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AKA Lavetti Vegas with Trenton Lavell Wainwright · Caught on the Mike...

• 0:57
  SPEAKER_03: Food and laughter, hosted by himself and his fellow comics in the free comic mafia.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds like he's having a moment right now, and it's a good time to level up, and he's on the podcast today.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_03: Man, we've been trying to make this happen for some time.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: I've got stand-up comic and my friend Levetti Vegas on the show today.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_03: How are you doing, my friend?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm good, man.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm good, man.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm finally, finally, finally glad we got to do this, man.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a long time.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: We just got to get this together, man.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: We finally got it together.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I'm happy to be on Caught on the Mic, man.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm glad to have you here, especially the fact that you're from a place near and dear to my heart, Omaha, Nebraska.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: I've got people from all over the world listening to the show now.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_03: And uh anytime I have the opportunity to have somebody local from a place I love so much like Omaha and the show, I love to take advantage of that.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_03: So, without further ado, I'm gonna give you the microphone and give you the opportunity to introduce yourself and tell us your origin story.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm LeBetty Vegas.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm from Omaha, Nebraska.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm a comedian, been doing comedy for a little over three years.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, been directing, hosting, producing local TV show called Comedy Society, which just ended not too long ago.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're gonna actually touch on that too, because boy, people just ah, they my friends, so I don't really want to say too much, but I'm actually ending that and starting something called Food and Laughter, where I'm gonna have entertainers come on and interview them.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I've been doing comedy for a little over three years.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: I love doing it, it's it's dear in my heart.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: I still got some work to do, but I try to make people laugh as much as possible and try to get booked as much as possible.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_03: How did you find your pathway to comedy?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: Man, by accident.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: I tell this story almost all the time.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: So check this out.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I was working at Coldstone Cramery, was a general manager of Coldstone Crimery.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: I had a friend who actually did comedy in Coldstone, it's in Village Point, the one in Village Point.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: So they have these meetings for everybody who's like any business that's in Village Point, they have these meetings once a month.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: So also they had like a comedy club.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, I didn't even know, I didn't know anything about the funny bone being in Village Point.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I knew about it, but I didn't know it was in Village Point.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: And the lady at the time who runs runs it, she was like, Oh, yeah, we got this thing called Clash of the Comics, and it's for new comics, whatever.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I was thinking about, I was like, Man, I gotta call my homeboy because I know he just started doing comedy.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: This would be great if he did this.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: So I emailed her and was like, hey, I got a guy that wants to do it, whatever.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, then I was calling him everything.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: He's just so terrible at communication.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: I would, I was I hit him up, everything I possibly can do.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: He never was responding.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: She responded faster than he did.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: She was like, hey, this is not a management type thing.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: If your boy wants to do it, then he can email me.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: But since you emailed me, um, either you do it or nobody do it.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, uh, okay.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I was even gonna play the system and be like, look, just tell her you me and go on stage and whatever, still just the opportunity.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't want to do that.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: He left it alone.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, I emailed him, I emailed her.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't even do it until like a year and a half, two years later.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: But that's beyond the story.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: So I went up there, I bombed, of course.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: I did terrible.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: I got all these people just the bomb at the funny bone.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: It was terrible.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but that was like 2014, and then I just kept I don't I didn't do open mics, didn't do shows, I just kept trying to do that.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: And when I just kept trying to do that, I started taking it seriously in 2019 is when I started taking it seriously.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: And um, yeah, yeah, I started taking it seriously and just been I've been doing it ever since, man.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_03: So how would you describe your brand of comedy?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: All over the place, organized.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I need to I need to do better at what I've been trying to do lately is be better storytelling.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: I used to be one hit recorders, like quick 20, 30 seconds.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: I just tell a joke, bam.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: I need to be better at um one hit you know, um telling stories, which I have, but then my stories are starting to become too long.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: I need to have punches in it.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: So right now it's all over the place, man.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: To be honest, man, I used to go by the sensitive diabetic, but then I didn't have that very many diabetes jokes.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, well, how are you going by the sensitive diabetic and you only got one diabetes joke, you know?
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: So it's all over the place.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh like I'm just to be super honest, I talk about relationship, I talk about my son.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: I do talk about diabetes on top of my job, you know, right now.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: But um, yeah, that's that's what that's that's what I mainly talk about.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_03: So I was gonna create a piece of content based on a uh stand-up comedy special I watched over the weekend with my son.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Gabriel Iglesias, the fluffy guy.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: He uh he has a new special on Netflix, and one of the things he was talking about was cancel culture and why he avoids the topics of politics, religion, and sports.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_03: Sports.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_03: I loved that bit because and why I'm gonna create a piece of content in relation to that is because I avoid at least politics and religion for the same reasons, because it's divisive material, but it's the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: Do you find that you either have to work with that or find yourself on the outskirts on the fringes if you don't involve politics or religion in your bits?
