Will & Rusty's Playdate
we got kicked out of boston w/ grace o‘malley
Wed, 07 May
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Stand up comedian and host of Disgraceful, Grace O’Malley, joins Will and Rusty to talk about bombing in stand up comedy, how many counties are in New Jersey, and causing coworkers to relapse. They also break down how they got kicked out of a bar in Boston and how Willy ended up covered in eggs. Plus, they draft Boston suburbs that don’t exist and sayings that don’t exist. FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS: https://www.flowcode.com/page/playdatepodSHOP OUR MERCH: https://almostfriday.shop/collections/playdate-podRUSTY’S SONGS OF THE DAY: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2e5sF4pBj2HBZDoMhymnNf?si=w38C4sjDT6i4OIXq9f_eSg FOLLOW GRACE O’MALLEY: https://www.instagram.com/gracekomalley/ https://www.tiktok.com/@gracekomalley?lang=enWATCH DISGRACEFUL: https://www.youtube.com/@DisgracefulTheShow https://open.spotify.com/show/3iACHRrIx5nAesaK6jDiCd?si=3c1cd139bf94490aGO SEE GRACE ON TOUR: https://laylo.com/laylo-gomalley/m/ggetthemtix?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY3MyekXZH4FzPkOKMx34oxvyrrVzKVcsNLB1s_GaT7HUuU9oOxVOz-ZJc_aem_qHLEVSvj9Ie9Iak7DhLq6A 00:00 Intro00:34 Grace’s Voice Memo to Rusty2:16 Rusty’s Roommate3:56 Bombing in Stand Up11:02 Top 20 Pod14:12 Aye I’m From Jersey15:15 Grace Lost A Guest17:28 Causing My Coworkers to Relapse19:00 Playdate’s #1 Fan21:20 Will Has a Story27:07 Roadmap28:59 Getting Kicked Out of the Bar33:23 Other Grace O’Malleys35:36 Pitches54:17 Will’s Sex Story1:02:06 Good Hang Name or Bad Hang Name1:02:58 Teach Me Something1:09:00 This Guy Rocks1:16:02 Boston Suburbs That Don’t Exist1:18:10 Sayings That Don’t Exist1:21:03 Rusty’s Song of the Day #AlmostFriday #FridayBeers #PlaydatePod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Grace O'Malley?
Play it! Episode 103. We have a very, very, very, very special guest today. Our good friend, Grace O'Malley. Hey, guys. Grace, thanks for coming on. Thank you so much for having me.
Grace is a comedian. Grace has podcasts. A woman of many talents. Thank you very much. You and I have been trying to get this going for... A couple years now and we finally did it. My last text to you was, if you're ever in LA, please come on my pod and you didn't respond.
Chapter 2: What does it mean to bomb in stand-up comedy?
I think that's because my last text to you was a voice memo of something bizarre. Oh yeah, can we talk about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that on the car ride here. I, one of our, I was reading our, I only went up like a thing, but I texted you at like two in the morning. Call me lady. And you didn't, you didn't, you didn't call me.
So it's probably better off because when it's two o'clock here, right? Five o'clock my time. And that's it. That's a grace. You don't want to, you don't want to know about her at all. You and I have been playing phone tag for a while now. So what was the story? You were at a live show.
I was doing a live show. I actually don't even fully remember. I was at a live show and one of the things was like There was a question I was asked, but I don't know what prompted. Let me just see what it says first. Who's the biggest idiot you know? I said something. It was crazy, right? I don't remember.
So in your favor, you could make up a completely new story if you'd like. Okay. Because yours has expired, right? I believe so. Do you still have it? I'm pretty sure I heard it. I think I remember what it was. What was it? I'm not going to say it. I don't want to say it either, but I brought it up. So here we go. Are you going to hurt my feelings?
Chapter 3: How many counties are in New Jersey?
No, no. It's flattering. It's flattering. Yeah, it's something. I don't know. This is a voice. Is this going to make her uncomfortable? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Cool. Probably both of you guys. Let's get it going. Probably your girlfriend, too. Oh, awesome. Oh, yeah, I don't have it anymore. Bang. All right. Sorry, Flanny.
Yeah, sorry, guys. That's a blue ball for you. Yeah, it's a story for never day. Yeah. It's gone. I had a thing yesterday that made me laugh. I got home and my roommate Ty was sitting at the dinner table. What's Ty's vibe? He's chill.
Chapter 4: What happened when they got kicked out of a bar in Boston?
He's a cool guy. I thought he was in jail. He's in jail. He is in jail. He's a good guy. You find out the cheapest apartment I can find is in a jail. You can leave and go. It's like hostile jail. It's very cool. Very chill vibes.
But he was wearing a Hulu tracksuit. We'll put a picture of it right here. And that begs the question, like, there's something very funny about... He's not... Like, what do you like to watch? And it's like, he doesn't say a show. He just is a big fan of Hulu. Yeah, he just loves it. He loves it. He's like, he's a huge fan of the streaming service. They got live sports now, too.
