Can you
can you speak to your
relationship with Chris Kendall a little bit because I think one of the things that I've only seen you do this twice job
But the the hook-and-loop suit for yeah
You're you're doing that you you've got permission to do what Kenner's work with you wanted. Yeah, but no delay
How did how did that come about where you're hanging out with Chris Kenner and then his material with his not just express permission
But blessing it's weird. Yeah
Yeah, super trippy for me because as a kid I saw him do the velcro and I went
Oh, that's the I was trying you know
We all go through that like I'm gonna be super original and only do my own stuff for you forever in art art art
Phase and then I saw him do that and I was like, okay
well
If you know if there was ever one trick of someone else's that I really wanted to do
it was that and then I met him through people a
Few years later. We started hanging out and I think that just came up in conversation
that there was this one trick that I thought was really rad and then
Years later, we started hanging out more and more and more. And then now
Within I think the last whatever two and a half three years he gave me all of his material, which is bonkers
Yeah
But yeah, so the ideal complement to you because yes, I'm insanely grateful it's crazy. Yeah
But in it's cool because were able to take this
Like we can sit down and take this body of work that he already had that he was already working
tons of shows with David doing the the middle act
Yeah
and then take this set that already worked and
was successful and then take that and bring it even further and bring like the
One of my openers is a version of the Texas trick that he used to do. Can you describe the Texas trick?
Yeah, so just because our listeners made it. Yeah, no idea what that is
I think a lot of people for some reason I've never never got to see it unfortunately, but
Maybe a big envelope and it says the Texas so big envelope. You see big envelope because
Ma'am at the front you're gonna name any state. I put a prediction inside this envelope
Don't let me try to influence you Chuckster jokes. Mhm, and then he ends up turning it around
It says the Texas trick actually called the Texas trick
Yes starts doing a Texas accent like all this ridiculous stuff pulls out the prediction from inside the envelope
you know on the back of this is gonna be the name of one state pulls the thing out and it's cut out like the
shape of Texas
And then the woman says Alaska. Yeah, and then he turns around to the last good. Yeah, there's another guy at the end
but yeah, I mean so is a
super-tight
Formulaic. Yeah tricks, but then we're able to take those in just
Like we literally sat down in about an hour and a half and cranked out
What is my current?
opener from what the Texas trick was and then over the course of a couple years the jokes have evolved and been rewritten by
me and
There's another john wing. Yeah out of LA get stand-up, you know, really really great writer and
Yeah, and now it is
something that like people who even knew Chris's act does don't immediately recognize as that kind of
Is kind of the same thing if that makes sense
Yeah, it's interesting because the first time I saw you do it I didn't realize it was the Texas trick
It's right walking you afterwards and you're like, yeah the Texas trick is doing great
Yeah, and I was like, oh my god it is. Yeah. It was super weird of me, too
But I mean, it makes me happy that we heat I can sit down and take something
yeah, that was pretty iconic for him and turn it into something that hopefully
Feels totally different and in it is you know in different ways like this is a physical
3d object which we thought was a really cool
Way to approach that from going from the prediction being a flat fan to being this
physical item changing and then just weird
Weird little things like that. But yeah