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_03: It just depends.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um politics and religion.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: I did talk about politics was like something that was like a quick hit.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't like just be honest, like you know, a room full of white people, you know, just be honest.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be like, man, damn.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: I they said I was at the funny bone, not a Trump rally, something quick, you know what I mean?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: But it ain't it ain't really, you know, it's cuz it's just because of a bunch of white people.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if somebody, you know, I met, it just depends.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like you see a room full of black people, like, well, but I thought I was at the funny bone, not Wakanda.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, the same context, quick, get it out.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't get deep into it.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, religion.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely never talk about actually, I don't talk about religion.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: I did have this um joke, I haven't even did it in a while.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: A joke about this girl that was role-playing with holy water and the Bible, and she had a Bible verse as a tramp stamp, you know what I mean?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: And it was, you know, I haven't did that joke in a while, but that's not really hit religion.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: And sports, I know so much about sports to where like it sort of does suck because you know, one of my quick hitters was talking about like any city I went to, like, I went to Atlanta one, but like a couple years back when I first started, and you know, it got a bad and I should have known because it wasn't hitting every every city I went to, I kept using a different team, and I kept thinking it was funny, and it and it fucking wasn't.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Or it was to a point, and um, you know, I'm like, hey man, hey, what's up with the Falcons?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I went to Alana first over the line.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: What's up with the Falcons?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: And they was like, they suck.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody said they suck.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yeah, they do suck, don't they?
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: I said, they suck, man.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: I said, last time I liked something that sucked, it was my ex-girlfriend, and nobody really liked it.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, what the fuck is this?
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's because they hate you.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about their team and I'm disrespecting the woman.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what happened, but I did it in Lincoln.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: I did it with the Huskers, you know.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Boo! I was like, oh shit.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I can't keep talking about sports, man.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: So then when I did switch it, I talked about um the Bubba Wallace situation with the when he said he's telling you know, a noose, and then it was end up being like a garage opener.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it was ridiculous.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: So um I can keep going on and on about the sports stuff.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sports I have dove into a lot.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you want to talk about popular stuff and stuff that actually people know about.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to talk about something people don't know, or you know what I mean?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then like, why is he talking about this team?
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: So right, right, right.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: I it's nothing that I avoid.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I did say an insensitive joke years back, but I refuse to do it again, especially with everything that's going on.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even I got booked like four shows off of it, but you know, so uh with America nowadays, the the joke, the premise, like if you listen to it, no, I wasn't talking about the man, I was talking about like how terrible it would be, you know what I mean.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and personally, I still think it's funny.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I really I still think it's funny because it's the attempt of when people do jokes.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: I still think the joke is funny, to be honest with you.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: But it's it's a little disrespectful to the man who passed away or whatever.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_03: So the reason I brought that up, and I'm glad you kind of filled in the blanks there.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_03: Sports, it doesn't bother me to talk about sports, namely because most of the people I have on my show that are athletes are pro fighters, so like we're talking about fighting in the first place, but the politics and religion part, you know, when you're trying to grow a brand, you're trying to establish yourself as a brand, because as a comedian, you and I share that kinship where we are the brand, right?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's the person is the brand.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: That right now, politics and religion are so divisive that that is how you are gonna get the most engagement in a um algorithm-driven and uh social media engagement driven society.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: It's really hard to kind of to use wrestling terms, it's really hard to put yourself over if you're if you if you're not willing to go into those territories.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't say that because to tell you the truth, I I'm be super honest with you.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Those three topics ain't really that funny.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: They're not in my opinion.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: In my opinion, when people talk about politics, I'm like, um, let me fast forward.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: When people talk about religion, I definitely don't even, I don't care how funny a religion joke is, I'm not even gonna mess with it.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: In sports, it just depends on the crowd.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like sports can be funny, but it depends on the crowd, depends on the joke.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: It has everything, but I'm just saying, like, those three subjects, when I watch specials, people barely talk about them.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's not they're not really, there's not really anything that hits like a home run to me, like, yeah, this was this was funny.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like nothing hit a home run to me when I see all that.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's it's more how far you cross the line, yeah, with your algorithms and everything, and and what you talk about and how much you talk about it.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: So it is pretty tough.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, not even from a comedic standpoint, but just from a situational observationalist standpoint.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like the best situational observationalist of our time is probably Dave Chappelle.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: And then before him, I would say George Carlin, right?
