 It's me, it's Luigi Scarcelli and it's Friday night. It's my show, welcome to it, it's Friday p.m. We had a great show tonight. We have the hip hop artists, mostly, yeah. Improviser and freestyler. Improviser and freestyler. Unique, unknown is here. We've got an audience. Everybody give yourself a round of applause out there. Okay, that's enough. So, Unique has a great audience with him. We're going to hear some really cool songs. He was at our New Year's Eve event. We had a New Year's Eve event. We had probably about 10 or 12 different folks doing a lot of different types of music. It was great. That's where we met him, but he's got a great story as well. We're going to learn a little bit more about him and also his collaborator named Kyler, right? You don't have a more of a name like Unique, unknown. It's just Kyler, right? Actually, when I do poetry, I am hip hop critis. Okay, I like that. Socrates, right, yeah. So, like I say, let's kind of learn a little bit more about you guys. Let's do it. Let's do it. So, Unique, tell us a little bit about kind of your life story. You were born in Florida. I know that. That's a little ways away from Maine. I was. I was born in Port St. Lucy, Florida. I was adopted in Florida. Lived there for about eight years. Then we moved to Arizona. My dad got a job at Intel. We moved there. And then my mom ended up moving us up to Van Buren, Maine. They got a divorce. So we ended up moving up to Van Buren, Maine, which was kind of crazy. A little bit of a culture shock for me going from 100 degrees to, you know, negative 20 degrees sometimes, the biggest snowstorm I've ever seen in my life. But yeah, so. So you went from the swamp to the desert to basically rural Maine. Yes. Because it's not even important. It's Van Buren. It's six hours up north. Oh, God. Kind of closer to Canada, maybe. Very close. I could be at two places at once. Right, right. And they always have these names, too, like Van Buren. Makes it sound very majestic or something. Named after somebody important, but probably wasn't a lot going on in Van Buren. No, not a lot. They actually had a McDonald's that closed down in Van Buren, Maine. So you can imagine how thriving the place is. But I, you know, I grew to love it. Coming from Florida and Arizona, I didn't play sports or do music or anything like that. But then when I moved to Maine, my mom got me a drum set, a little mini drum set. That's where I started. I got to play soccer, basketball, tennis, and I loved it. It was, I think, necessary for my growth, for sure. So what brought you from Van Buren to Portland? Were you going to school or was it an adult? Probably wasn't when you were younger than 18. You popped over from there to here. I went to USM for theater. Yeah. So I was staying on the campus for a while. And then I started dealing with chronic nerve damage, which really started to affect my day-to-day life. And then I ended up moving into Portland. I left USM my third year, so I didn't finish college. But who needs it, right? Just kidding, not promoting it. Go to school, kids. Yeah. So I ended up, that's really where I found unique unknown. I started freestyling with my friends at USM. And then when I started dealing with chronic pain, I started writing. And I always struggled looking in the mirror because I'm adopted. I don't know what my real parents looked like. So unique unknown was my way of stress relief, of seeing myself for who I really am. And it was really the growth that's come. And of course, meeting Kyler at both Finis. I was doing a slam poetry event. And he came up to me afterwards and was like, you're good. We should do some stuff together. And I was like, all right. And here we are. What's life? The funny thing I was going to say is that you're probably not that far behind the eight ball with the other guys that graduated if they got a degree in theater. It's kind of, you know, I mean, I'm working at the Tiltzins Museum and Theater of Maine as a theater program associate. I got very lucky. Well, that was what I was going to ask you about. You also, by day, you know, you're kind of like a Superman Clark Kent, right? You got unique unknown on one side. But there's Nathan, if we don't want to, you know, let everybody know your real name. My name, but tell us about what you do with children at the Children's Museum, correct? Yeah, so we all know COVID happened. And life pretty much changed there. But I had an opportunity to be in a play. Laura, my friend, oh, God, Megan hit me up and was like, you need to audition for this play. I auditioned. I got the part. Met Laura Morris who ended up getting me opportunities to teach kids in Raymond and Wyndham. And then I auditioned for a play at the Tiltzins Museum and Theater of Maine. Actually, I went in for a script reading and I got the part based off the script reading. Frederick the musical. And then I auditioned again for Frog and Toad. I got the part of Toad, Frog's in the audience right now. Mason, love your brother. And yeah, I was still working in Wyndham and Raymond at the time for Be the Influence, a drug-free coalition. And Reba, my boss, hit me up and was like, hey, Nathan, I want you to work here. Let's have a, let's have a chat. So we went to Rwanda, talked, and she convinced me to go work at the Children's Museum. So are you teaching theater? Rather than, you're going to think, oh, well, maybe you teach music, but you're doing theater. I do a little bit of everything. Everything. I've done everything in the theater now. I've house managed. I've worked backstage. I create programs for kids, interactive programs that I perform each and every day. And I absolutely love it. Train of thought just slowly slipping away right now. Yeah, so I love it. I get to act. I've written a play at this point now. I'm going to be directing a couple plays. So it's like, it's insane to think. I'm very blessed to be in this position. And this has been over, you said before COVID? This is like, I mean, it's still COVID, I guess, but like second year of COVID when this stuff started happening, which has been, yeah, I love it. Absolutely. I mean too. I was with the Boys and Girls Club today teaching an improv class and beatboxing with the kids. Probably working with the Mondays of the Mind guys. Work with Monday the Mind. Yeah, that's my first show. I had them as an interview with them a couple of weeks ago, and I know he works with the Boys and Girls Club. So Kyler, let's talk a little bit about yourself. I know we're going to be doing a little more with Unique for a little bit after, but this is your chance to tell us a little bit about you as well, because you guys collaborate on a lot of things. Actually, it's all about me. I'm sorry, I don't know. We're going to give Kyler a chance here, yes. But I know you're sometimes like a visual artist too, and also a musical artist. Is that kind of those two things