From Math to Microphones: Todd Basil's Comedy Journey

Join us as we chat with local comedians Jon Brown, Courtney Stevens and Julia Reed Nichols  in Bend, Oregon, exploring humor, local culture, and quirky stories. This episode offers laughs, insights, and a peek into the vibrant Bend comedy scene. Topics include parenting fails, Oregon’s New Water Permit Tax, and a warning for local dog owners.  Plus we are joined by comedian and college calculus instructor Todd Basil shares his unique journey from math and film to stand-up comedy, offering insights into the creative process, the differences between comedy scenes in LA and Portland, and how he integrates his love for numbers into his humor. Todd is coming to town later this month with The Teacher Show if you want to catch him live! 

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Bend Oregon, comedy, local community, humor, funny stories, comedy scene, night talk, local events,  math, stand-up, Portland, LA, teaching, creativity,  Todd Basil

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Object permanence is for adults.

SPEAKER_04 0:03

I just learned about object and permanence.

SPEAKER_02 0:06

And I think I have it.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yeah, it'd be really bad if you don't. A real distinguisher between making it past, I think, four. It's like where did the ball go? I put it behind my head.

SPEAKER_04 0:21

No, but I think I'm like the four-year-old. I think I think things don't exist when they're I was like, I really, really like if people aren't in front of me, I'm like, you don't exist.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Yeah, and that's object permanence.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Yeah. Okay, great. Well, welcome to this week's episode of Nighttime Benders, your favorite place to catch up with Central Oregon's favorite funny faces. We are powered by the Source, and I am here with some of my favorite comedians today. John, why don't you start by introducing yourself?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

My name's John. I'm a Florida man. I moved here a couple years ago. I've been performing in the local scene for about two years now. You can catch me pretty much anywhere in Oregon.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

I feel like Florida man's a very good description of you that I've never Yeah, once you hear it. Once I hear it, yeah. Once you hear it, it's accurate.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

Alright, your turn, Courtney. Please introduce yourself. I'm Courtney Stevens. I've been in BIM 25 years. I own a local restaurant and brewery, which is Craft Kitchen and Brewery. And I'm from Georgia. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:28

So you guys are both from the South. Like kind of like very they're right next to each other, Florida and Georgia. Do they have a rivalry like Michigan and Ohio? Yes, they do. Are you Gator fans?

SPEAKER_01 1:40

No. I think it's probably one site.

SPEAKER_04 1:43

It's one site.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Florida is.

SPEAKER_04 1:45

Okay, I think that's a fair comparison. The bugs.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Criminals. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

It's kind of like a foreign country because it's not even like the South. You guys are different.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

It's very unique there.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

Mm-hmm. I guess I should mention I have been doing comedy for three years now. And I own a comedy clip. Yeah. Ish. It seems like it, because we do it open mic once a week and shows every Saturday.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

Yeah. So Craft Fishing is great. They have lots of stuff going on there. And you always support a lot of the touring comedians that come through town. And locals. And locals. Yes. Yes. Locals matter too. We matter too. That's what we keep telling ourselves in the Ben comedy scene. We matter too.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Someone needs to represent us.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

One day we will have. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

We built it up.

SPEAKER_04 2:34

Yes. Well, Ben has changed a lot. Ben has had a lot of changes and iterations and gram. And I think one of the things our lovely town is known for is our roundabouts. Don't get me started. You know, these don't exist in a lot of like a lot of a lot of people from a lot of parts of the country would get to a roundabout and be like, oh, I saw this in Griswold Family Vacation once. In Europe. In Europe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Yeah, people don't know how to use them, but yet we keep multiplying them. That's beautiful. I know. It makes sense, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:09

I I'm a fan of them personally because they pair well with all the breweries that are in town. Seems like it's a one-to-one thing.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

Like a saturation.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Yeah, for every brewery in the roundabout pops up.

SPEAKER_04 3:24

Well, it's part of the I I guess like growth sprawl. As Ben grows, they keep trying to bring in these other parts of town and make them more accessible. And they always the solution always seems to be around. Never a red light, never a four-way stop.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

Always a roundabout. I think to your point, with breweries and roundabouts, that might explain why people don't know how to use them. Because maybe they've been drinking too much at the breweries to use the roundabouts correctly.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

Because isn't it about float traffic? I mean, but at least they're great. I mean, maybe that's also it's like if they had stop signs, drunk drivers aren't great at stopping, but they're great at just doing that roll and slide through the roundabouts.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

California stop. California stop. I mean, I will say like yield signs are red, which might confuse people. What color made you make a yield sign? I don't know, like yellow or orange, because it's yield, it's not stop. That's true.

SPEAKER_04 4:17

That's you know, I've never had that observation before. Green means go, red means stop, yellow.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

It's yellow. That's the answer.

SPEAKER_04 4:31

We fixed it. Change all of the yield signs in Vend. But you're you're not a big fan of Venn drivers, are you?

SPEAKER_03 4:37

No. I'm from Atlanta. It's like NASCAR down there. And then you come to Ben. I've been here 25 years, and the more people that come here, the more entitled people are driving, the slower they get, or like four people go through a stop sign. I mean, yeah. I have road range.

SPEAKER_05 4:57

Yeah, I'm little.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

It's fine. It's saying it might also not to be stereotype, but it might also be our like aging popul like population.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

Like Yeah, my mother-in-law should not be driving. We have a lot of retired folks in Venice.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

I'm actually fully on board with that. I think I think license tests should restart in 65.

