Kill Tony #685 — Sam Tallent

Set: Ari discusses open carry gun culture in Texas, observing families with guns at Whole Foods and joking about how having a gun would escalate every interaction he has.

Interview: Tony and Ari engage in extended banter about Ari's appearance, compass tattoo, and ethnicity. They discuss Ari's producer work, his music beats, and whether he's Black, with Ari insisting he's not.

Set: Tom discusses his girlfriend and roadhead in an Uber, plasma donation questionnaires obsessively asking about gay sex, and the disconnect between saving lives while donating plasma.

Interview: Tom reveals he's been doing stand-up for almost 4 years in Chicago and recently moved to Austin 4 months ago. He's currently working Uber Eats and discusses delivery issues including receiving large sushi platters by bicycle.

Set: Darren does a comedic monologue as Jesus complaining about women aborting him for centuries, tired of Catholic women, and threatening apocalypse instead of returning.

Interview: Darren is doing stand-up for 1-2 years, works at a fencing company lumber yard in Texas. He's going through a divorce from a Zimbabwean wife named Rudo who's moving back home. Extended banter about Zimbabwe, electricity, and stereotypes.

Set: Dan covers liking trans porn doesn't make you gay (chemicals do), being 6'5" with perceived small penis that was just far away, and sperm test tasting like Pepsi where almost everyone preferred it.

Interview: Dan has been on the show in LA but never in Austin despite signing up 50+ times over years. He's in a serious relationship with a Belarusian woman trying to have a baby, discussing fertility treatments and baby-making techniques.

Set: Mike discusses his conservative family (grandparents died 4 minutes apart in murder suicide), women in their 20s overconfidence, and a half-boob flash girl claiming to be hotter than his wife with 3% mortgage.

Interview: Mike has been doing stand-up 12 years from Denver, has two young boys (3 and 1) born during pandemic, booked a Michigan show, recently got vasectomy reversed. Lives in Colorado Springs, flew in just for this show.

Set: Kam discusses smoking weed in Oklahoma, friend drinking entire bottle of THC syrup with skull and crossbones warning, friend became nonverbal autistic and shit himself.

Interview: Cam discusses recognizing his words matter to people after listeners made legalized fentanyl shirts; recently learned pickles are cucumbers and raisins are dried grapes; extended banter about produce.

Set: Eric discusses wet dream about high school crush where he realizes he's 30 and she was 15, expressing moral confusion and deciding to never sleep again.

Interview: Eric is 2 months new to comedy, moved to Austin 17 years ago from California (parents moved for 2008 recession), lives one block from parents, sells mortgages, no active dating life. Extended scene where Tony has him role-play a date with Heidi at Applebee's.

Set: Shelley discusses being a dental hygienist and cannabis sommelier, smoking weed, discovering ADHD, being on testosterone for menopause, poster child for Gen X women in Texas.

Interview: Shelley has been doing comedy 6 months on-and-off, has two kids in their teens, works full-time as dental hygienist, going through menopause for 10 years, has abusive ex-husband. Extended interview where Tony has her attempt to sing Amazing Grace and Pat Benatar.

Set: Eddie discusses dating a girl who doesn't believe in dinosaurs because not in Bible, but believes in burning bush after she gave him chlamydia.

Interview: Eddie second time on show (first was turbo round), grew up in group home, mother is professional jazz/blues singer, moved to Austin almost 1 year ago, sober 1.5 years, works at bar on Rainey Street, moved frequently as drifter.