mesh a lot? Absolutely. I do feel like the creativity overlaps a little bit, and yeah, I do have some art up in the Bramble Gallery free court, man. Okay. But yeah, I believe a lot in the permanence of art. Obviously, lots of people shoot for money, or what is status, what do you want your legacy to be? But if I ask you who had the nicest house in the 1700s, you probably wouldn't know, but I ask you who wrote music, you would know Mozart. No, he probably had the nicest house too. Right, exactly, right. But I believe in the permanence of art, so yeah, I do think there's a lot of overlap there. It's like they'd say who had the best girlfriends or things like that, and nobody knows. But Mozart probably had that too. He probably had the best girls too. So you have a wife and a son, are they here with us tonight? Are they watching at home? They are watching at home. Hello, hi guys. Yes, and I'm incredibly proud of my son, Seamus, who's 19 this year. Seamus, cool. Yes, that's right. He's a little bit Irish. A little bit Irish. But yeah, he wants to go into sound engineering. Okay. So he is watching tonight. He's watching. He just did a residency, so to say, up at Huston University. Okay. He did a mentorship with DJ Matt Perry over at Breakwater Studios, which is now Black Owl Studios, where we do a lot of recording. So yeah, my son is definitely... Into that side of things. Yeah. And a sound engineer, creative side of things. Well, hopefully we're going to have good sound for him tonight to be listening to as you play. That's great. You know, we're still working on all of our sound things. You guys are amazing. I think we've got it, yeah, exactly. So how... You guys met at Bolfini's. So that's... Isn't that pretty Irish place itself, right? Yes, that's true. And it was about 10 years ago. Yeah. And it was a poetry slam. Okay, a poetry slam. And it was very crowded that night. And we were both just performing poets. So when I got there, it was super crowded. And I just found a table in the back and happened to say, hey, is this seat taken? And then we both performed. And at the end of the night, I was like, dude, you were really good. Can I give you my number? And that was sort of the building of to where we started jamming in the basement. And then we played a guitar grave where Mike and the guys were so gracious to host us for years and let us play outside. And then, as you said, we built up to Monday of the Mines, which is, you know, in the original rap night. Flask? That flask is where Monday of the Mines is, right? And rap night has moved around at that time. Aura, right? Yeah. But all those guys were so welcoming to us. And it's intimidating when you go in there. But once you get up and do it, even if you mess up, everyone is very welcoming. So it's a really cool scene here in Portland. Yeah. And how big is the hip hop scene? It's not gigantic. Like how many artists do you think kind of revolve in that? It's interesting. I find like, you know, you think Portland and Maine is somewhat small, but there's actually a lot of, there is people I still learn about to this day. Right. But I know the Monday of the Mines scene has always been around, been pretty big. And I know there's other hip hop guys doing their thing in town too. So it's been booming, I'd say. And I love being a part of it. So let's talk a little bit because I know you got to perform soon. I think we're doing okay on time. Socially conscious kind of hip hop, you'd say that's a little bit more of what you do. Ah, yeah, conscious hip hop. I mean, if you look up the definition of conscious hip hop, it's very, it can be politically driven rap. I'm not a political person at all. I'm very much about the consciousness, treating others how you'd want to be treated. Loving one another, that kind of deal, respect. That's what conscious means to me. And being conscious of yourself and relating to others, empathy. So that's what I do with my music. It's pretty much been the ultimate stress relief and beauty for my soul for sure. Well, so because I have a feeling that the audience may not get a chance to understand more about what you do because you'll be doing it. Is there something, even as a kind of foreshadowing for to explain kind of how some of it, I mean, some of the looping stuff is not that well known or it's not, it's something very unique to yourself. It is. I look up to people like Reggie Watts, Mark Riblet, Beardy Man, check out Beardy Man if you've never seen him. But my music has adapted over the years. It started out with just rapping over beats, freestyle with the Monday of the Minds crew. And then I had to audition for Children's Museum and Theater Main. My interview part of it was an audition. So I bought a loop pedal from this guy named Sam. And that's when I started using the loop pedal and working with that. And then they got the Reggie Watts delayed modeler for me, which I can change and do vocal effects and all that. So my show is pretty sporadic. You're not going to know what to expect. It's fun. It's good or bad. You know, it's going to be probably a mix of the two. So don't expect a lot. It's going to be terrible. I don't like it at all. I'm just kidding. I'm really excited. Setting the expectations low. Well, let's ask the audience. You all know what he does. You like it. Let's give a round of applause if you like it. Okay. That's what we needed. It's an encouragement. Well, I know that we're going to get a chance to hear a unique play and we should get to that. We've kind of covered some great bases here. I don't know if there's anything else you guys wanted to talk about. What we have up here, maybe how they get ahold of you, social media, where we'd be playing coming up. Family band records. Yeah, absolutely. Part of what we did after those chapters we talked about was start family band records. Family band records. Yeah, family band. Like family, you're not allowed here. Family band records. Oh, band. Yeah, we've gotten a lot of really cool folks in town to help us produce and perform on the tracks. There's one album that's out there already and we have another one that's about to drop. You can find the website familybandrecords.com. Okay. Well, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to hear some unique. So let's cut to that break now. Let's go. Yes. St. Clair vision presents. Everyone knows that beautiful hair makes a girl. Hey, everybody. Yeah, let's cut it. This is beautiful Chrissy. The doll with beautiful hair that grows right down to her toes. Turn the knob and her hair is shorter. Press your tummy and you can make her hair grow. And grow and grow right down to her toes. You'll love to brush it and brush it. He has beautiful hair. She has beautiful eyes. She has beautiful clothes. Beautiful Chrissy comes in this beautiful dress, but you can get all these other beautiful clothes for her too and style her hair to