Guys, this is me, Matt Braunger, finally not pretending someone else is writing this. I’m doing it because this episode was mind-blowingly good. Janet Varney, who co-runs SF Sketchfest with Cole Stratton, asked me to do a live DDMB at the Fest. I said, “Well, it’s only 30 minutes,” and she said, “Wanna do longer?” The only way I could see doing it is to bring on guests. Or, in the case of my podcast, other hitchhikers.

So here is me, live at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco, bringing along three of my favorite comics and friends. Jonah Ray (probably my first real friend in Los Angeles), Solomon Giorgio (a prince who helped me develop my favorite episode of White Flight), and Beth Stelling (who is a wondrous angel who did a very brave thing recently). We talk first jokes onstage, an amazing cafe Jonah goes to every time he’s in SF (It gave us the episode title), Solomon’s father’s love of the movie Footloose, and even get into surviving victimhood. Cannot tell you how much I loved this and how good it came out. You just have to listen. Love, Matt

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