Latest / Brandon Fogal Evolution / #37 - From Dreams to Laughter: My Journey into Comedy Begins Today!

Transcript

#37 - From Dreams to Laughter: My Journey into Comedy Begins Today! · Brandon Fogal Evolution

• 0:00
  Start all right now we're going to the moon and back baby now we are actually recording,
• 0:06
  here we go here we go and i my
• 0:09
  techno technological skills you know they are definitely you
• 0:13
  know coming through the screen but i do this from a pod bean pod bean so if
• 0:17
  you're on pod bean get on there and jump in my chat you know you can get in
• 0:21
  there that way if anyone else out there who who's got the i was gonna say i'll
• 0:25
  just say who's got the balls to type in my chat do it Do it,
• 0:30
  you know, type in there and let's see it.
• 0:32
  You know, this is how it's going to start. And we're going to,
• 0:35
  you know, it's going to grow.
• 0:37
  We're going to, you're going to build some steam and then we're going to,
• 0:39
  we're going to get fired up together.
• 0:41
  All right. But so the name of the podcast, this show did not go out the way
• 0:46
  I intended. I wanted it to be laughing with Brandon, the beginning.
• 0:51
  That's what I wanted it to be, you know, and things don't always turn out as
• 0:55
  you intend, as you set your course to, they don't always go the way you plan.
• 0:59
  You know plans are a funny thing you
• 1:02
  know have you ever heard you want to make god laugh tell them your plans you
• 1:07
  know that's how it is in life i'm gonna do this tomorrow i'm gonna do this and
• 1:12
  a year from now i'm gonna be doing that whatever my my trajectory is going here
• 1:16
  you know and it's never what you what you plan for it's never what you expect you know,
• 1:22
  so i will i'm gonna get this rolling so
• 1:25
  it's like i will start calling people out and say hey thank you
• 1:28
  subscriber yeah you're awesome and you
• 1:33
  know everybody starts somewhere some people have that leg up where they're just
• 1:36
  they're just kick ass and they can just run with it and they're awesome to the
• 1:40
  core and then you got guys like me you know you know wannabe wannabe players
• 1:46
  you know i i don't know if that's right terminology but just i got just i got
• 1:50
  desires i got i got ambition.
• 1:53
  I got you know it's all coursing through my
• 1:56
  veins you know yes the name of this
• 1:59
  this podcast is poot poot
• 2:02
  you know it's the only the only word that could
• 2:05
  push it through you know those those fiber fiber
• 2:09
  optic optic cables of the internet
• 2:12
  did you all real i did you all know this
• 2:15
  there's so many weird things that are out there that i question you
• 2:18
  i i always thought the internet was going up in
• 2:21
  the sky and how that's how it's things are traveling so fast
• 2:23
  overseas but did you all realize and know that the
• 2:27
  internet to that communicates from us to china or across the seas there's actual
• 2:33
  cables in the sea in the ocean this might be common knowledge to many people
• 2:39
  out there but it wasn't to me it wasn't to me you know and i got a lot of other things I've,
• 2:45
  like conspiracy theories,
• 2:47
  you know, are really, I guess I do got to tone it down.
• 2:51
  My wife says that I scream and I don't want to be a screamer.
• 2:54
  There sometimes is screaming. And I think I just got to calm down.
• 2:59
  You know just settle down settle down know my place know
• 3:02
  my role you know but there's there's
• 3:05
  so many things i just want to just say you just want to say but just it's it
• 3:09
  blows me away that our internet is running through cables under in the sea you
• 3:15
  know that's a real thing look it up it's actually out there that that's happening
• 3:19
  those cables they i mean that that is insane to me,
• 3:23
  and I also why I'm on the topic of the sea this is
• 3:26
  a conspiratorial theory of mine it's
• 3:30
  actually just something that blew me away for the
• 3:33
  longest time when it's and I've voiced this before but
• 3:36
  when you're in the ocean and people you you
• 3:40
  go so far down deep into the ocean and then
• 3:42
  people say like the the tragedies that
• 3:46
  happen you know recently or probably been
• 3:49
  over a year now but the person that team or that
• 3:52
  group going down into the titanic and then they they
• 3:55
  died because like something went out and like i
• 3:58
  but the reason i'm even bringing this up is i always thought
• 4:01
  when you go that far down deep into the ocean it's
• 4:05
  because of like pressure as in like the gravitational pull or it's i couldn't
• 4:10
  explain it but the way that it's been described to me now and it's just like
• 4:14
  it's blown my mind away people say that it's when you're that far down in the
• 4:19
  ocean is because so much water is on top of you.
• 4:23
  To me, that doesn't make any sense at all. And I, I might be just slow to the party on that.
• 4:29
  I just do not get that at all. I always thought it had to do with like,
• 4:33
  you're closer to the, you're closer to the center of the earth kind of thing.
• 4:36
  And like, you know, gravity's pulling us down. Maybe it's like you get down closer.
• 4:40
  It's, it kind of squeezes you or something. I don't know. That might be stupid.
