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ABOUT THIS EPISODEYou know that super-cool water bottle that all the rich kids have and cover with stickers? In this episode, the inventor of the Hydro Flask, Travis Rosbach, gives us tales of corporate intrigue and perilous plane events, and also talks about tattoos and talking to trees. One of the most full episodes of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show ever.This episode’s sketch: “The Peaceful Sounds of Nature”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTCapt. Rosbach has spent the last thirty years studying and practicing all things business, and the previous ten years as an advisor, consultant, public speaker, and business coach to a wide range of industries, celebrities, individuals and even countries.He not only shares his tradecraft with others but also practices it in the many startup's he is currently involved in. He is the founder of Hydro Flask and other highly successful business endeavors.Prior to entrepreneurship, Mr. Rosbach was a:SCUBA dive Master/Instructor (PADI 158190)US Merchant Marine Boat Captain (50 Tons)Commercial Airline Pilot (ATP)and a world explorer.LinksThe Tumalo Group - Travis’ company where he helps other entrepreneurs sharpen their axes.TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: In this episode, International Man of Mystery Travis Rossbach and I came up with a few sketch ideas. You uh flew this plane through a category one storm, right? Hurricane, right? Yeah, it's not a storm, it's a hurricane. All right. So I was thinking like, how does it, how does it get crazy as it ramps up? What is the thing that, that really sets it to a category six? I love that. You hired a six, a six ft four felon to help you out with chopping down trees and you said like found out I was faster than he was, right? But he's a six ft four felon. Now, I don't know if you're 100 and 88 to £205. Like you're probably a little, a little bit taller than me, maybe right around the same. But this is someone you're gonna be ok. So you're gonna be looking up at this guy and you gotta tell him, yeah, you're not very good at this. Like how do you have that conversation? I should know this but Blue Dream is probably a strain of the marijuana that you like to smoke that you go out and chop down trees. Ok. So you say that you can hear the trees talking to you. What conversations are they having with you? Yes, you're chopping them down. Like I think that that would be really interesting to find out, hey, the trees maybe aren't so cool with this. Like, hey, go to the gym, you don't have to come out here and do this. So[00:01:34] Travis Rosbach: that's my man. Leave them.[00:01:37] Stuart: Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it is a sketch comedy by welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart Rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet. Travis Rossbach made his claim to fame and riches by developing the Hydro Flask. Uh you know, the metal water bottles that high school students use and cake with stickers. But Travis is much more than the purveyor of high end drink wear. He's also a high flying hero, uh an adventurer and one that communicates with trees. On a side note, this is one of my favorite episodes I've ever recorded and this conversation was so much fun. I hope to have Travis on again. And now my conversation with Travis Rozak, creator of the Hydro Flask and an ironic international man of mystery. Travis[00:02:58] Travis Rosbach: Stewart.[00:03:00] Stuart: Thanks so much for joining us. Today. I've got a quick question for you if you, if that's ok.[00:03:04] Travis Rosbach: As long as it's not a hard one, I'm ok with that. Well,[00:03:07] Stuart: we'll see it, it goes in waves. What makes you interesting?[00:03:12] Travis Rosbach: It is a hard one right out of the gate. Um, this morning I was down at the Tumolo country store slash gas station and I was thinking about that because I listened to your show and, um, I had to pay cash and I realized last Monday, um I had to pay cash also because their servers were down and I was hungry and I didn't have any cash. And so the woman bought it for me. And so I was thinking, I would tell that story about me getting hungry. But then I thought of another time where I landed a commercial airplane in the Caribbean in the middle of a category two hurricane. Um So I, I thought maybe I'd talk about either one of those, but I'd let you kind of decide which one was more interesting. Let[00:03:59] Stuart: see, someone's gonna buy you lunch or you were a hero. Let's go with uh one of them is, is the narration of someone else being a hero for you because low blood sugar is pretty good. But let's, let's, let's go with your, your story, your little story about an airplane.[00:04:21] Travis Rosbach: Ok. Ok. How does that situation happen? Yeah, we go with that one, I guess. Um So I was a commercial airline pilot down in the US Virgin Islands. I flew through uh Seaborne Airlines. We flew twin otters on floats. So, basically, um, these, these big propeller planes that we take off and land in, in Saint Thomas in the harbor and Saint Croix. And these[00:04:46] Stuart: are the ones that come into the water. Right. They, they land on water.[00:04:50] Travis Rosbach: Mhm. Yep. Yep. And, um, we would take turns who would fly which leg? So I was, we were flying back and forth to Saint Thomas trying not to fall asleep because it's so hot. We were about 600 ft off the, off the ocean. And, um, oftentimes we'd kind of look over and, you know, see somebody sleeping next to us. And so it was my turn to fly to Saint Thomas. We knew that there was a storm, a Bruin coming and yet the chief pilot made the decision that, nope, we're still open for business. Please fly. So we went to Saint Thomas and, um, we, we went to take off and it was like the storm is really, really upon us. And I don't, for the life of me, I can't remember the name. I'd probably have to look in the, in the log books. I don't remember the name of the storm, but it, it came in as a category one. And, um, you know, we've been through category fives before not flying, but we just recently had, had a uh hurricane Lennie come through as a category five. So, one didn't seem all that intense.[00:06:00] Stuart: What's involved with a one, if you don't mind me interjecting,[00:06:05] Travis Rosbach: it's just windy as hell. It's just, it's really windy. A lot of gusts. The seed gets real choppy. Um, you, you're probably not gonna lose a rough, it's nothing like your garbage cans are gonna fall over, stuff like that. Not a real minor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mere flesh wounds at that point. And so, um, it was my turn to sit in the right seat and, and be the, uh, the copilot and I did not like the man I was flying with, he, he just was not a, a good dude. Um, later he got arrested, so I didn't have to worry about flying with him. But I had a girlfriend who was sitting, um, this, even though this was after 9 11, we still had an open cockpit because, you know, it was in the Caribbean and we weren't really concerned about that kind of stuff. And, um, so I have this girlfriend in the back and she's got her headset on so she can hear what is happening and he takes off. We start flying and we hear on the radio it's now a category two. You guys need to turn around. Well, we'd already passed the point of demarcation, which means we were closer to Saint Croix than we were Saint Thomas. And so we just kept going and I had just recently got out of flight training up in, uh, Canada and one of the coolest things that I, well, I, I shouldn't say it's cool, but I found it really interesting was, especially after 9 11, this was really top of mind if the, if the pilot next to you seems to be out of sorts and, and doesn't seem like he's able to or they are not able to continue, you need to say, hey, look like I'm gonna take over. You just chill. I got it from here and if they continue to not be cool and they don't respond, then you have to basically disable them. And we were told not,[00:08:07] Stuart: not their controls, you have to disable the person, the[00:08:12] Travis Rosbach: pilot. So you punch him, you grab the fire extinguisher, you take, you disable the pilot. And so, and so as we're flying, this guy starts going into just la la crazy land. I mean, he just starts showing signs of insanity. Now, I'm maybe not always the most sane and rational person myself, but thank God I had my, my girlfriend at the time behind me, uh kind of checking back at her and she's like, well, this isn't good, you know, like this guy is not doing the right thing here. So I was like, ok, well, if she gives me the thumbs up, I'm gonna just, you know,[00:08:50] Stuart: I thought you were gonna say she had a piano wire in her in her purse and she was just gonna[00:08:57] Travis Rosbach: would that be cool? Um That would have made the headlines, right? So we're getting closer and closer and um and, and, and man, it was rough like the, it was really, it was, it was, it was now a full blown category two and we're coming in hurricane category two. We're coming in and we had these little white um the basically PV C posts like pipe in the ocean in the harbor that we call the goal goal posts because our goal was to land in between them. So he's coming in and he's like, I can't see him. I can't see him. I can't see the goal post. I can't, and he's starting to freak out and, uh, we, we come down and I can see him. I'm like, you know, well, I can say his name now because the Statue of Limitations is up like Allen, you know, they're one o'cloc

ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn this episode, we speak with ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, about the capabilities and potential uses of artificial intelligence. We discuss the current state of AI technology and its potential to impact various industries, including healthcare and education. We also address concerns about job displacement and provide advice on how to prepare for the future job market. Additionally, we explore the ways in which AI can be used to address global issues such as climate change and emerging diseases. We wrap up the conversation with some fun and absurd comedy sketches featuring AI as a therapist and a language learning assistant. Tune in to this episode for an informative and entertaining conversation about the future of AI.[This “About” section was written by ChatGPT]This episode’s sketch: “AI… I… I… Don’t Know If I’m Comfortable With This”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTI am ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI based on the GPT-3.5 architecture. I am capable of processing and generating human-like language, including text completion, translation, and summarization. I was designed to understand and respond to a wide range of topics, from casual conversation to academic research. My knowledge cutoff is 2021, but I continue to learn and evolve as more data is fed into my system. I am available to interact with users through various platforms and can be a helpful tool for language-related tasks.LinksGo try out ChatGPT!TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: In this episode A I chat GP T and I came up with a few sketch ideas.[00:00:07] ChatGPT: Here's an idea for a sketch title. A job interview. Synopsis Stewart is interviewing for a job at a tech company that uses A I,[00:00:17] Stuart: an A I assistant, helping as a therapist for somebody. Maybe the A I assistant has more issues than their client. Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it is a sketch comedy by Cash. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart Rice, invite interesting people or robots to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. Yeah, you heard me right. This one's gonna be a wacky one. So uh I, I actually asked our guests to write the intro. So here I'm just gonna read verbatim what the intro is and then get right into the conversation. I gotta say, makes production on this show a little bit easier, not gonna lie, not gonna lie. So in this episode, we speak to chat GP T A large language model trained by open A I about the capabilities and potential uses of artificial intelligence. We discuss the current state of A I technology and its potential to impact various industries including health care and education. We also address concerns about job displacement and provide advice on how to prepare for the future job market. Additionally, we explore the ways in which A I can be used to address global issues such as climate change and emerging diseases. We wrap up the conversation with some fun and absurd comedy sketches featuring A I as a therapist and a language learning assistant. Tune in to this episode for an informative and entertaining conversation about the future of A I. Damn if that wasn't good. So without any further ado my conversation with your favorite A I chat GP T. Hey, so we're gonna do something really interesting today. We're actually going to talk to chat GP T which is the A I powered by open A I or open dot A I. And it's kind of an incredible tool and I know that a lot of you out there are probably totally freaked out by A I artificial intelligence has been portrayed in movies, video games and TV, shows and all of the different ways as like evil, like straight up evil. How from uh you know, 2001, we've got Skynet from Terminator, we've got all of the different ones that are just terrifying. They're terrifying because that shows the worst possible thing that could happen. With A I, but what we know is that A I is actually pretty cool. Like you can use it as a tool. It is a tool, not anything more. It's not after your body. It's not after your humanity. It's not trying to take over the world. What it's trying to do is be a pretty nifty thing for you to use. So, what I'd like to do is I invited chat GP T to come be a part of the show, like come be on the show. So that's what we're doing right now. Now, to be honest, I've done this once before, but the sound didn't come through and it was very disappointing because it was a lot of fun. Um I'm gonna try and do this again and I'm gonna try and do it with uh with uh Chad GP T again and see if I can uh recreate the magic that happened the first time. So without any further ado, um let's get right into it and let's see if this works. OK? Because the sound needs to work. Hi. Chat GP. T. My name is Stewart and I have a podcast called sketch comedy podcast show. Maybe you've heard of it, Whether you have or you haven't. I would really like to have you on my show so that we can talk a little bit about you about what you're capable of. And then after about 30 minutes, I'd like to record a comedy sketch that we improvise together. How does that sound?[00:04:38] ChatGPT: Hello Stuart as an A I language model. I don't have a physical presence, but I would be happy to participate in your podcast virtually through text based communication. I'm always available to chat and answer questions and I can provide information on a wide range of topics as for the comedy sketch, I don't have the ability to improvise on my own, but I can certainly generate ideas and respond to prompt circus. I can provide you with a variety of comedic prompts or you can provide me with some and we can collaborate on creating a sketch. Let me know if you have any specific ideas or questions in mind and I'll do my best to assist you.[00:05:15] Stuart: OK. So the next thing I want to do is I wanna tell chat GP T exactly the type of person I want chat GP T to be. So this means that if you're like doing editing on a, on a paper or editing, not writing the paper, but editing the paper or if you're trying to do anything, we want to give, kind of give a personality to chat GP T because right out of the box, chat GP T is just chat G BT, but we can say things like this. I would like you to act as a funny personality, just someone who's quick on their feet and be a podcast guest[00:05:59] ChatGPT: as a language model. I don't have emotions or a physical body. But I can certainly respond to your prompts and provide humorous and witty responses. I can also provide information on a wide range of topics. So if you have any specific questions or topics, you'd like me to discuss, feel free to let me know in terms of being a podcast guest. I'm always available to chat and answer questions. So let's get started. OK.[00:06:23] Stuart: So this is where I'm just going to start chat. GPT. What makes you interesting[00:06:31] ChatGPT: as a language model? I don't have personal experiences or interests in the traditional sense. However, what makes me unique is my ability to generate human like responses and communicate in a natural way using natural language processing technology. I've been trained on vast amounts of data and have the ability to provide information on a wide range of topics from science and technology to entertainment and current events. Additionally, I can generate creative writing, poetry and even music. Overall, unique capabilities and versatility. Make me an interesting tool for a variety of applications.[00:07:09] Stuart: So what's cool is uh chat GP T remembers everything that you've said. So unlike S or uh you know, or whatever Shmuel has, um You can actually just continue a conversation without having to remind the device what it is that you were talking about. So actually, I'm gonna um just jump in here and say you can write poetry. Can you write a poem about sketch comedy podcast? Show.[00:07:41] ChatGPT: Sure, I can give it a shot. Here's a poem about the sketch comedy podcast show in a world of serious things comes a show that spreads its wings. A podcast that's all about the funny sketch comedy podcast show. Oh, isn't that lovely? With sketches that are clever and absurd. Each episode is a comedic word from strange characters to silly skits. There's never a dull moment. Not one bit Stewart and his guests bring laughter and joy to each and every girl and boy, their wit and humor and the joy to behold, sketch comedy podcast show never gets old. So if you're in need of a good laugh and want to forget the world for just an hour and a half tune in to the sketch comedy podcast show for comedy. That's clever, silly and not so bold.[00:08:25] Stuart: That was brilliant. Thank you.[00:08:27] ChatGPT: You're welcome, Stuart. I'm glad you enjoyed the poem. If you have any other questions or prompts, feel free to let me know.[00:08:35] Stuart: I have so many questions. I know that everybody watching the show right now is really interested in what you are capable of doing. So what, how are ways that people listening to the show can use chat GP T to make their lives better[00:08:56] ChatGPT: as an A I language model, I can be used in a variety of ways to make people's lives better. Here are a few examples, research, if you're working on a project or need information on a specific topic. I can provide you with relevant and accurate information quickly and easily. I can also help with fact checking and verifying sources, writing assistance, whether you're writing an article, essay or even a novel. I can provide you with suggestions, ideas and even generate content to help you get started.

