Episode Transcript: #679 - Barry Crimmins & Bobcat Goldthwait
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, Bobcat Goldthwait, better known as Bob.
Bob's here, and Barry Crimmins, thank you very much for coming.
I really, really appreciate it.
Hey, Joe, it's great to be here. Where are the drugs?
We got a lot of stuff, but I'm mostly a pot guy, so if you want that, we got that.
But we got plenty of alcohol. I know you enjoy that, sir.
When I was a kid, when I first started doing stand-up,
you would go on stage and you would pull a Budweiser out of your blazer.
That was part of your jazz.
It was the old open where I'd walk out smoking a cigarette and then pull a beer out and take a big chug of it.
I'm kind of a health nut. That was the open.
You know, it was a very fortuitous, just amazing situation to be starting out in stand-up in 1988 in Boston.
It was such an incredible spot to be in, just total dumb luck where I decided to do an open mic night.
Dumb luck got me there.
Yeah, dumb luck got you there.
But for folks who don't know, you were one of the reasons why Boston became what it was.
And you and the community that you sort of established at the Ding Ho was the legendary community.
When I came along, it was already gone, right?
When did it end?
I think around 83, 84, something like that.