Kill Tony #353

Set: Travis teaches kindergarten and tells stories about students asking weird questions and discussing their teacher's body. He mentions having a mild heart attack during a previous appearance.

Interview: Travis discusses his previous heart attack on the show, his teaching career progression from university to special ed to kindergarten, his divorce from a Korean wife, and his ongoing anxiety issues.

Set: Ashton jokes about being old-fashioned, liking analog things, records and typewriters. He discusses not being able to talk to other women on a typewriter and makes jokes about his old college aspirations to be like Hunter S. Thompson.

Interview: Ashton reveals he was dormant from stand-up for 7-8 years, was in a band called Red Roulette Axe, currently works as an electrician, and has been dating his girlfriend for about a year after knowing her for 8-10 years.

Set: Jerry is a germaphobe who discusses washing hands after bathroom use. He compares unprotected sex to sucking someone's dick through gummy bears after someone has touched them after using the bathroom.

Interview: Jerry is 5'4", works as a cannabis tender at Green Collar Cannabis in Parkman, has a suspended license from speeding tickets, and creates content/videos for a weekly show called Bud Stars.

Set: Austin discusses growing up with three older women (mom, grandma, great-grandma) and compares himself to the fourth Golden Girl. He talks about an aunt who married a cousin, has a wonky arm she can't control, and they had a pet chimpanzee.

Interview: Austin is 26, from Tacoma, does whitewater rafting guides and trains people in software programs while traveling. He enjoys walking around Seattle talking to homeless people for fun.

Set: Mike is a recovering methamphetamine addict (nearly 10 years sober). He discusses quitting meth by switching to junk food, going from the fast lane to the drive-through, and jokes that all the dicks he sucked were for fun while high, not for drugs.

Interview: Mike used meth for 10 years starting as a skater, progressed from smoking to injecting, has been clean nearly 10 years, is married for 4 years, and works at a soap making supply company.

Set: Zach broke his neck in jail and joked about a nurse telling him he had a cervical fracture. He discusses marijuana paranoia and references his heroin dealer as a punchline.

Interview: Zach was arrested for selling heroin, spent 90 days in jail where he broke his neck falling from a bunk, has been clean nearly 5 years, and works as a metal fabricator.

Set: Jeffrey jokes he looks like Seth Rogen and Mario Lopez had a baby with an eating disorder. He discusses his unstable childhood where his mother was frequently in jail, and compares his childhood games to pickup with stickshift cars.

Interview: Jeffrey has done stand-up sporadically for 7-10 years (about 10 times), lost 100 pounds doing keto but gained 80 back, plays in a musical theater band, and has a deceased mother who died of cancer 4 years ago.

Set: Levi asks a Walmart employee where suicide supplies are and they hand him an application. Short experimental set with minimal material.

Interview: Levi lost his virginity last week to a girl who was into 'freaky' stuff and suicide/grunge. They met through friends, went to a bar, then to her apartment where her dog interfered. Sex lasted 10-15 minutes with a condom; they're now dating.

Set: Kat is a teen mom from Skagit Valley who had unprotected sex with friends. She jokes about people reminding her how young she is as a teen mom until recently when they learned her daughter is turning 21 next month and people no longer react with surprise.

Interview: Kat had her daughter at 18, daughter is turning 21 next month and works with kids in an after-school program. Kat worked restaurants including Cafe Minis when her daughter was young, now runs her own dog-walking business, is with an electrician boyfriend for 12 years, and first time doing stand-up.