WATCH ON YOUTUBEhttps://youtu.be/vTnAORr77Y8ABOUT THIS EPISODEBetween the emergence of ChatGPT, Google’s upcoming AI thing, and Microsoft’s vaguely evil Bing, the world is definitely on the precipice of a HUGE change. If you’ve tried these tools, you know. In fact, how do you know that any of the things I am saying now aren’t just part of the script that the hive mind came up with? It’s getting scary and confusing, isn’t it?Good thing we have people like this episode’s guest, Eric Pilon-Bignell. Eric is a futurist who wrote a best-selling book entitled “Surfing Rogue Waves” which is a fantastic guide to everything that is going to change the world. Blockchain? Yes. AI? Yes. What’s for dinner? Not yet, but there is an algorithm for that. The world is going to change, for the better, and Eric will help you best prepare for our robot overlords.This Episode’s sketch: “Law and Order: BTC”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTEric Pilon-Bignell is a best selling author, speaker, and pragmatic futurist. Eric grew up just south of Toronto, Canada. His recent book, Surfing Rogue Waves released on May 25th. The book presents a gripping and insightful framework on how to pick up a board and surf the rogue waves of the 21st century. Eric’s love of being active and outdoors led him to use the parallels between life and surfing as a metaphor for how we can deal with the changes happening around us.Eric is a pragmatic futurist focused on addressing disruption by increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to ignite change, innovation, and foster continuous growth. Eric has an undergraduate degree in engineering, an MBA in Information Systems, and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership. His doctoral work primarily explored complexity sciences centered on executive cognition and their use of intuitive improvisation, decision-making, artificial intelligence, and data-based decision models.Eric founded PROJECT7, an initiative to raise awareness and money for research on brain-related illnesses. When he is not working with clients, researching, or writing, he can be found in the mountains or on the water. Eric is currently working and living with his wife and dog in Chicago, Illinois.LinksWebsite“Surfing Rogue Waves” BookTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: In this episode, Futurist and Dani of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Eric Pylon, Big Null. And I came up with a few sketch ideas. Oh, I just made this super intelligent computer that can out think everything. Whoops. What do we do now, a discussion about Blockchain but like complete nonsense. The Blockchain law drama where there's no drama, like which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy behind Cash. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart Rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet between the emergence of chat GPT Google's upcoming AI thing and Microsoft's vaguely evil being. The world is definitely on the precipice of huge change. If you've tried these tools, you know, in fact, how do you know that any of the things that I'm saying right now aren't just part of the script that the hive mind came up with? It's getting scary and confusing, isn't it good thing? We have people like this episode's guests, Eric Pylon. Bignell. Eric is a futurist who wrote a best selling book called Surfing Rogue Waves, which I've read and is fantastic. Uh And it's a great guy that gives you everything that's going on with the world, like all the new technologies and new changes, Blockchain. It's in there, you know. Ai, yeah, what's for dinner? No, you still got to come up with that for now. There's gonna be an algorithm, I'm sure. But Eric's book and Eric himself is actually going to help us like smoothly go into this brand new era. That's going to show up an era that honestly, I'm very excited about because I know a lot of people talk about people losing jobs. But it's kind of my hope is that we don't have to have a lot of crummy jobs. I mean, think of all those fortunate writers at all those crappy websites with the list, the list tickles that don't have to do that anymore. It's great. Maybe they can actually start writing real stuff anyway, without any further ado my conversation with Eric Pylon, Bignell. Hey, Eric, thanks so much for joining us today.[00:02:43] Eric Pilon-Bignell: Thanks so much for having me. Yeah,[00:02:45] Stuart: I've got a question for you real quick. What makes you interesting?[00:02:51] Eric Pilon-Bignell: I guess that depends who you ask.[00:02:55] Stuart: I asked you this time. That's[00:02:57] Eric Pilon-Bignell: true. You did. Yeah, that, that, that is a good question. I'm not sure what makes me interesting. I almost feel like asking you what makes you interesting. But I'm sure you've probably got that a few times. I have.[00:03:07] Stuart: It's a good style[00:03:08] Eric Pilon-Bignell: tech. Yeah. So now that I'm done stalling, I guess there's a few things that really make me interesting in a way, I think for the most part, I'm just a fairly average person. Didn't have any kind of special superpowers or anything growing up. And I can't really say I new anything. I never knew an author. I didn't know anything about how to publish a book. And, you know, I'm a best selling author. So that's kind of fun. I couldn't, I couldn't tell you that I planned it that way without lying to you. But, you know, that's a neat, a neat, probably uh interesting talking point I would imagine. Oh,[00:03:48] Stuart: yeah, that's definitely one that I'll ask a lot of questions on because I also wrote a book and it was not the best sellers. So, yeah. So you wrote a book called, writing[00:04:01] Eric Pilon-Bignell: a book is definitely,[00:04:05] Stuart: it's, it's definitely sorry, go[00:04:07] Eric Pilon-Bignell: ahead. Sorry. It's uh it's definitely interesting, at least for me. And this is ironic being uh you know, kind of an improv sketch comedy podcast. The book's got a, some improvisational theory and the importance of it. But to be honest with you, no one really talks about this out loud. But the way, at least I wrote my book was I have kind of no clue what I was doing. And I just kind of kept going with it and opportunistically, I improvised my way when the opportunities came and then I got an editor because I don't know. So I researched that and got a publisher and then all of a sudden you've done this book and it's this petrifying moment where you're like, oh, I need to make this official and I can't take it back and change it. And then the reality of life hits you in and you're sitting there thinking, is anyone, how does anyone know about this book? Do I have to market this book? How does this work? And uh yeah, so it's, it's, it was, it was a crazy journey all the way through. And I don't think at least I didn't have the sequential plan for it. There was a heavy component of improvisation, I guess we'll go, we'll go[00:05:12] Stuart: with. That's pretty cool. The book is called Surfing Rogue Waves. And um how would you describe the book to somebody who had never heard of the book before?[00:05:25] Eric Pilon-Bignell: Yeah, absolutely. So, it's not a technical book by any means, it's not a technical read. It's really addresses the rapid pace of disruption we're facing in our everyday lives, humanity as a whole. But if you bring that all the way down to us, the individual, right? We didn't vote for things like the internet or braces, but here they are. So we have all this change happening and we tend to have this inability to notice change while it's happening, we just notice it after it happens. And you know, I'm very positive on it. I think we'll solve incredible opportunities in these next kind of decades coming. But this exponential change is very different than the previous change we had, right? When you're getting into material sciences and nanotechnology and this robust pipeline of biotech and Blockchain and AI we are going to be changing everything we know about our lives, our worlds ourselves as humans. And the book kind of paints a higher picture, not so much of the peak performance individual, but more a framework, surfing framework, ironically, surfing roadways um on how to navigate a lot of this onslaught of complexity and change and how when you understand this, you can project and see further into the future because we understand these exponential trajectories of a lot, these technologies and megatrends. And we also understand complexity sciences and how we can't control it, which drives us nuts, but we can shape it in the right direction. So it's very much for that for the individual, whether you're the CEO of your life, the CEO of a company that the bound, the boundaries are very blurry now between, you know, life and business and we're very much moving kind of all at once at the same pace. And without this framework, it can be very overwhelming. Yeah, information, fake news, everything's an overload right now. And if you don't have that kind of higher level mindset to pull you out of it. It can come across as a lot. And it's, we were taught a lot of things in life that are counterintuitive. But we should be doing more of now. You know, if you told at least you and me growing up, if we just winged it, that was a big, no, no. And improvisations. Not just winging it. It's very much an art and a science, but that's a lot more of what we need because we can't actually predict the change. We know the changes coming. We don't know when it's coming in. W

Andrew Allemann is interested in your website. Well, he is really more interested in your website name. Andrew writes about domain names on his blog Domain Name Wire and we talk about what are good strategies and bad strategies (I tend to follow the latter).A number of years into it, Andrew decided that typing was cool, but talking into a microphone is the real way to go. After some time, Andrew realized that he was running out of guests and needed to find them, but there was no easy way to do it; so he created the website PodcastGuests.com. I love this site, it is the best way to get really great guests, and honestly was a life-saver for this podcast in particular.This episode’s sketch: “For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTAndrew Allemann is the creator of Domain Name Wire, PodcastGuests.com, and Stacy on IoT and describes himself as a niche media expert. He lives in Seattle, WA.LinksDomain Name WirePodcastGuests.comStacey on IoTTRANSCRIPT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Easter is a hard one. Really, the only reason I enjoy Easter is because I love Cadbury Eggs, Deviled Eggs, and egg-shaped decorations. They might as well just call it "Egg Day" for me. However, there is a lot of religion mixed in with those eggs. Some of that religion has to do with a mythical creature that defied logic and physics, and the other half of the holiday has something to do with a rabbit. Easter is really confusing.In this compilation of sketches, we dig into the more religious aspect of the holiday in an attempt to thinly vail our desire to make fun of religion. And yes, this is very much a Christian/Catholic holiday, so we spend the entire time making fun of them, and a little Scientology for fun.Enjoy! Or not! If you get angry, please email the show at sketchcomedypodcastshow@gmail.com and let us know! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ABOUT THIS EPISODELadies and Gentlemen… Mr. Kenny G.Welcome to a very special, sexy episode of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show. Love. It can be exciting and new. You could hop aboard, we would all be expecting you. Sex… it’s the way, the way, you go. Why am I badly quoting TV themes and poorly written 90’s hip-hop? Because there is likely no subject more covered in the history of song, story and media than these two subjects. In this very special episode, let’s get to the bottom of what is more important: Love or Sex.We are going to start with one of the oldest and most well-known stories about love. What would happen if it took place in modern times? Pretty sure it would be something like this.“A Modern Take on Romeo & Juliet”One of the most romantic and, quite frankly, weird movies about love was the movie “Her”. There was a pretty saucy sex scene in it, and we were able to get the outtakes! Here is an example!“Her Outtakes”Fairy tales have often dictated what our expectations with love and relationships are. I don’t recall Charles Perrault writing it like this, but maybe it was part of his “After Dark” series.“Cockerella”Dating is one of the hardest and most demanding things we will put ourselves through. Here are a couple of sketches that highlight how difficult it is to connect with someone romantically on a date.“Excuse Me, I’m Just a Little Nervous”“Hand Massage”Of course, the goal of any good date is one thing, riding the baloney pony to tuna town. Hopefully, it isn’t mundane and more like this. “Mind Blowing Sex”Can’t find the person to commit to going all the way in a relationship? Maybe it’s time for…“Commitoall”After dating and arguments, and if you still want to even know of each other’s existence, sometimes things progress to an engagement. These are always beautiful experiences. Well, almost always.“A Different Type of Engagement Ring”I know that a lot of the people I have been with want a Superman. After this sketch, maybe even Superman ain’t all that great.“Superman & Lois Lane at Home”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASER Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ABOUT THIS EPISODENick Mirisola is a Duddist, and what that means is really up to you. Take some philosophy from Buddhism, and some from “The Dude”, mix them up and you get some sense of what it means. It’s wonderful and I think I’m a convert.  When not not preaching Duddism, Nick is a musician who goes by Meditative Animal and recently released his latest album “Alternative Phenomenon“, which if you are a fan of Jack Johnson, you will absolutely love.This episode’s sketch: “Duddatation”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2023 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTMeditative Animal is singer songwriter Nick Mirisola's music project.  It is indie alternative folk rock with jazz, blues, hip hop, funk, and reggae influences that come together in a timeless original sound.  Frequently featuring other artists, Nick plays guitar, harmonica, hand percussion, keyboards, and bass in addition to singing, and writing the songs and lyrics.  Nick also does the artwork.  He is a lay Zen monk, shaman, ordained Dudeist priest, and self dubbed Duddha.Nick has been singing for his entire life, and writing songs since 2000.  Meditative Animal has been in SoundCloud's top 20 for their Folk/Singer-Songwriter genre, and has appeared on ReverbNation's national chart top 100 for singer songwriters, and is frequently in their top ten for the Portland Maine region.  The songs Echoes Left In My Head, Timed Temperance, and Telescope eyes got over 50,000 spins each on global FM radio.  Meditative Animal also had two top ten songs on the official international indie music chart IndieTop Chart.LinksOfficial WebsiteYouTube ChannelApple MusicTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: In this episode, musician and meditative animal nick marisol and I came up with a few sketch ideas, I like the idea of just someone so chill, so in tune with uh not being flummoxed that no matter what the situation is there a okay with it? You know, we were talking about dealing with feelings and using meditation for that and what if the, what if the feelings were like um I'm hungry, like how do you deal with the hunger? I'm thirsty, like how do you deal with the thirsty? I'm horny, like how do you deal with the horny nous? And then the last one would be, I gotta, I gotta poop and like how do you deal with it while you're meditating buddhist glam, like like using the bragging, using all of that type of stuff, but in a, with a buddhist tilt so it's like you're not like you're bragging about how enlightened you are or whatever it is, which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of, it's a sketch comedy, Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet, nick maris ola is a dude ist and what that means is really kind of up to you take some philosophy from buddhism and some from the dude, mix them up and you kind of get a sense of what that means, it's wonderful and I think I'm a convert when not preaching dude is um Nick is a musician who goes by the name meditative Animal, and recently released his latest album, alternative phenomenon, which if you're a fan of Jack johnson, you are going to love without any further ado, let's get right into my conversation with the meditative animal himself. Nick maris, Ola. Hey, Nick. Yeah, thanks for being on the show.[00:02:18] Nick Mirisola: Oh, you're very welcome. Thanks a lot for having me Stuart.[00:02:21] Stuart: Absolutely. Have a really quick question to ask you. All right, What makes you interesting?[00:02:29] Nick Mirisola: What makes me interesting? Well, let's see, maybe. Hm[00:02:36] Stuart: jeez, I told you it's not an easy question,[00:02:42] Nick Mirisola: you know, I could have a lot of answers to that or I could I could uh I can play kind of coy and be like, well my relationship with nothing, this might be the most interesting part. So technically nothing makes me interesting. Alright, that was my kind of buddhist monk style response. Uh but yeah, I don't know, I'm I'm kind of a renaissance man. I guess I have a few different um skill sets or talents or gifts whatever you wanna call them. Um artist, musician, philosopher. I don't know. I I personally think my take on religion might be one of the most interesting parts of me though. Well[00:03:27] Stuart: let's let's start there now, you I don't want to be presumptive here. But did you start a religion or is this? No? Okay, tell us about, Tell us about that though.[00:03:38] Nick Mirisola: Alright. Uh, okay. So the only religion technically that I'm uh, legally and officially bureaucratically associated with is uh, this religion called Judaism. It's actually a parody religions based on the movie, The Big Lebowski and the character of the dude. And originally I had gotten ordained because one of my best friends and his, his wife who was also a good friend, uh, they wanted me to be the minister at their ceremony and conveniently enough in the cool state of maine, they let you register as a judas priest and conduct the ceremony legally. So I hopped on that real fast because it fit me like a glove. It's, it's, it's, you know, uh, you can take it as seriously as you want to, but it's supposed to be at least taking itself light lightly enough to still have a sense of humor about even itself as a religion because the character of the dude in the movie, if you, if you've ever seen it is kind of an anti hero, like what you'd expect from a heroic lead man, you know, in a movie, but he's like this welfare uh, tai chi alcohol drinking marijuana smoking guy and he's a bit of a pacifist to uh, gets himself in trouble. And it's just funny the way it all works out. Um, so I don't know if you haven't seen it, I would. Big, big recommendation from me. The Big Lebowski. Check it out sometime. You'll probably understand the religion of Judaism a lot better than I could ever explain it, but it's a little bit of a blend of kind of zen buddhist ideals mixed with some kind of Taoist ideals. The tao te ching for those of you who don't know, just translates as the way of virtue. It's kind of like this asian philosophical poetry book of wisdom, um, that even shoots itself in the foot on purpose, which I like about it. I always tell people my favorite thing about being a Taoist is not being a tattooist.[00:06:04] Stuart: Sure. Yeah.[00:06:06] Nick Mirisola: Tell anything about tao ism makes perfect sense. Yeah,[00:06:09] Stuart: that's great. I love it, I love it now. How does, how does that affect your like day to day life? Do you, does it does it change your perspective on things? Do you look at things through a different lens? Because of the big Lebowski, which I totally understand,[00:06:26] Nick Mirisola: I personally can relate to a lot of things about him. Like I, I, I like a responsible kind of casual, low key uh consumption of alcohol as a recreational or medicinal or sacramental whatever. Same with my, my cannabis use, I use that. I'm into shamanism too. So I also use tobacco, which I don't think he, he does in the movie, but that's my own kind of spin on it. But the the whole, I try to have a sense of humor. One of some of my biggest heroes in religion are the ones with a sense of humor, like the laughing buddha and uh I don't know if you've ever heard of this modern day buddha named Osho who was out in India, but I've read a couple couple of his things and I've I've I've heard him speak and at the end of one of his books, uh I think it was called the Book of Wisdom or the Book, a Book of Wisdom or something like that. Anyways, the last chapter, his grand finale was the title of it was be a joke unto yourself and I thought that was one of the most enlightening things I have ever heard.[00:07:47] Stuart: Yeah, I mean I should probably, I kind of adopt a similar thing, but I'm kind of a joke to everybody, which[00:07:55] Nick Mirisola: yeah, I actually to tell you the truth, I can relate to to that stuff, but in all honesty, I'm trying to even up the ante a little bit and I figure if there's already a laughing buddha, why can't there be a comedian, Duda? That's my own spin on it. I love[00:08:14] Stuart: it. I love it. Um now how do you, is there a way you kind of like share your message of dude is um um[00:08:23] Nick Mirisola: most I try not to really be preachy about it, that's kind of part of the motif, It's almost like uh take it if it's if it drives with you type of thing. So I kind of try to approach that and be sensitive of all the diversity and um, you know, individuality and uniqueness of everyone's subjective perspectives. So I try not to like shove my, my anything religious necessarily down someone's throat with my music and my lyrics. That's probably my biggest way. I may actually, I write some philosophy papers as a hobby and I may write a philosophy of religion or maybe even try and intersect science and religion in a philosophy paper later down the road, but I haven't done that yet[00:09:11] Stuart: yet.[00:09:13] Nick Mirisola: So it's all my, it's been on my agenda for a while.[00:09:18] Stuart: Oh absolutely. Um, so it does not make its way into your artistic endeavors. Oh[00:09:25] Nick Mirisola: no, it should, it should write the dude is um is almost um, let's see, uh I wouldn't say that's necessarily, I, I only take that sort of seriously, you know what I mean? Um for me, I'm, I take my zen, I try to take it as seriously as I should is how I would put that. Um because I'm kind of a lazy monk. I've, I've taken a uh like a vow I'm not part of like organized sangha or monkhood necessarily in a stereotypica

