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LANCE WOODS - Toasting To Laughter · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest, comedian actor Lance Woods is in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It smells good
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  Speaker 2: in here. It does like there's been some cooking going.
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  Speaker 1: They would say this, there was a girl that made
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  Speaker 1: us really good tacos. Yes, tacos.
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  Speaker 2: That what kind of tacos?
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  Speaker 1: They were ground turkey. But what made her tacos good
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  Speaker 1: was she did this, like she fried the flower and
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  Speaker 1: it was like a puffy like pastry type. It was
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  Speaker 1: really good. It was like all snap, I had to
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  Speaker 1: call cut.
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  Speaker 2: And I like it when people get creative with normal ingredients.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I never had tacos like that, but that.
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  Speaker 2: Means like my tacos Sea, I fried the lettuce and
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  Speaker 2: then and I seized all the cheese individually. People got
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  Speaker 2: some things that they do a regular you never thought about.
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  Speaker 1: Never. Never. But speaking of that, I have a slang
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  Speaker 1: on the show that goes the broker the dish, the
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  Speaker 1: better the story. Okay, And lately I get these dishes
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  Speaker 1: and they're like twenty dollars thirty dollars worth of ingredients. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does feed the whole family. But when we saw
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  Speaker 1: your email, it was very simple. Go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 1: our listeners what it is you're gonna have me eating today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna tell you the dish first. This is
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  Speaker 2: just some cinnamon toast, not just it is cinnamon toast.
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  Speaker 2: The ingredients are simple. You need bread, you need butter,
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  Speaker 2: you need sugar, you need cinnamon, You need a toaster
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  Speaker 2: or a oven.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. I saw that and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yes, thank god, Oh my gosh. We ain't got
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  Speaker 1: to do a whole lot of shop, but we could
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  Speaker 1: just stop by.
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  Speaker 2: You pick some stuff up.
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  Speaker 1: And this is stuff stuff you have in your fridg
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  Speaker 1: at home guys. Cinnamon and sugar and butter. So really,
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  Speaker 1: if you're out of bread, that's the only thing you
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  Speaker 1: need to get. So that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna get some bread.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead and start making the cinnamon toast.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start cooking it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, do I get out? Stay? Do I stay seated?
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  Speaker 2: Do I?
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  Speaker 1: Really, it's up to you. It's up to you. This
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  Speaker 1: is your moment, This is your chef moment.
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  Speaker 2: Can y'all hear me? You can see me still right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you were in alive you said what you oh duh.
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  Speaker 2: So look first you take your bread. Damn, take your bread,
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  Speaker 2: and you put it in the toaster. Now when you
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  Speaker 2: now this is key. When you put it in the toaster,
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  Speaker 2: you don't just drop it in the toaster. No, you
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  Speaker 2: place it in the toaster. Show your bread some love,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. You make this dish with love.
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  Speaker 2: It's like dropping your baby off at school. You don't
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  Speaker 2: just you say hey, and you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Then you set the toaster for it's good. Depending on
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  Speaker 2: how you like your toast. No, I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: want some light skin toast, you go a little more
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  Speaker 2: that way. You want some dark skinned toast, you go
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  Speaker 2: a little more that way. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Right now we are that's right in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: The comedy's already started.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so we're right in the middle. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean on the colorism of the toast. Now,
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  Speaker 2: everybody has a different method when it comes to pushing
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  Speaker 2: the toast. To me, I like to use these two fingers.
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  Speaker 2: This is my toaster fingers, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So then when you take these fingers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for all your listeners out there just wanting
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  Speaker 1: to hear his backstory.
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  Speaker 2: And you toast that, and you just let that happen.
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  Speaker 2: You let that toast happen. That when the toast is toasted,
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  Speaker 2: that's when you are anticipating. You feel me. You're getting
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  Speaker 2: excited about what's about to happen. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: because oh, this is about to be fantastic. Now if
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  Speaker 2: you can eat this without the bread being toasted, but
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  Speaker 2: then it ain't the same.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine anything without bread toasted, because.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't imagine that. That's something you shouldn't imagine. You
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  Speaker 2: got it. If it ain't toasted, it ain't the same.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever done it toasted?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: No, I would never. I don't even so I used to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, this is real to be going back to
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  Speaker 2: the origins.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that was what I was about to ask you.
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  Speaker 2: We're going back to the origins of being broke when
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  Speaker 2: you I got grew up in a house. I had
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  Speaker 2: two siblings. I'm in the middle. Yeah, I'm the favorite.
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  Speaker 2: You got to feed three children, and so it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of bulk stuff, bread, cereal, snacks, big like just
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  Speaker 2: filling things. Right, should have a lot of bread because
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  Speaker 2: bread is cheap, and you can get a good amount
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  Speaker 2: of bread and you make the sandwiches and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and then sometimes you might run out of meat for
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  Speaker 2: the sandwich, the cheese or whatever. So now you gotta
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  Speaker 2: get a different kind of creative when it comes. We
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  Speaker 2: got all this bread, what we're gonna do with it?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? So I used to eat
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  Speaker 2: bread balls. You ever had a bread ball? You want
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  Speaker 2: to try one?
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  Speaker 1: I'm down to try bread ball. Okay, No, never mind.
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  Speaker 1: I think I know what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do anything. You're gonna do it. It's
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  Speaker 2: a bread it's your bread ball.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. Okay, I think I know
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  Speaker 1: what he's gonna make me do.
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  Speaker 2: Take that bread. Welcome to there you go. Ball it up,
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  Speaker 2: ball it up.
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  Speaker 1: Not the crust, that's that's yo.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. If you were a cruster,
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  Speaker 2: or if you were not crust, that's on you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take off the crust.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, take off the crust.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a special. I'm gonna be one of those. Mom,
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  Speaker 1: don't waste the bread.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 1: A feeling I'm not gonna the bread ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you took a lot of the bread off when
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  Speaker 2: you bring it. It was too late. No, that's not forwarding.
