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The WILL Show is a live comedy and talk show that starts with an inspirational spark and pushes the conversation through a hilarious performance gauntlet. Hosted by veteran Red Curb improvisers Will, Ana, and Sam!
It's time for The Will Show. The Will Show. We'll disrupt your life and then we'll go. It's dumb and fun. We'll laugh and grow, but maybe not because we don't know.
Speaker 1:So start already. It's getting slow. Welcome to the Will Show.
Speaker 2:Hey. What's up? It is The Will Show episode one. Alright. And hey, listen.
Speaker 2:If you don't know me, I'm Will. I've been doing morning radio for years and years, forever, and I've been doing improv comedy for longer than that. And I was like, I wanna create a show that brings those two worlds together in a super weird way. And everybody was laughing at my intro video. And the co hosts tonight who will be here for every episode are Ana.
Speaker 1:Hey. And Sam.
Speaker 3:Hello. Right
Speaker 2:there. You guys have comments on my on my opener?
Speaker 4:Okay. That was the first time we ever saw it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I know.
Speaker 4:And I I have a question of what you put into the AI to get the the cartoon version of yourself.
Speaker 2:I put my face in there, and then and I was then I was like, And oh, it's a then, like, it just needs to be like chaos.
Speaker 4:Okay. But it looks like you prompted to also be like, and make sure I look like I'm just turning 19.
Speaker 2:Really?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, well, did you not see the gray in the in the guy? Yeah. There was gray in both of them. They just look so... It's a ring.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's Mister Fantastic.
Speaker 2:Oh, by the way, this is our guest, Chris Dobbs. He is our fourth. We... Every every single episode, we'll have a fourth chair. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You were supposed to be a surprise later, but... But can't, you can't hold back your... But if
Speaker 5:you bring back Claymation version of you where I sat there and went, what is this? Is this him? Yeah. Oh, I guess it's It
Speaker 2:was me. It was me as
Speaker 5:Play You didn't think about a second prompt?
Speaker 2:What? No. Just wanted the first one.
Speaker 5:Maybe make ask Make me Play Doh. Make it look more like me? No. Want... I
Speaker 2:like the way it came out. Oh.
Speaker 5:I've got... It looks great. It just... Do you remember?
Speaker 2:That's that's that's quite a backpedal. I took a strong stance and you were like, I mean, I don't think it looks exactly like me, but I liked it. I I think it's I
Speaker 5:think it looks like it just doesn't look like you.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It looks like if you were on celebrity death match, remember that show from MTV?
Speaker 1:Did she? Also, did it
Speaker 3:say Will Crow? Was that one of the lyrics?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. It says Will Crow. No. It doesn't say Will Crow.
Speaker 2:It says Will Show.
Speaker 4:Every time?
Speaker 2:Every time.
Speaker 4:Did you check it?
Speaker 2:I think... No.
Speaker 3:It says the word crow in there. Yeah. Replay it.
Speaker 2:As a verb. Let's replay
Speaker 1:life and then we'll go. It's dumb and fun, we'll laugh and grow, but maybe not because we don't know. So start already, it's getting slow. Welcome to the Will Show.
Speaker 4:Okay. The I did see the grays this time.
Speaker 3:I saw the grays Will too. And I think it's we'll laugh and grow, but it's really... It was a Yeah. Crow.
Speaker 4:We'll laugh and crow. Okay.
Speaker 2:No. It's laugh and grow.
Speaker 4:That we got it now.
Speaker 2:There's no guarantee that we will get any better because of this show, but I like the thought that maybe we would.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I was gonna ask, is that one of your goals? Is that we we we grow together?
Speaker 2:Yeah. I
Speaker 3:hope so.
Speaker 2:So this is Sam and Ana over there. And every week we will have a fourth chair, a guest, a rotating guest every week on The Will Show. This week it is my lifelong creative collaborator, but also my best friend forever. And doctor of music technology and sound and a credible father and all the things runner now and sporting the Deutsch German jacket. The the German 94 jack.
Speaker 4:But I love how you're framed next to doctor evil as if it's intended to be the two of you in the shop.
Speaker 3:Two doctors.
Speaker 5:Doctors. No doctors. Well, we were both doctors. Just two bald doctors. And everything's...
Speaker 2:Is there a doctor in their house? No. There's two. One of evil, one of music technology. Yeah.
Speaker 2:We cannot save anyone.
Speaker 4:What would be the other side? You know, like, if you're the good version of, you know, a doctor of music technology, the evil side would then be...
Speaker 5:I think it's whoever made Will's video at the start
Speaker 4:of
Speaker 1:Oh, this yeah.
Speaker 5:Pro shoot. This is this is the hot button topic in all of music is that we go like, oh, we're so scared that we're gonna lose our jobs. And I'm like, Will wasn't gonna hire anyone to make that. He did pay... He let chat GPT make it.
Speaker 5:And frankly, I think we're better for it. I if we'd employed anyone to actually make that claymation, we would have to fire them.
Speaker 2:Oh. Oh, wow. That's a... Quite an indictment, Theo. I love
Speaker 5:it. I just love that it's not you.
Speaker 4:Well, it's really...
Speaker 2:It's a clay. What... It's not me. It's a claymation cartoon. That is not me.
Speaker 2:They did... I did not get shrunken into Play-Doh form. That is not me.
Speaker 3:Of course, it's clay was used though. No Play-Doh was used. Those are all bits. Those are ones and zeros. I
Speaker 2:know. I know.
Speaker 4:Well, it's just that we know from five minutes ago that you have a very good friend that is apparently very musical, and you couldn't have asked your friend to do that and hire your friend. You instead just doopity doop doop.
