"Dead Trees and a Parakeet's Love Life"

The day-after-Independence-Day crowd came to the Lodge loaded and loud, exactly how Yarnmaze likes them. After a parakeet self-pleasuring bit that somehow ended in a democratic vote, Nicky B took the stage and immediately clocked a possible first date in the front row, then rolled through kidney transplants, quitting porn because of his dead grandfather's screensaver, and a phlebotomist rant so specific it could only come from lived experience. Renny Blackett brought Houston pride and a wedding-in-Montana story that derailed into a genuine philosophical debate: do trees look at log cabins and say "you dead tree, bitch"? The crowd said yes, enthusiastically. Producer Katie Mark casually ranked history's serial killers, earning huge laughs for calling Ted Bundy ugly "in fixable ways" and dunking on Jeffrey Dahmer for being a Packers fan. Elaine Golden opened with her dad dying when she was young, pivoted to a Princeton flex, and somehow landed on flossing. Larry Smith tied the whole night together, roasting everyone who came before and admitting a handsome Nashville opener once short-circuited his brain.