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  Speaker 2: You got ballt there you there you go, Come on,
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  Speaker 2: come on, there you go, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Where's our hand sanitizer?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's too late. Wasn't no hand sanitizer the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: That's why our immune system is so good. These new
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  Speaker 2: kids is salt. They need sanitizer for everything. Whatever happened
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  Speaker 2: to eating a little flu covid? You're right, Covid.
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  Speaker 1: Told us a lot about germs. Guys, we got the
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  Speaker 1: bread ball.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if anyone's ever put like cinnamon and sugar
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  Speaker 1: in the bread ball.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think. No. I just enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the raw. But make sure you drink your water because
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  Speaker 2: if not, it's going the gray ball gonna stay right there,
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  Speaker 2: ain't going nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Did you come from a two parent household?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I came from to a parent household. That's simply
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  Speaker 2: put you to private school. I had really good parents,
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  Speaker 2: and Claren's parents had a real good marriage. It was
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  Speaker 2: the two parent household but we had our issue.
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  Speaker 1: And they had a really good marriage too.
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  Speaker 2: No, they did not. They had a very interesting relationship.
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  Speaker 1: They still married.
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  Speaker 2: No they are not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh look she is piping over here, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, boom.
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  Speaker 1: So your parents separated at what age.
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  Speaker 2: I was grown? So my dad was around when I
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  Speaker 2: was really small, and then something happened and they got
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  Speaker 2: into something, and then he left and he came back,
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  Speaker 2: probably when I was around ten something like that. He
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  Speaker 2: was back for maybe a few months. They got married.
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  Speaker 2: They got married right back, and then they stayed married
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  Speaker 2: until I was probably like twenty something. I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: the exact days. But then they stayed married. And but
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't they shouldn't have been together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they was fighting from day one, from day one. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so they had a couple of kids after they got
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  Speaker 1: back together.
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  Speaker 2: No, we was all there already. Ooh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so he left and really came back.
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  Speaker 2: He left and came back. Okay, yeah, yeah, he left
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  Speaker 2: and came back. They I don't know what happened, but
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  Speaker 2: they got it.
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  Speaker 1: Was you didn't ask.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't care, Not that I didn't care, but
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  Speaker 2: at that time, especially too, it was like staying in
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  Speaker 2: a child's place. Back then, as an adult, kids weren't
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  Speaker 2: allowed to ask questions, and.
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  Speaker 1: Ask questions later that just it wasn't really really chang.
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  Speaker 2: It just wasn't. I'm somebody who was grateful for a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I was just grateful for the time, grateful for this.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking like, why did you eat what we
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  Speaker 2: wasn't good? I didn't think like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, so you were happy to have them back, happy.
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  Speaker 2: To have them back, happy to have my mom, happy
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  Speaker 2: to see them together in the whatever capacity that was.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they broke up, I was happy that
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  Speaker 2: they did that because I understood that it didn't make
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  Speaker 2: sense to be together. I was watching it. You ever
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  Speaker 2: had parents that argue a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a mixed bread I was exposed to other problems.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I was just yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people really are you Jamaican? My mom's Jamaican.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a one.
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  Speaker 2: Sided oh yeah, yeah. You just you gotta listen and
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  Speaker 2: be like okay, all right, okay, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's more like a silent okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well it's crazy. Was that they would argue so much.
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  Speaker 2: It almost was entertainment. Like when you young you just
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  Speaker 2: get I mean, you're looking forward to Oh, it's about
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  Speaker 2: to be some drama and it would be about anything.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you That's how I knew that was supposed
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  Speaker 2: really like they would argue over things, that's what.
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  Speaker 1: You like, over how much butter to put on this
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  Speaker 1: hot toast.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna tell you. Now, I'm gonna show y'all
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  Speaker 2: this is real. Back back to the basics. So first off,
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  Speaker 2: she handed me a butter knife to spread the butter
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  Speaker 2: on the toast. First mistake. This is how you gotta
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  Speaker 2: do this.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta take it's already melted by the way.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta take this just like this, okay, or it
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  Speaker 2: ain't right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The butter knife makes it not official. You take the
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  Speaker 2: bread and you take the butter, and you spread it
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  Speaker 2: just like that. That's how you gotta do it. You
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  Speaker 2: see that. You see what you oh man? Then you
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  Speaker 2: take the butter night and you clean up your mess
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  Speaker 2: and you put that over there because they fanted.
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  Speaker 1: They brought melted butter.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let me tell you something. They go all
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  Speaker 2: out at eating with broke. But this is going back
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  Speaker 2: to when you was broke, so you couldn't melt the butter.
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  Speaker 2: You have to just let the butter sit out and
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  Speaker 2: hope it melted and put it in the sun or something.
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  Speaker 2: So then boom, that's how we did it. Like that.
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  Speaker 2: You spread the butter on it just like that. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like exactly exactly. Boom.
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  Speaker 1: All right, cool, Now we got the butter.
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  Speaker 2: Boom. You see how butter that is.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, a lot of butter.
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  Speaker 2: Now you take your sugar, right yep, Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do it. I'm gonna do it this way. Boom. You
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  Speaker 2: gonna take the sugar.
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  Speaker 1: It was the last time you had this, man at
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  Speaker 1: least twenty something years. Boom, you're about to go down
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  Speaker 1: and reminiscent plan Boom.
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  Speaker 2: Then you take the sugar. That's a lot of sugar,
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  Speaker 2: it is. And you know what's crazy is usually you
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  Speaker 2: will put the cinnamon first. Oh, you will put the
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  Speaker 2: cinnamon before the sugar because the cinnamon holds the sugar.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody know that. Oh nope, okay, boom. Then you take
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  Speaker 2: the cinnamon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's a lot of cinnamon. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Boom. Now, back in the day, because this is your toast,
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  Speaker 2: you would have took your finger and spread it properly.