Speaker 2:I would love to pull Chris away from his doctorate and his his two children and his running lifestyle and be like, hey, can you focus on this narcissistic project that I have just for me? What's it did for you? Not much. Other than you could come insult me insult me for an hour.
Speaker 5:Other than quality time with my best friend. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's right. Oh, that's a great segue. Here we go. So, apparently, there is an epidemic of adults weirdly not being able to make new adult friends. That basically the friends that you have when you come out of childhood are kinda like the friends that you have.
Speaker 2:Case in point, me and Chris Dobbs, my best friend forever, who has been here... Who's here tonight to to be my friend, but also my creative partner. But a lot of stories have come out recently about how this is actually a real problem in 2026. The Atlantic reported that forty two percent of Americans in 1975 had people over for dinner at least once a month. And now, this year, only 12% say that they have friends over for dinner.
Speaker 2:And there are a number of new services like dating apps or other algorithms that try to connect people digitally. So that they will assign new people to go have dinner with based on your like minded algorithmic interests. Or you can connect or create a profile, and then go out. And in fact, in our city, where we're from, we're out of Indianapolis, they're having friends speed dating tomorrow night in this town, and have had an organization that brings people together so that they have an obligation to come see the same people over and over and over again at events, that they can try to make friends. This is how terrible adults have become at trying to make new friends Oh.
Speaker 2:In their life.
Speaker 4:The obligatory part sounded a little intense.
Speaker 2:Yeah. No. It... It sounds like
Speaker 4:a family reunion every week that you have to go to, or like a court... Like a like a a work cocktail hour or something where it's like...
Speaker 2:So it's like you would pay a dude to get into a club. Right? Mhmm. Or you would go like, I wanna be in this friendship club, and then you go into this organization and they have events, and then it's like show up. It's like Boy Scouts.
Speaker 4:Yeah. You said obligatory.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It is sort of like if you wanna make a friend, you have to go to the event. Mhmm. And that's how people have to do it now.
Speaker 4:Okay. But how did you two meet?
Speaker 2:Great question.
Speaker 5:We were at church. Okay. And we were four or five. Mhmm. And we were in the same Sunday school where Will would regularly ditch out to worship the devil in the basement.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It was good.
Speaker 4:Will, was that your account?
Speaker 2:Yeah. I... Well, I didn't I didn't even know. I wasn't even aware enough to know what was happening in church. I was just like, this this is a way more boring for fake school.
Speaker 3:That that claymation face was not bred of the mind of a man that went to church.
Speaker 2:Yeah. From CNN, and they were talking about how to make friends as grown up according to science, and they said, now, don't be shocked that one of the main ingredients is spending time together and putting it into effort.
Speaker 5:I'm sorry. I have no more time and no more effort available.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. How could I have possibly asked you to claymate me I couldn't have. Or write a song? You have no more time or effort.
Speaker 4:You just outed yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Well, that's the thing that everybody says they don't have time anymore, that they're so pressured and stressed. Ana, do you have any pressure or stress that keeps you from seeing your good friends?
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, I work full time and I...
Speaker 2:Look, I got... I gotta clarify that Sam and Ana are married. And when I asked that question, Sam's face looked very scared.
Speaker 3:I was like, where is this going? Said, it sounded like Will has asked you to hang out, Ana, and you've said no. You pulled a Chris on him, and and he's just...
Speaker 4:He's trying to get the answer he needs.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Because what do we gotta read?
Speaker 4:I don't know. Do you have no time for Friends, Ana? Is that what you're saying? I will say, in the phase of life I'm in, we have a six year old. But my point is that being a parent of a young kid, like, you kind of have to do that with you and your kid.
Speaker 4:And so finding new friends, that's essentially the only way... The only opportunity you're gonna have to really find new friends is the parents of the the friends of your kids. And so trying to find the match of the two is, like, very very difficult, because not everyone parents the same.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 4:And some parents suck, and some of their kids suck.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. If you if you if you procreated around 2019, 2020, then you're a candidate for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's me. And I noticed you haven't been around. You
Speaker 4:know, speaking of, we just learned right before we started filming that there is a birthday party happening this weekend and for a lovely girl turning seven named Maren.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. That's my daughter. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we were
Speaker 4:not we were not invited.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5:Okay. Okay.
Speaker 4:And we have a six year old.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I know. Would you would you come? We procreated around the same time, Will. All of us.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't. You know, my kids are adopted. Somebody else did that on my behalf. But thank you.
Speaker 4:Wow. We're such great friends.
Speaker 3:We are really great friends and we know each other's stories
Speaker 1:so well.
Speaker 2:Look at that. So so here's the thing. Sam and Ana are legitimately new adult friends
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To me. I think. Mean, we'll probably dissect that a little further.
Speaker 3:Clay on my face.
Speaker 5:Tell you that.
Speaker 2:Did you not know my children were...
Speaker 3:I did know that. You forgot? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I only wish I could procreate, Sam. I only... Tell me how you do it. How how'd
Speaker 3:you get it done?
Speaker 5:Quality time. You have to spend time with them. Have to
Speaker 2:work hard and effort. Yeah.
Speaker 4:To be fair, the first time I I ever met Sam's mom, we were talking about her dad being someone that Sam was very much like. And she she she said, yeah, they're very much the same. They're both very laid back and forgetful. And then Sam, several times since then, has recounted that and said, yeah, you know, we're both very laid back and what was the other
Speaker 2:thing
Speaker 4:that
Speaker 2:we made? So... And it wasn't a bit?
Speaker 4:No. Genuinely not a bit. Genuinely,
Speaker 2:it Yes. So...
