Sep 27, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
## Behind the Mic with Dirks Dirkland: The Story of Montcalm Mayhem Every community has its unique voices, but few have burst onto the local scene quite like **Dirks Dirkland**, the self-appointed…
I'm leaving out, like, anything to do with, like, harm.
I don't want to be an ambulance chaser.
And I want to be more comedic, more fun, get people to laugh.
Yes.
You
know, and I think that once you develop all of this, I could see you doing short five, 10 minute comedy club routines and just having a great time with it, which is, which is fun.
I probably need more time doing what I'm doing because...
I understand.
I
But one thing that I was looking at as I'm seeing this is... you aren't doing anything harmful you're doing something kind of just a different take on it a different take on it and also kind of letting people know what activities are out there you know different things that are happening um where do you see this hap you know do you have an idea of where you'd like this to be in another
six months to a year Well, from the start, I never expected this thing to blow up like it did.
Right.
So I'm actually just going with the flow right now just to see where it
I think maybe you should get a surfboard and kind of hang 10 and just kind of let it kind of roll and see where that's going.
I know that you put out a survey asking Montcalm County kind of what – they wanted to see and and it's kind of nice that you're doing this because we all think we're funny in our head yeah you know and it's you know that'll be the name of my book when i whenever i write it is i think it's funnier in my head um but the idea that you know what content will work.
And I'm sure that you could go back and look at your videos right now and see which ones had a bigger result.
I'm leaving out, like, anything to do with, like, harm.
I don't want to be an ambulance chaser.
And I want to be more comedic, more fun, get people to laugh.
Yes.
You
know, and I think that once you develop all of this, I could see you doing short five, 10 minute comedy club routines and just having a great time with it, which is, which is fun.
I probably need more time doing what I'm doing because...
I understand.
I
But one thing that I was looking at as I'm seeing this is... you aren't doing anything harmful you're doing something kind of just a different take on it a different take on it and also kind of letting people know what activities are out there you know different things that are happening um where do you see this hap you know do you have an idea of where you'd like this to be in another
six months to a year Well, from the start, I never expected this thing to blow up like it did.
Right.
So I'm actually just going with the flow right now just to see where it
I think maybe you should get a surfboard and kind of hang 10 and just kind of let it kind of roll and see where that's going.
I know that you put out a survey asking Montcalm County kind of what – they wanted to see and and it's kind of nice that you're doing this because we all think we're funny in our head yeah you know and it's you know that'll be the name of my book when i whenever i write it is i think it's funnier in my head um but the idea that you know what content will work.
And I'm sure that you could go back and look at your videos right now and see which ones had a bigger result.
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