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ONLY BOMBS! 36: AJ Higlesias | The Brutal Reality of Stand-Up Comedy in Austin · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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  Only Bombs! Only Bombs! Welcome to the podcast
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  where Thank you for having me, man. I've been
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  very much looking forward to this since I reached
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  out. I was like, I gotta see if I can get on
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  this. This looks cool as hell. Dude, I appreciate
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  you doing that, man, for real. I like your stuff,
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  too, dude. Oh, thanks, man. I don't do it anymore.
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  More like a scheduling thing and just like...
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  It's a lot of work. It is, and I'm incredibly
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  lazy sometimes. I get it, because you were doing
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  the man on the street stuff. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't
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  trying to like make it that... Like I wanted
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  it to be like a man on the street thing. Yeah.
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  And I wanted it to kind of be like an on the
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  spot kind of interview thing. But then it became
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  like very organized in a way. Yeah. And it was
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  kind of like, we were kind of like just setting
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  up in public, you know? It was like, it got to
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  a point where we were like, we were scheduling
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  people. Yeah. What was your setup? Because I
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  saw you actually using a handheld mic and everything.
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  Yeah, so my buddy Lewis, he was the one who produced
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  it and edited it and stuff. It was like he had
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  a camera. Well, we would do two cameras sometimes.
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  So he had a handheld, something kind of like
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  the ones that you're using now. And then we actually
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  filmed on an iPhone most of the time. Oh, no
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  shit. Yeah, and he had a sound recorder. and
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  that has a SLR cable in it, and we just ran that
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  with a hand mic. But audio, I think, was our
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  biggest issue when we first started because there's
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  so much background noise on the streets or in
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  a bar or whatever. So we tried to make it sound
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  as good as possible, but those first few episodes
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  were really rough. Yeah. a lot of like having
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  to isolate stuff and go through the editing process
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  and comic say insane stuff even when they're
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  not like in a setting like this too so it's like
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  right we were trying to like I guess catch the
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  algorithm in a way and I think that's kind of
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  where it lost me because it's like I wanted to
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  do it I didn't care about like how popular the
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  show got sure yeah it was more of like we wanted
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  to And we still I feel like we still did but
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  like I wanted to like kind of showcase like what
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  the scene is Really like for people say like
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  me, you know what I mean? Right. I'm not like
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  this I'm not huge or anything. It's like I'd
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  still go out and I'll go do a mic or I'll do
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  a showcase and it's more like let me I want to
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  talk to the guys that I'm on the showcase with
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  I want to talk to the people that I'm doing mics
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  with and I kind of gave them a shot to kind of
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  Exactly. Kind of like what you're doing is like
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  to kind of just like hey, like here's who I am.
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  Here's how I see the scene, here's how this,
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  here's how that, you know? Yeah, that's exactly
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  what I think I loved about it very much is because
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  I did notice similarities in a way. I was like,
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  it's really kind of cool how... you know, like
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  how you go out and the things that you were asking
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  them were like relevant questions. It wasn't
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  like shock questions or controversial questions,
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  you know? And I really love that because it gave
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  people like a chance like to see them like working
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  and then get to know them. And that's what I
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  really loved about your stuff. And you had a
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  lot of people that have been on this podcast.
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  Yes. How did you normally catch them? Was it
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  just like, was it always just shows or was it
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  when you went like just went out and did these
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  things? When we first did it, it was like at
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  certain venues. So like the first one we ever
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  did was Narbar. So we were just kind of like,
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  all right, let's go camp out Narbar and see who's
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  doing the mic or who's doing the showcase there.
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  That's cool, man. And I would just go out and
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  was like, hey man, like we're doing like, it
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  honestly took like five, 10 minutes to shoot,
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  you know? And it was like, we're like, hey, like,
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  do you have like five minutes? Hey, do you have
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  10 minutes to answer a couple of questions? And
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  like it's really just, it's nothing super nuts.
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  You can be as funny as you like. You can, you
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  know, I basically just like was lobbing them
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  kind of like, it's like, hey, you know, what
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  do you think about this? Or how's this? How long
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  you been doing this, you know? And I kind of
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  wanted to give them their own time to kind of
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  like showcase themselves in a way. So we were
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  doing it venue based. So like on like our YouTube
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  channel, it's like, oh, this is episode one at
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  Narbar. This is episode two at, you know, Creek
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  or, you know, Creek Wars are like our finale.
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  So we had a lot of people who were hanging out
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  at Creek in the back and were like, hey, do you
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  have 10 minutes? Hey, do you want to do this?
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  And then we also did Kill Tony special episodes.
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  Oh, nice. So on that Monday, we'd go and just
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  see who has a red wristband on and be like, hey,
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  we need to talk to you. Hey, can we talk to you
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  for five minutes? Yeah. We got nos. We also got
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  yeses. And we also got yeses that we never filmed.
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  Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. The Kill Tony episodes
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  were very, like, Chaotic. Yeah, because we kind
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  of shot it like guerrilla style right? Yeah,
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  cuz they they're very like, you know, no no on
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  filming at shakes, right? We filmed a few interviews
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  at shakes during kill town ain't no way That's
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  awesome, man. Yeah, I remember It was like some
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  it was some girl who was just passing through
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  and she's on the show and I've never seen her
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  ever again But we were filming like on that side
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  part like we're like the like the balcony is
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  like in between the two buildings, you know what
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  I mean? Yeah. And we were, we go, we're talking
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  about the balcony to kind of like get like some,
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  just some background or whatever. And I saw that
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  the sliding door was open and like we looked
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  and like we see somebody like doing like the
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  microphone stuff. I don't know if it was like.
