Dinner at Your Place?

Different episode this week than the usual.

I've talked a lot about comedian Jaylene Tran's show "It's a Date!" on this podcast. Jaylene has been a past guest as well. September 18th we did a live show and being honest this was probably one of the best It's a Date shows we've ever done. Check it out for what the show is all about and come see one soon! You will have a very time at this show.

Quick summary: 4 local singles take the stage and are hit with questions to get to know them better. At the midway point, the crowd votes for who should go on a date the second half of the show. There's a pink colored paddle that audience members can put up if they see someone attractive on a date that says "hey I think we'd be a better match than the person you're currently with. What do you say?"

(Final note: Alfred and Bridgett, because of this night from 9/18, are currently in an actual relationship because they meshed so well on the show)

Crew workers:

Host: Jaylene Tran (@jaylene.tran)

Crowd Controllers: Danny Killea / Owen Skye Nelson (@owenskyenelson) / Jason Bazille

Recorded by: Cameron Kinch (@cam.kinch)

(September 18th was also my birthday so it made the show a little extra fun for me)

First half about playing Draco in an adapted One Act of the famous Harry Potter "My Immortal" Fan Fiction when I was at Saint Michael's College.

Second half is a dramatic reading of chapter 1 to my friend Tara's Harry Potter Fan Fiction she wrote when she was ~12 years old.

dannykillea.com for the mailing list. would be really cool if you signed up.

Comedian Sophie Berge comes by and asks for General Tso's chicken for a night of homemade takeout.

The two start with an easy topic (Israel, Palestine, and Sophie's identity as a Jewish person) and it only get easier throughout the episode (talking about moms and cats at various stages in having cancer)

This actually isn't that sad of an episode. A lot of it talks about looking for the beauty in it all despite how hard this life can be. Sophie also finds us our very first sponsor; now we just need the product to be made.

Support Sophie:

Instagram/TikTok: @sarcasm.generator

If you want to support Black Cat Rescue or are even thinking about adopting a friend of your own, check out blackcatrescue.com

dannykillea.com to sign up for the show mailing list. This is (hopefully) how I'm gonna figure out what cities to go to in the future.

The annual birthday episode and a hypothetical for why I was in the hospital so much lately. Strictly hypothetical though. Definitely not what's actually going on over the last ~2 months.

Thank you for helping me make it to 32. I am beyond grateful for the humans that detail my existence: the close, the combative, and the completely neutral. You make the layers of a life that is finally being appreciated.

(Also I finally got around to that whole website thing: dannykillea.com has a mailing list for future shows. It would be really cool if you signed up and I could come to where you are for a show. I want to see all this crazy world has to offer.

And to the website designer: S'mores pop-tarts and yellow Gatorade on me for payment. Thanks for the push)

Comedian AND NOW WRESTLER Caroline Moore returns to eat some pasta salad and talk getting in the ring. How does one find wrestling? Where did this desire start? And of course, she tells us about her wrestling character.

Also Danny learns he and the dog breed whippets have a lot in common.

Support Caroline:

Instagram: @coolroline

Caroline will be making her ring debut June 28th in Somerville, MA, at the Arts at the Armory building. Tickets can be found here!

My sister encouraged me to put some thoughts I expressed to her in a more public format.

Meg: Thanks for taking me to the Christmas Knicks games when things were bad. Hopefully this does some justice for how much it means to me, but sometimes there are no words.

(Also Melrose Bickerstaff is the lady from America's Next Top Model if you didn't know. Melrose if you see this I still love you)

Two days in a row I had situations I felt like I should have said something but didn't and that's not a great feeling. The snow leopard shows up to help make sense of it all (and tell us about what New York City is like during this Knicks finals run. Spoiler: the city is big and people still have to go to work)

Thanks for hanging out.

Comedian Colin Armstrong comes by and asks Danny to make Sunday Gravy. Colin tells us about growing up in New Jersey with an army of brothers and cousins around. Across the street was Nonna and Johnny Boy where every week a get together happened and Johnny Boy would make the sauce. Colin talks about (what he remembers) as a good childhood, even the stories when he tells them some people respond with, "hey; don't you think that's trauma?"

We also hear about Colin's tour, how it's going, and since Colin loves New Jersey so much we quiz him on the names of New Jersey Turnpike rest stops named after famous people from New Jersey. He does surprisingly well.

Support Colin:

You can follow Colin on all social media @colinarmstrongg (two g's) and find tour dates at Colin's website colinarmstrongcomedy.com

Barking dogs and Heelys make up the first bit of the episode. Holding yourself back (in various ways) makes up the second half of the episode.

Thanks for hangin out.

A culinary science experiment episode. I thought a corned beef hash brown would be a genius creation. It still is, but it didn't go exactly as planned.

Thanks for hangin out.