Our guests are quarter-zipped up, looking fly as hell, and are ready for whatever InTALLerable has in store (hint, a lot). Both Denver open-mic comics whom Grant loves so much that he provided their quarter-zips & sat in with these fine gentlemen for the EATIN’. Join me in welcoming two dudes who we had almost too much fun hanging & eating smoked chicken wings with, it’s dapper & debonair, spruced up & suave, personable & pulchritudinous, folks click those digital fingers for: Deandre Simmons & Merci!

Deandre has recently found a love for reading, so I thought he’d appreciate some new adjectives to use on the ladies (I gotchu, bro). Let’s be real. Deandre & Merci are here for laughs, fun, and our usual ill-fated reflections of the world around us, yes. But reeeaaally.. They're here at Top Shelf Studios to see if our smoked wings pass the ‘Cultured’ test.

From ice skating & other white activities, potential plans to picket (if necessary) to reclaim hosting an open-mic for black history month, a new color that’s name is superseded in stupidity only by the fact that you can’t actually see the color, to our meager attempts at educating young Deandre on American pop-culture references that he’s too young to know or understand.

“19?!? Goddamn!” -Deandre after asking what year Sean & Grant were born

Follow them on Instagram to see what fun they’ve got going on next!

@Deandre.Simmons03 @MerciWithAn_i

EATIN’ on Patreon. If you believe in us (Sean & Friends) please consider joining (only $2/month) to help us continue to make leaps in our capacity (equipment & food-wise) to bring you great guests & even better wings.

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FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Introductions

1:15 — Grant’s Only Black Friends

2:30 — Wintertime White Activities

4:00 — Guest Co-Hosting (Crazy Mountain Mic)

4:30 — Picketing to Reclaim the Mic

6:00 — Skits & Third Amigo, Carlos

7:30 — Oil as a Solution

8:00 — Venezuela News & NYC Jail

9:00 — Merci studied PoliSci & Covid-Era College

10:00 — HS in Covid

10:30 — Changing Mascots

12:30 — Native Americans Explaining to (mostly) White Kids

13:00 — Rocket League at School

14:00 — Pulled into the Magic of Reading

16:00 — Algorithms & the Rage-Machine

19:00 — Olo, a new color (kinda, maybe?)

20:00 — Vatican-type Free Speech Zone

20:30 — Merci Color Joke

21:30 — Advanced Chinese Color

22:00 — Sean Connery’s Podcast

22:45 — Deandre “Clean” Joke

23:15 — Need to Retire this Joke

24:00 — Writing new Jokes & the “process”

26:00 — The War of Art (book)

27:30 — Just Have Fun

30:00 — Show for HOA & meaning of comedy

31:00 — Camera’s Racist (apparently)

32:00 — What is the best Race?

33:00 — Esports Generation

35:00 — Mom Hates ‘Moist’

35:45 — EATIN’

36:15 — Signature Station I.D.

36:30 — Wing Review & After-Hours

37:15 — Surprised by how Cultured Sean is

38:30 — One of the “Good Ones”

39:30 — Too Young to Know

41:00 — Educating Deandre on American Pop-Culture References

42:45 — Deandre has Homework

44:00 — Grant’s “Deep” Question

45:45 — Dad’s Lesson: Taking Things as a Joke

48:00 — Pumped for Life

48:30 — Ice Skating w/ a Lady

50:30 — Deandre is a Closeted White

51:30 — Grant’s Abba Story, a Lesson in Life

52:15 — “What are you scared of learning something?”

53:45 — Merci Travel Plans

54:30 — Youngest guy here owns a house

56:00 — Insurance is a scam

57:00 — Spice Analysis

1:00:00 — Paying the bills, grinding comedy

1:00:30 — Door Guy

1:02:30 — Free Business Idea for Deandre

1:04:30 — Not supposed to wear underwear with sweatpants

1:05:30 — Dad got swag

1:07:00 — Advice on Women from Dad

1:08:00 — Black Trump

1:10:30 — Impression Origins

1:12:00 — Kamala Attempt

1:13:00 — Run for Office

1:14:00 — “I could have a beer with him!”

