Blended Feathers | Michael Pasvar | Ep 214

Speaker 1: Nobody would have thought that I would be the one. Ryder, sports talk. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Oh, with the big mic. Oh, okay. Alright. Yeah. Okay. Now, get it.

Speaker 2: We got a lightning strike, boys.

Speaker 1: What happened over there, Grego?

Speaker 2: We had a little lightning

Speaker 1: strike right outside the window. The Texas Rangers win the World Series. Alright. Alright. Here's a tip for all these Americano late teams. Don't what? You said tip. Yeah. Tip. Okay. With a p. I would Keep jamming. The the ticket colon, nothing but a big Gen X jerk off set. Is this a cool night or what? I know somebody would hear that go, bullshit. I'm back, bitches. Shit about IT people.

Speaker 3: Oh, we just were talking about it.

Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I know we were just talking about it, but, I mean, if if IT people aren't there to do what they do, then then I can't exist. I must have IT people in my scene somewhere. I gotta. But that's not what I'm thinking about these days. What I'm thinking about these days is this NFL embrolio going on right now.

Speaker 2: Were they getting sued?

Speaker 1: No. They're not getting sued. But, there is a sports writer who was caught in a very or or a not very. Let's not say very because they were both fully dressed.

Speaker 3: They were at the pool.

Speaker 2: They were

Speaker 1: at the pool, and they were caught in a compromising moment. She, an NFL insider, whatever that means, he, in this case, might very well be an NFL insider too. That didn't land at all,

Speaker 2: did it? Maybe an idea. Yeah. Maybe

Speaker 1: I should.

Speaker 2: I liked it. You didn't laugh. Yeah. Well, I liked it. I was I was processing it. I was like, good job. I like that one. Yeah. Well,

Speaker 1: applied her craft with The Athletic. He is the head coach of the New England Patriots. And they were caught, you know, not doing anything really, really out there or, you know, in any kind of majorly, you know, overt way, but, implications were there. And, alas, both married, both with kids, both old enough to know better, and she has since submitted her resignation to the athletic with which she applied her craft. Now I am familiar with her work because she's an NFL insider, and I read all that stuff from NFL insiders, Major League Baseball insiders, the Adam Schefters of this world, those those people. You know? And she was going to pretty great lengths to position herself as one of those. I'm not sure exactly how much of one she was, but still she was out there. And for some reason, every time I read something by her, I got a weird vibe that something like this was going on with this woman.

Speaker 3: What do

Speaker 2: you mean? What was the vibe that you got from her her There

Speaker 1: was just something about her writing which communicated to me in a a totally back channel way that she was messing around with some of these people she was covering.

Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. So you thought that, like, her information was a little too inside?

Speaker 1: I don't know if it was any more inside than any anything else. It was just the way she put stuff.

Speaker 3: Like she got it at pillow talk.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Or that she it was just kinda like, he told me this over dinner. Right? Something like that or that, like, was a little too friendly. It was a little too familiar.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. There was just, there was just something about her work that made me, that made her seem just a little bit, you know, too yeah. Too friendly with with these guys. Or she knew too much or or had inserted herself into the scene too many times, you know?

Speaker 2: Yeah. And

Speaker 1: and it it I I can't explain it. It just really weirded me out. I mean, I liked her work. She was pretty good at what she did, you know, as far as that kind of thing goes, but there was just something about it that hit me weird. And now I don't have to worry about her She's gone. That's right. She's gone. This is Michael Pasvar. Hello. Hello. What's up? Today, you. Thank you for being with us. Yeah. I'm excited.

Speaker 2: It should be a lot of

Speaker 1: fun. Now, you are part of the local comedy scene.

Speaker 2: Yes,

Speaker 1: sir. As I understand it.

Speaker 2: Absolutely.

Speaker 1: I've heard the name of Paul Varghese dropped a couple of times.

Speaker 2: He's buddy. Yep. Worked with him for a lot of years. I don't know.

Speaker 1: Well, he's spent a couple of stints in that chair. Okay. So.

Speaker 2: Absolutely. We're quite

Speaker 1: familiar with him too. He's great.

Speaker 2: We love Paul. He's funny.

Speaker 1: How can you not

Speaker 2: love Paul? He's he's nice. He's got a lot of information, right? Like, can talk to him. You don't have to just talk to him about comedy. You can talk to him about all kinds of things.

Speaker 1: Yeah. You know? He's very well rounded and he is a great guy and he's funny. Yeah. What more do you want out of somebody than that?

Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. You can just shoot the shit with him.

Speaker 1: Yeah. You can. Alright. Let's get into your backstory a little bit because, honestly, I gotta tell you, I know very little about you.

Speaker 2: Well, that's what

Speaker 1: I know more about Diana Rossini than I do you.

Speaker 2: So, where you from? I'm from the Dallas area. So, I grew up in Carrollton and then, after high school, I went to Oklahoma and then, moved back to the Dallas area after that. So, you're

Speaker 1: a big boomer sooner guy?

Speaker 2: Big boomer sooner. You know, it's a fun time but it's also a frustrating time. Except for this time of year, it's always fun because we're good at softball randomly.

Speaker 1: So. Yeah. But football is out on the horizon. It is

Speaker 2: we're always right there and then we're not. Kind of my entire sooner fandom career. So, like I I think when I was in college, we didn't lose a home game. Always won the big 12 but never won the big thing. Like, went to the national championship couple times, always lost, you know? So, it's very frustrating experience.

Speaker 1: Alright, can I tell you something's going to piss you off?

Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 1: I hate OU.

Speaker 2: Hey, that's fine. I get it. I when people tell me that, I say, people people hate greatness. You know? It's just, you know, it's just like a lot of people what's what's the beef with OU?

Speaker 1: Don't know because I hate Texas too.

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 1: I hate Texas worse.

Speaker 2: Well, I'll take that. We can because I hate

Speaker 1: them too. We could be friends.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. If you hate Texas, can find I can find a common ground somewhere on that.