go with them. Beautiful Chrissy has beautiful hair that grows. Beautiful Chrissy. She's ideal. You are watching unique unknown. I am an artist improviser and performer based out of Portland, Maine. And we're here to have a good time. I've got some tracks to play. I've got a loop pedal. And it's about to go down. One man has to make people enjoy him for an hour. He's only got one chance to not let it blow like Eminem said back in the day. And he's going to do all. But we're going to take a quick commercial break. I'll be right back with you. Hi, my friends. Do you like bananas? Do you like phones? Well, I'm going to call my mom real quick. Hello. Hey, mom. Yeah, I'm on TV right now. Yeah, there's a bunch of people watching. What do you mean I should have been talking on a banana phone? Ridiculous. Let's get this music started. No, that's not how you do it. Everybody, this is all practice. It's my birthday weekend. I don't know if you heard it the first time I said it. Yo, I'm about to put on my birthday suit and look real cute. What else am I supposed to do? Oh, I got the B-shirt on and I'm flying. Love on myself always got to keep trying. Exciting these fires of desire out of my own mind. I'm looking at you. You're looking at me like all the time. I can't see it. I don't even have a watch on, but it's okay because it's here. Here we go. It's my birthday, Nolan. Here we go. No, I'm crazy. And I appreciate everyone here at PMC for helping me get set up here. That was an introduction by unique unknown. Now let's go on to some other dudes. We doing good? We feeling good? I appreciate you all watching, checking it out. Who knows what's going to happen? We're going to have fun either way. Yeah, listen, I see the sun rise over the horizon. Guess it's time again for fight or flight. Despite my mind being out of touch, out of sight. Such a rush to make it through another night. Always blinded sight, swiped by depression. The impression is I'm fine, but behind these eyes I'm restless. Second guessing constantly. Subconsciously I'm woke, but my conscience is broken. Can never be too cautious of what others have spoken. That's what my mother told me. Don't hold me to another standard. I broke that candid camera. I am one you'll never own. I wish I knew who I was talking to. See sometimes it feels like an illusion of outgrown. Please put me out cold. Let me dream for a moment. Yes, I breathe for these moments. I would bleed for a moment to relieve you of your omens. It's so easy to just look the other way. Keep going like we've been chosen. No. Oh no, you won't take this life from me. Oh no, you won't take this life from me. You won't take this life from me. Won't take this life from me. You see the sun lies always hiding itself. No surprise. That's why I keep hiding myself in these pages. There's no replacement. No paper chasing. That cream won't save me. Experience has changed me. Wearing in some days. My body and soul I'm bound to explode. I'm cold. Sounds breaking. I'm all bound in the walls. We uphold the challenges. Both leave a star whenever we're not sold. Take a hold of yourself. Pick up your shoulders. This is the role we've been dealt. Roll up your sleeves. It's getting dirty. This is hard work we deserve. And you know that early bird gets the worm. Here's more encouragement. Don't ever let them feel worthless. Our children need courage. Now it's never picture perfect. But it could be worth it. Listen to me. Oh no, you won't take this life from me. Take this life from me. Won't take this life from me. You won't take this life from me. I've got all the night I need. With these rhymes I bleed. The blinds recede. Was once blind now I see. You won't take this life from me. I've got all the time I need. With these rhymes I bleed. The blinds recede. Was once blind now I see. This life from me. That was a song. You guys are too kind. It's my birthday weekend. Well have I got... Do you feel hot all the time? Or do you feel like life gets in the way? Well have I got the tool for you. It's called this pink fan right here. All you've got to do is this. And it makes you feel cool. Like a breath of fresh air. If that breath has brushed its teeth. Make sure you brush your teeth kids. All right back to your regularly scheduled program. Yes this is what you're going to be watching. All right who's ready for some more improv? What should I sing about? Somebody give me a subject. Giraffes oh good god all right. Okay listen one at a time guys. To the right blood dig. Good thing I prop my bagels. That a gas guard. That's the only place I know where animals exist. Apparently I don't know. About giraffes and toaster ovens. Thank you audience for being a part of this beautiful, beautiful show. He is hot make sure before you drink tea out of its container. You check it first because it can burn your throat. And it's very scalding as it goes down. All right keep that in mind. I don't know where I'm looking right now. Stop it. All right we're gonna have a little fun. We're gonna have some fun. I brought my party gloves. Who here likes the party? Everyone. All right so I brought my mask. This is good TV etiquette right now. You know my dad's probably watching. Hi dad I love you. Look directly at the light. I should have done a warning before. I have a seizure watching this. If I get a little bit more in my monitor is that too much? I've been sitting here thinking about which way to go through the stormy weather. My vision is blurred the line's been covered at the cost of the ones I drew. Understand this is difficult can't do it all alone. I am miserable this picture perfect presence. He's a ritual residual. You can imagine having trouble following me back and forth. Just know that you don't have to keep looking at me. You can just listen. Sometimes the world moves way too fast. We need a moment to just chill and relax. Oh hold on. Hold on. Yeah yeah this is really not a good time. No you call me back later. It's my birthday weekend. Yeah okay we're gonna take a quick commercial break and we'll be right back. Hi my friends do you whoa this ain't gonna work. Hi my friends. Do you like writing? Do you like poop? We'll try elephant poop writing paper right here. This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. Thank you to Kyler Headingson and it's specially made from elephant poo. So if you need yourself some elephant poo buy this today. Only $5.99 in select stores please do not buy this product. It is illegal in 59 states if you buy this product you will go to jail. Back to your regularly scheduled program. This guy's crazy. All right I brought a friend here. Uh oh Nolan's like no it's not ready. I brought a friend Nolan. Nolan you want to come up here with your easel. We're gonna do some I work with Nolan at the Children's Museum and Theater of Maine. He's done some art for me at the art walk. You just set up right here. So we're