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Find a friend, a lover, a partner at Date my age. Get 60% off when you join@datemyage.com today. That's datemyage.com to connect with thousands of singles worldwide. Datemyage.com welcome to Fitz Dog Radio. My guest today is Steph Tolev, who is Canadian. She's one of the a lot of funny Canadians lately. They're kind of hitting their str. For a long time Canada was all about sketch comedy and improv. Second City up there and all that. But then and they've always had stand up that's always been very good. Obviously Norm MacDonald came out of there but there's kind of a bunch of people now, Ian Bagg and Steph Tolev and Harlan Williams that have been around for a while but are kind of all hitting their stride. There's a Canadian Renaissance As Bono would say. And it's exciting because they're all good people. Canadians are so easy to be around. They don't have big egos. They are silly. All of these. Can all these comedians have a silliness to them that I like? So, yes, we got some of that today. Harlan and Ian, I've both had in the past year. And then I've got Robbie Hoffman on. She was just on. She's Canadian. Jesus, leave some fucking room for the Americans. All right, let's get to it. Uh, Elon Musk is on drugs. I don't know how we missed that one. The guy is, he's, he's autistic and on drugs. Let's. Let's task him with firing tens of thousands of highly trained doctors, scientists, with the help of three kids in their 20s. How about that? How do we not know he was on drugs? I mean, look at that fucking Tesla truck that. What do they call it, a cybertruck, Whatever that thing is called, you have got to be on ketamine to come up with that body type. That thing screams douche. Every license plate on there should just be douche one, douche two, all the way up to douche. However many idiots bought that fucking truck, it's awful. And it breaks down. So. And I said, but they're fucking fast. And they're annoying because they'll pop out of nowhere because they're so fast and it's like the speed of light and you're making a right hand turn on a red light and you almost get sideswiped by some. They drive. I saw a guy driving one on the highway. I don't know where you live, but if you live in a city, maybe even on a country road, but in a city you get these five lane highways and late at night you get these people in sports cars or Tesla trucks and they drive like they're driving 120 miles an hour and they are darting in and out of traffic, cutting everybody off. And then you see one, you see a Corvette or a Ferrari go by, and then three seconds later you see a fucking Dodge Challenger come by doing the same thing. And you always go like, what was that? Then there'll be a third car and you go, do they know each other? Or does one of them speed by and the other one takes it as a challenge and goes, well, I guess, I guess it's douchebag night on the 10 East. I'm in. I'm in. Maybe they try to catch each other. They try to show off they're Inspired. But there's always multiple assholes driving their cars too fast on the highway. And I remember once when I was in high school, there was this kid, what was his name? His first name was Pat. He was fat. Called him Fat Pat. And he had a 68 Cougar, which was a fast muscle car. He had it all jacked up at a scoop on the hood, Hearst on the floor, dual exhaust, fast. Anyway, it's a little drizzling out and we're driving ironically past the hospital and this guy is darting in and out of traffic, flies by me and then loses his traction, goes into the other lane and hits a car head on going probably. This was just a two lane road, but he was probably going 60 and totaled the other car. And I didn't stop, so I don't know if anyone died. I know Pat was all fucked up from it. I don't know how the other car was, but come on, people stop. I mean, I got a Mustang now. I drive it fast, but I never, I wait till I'm on like, you know, the five north at one in the morning coming from San Diego and there's literally zero people on the road. Then I'll gun it, then I'll get it up to 110. It was just stupid. But I don't even notice I'm doing it. The car is so fast that it just gets up there. But it's a big, you know, I think it's an LA thing. It's a car town and we have maybe the best cars in the country. I would say in terms I'm a muscle car guy, I like old. I like it. I saw an El Camino yesterday. Those are pretty badass. But you know, Mustangs and Camaros and you know, Barracudas, and we have a lot of those cars in pristine shape in this town, you know, a lot of it. And a lot of like 57 Chevy Impalas. That's a big thing with the Latino community. And Venice beach has a thing on Sundays where they all kind of meet up in different places like Abbot Kinney or down at the beach. And they've got these, you know, with the jacked up suspension in the back where they can bounce up and down, but they're not all that jacked up. A lot of them are just pristine cars. And I had a 69 Chevy Impala, but I think these are 67s, which was a definitely more elegant body type than the 69. It was a little more of a muscle car and. But I love It. And I love the Chicanos in la. Like I talk. I went a little rant about how I love LA the other day and I have a couple other thoughts on that. You know, I think our Chicanos are better than your Latinos. And we get the best Mexicans. Let's just put it on the table. They come through here first and they, they, they fucking work their asses off. And they raise families and we are very close friends with first, second, third generation Latinos. But my kids went to a Spanish immersion school. So half the kids, literally, they make sure half the kids are from Spanish speaking homes. And they're just the tightest families. They have the most fucking joyous sense of humor. Not that I'm categorizing an entire race, but I can, I can. This was my experience. And, and it's a big part of la. Um, it's what makes it great. It's what drives the economy. And the other thing we have in LA is the best pimps and whores. I talked about the Kardashians. We have the best whores. We have Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. And we got the best pimps. Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg is our pimp. Snoop Dogg with the fucking, the cane. What do you call the cane? With scotch in the handle. Guys in zoot suits. Snoop Doggs are. Who's your pimp? Some, some methed out biker running a jack shack on a side street in Tuscaloosa. That's your pimp. We. I want to see you guys make your own tv. As much as you hate California, you. You watch our shit, we write it, we produce it, we act in it, we edit it, we put it out. You watch it and then you boo California when I'm on the road. Are you fucking kidding? Make your own TV show. I want to see CSI Dayton, produced by Dayton. People. Do it and then put it out. Let's see who watches. Let's see who watches. You know, what crime are you going to show the this Janine who used to be the prom queen and now she's giving out hand jobs for a line of coke at Pete Saloon. Getting arrested week after week. That's your csi. Who cares? We give you guys all your tv. We gave you Tinder, we gave you marijuana, video games. So you know the next time you meet a girl on Tinder, go to a movie, watch a movie, smoke some weed. While you're there, come back and watch a video game or some porn. We do that too. Why don't you drop us a little thank you note, just write, Hollywood, California, thank you. Drop it in the mailbox. Navy seals, that's us. You guys want to talk about how you're tough? We got the fucking Navy seals and they come back from the Middle east with stories, war stories about taking out a fucking warlord in Syria. And they come back and they tell that story to their friend who's a screenwriter. He writes it up, we shoot it, we put it out on Hulu. You watch it. That's all us, you know. And you want to talk about the homeless. So we have a lot of homeless. It's your kids, your kids coming out here. They're watching American Idol and Simon Cowell and I don't know who else is a judge on that. Ariana Grande, who cares? But they're all encouraging your kids to follow their dreams. So your kid gets on a Greyhound because he thinks he can sing. And he comes out here and he goes up in front of Simon Cowell and Simon goes, well, you suck. You're no good. And now you're just. Now you're homeless. You can't make any fucking money because you have no depth, you lived with no grit in your life. You're not an artist, you're a karaoke singer. And now you can't make a living. And now you're homeless. That's. We have homeless. No, you have homeless who happen to be living on our fucking streets. Get in your minivan. Parents back in date, get in your minivan, pop in a Bob Seger cd, drive out here, start checking under the bridges first. Look for a tent, find your kid, pry the limp dick out of his hand and bring him back to Dayton because we used him up. You sent him out here. We vaporized his dream and we put it into a vape pen that Alec Baldwin takes hits off of constantly. And that's what keeps his career going. The vaporized hopes and dreams of your children. Wow. That got fucking dark. I got a bunch more, eh? I mean, sure, we burst into flame once in a while, but we're good looking. I. Not me personally, but I get to look at a lot of good looking people. And. And then I go to your town, I go to fucking Tempe, Arizona. And. And it's just your girls are kind of good looking, but they all look the same. They all have blonde hair and fake tits and they're tan. And I see them walking home from the bar at 2am wobbling on high heeled shoes that make them uncomfortable. They're wobbling and a couple of them have the fucking Shoes off. They take the shoes off. Which to me is like, all right, that's like, you're out. You're out of the game. Guys, do not hit on a girl whose shoes are in her hand. That's like being in a paintball game and you see somebody splattered with paintballs on his shirt. You can't shoot that guy again. He's just trying to walk out of the game. That's all she's trying to do. She's trying to get off the playing field, get back to her dorm room or her apartment and whatever. She's red shirted. She's a, she's a sophomore that's injured and she's red shirted. She can't play in the games. She's barefoot. It's over. Meanwhile, you see a guy Barefoot at 2:00am that guy wants to fuck. That's it. That's a sign. This is, this is a mountain man. This is a guy who's. He wants to feel the ground under him. You never see a guy holding his timberlands at 2am Walking off my feet are killing me. You don't see that, by the way. Shout out to Bono and Joe Rogan did a very interesting podcast together, some different points of view. Talked a lot about America's role in the world, specifically helping with world hunger and disease and being a beacon for hope and democracy around the world. And Bono was sort of imparting that to Joe. Joe said the word overcorrection quite a bit, which I liked. I think that's probably a good way to distill a lot of what's happening right now. But the thing is, you can watch a lot of clips of Joe Rogan saying stuff and it's easy to dismiss him and say this is a guy is a conspiracy right winger and all that. And look, there's a lot of stuff I don't agree with him on, but if you listen to a whole podcast, you know, look, full disclosure, Joe's one of my best friends, but he's also a guy who really knows how to communicate and have conversation. And he has deep thoughts, he has well thought out ideas in any way. So fucking just watch a whole episode once in a while. Anyway, I'm coming to you folks. Tampa side Splitters Comedy club this weekend, June 5th through the 7th. Come out, bring some friends. It's one of my favorite clubs in the country, Sacramento. I will be with Louis C.K. june 13th and 14th. Then I'll be in Torrance, California, at a place called the End on June 29th. Austin, the Mothership, Fourth of July weekend, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, at Souljols. July 31st, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Uncle Vinny's, August 1st through 2nd. Then I'll be in La Jolla, Denver, Connecticut, Vegas, Chicago, New Orleans. Go to fitzdog.com, pick up some tickets, come out and see some live comedy. All right. My guest today, I mentioned earlier, she's a fan, fine comic who just destroys at the Comedy Store every night. It feels like she's there every night. Just always has good sets. She is out of Toronto, and she's Bulgarian. She did competitive highland dance for a lot of her life. Bill Burr produced her first special, Friends who Kill. She's got a podcast called Staph Infection. And. And she is delightful. Had such a nice time talking to her this past week. Here is Steph Tollev. My guest today is Steph Tolevo. People say to Lev or to love.