Speaker 1: I don't know why that is. I think it's because when I was a kid, the Texas OU game got so much attention around here, and my parents would have parties around it and everything like that. And and it just seemed dumb to me.

Speaker 2: It is a little okay. If you look at it, I enjoyed it a lot when I was in college, and I still enjoy the game, but the festivities are insane. Like, it's just everyone meets in Downtown Dallas. We would go to the West End when that was still I don't even know if that's still a thing, but people go to the West End when I was in college and it's just people fighting, going nuts. Half of them didn't even go to college there. You know, it's just like or whatever like like half of didn't go to college. I remember one time we got in like the biggest, like almost like brawl with these guys that just started like shouting out the community college in Irving. I just, I really, they were like, I'm from the crooked eye or whatever they started doing. I was like, what's the crooked eye? They're Irving, Northlake College. It's like, why are you arguing with us? Like, this isn't your thing, like, or whatever, you know? And one of my buddies has a bit about that. His name is Lawrence Rosales. He just had he had a special come out a couple years ago, and he has a bit about, like, he hated the like, that's his favorite weekend, but also hated it. He's like, there's nothing like watching two people get in a fight about two schools they couldn't get into. Right? And I remember when he told that joke, I was like, I lived that life. People were like, little Or like, you go to the game. I remember one year we went to the game and it

Speaker 1: was,

Speaker 2: if you remember this controversy from like 2008, where at the end of the season, OU Tech and Texas Tech were all tied for first place in the Big 12 because they had all beaten each other.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 2: And so Texas beat Oklahoma. And I remember I was at the game and afterwards, one of the the game had wasn't over yet. It was like a like a minute left and we were walking out and one of the guys that was working there was like, hey, who who won today? And I was like, oh, the game's not over but Texas is going to win. They just got the ball back. It's a 10 game. He was like, yeah, I know. Hook them. Like, what's thrown in our face? And we're like, like, you know, was about to I'm about to fight this carny. Like, is that what's about to happen? Like, we're about to get in a fight with a carny over, like, you know, like, why are you yelling at me? Like, obviously, I'm a I was nice to you. Yay. You know?

Speaker 1: So Shooping's here. What's up? Shooping's here.

Speaker 3: Three, two, one.

Speaker 1: Show's already underway, Shooping. Oh, crap. We're already telling stories.

Speaker 2: Hi. We're talking

Speaker 3: about Diana Rossini and

Speaker 1: I'm already doing OU.

Speaker 2: I was

Speaker 3: listening live. Was streaming.

Speaker 1: We've moved on to Texas OU.

Speaker 3: Okay. What about it?

Speaker 2: A lot of hatred going on.

Speaker 1: Do you always go downtown, you know, and have Yeah. Band's

Speaker 2: It's been a decade since I've probably gone out to for OU Texas. I that having desire to. That's way too many people for me to be around.

Speaker 1: Well, when I was a kid and I'm I'm probably, I think, three years younger than you. Yeah. When I was a kid

Speaker 2: So you're talking '98 right Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Everybody in high school would go down there despite the fact that we had no business down there whatsoever. All the high school guys would go down there and it gave them at least a reasonable shot at drinking beer without anybody giving them any shit about it. You know?

Speaker 2: Yeah. Because it's just chaos. Yeah. You know? You can get away with a lot of stuff when there's chaos.

Speaker 1: And the police would be down there, and and, you know, they they had they were up to their asses and alligators.

Speaker 2: And

Speaker 1: they could just go down there and get away with a lot of shit. If they wanted to fight, they could fight. If they wanted to try and get over on some old broad, they could do that too. It it was just, it was kind of a thing. Now, I did it but all I all I did was go down there one night and just kind of walk around. Smoke cigarettes? Might have. Look, I had to do something to make it. Okay.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good smoking cigarette.

Speaker 3: Yeah, until you saw yourself in the mirror

Speaker 2: and knew

Speaker 1: it cool.

Speaker 3: I was

Speaker 1: still a few years away

Speaker 3: from seeing himself in the mirror.

Speaker 1: Yeah, was still a few years away from the mirror, so come on. Let me have what I can get while I get it.

Speaker 3: Let him be cool.

Speaker 1: Do you mind? Yeah. Let me be cool as long as I can. Yeah. Can we do that?

Speaker 3: I support you.

Speaker 1: Is that too much to ask?

Speaker 3: No. I don't think it is.

Speaker 2: You think smoking cigarettes is cool for teenagers these days? Like, you remember like how like like, I I wonder if you if you smoked a cigarette in 2026 as a teenager, is it like the opposite? Like, oh, you're a nerd. Look at this nerd smoking cigarettes.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta I

Speaker 1: don't know.

Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, if you're smoking, like, if that kid getting bullied because he's smoking cigarettes, the bully smoked cigarettes in the nineties. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Like I said, the opposite now, like if you're smoking cigarettes in 2026, are you getting bullied? Like, man, you don't know about cancer, bro? Well, look at this guy. He doesn't even know about health.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you ever smoke cigarettes, Shoopy?

Speaker 3: Briefly after I turned 21 and it stopped pretty quickly. Stunts your growth, Shoopy.

Speaker 1: Yep. So that's what happened,

Speaker 3: That's what happened. That one that My my parents are seven feet tall. So as you know

Speaker 2: You're like, from 21 to 22 is where I did all my damage. Yeah. That twelve months. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. Really? Mm-mm. It's not

Speaker 3: Not even jazz cigarette?

Speaker 2: What's jazz oh, no. I haven't. I've I've smoked a lot of cigars. Okay. But never a cigarette. It's never enticed me.

Speaker 3: Switcher sweets.

Speaker 1: I used to smoke those too.

Speaker 3: Switcher sweets? Yeah. Nice. Seriously? He's got street cred.

Speaker 1: Yeah. I did. He's cool. I did. Where were you when you smoked these? I was a lot younger. I was light years away from encountering you. Let's put it that way. You were in another galaxy far, far away.

Speaker 2: Oh.

