Chicago-based Comedian Kristen Toomey on having a set on Apple TV (Hour 2)

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Yeah, you definitely are.

Yeah, I feel involved and yeah, I'm excited to be I'm always excited to be on this show.

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Oh, lots of fun coming up this hour, too.

Comedian Kristen Toomey will be here.

The very funny Kristen Toomey.

Yes.

I will

say, Greg, one of my best friends is comedian Mike Toomey.

They're both Chicagoans.

No relation, as I understand it.

And I just became familiar recently with Kristen Toomey's comedy stylings, and she is hilarious.

If there was another one with the same last name, it wouldn't be too many, maybe three me, right?

It'd be like, do you still do

snap?

No, three me, John three me.

Um, I love that.

That's a three tiered show right there.

Headliner middle.

Yeah.

Opener.

So we we did that.

What else did we do Greg?

We did the question in the night.

We had a little our big three things It's all available folks if

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media dot US our Dom I think it's time.

We got to reintroduce our question of the

night

Well, it is national cold cut day and it's about time.

So how do you?

Feel about cold cuts and what is your favorite if you have one?

Do you feel about

cold cut meats?

Yeah, the cured meats.

It's a whole family.

I Listen, I I'm gonna be honest.

I put on social media.

No cold cuts.

I don't ever have to eat them I don't think they're particularly healthy not that I'm a picture of health, but I do

I love a good, if it's made in the right deli with some good Italian seasoning or dressing

or something, I

love a good cold cut sandwich, but I never make it at home.

I never make a sandwich like that at home.

Oh, what about you, Greg?

I don't know.

I don't, okay.

So I don't make a lot of sandwiches at home anymore, but when I did, I would always, it would use, it would usually be a turkey or a nice slice of London broil, which is as a cold cut.

We don't, we just, I feel like people sleep on.

That's not a cold cut, is it?

It's not.

It's a piece of shaved meat.

I mean, it looks like every other piece of shaved.

Yeah, a piece of London broil with a slice of Munster.

Oh my goodness gracious.

I also grew up every single day in school.

Monday through Friday, I always had a bologna sandwich.

So I'm adept at the, but now for me, I would say because I don't partake in cold cuts a lot,

I always gravitate towards a good pastrami.

Mmm, yes.

I love a pastrami.

I do too.

I will say, like I say, cold cuts kind of gross me out.

But if you heat it up like an Italian beef sandwich, forget about it.

I love it.

Pastrami, a good Reuben sandwich.

It's the cold, because I'm with you like when I was growing up.

I had a bologna sandwich and at some point I just looked at it and I went, that's really gross.

And I

don't know when that happened.

But hey, Dom, do we have that clip?

To me, okay, at first I want to preface this by saying the word bologna is funny.

Because it's not spelled the way it sounds.

It's bologna.

Bologna.

So one of my funniest TV characters singing about bologna.

Here you go, Dom.

My bologna has a first name.

It's a Joe M. E. R. My bologna has a second name.

It's a Joe M. E.

R. That's it.

He's so stupid.

What's funny is that I grew up with the bologna sandwiches, you know, the packaged bologna.

You got the grocery store, but it wasn't until last year when I went to Memphis, Tennessee.

And I had a bologna sandwich barbecue, like Tennessee style.

And it was, it was like nearly an inch thick bologna.

It was just, it was amazing.

And I wanted to eat like, and they were, they were not cheap.

And I was like, I ate it.

And I said, I want another one right now.

It was so, so.

So good, uh, Bridget listening right now texting in, uh, saying turkey breast with Mayo and veggies.

Okay.

Oh yeah.

I could roll with that.

I like that.

I like that a lot.

Uh, Stacy Sue Johnson says shaved hard salami.

That, that just doesn't, Hey, Stacy, live your life.

I know

you enjoyed that.

I shouldn't say that.

I think initially.

I think mustard is the savior of cold cuts, because that's what I used to have on bologna.

And to me, the mustard was such a pungent taste

that I could

muscle down the bologna.

But like I said, hard salami or salami.

It's got the little white specks in it that's basically fat, right?

So that I was kind of like, but like I said, you put a piece of cheddar cheese or some mustard on that.

It's outstanding.

JB Thompson on the stream says, is there a national day for everything?

Yes.

He says cold cut platter was the predecessor to pizza for company award parties.

Thank you for all that.