1:15:00 — Save the country, Deandre

1:16:00 — ‘Heighting’

1:18:00 — Plugs

1:19:00 — FO & BW

Our guests are two childhood friends who grew up together in South Carolina. Jesse Green makes his Top Shelf debut, promising to keep his clothes on the entire time, and returning fan-favorite, Jacob Humphries, who is always eager to smash some smoked chicken wings & turn up the riff to InTALLerable levels.

We learn about the origin of Jesse’s old-timey name, and hear all about working in a local grocery store. If you’re someone who disrespects check-out-boys, just remember that Jesse is the crucial conduit between hard-working families & the ever-present threat of their child starving. We refuse the right to refuse service to anyone, especially people who are rude to service workers. Jacob tells us about performing stand-up in a unique, perhaps terrifying, venue: a gun range combo whiskey tasting room. Luckily we had our guests check any weapons at the door. Safety (& jokes) first.

Southern Grandma is always well-seasoned, RED40 creates stronger kids, chicken parm is meant to be prepared on a pellet smoker, deep fear of the “blue water people”; the only truth you’ll find here is that the Dixon Ticonderoga is the greatest pencil in human history.

The rest is jokes, satire, or sarcasm.

YUGE shoutout to Brody, our newest Patreon supporter! Apparently, Brody isn’t concerned with the follies of men, because he has God on his side, so he skipped the small ball stuff & joined the ‘Manifest Destiny’ Tier for $20. What a king, y’all. He’s also ripped as shit, full natty.

Supporters like Brody make our show possible & keep us 100% ad-free.

If you (Yes, YOU!) want to get in on the fun while supporting our dreams & helping to put smoked meats into the mouths of new hilarious guests, then go join our growing ‘Heights’ at: Patreon.com/InTALLerable — EATIN’ w/ guest & lots more bonus content!

FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Introductions

1:00 — Not a fan of ‘Holes’ & Gonna Keep His Clothes on

2:30 — ‘Ole Timey Name

4:30 — High School Friends on the Pod

6:00 — Negative Internet Comments

8:00 — Jesse & Jacob’s Friendship Origin Story

9:30 — Afraid of the Blue Water People

11:30 — WeDontWork

12:30 — Working at a Grocery Store

14:30 — If you can tolerate people

19:30 — What’s actually cool & killing bad guys

21:45 — “Quiet Piggie”

22:30 — Jacob’s Alter-Ego

24:00 — What Jesse does for Fun

25:00 — Judge says no to RFK Food Dye Ban

26:00 — RED40 makes kids stronger

27:30 — Tribe that owns the Hard Rock Casino

28:30 — Camera cut out, we got too deep

30:30 — Rich by Association & Mormon Orange Juice

32:00 — Incompetence or Resiliency?

33:00 — “The Lobby is that Way”

34:00 — Dixon Ticonderoga

36:30 — Flawed logic game of Trumpies

38:00 — You should be happy about Wealth Consolidation

39:00 — Comedy in a Gun Room

41:00 — Almost BDSM Comedy

43:00 — What is your Guess?

43:30 — How old do you think Grant is?

45:00 — ‘Situations’

48:00 — Use it or not, You’re paying for it

49:00 — Sri Lankan

50:00 — Casino Stories

53:00 — Baccarat

54:30 — Grant lost it all on Gamestop

55:30 — Patreon Shoutout: Brody!

56:30 — EATIN’

57:00 — After-Hours & Wing Review

58:45 — Solving Crimes in the South

59:45 — Living by a Data Center

1:02:00 — Works at a Food Lion, Resides in the Ocean

1:03:00 — Data Center Treat me & my Family ‘Real-Good’

1:05:00 — Smoked Chicken Parm

1:07:00 — ‘Super-Sure’ Advertisement

1:08:45 — Government Program & Tax Dollars

1:10:00 — Rural Hospital Fraud

1:11:30 — Best Gas Stations are Indian Owned

1:14:00 — JT Made the McDonalds Song

1:14:30 — Kanye’s Disney Score

1:15:30 — Dave Blunts & Getting Wheeled onto a Stage

1:17:00 — Grimace Baby Hippo

1:18:00 — GHB at the Gym

1:20:30 — ‘Heighting’