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  Speaker 2: But thank god we got some civilization now, So now
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna spread the sugar and the butter
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  Speaker 2: and the cinnamon like that boom and put that on
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  Speaker 2: there like that nice. Now try that and tell me
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  Speaker 2: that's not taking But tell me that's not the most
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  Speaker 2: beautiful delicacy in the hood you ever had.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're eating this too, right, I would.
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  Speaker 2: Never eat that again in my life. But no, you
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, and what are you talking about this?
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm the only tester bunny rabbit around here.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. I got you here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cheers, don't give me your butter outside.
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  Speaker 2: I got you. That tastes like seventh grade.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm better at this than you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, but this is really good. Hold on,
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  Speaker 1: you cut two little sugar in mind loaded up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, hold on, go ahead. Now, it's not
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  Speaker 2: enough sugar. Too much sugar, ain't sweet enough. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying there like that? Take another BikeE Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you about that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me trying to shave up his dish.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you about this. Right here, me and
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  Speaker 2: my brothers, my cousins, because my house, our houses, everybody
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  Speaker 2: would come to neighborhood. Everybody come kick them out. My brothers,
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  Speaker 2: my cousin, my uncles, my young I got uncle. That's
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  Speaker 2: my age. My mom is the oldest of nine children.
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  Speaker 2: We'd come in my room, bring the toaster, bring the
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  Speaker 2: We would literally bring the toaster in the room, bring
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  Speaker 2: the toaster in the room, bring the loaf of bread,
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  Speaker 2: bring the butt. And we were just sitting there watching
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  Speaker 2: TV making this, eating it like this.
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  Speaker 1: Was the snack.
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  Speaker 2: This was what it was. But you get full because
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  Speaker 2: it's bread. We're getting full off this. We this used
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  Speaker 2: to be like we look forward to yo. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: bring the toaster. With what you're doing, Go get the toaster.
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  Speaker 2: You mean nothing to be going back and forth to
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen. Were playing video games. We're watching Jerry Springer,
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  Speaker 2: Jenny Jones, Martin the Box remember the Box, right music?
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  Speaker 2: But and we was eating this. That's how we was
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  Speaker 2: getting down.
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  Speaker 1: Take me back, now, So you come from this parent household,
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  Speaker 1: where does you start to look towards the comedy direction?
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  Speaker 2: At what age I started comedy when I was I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what I know what age I started going
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  Speaker 2: into comedy clubs. I was like twenty when I started comedy.
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  Speaker 2: I started in my church. So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: While you need some water that dry ass toast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need no water, I need a whooping. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna go back. I need to go all the way back.
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  Speaker 2: I need to go clean my room or something. This
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  Speaker 2: would just take me back to it. Oh wow, I
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  Speaker 2: need some chores, you know what.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Oh wow, it's nostalgic.
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  Speaker 2: It's nostalgic, and you ain't got what the TV put
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  Speaker 2: your springer on. Let me call it. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: home and pie in a bit. So I used to
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  Speaker 2: imitate my pastor. I come from. My pastors were animated,
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  Speaker 2: So I used to be at the house and I
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  Speaker 2: would just imitate him to my mom and my sister's joking.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, my brother had already left for college,
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  Speaker 2: but I would just be imitating him, just joking around
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  Speaker 2: and my sister my mom would laugh, and that was
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  Speaker 2: enough for me. And then my mom at the time,
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  Speaker 2: she was over the church anniversary. She would put the
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  Speaker 2: programs together for the anniversaries. She said, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 2: you do that at the church. I'm not doing that
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  Speaker 2: at the church, you know what I mean. No, And
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  Speaker 2: then so at the anniversary, she put me. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know she put me on on the program. So then
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  Speaker 2: she say, whoever, I don't remember who was am seeing
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  Speaker 2: the event that night, but they she say like this,
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  Speaker 2: they say, and next up we got brother Lance. That's
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  Speaker 2: how it because I wasn't I wasn't like, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: talking to you if I wasn't like the life of
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  Speaker 2: the party. I was really like quiet, real quiet, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So when they read they was
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  Speaker 2: everybody was like because they didn't even say what I
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  Speaker 2: was doing. It was just that I was coming to
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  Speaker 2: the stage. So I go up and all I remember
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  Speaker 2: is the first thing I said was you'all know how
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  Speaker 2: pastor be on Sunday? And then I just went into it.
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  Speaker 2: And when I tell you, everybody in the church was
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  Speaker 2: like hollering, like my pastor was like on the floor
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  Speaker 2: with real tears coming out of like it was real tears,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Somebody jumped up, running and
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  Speaker 2: rant like it was a fire, Like it was insane.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the first time I had ever done
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  Speaker 2: anything like that on a stage. I wasn't thinking I
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  Speaker 2: was going to be a comedian at the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just thought that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Now was that? Did that then? Lights some kind of
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: spark an you right there?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: It did, But I didn't know how to go from
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: that to a comedian.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: What did your mom say after that performance?
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: She was like, oh my god, that was so funny.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: She was like you was like, there's some wrong with
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: you boy. She was just kind of like that. But
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I started comedy before Instagram. There was no Instagram. I
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: don't remember if I think YouTube was out, but it
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: wasn't like it is now.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: My point of saying, this is the only and I
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: didn't grow up in LA or New York. I grew
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: up in Sacramento, So you didn't you only see comedians
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: on TV. Like I think it's somebody's like they want
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: to start comedy now, they'll go on Instagram and they
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: got all of these examples of comedians or people who
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: are doing humorous things. But like, oh, I can do that,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: But that's not how it was. This was when I
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: did that at the church. That was probably two thousand
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: and six, maybe or something like that, two thousand and five.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I started comedy in ten, twenty eleven, when I first
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: started getting on stage, you know what I mean. So
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: this was eight years earlier or something like that, six
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: years or something like that. Yeah, I didn't know. I
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: just knew that was real cool.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: And did you start gravitating towards watching comedy tapes?