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_03: But but they caught a lot of controversy because they were able to go a toe over the line that left them open to misinterpretation.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's funny.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: You bring up Bay Chappelle.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, Bring Bay Chappelle, of course, you're one of the most popular ones, but I I had I had a stranger in a drill before he did, right?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I caught Flack for in Denver like two years ago.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like, and I was but since I've done it, I even caught Flack on it.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: You can watch it, it's on my page, the real, and a lot of people like he's homophobic, he's transphobic, he's this.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like I'm not even talking about like I'm not even talking about a human being transgender, you know, and people like that's not original.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard people say this and says, oh, this is a transgender, blah, blah, blah.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, well, I never even heard of it.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So people call me unoriginal, they call me a hack, they call me transphobe.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: But some of that shit you just gotta let slide.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: Someone like somebody told me, don't read out.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's one of the worst things you do.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: Just don't even you can have a great set.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody's gonna say something.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'd have had a homegirl on Jimmy Fallon, I'd have had a girl that I know on um Jimmy Kimmel.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: I just seen her on Jimmy Kimmel, and then some dude that was just a friend, he's like, Yeah, I was just on James Corner.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what the hell?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: And when I read the comments, it was terrible, but again, they made it, they on there.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: They can say, hey, I was on Jimmy Fallon.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: I can't say that.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people can't say that.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, you know, what you don't read the comments, and when you cross that line, it's just then you just cross it.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's a dude here that got a Kobe joke.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: First, I Kobe first passed away.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, dog, I don't want to hear that shit.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm like, okay, you know, but still, it's like, you know what I mean?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's just how close or how much are you important with or in tune with what's going on, and and you know, they should put up and cross the line, and still, he's still gonna get people to the to do whatever, you know what I mean?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and and again, if you listen to him, you know, you listen to him, it wasn't to me, still, he's still a great comic, and what he's trying to, I know what he's trying to say, but you know, sometimes it's the time and the place too.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: A great observation as well, because uh, you know, in regards to your mentioning the Kobe joke, is there a point in time where you can get enough distance from a tragic situation where you can make light of the situation, or is it always disrespectful?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and that's it's probably it's probably but what's funny is it just it depends on who it is.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I guess it just depends on who it is, because okay, so the the dude I know that had a Kobe joke, he said, Oh man, I had a Kobe joke, but it wouldn't land.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, to me, that was hackish.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: I think anybody could have said that personally, right?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't put no thought method, you just wanted to fuck with people's heads, you know what I mean?
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like, well, where where where's the line?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, where can you talk about this person if this didn't happen, or can you talk about this person if that is like where can I talk about people if it's not in a bad way?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, am I gonna you're not gonna win?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, I'm personally I it's a George Floyd joke that happened.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: And if you listen to the joke, it's like, okay, he's not talking about George Floyd, he's talking, but it is fucked up.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: It was fuck it, I'll say it.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was the NBA when the NBA fuck when the NBA let players have, you know, social injustice names in the back, you know.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I said I couldn't be, I was like, you don't want to be a white announcer or any announcer with social injustice names in the back.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine trying to call that game?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, example, somebody says Black Lives Matter on the back.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lives Matter for the three, who's a miss?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lives Matter, but not tonight.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: But you're talking about the name, right?
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: And it's about to get done.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know this is gonna get recorded, but I'm just I'm gonna just throw it.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: So then I said, Can you imagine if somebody had George Floyd on the back of their jersey?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people growing a little bit.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, they're playing suffocated on defense on George Floyd that can't breathe.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody now people that knows comedy was like, damn, that's that was he crossed the line, but that shit's funny.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: But then you got America's like, oh, you're talking about George Floyd, but it's like, I am, but not really.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about you couldn't have names on the black back of NBA Georges and being a sports system.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I couldn't do it because of shit like that, because shit can get misinterpreted.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: Just just like and this sort of don't really this don't really got anything to do with that, but talking about sports.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Some dude Westbrook hash Westbrook was hot.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I remember this was a couple years ago.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Westbrook was so hot at this game.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: This dude was like, he's out of his cotton picking mind, he's he's he's hot and he got fired because he said he was out of his cotton picking mind.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Stop.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's that is such that is a phrase that's been used so many times when somebody is hot on the streak of anything, you've heard that phrase.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: That had nothing to do with race, and that dude lost his job because again, going back to what you were saying, again, even that George Ford joke, it's like for it's so especially because of what Kanye has been doing, it's like man, I can't say that joke.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: I could I can barely say that joke then.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: I can say that joke now, man.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I couldn't say I think it's worse now than it would have been then, when it actually happened, but I wasn't talking about him, but that's how the the ears are gonna hear George Floyd can't breathe.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, he's fucking fucking talking about him, and it's just like, damn, man.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I got like four shows off of it, but and then I just was like, I can't do this joke.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: Even one club was like, if you come, can you do this joke?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: And at the time, you know, I'm I'm I'm fresh, I've barely been doing comments.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, yeah, but people inboxing like, oh bro, like that ain't reading room.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: The people that's telling you that they that's cool to do it, are they one?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Are they coming to your shows?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Two, they probably don't give a fuck about George Floyd.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Of course they want a black dude to talk about another black dude.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: So I told the joke here because I mean I'm not on the stage, but you know what I mean.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: All of this is the long way around.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: The statement I was about to make was comedy is probably one of the most dangerous businesses in the world right now because comics are modern philosophers, they are modern situational observationalists, they are gonna speak on things, but bring a little bit of lightheartedness to it.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: And how can you have a world where you bring this levity to a situation, but you also have this fear of social cancellation at the same time, you know?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: I believe there's a difference between accountability and reckless cancellation, you know.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll definitely from when I talk to comics.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: This is typically a place where we kind of circle to because my respect to you, because you are putting, as we talked about earlier, your brand on the line, and you are the brand.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's tough, but it's like you know, that's I do clean shows too, you know what I mean.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like it's tough to do a clean show, you know what I mean?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: I I had to I literally I think I I did like 10 minutes of crowd work out of this 20-minute set of a clean show because I just was like, man, I'm gonna have to be clean, but I started off clean, so it wasn't like the toughest.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta I got a format I go by, you know what I mean?