1:22:30 — Plugs

1:25:15 — FO & BW

My guest is Colorado Springs based stand-up comic, Russell Keller! You can follow him on Instagram @RussellPKeller or find out where you can see him perform next on his website: https://www.russellkellercomedy.com

Russell produces & hosts lots of amazing shows around the Springs, including: ‘Pikes Punks’ a monthly comedy show & the ‘Don’t Tell’ comedy shows in Colorado Springs. His journey to our humble garage here at Top Shelf was a long one, but I hope our signature ‘smoked-wing-hospitality’ made up for the time lost with his beautiful family.

That’s time he won’t get back, so you better love this episode.

We discussed what it’s like being a ‘Girl-Dad’, how Russell’s lack of self respect & deep fear of confrontation resulted in 6 hours of driving just to NOT perform at an open mic in Fort Collins, and our shared disdain for mega-church, strum-heavy, stomp-along music. Be honest with yourself, folks, we need a drastic revamp. A return to a more angelic approach: Choir in the back, no fanfare, just sweet hymnal song & organ music. PTL

Hear about how Russell got reported to the ministry HR for allegedly committing Heresy at their daily group Bible study, declining from teaching other Door Staff “manners” because it was his only differentiating skillset among the drug-addled degenerates (I assume). Are you a dude who needs to learn how a pad works? This is the ep for you.

Thankful to Russell for his time & grateful we got this hang together.

EATIN’ w/ Russell for our supporters (100% UNCUT) — Patreon.com/InTALLerable

FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Introduction

1:00 — Colorado Springs Comic

2:00 — Being a Dad

3:00 — Big Dogs Die Young (Sean)

4:00 — Wanting a Family

5:00 — Girl Dad & Having Little Kids

6:30 — Female Influence

8:00 — Looking at the mm

9:30 — Nerd Homework

10:00 — North of Castle Rock is Denver

11:00 — Lack of Self Respect

12:30 — Afraid of Confrontation

12:30 — Will Never “Ask”

14:00 — Overall Christian Guilt

15:00 — Mega-Church needs better Music

17:00 — “These preachers, man.”

18:00 — It’s a Tax write-off

19:00 — God’s lying to one of us!

20:00 — No Stories of Hell

21:00 — Discovering his Ethnic Judaism

22:45 — Hoping to get something cool..

23:15 — Late-in-life Circ Squad

24:00 — Botched

25:00 — Females are a little different

26:30 — Sew it up

28:00 — How do you think a pad works?

30:00 — Ultimate Frisbee

31:30 — EATIN’

32:00 — After-Hours & Wing Review

33:00 — Springs comics to have on

34:00 — Working at a Ministry

35:00 — You can Work at a Comedy Club?

36:00 — Juxtaposition & breaking the “Template”

37:00 — In Trouble for Heresy at the Christian Ministry

39:00 — Profit using God to Summon Bears onto children

40:00 — Always trying to Riff

42:00 — New car for commute.. Oh wait.

43:00 — Hitting a family with his car

45:00 — Journey to Door-Guy

46:00 — Russell seeing his first club comedy show

47:00 — Story of becoming Mike Hammock’s bottom (opener)

48:30 — Make dreams come true Rory

50:00 — Inspiration to try new things

51:00 — Hannah Jones Buried Russell

52:00 — What would Rory Scoval do?

53:00 — Hanging upside down on Monkey Bars

55:00 — Pushing toward ‘No’

57:00 — Four shows in Four Nights (all bad)

58:00 — Stop humbling me, Lord.