Speaker 1: But, yeah, I wasn't into them for a while.

Speaker 3: Okay. About how long

Speaker 1: But I was never really a real heavy smoker that really got, you know, hooked on it or anything like that.

Speaker 3: You don't get hooked on anything.

Speaker 1: No. I don't. I have a very non addictive personality.

Speaker 2: Really? Yeah.

Speaker 3: That's really impressive.

Speaker 1: Yeah. You can I can bring in heroin right now? I could snort it all up, and then and and nothing would happen.

Speaker 3: I think that neighbor's probably got some.

Speaker 1: It's rampant down here.

Speaker 3: I know. The mean M Streets. Yes. That's what the M stands for. What it

Speaker 2: stands for. Absolutely. Everyone knows that. The meth Streets, actually.

Speaker 3: The meth Streets.

Speaker 2: The meth

Speaker 3: Streets

Speaker 2: is That's what they actually why you're the comedian. Yeah.

Speaker 1: But I have a very non addictive personality, so I never really got hooked on cigarettes. But I did it anyway because for some reason I thought that there was a degree of cool attached to them.

Speaker 2: Even the whole aspect of cool

Speaker 3: just It

Speaker 2: baffles me every

Speaker 3: time. Yes. Me too.

Speaker 1: What? What

Speaker 3: do mean? Your attempts at being cool and or having other people think you're cool, I guess.

Speaker 1: Well, yeah. Yeah. That was

Speaker 3: the coin of the realm.

Speaker 1: That was important. Yes, it was the coin of the realm. That was important to me. It mattered a lot to me.

Speaker 3: What else did you do to try to be cool?

Speaker 1: Really not that much. I mean, I followed some trends and stuff like

Speaker 2: You missed seeing the Beatles.

Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah. I missed seeing the Beatles, but when guys started wearing Beatle boots, I was right on board.

Speaker 3: Okay. Wait. Where are the beetle? Oh, the

Speaker 1: Yeah. With the Yeah. Kind of the pointed toes and the high heels, higher heels.

Speaker 3: Do you still have them?

Speaker 1: No. No. I don't I don't have them.

Speaker 2: Oh, man.

Speaker 1: But I went big for Beetle Beetle boots.

Speaker 3: Okay.

Speaker 1: I had suede. Woah.

Speaker 2: Woah. Yeah. Yeah. Those boots and cigarettes? Suede my boots

Speaker 1: and cigarettes topped that.

Speaker 3: That's why he made love to so many back in the day. Oh, The jumper. What yeah. What years was the jumper craze for you?

Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm not what are you talking about?

Speaker 3: I could've sworn He had a one piece zip up. Yeah. I have a picture

Speaker 2: of you.

Speaker 1: Oh, you do?

Speaker 3: Oh, maybe it

Speaker 2: was for

Speaker 3: a bit or something.

Speaker 1: I'd have to see it.

Speaker 3: Don't know. It was like he was out. It was after I think you said it might've been after a gig. You were in an elevator.

Speaker 2: It was like a onesie almost? Like like a

Speaker 3: One piece zip up disco.

Speaker 2: That's amazing. Okay.

Speaker 3: That's awesome.

Speaker 2: I would wear of those right now.

Speaker 1: Well, I was Well,

Speaker 2: that probably is.

Speaker 1: Yeah. I was in a couple bands where that was required. Something like that was required attire.

Speaker 3: Okay. So, yeah, so you weren't wearing it socially.

Speaker 2: You weren't wearing

Speaker 1: it for kids. I was wearing it because I had

Speaker 3: to. Gotcha.

Speaker 2: I was full. I

Speaker 1: was fully cognizant of just how dorky it was. I But was trying to to, you know, appreciate the dorkdom.

Speaker 3: Gig's a gig.

Speaker 2: Yeah. You gotta make that money, Absolutely.

Speaker 1: So how'd you get into what you're doing, man? Well,

Speaker 2: I've been on stage doing something since I was a child. I started in theater when I was like 10 years old. And then went to college for theater and comedy was something I always kind of wanted to try and they had an open mic in in Norman. So, started going to open mics. Went to that a little bit. Didn't, I didn't really, I mean, when you're in college, you don't try hard at anything. I mean, at least I didn't. And so, it's like I went to the open mics all the time and then when I moved back to Dallas, I started doing it more and more and then eventually, it became a thing, I guess.

Speaker 3: Was there anyone up in Oklahoma that you kind of befriended to help guide you along, or did you just kind of wing it?

Speaker 2: I kind of just winged, just winged. Winged it? Yeah. Winged it. A lot of wanging. Just kind of, you know.

Speaker 3: So did he.

Speaker 2: But it wasn't, but honestly man, it was like, literally I would go once every three months or something.

Speaker 3: Okay, so

Speaker 1: it wasn't a regular

Speaker 2: Yeah, you would kinda be nice to people or whatever, you'd meet a few people from it.

Speaker 3: So it was more open mics than booking?

Speaker 1: For sure.

Speaker 2: I didn't do any real shows in There was this one thing that they did while I was in college called the Rooftop Comedy Funniest Comic in the Country or something. College Comic in the Country. That what they did is you would go and do some kind of competition at your college, and then they had a finals for your college, then from there, they would each college would have a team, and then you would go and compete against another college. So we competed against Arkansas. We met in Tulsa because it was like halfway. And then they would pick two people from that, and they'd put it online, and you would vote, and then the winner, like the top five went to the finals at the Comedy Festival in Aspen. And then someone won that, which actually ended up, the person that won it was one my best friends. And he he won it and then was named funniest comic in college or whatever. And what's crazy about that competition is there was like working comics that were in

Speaker 3: it. Okay.

Speaker 2: It just happened to be in school.

Speaker 3: They just were You know, whatever. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2: So, it was an interesting competition. I did not make it to the finals.

Speaker 3: Oh, did you get past the first round?

Speaker 1: Couple of

Speaker 3: rounds. Okay, you got a couple rounds

Speaker 2: in that.

Speaker 3: That's still pretty good.