Thank you for all that you do.

Enjoy the Melody sandwich.

Yeah,

right.

Pete's been working here for 35 years.

Here's a watch and a sandwich

Crackers,

Crackers ham.

Oh, Crackers ham.

That's a, that's a, that's a high end type of ham.

That's like Boer's head type of, Crackers ham.

I don't think I know that.

It's a, it's a label.

Yeah.

Okay.

We have, we have some calls on the line too.

We got Ollie in the North woods.

Ollie.

Good to hear from you friend.

What, what say you about the question of the night?

Told my answer.

I was gonna sing you the Oscar Mayer song

Please do come

on.

You can still sing it

My baloney has a first name it be oh well Gna

That was much better than Homer Simpson Olly wet very well done

Thank you so much, Ollie.

We appreciate it.

Thank you so much for calling in.

There are some, there are some on here in the list.

So like olive loaf is considered a cold cut liverwurst.

I cannot do liverwurst.

Sorry.

Like the pimento loaf.

What is appealing about that?

What was going on in the board room?

We've got a really gross meat here.

Let's put something even grosser to take away the attention from the gross foundation of the sandwich.

I don't understand.

We have a problem here.

We have a ton of ham laying around and not the good ham either.

It's shiny, sweaty ham.

And we have about 32 pounds of olives, green pimento stuffed olives.

What do we do?

And then one guy in the back goes, get ready to start printing money.

Blender.

Yeah.

Dave on the stream says, hard salami or pastrami.

Yeah, those are probably my two, too.

That's a good choice, Dave.

I love it.

But what's also on this list?

I'm gonna look, I'm gonna look it up right now while we take another call.

Cindy from Appleton is on the line.

Cindy, what say you about cold cuts?

Well, I usually turn mine into a hot cut because I make a ham and cheese grilled, you know, grilled ham and cheese.

There you

go.

Dignatious.

That's the best thing to do to a cut that is cold.

Cook it.

Make it hot.

Make it a hot cut.

I like it good.

Henry was talking about it before.

I love a good panini.

There's something about a panini.

It's super, super delicious.

One of the things that is listed, because I looked it up on the Googles, and it said, thank you so much, by the way, Cindy, for calling.

I really appreciate

hearing from you.

Types of common cold cuts is also head cheese.

Oh, that's really gross.

Which?

Do you know what head cheese is, Dom?

By the look on your face, you don't.

No, I was just gonna ask, what is head cheese?

Would you like a definition of what head cheese is, my friend?

Yes, give it to me.

Do you have a bucket?

Yeah, yeah around you

or a big bag

Yeah, something like that or just in your hand or in or into your thrifted sweatshirt Just don't puke on the board.

This is this is a definition by the googles head cheese is a terrine of meat jelly made from flesh of a calf's or pig's head Set an aspect and is not a dairy cheese

Somehow what you just described is not as gross as the word head cheese.

Yeah, I don't know

Turin, aspic, jelly.

No, thank you.

But it's a cold cut.

Yeah,

it's a cold

cut.

Mike Desitel on social media says, I'm normally just a belogna guy, but I'll never turn down the Kato Salami.

You can keep your olive loaf.

It's where he draws the loaf.

Tim Baker says, head cheese in all caps.

That's very important.

Disgusting.

Dick on social media says, my baloney is the first name.

It's O-S-E-A-R.

My baloney is second name.

M-A-Y-E-R.

Oh, I love to eat it every, he just kind of typed the song.

That's

not much of a response.

Where he gets sued by the Oscar Meyer company, we're just gonna get sued for copyright infringement.

What do you feel?

Okay, so this, to me, I know it's a cold cut and you know, but to me it's one of the fanciest of cold cuts and that is a prosciutto.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, that's

less gross for some reason.

I

don't know why wrapped around a piece of string cheese.

You

know, I put string cheese right up there with baloney.

I'm not a fan.

I'm I'm sorry.

What?

What did you just what

especially when people eat it like when they just put it in their mouth like it's a hot dog and take a bite I Understand

the things that upset you are so weird.

I'm gonna be upset by people eating cheese So, okay, so okay, let me get this right mr. Individualist you want everyone to eat string cheese the way you eat it I don't want to know I

don't want to see people eating string cheese ideally, but if they have to do it That's what I prefer and I don't think I'm asking too much

in a purpose so so that

Maybe maybe we get ahead of senior senior producer Tucker says boo string cheese all the way.