59:00 — Insurance would ‘Total’ Sean

1:00:00 — Quitting Alcohol to try to be a better person

1:01:30 — Russell’s ‘Heart Pills’

1:02:30 — Late night eating hacks

1:03:30 — Serious Question Time

1:04:30 — Honest Communication

1:05:00 — Kindest thing is Honesty

1:06:00 — Learning from his Parents

1:07:30 — Tell your Wife She’s Annoying, Apologize to your Kids

1:08:30 — ‘Heighting’

1:10:00 — Plugs for Russell & Thanks

1:11:30 — FO & BW

My guest is Tairee Dillard, Denver stand-up comic & returning guest to InTALLerable. He kindly put up with our non ADA-compliant studio setup, so that we could ring in the new year over some of life’s finer things: Hennessy & Red Bull, smoked chicken wings, and laughter among friends. The last of which being the scarcest resource in our battle against AI Slop.

Tairee tells me about this random super hero he found around Denver called ‘The Vigilante’, how he got him connected with Alek Seballes (filmmaker, guest of InTALLerable), so together they can make a movie! Follow Tairee on Instagram @TaireeTheComedian

Help fund their project here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-the-vigilante-film-to-life

We talked about perception and Tairee told me about his battle to reframe his confidence in his 30’s, misperception & women, his never-ending effort to make other people comfortable around him, and how he plans to put his foot to the gas in 2026. Feet be damned, I believe in Tairee & hope you all enjoy his company as much as I did for this hang. Just don’t get caught in the slow lane in front of him in 2026, because he will run your ass over on his way to the top!

EATIN’ with Tairee on Patreon — Patreon.com/InTALLerable — Uncut Eps, EATIN’ smoked wings, and more! Help us reach our goal of 100 supporters by the end of 2026 & keep InTALLerable 100% ad-free

FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Introduction

0:45 — Found a Random Super Hero Around Denver

2:00 — New Year, New Men

3:00 — People Be Difficult

4:00 — Reframing the Mud

5:00 — 30 year old Pains & Aging

7:00 — Women want Tairee

8:30 — Misunderstood Confidence Issues

9:30 — Perception

10:00 — These are my Cards

11:00 — Focusing on Making Everyone Comfortable

12:30 — “Chains & Whips Show”

14:30 — Naked Shows, No Go

15:30 — Tairee’s Broncos Predictions

17:00 — Denver Sports

18:30 — Get us Broncos Tickets

19:30 — Foot to Gas in 2026

20:30 — Teaching Sean the Black Way

22:30 — Tairee Recognized for Stand-up

23:00 — The Magic of Comedy

25:00 — Building a Valuable Skill

27:00 — Different Starting Points

29:00 — Reframing to Help (Himself & others)

32:00 — Get Nothing from Hating

33:00 — Getting Hennessy for Tairee

35:00 — Poor Food is Cheap

37:45 — Eating to Lose Weight

38:30 — Weird “Superpowers”

40:00 — Avoiding Normalcy

42:00 — “Sit Yo Ass Down”

43:30 — Boulder Bubble Ideals

48:00 — Being Less Informed

49:00 — Everything is Political

52:00 — Lessons from Comic Books

55:45 — EATIN’

56:00 — Wing Review!

57:00 — Bruude

59:00 — They say it alot

1:00:00 — Class over Politics

1:02:00 — Kids Need Protected

1:03:30 — Charlie Kirk now on Tairee’s Timeline

1:05:00 — It would still be Happening..

1:06:00 — ‘Heighting’

1:08:00 — Plugs

1:09:00 — RIP Uncle Bill

1:10:00 — FO & BW

Santa came late on this release, but only ‘cause his reindeer had a mixup with a Kia Soul. He said our loyal fans would understand & appreciate the extra anticipation. Not expecting any extra gifts, but any coal we get in InTALLerable’s stocking would only fuel our rise.

Our guests are old friends, Al, known for his disdain for all things, but especially Christmas, and Sam, professional producer, on-air talent, and recently voted both most likely to nail a clutch three in a local pickup game, or get nailed from behind by a 3 in a pickup on I-25.

(For one, two, three!!)

We get down to the truth about boxing day, Al’s battle with Traffic Enforcement, the movie that Al has been making for months with ‘The Vigilante’, being sucked back into streaming services by the Diddy doc, and a thorough argumentative examination of ‘The Grinch’, focusing mainly on his ostracized standing from Whovillian society. Merry Christmas indeed, folks.

