In our debut blast, we're serving a full platter of nostalgia, laughter, and candid chats. We're talking a sneak peek into why the video podcast on YouTube is the way to go with Kline's) hyperactive editing skills in play, plus photos and clips that bring depth to every tale. And get this, Tuttle's comeback to the comedy stage isn't just a dream – it's happening, and he's already bracing for the butterflies in his stomach.
Our rock-solid friendship takes center stage as we reminisce about the wacky hurdles we've jumped together (yes, including that infamous cockroach incident). While we're at it, we share the heartfelt messages from you, our listeners, that keep our spirits soaring. And for those who've been clamoring for it – the merchandise line is coming! We promise not to skimp on quality, so you can wear our gear with the same pride we pour into every episode. Plus, we get real about the oddities of sharing a name with the stars and how that shakes up our ordinary lives.
We wrap up with a tribute to the icons of comedy who've left a mark on us. From George Carlin testing material on us to Norm Macdonald's timeless wit, we're spilling on the legends who've shaped our funny bones. Nostalgia hits hard as we relive a legendary hangout with Chris Titus at an Elton John concert that still dazzles us decades later. So, buckle up for an episode that's more than just laughs – it's a journey through the highs and lows of comedy, friendship, and the unexpected moments that define us.
In our debut blast, we're serving a full platter of nostalgia, laughter, and candid chats. We're talking a sneak peek into why the video podcast on YouTube is the way to go with Kline's) hyperactive editing skills in play, plus photos and clips that bring depth to every tale. And get this, Tuttle's comeback to the comedy stage isn't just a dream – it's happening, and he's already bracing for the butterflies in his stomach.
Our rock-solid friendship takes center stage as we reminisce about the wacky hurdles we've jumped together (yes, including that infamous cockroach incident). While we're at it, we share the heartfelt messages from you, our listeners, that keep our spirits soaring. And for those who've been clamoring for it – the merchandise line is coming! We promise not to skimp on quality, so you can wear our gear with the same pride we pour into every episode. Plus, we get real about the oddities of sharing a name with the stars and how that shakes up our ordinary lives.
We wrap up with a tribute to the icons of comedy who've left a mark on us. From George Carlin testing material on us to Norm Macdonald's timeless wit, we're spilling on the legends who've shaped our funny bones. Nostalgia hits hard as we relive a legendary hangout with Chris Titus at an Elton John concert that still dazzles us decades later. So, buckle up for an episode that's more than just laughs – it's a journey through the highs and lows of comedy, friendship, and the unexpected moments that define us.
Yeah, hey, calvin, what up? Can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me Perfectly? Oh my God, we got on the first try.
Speaker 3:We did it. This is wonderful and the camera position looks good Uh are you looking straight at the camera?
Speaker 2:Are you going to look at your computer?
Speaker 3:I'm going to look. I'm going to look either at the camera and the computer screen when I need to go to. The height is perfect, Height is perfect, All right. Background nothing in the background.
Speaker 2:No, it looks like a clean place, tetley.
Speaker 3:Thank you, calvin, all right, you ready.
Speaker 2:Did you get any sleep?
Speaker 3:I did. I slept really good. I was surprised.
Speaker 2:Did you just make that fresh pile of espresso there, cause that looks pretty full? Yeah, that's full. That looks like a quad.
Speaker 3:That, yeah that, that. That's a quad Dude, all right.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have.
Speaker 3:That's what I was going to tell you, last time is I should have made a quad.
Speaker 2:God, this sounds really good. Tim, does it sound good? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So it's pro level right.
Speaker 2:It's well with you.
Speaker 3:it's beyond pro level, uh did you, did you last that Cause I you know, I you know for for 21 months um, I, uh, I uh, I hadn't spoken that long you know, dude, you're not kidding man. My pipes, my pipes at the end of it, were like so when I when I was narrating books.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, dude, it was, it was. I was fried after the first day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you know I've done. I've done some exercises, that's all right. Are we ready? All right? This is the uh, tettle and Klein podcast, official episode one. Kevin Klein. I'm telling you this is exciting. I never expected the kind of response that we got, uh, last week, when people were listening to the podcast and watching it.
Speaker 2:You know the word overwhelming sounds like it's a negative, but it was overwhelming response. It was amazing yeah.
Speaker 3:I couldn't believe it. I was like, um, you know, is anybody remembered? Does anybody remember? Does anybody care anymore? And I, you know, that's what I was thinking is is it going to still be there? And I love it. And, kev, I got to tell you this. You know we're on a bunch of different platforms, but but I would advise people watching the video platforms YouTube, and is there anything else that's a video platform?
Speaker 2:Uh no but I mean on your social media and on our Tettle and Klein social media. They'll be snippets, they'll be a little, uh, little little. You know, I guess snippets is the best word. Uh Kev what a word Smith huh.
Speaker 3:Klein. Yeah, Kev. What you did, though, with the video was fantastic. When you're in certain little p I I would strongly advise, if you can, is to watch it on YouTube. Um, you know that's, you know, got great numbers across the board Spotify. I mean we're shocked at the numbers that we got on that first episode, but I would advise watching it because Kevin does a great job weaving photos and clips in to enhance the story.
Speaker 2:It's fun to do. I really enjoy doing it and and you know it was one of the elements that we get to enjoy now is the visual aspect of it. So, yeah, I mean and come on, let's be honest, tell her you're a handsome man.
Speaker 3:I don't want it to be about looks. Oh, kev, you know that about me is I. I'm embarrassed about you know me being so G D handsome.
Speaker 2:I want to seem so embarrassed by it. I want it to be about content.
Speaker 3:Of course, speaking of which, speaking of which, and we'll get to this later, kevin, I need your help with something I've now had. Had two people tell me I'm I'm relaunching my standup career. Standup comedy.
Speaker 2:Isn't it awesome. I love it.
Speaker 3:I now for those unaware you know, back in 2019, I started doing some open mics in Houston and it was fun, it was a great time. And then COVID hit and there were no open mics in Houston, so I kind of shut it off, but I'm excited to get it back. I'm excited to do it again.
Speaker 2:It's such a rush when you get up on that stage. It's scary, as I'll get out.
Speaker 3:It is the scariest thing, even for somebody who's been on stage and used to being on stage in front of tens of thousands of people. It's more frightening when you're trying to get them to laugh every 15 seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 3:You got to make them laugh every 15, 20 tops, but I've had two people in the business. Now Tell me hey, tim, you're you you need. You'll never be successful as a standup because nobody believes in your pain, because you know you're this tall, handsome dude. So you need to come out like right out of the box with some self deprecating stuff, just ripping yourself to shreds, otherwise the audience is never going to feel for you. So that's something that I need your help working on with material. We'll get to some of that later. Cap Klein, you're the king of self deprecation.
Speaker 2:Let me, let me help you here.
Speaker 3:Kev, you know it's like being garbage and you're really good at it.
Speaker 2:She's embraced the sock line.
Speaker 3:Dude, how's that for merchandise? Kevin Klein embraced the suck. I love it, the response we got. I mean some of the things that I want to throw out. I particularly like the smiling faces, genuine happiness. I look at him as two goofballs high touch of class. I don't know about that. Yeah well, that's a lot of credit.
Speaker 2:This is what some of us need in our life, these two gentlemen working the mic.
Speaker 3:Thank you very much. That was nice from Glenn. And then Sandy said it was excellent. Hearing Tim's voice and Kevin's laugh makes the day better. Looking forward to the next one, thank you. Thank you, yes, and it was awesome. Love the bond of friendship you all have together. I'm thrilled you all are collaborating on this podcast. That was a cool chat about Steven Tyler. I was riveted by Kevin Klein. I was riveted.
Speaker 2:You know what's funny about this, and I was thinking about it the other day when we were working together. The joke was always Klein, when we're done, we're done and don't even think about driving by my house because I'm going to be sitting on the front porch with my shotgun. And if you come you know. And now look at us, dude, you can't get rid of me.
Speaker 3:I know you're like if there's a nuclear blast, there's two things that's going to survive Cockroaches and Kevin Klein and he'll be like knocking on the door saying, hey, man, we got to talk.
Speaker 2:I would do it just to annoy you. Yeah, and it would. It would. Hey, I know this isn't what we planned to do, but you just brought up the cockroach and I was thinking about this last night. You know the conversation that we had yesterday and talking about the format, the game plan, merchandise, all that stuff. My wife has been very, very heavily involved in this. Yes, and you gave her a very nice compliment and I said, yeah, she's awesome. And you said boy, I'd like to find one of those. And my response was well, dude. The reason why your, your relationships are so tough is because there's sex involved with us. There's none. Yes, Let me, let me throw these two examples out for you. Timmy, Okay, have you and I ever slept together? Never.
Speaker 3:No, actually we've shared hotel rooms Right and included the time at grumpy's hotel in flat Tonya where I woke up and saw a cockroach doing terrible things on top of Kevin Klein.
Speaker 2:See, that's where I'm going, because you and I are still together 28 years later, never had sex and and I got raped by a cockroach and grumpy's and that never worked out. Yeah. I've never spoken to the cockroach again.
Speaker 3:The cockroaches just like hey, thank you. Yeah, exactly Exactly, he didn't even, didn't even send you flowers. It was no, I know man, I was waiting to by the way, a lot of people still give me crap for, you know, letting it happen, I should have like flicked the cockroach and I'm like, ah man, let the little guy, let the little guy have his moment, exactly, man.
Speaker 2:You let a dog hump your leg. Why not a cockroach?
Speaker 3:Plus, you know, that was Klein's first time in 15 years too, so why would I stop him from having? His moment, you know.
