Brent Terhune joins the hosts of Muck You to delve into the comedic intricacies of political satire and the absurdities of contemporary culture. Right off the bat, they touch on the humor surrounding President Trump's antics, drawing parallels between his public persona and the often exaggerated characters Brent portrays in his stand-up. The conversation flows into a discussion about how Brent's satirical character, the "Alpha Male," captures the essence of outrage culture, particularly among MAGA supporters, who seem to thrive on finding reasons to be upset. As they explore Brent's comedic journey and the challenges of performing in varied environments, from corporate gigs to prisons, the pair reflect on the nuances of audience engagement and the thin line comedians walk in today's charged political climate. With plenty of laughs and insightful commentary, this episode showcases Brent's unique perspective as a comedian navigating the tumultuous waters of modern politics.

Takeaways:

• The dynamic banter between the hosts highlights their sharp wit and humor regarding political figures, showcasing a light-hearted yet critical view of current events.
• Brent Terhune's comedic approach to political commentary, especially through his character Alpha Male, reflects a unique blend of satire and social critique, which resonates with a diverse audience.
• The discussion about outrage culture emphasizes how people's reactions to media and events can often be driven by a need to be angry, illustrating the absurdity of modern societal dynamics.
• The interaction between the hosts reveals their camaraderie and shared experiences in comedy, with anecdotes that blend humor and personal stories, making the episode relatable and engaging for listeners.
• Brent's insights into the challenges of performing in front of hostile or indifferent crowds, such as at a prison, provide a candid glimpse into the life of a stand-up comedian, highlighting both the highs and lows of the profession.
• The episode closes with Brent sharing details about his upcoming shows, emphasizing the importance of live comedy and audience engagement in an ever-evolving entertainment landscape.

Links referenced in this episode:

• brentcomedy.com
• americanmuckrakers.com

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• American Muckrakers
• Comedy Plex
• Brent Terhune

Some of you were big butt hurt about this.

Look at President Snoopy up on the roof, just doing regular 79 year old man stuff.

But if this were dementia Joe, I'd say look at old dementia Joe.

82 years old, decrepit, up on the housetop, click, click, click.

Somebody check on it because he's sick, sick, sick with dementia.

But since it's Trump, look at him.

You seen him, he was strong as a bull, 79 years young.

The Secret Service didn't even know he was up there.

He just, he gave him the old okie doke.

He's like a toddler.

You can't turn your back on it for 30 seconds because then they seen the plaster start falling from the ceiling.

They said, oh, damn, where's potus?

He's just up there owning you libs and you can't handle it.

You lib said the president shouldn't be on the roof.

That's too much power for one man.

And he said, you go ahead and watch me.

Even the fake news media, they said, president Snoopy, what are you doing up on the roof?

And he said, owning the libs.

He just plotting and scheming.

Everybody's playing checkers and he's just playing 34 double D chess.

Just really big Sydney Sweeney chest.

Welcome to mucu.

I'm David Wheeler, co founder and president of American Muckrakers and your host for this ride where we dig deep into the mud and a little bit of muck.

But I don't do it alone.

Sitting alongside me is my co host and co founder and frankly, the guide you want in a foxhole when the fight gets dirty.

He's a retired Air Force colonel, former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, and one of the sharpest voices for justice out there.

Please welcome my friend and co pilot here at MUC U, Colonel Mo Davis.

Hey.

Well, thanks, David.

And welcome back, everybody.

It's good to be with you again.

And hey, David, I don't know about you, you're up a little higher altitude or the leaves starting to turn up your way.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's starting to get.

Starting to get a little folly up here.

Yeah.

Well, hopefully last year we kind of missed leaf season thanks to hurricane Helene.

So hopefully this year we'll have a better one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it was a very short leaf season because they all got blown up.

Yeah.

So down with all the trees.

Yeah.

Odds are good it'll be better than last year.

I hope so.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, welcome back to another episode of Muck you.

And tonight we got Brent Terhune on, who is actually, we're talking for coming on the air.

It was in Asheville right before the hurricane, so.

Hey, Brent, thanks so much for taking time out and joining us tonight.

Hello, guys.

Thank you for having me on the program.

Well, it's a pleasure.