EATIN’ w/ these fine people and many more funny guests @ Patreon.com/InTALLerable

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FO & BW

0:00 — Merry Christmas!

0:30 — Boxing Day

1:00 — Guest Introductions

1:15 — Sam’s been Rear-Ended

3:00 — “While I’m here, Doc…”

4:30 — Give Sean a Call

5:30 — Still Shredding

6:00 — Needing a Hamster Car

7:00 — Al’s Disdain for Traffic Cops

8:30 — “Real Deal” Chiro

9:30 — Making a Movie

10:00 — Vigilante

13:00 — Future Ep. Tease

14:30 — Why the Commercials Stopped

15:00 — McRib is Back

16:00 — Food Dye Numbering

18:00 — Porte Rican founded podcast

20:00 — Diddy Doc

22:00 — How Fifty Got the Footage

24:00 — When’s the Epstein Doc coming??

27:00 — Protect Kids, for God sake.

28:00 — No indictment.. Hmm

30:00 — List you don’t want to be on..

31:30 — EATIN’ w/ Al & Sam

32:00 — Wing Review!

33:00 — Old Time Arguing about Wings

35:00 — Don’t Reach

38:00 — Build a Dialogue

38:30 — Only Two Things in Life

39:45 — Completing a Laundry Cycle

41:00 — Standard American Desk

42:00 — Sam’s Notebook

44:30 — Getting Steamed on in 2k

46:00 — Al for Fun

47:30 — Exposure Therapy to Fear of Death

49:00 — Christmas Guy?

50:00 — Dissecting ‘The Grinch’

51:30 — Santa Claus can be anything

53:00 — Goo on Ice

53:45 — Silly Putty Plus Bed

55:30 — Appreciating Curiosity

57:00 — Finally an Answer out of Al

59:00 — No, not really

1:00:00 — Betting on Stuff

1:01:30 — Hedge to Eat Lunch

1:02:30 — Disney AI Slop

1:03:30 — The REAL Money in AI

1:05:00 — “Takin’ our Jobs!”

1:06:30 — Markets & Price

1:08:00 — Disney Dirty Stuff??

1:09:00 — AI & Crime

1:10:30 — The Bar for Men is So Low

1:11:00 — What do you mean I can’t pee?!

1:12:45 — Boxing Day (revisit)

1:15:00 — Plugs

1:16:30 — FO & BW

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas to all — especially all you who know how to properly pronounce: ‘Nuclear’. Our guests are both returning InTALLerable fan-favorites & Denver stand-up comics, eager to drink some ‘Nog & munch the best backyard smoked chicken wings Colorado offers. Whether you’re reading this at your work desk or you’re comfortably tucked in bed, get UP UP UP on your Christmas-loving feet & welcome our guests, you probably know them from the ‘Naughty’ List: Jeff Morris & Grayson Garcia!

Follow them on Instagram — Jeff @Jeff_Dingus_Morris & Grayson @Grayson_Garcia

In this Christmasy-adjacent episode, we learn some more ‘dead-dad’ lore from Jeff, including how around this time of year, his father would remind him how he was conceived. A real pile-of-towels-in-the-mudroom baby Jesus manger vibe. How angelic. Grayson teaches us about the special aerodynamics that were designed in commercial airplanes, we wonder where Jeff hides the supposed credit card’s worth of plastic in his balls, & the debate of the year — how to pronounce the word: ‘Nuclear’ — gets so heated that we needed a call-in from (now LA comic) Tonya Sabrina, PhD holder in Nuclear Physics, to settle it.