SPEAKER_04 5:16

Yes. Well, they do it for a lot of things. Like my dad was a air pilot. What is it? Just a pilot. A pilot. That's what you call it. A pilot. Not a underwater pilot. Not an underwater pilot. Air driver. An air driver. He drove in the air, and they took that privilege away when he got too old to drive in the air. But they still let him drive on the land, which I think there's far more things to hit on the ground than in the air.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah, I mean, give them voting licenses. They have the money for it. Go get a boat. Go crash that in the open ocean or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 5:45

Like for a second there, I thought you said voting licenses. And I was like, John, we don't do voting licenses.

SPEAKER_05 5:52

Yeah, give it.

SPEAKER_04 5:54

Yeah, don't give people any ideas here either. Don't do that in America. We don't make voting a privilege. Right, guys? Right.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

We should probably get off.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

We should probably get on. Father's Day is is it is it coming up or did it just happen? It's on the 21st. It's on the 21st. Okay, good. I did it miss Father's Day. For a second there, I was worried I missed telling my father happy Father's Day. I'm really Did you get him anything? Never.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

I always remember, you know, the week before when all the stuff comes on sale. On socials and on sale. You're like, oh, thank you for reminding me.

SPEAKER_04 6:31

Yes, I will get that tie. Right? Oops. Yeah, I I there's a lot of parenting fails. I actually gotta see my stepdad this weekend with my little sister, and I was reminded of what I think is a pretty big parenting fail. And I feel like there's a joke in here somewhere because it's definitely funny. But I haven't figured out the punchline. So I'm gonna tell you guys a story about my parents. And this isn't how they fail to parent me, it's my little sister. So my parents adopted my little sister from the foster care system after her mother died. Uh, my parents are elderly white people, but my sister happens to be a mixed half black, half-white girl who was seven at the time. So there's like, you know, like a six-year age gap between them, which is kind of traditional, right? So they decided the best thing to do would be move her out of Michigan and move her to a small town in Texas where she could have a wholesome, albeit like very white upbringing. And they enrolled her in a new school. And so she showed up to the school and and she's the new kid in class, she's the only adopted kid, she has elderly parents, she's black. She also didn't have a great education going into it, you know. She she didn't have the best support at home. So there's a lot of things to make her stand out. But the teacher offers to let her take home the classroom bunny for the weekend to take care of it. Right? Very sweet. So she takes her home. My parents put the bunny in the bathroom, they set it up, and Leah's so excited to have this bunny. And then my mom goes, Well, why don't we celebrate and go out to dinner? What they failed to do is put away their two standard poodles. I know those are like the little ones, right?

SPEAKER_05 8:18

Oh, those are the big ones.

SPEAKER_04 8:19

No, those are like the big ones. Oh my parents had a 90-pound poodle.

unknown 8:23

What?

SPEAKER_04 8:24

Yes. And uh when they came back, the bunny was how do you say that? No more? Gone. Unalive. Unalive. They unalived the bunny. Yeah, I know. So what would you do if you were a parent, your kid was new to school, and they had just killed the classroom bunny? What would you do?

SPEAKER_01 8:45

I'd buy a bunny.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

You would buy a bunny, right? You would buy a bunny. You wouldn't make your kid go into class, right? No. No. But you know what my parents do? They told her it's important to have integrity and made her go confess in front of the whole class. So then for the rest of the year, my little sister was Leah the bunny killer. Oh, bless her heart. I know.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

That's kind of metal.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

I know, I know. And we were and I you know this bothers her because we were talking about it last week, which is about 15 years after this incident.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

I think I know I know any emotional.

SPEAKER_04 9:24

Get her a bunny. I'll be like, wasn't a brown bunny?

SPEAKER_05 9:28

What did it look like?

SPEAKER_04 9:29

They multiply it very quickly. So maybe get her two. I just I couldn't believe my parents just didn't go to the pet store and get like another bunny and be like, it does it's not like bunnies have personalities. It's not like the class would have been like, that bunny's not acting like the other bunny.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Like oh kids are producer.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

I'm not even kidding. We're the only one here that actually has kids. Do you have any parenting fails? Uh I mean, yeah, I don't know where to start.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

I'm sure you have lots of parenting wins too. I'm sure those exist. I guess my favorite one, gosh, for me, it would be like we had to pick a code word for our kid for occupational therapy purposes. And um guys, do research on your code word. Because we did not. So we just got back from Hawaii and we had this sticker we accidentally put upside down on our water bottle, which was an upside down pineapple. Um, we did not know the significance of it for six months. And then after we started seeing everybody's like facial expressions and whispers and stuff, we're like, maybe we should like look up this code or which it means you're a swinger. So were you guys just out in public like upside down pineapple? Yeah. We're out to dinner with like all of our friends, and she's like, mom, upside down pineapple. So it's not like I'm even saying it. So it sort of sounds like we're training our kid to what point out other couples. Like, I don't even know how that looks, but it does not look good.

SPEAKER_04 10:58

Aw, they say the darndest things, these children, these children. Any parenting stories you want to share, John?

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Yeah, I mean, I guess I can contribute to this. So uh when I was younger, uh I had an experience, I guess because Father's Day is coming up, we'll talk about this. Where I was at home and it's like one or two in the morning, and I was on a computer downstairs in the dark, talking to someone on my space, trying to be sneaky, and then I got caught and the lights were all off, so I got up to like you know, hide and not be caught. And my dad thought I was a burglar. So he proceeded to attack me, and you know, he was throwing punches and kicks and all sorts of things. He was much bigger than me. Like chased me out of the room I was into another room, and as he chased me into the room, he turned the light on, and he recognized it was me, and I recognized that he was naked. Didn't really talk about it.

SPEAKER_03 12:01

Did you talk about it the next day? No, did you ever talk about it?

SPEAKER_01 12:05

I haven't talked to him explicitly about it in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

It's just one of those things.