Speaker 4:So that's just Sam.
Speaker 2:But we we became friends because we do improv together. Like, the the three of us at, my company, Red Curb Comedy. You guys did long form in Orlando forever. Mhmm. And, we happened to just exist when you guys came back to Indiana.
Speaker 4:I will say doing improv is a way... Is like a fast track to Friends, though. Because I I see it. I I teach Improv too. And I I see those friendships forming that are very unique for adults to do that.
Speaker 4:Because it... There is a level of, like, societal expectations that kind of gets washed away, and you get to be a little bit more your real self to kind of start things. So Mhmm. Just... If you're if you're looking for friendships, I do encourage you to take an improv one class, and at the very least, you'll have a good time.
Speaker 2:Said about revealing your true self because there was another piece that came up recently from The Guardian that talked about I've made a new friend, but when do I show her the real me? And that is an interesting thing because you're sort of performative a little bit at the beginning. Right? You're like, that... Also dating.
Speaker 2:And then, like, you're like, oh, you're just the lazy and whatever the else the other description was guy who was laid back
Speaker 5:and forgetful. Not lazy and something else.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Will, for also forgetting forgetful.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. So what is the real... I guess we're not real friends. You... I know your story
Speaker 4:so well. Clear.
Speaker 3:What is the real you in this context? Like, how long do I wait before I show you the real me? Is that like what your house smells like, your car smells like?
Speaker 4:Where you
Speaker 3:tell the jokes where you tell the jokes that you tell behind closed doors? I actually think that's what it is.
Speaker 2:Here's what I think. My rule has always been this, like, when you get to the level of abject cruelty, and I've always said that
Speaker 4:I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Abject cruelty is your... Is my love language. Yeah. So when...
Speaker 4:To that friend, you mean?
Speaker 2:No. To to... When you get to the level of comfort where you're just doing what Chris did to me at the
Speaker 5:top insult someone's claymation AI as not looking like them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then continue to rule
Speaker 5:on it.
Speaker 2:And then, like, and then just, like, do the crow bit, and now I'm now I'm eating crow, and now I'm just gonna think about it forever. But I don't hate you for it. I actually love you for that because that is like lit... Like that's where you get to like that comfort level.
Speaker 3:That's your love language. One of the things you gotta calibrate with people is like, do they like... Ana and I were just talking about this last night. She's like, I I think you're funny except for when you're mean. That was what she said to me.
Speaker 2:Last night?
Speaker 3:Pillow talk last night.
Speaker 2:Man, that's...
Speaker 3:I don't know why we were talking about... No. I was...
Speaker 4:He was like, don't you think this is funny?
Speaker 2:Your nose looking big, bitch. Excuse me? Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's that's the...
Speaker 2:That's my cruels in my love language.
Speaker 4:Okay. We need to talk about that. We need a therapist in the fourth chair next time.
Speaker 2:Okay. That's fine. We can bring up....
Speaker 3:A doctor of music.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Can can
Speaker 4:you fix me, doc?
Speaker 5:I've done a therapy this year. Does that count?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Nice. Good for you.
Speaker 5:Look at me. Getting help.
Speaker 4:For you, Will.
Speaker 3:A This could segment. Can we interview the real Will for a second?
Speaker 2:Sure. Let's interview... Yeah. You guys, I'm at a press conference, and I'm I'm I'll be completely vulnerable with you right now.
Speaker 4:Alright. Real Will. Have to address him as Real Will.
Speaker 3:Yeah. RW for short.
Speaker 4:R dad.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's gonna be much different, but I will do my best to
Speaker 4:be Real You're pretty open. But Real Will
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:Alone in your home
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:What do you do?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a great question.
Speaker 4:Real Will.
Speaker 2:I will I will say that I I look for a snack.
Speaker 3:Usually Okay. Usually... You're human.
Speaker 5:That's good.
Speaker 2:That's good. Usually, like a like a pretzel and frosting. I'll do that. Well, I eat the frosting right out of the can. And I've said, you know, that's the real Will.
Speaker 1:I don't
Speaker 3:know if we can be friends.
Speaker 2:And then, you know, you... I'm usually sleepy when I'm home by myself.
Speaker 4:Good day.
Speaker 2:I do engage in do engage in nap foreplay.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is real. Yeah. Real...
Speaker 2:You said you wanted real will.
Speaker 4:No. I love it.
Speaker 2:You can't wince at real will. I'm wincing at
Speaker 4:the phrase engaging in nap foreplay. That's what I'm wincing at.
Speaker 5:Are you changing pants?
Speaker 2:Me? No. For napping? Like, you're not
Speaker 5:getting into some pajama pants?
Speaker 2:You're just napping. Do you get into pajama pants today? If I'm doing nap foreplay,
Speaker 5:what do you think nap foreplay is?
Speaker 4:Okay. I have a question. Settle it. What is nap foreplay?
Speaker 2:Masturbation. Do you wanna talk?
Speaker 5:I figured you were
Speaker 1:doing it.
Speaker 4:Is that really one of the...
Speaker 2:I call it that because then it puts you right to sleep. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:That was a good interview with Real Will. I'm really glad that we...
Speaker 1:Do you
Speaker 2:not wanna ask any more questions now? Did I... Was I too real? Couldn't possibly handle it anymore. Too real.
Speaker 3:Too real for me.
Speaker 5:Bring back claymation, Will. See,
Speaker 2:I knew you guys would eventually grow to love claymation, Will.
Speaker 4:I will say...