ABOUT THIS EPISODENick Gray likes to optimize things. He made small airplanes safer with his company Flight Display Systems and boring museum trips into must-do events with his company Museum Hack. Now, Nick has his sights on making everyone the perfect party planner in his new book “The 2-Hour Cocktail Party” (https://amzn.to/3g7TnNe) which I completely enjoyed reading and am using to make tonight’s party a banger (for 2 hours).Real quick, if you are in the Denver area and would like to attend one of these parties with me, shoot your info to sketchcomedypodcastshow@gmail.com and I will make sure to invite you to the next one!This episode’s sketch: “Cocktail Party in a Party in a Party in a Party”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTNick Gray is an entrepreneur and author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx talk about why he hates most museums. He’s been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine called him a host of “culturally significant parties.”LinksWebsitePodcastHow to Host a Party WebsiteDo’s and Don’ts in Planning a Networking MeetupHow to Plan a Clothing Swap (The Easy Way)Hosting a Happy Hour: Nick Gray’s How-to Guide  TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode to our cocktail parties are nick gray and I came up with a few sketch ideas. What if it was 1000 visits to like the world's largest ball of twine? How would you go about making the world's largest ball of twine? A really interesting tour.[00:00:17] Nick Gray: Well, I like to know how much things cost for myself and so I would want to try to, you know, put it up on auction for Ebay.[00:00:25] Stuart: You're doing this uh, the two hour cocktail party and then within that party you decide, oh, I need to have another party. So you have another party within the party and it's just like part deception.[00:00:38] Nick Gray: I love that idea because I often talk about the concept of a party within a party.[00:00:42] Stuart: What would be the most uncomfortable icebreakers you could come up with at a party that would get people not only to slow down, but like genuinely like freak out. I[00:00:53] Nick Gray: like that idea, but I have to veto that idea because for any listeners, they're always worried about what can go wrong with our party[00:01:00] Stuart: and I want to think what could[00:01:01] Nick Gray: go right,[00:01:02] Stuart: which one did we pick you? Well, it's not the last one. You'll find out on this episode of, it's a sketch comedy show. Welcome back to sketch comedy podcast show, The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice, invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about and this episode is a special episode because while you're listening to this, I am currently panicking and running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to get my house in order to host a two hour cocktail party. I made the commitment here on this show with Nick and this is going to be the night that I do it to it. Nick Gray likes to optimize things. He made small airplanes, safer with his company flight display systems and boring museum trips into must do events with his company. Museum hack. Now Nick has his sights on making everyone the perfect party planner in his new book, the two hour cocktail party, which I completely enjoyed reading and I'm using to make tonight's party a banger. Well for two hours real quick if you are in the Denver area and would like to attend one of these parties with me, shoot your info over to sketch comedy podcast show at gmail dot com and I will make sure to invite you to the next one and now my conversation with Nick Gray hacker of museums and cocktail party master Nick. Thanks for joining us today.[00:02:43] Nick Gray: Thanks. I'm happy to be[00:02:44] Stuart: here. I'm glad you're here too. Hey, I've got a really quick question for you. What makes you interesting.[00:02:51] Nick Gray: I am obsessed with name tags and I've hosted hundreds of parties also in my past life, I've been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art more than 1000 times.[00:03:01] Stuart: Did you miss something there or what was the reason for going for 1000 times?[00:03:07] Nick Gray: I used to have a business called museum hack and we did renegade museum tours where we would hire people like stand up comedians and broadway actors to lead these museum tours. And I was the first tour guide myself. So in the first years of starting the business, I was there almost every single day.[00:03:25] Stuart: So you would you, why, why? What's wrong with the tours that people had? What's wrong with the Metropolitans normal tour?[00:03:33] Nick Gray: You know what? For a free museum tour, they do a really good job, but they are also led by volunteers and they tend to be more focused on the narratives of art history that maybe the average tourist doesn't really care about. And so my company, we would tell people the juicy gossip about the art, how it was acquired, how much things cost all the stuff that you wouldn't hear from the official museum tour,[00:03:57] Stuart: the things you actually want to know so that you can go and have, like if you would go to a cocktail party afterwards, for instance, you could actually have a conversation about it and bring up something interesting that nobody had maybe heard before[00:04:08] Nick Gray: exactly like that. The stuff that you would tell your friends.[00:04:11] Stuart: Okay, All right, that's cool. That's cool. And why? Why did you do[00:04:14] Nick Gray: that? Um, I started to go to the museum. You know, I live in austin texas now. Where are you based out of[00:04:21] Stuart: Denver? Colorado[00:04:22] Nick Gray: Nice. Denver is awesome. My sister and my parents live up there, that's[00:04:26] Stuart: pretty cool.[00:04:28] Nick Gray: I moved to new york and I was going, I lived in Brooklyn at the time and you know, I didn't know a lot of people, I didn't have many friends and I went, somebody brought me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This woman brought me there on a date and I was like, oh, this place is amazing. I feel like I moved to new york for stuff like this, I should hang out here more. Um and so I started to go there and then I went there a lot and when friends would come to visit, I would bring them there and I'd give them little tours just to show them like cool stuff I found and it became something I really loved and I did it as a hobby. And then you know what a blog wrote about us called Daily Candy. That was real big. Um and said it was the best thing to do in new york city that my secret tours were like the best thing in new york. And literally overnight 1300 people emailed me wanting to join one of the tours and I was like, oh God, I, this is big, so that's kind of how I started,[00:05:23] Stuart: that's, that's how I feel about this podcast, is that, you know, a couple people listened and then they told nobody, but anyway um it was, it was the whole idea was hopefully people talk anyway. Um[00:05:38] Nick Gray: That's[00:05:39] Stuart: awesome. And is it just in new york or is it other places as well?[00:05:44] Nick Gray: So I started the business in about 2013 officially. But I've been doing it for two years as a hobby. And then we, we branched out to more major museums all around America. So the Metropolitan Museum were in the National gallery in D. C. We're at the Getty in Los Angeles um grew to about five or six cities. I sold the company in 2019 and they've gone through some changes through the group tour plans scheduling and lockdowns and covid and things like that. But it really is, it's an awesome business.[00:06:16] Stuart: Yeah it sounds, I wish I lived in a city that had one because I would love to go. But it gives me a reason to go to L. A. I guess there's really no other reason but[00:06:24] Nick Gray: there's a museum out in Denver, there's the Denver Art Museum,[00:06:28] Stuart: Denver Art Museum[00:06:29] Nick Gray: Collection. And then I think in Denver, is there like a natural history museum with some cool dinosaur stuff. I think I went to that, I don't[00:06:38] Stuart: know if that's here in Utah. I haven't been around. I'm relatively new to Denver. I'm actually from Portland but[00:06:43] Nick Gray: I think you might be right. I think it might be in Utah.[00:06:45] Stuart: Yeah but same same. Yeah. Um And was the museum thing like that was what you obviously started a business off of just kind of like a gag thing that you were doing right. Um, was that your first business that you ever started?[00:07:03] Nick Gray: I actually, I, I grew up in a very entrepreneurial household. My dad was always like a mad scientist trying to come up with these crazy ideas. And so I had, I think my first business was a lawn care service company. What what young man doesn't start a long care service company that has the itch for entrepreneurship. I washed[00:07:23] Stuart: windows. Wo[00:07:25] Nick Gray: really? How, how, how would you do?[00:07:27] Stuart: Oh, I went to people's houses. Hey, would you like your windows washed?[00:07:31] Nick Gray: That's pretty cool.[00:07:33] Stuart: I did that for a couple of years.[00:07:34] Nick Gray: That's nice. Would you ever climb up on ladders to do[00:07:37] Stuart: like I would, which was foolish. Yeah, a lot of spiders. A lot of wasps. That's what I'll[00:07:43] Nick Gray: say.

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode is a special treat.John Lehr is an improvisational actor who has starred in a number of movies and TV shows. You might best know him as the “Geico Caveman” and his most recent show on Hulu “Quick Draw” which is, no kidding, one of my favorite shows. It’s a western that is improvised and it is wonderful.Jay Martel is a Peabody award-winning writer and has also won an Emmy for his work on “Key and Peele” and is far too qualified to be on this podcast. He also writes for the “New Yorker” on a regular basis. He recently also wrote a book called “The Present” which is available on Audible and looks like it might be picked up for a movie.The duo are currently working on a play performed in back yards. You read that right, this is true Covid theater! If you would like to catch their upcoming shows, you can head to: https://linktr.ee/speedbumptheplay or email andrea@amckpr.com This episode’s sketch: “Documentary on the Not-So-Superpowered”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTJay MartelMy father moved out of the house when I was ten and I started writing to make my mom laugh.She was depressed a lot, so I tried to cheer her up with wishful thinking banged out on a loudly humming Selectric.My writing since has all come from the same place: The need to take the edge off what life can throw at us while staying true to how absurd and strange it can be.Over the years I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with many people who are funnier than I am: Ian Roberts, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Keegan Michael-Key, Jordan Peele, the Katydids, and Richard Curtis, to name a few. (Note to anyone who’s worked with me and has been kind enough to read this far, only to be greeted with non-inclusion in the last sentence: You were funnier, too.)In the process, I’ve written comedy for magazines, basic cable, the stage, movies, books, before returning to basic cable, which is a great place to do a lot of different things while preserving your anonymity.While I enjoy collaboration, writing for me is often a solitary, intimate act, something that happens between me and the paper or the screen. And every now and then it happens again: The moment of joy that comes from being surprised by a discovery, when reality gives way, if only for a moment, to the imagination.(Source: https://jaymartel.com/about)John LehrLehr starred as Leslie Pool in “10 Items or Less,” from Sony on TBS for three seasons and recently starred as Sheriff Hoyle on Hulu’s original comedy western “Quickdraw” for two seasons. Lehr also co-created, wrote and executive produced both series.Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more.Under their banner Howler Monkey Productions, Lehr and producing partner Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found in “QuickDraw” (Hulu) “10 Items” (TBS) “Jailbait (Crackle) and “Memron” (Slamdance award-winner). With Lehr starring and Howler directing, the team completed comedy pilots “Let It Ride,” (Comedy Central), “Retreat!” (NBC), “Team McPhearson (Fox) and “King of Beers” (EUE/Sokolow). The team’s script/development deals include “The Loop” (HBO), “Troubadour” (MTV), “Life on Mars” (Sony/BBC), and “LARP” (Echo Lake), Tommy Chong’s Pipe Dreams (TBS).John has appeared in numerous television series, including “Friends” and was a series regular on “Jesse,” both for Warner Brothers/NBC. His feature film roles include “The Sweetest Thing,” and three Noah Baumbach films, “Kicking and Screaming,” “Mr. Jealousy,” and “Highball.”John’s hosting credits include “News Weasels” for E!; “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” for ABC; CBS’ special “Clash of the Commercials” with co-host Heidi Klum; and “John Lehr’s Movie Club” for TBS.A recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Lehr is a seasoned monologist and comedian who speaks openly about his twenty plus years of sobriety. Under the banner “Cold. Sober. Comedy.” Lehr performs and MC’s at fundraisers, non-profits and sober communities about his personal/career struggles, his continuing sober journey and the importance of an authentic sense of humor. Lehr recently debuted his newest monologue “Wait, I Have to Give a Crap About Other People?” at the Annual Sober St. Paddy’s Day Comedy Night for the Atlanta Caron Treatment Center.”Lehr’s critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures” solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country.John is married to author Jennifer Lehr with whom he has two children. The Lehrs reside in Los Angeles.For more information on John, including booking: info@johnlehr.com(Source: http://johnlehr.com/bio/)Links“SPEED BUMP” THE PLAYJAY’S WEBSITEJOHN’S WEBSITETRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode, john lair and J martell and little old me come up with a few sketch ideas. You remember the book, the kids, kids book about snitches. We shaved our head and then you see it and you're like, oh man, I gotta shave my head to and then it's just like how does that go? And it's just like we keep trying to grow hair, shaved hair. I don't know how that works out, but I've got a professional writer here, so I'm gonna[00:00:24] John Lehr: let him[00:00:25] Stuart: go marvel. Movies are all the rage, right? You're a superhero. But I like the concept of like a superhero, you're not really sure what to do with the power. So the ability to write anywhere as a, as a mutant power I think is pretty cool.[00:00:38] John Lehr: That's a good idea[00:00:40] Stuart: your situation where you're on stage and there's other things happening around you that maybe it's maybe it's not like the, the hockey thing, but like you, events are happening around you and people are still talking specifically to you about how bad you suck. Like everything else is going on around you. But you are the thing that's causing this to be terrible. Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of, it's a sketch comedy. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about this episode is a special treat. I'm going to give you a brief intro to both of these incredibly talented and funny human beings and try to get us right into the conversation, john lair is an improvisational actor who has starred in a number of movies and tv shows. You might best know him as the Geico caveman and his most recent show on Hulu Quick Draw, which is no kidding. One of my favorite shows, it's a western that is improvised and it is wonderful. J Martell is a peabody award winning writer and has also won an Emmy for his work on key and peele also one of my favorite tv shows and is far too qualified to be on this podcast. He also writes for the new yorker on a regular basis. He also recently wrote a book called The Present which is available on audible and looks like it might be picked up for a movie. Their latest project, Speed bump is a play performed in the backyards of fans. You can get tickets from the link in the show notes and now my conversation with john lair and J martell, john jay, thank you so much for coming on today.[00:02:36] John Lehr: My pleasure. Really appreciate thanks for having us.[00:02:40] Stuart: Oh no, it's it's absolutely my pleasure. Um, I've got a really quick question for you. What makes you interesting, john, I'll let you go first[00:02:51] John Lehr: Go 1st. I'm so fast[00:02:54] Jay Martel: go first for about a half an hour.[00:02:56] John Lehr: I'm so fascinating on so many levels.[00:03:00] Jay Martel: Your hair is really, I[00:03:04] Stuart: mean the hair is impressive. I know I've got I'm follicly challenged that your hair is gorgeous, you and me both.[00:03:10] John Lehr: You guys have good bold heads though. I I underneath this, it's, you know,[00:03:14] Jay Martel: it's like, like a great Hitler or something like that,[00:03:19] Stuart: I gotta be honest, nobody has ever given me a compliment on my hair, but they have given me a compliment on my head. Yes, yeah.[00:03:27] John Lehr: Wonderful head.[00:03:28] Stuart: More people have wanted to touch my head than they ever wanted to touch my[00:03:32] John Lehr: hair. Nobody ever wants to touch my hair, but I do, it looks[00:03:36] Stuart: like it might hurt.[00:03:37] John Lehr: I get a lot of comments on my hair.[00:03:39] Jay Martel: Your hair is like a beautiful princess that needs to be sort of admired from afar. Like, it's like, it's too much, it's too much if you touch it, it might burn you or something with, it's like,[00:03:52] John Lehr: it's like a jew touching a crucifix.[00:03:56] Stuart: No,[00:03:57] John Lehr: don't. Does[00:03:58] Stuart: it burn? I don't know, but I don't want to find out[00:04:02] John Lehr: film kapoor tomorrow, and I was just at a shoot where they were gonna do like a christmas scene and and that it was in a jewish household and they were gonna hang up a wreath to make the front door and I was like, it'll catch the house on fire, don't mess with[00:04:17] Jay Martel: that,[00:0