Speaker 3:I thought we're saying but but you know, anyway, response is great. Yeah, we're excited about it and you know there's. The thing that surprised me is multiple people DMing and commenting that they want to buy merchandise and the logo is pretty cool. I got to admit. The logo is cool. Your wife did a great job punching that up for when we had it 20, 25 years ago, whatever it was, and I can't wait to see that thing on ball caps and hoodies and and all that and some t-shirts and we're going to get that out as soon as we possibly can make those that available to you and we're not going to sell crap. That's going to be our thing. Kevin, I have a no crap policy in regards to merchandise.
Speaker 2:God brother, I agree with you 1000% man. Yeah, I don't want to like. I don't want anybody to slap a logo on a Haines t-shirt. You know, I want quality stuff. I want stuff that I would wear.
Speaker 3:There's well, geez, yeah, we're not going to sell a three-piece suit tuddling Klein logo. Okay, there's the market. We're not going to have the uh, the James Bond tuxedo edition for Kevin Klein here. Kevin Klein's ridiculous in terms of some of the stuff that he wear. He's told me some of the expenses he's had in terms of wardrobe and I'm like dude, that's like the first three years of a child's life that you could have paid for right there. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:And he's like I have none. I don't have any and I need all the self esteem support I can get. So Exactly.
Speaker 3:But yeah, we're going to have good, high quality stuff available soon. So thank you for the inquiries on that. Um, I got to throw this out, kev, because this came multiple times. This was not just a once or twice thing. Uh, via comments and DMs. Uh, after our podcast episode, uh last week. Uh, people are very intrigued by the concept of me helicoptering you again. They they really enjoyed when I used to do that in studio and love the uh video of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, if you're not familiar with the helicopter, um, if I get particularly snarky with Tim um or annoy him too much, he will pick me up over his shoulder and he has no issues with vertigo or anything, so he'll just spin me around as fast as he can. I have vertigo, I get dizzy, I will pass out and fall down. Yeah, our former engineer, andy Houdak, said that's a great episode, but we need more helicopter. And then Lacey Baker says so where's the helicopter? Why are people?
Speaker 3:yeah, I had five people DM me directly and say please helicopter, kevin Klein. I say that's a little hard cause we're not in the same room, but you know we'll work on that. With today's technology and AI, it may be able to be be done.
Speaker 2:Right. Yeah, I don't know why people appreciate that pain of mine so much, but you know, hey gotta give the audience what they want. I guess right For those unaware too.
Speaker 3:Kevin Klein was really bothered by it. By about the third or fourth time he went to the doctor and got a doctor's note that he showed me Like right before I was going to helicopter again, saying that he cannot no longer be helicoptered because he suffers from vertigo yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I well. Do you remember when we did the the bat thing over at Birmingham Barren's Park and I fell into the dugout head first? Oh my God, kevin.
Speaker 3:Klein almost took out. Who was the? The picture for the Birmingham Barrens that ended up being a monster? Uh, years later I carried wood. Was it? Was it carry wood?
Speaker 2:Uh God, I can't remember his name but I remember. Yeah, he made it to the show, big time he made it.
Speaker 3:Kevin Klein almost ended his career by doing a, a helmet first into his, uh, throwing elbow. Yeah he, he tumbled so hard into the dugout. That was so funny, buddy.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know it was yeah, not for you. Yeah, not for him, not for me.
Speaker 3:Anyway, when he handed me that note I don't know if you remember it or not I dropped it to the ground and immediately did my best impression of the manager from major major league. When he saw Bill Doran's contract, I urinated on that. Yeah, yeah, had to do it, kev, I know, I know.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, well, yeah, maybe I won't be driving by your house anytime soon.
Speaker 3:No, no, you just stay where you are. Cockroach, yeah, you just stay where you are. Another thing we got some um, uh, dms saying that, uh, if you're going to be in a small town in the state of Texas, he will quote unquote have to play football.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we talked about that last time that you know he's a man. I saw him again yesterday. How big is he? He's big. He comes up to your chest now.
Speaker 3:No, he is a big, big kid and not only that, just very muscular, and Kev I was playing ball with him after we talked yesterday. He's a lefty and he can fire the baseball too. Wow, and that may be for those unaware his mom does not want him to play football. I guess being a left-handed pitcher would divert him from that. But the reason she doesn't want him is, you know, his brother, Ricky, played some football. Got his bell rung pretty bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he's bigger than Ricky already.
Speaker 3:Well see, that's the whole point. Ricky took after Ben Okay, ben his grandfather shorter guys and stature, but they both have that same swag where they can walk into any room and they'll take any woman in the room. They have that whole confidence swag thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they call it the big C charisma.
Speaker 3:Big C charisma. They both have that and they have that same gate and that same walk. As a matter of fact, Kev, I was thinking about this because sometimes I just get caught like with stuff in my head. I was thinking the only way that this world could be saved because it is, let's face it, it's taking a dump right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, no kidding.
Speaker 3:Is if we had Stephen Gertzen, the guy from East Bernard that was my neighbor, the most righteous, coolest dude in history benevolent, always do the right thing. If he was the president of the United States for like 10 years, we got to make him the president of the United States.
Speaker 3:Okay, change of constitution make Stephen Gertzen 10 years yeah 10 years and he would do the righteous thing and undo that constitution thing after his 10 years, because that's how he is. He's like hey, we got world peace now, kumbaya, everything's cool. I'm going to back out and go rice farm in East Bernard, that's right, that's what he does. And then we would have Ben Benitez, the guy with the swag. He would be the secretary of state. He would walk into any room with any world leader, doesn't matter who it is Kim Jong-un, putin, whatever and he would just say hey, this is how it's going to be. If you don't like it, I'm going to get the Chicano army on you. You know he has that swag, which, of course, you know getting back to it, which is great for day to day, but it's not for football. You got to be big in football and Timmy's not going to get hurt. Timmy will do the hurting.
Speaker 2:But will he, because he's so kind hearted. I see that that's the dichotomy right there, man.
Speaker 3:Here's the thing is he'll want to be everybody's friend on the other team. You know he'll be like, hey, I would, let's be friends, you know, get to try to get some life. But as soon as somebody busts him then it's like Hulk. He'll turn into Hulk. Oh, got you, he's got that gear and he doesn't exactly turn green. I suppose we can get him to turn whatever colors his school colors is there, you go yeah, and then just go crazy on you like a Jefferson type way in fast times at Ridgemont Eye.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Played by a forced Whitaker.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you remember that?
Speaker 2:I do remember that.
Speaker 3:So I answered in that movie. Oh yeah yeah. For those unaware, kevin Klein is aunt. Kevin Klein's aunt is Phoebe Cates. For those unaware of who Phoebe Cates is, if you ever saw Fast Times at Ridgemont Eye, kevin's aunt is the red bikini girl. That's right. Who popped the top? Yeah, doesn't anybody knock anymore yeah. Doesn't anybody knock anymore? And, Kev, I have to ask you a question. Sure, please. Before she became your aunt, you watched that movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, many times Big Bandit's.
Speaker 3:Picoli, did you ever please yourself to your aunt?
Speaker 2:I did not, I did not. I've never really participated in that activity.
Speaker 3:Well, you're one of the very few Generation X males that did not.
Speaker 2:Oh, believe me, I've already said that numerous times. I'm like a half of the population, which every male that's seen that movie. Yeah for sure. But I don't know if that was her or a body double. I don't know, that was her, that was her.
Speaker 3:She had the story behind the scenes is she had to have the entire set cleared to do it, so it was basically just the cameraman and whoever was in the scene. Jennifer Jason Lee was in the scene and Demone whoever played Demone, and that was it. It was just those people. Otherwise she wouldn't do it. She was so nervous and freaked out about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I don't have that chest and I'm still nervous about going shirtless.
Speaker 3:But I'm Kev. I'm surprised you never got into the behind the scenes filming Maybe a Thanksgiving, a family Thanksgiving or gathering or something like that, that you didn't talk to her.
Speaker 2:I've never hung out with her. No, never have.
Speaker 3:So she's heard about her nephew Kevin.
Speaker 2:Actually she has.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you remember our former co-host, kelly Hunter in Birmingham? Yeah, kelly and her then fiance were on a cruise and Phoebe was on there and Kelly was laying out on the by the pool next to Phoebe and struck up a conversation and Phoebe knew about. Phoebe knew about the radio career.
Speaker 3:Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:Not at all, sir.
Speaker 3:Because we never got any acknowledgement For those unaware the reason why he is it's his aunt Katie is his uncle, is the actor Kevin Klein, big chill wild west. I could still kill him and want my money back for that one.
Speaker 2:He won an offer for a fish called Wanda Fish called.
Speaker 3:Wanda, I mean brilliant actor. He was, what was he? President Dave? Was that Dave?
Speaker 2:Yep, that was Dave.
Speaker 3:I loved that movie.
Speaker 2:It was also in Grand Canyon. I looked at that last night with Steve Martin and, yeah, I can't believe he acted with Steve Martin.
Speaker 3:Brilliant Juilliard, and you know Shakespearean actor. Yeah. And you've never even talked to him. Really have you?
Speaker 2:I've talked to him one. Well, I've talked to him three times, twice on the phone. The first time was when I was in sixth grade and he came out with Sophie's Choice with Meryl Streep and then talked to him in person at my grandfather's funeral.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, that's it. You know why? Because you were starting to really do something with the exact same name and he didn't like it. He does not like that Of course. He's this Kevin nephew of mine, who's also Kevin Klein, same name as me, which you know I have trademarked because I was doing like the big chill and stuff like that. Before you know, while he was wiping diaper poop on his face, now wants to use my name and, you know, take over the whole situation. He's probably upset about that.
Speaker 2:That's the thing, tim. You and I both have pages on IMDB, the internet movie database, and I have to be listed as Kevin Christopher Klein, because if you do Kevin Klein, he's taken.
