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00:00and we are joined live in studio by one of my favorite comedians Tookie Cavanaugh joins us here
00:04hello Tookie how are you hi I'm great how are you I'm great it's great to have you back we
00:08had you
00:09two years ago I was a while ago right time is fake it's fine it really is I agree with
00:14you 100%
00:14we're in a new studio which I saw you looking around they're pretty nice huh beautiful here
00:19yeah real cushy space it's too nice for us I don't know why they thought this was a good place
00:23to put
00:23us but uh well what's what's new with you since we last spoke I know you've been uh you've been
00:27on stage live and doing a lot of things yeah I've been uh been been up to some stuff uh
00:32working
00:32with some big names and some people uh what is it yeah a couple months ago uh opened for Dave
00:38Attell
00:39at the Wilbur that was love Dave Attell did you watch uh that show did you watch the show
00:42Insomnia Insomnia I felt it lulled me to sleep as a child I loved Insomnia and now that's my like
00:48I
00:48work at night you know so yeah it's sort of my whole thing it's from that and I I you
00:53learn so
00:53much from a guy like that was one of the funniest shows yeah it was so great it was what
00:57was he like
00:57in real life he is so kind yeah he is but I mean like he's just really supportive of like
01:02working
01:02comics and stuff like he is he's just a real good dude and he cares about the craft like you
01:07can tell
01:07you know you can really tell that was my second time working with him and it was just as good
01:11as
01:11the first like he's awesome dude and then um actually a couple weeks ago I uh schlepped up to
01:17Vermont uh to go work with Roy Wood Jr. at the uh another favorite of mine yeah oh my god
01:23meet your
01:23heroes it's okay it is yeah you sure I mean for the most part all right yeah he's listen he
01:30interacted with a tweet of mine once yeah and it made my whole year yeah it was something about an
01:35old video game time I remember what it was it was about the Phoenix Suns jerseys and how they looked
01:39like an old video game he's like yeah they do and I was like oh my god Roy Wood and
01:42when he did the
01:42correspondence dinner oh was he great oh yeah one of the best there's ever been I think at doing that
01:47no he's on my Mount Rushmore of comics I was trying so hard not to be a dork in the
01:51green room I was
01:52like be cool be cool it's fine he does like political stuff he has like a political show now
01:58doesn't he yeah he's on CNN now yeah um you know we I I will at least speak for myself
02:04where a lot of
02:05people um were hoping that he would take the helm after uh Trevor Noah I thought that would
02:12yeah made sense I thought him and Klepper should have hosted together for sure for sure but you know
02:16what um sometimes sometimes these things are like hidden blessings because it frees him up to go
02:22like you know he's doing this tour now called stranger so that's what I was um part of and he's
02:27free to like do this show of like in the format that he wants to do on CNN yeah yeah
02:33I think it all
02:33works out can't complain with that no obviously uh so you've been working with some big names obviously
02:38and uh you have been active I mean listen you've been I see your clips I see you're you're out
02:43there
02:43I'm outside I I am a house cat but I somehow I am outside they've got me working I've been
02:50I've
02:50been doing you know um stand up on stage a little bit of voice acting just a little everything it's
02:55been it's been a wild ride how do you like voice acting it you know what it's far more acting
03:02and
03:02physical than people imagine you're not just sitting there reading lines what do you do what are you
03:08um so so far it's just like audio only type radio plays so um the the first job I've had
03:14I'm working
03:15with these uh lovely folks at the penumbra podcast apparently they're like a huge deal in town here
03:20okay and I voiced an AI who ruins people's lives really oh it's great that's I'm into that yeah all
03:26right I'm already a menace uh it's called thirst okay yeah so look out for that what was that
03:31Scarlett Johansson movie where she was the AI assistant her her yeah right like evil her pretty much
03:37cool yeah I like it it was great AI is ruining everyone's life oh it is no but like I'm
03:42nice
03:43about it I just want you to know too by the way uh Joe Braverman our producer back there hi
03:48Joe
03:48he put that uh billboard picture together that was not AI that was Joe Braver that was human hair
03:54Photoshop baby I said I said we are not doing AI promos where did Joe you got to do I
03:59gave him more
03:59work to do amazing without any more pay for it but uh they came out great uh look good on
04:04the
04:04billboard I thought it's uh it's going very very well so Joe bravo to you sir thank you Joe thank
04:09you of course we got to make our guests look the best absolutely uh I've noticed that there are now