Speaker 2: But I was only doing, you know, I don't even do it.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you're

Speaker 3: doing it on Mark.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: So, it was fun. Were you known as a funny guy to all your friends and For sure.

Speaker 2: That's how I got like any attention in life. Like, you know, like I was super shy in elementary school and then I realized that people would laugh at things that I would say. Like, you know, like you sit in like a little small group that they put you in. I'm like, oh, I'm kind of funny. Like, so I get attention from people. So then I would just like start doing funny things. I was probably a clown. I was a class clown, you know, growing up. I would do bits at school. Like we'd always do bits, like different thing. We try to do different things at our school to make it become part of the rule book the next year. Right? Like we were like, if something wasn't like against the rules, we would do things like, let's see if we can get this to become a rule. It's like one thing that we try to do is like, you know how when people, a fight's about to break up, everyone will go, uh-oh, you know what I'm talking about? Sure. We Super shit would do this thing at lunch,

Speaker 1: and we wouldn't

Speaker 2: do it every day, but we'd do it like, you know, every other day or so, where we would just start owing for no reason. So the entire lunch line, everyone was like freaking out, like standing up, oh my, what's going on? The teachers would come running out in their walkie talkies. And our goal was like, we wanna get it to where we do it so much that they make it like an official thing that you can't do that. So after about four months of doing it, I on an mean it was just like, we had to do it randomly, know, you had to do it enough to where it still made people excited, or you know, to where it was a problem, but not enough to where it became routine and people wouldn't freak out about it. So, when they made this

Speaker 1: a rule and I'm assuming they told you about it or something like that?

Speaker 2: Oh, they announced it on the announcements.

Speaker 1: Oh, they did?

Speaker 2: They said no more oohing at lunch.

Speaker 1: That's what I was wondering. How

Speaker 2: exactly did They they put said that, so we did that one. Then we did something where we started, I don't even know how this came about, where we started, like we bought like a bunch of toothbrushes and we would go around school and we would wear like a toothbrush in our mouth around the hallway that matched our clothes. So if you had like a red shirt on, you have a red toothbrush in or whatever, right? And so we did that for long enough that they made that like a rule, you cannot have toothbrushes, because they said it was gang affiliated. So there was like What was it? No, absolutely not. Yeah, us North Carrollton kids.

Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, where did you go from?

Speaker 2: With our brand new cars, when you

Speaker 1: turn 60, these are different times, you never know.

Speaker 3: Your car your daddy bought.

Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad bought me, you know, whatever. Yeah. So like that, we did that one. And then like, I'm trying to think what else we did that we got in trouble. Like, we never got in trouble though, know what mean? Because it was like, there wasn't, it was just like, know, was not malicious. It was just annoying. Yeah. It was just annoying. And then my group, me and my two friends, we had like a Mr. Hebron pageant at the end of every year to where they do stuff. And so for, we were the first people to ever get disqualified from it. So we, in the talent part of it, because it was like a, it's a beauty pageant for boys and they would have a talent part of it. So the talent part, we wrapped regulators and then shirtless, no, and then we stripped to pour some sugar on me. And so everybody was like, how did you guys get that approved? Because you had to get your talent approved. And I said, well, when I told the organizers, I said, we're gonna rap and then we're gonna have a costume change on stage. Is that cool? And they were like, yeah, it's fine. And so we rapped or whatever, and then we were going off, crowd had a good time, and then we looked at it, we're like, oh, you thought we were done? Hit it, sound man. And then the most sensual striptease that had ever happened went down and we were really mad about it because they turned the lights off on us. Yes. So this comes on and then like one of our friends comes up the middle and two of us crawl out the stage and he pulls our hair to the beat. Like it's like it's super sensual and there's like, we have water bottles that are flying, we have tear away pants and we get down to like, we're wearing like girls volleyball shorts and like a tank top and that was it. That's all we were going to stop at and then the second verse, we had the girls from our that are we grew up with that were like the drill team captains. They choreographed it for us and we spent hours on this thing, but they shut the lights down and kicked us off stage. Like the principal was like sprinting down the auditorium hallway like, turn the lights off. And we were so mad. We were it was so funny talking about it like back stage. We're so frustrated. We didn't get to the choreography. Like we're so we're so upset about it. And I remember talking with I was a substitute teacher at that high school the next the year after I graduated college. Cause I it was good for like gig work to be a teacher and I was talking to the principal about it. I like, do you remember that? He goes, of course, I remember it. I go, why did y'all turn the lights off on us? And he goes, dude, he goes, we thought y'all were gonna get naked. Like, we didn't think y'all were gonna stop and I go, you thought we would like commit a felony? Like you go like what? And he goes, we didn't know. And I was like, no, y'all don't let us get our dance on. We had the whole thing planned.

Speaker 1: Cory, now how is it that after a notorious stunt like that, which probably gained you all kinds of notoriety that you may or may not have already had, how is it that after all those years, you're on good terms with the principal?

Speaker 2: The the teachers loved us. It was that that was the thing was is because we didn't do anything bad.

Speaker 3: Everything was we were.

Speaker 2: It was harmless. It was fun. It was funny. Most. Yeah. I remember one time I had a class, it was a history class, and the teacher was older, and he couldn't hear anything except for tapping. So, like, if you you could be sitting right in front of him, and you could just be having a full on conversation while he was lecturing, and he couldn't hear any of it. But if you did this with your with on your desk, he'd be like, stop that tapping. Like, right, like something was that, or whatever. And so And he was And we He was he was actually a really cool teacher, so we would do things like, we would say, what can we do to, how far can we take this what he won't hear? So like one of our friends brought us, brought a CD player with speakers. And we were literally listening to like full on music while he was lecturing. He didn't hear a word. And so I was in the front row like dancing, had my hands up and everything like that. So finally he like wrote me up, because he's like we're being a distraction. He called my mom and was like, yeah we had to write Michael up today. He's like, he's a very respectful kid, he's very smart. He's like, he's like, but they just kinda all follow him. He's like, I don't ever know what he's doing. He's like, he'll just be in the classroom with his hands up in the air. My mom was like, what do you mean his hands are up in the air? Does he have a question? And he's like, I don't know. His hands are gonna stop. So my mom asked me about it and I was like, yeah, we do this thing where he's like, stop doing this, this poor man. You know, it's like, and then when I came back and subbed and he saw me, was like, oh Michael, what's up buddy? Long time no see. I was like, yeah, like they all liked us because we weren't like bad. We were just you know what I mean?