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Though? I always did I start. I think I probably
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: started watching more, but I always grew up watching comedy.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, So take me to the first time where you
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: start to pursue comedy.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Okay. So it goes back to the church. If so
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: much of my story is rooted in the church, That's
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: something I'm real grateful for. Because my church, my pastor
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: would try to nurture gifts. If he's seeing you had
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a gift, he would try to create things or nurture
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it to to help get you to where you can
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: get to. Oh, I do the thing at the church.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: So now going forward, every time there was an event
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: at the church, they would just ask me to do something.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Can you just host it? Like something?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Just so you went from the kid that they were
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like super quiet, So now this is the kid they
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: want to mc.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: That's worse than this. So I used to do the
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: sound at the church. Wow, Like I used to because
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I always knew this was always knew I was supposed
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: to be a star. I always knew I was supposed
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: to be someone impactful, but I ran from it. I
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: used to always try to be behind the scenes. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: instead of doing I would say, I do the sound,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I do the I'll do the I would hold the camera,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: but I got real bad vision. I got contacts in.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: But if I took my contacts out, yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I'll be holding up three fingers that you say you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: ain't see nothing.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I was, you'd be my color. If I
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: took my contacts out, it's bad. But I never wore glasses.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I just used to thug it out. I didn't wear
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: contacts back then either. I just used to just walk
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: around blind. So I used to be doing the sound
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: at the church, but I couldn't really see. So the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: pastor would be like telling me to turn stuff up,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and I'm just looking and he's like, yeah, I'm like
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: thumbs out. I am doing a good job. It was bad.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I hold I did somebody's wedding and I was holding
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the camera, but I was all over the place because
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: it was bad. I was just trying to do all
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: these things, just running from my gift right back to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the church. So he would do these things like host
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: this event. We're doing this, can you host it? So
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: then he created this first Friday's event. It was like
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a talent show, like people come through and I was
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: hosting that and that was another time where I just
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: got to just be on It was just me really
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: being on stage in front of people, figuring that out,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: getting comfortable with that. So now fast forward, we're going
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: into New Year's Eve, going into the year twenty ten.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Now a lot of churches have services on New Year's
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Eve to go and you don't got to be out
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: there in the streets for New Years. You can come
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: bring the new year in with the law. Yes, when
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I get your years started in the House of the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Lord like that right. So then my pastor's son, Ishmael
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: called me. He said, hey, can you do some comedy
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: at the New Year's event?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, how did it go?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: It went great. But this was my first time ever
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: writing jokes. Everything I did before that was me making
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: fun of people at the church, are imitating people that
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: This was the first time I wrote jokes that had
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: nothing to do.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: With the church, and it had to be PG too.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah. Yeah, but my church wasn't PG. Never mind,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: that's another story. Listen, we're not gonna talk about that
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So you wrote these jokes and that they landed.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: They landed very well. These jokes. I don't do them now,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: but I could if I think back to the jokes.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I was always good writing, always understood jokes. I understood
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: what a punch sign was supposed to be. I understood.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I just I had a good understanding of jokes. That
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: was the first time I wrote jokes that was just
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: like this, I'm not gonna I don't want to. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: don't want to tell jokes about sister, her or brother.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I just want to write jokes. So that was that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: That went, well, that's November going, and how.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Old are you at that time?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two, twenty three, okay, okay, twenty two. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: so then that's going into the new year. Now, this
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: was this is crazy. My church is directly across the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: street from a comedy club.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, the signs are lining up for you very directly, like.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: This, What is up with this?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Mic is not feeling you today? I don't know what
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is up with it?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens But the same way with this is
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: how close to like walk across the street and you're
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: at the comedy club. But I never knew that because
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I never knew what a comedy club was.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So at some point you acknowledge this comedy club.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I acknowledged the comedy club.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Is this the first club you actually go into as ever?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Stand up?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Ever?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And then how did you do over there? You want
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the full story, I want the story where you bombed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: That story didn't happen for a while. Wow. Yeah, the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: bomb story happened for sure, but it didn't happen at
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: that point.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Now, so you do you start doing comedy in this club?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Do you stay at this club for a long time
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: before you sit in?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You know this the Sacramento punchline. So I go there
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: because they have a showcase once a month, So June second,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I go the week the month before May May fifth,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It was the first Wednesday of every month. It was
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: May fifth, but it was single to mile, so they
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: moved it to May twelfth, which is my brother and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: my uncle's birthday. These dates are all significant to me.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: That's my first time I ever went to go watch
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: live comedy. So I go to the punchline and I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: go watch live comedy for the first time. I sit,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I'm right in the middle, second row, and I'm just watching,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm like in awe, like watching everybody was amazing.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe, like how they was able to do this.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I know all these guys now and some of them
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: weren't amazing, but to me at the time at the time.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is incredible, you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Know what I mean. So I said, I'm gonna come
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: back and do it next month. So now next month.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Now we're at June second. So I pull up, I
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: knock on the door. Doors open at seventh, show started
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and I get there six fifth, I knock on the door. Hey,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm here. I'm here for the comedy show. She was like, okay,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: come back in ten minutes when we open. I said, okay,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I'm wanting the comedian. And she said, okay, come back
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: in ten minutes. Won't be open. I said, okay, cool,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I come back at seven o'clock. I'm here and she's okay.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Let me. There's the manager and I say, hey, how
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you doing man, I'm here for the show tonight and
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: he said at who are you? I said, ma'am I'm
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Lames Woods, and he was like, I don't know you,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and I said, okay, well, how do I sign up
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: for the show? He said, there ain't no sign up
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: for the show. If I don't know you, I don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: You're not That's not how it works. So then I
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: was like, oh okay, and then I just left. So
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I went back to my car. But then I'm like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I can't leave. I told all these people I was
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: going to be at the show tonight and.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: You was advertising the show that you weren't even on first.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I didn't know no better. I just I go on
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the website. They said it's a show, you got a showcase.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I'm Okaylyn, what do you do?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You go back?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I go back because this is once again before instead before,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: like Facebook is a thing. But I've told everybody, yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: listen to me, like yo, this is what we're doing