Speaker 3:Please do not look us up on IMDBcom that picture of me right there coming out of the water park pool. That's awesome. Whoever put that up and won't take it down, I will find you someday. I don't want to be the vengeful type, but I don't not like that. I have kids, okay.
Speaker 2:That's funny, that's a good picture.
Speaker 3:I have. I have children, please, Kevin. Another thing we got from the last episode that we cut we got a bunch of direct messages. We were talking about Taylor, Taylor Swift, and our long term you know relationship, relationship and friendship with her, since she was 16 years old when she first came on the scene. And people want us to advise Taylor to dump Travis. They're concerned about that side sideline tirade that he had with Andy Reid last week. Oh yeah, he bumped him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bumped him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bumped him and just got in his face and was chirping and everything like that. First of all, that's not necessarily a bad thing. That shows passion, you know. That shows that you want to win the game. Again, a lot of this is coming from people who don't really know ball and know the game and everything like that. I want my players, as a coach, to have that kind of passion. I want them, and if he bumps into me, I don't care. I'll see what Andy Reid should have done, even though the team was on defense. I don't send him right out there and go go hit somebody.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what? You know what Andy said. Andy said it took him by surprise and he was off balance. He said normally and apparently this happens not often, but sometimes in practice he said normally I'll see him coming and I'll give it right back to him. So I mean, they have that kind of relationship, yeah.
Speaker 3:See, you don't know about the relationship, you don't know what's going on. Obviously there's no major problem because they won yet another Super Bowl. Yep. And in terms of Taylor, I think Travis, he probably knows his place. I would imagine that that he's the bottom In that whole thing.
Speaker 2:Most recognizable global star. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:However, it does bring up the question Does Taylor Swift, Kevin, maybe have some songs already partially written about the breakup after the fact? I mean, has she at least spitballed anything or anything like that? I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 2:I think she's constantly writing. As a matter of fact, she's got a new album coming out soon and she's been sitting on it for two years. So, yeah, I think she's always writing and you know her modus operandi is relationships that have gone south.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it just makes you want to spitball possible song titles that she may have in regards to her relationship with Travis Kelsey. You have. Do you have anything? I got one. I have one. I think it's just golden. I'm actually going to send it to her. I think she should use it Well.
Speaker 2:I mean just off the top of my head. It's stupid, there's nothing funny about it. But I mean she always she's like the master of two and three word titles and they're always cryptic in message. So power couple, power couple, power, p O W E? R. And here's why I say that OK, because they are a power couple, ok. But his favorite thing to say when he describes something is it's electric, oh, that's electric. And so if she goes with power couple, you know that could be the cryptic message that. I know it's really stupid, it's not funny at all.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no, but you got. You got me thinking. See, this is why there's no bad ideas in the brainstorm.
Speaker 2:Except for your sign.
Speaker 3:Except some of yours, Kevin. This actually gets you thinking just a little bit. You know it's like because another thing he's known for is Beastie Boy's. Fight for your right to party yeah, and she could probably grab on to that concept. Fight for your right to get a restraining order Just spit balling. Yeah yeah, you want to go.
Speaker 2:I hope that would never come to that, but no, no.
Speaker 3:Do you have anything else? Any others you want to withdraw?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean this one's equally lame. I'll see you later.
Speaker 3:That's not lame. That's not lame, Kevin, oh really. By the way, if you're the camera, I'm right here, If you see me looking that way. That's where Kevin's face is. So I apologize if I have a left lean tendency when we do this podcast, because you know Kevin's over here to me, so I'll do what I can to try to, you know, balance it out. But just a heads up, that was brilliant.
Speaker 2:Kelsey, you later.
Speaker 3:No, that's what we're looking for.
Speaker 2:OK, all right.
Speaker 3:But to me, Kev, she has to use this one and I will reach out to her. I'll reach out to her people. I'll even tell the Kelsey's about it. You know, Travis and Jason.
Speaker 2:And Jason and Donna and Ed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the time I had to 86, 87.
Speaker 2:Oh, a play on his number. Yes, nice, he was taking a bow. He's taking a bow, come on.
Speaker 3:Was that good or what?
Speaker 2:The time I had to 86, 87.
Speaker 3:Nice. Thank you For those. Does anybody not know what 86 is, though? That's the question.
Speaker 2:That means you get rid of it. You, you, you, you toss it to the side.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when you 86 something, you get rid of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you end it. So how would that sound back selling that on a top 40 radio station?
Speaker 3:1077 the vibe. No, actually hold on 1077 the vibe, no, let me. Let me do it like Alphar. Hey, it's 1077 the vibe. Let me tell you what that's Taylor Swift, right there with her brand spanking new one. That time I had to 86, 87 on the vibe.
Speaker 2:Farby, our former producer, who's now a pretty big wig up in Dallas.
Speaker 3:We don't hold that against him, though.
Speaker 3:I love farby. Him and I have back and forth. He's a great guy. Oh, cool, tell him. I said hi, but what we're doing, it was great the first time we had him on the area. You know he was our producer, the first time you had him on there. You know, kevin and I we just talk in our own normal voices, yeah, back and forth.
Speaker 3:And we would have a conversation behind the scenes and normal one with Al farb and we'd say, well, come on the mic, let's talk about that. And I'd be like, well, al, you know, tell us what you think about the Houston livestock show and rodeos lineup this year. Well, tim, let me tell you, this lineup looks fantastic, looks like it's going to be great. I'll tell you what, george, straight to the cap the thing on. It's like what are you doing, man, kevin? We would stop the show, yeah, and we'd say what are you doing, man? What's that voice? It's going. What voice you talking about there? Nobody talks like that. Nobody talks like that. We're doing that. We're not doing the you know the 80s puking thing. We're doing it. And I've actually listened to him. He's been on the air in Dallas and it's a more normal. So he took our advice.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, and that's what happens as you evolve in your career, you, you become yourself, especially in radio. You know, and yeah, you think you've got to have this announcer voice. And then you realize no, people like real.
Speaker 3:No, kevin, let me tell you, it's so funny how far you evolve, because I was thinking about those first days that we were on the air back in June of 1996. I remember you stopping after like a first segment, maybe second or third show, and you go Tuttle, what are you doing, man? I'm writing down what I'm going to say on the next segment and you like looked at it, you looked over and goes, is that word for word? And I was like, yeah, I'm writing down word for word. And I'm going to say, dude, we're not reading, man, we're talking. And I was like gosh, I just think of how silly and goofy and stupid I was those first few weeks.
Speaker 2:Well because, you want to do such a great job, you know, and you want people to like you out of the box, and you don't want to. You don't think mess ups are acceptable. But mess ups are real, man. They're, they're part of life. And so if you're going to be real on the air, it's okay to mess up.
Speaker 3:All I could think about is you know how many hundreds of thousands of people are listening, and if I say something or do something stupid, it's over before it even starts. And I just wanted to have everything like down. Yeah, that's the mindset.
Speaker 3:And that's silly. There's only one person that can read a script, sound natural and still be phenomenal, and that's George Carlin. George Carlin, he scripted word for word all of his stand up comedy. It was word for word, it was a, it was a, it was a monologue. Nobody else could do that and it's amazing how good he was at it. But you know, he was phenomenal writer and he knew how to like make that sound completely natural. Outside of that, anybody else, you almost completely know that they're reading, if they are reading. You know, am I right?
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and you bring up Carlin. This is something that I wanted to ask you about, and I didn't think we were going to have an opportunity to do this this week. Carlin was a master word Smith, and most of his comedy was about the stupidity of the English language. When did in this harkens back to the parade for the Kansas City Chiefs, where there was a shooting, a mass shooting? When did people start referring to suspects as bad actors? When did that become a thing?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, I don't know, I think. I think they want to define them as bad actors until they can figure out who they are and what their motive was, and everything like that, so that they can, you know, have their narrative Like, if it's, you know, you notice that if it's the wrong narrative for what mainstream media propagandists want to get out there, they will completely change it or they'll bury the story. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, so I think.
Speaker 3:I think they alter the language until they can get the details on you know. Hey, can we use this, you know, to go after the guns? And can we do this to you know, you know, shake down the Constitution and everything like that? Or are these one of our people who are totalitarian fascists that don't care one bit about people's freedoms?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but a bad actor? An actor is somebody who pretends these people weren't pretending they actually did shoot, okay, and a bad actor that's Tom Green, paulie Shore. These people are not bad actors. I hate that term.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love that because you know, there I use that as like a political pop and you're like, I'm just talking about language here, tim. I just I want to you know we're using words here to him.
Speaker 2:Sorry about that. That's why. That's why this works, because he's got his set of beliefs. I've got my questions and sometimes they meld, and sometimes they don't they don't yeah.
Speaker 3:We were off kilter on that one.
Speaker 2:No worries man.
Speaker 3:Yeah and speak. Okay, since we went there, I was going to wait a little, tell a little bit later in the podcast to do this, but I'm going to release the top five. Remember the top five you had? Oh yeah, and I kind of liked that, but I think you know it should be top three because we're idiots and we can only really think of three.
Speaker 2:That's a good call, that's a real good call.
Speaker 3:But in today's. But in today's I'm going to do top four because I want to build a Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 3:But real quick, let's go back. Last week, kevin Klein launched this whole thing. You know top five football movies of all time. And you're completely right, kev. Even us, who you know are pretty good and have a nice history with football movies, we left some of them out.