gonna do some art music while he sets up. I'm gonna lay the mood. About to go wild. We're about to have a good time. Bet you never seen anything like this in your home. Rhymes with easel. Easel. Coneevil. Evil. Beatles. Beatles right? What else rhymes with easel? Weasel. Weasel. Anything else? That's a tough one isn't it? So my friends I'm gonna need some suggestions from the audience. We're gonna try to tell a story together. His phenomenal artist right here is Nolan. Everybody say hi Nolan. And then say say hi Nolan. Hi Nolan. Nice I hope you would say that. So I need a suggestion of a made-up creature. Just give it whatever you can think of. Twig Billy. All right twig Billy. Can you write twig Billy up there? Now where does twig Billy live? In the bog. You guys are so great. What is twig Billy's profession? Rock picker-upper. All right I think we're good with that. This is gonna be the rest of the show. It's just watching him drop. That's beautiful. All right well we're gonna get a strong start. I'm gonna get a beat going. Feel free to start if you want. However you've got a couple things there. They call me twig. My kicks on my feet. They but it knows how I be. Now 95 picking up rocks. It's a really hard job. Because if they're in Maine they gotta pick potatoes. So first they gotta remove the rocks. So they can go pick potatoes. And I know it's not a really cool job. But it gets me about $2,000 for two weeks. I feel me. I love myself and I'm complete. Call me twig. Some headphones. I'm sure what's gonna happen next. What's my name? I don't know. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. What's my name? Listen Lou Petal. That was all rude. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig. What's my name? I don't know. I'm twig. I'm twig. I'm twig Billy. I don't know why. I'm walking right down the world. And I see the sky. It's the beautiful sunshine. And birds. That's poop. But how can I be cool with the life I chose? Hey, it's my best friend, the turtle. I'm laughing, but I'm having fun. They call me. It's how I get kids would really love this song. They call me twig. Now let me break it down. How can I tell you the truth? I've been working so hard. My fingers got warts on them. Oh my goodness, it hurts. But I feel good. I get to provide for my family. And it's understood I got a wife and two kids. One boy, one girl. And they know how to live. What else can I give? I'm twig Billy. Everybody sing with me. Twig, we got one more verse. Oh no, my hand it really hurts like I said. I got a couple stars on it. But it's all right. I washed it last week. Is that okay? Even though I've been digging all the time. It might smell bad right now. But it's okay. I've got some old spice spray right next to me in my pocket. It's the swagger version. I'm going to spray it all on me and feel good, right? Twig Billy, everybody. We've got Twig Billy here. Look, he's got his headphones on. He's listening to DMX. He gets that paper, you know, from picking up those smiling rocks. Don't ask me why they're smiling. Oh, I'm just kidding. We've got a wonderful turtle, his friend. What's his friend's turtle's name? George the turtle. Everybody say hi, George the turtle. What's on the next page? Old spice. Try it today. All right, let's give Nolan a big round of applause. Dylan, I love you brother. Wonderful birthday. Oh, it's my birthday. Nolan is amazing artist. I love you, my friend. No silence on the TV. Everybody just give me one second. One, two, three, four, five. Until I die. Cause we down for life. I'm on a mission for some violence. Itching towards a victory. Insistent with each and every step. A lesson learned from mystery. Eventually we all face the enemies who end up being that man. He's the fear. That's why I keep you here. Without you I won't struggle that we face. Can I say you helped me grow? Through knowledge and patience. Honest communication. The key to this relationship. A piece of my heart. Freedom to accept change. Although it may be hard. We'll keep on trying. If a piece of mind will count to one. Two, three, four, five. Struggles, victories, blessings, love. Right until I die. Cause we down for life. Ah, it's no longer complete. Down for. Have a short attention span. Do you need something to fill up your mind with time? Well have I, you've got the tool for you. It's called a yo-yo. You can use the yo-yo, but it will tangle up on you every now and then. And when it does tangle up, you have to figure out a way to get it untangled. But don't you worry, we have the tool for you. It's called, you can call customer service. Excuse me. I am so sorry. You can call customer service and they'll help you out with your broken yo-yo. And if customer service has given you a round, well then you can go ahead and pick up the poo-poo platter. You can write down everything you're upset about with the yo-yo. Go ahead and put it in this. Send it to the U.S. government and they will file it away. And what is this? Why were we sent this? Back to your regularly scheduled program. Okay, I don't know how to do ASMR. I'm trying my best. We can't keep hold of him. I'm sorry. Shout out to the cameraman. And shout out to all the camera people doing their thing. Following me around everywhere. It's got to be crazy. Oh, did you guys know it's my birthday weekend? Unique unknown. And I'm shameless. Nice to meet you. Excuse me miss, I've got a question. Duh, duh, it's my only time to unwind. Excuse me sir, I've got sweat inside my eyes from all the lights. I'm supposed to keep it off me. I don't know. Maybe I'll keep coughing. It's not COVID. It's just the flu. It comes around and I don't know what to do. What do I choose? Do I choose? Sign next? That's not a medication you can take for something like that. You got to figure out a way. Take it out of the way. Maybe some ginger tea or maybe something else will make you feel good up into a leak. Oh, in my eyes, but I'm okay. Dantious, depressed, tired, and all of it. Who cares, right? I hope you do because you need to take a moment. Look at your friends. Say hello. How are you doing? I hope you're not going through something bad. If you are, let's take a minute to talk about it. If you don't want to, we can sit for a moment. I'll just listen to you. You just listen to me. It's all about love, respect, and unity. Am I right, everybody? That was called Dut, Dut, Dut, Dut by Unica Known. This is Unica Known at PMC. If you're enjoying your time, give me a whoop whoop. Oh, just kidding. Just kidding, my friends. You're crazy. You're too crazy. So I'm performing at Mainz Got Talent this year. So I'm going to show you the song I'm performing. Are you guys down? All right, hopefully nobody from Mainz Got Talent is watching right now because they'll be like, we've already heard it. It's not great. Just kidding. It's called... What's the date? Oh, gosh, Kyler? April 22nd. You can watch