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To level. You said it correctly.
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I did. Right. But do people mispronounce it on stage sometimes?
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It's so easy. To Lev. It's.
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It's exactly for you, because you're from some Eastern European tribe from Romania.
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Well, I wouldn't say Blips Glimmons. It's Fitzsimmons. You know how you say your name? It's. It's spelled how it said.
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Yeah, but black people always think that my name. When I say. When I'm checking into the hotel and it's a black person, which it usually is, they. I'll say checking in Fitzsimmons. They 99% of the time, try to find Simmons, because Simmons is a big name in the black community.
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Okay. Okay.
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And they don't. And the Fitz is soft.
Unknown Guest
Well, you gotta say Fitz, Simmons.
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That's what I do. I go, Fitz. And I take a pause. Simmons.
Unknown Guest
Really?
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Yeah. But it's. You know, it's hard dealing with black people in general, you know?
Unknown Guest
Is that what this podcast is about?
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I think that's the kind of podcast. I'm glad I was late.
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Jesus Christ. Christ is green screen. We run all kinds of, like, white power symbols back here.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. Geez.
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You have horns on you.
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Oh, my.
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Oh, God. This is. I was literally just saying how much I love Greg. You're so funny. He's such a nice guy. I was wildly wrong.
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No. I did a podcast recently with a guy who pulled that on me, and I was like. And I just completely shut myself down. I barely talked. I was.
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Austin.
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No, it was here. I'll tell you. After the show. It was. And he was Booked to be on my show the next month. And I. I canceled.
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I've only. Yeah, I've only canceled one podcast.
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Really?
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I said, well, no, of my own. I said, I go. There was technical difficulties.
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Yeah, I canceled. I canceled one that I recorded. I canceled.
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Oh, it was recorded.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Guest
I couldn't have. I. I was like, this is not for me. Right out of, like child molestation jokes. I'm like, yeah, I don't like this at all.
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No, nobody likes child molestation. Well, that's not true. Be or there would be no child molestation.
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Yeah, the people doing it like it.
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Yeah, yeah. They love it.
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They are obsessed with.
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Louis CK has this whole bit about how he did on snl. He's like, it must be so great because everything they put up with, all the. Their pariahs in society, they go to jail and they still do it.
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It's.
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It must be amazing.
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I didn't know that, dude.
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Louis CK And I don't know how you feel. I know a lot of. There's a lot of female comics that feel otherwise, but he is the best comedian of the last 20 years. Over Atel Attel is the best club comedian.
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Okay.
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Louie is the best special comedian.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
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TV specials.
Unknown Guest
I don't think I've ever watched one. Yeah, I don't watch those specials. Yeah, my thing with Louis is, look, I've been in. I've been in hotel rooms with. With male comedians at that hour. Yeah, you're gonna see a dick, you gotta get out. Gonna see a dick, gotta get out. I don't go. You don't go past nothing. It's right.
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You're right.
Unknown Guest
But I'm saying one time this happened to me in Moncton at this festival, and this guy, me and my friend drinking, and he laughed. He goes, you want to come stuff? I'm like, I'm good. Second of all, the guy's like, what is he my. On my phone. I'm like, I'm good. I should have left.
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Wait, who did that?
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This comic in Moncton.
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Oh, I thought his name was Moncton.
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No, Moncton was the place.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Guest
It was disgusting. It looked like, so wet. I was like, why is it wet? It's bizarre.
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We used to do a thing, me and another comedian. I won't say his name, but he's a great guy and he's got a clean cut image. America's Got Talent guy.
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Okay.
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And we used when we were starting out in Boston, Lawson.
Unknown Guest
Okay, what's that? Future Lawson.
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Preacher's been here and we went to. We'd go to parties and we had this running bet we would both pull our cocks out of our flies. So just the shaft and head.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
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And then whoever. That's the whole cock, not the balls.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, but yeah, just pulling your cock. You consider the balls part of the shaft and head? Yeah.
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It's the cock that's like saying a fucking. What's that? Like saying.
Unknown Guest
I don't know. When you say the dick out. Yeah. If you said dick in, your balls came out, I'd be alarmed.
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That's like saying the pussy doesn't include the clitoris.
Unknown Guest
Well, it's in the top. It has to.
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Well, when you say pussy, do you think clitoris is part of that?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, but we say cock. I just picture the penis. The shafts in the head. I don't picture the balls. The balls are separate.
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It's like the luggage. You're carrying the luggage.
Unknown Guest
How many vibrators do you have? Have you seen with balls on them?
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That's a good point. Although there's a rabbit ear.
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Yeah.
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Which is like a. Yeah, it's like a reverse ball.
Unknown Guest
No, they're not. We do not look at those like balls.
Unknown Announcer
That's strange because. And. And I don't want to ask you this personally, because it's crass, but I think some women enjoy the slapping of the balls.
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Some do.
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So maybe there should be a loose ball.
Unknown Guest
Those wouldn't sell. Well, there's very few women that like.
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Well, it's detachable. You don't have to use it.
Unknown Guest
Like Truck Nows, I guess you could just kind of like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is attachable. You can put them on there.
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I think Truck Nuts started in Canada, by the way.
Unknown Guest
I think I want to get us out of Truck Nuts.
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
They're so stupid.
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They're so stupid.
Unknown Guest
I want them dragging. I want to make, like sparks flying. I want them so big that they're absurd.
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And paste some hair on there. Make it real. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Make it real.
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Full set of hair on there. Follicles.
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And maybe a guy's high squealing voice coming out of a speaker in the back.
Unknown Guest
This is. This is a marketing idea.
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Yes.
Unknown Guest
Let's get on the ground floor.
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Yeah, yeah. This is our merch. This is our merch.
Unknown Guest
I'm wearing my own merch right now. This is my own merch. Filth queen. I'm wearing my own goddamn merch. I have.
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But you can't read it.
Unknown Guest
You can't.
Unknown Announcer
There's too much Going on, really? I just looked at it. I could. I couldn't tell what it said.
Unknown Guest
Well, you're looking a little too hard now, pervert. You're really taking it in. I really can't read it. Can you come closer? I really can't. What does it say? I'm actually having a hard feeling.
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I can read it.
Unknown Guest
My shirt's off. It's like, of course you can't read it. It's no longer on my body.
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And do those sell well? The filth?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, they do.
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You bring them on the road with you?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah, I stopped. So annoying. It's pathetic.
Unknown Announcer
Well, here's the key, is you. You sell pins. That's what I do. I have these little pins. I bring a bag that's this big with about 150 pins in it. I sell them all out over the course of the weekend and I don't have to check another bag, so.
Unknown Guest
Selling them for what?
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I sell them for 10 bucks each.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
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They cost me two.
Unknown Guest
Okay. Look at this. Wow, that's good.
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And it's all cash. I don't take credit cards or Venmo. So really, I have a safe at home and I just stuff cash in it every weekend. And then when we have to buy something, like we just bought a new fence for our house. We paid cab, paid the guy cash.
Unknown Guest
You bought a new car? I'm absolutely pissed. We both were fucking driving around in Subaru Outbacks and now I'm the only lesbo in lot Now.
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I know.
Unknown Guest
God, what the heck, Greg? I was a pumped, right? Pulled in this nice car. I'm like, who's this idiot?
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Yeah, well, it's called a midlife crisis, Steph. You'll have it at some point.
Unknown Guest
I think I already had a couple. 40.
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Are you 40?
Unknown Guest
Thank you for that reaction.
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I honestly, I thought you were early 30s.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, I would have let you suck me off right now. Let you suck me?
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Let you.
Unknown Guest
I'm not going to suck you off. I'm gna allow you. It's the. You know, it is. It's. It's the haircut, I think.
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Look younger.
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I remember your old hair. It was, it was. I saw. Well, I saw a picture of it. Parted. Yeah, it's parted and flat. And now you'd work in the bangs.
Unknown Guest
Oh, we need the bangs. Well, that's why, that's why I look young.
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Do you curl it?
Unknown Guest
Not this natural.
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It's naturally curly. Oh, that's nice.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah.
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And what about air? Armpit hair. Have you ever worked with that? At all or you always kept it?
Unknown Guest
No, I tried to grow it out when I was in grade eight because I wanted. I tried to be in the Guinness Book of Records for longest armpit hair. Bizarre thing I thought was funny. And then I ended up. We had pool class and I had to wear like a big T shirt and I almost drowned one day. I'm like, this is stupid. Like the fat person T shirt, that's what I had to wear. I'm like, this is also so much. People can grow it. I don't know why I thought that was what. I'm European, so it grows quite rapidly.
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Yeah, well. What's your ethnicity?
Unknown Guest
Bulgarian.
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Your parents are both from Bulgaria?
Unknown Guest
No, my grandparents are. My parents are from. Both born in Canada.
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But are. Is both of their ethnicity Bulgarian?
Unknown Guest
No, just my dad. Oh, they're arranged marriage from Bulgaria.
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Where's your mom from?
Unknown Guest
She's Canada and her mom's from Canada, but she's.
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Why was it arranged?
Unknown Guest
My grandparents were arranged marriage.
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Oh, your grandparents were arranged.
Unknown Guest
Is that bizarre?
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Did they love each other?
Unknown Guest
No, they divorced like three kids and that was it. And that, that's unheard of to get divorced after being arranged.
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Right?
Unknown Guest
Cuz that whole side of the family, like you're done. Like my baba, they're like, bye you. They don't talk to her.
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So how did she make a living after that?
Unknown Guest
I don't know. Canada somehow just give people money.
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Yeah, I know.
Unknown Guest
I don't really understand what happened. I'm like, she never worked a day in her life and she had a house and I'm like, I can't even afford a house. And I. All I do is work. I'm down here.
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I know.
Unknown Guest
I want a fence. I want to have midlife crisis fence money. Where's that? You afford a fucking house in the city?
Unknown Announcer
It's so unfair. It's so unfair. My kids said that to me the other day. Like, dad, we are never going to be able to buy a house. Like when you think about the average income has not gone up that much in the last 20 years and housing prices have tripled. How does that make sense?
Unknown Guest
Two bedroom.