Hey, listen, I've, if folks haven't, you know, googled you and gone out and watched some of your videos, they need to do that.

I, I, over the last couple of days, I've watched a number of them and, you know, I saw a couple of things where you said you're like if Stephen Colbert was maga.

So I'm just wondering, is he sued you yet for stealing his, his bit or how things going with Stephen Colbert?

No, I think, I think he's got a lot going on with his, with his show right now.

But my, my intention was to, to so, to fill people in.

I'm, I'm a standup comedian and I do a satirical character that I've called Alpha Male.

He's a truck rant guy.

So anytime you've ever seen anybody rant in their car, especially about politics, that is that character.

And when I started the character, my first video was burning Nikes and in my backyard while wearing Nikes.

An important thing to note.

And then the care.

I never intended the character to be anything but man, is there no shortage of news?

There's no shortage of that guy.

And, yeah, it just kind of evolved from there.

It was never a thing that I set out to make, like a regular thing that I do.

But here we are, I don't know, five or six years later.

So I'm betting you're, you're hoping for a third term.

No, I don't want any.

People are like, oh, I bet you were glad that he won.

Not really.

I can be funny in other ways.

So I wish I didn't have all the stuff to talk about.

Yeah.

Hey, well, listen, here's my big question is, I mean, you're the, the character you do, which is really quite funny.

Thank you.

Yeah.

A redneck.

But you're from Indiana, so how did you learn to be a redneck in Indiana?

Well, you know, I've traveled all over the country for about 20 years doing standup, and there, there's no lack of redneck everywhere.

That guy is everywhere.

But also, you know, I live in Indiana and, you know, we, we also, instead of wash, my grandma always said war.

Yeah.

So, like that.

I, I know these people.

You know, I live amongst them.

There's, you know, you drive around the neighborhood that I live in, and there's no lack of MAGA flags.

There's no lack of that guy around.

So I've, I've met that guy several times.

And you, you know, you, you meet enough people and you make.

It's an amalgamation of people.

But also, there's no.

I have, you know, there.

I have playlist of people that I watch regularly that do what I do.

But seriously, because I have to parody what they are already doing, you know.

All right.

Well, certainly, you know, David and I are well acquainted with the, you know, the type of people you, you play in your.

When you're.

You're in.

In, you know, doing your, your thing.

But, you know, it's.

Did you ever think, I mean, if you go back and, I mean, you've been in Stand up before, you know, Trump really burst onto the scene.

Yeah.

You ever imagine back then that you'd be doing what you're doing now?

No, because I, you know, first and foremost, I, whatever I, I try to do, I try to make it funny first and foremost, and then go from there.

But I've, I was never and still am not really one who, like, has got to.

Got to be all up to date on politics, you know, that somebody said if, if you are not into politics, politics will be into you.

And I, I am a firm believer in that now.

But I've never, I never really cared about politics really, until the last few years.

And I do.

But also I, I tried to not consume as much of that stuff because I think when you watch the news, it just should just be called the bad news.

I don't know that it's good for the spirit to be that plugged in, even though you should be.

It's a, It's a weird.

Was it a catch 22 type thing, the damned if you do, damned if you don't type thing?

Yeah.

Well, listen, I, I see where you've weighed in on some of the current hot topics, like you might want to share with our, our listeners your, Your take on Bad.

Bad Bunny.

Yeah, yeah.

Being the halftime show at the super bowl this year.

Well, and if you've, you know, watched any reactions, the last.

I don't know who it was.

There was the weekend there was Beyonce and Shakira, then it was Kendrick Lamar, and I think I'm missing a few in there.

Usher maybe, but there, it's, it's.

It's outrage.

And I will, you know, say fake outrage of anybody, whoever they announce.

I said in the, in the video that I just did.

About Bad Bunny, of course, my character is not pleased that Bad Bunny is the, is the halftime show.

But I, A line that I thought of a few weeks ago and I threw in this video, but the character says, alpha male says, I'm not happy unless I'm mad.

And that is, I think a, you know, I'll pat myself on the back, I think is a nice summary of a lot of the MAGA people.

And it's a, it's a reflection of where we are in the media, of all the, you know, the influences, air quotes of the, the MAGA people.

They got to be mad about something today and they'll have to be mad about something tomorrow.