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  Somebody saw us and they're like, huh? And then
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  like I just remember Lewis like shutting the
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  door and be like, okay We need to finish right
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  fucking that before they kick us out Yeah, cuz
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  they tell us that I went there last night and
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  they literally told everybody like no filming
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  you will be banned from the bar Yeah, you know,
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  so I think it's kind of crazy that but I love
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  that like, you know Like no filming and you're
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  out there like with like a camera and like like
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  a microphone a whole set up and shit Yeah, but
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  so uh, so like so what do you do? Right. Do you
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  think kill Tony is a good model for? judging
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  good comics? Yeah, yeah, exactly. People were
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  like, what the fuck, get him out of here. Yeah,
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  I'm honestly surprised we didn't get kicked out,
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  but then we just kind of started filming just
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  outside. Yeah. It was just a lot easier to do
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  like across the street with like, with the mothership
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  in the background or with all the crowd in the
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  background and stuff too. So like we, once we
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  kind of like stopped doing it like secretly,
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  we were like, okay, we need to do this like this
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  just in case we don't get in trouble, you know.
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  Have you ever actually gotten pushback from anywhere?
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  No, um, like, obviously, like, people, like,
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  will stare at us and stuff like that because
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  we're filming on the street and stuff, but, like,
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  uh, no, um, I've never, like, no one's, like,
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  ever, like, came up to us, like, hey, like, what
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  are you guys doing? Stuff like that. Okay. Yeah,
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  like, no bar has ever been, like, you guys can't
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  film here. No, no, like, with, um, like, with,
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  like, with Creek, like, we filmed outside, like,
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  on the patio in the back. Oh, nice. Like, we've
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  done that, and, like, they don't really care.
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  You know what I mean? Like they have people film
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  whatever they film back there all the time anyway.
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  We never did it like in the club, proper. I know
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  like with Narbar, we were kind of like in that,
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  if you've been there before, yeah? Oh yeah. We're
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  like in that top section where like all the comics
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  are waiting to go up. Like we filmed up there
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  that no one's bothered us there either. Oh nice.
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  And like on the street, no one's really bothered
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  us. So it's like, we try to keep it as less intrusive
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  as possible. Yeah, so like like with shit like
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  we just did a Shakespeare's just one a straight
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  Shakespeare's episode not a kill Tony one And
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  we were filming all in Shakespeare's and like
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  that was fine. No one really got mad at us. Oh,
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  okay That's awesome, man. I love Narvar I post
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  I say I don't hear a lot of mine those crusty
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  motherfuckers. I'm like, I love that fucking
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  place You need a tetanus shot before you go.
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  Oh, yeah, man. It's like but it's fun, man Oh,
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  it is. I I don't go as much as I used to like
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  Narvar like it definitely holds like a special
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  place in my heart in a way it's like It's definitely
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  an acquired taste for some people, but I remember
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  when I finally started getting more ingrained
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  into the scene, I just remember having to bark
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  for shows for Narbar and stuff, and kind of doing,
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  cutting my teeth there, or working the door for
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  somebody, or sitting on that back. on that back
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  door being like, hey, it's a $5 show or whatever
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  you have. It was like a pay -what -you -want
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  kind of show. Yeah, donations only. Donations
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  only, but you need to donate something to go
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  inside. Yeah, exactly. I remember somebody dropped
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  a cigarette into my cash box one time and he
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  just walked in. I was like, you know what? Fine.
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  That'll work. I'm like, whatever. Dude, this
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  is Gnar, bro. Yeah, exactly. No problem. You
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  can have the worst show ever or sometimes the
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  best show ever. I think one of my favorite sets
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  was actually at Gnar Bar. It was like right after,
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  I went to, I was at like a rock show at Valhalla,
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  like way down the street. And then I remember
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  a buddy of mine hit me up and he goes, hey, like
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  I have a spot for you if you can get here. I
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  was like, sure man, but I was just at this show
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  and I decided, like I didn't know I was doing
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  comedy that day. So I'm on mushrooms at this
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  time. Oh, no shit. Yeah. I was like peaking and
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  I was like, okay. If I get through Sixth Street
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  on a Saturday night, I can get there and fucking
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  do this. Dude, holy shit. It was like the most
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  packed I've ever seen Sixth Street. I don't know
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  if I'm remembering this correctly, but I'm like
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  weaving through people trying to get all the
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  way down Sixth so I can get to Gnar Bar and do
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  this set in front of I don't know how many people
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  are going to be there, you know? Yeah. And surprisingly,
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  it's like one of the nights where Gnar is packed
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  as packed as Gnar can get. And it was just like,
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  you know, people are still standing up and I
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  remember doing my thing and like, it was like
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  last summer sometime. It was like 95 degrees
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  outside. I'm sweating my ass off. Yeah. And I
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  end up doing really well. Really? No shit. Oh
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  my God. And then the trip is over and you realize
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  you're at your house still. Exactly. And I just
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  remember being like, oh, okay. We did it. All
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  right. Cool. Cool. Like my buddy Mark who was
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  hosting was like, you're right. You look like
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  you're sweating. I'm like, I am so high on mushrooms
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  right now. God damn. Could have fooled me. That's
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  like the first and only time I think I'll ever
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  do that. Man, dude, I can't do anything on mushrooms.
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  No? Stand up, dude. Like, but I've also, I've
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  never had like actually good trip though. Oh.
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  All of my trips have been bad and I don't know
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  why. Oh no. Yeah, like, but I hear great things.