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: And that's why, like me personally, I'm trying to be more mature with my jokes, more dope jokes, you know what I mean?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: But it's crazy, it's hard for me to be dirty.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that crazy?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's when I'm crowd working and freelancing and freestyling, I'm cussing, I'm calling you a bitch.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: I I call and I really never you know, it's funny, I never really did that.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was in Red Oak, and I called this lady a bitch, but I was just playing, of course.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: But they was all laughing.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: But the other comments was like, damn, I never heard you like do crowd work and call somebody a bitch, but not only did you call them a bitch, she liked it, she loved it, you know what I mean?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: So it was just it was crazy, but it just we can't, I don't know what to even do anymore.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: I really don't even I'm writing jokes, and even my transgender dog joke, it's like, you know, it it I thought it was light, and then it was light, but it was heavy as to the laughter I always get.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like it never remisses.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: You might see, you know, like it's talking about going on the Starbucks, like, excuse me, sir, this is a transgender dog.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: This was a pit bull, but now it identifies as a chihuahua.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Light, it's not even it's it's light, you know.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't tell I didn't tell the whole joke, but it literally is light, and it was just it's always somebody like, damn, so you just don't like transgenders?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like, man, it's not even what I'm wrong with this, man.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, did you hear your joke?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: Do you find that a lot of your jokes come from writing in advance and structure that way, or is it those moments where the adrenaline's rushing, you're having great interactivity with the crowd, and then you just start riffing off the top of your head?
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my best jokes is crack work, of course.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and all reason I say, of course, is because my top five performances, the morning, um, I was in Topeka, Kansas.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: I do a couple jokes, but if I see shit I'm going over, or I'm getting light last, I'm like, what the fuck are y'all talking about?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just stop.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: So my laughs are better, my laughs are better crowdworking.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's because people see who you're talking about, they relating to who you're talking about.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: When you talk about your job, they're like, damn, I ain't here at your job.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's why you gotta talk about main share at your job.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you gotta say, um, you know, you gotta say at your job, like, hey man, you know, I don't, it's not that I hate my job, I hate the people.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's everybody at their job.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't check the schedule to see when I work, I check the schedule to see who the fuck I work with.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's everybody at their job.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: This person is acting like they're the manager, but they ain't even a manager.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: This is you know what I mean?
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: We're in the same position.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: You got those people at your job, so it's relatable, you know what I mean?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: But it's it's it's better when I'm like, why'd you wear this zebra dress today?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: You look like a fucking zebra.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm talking to somebody, and then the whole crowd can see who I'm talking to.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's just funny.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: And plus, you don't gotta memorize so much shit.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: I got a routine that I memorize, you know what I mean?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: I always do, but again, I'm trying to trying to be um better at storytelling and having each story relate to each other.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: Improvisation through relations with people is is is nice.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, when you when I crowd work and when I'm on, I'm on.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: When I was in Red Oak, I was on.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: I did it at T He's last year, best set I've ever had.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like I was flown, had good jokes, but I was crowd working also.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's part of my personality because I'm already got a personality where I like it.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: So when I'm just talking, I'm talking to people like just regular.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: People are like, how do you just talk to people like that?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like because that's part of my personality.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: I can talk like that.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard, but you know, that's how I talk to people.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: There's a really good lesson in that.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_03: I remember back in the band days when I was playing in rock bands, and I had these neighbors lived across the street from me.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_03: We had rehearsal at my house.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_03: Every time I had rehearsal, these neighbors they homeschooled their kids, make of that what you will.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um, they would call the cops.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_03: Cops would show up at my house and say, Hey, your neighbors across the street are complaining because you guys are too loud, you're practicing too loud.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_03: I did everything I could to soundproof my basement, make it fucking fucking airtight, awesome.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then I was working with uh somebody from the Omaha Police Department that was actually a loss prevention manager for my job.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: So I reached out to him and I'm like, man, what do I do in this situation?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: He goes, What you should do is walk around the neighborhood, introduce yourself to all of the neighbors, except for the ones that keep complaining.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: So I did that.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: I introduced myself to all of them.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_03: He said, if you invest in people, they're gonna turn around and invest right back in you.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: And the funny thing was, is when I was talking to these neighbors, I would tell them about the other neighbors that were complaining, and their eyes would just roll.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: They're really like, Yeah, we've heard about it already.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: You guys aren't bothering us, so on, so on.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_03: And the very next practice I had, all my bandmates came over.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: We didn't even practice.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: We ordered some pizza, we watched, we watched the movie in the living room because I set a trap.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: The cops showed up because it was too loud, and we didn't even practice.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: And and so I showed the cops that it was one of the most last laugh moments I've ever had in my life, but it did teach me um a good lesson, very similar to what you're talking about, and how improvisation and investing in people can kind of pay forward dividends to you in any type of segment of your life, whether it be in performance, whether it be in jobs, and so on and so on.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_03: So, adding on to that, you've created this network.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_03: Are you still doing the the three comics mafia?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: Three comic mafia, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: We were met up with them today.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: We got our food and laughter um program TV show, local TV show coming up November 19th, or November 21st, November 21st.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: So, how is that gonna be different from your previous program?