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: this tonight. So I'm I can't leave. I don't got
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: everybody's number. So I go back and I'm talking to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: him like, hey man, I talked I'm be on the show.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Then I just need five minutes. And he was just
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: like he would say real mean things walk away. You'd
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: be like everybody say they funny to their bomb and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: then what then he walk away. I'm just standing there.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Damn what happens after the bomb? You know what I mean? Yeah,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I'm processing all of this. So then twenty minutes go
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: by thirty Now it was seven thirty, and I'm like,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: hey man, I just need five minutes of your time, bro.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: So we're standing by the bar. Now, this is what
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the entrance is. So he would come by the bar
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: say something, walk away. So now let's say it's seven forty.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Show start at eight o'clock, seven thirty five. People keep
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: coming into the show saying, A Lance can't wait to
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: see you, and hey, do your think the night? Bro?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: A Lance? Hey do? Hey Bro, I'm proud of and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: he's this was a lesson I learned early about selling tickets. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't know nothing about no guest, less than nothing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Everybody who can to send me bought a ticket. So
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: by the time it's seven point fifty five, the club
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: is packed and it's probably sixty people that came to
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: see me, which is sixty people. Sixty people. Yeah, oh yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it's a lot for you. He had. I didn't know
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: no better, you know what I mean? This is my
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: first introduction into show business. I didn't know. I had
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: just sold a bunch of tickets and people came to
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: see me, and your hands are tied at this point.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So then at seven fifty five he said, okay, you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: got five minutes. You're going up first. Jesus, I said, okay,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know I was supposed to be nervous
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to go first. Yeah, you know what I mean. I
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: was so like angry because I had a bad temper.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: It's better now, but especially at that time, I was
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: real like short. So I'm angry because how you talking
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to me? You know what I mean? And I didn't
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: tell nobody who came to see me what was going on,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: because then it would have been a group problem. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, so I'm trying to just be chill. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: so then he come back to me eight o'clock he said, okay,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you're going up third first, he said the first thing.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: He said, you're going third. So then there's a host,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: two comics, and then me the comic that goes on
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: before me. He was probably on stage for seven minutes.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody smiled, not a smile. Yeah, And
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: that made me more angry because it's do better, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I gotta fight for five minutes and he just get
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to go on with No, he ain't put on no fight,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and you let this have it. So I go on stage.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: It went really well. It went really well my first time,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: but like it was, the jokes I were telling were funny.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I wasn't a great performance my first time at a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: comedy club, but I still remember the jokes I told.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I remember like they were quality jokes for my first time.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And then from then do you just start to meet
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the comics and go places and figure out stuff and oh,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: this guy has a room over here, and this guy
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: has a room over here. Now if you want to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: hear the bomb, go ahead.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: No, I don't want to hear the bomb. So you
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: so after that club, you do well? Do you start
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to now understand the process of going after a certain
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: title in the club and pitching yourself.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: No, I still don't see this is what I thought.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I thought it went well, and I was like, so,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: am I supposed to wait for HBO to call? Or
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: do I need to send them the tape from tonight
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: because clearly they need to know who I am. Did
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: y'all see what I just did? Yeah, that's how I'm thinking.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't know how none of this stuff works. Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: so I'm like, oh not Yeah, Chris Rocket is funny,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: but I was funny too, So clearly we should be
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: working together. That's how they're supposed to work. What are
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we talking about? So I was just I didn't know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't know, Like I ain't know. I was at
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: that point, I'm real like just inquisitive, like I'm trying
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: to figure out what am I supposed to be doing
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: because I don't know nothing?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So who are you going to find out? What's your
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: next play?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: The comics I met that night. I remember one comics
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: is friend of mine still, his name is Miles Weber.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I was like, yo, how do you make money doing this?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And he was like, hell if I know?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Like that was like, how long do you think? How
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: long was your struggle for at least not making money?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Not making money? My first time on stage that was
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: June second. The next year, November second was my last
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: day work on a day job.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Oh so within a year you were able to fully
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: support yourself off comedy.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I was able to figure it out. I wouldn't say fully, no, yeah, yes,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: fully supported myself. I had to change some things. I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: had to learn how to manage my money different. Yeah,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I had to learn what not to do. Okay, maybe
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I don't need that. Do I really need cable? I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: don't think.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So I really started living on a budget.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Started living on a budget, you know what I mean,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: start dating lesser women. But you just have to change it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: You gotta change some things up. I mean, look, so
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you're not in a budget.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Did you start dating women that had more
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: money too?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Did you really?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Did that help you at some point in your journey?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not like that. It was what really helped
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: was I learned how much stuff I don't need. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Like I just learned. Like what I realized is the
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: thing that we get caught up in is we when
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: we make money, everything we call everything we get cost
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: like constant money. So it's like I haven't had a
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: card since my first car. I've never had another car.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Really no, I'm like very highly, I'm a car no queen. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and every time I'm about to tire, I'm like, nope,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: put me in.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah another one. Yeah, But that's how the cycle work.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: So I'm like people pay bills on iPhones like they
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: want the new phone. So then they add yeah, yeah,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and it's know. If I'm going to get the new phone,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: just go buy it. If I can't afford it, then
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I don't have it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Smart you live within your means, which is a good,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: very good thing. I can't imagine Sacramento and correct me
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. You get to go up that many
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: nights or the times in one night?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Why not? All right, So I'll tell you this story.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find comedy clubs and things now at
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: this point in my head, you can never tell the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: same joke twice. This is what I believe. So I thought,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: once you told that joke, you got to tell new jokes.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So every time.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I'm running at a different speed.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. And at that point I was just
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: so excited. Everything I thought was fun I wrote everything
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I thought was funny. If I just wrote it all down,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna try it on stage.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: But how many clubs are you averaging a night in Sacramento?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: So that that's what I was gonna tell you, But
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I'll speed through it. When I was really getting good,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I was on stage at a minimum twelve times.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: A week, twelve times a week. Yeah, in Sacramento they
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: have that many clubs you can get up that. How
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: what's the distance between the clubs though, all within already
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: thirty miles that's pretty so like almost thirty minutes apart
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: or within. Yeah, so what because I'm saying this because
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: if you're a comic in New York, you can get