it. It's in Lewiston at the Franco Center. There's going to be a bunch of other amazing artists. We actually have a past artist in the audience right now. Melvin. Hi. I love you. I'm not asking you. You can just... I was just saying hi. All right, we're going to perform that song. This song's called I Am. God's plan. Who knows what it is? We're always trying to figure it out. Still trying to figure out who I am. Uh. Last verse. But this isn't live. It's okay. I'll figure it out. Freestyle without my mind. I'm inclined to be myself all the time. But I find myself falling down. Why? I don't know. There's no reason for the season. But reason is on my mind. I just let it go. Show myself for the people who need it. That just keeps on spinning. We're never really winning. We're losing. We're all going to die someday. It's the truth. But what else can I do? Just be me. It was for me to forget that last verse. But this isn't Mayne's Got Talent, right? Did I win? You know, mistakes will be made. But it's about how you climb that mountain of a mistake and find yourself on the other end. That's what is truly beautiful about life. We're going to take a quick commercial break and we'll be right back after these messages. I'm not tired. You're tired. Are you tired? Because I'm tired. Well, I've got the thing for you. Are you feeling like you're just out of it? You don't know how to wake yourself up? Well, have I got the tool for you? It's this thing in my jig. All you've got to do is slightly rub it in your hair, just like that, and it will wake you up in a matter of seconds. See? I'm alive right now. I love you, Mom. I can't believe I'm doing this live on TV right now. This is crazy. But it's all good. Buy one today. Only $13.99. Please do not purchase this item. All right, my friends, what else should I sing about? How much time do I need to hear? Oh, yeah. We're doing good. 15 minutes. I can do this. All right. Somebody give me something to sing about. Yes, I'm putting the pressure on you. 19 minutes. Oh, gosh. Okay. Somebody give me something long to sing about. Oh, Mason. Beautiful human. Duh. Oh, oh. It's a change of season. It was just winter. I've been feeling cold for way too long. It's supposed to snow on Sunday. And if you didn't know that it's about the snow on Sunday, why it doesn't make sense anymore. I'm sweating more. Mike cut this off but I can't because if I do that I won't be recognizable and I will feel like I lost a part of myself. I guess I'm feeling real on TV but it's okay because I'm supposed to just be me. You need to know the flow is happily known but I am crying my best to not freeze up and find out why this is the change of seasons till next year we won't have to change time again they're trying to figure it out but we know how the government is right yes we do oh touchy that was a song about the change of seasons staggered clapping it's probably my favorite thing you finish up something and you're waiting and then somebody's like should it be me you look over to your friend you're like are you going to do it am I going to do it no you're going to do it you start I'll go after you I got you to clap am I right everybody audience jokes so I was walking the other day I was walking on the road and I saw a cat on the ground and I said hi cat and the cows the cow the cat said hi back to me and I freaked out and left catch can't talk come on people I'm not a real stand-up comedian 10 minutes remaining 10 minutes remaining if you're still watching this don't go anywhere this beat is by DJ Matt Perry if you want to get a song recording hit up the owl studio so where the next on these streets unknown the most coast to coast of my own mission oh I did this shows this road you know what mistakes are so great I gotta start this over I know we're live but I can do what I want it's my show oh guess what it's my birthday you guys are gonna be like I know at the end of this stop saying that you always watch somebody and they restart the beat and you're like oh doing this again really I got to listen to that 10 second intro it he's close to home on head don't know these decisions and chose this bro hired from this wire that I was starting to slow slow deeper than this song trying to shine where I went wrong I will rise from where I was once I found myself a bathtub you lose your way but worse is feel empty spaces now I just hit myself in the face and you all saw it you all saw it I'm gonna have a fat lip and it's okay all right I've got five minutes left I assume probably six probably like six how's everybody doing what one more song all right give me one more thing this actually you know what I got the last thing I'm gonna sing about oh I'm turning 31. It's my birthday. I'm feeling like I am so old and everybody in the audience is like you're still young. But I've gone through so much stuff. It's okay because it's my birthday. And it won't slow. It won't slow down. Try to switch from rapping to singing in a minute or two. Can't believe it. This doesn't make sense for my brain. How can you do this? How can you choose this life of just love and acceptance for everybody? Oh, it's because I love you. I love myself too. And that's where it starts. Do you know the most important thing about this song? Guess what? It's my birthday. It's my birthday. And I want to thank the emcee for helping out go anywhere because we're going to do some improv jam. And after this, because it's my birthday. And it feels so good. One last commercial break. Now, guys, are you like me and want to play with something on the stairwell but can't figure out what to play with? Well, I've got one of the most classic things it's called a slinky. 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They're kind of my all time favorites on the show before. We got Alganacar here stand up comic Alganacar as well as I think street photographers. A good way to say it, right? Yeah, John Duncan, who has a book. Yeah, John has a book that's been a best seller here in Maine. It's called Take it Easy Portland is 70s and it's really interesting photographs. It's not just for Christmas. I think you'd like to buy it for people's birthdays in the summertime. John is also out all the time. First Friday you're out there sometimes selling books, but a lot of times doing great photos. Love being out there. We're going to talk to John in a second, but I want to talk to Al a little bit about you've got a lot of shows coming up, but one really good like right around the corner. I want you to tell people about it so they can get tickets. It's not sold out yet, but it will be. So get these tickets, but he's going to tell you a little bit more about it. So my name is Alganacar and I am the host of the Saturday Night Vibes comedy show that happens right where we're sitting. This is the exact spot that the comedians stand right here in Studio 516 at the Portland Media Center. So