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  It's definitely, I think... Don't know I hate
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  I don't want to sound like to like Therapy speak,
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  but you really got to just be okay with you got
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  with what you got going on up in your head Yeah,
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  you know it cuz it'll like open doors for you
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  like I don't even know that was there That's
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  very true, man. You know? Yeah. So it's like,
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  I've had, honestly, I've never really had a bad
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  trip. That's great, dude. It's comfort's a big
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  thing. You gotta be somewhere comfortable. You
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  gotta be around people that you like if you're
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  doing it in a group setting. Yeah. I don't know,
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  even when I've done really big hero doses. No
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  way. The last time I did a hero, a big one was
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  with, surprisingly enough, my dad. Me and my
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  dad did mushrooms together. Really? Yeah, he's
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  like a big... Like psychonaut nowadays really
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  and yeah, it does like over like five, isn't
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  it? We did five we did five milligrams of tea.
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  We did tea. He makes it into like a tea Jesus
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  dude Yeah, and he lives like on the road full
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  -time now. So like he has like this big ass RV
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  and like oh fun Yeah, so he was in Texas and
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  he's like, let's like I I want a trip with you
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  so bad and I was like, okay, cool Let's go do
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  that And he has a whole French press thing that
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  he presses it all down in. What? Yeah, and I
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  just remember he's like, all right, just down
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  the hatch. So we took it. And that was the first
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  time I remember taking it as a tee before. Oh,
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  wow. And it's probably the only way I want to
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  do it nowadays. No shit, huh? It hits in two
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  minutes. Oh my gosh. And I just remember being
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  like, OK, I think we need to go outside now.
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  And he does the worst thing I think anybody could
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  ever do while you're tripping balls. He puts
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  his hand on my shoulder, and he's like, I'm going
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  to be honest with you. I get a little weird.
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  I was like, what are you talking about? What
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  the fuck? Now is not a good time, dad. It's not
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  a good time. It's not a good time. Yeah, dad,
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  what the fuck? What the fuck? Yeah. So it's,
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  yeah, no, it's awesome. I swear by him if you
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  can, like, I guess have a good trip. I definitely
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  do swear by him. It's like a huge reset. I couldn't
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  imagine doing, like, like five grams like the
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  Hiradesi you're talking about. Dude, I did an
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  eighth and I was... like fucking ruined, dude.
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  It messed up my life for like 20 minutes, like
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  hours. It was crazy, dude. You know those loops?
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  You ever get in those time loops? Oh yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. That was hard to... That's tough, yeah.
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  I've been stuck in a loop before where I'm like,
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  oh shit, I've been here, oh shit, I've been here,
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  oh no, oh god. And you realize it and you get
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  out of it. I don't know, when I did that five
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  grammar, I think that's like... the hardest visuals
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  I've ever gotten. I thought that was fake because
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  I've done acid and I don't get nearly as much
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  visuals. It's more of a in your mind kind of
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  thing for me. Things will kaleidoscope a little
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  bit, but I don't know. When I took that T, I
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  was really seeing stuff. No way. My dad tried
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  to get real deep on me and talk with me and stuff,
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  and I'm looking at him, but I'm looking behind
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  him. And there was like a fence line and like
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  you ever seen like who framed Roger Rabbit? Yeah,
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  like looking over the wall on the toontown. He's
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  like all the stuff like kind of yeah. Yeah, I
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  was seeing that and I kind of was just like I
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  don't know what the fuck you're I don't know
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  what you're telling me, but there's some crazy
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  shit going on behind you. It was what? Yeah,
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  like gosh, that sounds so magical. It was it
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  really was I'm like and he had like those like
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  zero gravity chairs that you can like lean back
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  in. So we're like I'm like leaning back looking
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  up into the trees and they start to like connect.
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  into like, you know, like hexagonal shapes and
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  shit, and I'm like, okay, all right, this is
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  where we're going. Wow. And we probably just
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  look like a couple of psychopaths just sitting
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  in a chair going, wah! They're like, oh my God,
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  what the fuck? People outside having their coffee,
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  like what? Yeah, we're like at a campground.
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  We're like at a family campground in the middle
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  of the day. Right, hey, did you bring the uncrustables?
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  Wait, what are those guys doing? So it's just
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  looking at a bug in the grass. Whoa, look at
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  that guy. There's so many of them. Bro, those
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  are ants. What are they doing down there? Right,
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  like, why are they so big? Exactly. It's like,
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  what do you mean? Oh my gosh, when I did it,
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  it was like, I just, I started seeing like, like.
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  I don't know, like carousels and caterpillars
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  and all sorts of crazy shit. It was like in my
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  head, it wasn't like out and about. And then
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  all of a sudden, dude, I just lost all control.
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  And that was an eighth. So I couldn't imagine,
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  like five, I'd be like, I don't even know what
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  the fuck would happen to me, dude. Yeah, things
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  didn't feel real for a little bit, I can't even
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  lie. It's like when you're lucid dreaming, you
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  know? Oh yeah. And that's kind of what it feels
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  like. But you're like, oh, this is like, this
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  is like happening. You feel everything breathing
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  around you. And it's coming ready or not, dude.
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  Oh yeah, I know. And I think that's another thing
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  I feel like that people might have issues with
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  when they do anything psychedelic is the letting
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  go part. The letting go, yeah. That's another
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  big thing. You kind of have to just let it run
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  its course. You can't... You have to be like,
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  okay, this is gonna be a big part of my day.
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  Or my weekend even. And it's like you really
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  need to just let it happen. That's true. And
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  I feel like if some people have like that issue,
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  like if you have like that, like if you can't
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  just let it happen, like let it run its course,
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  like that's when you kind of start getting into
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  like bad trip territory. Dude, that might be
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  it is that because I'm such an insane control
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  freak. Yeah, that could, yeah. You know, and
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  so I think there was like a portion of it where
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  I was like fighting it being like, I'm done.
