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Where do we do that?” And at the time, Seven between Halloween and Easter. It’s kind of
Restaurant and Nightclub in Bend, had a venue, poking fun at the whole mystique of holiday
a format, and a promoter that said, ““Sure, come seasons but it’s also the idea of keeping spirits
on, we’ll give you a night.” Five or six of us from up in a fun way.

the Club were there with a bunch of regular
standard comics. We just kind of moved in and Outside of Toastmasters?

did our thing, tested it out. In 2018 we had an My days start around 4:30 am. I’m on an
all-Club, Bend Toastmasters stand-up comedy East Coast time frame for my Dividend Dog

event. We suggested that they come try it out. Catcher program. And since the stock market
And those that wanted to do a stand-up bit were opens at 9:00 am, it’s 6:00 am here. So I get up
welcome. So we had kind of a little event. at 4:30 and do a 5-10 minute broadcast picking
Then Covid came in and really kind of shut a stock of the day for my Dividend Dog Catcher

the whole entertainment business down. Because portfolio. I do a stock a week and build a 52-stock
there weren’t any live audiences. And it didn’t portfolio over the year. And each day I have a
work that well online, and there wasn’t a real different choice for that portfolio that may be
format in place to do online events for stand up. chosen on Saturday when I do the picking. So

Craft Kitchen in Bend has opened up in the that’s my routine.
last 10 months. And so we’ve had regular events I get up every morning that the stock market
where we could practice and hone our craft. I
was part of a three-day show recently. We had

30 Comics with 10-minute bits each. It was kind
of a graduation ceremony breaking out from
the Covid clutches.

Do you have to come up with a new
routine all the time?

I like to keep it fresh and have new ideas all
the time. But I have some themes that I keep

going back to. One of course is the whole crunch
of holidays. I call the compression of party-time
in the nine months from Labor Day to Memorial
Day as “Christweenster!” Another one of my bits

is pointing out the strange malapropisms that
come about like when you have a Rabatt which
is a cross between a bunny and a bat. You have
all sorts of strange crossings that can happen

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