Speaker 3:Well, there's quite a few, so yeah, but, namely which ones my kids got on me for Blindside there was some you know Blindside with Michael Orr and got they also got on me. On we Are Marshall, where the Marshall University airplane went down back in the 70s. Matthew McConaughey was the coach. That was another really good one that we didn't even mention and I have I have top five list remorse for that a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, but you just assuaged it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, I know and I'm sure that when we do this one right here, that there's going to be a ton of people going. Wait a minute, you guys weren't even close. What about? Blah blah and blah blah?
Speaker 2:See, I'm nervous because I don't know what the topic is.
Speaker 3:I know You've now. You know how I felt last week, I know, and then all the people that you've dropped this on during your podcast run over the years. Yeah. Well, here's what we're going to do. We're going to do it's going to be a top four because we're going to build a Mount Rushmore. Okay. And I'm actually going to call it Mount Crushmore.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:The top four stand up comics of all time. Oh, wow. And, and since we mentioned Carlin Kev, I got to put him somewhere. He may not be in the George Washington position on Mount Crushmore, but I at least have him, maybe.
Speaker 2:third, I think he goes up there for sure. I think that people would be appalled if we didn't put Richard Pryor up there.
Speaker 3:I have him there too.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 3:Let's break and let's break these down because you got to keep in mind, we have, we have millennials and we have Gen Z, george Carlin, his HBO specials Well, actually, a lot of kids know George Carlin because he was the narrator for Thomas the tank engine yeah, yeah, he was. So they know him from that. But you know, yes, that was all great with Thomas the tank engine, but you're you're looking at one of the most brilliant, brilliant comedians ever. Social commentary. His HBO specials are some of the most phenomenal stand up acts in history and and the time you and I talked to him, we talked to him like a year or two before his death, about about 20 years ago or whatever. It was Kev, and that was a highlight of our career. We could not believe we were talking to George Carlin. And during the chat with George Carlin, he was testing material on us that he had just wrote. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:I do remember that. Yeah, we were. We were shocked.
Speaker 3:I and I was like this is the coolest thing. And then I we heard it on his last special he ever did, before passing away the stuff that he was running past us and I thought, man, that is just one of the coolest things ever.
Speaker 2:It was awesome and don't forget, he was also Rufus in the Bill and Ted's movies.
Speaker 3:Exactly Rufus. In the Bill and Ted's movies he was the tour guide. Yeah For Keanu Reeves, and then whoever.
Speaker 2:Alan Wilder from St Louis.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it always the guy who played Ted. Yeah. Okay, and Kev, you know I've and I've told you this before that was a favorite movie of mine and yours Love it. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. When it came out, were you like me and you thought you know, alan is going to be the bigger star here? I totally did. I did. I thought the guy who played Ted was going to be the bigger star and lo and behold, the other guy, keanu Reeves. He turned out to be a little something.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, he's pretty good. He's got quite a career.
Speaker 3:Quite a career Can you imagine you got? You have the Matrix series and you have the John Wick series. Yeah. Two franchises that made him billions of dollars, yet he doesn't keep it because he's also the most generous guy in Hollywood.
Speaker 2:Dude, a friend of mine. I did a interview with her. She's a stunt woman in Hollywood and I asked her you know how quarterbacks will give their offensive line Christmas presents? I asked her does your, does your star that you're doubling for give you? And she says well, I wish I worked with Keanu Reeves. He gives out cars and motorcycles to his stunt doubles.
Speaker 3:I think a story and you can double check this is he made. He got like a 29 year old, like a 29 million dollar bonus or something like that, you know, just as part of his points for the Matrix, and he literally went to the entire staff. You know the that, that, that shot that, the behind the scenes guys, the key grips, the this, that, the other, and they split that money 29 million dollars.
Speaker 2:So, like.
Speaker 3:Each of them got hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and don't forget, he also gives most of his money to his sister, who is. I don't know what disease she has, but he takes care of her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's been so generous with it that if he ever like ran out of money, he'd be fine, because everybody would be like we'll take care of you. Yeah. You have made the Karmic deposit, keanu Reeves. Okay, back to our Mount Crushmore.
Speaker 2:Right, so we've got two up there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got. We got that prior Kev. I have to. I have to put Eddie Murphy on mine.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Eddie Murphy. If you have never seen his specials raw and delirious, they are one hour of bang, bang, bang, bang bang, of a guy who not only has one lines, perfect one lines, but does imitations so well. I mean, he probably is the most talented in terms of what he can do and bring to the table of any comedian in history. He's so versatile, he can do so much. And you know he's been talking in the past few years Jerry Seinfeld, comedians and cars getting coffee or whatever it is that he is eventually going to work on another set. You know he's going to go do the open mics and he's going to go do the stuff at some of the you know comedy seller in the stores, the comedy store in Los Angeles, and build another hour. That'll be the great. I mean, that will be the greatest thing ever him him doing a special on like Netflix or something like that, will it not?
Speaker 2:It would be amazing because he's been away from it for so long. And yeah, you're talking about raw and delirious. To me, two of the best hour long stand up comedy special ever. And if you want to find out how much of an impact Eddie Murphy had on the comedy scene, listen to Chris Rock talk about Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 3:And Chris Rock is he belongs. I don't have him on my Mount Crushmore but I have him as an honorable mention.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he'd be up there on an honorable mention for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but Eddie, I got some ice cream. I got some ice and he would do the dance. I got some ice cream, just like he would do as a kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:It was such a good piece of comedy. I still want every few years Kev, just like I do with the movie Scarface.
Speaker 2:I will watch Delirious and I will watch Raw, because that is how you do it and it's going back and watching it after so many years. It's like, oh my God, I forgot that joke. I forgot that joke. Yeah, it is chock full.
Speaker 3:And how much of it is still relevant today.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Now you know some of the stuff that he did can be considered homophobic or whatever you know, but you got to remember this is the 80s and he's gone on record saying he doesn't watch it because of that. He was on the top on some of that stuff. He doesn't even watch his own stuff because he's like yeah, man, I went too far with that. So just a warning, and I doubt there's any hypersensitive people right here that can't handle words. You know, because you're more likely and not you're not part of our audience. But just a heads up, if you do look through that, it was the 80s, it was a different time and that's how they were doing comedy. Okay, back to the Mount Crush. More Kev, who is your fourth?
Speaker 2:Well, just my all time favorite of ever, norm. I mean in the pantheon of great comedians. I don't know if people would I mean comedians think he was the greatest of all time, but his fans he was pretty polarizing because he never really left that 80s kind of stuff, you know. Yeah, yeah. But I love Norm. I cried when he died.
Speaker 3:Norm, I did too. I got sad when he died. I didn't know he was sick.
Speaker 2:Nobody did.
Speaker 3:He never told anybody.
Speaker 3:And he, when he was in studio with us, remember that one time I mean you and I were like glowing in the dark Dude, I couldn't believe it. I could. And you know we were doing his. I remember we were doing his act to him. Yeah, okay, first off, norm McDonald. He comes in with whoever was the middle and the headliner at the improv that evening with him. Okay, he's high, he had smoked some pot, because that's what comedians do when they wake up in the morning, they do the quote unquote waking bake. But he, kevin and I were so fanboy it was probably a little bit embarrassing to him because we're literally like spurting, like, yeah, remember, because he was weekend update guy, probably the best ever weekend update guy on Saturday Night Live and I don't know if you remember this, in 1995, 1995, after the OJ verdict came out, norm McDonald started that weekend's weekend update going this just in murder is legal in California. And we did that to him and his voice murder is legal in California. And he's just. Do you think he? We made him uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:Probably not, because I mean, how can you get uncomfortable with people just loving everything you do?
Speaker 3:I think, though, when we were recording the interview and you and I did the fist bump to with each other going, we didn't know I'm. Mcdonald's right in the middle of it. I think that may have been a bit much, Perhaps, but you know and we were remembering arcane stuff too Do you remember when he was on Saturday Night Live and they were doing the whole bit about, you know, like West Side Story?
Speaker 2:Yes, hey, what's for love to dancing he's you know it's so funny.
Speaker 3:You know West Side Story is a musical with dancing and everything like that, and it's about, you know, fighting and rumbling and gang. You know fighting and everything like that. And you know they face off against the other side and there's Norm ready to their fight and everything like that, and suddenly all the guys that are fighting with him on his side start breaking out into a song and dance number and Norm's just down there. Yeah, that's what are you doing? You got to kick their ass. We have to kick their ass. What are you doing? Remember that.
Speaker 2:I do remember that.
Speaker 1:I remember Celebrity Jeopardy when he was uh uh for Reynolds or Turd Ferguson.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, such great stuff. Yeah, norm McDonald was a genius, I Kev. I had him as my fourth on Mount Crushmore until the recent years last five, six, seven years. Emergence of Bill Burr.
Speaker 2:Oh, I did not like Bill Burr at the beginning when you tried to turn me on to him why I didn't get him. He is your humor, though, man, that is oh, dude Let me tell you, as I said in the beginning, I love Bill Burr now.
Speaker 3:Thank you Because you hadn't seen his stuff when we were doing Morning Show together. For all those years you didn't see his stuff that much and I'm like Kev, this guy is talking to you. Yeah he is. I mean, that should be your comedian, Bill Burr.
Speaker 2:I love him Right.
Speaker 3:And let me tell you this Bill Burr, many years ago, came into the studio and when I was introduced to him he said you know, Tuttle, he's like Tuttle. I have some Tuttles in my family tree. Are we related? And I was like, well, I'd never heard any Burrs. Well, my sister had done some ancestry checks and there are Burrs in the Tuttle family tree, so I'm probably maybe like fourth or fifth cousins with him, which I think, which I think, yeah, which I think should get me. I mean Kev, yeah, we've had him in studio, we also had a phone interview with him. I mean I think that that, and me being like fifth or sixth, he should make me an opener at some time if I ever get some decent material.
Speaker 2:Oh, it goes without saying.