It's, it's kind of like there's a new hot topic every few days.

And of course they're gonna, if everybody likes it, they're gonna dislike it, of course, you know, so.

And you know, for Bad Bunny to be a Puerto Rican, a not white person, people are gonna be mad about that, of course.

And the fact that he sings and in anything other than the language that they barely have a grasp on is another thing that they will be mad at.

So of course, my thing is even when something good happens for the character, he still has to find a way to complain about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I always thought that was the MAGA mantra, was we're not happy until you're not happy.

And then.

Yeah, misery loves company.

Yeah, listen, you get way back with the NFL.

I mean, that's from your early days.

So, yeah, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

It's, you know, and it's, it's the.

Also the same type of people that are, they're going to say they're boycotting the NFL this year.

Well, they've been boycotting it for nine years.

What, Since Colin Kaepernick took a knee.

And then, you know, now they're, they will chime in every year on something that happened in the NFL.

But when.

If you're like, well, I thought you guys 10 years ago said you weren't going to tune in anyway.

It's just outrage culture for clicks and stuff like that, which is, that's what the character is.

But also it's like, I don't know how you guys feel, but like it's the news cycle is even a 24 hour news cycle.

It's not that anymore.

It's 12, it's 8.

We get a new thing that happens every other day and it's all too much to consume.

And it all, it's all a lot of it based on being mad about something that happened in the culture, so.

Well, back to your point.

I've been commenting on the NFL for a while.

I've also.

The characters also said he's not watching unless it's Monday, Thursday, Sunday, and Sunday and Saturday during the playoffs.

But other than that, he's done with the NFL.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

They sometimes talk over themselves in a way that's unbelievable.

So, Brent, how many people come to your shows thinking they're going to get that guy and they realize that he's not the truck guy?

I've never had anybody come.

Come and think that I was.

My character was genuine.

Right.

Because.

And if they have, they've never come up to me because they'd probably embarrass, be embarrassed.

But I do get a lot of people that will say, I played it for my dad, I played it for my uncle or whoever, and he thought it was really funny and still didn't understand.

Like, they'll be like, my uncle shares your videos without understanding what's going on.

But I do get people that.

That show up and think that, you know, they know the character is a joke, but they're also unaware that I have been doing Stand up forever, which I do.

The character in my show at the end.

Because if Radiohead didn't play creep, you'd be like, well, that was a good show, but they didn't play my song, you know?

Yeah.

So I. I know why you're there if you're coming to my show, but I. I don't know that anybody's ever come and been like, well, I. I've been hoodwinked.

And if they have, they.

They didn't let me know about it.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I. I heard a little bit of the character there when you threw out.

Hoodwinked.

I've been bamboozled.

I. I love a.

The redneck will.

Will have just.

I. I say the rednecks.

Well, they always.

You know, everybody thinks rednecks are dumb, and sometimes that's true.

But then also they'll have a $115 word they throw in there that'll throw you off.

You know, they'll.

They'll throw in a discombobulated, you know, or a caddy wampus, and you're like, I don't.

I don't know.

You heard that somewhere, and that's become part of your vernacular.

Exactly.

All right, well, we're with Brett Terrhoon here.

And Brett, tell folks where they can learn about you and where they can, more importantly, listen to your.

Or go see you at your next show.

Yeah, my.

My website and everything trickles down from brentcomedy.com I have all the links to all my social media stuff, and I'm on tour all the time.

It's, you know, people big.

I just announced the new tour.

Well, I've been a road comedian for a while, so us roadie guys tend to just constantly be on tour.

So brentcomedy.com is.

Is where you can find all my dates upcoming on.

I don't know when this will be out, but 10 4, good buddy.

And then where else?

I'm looking at my own website, Duluth, Minnesota, November 15th.

But BrentComedy.com is where you can find me.

And on all my social media stuff, I post all my dates there too.

Okay, great.

Well, we'll.

We'll get this out actually right away in time for the Chicago show.

Being a former Chicagoan, I'm gonna make sure all my friends and family over there know what.

What's that?

Your show is going to be in town.

But where is it going to be in Chicago?

It's a.

It's a place called Comedy Plex.

Okay.

And let me.

I'm giving that a Google because I don't remember the neighborhood.

All right, well, it is an Oak Park, Illinois.