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  Like I can't, you know, like no, no, I was like,
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  we gotta do this, we gotta do it my way. It's
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  like, that doesn't work like that. Yeah, man,
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  it's like when people like, you know, like, it's
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  like the guys who like tame lions or whatever,
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  it's like, you need to, you're on their time,
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  you're on their time. You're like, I respect
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  you, I see you, you know? And that's kind of
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  how, like, I try to explain to people, it's like,
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  if you're gonna do it, like, you need to like,
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  you need to let it do its thing, you need to
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  respect what it's doing to you. Yeah. You know?
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  And it's like, if you're able to let go and just
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  kind of just like, all right, I'm safe, I'm chilling,
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  let's just ride this out. That's when I feel
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  like you can have a good time. Dude, I don't
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  mean to get all Rogan, but have you ever tried
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  DMT? No, actually, I haven't. Oh, see, that was
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  awesome. Really? Yeah. See, that's the one I'm
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  a little like, I'm a little skeeved out about
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  it. I don't know. Really? I like, acid was still
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  kind of a lot for me. I've done it a couple of
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  times, but it's like, it's too long. It's like
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  18 hours. Yeah, no. That's too long. And I like
• 17:31
  mushrooms, but it's like... I think I might be
• 17:33
  a little allergic, because every time I do mushrooms
• 17:35
  and I eat them or something, I puke. Oh, okay.
• 17:38
  Yeah, so that come up is really high for me,
• 17:40
  and I just puke every time, but when I had the
• 17:42
  tea, I never, I didn't, because it got rid of
• 17:44
  whatever was bugging me about it. Oh, interesting.
• 17:47
  So it just extracts all that stuff. DMT, I'm
• 17:50
  like, I've heard people be like, yeah, you just
• 17:52
  meet machine elves, and I was like, I don't know
• 17:54
  if I want to do that. Dude, you know, there is
• 17:57
  truth to that, because I don't know what I was
• 18:00
  expecting when I... did it, but I was like, you
• 18:03
  know, it basically everything that people say
• 18:05
  about like entities and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 18:07
  That's a fucking thing. Like it's legit. Yeah.
• 18:09
  Like because it was almost like it felt like
• 18:11
  a welcoming. Like it was like. And it's the same
• 18:13
  story with a lot of people with that. Like it's
• 18:15
  so crazy to me. Yeah. And like, I don't know
• 18:17
  if I'm ready. Yeah. And the thing is, it's not
• 18:20
  bad, dude. Like the. Mushrooms were way more
• 18:25
  abrasive than that was really yeah, it's well
• 18:28
  at least for me Yeah, yeah, and uh, but DMT like
• 18:31
  I get there was like, you know I saw this being
• 18:33
  and it was like it made shapes appear and everything
• 18:36
  was made out of geometry And it what it did was
• 18:38
  it took the shape it would create a shape and
• 18:40
  then throw it at me Like here like look at this
• 18:43
  Wow, you know, it was like it was fucking nuts
• 18:45
  And I felt like I was on like a roller coaster,
• 18:47
  but like it wasn't moving but like the ground
• 18:50
  below me was moving. Oh my God. And I had my
• 18:54
  eyes closed and it was like, yeah, it literally
• 18:56
  felt like the closest thing to being in another
• 18:58
  dimension. Because like your reality too, that's
• 19:01
  another thing, is you are existing in something
• 19:04
  else. Yeah. Like it's the craziest thing. Oh
• 19:07
  my God. And I even narrated it to my brother.
• 19:10
  My brother and I, we were talking and I was telling
• 19:12
  him, I was like, bro, I know that I'm talking
• 19:15
  to you. I know you are in... my reality, but
• 19:18
  I am not here. Yeah. Oh my God. It was crazy.
• 19:21
  And I think that's like, I think that's where
• 19:23
  I'm like, kind of like, hesitant about doing
• 19:25
  it is because I'm like, okay. Yeah. I think I'm
• 19:29
  like, I'm very comfortable in my reality right
• 19:31
  now. I'm like, I feel like if that gets shattered,
• 19:33
  I really don't know how I would react to it.
• 19:36
  For me, it was legitimately euphoric. That's
• 19:40
  awesome. When I was done, I was like, I felt
• 19:41
  like... I was like, man, I was like, wow, this,
• 19:43
  I feel like the presence of love. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:45
  yeah, yeah, yeah. It was honestly insane. Oh,
• 19:47
  sick. You know, but it only lasts for like five
• 19:49
  minutes. See, that's a nuts five minutes. Yeah,
• 19:53
  it was a good five. It was a good five. I do
• 19:56
  a tight five of DMT every now and again. The
• 19:58
  band tool made a lot more sense after that. I
• 20:01
  was like, bro, I get it now. I had to start...
• 20:06
  You're like Maynard, you son of a bitch. I'm
• 20:10
  like, you're actually really smart. Oh, dude,
• 20:12
  you get it. The pieces do fit, dude. Yeah, dude.
• 20:18
  I know, I know. I know the business. Oh my God.
• 20:22
  Dude, I just watched them fall away, bro. Yeah,
• 20:27
  dude, it's like, it's fucking, it is crazy like
• 20:29
  that, man. So we gave you like the whole idea
• 20:31
  to actually go out and like, and start your thing
• 20:34
  like out on the street like that. Like, was it
• 20:36
  just barking like you were saying? The show kind
• 20:40
  of like, like I used to... Don't know like I've
• 20:44
  always like loved like talking to people like
• 20:47
  that's coming That's why you know do stand -up
• 20:49
  is because like I'm just I get to talk at people
• 20:52
  Yeah, knowing like like this isn't like the first
• 20:55
  I guess like artist Show I've ever done like
• 20:59
  back home in California like where I'm from I'm
• 21:01
  from like a little town called Los Banos, California
• 21:04
  Los Banos, where's that? Central Valley like
• 21:06
  if you're looking at a map of California. I'm
• 21:08
  like in the middle Oh, okay. Like where no one
• 21:11
  goes. That's cool though. Yeah, it's a town of
• 21:13
  like 35 ,000 people. Oh, okay. It's like dairies
• 21:17
  and tomatoes and cows and - Hell yeah. That's
• 21:21
  it. Good shit. Yeah, we're like an hour, we're
• 21:23
  like two hours outside of San Francisco, an hour
• 21:25
  and a half out of like Santa Cruz. So it's like
• 21:27
  we'd have to, we're in a valley, so we'd have
• 21:29
  to go over that valley to go anywhere cool. Man.