SPEAKER_04 12:09

You just smile.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Yeah, it was uh we both made mistakes here.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Yeah, families are unique situations, aren't they? By the way, I really do like your shirt. Can you explain to people who are listening to the podcast what's your shirt?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

It's the painting from Dodge Ball of Ben Stiller's character, White Goodman, grabbing a bull by the horns.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yes, it's it's an epic shirt. If you don't know the image, I would highly encourage you to look it up. Uh so lately in Bend, Bend is a big outdoor recreation town, right? Like people like to get out. I went out kayaking myself this weekend, but recently they have put in a water, is it a waterway permit tax?

SPEAKER_01 12:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

So what's what's the basic idea of the tax?

SPEAKER_01 12:54

So it's not just Bend, it's Oregon in general. It's coming from Governor Kotek.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

That it's revenue allocated to like maintain and conserve waterways that are used for recreational purposes, but it's galvanized a significant amount of opposition to the whole notion of spending $35 to paddle board.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Yeah. I realize I went out on my kayak this weekend and I probably was supposed to have one of those permits now that we're talking about it. Like, what happens if you don't have a permit? Do we know? Is it like who am I that? Is it a $35 ticket? Like, what are we taking with?

SPEAKER_01 13:29

I'm not 100% sure. I I kind of view those kind of uh crimes as up to enforcement.

SPEAKER_04 13:36

Okay, yeah. Like you gotta catch me. Catch me if you can't thing.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

Yeah, well, and it's like if they're not gonna like actually charge you the fine, then is there actually a fine?

SPEAKER_04 13:44

Yeah, well, that's true. If if you don't get caught, there's no crime. I've got anything cameras on the waterways, just like you know, they put a few down.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

I'm gonna tell you, that's not that's not a problem that really affects true it is.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Do you not do you not go on the waterways here?

SPEAKER_01 14:00

I haven't yet. I'd love to go float or whatever. It's just every time that it's been like uh we should go do this, it's been like super smoky, or like anytime I have the time to like let's just go do this for a day.

SPEAKER_04 14:13

So I have gone floating when it's smoky, and let me tell you what, the river, the air right on top of the river, cleanest air in Central Oregon. You gotta get down there. You gotta get like suck it up. I also really hurt myself floating last year. I didn't know you could do that. Did you know? Yeah, people should wear like helmets and protected gear. That shit's like you're essentially whitewater rafting without a whitewater raft. And mind you, I didn't do the approved. It's a winking river. I can't do that. Whitewater.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

Yeah, it sounds like you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Open to the other one in Tumilow. Which I kind of know if that's like actually a float or if it's just like floating there.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

It's like it's a float, but they spelled the F with an X.

SPEAKER_04 15:04

Extreme floating. It's an extreme float, but yeah, safety first. Um which brings us to our next topic, which is like kind of horrible. But we were talking about I I don't want to see horrible things on the internet. And I feel like I've seen a few really horrible things on the internet this week.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:24

They they there was you were mentioning that that poor woman was it like she's bungee jumping. But she wasn't, there was no bungee, she was just jumping.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

She got thrown off a bridge.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

She got like that's not bungee jumping.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

The intention was bungee jumping, but you can clearly see the cord on the ground. And this is the thing that frustrated me is like there's no context for that. Yeah, it's just a video of two guys carrying a woman and then throwing her off a bridge, and then you see the context as like a caption of a woman in Brazil dies bungee jumping. Well, bungee jumping.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

It's so awful.

SPEAKER_04 15:57

It's so awful. I don't want to see this stuff. I want to see happy things when I walk into my phone.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

It is it's out of control, but I I I feel like in a few days we'll find out the guy that threw her off was like her ex-husband or her husband, and she just won the lottery or something.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

That's what there's a motive.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

There's life statistics. There's life insurance. No, what if somebody paid those guys? Oops, yeah, right. That's terrible. Like, how can I forget that? Would you bungee jump? Would you bunch?

SPEAKER_04 16:30

No, no, or no. You wouldn't. Okay, so I want to bungee. You know, when you're driving from Bend to like Madras, there's the Madras. Madras. Madras, Madras, Madras.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Don't make it fancy because it's Madras.

SPEAKER_04 16:47

It's Madras. Okay, I'll I'll say my A's harder. Madras. On my way from Bend to Madras. There's that bridge that you see people jumping off of. Every time I go, I want to do that. And I don't know why, because then I think it through and I'm like, you probably don't, you'd probably get a headache. You'd get to the bottom of the line, it'd be like unenjoyable.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

I've done the like at a theme park bungee jumping where it's like big contraption and you get hooked into it and it's like all professional monitored. And I did that once, and that was the okay, I get it. People who are, I'm gonna attach a rope to a bridge and jump off the that's nuts. Especially given that the whole attaching a rope to a bridge becomes abstracted to someone else who might just not do it.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Well, I think that's the part that always I've always said I want to sky as well, but if I'm gonna skydive, I want to skydive with like the elite skydive, like the the best of the best. The best of the best, you know, army airborne. Like I wanna I don't want no bullshit skydive instructor with like a 10-hour course.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

You don't want to go to Le Pines Freefall Academy?

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Is that a thing? No, I just Oh I was thinking I was like, is that a thing? No, but I it's like I would jump out of a plane, but I want like somebody really trustworthy, yeah, attached to me when I do it.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

I think I'm too afraid of the bungee because well, I've had a baby. You think you feed yourself? Yes, you're jumped on a twin full hand.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I think on the notion of someone I trust, also I could I could jump out of a plane and sky dive with someone attached to me that I hate.

SPEAKER_06 18:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Because if it doesn't work, at least one problem solved.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

You know, it's like at least I know you're going with me. We're riding this train to the end together.