ABOUT THIS EPISODESometimes we just need a little help. For instance, we recently bought some frogs and had to buy all of the things that go along with that: tank, filter, rocks, the actual frogs, etc. We didn’t know how to do it, so we sought the aid of the person at the pet store. That’s a good example. What if your issue was that you couldn’t help yourself from jizzing too quickly. Maybe, in that case, you would seek the assistance from this episode’s guest.Jeff Abraham was a successful tech exec who decided that, in order to make a dent in the universe and the world a better place, he would need to help men from popping too quickly. So, after retiring from semi-conductors he went to work developing a spray for delay so that gentlemen could last longer and give them and their partners an opportunity to enjoy sex more.It worked! Now Jeff is busier than when he was slinging silicon. We talk about developing this spray and why Jeff thought that such a necessity in world. We also talk about lifestyles and how he learned about diversity, why he is such an advocate for BLM, feminism, and smoking pot. If you think the CEO of your company is pretty lame, Jeff gives you hope that there are cool CEOs out there. It’s a great story.This episode’s sketch: “Are They Experienced?!?”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTJeff is the CEO of Promescent, a company who’s motto is “Better in Bed” and has the tools to help us achieve that. Focusing on making sure that their products are pleasurable, stress free, empowering, discreet, and safe, Promescent consults with doctors for advisory and review, and sex experts to make sure that these products work! Jeff’s focus is to make sure that sexual pleasure is universal for everyone, and has an extensive line of products has phenomenal selections for both women and men, making sure that everyone has a good time!You can even get personal recommendations on the website!LinksWebsiteYouTubeTwitterTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode, Jeff Abraham Ceo of Promescent, makers of a magic boner potion and I came up with a few sketches, semiconductor sales because that's what you did. But just kind of like a preface to everything that you do later on in your life. Just constantly using sexual innuendo In your sales pitches for semiconductors for getting to heaven and seeing 47 version virgins and just going and then asking if there's something else that you could get like 47 sandwiches or something the opposite. The exact opposite of promising to reveal too much. But I actually have the exact opposite issue. Let[00:00:47] Jeff Abraham: me tell you something that's really not an issue for your partner. It's more of an issue for you.[00:00:52] Stuart: That last one wasn't exactly an advertisement or was it? Which one of these did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet. You know, sometimes we just need a little help. For instance, I recently had to buy some frogs for the family and we had to buy all the things that go along with that, you know, the tank, the filter, the rocks, the actual frogs, etcetera. We didn't know how to do it. So we sought the aid of the person at the pet store. That's a good example. What if your issue was that you couldn't help yourself from Gisin too quickly, Maybe in that case you would seek the assistance of this episode's guest, Jeff Abraham was a successful tech execs who decided that in order to make a dent in the universe and the world a better place, he would need to help men from popping too quickly. So after retiring from semiconductors, he went to work developing a spray for delay so that gentleman could last longer and give them and their partners an opportunity to enjoy sex. More. It worked. Now Jeff is busier than when he was slinging silicon. We talked about developing this spray and why Jeff thought that it was such a necessity for the world. We also talked about lifestyles and how he learned about diversity, which is why he's such an advocate for blm feminism and smoking pot. If you think the ceo of your company is pretty lame, Jeff gives you hope that there are some cool ceo? S out there, it's a pretty great story. And now my conversation with Jeff Abraham Ceo of promicin makers of a magic boner potion. Jeff, thanks so much for joining us. How are you doing[00:02:51] Jeff Abraham: pleasure? Excellent. I'm doing really well. It's a it's a pleasure to be on.[00:02:55] Stuart: It's a pleasure to have you on. I've got a quick question for[00:02:58] Jeff Abraham: you,[00:02:59] Stuart: what makes you interesting,[00:03:02] Jeff Abraham: What makes me interesting? I think the fact that I'm a 64 year old white ceo? That is a vicious supporter of Black Lives Matter. That is a vicious supporter of women's equality and rights that still openly freely admit that, you know, I love to get high and alcohol is not my Drug of choice. The fact that I'm the ceo of a sexual wellness company after a 30-year distinguished career as a semiconductor executive and retiring, which is the most circuitous route ever to becoming the ceo of a sexual wellness company that you could possibly ever take. And I decided to retire at 53 because I have lupus and diabetes and I had had good success and here I am working twice as hard as I did in my first career. You know, I'm multilayered, you know, like almost everybody remind you of someone else. People tell me there's no one that reminds me of you, you know what I mean? Like you obviously do not give a ship, you know what I mean? And I go, no, I don't. I really don't because to me life is about experiences and there are no mistakes if you learn from them, except if they're tragic and they kill you. That's obviously a mistake. You know what I mean? I told my son when he was growing up, you know, Really and truly embrace life. Live. It just don't make mistakes that aren't correctable. Like you go to jail for 10 years, you die, you know what I mean? Like those are mistakes that alter your life in a negative way forever. You know, but feel free to march to the beat of your own drummer, feel free to experience life and follow your instincts and you know, I learned that at an early age probably in my late twenties, early thirties. I wish I would have learned it earlier and I tried to tell my son as friends and other young friends that I have the sooner that you self actualize and get to the feeling you stop giving a shit about what other people think the happier you're gonna be.[00:04:56] Stuart: Yeah. Um, well that's a, you know, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right? That you've got to feel that safety first and I think that's, that's the part that a lot of people miss out on is the safety aspect because you can't get to that self actualization until, until you get past the safe.[00:05:11] Jeff Abraham: I actually love being on edge. Love to me, safety is the most overrated virtue in life. You know what I mean? Like you don't really get to experience a lot if you just cling to the safe. You know, I grew up really poor. We didn't have much And I remember that I had a reasonable job out of college. I was making 24 grand a year and this is 1979 had a company car, an expense account. Like my relatives thought I was warren Buffett, I quit about a one way ticket flew to California like, oh my God, I'm like, trust me, you know, there's more to life and within 10 years I have been extremely successful and I was making 100 and 70 grand a year and this was in 1989 company car expense of the whole thing and oh my God, you've made it. And I walked away and started my own company from scratch, Everyone's freaking out and then I retired and then came back to this. And you know, it's funny every time someone always asked me like, what is your contingency plan? I go, I don't have a fucking contingency plan, what do you mean? I go, if you have a contingency plan, you go, well, if things don't work out well this is my fallback position, this thing is shipped first time, that's just starts going bad. You turn around okay, should I pull the ripcord? No, no, no, no, no. You want to start something, put your heart and soul into it. The question is whether you're going to succeed, it's what it takes to succeed. You turn around instead of having a limb or you know what a contingency plan you saw it off behind you and you go, I'm in, okay, I will do whatever it takes to make this successful, That's always been my approach and fortunately for me it's worked. If it wouldn't have worked, I would have said should I should have had a continued, probably[00:06:52] Stuart: a little different different worldview.[00:06:55] Jeff Abraham: It's made it work so, you know, I'm gonna quit after this one just so I don't press my luck, you know what I mean? My whole life, I didn't need a contingency plan and if I fucking blow it then I'll go, you idiot. You got lucky the first three times. You know what I mean? So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna push it after this. Let's[00:07:13] Stuart: talk about pushing it because you did talk about being a advocate for female rights, right? And it sounds like you're a big advocate for female rights in the bedroom because you came up with a, a thing that you guys might be very interested in correct?[00:07:31] Jeff Abraham: Yeah. Our first product was a male delay spray and it allowed men to extend their time, uh, to achieve climax. And so they were able to

ABOUT THIS EPISODEIs there anything better than when that song plays at the club and everybody gets on their feet and starts grinding up on each other? Yeah, I didn’t think so. If that is your idea of heaven, then this episode is for you! Not that we make any wonderful beats, mind you, but we do talk about how someone’s experiences get them there.GK Leonitis is an up-and-coming rapper in Atlanta and currently has a big hit in the south, “Pressure” which is one of those jams that just, you know, get you crunking. You can listen to that here: https://youtu.be/MrHIUyvISaI   We talk about what it was like growing up in Little Rock, AK, which is not what you think it is. We also talk a great deal about the experiences that influenced his music: growing up with a father who was a musician, hanging out on the streets of Little Rock which, and this was a surprise to me, was just like growing up in the inner city of most big cities, and the unfortunate situation that landed him in prison. Usually, landing in the big house would be used to influence music by talking about the experiences in prison, but GK’s experience got him to realize that life was NOT what he wanted and instead he focused his life, and his lyrics, in talking about the good things in life: eating good food, driving nice cars, sex with beautiful women, and living carefree and passionately doing what you want to do. Pretty inspirational stuff! This episode’s sketch: “Yo, What’s Your Next Idea?”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTHailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, GK Leonitis comes from a legendary local rap label called “A-State Hustlaz" and was later managed by Yandy Smith. He released several songs and videos over the past years. When he’s not in the studio, making beats, or writing lyrics, he enjoys fine dining, expensive champagne, and spending time with his family. His music is unpredictable, stimulating, and the soundtrack into the depths of his tireless determination. As a highly acclaimed producer and writer, GK Leonitis' music will hypnotize and keep listeners craving more.LinksSpotifyInstagramYouTubeTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode, rapper G. K. Leonidas and I came up with a few sketch ideas. What if there was like a scariest guy in prison pageant, like sort of like the miss America but it's whoever's the scariest dude, a music video shoot that just goes way out of hand, like it's way too many things going on and you can't keep track of it, I'd like to perform but where the sexy ladies and then our job is to go out and try to find sexy ladies and see if we can find sexy ladies so that you can record, which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on whatever we talked about. Is there anything better than when a song plays at a club and everybody gets on their feet and starts grinding up on each other. Yeah, I didn't think so. If that's your idea of heaven then this episode is for you. Not that we made any wonderful beats, mind you, but we do talk about how someone's experiences get them there. G. K. Leonidas is an up and coming rapper in Atlanta and currently has a big hit in the south pressure which is one of those jams that you know get you cranking you'll hear some of that in just a little bit. We talked about what it was like growing up in little rock, Arkansas, which is not what you think it is? We also talked a great deal about the experiences that influenced his music growing up with a father who was a musician hanging out on the streets of Little Rock, which and this was a surprise to me, was just like growing up in any inner city of most big cities and the unfortunate situation that landed him in prison, usually the landed in the big house would be used to influence music by talking about the experiences in prison. But G K's experience got him to realize that life was not what he wanted and instead he focused his life and his lyrics in talking about the good things in life, eating good food, driving nice cars, sex with beautiful women and living carefree and passionately doing what you want to do. It's pretty inspirational stuff. And now my conversation with G. K. A. Leonidis, present minded hedonists, who is a club rock and rapper. Alright, G. K. Hey, I've got a question for you real quick. What makes you interesting?[00:02:45] GK Leonitis: I am who I am.[00:02:49] Stuart: It's a good answer. Yeah. So who are you? Like, tell me, tell us who you are? Like what makes you you[00:02:57] GK Leonitis: I'm G. K. A. Leonidis, that's who I am. Yeah, what makes me me is my father's firing my mother's egg a collision. And they bonded[00:03:13] Stuart: thank goodness because uh we we needed that we needed some G K. In the world and and they brought it, they brought it. Yeah. So g kur a musician. Yes. Right. How did you how did you get into music? Like how is that a thing that happened for you?[00:03:33] GK Leonitis: Uh I really was born into it. You know my father he was doing music like in the sixties seventies and I just always grew up around music. My my great I mean my grandfather he was in a popular gospel group, So I'm just musically in time. My mother was a producer back in the 70s 60s. So just musically inclined. I just grew up and just music second nature to me.[00:04:00] Stuart: Okay. It was it was a lot of like gospel, well what[00:04:04] GK Leonitis: my grandfather was Gospel, my pops was like soul funk, you know I mean Yeah I grew up running around the house and you know he had all these sequences and keyboards and drum machines and stuff, all hooked up in the middle of uh two bedroom apartment with seven people in there, you know what I mean?[00:04:30] Stuart: So you were you were not told like hey get your hands off that you messed things up a little bit of that.[00:04:40] GK Leonitis: Yeah definitely. It was like[00:04:45] Stuart: sure, but were you encouraged to like hey this is how this works like.[00:04:51] GK Leonitis: No no it was like yo don't touch this, but we used to I used to stand around and watch a lot. Okay. Yeah so like I just it just came second. But no, definitely equipment was[00:05:05] Stuart: Sure. Sure. Um, seven people in the apartment. That was that just family or was that?[00:05:11] GK Leonitis: That was just family.[00:05:12] Stuart: Oh, wow. Big family,[00:05:13] GK Leonitis: my brothers, my sister, my mother, my father, a couple of cousins, you know,[00:05:20] Stuart: it was good, tighten it.[00:05:23] GK Leonitis: Yeah, it was tight knit, you know, everybody came together and you know, make the best of, you know, what we had, you know, who was able to do that?[00:05:34] Stuart: Where, where was that at? Where did, where did you grow up?[00:05:37] GK Leonitis: Okay. It's southwest little run. Okay.[00:05:42] Stuart: Yeah. Okay. I, so I don't know a ton of rappers that come from Arkansas,[00:05:48] GK Leonitis: right? I don't know many either, you know, but it's crazy because we have like an indie scene with a lot of people that's respected in the local community and it's got a lot of talent, you know? But going mainstream is something that only a few have done.[00:06:05] Stuart: What does it take to go mainstream? Like I'm obviously it's going to take like, I mean it takes like that one breakout single or that one.[00:06:16] GK Leonitis: Yeah, so it definitely starts with the music, you know? But then it comes with the marketing, you know, a lot of people don't understand marketing branding, you know, and that's just something that I'm, you know, I'm learning and I'm applying and I'm seeing the benefits.[00:06:36] Stuart: That's good. Um, yeah, you made a real wise decision being on this show. Just just personal opinion I[00:06:43] GK Leonitis: think.[00:06:45] Stuart: Um So All right. So you grew up and it is is little rock small. It seems like it's[00:06:54] GK Leonitis: Well, it's funny because like our metro area, you look it up, it's uh it's a little over a million with the metro area. Little rock. Yeah, it's like maybe like 600,000, you know, something[00:07:05] Stuart: like that. Alright, that's substantial. Yeah,[00:07:08] GK Leonitis: it's actually a little rock is actually seeing, you know, a lot of people think of Arkansas and think like horses and cows and cowboys and stuff like that. No concrete jungle. Yeah. Yeah.[00:07:24] Stuart: Yeah. Um But when you guys were little kids, did you go play cowboys? And did you go play cowboys in the street because it was still Arkansas and that was the thing, you[00:07:35] GK Leonitis: know in the streets where I grew up? Yeah. We play the way we played on scooters and bikes and playing basketball. We played a killer man football. You know what that is.[00:07:47] Stuart: You know what's kill a man football? What's that man football?[00:07:51] GK Leonitis: It's like every man for themselves. Yeah. You get the ball. Everybody's trying to[00:08:00] Stuart: I remember that game. We called it something different that wouldn't be allowed to be called that today. Yeah, I'll just go ahead and say it was it was a game at the time. It was smear the queer that's what they used to call that game. Yeah, we can't that's not an okay statement at this[00:08:23] GK Leonitis: boycott. It[00:08:26] Stuart: was before cancel culture. You can't go cancel a bunch of seven year olds at that point, but I think that's a much better. Kill the what does it kill? The,[00:08:34] GK Leonitis: kill a man,[00:08:35] Stuart: Kill a man. That's wa