Thank you Tucker I'm glad you at least have some taste and brains in this operation my goodness everyone's against me so do you so do you so it's just okay I'm on this now okay

so

string cheese what's your so you don't like string cheese you don't like the people who eat string cheese you don't like kids dogs you like dogs too just not puppies

I like dogs I do not like puppies I got no use for puppies or kids

Wow

Daniel Wheeler on the social media says much like happy Gilmore.

I enjoy the cold cut combo from subway Sean Boy says Gabba ghoul soprano style.

Oh, he went he does a town he makes it ethnic see what he did there

Capicola, I always feel like I'm saying Capicola wrong and I'm insulting Italian but is it because it just did Capicola?

It doesn't sound like it should be said like that

that is true It is actually said like that because I was I worked at Jimmy John's and that's what they always said They said use Capicola, so I know it is Capicola

Jimmy John's is our is our barometer for Italian interpretation of culture and food

You're Italian too Dom and you're deferring to Jimmy John's

I just I worked there for so

long

Scott on social media says my wife's comments on my clothing styles are the best cold cuts, okay Ian on social media says the spicy taste of a cold Skimitar blade in the guts of me enemies.

Yeah, okay, actually a nice lean corned beef.

Oh, I forgot about corned beef

Yeah, corned

beef is always good.

He says,

every cardiologist within 10 miles of me looks up suddenly when I bite into it and says, there is a disturbance in the force.

He had to work Star Wars into it.

You had me, Ian, and then you lost me with the Star Wars.

String cheese, kittens,

puppies, and Star

Wars.

Look, if I had a nickel for every time I sat in a movie theater watching Star Wars and someone was eating string cheese, the wrong way.

I'd be a rich man.

So there you go.

We got some, oh, Richard says, balona.

Bologna, beef

and

not the chicken turkey Frankenstein version.

I'm so confused by that.

Okay.

All right.

Well, when we come back, the fantastic Kristen Toomey will be here talking

about comedy,

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You can also lodge a thought question complaint about cold cuts.

Pete has many on regarding cold cuts, especially don't get him started on string cheese, apparently, because that's a thing.

But it just be part of

something else.

Did she be on a cracker or something?

Cheese on its own.

I had blue cheese today on a salad.

It was great.

I wouldn't take a fistful of blue cheese and muscle it down,

though.

All right.

Really?

Okay.

I'm just, I just, this is a whole new, whole new facet, whole new side.

Like, like you are like, you just look at, you look at plain old cheese by itself and you're like, get off my property.

Not a fan.

All right.

Well, maybe you'll be a fan of our next guest.

She

is comedian from

Chicago.

She's appearing this Saturday at Q's bar and River Deck in Prairie du Sac at 8 p.m.

Please welcome to the show.

Chicago's very own Kristen Toomey.

Good evening, Kristen.

How are you this evening?

Hello, fellas.

How are you?

You guys were giving me the meat sweats with all that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I shouldn't be.

Talking either I had tacos for lunch and I'm so full.

I'm like, you know, a pastrami is really delicious.

You said

you

you said you ate a chipotle.

What's your chipotle order, Kristen?

Well, today I got a veggie bowl.

But normally I get the chicken bowl.

But I feel like they're weird with the chicken lately.

What do you mean?

You know, you used to get like one scary piece.

And now I feel like the bowls are like 90% the scary pieces.

And so I just went full veggie with the black bean today.

Have you gotten their vegan meat option?

I can't remember the name of it.

It's possible.

It's very delicious.

I've had it many, many times.

No

scary pieces.

No scary pieces.

Maybe I'll check it out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There is nothing worse when you bite into a piece of chicken grizzle that it's kind of like the chicken having a last laugh.

It's so horrible.

It is the worst feeling.

I'm sure there's worse feelings, but yeah, I'm with you totally.

Veggie all the way, baby.

Nope, that's the worst feeling.

Pete Schwab has said it right here.

There are no worse feelings than biting into some chicken and being thoroughly inconvenienced.

They used to do that in Gitmo.

Here, eat

this.

Yeah, exactly.

Kristen, it's great to have you here.

Tell us about this show.

You got this great show coming up in Prairie to Sack at Cube Bar in Riverdeck, March 7th, as Greg mentioned.