SPEAKER_04 18:42

It's yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm gonna turn 40 in January. And I've planted the seed that I might want to skydive somewhere like gorgeous, but there's several obstacles to that. One, I'd have to plan something. I don't know who wants to plan anything. But then two, yeah, you'd actually have to like jump out of the plane. So I don't know. We'll see if I actually do it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Honestly, parasailing or paragliding is probably closer to what you really want to do.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Is that where you just like jump off a cliff with a that sounds so so much more?

SPEAKER_05 19:14

That's like a rail cater die.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

What I'm talking about is like you're being pulled by a boat and you're you're I've done that.

SPEAKER_04 19:20

That's it like lifts you up and like 200 feet up off the air. You can still drink. I think sometimes they'll even like send you up with a beer while you do that.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Yeah, like it's not the flying squirrel fish. I feel like that's a nice middle ground between jumping out of a plane and bugsy jumping.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

Get most of it.

SPEAKER_04 19:38

You get the whole thrill. You really just want the adrenaline rush. You just want to feel something.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Yeah, it's still dangerous. You're still a couple hundred feet in the air. Like sure you have a parachute attached to you, but if the boat messes up, like you could that rope could snap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

Okay. Moving on, I saw an article that I think all pet owners in Benn need to be aware of. Vets are now warning Bend and Central Oregon dog owners to not let their dogs eat the weed joints found in parks. Apparently, multiple dogs are showing up at this vet every month having overdosed on cannabis that they have found in our Bend parks.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

We're talking about veterinarians, right? Yeah. That like veterans that are. Yeah, veterinarians.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

Yeah, because I don't think I'd get weed.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

But it's it was all the same as I read it and I was like, is there like that much weed in the parks? Like, what parts are we putting in? It's exactly what par what parts specific for you? Is this straight cover? Pioneer. Is there a specific part of the park we keep hunting these? I'm just asking. For my dog. I don't want to take my dog over there. I'm a concerned dog owner. I can't stop my dog from eating anything off the ground. So if there was a joint and my dog wanted it, it would I wouldn't feel like I can't stop it from eating deer poop.

SPEAKER_03 21:10

How can I stop it from eating a joint? I feel like it's better than a syringe. At least for not important.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

At least because I have experienced it.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

I'm like, Yeah, that's always disturbing finding like injectable drugs on the street. It makes you feel like maybe the neighborhood's going down a little bit. Maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Depends on the injectable. Maybe it's steroids. Maybe everyone in the neighborhood is jacked. No, I and they just have their needles.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

I'm sorry, steroids are just as bad.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

I'm on that second data.

SPEAKER_04 21:45

I one time dated a guy that was on Royds, and I found but he wasn't on the good Royds. I found his vial, and it was like a human growth hormone that they give cows. Oh no. But that's what a lot of these people are doing. Is just injecting themselves with like cow growth hormones, and they're like, Oh, I get beefy.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

And I'm like, What that's why they also like coba beef, can we feed them sake?

SPEAKER_01 22:11

It like makes their internal organs grow as well. That's why they get distended stomachs. That's why like modern bodybuilding, they all have the kind of pushed-out abs. It's because all of their organs are getting bigger.

SPEAKER_05 22:22

I know.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Yeah, no, it's incredibly unhealthy and leads to all sorts of complications down the line and why modern bodybuilders die in their fifties instead of seventies.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

I mean, yeah. So if we're gonna give dogs steroids or weed, I'm I'm like, I don't know. No, I actually think I think my vet has probably given my dog steroids.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

I think I think that's probably how Yeah, I mean if you're getting it from a vet, it's probably good. If you're getting it if you're getting it from a trainer as a in the locker room, it's like, yeah, hit your dog with this trend.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

Like I'd probably the nice thing about like dog I think one of the things that must be so freeing about being a dog is there's not like a st well, I guess if you're a show dog, there's a standard of attractiveness. But like normally there's not like this standard of attractiveness dogs are trying to keep up with, right? So they're not gonna take steroids for cosmetic reasons.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

Maybe if they could access them, I bet they would. I feel like dogs like feel some shame. Oh I think have you ever like buzzed like a golden retriever? I'm so like embarrassed. Even though they look like a cute little naked.

SPEAKER_05 23:34

Imagine if they were named as jacked.

SPEAKER_04 23:36

Yeah, they've been jacked. You've been like, oh now I can finally show off my muscle. I'm just picturing this like jacked golden retriever in my head now.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Six honestly picturing smaller dogs fully jacked out like a chihuahua or a pug.

SPEAKER_04 23:51

Yeah. I'd love to see my dog all jacked out, my chihuahua. He's he's fantastic. Little shepherd chihuahua mix. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:00

With guns.

SPEAKER_04 24:01

With guns, big old guns and his cute little brindle coat. I'm sure everyone loves hearing about all these dogs they can't see on a podcast. That's the thing about a a a vocal medium is sometimes when you get into like visuals and picturing stuff in your head, it doesn't necessarily fine.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

They can they can Google jacked dogs.

SPEAKER_04 24:21

Jack dog. And if not AI can create one for them. So uh but one thing AI cannot do is create live entertainment. And we were able to sit down with a comedian that's gonna be coming to town with the teacher show, Todd Basil. Not Basil, not Basil or Basil. Not Basil or Regano, Basil, Todd Basil. It was such a joy, so please listen to that interview and hope you guys enjoyed as much as we did. Hi, Todd. If you could introduce yourself to our listeners who might not be familiar with your work.

SPEAKER_07 24:54

Yeah. Hi, Julia. Thanks for having me. Uh my name's Todd Basil. It's pronounced Basil, but uh, if you want to change it, that's fine. I'm a comedian out of Portland, Oregon. I've been out of here like nine years. I came from Los Angeles before that and enjoyed that open mic scene for a while. And uh yeah, I've been doing comedy for just over two decades, and I'm a lifer, and it's great to be here.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

Yeah, we're excited to have you. You're coming to Bend with a show, right? Can you tell us a little bit about the show you're coming to town with?