• 21:32
  And I used to throw like DIY like punk shows
• 21:36
  kind of. That's what's up. Yeah, so I was still
• 21:40
  doing comedy, but I was living in the Valley
• 21:42
  at the time. And a buddy of mine, my good friend,
• 21:46
  Andrew, and he was also my roommate, he, unfortunately,
• 21:49
  his house, he had a house out in the sticks,
• 21:52
  just outside of City Limits a little bit at Los
• 21:54
  Banos, so we had all this space. And unfortunately,
• 21:57
  his house burnt down. It was his parents' house
• 22:00
  burnt down, so we had just a foundation and all
• 22:03
  this land and his yards and stuff, so we're like,
• 22:05
  oh, well, let's throw shows there. Yeah, sorry
• 22:09
  about your house. Can we throw some shows there?
• 22:11
  He came up with the idea. That's fucking awesome.
• 22:13
  Yeah, and we're like, okay We're like, alright,
• 22:16
  let's like I we know tons of people in bands
• 22:18
  I know tons of like, you know independent like
• 22:20
  rap artists and stuff. Like how do we you know,
• 22:23
  how do we do this and we we call that it was
• 22:25
  called Wreck -It Ranch and we had Yes, yeah,
• 22:29
  we had we had three shows our first show was
• 22:32
  like a Halloween show and we sold tickets and
• 22:34
  everything like there's nothing that, nothing
• 22:36
  goes on in Los Banos, like something like that.
• 22:39
  So you're like, like, you know, house parties
• 22:42
  were a big thing there, like, you know, going,
• 22:44
  and all you can do is like mostly, the only thing
• 22:46
  to do out there is like drink or do drugs, you
• 22:48
  know? Yeah. So we were like, all right, let's,
• 22:50
  we have friends that are in bands, let's try
• 22:53
  and like organize something. And there's a lot
• 22:54
  of, there's a lot of my friends that made music
• 22:56
  that never had a chance to like perform or anything
• 22:59
  like that. So like. where my buddy Andrew was
• 23:01
  more like on the logistical side of things. It's
• 23:03
  like, he's like, all right, well, my girlfriend's
• 23:04
  dad's a lawyer, so let's draw up a contract saying
• 23:07
  like, hey, if any of our stuff, your stuff gets
• 23:09
  lost here, you won't be liable for it. Like we
• 23:10
  try to cover our bases as much as possible. We
• 23:12
  talk with the sheriff about noise, like a noise
• 23:14
  complaint or noise ordinances. We try to make
• 23:17
  it as legit as possible. We like, so we sold
• 23:19
  tickets at like 10 bucks a head or two for 15.
• 23:21
  People would buy, you know, they would buy tickets.
• 23:23
  We were putting up flyers around town and shit
• 23:25
  like all, and then our first show we had like
• 23:27
  over 200 people. What? I had friends that did
• 23:31
  security. I had friends that were bartenders.
• 23:33
  It was pretty cool. We set it up like that. And
• 23:35
  then to, I guess, promote the show, we would
• 23:40
  do live streams with the artists that were gonna
• 23:43
  be performing. Oh, nice. I would just kind of
• 23:48
  be like, hey, what about this? What do you got
• 23:50
  going on project -wise? That kind of thing always
• 23:54
  interested me. So when I... Like when I moved
• 23:58
  out here to Austin finally like it was two years
• 24:00
  last month I've been here and I was like, all
• 24:03
  right. Well, there's a ton of comics like I think
• 24:04
  it'd be really cool To talk to everybody but
• 24:07
  like I don't want Like I specifically didn't
• 24:10
  want somebody who was like a regular at, you
• 24:12
  know, kill Tony I didn't want someone who is
• 24:15
  like like a working comedian. That's fine. But
• 24:17
  like I just I wanted to talk to the people like
• 24:20
  me who are out there every day or grinding to
• 24:24
  do a show, grinding to maybe do 10 minutes on
• 24:26
  a showcase somewhere. And I feel like that part
• 24:33
  of comedy isn't talked about nearly enough. It's
• 24:37
  like, oh, it's a bringer show or all this thing.
• 24:42
  And people who are in it understand, they understand
• 24:45
  how the game works and how all this works. But
• 24:48
  I feel like... my show, I wanted to kind of showcase
• 24:51
  what it's really like for somebody who is out
• 24:54
  there doing it every day and what the realities
• 24:56
  of that is. And it's like, even if, I want to
• 24:59
  hear the complaints, not all the positives, you
• 25:01
  know? Because I can tell somebody, oh, I'm Lupin
• 25:03
  Olsen, I do stand -up, it's so great. Right.
• 25:05
  And to be honest, I feel like comedy is half
• 25:07
  shit. Yeah. You know? And I'm not saying that
• 25:11
  as a bad thing, that's just any art, I feel like,
• 25:14
  you get into. It's like, yeah, I'm gonna perform
• 25:16
  in front of two people and it's gonna suck, but
• 25:18
  you have to do it. Yeah. And it's like, when
• 25:21
  I tell people that, just when I tell people who
• 25:24
  aren't in standup that, it's like, what do you
• 25:26
  mean? Why do you still, why? Because I like to
• 25:28
  do it. But I feel like showcasing that to people,
• 25:32
  that's kind of what my goal was, is to be like,
• 25:34
  hey, here's where comedy happens, but also here's
• 25:38
  what the realities of that could be. you know,
• 25:42
  this isn't built for everybody. I'm not trying
• 25:43
  to be like, oh, we're fucking tougher than we
• 25:45
  are, but it's like, it isn't, you know what I
• 25:48
  mean? It's like, you kind of have to, I guess,
• 25:51
  get humbled by it a little bit. You do. You know?