What will that be like for people?

Do you have a couple of comics going up in front of you?

Have you worked there before?

I think I have Jim McHugh and Des Maloney.

Des Maloney, sure.

Maloney, yeah.

Lil' Cutie, I think he played like Doug Stanhope in a movie, didn't he?

Something like that?

He

did.

It was funny because I played a club owner in that movie.

Did

you?

And I used to be a comedian, so I got to take out all my aggression on every club owner I ever did not like.

That's who I based the character on.

But Des plays the lead role.

That's right.

Well, Stan Hope, I guess, is the lead role.

Dez played his kid and I was only on the set for like a day, but they were both great and Dez is a good guy and Stan Hope was really funny.

So

great.

Yeah.

So he's on the show and then me, you know, I'll be closing it out and I have never been to Q's bar.

So I'm excited to head up that way and see how it goes.

How long have you now?

How long have you been doing stand up?

Cause I mean, you, I got to know you through the Chicago scene.

long time ago, but I believe you were doing it before I was.

How long have you been doing stand up now?

Uh, I'm going on seven, 18 years almost.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um, you know, just keeping busy.

And this year I had a special come out.

It's on Apple TV.

It's called shriller.

Yeah.

Um, people can watch that.

It's on, um, comedy dynamics and yeah, it's been going, you know, keeping busy.

Yeah.

Have you worked, you work Wisconsin frequently or have you been here several times?

Uh, I work Wisconsin pretty often.

Um, I was just up in West Bend and, you know, I'll do like Kenosha or Madison.

Um, but yeah, I love, I love Wisconsin.

I feel like I get a great response from the rooms I do and, you know, Oh my gosh.

So I was booked at this.

Brewery and Kenosha on that Bears Packers game, you know.

Yeah.

Wow.

And I thought no one's going to be at this show.

And I pull up and it says it's closed for a private event and there's people in there.

So I'm thinking, oh, wow, people showed up.

I walk in and I noticed there's poster boards with pictures of this person all over it.

And then I start to notice that people are crying and that there's a projector.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, you know, this is a funeral.

Yeah.

And I'm thinking, where am I going to go up?

What am I going to open with?

And I don't see any other comedian.

So I go up to the owner and I said, you know, when does the comedy show start?

And he looked at me like, are you insane?

This is clearly a funeral.

And I got the wrong day.

Oh,

I just showed up at this person's funeral and asked, what time do I go up?

And the fact that I was going to do it is the problem.

That's dedication.

That's the way too long where I'm like, what do I open with, you know?

Well, I will say this, if you're having a funeral or a wake or a memorial service in a in a brewery, I say you are right to go up and say, hey,

And maybe you weren't, maybe you weren't booked, but you could even be like, Hey, I'll do 15 for you.

Get everyone laughing.

I was thinking this person must have really loved comedy.

That's so great.

And I would have been like, I would have been too embarrassed to say I got the date wrong.

I would have said, well, John was a very good friend of mine went

up and kneeled down instead of

prayer and bailed, you know.

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I mean, Pete's got a lot of hard opinions on these foods, but

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Still time to register your thoughts on cold cuts.

National cold cuts day.

What are your ideas, your likes, dislikes, your

very weird beliefs on string cheese.

Let us know.

I'd love to hear from you.

And, uh, also, you can also send a question to our guest.

Comedian Kristen Toomey is here today.

If tonight she is our second guest this evening, she will be performing at Q's bar and river deck in prayer reduce sack this Saturday at eight PM.

I have been told though, via the live stream, if you want to get tickets, get them now because as of today, there are merely four seats remaining of this 80 seat venue.

Anticipation for the show is building.

So

Like, basically, it's like a sell-out, in my opinion.

Like, you're four seats away from a sell-out, Kristen.

Wonderful.

You know, maybe we could sit and lap up.

I don't know.

Sit on someone's lap.

There you go.

There you go.

That's almost like Zaney's, like, an 80-seat venue.

That's intimate.

Do you like that, Kristen?

Like, when you're doing comedy, if it's on an outdoor festival or something, do you like a more intimate setting?

Yeah, I do.

I think as long as it's not, you know, too intimate.

Like nobody's there.

Like in your living room,

yeah.

One time I was doing a club in Peoria and only one person showed up.

And so I just sat in the lobby and talked to her for 45 minutes.

That was my whole set.