SPEAKER_07 25:26

Yeah, the teacher show, Comedy from the Classroom, features some of your previous guests, Don Gavitt, Rachel FJ, and Katie Nguyen and I are gonna be hitting the road. We're coming through Bend. I'm happy to do the volcanic pub again. And so it's gonna be great to be back in Bend. I like that area.

SPEAKER_04 25:44

Yeah, it's a little bit different. You're in the Portland area, is that correct?

SPEAKER_07 25:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

Yeah, it's very different. It's one of the things I love about Oregon is how different it is as you travel across the state. So it's like a little mini vacation not too far away. So this isn't your first time performing in Bend. You've been here before?

SPEAKER_07 26:03

I have, yeah. Um we did the teacher show at Volcanic Theater Pub once before, and but before that, uh shout out to Katie Ipock, who had me on one of the Kraft Brewing shows, and then I've been back to Kraft several times since, either part of a show or booking a night for myself. So shout out to Courtney and and um Samantha and the awesome barbecue over there.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

Yeah, they're great. Actually, Courtney's gonna be here in up like an hour and a half to do tonight's like hot topics.

SPEAKER_07 26:36

So Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_04 26:37

Yeah, so she's actually gonna be a part of the same episode as you. So small worlds.

SPEAKER_07 26:42

Yes, all right, cool.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

I know. We we love craft. We're very lucky to have that and her support in our little scene here. It's it's a really it's a staple for sure.

SPEAKER_07 26:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

So you're a teacher. Can you tell us a little bit about what you teach?

SPEAKER_07 26:56

Yeah, sure. I am a college calculus instructor, so I like uh working with numbers and numbers that slide around. You know, the the numbers are sliding toward different values. I guess I already got into too much math there. Anyway, college calculus. I'm teaching first and second year college students, engineering and computer science folks, and I love it. I love teaching, and it's helped me with comedy for sure. I think you know, both types of audiences may not care about what you have to say. So you gotta bounce in there and be excited about what you're talking about. You gotta connect with it yourself, and that's gonna translate to both the audience or the classroom, I think.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Yeah. A lot of the teachers we've been talking to are teachers of slightly younger students. What's it like teaching people that are kind of just becoming adults, if that's what we want to call it?

SPEAKER_07 27:54

Oh yeah, yeah. And that is a debate. That is a debate among people teaching that age group. Is it a bad word to say kids? Is it a bad word to say adults? But I love it because um, you know, if a curse word gets dropped by me accidentally in class, it's not a huge deal. Plus, I mean, what a win. I'm working with these students who are adults, and I'm not working with parents on the behalf of the students. So it's a really great, straightforward interaction, and I get to hear what their goals are. What what what issues are they dealing with and do my best to help them?

SPEAKER_04 28:28

Yeah, I imagine it's nice to kind of take that piece of the parenting puzzle out. It sounds between administrators, parents, and students, it's nice to lose one of those branches, I guess.

SPEAKER_07 28:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:41

Have you okay, so I have to ask. Now, when you say calculus, I must admit I like glaze over a little bit. Like as I as far as I went with like algebra one, have you always been are you are you a math-minded person?

SPEAKER_07 28:52

I am a math-minded person or number-minded person. When I was a kid, I would count syllables whenever anyone said anything. Like uh my mom would say, I'm gonna kick your butt, and that's seven syllables because she was from Baltimore, so it sounded like I'm gonna kick your word butt. But then uh I coming out of high school, I wanted to I was a math major, liked math, but didn't know what to do with it. So I stopped reading the textbook, stopped putting the work in, and uh flunked out of it, took a huge tangent in my life, came back to it, and by then I had developed a real love for stand-up and performing. So teaching was spoke my language more. And so I saw my wife doing homework when she went back to school, and I got so excited about the quadratic formula and all that, and she's like, Yeah, you need to chill out and go back to school for math. So I did that and was able to become a teacher.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

So Yeah. Now you get your fill in math. I'm sure. Do you get do you get your summers off still as a college professor?

SPEAKER_07 29:57

I do. This is the first summer I'm actually not teaching. I've taught other summers, whether it's online or in person. Definitely prefer in-person, but this is the first year I've had the summer off, so I have no excuse to not go and chase comedy opportunities.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

Yeah. And what's your comedy origin story? How did you start?

SPEAKER_07 30:19

Oh, yeah. Uh I I was in an acting class in junior high, and we were doing improv exercises, and I decided to just, you know, act a fool. So uh the instructor gave me a prompt and I pretended to beat down the door of a lover, and the whole class laughed at the the unexpectedness of it, and I was hooked. I'm like, oh, that felt really good. So I've been wanting to make people laugh since. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:47

Good. Yeah. And you said you were in LA before Portland. Is that correct?

SPEAKER_07 30:52

Yeah, went out there to go to film school. Uh, was in the film industry for a while, and that was fun. And then I had a bad breakup coming out of college, and I'm like, oh yeah, I wanted to do stand-up. So I got into that and did that comedy scene, and definitely a great training ground for all sorts of things: comedy, general hustle, sitting in traffic, you know, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

Yeah, it teaches you patience, the traffic in LA. What would you say are the major differences in your experience between doing stand-up in LA and doing stand-up in Portland?