Speaker 3:When he required. Like family wise, he'd be required to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that's when I went Howard.
Speaker 3:Ron. Howard's brother. For those unaware, every Ron Howard movie and Kev I just watched Apollo 13. Did you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's this goofy looking dude, strange looking guy that looks nothing like Opie Cunningham. Ron Howard, I mean to me they are brothers, in the same way that Schwartz and Egger and DeVito were twins, but he's in everything. He loves his brother Kev. He loves his brother Absolutely. You can tell that there's pressure from mom and dad to Ron Howard going Kev. He can't keep any job, ronnie. He was a cashier for a while but he's scared the hell out of the customers. I mean, look at him, look at him. I mean, can you have him play a beast or something like that? And all of your films just like, just give him something. But he actually has some good roles in some of the Ron Howard movies, like this one, this one in Apollo 13,. He was, he was kind of a key role in terms of, you know, ground control in Houston.
Speaker 2:DeVito and Schwartz and Egger, that was really funny. Man, that was really funny.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:I have to write that down. This leads into, I think, your comedy routine.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm not done yet, kev I, we can't to me. I can't leave it at Murphy prior. You know, carlin Burr, I can't leave it at that.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I have to have honorable mentions and you know Norm McDonald is one of mine. You got to mention Chappelle. Okay, I don't know how you feel about Chappelle. He's brilliant, you know, sometimes like some of his raw stuff when he's just testing out material on an audience that's not quite ready yet, you know, but when his, when he has his tight specials, that is really good comedy.
Speaker 2:I'll have to spend more time with him because I, honestly, I haven't spent a lot of time with Chappelle.
Speaker 3:And I know you feel this way, and this is one where you'll probably kick yourself Dennis Miller man totally. How do you not have Dennis Miller? Kevin Klein and I, one of the first bonding things we had in common was our love for Dennis Miller's special black and white.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. Oh, it's still one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 3:Yeah, still one of my all time favorites. Black and white is so good, and I'm a little surprised you, not necessarily me, although I liked his stuff and we were good friends with him Chris Titus is not on your list somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, titus is. Norman Rockwell is bleeding is one of my other all time favorites Not for the faint of heart, but definitely worth consuming if you like comedy.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah. Anything that we'll mention anything we're mentioning here. You know, some of that stuff goes a little bit dark. Yeah. Okay, Just a heads up if you're going to start delving into it. Titus goes a little bit dark, but you know we became friends with Titus over the years.
Speaker 2:Dude. Remember hanging out with him at that private Elton John concert.
Speaker 3:That was so awesome.
Speaker 2:I still talk about that to this day. How did we get invited to that 150 people only?
Speaker 3:This was probably about 20 years ago. We got invited to Las Vegas. We're flown out to Las Vegas. We're out there doing some kind of press junket. You know that, remember, over those two days we were talking to everybody. You know Hulk Hogan and, and you know the guys from World Poker Tour, you know Vince McMahon and yeah.
Speaker 2:It was. It was a, it was a release, a video release called Elton John 40. And it was his 40 biggest songs live in concert, and that's what the big deal was, and it was being put on by Best Buy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, and we were out in Vegas. That that was a. That was a phenomenal time. I'm literally 20 feet away from from Elton John as he's doing like our song and Philadelphia Freedom, and I'm just like this is so surreal. And he's like looking at me too, man. He's like for a couple of times he was looking at me and I'm like Elton John's looking at me and singing like Philadelphia Freedom and I don't. This is so cool.
Speaker 2:Well then. And then he did a four song private performance for 150 invited guests in a white tent behind Caesar's Palace, and he did leave on live. And Tim, you and I were five feet away from Elton John on a red piano playing leave on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean that was.
Speaker 2:That was a life highlight man.
Speaker 3:That was amazing. And then that that was another one. It's something about Vegas, kat, when we're in Vegas together. We got done. We got done with that and I went out and played some blackjack and I'm literally playing next to Chad Kroger from Nickelback, from Nickelback. I played two and a half hours with him and I flat out told him hey, your stuff is lame and hackney and garbage, but I kind of like you as a partner in blackjack. I like taking your money. Yeah, and you know what he said, what. You know what he said. He goes. You notice, I know you might not like my stuff, but you know I'm betting $100 a hand and you're betting $10 a hand. There you go. I was like well said, sir.
Speaker 2:There's the difference.
Speaker 3:Well said sir.
Speaker 2:You do what you have to do and making this Mount Rushmore, I think you can almost do two different Mount Rushmores, because we have not talked about, except for Bill Burr, any real contemporary, real new comedians, and there are quite a few out there. I love Bargatsy, nate Bargatsy. He's lazy.
Speaker 3:He's a Tennessee guy. He's a Tennessee guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think he's a Jesalnyk. He's my new favorite.
Speaker 3:Oh, anthony Jesalnyk is brilliant. I love his stuff. Kev Kev, god rest his soul. He's a contemporary. I don't even know he's been gone for a while. Uh, geraldo, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:His roast stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love Geraldo. I thought he was hilarious. Kev, I know you may have an issue with him because he was kind of a jerk to us before we talked to him on the air. Ron White, though Tater Salad, I love him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's very funny and he's Texas born and bred.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you remember? Do you remember what, when we were right before we were going to put him on the air? Yeah, he had a couple of women around him. Yeah.
Speaker 3:He'd get. You know Ron White and part of the language here. Keep in mind we're on a podcast, but those of you who have listened to us on you know Country, and, and and Top 40 or whatever. You know some sometimes. We're going to delve here. Um, ron White is on the phone. He's about to go on live with us and he goes. I got to talk to these radio guys, these fucking assholes, I hate these fucking radio. Guys, remember that.
Speaker 2:Oh, I totally remember that.
Speaker 3:And we were like three, two, one. Hey, it's Ron White everybody.
Speaker 2:Oh, you remember, uh, you remember Mitch Hedberg and the hissy fit that he threw, uh, because he couldn't get his cocaine before he came on our show.
Speaker 3:That was it. Yeah, he died shortly thereafter. I have Mitch on my list, on my honorable mention list, because his stuff was really really funny, really good, yeah, really good. And then Richard Jenny Platypus man, we met him. We met him. Kavvi, I'm surprised We've like bonded with some of these people that I thought you would have somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2:There's so many good comedians. It's what, what the problem is.
Speaker 3:And I know it's, I know he. You know a lot of people think he's cheesy, but I love Gaffigan.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:He is a master of comedy in terms of, of, of, of, like, like LPMs. They call it LPMs. Laps per minute Laps per minute. Gaffigan gets a laugh like every nine seconds. Every nine seconds he's got hit so tight and so right. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I, whenever I do research on comedians, I always like to, you know, find out what makes them funny and what other people think about them. And the thing about Gaffigan is, when he does that, he'll do a joke and then he'll talk in like a fake female voice. Experts have said that he does that so that he can get away with some of the more body or darker type of humor, because he's actually calling him, he's calling himself out, so it's a really, really brilliant technique.
Speaker 3:Oh, so like if I would when I right there when I did the Ron White, you know what he said to us before going on there if I would have done the Jim Gaffigan is Tim Tuttle swearing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't see if he's swearing I don't like him swearing. I don't like him swearing, I like him just doing the straight top 40 or country stuff that I'm used to him doing this, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, you know that makes it totally acceptable.
Speaker 3:Then that makes it acceptable.
Speaker 2:That's what they say anyway.
Speaker 3:Which is brilliant of him and Kev. I got to admit and I'll be first to admit for many years on the air I would go into that voice of oh Tim. Tuttle. That is derived from Gaffigan. I jacked that from Gaffigan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's not totally Gaffigan, it's. You know, you're using your own style, your own voice.
Speaker 3:So no, I got to give credit where credit's due. It's a complete piracy.
Speaker 2:Okay, where you at on Sebastian Manuscalco I love him, me too.
Speaker 3:I love him. He's brilliant. He has some great stuff. I also like Mulvaney.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love John Mulvaney.
Speaker 3:John Mulvaney is really, really good. He does great work, and I enjoy it, kev. You're right, though, man. If I could do it, see, I can't do it, because even though I think that way and I know you think that way I wish I could go as dark as Jesselnick.
Speaker 2:Why can't you?
Speaker 3:I don't know, man. I don't know Because you know, I guess for many people and you got to look at it now I mean, you know, for the radio career that we've had, you know, 25 years, 26 years, 27 years, you're up to 30. We have built an audience and I would just, I feel like I would be letting them down. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's like gosh, you know I love him. It's second date update, but what is he? Saying now oh my God, what's he? Doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but okay. So there is a comedian named Pete Holmes. He's brilliant. You should if you haven't seen Pete Holmes, you got to definitely check him out and he has a thing, and when he, when he especially comes on stage and he says what happens in these four walls, it's free form.
Speaker 2:It's okay to have any kind of conversation you want in the in these four walls. Outside of these four walls there's different contexts. Okay, and he uses a guy in the front row as an example where he talks about sodomy with the guy in the front row, Everybody laughs. He's like now, if I have that conversation outside of these four walls, that's inappropriate. So inside the four walls, Timmy, I think you could get away with whatever you wanted to.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I see, and I know that when I, when I actually do my, do my open mics, you know it's it's a little more edgy stuff I'm. You know I'm not filthy, I'm not. As a matter of fact, I've never used the F mom yet. But you know, if there the time comes and it would help punch a joke, I'll do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, the most classic example of appropriate use of the F word is the miracle on ice coach Herb Brooks.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:The only time he ever said the F word to his team was when they were going for the gold medal game against Sweden.
Speaker 3:Here was his here was Finland, it was Finland.