Okay.

Yeah, Yeah.

A little bit west of the city and.

Yeah, great.

Perfect.

Perfect location for you.

So tell.

Tell us a little bit more about yourself, Brett.

You're from Indy.

You grow up there, you have a family, kids.

What's the deal?

Grew up in Indianapolis.

I'm from here.

Still live here.

Married guy, married with cats.

So, guys, it's what, a what?

Cat.

Just chaos over here.

I don't have children, so I. I feel weird saying I've married with cats because then it.

It puts cats up there with children, and I know that those are different animals to.

Yeah.

Have you seen that show don't with cats?

I have not, because I. I heard it's kind of brutal with cats, right?

Is it brutal?

Well, there's one.

There's a documentary about some guy started messing with cats and he ended up getting killed by somebody.

So.

Well, that I, if anything, I have the scratches to prove that.

You don't with cats.

Yeah, exactly.

But been.

Been married for a little while and.

Yeah, I grew up in Indianapolis and I also.

Another Thing that I, this is a big passion of mine is I, I host a horror movie podcast.

So this month, October 1st, as we're recording this as prime time for us.

But the show is called they're coming to get you.

Like from Night of the Living Dead when he says they're coming to get you, Barbara.

But yeah, I, I, we turned the you guys when we first talked.

You could probably see behind me is I'm a big toy collector and memorabilia type guy.

I love art from local artists and stuff.

So this room that I'm currently sitting in is full of toys and all kinds of horror stuff mostly.

And that's a thing I do on the road is I do my shows, but then I have my spots that I like to hit up wherever I go.

Yeah, that's cool, man.

That's cool.

And your wife travel with you sometimes, I hope.

Yeah.

I take her to all the nice places.

I've taken her to Omaha and Syracuse, New York.

Now I've taken nice places, but not to say that those places aren't nice, but she, she's seen the big cities, so sometimes we go to those hidden gems.

We're big fans of Louisville, Kentucky.

There's a lot of, oh, that's a great town.

Yeah, we love antique malls and all that stuff.

So we're not, you know, we're not unique and loving all that kind of stuff.

But she, she goes on the road with me and a good sense of humor and, uh, she's very big into Halloween type stuff too.

We had a Halloween wedding, so that's where we're at.

That's awesome.

That's cool.

Well, you're.

One of the, one of the most funny things that ever happened to you was, I think it was during the last campaign when Trump was driving the garbage truck.

Somebody mistaked you for that guy who was with him.

Tell us a little bit about that and how it rolled out in your world.

It's my most viral video, I think at 9 million views.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which.

My first one, I think, or I did.

My first one ever was Burning Nikes.

And I think I did it a year later when Kaepernick did a Nike had a Nike thing contract.

So I did it again and that one ended up being my most viral one for a while, I think at 8 million.

But I, there was a picture of.

Is it, is it, uh, what's the guy's name?

Vivek, I think.

Yeah.

Ramaswami Y. Yeah.

So there was a picture of him in a garbage truck, I think it's separate locations.

And the guy he was with in the truck is a doppel ginger of mine.

I'm a, I'm a redhead guy.

There's no lack of people that look like me.

One of my jokes in my act is I look like I would be on the COVID Storm the Capital magazine, you know, so there's, there's no lack of people that look like me.

Yeah.

So even, like, my wife will see pictures of other people that look like me.

And one time we found this guy, and she's like, where?

When did you take this picture?

Because somebody sent it to her.

And I was like, I don't remember.

And I was like, wait, that's not even me.

So we found the guy online and he looks exactly like me.

So this guy that was in the garbage truck looked exactly like me.

And I get people that send me pictures that look like me all the time.

Especially.

Who's the guy that, does he play for the Dodgers?

Justin Turner?

I, I think he's placed for the Dodger.

I don't remember either way, any red bearded people.

They always send me and I always repost.

Quit sending me this.

So that's like an inside joke.

Yeah, I've seen that.

I've seen that.

That's pretty funny, though.

And then Robin Swami, like, retweeted it, like you were some major Trump supporter or something.

Yeah, well, the big one, because I, I made a video saying it was an honor to ride in, in the truck with Trump, of course, that that guy was never in a photo with Trump, but it's the Internet, so people believe it.