the next Saturday Night Vibes show is tomorrow night. And yeah, that's right. Yeah. So tomorrow Saturday night, 7 p.m. And then we have another one next Saturday. So let me mention the headliner, Josh Filipowski from Boston is coming up. Josh Filipowski. Yeah, funny flips. Yes. Yes. He is hilarious. And then we've got Sarah Pullen from Augusta or I'm sorry, Auburn and Auburn people will get mad if I say Augusta, but and Tuck Tucker. Right. And so both main comedians opening for him and I'll be hosting and and then the following week. So April 1st, we actually do have a comedy show. I didn't make that up. That would be a horrible prank. But we have Laura Sauvers, another Boston comedian. And she's open for Eliza Schlinger, Big J. O'Kersen, a lot of the big names. And so that'll be the following Saturday. That's when we do the first and the last Saturday of the month. And I wanted to ask a question, but I also want to talk about a Vembrant, but I do want to ask that. That's got Tuck Tucker. You wonder if that's his real name, but your real name is Al Ganticar, right? It's not a stage name. Yeah, that is right. I didn't change that to. Yeah, well, I mean, it's like when I was a kid, you know, or before I was born, I'm sure my parents had a bunch of like Indian names picked out and stuff. And then, you know, no, I know, I was just figured out he's an American baby. Just they probably saw the name Al somewhere and just picked that instead. Well, so where can and I was I was kidding around because I was saying it's that you have those comedy names like a Tuck Tucker sounds like it's definitely like made up. Al Ganticar sounds like it's probably your real name. Right. And my parents actually wanted me to change it to something short. And I said, you know, the rhythm of it, you got one syllable first name and a multiple syllable last name. Right. It's got a better ba ba ba ba rhythm, you know. Right. It could be like Al Albertson or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. They wanted me to change my name to Al Gold. Al Gold. And it was just like two for one syllable. What do you think, John? Al Gold or Al Ganticar? Which one sounds better? Ganticar, I think so too. Ganticar. So I have the same type of thing, Luigi Scarce. These longer names, it's very difficult. It can, but it's got a lot of a lot of things. Scarcelly. Scarcelly, right? Scarcelly. A Scarcelly. Yeah, you would never expect your Indian parents to be not accepting of your Indian last name. Right. You're not going to get anywhere in show business like that, son. You need to change it. What is Ganticar? I can barely pronounce that. And I do feel like if I was going to a show and it was Al Gold. So Al, I like Al, but Al is already a little bit on the older side of a name, right? Like Al. So Al Gold, I feel like you're going to be thinking it's Borscht Belt. It's that old time. Al Gold presents. Yeah, it's a weird sound to me. I was like, no, I'm sticking with it. They came around. I was like, I'm sticking with Al Ganticar. I'm keeping the family name. Well, and we had Sarah Poulin. A lot of her compatriots are the River Comics, which was Nick and Leonard. They were on my show recently. But how can people, they can get these tickets on Eventbrite? Is that the best way to find a way to get these? Yep, go on Eventbrite. I try to make the URL so easy. It's PMC as in Portland Media Center, and then I just make it the date. So tomorrow's March 25th. So PMC325. Eventbrite.eventbrite.com. And then next week is for PMC401.eventbrite.com. I was going to say, we might be able to have our computer guys in there type that out, but it's a little bit of a, so that's coming up. You've got that tomorrow, April 1st to March 25th. Tomorrow is 7pm and April 1st, 7pm. And so let's talk a little bit about yourself as well, because John, you have a book here that I bought it. I got it for gifts for people. It was very interesting. It's a story that we talked about about a year ago, but in the, in the few minutes that we have now, I think people would love to hear a little bit of the, how this all came about to get this book from kind of photos that you had sitting in a, in a bin somewhere to one of the best sellers in Maine last year. Well, you know, I've been posting them on Facebook in Wikipedia, Poland, Wikipedia, 60, 70, 80s, and so I was kind of known within that circle, you know, people I knew, old Portlanders, I say, well, I'm an old Portlander, I guess. And, and, Bangerdale Innu's reporter name, Troy Bennett. Okay. And Troy Bennett, he's based here in Poland. So he contacted me and said, oh, I don't want to do an interview with you. And he did an interview at a front page in the Bangerdale Innu's December 20th, 2021. I remember this stuff. So 2020. And then so Christmas happened. And then he said, oh, you need to contact Ion Fortress, the publisher. And yeah, they're on the back. Ion Fortress. And asked me if I wanted to do a book. So before that, I've been kind of under the radar. I mean, somewhat. A fellow named Nick German, who's a really amazing street photographer and photographer in general, and graffiti artist. And he's, I think, known by quite a few people in Poland, kind of reached out to me too, in 2016, when I had oral cancer, and I was going to go through treatment. And just before all that happened, I met Nick, and we had a show just before I was going to start going into radiation and all this stuff. It's wild. And at the, right above Starbucks, where Hayes Drug Store used to be, congressman. And me and five other street photographers. And so that was kind of my coming out, I guess. You know, I was pretty recluse, even though I had all these negatives stuck in sleeves. And yeah, it's opened up a whole can of worms. Whole can? Well, in a good way. In a good way, right? Well, I got to drop in Portland on my child, grew up in Falmouth on my child, which is a little bit in the book. And then this is you back then, right? Yeah, I find out the adoption records are wide open in the early 70s, when I'm like in my 20s. And I went in the courthouse, I looked it up to me about two hours, found my mom's name, called her up on the phone, said, I am John Duncan, he's with me, my mom. She said, Oh, I wonder when you'd call. Yeah, two blocks away on Hampshire Street, right above Tomasos. That's crazy. 