Speaker 3: Yeah. You weren't naughty boys.

Speaker 2: Yeah. We weren't we were just loud.

Speaker 3: Just having fun. We were making the

Speaker 2: rules. We were making rules. Yeah. We were helping them out.

Speaker 1: Rules And were so really after all after all all that trouble you caused in school, now you substitute teacher there,

Speaker 2: No, I did for the year after college. Oh, okay. For one year. It was like the best job to have because you just called into a, like if I had like an audition or, you know, a gig or something, you don't have to talk to anybody to like call in, you just called a machine and they would just have someone else come fill in your spot or whatever. So it was super flexible, it was super easy or whatever. Some rules? I would I would sit down every day and I would just say like, hey, my name or I wouldn't say my name. Was like, hey, I too went to Hebert High School. So if you kids work real hard and believe in yourselves, you too can be a substitute teacher. And that's how I would start every class off or whatever. I would just like tell them, was like flat out, here's the deal, here's what you have to do, here's your assignment, do it or don't, it does not affect, I'm gonna get my $76 no matter what. But I will this was before phone, like, smartphones. So it's like everyone had an iPod. I was like, if if I have to get on to at the end of the day, last fifteen minutes of class, I'll let you pull out your iPods. However, if I have to get on to you guys more than three or more times, an so indefinite amount of money, or time they never knew that that's what I was doing to them, you won't get to play with your iPads or your iPods. And so I would sit there and read a book. If they get a little bit loud, go, that's one. And then

Speaker 1: they would

Speaker 2: they would get quiet again or whatever, you know. And that's all I did. And I remember one teacher telling me, she was like, I've I I walked by one time because they had like a teacher in service meeting. She's like, had this horrible class. She's like, I walked by, they all were working. What did you do? And I was like, I just told them I didn't care. If they I was like, that that them not doing their grade affects them, not me. I already have a college degree. And they did it. I was like, I don't know.

Speaker 1: The bewitching hour comes across and they've been they've successfully executed your wishes for them to sit there and be quiet. And it's time for them to play with their iPods. What happens then? Do they just get them all out and Yeah. Put in their buds

Speaker 2: and We got fifteen minutes. Get your iPods in. Let's do it. You know? Play, listen to your music. However, I did get written up though one time from a teacher. Like I got in trouble. I had to to principal's office as a substitute teacher. I had let You know how like kids will like write notes to each other on like a dry erase board for their friend in the next class? I let these kids do that. Didn't think anything of it. And I guess the teacher, when she came back and erased it, the teacher came back and said, that was not part of my lesson plan for them to play on the dry erase board. So I had to go to the principal's office. They called me in and he was like, hey, this is kinda familiar, I was like, yeah. Yeah. I'm having

Speaker 1: trouble with the dry erase

Speaker 2: He board goes, he goes, he goes, brother, he goes, just erase it next time. He's like, she's a brand, she's a first year teacher. She's brand new. She probably thought she was gonna get in trouble or something. He's like, it's not a big deal. He's like, next time, just erase the thing. I was like, I got you, mister Dalton. Don't you worry. Like, it won't happen again. So

Speaker 1: how would you classify your comedy?

Speaker 2: Comedy What is kind

Speaker 1: of comic are you? I'm like story You were blue?

Speaker 2: Well, the special that I just put out was 100% clean. Kind of work, the my So other stuff is I would say is more PG 13. It's not like super dirty, but it's not clean. And then the thing I just put out last week is a 100% clean. I wanted to do something that anybody could watch, that my kids could watch. I also think that it's I it's how I'm I'm I'm a cleaner person. Like I don't talk super dirty or anything like that. So it's like why not just be who I am on stage? You know. And so, yeah and I I'm a more of a storyteller. The hour that I just put out is like super personal. I did it it came out. The the material I came up with was I didn't I didn't think it was gonna go the way that it did and it just kind of turned into something that I wasn't expecting but when I started building it, I'm super excited about it. Super happy with it. So, it's storytelling. It's super personal. I would say, like, 90% of it's a hunt is true. Although, other 10% is embellished.

Speaker 3: Yeah. I was gonna ask how much stuff of your stuff tends to be true versus embellished. And, obviously, this one sounds like it's more personal, and so it's gonna lean towards being more true. But previous stuff, how accurate would you say it was?

Speaker 2: Same thing, about ninety ten, you know. And I would say even like like, okay, so like I have a joke in the special right now that is about my dad talking about weather with me. And it's he didn't actually talk about weather with me, but what I wanted to do was what I wanted to do was talk to him about I wanted to say that he was what I was trying to say is that he's very private and doesn't talk about like he just talks about like surface level things. So, what's the most surface level things someone can talk to you about is weather. Yeah. You know I mean?

Speaker 3: Yeah. That was from our time at the Freak. Like, that was their weather sounder.

Speaker 2: That's a that was

Speaker 3: literally yelling weather.

Speaker 2: And was very a rock guitar. Better be weather aware

Speaker 3: Yeah. On Just making sure you know that that's what's about to be reported is weather.

Speaker 2: Check your apps, guys.

Speaker 1: Oh, man.

Speaker 2: I couldn't even understand. That is so intense.

Speaker 3: I know, it's a lot.

Speaker 2: Yeah. All

Speaker 3: right, you SOBs.

Speaker 2: All right, you guys ready to talk about the weather? Weather.

Speaker 1: I made sure we got out of that place with that.

Speaker 3: I there was no doubt we were.