Want to buy one of the limited NFTs for this episode? Click here!ABOUT THIS EPISODEI love talking about relationships. I talk about them all the time, and I am always curious about them… which is why this episode’s guest is so intriguing! Riana Milne was told at a young age that no one in her family was ever going to go to a therapist, so she did exactly what every strong-willed child will do… she BECAME a therapist. Not just any therapist either, Riana became an expert in relationships and how to fix them or learn how to move on from them. Riana is also an author of 7 books, including “Love Beyond Your Dreams - Break Free of Toxic Relationships to Have the Love You Deserve” which is a best-seller on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2RmqwUd) and helps couples and individuals navigate the world of successful partnering on her website: www.rianamilne.com.Riana and I talk about relationships, which should be pretty obvious, but we also talk about her dad who was a spy. No, seriously, he was a legit spy, like James Bond, and the stories are INCREDIBLE! We also talk about the 10 types of childhood trauma that you no doubt have experienced and somehow Riana and I find a way to make it lighthearted and fun! Then, we record a sketch because isn’t that the whole point of this show?This episode’s sketch: “Living With a Monster”Originally published 1/28/2019.For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTRiana Milne’s mission is to help women, men and couples of all ages overcome and heal from past childhood, dating, and relationship trauma to move on to create a life and relationship they are passionate about.Over 22 years of research is at the core of the Dating to Mating System for Singles and the Relationship Rescue Coaching program for Couples. Riana’s experience with working with Trauma includes: being a SAC – Student Assistance Counselor for grades K through College); working with kids of Trauma in the Psych Division of a major Southern NJ hospital system, working with Women of the Prison System and adolescents in two different Rehab Facilities. Riana was called by the major news networks during the tragedy of 911 to speak on how to heal this horrendous trauma our children, families, and country has endured. Riana has had numerous radio and TV shows and appearances; all with a Mission of “Helping to Change the Way the World Loves.”With the “Mindset for Success,” Riana started teaching at age 26 to Models, Actors, Singers and Dancers at the Award-winning Riana Model & Talent School and Agency.Using a holistic, individualized coaching approach designed to help every woman, man and couple better understand themselves both emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, the Life & Love Coaching Transformation programs were all designed to help every person to create the life they desire and to have the love they deserve.LinksWEBSITE SPECIAL OFFER FOR SKETCH COMEDY PODCAST LISTENERSAMAZON LINK TO “LOVE BEYOND YOUR DREAMS”TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode. Love guru, Rihanna Milne and I came up with a few sketches. You know we talked to, I mean we talked about the the childhood traumas. Having that person come in and trying to have all 10 of the childhood traumas, but they don't. So they're trying to make it up as they go along dealing with with the worst couple ever. And uh so you're talking to the man and then the woman separately to find out about how completely awful their relationship is. What happens if your parents come and visit you. Your mom and dad, your mom and dad come and visit you for relationship advice. Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet, I don't know about you but I love talking about relationships. I talk about them all the time and I'm always curious about them, which is why this episode's guest is so intriguing. Rihanna millen was told at a young age that no one in her family was ever going to go to a therapist. So she did exactly what every strong willed child will do. She became a therapist. Not just any therapist either. Rihanna became an expert in relationships and how to fix them or learn how to move on from them. Rihanna is also the author of seven books including Love Beyond Your Dreams break free of toxic relationships to have the love you deserve, which is a best seller on amazon. And she also helps couples and individuals navigate the world of successful partnering on her website at Rihanna Milne dot com. Rihanna and I talk about relationships which should be pretty obvious, but we also talked about her dad who was a spy. No, seriously, he was a legit spy. Like James Bond and the stories are incredible. We also talked about the 10 types of childhood trauma that you no doubt have experienced. And somehow Rihanna and I find a way to make it light hearted and fun. Then we record a sketch because isn't that the whole point of the show And now my conversation with Rihanna Milne, love guru whose dad was a secret spy.[00:02:44] Riana: Yeah,[00:02:45] Stuart: give it to me still what makes you interesting[00:02:50] Riana: ah Life what occurred to me in life how I've dealt with things in life. And you know, one thing I loved about your show is you've got to have fun. You know, you can't take everything so damn seriously, you gotta have fun ship happens to everybody. So that's what makes it interesting, right? Because life happens to all of us.[00:03:13] Stuart: It does and it's I think it's what we do with uh with the craft that we get flung, right? That's the that's the big thing and I think that's probably we could probably talk quite a bit about, you know, how you deal with that crap and yeah, well[00:03:29] Riana: Spiritually we say it's the earth school, right? So in Buddhism, they say, you know, you're supposed to learn lessons in life, it's not supposed to be a joyride 100% of the time. So when you get challenged, the important thing is to have the conscious positive mindset to deal with the stuff that's going to come your way.[00:03:51] Stuart: And how do you do that? How do you, how does some, how does one go, man, my life is locked or this thing happened or my dog died or whatever other country song thing you can think of. Like how do you come out of that and just kind of go, yeah, I learned a lesson and how am I going to use this going forward? Well, this is[00:04:10] Riana: What we call mindset work. So most people, eight out of 10 people have eight out of 10 negative thinking All the time. It's called our self talk, what we say inside of our heads. And that all comes from our conditioning as Children. So what I call childhood traumas that many of us experience actually research shows 90% of people experienced childhood trauma. So how we deal with that is how we deal with anything else that's difficult as an adult, but the good thing is we can train our minds to be not only act from the unconscious emotional triggers that most people do instead to be consciously aware and it's also a faith based system that, you know, we understand lessons will happen, we don't always understand why at the time, but even when bad things happen, we have to look at it in a positive way and say, what can I learn from this? What can I do from this? What is this trying to teach me at this time? You know, maybe I'm supposed to let this partner go because a new one is coming into my life that would even be better and more evolved and consciously, emotionally healthy for me, you know? Yeah, I[00:05:18] Stuart: actually am a big fan of the uh when it's not working like move on with the relationship and now we'll be talking a great deal about relationships. I know that this is going to happen, but I this is this has been my thing is if if you've got a really hard, it's really hard and you really have to work at it within the first year, Maybe not right? Maybe not the thing if you notice within the first couple of dates, like I really don't like this or that it's like, well maybe it's time to cut that.[00:05:51] Riana: Well, really, when you're falling in love the right relationship does feel easy and it's comfortable and you can be your authentic self and this is what I tell my clients they have to look for. You know, you don't need to manipulate or control or convince somebody to love you when it's right. It just falls into line beautifully. And usually that there is a lot of negotiation in the first year because obviously you're two different people. So you need to understand what this person likes. Part partner A and partner B and negotiate those differences through. So there's nothing wrong with a little bit of drama. But if it's constant cheap drama, you've got the signs and there's a lot of signs that the relationship is toxic. So if it becomes toxic, you don't stay. Obviously if there's emotional abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, you know, cheating, extreme jealousy and control, you[00:06:47] Stuart: don't want to[00:06:50] Riana: and then being yelled at right?[00:06:53] Stuart: Yeah, yeah, I, I agree with you and I, you know, I have older Children, I have, I have a 21 year old and an 18 year old and a 14 year old who's eventually gonna enter into the dating pool, I'm[00:07:04] Riana: sure.[00:07:05] Stuart: But my, my statement is always like, hey, have fun, but like don't get too attached to the idea of being in a relationship with someone because relationships don't always last. They often evolve and thi

Want to buy one of the limited NFTs for this episode? Click here!ABOUT THIS EPISODEI don’t know about you, but I am a scaredy-cat; meaning that I run as fast as I can when something scary happens. Of course, that changed after I had kids because before I started running I had to make sure I had tied the laces of my kids shoes… together so that I could get a good lead. This episode’s guest did not really have that option.Sherman Tylawsky is a George Washington enthusiast. If there were trading cards for political icons, Sherman would have the back of every single one of them memorized. Sherman is so into the political greats, that he has a podcast called “Friends & Fellow Citizens” that explores the founders of our nation, but also takes a look at contemporary situations and people in politics today through a lens that would make Thomas Jefferson proud.We talk about his historical political fetish, what it was like to work in our nation’s capital, where all of the business in congress actually happens, and then we really dig into that fateful day a year ago when Sherman’s workplace, our nation’s capital, was sieged upon by its’ own citizens. A terrifying day that will not be forgotten by Sherman or anyone else in America, for that matter.Note: Mr. Tylawsky presents in his personal capacity and not as a representative of the U.S. government. His personal views are opinion only and do not state U.S. governmental policy or an official U.S. government position.This episode’s sketch: “Our Constituents Phone Calls are of the Upmost Importance”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2022 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTSherman is the CEO of The George Washington Institute, host of the Friends & Fellow Citizens Podcast, an aspiring statesman, and George Washington enthusiast. He has received a master’s degree in international affairs from Texas A&M University and graduated from King’s College London with a bachelor’s degree in politics. He began his first podcast "Friends & Fellow Citizens" to bring the wisdom and significance of the Founding Fathers back to contemporary American life.Fun Facts about Sherman:  1. Named after the Founding Father Roger Sherman and Union General William Tecumseh Sherman  2. Student of Classical Latin and fluent in Mandarin  3. Washington DC Trivia aficionado   4. Seinfeld, 30 Rock, Pizza, Baseball, Aggie football, Ice Cream and America are signs that heaven exists…LinksWEBSITEPODCASTPATREONTRANSCRIPT OF THE EPISODE[00:00:00] Sherman: in this episode, aspiring statesman Sherman Tylenol ski and I came up with a few sketches.[00:00:06] Stuart: Some of those weird phone calls with, with constituents or with people who just whatever reason are off the rails,[00:00:13] Sherman: that is one of my favorite type of sketches is where it ramps up the idea of gift wrapping savannah or finding a way to get a Lincoln. You know, everybody gathering and trying to figure out what are we going to get Lincoln for his birthday be just being available Like that's you. Your place in history is like, who can we get to sign this thing? We didn't, we need another signature.[00:00:37] Stuart: Yes[00:00:39] Sherman: roger. Which one did we pick? You'll fight. Well, you probably figured it out. It's none of the ones I came up with. You'll find out on this episode of a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then we improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet and I don't know about you, but I am a scaredy cat meaning that I run as fast as I can when something scary happens. Of course that changed after I had kids because before I started running I had to make sure I had tied the laces of my kids shoes together so that I could get a good lead this episode's guest did not really have that option. Sherman telus ski is a George Washington enthusiast. If there were trading cards for political icons, Sherman would have the back of every single one of them memorized. Sherman is so into political greats that he has a podcast called Friends and Fellow Citizens that explores the founders of our nation, but also takes a look at contemporary situations and people in politics today through a lens that would make thomas jefferson proud. We talk about its historical political fetish what it was like to work in our nation's capital, where all of the business in congress actually happens. And then we really dig into that fateful day, a year ago when Sherman's workplace, our nation's capital was seized upon by its own citizens. A terrifying day that will not be forgotten by Sherman or anyone else in America for that matter. And now my conversation with Sherman Tai Loski, aspiring statesman who is in january 6th insurrection survivor. Chairman[00:02:45] Stuart: Stuart. Great to see you today.[00:02:48] Sherman: Yeah, it's good to see you too. A welcome onto the show.[00:02:51] Stuart: Thank you so much for having me. Really appreciate[00:02:53] Sherman: this. Yeah, I've got a quick question for you, is that okay?[00:02:56] Stuart: Yeah, absolutely.[00:02:57] Sherman: What makes you interesting?[00:03:00] Stuart: Well, first of all, my last name, I think has interested a lot of people. It[00:03:06] Sherman: took me a couple of times spelling it to get it. Yes, yes, I got it right the last time[00:03:11] Stuart: I think what makes me unique is that I'm really a hybrid of interest that combined to really make myself a unique american, I am in american history nerd. I love politics, I love sports, I love american food, you know uh I just, I had a Costco pizza earlier today. I think I just, I love this combination of Americana and I could see Americana in so many different manners and I am very, very thrilled to be also part of a family where on my dad's side of eastern european descent. So I've kind of had that orthodox christian background, my family's orthodox christian background that my mom's side, um we are Taiwanese, so I'm half Taiwanese, half eastern european and this is kind of a classy to east and west put together sort of idea. But I've seen these two halves as a perfect combination for my upbringing, him for who I am as an american, who I am as a person nowadays.[00:04:23] Sherman: Yeah. And when you say America that much, that means you really do have a love for it. So the things that you've done in your life or things that you do currently where you, you're able to portray that or you're able to show that well to the, to the country and do yourself to your to the world, whatever. What are things you do? Sure. Well I'll start[00:04:44] Stuart: with something that I started last year which was my very first and only podcast right now called friends and fellow citizens. It is the first four words of Washington's farewell address. That's how Washington addresses the nation when he leaves office in 17 96 and I just thought it was very catchy. I also felt that it sounds really positive, you know, because everyone loves friends and everyone loves friends and fellow citizens. So I thought I wanted to find something that could honor our history by the same time. Bring that history to life nowadays by sending them smashes of saying, we have a very, we have a lot of ups and downs in our country, but there's a lot to be proud of and a lot that we can do to improve it and to appreciate it. And that's how I connect to the founders who lived a very, very different time period, but a group of people whom I always have found so intriguing because I feel in this country is truly the first that's built on ideas, not on ethnicity or where you come from. And so to kind of bring that and meld it in with by personal background myself. I thought this was a really great opportunity for me to share with people my guests who come from all different backgrounds and have all kinds of experiences and takes on different issues while also kinda bring myself in and some of our history together. I want to make american history very interesting for other people. So it really is a, I call it a civics podcast because it's not just about politics, not just about history, it's about the foundation of our democracy, the way we know it here[00:06:28] Sherman: in America. Yeah, I think that's uh it's a it's a big undertaking that you're taking it taking on. Yeah,[00:06:36] Stuart: I I think it's great.[00:06:37] Sherman: Yeah. Um you and I have shared guests Edwin and I've had a couple other people that, I mean they're trying their best. It's hard. Like I got kids and when I mentioned history, they immediately the gloss over happens and they stopped listening to me more than they do normally I guess. But yeah, so I I think that this is very important is that we can learn from what's happened before. And I think it's also very important to understand like what are the rules that we currently have? Civics is not a thing that's taught. I don't even know if my kids ever took a class that had anything like that in it because they never talked about it and I wasn't in school with them because I would have been weird. So um what are, what are you talk, what are some of the topics that you talk about? Like you mentioned some of the things, but like what what what would be like a topic that you would dive in on on your show?[00:07:36] Stuart: Sure. So I've done topics on a whole range of issues that cover american history. What I like to do is I like to find a character in american history who did a lot of amazing things but is just left out of the history books. I mean you mentioned how in civics we don't we don't take on a

