The Comedy Club Podcast · The Comedy Club of Kansas City

Dustin Ybarra On Beach Metal Detecting, Getting Sober, & Recurring Acting Roles | Ep 48

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Dustin Ybarra says Jay Moore drove him to rehab after a period of seizures and desperate drinking.

1. The Comedy Club Podcast focuses on Dustin Ybarra's sobriety, metal detecting, acting on CBS's 'Ghosts,' and life around the Comedy Club in Kansas City. 2. Host Dustin Kaufman introduces comedian and actor Dustin Ybarra, whose name becomes part of the opening joke and who matters here because he is the guest center of the episode. 3. The episode asks what Ybarra is doing now: staying sober, working steady acting jobs, posting metal-detecting clips, and talking through the routines that keep his career moving. 4. Kaufman says he is opening a second club in Lawrence, and Ybarra says he already keeps popping up on the host's feed for booking. 5. Ybarra explains that his fiancee handles his socials, which helped him post more consistently. 6. He says he metal detects on the beach, goes live on TikTok, and named his detector 'Diggy Smalls' because it has googly eyes. 7. Kaufman says the metal-detecting crowd is supportive and points out that the niche is different from comedy. 8. Ybarra says he has been sober for three years and describes a period when he was doing 'everything.' 9. He says the end of that period included seizures, which made sobriety part of a larger health and life reset. 10. He says Jay Moore came to his place, packed his bags, and took him to rehab. 11. Ybarra says he still talks to Jay Moore often and credits sobriety with better writing and less depression. 12. He says the first stretch after quitting felt strange because he had to feel things again instead of drowning them in booze and drugs. 13. Ybarra says performing sober felt hard at first, and he compares the earlier stage of drinking to getting nervous about simply getting through the day. 14. He jokes about once looking up how to talk to people on YouTube and watching a teenager explain social skills. 15. Ybarra says he has been engaged for about a year and is looking at wedding venues in Boston because her family is from there. 16. He says he has a small family of about four people and jokes that they will all have to fly to Boston. 17. He says he is working on 'Ghosts,' a five-season CBS show, and plays a pothead chef who films in Montreal. 18. Kaufman and Ybarra talk about Montreal as a cleaner version of New York with comedy spots, subway access, and French-speaking homeless people. 19. This episode suits listeners who like sober-comic stories, club business, and TV-set gossip. 20. Skip it if you want tightly edited bits without long conversational detours.

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