• 25:54
  There is a massive learning curve, you know,
• 25:57
  like, and it's so expansive that there's no way
• 26:01
  to like, to... Just kind of ball it up and be
• 26:04
  like, okay, cool. This is the all around comedy
• 26:06
  guide. Like it's because everybody, everybody's
• 26:09
  journey is different. Like, no, it is. Like,
• 26:11
  I remember like when I first started, I just
• 26:14
  was like Googling open mics. I was like, I didn't
• 26:16
  even know how to approach an open mic, you know?
• 26:19
  Right. Yeah. I was just like, okay, well let's
• 26:21
  just see where open mics are or let's just see
• 26:24
  where I can do this. Like I just, like the first
• 26:27
  like real open mic I went to was like, it was
• 26:29
  in San Francisco and like, I didn't even perform.
• 26:31
  I just sat and watched. I was like, all right,
• 26:34
  well, let me, let me sit, let me watch, let me
• 26:36
  see how like this, this all goes down before
• 26:39
  I even try to like go and do it. So it's like,
• 26:42
  yeah, I made the trip just to go see. Sure. Yeah.
• 26:46
  Yeah. Did you come to Austin specifically for
• 26:49
  comedy? Yeah. Yeah, I did. What was it about
• 26:52
  Austin that intrigued you? I was, so I was living
• 26:57
  in, I was actually, I was living in Hawaii before
• 26:59
  I was living in Austin. Like I was there for
• 27:01
  like three years. And I was in the scene there.
• 27:04
  And I kind of was like, all right, I feel like
• 27:06
  I've done everything I could do in Hawaii. And
• 27:09
  I was like, all right, I want to go somewhere
• 27:12
  where one, nobody knows who the fuck I am. I
• 27:15
  want to go somewhere where it's going to be difficult
• 27:18
  and I know it's going to suck for a minute. And
• 27:21
  I was like, my three choices, I was like, L .A.,
• 27:23
  New York and Austin. And I was like, OK. Yeah,
• 27:26
  I would think that you would have gone to L .A.
• 27:29
  I can hate that city. Gotcha. Gotcha. I don't
• 27:33
  know if it's just the Northern California person
• 27:35
  in me that hates the city, but it's just, I don't
• 27:38
  know. I've been to LA a few times. I've done
• 27:40
  shows and mics and stuff out there, and I just,
• 27:43
  I don't know, it just didn't feel, I didn't like
• 27:46
  the way it felt. Yeah. You know? Sure. Yeah,
• 27:48
  it makes sense, man. Because I started doing
• 27:50
  stand -up in San Francisco, and it felt more,
• 27:53
  there was more of a community there. Mm -hmm.
• 27:55
  You know? Because you don't hear, San Francisco
• 27:57
  is such a big comedy town. But the guys and gals
• 28:02
  that are in it, everyone's really in it. And
• 28:06
  they were very welcoming to me when I first started.
• 28:08
  So I was like, OK, cool. I want to go somewhere
• 28:10
  that feels like that. It feels very comic -oriented.
• 28:14
  I can make friends easily. But when I was in
• 28:15
  LA, I just felt like, I don't know. I didn't
• 28:18
  feel like that warmness. And I know that this
• 28:22
  business that we're in isn't like that all the
• 28:23
  time. For me, I just was like, I don't know if
• 28:26
  I can do that little little Ford to live there.
• 28:29
  Sure, yeah. And I was like, okay, New York would
• 28:32
  be cool, but that would be tough also. And I
• 28:34
  was like, you know what? Fuck it, let's just
• 28:36
  go see what Austin's like. And I was like, well,
• 28:38
  Kiltoni's there, might as well try my hand at
• 28:40
  that, because everyone and their mom at the time
• 28:42
  was telling me about it. I wasn't even like a
• 28:45
  watcher or a fan of it or anything like that.
• 28:47
  Oh, okay, so you didn't even know about Kiltoni.
• 28:49
  I knew of it, but I wasn't like super like...
• 28:54
  all about it, like I'm not even like the biggest
• 28:56
  like Rogan fan even, you know, like, but I was
• 29:01
  like, you know what, like they're, they're like
• 29:04
  the gatekeepers right now. You know, they're
• 29:06
  the, I guess some people might say they're the
• 29:09
  necessary evil right now in a way. So, yeah,
• 29:12
  you know, but like just, and I was like, you
• 29:14
  know what, let's go try it out, let's go do it.
• 29:16
  And of course, like you have like that, that
• 29:18
  romantic, that romanticization of like the city
• 29:20
  and everyone's like, dude, you gotta go to Austin.
• 29:22
  I've had, I've had comedian friends from Hawaii
• 29:24
  go to Austin for like a week and they go, dude,
• 29:27
  it's fucking crazy. You gotta go. And I was like,
• 29:29
  it's fucking incredible. It's fucking nuts. I've
• 29:31
  never fucking done so much, you know, you know,
• 29:33
  I've never done so much comedy at one time, blah,
• 29:35
  blah, blah. And I was like, all right, cool.
