When you host a daily personal podcast where you just talk about yourself, you know, pretty explicitly in first person, not explicitly, you get what I mean, when you do that, people feel very empowered to share their feedback with you.

This is not a complaint.

I love it.

But I had multiple friends reach out over the past couple of days with feedback on the podcast, several people pointing out that there’s been extended silences at the end of each episode for the past two episodes.

It’s a logic bug.

I’m working on it.

I will make sure this episode doesn’t have that problem.

And then sometimes I have friends who complain about the subject.

They either want to know what the point is, or they wanted me to talk about different things from what I talked about.

So here’s a follow up.

I’m not going to name your names because that just encourages you to give me even more feedback and you’re giving me just the right amount of feedback.

I don’t have to encourage you some more, but I will provide some of the stories that people have been clamoring for right after this.

So indeed the show, I love you.

You’re perfect.

Now change opened this past Saturday and our opening night was sold out, which was awesome.

And then our second night was not sold out, but was still a great crowd, about 120, 130 people, which is roughly half sold out, frankly, but still it’s a, it’s a big crowd.

And this is a new theater company.

And so they’re still building up audience.

And listen, when I do comedy sports, sometimes we have an audience of a dozen people.

A sold out show for comedy sports is 50 or 60 people.

So really it’s like 45 to 50 people.

So playing for, you know, 120 to 240 people, it’s exciting.

But the show went really well.

There were some lighting issues.

This theater has, I believe, rented some advanced lighting equipment, basically robot lights, where you program them all in, program them all ahead of time.

And so you can just push a button that says, go to this lighting cue, go to this lighting cue.

But the computer that runs those spotlights overheated the first night and then needed to be restarted both the first and second nights.

It was all fine.

And the audience wouldn’t notice too much trouble, but you know, annoying, especially for the crew.

And then a little bit for the actors on stage when things don’t look the way you expect, if you’re expecting it to be the spotlight, but instead they suddenly have to raise all the lights on the stage so that you can be visible.

It’s fine.

But it went well.

I didn’t mess anything up.

And I got some nice laughs.

And I was thinking about how folks who see the show and see me in act one, then the audience doesn’t actually think this way.

It’s just the way my brain was thinking about the audience.

But they may think, wow, that guy just had to do that.

For example, in the song, A Picture of His Penis, you know, I and a friend of mine in the show are taking pictures of ourselves.

And obviously nothing graphic happens on the stage, but, you know, we get into some embarrassing poses, ostensibly embarrassing poses.

And it is in fact not embarrassing at all because you’re doing it for the laugh.

Whenever I’m doing anything like that, I always think, what would Will Ferrell do?

And the answer is he would just go for it.

So you just go for it, whatever.

But, you know, I imagine people thinking, wow, that must be the most ridiculous thing that guy does in the show.

And then I’m like, just wait for act two, my friends.

Just wait for act two.

Because I get even more ridiculous in act two.

But yeah, it went well.

Adoring crowds.

And the only bummer is just that it’s 10,000 degrees in the dressing room area.

They bought an air conditioner for the space a couple days ago, I guess, for the opening night performance.

They had it installed and it is not nearly big enough for the space.

It’s for 550 feet.

And the guy’s like, yeah, I think that’s about the size of the space.

And my friends, the size of that backstage area is probably 1,200 square feet.

So the air conditioner really can’t keep up.

It doesn’t actually in any way seem to make an impact whatsoever.

The giant fan that we have down there seems more effective.

But so every time you go up on stage, you’re glistening because everybody gets so sweaty backstage.

And you’d much rather go out on stage, not 10,000 degrees.

Everybody gets excited to go on stage because the stage is in the theater.

And even though there’s all those lights beaming on the stage and all that, it’s still in the air conditioner part.

Yeah.

So anyway, we got three shows left, which means we have more shows left than we’ve done already.

Incredible.

That’s how math works.

And we have a brush up rehearsal on Thursday.

So we’ve got all that going for us.

And that’s really it.

That’s the update on the show.

One of the people who asked me for that update is going to the show.

So I’m trying to limit that person’s spoilers so that he can fully enjoy the show when he does see it.

My father-in-law also went to see the show and he went with a friend of his.

And, you know, people often hang out after the show to greet you and whatever.

And this friend was like, I don’t want to do that.

So my father-in-law had texted me.

Good job.

Robbie made his leave right away.

I thought that was funny.

Then my mother-in-law sent me money for my father-in-law’s ticket, but I had bought both tickets, my father-in-law’s and Robbie’s.

So I texted my in-laws and I was like, Hey, I got Esther’s reimbursement for Marty’s ticket, but I’m sending Robbie to collections.

My father-in-law was like, Oh, I gave him your Zell information.

But Robbie sent that money, not to my phone number, which starts area code 310, but rather to somebody else with area code 301.

So that’ll be a fun thing for him to figure out.

I’m not worried about it.

It was $27.

Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Tuesday.

You’ve earned it.

You’ve earned it.

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