Speaker 1: Yes. Alright. This is Michael Pasvar here.

Speaker 2: Yay.

Speaker 1: He is a noted comic and a noted local, regional, nationally known. What are

Speaker 2: you? I'm not I don't know if I'm known anywhere, but I do work all over. So I just got back from New Mexico and Arizona on Sunday. So, I kind of work this last few years. I've couple years I've been kind of working all over. I think last year, did 10 states. Nine, ten, something like that.

Speaker 1: So. I'd say that's national.

Speaker 2: That's. Yeah, but I don't think I'm known. So, like, like Yeah. One knows who I am when I show up. It's always so funny that, okay, we want you to, like, the last place I was at and knew I was in, like, outside of Rio Doso at this place called Inn of the Mountain Gods. It's a casino, and they have a comedy club inside of it. And so they're like, we need you to send a video, like, to help sell tickets. Like, hey, this is Michael Paswar. I'll be at the Club forty nine inside of Inn of the Mountain Gods. And I wanted to say like, hey, guys, it's me that you don't know, hope you'll show out, like, look at that. Like, I'll definitely make the video, but I don't know if it's gonna do anything. You wanted to show them a clip of my comedy, like that might get them to come out instead of me like, hey guys, it's me again. Like, I hope you guys will come on out with me and my 1,900 followers, right?

Speaker 3: Yeah, instead of just some dude from Hebron. Yeah,

Speaker 2: you guys, I got the oh outlawed at Hebron High School back in '99.

Speaker 3: We're bringing it back to New Mexico.

Speaker 2: Bring your toothbrushes. All

Speaker 1: right. Michael, we'll be back. We'll have more with him in just a second. You can sit there and relax for a while for just a couple of seconds here because we got other stuff we gotta get to because well, you know what it is. It is time for the dreaded and feared mid show read. Holy crap.

Speaker 3: Sorry, everyone.

Speaker 1: Okay. What do we got here today? Well, I'm seeing nothing on here right now. Oh, here we go.

Speaker 3: Yay.

Speaker 1: Alright. First of all, I gotta tell you about the CBD House of Healing and what it is doing for me right now. Unfortunately, I don't have the sow stick in here with me, but I am using it.

Speaker 3: And that's why it's funny.

Speaker 1: Yeah. That's why it's not in here. Cause I don't come in here to use it. I go other places. They're a little bit more, shall we say sequestered.

Speaker 3: You go to the bathroom in Savitt.

Speaker 1: That's right. I do. But it's helping me out a lot cause I got all kinds of bad stuff going on these days. I got sciatica. I got pinched nerves. I've got all kinds of crazy shit that I never had in my life. I've gotten this far along. Nothing's been the the worst thing that's ever happened for for me is a sprained ankle and not being able to talk. But now all of a sudden, I got shit. Oh. And when I got shit, I go to the CBD House of Healing and say, hey. Fix me. And they do, they do without fail. They gave me the Sav Stick. The Sav Stick definitely makes it feel better. And look, if you're walking around out there in pain, there's no reason for that. You need to go over there and see them at the House of Healing yourself, because if they can do this for me, they will do it for you. They are located at the burgeoning intersection of Plano Road and Northwest Highway here in Dallas in the eastern quadrant or the the northeast quadrant of that of that intersection. Go by there, talk to them, tell them what's going on with you, tell them what hurts, tell them what you'd like for them to do about it. And chances are they will come up with something to help you out because that is what they do. It is the CBD house of healing where they approach the whole thing from a very medicinal standpoint. Right. Let's see what else. Oh yes. Yes. Okay. Hey there. It's Mike Reiner from Your Dark Companion, but you probably already know all that. Let's see. Now as part of Stolen Water Media's continued growth, Stolen Water Media is the company that we have here and we're, growing. This thing's getting kind of big, a little bit bigger than we thought it would. We had a number of requests for behind the scenes content, deeper dives into some of our discussion topics, and even more general nonsense. This is why we are announcing memberships on our YouTube channel. For viewers who love the YDC content you're currently getting, nothing will change. The great YDC and Sunset Lounge DFW content you get now, it'll still fill the channel for free. But if you'd like to access exclusive content behind the scenes shenanigans, more extended conversations, you can now join a membership. Two memberships are now available. Hitchhiker with cool badges and emojis you can display to show your love for the channel And members on and members only shorts as well or ride along for member shout outs and access to the full episodes of the OG. There's a membership for everyone, so get on board now. Simply click the membership tab on the toolbar at the top of the page. Now let's recap. Oh, don't need to? Okay. You're telling me we don't need to, so let's don't recap.

Speaker 3: Yeah. Screw it.

Speaker 2: Freaking YouTube.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Join our YouTube, and you'll get all kinds of of cool stuff that nobody else will. Yeah. How about that?

Speaker 3: Well, hey. Speaking of YouTube, Michael, is your special only on YouTube?

Speaker 2: It's only on YouTube. Okay. On the I'm a fan of page. Oh, yeah. YouTube. Pretty we just talked about

Speaker 3: it. Pretty

Speaker 2: much, yeah.

Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah. It's I've watched it a couple times.

Speaker 2: Man, two times?

Speaker 3: I wanted to your pump numbers up.

Speaker 2: I

Speaker 1: appreciate appreciate that. Pasvar Blended Feathers full comedy special. Is that what we're talking about here?

Speaker 3: Absolutely. Listen to that.

Speaker 1: Alright. Now I'm a caveman, and there are certain things I understand, certain things I don't. One of the things that frighten me is your YouTube, as they call it.

Speaker 2: So how can I find this? If you just search Michael Pasvar, Blended Feathers, it'll come up. So it'll it'll be YouTube. It'll be a link. You don't have to have a subscription to anything. You don't have to have a password. You don't need to be a member or anything like that.

Speaker 1: Good. Because I don't like being a member of anything.

Speaker 3: Except for Stolen Waters.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Except for And YouTube.

Speaker 1: I'm not a member of that. I own that. He's got us there. He's bankrolling the thing. But, all right, tell us about this. Let's get the word out about your scene here.