But that was like 10 years ago.

But yeah, I prefer small, like 80, 100, maybe 200, even up to three.

It's nice.

You can still kind of connect with people.

But

you know doing the big rooms and that's fun every once in a while just for the thrill of it and like the you know experience hearing that big laugh

but

I prefer you know anywhere from 50 to 200 is probably the sweet spot

yeah do you Pete brought up outdoor

festival or something.

What does your heart say to you?

Like what happens inside your brain when someone says, Oh, the show is outdoors.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Or, or you're opening for a band.

Oh, I've done that.

It's so hard.

Yeah.

No, I've done that indoors.

Even opening for a band is really hard, but outdoors.

I remember I did oddball festival years ago

and

they put me on the stage in the parking lot.

People are just walking by into the venue and and me and it was like big J. O'Kersen and you know, it's a couple other comedians on this parking lot stage and people are just like glancing over.

The laughs are just going into the ether and pretty it toughens you up.

It's like running underwater.

If you can get anything in that situation, it's great.

Do you do you work the road a lot?

I remember in the 90s you could you could work

all year and not leave Chicago.

And that was one of the perks to being there.

But then nobody ever sees you outside of Chicago.

Where do you, where do you travel to and where are your favorite cities to work if you have one?

Well, I do love Chicago.

I always feel like I can trust the audience here so much, you know, on new material.

And but I love the Midwest.

I mean, I really, I do all the Midwest rooms and enjoy that.

I love Canada.

Winnipeg, I was just there doing rumors, which is a fantastic club.

And I really like Canadians.

I have a little kink for Canadian men.

I love them.

Very attractive.

So I love a Canadian man.

And yeah, but I'll go anywhere.

That's the thing.

Anywhere.

Just perform in new places all the time.

i don't mean to belabor the canadian man thing but like is there what is it about the canadian man is it the educated canadian man the guy in the canadian rockies what what kind of uh because i work i remember i work canada and i like all canadians and the men

i like the women too but um i think there's just something about their humor that i appreciate and they're kind but not weak you know

like this

is a strength and i think

Obviously, I'm generalizing, but just in my head, I think they're kind of rugged and resourceful in a way that's attractive.

And I think the way their country is set up, it's just more like compassionate in some ways that I find attractive.

Great answer.

Yeah, that's a great.

I, you know, when it comes to like the hierarchy of the funniest people, I always find that like New Zealanders, Australians, the English, Canadians, people from there, like a lot of folks from African countries, their humor is just so, there's such a dryness to their humor, their jokes come out of nowhere.

And you're just like, Oh, that was really funny.

And you said that without even like thinking about it, it just came out of your system.

Whereas I'm sitting here like, be the funniest person, be the funny and never the funniest person ever, but they're just funny by default.

Yeah, you know, it's funny because I was just helping with the stand-up class at DePaul University last night with the students there.

And as a high school dropout, I always get a kick out of walking in there with a little smirk that I'm helping the professor.

But anyway, you know, I was trying to tell the students like every comedian or every comic has a rhythm.

And I noticed like to your point, other and it's like finding your own rhythm.

And other cultures, their comedy has different rhythms.

And if you listen to it, you can hear like Australia, they'll have like different pauses and the laughs come in different spots, you know, and it's all over the world.

So it's really interesting.

And yeah, I think I have an ear for the Canadian one.

Yeah.

Our guest is Kristen Toomey, folks.

You can see her at Cues Bar in Riverdeck, March 7th in Prairie de Sac, Wisconsin Showtime is at 8 p.m.

There were four seats available about seven minutes ago.

I

don't know if

they're still available, but move fast people.

You can check out her comedy special, Kristen Toomey Shriller on Apple TV.

And it looks like a few other platforms as well.

Who makes you laugh, Kristen?

Like when you're flipping around the dial at night and a comedian comes on, who would you not turn off?

I would, well, there's quite a few.

And I'm one of the few comedians that actually probably watches comedy still.

Even

after

all these years, I still really need it sometimes and I admire it, I respect it.

But I would say Cat Williams is always somebody that makes me laugh.

I'm always, I'm just in awe of this guy, Chris Fleming.

I don't know if you've heard of

him.

He's a newer comedian, but you got to look him up.

He just had a special come out on HBO a couple days ago.

It's doing fantastic.