• 29:36
  I guess it's settled, let's go. Yeah, there is
• 29:39
  something intriguing about Austin. Like, the
• 29:41
  reason why I wanted to come here was years ago,
• 29:44
  I just came and I just fell in love with the
• 29:46
  city, like, itself, you know? And at the time,
• 29:48
  I was playing music, and so I was really big
• 29:51
  with, like, I wanted to go see, like, the Stebrie
• 29:54
  Vaughn statue, and, you know, I played a few,
• 29:57
  like, shows out here, just me and my guitar,
• 30:00
  you know? And, but... You know, I've always wanted
• 30:03
  to do stand up. I just didn't know what to do.
• 30:06
  You know, so when I got out of here is that the
• 30:08
  first place I went to is the creek. Yeah. And
• 30:11
  and yeah, I got humbled like a motherfucker like
• 30:13
  that. Yeah, dude. You know, is so where was like
• 30:16
  the first place that you went to when you got
• 30:18
  here? Well, the first thing I did was like I
• 30:21
  I figured out where to go sign up for for Kelton
• 30:23
  because like I didn't know anything. I've never
• 30:26
  set foot in Austin. Wow. Like I like I've got
• 30:29
  an apartment like side unseen. I drove from California,
• 30:33
  from my mom's place, all the way here, got in,
• 30:37
  and I was like, all right, it's Mondays, I gotta
• 30:38
  find out where to go sign up on Mondays, figured
• 30:41
  out where to go sign up. I remember signing up
• 30:43
  and signing their release form or whatever, and
• 30:45
  I was like, ooh, this is, ooh. And you build
• 30:48
  it up so much in your head, and I was just like,
• 30:51
  all right, I made some friends, and then obviously
• 30:53
  I didn't get picked. If you get picked for your
• 30:55
  first time, it's fucking crazy. I did. You did?
• 30:57
  I did. Holy shit. Yeah, that fucking blew my
• 31:00
  mind. Yeah, yeah, I still think about it. It's
• 31:02
  almost like PTSD. It's like, yeah, so I was just
• 31:06
  like and then like I saw somebody like passing
• 31:07
  around like a open mic sign up sheet. That's
• 31:09
  when they were doing it at Poor Choices still
• 31:11
  and they were like, oh, we're doing an open mic
• 31:13
  over at Maggie Mays and that was like the first
• 31:15
  set I ever did. No, it was at Maggie Mays. I
• 31:18
  got an open mic at like two in the morning. So
• 31:19
  let me make sure I'm understanding. You did like,
• 31:21
  oh, two more. Yeah, it's like one in the morning.
• 31:24
  Like it was like. After kill Tony ended everyone's
• 31:27
  just like putting their time in or whatever and
• 31:29
  like for some reason I thought you were like
• 31:31
  you did like the parallel like you were going
• 31:32
  from my kill Tony that you wanna Maggie Mase
• 31:35
  cuz I've seen people do that I think back in
• 31:37
  the day and and I was like dude So you're you
• 31:40
  were like, hold on. Let me go ahead and just
• 31:41
  try this out real quick Yeah, I was like I was
• 31:44
  like this is my first night like out out like
• 31:46
  I need to do something some kind of stage time
• 31:49
  Yeah, and I like I was like, all right And I
• 31:52
  did get kind of, it humbled me and I'm like,
• 31:55
  oh yeah, you're not gonna get picked for your
• 31:56
  first time. You know, like why did I even, you
• 31:58
  know what I mean? It's like, well, also nobody
• 32:00
  knows who the fuck you are yet. You've made zero
• 32:02
  friends. You don't know anybody yet. So I was
• 32:05
  like, all right, let's just do my, let's do like
• 32:07
  my three minutes that they gave me at Maggie
• 32:08
  Mae's and it went well. So I was like, all right,
• 32:11
  cool. And then just the more, I guess I just
• 32:14
  explored and the more, you know, people I started
• 32:16
  talking to, obviously you make friends and stuff,
• 32:18
  but. I feel like this city can humble you a lot
• 32:21
  because you may think that, like with me, I feel
• 32:24
  like I got comfortable back in Hawaii because
• 32:26
  there were only like 15 comics then. And we all
• 32:29
  rotate spots all the time. Yeah. So you guys,
• 32:32
  it was like a little family, huh? Yeah. Yeah.
• 32:34
  So it's like, when I came out here, I was like,
• 32:35
  oh shit. Oh shit. Were you on the big island?
• 32:40
  Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I was. I went to
• 32:43
  Waikiki Beach like way back in like, I want to
• 32:45
  say like 2011. I loved it. Yeah. I loved it.
• 32:48
  You know, but it was like one of those like,
• 32:50
  but I have to leave. Exactly. Yeah. No, I moved.
• 32:53
  I moved to Hawaii, like in the middle of COVID.
• 32:56
  Oh, no shit. Yeah. Yeah. And I was staying with
• 32:58
  my buddy still and I was just like, man, I like.
• 33:01
  stand -up isn't happening because it's COVID
• 33:04
  and I just refuse to do Zoom shows. Zoom shows,
• 33:08
  yeah, that's right, I almost forgot about that.
• 33:10
  Yeah, yeah, I got asked to do a couple and I
• 33:12
  was like, there's no fucking way I'm doing that.
• 33:14
  I don't know, like, props to the people that
• 33:17
  did do it, but I just never was, I was like,
• 33:20
  I can't. Yeah, I feel that though. Yeah. I know
• 33:23
  exactly. Like, no hate to them, just in my own
• 33:25
  head, I was like, dude, there's no fucking way
• 33:27
  I'm doing a Zoom show to be like, yeah, so anyway,
• 33:29
  and then just be like, hear one guy. Yeah, like
• 33:32
  this. Like, I can't. I think that's worse than
• 33:34
  an empty bar. Right. I think it's way worse than
• 33:36
  an empty bar. Fuck that. Yeah. Just imagine like
• 33:38
  over the computer speakers, like you're just.