Speaker 2:This is actually just the process
Speaker 4:of beginning... Wearing us down. Yeah. I will say I will say for me, and maybe this is also just like a a woman thing, and maybe also just a woman in Central Indiana woman thing. But I do feel like because my sense of humor is a little quirkier, snarkier, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Just a little like more out of the box and playful that I don't... I do feel like I have to like carefully...
Speaker 2:I've seen you in your in your professional habit Yes. I think a little bit. And in what you do for a living. And I will say that it is very Very different. Very cultivated.
Speaker 2:Your Yes. Presentation.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:It is not it is not the Ana that I know and love.
Speaker 4:Correct.
Speaker 2:The abject cruel Ana.
Speaker 4:Well, not not that I'm cruel. The crass.
Speaker 2:The crass.
Speaker 4:But more crass.
Speaker 2:And snarky Ana.
Speaker 4:Just... The unfiltered. The unfiltered a little bit more.
Speaker 2:Didn't even know who I was seeing. I didn't even know who that was.
Speaker 4:That's f a. Fake Ana.
Speaker 5:That's fake Ana.
Speaker 4:But but no, but for me... But but truly truly, because I do feel like
Speaker 2:Are we... Yeah.
Speaker 4:When I'm meeting new people Mhmm. It is like I I start with kind of my professional version of myself. Because if you... If no one's like get... I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's me of also dating. When I used to... When, like, when I was like going out on dates, I remember I used have to like a an actual like running tally of like percentage of like, if they understood around 20 to 25% of my jokes or like my little comments, and if they like did not comment or it did not register up to, 25%, then I... Then no second date, you know? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:But it had to at least, like, go through a a threshold because it was just... There were so many boring people.
Speaker 2:Sam passed the threshold. I mean, he... Of course, he would. He he Yeah.
Speaker 5:He met...
Speaker 2:He'd done him out of a comedy club.
Speaker 3:She made me laugh my butt off.
Speaker 2:Oh. Oh, there we go.
Speaker 4:I think that
Speaker 2:that's fake Sam. That was
Speaker 4:fake Sam.
Speaker 2:That's fake Sam trying not to get in trouble.
Speaker 4:That is... Okay. So Sam knows what I'm about to talk about because I am funny.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much. But Sam
Speaker 4:will not laugh out loud at me. And so it is very, very rare. But the second he's around, like, these guys Mhmm. He's, like, laughing so loud, and he thinks everything's hilarious. Shit that I would say, and then someone else repeats it.
Speaker 4:And then literally he laughs at them and not me. I mean, it's just... It's a whole thing. And so I give him shit all the time because, anyway, so him saying he thinks I'm funny. I do think he thinks I'm funny.
Speaker 4:He just... It doesn't... I don't tickle him in the way that... Men do. Men do.
Speaker 4:Do. Do. Do. Men
Speaker 5:So one kid. Just the one kid.
Speaker 2:Just the one kid. Just the one. Your pillow talk last night was like, I hate you when you're mean. When you're... And then you didn't laugh at all.
Speaker 5:You didn't tickle me like the men do.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 4:The therapy the therapy spotlight is just slowly
Speaker 2:turning away.
Speaker 3:Is couple's couch right
Speaker 4:here where
Speaker 3:we get to figure it... Figure us out.
Speaker 2:I've been told I've been told that I have no boundaries and that...
Speaker 5:You you absolutely do not.
Speaker 2:Yes. That's correct. You have been told this. Don't know if it's true or not. Yeah, guys.
Speaker 2:I love
Speaker 4:You're you're talking in the mirror.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. You have no boundaries. You're a shameful person. People are uncomfortable around you.
Speaker 4:You're a piece of shit.
Speaker 1:I love you.
Speaker 2:I love you. Yeah. You're garbage, that feels good.
Speaker 3:I like your mean jokes, Will.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Sam.
Speaker 4:That's you talking
Speaker 3:to yourself. But
Speaker 2:I also like your
Speaker 3:mean jokes....
Speaker 2:Pillow talk to us. To be like, I love you when you're mean. But but I think that there is something disarming about being real with people. Because I think people are nervous to break the facade. They don't wanna be seen as less than perfect.
Speaker 2:And then when you when you expose yourself as being less than perfect, flawed, also human, and terrible in some ways, then people start to, like, gravitate towards you. And it's like it's like self deprecating stuff or being, like, like, hey, you know, my my ass looks big today. Don't you think that? And then you ask you ask a stranger that who you just met and you do it in a silly way and they laugh and you're, like, oh, I'm in. Like, I...
Speaker 2:It's different
Speaker 4:for men and women, Will. It's different.
Speaker 2:I know it is.
Speaker 4:It just is. And I mean, obviously, the the aspect thing. But but genuinely, with like, that sense of humor thing.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:Like, I would love to think that every time I go out there... I'm perfectly fine with, like, my confidence level in being myself. I just know that it... There is a very, like, societal, like, step I have to take first before someone feels comfortable hearing it from a woman. And that it sounds so wrong, but it is like part of the world where funny guys can walk out there and kind of like start that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And I've that on stage too, where if I start a scene and I'm doing something a little too wild or like a little too alien, then I don't get the audience.
Speaker 2:People reject you....
Speaker 4:Kind of reject me at the top.
Speaker 2:Because you have the filth.
Speaker 4:Correct. Or if I... But if I start as a girlfriend or a daughter or something very, like, in kind of the box that they expect me to look like Yeah. Then the next scene or the next scene, I can be a little more out of it. And then they they're now with me, and I've like grown that relationship with them.
Speaker 4:But it... Anyway, so I
Speaker 2:see Would you like to be wild out of the top every time? Would you like to There's
Speaker 4:freedom in that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I know. What would happen if you... Woah.