And I, I, I was up early.

I, I'm an a night owl, so I'd been up all night.

I did the video pretty early in the morning, and I took a nap and I woke up.

So I posted it, took a nap, woke up, and I had 2 million views in just a couple hours.

And it's, it's weird to say it now, giving the events of the past few weeks, but the guy that, that initially started people retweeting it was Charlie Kirk, who eventually deleted the tweet because he was like, this is beautiful.

This guy was pledged to support to President Trump.

And I, I of course, called it Garbage Force One.

That was trending for a while because a previous video I had done was I said my boat sank in Lake Travis.

There was that the big thing of people in Texas had their, their MAGA boats with all the flags, and a few of them sank.

So I said my boat sinking like Travis, and I Called that the SS Magaritaville.

I find if you, like, name something kind of like punny people really attached to that.

So, of course I drove Garbage Force One, and that kind of blew up across all social media stuff.

It was.

It was really crazy.

Yeah, it was really good.

Brett and I, with your permission, I think we'll splice it into this conversation, if that's okay.

Yeah.

So.

And I'll point out if you.

If you do cut that audio in that one is.

I. I intentionally didn't write any real jokes for that.

The.

The humor is in there, but I didn't have any puns.

I didn't say what on flat earth.

I didn't say I digest any kind of, like, clues to let you know that that is a satirical video.

Or your co. Or your Covid cough, Brent.

The COVID cough that I had for eight years.

God, that was funny.

That was so funny, man.

All right, over to you.

Over to you, Mo.

Take it, man.

Well, David, hey, you know, it's pretty funny because we had Congressman Jack Kimball on a while back.

I don't know if you're familiar with Jack, but, you know, it's a fictional character that kind of does a similar thing to what you're doing, where he'll take a piece of news and post some about it, but occasionally gets picked up by the mainstream media who thinks he's really a congressman and he's not.

So.

Yeah, it's amazing how people just are looking for something that supports their narrative and are happy to jump on it without verifying lying.

That is legit.

Yeah.

What is that?

Confirmation bias is what.

What.

What the term is, I guess.

But people.

And even that guy, when he will tweet to me, I don't know who the.

Who he is or, like, there's another account.

Liam Nissan.

Not Nissan, but Nissan.

Yeah.

So, like, when you just see people.

Oh, it's.

It's.

You know, he's a congressman.

He's got to be legit.

But, you know, we've never had more access to information in our lives, and we don't use it.

Yeah, the same with my videos or anybody but that, you know, when you just post something.

I've posted stuff as a joke with breaking, blah, blah, blah.

And I.

You know, I like to think that it was a joke, but then you get people that are serious, and I'm like, I don't.

There has to be some kind of sarcasm font.

I'm not the first to say that, but it's.

It's easy to get duped.

On the Internet.

But part of it is our own fault because we don't do any further research.

Yep.

Hey, well, listen, I know you.

You were down here in Asheville back before the hurricane and you didn't say whether you brought your wife.

So I don't know where we rank on the, on the scale there, but if you come back, we actually have, not far from here, the American Museum of the House Cat.

An entire museum devoted to house cats.

I didn't know that.

That's.

That's got to be on your list when you come back down here to the mountains.

It is because I, We.

We are both.

My wife and I are both fans of.

Of Asheville.

We love the smell of Pachuli in the air and drum circles.

No, I say that you listen.

You got it, man.

You got it down.

Yeah, that's.

We love the town.

And yeah, I, I want to hit up the.

That museum.

There's.

I've been to some.

Some odd places on the road.

I just, I was in Branson, which they had a Trump store, which we can talk about if you want to, but two Trump stores actually.

But I went to the world's largest toy museum and I just love kind of a niche thing where you can.

You see somebody's like hyper focus interest on display.

I love that.

Yeah.

Hey, does your wife understand?

Because I saw one of your.

Your clips where you said you hope your wife and kids don't find out, but the greatest thing ever happened in your life is Cracker Barrel went back.

Does she ever question whether you're in character or being honest on some of these things?

She'll see me in the.

Because I back in the day, like, you know, three pre covered or it.

I used to really get into the gimmick, the character I'd have.

You know, I would find these bootleg Trump hats or shirts.