But I saw him on my birthday in a small room at Lincoln Lodge last year when he was running his hour the night before he taped it.

And he's just so brilliant.

And so he's definitely somebody that you should look out for and check

out.

Who in outside of comedy are the people you go to for the funniest world?

Like, you know, is it parents?

Is it kids?

Is it, you know, friends?

Like I find that making my family laugh so hard is like the best thing for me.

Like it's I love making an audience laugh, but making my family laugh.

I'm like, oh, I think I might I might be funny because they're laughing and I'm not even trying right now.

Yeah, I mean I'll make a lady at the grocery store laugh.

I love to laugh That's how I connect with people.

I really feel close to somebody if I'm laughing with them That's

really

my favorite thing in life.

So but the best, you know, I'm lucky I grew up with a lot of very funny people in my friend group in high school very talented artists that were very funny creatives and You know

So then my kids are very funny.

Both of them have unique sense of humor, a little bit different than mine, but I appreciate them.

Very quick-witted.

And yeah, my parents both are funny in their own way.

My mom insists that she's funny.

I don't know that she.

I'm funny, dammit.

She's very cinematic, I want to say.

She's a very dramatic kind of person.

My dad is funny

though.

There's

nothing better than funny kids.

Funny kids are like, it's kind of a bonus.

You're not expecting your kids to make you laugh so much, so I totally agree with you there.

Let me ask you this.

Is it easier for women now to work the road?

Because I remember in the 90s, I always felt like, oh my god, I would not want to be a woman sharing a condo with other guy comics because

I don't want to generalize either, but some of them were just pigs.

And I remember club owners saying like, well, I'm going to put you in a hotel because sometimes the guys might want to walk around and they're all together.

That was a direct quote from a club owner.

So they had to put, now she was probably better off in a hotel, but it's just like, what on earth has it gotten any better?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, the condos are probably like pretty much gone now.

Okay.

I think everybody's doing Airbnbs or

or hotel rooms.

And I think it's better in that way.

Like I don't have to worry about, although I have shared Airbnb with strange features and they've been wonderful.

The men, you know,

it's

like they were great.

But yeah, I think it is a little bit better than I don't know what those women went through.

I don't know how they did that.

But yeah, I think it's also a little scary to travel alone as a woman.

just in general you know you have your head on

a

swivel and I have like my parents I check in with and people I check in with if I'm alone and and I do prefer like a hotel for safety reasons and things like that but most of the time I'm hanging out with the comics and I feel like comics nowadays I feel safe around them I don't feel I never feel like I'm in an awkward

situation and, you know, it helps to be sober.

I'm a sober person.

So I'm

not,

you know, hanging out after and, and making a mess.

And so that helps.

Yeah.

There's, there is something to be said to about just like, you're done with the show.

You've shaken all the hands.

You've said good night.

And then you're like, I'm going back to the hotel room.

And it's like, it's like,

10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night.

You're like, I'm going to bed now.

This is going

to be great.

I can't wait.

I've got like a skincare routine.

Yeah.

My pajamas at 11 o'clock and I'm not, you know, I'm listening to music and playing solitaire in the bed and I'm not out doing anything.

You know, maybe I'll get a Snickers bar if I'm feeling like really wild.

So who did you grow up watching Kristen like was there a moment and twofold question?

Who was your idol when you were younger when it came to comedy, not your family, an actual comedian?

And when was that moment that you knew I can do this?

Well, you know, my idol growing up was Lucille Ball.

Obviously, you know, I was I was I was home a lot sick as a kid, you know, and so I would just watch her all day.

and I think it really got in there in almost like a cable guy kind of way.

And then, I remember sneaking into Seap Hall of Poundstone, community college, I was eight years old, and that was the first time I'd seen anybody do stand-up, and I watched from the catwalk in the theater, and she was doing crowd work, and I

I thought she had planted those people.

I didn't know how she was doing.

It was so brilliant.

And I mean, if you go back and watch her crowd work was amazing.

And I was just blown away by that.

And, but as far as like me thinking when, when I could do it, I mean, I was a very shy person and

performing was very like, I would get very nervous and shy and I wouldn't audition for things.

So that was earned, this is earned, this confidence is earned over these years, but, you know, I'm still not sure if

I

can do it some days.

So I don't know when I clicked.

I don't know.

I just keep doing it regardless of how I feel about it.

Yeah.