04:14AI comedians ripping off people's uh bits what do you think about that oh it makes me sad it makes
04:19me so sad I'm just like damn and of course they're getting thousands of views I don't put my clips
04:25up
04:25because I'm not shaped like some of these AI models they're putting up numbers you also are it was just
04:32Halloween yeah and that seems like your wheelhouse I see you in all sorts of costumes I yeah I mean
04:38it's a year-round thing for me not just Halloween no because I'm deranged so so you might catch if
04:44I'm
04:44headlining something you might catch me in some sort of insane attire can you give the people an
04:49example of what you might be dressed as oh yeah you kind of have to see it but just give
04:53them a give
04:53them a taste yeah yeah yeah let's see a couple let me run through a couple that I've done this
04:57year I did March Simpson uh sick uh sexy stripper Patrick uh from Spongebob what else uh Oscar the
05:05Grouch at one point okay very conceptual um just also I dressed up as cheese uh but like it was
05:13subtle
05:13you know it's like cheese but make it fashion yeah yeah sure so all sorts of things happening all
05:18right and this isn't like it's not like wearing the rainbow suspenders Robin Williams back in the
05:23this is you you know yeah yeah yeah it's a tax write-off too absolutely sure of course now uh
05:29what's uh what are some of your impressions of the local scene in the last two years how are things
05:34changing are they getting better getting worse so I would say things are actually getting real good
05:39that's great yeah because I you know there are a lot of people who um we're a little pessimistic
05:44about you know post-covid what's the scene gonna look like what's the landscape the landscape
05:48definitely changed but it has given way to so many like indie club ventures and so many indie
05:56shows have popped up that are so good so so good um that like yeah we're all the better for
06:02it and
06:03you know yes it's important to gatekeep because I've I've listened to SoundCloud before gatekeeping
06:10gatekeeping is important but because now a lot of people are taking things into their own hands and
06:15putting up independent ventures like we're seeing a lot more voices that we would not have heard or
06:19not have heard sooner get opportunities to perform and I think that's a wonderful thing I agree with
06:25you I think so too and the first time I saw you was at a art yeah yeah gallery right
06:29yeah and post and
06:31some other people but yeah it was it seems like that was a big deal and then it kind of
06:36quieted down
06:36for a while and now now it's back it sounds like absolutely yeah yeah yeah that's very good to hear
06:41and uh how are people reacting to you how is your comedy evolving oh people you know uh I'm known
06:47to
06:47scare a few things you like to make people uncomfortable a little bit yeah yeah I'm nuts
06:52a good comedian should yeah right it shouldn't all just be ha ha all the time you should be you
06:56should
06:56feel like oh god I'm in my seat here right we had renee vacca on you know yeah and that's
07:01what he does
07:01I mean you know you go to his show you're gonna be something's gonna happen to you you're gonna feel
07:06different about yourself by the end of it well I don't know about happening to the audience that's
07:10that's something different but like no I'm a little nuts in that I I you know some people love
07:14the big arenas I love an intimate venue where I can make direct eye contact with the front row and
07:19be like hey hey we're relating here uh you're big into crowd work then no no no you just like
07:25to I
07:25will talk to people I see I will talk to people but it's not like hey what do you do
07:29for work no no
07:30no screw that do you think that that's cheap I mean is that you know do you look down at
07:33that it is
07:34its own craft in a sense if you are like good enough at it and if you can branch out
07:39you know
07:40beyond the hey are you two a couple you know because then lazy crowd work I no I don't really
07:47respect that it's about like actually engaging actually creating that moment with the audience
07:52what about with like a heckler oh with a heckler no no see my thing is I strike the fear
07:56of god
07:56in anybody who tries to heckle me all right they will regret it yeah yeah okay well that's good to
08:02know yeah it's a good thing for people to know going to see you where can they see you oh
08:06my next
08:07couple shows will be this friday and saturday I am uh featuring at elephant and castle right
08:12downtown oh yeah wow yeah yeah yeah friday and saturday at 8 p.m elephant castle it's a really
08:17good show intimate room as well okay but like such a good time love the folks who run it and
08:21then uh
08:22week after that I'll be up in salem oh yeah yeah all right now that everyone's gone
08:26i know i know so much so much freer well at least you want to have to sit in traffic
08:30for three hours
08:31just to get up there uh what's going on in salem uh the show is called she they he he