Speaker 4:It's really nice to be a guy.
Speaker 5:No. Let's be fair. That's also like that's Will. Like that the real Will if we were to say like what's real Will and you go like what does he do when he sits at home alone? Go like he he never does that.
Speaker 5:He'd have to he'd have to stop being in motion. And he's always in motion.
Speaker 3:His hand is in motion.
Speaker 2:His hand
Speaker 5:is in motion. Yeah. And and I think that's the How
Speaker 2:do know how I do it? You do know. You wouldn't... You weren't gonna explain that to me.
Speaker 5:Now I understand. Sam knows all about guy tickle.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Seen those
Speaker 3:those those wrists of yours. Couple of tree trunks.
Speaker 5:Thank you.
Speaker 3:Lots of practice.
Speaker 5:I'll accept that compliment big time. That's really nice. I think that my request is that we we lay down a plan of like, I have a wedding ring and it tells you that I'm married. That's helpful. What if we had a friend ring?
Speaker 5:What if we had a, like
Speaker 2:What are you talking about?
Speaker 5:Friend ring. Like, I'm not looking for new friends. No. That's the that's Or vice versa. Hold on.
Speaker 5:Or vice versa. Like, you could go, like,
Speaker 2:oh, it's like... I have enough...... Bracelets at college parties.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Like I
Speaker 3:have enough I have
Speaker 5:enough trouble just maintaining my current friendships. Like I haven't seen Will in, I don't know, a month or two.
Speaker 2:That's what the data shows.
Speaker 3:So is the ring to say to people I'm looking for friends or is the ring like you and your friend share rings or friendship rings?
Speaker 5:We could do either one. I like both
Speaker 2:of you.
Speaker 5:I like a promise ring and figure that we're still This won't complicate adults making friends if we add in jewelry.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. And like weird... Yeah. Like symbolic commitment.
Speaker 3:Yeah. People just have multiple rings on both hands. Like, look at all my friends.
Speaker 5:Oh, see. Hadn't even thought about wearing multiple rings for multiple friends. This is...
Speaker 4:You only have one friend? Will is your only friend. No.
Speaker 5:Have I have Bram too.
Speaker 3:Brings is a brilliant idea.
Speaker 5:Thank you. Maybe we should be
Speaker 1:friends.
Speaker 2:No. But you sound like the Jonas Brothers. They got purity rings. They're
Speaker 3:friendship rings.
Speaker 4:It's just
Speaker 2:a friendship ring. It's like,
Speaker 5:you know
Speaker 2:A platonic friendship ring.
Speaker 3:It's a commitment to each other.
Speaker 5:It's a way of and also, like, if he doesn't have a ring on, then, you know, he might wanna tickle.
Speaker 2:Okay. Here's what I wanna do. Everybody, we talked about trying to convey your real self. I want you guys to pitch yourselves as if you are like like a old timey salesman. I've got some fun.
Speaker 2:I got a fun way to spice this up. And for as long as you can kind of pitch yourself as a new friend, a new platonic ring worthy friend. And let's go first with Sam. Are you ready?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Do like old old timey voice too? Yeah. Yeah. See here.
Speaker 3:See? You wanna be my friend because I like I like freestyle rap. That's when you rap off the top of your head. That'd probably make you laugh and
Speaker 2:you can give
Speaker 3:me topics to rap about. Doesn't that sound like fun? I also know how big Will's wrists are. It means I'm observation guy. I like to observe things.
Speaker 3:We all like observing things, don't you? And I also make a mean old fashioned. It's really good.
Speaker 2:It'll knock
Speaker 3:your socks right off, mister Will.
Speaker 2:Okay. Oh. Hold on. You make... I feel like these are those all true things?
Speaker 4:Yeah. I think so.
Speaker 3:I think so.
Speaker 4:Ana? I think... Yes. I I will confirm. Yes.
Speaker 4:Okay. I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Well, you just learned that my... The wrist for tree trunks now.
Speaker 4:That's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You didn't know that. You didn't really have that piece of information before. But you're a good friend. You're ring worthy because you like freestyle rap.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. And we give you a topic, and you'll rap about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Can we do that now?
Speaker 3:Sure.
Speaker 2:Oh. Okay. Chris, give him a topic to rap about.
Speaker 5:Let's let's rap about whiskey choices for your old fashioned.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay. Yeah. Whiskey choices. This song's about whiskey choices with risky voices. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I've been building all along. I got two types of whiskey, the weak and the strong. Yeah. You know that I'm the ill spitter. Get with it.
Speaker 3:Either get the sweet kind or the bitter. Speaking of the bitter, I knock you off the door hinge. I take the scalp off the orange. The scalp, whatever that thing's called with the peel. Either way, I appeal.
Speaker 3:I'm keeping it real. Whenever I talk with a p, it does a little pop. And that's why I love it when these beats all drop. Nonstop. Good I was giving some audio feedback there.
Speaker 5:I think
Speaker 2:that you've you've... I mean, if you if you love that, if you love Sam's pitch, like like, be his friend. Email us at willshowpodcast@gmail.com and tell us why you wanna be, like, you gotta pick one. So friendship
Speaker 5:brings on, so you know he's available.
Speaker 4:He's ready.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna...
Speaker 3:I'm put one ring to rule them all, and then and then bare knuckles from there.
Speaker 4:Okay. And and only men, please. He only wants to play
Speaker 1:for men.
Speaker 2:Is is that a limitation? You're setting a strict boundary on that. Yeah. Okay. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Ana, picture yourself as a new adult friend.
Speaker 4:Wow. Wow. Wow. Hey there, friends. I'd like to introduce you to my friend Ana.