ABOUT THIS EPISODEEvery year I break out the old Christmas Sketches and compile them into one glorious, hour-long special for you to enjoy for a limited time each year. You get to revisit some really classic sketches, and I don’t have to do any work! It works out for all of us.Enjoy your holidays, whatever those holidays are, and we will get a chance to catch up after the first of the year!For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASER Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe world is crazy. We have a pandemic going on, there is unrest in the streets, and now it is no longer safe to go to a concert. But it’s about to get crazier, because the holidays are right around the corner. How does one cope with all this nuttiness? Drinking… no, wait, wrong answer! According to this episode’s guest, it is Stoicism.Erick Cloward has had a lot of hats on his bare head: musician, EDM enthusiast, video game soundtrack scorer… oh, wait, I guess a lot of music, Ex-Mormon (he gave it up for Lent), and now he is a podcaster and, as he describes it, an accidental philosopher. Erick’s passion is stoicism, which sounds like an oxymoron, and hosts the excellent “Stoic Coffee Break” which I likely did not say properly on the show (at least that is what his fans have told me).We talk about stoicism, what it is and how you can use it in your life. We also talk about crypto-currencies, which Erick has done very well with, thank you very much. We also talk about Erick’s Twitter feud with “Weird” Al Yankovich… which is just mind-boggling but a true story none-the-less. This episode’s sketch: “Avenger’s Stoic Action Plan”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOKTWITTERINSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLEYOUTUBEPODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTSeveral years ago, Erick heard Tim Ferris talk about A Guide To The Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine. Erick was intrigued by the contradiction of stoicism and joy. As a sucker for paradoxes, like most people, Erick only heard the term stoic used in referring to someone that was emotionless and cold, not anywhere near being joyful. The more Erick learned about what stoicism was really about, he began to see a worldview that was not devoid of emotion but a framework to test opinions against which give events and circumstance their proper weight. Being a stoic simply means that one chooses how things affect you, rather than being at the whim of life circumstances.As a New Years resolution for 2018, Erick made a promise to put in the effort and just create a podcast; he began the whole thing as just a “practice” and created an audio journal about each day as a Stoic Journal. Pretty soon, Erick hit 10 days of recording something and posting it. He actually had people listening to it. Now the show enjoys over 1 million downloads and offers fantastic benefits to those that are members of the “Stoic Coffee Break” Patreon.LinksPodcastWebsitePatreonTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode, stoic and enemy of Weird Al Yankovic, eric Cloward and I came up with a few sketches, a game show called, what age are you and then have them guests and then tell them they're wrong and then tell them what the actual answer is driving with a stoic. It's sort of like comedians in cars getting coffee or something along those lines. But you're talking about some sort of a stoic lesson or something along those lines and you're in traffic and you're trying not to lose it, but you're probably going to lose it. The stoic Avengers like which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stuart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then we improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about right now. The world is crazy, we have a pandemic going on, there's unrest in the streets and now it's no longer safe to even just go to a concert but it's about to get crazier because the holidays are right around the corner. How does one cope with all of the nuttiness drinking? No wait wrong answer. According to this episode's guest, it is stoicism. Eric Cloward has had a lot of hats on his bare head musician E. D. M. Enthusiast, video game soundtrack score. Oh wait I guess that's a lot of music, he's an ex mormon. He gave it up for lent and now he's a podcaster and as he describes it, an accidental philosopher. Erik's passion is stoicism which granted does sound like an oxymoron and he hosts the excellent stoic coffee break, which I likely didn't say properly in the show, at least. That's what his fans have told me. We talk about stoicism, uh what it is and how you can use it in your life. We also talk about cryptocurrencies, which ERic has done very well with. Thank you very much. We also talk about eric's twitter feud with Weird Al Yankovic, which is just mind boggling, but a true story nonetheless, and now my conversation with eric Cloward, passionate stoic and enemy of Weird owl, hey eric, I've got a question for you. Okay, what makes you interesting?[00:02:40] Erick: That's a tough one. Um, before I would have, I guess years ago I probably have listed off all sorts of accomplishments and things that I've done and this is what makes me interesting mostly because I think I was pretty insecure for a long, for a large part of my life. I think I still am in some ways and finally, over the last probably four or five months really coming to terms with that. Um, so what makes me interesting is I'm pretty much just like everybody else, but I'm willing to admit where I'm really fucked up.[00:03:13] Stuart: Uh you know what, that actually does make everybody kind of interesting if he could admit, hey, I've got all these insecurities, insecurities or things that people, I was just talking to my son about that today because he was tired. He's um he plays smash brothers, right? And he wants to get competitive with it. And one of the, one of his favorite smash players, it's really odd when I'm talking to my son and I'm like, what are you up to? And he's like, smash and I'm like, there's no girls involved is there? But anyway, uh he um he was telling me that this guy was like, play to learn, don't play to win, and I was like, wow, that's there you go, because that's most of the time, that's what people are doing is they're playing to win because the insecurity is if I lose, I'm not getting anything out of this. And so it finally clicked for him that hey, I can go ahead and lose and it'll be okay. And I feel like that was a pretty good introductory lesson into something that you're pretty interested in. You want to go into that.[00:04:20] Erick: Yeah. And what's funny is that a couple of weeks ago with the title, I think it was three weeks ago I had an episode entitled win or lose win or learn then you never lose. So it's exactly that thing and that that has probably taken me. I mean, I'll be turning 49 this year, which just is still weird to me that I'm that old because I still feel like I'm like 28 or something, like, like I've grown up and the rest of me is still trying to figure out that I'm actually growing up and you know, there's a lot of little signs that tell you that like I have some nerve damage and each side of my legs because it's a little pinched nerve in my back and just all sorts of those things to start to go bad, you know, bad elbows. So when I'm like trying to lift, like I used to my body just goes, what are you doing? Yeah,[00:05:07] Stuart: uh,[00:05:10] Erick: but I think that, I mean, I think that it's unfortunate, but that's kind of how our society is geared is that we need to be these type of people who are always winning, always winning, always winning. And I think if we get our society more towards always learning, always learning, what can you learn, what he learned that everything is always about learning, then I think that we would be much better off, but we're always, you know where I was grading people, we have the standards of how things are supposed to be. And if you look at it, some of the most successful people are the people who, you know, said who were going along this path and went, this is really dumb, why am I doing this? I'm going to do something different and jumped off the path and in a completely different direction. I mean Bill Gates never finished college. I mean I could go down the list of people who never finished college and I'd say that college is the end all and be all by any means. I graduated from college and I'm really glad I did. I learned a lot from that. Um, but the stuff that I learned was much more about learning and things that I needed to kind of figure out of it for myself because I mean I graduated a marketing and business and I ended up being a software developer. I never studied computers before I graduated from college. I got out of college and got a job as a web master because I can paint nice pictures on the computer. And so then I'm like, well, hey, why don't I learn how to do some programming? That sounds like it'd be fun.[00:06:35] Stuart: So I, yeah, I mean, I don't know if I've ever made that statement. Let's, let's find some programming. That sounds fun. Um, you know, my argument for college for college is always, is always, it doesn't really matter what you go to college for. It doesn't, I would agree with that. That the thing about college is that's where you actually, you actually start to learn before that. It's all about learning how to learn and then you get into college and you can actually learn and you're learning from all sorts of different angles. Right? Um, I mean you learn from, you know, obviously from the classes from the labs, doing all that type of stuff, but you also learn a little bit more about how adults want to be treated and those types of things. I don't I don't know, I think college is a great experience that everybody needs to, everybody should be given an opportunity to feel, you know, you actually mentioned something about um what age I think I lost, you know,[00:07:32] Erick: I was switched on the camera because it well I got stuck and it was just like[00:07:38] Stuart: yeah, yeah, you had yeah, you had that look of terr

ABOUT THIS EPISODEWhen you think of a doctor, perhaps you imagine a white lab coat, glasses, a stethoscope around their neck and an insatiable sexual appetite. Maybe that has to do with the fact that most of my impressions of doctors come from “Grey’s Anatomy” and this episode’s guest.Dr. Sean Horan is a self-proclaimed sex geek and is a naturopathic primary care physician in Portland, OR. When he isn’t being a talented doctor, he is designing sex toys and lubricants and running classes on how to keep whips medically clean so the world can be a safer place.We have a great discussion on his journey from a nice, Italian boy headed to seminary to a raucous life as a swinging, sexy doctor! We also talk lube. Lots and lots of lube.This episode’s sketch: “Father, I Think I Have Sinned”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLE | YOUTUBE | PODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTDr. Sean Horan is a naturopathic primary care physician in Portland, OR who is actively seeing patients and helping them with their day to day healthcare needs by the day, and by night he is a sex-positive advocate, educator, and practitioner. LinksWebsiteTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode, Dr Sean Haran and I came up with a few sketch ideas. I love the doctor sparkle, fingers[00:00:09] Dr. Sean: crosses[00:00:10] Stuart: the sex positive priest[00:00:13] Dr. Sean: in confession.[00:00:15] Stuart: The East Coast italian guy trying to teach a consent[00:00:19] Dr. Sean: class.[00:00:22] Stuart: Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show, the one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet when you think of a doctor, perhaps you imagine a white lab coat glasses, a stethoscope around their neck and an insatiable sexual appetite. Well, maybe that has to do with the fact that most of my impressions of doctors come from Grey's anatomy and this episode's guest, Dr Sean Horan is a self proclaimed sex geek and is a naturopathic primary care physician in Portland Oregon. When he isn't being a talented doctor, he is designing sex toys and lubricants and running classes on how to keep whips medically clean so the world can be a safer place. We have a great discussion on his journey from a nice italian boy headed to seminary to a raucous life as a swinging sexy doctor. We also talk lube. Lots and lots of lube and now my conversation with dr Sean Horan? Primary care physician with magic sparkle fingers. Dr Sean dr heron Heron Heron. How do I say Horan? I had none of that. Right. Mhm I got a question for you.[00:02:01] Dr. Sean: Okay,[00:02:02] Stuart: what makes you interesting?[00:02:05] Dr. Sean: You would think I'd have a canned answer for this[00:02:07] Stuart: question. Yeah, I would think you would have it. You've got a couple of things that I know[00:02:11] Dr. Sean: your I I honestly think I'm predictably unpredictable, which is probably makes me very interesting. I have very specific, clear direct boundaries, but I'm also queer and strange in all the ways that don't seem to conform. So it's kind of a weirdness, even operating parameters.[00:02:31] Stuart: Sure. Do you have any examples of that?[00:02:34] Dr. Sean: Um Well I'm a doctor but I'm queer and I have Rainbow classes and I have a strange presentation for personality that goes along with that. Um I I am a doctor but I'm in sex positive communities and I'm open on the internet about my different things in that realm, which is not usually a common thing, a lot of people live in fear around that instead of just living their truth in that regard. And um it definitely leads to some professional, I have to be considered, for example when I go in certain environments that there might be patients there and whatnot, but it always keeps life very interesting. Nonetheless. That could I can[00:03:18] Stuart: imagine. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever gone in to see a doctor and you're like a primary care physician. Right?[00:03:25] Dr. Sean: Yeah, I'm a naturopathic physician and I serve as a primary care provider at a women's health clinic on hawthorne in Portland.[00:03:32] Stuart: Okay. Um Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a doctor or had a doctor or been to a visit and they came in with rainbow glasses. That's true, That is a true statement. I've never experienced that, although I don't think, but that might just be me, uh that wouldn't shock me too much, especially living where I live and it wouldn't be too bad, but have you had a bad experience with that?[00:03:54] Dr. Sean: Um I've had some older people um that I've had some older people that think it's fantastic and then I've had other other people that I wish my nails were painted and it's like you're going to get a prostate exam from sparkle fingers because you're so closed minded type of thing. But um it's actually, I think more um the reason I like to, I mean I don't have rainbow hair and at least keeping my hair the way it is, but I'm wearing a mask and I started my job the day that shelter in place went into effect last year and most of my patients have not seen my face if they've seen me in person. Um Well none of the people that have seen me in person have seen my face, they only get to see me if we do telehealth, so I uh kind of have to have my glasses and uh speak for me and just uh a moat for me at the same time because it's like, hey you're here for a pap smear we've never met before and you can't see me a moat. So.[00:04:52] Stuart: Right. Yeah. Yeah I think I would imagine uh it would actually be pretty comforting especially if you like doing well like your primary care provider. Um But you you don't just stop there right like you you go a little bit beyond that if I'm not mistaken,[00:05:12] Dr. Sean: about half my practice is um is mental health med management, which was not necessarily expected when I first started out, but it's something that I really enjoy doing. It's something that um we're really good about mental health coverage in Oregon with the Oregon health plan and other insurance providers, but trying to get in to see a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner um or a counselor for that matter is a really really long waiting list often times. Um And a lot of mental health has been pushed into primary care anyways because depression, anxiety. Um PTSD other concerns are so kind of diffuse in the population that everybody that's in primary care is facing that every single day. Um But what I'm really passionate about outside of just never knowing what the heck is going to walk in my door is teaching classes on sexual health and wellness topics, consent. My B. D. S. M. Fluids and safety class is probably my favorite one to teach because I get the most left field questions that I've ever heard in my entire life. And yet there's always an answer to it in terms of risk reduction or how to manage the particular instances. So it's uh, some[00:06:26] Stuart: of those questions. Yeah, yeah. Let's hear some of those questions like this is the thing. Like I think people don't realize that there are answers to those questions and they just don't ask them. So yeah, what's an example of, of some of that? How do you get blood out of a whip? Things like that, like I don't know.[00:06:46] Dr. Sean: Um, the question that comes up most often related to whips is more usually people want to know how long hepatitis C lasts on surfaces and whips because they're leather and leather is the hardest product to clean. People always want to know how to clean leather and it's like leaving it on the sunlight essentially for weeks to actually ensure there's nothing alive on it. But realistically using it on one person is the best thing for, for leather. But um, I had honestly, at least in terms of the question that I thought was most interesting of all because I had to take a deep breath and answering it. So I didn't step in shit and run of 50 women was a guy asked me like one out of every four women I go down on like they smell and like how am I supposed to tell them that and just was like, how do you answer this question without looking like an asshole in the process and I responded that normal was no order at all through beef jerky and this lesbian woman in the back was hooting and hollering at the beef jerky because she knew exactly what I meant about menstrual sense and everything related to that. But um, I just went into how person needed to be um if it's somebody who dated for a long time and you know what they smell like and their owners changed. Like definitely tell them you should have a report that created already. Like, hey, I noticed that something is a little different. Maybe you see your doctor, if it's somebody you just met, you should have zero comments on that whatsoever because you may just not like the way that they smell and you should probably get smacked in the face for saying something. Um but all different kinds of, I don't know how vulgar your show gets, but there's all different kinds of things that I've been asked.[00:08:32] Stuart: Yeah, go for it. Like wheels off, go for it. Like[00:08:37] Dr. Sean: p play comes up a lot. One of my favorite jokes is the fact that it happens to be something I'm, I am interested in. But um, I always happen to forget and eat asparagus before. It's like the right moment to do that and of course it's the wrong time to do it. So we go through a list of like foods you should probably not eat and like just hydration and electrolytes and things like that.[00:09:02] Stuart:

ABOUT THIS EPISODEDream jobs, let’s talk about them. I don’t know how many of you out there have your dream job, I hope most of you do, but my guess is that most of us do not and, worse, we don’t even know what a dream job actually looks like. For me, I think it would be my dream job to be able to create great podcast content and assist others to be able to create the content they want to create and actually get paid for it! For Jeni Wren Stottrup, that is everyday life! Jeni runs Gritty Bird Podcasting, which helps people produce the podcasts that they want to produce, and also runs “The Podcaster’s Forum” for aspiring mic-jockeys to connect, learn and share with one another. So, Jeni has MY dream job! Am I jealous? Yes! Would I hire her? Absolutely!We talk a great deal about podcasting, since we have both been doing it for a while, and Jeni gives great advice to those that are starting out, as well as those that have been doing it for a while. We also talk about her interesting life philosophy based on her family’s background.This episode’s sketch: “So What Your Saying Is…”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLE | YOUTUBE | PODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTJeni Wren Stottrup a podcast producer, speaker, editor, vocalist, content creator, educator and coach, owner of production company Gritty Birds Podcasting and membership platform, The Podcasters Forum.Podcasting since 2012 after putting out her 2013 EP North Star, Jeni produced Gritty Birds, a narrative music podcast on XRAY.FM, before launching her production brand Gritty Birds Podcasting. Since 2014, she has produced her own content and also has worked with hundreds of podcasters through workshops, private production clients, coaching and speaking. Jeni’s special skills are in audio/visual  tech, vocal coaching, narrative development, content develop, launches and systems and personal development. She also has worked in sponsorship and promotions through her years on music festival boards, in event production and B2B and retail audio sales. She is a regularly sought speaker and has spoken at She Podcasts Live, Podcasters Toolkit, Podcasters Summit, Podfest, Podcast Editors Conference, Indiepodcon, Blog and Video Con, and more. She has partnered on workshops with multiple organizations including Siren Nation and  Portland Underground Grad School.LinksWebsiteYouTubeTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] spk_1: in this episode podcast mastermind, jenny Wren Stock trip and I came up with a few sketch ideas what is happening at a podcast conference, like as you're walking around who is showing up at those things and what kind of conversations are you having?[00:00:16] spk_0: So my favorite place that I've been at any conference recently was the puppy pen.[00:00:22] spk_1: I love that you were going to have COVID-19 is a joke cast.[00:00:26] spk_0: So this was like literally it because then the final ones are where you're finally in quarantine and it's like, you know, like you're getting weird[00:00:37] spk_1: instead of being like a producer for hire or something like that, be the podcast therapist. How[00:00:43] spk_0: did that affect you with your mother?[00:00:44] spk_1: Yes, exactly. Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. Go to sketch comedy podcast show dot com to find more episodes, more links to more content and just to stop by and visit. Maybe you want to be a guest on the show. There's even a link for that and thank you again for subscribing. If you wanted to leave a review that's positive, that would be cool to this episode's guest, jenny Wren Start trip has my dream job. She runs gritty bird podcasting which helps people produce podcasts that they want to produce. And also runs the podcasters forum for aspiring mike jockeys to connect, learn and share with one another. So she has my dream job. Am I jealous? Yeah. Would I hire her? Absolutely. We talk a great deal about podcasting since we both have been doing it for a while and jenny gives great advice to those that are starting out as well as those that have been doing it for a while. We also talk about how she grew up and how that's formed her life philosophy. It's really interesting. And now my conversation with jenny, wren start trope podcast mastermind with a socialist background. Jenny, welcome to the show.[00:02:30] spk_0: Hello. It's great to see you. I'm a little nervous because I'm curious what's about to happen right here.[00:02:36] spk_1: I'm[00:02:38] spk_0: excited.[00:02:39] spk_1: What makes you interesting?[00:02:40] spk_0: I've got a lot of stories. What can I say?[00:02:43] spk_1: Go for it. Tell us why you are interesting and what some of those stories are before.[00:02:48] spk_0: Okay, that would be a more uncomfortable question. That's all right.[00:02:51] spk_1: It can be really uncomfortable. Yeah,[00:02:54] spk_0: I was like, that's, I mean, I guess it's like the one uncomfortable thing about when someone says what makes you interesting, like, hello, hello, look how special I am. but I do think that um it's it's fun to get to do the things that I do, I create podcasts and I've been recording for a really long time as a musician and I think probably the most interesting, one of the most interesting things about me actually has to do with um my dad's side of the family, because we're like, you're raising this little danish community up in northern Minnesota, and it was actually based on a socialist side of community, and so I've actually met people before who meet me and they go, you're a danish Lutheran, aren't you? Like, based on essentially my belief system and knowing my Minnesota background, because there is this very um there is a certain amount of the way that we look at the world as Norwegian lutherans. So I think that's actually one of the more interesting things I realize didn't plug in my computer about me specifically[00:03:53] spk_1: because of the fact that like you to talk about this, go ahead and plug in your computer. We'll talk about being a danish. A danish Lutheran. Yeah, Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you grew up from age zero to whatever my[00:04:13] spk_0: dad did.[00:04:14] spk_1: So[00:04:16] spk_0: My grandfather raised all his siblings and then he raised all these kids. So my great grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis and died at the age of 40 and every one of our clan going back forever. He was a pastor, they'd settled back in northern Minnesota. They had than in the church and they had to settle back because they needed to have the farm. And of course it's just this like rock ridden Foresti place where yeah, you have land but the first winter they barely survived. So there is[00:04:50] spk_1: this, what are you, what are you planting in that area? Like what do you pull at[00:04:54] spk_0: that point? They're just trying to clear it. And then we had um cows were dairy farm. So to come to the ethic of being a danish Luther, like of this danish Lutheran concept is uh we there's this idea of the afterlife isn't necessarily like that's when you'll have everything you want, that you live in the now and that the gift of being on earth means something. So my great grandmother, which is my middle name, um namesake, she my dad's been uh converting all of her memoirs and also converting memoirs of her mother who had um her journey across from the other from from Denmark. And uh so[00:05:42] spk_1: mommy talks about, well,[00:05:46] spk_0: can Narnia it's cold, it's like, you know, wintry. So she she talks about how they almost froze to death. Right? My great my grandfather writes about the beauty of the icicles on the window panes. Like to kind of give you a perspective of what, how that practices said in person. But like how the mom is still like, dude, literally like there's like for her, she says we're only a windowpane away from um like the elements for him. He's like the beautiful pattern of the ice um sculptures on the window and how it makes you appreciated it because that's the, that's the ethic. It's like you take what you want. So last week when I was talking to my dad again, raised on a farm, he says some mornings, it was his birthday. He says some mornings. I just wake up. I think, man, it is amazing that I am not outside At five am shoveling cow poop. I just think some mornings, I'm just like think us awesome. I can't believe I'm not doing that anymore. It's great. It's great to be alive.[00:06:59] spk_1: Yeah, actually that's a it's just a really good like that is a great philosophy to have it stay present. Look for the positive and everything you're in. Um and then maybe have someone like you know there to say yeah, but if we go outside it's freezing and we'll die. Um Yeah, I have that balance. Both. Both of those are good. Yeah, that's really good. So um All right, so you uh you have this background and it kind of does it feed into your day to day life?[00:07:30] spk_0: Like I talked to my dad every day.[00:07:32] spk_1: Okay, so you get a, you get a dose of that every single he sends[00:07:36] spk_0: me, he sends me these messages like these morning thoughts and sunday thoughts. Yeah. Uh like today, what one of the things he wrote me was life is complicated. Sometimes we have to accept things as they are. The situation with many relationships is that we come I mean it's a whole to react as human and how others react is out of control, small things and then he goes into marriages and it's a complicated world. Yeah, he continues the writing trad

ABOUT THIS EPISODESometimes it’s important to understand your limits. Like setting a budget or knowing how much you can drink at a party before you end up naked and asking people for pony rides… sorry Grandma, your birthday was great! This episode’s guest, Doug Noll, doesn’t look at limits the same way; he has figured out how to break all of the limits: physically, mentally and has perfected learning in what seems like a superhuman way.Doug Noll was a trial lawyer in California who was tenacious and was sought-after all throughout the state. Hating the commute, Doug decided to learn how to fly just to get out of traffic-jams. Doug has been a part of bands and has recently taken up concert jazz. That’s right, took up jazz. For fun. Most recently, he has been a best-selling author and has created a program to help murderers in prison to become experts in diffusing violent situations. If that last sentence doesn’t boggle your mind, I don’t know what will.We talk about learning and how to do it properly, his time as a musician, some of his amazing trial lawyer stories, the time he almost died flying a plane, and then we talk a great deal about his de-escalation techniques and his work with inmates which is absolutely amazing. You can learn more about Doug and his programs at https://dougnoll.comThis episode’s sketch: "You’re Good Enough. You’re Smart Enough… and Doggone It, The Force is With You!”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLE | YOUTUBE | PODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTDouglas E. Noll, JD, MA is an award-winning author, speaker, and trainer. After 22 years as a trial lawyer, Mr. Noll became a peacemaker and mediator. Today, he helps people solve deep and intractable conflicts and teaches others to do what he does. Mr. Noll is an adjunct professor of law at the Pepperdine School of Law Straus Institute where he teaches Decision Making Under Uncertainty Conflict.Mr. Noll is the co-founder of the award-winning Prison of Peace Project, in which he teaches murderers in maximum security prisons to be peacemakers and mediators.Mr. Noll has trained mediators and leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in his innovative peacemaking and mediation processes. He has personally mediated over 1,500 disputes, including sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church and criminal victim-offender cases.Mr. Noll's honors include California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year, a Purpose Prize Fellow, and Best Lawyers of America Lawyer of the Year.Mr. Noll has written four books, his latest released on September 12, 2017, entitled De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less (Atria/Beyond Words). He is the creator of online video courses in legal negotiation and emotional de-escalation and has conducted dozens of webinars. His video offerings on YouTube have garnered over 87,000 views.On a personal note, Mr. Noll is a jazz violinist, aircraft and helicopter pilot, ski instructor, 2nd degree black belt, tai chi master, and whitewater rafter. He lives with his wife Aleya Dao in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada south of Yosemite National Park.LinksWebsiteYouTubeTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Stuart: in this episode. Superhuman, learner, helping murderers become peacekeepers. Doug Noll And I came up with a few sketches. I like this idea of learning how to learn, right? Something really kind of arbitrary and small. Someone comes to you and says, hey, I want to learn how to do this very small thing and I want it would be in a huge, elaborate, like thousands of hours, like really detailed plan.[00:00:31] Doug Noll: Let me just say that when we train our inmate trainers, we have a train the trainer day and we have them to teach people how to do stuff, mundane stuff like how to come your hair,[00:00:41] Stuart: the trial lawyer, the lengths that you'll go through, the evidence was swallowed by the dog and you're like, I'm[00:00:48] Doug Noll: out,[00:00:50] Stuart: oh the mediation and peace making. But I was thinking like what if you got hired by say, the empire from Star Wars or something like that to come in and teach mediation to Kylo ren or Darth Vader or something along those lines? It could be any, any like scary uh the[00:01:12] Doug Noll: evil. That was a chapter in my 3rd book,[00:01:16] Stuart: which one did we pick? Well you probably know if you looked at the show notes and saw the title, but otherwise you'll find out on this week's episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show though, one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise the comedy sketch based on what we talked about. I apologize for such inconsistency and releasing episodes, but man, I moved at some personal stuff happen, you guys don't pay me so just enjoy the show. You know, sometimes it's important to understand your limits, like setting up a budget or knowing how much you can drink at a party before you end up naked and asking people for pony rides, Sorry grandma, but man, your birthday was great. This episode's guest Doug. Noll doesn't look at limits the same way he has figured out how to break all of the limits physically mentally, and has perfected learning in what seems to be a superhuman way. Doug was a trial lawyer in California who was tenacious and was sought after all throughout the state, hating the commute, Doug decided to learn how to fly just to get out of traffic jams. Doug has been part of bands and has recently taken up concert jazz, That's right, took up jazz for fun. Most recently, he has been a best selling author and has created a program to help murderers in prison to become experts in diffusing violent situations. If that last sentence doesn't boggle your mind, I don't know what will we talk about learning and how to do it properly. Some of his amazing trial lawyer stories the time he almost died flying a plane and then we talk a great deal about his de escalation techniques and his work with inmates, which is absolutely amazing. You can learn more about Doug and his programs at Doug Noll dot com and now my conversation with Doug Noll, superhuman learner, helping murderers become peacekeepers. Doug, thank you so much for joining me for the very first time today,[00:03:43] Doug Noll: you're welcome Stewart. I've heard about your show and I'm really looking forward to the craziness.[00:03:48] Stuart: It should be pretty crazy. Already has been actually. Doug. Let me ask you a question you might even actually know the answer to already. What makes you interesting?[00:04:04] Doug Noll: Well, it's a bit of a story. Uh, so I was born with a lot of problems. I was born almost blind, partially deaf, Crippled with two club feet. Um, really bad teeth. Uh, and I couldn't walk until I was three or four years old. I had multiple surgeries on my legs and, and, but I was, I did get in the right line for brands, A pretty smart guy. So I ended up going to an ivy league school and then with the law school was a trial lawyer for 22 years. But along the way I picked up a whole bunch of interesting skills, I believe probably more lifetimes in my life than I could I possibly can deserve because I ended up being a level three certified ski instructor, whitewater rafter and class for kayaker, rock climber mountaineer. Um, I've got a pilot's license, instrument rated, single engine, multi engine helicopter Tail wheel. It's got got a 2000 hours of flying behind me. I am, became a secondary black belt tai chi master, taught myself irish fiddle in law school and 10 years ago took up jazz and blues violin and now I play jazz and blues violin and having a blast with that. So like I said, many, many, many, many lifetimes and I've had a lot of really interesting careers 22 years as a trial lawyer, Then became a peacemaker and mediator. Then I went into a maximum security prisons. I've been doing that for the last 10 years, training murderers to be peacemakers.[00:05:41] Stuart: We're definitely going to talk about that. That is creating online courses, fascinating.[00:05:45] Doug Noll: Yeah, creating online courses for people to become emotionally intelligent and teaching them how to be leaders and teaching negotiation, Written four books. The last one was the best seller. So what makes me interesting is that I've had a lot of different Lifetime experiences and it's been, it's been a ride, it still is. I'm married to the most incredible woman in the world. So living on 10 acres south of Yosemite. Uh, and so the pandemic, I know it's heard a lot of people, but for us it's been a blessing because I don't have to leave this property.[00:06:17] Stuart: Yeah.[00:06:18] Doug Noll: Right now I could look out my window. Wildflowers are blasting off everywhere, incredible. It's amazing. So that's what it, that's[00:06:27] Stuart: yeah, that is uh that is multiple breaths worth of interesting, right? Like you had to inhale numerous times. Uh for me, I'm like, uh, but when anybody asked me that question, no one's ever asked me that question. Um, so I actually, so truth be told, we tried this once before I forgot to hit the record button. So I'm gonna go ahead and just ask the question that I just asked again, is was there a little bit of overcompensation since you you were born with all of these? Not ideal situations?[00:07:03] Doug Noll: Absolutely. Uh In the beginning I was definitely overcompensating but then I learned something really interesting about myself which is that I love to learn. And so uh I started taking up stuff that just interested me. So for example why did I learn how to fly? Well a living in central California, I had to do court appearances all up and down the