SPEAKER_07 31:26

Oh, yeah. I I mean, I was younger in LA, but I was competing with not only A-listers and people that were good who have been doing it a while, but also people that wanted to dip their toe in it for a hot second, but wanted to be actors, people that just wanted to use stand-up for sitcom chants. But in Portland, it's great that there are people that are working to be stand-ups, uh committed to it, they're out all the time or they're working on it all the time. A lot of great writers in Portland, and uh it's great to be around people where it's like, oh yeah, we do have similar dreams. You're not gonna cash this in to take a left turn. You we're we're stand-ups, we want to do stand-up. The similarity though, which is great, is Portland spoke to me because as a a place to move to because both cities have stuff going on every night of the week. Mics, shows, it's incredible. And listening to your podcast, I really am excited to check out the Ben scene more because you're saying you got stuff every night there. Uh I'm excited about that.

SPEAKER_04 32:31

It's I will say I've I've lived a lot of places. I've lived in New York, Seattle, LA, Vegas, London, and Bend is a surprisingly thriving town for the population size. We have like 130,000 people. Oh, wow. But I don't feel like I'm losing out on anything that I had in like Vegas, where we had two million people. I feel like I have the same lifestyle or status. You know, like everything's nice, it's great. You don't feel like you're giving up good food. We have great food here if you're an eater. Great breweries if you're a drinker.

SPEAKER_07 33:05

Yeah, I did stop drinking, so have one for me, but I'll take any food recommendations you got. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

Yeah. We definitely, I mean, you're right on Century Drive there. There's a new place called Hawkeye and Huckle. I think it's Hawkeye and Huckleberry. It's a steak route, it's like steak and sides, and but everything's very cute and Instagrammable. So if you're looking for like a picture-worthy meal, that would be a place that I would recommend going.

SPEAKER_07 33:30

Nice. I'm I'm gonna start posting food on Instagram. That's it. I'm I'm that's it.

SPEAKER_04 33:35

That's all you're gonna do. Comedy is done, just food photos. I know what kind I mean, it's comedy. It's not like you need social media, anyways, right?

SPEAKER_07 33:43

Well, I try and tell myself that every day. I'm like, God, accept the reality you're gonna create for yourself if you decide not to play the social media game. And I'm I'm gonna accept it. I love being in front of live audiences, and if if I put the work in to do that, but I'm not a social media sensation, I'm fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_04 34:04

I think that's kind of the hard thing about stand-up in a lot of ways, is a lot of people do it because they love the live shows. They don't do it because they love video editing or spending hours listening to their own voice saying the jokes they already heard. Um so yeah, social media can be tough. I don't think you're the only person who feels that way.

SPEAKER_07 34:25

It's nice.

SPEAKER_04 34:26

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 34:27

It's it's nice to know I'm not alone on that. And then of course your feed feeds you stuff like you know, this is trash, BS, don't do it, find other stuff. So it's definitely like, you know, patting me on the back like, okay, you know, you want to quit us, go for it.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 34:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:44

I think a lot of I think that's an overall feeling. People are just kind of tired of it. There feel it seems to be so many outlets and all this stuff, and it all feels like you're I don't know if you feel this way. Sometimes I feel like I'm just like screaming into the void.

SPEAKER_07 34:56

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:58

Yeah, and sometimes it'll get, you know, 500 views, and sometimes it'll get 500,000 views. And quite honestly, I can't tell you what I did differently. Oh, yeah between the two.

SPEAKER_07 35:08

Yeah, and if you love overthinking about stuff, yeah, cycling through your mind about what might have been different between one thing or the other, you can take a lot of time.

SPEAKER_04 35:18

Well, your your math brain will love this. So social media like companies hire the same designers that develop slot machines to develop the interfaces on the platform. So it has the same like randomization, you don't quite know what you're gonna get. You can interact. Yeah, dings.

SPEAKER_07 35:40

I 100% believe that. And thanks for telling me that because it's nice to know there's someone out there who's really good at their job because we are addicted. I mean, they're doing a great job. I get nothing out of it, but I will sit there and look at stuff for hours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:56

Yeah, yeah, exactly. They got us all. But I'm sure, I'm sure it's much more interesting to see you in person and see you perform. And when you're performing jokes, where do you like to start when you're writing jokes? Where do you get your inspiration from?

SPEAKER_07 36:08

Oh, yeah. Um I I like the analytical part of it. And it the problem is motivation to do this. But if I pick any topic uh I want to write down a bunch of facts about it, you know, my opinions about parts of it. But like, you know, math is hard. People like to come up to me and say, I hate math. Whatever the facts or or simple opinions are, I'll start there and then I'll expand on those. I think about different ways to say those. So very analytical. But one thing that's come up that is a definite that I need to do is say it out loud into a tape recorder, listen back to it, and see if it makes any dang sense. If there is something that comes to mind that I should say instead, that's been a huge helpful piece for me because I will I will write and say run-on sentences till the end of time. So listening back to myself is a huge part of it.

SPEAKER_04 37:06

Yeah, experiencing yourself as the audience experiences you.

SPEAKER_07 37:10

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

Do you record every set or do you just record rehearsals?

SPEAKER_07 37:16

I record every set and I'm getting better at watching them right after, you know?

SPEAKER_04 37:22

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 37:23

Not like game tape. What's that?

SPEAKER_04 37:26

Like game tape, like you're a sports person, like analyzing your work.

SPEAKER_07 37:30

I love thinking of it as a sport. And yeah, I want to do it right away. It's not like the team doesn't wait till the end of the season to go back and watch game one. So I gotta stop doing that. I gotta watch stuff right away. And uh thankfully I've been doing comedy enough that all my ego has been burnt off. So I just listened to myself yesterday at a mic, got no laughs. There were nice big fat pauses between each of my lines with nothing happening, but I at least got to hear how it sounded saying it out loud.

SPEAKER_04 37:58

Yeah. You're like, that's where the laugh would go if it wasn't an audience full of other stand-up comedians.

SPEAKER_07 38:05

Totally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:06

One of my best friends says comedians are the worst audience members because they don't laugh. They just kind of look at you, nod, and go, huh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_07 38:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:16

Like they never laugh, they just like tell you that's funny, and you're like, if it's funny, if it's so funny, right?

