And we're back. That's right, it's time for another bonus episode. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do do. I don't know. It's sort of like the Gong Show. But anyway, thanks to everyone who called and wrote in with feedback on our debut bonus segment we did with Christy Todd Whitman. This week, we're doing what we call an after pod with Matt Walsh from the hit show Vat. We got a lot of questions that didn't make it into our episode, So are you ready, Let's dig in. Matt, tell me about your first job. My first job, I was cook at a retirement community and I got fired. I was a dishwasher. Excuse me, I was a dishwashing Why did you get fired? I was super slow and I was super messy. They were like puddles and food everywhere on the floor, and they're like, they just stopped putting me on the schedule. As a kid, What did you want to be when you grew up? I think fire men or uh or a squirrel. I used to love squirrels. I want to be a squirrel. I could see that they're kind of like rats with tails. Though really, when it comes down, tremendous agility. Though to see the tree hopping they can do as a kid, that's true impressive sort of superheroes can see that. They're sort of like rodent superheroes. What role or job has brought you the most joy? Oh my gosh, Well, let's say V because it's current and it's the most recent that comes to mind, and what motivates you as an actor and as a comedian funny, it's got to be funny, and also the ability to collaborate or provide input to the material. What about your day to day life would people be surprised to learn? Uh? Then, I you never shower, Brian, You're sitting next to Matt. I mean, is that a hide from I'm fully tattooed from wrist to ankle. No, Uh, I don't know. Surprise. I am annoyed that I still have to drive my kids to school every morning for like fifty minutes. Bad father. Yeah, they'd be surprised to learn you're a bad father. I'm sure that's not sure. I'm a good father. But that's the one thing about parenting, Like, really, do we really have to drive them again today, don't they have a school bus. There's no school bus in this K through six school and we haven't. We've got to get people who live by us so we can do the car pool. Definitely the pool and yeah, sure, I need to change it. So I still have things in my life that I haven't perfected. That's the revelation of that. What was your big break? Big break? I guess you see be getting a TV show, a sketch show on Comedy Central. Who do you most admire in comedy and do you have comedy mentors? I mean I have the childhood people I grew up watching from you know, the Marx Brothers to Peter Sellers and then too Python and kids in the Hall and early s and now those would be like the people. And then as far as a mentor, I don't know that I have an active mentor in the comedy world. What do you watch these days, Matt? Is there anything that you're loving? What you know? What? I I saw The Keepers, which is a dark documentary about some priest who probably murdered this nun in the seventies in Maryland. That was like the last thing I watched with my wife, And then I know I tend to watch more dramatic stuff and medians are very dark, depressive people. Right, Well, I don't want to watch comedy necessarily, and then we have three kids, so I end up watching a lot of younger movies. Whatever we saw. We took them to see Wonder Woman the other day. That was a blast. They did well. Yeah, TV wise, I actually did House of Cards again, so I'm up to date on that. And oh the Killing I just went back to that, see that one. Yeah, I watched some of that. Yes, yes, pretty great. You know what, I just started watching A Handmade's Tale and it is it is so disturbing, and I watched it before I went to bed, and I don't think that's a good idea. I think of my daughter told me she thought it was amazing. So I started watching it. And it's very dystopian. I mean that word was really made for that, that book and now that series. You know, it's very very scary. Yeah, I've heard that. You know, the other series that kind of like Veep seems like a parody, but probably isn't That I love is Silicon Valley also on the HBO, an amazing show, and you know I lived up there. For seven years. I will just tell people it is very much true to life. It is not an exaggeration in the least. If anything, they underplay things. Well, this has been around the dial with Katie, Matt and Bryan. What are you listening to? What's the last album you bought? What's on your iPod? Remember that was a big question for a while. What's on your shuffle? Yeah? Anyway, the best advice you've ever heard, I think my mom and dad sort of communicated, just do something you love because whatever you're gonna do, whatever you do, you're gonna have to work hard at it. Can you tell me about the first time you got on stage and did improv and what that was like. The most memorable moment was I did a scene that lasted three minutes and it succeeded, and I was amazed that neither one of us on stage I knew what the scene was going to be about, and yet we kept the ball in the air for three minutes without a plan and entertained a room of ten people. And it was a small room, but it was mind blowing to me. And what did end up being about. I think we were two farmers competing over livestock or something like nothing I had