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And now. Yeah, you end up with a two bedroom with a bath with a half a yard in it and you're underwater.
Unknown Guest
It's absurd.
Unknown Announcer
And, and the problem is now is 40% of all houses that are coming on the market are being bought by corporations that then turn them into rentals. So that drives the prices of houses up even more and it forces, you know, the American dream. And no offense, I know you're Canadian, but like the American dream was you buy a house and you got a place to retire, you have equity you can borrow against if you're in a tough spot as an older person. And now we're all going to be just Walmart greeters paying rent for the rest of our lives.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. You're going to have your kids living with you. What's going to happen? Well, are they already living with you?
Unknown Announcer
Well, my. No. My son's. My son's out. My daughter's 21, so she's live. We have a guest house in the back, so she's got an apartment in the guest house, but she's looking to move out.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
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In the fall.
Unknown Guest
That's nice.
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I don't want them, Guy. I love my kids being around.
Unknown Guest
Oh.
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Oh, my God. I just hung out with my daughter all morning. She's.
Unknown Guest
What the heck?
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And then. And my son, we play paddle tennis and golf together and we have, what, family dinners on Sunday night. He comes home every Sunday.
Unknown Guest
Oh, my God.
Unknown Announcer
No, I. I don't want them moving away. But I mean, look at what other countries do you live for? 3 generations in the same house. We're the only country where people turn 21 or 18 and they move away. Then you have babies and your. Their grandparents aren't near them to help raise them.
Unknown Guest
That's a problem.
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I know, it's a bummer.
Unknown Guest
My family still doing that in Canada. That's the Canadian dream, too.
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
My sister is a kid.
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My parents love that they live nearby.
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah. Ten minutes away.
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Oh, that's nice.
Unknown Guest
Oh, they do dinners together and I'm just like, hi. Why is no one answering my call?
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Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Mommy, Daddy, do you still love me? Why don't I get phone calls? Oh, I don't care.
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It's just you and your sister.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
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Was she always the favorite?
Unknown Guest
Yeah. And she's funnier than me and it's so annoying. It's so annoying. And she doesn't even care like she does. She knows she's funny, but she works for the city of Toronto.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Like I took her to just for last one year, years ago.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And she came back. I couldn't find her hanging out the Hyatt bar, whatever the party. She has another stack of cards and I'm like, what's that? She goes, I don't know what the. These are. Manager, agent, manager, agent. I was like, she works for the city of Toronto.
Unknown Announcer
She's killing.
Unknown Guest
She's killing because she's treating like dog, making fun of everyone calling them, like, garbage piles. I was like, this is so funny.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, my God. Yeah. I was the favorite child growing up.
Unknown Guest
How many of you was there?
Unknown Announcer
I had a brother who's 13 months old. There were Irish twins.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
And then my sister's three and a half years younger, and I was the funny one growing. I was the middle child. So I was the one that was kind of gregarious and, you know, alcoholic dad, But I made everything okay. I was able to play off of him. And. And then my sister grinded her way into it, and she started taking my mom in every summer because my mom lives in Florida. My sister's in New York, but we're from New York. So my mom comes home. No, Tarrytown. Right.
Unknown Guest
Okay. But you're close to. My boyfriend. Lives upstate Marigue. Is. Knew the whole area.
Unknown Announcer
What town is he?
Unknown Guest
Romulus.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. That's not Terry. No, we're. We're 20 minutes from the city. That's, like, hours. Yeah. So she. She puts her up, and so now my sister's the favorite child, and I'm trying to fight my way back in. I fly down to Florida. I visit her.
Unknown Guest
Wow.
Unknown Announcer
I send her giant bouquets on mother's Day. And.
Unknown Guest
And so nothing.
Unknown Announcer
Well, I'm getting there, but I feel like she still definitely has the edge.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
And my brother's a. He's a long shot.
Unknown Guest
Long shot.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
He's done. He doesn't care.
Unknown Announcer
I think he cares, but, you know.
Unknown Guest
It'S too far gone.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Yeah, it's gone.
Unknown Guest
I'm. I whisked up a bit because I think my parents think I'm famous.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
So there's, like, a little gray area right now. But then my sister had the baby, and that's it. Now we're done.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Fame and baby. No comparison.
Unknown Guest
Nothing. They don't know. I literally got a quote today from Bill gave me for my special, and I was so happy about it. I, like, cried. I said, it's in my group chat. My mom went, that's nice. I'm like, that's nice. I'm like. Bill Burger said I'm the funniest person ever. And he said, that's nice. What the Is this? Like. You realize what this says? That's nice. Any more photos of the baby? I'm like, I'm gonna snap. Yeah. I'm a chop liver up there. I'm Canadian. I'm poutine to my parents. Cheese and wow. Yeah. Slop.
Unknown Announcer
What about. Is there a difference between dad and Mom? Do they both Feel the same about you.
Unknown Guest
No, they do. I think my dad's more proud of me.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. He actually.
Unknown Announcer
I could see that. The father being more like career. Yeah. Yes.
Unknown Guest
My mom, all her friends tell her that she could have been a comedian.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And that's really gotten to her head.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
So she thinks she's very funny and she's always like, well, you know, if I didn't teach highland dancing.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I'm like, what? You would have grinded your ass out for 23 years and moved to Los Angeles and wanted to kill yourself and drank excessively and a bunch of gross pigs to get where you are? That's what you would have done, Joy. I don't think so.
Unknown Announcer
You didn't gross pigs to get to where you are?
Unknown Guest
No, no, no. I mean, I just meant like I just a bunch of gross pigs.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Guest
No, I wish I. Gross pig. I fucked open micrs.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I should have been Jeff Singer. I made a huge mistake. I was the wrong people. I fucked nobody in the industry. Not one person. Schlobs.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, you should. You should have been in the back rooms of agency. You should have been working as an intern at uta. I was sucking dick for lunch.
Unknown Guest
I was sucking dick in the back of an alley after a Tinder date. That's where I was. Mistakes were made.
Unknown Announcer
God, yeah.
Unknown Guest
Disgusting.
Unknown Announcer
So. So you're gross by your own definition, right? You say filth.
Unknown Guest
Yes.
Unknown Announcer
So. But your parents, you want them to love you more, but how do they feel about your stand up?
Unknown Guest
They like it. Now here's the problem. They're perverted. They act like this came out of nowhere.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
One of my first memories of my parents when they first got this cottage, they invited the neighbors over and all of a sudden this blow up doll came out of nowhere. And I walked out to my mom and dad both fake fucking this doll. And I'm like. And I'm the pervert. When did I become the pervert here?
Unknown Announcer
Wow.
Unknown Guest
They are my dad. This is my dad's favorite joke. It's so psychotic. I just read the weirdest it. In his wallet. I can call. I actually can call him right now. I can prove it. In his wallet he has a picture of baby photo. He goes, oh, you want to see my baby photo? He has this laminated photo of a baby with a huge penis. He shows it to everybody. He has it. He had it laminated. That's how much he loves this bit. And people almost like, whose kid is this? Because now you just have.
Unknown Announcer
That's great.
Unknown Guest
Speaking of child stuff as bad.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
You have a. Someone's kid. Whose kid is this? With this fake long cock.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And I'm like. And I'm the gross one.
Unknown Announcer
So it's like, let's not be. I had a feeling that that's what you came from. I had a feeling your parents had a dark sense of humor. Because that doesn't come out of nowhere.
Unknown Guest
No. And I'm like. I'm also just a pervert. I've always been a pervert. Like, I just think like a sick fuck.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
So you never clean piece over here?
Unknown Announcer
I'm not clean at all. But what's so funny is people think of me as like, you know, family guy and all that. But, you know, that came later. I mean, I was a madman my whole life.
Unknown Guest
I never saw, like, you were young, doing stand up.
Unknown Announcer
Well, I, I, well. And I just made my life like. I wrote a book about it because I was so sick of people thinking I was one way when I really. So my book is all about how many times I was arrested and, you know, and doing drugs. I'll send it to you.
Unknown Guest
I want to read the book.
Unknown Announcer
All right. You won't read it. Comics don't read.
Unknown Guest
I actually don't read, but I will read this.
Unknown Announcer
What are you reading now?
Unknown Guest
There's a couple books sitting on my night table that I.
Unknown Announcer
Read anymore.
Unknown Guest
People read. My boyfriend reads all the time. He thinks I'm stupid because they don't read. Actually, right now I'm reading. I have a stack of cards. I'm reading the. The test for my citizenship.
Unknown Announcer
You're not a citizen yet.
Unknown Guest
No. And I'm. I'm gonna fail. I am stupid.
Unknown Announcer
Don't fail Now.
Unknown Guest
I'm. I know. I'm. Well, this or I get married. This or I force his name. Jeff Jefferson. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
So wait a minute. How is it that you're. You've been here for how many years?
Unknown Guest
Green card. 10 years. I've been here for. Yeah, I've been. I have my green card for seven years.
Unknown Announcer
And why did you never take the test?
Unknown Guest
I applied to be dual citizen. Because you can get your green card. You have to. That's. That's a whole separate process.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
So now to become a dual citizen.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Which I'm doing. Because people with green cards are being stopped at the border.
Unknown Announcer
Yes.
Unknown Guest
All of a sudden I'm terrified. I haven't gone back to Canada since that happened.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, really?
Unknown Guest
I'm freaked out. Yeah. It's bad. Like, people who have had green cards for years, they apparently, they're going through their social media, and if you've spoken.
Unknown Announcer
Of one time, dude, what are we living in? What is this?
Unknown Guest
I worked so hard with that green card. I'm like, I'm not giving this up. So.
Unknown Announcer
All right, so you got to take the test.
Unknown Guest
I have the test in two weeks, and I. I was testing myself last night. I'm fucking dumb.
Unknown Announcer
I think we should test everybody in this country.
Unknown Guest
There's no. There's a hundred questions I have to memorize. A hundred questions all about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and.
Unknown Announcer
All right, let me ask you a few.
Unknown Guest
Oh, I'm fucked. Go ahead. I'm not gonna know them.
Unknown Announcer
Okay. Who is the first president of the Continental Congress?
Unknown Guest
What? That's not in it.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, all right.
Unknown Guest
That's way too specific.
Unknown Announcer
Too deep.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say George Washington.
Unknown Announcer
What were the original 13 states? States.
Unknown Guest
Oh, I know. I only have to pick one.