Speaker 2: The special? Yeah. Man, honestly, it's my favorite thing artistically that I've ever put out. You know, my buddy, his name is Travis Wright, he runs a podcast called I'm a Fan Of. That's how we met. And he what he does is he is local, and he puts on local musicians and local comedians. Talks to them. It's comedians or musicians that he finds out that he's a fan of and he puts them on. He got the idea a couple years ago that he wanted to start producing comedy specials. So, he produced his first one, Lawrence Rosales called Trina that they did like I think it was three years ago at this point and then he came to me about doing my special. We rented out a place, sold it out, put it together, and he does. Where'd you do

Speaker 1: it at?

Speaker 2: At the Knack Theater in Frisco. Have you seen, have you been seen that place?

Speaker 1: No, I haven't.

Speaker 2: It's a cool little spot. It's over there in that little downtown area of Frisco right next to the, it's right behind Rollertown. It's right behind like the Frisco, FC Dallas Stadium, and that kind of area.

Speaker 1: Every time I cross Northwest Highway, they turn on the red lights for me.

Speaker 2: So, so it's a great place. It was a cool little place. We sold it out. We've filmed it in December. Had kind of a vision of the way I wanted to go with it. It's called Blended Feathers. It's off of something that like a something my father-in-law mentioned to me a few years back. My wife is Hispanic. I am not. I am Iranian. I'm half Iranian.

Speaker 1: I knew I didn't

Speaker 2: like you. I'm half Iranian and my mom is from Louisiana.

Speaker 3: That's the real issue. I

Speaker 1: ended up- Well, you got a real Heinz 57 thing

Speaker 2: going I know. In here, don't And so that's where the blended feathers comes from, right? Like blending stuff. And so ended up just writing material based off of like feeling out of place growing up, not knowing which group of people you hung out with, not looking like any of your friends, but also knowing nothing about the Iranian side of your Not necessarily not knowing anything about it, but not having anybody to talk to about it besides my dad. And so I just started writing like some like real personal things, some real awkward things that happened growing up and just kind of how it all fit together. And it turned into a really fun hour, I think. I think it, you watched it. I mean, you could speak to it or whatever. Think it's fun. I think there's parts of it that are serious that I didn't know that it was gonna go as serious as it did. I think there's like a lot of heart to it. You can see how much I'm a fan of put on it. They written transformed the entire theater. The theater's already kinda cool. It's already a cool spot. And we went to do a camera test about three or four weeks beforehand. And he was like, hey, I'm kinda wanna try some things with the stage that I'm not really kinda liking the lighting. I wanna put some curtains up. So he just trusted me on it. It'll be cool. And I get there and it's like a whole new space. And this guy's doing it all on his own. I mean, he had like two guys that helped him put some stuff up, but it's all his vision. He put it together. He had constantly throwing these ideas to me.

Speaker 1: So is a whole new space good?

Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. I mean, it was already a beautiful space, but just the difference in it, I posted a thing on my Instagram a few days back where I showed, like, what it looked like the day we went to do our camera test and then what it looked like on the special. And even the place liked it so much, they're like, can we have this stuff? And he was like, yeah. Said, I'll sell it to you or whatever. They were like, cool or whatever. And so it it was I'm very proud of the way it turned out. I think that we produced a very, very high quality special that was 100% independently done. You know, there was no financing backing on it or anything like that. And it looks like something you would watch on Hulu or Netflix or one of those things. So hope you all will check it out. It's doing pretty the feedback we've gotten has been really good on it. We need more people to watch it though. Yeah. So

Speaker 1: Alright. Alright. So watch it.

Speaker 2: We need people to watch it. Share it with your enemies, your friends, whoever. If you've ever felt awkward and you felt a little bit weird growing up, I think this special will speak to you. If you grew up in a family where it was one people like I I guys talk in the special like I have roots all the way back to Andrew Jackson on my mom's side. But then I'm a first generation American on the other side. So, you know, there's a lot of people that probably have that same feeling, that same story. I think it'll resonate with them.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Andrew Jackson preceded by John Quincy Adams, succeeded by Martin Van Buren.

Speaker 3: That's that's

Speaker 1: It's called what now?

Speaker 2: It's called Blended Feathers. Blended Feathers. On the I'm a fan of YouTube page.

Speaker 3: How many notebooks do you have, little man?

Speaker 2: That's a lot of notebooks.

Speaker 3: That's so many notebooks. Yeah.

Speaker 1: I I hey. Notebooks r us.

Speaker 3: Fair enough.

Speaker 1: Now how long has this thing been out there?

Speaker 2: It came out. It's been out for one week. It came out last Monday. Oh, really?

Speaker 1: Yeah. Alright. So it's Getting it on the ground floor or something, kids. Fresh

Speaker 2: baked. It's so important to have the viewings coming in at the beginning because then YouTube will keep pushing it out because they think people like it. Right? Yeah. So, you know, otherwise it just dies and don't let it die. Mm-mm. I'm a fan of did way too much work on it. I just told some jokes. You know what I mean? Like, I just I just told some jokes. They did they were the ones that made it look beautiful. So for them, watch it. Do it for Share it with a friend. Subscribe to it. Like it.

Speaker 1: Have this your first time to do something like this?

Speaker 2: I had a it's my first full length special. I had a half hour special last year called I Like Your Jesus. And it's a thirty minute special on open bar comedy. And that one was okay. That was good. It wasn't it was the material that I did in this special, like a lot more. Yeah. It was a little bit more personal. It had a theme throughout. It had a a I wanted to try to build like a story. Like I wanted there to be like you're watching a a show where there's a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not just here's a bunch of thirty minutes. Here's an hour of joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. I wanted it to kind of there to be callbacks and for it to all kind of tie together.

Speaker 1: Have a little heaven flow to it. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2: Was the was the goal of it and I think we succeeded with it. So. Yeah. That's

Speaker 1: good. Alright. Watch it. It's on YouTube. If if you can negotiate YouTube, then you watch it and tell me what you think of it. Yeah. In fact, make a I want somebody out there to roll on it, make a VHS tape and bring it to me so I could watch it.