Speaker 4:She is great, she is fun, and she speaks real shit. So she's ready. She's ready to come in hot with all the topics that you care about. She's ready to talk about postpartum depression. She's ready to talk about infertility.
Speaker 4:She's ready to talk about why your family's not calling you back, and she's ready to do it with a little joke to make it light. She also knows how to do gymnastics. She can teach you how to do the splits. She can teach you a round off. And if you wanna learn how to swim, she's got your back.
Speaker 4:Alright. Oh, that's it.
Speaker 2:Who's belching there?
Speaker 4:Is that is that... I think it's an alarm.
Speaker 2:It's a buzzer.
Speaker 4:It's a buzzer. A
Speaker 5:buzzer. He put into chat GPT to give me a buzzer, and then he didn't ask for a second better buzzer.
Speaker 4:First draft will.
Speaker 2:First draft will. If it works, it works. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it made you stop. So...
Speaker 2:But can you really do round off and the splits? Oh,
Speaker 4:yeah. I was a competitive gymnast. I know what you're about
Speaker 3:to juxtaposition of that old timey music with that content really is something. That's an Ana sandwich right there.
Speaker 4:Damn. There is.
Speaker 3:And I love a good Ana sandwich.
Speaker 2:So you will lighten up these heavy ass conversations for people.
Speaker 4:I'm ready.
Speaker 2:You have you have a joke at the ready for postpartum depression. This is exciting. Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 4:The joke is everyone can go wham. I...
Speaker 2:Wham. Everyone. Everyone involved. Everyone.
Speaker 1:That's postpartum depression baby.
Speaker 2:Oh my god. Okay. Chris, do you wanna do you wanna pitch yourself as a as a brand new adult friend?
Speaker 5:Sure. I wanna be an adult friend.
Speaker 3:Tell us why...
Speaker 2:Sound weird, doesn't it?
Speaker 5:It really sounds weird to say an adult friend.
Speaker 2:Okay. Here we go. Chris Dobbs.
Speaker 5:Hey, friends. Everything's gonna be Jake when you're friends with this guy. This guy loves to get down and party. No, he doesn't. He likes to sit around and be quiet.
Speaker 5:Sometimes he'd like to just talk, but in a quiet room. Does he love music? Yes. But would he like to hear your thoughts about it? Maybe not.
Speaker 5:Maybe you could just shut up and listen to the music. Then afterwards, we could talk. But let's not talk during the music. Be quiet during the music. That's how music works.
Speaker 5:No. He's not
Speaker 2:a pain in the butt.
Speaker 5:He's just a normal guy. He's got normal attitudes. He does like whiskey business.
Speaker 1:Burp. Perfect
Speaker 5:burp. I like...
Speaker 2:You started out... You really emphasized... Are you
Speaker 3:are you... Normalcy was that what's...
Speaker 5:Say it over and over. Makes it true.
Speaker 4:Normal. This is normal.
Speaker 2:Also, I
Speaker 5:call him really normal Chris. He's a great guy.
Speaker 3:He's normal? That you were talking about how you just shut up and listen to the music over the music? It made me wonder, did you wanna unpack the old timey music that Will chose for the segment?
Speaker 5:Well, first of all, it's not real tiny music. It's definitely AI.
Speaker 2:Oh. That's
Speaker 5:not that's not that's not Louis Armstrong in Richmond Indiana 1931.
Speaker 1:Knows that.
Speaker 2:He knows He
Speaker 5:That's the problem.
Speaker 3:You can't use a recording from 1931? Not yet. Doc, really? No. How old did they have to die first?
Speaker 5:For the recording, it's probably more like one twenty five. For the for the song, a hundred years plus. So, like, could do back home again in Indiana. Like, can't get us YouTube. That that one's free.
Speaker 2:When... Oh.
Speaker 3:Why? Because it's old?
Speaker 5:But somebody... The song itself is over a 100 years. But if we were to play Hoagy Carmichael or if we were to play Jim Nabors on the nineteen seventy five Indianapolis 500
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 5:They'd they take our money. They take everything Will's got. And that's not...
Speaker 2:That's some hoot. Nothing. Hooters are stuff...
Speaker 5:They're they're coming for a a stuffed Doctor. Evil or whatever. This thing that he's had since...
Speaker 1:Your toad is
Speaker 2:stuffed. Doctor. Evil is cardboard.
Speaker 4:Stuffed and cuffed.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well... Right now.
Speaker 3:Play that digital horn. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Hey, fellas. How you doing? It's me, Will, your best friend, your new adult friend. You could tell me anything at all, and I will go along with it no matter what. I don't judge you for anything, almost nothing.
Speaker 2:And usually, if you say something super weird, I just let it go and then tell people later about it for my own personal entertainment. But I'll be there in it with you. Yes, and, just about everything. No boundaries, and I'm there to have fun. You wanna drink drinks?
Speaker 2:I'll drink drinks with you. You wanna hang out and play video games? I'll do that. You just wanna do improv stuff? I'm there with you.
Speaker 2:Anytime you need a friend, I'll be the friend you need. Just for you. Just don't tell my wife about it. There you go. Oh, wait.
Speaker 2:Buzzer.
Speaker 3:Nice. Nice.
Speaker 4:Nice. Very good.
Speaker 3:Honestly, with a pitch like that, we should be friends, Will.
Speaker 1:That was
Speaker 3:really You like
Speaker 4:that? You know, I I'm I'm putting my therapist hat on.
Speaker 2:Okay. Go ahead.
