Name: Ep 506 - King Marcus (feat. Marcus King)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 506 - King Marcus (feat. Marcus King)' from Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-05. Transcript available.

Ep 506 - King Marcus (feat. Marcus King)

wild wild west we're live here with marcus king what's up brother what's up
thank you for doing
this dude thanks for having me i was texting you the other day i was listening
to your uh first
album shred so hard dude there's some wild stuff on that first record it's
pretty tight dude thanks
well i was wondering this too by the way if you don't know who marcus king is
he's obviously
rock god what's your what's your go-to what would they say like use it rock
blues what's your
uh man i never had i just like a lot of different kinds of music yeah if i'm in
the airport i usually
just pick one and tell people that i play rock and roll or country or yeah you
know whatever i'm in
the mood for that true well you shred dude i was i was walking my dogs i was a
little drunk
uh we had like a kid's party so yeah i got a little too turn off at it but i i
was recovering i was
walking by the way too this is a side they sell wheat seltzers now here really
yeah you just go
to the liquor store and there's just i couldn't believe it i'm like this has to
be this can't be
real it's real i spiked the cooler with a bunch of those weeks how's how strong
are they like five
milligrams 10 some of them are 10 which i think is dastardly you can't be
dropping 10 milligrams of
a bowl just like you know because that's one of those things anyone will pick
it up and they see a
label they're like this is legit right so i just put like eight of them in
there being like
yeah if that's your thing but then like i was talking to my one friend he goes
i didn't
even know this is a weed seltzer he's drinking i'm like oh shit that's yeah my
bad brother he's
like i don't know that'll get you it will but um but yeah so i was i was
walking at a nice little
walk at nighttime and i was listening to your first album i'm like dude you
shred i'm not i'm not just
loving you now i'm like dude you fucking tread dude i'm trying bro i'm trying
to shred i'm a baby
shredling dude but you can fuck i was listening and it's like because whenever
because you know with
like uh you know if you're if you're country if you're blues like you said you
kind of just bounce
around because i i do feel like you can get kind of stuck and i heard you
talking about this on the
other podcast getting stuck in that pentatonic i mean sorry we're going deep on
musical theory but
you can get stuck in that one sound and you when i was listening to your first
album especially i was
just like dude you really can you know dance around and like jump out of stuff
and it was cool it was
really like it was fresh the whole time it was tight man i appreciate that dude
i mean i just try to
with the guitar just try to express what i'm feeling in here and i didn't have
a lot of friends growing up so
just play the guitar that's awesome that seemed to do it when did you start
playing i was probably
like three or four three or four years old what yeah i was like a latchkey kid
you know and i'd
spend a lot of times just at the house alone with records and my guitar playing
guitar how did you when
you were like three though how did you play i had a little bitty could you
shred a little bit
my dad taught me like louis louis by the kinsmen and i just kind of went on
from there
damn that's awesome yeah i feel bad because i played in high school a lot and
there is something
to like when you play when you're a kid like it's you're never going to have
that much time again
like i would sit there for hours and just yeah play and play and if i like i
talked to adults
like i want to start playing it's like you're never going to have unless unless
you can just you
know take all day off or get unemployed well i mean my family all played too so
i always thought about it
like a like a bilingual family you know like you grow up learning spanish and
it's just kind of
second nature to you yeah because your folks speaking in the household um but
that's how guitar
was for me i just kind of picked it up because my grandfather and my dad and my
uncles all played
yeah that's pretty cool so you're were they traveling musicians so they're what
we call weekend warriors
okay my grandfather was like career service in the air force and just played
honky tonks every weekend
and my dad was a still is a touring musician he's 71 now damn really so what
was that like when your
dad was i worry about that i'm always on tour so i'm on tour a lot so i'm like
do my kids does this
bother them i can't tell they're so young i'm like i hope it doesn't bother
them right i mean did it
bother you well i mean my dad when my parents got divorced when i was like four
he kind of dropped
everything and got a straight job became a contractor really you know and um
you know looking back on it
now i could tell that he just hated that so around the time i was like 11 you
know i was playing good
enough where he was like i'll just bring you with me you know really my sister
would stay back at home
with my grandparents and i'd go out with him oh really i started playing bars
and you know music
venues when i was like 11. really yeah damn that's awesome yeah just they'd be
like man that little
girl you got up there sounds great i just i still get misgendered online do you
really yeah dude people on the instagram comments are always asking if i'm
like uh a transgender which i mean nothing wrong with that but i'm not yeah for
sure i mean if you're not
you could say you can plainly state like yeah i don't you know don't do that
since i was like 11 years
old though man yeah really that little girl is rocking your dad's like shut up
dude just go with it this
is great yeah well that's that's kind of cool though so you were literally just
how did that happen you
were just shredding for your paw and he was like let's get the out of here bro
contract let's go play music right i mean yeah we're going like um we would
tour just like