SPEAKER_07 38:22

Yeah, I I've been there, I've done that, and it's less unless it's someone you go there to support or you're really you're closer with them, you are gonna do that because you you've seen everything before. I guess it's kind of a protective mechanism because you're like, if they start talking about taking a dump, I don't want to hear about this, so I'm kind of removing myself. But yeah, you know, comics saying that funny, that's promising. Comics say not laughing, but saying, Oh, that's funny. But the thing that can be tempting is to play for the comics in the room. So if you say something that's dark, no audience wants to hear it, but in the back of the room you just hear these desperate cackles from other comics, like, you know, that's fun, but I don't know if we want to chase that either.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 39:08

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:08

I I there's definitely I think in every scene there's comics that I would say are like comics, comics, right? They go to all the mics, everyone, like they're just like really in the scene. Yeah, but like audiences don't always get them, right? Like, you know, like audiences are like, why do why do they keep casting this person here? Like, you'll you don't understand. They're funny.

SPEAKER_07 39:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

We all think they're funny.

SPEAKER_07 39:31

Yeah, like uh one of the best parts of being in LA is I would go to the comedy store and watch, and one of the comics there, Brody Stevens, would get up and do his performance art yelling bit. And some people liked it, some people didn't, but the feeling that it I got being in the room and watching him march across the stage and just yell, it was incredible.

SPEAKER_04 39:54

Yeah, I know. Sometimes I can't tell if people are just the best method actors or or really that insane. And I guess they don't need to know the truth. Like the act is the same.

SPEAKER_07 40:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:05

Either way, right? Like I don't need to know, suspend disbelief, as they say.

SPEAKER_07 40:10

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:12

So when you're not doing comedy or doing math, what do you like to fill your time with?

SPEAKER_07 40:17

Oh, yeah. I love spending money on records. I love going to record stores. I was I can't remember if I've been to the one or a record store in Bend, but I will definitely take suggestions.

SPEAKER_04 40:29

Yeah. We have a great one in Downtown Bend.

SPEAKER_07 40:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

I think they just moved locations, so I don't want to tell you what street they're on, but look record store downtown Bend. And uh they we have some stuff in my collection from them. They have some good stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 40:42

Oh, nice. All right, cool. So you got a record player at home.

SPEAKER_04 40:45

Yeah, it's one of the things I like to pick up when I'm traveling around to like remind me of the places I visit. And I also like to collect old comedy records.

SPEAKER_07 40:55

Cool.

SPEAKER_04 40:56

Yeah, so like who's on first? Like in Costello. Like I have like really old comedy. It's so cheesy. I know.

SPEAKER_07 41:04

I love that. I got a I got a collection of some old stuff too. Yeah, that's awesome. I got I found a George Carlin record at an estate sale, which is another thing I like to do. George Carlin record, and one of the tracks was the metric system. And I'm like, oh, I gotta get this. I gotta spend my dollar and get this record.

SPEAKER_04 41:20

This this belongs with me. I will, I don't care if there's a scratch. It's not on that joke. It'll be funny.

SPEAKER_07 41:26

Yeah, here let's talk about some measurements. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:30

I mean, I feel like it's rare that people can make math funny, which is why people should come out and check out your show because you're gonna be able to do that for them. Take something that was painful and make it funny.

SPEAKER_07 41:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 41:42

Yes, at least it was painful to me.

SPEAKER_07 41:44

I I shouldn't project that it wasn't painful for you, it sounds like it was not as painful as the me working my butt off in seventh grade to get a barely passing grade in English class. But you know, we all have our traumatic experiences, and exactly that's one of the great things about this show is one of us is gonna at least one of us is gonna hit on something where it's like, yeah, that is so true, or thank you for saying that.

SPEAKER_04 42:07

Exactly. And if people want to get tickets to come see you and the other teachers that are coming to town with the teacher show, where's the best place to do that?

SPEAKER_07 42:14

I think they should go to the venue volcanic theater pub and look for tickets there or just type that into a search. I am not good at putting all my latest shows in my Instagram link, which is a link tree link. But if you want to take a chance, I'm on Instagram at Tata Regano, and there is a link there with dates.

SPEAKER_04 42:39

Fantastic. It's okay. The internet, honestly, everyone has Google. So if they just like type in your name and show, I'm sure all your AI will accumulate all the information for them and put it in a nice little summary at the top. Yeah, it will.

SPEAKER_07 42:53

You just ask AI, what kind of uh sick person is gonna get into math and talk about it on stage at a comedy show and bend, and you'll find it. It'll you'll find it.

SPEAKER_04 43:01

Yeah, it'll be like Todd Basil right there.

SPEAKER_07 43:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

I the way I was saying, I was saying your name, I said it right, Basil, right?

SPEAKER_07 43:08

Nice one, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:09

Okay, good. I was as soon as you said it, I was like, what is Basil? Was that Austin Powers?

SPEAKER_07 43:16

Oh, you got it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:17

Yes, okay, yes, yeah. And I was like, oh, that's right, Basil, Basil, okay, not Basil.

SPEAKER_07 43:22

Yeah, the stuffy English dude from Austin Powers whose mom was the brunt of some jokes. Yeah, that guy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:28

That guy, that guy, yeah. Um, well, thank you again for taking the time to chat with us. Is there anything else you would like to share with the listeners before you say goodbye today?

SPEAKER_07 43:36

Uh yeah, so every time I go to Ben, I talk about the experience I had there in 09, which was I drove into Bend and there was a really cool manicured topiary bush that said Bend. It was a giant hedge that spelled out bend, and I've never been able to find it. No one else knows what I'm talking about, but it was really cool. So that was something I wanted to see in Ben and uh No one knows what I'm talking about. But hey, if you have a lead on it.