• 4:44
  It might be stupid. and I don't care.
• 4:46
  But there's so many things in our heads that we don't know and if we don't vocalize
• 4:51
  and if we don't say them out loud, you know, we won't know how stupid we sound.
• 4:54
  We won't, unless someone corrects us and tells us differently,
• 4:57
  we won't know any different.
• 4:59
  I do have other conspiracy theories. One of the weirdest ones,
• 5:03
  the weirdest one, you know, and you can always classify your conspiracy theories
• 5:08
  and you can put it in a percentage, you know, or a probability of it being correct,
• 5:14
  you know, and this one, I would give it like a 0.00001% chance of being right.
• 5:20
  And I don't even know if I have the cojones to even voice it out loud exactly what my theory is.
• 5:28
  But it's just one of those weird ones it has to do
• 5:30
  with traffic lights traffic lights you
• 5:34
  know i i don't even know if i really want to get
• 5:37
  into it i don't know if i'm there yet i don't i don't know if i'm ready to come
• 5:39
  out and share that one that one is almost like on my deathbed kind of thing
• 5:44
  and bring up traffic lights i don't know sure maybe i'll i'll table that one
• 5:49
  you know put that one to the back burner and we can talk about that one later
• 5:52
  you know if anyone's out there comes across me and says, what did you mean by traffic lights?
• 5:57
  What are you talking about? Bring it up, bring it up.
• 6:01
  So this is for the close-knit, the people I love the most that are there listening
• 6:06
  and watching that are with me in this journey. And I'm with you in your journey,
• 6:12
  as much as I can be, I want to be as much as possible.
• 6:15
  But I wanted to get into sharing a couple of things and it kind of completely
• 6:20
  derailed it when I, by the whole description, The whole description that I had
• 6:26
  to select Poot instead of what I wanted.
• 6:28
  I wanted it to be laughing with Brandon.
• 6:32
  Laughing with Brandon. And I'm going to try to keep this as concise as possible
• 6:36
  because for some reason my throat, I don't even know what it is.
• 6:38
  I don't know if it's because I screamed.
• 6:40
  There is screaming sometimes. I think that's why...
• 6:43
  You as an amateur you got
• 6:46
  to like kind of learn your place why why people are able to talk so
• 6:49
  long you don't you don't scream because if you scream you lose
• 6:52
  your voice you know and but what i wanted
• 6:55
  to even describe and talk about was this new idea
• 6:59
  thought and what's what's actually coming down
• 7:02
  the pike and what i am going to basically be
• 7:05
  sharing with the world with you all and i'm i am
• 7:08
  comfortable sharing it with you right now because
• 7:11
  whoever's out there listening to this i feel a connection with
• 7:14
  you because you are actually listening to this now so
• 7:18
  that that that means something to me so so that's
• 7:21
  that's that itself is really cool that i feel
• 7:24
  comfortable sharing with you something i'm gonna some an idea
• 7:27
  and i'll probably do this every now and then to share like things
• 7:30
  i'm gonna be doing but this is i'm gonna be trying something
• 7:33
  out like i've said i want to develop my skills as
• 7:36
  a comedian and I think it's my attraction to
• 7:40
  comedians because when you really think about it
• 7:43
  public speaking is one thing but to get in front of people and and try to make
• 7:49
  them laugh to have that kind of I don't even know how to describe it just that
• 7:54
  you're kind of like on a date you're trying to like figure out like what they
• 7:58
  like what you know what you can bring bring to the.
• 8:01
  Relationship in a short window of time, people, strangers, you do not know at all.
• 8:06
  And to have that comfortability, that confidence to get in front of people and try to make them laugh.
• 8:12
  Like there's the great comedians that are out there and I'm not going to say,
• 8:16
  I'm not saying I'm going to become a great comedian, but I want to almost put
• 8:19
  myself into that fire so that I come out.
• 8:22
  Knowing what they're going through, maybe come out funny.
• 8:26
  Who knows? Who knows? But having that experience and having that just constant
• 8:31
  refinement that I'm going to get better.
• 8:34
  And because that itself is going to be tough because it's like one thing,
• 8:38
  it's one thing being on a screen and doing this and talking to people.
• 8:42
  I think there's a different side of it. If you're actually in front of a group
• 8:47
  of people, there's a complete difference there.
• 8:49
  And then also getting it like i said getting in front of people to try to make them laugh i,
• 8:55
  so i'm gonna i'm gonna spill the beans i'm gonna spill the beans so
• 8:58
  i'm gonna start creating a video you know there's gonna be the the first one
• 9:03
  that will be coming out and it's gonna be i'm gonna i'm gonna divulge everything
• 9:08
  you know there might not so that might not it might be like well you gave the
• 9:12
  punchline but i'm gonna give the punchline to the people i love and care the
• 9:15
  most, the people that are listening right now.
• 9:18
  So what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to, I'm just going to lay it all
• 9:23
  out, lay it all out because we're, I'm just like talking.