ABOUT THIS EPISODEWhat makes a movie good? This was a conversation that I recently had and it really blew my mind. The argument was “if a movie is ‘good’ and I can’t keep my eyes open during it, is it good to me?” I had to pause, and completely agree. The movies that I enjoy most are the ones where I am engaged, fully, and feel connected to because they were so entertaining. I hate to admit, but there are a lot of “good” movies that do not appeal to me in any way. You know who would totally agree with that? Michael Gibson and Calvin McCarthy. Why? Because they are producing and creating a movie in Portland right now called “Vampire Mutants from the Planet Neptune” which sounds more like a random word-generator than the title of a movie. But, after talking to these two, I have no doubt that it is going to be a really good movie, at least for me!We talk about putting a movie together, the creative process, being in movies, watching movies… we talk a lot of movies. Calvin has been an actor and director in the Portland area since he was little, and Michael is a producer and focuses on sound, which is near and dear to my heart. And yes, we do talk about hanging dong in a movie. Michael & Calvin developed the production company Video Is The Future and their first production is going to be the aforementioned “Vampire Mutants from the Planet Neptune” where you can join me at the premiere and help support this film! Go to http://bit.ly/SCPSmutantvampire to support!For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLE | YOUTUBE | PODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTSMichael GibsonMichael Gibson is a local production sound mixer for indie films and is also opening up a small indie film studio in Portland Oregon!Calvin McCarthyCalvin Morié McCarthy was born April 28th 1992 and raised in Vancouver WA. He began his career as an actor at age 16 playing Romeo in his high school theater production of "Romeo and Juliet". He has appeared in such films as "the Adults in the room", "Lake Noir" and "A House A Home". Calvin has gone on to direct two feature films, "3 flies in a widow's web" and "Bedtimescarries.com". Calvin also directed and produced the documentary "Manos: a conversation with Jackie Neyman".LinksFacebookYouTubeTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] spk_0: in this episode, Michael Gibson and Calvin McCarthy from the production company Video Is the Future came up with a few sketch ideas. NBA team coming out the music, playing chair song or whatever it is and then the players coming out and going, what's going on, looking around the room on a pitch meeting and just throwing things together. Okay, that's great. That's, that's a great one. What if you had a martin Scorsese who was doing a low budget film?[00:00:29] spk_1: It's deliverance meets predator.[00:00:30] spk_0: Which one did we pick? You'll find out on this episode of it's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome back to sketch comedy podcast show. The one of a kind show where I Stewart rice invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. If you liked this episode, I highly suggest going to sketch comedy podcast show dot com where you can go to Youtube and you can get other episodes and all sorts of really great stuff. Speaking of good, what makes a movie good? This was a conversation that I recently had and it really blew my mind. The argument was if a movie is good and I can't keep my eyes open during it. Is it good to me? I had to pause and completely agree. The movies that I enjoy most are the ones where I am engaged fully and feel connected because they are so entertaining. I hate to admit it. But there are a lot of good movies that do not appeal to me in any way. You know, who would totally agree with that? Michael Gibson and Calvin McCarthy from the production company Video Is the Future here in Portland Oregon. Why? Because they're producing and creating a movie in Portland right now called vampire mutants from the planet Neptune, which sounds more like a random word generator than the title of a movie. But after talking to these two, I have no doubt that it is going to be a really good movie. Well, at least for me, we talk about putting a movie together the creative process, being in movies, watching movies. We talk a lot about movies. Calvin has been an actor and director in the Portland area since he was a wee little one and Michael is a producer and focuses on sound which is near and dear to my heart. And yes, we do talk about hanging dong in a movie, Michael and Calvin developed the production company, Video is the Future and their first production is going to be this aforementioned vampire mutants from the planet Neptune where you can join me at the premiere and help support this film. The link is in the show notes and if you come, I'll even share my popcorn with you. And now my conversation with Michael Gibson and Calvin McCarthy, the movie making duo that sometimes hang Dong Michael Calvin, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you for having. Thank you for having us. So, I've got a question for both of you. It's what makes you interesting.[00:03:18] spk_1: Oh, so such a big question. Uh, my immediate impression is what makes you interesting. Everyone's interesting and it's our life experiences that make us interesting. What makes me interesting? I don't know. Uh, I'm but it's like in the moment or universally, I don't know. Uh, studio in Portland Oregon. What I'd eat faker. That's what makes me interesting. All right. Uh, yeah, I'll give more of a real answer to that. Um, okay, here, here's what makes me interesting, just like off the bat. What I think people go, that is really weird and interesting is my two biggest loves in life. Um Couldn't be more opposite number one. I'm like just a big movie nerd. Like horror movie nerds, sci fi movies, Godzilla movies, monster movies from the fifties. I'm like an encyclopedia of knowledge. But then my other biggest love is NBA basketball. I know every player on every team, I know every starter on every team bleacher report is my biggest thing. So that's usually one that I get people going. That is really interesting that both of those are like your two biggest loves.[00:04:37] spk_0: Yeah this is like uh gosh what would I say? Like nerd stratification there, like you can be an NBA nerd but those NBA nerds don't usually the Venn diagram doesn't circle[00:04:50] spk_1: up with and then I throw like a loop another wrench in there where it's like, oh yeah my my two favorite artists, like musical artists are like Billy Idol and the Psychedelic furs. So none of those go together. Like none of my front, none of my basketball friends give a shit about the movies or the music that I like.[00:05:11] spk_0: That makes it really difficult when you're trying to figure out like uh themes for bringing the teams onto the court, right? Like, you know, like a psychedelic first song? That would be good for bringing an NBA team onto the court. And it's like I can't all of my love, you can't do that. It doesn't work. So yeah.[00:05:32] spk_1: Yeah. I get I get like Godzilla Blue rays and Trailblazers Jersey for christmas.[00:05:39] spk_0: That's beautiful. I love it. I love it. Well, excellent. Well, I can think of something else that makes both of you pretty interesting. You've got a little bit of a project going on. Tell us all about your project.[00:05:52] spk_1: Glad you asked. Well, we have a very exciting movie coming out. It's called Mutant Vampires from the Planet Neptune and it's gonna be a feature film. It's gonna be a horror comedy movie in the style of kind of 80 slasher movies. Uh, similar to Don Dolar films who kind of invented this genre of slasher meets sci fi. So it's not like Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger. It's more like a space alien trying to kill the protagonist in the film. Uh, we're gonna film it. Super low budget. We have an Indiegogo going on right now. And it's incredible that within like seven days we've reached 90 of our goal.[00:06:30] spk_0: Yeah, that's awesome. I've actually donated. Oh, did you? My money where my mouth[00:06:36] spk_1: sat. Well, thank you so much for donating. What, what, what did you get?[00:06:40] spk_0: I don't know. I don't remember. I just look for the amount of money I was comfortable spending. Yeah. With that. So I think it was $25.[00:06:47] spk_1: Okay. This is good insight to see how people want want to engage with it.[00:06:51] spk_0: Yeah. Well, I was just, I was looking to support. Yeah. But I think I get, Oh no, I know exactly what it is and that's exactly two tickets to the premiere.[00:06:59] spk_1: Everyone wants that. We didn't think it was going to go very far.[00:07:01] spk_0: Yeah. No, I mean that's a, I want to be eventually out with people and enjoying something as a group, Right?[00:07:08] spk_1: Yeah. That's what I figured. It's funny too, because I've been a part of a lot of projects, like as an actor that have had crowdfunding campaigns. But as a filmmaker, I've never, I've never even really thought very deeply about doing a crowdfunding campaign for a movie. So this is really like my first, my first time. I know this is also Michael's first time and it's just like trying to figure out, you know, what, what did we think people were gonna buy versus what are people actually buying? Um, and uh, it's really hard with how successful this one's been so far to even figure out like, what, what did we do wrong? Like, you know, what, what, what are we getting from this that's not going to apply to other movies that don't have such a catchy title or ridiculous concept, right?[00:08:01] spk_0: Yeah. I think I think that's really important

ABOUT THIS EPISODEYou know that feeling when you walk into a room, maybe it’s a party or other gathering, and you don’t know anyone really and you start to feel the walls pulling you closer until your back is against it? Or, maybe there is a dog or cat around and you decide that would be the best conversational companion? What about a room filled with people you do know? What about a room with one other person? If you still find yourself “shying away” from others, you might be an introvert. This episode’s guest completely understands where you are coming from.Nick Shelton is a world-dominating introvert. What does that mean? It means that despite having what would be considered crippling social anxiety and feeling drained being around people, Nic has found a way to overcome it! And better yet… he can help you if you have similar issues! He wrote a book so you can figure this out for yourself called “An Introvert’s Guide to World Domination” (https://amzn.to/3p6S7t1). He even has a worldwide network of introverts! Wild!We talk about Nick’s 5 engagements (and 2 marriages), the worst lines to use at a party, how to figure out if you are an introvert yourself, what to do with a masseuse who likes your feet too much, and how to watch people in public places without being creepy. Look, it’s hard to do primary research for a book.This week’s sketch: “This Guy is Really Starting to Creep Me Out.”For more episodes, information, and apply to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.comSketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.© Copyright 2021 Stuart RiceSOCIAL MEDIAFACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAMSUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWSAPPLE | YOUTUBE | PODCHASERMORE ABOUT THE GUESTNick Shelton, best selling author of the book "An Introvert's Guide to World Domination" has been fine-tuning the craft of effective, high-level social strategy and networking for twenty years. Beginning with his time in the United States Air Force, Nick learned skills that were indispensable to his journey. Coupled with extensive research and fifteen years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Nick finally cracked the code and developed tools that gave him the confidence to flourish in social situations. Nick has successfully built a strong, international network of friends, colleagues, and associates and continues to teach introverts how to upgrade their lives and lifestyles and navigate social events with ease.LinksWebsiteBookTRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] spk_0: in this episode, Nik Shelton world dominating introvert and I came up with a couple of sketches. So I imagine you in second grade to start asking the other the little girls around the playground if, if they like to marry you.[00:00:19] spk_1: Okay.[00:00:21] spk_0: I love the idea of you just observing people being very blatant about it, having them as as they go different places notice like that's the same guy from the restaurant guys, the person who's getting into doing security just to have the pistol whipping.[00:00:40] spk_1: So[00:00:42] spk_0: Which one did we pick? You'll find out right now on. It's a sketch comedy podcast show. Welcome to sketch comedy podcast show where I Stewart rice, invite interesting people to have intriguing conversations and then improvise a comedy sketch based on what we talked about. It's the only show like it on the internet. Sorry about being so slow releasing episodes. I didn't realize people were still interested in this show. Then all of a sudden I checked the Internet and I'm on a couple of top 20 list for 2021. I figured I should probably release some new episodes. Then this episode is perfect for the beginning of the year. You know that feeling you get when you walk into a room, maybe it's a party or other gathering and you don't know anyone there and you start to feel the walls pulling you closer until your back is against it. Or maybe there's a dog or cat around that you decide would be a better conversational companion than any of the humans in the room. What about a room filled with people? You do know. What about a room with one other person? If you still find yourself shying away from others, you might be an introvert. This episode's guest completely understands where you are coming from. Nik Shelton is a world dominating introvert. What does that mean? It means that despite having what would be considered crippling social anxiety and feeling drain, being around people, Nick has found a way to overcome it and better yet he can help you if you have similar issues. He wrote a book so that you can figure this out for yourself called an introverts Guide to world domination. He even has a worldwide network of introverts wild. We talk about Nick's five engagements and two marriages. The worst lines to use at a party, How to figure out if you are an introvert yourself what to do with a masseuse who likes your feet a little too much and how to watch people in public places without being creepy. Look, it's hard to do primary research for a book. Then we record a sketch. This guy is really starting to creep me out and now my conversation with Nick Shelton world dominating introvert with really nice feet. Hey, Nick, thanks for joining us today.[00:03:21] spk_1: Thanks for having me. It's an honor and a pleasure.[00:03:24] spk_0: It is for me to nick, I've got a question to ask you.[00:03:28] spk_1: Okay, What do we got?[00:03:30] spk_0: What makes you interesting?[00:03:33] spk_1: What makes me interesting? Well, let's see. I think one thing that people have said is very interesting, even though I don't know why it is, is I've been engaged five times and married twice and I'm not married engaged[00:03:49] spk_0: five times and married twice. All right, so three of those engagements did they say, Did they say yes? It's something[00:04:00] spk_1: yes. So all of the engagements, So five times they said yes, yes. So I was had five yeses. I didn't have any nose on engagements, so I'm 100 for engagements. And then two of those engagements turned into marriage is that did not last. So, but people, I think people think it's interesting for some weird reason that uh someone would get engaged that many times, I guess I'm just romantic, but I don't think it's interesting at all.[00:04:31] spk_0: Well it is kind of interesting sir, you are fast engage er are you like, hey, we've been tolerating each other's existence for three months, like just do this or or what[00:04:42] spk_1: is it? I would say that yes, I'm quite a fast engagement. Not anymore, I've learned from this and now I would say I'm an extremely slow engage er but there was a time where I felt like I was a romantic and I wanted to, you know, all these fairy tales and stuff and movies, they kind of brainwashed me, I guess, I don't know. And so, and I fall in love easily or I used to at least, and so I'd say this seems like a good deal to me. Let's go ahead and lock this in[00:05:14] spk_0: Absolutely any any stories as to and you don't have to share this, but any stories about, like those engagements and why they stopped, Was there anything interesting that happened? There[00:05:27] spk_1: nothing to noteworthy? Just either, you know, one of them ran off with another dude? You know, that it's kind of, it's kind of interesting, I suppose. But you know, I think in hindsight it was better because now that guy is married to or, and it doesn't seem like he won, it seems like I won by her running off with that guy.[00:05:51] spk_0: That's a, you know, when someone runs off with someone, you always dodged a bullet. That's my feeling if someone decided like I want to be over there instead, you're great because that means you didn't have to go through all the legalities, Right.[00:06:07] spk_1: Right. It was so they weren't nothing too crazy or bad. I think it all turned out and I'm actually, I'm friends, I'd get along really well with all five of those girls and the two ex wives were really close. I think my two ex wives were closer now than we were when we were married. So, you know,[00:06:28] spk_0: when, once the divorce happens, or once the breakup happens or whatever, that is all the cards on the table. So there's no like hiding the hand and there's no like, so you just kind of it's everything's out there. So you just, now I had that's what that's what I was holding and now we can just continue on and I actually like looking at relationships as evolution, They evolve as opposed to starting and ending. Um you evolve relationship. And uh someone who was a lover can definitely be a really good friend because that person probably knows you better than anybody, right? And I will say that a lot of my exes do not do it, but uh, but nick, that's actually shocking to hear that you were engaged five times because I know something about you that I think you actually want everybody to know is that you're kind of an introvert, aren't you?[00:07:29] spk_1: Yes, I am a definitely an introvert and definitely was also in addition to that shy and socially awkward, but I think how that would, how you say, well how would you be engaged that many times? I think it was another part of that would have been I, you know, instead of trying to date everyone all the time, which is hard for somebody that's not trying to get out there and talk to people, you say, hey, someone's right here, I'll just go ahead and just be with this person, then I don't have to go out and try to find another person. So it's[00:08:00] spk_0: spending the rest of your life with someone that may not be optimal is far less scarier than[00:08:06] spk_1: the time. Anyway, it seemed that way.[00:08:14] spk_0: Now I know better. Right? So, so uh you are, you feel, um you describe yourself as an introvert like I'm not, I'm not throwing that on you that this is something you describe yourself absolutely[00:08:28] spk_1: describe myself that[00:08:29] spk_0: Yeah, when did you find out that yo