Speaker 2:Finland. You're right. They had already beaten the USSR, russia and now they were going for the gold medal. And he comes into the locker room before the game and here was his pregame speech. If you don't win this game, you take it to your grave, your fucking grave, and walked out.
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 2:That was it.
Speaker 3:And hold on, kev. Just so you know clarification, because I just watched Miracle on Ice and did a deep dive on Wikipedia. I love that movie. Yeah, I just watched that and did a deep dive in regards to, you know, the gold medal, the US winning the gold medal in 1980 and beating the Soviet Union, which was the power team of all time. He actually said that they were losing two to one after two periods and that's what. That's what he said, that exact speech, which I'll give you credit. You got the exact speech right before the third period.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. So yeah, aruzioni told us that story.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I remember we were talking to Aruzioni.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 20th anniversary.
Speaker 3:How cool was that? I'm telling you what man we've been in the right place at the right time often, and that's really really cool. Anybody else in terms of your Mount Crushmore honorable mention?
Speaker 2:Check out a guy named Mark Norman.
Speaker 3:I love Mark Norman.
Speaker 2:Okay, you know who he is Good.
Speaker 3:Kev. I've tweeted with him before. He's awesome. He was on Rogan a few years ago and he said on Rogan that he doesn't know if he's any good. He thinks he may be a hack, and this, that and the other. And I tweeted him. I said, dude, you are tight, you are concise, you have well written stuff and you know how to deliver it. You're going to be a big star. I told him this probably about three years ago.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 3:And he liked my tweet and said thanks, man Cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, love him.
Speaker 3:So there you go. That's probably another one that I'm going to go to, once I have my tight five and my act ready where I'm going to go. Hey, remember when I was really nice to you and I gave you a confident tweet. Maybe you can have me, you know, open for you sometime.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, here's two people that we had in studio and they both gave you their personal cell phone numbers. I don't want to know if you've ever used them. Calliando, Frank Calliando gave you his cell phone number and Burke. Reicher.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:The machine.
Speaker 3:The machine and Calliando said hey Tim, anytime you feel you're ready, I want to hear your stuff and if it's right, I'll figure out a way. I want to hear your stuff.
Speaker 3:Also also the improv. You know Raymond has always said hey, when you're, when you're ready, when you got your tight five, let me know and we'll work you up so I can do the improv. Well, that's the goal. That's the short term goal is to have a tight five. You know, five minutes that I'm like Okay, I know that this will kill, I know it's solid. And then you know I'll do it at open mics several times to make sure it's right and really have it down. And then I'll reach out to Raymond at the improv and just be like hey, buddy, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Dude, I probably have to fly in for that.
Speaker 3:You can fly in for that one right. I would Okay but you cannot come around my porch.
Speaker 2:No, no, of course not. You'll have your shotgun, ready. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:You fly in and then you fly back out. Sir, get away. Okay. So this is where and I'm gonna do this like every episode Kev, if I can. Okay, for those unaware, I spent 25 years on the radio Kevin and Klein and I did probably what 6,300 morning radio shows together.
Speaker 3:Yeah that's a lot the thing, my whole thing. And I learned this early and I give John Lennick credit for this. He was our boss back in Nashville. He said, tim, he said your goal should always be make Kevin laugh. If I make, if I, tim Tuttle, can make Kevin laugh, then that should represent enough people in the audience where we can get a paycheck every other week. That'll pay the bills. So that's why I run. I'm running this, my comedy act, past Kevin, because you know, if I make him laugh or if he thinks it's decent, I have confidence in the material and I'll go on stage with it. And let me tell you it's different. I know a lot of you are like oh, tim Tuttle, I have seen you brought up, bring up bands with you know, at Reliant Stadium with 45,000 people. How was that, kenny Chesney? You did that, you were very good on this. It's different being hype guy than it is, you know, doing comedy and looking for laughs. It's completely different.
Speaker 2:Way different scarier.
Speaker 3:It is. I couldn't believe it and I loved it. It was so scary, kev, when I did this, you know, back in 2019, it was, and I loved that scare. I mean, I loved how frightened I was, you know, and I was with my girlfriend at the time, laura, and she was looking at me going is this the Tim Tuttle?
Speaker 3:Yeah she was surprised. I was like, man, this is different and it is, and I love it. Okay, kev, when I did my open mics, the thing that killed every time was dad stories, and the one I will finish with and did finish with because I had a funny feeling it was my best stuff was the Jonas Target story. Do you remember that? I do. I told this story on the air a couple of times. This is from 2007, and I don't know if you remember Brasus Town Center. Yeah, in Rosenberg, kev. You remember that?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Yeah, it was not as big then as it is now.
Speaker 3:All it was seriously. All this was was the JC Penny on the South side and on the North side of 59, it was Target, that was it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, jonas is three years old and I have this in my act. I was like, hey, my son's a fan of Thomas the Tang engine. His favorite character was Percy. He runs into Target straight to the toys section screaming I want Percy, I want Percy. Of course, as a three-year-old he struggled with his Rs. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. Yeah, at first I was nervous that somebody was gonna call Child Protective Services, but some old man diverted attention by saying yes, son, don't we all? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. And afterwards I'm so freaked out by this. Afterwards I'm in the parking lot with Jonas and I'm putting him in his car seat and I'm saying son, it's Percy, it's Percy. Jonas looks at me and says dad, chill, I know, it's Percy. Now take me to Walmart and this time don't be such a cock block.
Speaker 1:Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha ha, that's great. Yeah, that killed.
Speaker 2:I hadn't heard the last part of it. That's great yeah.
Speaker 3:I added that tag. I added that tag to it. Yeah. Because they were laughing so hard. When I was up at the open mic and that just popped in my head and I was like and that got even a bigger laugh than yes, son, don't we all?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I was stoked about that.
Speaker 2:It's a good end.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, I put that into the act and then I did it another time and that was the biggest laugh. I'll finish with that. Unless something comes up and I've got one, go ahead, go ahead, kev.
Speaker 2:Do you know why that's such a great joke?
Speaker 3:Why is that such a great joke?
Speaker 2:Because, number one, it's relatable to anybody who has had a kid. Okay, so parents, you know. But what makes it a great joke is the surprise at the end that the three-year-old actually has his game on. Nobody would expect that. That's what makes the joke hilarious.
Speaker 3:Now, obviously that's not true. I mean, jonas didn't say that he's legit struggle as ours. I just want to, because you know Jonas will listen to this later and he's like dad, my friend's at Texas State. I did not. You know what I'm saying, just in case. Yeah he never said that.
Speaker 2:That's the breakdown of the joke. That's what makes it so hilarious. So good job man, great job great joke.
Speaker 3:Is that a good joke? That's solid. Yeah, and Kev that one. Right there. There were two guys when I delivered that. They were the hosts of the open mic and they said that I can sell that chunk to like big-time comedians. As a joke. Writer. Yeah, yeah, as a joke writer, they said I could sell that and they would probably pay me some decent amount of money, but then again it's theirs from that point on and I could never use it again, right, you know. So I was like, hey, no thanks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 3:Just in case I want to use it in the future.
Speaker 2:Well, you would want to use it in the future, you know? Yeah, I mean maybe when you're 90 and you're done touring, and then you can sell it because it's a timeless joke.
Speaker 3:Right? Well, let me tell you this If I never make it and that's possible, I'll never make it, never do anything, and that's a 95% probability because it's so hard then I'd probably sell it. Okay, all right. So now that I'm that one Kev, I've done some writing in regards to another incident. This one was with Timmy, when Timmy was three years old. There's something about when kids are three years old.
Speaker 2:Three-year-old totals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this was three-year-old Timmy. Hold on a second. Let me sip some water here real quick. Now, this is a true story about when Timmy was three years old. We went to her volleyball game. She played for Texas Tech. They were playing UT the Longhorns at the famed Gregory Gym in Austin.
Speaker 2:Her being your oldest daughter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and for those unaware, university of Texas, volleyball is massive. They just won a national championship yet again second year in a row a couple months ago, and when you go to one of these, as a matter of fact, they're one of the few self-contained programs where they don't need any money from football or basketball or anything like that. They are profitable on their own. They're a massive program, kev.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew they were a big time program when they beat Nebraska.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and Audrey's teammate from Houston Skyline, maddie Skinner. Audrey roomed with her on the road. She'd stay in our room with us sometimes when she played in Orlando and everything like that. She has won now three national championships in a row because she was on the University of Kentucky team Dang. So she's played three years. She's got three rings. Wow, how cool is that, maddie Skinner.
Speaker 2:That's strong.
Speaker 3:She, of course, is the daughter of Brian Skinner, the guy who played at Baylor and for the LA Clippers. I think he was the first pick in the draft back in the 90s. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Nice pedigree.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you see what's going on there. I mean, yeah, maddie has Brian Skinner as a dad, plur Audrey had Laffy boy, tim Tuttle, the radio guy. Ha, ha, ha ha. Well, she's worked out for her yeah absolutely Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Two time all-American in high school. Anyway, this is a true story. We were at that matchcav and when the first set is done, people who need to go to the bathroom go to the bathroom. The men's bathroom was absolutely packed, ok. So yeah, I took my son to a very crowded men's bathroom and since he's a three-year-old with no filter, he finishes peeing, walks over to my stall, looks in and says daddy's got a big pee-pee. Ha ha ha. Now, mind you, it's not really that big, but to a three-year-old it's probably a boa constrictor. Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 3:Oh, full disclosure. I got to do this right now. I am a grower, not a shower. Ok, I can actually remember. A woman I was dating saw me in the natural state just before our first intimacy session and she got that look of disappointment on her face. Now, not wanting to waste $288 I'd spent on two dinners and some flowers, I immediately walked over and said I want to show you a magic trick. Play with my left nipple. Just a little bit Ta-da. Now, it's not exactly Rocco Sifredi, but if the video of our next 30 to 40 minutes together ever got out and it went viral, it's not going to hurt me at all.