SPEAKER_04 44:03

Yeah. Hopefully, I mean, yeah, if our listeners know or have a photo of where this thing might be, let us know. Because honestly, I have no idea. I've lived here three years though, so I'm hardly the bend expert. There's still corners of this town I'm exploring. So hopefully somebody will be able to find that for you. But thank you again, Todd. We appreciate it. And enjoy the rest of your night.

SPEAKER_07 44:22

Yeah, you too, Julia.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

I was just enjoying watching this lady clerk.

SPEAKER_04 44:26

I know I can tell we were all distracted by the parking. I was like, we have Oh, she has a dog too.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

I wonder if her dog is Jack.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

So the question is, he looks better in the midrift. Her or John?

unknown 44:39

John.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

Ooh, I think John! I think John. Damn it! Two dogs. Do you think they smoke weed?

SPEAKER_01 44:47

Well, that was eating cartridge, so yes.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

Yeah. Yes. Probably. I bet you like to feed feed the dog. Think we're really jumping.

SPEAKER_04 44:56

Remember when they did that big push towards like CBD dog treats? I feel like you don't see it as much anymore. Yeah. But there was like a big push there for a while to like get your dog on weed.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

Did you ever see the dog grow?

SPEAKER_00 45:07

Yeah, so this guy would go to breweries and like get basically the the brew slop or like what's you know before it turned ferments and all that stuff. And then he would make like a liquid out of it or like a whatever and he would sell it.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

And he claimed it was really good for dogs, which it probably is. There's a lot of like magnesium and B12 and folate, and there's a lot of stuff as as the byproduct of brewing. But usually I think part of that's the fermentation for it out on a dog. Yeah, I don't know. I just bagged my dog dog food. How that's weird. That's weird.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

I know it's all weird. I had a roommate once who coached every meal for her dogs.

SPEAKER_03 45:46

But they don't get all the nutrients they showed that way. I've looked it up so many times. You like have to give them certain vitamins and omegas and yeah, and that's when you get them on steroids.

SPEAKER_05 45:57

Weird.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

Exactly. And we have come full circle, ladies and gentlemen. If you want to see some great Ben comedy, we have lots and lots of opportunities for you to do that. Um, what shows do we have coming up?

SPEAKER_01 46:11

So I've got drunk history on June 17th at Silver Moon Bruin.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

Yeah, same day that the podcast is released. If you're listening to this podcast right as it's released, head over to Silver Moon tonight. I'm gonna do drunk history. I never drink anymore, so we will see. I also don't, it's science. Is that what I have to do? Science?

SPEAKER_01 46:34

That's just a theme.

SPEAKER_03 46:36

It's been a long time.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Yeah, we'll talk.

SPEAKER_04 46:38

We'll dig deep. Okay. Okay. And then what else do we have? On Friday, June 19th. You have We have comedy at Craft.

unknown 46:46

Comedy.

SPEAKER_04 46:47

Oh, sorry, trivia.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

Trivia. Dirty trivia. Dirty Minds, trivia. Dirty Minds, trivia. The questions sound dirty, but the answers are clean.

SPEAKER_04 46:56

They are. And is this the one that you present with Adam and Eve?

SPEAKER_03 47:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 47:01

Oh that's yes.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

And I'm the host, so you know, I throw a lot of comedy out because you know, sometimes people get uncomfortable, and I like to make them even more uncomfortable.

unknown 47:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

So if you want to come, be uncomfortable. Uh no, it's super fun. It's super fun. No, a lot of suggested stuff, and like the crowd gets super into it, and I don't know. We just have a blast. Fantastic. You're gonna be hosting, right? Yes. Fun.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

And then Saturday the 20th, you have a comedy show Jake Woodman C is doing, right? That'll be great. That'll be great. And then Tuesday, June 23rd, crazy, happy, funny, silly, nerdy. Anthony Papoon. Did I get all the words?

SPEAKER_01 47:43

I think so.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

It's a lot of words, but it's a great show. Anthony does like happiness talks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

He's a real downer, though. I'm joking. He's super fun. Also a Georgia man. He wants to see Georgia too. Look at this. We watch football together sometimes.

SPEAKER_04 48:00

Your football buddy. Oh, yes. Oh, that's fun. Look at that. Something new every day. But yeah, lots of great comedy happening in Bend this week. So please get out and see it. And if you want to try comedy yourself, there are lots of open mics in town for you to check out. Monday night at Silver Moon. Wednesday nights at Craft. You host that most weeks. Yes. But sometimes she gets guest guest visitors in their guests. We love guests. Yeah. Come be a guest. Um and then Thursday there is a open mic at Worthy that goes through is it through July?

SPEAKER_01 48:35

August?

SPEAKER_04 48:35

August?

SPEAKER_01 48:36

I don't know the full dates of it.

SPEAKER_04 48:37

Yeah. But it's a great mic at Worthy on Thursday nights. Anything else you guys wanna John? Anything else you wanna?

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Yeah, you can find all my dates at downtownjohnbrown.com.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

Nice and easy.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Nice and easy. And Courtney? Uh you can find all of our stuff at craft uh at craft kitchen and brewery. That's our handle. Uh personally for my shows, it's at Courtney Spitz Stevens. Because Spitzer is my maiden name, and do not ask me if I spitter swap.

SPEAKER_04 49:08

Um, and I'm Julia Reed Nichols, and this has been Nighttime Benders powered by the source. Please remember to follow, like, subscribe, rate, all the things. We are a new podcast and all that stuff really, really does help. So thank you guys so much for support. We'll be back next week with more local comics, news, fun stuff. What uh what else do we do here? Have a good time. Have a good time, have a good time. All right, until next time, guys. Bye.