Unknown Announcer
You only have to pick one.
Unknown Guest
I know them. Massachusetts. Geor. Georgia. New York. New Jersey. Maine. Maryland. I'm missing a couple. North and South Carolina and Rhode Island.
Unknown Announcer
No, missing two others. Delaware and Virginia.
Unknown Guest
Okay, but I only pick one.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, that's a lot. All right, that's good. Okay, that's good.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
Okay. What number president was Lincoln?
Unknown Guest
No clue. I'm gonna say 10. I have no idea.
Unknown Announcer
I think he was seventh.
Unknown Guest
I made that up. I have no idea.
Unknown Announcer
Who assassinated Lincoln?
Unknown Guest
George Washington.
Unknown Announcer
George Washington.
Unknown Guest
Is there, like, three names? My highest.
Unknown Announcer
Well, I think the thing is about, like, a naturalization. It's the same as when you play, like, trivia in a bar. It's like if they say sports, say Babe Ruth. You're gonna be right, like, 40 of the time.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Announcer
You know, if you say history, rock and roll, and you say Elvis, you're gonna be right 40 of the time.
Unknown Guest
So I'm just gonna.
Unknown Announcer
So, George Washington. Stick with that.
Unknown Guest
That's. That's the answer. Right?
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
How many? How many? Whatever. Whatever. 20. I know 27 is a number of something. I just have that in my head. 1776. I have all these numbers floating around.
Unknown Announcer
How many states are there?
Unknown Guest
52.
Unknown Announcer
How many are contiguous?
Unknown Guest
I don't even know what contiguous means, so I don't know that answer.
Unknown Announcer
In. In the same continent.
Unknown Guest
Oh, 40, 51. I need you to be there. I keep joking and telling a boyfriend because he knows everything about the states, obviously. Also, we don't learn this in Canada. Yeah, not like that would make it better, but I want, like, a little thing in my ear.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, like.
Unknown Guest
Oh, the question is. Sorry, I have to read them out loud. The question is they get a little spy thing. A little spy.
Unknown Announcer
Get an AI thing in your. Did you just be like, hey, Siri, if they hear you say, hey, Siri, they'll know something's up.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, but I'm sorry, it's my. It's my tick. Hey, Sir.
Unknown Announcer
Hey, Siri.
Unknown Guest
Siri, Siri. This is good. This is very good.
Unknown Announcer
All right, let's play a game called Rank Them.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
You're going to rank things. You don't. There's no right or wrong way to rank them. You can rank them in any way you want.
Unknown Guest
Okay?
Unknown Announcer
Really? I wrote it down somewhere. Oh, here it is. Here it is. Oilers, Canadians, Maple Leafs.
Unknown Guest
Oh, the Leafs can suck my dick. They're so bad, I can't even discuss them as a Torontonian off. Every year they do this. Oilers, I'm Oilers all the way. I'm changing everything I've ever believed in. The Leafs do this every year. I. I'm never going to see the Leafs win.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Ever since I was a B. 1967, I believe, is the last time they won a Stanley Cup.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Hello.
Unknown Guest
They haven't even been. They have. This is as far as they've gotten in like, what, 10 years? And then they. They blew it. They always blew it.
Unknown Announcer
To Florida to.
Unknown Guest
Of all places.
Unknown Announcer
How do you lose to a place that has palm trees?
Unknown Guest
Unbelievable.
Unknown Announcer
You're Toronto. You're one of the original six teams.
Unknown Guest
Do you know how hardcore those Toronto fans are, too?
Unknown Announcer
Oh, yeah.
Unknown Guest
Unbelievable. They're crazy.
Unknown Announcer
Although, you know what I appreciate appreciate is for a while, you guys were booing the American national anthem. Because, you know, they play both national anthems at the beginning of the game, you guys, when the. When the terrorists were starting, you booed. And now they did not do that during the playoffs.
Unknown Guest
Okay, well, we have some tact. Would you say Oilers, Canadians? I guess I'd say Oilers, Canadians, Leafs.
Unknown Announcer
Okay.
Unknown Guest
Suck my ass. They're so bad.
Unknown Announcer
That was rough.
Unknown Guest
It's rough. Watch. It stresses me out.
Unknown Announcer
Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal oh, Vancouver to live.
Unknown Guest
And have a family Toronto because it's my hometown Montreal Only in the summer Montreal in the winter's hell.
Unknown Announcer
Is it really ice?
Unknown Guest
It's so cold.
Unknown Announcer
Was there, like a lake effect going on?
Unknown Guest
I don't know what's going on there. It's unbearable.
Unknown Announcer
Wow.
Unknown Guest
And the French are so rude to us.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, they are.
Unknown Guest
I'm like you. I know you speak English.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
We put all of your friends in our signs. We Tried to learn it as kids. I never picked up on it. But I'll be like, hi. They'll go, bonjour. I'm like, hello. They go, oh, hello. I'm like, what is your problem?
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
About to tip you 30% here, asshole.
Unknown Announcer
Right. Also, the French left. It's like getting divorced from a Mexican guy and then you still speak Spanish.
Unknown Guest
You're like, excuse me. Yeah, bye.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, adios.
Unknown Guest
We. Whatever. I love Montreal, but I couldn't live.
Unknown Announcer
There because they're love that comedy festival. How did they treat you? Because I had Robbie Hoffman in yesterday.
Unknown Guest
Honestly.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. That's what she was saying.
Unknown Guest
They treat Canadians like dog. And I. It's so funny because I did the. The State of the Union speech, the Canadian version.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, you did?
Unknown Guest
And I did it. And I. I said a lot of things.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And I was very. I was like. My manager five times was like, I think you should read stuff. Speech first. Like, we're good. She's like, I'm telling you to read it. They didn't want to read it. I went through. I named names. I was like. I'm like, how many comics are here right now? How many Canadians are here right now? Did you. She tell you about the grant situation?
Unknown Announcer
No.
Unknown Guest
So apparently the Just for Last festival got a grant from the Canadian government in order to get money for the festival. And that grant stated that you're supposed to have at least 50% Canadian performers.
Unknown Announcer
Okay.
Unknown Guest
There's what, 20 every year maximum?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, one of them. Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Like, he's dead now. 2, 300. Do you know he died?
Unknown Announcer
I did not know that.
Unknown Guest
Kind of tragically, actually. I think.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, that's sad. He was a great comic.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, he's great.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I'm not. The problem is, this is why I'm so pissed off about it is because I think Canadian comics are amazing.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
We fucking have to work so much damn harder to get here. We're. We can't get here. We need to get to do all this.
Unknown Announcer
And even the clubs, she was saying that she had a very difficult time, not only with the club owners and bookers, but with the other comics. As a female and as somebody coming up. I don't even. I don't know that she even said female. I think it was just that there was, like, a status quo that they were trying to hold on to.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
And there was not a lot of support.
Unknown Guest
Well, females, especially in the two. The two clubs in Toronto.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Yuck. Yucks. And absolute comedy. They, like, barely booked women. Those two were a nightmare to get into. I'm not in them. They're brutal. But I think she also started more in Montreal.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
So the Toronto scene, the comics I came up with are super supportive and were nothing but. Okay.
Unknown Announcer
All right.
Unknown Guest
So I can't agree with her on that because all my guy friends were, like, nothing but amazing. Amazing.
Unknown Announcer
Who were they?
Unknown Guest
Like Alex Pavone, Pat Bircher, if you know him, he's in New York as well as in New York. Mark Debones. You don't know. He's so funny. He's a psychopath. He's back in Toronto. Yeah. Like Chris Robinson. He's a super funny guy. Like all these guys that were, like, so funny. But Chris Rock, if you're the alt scene. Tim Gilbert, all these. You must. You just met Jeff Paul. Used to chose Jeff Paul.
Unknown Announcer
I did at the Comedy Bar, which is a really great club. Amazing there. Yeah. Two clubs.
Unknown Guest
Y. And that guy Gary, he was one of the first people that let me do anything I wanted. Yeah, he let me. My. My sketch partner, Lady Stash, do, like, wacky.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, yeah. Lady Stash was the improv group you were in.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. Sketch. Sketch. Duo. Sketch.
Unknown Announcer
Sketch.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, sketch comedy. Like loose sketch.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. So you guys would write new material pretty often, or is it a monthly.
Unknown Guest
Show called Lady Sash and you always had new stuff? Oh, yeah, we were good. We filmed the video. This is before people were filming videos every month. We filmed the video with the host. It was bizarre. But then we would do, like, new. A lot of it didn't work.
Unknown Announcer
I mean, look at snl.
Unknown Guest
I mean, you know, it's hard to write sketches.
Unknown Announcer
If half the sketches on SNL work, that's a good week. And I'm not. Yeah, I'm not on them. That's for any sketch show in history. It's really hard.
Unknown Guest
It's really hard. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
We grew up in Canada. I grew up watching, like, Kids in the hall and sctv, so I grew up watching more sketch than I did stand up.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
So that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be an snl.
Unknown Announcer
Right. And do you still.
Unknown Guest
No, no, no interest.
Unknown Announcer
Do you want to be in a sketch show?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, if it was out here.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I'm not moving a Golden retriever.
Unknown Announcer
There's no sketch shows anymore.
Unknown Guest
There's. It's. I don't know what happened to that. They gotta bring it back. Like the. The Key Peel did so well. The Crow show. Like, we love these shows. Well, Tim Robinson. Yeah, I think you should leave. That was, like, the newest one, I guess. Yeah, well, apparently I haven't watched Thompson Gurus yet, but that's apparently like a. It's good, dark sketch show.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, yeah, it's very dark. Yeah. You know who's great in it? Kirk Fox is great in it.
Unknown Guest
He's a really good actor.
Unknown Announcer
He is a good actor. All right, back to.
Unknown Guest
Back to.
Unknown Announcer
Robbie Hoffman, Caroline Ray, Samantha be.
Unknown Guest
Who's Samantha B. Again? Oh, that girl who does all the. Well, I don't know her at all.
Unknown Announcer
All right, then let's just swap her out for Katherine o' Hara.
Unknown Guest
Well, what the heck. Well, Catherine o' Hara is a goat.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Caroline Ray is amazing and nice and gave me her osteopath and Robbie Hoffman's maniac. I lived with Robbie. We were roommates for.
Unknown Announcer
No.
Unknown Guest
Yes. It was psychotic.
Unknown Announcer
Really?
