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Meanwhile, Back In Peoria...

A Travel Blog In And Around The River City With Your Host, Marty Wombacher

October 23, 2025

The Marty Monologues Spotlight On: Amber & Joe!

by MBIP


If you’re a faithful MBIP reader, then you know my friends, Amber and Joe. They’re fabulous friends, they are extremely supportive and they’ve really helped me when it comes to The Marty Monologues.

They’ve helped out so much, they’ve always worked the door, they came to the Chicago edition and not only worked the door at that theater, they helped arrange the after-party and chose the bar that we had it at.

In addition to that, they are the story editors for the show. They come to the MBIP World Headquarters and I perform the show for them and they tell me what they think works, what doesn’t and help me edit the show. This has been invaluable because you can’t do that yourself. Both Amber and Joe are great with this and I really appreciate all their help that they’ve given me for the show.

Below are some photos from the past and the most recent Marty Monologues rehearsal!

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Marty Monologues: 2018

Here we are working on the very first edition of the show, back at the 2.0 station of the MBIP World Headquarters.

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Marty Monologues: 2019

In addition to helping edit the second show in 2019, Amber and Joe worked the door at The Apollo Theater and sold books!

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Marty Monologues: 2020

When the rotten pandemic blew into town, that shut The Marty Monologues down.

However, we got bored and in November we decided to do a Marty Monologues in Amber and Joe’s basement on November 22, 2020 for an audience of one.

Amber and Joe were the DJ’s for the evening and picked out the musical numbers for the show!

Amber was the announcer for the evening and here she is introducing me.

And here’s the start of the 2020 Marty Monologues, “I Wanna Be Sedated.”

To see the whole post from this show, just click here: The Marty Monologues -11-22-20.

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Marty Monologues: 2025

After a five year break, we’re back with another edition of The Marty Monologues. This year’s show is called, “You’ve Got Jail” and it’s a trio of three tales from three jails.

We had the second rehearsal show last Saturday night and it went fantastic and Amber and Joe had some great ideas and edits.

You can follow along by following the official Marty Monologues facecrack page right here: Marty Monologues facecrack page.

Thanks to Amber and Joe for all of their help, support and friendship!

If you’d like to buy tickets for the Sunday, November 9th Marty Monologues Show, they can be purchased at Lit. On Fire Books, Relics and at Kenny’s Westside Pub where the show is going to happen! Acme Comics has already sold out of tickets.

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Related Post: The Marty Monologues Spotlight On: Sarah Marie Dillard!

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