everywhere we could to get me back in time to go to school the next day and um
i always kind of looked
at it like you know the tribe goes out and hunts yeah like you become a certain
age you just go out
with the men and hunt dude that's what it kind of felt like yeah that makes
sense
what kind of like stuff are you seeing like it was there was it like wild was
it kind of like pretty
chill and tame it was crazy especially like by the time i got to be like 13 i
started booking my own
gigs outside of my dad's band so i was like 13 and 14 is when i got my learner's
permit and i had to
have a licensed driver in the car so i had like my two you know um but you got
your permanent oh wait
when is the when do you when can you drive so i'm from south carolina so in
south carolina i got like
a working permit because i was able to work at that age gotcha so i got that
which was like super
restricted and i could drive with a licensed driver in the car and it was like
an extended you know
learner's yeah yeah i think so i had a bass player who was 18. my drummer was
like 35 with kids and i
just i had like grown men and i had like a fake email i would book us you know
have us working like
four or five nights a week and i'd end up in like ashville north carolina and
there's like crazy old
bartender lady was just like trying to you know uh teach me about being a man
and just like all these
crazy stories she was trying to usher you into trying to awaken you usher me
into adulthood yeah damn dude
some wild stories out there yeah how'd you feel about that at 13 i mean florida
i'm guessing it was
pretty exhilarating yeah so she was you were i guess i mean did you look
younger because you know
you were just a boy yeah i'm just you had your permit so i did have my pro i
was driving my uh 94 pontiac
transport minivan and i had my rig uh the the pa i had my bass player's rig it
was a good deal for him
and like i found out like later like we would go work in ashville north carolina
twice a week we go up
on monday i'd play a gig um and unbeknownst to me he was like moving some
serious weight and i didn't
realize that he was just like filling his gig bag with like a qp every time we
go up we come back down to
greenville i think the statue of limitations were good now but he'd come back
and then move it and
then we'd go back up and play a different gig thursday that's so funny and he'd
pay the guy but
we used to work this club called the hole in the wall it was spelled hole in
the wall yeah and like
a couple people got stabbed and they maintained you know their liquor license
and then somebody
got shot and killed that's when they closed down finally really but i was like
all the 14 years old
and they're working and just driving quops around no idea yeah qp on you yeah
it's just like all your
alerts sketchy as hell i got i don't know how i got out of some of the
situations i was in but
yeah you know so did you ever have a job then or you just did the music stuff
when i was 16 i had a
i had a job at mellow mushroom i actually like that place a lot mellow
mushrooms pretty good pretty good
um i got fired twice from that same job but the manager was a buddy of mine and
just pretty mellow
about it he was pretty chill he was chill so they fight you got the fire rehire
yeah nice yeah so what
did you get fired was it him who fired you like the hires up fired you and then
you kind of had your
come back so i was working back of the house i was a dishwasher and then
i got fired just for being kind of a slacker yeah and then i came back and i
was front of house and
i was trying to like quasi unionize the hosts because we did everything we bust
the tables you know
we took drink orders and you know we didn't get tipped out at the end of the
day and i think uh you
know i was being a little bit too uh as you were saying you wanted you wanted
it on the waiter's tips
yeah i was like what's going on with this you know like we work our asses off
and let us get some
of that back end some some restaurants do that though i've worked in
restaurants where as a bus
boy you'd get a little bit of the uh waitress's tips yeah and it was kind of it
was i mean it was
a pittance dude they were making probably like 400 bucks a night and they would
slide you like 40 bucks
you'd be like sweet yeah the money got funny i got the bartender's tips there
was a bartender
named matt i worked in a restaurant there's a bartender named matt so they gave
me the wrong envelope
and i was just like oh i would get like 40 bucks as a bus boy and i had like
400 in an envelope
and i was just like yeah like we gave you the wrong envelope i was like no you
didn't i don't think
you did i don't think you did no we did i'm like nope said matt on it like how
much was in it i'm
like i don't even remember you gotta you gotta have a little bit of hustle
about you yeah man i mean
dude if someone hands you an envelope of cash now i would have obviously i'd
return it to the rightful
owner but back then i was i was a bit of a dog i'd be like nah that's mine i'm
taking that right
so you had so you started as a kid that's crazy i didn't know you could even
start i guess you can't
do it anymore maybe i don't know man i don't i don't know really how i worked
around that but i
was really you know i knew what i wanted to do from a young age so i had that
going for me i had a lot
of gumption yeah so i just wanted to get the out of there what were like so
what were was there any
like nightmares or i'm sure there were just like absolute nightmare gigs or
like any meltdown have you
ever freaked out on stage and melted down well i played a cruise one time we
used to work the
cruise circuit a little bit like blues cruises and shit and like this
particular blues cruise i mean
i had gone off one morning and was trying to find some drugs and like the first
like t-shirt vendor
guy i came to this was in like one of the little port cities in mexico and i
was like you know where i
find a little uh you know weed he's like i think you want something a little
stronger and like i was
like how how'd you know how'd you know and i g