• 9:26
  So you're hearing, you're getting breaking news right here. Breaking news, breaking news.
• 9:30
  All right. So I'm going to develop like kind of like a segment or just one of
• 9:34
  my shows that's going to be focused on, it's going to be called laughing with
• 9:39
  Brandon, you know, and you can say, this is the Arthur reflect.
• 9:42
  No one else, no one else, you know, laughs, you know, whatever.
• 9:46
  And it's just, but he still has the courage to get up there and he wants to make people happy.
• 9:52
  So maybe that's going to be me. Maybe nobody's going to laugh,
• 9:54
  but maybe people might, you know, get a thrill up their leg. Who knows?
• 9:58
  So my goal is I'm going to start a, and it's going to, I'm going to,
• 10:03
  my first episodes, my first episode basically is going to be family.
• 10:08
  I'm going to, with the people I am the closest in my life, I'm going to,
• 10:13
  basically there's going to be a structure to it. It's going to be,
• 10:16
  if i can make someone laugh i walk away
• 10:19
  with confidence a boost if i
• 10:22
  can't make them laugh and this is it's going to be five rounds of a minute a
• 10:26
  piece and so it's going to be five minutes if i cannot make them laugh in five
• 10:30
  minutes a laugh a chuckle anything i have to pay them a hundred dollars a hundred
• 10:36
  dollars so that is going to entail me going to the bank.
• 10:40
  Not yet taking out a loan but it might come to that
• 10:42
  taking out a loan it's going to me going the bank and
• 10:45
  i'm going to basically transfer out
• 10:48
  whatever it's called i haven't even been to the bank forever yeah i don't go to
• 10:51
  the bank you know i don't even carry cash but i'm going to have to start carrying
• 10:54
  cash so i'm going to have to withdraw that's the word withdraw some
• 10:58
  money some cash and this is just the number i'm thinking
• 11:01
  of right now so with and you're like so my
• 11:04
  first people i'm going to battle with this is it's going
• 11:07
  to be a battle you know you battle in the jungle you know
• 11:10
  and i'm going to get on there and i'm going to try to make them
• 11:13
  laugh you know and i'm going to start with my wife then my
• 11:16
  kids then my parents then my brother and
• 11:18
  all this is all this stuff is just out there you know these i'm
• 11:21
  divulging some information you know contracts haven't been
• 11:24
  written and everything so things are there's things that have
• 11:27
  to dealings that have to take place but that's my
• 11:30
  goal this is my trajectory you know always plans can
• 11:33
  change like we talked about you know but and
• 11:36
  i'm going to have a a pathway that i'm going to go to
• 11:39
  family and my closest people first basically
• 11:42
  i'm coming in cold never done
• 11:45
  this and i'm going to see what happens can i do anything can i get a chuckle
• 11:50
  out of the people i know the most or my will that be the toughest thing will
• 11:54
  that be hard harder in itself then after i've done that this will probably go
• 11:59
  into the next episode this is what i'm thinking out thinking out loud is.
• 12:03
  I will go to start going to regular random people
• 12:06
  you know and see if i can make them laugh and if they if i
• 12:09
  can't they get a hundred dollars you know
• 12:12
  that's the goal that's the goal of what i want to come to so you've
• 12:15
  heard it firsthand laughing with brandon this is
• 12:18
  the beginning the people that are the closest to me that i
• 12:21
  feel most in touch with you all you you
• 12:25
  heard it first you heard it first you know so i
• 12:28
  had to get that off my chest i had to share that you know get
• 12:31
  it hey and eventually we're gonna i keep doing
• 12:34
  this because it's on this screen i really saw here i want to get
• 12:38
  like just you know chats coming down you know i'm gonna
• 12:42
  get that set up so that more more come through you
• 12:45
  know and if you you're out there this it you start small and we're gonna you
• 12:50
  know get big you know i also wanted to share another thing i wanted to just
• 12:55
  ask you all what do you all think about kick and i don't know if many people
• 12:59
  out there even are familiar with kick are on there using it,
• 13:03
  but it's another platform that I'm interested in getting on there.
• 13:07
  Like Twitch is primarily gaming, but people don't just do gaming on those platforms.
• 13:14
  You have the option to do other stuff.
• 13:16
  So I want to get to where I am reaching as much and as many people as possible.
• 13:21
  And as I go along the way, getting better each time, striving to get better.
• 13:26
  You all be the judge whether I am or not. But the connection just went,
• 13:31
  it said poor, but in my viewpoint, it looked like it said poot, but it said poor.
• 13:37
  But it's back to excellent. We're back to excellent.
• 13:40
  Do everything with excellence. Everything with excellence.
• 13:44
  So really, that's the main thing I wanted to even talk about and bring up and share.
• 13:49
  So we'll keep it short and sweet for this time.
• 13:52
  And I know the podcast itself didn't go as long as I'd liked.
• 13:56
  I wanted to start earlier, but it didn't.
• 13:58
  So we'll leave it there. Have a wonderful one and peace out.