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: reps up that right, most of your comedy. The more
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: reps you do, the better you get, right, even though
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you're writing new material on the regular. Clearly, I'm just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out for you to at least maintain
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: yourself how much repping you're doing to get to the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: point where you're semi sustainable within a year.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: So that's what it was. It was. There was three
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: comedy clubs, like Major Club. You had the Punchline, You
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: had Tommy T's, and then you had Laps Unlimited. Tommy
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: T's has since shut the one that Sacramento has, but
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Punchline and Laps Unlimited are still there. So those were
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the three clubs. Then you had there's a spot called
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the Touch of Class, like a black Spy. It's like
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: it's like a nationally known amongst comics. This was like
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a spywork. Every black comic had came through at some point.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you ever seen Kevin Hart
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Heart of the City. He shot at a Touch of Class.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: The first episode ever was shot in Sacramento. Touch a Class.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: So that was on Sundays. But then there was another
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: spot called on the Y, a little bar they did comedy.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You did that, so I would go to And then
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: there was a spot called the Comedy Spot. They did
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: mostly improv, but they did stand up too, so I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: would go, Okay, on Sunday, I could hit the comedy spot,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I could hit on the Y, and I hit the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Touch of Class.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Got it?
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: So that's three on Sunday.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: So how long did you work a Sacramento for a
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: year or did you When did you start to say
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to move out of the Sacramento zone.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: To start you mean to start to travel outside of
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Sack to the shows.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Do you still live in Sacramento? You live in La.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I live in l A. Yeah, okay, but I just
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: moved to l A.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Like how long ago? Oh okay, so you're new here? Yeah, okay, okay.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: But I've been coming to La so long.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like, what I'm trying. What I'm trying
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to get a lay of the land, because got twenty
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: more minutes. Is I want to see, like how long
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: it took for you to get that consistency and what
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: markets did you have to work to get that consistency up?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: When I the first thing, there's a guy, one of
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the first not one of the first guys whoever took
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: me on the road, named Daniel Dugar. I bury you
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: and he was like, Yo, you gotta go to grow,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: You got to go to grow. So then he had
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: gave me his number one time. And I'm not the
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: best at calling people. I had somebody's number and I
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: just want to use I'll be trying to get better
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: at that. So I remember I called him one day
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and I was like, Yo, what should I be doing there?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: How can I do this? And then he's big on
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: like wardrobe. He's like a real sharp he always with
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: his suits. He was like, man, your wardrobe is important.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: He talk. So then me and him we just went shopping.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: He's just like, yo, let's just go shopping, bro. Just
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: so I started wearing suits and all that. That wasn't
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: really my thing, but it was just something. But he
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: was like, Yo, why don't you start. You can come.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I got these shows. You can come on the road.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: There's these things called triple runs that's on the West coast,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and it'll be like I'm talking about all of these
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: small little Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington state, and you get
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: in a car and just drive to all of these spots.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: But just like this show might pay three hundred, this
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: one might pay one fifty, this one might pay five.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And then so you do that for a week and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: you might come home with a thousand dollars. If you
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: got some merchandise, you might come home with two thousand,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred, whatever the case is. Right, So that I
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: started to do that, Okay, I would just get in
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the car and just drive, okay, and just go pick
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: up nine hund here, three hundred here, one point fifty here,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: sometimes get a room time, sleep in the car. Just really.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: But I was having the most fun because I was
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: doing I wanted to do. So if I got a
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: drive thirteen dollars, I don't mind, because I'm finna go
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: see the most beautiful woman in the world. You know
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: what I mean. Comedy?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, wait, what so you're doing all of this
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and maintaining a budget. What are you doing with your
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: daytime though there's no hustling during the day, You're just
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: like living life and writing comics.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just I was doing regular stuff, went
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to the gym playing basketball.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Where does that acting enter?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So I started acting once again. I'm at a show.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: We're doing. My man Greg Vaughn had a a compedy do,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: a golf tournament and a comedy show before the day before.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: So we're doing the comedy show. It's me, Tony Roberts,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Chris Spencer, alex Tommy, Buddy Lewis, Flex Alexander. Yeah, that's
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the show. This is in Sacramento two. So we do
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: that show and after the show, this guy comes to
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: talk to me. He says, hey, man, you're really funny.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: My friend is a movie director and I just want
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you to meet him. Okay, So he says to me,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: he's just I just think you should meet him. I said, okay.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: He said, He said, yeah, are you gonna be at
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the golf tournament tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'll be there.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: He said, he's gonna be there. I'll make sure that
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you guys meet the golf tournament. I said, okay. Cool.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: So then the next day golf tournament. This guy's name
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: is Nick Leasure, film director. So I meet Nick and
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: he was just like, yeah, Brian, here just here. You're
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: really funny bro, And yeah, bro, we should just let's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: figure out we can work together. I want to see
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you perform. When do you perform it. I just happen
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: to have a show that night at the Tommy t
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that is no longer open. I was like, I'll be
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: at Tommy T's tonight. He was like, I'm coming through.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: So he come to Tommy T's. He's bro. That was great, bro.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I just yeah, we gotta figure something out. The next
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: within the week he called. He sent me like a
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: script and he was like, I want you to read
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: for this part right here, or read this part and
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: then just send me like a video of you.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: So then I'm like all right, cool. So then I
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: send it to him and then he's yeah, come out.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I want you to come out of the office. Come out.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Office is yeah, bro, we start filming. We start filming
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: in two muths or in a mother or somebody else.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Before he gave you the role, did you ever entertain
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the idea of acting for sure.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I never entertained the idea, but I've never done any
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: of the steps that would show that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: And you didn't go to acting school.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I did none of those things. I did none of
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: those things. But it was like, that's how it came
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: to me. And this was like this movie was like Starr, Mario,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: ven People's and Glenn Plumbers and it was like, I'm
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: with seasoned actors.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Now did you like the whole experience?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Acting. Acting is a it's a different sport. It's
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: like a totally different sport. But I love acting because
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: you get to be someone that's not yourself, you know
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: what I mean. You get to disappear into something else.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: It's a different it's a different muscle, Like you challenge
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: yourself differently, you know what I mean. You read the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: part and you got to say, Okay, what would the
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: character do? Not? What would I do? What would I
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: how would he say this? Yeah? Yeah, you know what
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Now, now that you've experienced both sports, which one do
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you like more?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Still?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Comedy?