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: The previous previous program was Comedy Society, and people do 20 minutes of stand up.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is three comics, and we're interviewing an entertainer, comedian, musician, whoever, and we're interviewing them and we're eating food at the same time.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be pretty dope.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, on KPA or local TV.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: So, where did you come up with that concept?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I had the concept like last year.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: Ain't that crazy?
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's how long things take to like develop.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: My concept, I actually, ooh, no, I'll take that back.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: I had it two years ago.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: I just thought about that.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Two years ago to have this concept.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, it was two years ago.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Damn, time is going by fast.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm getting old.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because I was actually gonna do it in Denver.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was actually gonna travel to different places locally, and then whatever I had a show out of town, do it there too.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I wanted to record and call the food and laughter or whatever, interview the comedian from that city or whatever.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're just gonna have to do it locally and have people come in and eat.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: And but I got I had it like two years ago.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: Well, um, I was gonna interview John Corelli in Denver.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: He had booked me out there, and um, I was gonna do it out there, but I ended up not doing it, huh?
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: Huh.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you just kind of put the wheels in motion and you you've got it going now.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And who are the other two comics in um George George Zilla and Terrence G, and together we are three comic mafia, and yeah, we're going we're gonna have some fun with it, man.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: We're definitely gonna have some fun with it.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, nice, nice, nice, nice, and so in this role, you kind of act as a promoter in a roundabout way as well, also, right?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yep, yep.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Promoting um as much as possible, and just doing as much as possible, man.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's I promote, book, provide the food if needed.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, it's gonna it's definitely a dope concept, and definitely got some things rolling with it, man.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: So coming from the music space and knowing that the comedy space kind of runs in tandem with it, do you feel that a lot of talent in the Midwest, in Omaha and Lincoln in particular, can sometimes be their own worst enemy and get in their own way?
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Just depends.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: I want to say yeah, but the only reason I say yeah is because people it's like some people do this shit for fun.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: If you're doing this shit for fun, that's fine.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: But get the fuck out the way.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, let people that's let people that's actually trying to do this shit get on shows.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to do this shit for fun, stay and do open mics.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't get why people want to stay local and don't want to do this at a higher level or doing this for their family and friends, and yeah, but if you're doing all that, do open mics and don't do a show.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: People that's trying to get on shows, they're doing this shit because they actually want to do this shit.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't I'm so confused on why people are local and I'm cool with being local.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm cool.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not cool with you being on the show then.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, some people are really trying to do this.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: I know people that move to Texas, move to Colorado, move to New York, move to Cali.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: They're really trying to do this.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: So it is what it is.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I think they're getting their own way because everybody's trying to be the that main person from here or the big dog.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: And really, man, we all on the same boat.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's people I know that open up for David Spade.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, people that open up for, you know, just just comments that go to funny bone or whatever, but we all still here.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Last time I checked yeah, and they come to show to see you, they came to the show to see the headliner, but you can brag all you want to.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's just what it is.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's not it's not to be insensitive or anything, but we all in the same boat until we out of the boat, until you're not here.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: We all in the same boat.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like even musicians, they get in their own way and they're trying to pay to open up for some act that was hot back in the 90s or early 2000s, and they're not hot now, but they just you know the name, so they pay, they pay to play, which is ridiculous, man.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: I I I I fell for that trap when I when I did music way, way back.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was like 1920, I fell for that trap trying to open up for Bootsy and paid money, and then we didn't even have the auditions to do it, and he took all our money, right?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so yeah, it's yeah, it's pretty crazy when you know you you're speaking my my love language here because I remember back when I was playing, and then you know, the weekend spots at like the waiting room or the slowdown or some of the big venues in town, those were the most coveted spots.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_03: And when I used to put on shows, I would get emails, DMs, text messages from people like, Why are you not putting me on my show?