08:36he's
08:41say that five times fast i dare you it's such a good name it's such a good name that's very
08:46salem
08:47it's so salem that's excellent all right cool and when's that i'm sorry when's that one i believe
08:52that is next friday next friday all right terrific uh can you stick around a little bit i have some
08:56sports questions for you definitely all right we had a big basketball game i don't know if you've
08:59been following diana russini and uh her situation her show just launched the again today mike
09:04rabel's friend there oh so we have uh much to discuss we'll get to that next the tooky
09:08kavanaugh is here don't go anywhere it's the christian arcane show
09:14back here christian arcane show weei nice to have you with us here live in our brighton studios
09:19tooky kavanaugh is here hello and uh we got a reacquainted here in the uh in the first segment
09:25heard about what's going on around town hear what's going on with you yep uh this is a sports
09:30station you know this is a pretty big sports day today oh yeah oh my goodness we're coming off an
09:34incredible game from the celtics yesterday it really was i mean the theater of it was
09:38tremendous we there's people there's a subset of celtics fans and i don't get what their problem is
09:43but they're very anti this story they're very anti the drama that comes with it and i don't i mean
09:47i'm a radio host so obviously i love it but i don't know how you can like sports and not
09:52get
09:52wrapped up in that type of thing you know i just don't get it i get real deep into some
09:56people's
09:56personal lives that i have no business knowing about so what do you think uh let's start from
10:02the beginning yes uh the jalen brown trade how'd that news hit you heartbreaking mine too i i was on
10:08the air for it i could not believe it i was devastated yeah no it sucked i did not care
10:12for that at all
10:13i thought i mean he was such an asset to not even to not even the team but the city
10:18as a whole
10:19why do you say that oh i mean just for everything that he did community-wise yeah you know like
10:23he
10:23really made an impact like his you know energy shifter i think that's his handle i'm like yeah
10:27living up to that yeah definitely and he last year was an mvp candidate so it's not like he didn't
10:34back
10:34up his words uh the money i mean it was the money is a huge mega contract and they felt
10:39better moving
10:40on from it for another guy and paul george is making the same money but the contract's a little
10:44shorter i could not believe paul george's performance yesterday too we were we we were
10:48so hard on him talking about he's paul george is 156 years old putting up 40 points
10:54it's true i i mean listen i hated the trade yeah i couldn't but it and i hated it because
10:58i couldn't
10:59believe that's all you could get for him right right you get janice and to the kumpo for him
11:03then we're not having the same conversation well okay sorry jay you know we love you buddy but
11:08janice is here now so that's okay paul george you know like and i was a big paul george fan
11:15in his
11:15in his day right looking like his day is today it is apparently apparently like i mean damn like
11:22you know making lebron look washed yeah i mean lebron did tatum dunked all over lebron that's for
11:27sure good and uh jalen had a bad game got in foul trouble early on what'd you think of the
11:32uh little
11:32icy pre-tip thing there i you know jalen of all people should know to let it go holding on
11:42to
11:42grudges is no good it's poison to your own soul even as a competitor you don't think there's
11:47something to competitive you know competitive edge is one thing but like they were they i mean like
11:52i know tatum and jalen you're like let it go that's the hardest part of it it's the hardest great
11:58pr team it's true he does and that's the hardest part of it i think is that we really you
12:02grow
12:02attached to players that you see grow up from their rookie year 19 year olds the the success that they
12:07had and everybody celtics fans all really projected a lot of things onto them that's the other thing is
12:12they projected a friendship and a relationship that never really existed yeah i guess not i know it is
12:17fair but it's it's it's like you know it's like watching a series finale to keenan and kelly just
12:23sad about it yeah i don't want to see these two dudes broken up like this i know uh brown
12:28had a
12:28bad game george had a great game yep tatum was fine he had a good first quarter he needs to
12:33do and then
12:33yeah kind of it kind of petered out after that right i like that brown was kind of real about
12:38it i know he
12:38didn't acknowledge that but i like that he was saying no you know get out of my fate i don't
12:42i don't
12:43mess with you like this isn't we're not friends right don't act like we're friends like i appreciated that
12:48i grew up watching basketball where players openly hated each other and would swing on each