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Comedy? Yeah, I got you got more control over the comedy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: This is I love acting, though I'm getting more into
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the acting space now because I'm first off I'm a
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: comic first, I'm a comedian.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So everything you're very funny, by the way, extremely funny.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, thank you. But everything I do to
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: bring you to my comedy, you know what I mean?
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: So I can go do one hundred movies. My goal,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: one of my main goals is for you to now
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: come see me do comedy. Right. So it's like Denzel
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: just said, he just said, a theater is an actors medium.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Film is a director's medium. The stage is a comedians medium.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So no matter what I
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: do in front of the camera, they might take it
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and edit it different and that's not what I did.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: But that's what they're supposed to do. This is their thing.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: But the stage is my thing. This is how This
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: is the purest of my thoughts and how I can
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: break it down. This is without the edit, without the cut.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: This is how I feel. I said it, you know
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: what I mean. So, yeah, comedy, comedy always be first.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: You never say always, but I feel comfortable saying what.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Would you say is the downside of being in this industry?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: You've been in it for over twenty years, i'd imagine,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: or almost twenty almost thirteen thirteen, yeah, thirteen.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Fourteen, my bad, fourteen fourteen years.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you say is the downside of it?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: If you could say there.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like to say a downside, I'll say it affects
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: relationships for sure.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: But give me like a romantic relationship all of them?
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, for sure, all of them, all of them.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Why do you say all of them.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: You missed so much?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Do you have children?
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: No, I'll be pulling out, but saying why I pulled
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: this out to toast. You got to you got to
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: get in the pot of there and.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Now, okay, he's got a strong pull out game.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: You want to eat this sentiment, you got to pull
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: it out, you know what I mean?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Always wrap it up to guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: If you wrap it up. Do you really believe that?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: So it'd be affecting all relationships as a family members
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: because you said all relationships or relationships.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Just I can't. I missed all the birthday parties. They
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: do it on the weekend on the road, you know
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: what I mean. So it's but I think even that
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: can change later. It is because I've been on the
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: road consistently now six years.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Was mastering online social media tough for you.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I've mastered it.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: But but you're Your following is pretty good though, So
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: it looks like you're starting to get a hang of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the algorithms.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: The following is growing up. I understand how to be
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: funny on the internet, which is different.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: It's a different type of comedy.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Stage, which is different than being funny here. Everything is
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: a different kind of thing to be funny. But I
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: will say online, I think I need to grow my
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: YouTube page. I need to get some long form content. Damn.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And I got probably got like eight thousand YouTube subscribers.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: That's still pretty good without ever trying. Yeah, I've never
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: tried to build a page.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Why do you feel it's important to build a YouTube
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: page though?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like everybody in the world uses YouTube?
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Do you think that?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: And then from the babies to the eldest, does.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: The social media play a role into how much you
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: get paid?
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Now? Absolutely, that's it's the new television. It's like the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: last star that was comedian who was like from a movie,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: do you know what I mean?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. What do you think of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: these like comics like Matt Rife, that's.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: My friend that's my guy. I love that guy. Yeah.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: It at that, then I'm not gonna say nothing past it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Matt, MAT's hilarious.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I think you think he's funny.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Man's hilarious. This is what I believe. I believe that
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: the way people discover you sometimes is how they're always
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: gonna hold you. Matt's been doing comedy for years. Yeah.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I think Matt was starting fourteen years old. He wasn't
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: doing quote unquote crowd work. He was doing the setup,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: primise punts, and he was doing the jokes. He got
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: famous from the crowd work.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So then I heard about that.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So then if that's how you've seen him, you're like, oh,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: he's just the crowworker.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Didn't you do it? Didn't he release a special just
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: on CrowdWork too? At some point he did.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: He's release two or three of them like that. Yeah,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: he has one on Netflix that's crowd work.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think I've seen that.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But it's it's like the ability to create and
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: find your way. This is the hardest thing to do,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the hardest thing to do is sell tickets.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how would you describe your comedy though? For people
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: that don't know, I've seen him, you was, Yeah, Yeah,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: that's that's why I wanted on the show.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my comedy is brilliant.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: It for people that don't know who Lance was is.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: How would you describe your type of comedy is.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: It's it is high energy, intellectual warfare.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: That's how I view it. I'm trying to merge the
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: worlds of Tony Roberts and Dave Chappelle and find that
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle where you have this high energy,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: can say any silly thing and also has some introspective,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: thought provoking Damn, I ain't think about it like that
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and try to mix all of that together. It's how
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I view it. Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: really entertaining because like I watch comedy and I can
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: break down. I understand comedy, so I can tell you, oh,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that's that. And there's some college that are really good
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: and they're boring. Yeah, and like I'll be watching myself
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: and I say, I just don't want to be boring.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I think that there's I think my rule with comedy
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: is that people I never say a comic is terrible.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I think that people laugh at what they can relate to.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I think that most people laugh at well, and there
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: are people that are just genuinely funny, but most people
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: laugh at what they can relate to. Yes, that's what
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I've noticed.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, and a great comic will make you laugh at
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: things you can't relate to it all.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they can get you to laugh. But I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: noticed that I tend if I look at the comics
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: that I'm like totally like, I'm a fan of this
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: particular comic, this particular comic. It's comic that's somewhat there's