Speaker 2:It's not going to hurt me at all. It's not going to hurt me at all.
Speaker 3:As a matter of fact, right now, for the low price of $19.99, you can buy that video. Just kidding.
Speaker 2:Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 3:I like that. The left nipple trick was discovered by my ex years ago. I think she was looking for a way to finish a session and get the large, sweaty mammal off of her. After an exhaustive search, she came upon the left nipple, which turned out to be her own personal, slightly discolored trigger stone that, when pressed, opened the wall and allowed her to run to freedom. Ha ha ha. Now where were we?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, me with my penis out next to my son in the men's bathroom As탁 goodbye. So he says Daddy's got a big pee pee. The huge crowd in the bathroom burst out and laughter. So, of course, being an attention junkie like his dad, he says it again he's got a big pee pee. Even bigger laughter. Now, at this point, it's time for attention junkie senior me to get into the act and say yes, son, and that's the number one reason why I can't believe your mom left me. Also, this event has completely changed my position on a very controversial topic. I am now completely for unisex bathrooms. Any time I'm with my little hype man, we always go trolling for unis Trolling for unis.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 3:Is that a good?
Speaker 2:chunk. I like that trolling for unis. That's a good way to end it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Trolling for unis.
Speaker 3:Is that a decent chunk?
Speaker 2:I like it. I like that.
Speaker 3:My only worry is when I do the open mics, it's usually 21 to 35. They might not know who Rocco Saphredi is.
Speaker 2:True, you might want to do some research and maybe update that. But for the ones like you and I always say, for the one that gets it it pays off.
Speaker 3:That's all I need to care, because you laugh hard and that wasn't even to me a laugh position and you busted out, which that's always a bonus, because I'll do a pause and let that laugh go out, and then that can be contagious with other people around the room.
Speaker 2:Well, I busted out because Rocco Saphredi is so arcane and that's what we loved about Black and White from Dennis Miller that we talked about earlier all of his arcane references and, like we said, for the one that gets it or the few that get it, they're going to appreciate it. But yeah, you might want to, for a younger audience, you might want to punch that up with somebody more current.
Speaker 3:Find their coxman.
Speaker 2:Yes, find their coxwain.
Speaker 3:Hey, ok, and even with the Percy one before and this one, kev, I've got a time to have. This should be every 15, 20 seconds maximum. There's a lot there should be.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 3:So I got it timed out pretty good, but what did you think?
Speaker 2:I thought it was great. I love the, especially the two ends, because I didn't see either of those coming, and that's what makes the jokes really hit is when you don't see them coming.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's it. Yeah, ok, good, see, and I'd like to put that before the Percy Thomas the tank engine, because there's something I want to. I want to insert in there that a tag in there, because now they know that, let me see, but I'm trying to remember what it was. I want to put it in there, and there's somebody comes in. I'm trying to remember exactly what it was, but anyway, it allows me to have another tag and get another laugh out of the Percy thing. Ok, because it's a recall moment.
Speaker 2:Well, recalls are always strong.
Speaker 3:Recalls are strong. Yeah, I've noticed that too. If you, if you bring up something from earlier in your set as a recall moment, that is a hit with audience. That gets you usually an easy laugh, even if it's not like your dynamite a material.
Speaker 2:No, quite a few comedians will end their set with a recall moment.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah they're strong. They're really, they're really powerful.
Speaker 3:OK, all right, so you like my chunks right there.
Speaker 2:I do, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 2:Like the surprises.
Speaker 3:OK, good, because I'm going to do this, like every time, I'm trying to build just the best five minutes, and what you heard there, right there was probably about a minute and a half, maybe a minute 45.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew it clocked under two.
Speaker 3:Yeah, about minute 45 of the five minutes that I'm looking for, so we're going to build it piece by piece right here. Kevin Klein on the Tuddling Klein podcast.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 3:And then I'm going to deliver it, I'm going to record it and I'm going to let you know what the audience thought of it.
Speaker 2:But I'm going to go back. You know, once this posts, I'm going to go back in the two jokes that you did off the cuff earlier in this podcast that just floored me the DeVito and in Schwarzenegger, and then the one very, very early in this and I can't remember it. That's why I need to go back and listen to it. That got me really good man.
Speaker 3:Well, I got to be completely honest, cav. One of the reasons I'm doing this podcast is material for my stand up. But you know Bill Burr, I listened to his podcast, yeah, for years. You can hear him just riff something and then a couple of years later it'll be on a special it's like oh, I remember when he just like riffed that out of nowhere on his podcast and now it's getting a massive laugh 20,000 people in the audience because he's a theater guy, now he plays the big venues.
Speaker 2:Sure, he does yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and so you know that's one of the motivations for me doing this podcast is to do that.
Speaker 2:And that just deflated me because I thought you wanted to do the podcast because you miss me so much.
Speaker 3:That's, totally that's.
Speaker 2:B.
Speaker 3:That's 98 of it. Ok, the whole stand up comedy thing is 2%. Yeah, right. Actually, to be completely honest, 45% of it is I miss what we did. Yeah, 40% of it is you know, so I could get material for stand up, and 15% of it is I love the ego boost.
Speaker 2:Ha ha ha, ha ha, Use that man.
Speaker 3:I do. I mean, over the last week, people commenting and DMing me and stuff. Hey man, what can I say?
Speaker 2:Dude it is so flattering, it's so flattering, it's so humbling.
Speaker 3:And my mom said I love you to me once. Ok, that was when I graduated high school and I was getting the hell out of when I was 17. She said I hate you like three or four times. Anytime. I can get love like that.
Speaker 2:The hate with motivation, though, man, the hate it's robust, it's robust.
Speaker 3:Of course it screwed me up and I can't keep a relationship now. Yeah, my superpower, I get all these beautiful women but I can't keep them. But that's another story for another podcast.
Speaker 2:But look on the bright side, because you get so many beautiful women and you can't keep them. That allows you to get more beautiful women. It's numbers.
Speaker 3:There's your positive affirmation. There's one, maybe two of them, that I wish it would have worked. Yeah, anyway, no, we're not going to go. We're not going to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no therapy session. This is comedy only.
Speaker 3:We're not doing that. We're not doing that, ok, but yeah, you're right, I'll listen back and I'll definitely scour it and put it in my notes. I mean, I've got several chunks that I want you to go over and we'll do another one next week, including I've written a self deprecating chunk already, really One where you know if the audience won't like me because oh, what pain can you be in you know this, right out of the box, will help. So we'll do that one next week, or, yeah, next week.
Speaker 2:Everybody has some sort of pain. Everybody has it.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, and trust me, I'll cover my pain and a more honest way than I've ever covered in my next chunk, and you're going to love it. It's written in a comedic way, so can't wait, I love it. I'm glad that you you're into this. I was worried that you'd be like oh great, Now you get to listen to Tuttle Duke comedy Great.
Speaker 2:Well, but you've always made me laugh. So, yeah, I'm. You know, I talked about it last episode, that we did, and how you're the only person I've ever met whose mind is constantly 110 miles per hour and I never thought you could get into meditation because of that, I'm also. I'm trying to think of somebody else. I know that you would say Ron Bennington on this one, the guy that you used to work with, but I don't know if I've met anybody quicker, quicker with with the align.
Speaker 3:Oh, I appreciate that. I mean, that's, that's something that I have been blessed with, and I don't I don't know if it, whether that's the copious amounts of caffeine, what that may have to do with it. But yeah, man, I've always been able to and that's.
Speaker 3:That's a childhood thing too, you know, because you know we ripped on each other when we were kids and you got to be ready. Yeah, and the friends that I had, you know the basketball teammates and the baseball teammates, football team, it was ripfetched and if you weren't ready you were dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if you couldn't take it, you were dead too.
Speaker 3:No, you always got to be able to take it. Oh yeah, I can take anything. Yeah, I mean at least right there. I'll go cry later.
Speaker 2:Norm was very quick too. The Norm MacDonald is one of the reasons why I liked him so much. Yeah, Go watch. Go watch him on Conan any of the Conan's that you did.
Speaker 3:I was always in. Yeah, if you look at it, most comedians have. They're good after they write something. They have to write something. But, you know guys like Norm MacDonald and thank you for you know putting me on that too I've always took pride in being able to think of something quickly. But Ron Bennington from the Ron and Ron show and Ron and Fez, both in Florida and on Sirius and XM I could not believe. When I worked with him in Daytona Beach back in the late 90s, I could not believe how quick he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and two other two other people that come to mind is quickness. And if you ever saw their stand up, you wouldn't be able to see Bob Saget anymore because he passed away that same year as Gilbert Godfried and Norm MacDonald. He did not have a script prepared during his stand up. And Harlan Williams? We've we've had Harlan in a couple of times Love it. Oh my God dude, His whole act is comes out and he just starts talking to the audience, and it's just one quick line after another.
Speaker 3:One of the funniest things. You remember this one. He goes I need to get in shape. I'm shooting a movie, so I'm doing eight minute abs right now and it's still a little bit too long. So here's what I'm working on Four minute, and I just remember you pulled that out of his butt, you know, when he was talking to us, and then it ended up being in his act like a year or two later it ended up being in.
Speaker 2:there's something about something about Mary Was that in there. That was in there. He's a hit tiger that Ben Stiller picks up. That's right Eight minute abs.
Speaker 3:Ok before you guys, Before you guys ever heard Harlan Williams and there's something about Mary do the eight minute abs he did it in studio or on the phone with us in Nashville. That's funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the movie it was seven minute abs and Ben Stiller says well, what about six minute abs? Yeah, no, seven, Seven, Seven is the key number. Seven little chipmunks sitting in a tree eating uncle's peanut butter. For you and me it's something like that, you know. I love it in my office Is you fucking fired?