12:52other in the middle of games animosity was right yeah and it was great i loved that it was my
12:57one of my favorite parts of watching the game yeah knowing that they didn't like each other no it was
13:01it was beautiful watching charles barkley smack people up and down the court back in the day yes
13:06i lived for that as a child you've lost that now i think to some extent with the aau teams
13:10and
13:10everybody all playing together our whole lives uh it's different now certainly but you got some real
13:16animosity there well you know it's also different because we're not only playing more small ball but
13:20everybody's just hitting threes we're not really going in the paint to watch the action yeah like
13:24it used to be my monday nights were sometimes a basketball game and some wwe i used to watch men
13:30beat the crap out of each other on a weekly basis and it's just not the same these days i
13:34wouldn't
13:34have tagged you for a wrestling fan oh i love me some wrestling really oh yes still now you're still
13:38an
13:38active uh viewer you know i dabble i dip and dabble i dip and dabble my all-time favorite wrestler
13:43rikishi fatu long-lived rikishi hell yeah who used to have the big fat ass oh i remember rikishi
13:48oh yeah and that was his moves he'd rub his ass on people yes correct i lived for that i
13:54hadn't
13:54thought of him in a while i know that's probably around when i stopped watching wrestling i was in
13:58like that like the dx and uh stone cold and all that it's probably like the end of it and
14:02that was
14:02a good time it was a great time yeah yeah the attitude era was peak i asked i asked the
14:06friend i was
14:07like who's the champ right now they go is this guy seth i was like seth the champion's name seth
14:12pretty much it's pretty lame yeah all right so monday night for you is uh wwe and uh and some
14:18nba yeah and now that the celtics don't have jalen brown anymore now that they're this new team do you
14:23find them as compelling as you did i'm i'm waiting for the season to play out i am going to
14:29continue
14:29giving this team a chance you know it um i'm i'm i'm keeping my heart open it's the best you
14:39can do
14:39it's all we can ask yeah i don't know if you saw this but diana rossini the nfl reporter launched
14:44her
14:44new show today on a good for her offshore gambling website which i thought was a choice it was certainly
14:51a choice yes and there was a lot of technical problems she didn't really address the big elephant
14:55in the room and it doesn't seem like she's going to no what what advice would you have for diana
14:59rossini you know see here's one of the things where i'm like i can't i have a policy of stay
15:04out of
15:04white people's business but but but in this case my biggest piece of advice just don't dip your pen in
15:11the company ink you know keep keep keep work and play separate as much as you can i think we're
15:17past
15:17that at this point i know i know but you know what is it too soon for her to mount
15:21a comeback like
15:22this poor choice of words is it too soon for her to try and come back to the industry is
15:27that is it
15:28too soon uh you know it it's not that it's too soon it's just that she's got to be a
15:33little bit
15:33more strategic about it endear herself to the people more you know yeah she's got a you know
15:38rebrand in a lot of ways or lean into it that's sort of what i thought was going to happen
15:42i thought
15:43she'd go to barstool and have like an eskimo brother show or something like that you know i don't
15:46know about all that that's what i thought that's i i thought well because who's going to take her
15:50real serious as a nfl insider anymore you know like and that's the thing like she is a competent
15:55journalist yeah that's it but that's going to be that's going to be an uphill battle yeah and the
16:00first time she didn't mention the patriots at all one of the guests she had on talked about one of
16:03the memes that tiny desk thing with rayburn for playing the saxophone which was very very funny
16:08uh but no one else really brought up the the scandal obviously but no one else even brought up the
16:13patriots the team and if you're going to be an nfl insider you got to talk about all the teams
16:17yeah so how are you supposed to you get you start reporting on the pay well where'd you hear that
16:21one day you guys talking again like what you know you know i mean i think just acknowledging it and
16:27leaning into it will help her it'll do more more good than harm do you think she's getting a raw
16:33deal
16:33do you think that she got a raw deal in all this i mean that's between her okay wait um
16:40i told you
16:41to stay out of white people's business i'm sorry i meant in terms of her losing her job she resigned
16:47but i mean you know nothing really happened to him yeah and she has to start over on an offshore
16:52gambling account you know and that's the tragic fate for a lot of women i think it's so unfair that
16:56a
16:57lot of women just get like the short end of the stick in so many ways like when you know