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: And it's like, Well, because I take it seriously, and uh you tell me that you're just doing it for fun and you want me to do all the work and do all the promotion so you can reap all the rewards, and that's not how it works.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_03: So, are there tears, or have you noticed that there's tears of popularity in the local comedy scene, the regional comedy scene, cool, and the national comedy scene?
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: Because I believe that there's a difference between being Omaha famous and Midwest famous.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely, definitely.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and everybody in Omaha knows this tone.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: We we all want it, we all want to say open.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: I like I say, whoever can go to the funny bone, y'all can be connected to the funny bone, open up for whoever at the funny bone.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: Until people are coming to a show to see you.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: You not not anybody who's gonna be at the funny bone and you open it for.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: They come to see you, this is a is a it's a different story.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: But see, that's why you know I always wonder why, like, how these comedians never put on their own shows, you know.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: Me and another comments say that, but then we realize that I mean, because they don't it's hard to promote a show, it's hard to get people to come out.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: And and with a lot of people, when they first start off, the mistake is when you're not that good in front of all these people.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: My first show was 108 people.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: I had like five minutes worth of good material, if that.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now I got more, I got better material now, but I can't get 108 people out again.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because they already seen me the first time.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: So your first impressions, your last impressions, they just seen me.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they were like, all right, but I don't know if I'll see him again.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try to get some of those same people.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't the people at the 108.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think I've probably only seen like maybe 15 of them since then.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: In the past two weeks.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because I already messed up because I invited all these people out, but I wasn't that good yet.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: Cause I was I was happy, I was popular, I won a I was like third place in a contest.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm doing all this little simmer shit that's not boiling hot, it's just simmering.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I start feeling myself a little too much.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and yeah, a lot of people thought the show was good.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: But comedians like this dude don't got it, and I didn't, but you know, it is what it is.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: So there might be tiers, but I don't only know the local tier.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know anything besides that.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I I me personally, I got some work to do.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: And that's another good point is people are always there for your coronation, but they seem to drop off before you truly arrive.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it sucks.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like people still support me, but it sucks.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, but it is what it is.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: You just gotta get them back.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: You get and and and that's why I'm trying to post up.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: I used to post a clip like two, three times.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: I ran out of steam doing that because I don't got too much video footage.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: Should have done it once a week, but I was doing two, three videos, through three clips a week, and I ran out of steam, so I'm like, damn, I don't even got no videos to really upload.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, now I gotta figure out another way to connect with people.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: So it is tough, man.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's real tough.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_03: Now, are you using, and this has come up on my show multiple times, but are you using TikTok as a way to promote your I'm more popular on Instagram?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's like Instagram, Facebook, you actually my bad, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody likes me on TikTok.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm just I'll tell you the secret sauce to TikTok is consistency.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: So if posting too much is your enemy on Instagram and Facebook, it's actually your best friend on TikTok.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but again, I just ran out of steam, right?
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: Hashtags, yeah, and then I don't know.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: I sort of just gave up on it.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, uh, I'm more popular on these platforms.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: TikTok is cool, but it's just they don't like me out there.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: I don't got enough time, man.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: I just yeah, I just don't got enough time.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_03: Do you use Twitter at all?
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: I just made another Twitter, yeah.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Just made another one, and I'm and I like I literally just made it like two, three days ago.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_03: I'm the worst at using Twitter, and I know I need to get better about it.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: I used to be a Twitter dude.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: I used to, I used to be a Twitter dude.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: I had this one tweet I remember years back.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: My old Twitter account was booming, but I had it, had I had it since like 07, 08.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, but I got end of getting rid of it.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was trying to take a break from social media.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know you had to reactivate it before 30 days or delete.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: Damn, all that work on that Twitter account, man.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: But it was I had Goldberg retweet me, Scott Hall retweet me, um, yeah, Goldberg, um, the lead singer from Sugar Ray, like, no, I I've had people the um the dude that played Ryan from the office reply back to me, like just that Twitter account was so cool.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, damn.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then when I lost it, I was like, but I don't even want to do the Twitter again, but now I'm doing it again just because just to happen.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_03: To bring this full circle, it came out yesterday that Mr.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: Beast and Elon are talking about bringing Vine back and using it as an arm of Twitter moving forward.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: So have you heard about that?
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't heard about it.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so they're talking about bringing Vine back, but I feel like it's it's too late.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: But it I so that's that's kind of where I I don't know.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I don't know where I stand on it because if they bring Vine was the predecessor to TikTok, right?