Well, if you live in the Prairie Jisak area and you act right now, you can see Kristen this Saturday.

at

Q's

Bar and River Deck in Prairie Use Act this Saturday at 8 p.m.

Get your tickets before they're gone.

They're almost gone.

Kristen Toomey, thank you so much for being here tonight.

We really appreciate you and love talking to you.

Thank you guys so much.

And this is great.

I can't wait to watch this all the time now.

I love you.

Please.

Put it on your credits.

All right.

Yeah.

Thanks,

Kristen.

All right.

When we come back, a handy tip from Pete and Greg.

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on National Cold Cut Day, Pete.

You said you had some more, you had some more messages to talk about?

There are a couple of social media responses we didn't get to.

Bill says, I don't eat no meat.

Okay.

Not happy about the double negative, but he's health conscious.

That's good.

And then Vicki Svakina, just...

Just put a puke emoji.

Just Vicky is fine.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Really?

Cold

cuts get a puke emoji?

That's not.

She's got a puke emoji.

Listen, people feel strongly about stuff.

I'm

not.

I guess so.

And I'm not here to judge.

OK.

You look at a piece of turkey and you're like, bloke?

I don't understand it.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I

don't know if people think of turkey, though.

That could be part of the problem.

Because I don't typically like cold cuts, but I think a turkey might.

Who doesn't love a turkey sandwich?

I mean, exactly.

Smoked, roasted, chicken breast, chicken loaf, no.

Nope, nope, nope, nope.

Anything with

loaf in it?

Anything with loaf in it?

Wait, you like the loaf in the name?

No, I don't.

I like meatloaf.

I like meatloaf if it's made well, but I don't like chicken loaf or... Olive loaf.

Olive loaf.

It's funny.

We know what's really funny about olive loaf is the fact that, well, true, true.

Nothing is funny about olive loaf.

But you think it would be called ham loaf because ham is the majority of the product.

Like when you look at, like you think, I think ham and the pimento olives are part of it.

They're almost like, you know, I don't want to say sweetener.

So why do we call it olive loaf instead of ham loaf?

It's just, it's awful all the way around.

Yeah, I have no idea.

Disgusting.

Maybe that's a deal breaker for some people.

But on top of that though,

We need another two hours.

Okay.

Um, to discuss the loaf, I enjoy ham.

I enjoy ham.

I enjoy green olives.

If you put them together, I don't think you're my friend.

So that just,

yeah.

Dami, you taking notes?

I'm

writing all of this down.

We're going to get a meat expert in soon.

So, well, I'm ready.

I'm ready.

From Jimmy Johnson.

From Jimmy Johnson.

Cold cuts.

He has to lean off camera to take a bite of this olive loaf sandwich.

Not to feel the wrath of Greg.

Oh, it's olive loaf brown swagger on a soggy piece of rye.

That's awful.

All right.

With that in mind, let's bring it down.

Let's not bring it down.

Let's bring it to a close with a handy tip from Pete and Greg.

So we were talking about this over the live stream before during the break during the secret show and we were talking about Presence we were talking about puzzles and then we started talking about buying presents and Pete you said that you're bad at giving gifts the worst Dom you said you kind of were shaking your head too.

I'm thinking that made you know, this is my tip.

This is my tip and it just all it does is require Not know it's just being aware

when someone you like or love, spouse, partner, parent, sibling, simply says something like, Hey, I like this thing.

Oh, this thing.

Oh, this was like, like I was in a bookstore with my wife in Madison and she saw a great Gatsby puzzle.

And she just said, Oh, this is really cool.

I just wrote it down and took a picture and I bought it for her for Christmas.

And I, those are my favorite prizes.

I don't like, my wife does not require.

She's not a jewelry person.

She doesn't expect a car with a bow on it.

But what I like to do is I like to give her those presents where it's the thing of when she sees it, she remembers it from months before that.

And I will admit, I do take a moment like, yeah, I'm best husband ever.

But those are the moments that are amazing.

You can buy them something that's very expensive.

But if you get them something they mentioned six months ago and you just say, yeah, you mentioned it.

So I thought that you should have it.

That is...

Awesome.

So that's my tip.

Be aware for present giving.

It shows you're paying attention.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's very, very... That's

great.

Here's the thing.

I do get my wife a car typically every Christmas.

Wow.

But I don't

go for the brand new fully loaded pickup.