Doesn't necessarily care what's on it. But... I just thought that was weird. Like, where do you even get a Hulu? Do you own a Hulu? Does he work for the arts? Oh, he works in music. Okay. But like, Hulu's trying to tap into that music realm, I suppose. All right, let's write a song about Hulu. I mean, I feel like we could. Writing music is so easy.
One of my pitches for draft ideas to Willie was like, oh, dude, we should do because we do like things that don't exist or whatever. And I was like, we should do stand up jokes that don't exist. And Willie was like, that means that you still have to write. It's writing five good jokes. You're just doing stand up.
They would exist. We've gotten way too confident that like we're really good at coming up with things that don't exist. But like you can push it too far where it's like that's just a that's just another job that we are not good at. Like making a show that doesn't exist. Well, now you're just writing a show.
We've done that many times. Entire fleshed out scripts for films. How did you get into stand-up? I did open mics on the side of the road in 2020. On the side of the road? New York City, baby. Cars were flying past you. Come on! It was in those little huts that they had. Do you remember those? Like an interstate thing? During COVID, you mean? Yeah, COVID. Like a yurt?
I thought you meant where it scans your E-ZPass. You're like, it'll be $1.50. Yeah, I was telling jokes in a toll booth. Or you can listen to one of my killer jokes. That worked in a toll booth. I just tried it out for each passenger. So they'd set up huts on the side of the road? Yeah. And so like, it was like where you would like have dinner. So like, it would like be. Oh, like in a city.
I was picturing like a, like an interstate. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Yeah. I'm anti those things. Oh, I love them. I think COVID's gone. You should give us the parking spots back. Oh, that's a horrible take.
Every restaurant in LA just takes up five parking spots out on the street. Yeah, for like cool outdoor seating. We don't drive. What about cool outdoor? In New York, we don't drive. Oh, you're outnumbered now. I'm fine with that. Another ex-barstool, current barstool employee. I have a great memory. Me, you, and Diego sat at an outdoor Mexican spot. Oh, yeah. Diego Rodriguez?
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Chapter 5: What are Boston suburbs that don’t exist?
Yeah, hi, guys. This is Andrew.
Chapter 6: What are sayings that don’t exist?
Excited to be here. Yeah. Grace, you're coming on the morning that we just passed Conan. Oh, yeah. We are, dude, Spotify, our last episode, like, got in their algorithm or something. And so we, like, our normal on Spotify, we'll get, like, maybe, like, 15,000 to 20,000 listens. And the last episode has 200,000 listens.
Chapter 7: What’s Rusty’s song of the day?
You gotta be shitting me, boys. And we are now climbing the Spotify charts. We just passed Conan. We're top 50 in, like, top podcasts in the country. Yeah, fuck you, Conan. We're right below, who's, like, the right wing? Uh, Megyn Kelly. Right below Megyn Kelly.
That's a sweet spot, boys.
Sandwich between Kill Tony and Megyn Kelly. Yeah, so this is, uh, we've been posting about it, and I think people are like, wait, what the hell? And I think it's gonna be fleeting. We will be off the charts in, like, three days.
It's literally, like, I think it's, like, literally, like, hour-to-hour, like, stock market shit. Because, like, we've never been on it once. Yeah, people start selling. But, like, we were, like, 80th yesterday. Now we're 50th. At this rate, we're coming for Rogan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know who dethroned Rogan? Who? Poehler. Amy Poehler? It's like brand new, right? Yeah. But that's the thing about new pods. I've learned this. You do very, very well the first week. Yep. And then you lose it all. Is that also, that's like Spotify too, like pushing or just like people being excited?
I don't know what it was, but I was like, yo, I thought I really thought I was like, you know what? Yeah. I think I got something here. And then it was gone. Yeah. That's going to happen to us next week. Who's your dream contact? Dream contact? Someone you want to be, you want on the phone.
want a direct line to something like uh like a direct line where you know you can give a complaint and they hear you out oh oh you know like when when they switch like uh presidencies like they take over like the potus and and like oh yeah whatever like i want the i want the second lady's phone number so every time there's a new vice president i have someone who is gonna i can actually text
Because the president's not going to respond. J.D. Vance isn't going to respond. Mrs. Vance? Or second man. Or second man. Is Mrs. Vance? What's she looking like? Indian woman. Oh, really? Yeah. Shocking. That blows my mind. Okay. Jesus Christ. What, man? Let's get down to brass tacks. Yeah. Usha Vance.
is something i did not expect yeah i mean hey i just want to say the more you know don't judge a book by its cover who's your most celebrity contact I used to play in the same basketball group chat as Lil Dicky. He lived around here. Noah Khan for you. I used to golf. No shit. We did one time. It sounds cooler if it was like we used to golf.
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