Speaker 3:Classic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, big time.
Speaker 3:Hey, kevin, I need to commend you on something. Something I noticed since since we split and win our separate race a few years ago, is you're actually really starting to do some handyman stuff and I can't believe it. I mean you, you were. You used to be like an awe when I would tell you OK, I just completely changed the garage door opener, I opened it up, did all the gears, you know, did all of that stuff. And you know the time that I completely rewired and the electric set up at my ex's place and I gave her a switch instead of the tourney little knob thing. Yeah, here's Mr Handy, the tourney little knob.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's an expert. I was just really.
Speaker 3:Oh, don't worry about that, honey, I'm going to get this tourney little knob thing and it'll just be an up and down switch.
Speaker 2:Technical jargon, don't mess with it.
Speaker 3:But yeah, and and Kev I am. You know, I told you a long time ago that you can do anything via YouTube. Yeah, I mean, I, all of this stuff is just me looking up YouTube how to do it and I do it, and because of that I've completely pulled out of health care. Really, because I can perform any procedure on myself now.
Speaker 2:Of course you can yeah for sure.
Speaker 3:So I'm on my fourth surgery. How do I look?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what kind of tools do you use for those surgeries? If you're using the tourney little knob thing for electric, I'm using that sharp little cutty thing. That's funny, really good.
Speaker 3:But you're, you're starting to do it too.
Speaker 2:I almost died yesterday.
Speaker 3:Did you really?
Speaker 2:I am not kidding you, timmy, I almost died yesterday.
Speaker 3:God, hold on a second. I can't allow you to die for 10 more years. Ok, yeah, no we're going to do this podcast and if we end up doing a radio show, we're going to do 10 more years. So, kev in 2034, die all you want.
Speaker 2:There you go yeah just die.
Speaker 3:all you want, you son of a gun, but right now you cannot.
Speaker 2:I had my steel chainsaw out yesterday and I was doing, I was cutting down a tree, and it it kicked back on me and if I would not, it had. It was really quick, but I saw that it had the potential. So if I, if I didn't move my head, it would have decapitated me. Whoa, oh yeah, dude, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:OK, when you do this stuff, please tell me that you're setting up a tripod with your phone on it and you're recording.
Speaker 2:Just just do that at least. Oh, I'll start doing that. But yeah, I've got it, while you're seeing video right now of me cutting down a tree with my chainsaw, but yeah, dude, it was, it was so horrible and and. But the other thing too is it happened so quick. I didn't even turn the, I didn't even turn the chainsaw off and I didn't push the safety. So, yeah, if I would have fallen or anything, yeah, that could have been, that could have been disastrous.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow, so you don't mess around. You got. You got to have solid footing when you're dealing with the chainsaw. I think it's somewhere in the instruction manual.
Speaker 2:It is, it is, but no, but I had solid footing. It was just it kicked back and I had to react so quickly. I didn't prepare an out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kev, do you? That reminds me of a time when I took my kids, audrey and Jonas. You know, maybe Jonas was 11. Audrey was 13, or whatever. I took them to Athena Gun Club. Ok yeah, and Audrey is firing a nine millimeter and after she fired it it slipped out of her hands and the barrel started like pointing toward her and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:And I was like oh my God, holy cow, yeah, yeah, I was like that. I mean, how close you are to that. I'm like Audrey, just hold it, please, just hold, don't do that again, you know. And then she's fine. She realized what the kick would do, because a lot of it is. You don't know what the kick of a weapon will do. Of course, the kick flipped on her and it started. That barrel, went backwards and pointed at her with her finger still in there. Oh my God, yeah, yeah, what a scary. Yeah, it's as if you're going to be in a car I'll never forget that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that, just that reminds me. With you, with it, you know just, you lose, and that's it.
Speaker 2:Well, if you ever want to know how much your life is worth, mines, two hundred and sixty eight dollars. Ok, and that's how much it would cost to bring a professional and to cut down some of these trees. Two hundred and sixty eight per, and I'm too cheap to do it. So my life is worth two hundred and sixty eight bucks. You're not going to pay the two sixty eight. No, I'm going to do it myself, maybe die in the process, but hey, we saved two hundred and sixty eight bucks.
Speaker 3:That's so funny. Did you have fun? Did you have fun doing it?
Speaker 2:Tim, I love it. I absolutely love yard work and I have no Hispanic in me.
Speaker 3:I tell you I can't and I live in an apartment, so the maintenance is all done for you. Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:But that's one thing I miss. I miss the projects, I miss doing the little projects. And sometimes I look around and I'll go oh, what can I do myself, you know? And there's nothing, nothing. What I do is I go trolling the neighborhood and I'll see like a shutter, somebody's shutter, like bent sideways. I'll knock on the door. Can I get that for you, excuse me? You don't know me and I know it's going to sound weird. Not a criminal.
Speaker 3:I'm not casing the joint here, but I would really love to get that shot Shutter straightened for you. It'll take me about five minutes.
Speaker 2:There you go. Yeah, that's not OCD or anything, is it?
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, my God, I can't Dev. Are you getting worse? Because I'm getting worse.
Speaker 2:Oh, I am too.
Speaker 3:I am so OCD right now. It's like this past weekend. I had Dowland Timmy with me and literally I follow them with a washcloth everywhere they go. I'm serious, I like they'll get done with, like they'll eat like three potato chips and I'll, I'll be, I'll be, you know, scooping the crumbs Getting and I'll be getting the, the broom out. It's Tara, it's bad, I'm too much a two OCD.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing to look forward to, tim, is, when you're 75, they'll be doing the same thing to you.
Speaker 3:It all comes around, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:it certainly does yeah kids.
Speaker 3:I remember those diapers I changed. Well, now you're gonna change daddy's diapers. I Can, I could. I could just see Audrey right now watching this, listening to this or whatever. In San Marcos going Donus, you got poopy duty.
Speaker 2:That's right, I'll take mom, you take dad.
Speaker 3:They're divvying up. They're divvying up right now. That's right all right, what else we got, kevin Klein?
Speaker 2:nothing, man. What do you got coming up this week?
Speaker 3:What do I have coming up this week? Well, I'm going to consent you to work on my comedy act and I'm gonna run past another chunk for you. I may just jump out Um Sometime this week and do an open mic. I don't know yet. I want to make sure I have the material.
Speaker 2:I may wait till next week to jump on stage, so we'll see well, if you go on stage, record it so that we can, so we can hear it and Remember Tim. The only way you get good at that is doing it.
Speaker 3:I know, I know and I almost want to just like Develop my own venue, you know okay, I. Don't know how to do that, though I don't have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2:Develop your own venue how.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I would like to just do an act right outside at the pool here and just, you know, invite the neighborhood or something like that.
Speaker 2:But do it, do it. That'd be awesome. Should I yeah remember what they used to do when, during COVID, they would do rooftop comedy specials?
Speaker 3:Okay, if you know what I was also thinking of doing and I was gonna make this like a bit that I did on YouTube or something like that Is just go and test my chunks on complete strangers.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, that would be so you talk about scary. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like, like see, the good thing is is when you go to a club or an open micro, whatever they're there to listen to comedy, they're drinking or whatever. Just to walk up to somebody who's like walking into convenience store and go hey man, got a minute. I Just need a minute 45 of your time do it. I'm a I don't know.
Speaker 2:We'll see do it as far closing time. Oh, that's just stand up right when they're coming out. Oh, when they're coming out, hey, hey hey everybody real quick, real quick.
Speaker 3:My name is Kevin Klein. Just want to run some comedy past. I love it, okay, yeah, all right, that's a good idea. What do you have coming up this week?
Speaker 2:I just, you know, doing some more yard work. Hopefully I'll survive that. And then, dude, I'm gonna be talking to Ozzy's former bass player, oh.
Speaker 3:How cool is that.
Speaker 2:Phil Suzan.
Speaker 3:Was that Randy Rhodes era?
Speaker 2:No, it was Jake E Lee. It was the ultimate sin. This is the guy that wrote shot in the dark, and so I'm really excited about that. But yeah, for the most part just running and chains on.
Speaker 3:I love it. Okay, you keep doing you. We will have another podcast next week. Merchandise should be out sometime soon. What else do we need to remind them of? Oh, you got to follow and like our stuff.
Speaker 3:We're all over like Instagram Instagram Tuttle and Klein on Instagram. Tuttle and Klein on Facebook. Please follow and like us, and I'd also like to throw this out if I could. If you're here and you're like, well, I love you guys, do a second date update. You made me laugh and we used to talk to our friends about Second date update and our co-workers or stuff like that. If you can remember any of those people that used to talk about that with, shoot them a note or a message or just let them know that Tuttle and Klein now have a podcast and you know more we can get, the better you know. I would love for our audience to continue to grow and have a good time with us cool, absolutely cool.
Speaker 2:And also, if you want to drop us an email, tuttle and Klein at gmailcom or Tuttle and Klein at Yahoocom, or just comment on any of the social media.
Speaker 3:Whatever you want to do, and let us know what you think of the episode, yeah let us. We don't care if you think it sucks or you. You know you hate us now or what. That's fine too. I mean, we have pills for that Mm-hmm, so, but you know, we'd love to get feedback on what you think. Okay, yep, we enjoyed doing this, so thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 2:All right, thank you, kev. I'll see you, buddy. You got it, bro. See you. The Tuttle and Klein podcast is hosted by Tim Tuttle and Kevin Klein. Executive producer. The intern. Executive producer the intern. It's actually Trash Klein. Join us again next Wednesday and thank you for listening.