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: It was, it was, but it's like it's it's like somebody saying, I'm bringing my space, but it's it's it's dead.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, I mean somebody already took your idea and made it better.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: So trying to bring back mine is trying to bring back something that's already reinvented and better now, you know what I mean?
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's I gotcha, I gotcha.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of like it, I I get your vantage point because that's kind of like uh Instagram going all in on reels as a way to compete with TikTok as well.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, I hate it, I hate it now.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: I hate it.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: Even when I post a clip of saying I am glad to be on this, now it's a real instead of a video.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: This sucks.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_03: Right, and and it's sad because the state of the world that we live in right now, we need to be well versed in all of these things in order to put ourselves over, to put our content over, to put our endeavors over.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_03: So it is stuff that's worth considering.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I need to get better at using Twitter, I need to get better at using YouTube myself.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: I've yeah, picked up some steam on TikTok, and um actually I gain more listeners the more frequently I'm posting on TikTok than any other social media mechanism.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: But you go to Facebook, and Facebook has turned into a complete and total echo chamber.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_03: The the people that you are friends with are only able to see a certain percentage of the things that you post anymore.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so it's getting harder to promote through that.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: So, what what is your major promotional tool online?
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm old, man.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's Facebook.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's still Facebook, yeah.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: Those are my friends, family.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that's the main thing I promote on, man.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: I promote on everything, but that's the main thing I get traction on.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: Do you miss the days of MySpace?
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_03: I do.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: I love Facebook, man.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: I did not miss MySpace.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_03: I I must be one of the only people in the world.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_03: I absolutely I was not a MySpace guy.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_03: I had it because everybody else had it.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_03: So you've got some shows coming up here in Lincoln, Nebraska on November 17th.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_03: And you also have another show coming up November 26th.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: Where's that at again?
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: Plasmyth um Plastic Smith, Nebraska.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_03: Let's talk about those shows a little bit.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, who else is on the bill with you?
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_01: George Zilla and Terrence G.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they on both shows.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Kim.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, Kim Mowowski's on the one in Lincoln, and then um, I forgot the girl's name.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: I feel bad.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: She's the host in Lincoln.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: I never worked with, I think it's like Katie Chaplin or something like that.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_03: Fantastic.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: So aside from the the three comic mafia, do you have other local comedians that you like working with in the area?
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's cool.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: I I work with anybody, but I'm I'm I'm focused on them, and and I think that's just a fair thing for for me personally.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, people that I work with.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_03: I I see value in that.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's keeping your circle small and keeping it tight and all day.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_03: People people that you can trust and rely upon for sure, for sure.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you're also in a play coming up, so that's play fences.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's gonna slow the comedy down a little bit.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'll play lions, and so I'll be taking a break from comedy, and then we'll see if I'll see if I get a shot at directing, but right now I'm gonna focus on the the the part of lions and um and just go from there, man.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited about that, man.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: What's the play about?
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is about um racial injustice, like back in the day.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, about the father's trying.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: The father's trying not to have his son just focus on sports and focus on having a job.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_01: And um, it's a little deep.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta I gotta read more, to be honest.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: I only read my part to be honest, but um, I definitely gotta read more, but it should be a good show.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_03: Sweet.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_03: So, what inspired you to get involved with that?
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: Just do something different.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just want to do something different, man.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and I tried it and knocked it out the park, man.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna act it, man.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very excited.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_03: So, what's something in this world that brings you joy?
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my son.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: Son brings me a lot of joy, man.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um I I I I don't think I I like being anything more than a dad, man.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, honestly.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe look at life different.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: I still fuck up.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, it's it's fuck up with a with a with a purpose.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Just like, damn, man, I I'm fucking up.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta quit fucking up.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can't I can't fuck up this much because I got a son now.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: So it is a lot, um it is a lot different on the thinking process.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny because I got a joke, I got a joke about that too, about you know how I can't um I couldn't sell weed as a dad, you know what I mean?
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um I probably I I probably name the weed strands after, you know, kid TV shows.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey man, I got that pepper pig, man.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: You want some of that pepper pig?
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like I got some of that cocoa millon.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: You want to smoke some of this cocoa millon?
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this it's still a work in progress, but it's it's it's it's hit the last couple times I've done it.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_03: Amazing.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_03: So, where do you see yourself in comedy one year from today?
