fun. So I am sorry if I missed anybody's questions. It's been a week, my kid had strep, and we, I was working from home today, so I didn't get to plan as much as I wanted to. Thank you. Al, do you have any final thoughts? Only that? This is a lot of fun. Thank you for doing this. And Casey you know you have been amazing on the leading the Takeover team and doing this. I appreciate you more than you know. So, thank you. Thank you, thank you for doing this. Us and for being so good at it too. Like honestly, you should have your own podcast? I mean, I know that you're busy, and I am working on it. There are some things that need to settle down around maybe for that happens. Absolutely. But I think everyone here would agree with me that you are awesome. Thank you and not just awesome like an awesome but your own form of awesome. You were exceptional. You were brilliant, thank you and I appreciate you. Thank you for doing this. Thank you to everyone on the livestream. There's a lot of fun. I am looking for now to listening to the other three. Get interviewed like this because I yeah, you have any questions that you want me to ask them. Well, I want you to ask them each individually. You know what their favorite thing about me is and then okay, look at your recording it, I am going to make notes later. Trust me when I listen back, doing this for me, not for you. What else do you want to ask? No, no. I mean I am just curious to hear what you know that they're, you know, they're on the podcast all the time, but we don't always have liked you know, every once in a while they will be like. This is crazy. What we're doing here like that? I don't often hear though. A lot of what they think of what we're doing here. I think a lot of the times they just come on to say I will want us to come on, and they're here to appease me, but I want to know what they're getting out of this to like are they getting as much out of this as I am? I am yeah, serious, as well. Okay. Alright. Well, we will get to the heart of that. What are we playing us out with? I guess. Wait, I should have final comments. Sorry, my final comments are thanked you for doing this. Thank you to the Takeover team for supporting me and being gracious in allowing me to do this with you, one-on-one, and creating this special environment. I am really looking forward to interviewing your wife and Maddie, I am Victor I am researching. Searching Victor. Now, what do we got for music tonight? Well before we get to that, okay? It didn't remind me about something that I am really proud of with this podcast and I don't hear on any other podcast, and I am not going to take credit for this. It just kind of happened organically but I love how we finish all of our episodes with final comments and it's always thanked thanking. Thankfully everyone talks about what they're thankful about, it's weird. But also different like I don't hear any of the podcast do that, where we go around the horn. Say okay, everyone has one final comment and it's usually thanking our guests. Thank yes, thanking the listeners thanking the Pod for existing. You know what I mean? Like to me, that's a really proud thing to knit but I also think it's part of what makes it a unique show and somewhat healing. So I am kind I am gonna take a little bit of responsibility and blame for that, but I am particularly proud of that part of our podcast. Anyway, you said, you should be you requested a song called Rowdy by Yelawolf, whoo, featuring Machine Gun, Kelly and DJ Paul. So you have to tell me a bit about this one. I split up, hold on a second here. This song is in episode 3, when he enters the ice after the cold open, okay 30th player of all time. So that's why I picked it because all right, this is, was this the song you knew before Shore Z or no, no it just whatever I have it's been in my head lately and it makes me feel you know? Good. It's kind of like, you know, harsh, so I can talk over this part. We can bring it down, it's all good. And I trace saying that Memphis represent yellow, so I am taking it Rowdy or Yale yellow. Wolf is from Memphis. Well, that's my song. Yeah, doesn't have a good audio to talk over. I don't think that's all we have for tonight. Next week. What are we doing next week? I will next week, I believe. Trace is coming on to do best of the rest. So the best moment for with characters that aren't necessarily regulars on Letterkenny, so that will be interesting. Yeah, yeah, that will be good, trace. There's your notice, you're on notice. Now, he knows, I asked who was ready for next week and Trace put his hand up, so he said he's going, good kid, he's going exactly. Don't forget to give our sponsor diabolic poppy. Some love everybody here at diabolical, coffee duck. Um, right now, you can eat Promo code produced, and for 20% off, any purchase from their site. If you would like to support the podcast and you should write us on iTunes Spotify, or apple become a patreon. 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