There was one that had Trump with a. Ripping open a suit jacket with a Superman logo underneath.

And she would see me in that and she'd be like, I've never been drier in my life.

You.

That is such a turn off to me.

So she's never been.

She's never questioned whether I'm in character.

And it is a weird, you know, I'm a guy who makes videos on the Internet.

So I'll just be like, I'm gonna go make a video and then go do it.

And then she'll like, see what I did later.

And she's like, jesus Christ, I didn't know you were doing all that in the car.

So It.

It is a weird thing, but she's definitely in on the joke.

And we.

We have similar likes and dislikes, which I think is great for a marriage.

So.

So what is your real take on Cracker Barrel?

I think just with the.

Are you.

You mean the logo change specifically?

Yeah, I mean, that just.

That was, like, top of the news for.

It was.

And it's weird to think, you know, that it feels so long ago, but it.

What was a month, two months ago.

I feel like them changing the logo was dumb because it wasn't.

A lot of people's motto is if it ain't broke, fix it.

That's a Big Apple slogan.

If it ain't broke, fix it.

But, yeah, I feel like to change that logo was stupid because we're not going to that restaurant for anything other than like, the Southern home cooking or the.

The train whistle that you can buy in the lobby to make it modern.

That's not why we're going to that place.

You know, I go for the little peg thing with the golf tees.

Yep.

Yeah.

Which I keep going back because one.

Day I'm gonna master that son of a.

And get it.

You know, there was a time when I was a kid, I had the.

My aunt bought me all those little games and I knew every move to get it down to one, and now I've forgotten.

So I think I've just gotten dumber the older I've gotten.

Well, I wish I could tell you it gets better as it goes on, but I don't want to lie to you.

It gets worse.

I know I can.

I'm.

I just turned 36 and I'm like, I'm tired for no reason, and I'm.

I'm still fairly young, so I'll just wait.

I've become a big fan of the afternoon nap.

Well, I'm way ahead of you, man.

We have similar interests.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

Hey, well, listen, I'm curious.

I saw your.

Your clip.

You know, we had.

We had Elon's dad on a while back here.

Is it.

Was it Errol?

Is that the guy's name?

Yep.

Errol.

He was, you know, quite a character, and he's been in the news here lately.

But I saw your video where your conundrum over the two daddies and who you're going to spend Christmas with, because we're.

We're in October now, so Christmas is just around the corner.

So is.

Yeah.

Is it going to be Elon or going to the White House and seeing Trump?

Probably Elon at least because he's a richer.

So I might get a dirt bike out of the deal.

But yeah, the.

When they broke up fight, you know, no to no one's surprise when they imploded and Elon said, oh, by the way, Trump is in the Epstein files, which, you know, just a week or two ago they were seen shaking hands and, and buddy, buddy.

But it's.

All this Epstein stuff has blown up since then because of Elon.

But I, Elon is an interesting guy to.

I don't know how you can not be.

I don't know how you can be boring and be the richest man in the world.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So I, I would, I don't know how you guys feel, whose house you'd go to for Christmas.

This is a crazy topic, by the way, but I would go to Elon's house, even though I think they're both kind of an.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, we had Errol on.

I told him that what motivates Elon, because if I had any, a fraction of that money, I'd be in the Bahamas with my feet up, you know, not trying to go to Mars.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, if you guys never see me again, it's because I got rich somehow.

And I, I have no desire to be famous, even though I do the things I do.

I, I pursue.

Funny is what I like to pursue.

And to get people to come to my shows, you have to post on the Internet.

But I have no desire to be famous.

Rich is fine, but not famous.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Well, it's interesting now because we're, we're in day one of the government shutdown.

And it's like everything else with Trump, you can go back, you know, if you look back in the archives, you can find him saying something that totally contradicts what he says today.

He's not saying that today.

He says, no, it's the Democrats fault, even though the Republicans control the, the Supreme Court, the White House, the Senate and the House.

But just a few years ago, he said that meant the President's weakness.

Yeah, it's, you know, some, Somebody says it, but there's a, There's a tweet for everything.

So if, you know, you can find the contradiction back and forth.

There's something for everything.

And of course, he never takes responsibility for anything.

You never said you Never heard him say, oh, my bad, my fault.

I apologize.

It's never that.