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: One year from today?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: Probably here.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be super honest with you, man.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: Not in a bad way, you know.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, hopefully, a more seasoned comic, hopefully, you know, get a chance at a club or be a regular in a club.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of not a lot, but there's a small group of comedians that are always at the funny ball, you know.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um probably be nice to be up there, but a year from the day, I wouldn't say the same position because offenses go good and a couple other things go good, you know what I mean?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I'd definitely be in a in a different in a different um you know, in a different spot or whatever the case may be.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_01: But year from the day, just a more a better comic.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: A nice 30, you know.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: I I've been doing 30s, but be honest with you, they've been stretching.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: I've been stretching them.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_01: I had a special, it should never been called a special.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing against myself.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_01: I can do way better than that.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: I can have way better jokes than that.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_01: It flowed, it worked, but nah, I want to have a I want to have a legit special, legit jokes, no crowd work, and yeah, just go from there, man.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_03: I really appreciate your sense of realism and understanding that there's levels to this shit, and you have to allow yourself room to evolve, and sometimes you can shoot too high too soon.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I did, and I think I did especially call something a special.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_01: I just got excited, man.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I felt uh again too much, but um that's why I took it down.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: I actually had it up and I took it down.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: I I I edited some clips off of it.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: It was some funny moments, but and you can record all you want to, you can make a show, but you don't have to call it a special.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta respect the art, you know.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody sort of called me out, and there are my feelings, but they didn't really call me out, it just it was a subliminal post like everybody do.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_01: They're talking about you, but they won't say it's about you.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like right, right.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's the that's these keyboard warriors out here.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I lived and I learned, and I'm gonna just keep writing and keep getting better.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's amazing.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: So, final thought: what is your advice for making the world a better place the way you see it right now?
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, having an open mind, um, understanding where somebody's coming from, you know.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh sticking to your guts and sticking to your principles, your morals, but always see two sides of a story and see two sides of any situation, you know, so everybody can have a better understanding before it gets to that level of you know, somebody's feelings getting hurt.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, always have an open mind, you know.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_01: Even if somebody like it sounds crazy, somebody called me, you know, a racial slur.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_01: They have worked, let's let's just be blunt about it.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: First reaction was supposed to be, I'm supposed to get mad, right?
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm supposed to be pissed, I'm supposed to be this, but let's get to why you called me this in the first place.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get to to that part.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm saying, I'm not saying I'm gonna tell you you're right for calling me that, but let's get to that part.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Let's why did they get to this level of disrespect?
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: Why did they get to you saying this?
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: See, because yeah, somebody with that, they're gonna be like, damn, hold on.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: I thought he was gonna blow up.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, my last job, which I I quit, you know, I don't have a job.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um some dude was recording me, you know.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I didn't know, but if any called me racist because I didn't put his name, his phone number into the tablet, but I asked the next person their phone number.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: But I thought he was sitting down and we yell out the names of people that's coming to eat.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then I go outside, I'm like, hey, well, you record me?
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, y'all do it all the time.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, bro, what is what's going on, man?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, who is y'all?
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why what?
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know who y'all is, y'all do this all the time, so now I'm recording you.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, hey man, what's going on, man?
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, is this about like this, this, what is this about?
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, me putting your name in, the how long you gotta wait.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, I was racist, and and I was racist because the person behind them, I put their phone up around.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, they were also white.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: So, what?
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: That person was white too, that was behind you.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_01: But they they they said, I said, hey, are you standing here?
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, we're gonna go outside.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: So that's why I put their phone number in.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: Because they said they were gonna go outside.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, he called me racist, and and it was it, I was trying to get an understanding of why.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_01: But again, he didn't want to care, he didn't want to talk to me.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh, this is this is why, you know, it's not why I'm not at my job, but that's what my job did, because they want to keep customers.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_00: They gave him$40 to go to another first watch.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: $40 gift cards to go to another first watch since he's so uncomfortable eating here.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: So we just gave a guy$40 for being racist towards your manager because you're worried about a Yelp review.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I I can go on about that job, but I'm gonna leave it alone.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I tell you what, man, it is a pleasure getting to know you.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I'm glad we're friends.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna have to do this again with the whole mafia and in person.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_03: Definitely thank you, LevettiVegas.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody, check him out, lavettivegas.com.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: Give him a follow on all forms of social media as soon as you can.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, my friend.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_03: The world's a better place with you in it.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, man, better place what you went into.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm finally glad we got to do this.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me as a guest and caught on the mic, man.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_01: For real.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_03: I want to once again thank my friend Trenton, aka Lavetti, for being on the show today.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_03: It was a great conversation.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_03: We kind of had to change locations towards the end there.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure you noticed the difference, but we got it knocked out of the park.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_03: You can visit him at levettivegas.com and check out all of its social media.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: I know there will be a name change happening too.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_03: He's going to go by its real name related, so keep an eye out for that.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: While you're giving people a follow, make sure you follow card on the mic or not on social media.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_03: Visit me follows.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_03: TikTok is a great Facebook and also visiting W War on the Mike.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I always appreciate you on your favorite podcasting podcast.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, let's get it.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm Michael Fargs.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_03: And till next time.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.