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: some kind of familial familiar.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Cularity to get the words where I go ahead.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: But but I say that to say that because I
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: think there are comics that are genuinely funny, but to say, okay,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that comic needs to be a staple in my like yeah,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I want to continue. Yeah, I think there's got to
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more of a relationship with the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: I can relate to the Bilberd's continual anger. I make
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: jokes around here all the time, like yo, I totally
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: relate to this guy and holding it in and then
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: you just randomly explode. I'm like, yo, I got you stop? Yeah,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: or Sebastian, I keep foret I love it, but all
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the toxic like anything toxic, sign me up like on that,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: like Little Drain, I'm like, yo, I message you. But
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I do still can appreciate all different types of comedy.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: But I think even when I talk to other people,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: it's like some people may like say Matt and be
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: like he's amazing, and it's okay. You probably find it
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: more relatable then yeah.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think what's happened in entertainment is people like
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: the person more than the product, so they want to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: relate to the person. Yeah, And it's once I'm locked
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: in with the person, whatever the product, I must support
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: it because I like the person. It's especially with the
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: social media age, it's like people are literally just falling
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: in love with the personality and don't even know what
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: you do. They don't know what you're a comedian, singer, dance.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: They just know that they like you.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or they want to be I think with social media,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I think people tend to follow people they either want
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to be like or don't. I still haven't grasped the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: whole social media idolization because to me, it's like a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: platform where you present whatever you want to present. It's
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: like a mirror. It's like a weird picture show. I
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: don't think there's a lot of authenticity there, but that's
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: where comedy is great, because there's a lot of authenticity.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: For any fans that or comics that are trying to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: look up to you, is that you have a phone on.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: It's vibrating, it's down there.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Before we close out, I would like
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: to see if you could give any advice to any comics,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: young comics trying to be a comedian in the space
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of the common business.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I think you call it. Yeah, mom, no, just take
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the plan B pill. Don't worry about it. Okay, all right,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: m my mom be tripping.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Bro, this is I was like, literally, is he really
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: taking this phone call right now? But I have a
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: plan B. I think that's hilarious.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry my mom? Is she wild?
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Your mom? Is that where you got it? That's Lance
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Woods for you guys right there?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Come on, mama, we got.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Lance. How how can people keep up with you and
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: find out how to catch tickets to your show?
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, So you asked me two questions.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I did your mom's plan B?
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna give the first if you
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: want to follow me. It's sir Lance Woods, s I
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: R L A N C E W O O D S.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: That's Instagram, YouTube, TikTok x Twitter. What what's the other
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: ones that TikTok TikTok?
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: And by the way, guys, make sure you go and
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: follow his YouTube. Okay, he's trying to grow it ground.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Grow my YouTube Instagram, Sir Lance Woods, please do that.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: It would be really beneficial. All my tour stuff and
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: all the ticket stuff is in the link in the bio.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: All of that cool.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Even after we wrap, he's getting on the road too.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so happy you have me here.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate you letting me come here and cook
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: this delicacy.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: And I could tell it meant a lot to you.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It did. What advice would you give to someone, though, for.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Real, if I gave a comedian advice. Advice is hard
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: for me because it's too general. But what I will
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: say is, when you starting off, do the things that
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you think are funny and not what you think other
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: people will think is funny. That's one of the main
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: things comic struggle with is day they try to do
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: what they think people will find funny. Versus what you
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: just find funny, because the same way you said Bill
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Burr and the Anger, if you was like, people aren't
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: as angry as me, then you wouldn't even be able
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: to be yourself because that's how your people find is
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: by you being you. You know what I mean? If
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: you go try to they already got a version of that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Just be But I also think comedy good. If you
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: a good comic, it'll teach you how to be yourself.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know they.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I think the comics are more funny when they're one
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: hundred percent yeah themselves, like unexcusably is that the right word, unapologetic,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: unapologetically themselves, like.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: For sure, they are, for sure, But you gotta.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Even the ones you can't relate to are more funny
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: when you're like, oh my gosh, you can't believe this
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: comic thinks this way or what's funny?
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Right? I give everybody comic leeway for lack of a
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: better time. There's comics that say things that I one
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: hundred percent disagree with, but as a comic, he or
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: she has that right to express that. My only, it's
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: my only. It's a small request I'd be having just
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: make it funny. There's a lot of stuff going on
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: right now where it's just just for the shock or
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: just its just make it funny what you talk about.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Just make it funny. Yeah, that's it.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: come see us. I know you went through a lot
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: today and you didn't quite on us, So I appreciate it.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I know that if y'all got an EBT card.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I think I messed up on the bread though. I
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: think I did this brio bread and I was trying
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: to was way too fancy. Bread was fancy.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Bed was way too fancuse.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like the bread messed up your dish low key.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Like I if I wasn't eating tacos before this.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: It didn't mess it up.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: It just it was too thick, you know what I'm saying.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like the cheaper bread would have worked better.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I was trying to be fancy for you, Lance. I
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: was excited about you.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it, you know what I mean. I'm excited
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: about being here. It was good, Yes, it was good.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Gods like I said it was. It was like two
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: pieces of bread back and maybe four switched together back
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: in the day, but it was still good and it
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: brought back memories. That's what it's about. Reminiscent your childhood,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: where'd you come from? Forget you, what did you when
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: you broke? That's who you are?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: And remember Lance here didn't have his parents, didn't have
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: a real question. He's out by Thanks for tuning in.
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