It's always somebody else's fault, which is, you know, the quality of a great leader.

Right, guys?

Yep.

Absolutely.

God, I wish I could live my life that way.

Yeah, I know.

Well, you could.

You just wouldn't have any real friends.

I'm not sure I do anyway, other than.

Other than my dog, so.

Yeah, anyway.

So.

So, Brent, if, you know, you talked about Christmas with other Elon or with Don Old, would you rather have.

Assuming you weren't married to the.

Your lovely wife, would you rather have a date with Jill Biden or Melania?

Probably neither.

They neither seem interesting to me at all.

Okay.

Michelle Obama or Michelle.

I don't know who you're gonna name Mrs. Bush.

It's.

It's Michelle for sure.

So no questions asked.

It's got to be Michelle.

All right, so tell us about.

I love doing this to folks.

Tell us about your worst show and your.

And your best show.

I, you know, worst shows, for me, it's not fun and interesting if I say this, but here is the true answer.

Then I'll tell you another answer which is funnier and better.

The worst shows is when I am.

I lack focus and I am a million miles away in my head, some of the jokes I've done and I. I can perform in my sleep and I'll be a million miles away and it'll be little mistakes.

Nobody will notice but me.

That's the not fun answer.

The worst shows I've done, I did a show at a prison in Kentucky at.

In LaGrange, Kentucky, at the Luther Luckett Correctional Facility.

Wow.

Inmate or outsider, as a Johnny Cash impersonator.

No.

You get the offer to do the gig, of course, as a doing stand up, and you say yes.

I was young in my career.

So here's how a normal show goes is you have a host, feature comic, and a headliner.

I was the host.

You go out cold, you warm the audience up, and then you bring up the other two comics in that order.

So I was that host.

And I.

You get asked and you said, yes, that sounds great.

Johnny Cash did a prison.

They loved him.

But what you.

Nobody takes into consideration until you're standing mid court at the basketball court performing is Johnny Cash was already Johnny Cash.

I was Brent Trahune and I'm barely Brent.

True.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, people know who I am, but if somebody said, I never heard of that guy, you're also correct.

You know, so we.

We take the gig.

And we pull up and they said, all right, guys, you can't have any phones.

You can't have any.

Any.

I think I only had my keys, really, for my car.

So we all walk up at the same time and we go through security.

And the.

This lady that was in charge of us greets us at the door, and we shake hands with like, I think I, you know, I'm right handed.

I shake with my right hand, she offers her left.

And then as the day goes on, you realize her right hand only has the pinky on it.

She's missing fingers.

And then, you know, you.

Your.

Your brain can't help you can't help but think, well, that happened here.

That's what's gonna happen to me, you know?

So she only had a walkie talkie.

No like mace or like a nightstick baton.

And then we're walking through the yard to get to the, to the gym area.

And they all know we're coming, and they're just coming up to us that the inmates, and they're like, are you guys gonna be funny?

And we're like, I guess we hope we're gonna try because they're all just out.

And, you know, like, that's the thing that's going on in the prison.

And then you realize how quickly you are in somebody else's home.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, yeah, you better mind your P's and Q's, because there's a reason these guys are locked up.

And I, I need to go back and research the Luther Luckett Correctional Facility because I don't know what kind of criminals are there.

I imagine not super hardcore ones, because why would they give them a comedy show?

But I go up, I'm.

So we're standing.

There's like 300 prisoners in the middle of the.

The gym.

They're all on one side.

And we're standing center court of the basketball court with like a Radio Shack mic setup.

It's a terrible mic setup.

And I start and it's.

I'm getting nothing.

There are people that are just getting off, like, the road duty, wearing, like, the reflective vest.

There are no shirts.

There are shirts.

And then people are getting up to leave during my set, which is.

I don't know if.

I don't know if you guys have ever had that before, but these guys are literally going into a pr.

Going back to prison, then watch my show.

That's how bad this was going.

And I, I land my last joke, which it was a.

It was a good joke.

A solid joke to end on.

And then I ended up getting you stupid, which is a compliment.

So I closed strong and the rest of the show is, is fine.

But it's clearly like these guys are getting up to leave, to go back to prison.

Like they don't get anything, but they're like, I, I'd rather just go sit in jail, you know.