life experience about. But it was a magical because there was no preconceived plan and yet it worked out. That was what really bit me about that moment is it must be stressful to do improv if you ever had to complet eat an utter brain fart and just not known where to go. Yes, many times wants the show. You wait for someone else to take the lead, or you just start, or you just start behaving in the moment until you find a way to talk about it, you know what I mean? Like improv isn't necessarily you have to be witty every moment. You can also just act and behave, behave as if or invest in the things you do know and steer clear of like I need some elements on the periodic table now, So, Matt, one of our listeners, Adam and Missouri, sent us a question for you. You know, YouTube and technology have really changed the entertainment industry, and so in what ways has making it in comedy changed since you started out? Good question. Um. My advice to that person is because YouTube or Instagram or vines can help you find when not vines on a good one. But I would a the basics are still the same, like do do it every night of the week, um, be nice to people, and then also learn how to shoot at it and write, like all those skills will serve you to make your own material. It's basically the same formula, which is like do it yourself. Don't wait for somebody else to give you the keys to an opportunity, try to make your own stuff. If you didn't go into comedy, do you what do you think you might be doing today other than being a fireman or squirrel. I was on the road to being a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. Psychologist you didn't want to prescribe drugs. I wasn't smart enough to sit through med school lectures or do another six years of school, so I was I could see a world. We're a parallel world where I ended up being into in psychology of some kind, like a therapist. And finally, what happens when you just don't feel that funny and you have to go to work and you have to bring it, but you're kind of grouchy and you're just not feeling it. You just commit to the reality and you serve the other people you're in the scene with You don't have to be the funniest, just say the words that are on the page. All right, that's it for the Afterpod with Matt Walsh a k A. Veeps, Mike McClintock. Tell us what you thought. You can leave a voicemail at nine to four four six three seven, or you can email us as always at comments at correct podcast dot com and we'll talk to you next week. Home run, that's it, home run home Wow, that was a rough flight, but I think we got through the first first version of some notes of the trees. Stitcher

And we're back. That's right, it's time for another bonus episode. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do do. I don't know. It's sort of like the Gong Show. But anyway, thanks to everyone who called and wrote in with feedback on our debut bonus segment we did with Christy Todd Whitman. This week, we're doing what we call an after pod with Matt Walsh from the hit show Vat. We got a lot of questions that didn't make it into our episode, So are you ready, Let's dig in. Matt, tell me about your first job. My first job, I was cook at a retirement community and I got fired. I was a dishwasher. Excuse me, I was a dishwashing Why did you get fired? I was super slow and I was super messy. They were like puddles and food everywhere on the floor, and they're like, they just stopped putting me on the schedule. As a kid, What did you want to be when you grew up? I think fire men or uh or a squirrel. I used to love squirrels. I want to be a squirrel. I could see that they're kind of like rats with tails. Though really, when it comes down, tremendous agility. Though to see the tree hopping they can do as a kid, that's true impressive sort of superheroes can see that. They're sort of like rodent superheroes. What role or job has brought you the most joy? Oh my gosh, Well, let's say V because it's current and it's the most recent that comes to mind, and what motivates you as an actor and as a comedian funny, it's got to be funny, and also the ability to collaborate or provide input to the material. What about your day to day life would people be surprised to learn? Uh? Then, I you never shower, Brian, You're sitting next to Matt. I mean, is that a hide from I'm fully tattooed from wrist to ankle. No, Uh, I don't know. Surprise. I am annoyed that I still have to drive my kids to school every morning for like fifty minutes. Bad father. Yeah, they'd be surprised to learn you're a bad father. I'm sure that's not sure. I'm a good father. But that's the one thing about parenting, Like, really, do we really have to drive them again today, don't they have a school bus. There's no school bus in this K through six school and we haven't. We've got to get people who live by us so we can do the car pool. Definitely the pool and yeah, sure, I need to change it. So I still have things in my life that I haven't perfected. That's the revelation of that. What was your big break? Big break? I guess you see be getting a TV show, a sketch show on Comedy Central. Who do you most admire in comedy and do you have comedy mentors? I mean I have the childhood people I grew up watching from you know, the Marx Brothers to Peter Sellers and then too Python