For the one year anniversary of SURE THING (@SURETHINGatx), the show I co-host with my friend and past guest Brendan K. O'Grady (@BKOgrady), we did a combination live stand up show AND Sincere Tweets recording! Past guests Amber Bixby (@bixbot) and Andrew Tompkins (@andrewtompkins) were there, along with Austin comedy stalwarts Cody Hustak (@CodyHustak) and Bryan Gutmann (@BryanGutmann), along with Brendan to co-host the hybrid show with me, and a very encouraging crowd!

I'm thrilled to have had the show for a whole year, and this podcast for 32 episodes! Thanks for listening, and come to Austin Java every Saturday at 8 for Austin's best FREE comedy show, SURE THING.

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Brian Gaar (@briangaar) stops by Sincere Tweets! Brian is a super-funny comic that has performed at both Moontowers, South by South West, Out of Bounds Fest, and more- also he is a prolific twitter joke writer with a mythical amount of followers. We talk growing up with or without the internet, fatherhood, and the various worlds of twitter.

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Katie Pengra (@Kpenguins) has done both Moontower Comedy Festival, the Ladies are Funny Festival, she ran the Velveeta Room's Late Slot for a year, and is one of the funniest and most unique comics in town. We talk about plugging yourself, religion, Austin's hippie culture, and lots more in this week's Sincere Tweets.

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Luke McClory (@LukeMcClory) is super funny (Out of Bounds Fest, semi-finals, Cap City stuff), and also one of the first friends I made here (and subsequently badgered into facebook-friending me back). We talk about the origins of his distinct style, his beginnings as a comic in LA, how his more unique sensibility works in the Austin scene, and many more things.

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Joe Shaffer (@KingofHighFives) is a funny dude that started comedy in Austin, then moved to Australia- we follow him from Sydney to Melbourne to Brisbane, learning the difference between American and Australian comedy along the way, as well as Joe's take on crowd work, twitter, and other fun things.

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Lucas Molandes (@lucasmolandes) is a Funniest Person in Austin winner, and he's performed on Live at Gotham, in Montreal's Just For Laughs festival, and many other things. He's back in Austin after wrapping a stint as a writer for MTV's "Failosophy," we talk about New York, balancing what you want from comedy with what you want from life, and many more subjects.

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Bob Khosravi (@puddleychef) is a great friend and great comic! He has done both Moontower Comedy Festivals, Art Outside Fest, in the San Francisco Comedy Competition, and for/at many other things/places. We talk about many things in this episode: religion, impostor syndrome, accepting compliments, and the benefits/drawbacks of too much self-reflection. It's already one of my favorites so far!

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Steven Farmer (@stevenafarmer) has performed in Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Art Outside Festival, Denver's Laugh Track Festival and will be in this year's Laughing Devil Festival in NYC. We talk about balancing his demanding schedule as a personal trainer, making his own independent film, and growing up in small town Arkansas.

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Maggie Maye (@maggiemayehaha) is one of Austin's funniest and most active comics- she's performed at Moontower Comedy Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Out of Bounds Fest, the Ladies are Funny Festival, and many more. We talked about a recent customer service/twitter experience Maggie had, where to draw inspiration from, and of course the latest developments in the world of candy.

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Andrew Rosas (@MrAndrewRosas) is a busy man- he's a member of Stag comedy troupe, a contributor to Master Pancake, he's in a band called Ghostward, he has a movie-centric podcast of his own called And Now This!, AND he does stand up comedy! We talk about balancing the schedule, pop culture dealbreakers, twitter stuff, and lots more.

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Jake Flores (@Jake_Flores) is a vey funny person that has told jokes at Fun Fun Fun Fest, with the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, and many other times and places. He brought back Austin's insult-comedy gameshow Spite Club last year, and generally is one of the best comics in town. Listen to this podcast where we talk comedy-related ambivalence, Stanhope-syndrome, and much more.

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Aaron Brooks (@FunnyBrooks) moved to Austin from St. Louis in May, and we talk a bunch about coming from less active Midwestern comedy scenes. He also has a very unique note-taking process, some great road stories, and thoughts on comedy and twitter, of course.

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Danny Palumbo (@Palumbros) is a regular at Cap City, has done Moontower, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and is such a good friend of mine that we're going to insult each at the next Spite Club. We talk career stuff, being unemployed for over a year stuff, and other stuff as well.