So I don't know if you, if you saw the, the meeting yesterday with the president and all the generals and.

I didn't, but I heard it was very quiet.

It was.

And that's, you know, the military.

I'm retired military guy.

We're apolitical or non political.

And they were just, and you could see it just sucked the energy out of the president because he's used to those raucous crowds and having this big audience of 800 people just sitting there stone faced and silent.

To me that's like the worst show is when the audience, I've done those.

Gigs, they're called corporate gigs.

And you perform for a company that didn't like one person hired you.

Because I, I can work clean and I do a lot of those where one person thought it would be fun to have comedy and they, they hired you.

But really this is a conference all day long and I'm the extra hour that they have to stay at the conference.

I always open with.

I'm a really funny waiting room if you give me a chance.

Because you're performing and nobody has anything invested in it but you.

And sometimes that is like pulling teeth.

So I, I, the stuff I read and my wife told me that Trump up there trying to, you know, get his, whip his audience into a frenzy.

It's.

Nobody wanted that because they're not there for that.

That's a hard show.

So yeah, I think it was Nate Bargets.

He was saying that he did you talking about corporate shows.

He got paid a bunch of money to do a corporate show and the audience just was not reacting.

Yeah.

Afterwards he told the, you know, the, the guy that owned the company, the CEO, said man, I'm really sorry.

So I'm, you know, I'm not gonna take your money because.

And the guy said, well, it's not your fault because, you know, 90 of my employees don't speak English.

Yeah, I've, I've had, I did some zoom ones where it's like, oh yeah, half of the Pete.

This is literally worldwide.

So the people in these zoom windows don't understand a thing you're saying.

And that's that it was, I'm sure Nate was, wasn't lying when he said it was a bunch of money.

And somebody told me early on in my career is they pay a bunch of money because most of them suck.

So you are trading part of your soul for, you know, four figures and you're like, that's fine.

This is what this will be.

Nobody's doing these corporate gigs for the passion, I'll say that much.

Thank you.

Well, listen, Brent, one of the things we do talk about.

We haven't talked about it on the show lately, Mo, but what's, what's your favorite libation?

I assume since you're working clubs, you've got a favorite drink.

You know, I'm not, I've pretty much don't drink ever at a comedy club, which I'm, I think I'm the outlier.

But I'm also at work if I don't want to get sloppy drunk and then lose my job, you know, but.

Right.

I do love justice.

Go ahead.

Never.

You'll never be Secretary of Defense then.

I know if I, if I want a secretary of war, you mean.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm gonna need to.

I think you have to blow a 0.08 to even be sworn into that job to get in the building.

Yeah.

They have a two drink minimum.

That's crazy.

At the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.

But yeah, I, I do enjoy a screwdriver.

Pretty simple.

Or just last night I had some apple pie, moonshine and some apple cider because.

Tis the season.

That's right.

Any bourbon?

Yeah.

You're a bourbon guy or.

I did.

I've had bourbon, but I, I, it's lost on me.

I've had it because I have a bunch of friends in like Lexington and Frankfurt, Kentucky, and that's bourbon.

You know, I just don't understand.

It doesn't taste good to me.

But are you a bourbon guy?

Well, Mo is okay.

Loves the bourbon.

I'm a scotch guy.

I still, I still, I still like you, Brent.

That's okay.

I'll, I'll still choke down whatever will you serve in me when I come see you in Asheville?

Well, here's where the beer capital.

So it's okay if you're a beer guy.

This is, this is close to heaven as you're going to get.

Yeah, it's, it's one of those.

I'm not never been a big super drinker and a lot of people are in comedy, which is, it makes for great stories.

I'm like, I wish I drank.

I'd have your stories, but I don't.

Yeah.

Cool.

All right, well, Brent, you've been very generous with your time and hanging out with a couple old guys out in the mountains.

Do me a favor.

Give folks your website and your Chicago show and the location and date one more time for us.

Brent comedy.com is my website.

My podcast is called They're Coming to Get you.

We do old movies, new movies, the hits and some terrible movies.

If you want to laugh along with us, that's available everywhere.

And my show is this Saturday, October 4th at the Comedy Plex out just outside of Chicago in Oak park.

And you can get tickets@brent comedy.com Cool.

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