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Matt O'Brien

Matt O'Brien

Canadian stand-up comedian and 2010 winner of SiriusXM Canada's Top Comic, husband of comedian Julia Hladkowicz.

Oct 8, 2026

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9:32
[laughs]
9:34
That's how I know he's a bad doctor.
9:35
And I was like, "What causes scar tissue down there?" And he goes, "Well, did you happen to like ride a lot of horses as a kid?" [laughs] And I'm like, "I actually grew up on a farm.
9:43
I did ride horses." And he's like, "Well, that can cause scar tissue." I'm like, "I rode them normal style.
9:47
I wasn't like, duh, duh, duh."
speaker_5UNKNOWN
9:56
[laughs]
9:57
And you want that footage.
10:00
I had this thing for a year.
26:31
So what was it that drew you in like kind of at this point? Was there a specific game that you saw that you tried? Like what was it that that roped you in? Was it a newer game? Was it an older game? I
26:42
don't know if it was a game specifically, but just that the area of Los Angeles I live in, I live near in Highland Park.
26:48
There's like this triangle of amazing pinball bars.
26:51
So there's Revenge of, Waltz, and Barcade.
26:55
And they're all within like 10 minutes of me.
26:58
And so I kind of just kept going to them.
27:00
I mean, the one that really like pushed me over the edge was for sure Adam's Family.

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34:51
So how involved were you?
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2:31
[laughs]
2:32
"I think I'm gonna be fine." [laughs] And, like, the, the border always has been racially profiling.
2:37
We know that.
2:37
They're, they're doing it extra right now, of course, right? Like, I was crossing the border recently from Canada to the States, to the States, and, uh, there was a Middle Eastern family in front of me, and they were getting grilled.
2:47
And I was like, "Oh my God, I'm next.
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They're ...
2:49
Th- this guy's tough.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
6:00
[laughs]

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