A fun hang with the boys. ‘Ope — and Greer! How could we forget about our in-studio live portrait artist?! She even joined us on camera for the EATIN’ — Patreon.com/InTALLerable

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FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Intros

1:00 — Portrait Artist (Greer) in Studio

2:00 — Spotify Wrapped

3:00 — Jeff’s Intervention

5:00 — Special Family Storytime

7:00 — Jeff’s Dead Dad Lore

10:00 — Dying in a Masculine Way

11:00 — WNBA Skydiver

12:00 — Uncle Bill Lore

15:00 — Hunter S. Thompson Quote

16:00 — Fox News Dad

17:30 — Jeff’s Dad Ruled

20:00 — Skinwalkers

21:00 — Damn That’s Spooky

22:00 — Snowman Fun

24:00 — Plans for XMAS

24:30 — Shoutout to Mom

25:30 — Road-Head & Car-Stuff

30:00 — Buggy is Badass

32:00 — noo·klee·ur

33:00 — Virtue Signaling

34:00 — Portland Freeze

35:00 — EATIN’

35:30 — WING REVIEW!

36:00 — Nuclear Debate Continues

39:30 — “Now Watch This Drive.”

41:00 — Two syllables vs. Three

44:00 — Jeff the De-Railer

46:00 — Special Aerodynamics

48:00 — Plastic Money

49:30 — RFKiD

51:00 — Lost Wallet

52:00 — Tanya Sabrina Settles the Nuclear Debate

53:00 — Money’s Already Printed

54:00 — ½ Lb of Poop

55:00 — Plugs

56:00 — FO & BW

Our returning guest is the founder of Pallet City Comedy, host & producer of stand-up shows all around Denver, and a high school teacher molding the minds of our future leaders. Between teaching freshman about genocide during his days and performing stand-up comedy at night, you might be wondering (like I was) how he manages to oscillate between the Holocaust and Ha-Ha’s. Garrett Nygren says it best himself: “It evens out to a normal person.”

Follow Garrett @Garrett.Nygren & @palletcitycomedy on Instagram!

If I were a freshman again, I would want to start each day with Garrett’s goofy face at the front of the class, his mustache dancing through the material, teaching us about what every eager-to-learn student really wants to be learning at 8 am, genocide.

Garrett tells us about his sweet dance moves. Isolations, Head-Spins, the guy’s got it all. He even had a hat with one of those plastic squares on top, made specifically for spinning.

PSA: when Garrett gets to spinning on his head, you best be getting your face out of the way.

We talk about the ethical dilemma of AI usage in the classroom, Garrett shares about what it’s like to only be teaching a class about genocide, we wonder how to possibly install ‘Friday-Mode’ onto Sean’s brain, and we wonder what the new “third-place” could be in an America where people are drinking alcohol less and less. I just pray it isn’t the sober coffee dance party that Garrett told us about. Please, God, no.

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FO & BW

0:00 — Guest Introduction

1:00 — AI in the Classroom

3:00 — Ethics & AI

4:00 — AI Captions for Comedy

5:00 — Gus Rey Court Shoutout

7:00 — Teaching Freshman

8:30 — Only Teaching Genocide

10:00 — Leaflets of the White Rose

12:00 — He’s Got Motion

14:00 — Early Screening

17:00 — What Can You Do?

18:00 — Humane Mice Solutions

19:00 — Cone for People

20:00 — Resisting Italian

22:30 — Taking up Tap Dancing

24:00 — Begging with Extra Steps

25:30 — Isolations

26:30 — Dance Moves

28:00 — Sweet 16 Dance Story

31:00 — Repairing Social Fabric of America

31:30 — Sober Coffee Dance Parties

33:00 — Wubbing Before 8am

34:00 — Pickleball with Comics

35:00 — Washington in the Rules

37:00 — Odd White Sports

37:30 — Third Meeting Place

38:00 — Business Breakdown

40:00 — When Shit Hits the Fan

41:00 — Friday Everyday in the Brain

43:00 — Sharp Tools in the Shed

45:00 — Capitalism is Pretty Cool!

48:00 — Need a New Outlook Transmission

49:30 — Homelessness

51:00 — Mental-Health Armed Forces

53:00 — Prolong the Sick

55:00 — America has Baja Blast

56:00 — Information Saturation

58:00 — Substitute Teaching Lockdown

1:00:00 — Stolen Uncrustable

1:02:00 — Re-’Heighting’

1:03:00 — Plugs & Upcoming Shows