Speaker 4:It was a lot about whatever you wanna do, I'm gonna do that Yeah. For you.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah. Will's love language is acts of service.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Well, very... I'm just saying, this was supposed to be an ad of you. That is You were saying you were saying the things you wanted to do were just... Whatever you wanna do, I wanna do.
Speaker 4:Is that just marriage?
Speaker 2:That is actually... I I... That's the interesting thing, is that I can derive a certain amount of joy doing almost anything. And I think that it's... It is easier, like, there's less friction in friendship.
Speaker 2:If you're like, your thing is cool and I can get on board with that cool thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3:So this gets risky if you make friends with boring people that don't have much going on. Because if you... Yeah. If you defer to them and they're like, I don't know. I got my stamp collection.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You might be like, uh-oh. Yeah. My philosophy is turned on its head now.
Speaker 2:I would just be like, what do you wanna do with these stamps? I mean, how long are we gonna have them? Let's say you had a stamp collection.
Speaker 3:Oh, you don't wanna know what I do with my stamp collection.
Speaker 2:Oh, are you... Do you have weird things you wanna do with your stamp collection?
Speaker 3:No. I'm just saying if we had to get creative, mean, other than just like assess their worth maybe, that
Speaker 2:would No. But I'm saying, in in this moment, you have a real stamp collection. You're the character you created. Okay. Sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And I'm your guy. I'm like, I'm coming over. I'm like, let's get into your stamps. I'm like, look at all these stamps.
Speaker 2:It's incredible.
Speaker 3:Thank you. This is '19. This was a Hoagy Carmichael original. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Can sell this one legally.
Speaker 2:I can tell this one wasn't created by AI.
Speaker 3:Can lick the paper. Lick it.
Speaker 2:Can we lick the paper?
Speaker 3:Let let me hear you lick it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I can I?
Speaker 3:I don't wanna be... We're new friends. Okay? And I have a protective laminate on the back. You...
Speaker 3:If you can identify the flavor......
Speaker 2:All your new friends? Have other friends lick this? Tell me, Ronnie.
Speaker 3:Look. Yes. But they didn't get to keep it. If you can identify the flavor, you get to keep it.
Speaker 2:Did you flavor these yourself?
Speaker 3:Yes. I did. Every single one. You know what?
Speaker 2:I didn't realize this hobby was so nuanced. Honestly, like, I thought stamp collecting was for lame boring people.
Speaker 3:That's what I...
Speaker 2:But the fact that you flavored your own lick Mhmm. Is crazy. Right. Right. I I am sorry.
Speaker 2:I prejudged this. I wanna come over to be nice and see what this... But I will... Here. Let me lick that hoagie.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Here you go.
Speaker 4:Hi, honey. I'm home.
Speaker 1:What? He's... Quick quick quick. Get out. Get out.
Speaker 1:Get out.
Speaker 2:Where are you? Get out. Get out.
Speaker 4:Of my house.
Speaker 3:Yeah. One of my tricks to doing that is asking what they are nerdy about, which is kind of the same thing that we're doing here, I'll like I'll ask, even the most sterile person usually has something that they... I'm using the word nerdy because it's like, that's a thing that they don't really bring out often, but they're like, actually really like, you know, Star Trek, or I actually really like whatever. Or or even if they're like a mechanical engineer and they're like a workaholic, they're like, tell me what what are you building? Like, well, I can tell you all about levers on diesel engines, and you're like, tell me about levers on d...
Speaker 3:Like really dig with them Yeah. Yeah. Until you kinda see them light up because they're they're talking about something that they're passionate about.
Speaker 2:And then you find like a way to like make it... Like make them laugh a little bit. Sure. Like, I feel like that is the that is the key that unlocks just about everybody.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's what I'm saying with like the the dark conversations too. Yeah. The humor the humor...
Speaker 2:Well, they first they first like expose themselves vulnerably and then you go like...
Speaker 4:It's okay.
Speaker 3:That's that's trauma bonding.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's another
Speaker 3:that's another avenue of friendship. You can either nerd bond or you can trauma bond. Yeah. And you can create trauma bond by manipulating... Okay.
Speaker 3:I really wanna be friends with this guy, so I...
Speaker 4:I push him in front a car.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I'm gonna push him in front of you. Don't kill him.
Speaker 1:Don't kill him.
Speaker 3:I wanna be friends with him. Run over both of our ankles, we go to the hospital together, and we get beds next to each other, and we trade rings.
Speaker 4:What's funny about Sam and I is that we're very similar sense of humor, like playfulness and things together, or when we are with people we're comfortable with. One of our biggest divides is that I'm very comfortable going up to someone brand new, a stranger, and asking a question, or just introducing myself, or, you know, just kind of starting from nothing Mhmm. And just being like, hi. Hi. Nice to meet you blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4:That is not a comfort of Sam's. Like, he would not... He does not even like asking someone directions to something because...
Speaker 2:But you were just talking... You were just scheming. This... Was this just a fantasy land?
Speaker 3:Oh, in fantasy land, I am type a. Okay.
Speaker 2:But you you really have a problem? I I never... I would never would have imagined.
Speaker 4:I know. Because he's so comfortable. As soon as he has like any tiny little bridge of of a conversation, then he's fine.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:But it it
Speaker 4:is that true initial, like, tap on the shoulder to someone that you do not know that is, like, it gets... You can talk about it. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't I don't
Speaker 2:know how to explain it. But that's the thing. But once you get in, you don't have a problem talking about their diesel lever
Speaker 3:or whatever. Correct.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Asking questions.
Speaker 5:My question about diesel. I think this where you're leading. Like, what was the last adult friend you made Thank you. That wasn't a result of work? Mhmm.