32 Hampshire, which is now a condo, which also says something about Portland. That's what I think is pretty interesting. It's like one of the few times you can imagine we have two people who are adopted on the show. That's what unique unknown is saying. He was also adopted by family. Al was not adopted, right? You said, you know, you reference your folks a lot in the comedy. And it's family is comedy gold. Yes, exactly. And they're back because nobody can argue with you. But did they live in India? Well, my dad died last year. So he doesn't live anywhere. Right. But I'm sorry. I can't help it. I'm sorry. Yes. Comedians were our minds are twisted. Whatever. He's my dad. I can say that. Get your own. But no, my my parents had actually, when they became empty nesters, they would spend the winters there. Then once COVID hit, they had when COVID hit, they had to stay because it was too unsafe to travel. And then he passed there. And my mom still lives there because she's found her a nice comfortable retired life with her friends over there. So it's beautiful. Yeah. Well, so that's what I was going to ask you talking about Portland. What are the changes that you've seen in Portland? I mean, is there anything that stands out? The pictures say it all. I mean, it was such a different place back then. But you're seeing it really change drastically probably in the past like 10 or 20 years. You know, there's like a lot of physical change in the buildings and condos and condoization affordability. Yeah, right. But the more and more people I meet, because I mean, the book is kind of just opened up this whole world that I didn't know existed. People have been coming out of the woodwork, they're in the book, there were kids, and I didn't know stories when people see the pictures. It's all that picture is worth a thousand words. I bet you right out of your memory, you can find this is like a picture of Jim Ladoo, a very famous chef used to be Alberta's and all of this. I worked for him at one time in my 20s. We hitchhiked to Wyoming and drilled on a whole rig together back in the 70s. Yeah, there's a lot of stories. And the one, though, that I thought that you could find right out of like memory was the, could you tell briefly a story about the little girl that was in the book? You remember or was that at the, there was one of those ones. Yes, wasn't, and she found you after? Was that her or was it her mother? I found her and her sister living in Florida. Yeah. She had three daughters. This picture right here. Yeah, it was her birthday yesterday. Yeah. Can we get that? She had a daughter that was in Iraq, came back to the United States in 2017. Yeah, took her own life. Surely thereafter, within a week, the whole incident was all over the internet for a boyfriend, did something with the dog. So it, suddenly there was this whole backstory. And then, you know, talking with her daughter, how Michelle herself, Michelle herself kind of had a really rough life too. So her daughter would tell me how that when I was coming after that day was probably one of her happier days because, you know, I captured that moment because she had a tough childhood, tough home life. So, yeah. So stuff like that. And this woman I just met a couple of years, probably a year and a half ago, she was in an office. Yeah. Because once this book got really popular, then a lot of people were like, oh my god, that's me back then. So the real question I have is, when is Portland in the 80s going to come out? You've been asked that before. I lived in Sweden. Yeah, you're in Sweden now, right? Yeah, so I wasn't here in the 70s. Oh, okay. Right, right. I wasn't here. I missed, like, the B, B, B, B, B, B in the B-sides. Right, yeah. I missed all that kind of thing because a good woman friend that was in the book got blood, you know, that was her period. She was doing stuff like that. I wasn't here then. Yeah. So you had Portland. Geno's, I remember. Geno's, exactly. So did you have it? So it's really, your photos kind of jumped from 70s to back when you started. Was that, how many years ago, were you really focused on it again in 2010? Well, I mean, I've always taken pictures, but since I kind of, like, retired six, seven, eight years ago, I'm just, and during COVID, I was out on the streets on my bike when the streets were empty. So it was a whole series of stuff. Well, I thought that was such a unique moment. Well, I remember that on our last show, you also had some spectacular photos of China before they opened up, 83, right? Florence, Italy, in 75. Florence, Italy, right, exactly. Lately, my big thing has been the Glastonbury Festival in the UK, which a lot of, I'll say, Yanks don't know about. Right. I mean, people do, musicians and stuff, but it's a massive festival and it's beautiful. And for me, it was the, it's kind of a Woodstock infrastructure because I did go to, I was 18 around Woodstock and I went there 50 years later when I was, you know, 769 in 19, 2019. So, and now I've been going and, you know, it's a fun place to take pictures because the people. And is that coming up this summer or did it already happen? This summer, yeah, Elton John's one of the most headlineist of the last tour. Yeah? So that'll be cool. That's cool. And so I saw Lizzo in 2019. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I really love her message. So I try to keep up with more. The current stuff, yeah. So much listening to older, older music. My publisher, he really liked the Eagles. That's why he used the term. Taking it easy, right. It gives that. I was never, I was never an Eagles fan. Right. Right, right. Now it's, so what's, what, what it's coming up for you? Are you doing more shows coming up this summer or? Yeah. And so I'm kind of thinking, well, I'm trying to start two more rooms because I have two open Saturdays right now, like the Portland Media Center is two Saturdays out of the month. So I've got to get more shows Friday nights and Saturday nights started at other venues. For the summer, it's interesting you brought up summer because one thing I thought of doing is probably changing the, this show from 7pm to 8pm as for future shows. Just because one, you know, for the summertime, people, once it starts to get dark, then you want to get, people get that vibe of like, all right, now it's time for nighttime entertainment, you know, when it's 7pm in June and they're walking in. And it's still, it's still like. Yeah, it's a different vibe, you know. So we may, we, I might push it a little later for the summertime and then bring it back earlier for the winter shows. Who knows. But yep, just looking to start more rooms. It was interesting. I've seen the guy, Bill Green, you know, Bill Green, you don't know Bill Green too well. Yeah, from the news, he spoke at this event and his big thing was he wanted to have ultra summertime so it would knock another hour so it wouldn't get dark till 10 at night. So he was like, he came up with this crazy idea where it's day that's saving time another hour in the summer because he felt like that would be good. You know, if you're out there, Bill, you know, it's an idea. He thought that would be good for the economy and the stores that keep people keep shopping the later and later. But for a comedian, so just do you find that comedy thrives more in the winter because when it's darker? Yeah. Yeah, summertime is the worst for stand-up comedy because, you know, people are coming home from