Phil Hanley's life as a dyslexic wordsmith | Whiskey Ginger
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What tour dates and locations does Andrew Santino announce at the start of the episode?
Welcome back to Whiskey Ginger A Wave Series. Well, ladies and germs, I'm on the road. Tonight I'm in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Canada show up to your boy, right across the river from Detroit. Hop on over and come see me at Caesars. Tomorrow I'm at Wind Creek in Bethlehem. Then I'm at uh the Hall It Live in Hanover, Maryland. Then I go to Atlantic City, the Borgada down there in Atlantic City. Then I come back to Southern California. I play Valley Center. Hera's down there that's near San Diego. San Diego come out and see me. Then for Lover's Day, February 14th, I'm in Canyonville, Oregon at Seven Feathers. Then me and Bobby do a bad friends in uh Lincoln, California, up by Sacramento. Then of course they do the Win Casino in March.
Come see me, Las Vegas, Viva baby. Then I'm at the uh Lil Roadie Fest out there in Providence, Rhode Island, the end of March. Come see me at andrewsantino.com. Once again, that's andrewsantino.com.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on Earth. I say that for all my guests, but I meet him once again today. It's Phil Hanley. Phil Hanley's on the pod today. By the way, he's got a new book out for the kids that need to know, that want to know, Spellbound. His life is a dyslexic wordsmith. One of the best comics working today, a guy I've known for quite a long time. Thank you. Where do we meet? We met, I want to say we did, did we do half hours together? No. No, we didn't.
I don't think we I I thought we met at the cellar. Yeah, we must have. Yeah. But you were so cool, right? From the The
jump? Yeah, as
soon as we met.
We got a lot more in common than you think, by the way. I do notice that you're a deadhead. I do know that from the Yeah,
they're my lifeblood.
You really are, huh?
Yeah.
Have you gone to a bunch of these new shows or you're not into Dead and Company?
Uh, I go like it's a celebration of the music so I'm into it, but um yeah, I don't if I'm listening like I was listening to the dead on the way here, I I I would listen to the dead. Like
you don't you don't You like the idea of Dead and Company because of what it is, but it's not
I love it. I love it and I've I've probably seen Dead and Co Company like maybe twenty five or thirty times. Like I've seen them a lot.
Okay, so you're
in. Yeah. But it's Yeah, it's you know, it's great. But I w I got to see Jerry. Yeah. And that is That's the big difference. Well, it's it's yeah, he was just like w you know, you get to if you're lucky you get to see like he was just such a phenomenal musician that you can't even like I could I could get all heady for like a full hour trying to talk about it. But it's like actual lift off. Yeah. Like you there there are t when he's playing, uh, there were times and I was young, but there'd be times where everyone in the Like Arena would exhale at the same time because everyone was so focused on just him and his solo, and the final note would hit and everyone would exhale at the same time. It's so fucking crazy.
It's so crazy. And you get it, because like there would be at the dead at one point, 10,000 people would follow the dead. That's crazy. 10,000 people are like, I'm not gonna have a place. I'm gonna follow the grateful dead. I'm gonna raise my family. I think he grew up on the lot. And I did. You better believe it, dude.
And uh his name's McCone and his brothers' names are uh um uh Bobby and Jerry. No, what's what's the first the first letter?
What is the process behind Phil’s book *Spellbound* and his approach to writing jokes with intention?
S and F. Yeah, Seamus and uh Finnegan Flannery. Flanery flannery, flan what combine them, flanagan. Flanagan.
Are you the youngest? Macomb? I'm the oldest. Holy shit, they're Macomb out of the gates. Call him out of the gates. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. They
swung hard. Yeah. His parents are uh eternal free spirits. Oh, okay. Eternal Irish free spirits.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What tour dates and locations does Andrew Santino announce at the start of the episode?
0:00–3:38
2
What is the process behind Phil’s book *Spellbound* and his approach to writing jokes with intention?
3:38–4:59
3
How does Phil balance crowd‑work with prepared material and why does he think precision matters?
4:59–19:44
4
How does Phil Hanley describe discovering he was dyslexic and how it shaped his comedy?
19:44–47:03
5
Why did Phil move to New York and what were his early experiences at the Comedy Cellar?
47:03–56:45
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