Unknown Guest
Oh, my God.
Unknown Announcer
No.
Unknown Guest
God, no. Have you seen her wife?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, yeah. She ain't looking at me.
Unknown Guest
I'll tell you what. She ain't looking at this. When she got that, she. No, no. We were. We were good friends. She was just psychotic to live with. I was babysitting at the time, and I was. Hell, yeah. I would have to come home. I'd bike. There was like five miles there, five miles back. I'd bike home all up, tired. I need a nap. And every time she came in the house, she'd go, hello. I'm like, okay, you gotta stop doing the hello. She goes, no, I can't.
Unknown Announcer
She's used to living with nine other.
Unknown Guest
I go, I don't give a. I need a nap. I have shows tonight. You have to shut the up.
Unknown Announcer
Right?
Unknown Guest
It's not gonna happen, all right? I almost killed her.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I'm like, what the. You mean, like, I happened. Did it every day. I got no sleep.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I was, like, delusional for tourism. Hell, I love her. I know. I just talked about. I literally talked about this morning. We're good friends. But definitely o' Hara. I mean, come on.
Unknown Announcer
Did she tell you she was. She was here yesterday.
Unknown Guest
No, she didn't tell me shit. I just thought she sold the show. And I'm like, she'll call me and be like, so and so is so unfunny. Why are they getting spots anywhere? And then I'm like, you were on Mulaney Live. What are you talking about? She doesn't tell me shit.
Unknown Announcer
She just told us yesterday how she never bad mouse anybody in comedy. Somebody.
Unknown Guest
Excuse me.
Unknown Announcer
Did she say that?
Unknown Guest
Are you kidding me? Two days ago, she called me, and I'm not gonna say the name. Blah, blah, blah. Sucks And I go, aren't you on Mulaney Live tonight? Like that was the conversation.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
What a psycho. Hey, I badmouth people and I say to their face, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you your. All right, can't wait.
Unknown Announcer
Alanis Morissette, Joni Mitchell, Celine Dion.
Unknown Guest
Oh, the. The exact order you listed it in. Alanis, Joni. People love Celine. I never really got into it. I don't know what it was. And then her husband was so old, it grossed me out.
Unknown Announcer
That was weird.
Unknown Guest
It was like the opposite of what all these, like male rock stars are doing. You see Anthony Heatis's girlfriend. Yeah, I can't listen to Chili Peppers anymore. I'm done with it. It's disgusting. It's sick. On what planet picture you right now with that girl. What? What are you talking about? Literally, what is the conversation like?
Unknown Announcer
It's, you know, I have friends that have done that. Like, I had a friend from college who got divorced and he started dating a 25 year old, you know, at 50.
Unknown Guest
It's absurd.
Unknown Announcer
I was just like, dude, what are you doing?
Unknown Guest
Like, honestly, what are you doing? Yeah, I, I like, I.
Unknown Announcer
He's fucking. That's what he's doing.
Unknown Guest
Well, he's getting that dick wet, I'll tell you that. He's getting it. So.
Unknown Announcer
But here's the thing. I couldn't. I couldn't keep up with a 25 year old. I have 59 year old sex.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, I mean, you love 59 year old sex.
Unknown Announcer
59 year old sex. Foreplay is. Here's what it is now is she's coming out of the shower.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
Because when you're married, just trying to initiate at a point where they have to get disrobed for the act is too much of a hurdle. So now I gotta wait. You gotta get barriers low.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
I wait in the bedroom, I pretend I'm folding a shirt.
Unknown Guest
So many times, he comes out, it's like origami. It's so small. What is that? It's my shirt.
Unknown Announcer
It's a shirt.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
You've been waiting.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
You've been waiting to pounce, haven't you? Yeah, sure.
Unknown Guest
It's like so soiled and sweat. You just so many times, wet cloth.
Unknown Announcer
Wait, so you're. How old's Jeff?
Unknown Guest
38.
Unknown Announcer
Okay, so you guys are having 40 year old, 39 year old sex?
Unknown Guest
No, I think we're having way younger sex. And it's putting my back out. I don't know what I'm doing. I gotta stop. I hit my head In a hotel room recently. We were, like, in the shower, and I was holding on one of those bars. I'm like, what is my. What am I doing? I have sciatica. I can't be bending over like this.
Unknown Announcer
Right?
Unknown Guest
What am I. I was looking at slip ons the other day. I need velcro.
Unknown Announcer
Right, Right.
Unknown Guest
Because I think he's so hot. So I'm like, really trying. I know. What the hell?
Unknown Announcer
Great dude, too.
Unknown Guest
I know.
Unknown Announcer
Smart. He's funny.
Unknown Guest
I know.
Unknown Announcer
Good hang. Like, generally when somebody brings a significant other into the green room, it's kind of like, slows things down. But he gets it.
Unknown Guest
He gets it. I would never bring him back there if he didn't. Oh, he's so funny. He like, everyone loves him. He's like, chatting people. He knows stuff. I'm like, yeah, I'm dumb. Let him talk to him.
Unknown Announcer
But what are you in a shower for? I always found that, I don't know, sounds like a good idea. And then there's like, there's the lubrication gets dried out. It's the opposite. You think it's wet so it'll slide. It dries it out.
Unknown Guest
I don't know. It's just because we're in there together. We shower together a lot, actually. And I'm like. I think the second we're in there, I'm like, I'll just see it and I'll just.
Unknown Announcer
Starts with the game.
Unknown Guest
So I like, watch. I'm like, soaping his dick. And then I'm like, well, it's clean. I don't know. And then I do. I'm down there on my knees, and it's like. And I. I stand up. It's like. I'm like, we're going to the hospital. My bones have snapped in two. I cannot be behaving as such. I'm squatting. Squat. I've hemorrhoids. I can't be squatting. Yeah, they're gonna be sitting in the drain.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
What am I doing down there?
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
Absurd.
Unknown Announcer
No, you're not a Korean grocery.
Unknown Guest
I'm not. How do they do that?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Sitting. Waiting for the bus. I can't be doing this.
Unknown Announcer
That is like the ultimate blow job position, though. The Korean grocer.
Unknown Guest
It is lunch. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. You just say, can I get some Korean lunch?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, and then you just squat down with a sandwich.
Unknown Announcer
All right. Did I have a last one? I think that might have been all of it for. For rank em. So it's fun, right? Yeah, rank em's fun. But you Have a podcast. Do you have any segments on your podcast or you just kind of go?
Unknown Guest
I do, yeah. I keep wanting to get you on the name pod, but you live so far out here and I'm in East Hollywood.
Unknown Announcer
I'll come out.
Unknown Guest
Come out, please. I'd love you to my segment. Yeah, I have the worst body story you've ever heard in your life. And then the funniest way you think.
Unknown Announcer
Like, like not about yourself, just that.
Unknown Guest
You'Ve ever heard, like, something that's just like, traumatized you. In my example, I have a couple examples. One, my dad told me years ago that a man, I don't know why he fucking told me this. I mean, wrapped himself in Saran wrap and hid in a porta Potty and would watch women piss and shit. No, he told me that when I was so young that every single time I go to port body, to this day I have to look in for a little head peeking out. And someone recently on my Instagram just sent me going, that was real. And sent me an article from years ago from like someplace in like Kansas or Tennessee or something. And someone did that. Sick.
Unknown Announcer
Well, you know, Chuck Berry lost a class action lawsuit from 40 women who proved that he had hidden cameras in the toilets in his restaurant in Illinois. No. Yeah. I don't know why he didn't go to jail, but he paid out a lot of money in the toilet. In the toilets. That was his thing. Yep. Well, I don't know where. I can't tell you which. Well, I mean, he had to wait for the pee pee to be done for the poo poo to come out. Well, because it's very rare you sit down and you poop first and then pee later.
Unknown Guest
Oh, I'm pooping first.
Unknown Announcer
Shut up.
Unknown Guest
If I got a, if I, I shit's out of my ass.
Unknown Announcer
Wow.
Unknown Guest
I'm running to the toilet. The shit's out.
Unknown Announcer
You can sit down and hold in the pee and drop a deuce.
Unknown Guest
I'm not holding.
Unknown Announcer
And then when you're done, suddenly you pee.
Unknown Guest
Yes.
Unknown Announcer
Yes. I don't believe that's true.
Unknown Guest
I'll put a camera in my toilet, I'll send it to you, and I'll call it the very, the Very view. I, I tell you what, Chuck Berry would not be getting hard on whatever the coming out of me.
Unknown Announcer
No.
Unknown Guest
I take a hard piss, steamy piss, and my shits are bad.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Fiber.
Unknown Announcer
Well, also, when you have hemorrhoids, the wipe becomes like a construction site.
Unknown Guest
Well, it's.
Unknown Announcer
No, they're in oh, they're inside.
Unknown Guest
I got an innie.
Unknown Announcer
It's annoying.
Unknown Guest
It's worse.
Unknown Announcer
Do you put the lotion in there?
Unknown Guest
Nothing works.
Unknown Announcer
It doesn't.
Unknown Guest
I, I, I, I. Shove those little tubs of butter at my ass.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
I feel so perverse. Well, you unraveling this little thing. I'm like, where's the bun? And then I'm just putting in my butthole. I'm like, this is. They don't work.
Unknown Announcer
And you put it in and it slips out. Slips right out.
Unknown Guest
What the hell is this? It's such a gross thing.
Unknown Announcer
And then your underwear stains from it.
Unknown Guest
So disgusting. Yeah, I'm just. That's it. This is who I am now.
Unknown Announcer
The only upside is when you do drop a deuce after putting it in, slides out. Yeah, it's nice.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, it's silky.
Unknown Announcer
The old Carrie Gold Fitz Dog Radio, where we take on the issues of the day. What's the closest he ever came to a fist fight on stage?
Unknown Guest
Oh, fuck. On stage. I got a chair thrown at me in the OR at the store a couple years ago.
Unknown Announcer
No.