and kids in the Hall and early s and now those would be like the people. And then as far as a mentor, I don't know that I have an active mentor in the comedy world. What do you watch these days, Matt? Is there anything that you're loving? What you know? What? I I saw The Keepers, which is a dark documentary about some priest who probably murdered this nun in the seventies in Maryland. That was like the last thing I watched with my wife, And then I know I tend to watch more dramatic stuff and medians are very dark, depressive people. Right, Well, I don't want to watch comedy necessarily, and then we have three kids, so I end up watching a lot of younger movies. Whatever we saw. We took them to see Wonder Woman the other day. That was a blast. They did well. Yeah, TV wise, I actually did House of Cards again, so I'm up to date on that. And oh the Killing I just went back to that, see that one. Yeah, I watched some of that. Yes, yes, pretty great. You know what, I just started watching A Handmade's Tale and it is it is so disturbing, and I watched it before I went to bed, and I don't think that's a good idea. I think of my daughter told me she thought it was amazing. So I started watching it. And it's very dystopian. I mean that word was really made for that, that book and now that series. You know, it's very very scary. Yeah, I've heard that. You know, the other series that kind of like Veep seems like a parody, but probably isn't That I love is Silicon Valley also on the HBO, an amazing show, and you know I lived up there. For seven years. I will just tell people it is very much true to life. It is not an exaggeration in the least. If anything, they underplay things. Well, this has been around the dial with Katie, Matt and Bryan. What are you listening to? What's the last album you bought? What's on your iPod? Remember that was a big question for a while. What's on your shuffle? Yeah? Anyway, the best advice you've ever heard, I think my mom and dad sort of communicated, just do something you love because whatever you're gonna do, whatever you do, you're gonna have to work hard at it. Can you tell me about the first time you got on stage and did improv and what that was like. The most memorable moment was I did a scene that lasted three minutes and it succeeded, and I was amazed that neither one of us on stage I knew what the scene was going to be about, and yet we kept the ball in the air for three minutes without a plan and entertained a room of ten people. And it was a small room, but it was mind blowing to me. And what did end up being about. I think we were two farmers competing over livestock or something like nothing I had life experience about. But it was a magical because there was no preconceived plan and yet it worked out. That was what really bit me about that moment is it must be stressful to do improv if you ever had to complet eat an utter brain fart and just not known where to go. Yes, many times wants the show. You wait for someone else to take the lead, or you just start, or you just start behaving in the moment until you find a way to talk about it, you know what I mean? Like improv isn't necessarily you have to be witty every moment. You can also just act and behave, behave as if or invest in the things you do know and steer clear of like I need some elements on the periodic table now, So, Matt, one of our listeners, Adam and Missouri, sent us a question for you. You know, YouTube and technology have really changed the entertainment industry, and so in what ways has making it in comedy changed since you started out? Good question. Um. My advice to that person is because YouTube or Instagram or vines can help you find when not vines on a good one. But I would a the basics are still the same, like do do it every night of the week, um, be nice to people, and then also learn how to shoot at it and write, like all those skills will serve you to make your own material. It's basically the same formula, which is like do it yourself. Don't wait for somebody else to give you the keys to an opportunity, try to make your own stuff. If you didn't go into comedy, do you what do you think you might be doing today other than being a fireman or squirrel. I was on the road to being a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. Psychologist you didn't want to prescribe drugs. I wasn't smart enough to sit through med school lectures or do another six years of school, so I was I could see a world. We're a parallel world where I ended up being into in psychology of some kind, like a therapist. And finally, what happens when you just don't feel that funny and you have to go to work and you have to bring it, but you're kind of grouchy and you're just not feeling it. You just commit to the reality and you serve the other people you're in the scene with You don't have to be the funniest, just say the words that are on the page. All right, that's it for the Afterpod with Matt Walsh a k A. Veeps, Mike McClintock. Tell us what you thought. You can leave a voicemail at nine to four four six three seven, or you can email us as always at comments at correct podcast dot com and we'll talk to you next week. Home run, that's it, home run home Wow, that was a rough flight, but I think we got through the first first version of some notes of the trees. Stitcher