Speaker 3: Do you have a working VCR? Yes. Is that?

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I got a couple of them.

Speaker 3: Okay. I apologize.

Speaker 1: Yes. Someone put on a

Speaker 2: projector, right? Where you just Yeah. That's really cool. Old projector film. Get them a white sheet, just put it on their backyard.

Speaker 3: We'll watch your talkie.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you

Speaker 1: got any gigs you need to promote?

Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I do. I've been on the road a ton this year. May 14 though, I am in Dallas. I'm headlining Dallas Comedy Club. Please come buy some tickets because just like the views need to go up, those ticket sales need to go up. 07:00, it's Thursday night, May fourteenth, Dallas Comedy Club. Tickets are on sale. I think they're just $15 so.

Speaker 3: That's nothing.

Speaker 2: Nothing. Yeah. That's not even that's not even two Chick fil A's. I had a lady that I worked with a long time ago. We we used to give $25 referral gift cards to people and she'd be yeah and if you got anyone, no one else that needs something, hit me up. You know, we're gonna give you a $25 gift card, just a couple Taco Bells. She'd like, get yourself a get yourself a couple Taco Bells with that. And I had she sat behind me and I'd hear her say it like 30 times a day and I'd like, this lady is cracking me up. And she didn't even know she was being funny. She's back, yeah, just refer your people over. I'm give you two of our dog gift cards, just a couple Taco Bells for your hassle.

Speaker 1: I'm taking these gift cards. That's a horrible imitation.

Speaker 3: It's great.

Speaker 2: It's funny. It's funny.

Speaker 1: Well, Michael Pasvar, it's been very nice to meet you, man.

Speaker 2: Yes. It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1: And I appreciate you coming on here and doing this with us. And good luck, man. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

Speaker 1: Watch Blended Feathers on YouTube. Yeah. Send him a VHS. Yes. That's right.

Speaker 3: He's given us behind the scenes confidential hint at what his next bit's gonna be.

Speaker 2: Oh, yes.

Speaker 3: Can't wait for that. Oh.

Speaker 2: I told I'll tell you.

Speaker 1: Alright. Let's hear that.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Remember I told you we were gonna Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Okay.

Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll tell you about that. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 2: Alright. Anyone know because that's for us to know

Speaker 1: a unified doubt. Yeah.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3: I didn't even know I didn't know about this. Well, because it was it was a secret before we started. I know. And y'all decided to start the show without me.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Did. We did.

Speaker 3: Even though I told you to.

Speaker 1: Hey, around here when downbeat happens, downbeat happens. I get it.

Speaker 3: I was busy robbing a bank.

Speaker 1: Alright. Now what am I supposed to do with this? I don't know. This thing that I'm looking at and the thing? Okay. Don't normally do do this here. That yeah. I'm confused. He's a caveman. Alright. Let's talk about the Eric Nadel birthday benefit concert. Do you know who Eric Nadel is? Do.

Speaker 2: The voice of the rangers.

Speaker 1: That's right. They're celebrating their fourteenth edition by featuring two of Eric's favorite bands. Now I don't know if people know this about Eric, but he has very, eclectic musical tastes and very on point musical tastes. If Eric likes something, over the years that I've known him, I found that I'd I'm generally gonna like it too. And this time around, you can come see Brooklyn based Sammy Ray and the friends and Bay Area favorite Chuck Probitt and the Kumbia shoes. It's March May 14 of this year. Doors open. It's yeah. It's kind of this year. That's why we're doing this. Doors open at 06:30. Showtime is 07:30. The location is the Longhorn Ballroom. Now I don't know if you've been to the Longhorn Ballroom and seen what they've done there yet, but they have completely reworked it. It is a wonderful, wonderful venue. I was there just a few weeks ago, and it all sounds great. It looks great. It's just a really, really cool place. Now the benefit supports the work of the Grant Halliburton Foundation. That's a local nonprofit that provides mental health education, training, and support to teens and families. To find out more and to purchase tickets, go to grandhalliburton.org/ericnadell. Sponsored tables and suites are also available. So we'll all be out there. The YDC gang will be on the purple carpet and Eric Nadel's birthday benefit is presented by Haynes Boone and KXT ninety one point seven featuring Sammy Ray and the friends with special guest Chuck Prophet of the Kumbaya shoes. Should I keep reading here? I guess I should. Alright. One more thing we gotta tell you about. It is time for us to, change things up here at your little stolen water a bit because we've been at this for two years now. We've been growing for two years, and we're gonna do some things to make it easier for you, the viewer. Now you will be able to continue to see all eight of our podcasts on our Patreon pages just like always. But now you can get all episodes at www.stolenwatermedia.com. That's www.stolenwatermedia.com. That's right. All Stolen Water Media productions, your dark companion, just wondering with Norm Hiskas, Al Maximo, Beer thirty Sports O'Clock, The Clubhouse, The Ingle Angle, Signal 51 Chronicles, and The Sunset Soccer Club are now available on our website. Now this is a developing story, but you can start watching and listening now. Just go to stolenwatermedia.com. Continue to find all audio. Wherever you find your favorite podcast, it's not gonna change anything. They'll be out there on YouTube. They'll be on Spotify. They'll be where you normally get them. That's nothing's gonna change there. But you all continue to support support us in our success, we feel and appreciate the love. So hang with us as we make this move because I really think this is gonna make it easier for you to get to what you want. As always, rate us, debate us, leave us a review wherever you follow us, share us on social media, and recommend us to your family and friends. We thank you very much for that. Thank you, Shupi. Thank you, Ashley. Thank you, Beckham. And thank you, Michael Pasvar. It's been really fun having you on here. Absolutely. Alright. That'll do it for YDC for today. Thank you for watching. Bye. Bye. Alright. I'm gonna go take your pants off. You're Dark Companion is a stolen water media presentation.