Unknown Guest
Yes. It was so up. It was. Oh, I remember. I. I had just got out of a horrendous relationship, and I should not have been on stage.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I just found out something really bad, and I was like, in a really bad headspace. And I get to the show, it's in the or. I love the or. And there's this guy in the front. As soon as I walk on, this guy in this big bubble jacket immediately gets on his phone, and I'm like, hey. I'm like, all right, man. I'm like, who are you texting? He's like, goes back to his phone. I go, buddy, you. I'm like, I've said nothing. You can't even hate me already. I've done no jokes. I've done nothing at all. Kind of. He stops for second, does this, rolls his eyes, puts his phone down. I do one joke. Minute later, he's back on his phone. I go, all right, puffy vest. What year is it? 2002. What the. On the phone?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I'm like, who the. I'm like, if you have to make a call, make a call. Like, you're pissing me off. So I keep going on. I'm making fun of. Not even that badly. He gets. So I say something that I guess triggers him. I don't know what it was. He stands up and he's like, you. I'm like, me. You grabs the chair and I guess. And I'm Seeing I'm watching this in slow motion, but in my head I'm like, does he think these are like light chairs? This guy's a scrawny guy. So he was smaller than me. I'm like, I can take this guy. So right away my head goes. I can take him.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
He stands up, grabs the chair and I'm like, where's the door, guys?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Hello.
Unknown Guest
What the fuck's happening right now?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Grabs the chair, goes to throw it and he thinks he's going to be like this, like a wicker. Thinks he's going to go over his head. He can barely get it up. This guy beside is like, oh my God, he's throwing the chair. This audience member goes up to grab him. He gets the chair up. I watch it just roll beside me and I go, did you just throw a chair at me? And the crowd is like now dead silent.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And they're like a pin could drop. And the sec finally door guys come, they get him out. They take him out. He's like, you, you. And I was like, he gets whatever, whatever. 3. What's it called, 360s when you get cut out? What is it called? 86.
Unknown Announcer
86, yeah.
Unknown Guest
So he gets 86, whatever. And he's pissed off out there, swearing around, whatever.
Unknown Announcer
Although if you throw somebody out and you spin them around during the 86, I think it's a 360. Okay.
Unknown Guest
But I remember like my heart was like pounding and then I ended up killing. I did like, I was so pissed. And I was like, yeah, it was crazy. But I was like, I'm like, if this guy, like, if that chair hit me, I would have just pounded him.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And I'm like, he was so small too.
Unknown Announcer
Right, Right.
Unknown Guest
I've never had like a bottle thrown at me or anything like that. But.
Unknown Announcer
But I do think that after an incident like that, because I've had them. Well, every comic has had it. When somebody gets thrown out during your set, if you handle it well and you stay in control of the room, they turn into the greatest crowd of all. They turn into a 17 year old girl who you just went down on for 20 minutes and now you're going to make love to.
Unknown Guest
That's the example.
Unknown Announcer
You went with 21. She's 21.
Unknown Guest
It's like if anyone's eating my position. 17. I was grossed out by it. They don't know what the they're doing sick.
Unknown Announcer
Well, I'm not saying.
Unknown Guest
It'S like the Apollo. I thought you would say that. I'm like, what's the 17 year old came out of nowhere for no reason. The hell is this? It feels like. Because they. They feel like they're. They witnessed something so special, and they're like, wow, you did that?
Unknown Announcer
And they. They know how hard your job is at a time like that, and they just appreciate. Appreciate what you're doing.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. Putting yourself up there.
Unknown Announcer
I swear to God, next time I do a special, I'm gonna plant somebody in the front row to get thrown out.
Unknown Guest
Hey, Steve Hofstadter.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, did he do that?
Unknown Guest
He plans. It's the whole thing. No, that's his whole thing. He plants people.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, is this well known? You're telling a secret.
Unknown Guest
I thought everyone knew that.
Unknown Announcer
I didn't know.
Unknown Guest
I don't think he knows it's well known, but I know a lot of comics talk about it.
Unknown Announcer
So he records clips of people heckling him, but the hecklers are actually playing plants.
Unknown Guest
Yes.
Unknown Announcer
Okay. Wow.
Unknown Guest
I think. I think that what happened was, like, the first couple were real.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And they went crazy viral.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
And I said, well, you can't have somebody always yelling high Hitler in the crowd. You're like, 20 bucks. Third row to the left. Cameras conveniently right on them. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Okay. And he's lobbed.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said clearly into the microphone.
Unknown Announcer
Do you think saying Heil Hitler is more. More offensive than saying hi, Hitler? Because when you say hi, Hitler, it's almost more. Hi, Intimate. Yeah. It's flirty. Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Hi. I think if you do that. If you do that, it's nicer.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
Elon did that. I think that would have been like.
Unknown Announcer
Instead of putting the arm all the way up, if he went halfway up and then went like, hi, Hitler.
Unknown Guest
If he. Can you imagine that's what he used to do instead of doing the thing. We all would be offended by it. We were like, that's actually kind of cute.
Unknown Announcer
He never would have taken over Eastern Europe.
Unknown Guest
He wouldn't have.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
He'd still be around today.
Unknown Announcer
All right, this is. By the way, this is Fastballs with fits. This is where we ask you fastball questions.
Unknown Guest
All right.
Unknown Announcer
By the way, your website.
Unknown Guest
Do I have a website?
Unknown Announcer
It's awful.
Unknown Guest
I have a website.
Unknown Announcer
Somebody made one for you.
Unknown Guest
Are you joking?
Unknown Announcer
I was hoping you didn't make it.
Unknown Guest
Because I have a web.
Unknown Announcer
You have a website? But it's weird. It's like Steph Tolev, dot something like, not the usual. It's not like dot com. It's dot. Something else.
Unknown Guest
I didn't even know I had a website.
Unknown Announcer
It's your picture, it's got a link to your representation. But then when you click on the representation, it goes to like Pinterest. And then when you go to your tour dates, it's only got a couple of them. And then. Yeah, it's awful.
Unknown Guest
I didn't. I don't have a website.
Unknown Announcer
Why don't you have a website?
Unknown Guest
I. It's all punch up. It's all Instagram. Punch up live. That's my website. It's like all my tour dates, my videos are on there. Things on there. It's all Instagram now. I'm like, fuck. I. I better look at that. I had no idea. The website.
Unknown Announcer
Is that the new thing to not have a website?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, it's all. It's like you click the link in the bio. It's all there. All two dates are there. My YouTube's there. Everything's there.
Unknown Announcer
That's what's holding me back. It's your website and I'll tell you what's holding you back.
Unknown Guest
My hemorrhoids.
Unknown Announcer
What is your hemorrhoids? Who is your best Asian friend?
Unknown Guest
Oh, Winnie ip. Who now or back in the day?
Unknown Announcer
No, whenever.
Unknown Guest
Winnie? Yeah, my, like in grade Winnie? Yeah, grade three. She. Winnie ip? Yeah. Full name. It was a cute name.
Unknown Announcer
I like that.
Unknown Guest
She's a very nice girl.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
My house, a great party. She had a cool little three story house.
Unknown Announcer
Did you go to her house and her family cooked Chinese food?
Unknown Guest
Yep. She had birthday parties and stuff. And then my other friend was. What's Rihanna Maharaj? She's. I don't want to say Pakistani. She's Indian. Yeah. I don't.
Unknown Announcer
I don't love it when the Middle Easterners call themselves Asian.
Unknown Guest
Oh, stay in your lane.
Unknown Announcer
You know, there's enough Asians. Don't. Don't make Asian bigger than it already is.
Unknown Guest
I don't think they do that, do they?
Unknown Announcer
Oh, they always do that. You say somebody, I'll say. I'll say to the crowd, any Asian people here tonight? And then some guy, some chick with a red dot on her far head's gone. I go, I'm totally kidding. Right?
Unknown Guest
It's like, you are not who I thought you were at all. My God. Jesus.
Unknown Announcer
I just go into that character.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Like, is it. Who am I sitting here with? Jeff Dye.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, is that your guy?
Unknown Guest
No, I just saw the clip of the day with Marin and I've been laughing at it.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, I. Well, I saw the clip. Is that when Bert Kreischer was telling Marin?
Unknown Guest
Yeah. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Did Jeff die go on Marin and on Bert or he just.
Unknown Guest
No, Jeff die. Went on burnt was on Marin.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, got it.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
I just saw. Marin said, I've never heard of him.
Unknown Guest
This is the funniest clip of ours entire life.
Unknown Announcer
That's the best way to handle it.
Unknown Guest
Well, Jess blocked me years ago, so it's like I, I couldn't even. Like I chimed in a little bit. I had. I had a couple laughy emojis in there. You better believe I was in there liking some stuff.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
But I just think it's funny that. Just a funny clip. Yeah, that's a perfect clip. That's. That's the perfect Internet clip. Yeah, it's a nice.
Unknown Announcer
It's a lot of drama in the comedy world lately.
Unknown Guest
There's so much drama.
Unknown Announcer
Comics badmouthing each other and, you know, there's different sects and cults of comedy that are bashing each other and, you know, like, you've got the Largo comics and then you've got the Legion of Skanks guys in New York and then you've got the Austin guys and then you've got, you know, Jeselnik is sort of taking on everybody, which I do love. It's great.
Unknown Guest
Oh, great. Yeah, yeah. He's just, he doesn't give a. He's just lone wolf.
Unknown Announcer
And then you've got like Andy Kindler, you know.
Unknown Guest
Kindler's in there. Yeah, I love.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, my God.
Unknown Guest
Kindler's in there. Then you have. You know who I was, my favorite? Tim Heideker.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, does he chime in on people?
Unknown Guest
Oh, no, but he, he doesn't. He's doing a show, some live show right now called Kill Timmy. And it's no way. No way funny. Yeah, you should see the clips.
Unknown Announcer
It's a parody of Kill Timmy.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, yeah, it's very funny.
Unknown Announcer
Does he do a live show?
Unknown Guest
Have you not seen his. His special where he does his whole character? Tim. I think it's a Night with Tim Heideker or something. And it's. I think it's the most brilliant Santa special I've ever seen. He plays this character of this stand up comic guy.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
He does one hour. He doesn't do a single joke. He's like. He comes out the mic stand, falls everywhere, the music's all up. He yells the whole time. He's like, yeah, my wife. And that's all he does. He just. It's so funny. It's insane.
Unknown Announcer
I don't like it.
Unknown Guest
You. You'd love it.
Unknown Announcer
I don't like when non comics come out.
Unknown Guest
He's a comic.
Unknown Announcer
No, he's a cat. He's a comic actor.
Unknown Guest
His stand up is funny. His regular stand up is funny. It's funny. Watch. He said regular specials.
Unknown Announcer
I like him. I'm friends with him, but I don't like when people watch it. I feel protective of the art.