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Dallas-emigree Adam Shumate (@THE_SHOOMATAY) is one of my favorite people and comics. This episode contains fun facts, a review of Adam's very few tweets, and some of the most personal material Sincere Tweets has ever covered. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it.

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 David McQuary (@DavidMcQuary) is a regular at Cap City, an alum of Moontower Comedy Festival, a former editor-in-chief of the Texas Travesty, and a weird, funny dude. We talk about the Panda-Express-related origin of our acquaintance, his multi-colored, somewhat abstract notebook process, and the different mentalities of twitter.

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 Jay Whitecotton (@whitecotton) moved to Austin from San Antonio last year, and he's a real funny guy that's put on a lot of shows, and worked with a lot of funny people. We talk open mic friendship politics, the importance of context, and other abstract stuff while messing around and trying to ignore my roommates having a barbecue right outside the window. It's a fun episode- Sincere Tweets is back!

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Amber Bixby (@bixbot) is super funny (Moontower, Ladies Are Funny Fest, Cap City, etc), and also super anxious in a way that most people relate to. We talk about not knowing what to do with your hands, seeing movies alone, and also a good deal about suicide (as it has provided a wealth of stage material for Amber thus far).

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Sara Reihani (@sarajoon) is a new stand up comic on the Austin scene, a filmmaker, and a very interesting thinker. For the fifteenth Sincere Tweets we discuss sociel anxieties in many different forms- back-room open mic body language, navigating comedy as a female person, social media of course (Sara quit facebook in 2008 and has never looked back), and more.

The fourteenth guest on Sincere Tweets is my good pal Sean Robb, a funny guy and Austin mainstay. We talk about internet stuff (he has an unused twitter @SeanRobbPHD), the temptation to be offensive when you're a new comic, and many more anxieties. Fun episode!

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John Buseman (@johnbuseman) is a longtime improviser, recent successful dabbler in stand up, and a member of There's Waldo, a sketch group that has performed in many festivals like Moontower and Out of Bounds here in Austin. We talk about the different mentalities stand up and improv require, and the value that each discipline can bring to the other. Thanks for listening guys!

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Joe Hafkey (@joehafkey), a Funniest Person in Austin Finalist and a perfomer at the first San Francisco Comedy Burrito Festival, is the twelfth Sincere Tweets guest! We touch on many, many things in this episode- superlatives, the need for alone time, the band he and I tried to start, building up to more personal material, and much more.

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 For the eleventh Sincere Tweets, I wanted to talk to one of Austin's newer comics about how they're finding the Austin scene so far- Michael Pearson (@michaelpearsun) is a one liner comic that is nine months into stand up. After chatting a little about twitter anxiety, and saving bad jokes, we start reviewing nearly all of the open mics in the city, from Monday to Sunday (sort of an audio version of an Austin-American Statesman article that followed Kath Barbadoro around for a week).

Lots of the feedback for the show so far is coming from new comics in Austin, so I thought a tour of the open mic week would be helpful. And again, the website to check for open mic listings we talk about is lastgascomedy.com. Bookmark that already.

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The tenth episode finally features my good friend, hilarious comic, and co-host of The Laugh Lounge Brendan K. O'Grady (Fun Fun Fun Fest, Out of Bounds Fest, PUNCH!). We talk about whether twitter is good for comedy or not, how his background as a comedy writer informs his stand up so far, how much optimism is required to stick with stand up for as long as it takes to succeed at it, and many, many things in between.

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Derek Phelps (@thederekphelps) is a tremendously funny comedian (Funniest Person in Austin Finalist, Fun Fun Fun Fest) and also a very talented trumpet player with Hard Proof and and Black Joe Lewis. We sat down for the ninth Sincere Tweets and discussed the usual issues of twitter and self-representation, and then about personal control and the interplay between music and comedy. It's a lower key but fun episode. Thanks for listening as always guys!

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Roxy Castillo (@puglyroxy) is the co-host of Crapshoot, a burlesque dancer, a very funny comic, and one of the most creative people I know- also she is the eigth guest on Sincere Tweets! We talk about Follow Friday related anxiety, whether it's possible to be too sincere on stage, and remembering that we're doing comedy on purpose. This episode is one of my favorites so far.

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