the, they're rather hanging out at the beach, you know, they're drunk, you know, like, I mean, you know, you'd rather hang out at like old Orchard Beach when it's nice and warm and stuff like that. I get it, you know. So, but so the best summertime comedy shows are the ones that start a little bit later, give people time to get home and share the ones who are sober enough to come out, you know, get good home, shower a little bit. They don't got to be rushing back from their summertime hike to make it to a 7 p.m. comedy show and get their seat at 6.30, you know. It's a little more courteous. And I know we got about a minute left, but that's the question for it. Can comedy be done outside? It seems like it's a lot better inside. Yeah, it's terrible. It's terrible. You want a small room intimate. You want the laughs to echo off. It's a lot of it is human psychology. And when people are like during COVID, when it's just these open shows, the laughs just disappear into the ether and comedians are walking off stage like, I did horrible tonight. Right, right, right. And it's like, no, you didn't actually. Exactly. But it's hard to get those pockets of it. So before we roll out, because I know these guys want to do their jam, I can see them waiting. Tell them once again where they can find the tickets. Tell them where they can find this book. Let's get some promotion in before I let you guys go. First of all, I've always loved The Eagles. Take it easy. Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Hotel California. Love that song, yep. But yeah, so the two links for the shows are PMC325 for tomorrow, 325.divethevenbride.com, and then PMC401, 401 for April 1st. And where can they get this book? The book is pretty much in every bookstore. And I personally have it at our Pat's Meat Market. Tommaso's has them. Because they've sold like probably 80 or 90 books out of Tommaso's. Exactly. Get the book. Go to see the show. Thanks a lot. We'll be right back with Unique in the Jam. Take care. Unique in the Jam. Well, good guys. Thank you. One of the ideal Playpal family starting at $12. 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Shout out to Mason joining me on the mic. We're having fun here. Hold on. Hello. Just kidding. I'm not doing that again. All right. Do you guys want to try another one? You got another one in you? All right. Rock us out of here. I'll never find myself unless I got that music. I gotta love myself. I gotta shine sometimes. If I lose my mind, you'll be the first people to know. I swear it. Let that end of the song. Smooth. All right. Big round of applause. Do a little switch up here. So you want to get on the bass? You want to get on the bass? Do a little switch? Everybody, big shout out to Melvin. Big shout out to Melvin. He makes amazing music. Check him out. He's amazing. He's lovely. Lovely human. Do you sing or freestyle? Do you want to? No, that's okay. That's okay. It's not for everybody. We're going to take a quick commercial break and we'll be back right after these messages. I like climbing stairs. Do you? 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We can hear the bass a little bit. Can you turn it up a little bit? The bass? There we go. It's important to get these technical. To it. I'll find a way to get intuitive with my mind frame, exclaim everybody you're okay with the little crack in the mic. I don't care. I snap back just like this. Find a way to love yourself. That's the only real way to exist. Love yourself. Love yourself. It's not magic. It's not a rabbit. You pull out of a hat. What? Am I talking like a kid? I used to be that. I used to want to. Now I'm an adult and I just don't want to. I'm on a sleep every day. I'm feeling weak. What else can I say? It's been a long week, but I speak for people who need something. If you need a moment, let's take it. Breathe. Even if you don't sound good, love yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're the most important person around. Just kidding. We're all important. Love yourself. Bass solo. Big round of applause. Don't be sorry. I do that to everyone. If you're going to join me with a guitar, I'm going to tell you to do a bass solo. Do you have a plug-in for your acoustic? You got a plug-in? You good? Let's switch. Let's switch again. How much time we got left? We've got 10 minutes left. Then I get to go to bed. Yeah, 10 minutes left. Then I get to go to bed. What? Then I get to go to bed. 10 minutes. Luckily, I found parking. It was fun driving into Portland today and trying to find parking. It was not easy at first. Then luckily, as I was pulling out of PMC, I saw a car behind me turn and get out. I whipped that car faster than I've ever whipped anything in my life. I got that parking spot. There was somebody trying to get in behind me. No, not today, sir. Not today. So beautiful. So beautiful to just take a moment in life, figure yourself out. Sometimes uphill battles are all that you see. But if you just take that moment and breathe, you'll find yourself find slow down. Trying to sound like Bob. Nothing left to say. It's been too many hours in this day. I've been working at the Children's Museum and Theater of Maine, and I feel blessed to say that now I'm turning 31 in about two days. I'm gonna have some fun and just sit back and relax because passion is where it comes from. And if you're feeling dumb, you need to just write a little bit, but nobody's out of their head until I tell them they look at me and say it's my gift to you because I want you to see the talent in Maine. There's so much, so many beautiful humans. We accept each other, no matter the weather, no negativity around me. We push through, we find trees to climb, and then we get too high up and we're like, oh my God, then we have to call the fireman. They come out and then they get a ladder and they put it up on the tree and then they climb up and they're like, are you okay? Come here. At least come here. And then I get into the fireman's arm and it carries me down the ladder and it feels so good to know that somebody cares about me. Strong arms for a fireman. Oh, yeah, there's a willow tree. No, nobody's dead. No, no. No, everybody's much alive. Yeah, okay. You'll be here in a few seconds. That means two hours. Okay. Give it up. Give it up. Four minutes. We got four minutes. We've got three hours left. We're going to be here all night if you're feeling it. I'm not, so I'm not going to be here all night. Can't stop now. I got to show you everything that I've got inside of my brain, my vocals. One minute left. I guess I'll accept this. In 50 seconds, it's hard to really tell, but I'll keep on talking so you know well enough that I love you and you should love yourself, believe in everything. Now I've got one minute left. Can I do this? Can I take the time and just keep pursuing my dreams? So guess what guys? It's my birthday this weekend.