Unknown Guest
Okay. All of a sudden.
Unknown Announcer
Who do you want to give you eulogy?
Unknown Guest
My sister. Because it'd be the funniest. Yeah, It'll be the most heartfelt and funny. You need some crying. You need some laughing.
Unknown Announcer
Do you think that before you die you will sort of give her some bullet points on some of the.
Unknown Guest
No, no, let her go.
Unknown Announcer
Let her do it.
Unknown Guest
She wants.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, yeah.
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah. She's got free reign on that one.
Unknown Announcer
Okay.
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah. But I wanted something funny too. Like, you've seen that video of the Irish guy who they play. He's like, I'm alive.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, like that.
Unknown Guest
Like that. I want to do something like that.
Unknown Announcer
You know, it would be so sad if I said, here's how you know somebody's suicidal. You're like, who do you want to give your eulogy? And they're like, dad, my dad. Like, he's get. Like, he'd still be alive when you're dead.
Unknown Guest
No, no, no. It's definitely got to be who's the.
Unknown Announcer
Worst feature or opener that you've had on one of your shows?
Unknown Guest
Who? That's a good question.
Unknown Announcer
They're all good questions. That's why it's called Fastball.
Unknown Guest
I had this host in Kansas City. Poor girl, she should not have been doing it. She was very young. Found out after the club Booker turns out, likes young women. Very young. Yeah, she was maybe 17.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, my God.
Unknown Guest
I. She looked. I got in the green room. I go, oh, hi. Who are you? She come hosting for you? And I was like, you're doing what? I'm like, no, you're not. What I'm like. And then we got there late. I was rushing around. I remember being like, I have to do. I'm like, I'm not doing an hour tonight. I'm tired. She's gonna do like 10, 15. And that's what he's getting paid for. And then I'll do like 45. And the Booker's like, oh, no, she doesn't have that. She has five. I go, well, then why the is she hosting?
Unknown Announcer
All right.
Unknown Guest
He's like, well, you know, she likes you. And I want to get her, like, people DM me being like, I. If you bring her again, I'm never going to come see you again.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, it was.
Unknown Guest
And I'm sure she's better now, but.
Unknown Announcer
It was like, are you sure you.
Unknown Guest
Were not ready to be hosting for a touring headliner?
Unknown Announcer
Right, Right.
Unknown Guest
It was.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
It made me uncomfortable. And we also. I was like, why is there a child in my green room?
Unknown Announcer
I felt weird, right?
Unknown Guest
I was like, I'm uncomfortable here. My opener was also like, why is there a child in the green room?
Unknown Announcer
Do you remember any of her jokes?
Unknown Guest
No, I. I was. I was backstage, like, looking at my opening. He's like, oh. I'm like, you got work to do, right? Get the out there, pervert. Yeah. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
There are two types of people in the world. Go.
Unknown Guest
Pieces of and some few nice people.
Unknown Announcer
What percentage do you think are nice versus pieces?
Unknown Guest
I think nice, probably 20%.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, all right.
Unknown Guest
I like to hope that many.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And the rest are scumbags.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. What's your spidey sense on knowing which is which? How long?
Unknown Guest
I'm very good.
Unknown Announcer
Quick. Very quick, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Guest
This honker can sniff them out from a mile away. Oh, I'm in there. I, I know the bad ones. You get a vibe, too.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Vibe. You can just tell by the way they treat you and stuff. Like, it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Announcer
And how do you treat people who you think are pieces of? Do you just cut them out or do you.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. I, I'm like, I'm civil if we're on a show together, but I'm like, I'm not nice to you.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
You know, if I don't like you.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
Said their names. Yeah. You know, I'm not like, I, I'm not tiptoeing around here. If you're a piece of. If I, if you've been. If I hear nothing but bad stories about you with other women, you're to me.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Done.
Unknown Announcer
Right?
Unknown Guest
That's it. I'm not backing you for anything. If you. You're a predator. Anyone who's, like, associated with Kristalia, I'm like, why are we still talking about this, man? Why are we doing this? This is crazy, right? That's. No, I, I, that's bad people.
Unknown Announcer
Have you ever been in a fist fight?
Unknown Guest
Yeah, a couple.
Unknown Announcer
Couple. How old were you?
Unknown Guest
High school. One of my 20s. One I was like, this girl was, like, looking at my ex. Boyfriend. Another one, I was in a. Actually both with guys. Like, a girl, like, shoved my boyfriend at the time at this bar and then I shoved her back and Then three girls got on top of me and they were like scratching me and like punching me. And then I thought one of them stole my cell phone and the security was dragging them out. So on the way out, I'm like, you got my phone? And then I clocked her right in the head.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
And it turns out it was my back pocket the whole time. I just got a new iPhone. It was an iPhone one. I'm like, I'm saving this.
Unknown Announcer
Did you have scratches on you?
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah. I was like, fully scratches. Like my face was all bleeding and they'd rip my shirt all over.
Unknown Announcer
Really? This is in Toronto?
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah. Andy Pool hall, it was called. It was like a huge pool hall that, like, it was actually really cool. It turned like a club on the weekends, but had like 20 pool tables.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, it was a cool place. I like it.
Unknown Guest
It was used to be by the comedy bar.
Unknown Announcer
You had the haircut for that place.
Unknown Guest
I didn't even have the flare cut then. I now had the old hair.
Unknown Announcer
What was the second fight?
Unknown Guest
Well, when I got arrested in high school.
Unknown Announcer
Oh.
Unknown Guest
But that was. I did. I. I more started it, but I've been in like. I a lot of like, just if my friends are in a fight, I'll kind of chime in there.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Bop around, a couple kicks, couple tosses.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, like that.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. A lot of it's. I'm punching people, you know, it's fun.
Unknown Announcer
You ever crowd surfed?
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Really?
Unknown Guest
A couple times. Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
You ever been felt up while you were crowd?
Unknown Guest
I have.
Unknown Announcer
That's why I think my. My daughter crowds.
Unknown Guest
Don't let her do it. Tell her to stop. Tell her to stop right now. Yeah, I got honks bad. I got flipped over my front, right?
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Because normally it's like you have to crowd surf at a show where it's like full rockers. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You're gonna get. She's gonna get touched.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
She can't be up there. Get her down.
Unknown Announcer
Talk to her. Yeah, she's did last weekend.
Unknown Guest
No, she's done.
Unknown Announcer
And she went to see. She's friends with this.
Unknown Guest
Unless it was Atlantis Morissette.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Then they would caress your. Caressing nicely. Yeah, yeah. They're cradling you, huh?
Unknown Announcer
I'd like to crowd surf before I die.
Unknown Guest
You can crowd surf easily.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Do want a goddamn comedy jam? They do it.
Unknown Announcer
All right. What's the last time you apologized?
Unknown Guest
Oh, to my boyfriend, like five days ago.
Unknown Announcer
What happened?
Unknown Guest
I fly off the handle sometimes. I get a little upset. I get A little worked up. I went crazy because I put parsley in a meal instead of cilantro and it ruined the whole meal and I lost my mind.
Unknown Announcer
No, wait, he put cilantro.
Unknown Guest
I did. I did it.
Unknown Announcer
So you took it out on him because you fucked up.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, I fucked up. I was yelling at him and I blamed him for not helping me with dinner. And then I screamed at him, and then it was a big ordeal. And then I apologize right after.
Unknown Announcer
I always apologize right after, before you go to sleep.
Unknown Guest
Oh, yeah.
Unknown Announcer
They say that's the key.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. No, I always. When I. When I know I'm in the wrong, I apologize.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Even if I don't want to, I will say it.
Unknown Announcer
Uh huh. Does that come from. Do you grow up Catholic or something?
Unknown Guest
No, it comes from just being, I think, a person. I don't want, especially with him, I don't want to fight with him.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
I don't want him to be angry at me. I want to solve this because my daddy, we used to fight so much as kids, he's scream and yell all the time. I never apologized. He was just like, you just hit me. He's like, what? No, I was angry. It's fine. I'm like, hello, you're sorry. I won't do it again. I need something. I need some kind of closure here.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
So just the yelling and the going about your business. Like, my dad would literally scream at us, and then 20 minutes later he'd be like singing owls and chains in the basement. I'm like, hello, change.
Unknown Announcer
That's dark. To be singing that after a beating.
Unknown Guest
And he's like screaming. We're like, good Christ, Dad. What are you going through? Holy hell. What the. Is this hammering things in his basement thing he has down there is like the.
Unknown Announcer
Wow.
Unknown Guest
Scary. I know. But yeah.
Unknown Announcer
I think that's one of the most profound things I've felt with my children is apologizing to them was to me, like, it wasn't just for me, because there's so much pressure as a parent to be good, to be perfect. And when you're not, you really beat yourself up. But then when you apologize to your child for it, you free yourself of some of that. And you're also. It's a life lesson for them that apologizing is always gonna make everybody feel better if it's. If it's right.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
If it's sincere, you know, And I feel like my kids are able to apologize to their friends because they saw it modeled from us and I. I'm same Way I didn't see it from my parents either. And they both used to fucking beat us all the time.
Unknown Guest
And you're like, hello.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
Right.
Unknown Announcer
I mean, I know you. Like, you said, say, I won't do it again. I know you will, but at least for now, say you won't do it again.
Unknown Guest
We sleep tonight.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Wink.
Unknown Announcer
Right?
Unknown Guest
Yeah. That's very nice that you do that, because I. I don't think my parents apologize to me later in life.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Like, my dad apologized. Like, I'm sorry if I was bad as. That's you.
Unknown Announcer
When you're younger.
Unknown Guest
I'm like, well, where was this when I was 8? I don't need it now. I'm done. I'm done with it.
Unknown Announcer
I know.
Unknown Guest
But, yeah, I. I apologize a lot.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Good. Final question, and then we'll get to your credits. You're. I'm gonna promote your dates, but I only have, like, three of them because.
Unknown Guest
I don't need the dates. It's the special I need to pro.
Unknown Announcer
Okay.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, that's right.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. That's why I asked you to do this.
Unknown Announcer
And I'm so sorry I didn't watch it. Is it out?
Unknown Guest
No.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, good.
Unknown Guest
Then I don't feel as bad about not watching it.
Unknown Announcer
But what I'll do is I'll watch it, and then I will talk about it on a future show.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
So this is like a double plug. No, I won't say it poorly. Where'd you shoot it?
