Stand-up comedians who are ready to take the world by storm have many early historic stops along the road to verging superstardom, and this podcast is one of the most important.
Ready Set Blow w/ Randy Valerio is a weekly podcast hosted by Los Angeles comedian Randy Valerio as he sits down with comedians, entertainers, professionals, and friends to discuss life, relationships, careers, opinions, and current events.
Randy Valerio: Randy is a Los Angeles-based comedian and podcaster originally hailing from Queens, New York. After going to a fancy Ivy League university and spending over a decade as an investment banker, Randy decided he was tired of being able to pay his bills on time and jumped head-first into stand-up comedy. Randy’s style of comedy reflects his diverse upbringing in New York City by an immigrant father from the Dominican Republic and a German-Irish mother, his experiences as a single man in his 30s, and the everyday absurdities we all take part in but never seem to notice. He got his start in the Boston comedy scene in 2016 and began taking his act on the road opening for Jeff Dye (The Tonight Show, NBC’s Better Late Than Never, Last Comic Standing) beginning in the summer of 2018, performing in over 35 cities across the country. Randy has also opened for such other comics as Donnell Rawlings, Chris Franjola, and Dean Delray. In January 2020, Randy had the opportunity to perform internationally for the first time in Australia at the Fringe World Festival, and in 2021, he was featured at the Idaho Comedy Fest. During the pandemic, Randy was able to grow a nascent Instagram following to over 39K followers, having his jokes reposted by BuzzFeed.com, TheChive.com, and various meme accounts with a combined 50M+ following. He is also the host of the weekly Ready Set Blow podcast, which was included in the first annual Boston Podfest at Laugh Boston comedy club in 2018.
In this episode, comedian and producer Nick Romero joins the show.
They guys start the show discussing the pandemic days and what they did with their time and government checks. Nick talks about his brush with cancellation, learning from past mistakes and second chances. Randy asks Nick about his journey with addiction from daily drinking to being a “dry drunk” to finally getting sober in a healthy and positive way. The fellas discuss the Me Too movement and how long it took for it to reach the music industry. Nick tells Randy how he started the Machine Gun Comedy shows and its evolution. The boys share their mutual love for no-holds-barred dark comedy. The fellas close with the news for the week – Hangovers cost the US economy over $220 billion a year, a study shows that people who believe in astrology have lower IQs and a tendency toward narcissism, and a former military officer claims the US made a truce with an alien civilization.