17:00he came
17:01out of this relatively unscathed yeah kind of gross team kind of sucks this year though i mean there's
17:06that at least even following the patriots you a big patriots fan nope no not at all all right i
17:10mean
17:10yes i'm sorry listeners yes that's okay you don't have to be but but you know i mean like
17:15you know like when when when the face of the team goes and gets weird plastic surgery and
17:21contributes useless commentary it's just i'm like i gotta tap out yeah brady with the surgery is
17:27i mean tap out it's to a point where even though i'll never stop loving tom brady you know what
17:33i mean
17:33like you never you never can but of course i watch uh wheel of fortune yeah with uh seacrest now
17:38it's seacrest level sick brag bro thank you very much but it's seacrest levels of work that's that's
17:44you're talking about uncanny and i'm uncomfortable with the many faces of tom later uh how about
17:50gronkowski we were a gronk fan in his day because he just got enshrined into the patriots hall of
17:54fame this past weekend i just want i want better for gronk what do you mean camille is a shot
18:01of
18:01camille no oh it's a shot at whatever formula they were feeding him as a baby
18:09he's had a pretty good life he's made a lot of money yeah but like i don't know he just
18:14has such
18:14hodor energy i've been watching game of hodor energy that's true yeah yeah right poor hodor
18:22poor hodor man no one knew what he was talking about i'm only on season i'm i'm i'm watching you
18:26know why he's called hodor yet no okay all right i won't tell you i won't tell you but it
18:30does it
18:30is revealed later on in the show i'm glad you said something because i'm bad of spoilers it's okay
18:35yeah but also the show's been off the air a while now i know but i'm just now watching it's
18:39a whole
18:40thing i've just started watching it i've got i'd tylenol lannister and his family what other shows
18:46are you into oh all of them um well actually i really got into uh the latest iteration of the
18:52avatar last airbender series okay seven havens that's streaming now but because i i grew up on
18:57avatar last airbender and i you know i never understood the hate for cora legend of cora
19:02was a solid show okay yeah i don't know either though okay that's fine but i'm gonna take your
19:05word for both of them okay yeah they're both good airbag is that a cartoon it is okay but it's
19:10real
19:10good it's like anime ish anime ish okay anime ish the only anime ish stuff i ever watched dragon
19:16ball z i used to love dragon ball oh yeah we love you know we all is that like lame
19:19is that like
19:20no no no no no no we love listen the black representation with piccolo on dragon ball z
19:25piccolo's green he's black i didn't know that he's black yeah all right i guess i i can see that
19:32yeah for that like universe yes right yeah correct because there weren't actually any black people no
19:37show right we don't talk about mr popo uh we oh yeah right mr popo was kind of problematic right
19:43yeah problematic yeah all hail the church of goku though we forgot about him at the church of goku
19:48very good all right uh before we let you go here um the last time that we talked to you
19:54it seemed
19:54like uh locally anyway yeah uh comedy was uh you had some critiques about it you had some sort of
20:01problems with the scene and some things that were going on you still have those problems or have you
20:04if things gotten better and as far as that's concerned i genuinely think things have gotten
20:08much better that's great yeah i think that you know there is um a lot less division in the scene
20:14people just want to see each other win good and again like a lot of independent venue venues ventures
20:19have started cropping up and it's just made it all the better cool yeah that's good because you know
20:24like anything else radio anything can be pretty catty you know people sort of looking to undercut
20:29other people it doesn't sound like that's as big of a thing now no no people you know people have
20:33chilled out that's great well thank you so much for coming it was great to see you great to have
20:38you on
20:38and uh let's talk again soon all right absolutely all right very good tooky kavanaugh everybody uh
20:42you can check her out give her uh give her the socials oh yeah at tooky monster on all socials
20:48t-o-o-k-y monster like the monster on all the socials and where can people see you again
20:52uh yes
20:53this friday and saturday november uh 13th and 14th at elephant castle 8 p.m and then sailor mass next
20:59friday for she they he he he's scaring the white people very good all right tooky thanks so much
21:03great to have you uh you didn't scare me by the way but uh we go back expect that uh
21:08this friday
21:09and next friday here in in salem uh again great stuff and uh good luck to you all right thank
21:13you
21:14very good tooky kavanaugh joining us here on the christian arcane show we're going to take a quick
21:17break