Unknown Guest
Boston.
Unknown Announcer
Where?
Unknown Guest
Paradise Rock Club.
Unknown Announcer
Really?
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Dude, that's the first place I ever did stand up comedy in my life.
Unknown Guest
Serious. What?
Unknown Announcer
Fucking crazy.
Unknown Guest
I didn't even know they did stand up there. What are you talking about? Are you serious?
Unknown Announcer
Well, there was. Paradise is connected to. It used to be connected to a club called Stitches. They were the same venue.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
Paradise is in the back.
Unknown Guest
Huh?
Unknown Announcer
And Stitches is in the front. And they had an open mic night.
Unknown Guest
And it's literally on the bar now. It's a bar now.
Unknown Announcer
It's on the campus of Boston University, basically.
Greg Fitzsimmons
Yes.
Unknown Guest
Yes.
Unknown Announcer
My dorm room, I could see paradise. And so I used to go to. I used to go to watch shows. Go to watch shows. And then my freshman year, what the hell was January? January? No, February 6th. Whatever it was, it was the super bowl. And the New England Patriots that day had gotten annihilated by the Bears in the Super Bowl. And I went on stage that night in Boston, and. I can't believe that's where you shot it.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, I can't believe you didn't shoot yours there. You have way more of a connection than I do. I just wanted to be. I love Boston.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah.
Unknown Guest
Love Boston. And I wanted it to be in, like, a venue that felt like me, that I would like.
Unknown Announcer
A lot of people have compared Boston to Toronto.
Unknown Guest
Oh, really?
Unknown Announcer
Yes. When I was living there, people always said, Toronto is just like Boston.
Unknown Guest
I. A little bit, I guess, very international. Yes. Boston. I didn't think it was as much.
Unknown Announcer
It's very segregated.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Maybe they're not similar.
Unknown Guest
I went there. I chose that because the crowd was the craziest crowd I had.
Unknown Announcer
Yes.
Unknown Guest
Out of my whole.
Unknown Announcer
Boston, crowds are the best.
Unknown Guest
I was like, this is. This is a special crowd. This is what I want.
Unknown Announcer
Right. Right.
Unknown Guest
This reaction, this kind of screaming, yelling. I'm like, I want this.
Unknown Announcer
Yep.
Unknown Guest
Quiet.
Unknown Announcer
I hate quiet crowds.
Unknown Guest
Toronto could be quiet. I'm like, you're my hometown. I'm like. And I wanted it to be in Canada. Obviously. I want to film my first special in Canada. But I was like, I just did a. A big theater show in Toronto right before that. I'm like, I can't. I can't double it up.
Unknown Announcer
Okay, last question. Last question. I have a choice? There's two different ones I'm going to ask. All right, I'll ask this one. What's the hackiest bit you've ever done?
Unknown Guest
Oh, fuck. Probably about my nose. I used to joke I have to do it now because I only get online trolling my nose. So I just say that. I'm like, I know I look like Danny DeVito penguin that bullet. Or I'll do now my hack jokes. I always do. I go, I'm not a lesbian. And they're, like, so stupid.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah. Yeah.
Unknown Guest
But sometimes the hacks just. They work.
Unknown Announcer
Yep.
Unknown Guest
Just to get them going. And then I'll do my.
Unknown Announcer
Right. Yeah, yeah. The. The. The hack bits are either the first or the last bit in the act.
Unknown Guest
Yeah.
Unknown Announcer
Because that's where you need it the most.
Unknown Guest
Exactly. You need to get them going. And then the middle. I just talked out of my ass.
Unknown Announcer
Right.
Unknown Guest
So cares.
Unknown Announcer
What's the name of the special?
Unknown Guest
Phil's Queen.
Unknown Announcer
You should make T shirts that people can read.
Unknown Guest
It's on Netflix. June 23rd, it drops.
Unknown Announcer
That's amazing. On Netflix.
Unknown Guest
On Netflix.
Unknown Announcer
Good for you.
Unknown Guest
Very happy. Thank you.
Unknown Announcer
And then you'll hit a bunch of podcasts and promote it, doing all that.
Unknown Guest
I'm also in Tires, the new season of Tires.
Unknown Announcer
You're great in Tires.
Unknown Guest
You didn't see it yet?
Unknown Announcer
I didn't see it yet?
Unknown Guest
It's not out yet, but watch that.
Unknown Announcer
What else were you in Hacks?
Unknown Guest
Did you see me in Hacks?
Unknown Announcer
I saw you in Hacks.
Unknown Guest
Did you? Actually, yeah. Okay, what did I do?
Unknown Announcer
You are an assistant at the company. Oh, no, that's Robbie Hoffman.
Unknown Guest
God damn it.
Unknown Announcer
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now I know season three. I remember seeing you. What are you doing?
Unknown Guest
I'm in the roast. I roast Deborah Vance.
Unknown Announcer
Okay. He was great.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. I don't remember anything as an old dad. Did you see Bill's movie, old Dads?
Unknown Announcer
You were great. You were at the hotel.
Unknown Guest
Yes. See that you remember. Okay.
Unknown Announcer
You were great in that. That was like a blow up scene. It was just like a hard, funny scene.
Unknown Guest
Yeah, I farted, people. Is it real? I'm like, yeah, my fart was that long and that loud.
Unknown Announcer
On demand, you know they do nine takes of each shot.
Unknown Guest
Yeah. It just means. Fuck, I could have, but.
Unknown Announcer
Well, good luck and on the special.
Unknown Guest
Thank you so much.
Unknown Announcer
You're. You're. You know, you're on. I was talking about you before you got here. I said you're on a really great trajectory. I think you're. You really have. Because you have a base. You're not somebody that one good thing happened to, and now all of a sudden, like, people are aware of you. It's like you've built up a following through just shows after shows after shows and putting good stuff on the Internet and. And that's just. It's just going to keep going up.
Unknown Guest
Well, this is so nice. Thank you so much.
Unknown Announcer
Yeah, of course.
Unknown Guest
Come do my pod.
Unknown Announcer
All right, let's do it.
Unknown Guest
Okay.
Unknown Announcer
All right, bye. Bye.
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Fitzdog Radio: Steph Tolev - Episode 1099 Summary
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Host: Greg Fitzsimmons
Guest: Steph Tolev, Canadian Stand-Up Comedian
In Episode 1099 of Fitzdog Radio, Greg Fitzsimmons welcomes Canadian comedian Steph Tolev, known for her sharp humor and dynamic performances at venues like the Comedy Store. Steph brings her unique perspective, shaped by her Bulgarian heritage and experiences in the vibrant comedy scenes of Toronto and Los Angeles.
Steph delves into the intense car culture prevalent in Los Angeles, expressing strong opinions about fast-driving individuals and their impact on the city's roads.
Steph on Tesla Cybertrucks:
"[...] you have got to be on ketamine to come up with that body type. That thing screams douche." [06:30]
Experiences with Speeding Drivers:
Steph shares a harrowing story from high school about witnessing a dangerous car crash caused by reckless driving, highlighting the dangers of street racing culture.
"[...] he's all fucked up from it. I don't know how the other car was, but come on, people stop." [08:15]
The conversation shifts to comparing Los Angeles with other cities, particularly Toronto and Montreal, focusing on cultural differences and community dynamics.
Steph on Montreal Winters:
"[...] it's so cold. It's unbearable." [40:52]
Greg on Family Structures:
Discussing the American dream versus Canadian family living arrangements, Greg emphasizes the challenges of high housing prices and the trend of children moving out early.
"The American dream was you buy a house and you got a place to retire... now we're all going to be just Walmart greeters paying rent for the rest of our lives." [27:15]
Steph and Greg explore the intricacies of the comedy world, including struggles faced by female comedians and the competitiveness within the industry.
Steph on Performing in Canada:
"The Toronto scene, the comics I came up with are super supportive and were nothing but amazing." [43:17]
Greg on Handling Hecklers:
Sharing incidents where audience members disrupted their performances, Greg underscores the importance of maintaining control and turning negative experiences into positive interactions.
"[...] next time I do a special, I'm gonna plant somebody in the front row to get thrown out." [57:07]
The duo discusses their personal lives, touching upon relationships, familial expectations, and the importance of apologies.
Steph on Apologizing:
Emphasizing the value of sincere apologies, Steph recounts her approach to resolving conflicts in her personal life.
"When I know I'm in the wrong, I apologize. Even if I don't want to, I will say it." [69:50]
Greg on Parenting and Apologies:
Greg reflects on teaching his children the significance of apologizing, contrasting it with his own upbringing where apologies were rare.
"It's a life lesson for them that apologizing is always gonna make everybody feel better if it's right." [70:19]
Steph promotes her latest stand-up special and upcoming projects, sharing insights into her creative process and aspirations within the comedy industry.
Promotion of "Filth Queen":
Steph announces her new special slated for release on Netflix, detailing the creative journey behind its production.
"It's on Netflix. June 23rd, it drops." [75:22]
Steph's Podcast and Online Presence:
Discussing the shift from traditional websites to social media platforms, Steph highlights the importance of digital presence in modern comedy careers.
"It's all Instagram now. I'm like, fuck. I. I better look at that." [59:34]
Steph on LA Drivers:
"Every license plate on there should just be douche one, douche two, all the way up to douche." [10:15]
Greg on Joe Rogan Podcast with Bono:
"Joe's one of my best friends, but he's also a guy who really knows how to communicate and have conversations." [17:55]
Steph on Handling Hecklers:
"I'm trying to fight my way back in. I fly down to Florida. I visit her." [31:05]
Steph on Apologies:
"I apologize a lot. Even if I don't want to, I will say it." [69:50]
Throughout the episode, Steph Tolev and Greg Fitzsimmons offer a candid and humorous exploration of their lives within the competitive and often tumultuous world of stand-up comedy. They address broader societal issues such as urban car culture, housing challenges in America versus Canada, and the dynamics of modern relationships. Their dialogue underscores the importance of resilience, genuine communication, and the continuous pursuit of personal growth amidst life's unpredictable chapters.
Steph's anecdotes about her experiences in the comedy scene, coupled with Greg's reflections on family and personal interactions, provide listeners with relatable and insightful perspectives. The episode not only entertains but also sheds light on the complexities of balancing personal ambitions with societal expectations.
Tune in to explore more honest and humorous conversations with Greg Fitzsimmons and his diverse array of guests on Fitzdog Radio.