Speaker 5:Like, work I feel like you're with people a long time and you spend a lot of time and you have a lot of accessibility. And then I always also felt like, yeah, spent forty hours a week with these people. I don't need to go out to dinner with them afterwards.
Speaker 4:I mean, similarly, I would say what pops in my head first was like a neighbor. Yeah. You know? Where it really is just genuine proximity to a human. And they're lovely.
Speaker 4:And, you know, I I I do feel like we depend on them, you know, in some ways, and we're... We are genuine friends. But it is completely because of, like, just a proximity and convenience as to how we became friends. And as soon as they have moved away, we have become less
Speaker 2:They're absent.
Speaker 4:Friendly. They just... You know?
Speaker 2:They're just like gone.
Speaker 4:They do kind of dissipate. It is very... It does feel a little sad. You know?
Speaker 2:Friends at adulthood a luxury of convenience?
Speaker 4:Wait. Are we new friends from adulthood?
Speaker 2:Yeah. But I would...
Speaker 4:To in town as work though.
Speaker 2:I... It's a little bit of both. And this is where my wife, Adrian, will be like, your life perspective as as unfair because you do only fun stuff and you like what you do and you like the people you do it with. And so, like, you have this weird this weird combination of like, the people I do work with are my friends because we're doing friend things that are fun.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 2:And then, yes. I would say, yeah. You guys are my friends.
Speaker 4:Honestly, I didn't even think about that when you asked that question. But I do feel like we're kind of like actual friends.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:I mean, we don't know anything about your life, but...
Speaker 5:I'm sure. But you
Speaker 2:try. You know, and I appreciate the guessing. I like the guessing.
Speaker 5:But I wanted to ask you. Yeah. I've been meaning to ask this. The next time Tracy's in town Yeah. Would you go jogging with us?
Speaker 5:Jogging? Yeah. Like
Speaker 2:Yeah. For like a 100 feet.
Speaker 3:To exhaustion? Yeah.
Speaker 5:This is my question. That's my question. Like, you know, you
Speaker 2:You guys go jogging? Yeah. Oh, wow. That's nice for you guys. Well, we don't do it every single bet you guys bond really well doing that.
Speaker 5:Well, do. This is our other friend from growing up that's like, one of one of our other friends, Tracy and I go...
Speaker 2:Should I set up water stations for you?
Speaker 5:That would be super Yeah.
Speaker 2:I just like drive up and then every half a mile you stop, I'll put out a little table.
Speaker 5:Because I've I've legitimately thought about this too, like, if you and I went and played indoor soccer together.
Speaker 3:I I haven't gotten to this... What I think is my, like, ace in the
Speaker 2:hole here.
Speaker 4:Oh, no.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. The thing that I think is the biggest impact on this is is the hobby that you're doing screen related? We've talked about jogging, we've talked about improv, We've talked about video games. Well, I guess it was that's a screen, but that doesn't count. I'm saying, like, so much of the reason we feel like we don't have time is because our phones are screaming for our attention at all the time so that we can doom scroll our lives away.
Speaker 3:And if you can find a hobby that is not like phone based where you actually have to put your phone in a basket or something, you go play basketball or whatever, that's your best shot at actually making friends. Bowling league, like I don't care what it is, but just have people put their phones away, actually connect, You're gonna find out... You're gonna you're gonna interview the real them real quickly because you're not getting them, like, scroll jockeying every ten seconds as we're all prone to do when we have our phones. Put it away, and then you're gonna really increase your likelihood of finding someone that you like.
Speaker 5:I don't know what Sam's real job is, but is it friendship scientist? Oh, you There so
Speaker 2:we go. I think we solved adult friendship.
Speaker 3:Destroy your phone. Destroy your phone.
Speaker 4:Be proactive.
Speaker 2:Be proactive. Be dark. Be out there. Go out in the world and do some... Find something that you could be with people.
Speaker 5:Offer people rings to be your friends.
Speaker 3:That's right. And
Speaker 2:of course, a little bit of
Speaker 5:tickle goes along. Oh, boy.
Speaker 3:Yes, it does.
Speaker 2:Alright. Okay. This has been The Will Show. At the end of every show, I think that we ought to go around and tell tell everyone the lessons we've learned for the show. It could be anything.
Speaker 2:It doesn't have to be about the topic. It'd just be about something you learned. This is episode one, so there's lots of stuff put out here tonight. And what's a lesson you learned about this show tonight?
Speaker 4:I've learned that Will has tree trunk wrists.
Speaker 2:Wow. That's right.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:Mhmm. Yeah. I learned that my acquaintance friends from from being at shows and playing shows with them, like have a a kid who's the same age as my kid.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. There you go. Alright. And I've learned that Sam and Ana's pillow talk needs some work. Yes.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll see you next time. Thank you for listening and watching the first ever Will Will Show Podcast. If you wanna email us, you wanna respond, comment, email us at will show podcast dot com. If you wanna support it, go to will show podcast dot com.
Speaker 2:And it's been Ana Hey. Sam Hey. And our guest, Chris Dobbs. Thank you for being here, and I'm Will. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 3:See you.
Speaker 5:Okay. We need a claymation outro.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're right.
Speaker 1:Yay. You
Speaker 5:gotta make a claymation outro now.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I mean,
Speaker 5:you don't have to make it. You just have to type it into a computer and then let it spit it back out at you.
Speaker 2:Hold on. AI, make that claymation outro. Go.
Speaker 5:Will Show. The Will Show's over. Will Show, it's never gonna continue after this part of the claymation starts.
Speaker 2:You wanna... Show shutting down. And you wanted me to hire a human
Speaker 1:dude.