• 33:42
  You're like. Because the way Zoom structures
• 33:44
  like green light up, green light up, green light
• 33:46
  up. I'm like, cool, cool, cool. I'm like, so
• 33:47
  do I get lit? Like with a flashlight emoji, what
• 33:50
  the fuck's going on? How the fuck does this work?
• 33:54
  Yeah, just a big ass flashlight emoji. I'm like,
• 33:56
  if I wanted to perform in comics, I would just
• 33:58
  go do a bar open mic. Like, what are we talking
• 33:59
  about? And I'm like, you guys don't need to see
• 34:01
  where I live. You guys don't need to see this.
• 34:04
  Right, what the fuck? Yeah, so I have a local
• 34:08
  side of family that lives out in Hawaii and my
• 34:10
  cousin hits me up and he's like, dude, you need
• 34:12
  to come visit. And I was like, dude, if I visit,
• 34:13
  I might stay. And he's like, why the fuck not?
• 34:15
  I have an extra room. And I said, I'm gone. Damn,
• 34:18
  that's awesome. Yeah, so I was out there for
• 34:20
  like three years. And then when things started
• 34:23
  to kind of open up, I found a small little group
• 34:27
  that did comedy out there. Man, that's really
• 34:30
  neat, man. What was something that you kind of
• 34:35
  noticed, the differences between coming from
• 34:37
  such a small place like that? to like to coming
• 34:41
  here like and you kind of see the comedy community
• 34:43
  here like what's like kind of like one of the
• 34:46
  biggest differences that you sort of noticed
• 34:48
  the quantity of comics yeah you know i've never
• 34:52
  been around so many right you know yeah like
• 34:56
  in such a high concentration it's like i feel
• 34:59
  like you can like just throw a rock on the street
• 35:01
  and hit a comic you know what i mean like there's
• 35:04
  there's so many Like I hear like the stat, there's
• 35:06
  like probably at least like 400 comedians in
• 35:09
  the city at like one time, which is just maybe
• 35:12
  more, it's just staggering. It's insane, yeah.
• 35:14
  With how many people that are out here trying
• 35:16
  to do it. And I think that's something that was
• 35:20
  basically really alluring to me too, because
• 35:22
  it's like I've never been around that many people
• 35:24
  that are trying to do it. Right. And I also was
• 35:27
  like, oh, okay, like we're all. We're all kinda
• 35:30
  in this together, kinda? No. You'll be here years
• 35:34
  and not know somebody the entire time. Yeah,
• 35:37
  exactly. And I swear, you meet somebody new every
• 35:41
  time you go out. Yeah. And they go, yeah, I've
• 35:43
  been here for like three years. You're like,
• 35:44
  I've never fucking met you. Yeah. Or like when
• 35:47
  you go to Kill Tony and somebody gets picked
• 35:49
  at Kill Tony, you go, who the fuck is that? Right,
• 35:51
  who is that fucking person? You know, like, oh,
• 35:53
  yeah, that's so and so that, you know, they do
• 35:55
  spots over at Velveeta all the time. And you're
• 35:57
  like, dude, what the fuck? Where the fuck did
• 35:59
  they come from? You're like, I'm out here every
• 36:01
  goddamn day. Like, how the fuck? I've never met,
• 36:03
  you know what I mean? And like that's like that
• 36:06
  was cool because I'm like, I can be around so
• 36:07
  many like minded people and all this stuff. And
• 36:10
  because we were such like like over over in our
• 36:13
  town, like in Hawaii and Kona, it was like, you
• 36:15
  know, there wasn't a lot of us. Yeah. And it's
• 36:17
  just like we were very tight knit. We're very
• 36:18
  like, you know, yeah. And like, I do kind of
• 36:21
  get that. But like, I don't know, I've realized
• 36:26
  I gotta be a little bit more choosy. Interesting.
• 36:29
  Yeah, so what does that mean? I don't know, it's
• 36:31
  just like, some people I would consider friends,
• 36:34
  other people I just consider colleagues, you
• 36:36
  know? Yeah, I get that. Yeah. Yeah, I feel that.
• 36:39
  And it's like, no offense to anybody, but it's
• 36:41
  just like, all right, like I can, like everybody
• 36:43
  in Hawaii, honestly, they're all friends. We
• 36:45
  all do the same thing. There's only 10 of us,
• 36:47
  you know what I mean? But it's like, Here, it's
• 36:49
  like, okay, like, here's somebody I do shows
• 36:50
  with, here's someone that I would hang out with,
• 36:51
  here's somebody that, you know, I'll just, I,
• 36:54
  whatever, they can do their thing, you know?
• 36:55
  Sure. Obviously, there's so many different people
• 36:59
  and opinions and belief systems and all these
• 37:02
  things. And I'm really, I also realize I don't
• 37:04
  have to be friends with everybody, but also you
• 37:06
  don't gotta be a dick to everybody either, you
• 37:08
  know? Exactly, yeah. And that's kind of where,
• 37:10
  like, I feel like some people don't understand
• 37:13
  that part. Yeah. Was that something that you
• 37:16
  feel like, like, um, how to, you know, in comedy
• 37:19
  was just like sort of, you know, you're like,
• 37:22
  your kindness there, like, or do you think that
• 37:24
  kind of hurts you a little bit? Uh, I feel like,
• 37:28
  I mean, it can, you know, people definitely take
• 37:31
  that, that kindness for like a weakness sometimes
• 37:34
  and they are like, well, I'm going to hang out
• 37:36
  with him because like he may get me on more shows
• 37:39
  or he may do this or, oh, he does, oh, he makes
• 37:42
  a show. I want to be friends with him or he does
• 37:44
  this. Oh, it's really cool. I'm going to latch
• 37:46
  on to him because of that. But I mean, like I
• 37:48
  kind of look at it as like I try to respect everybody
• 37:50
  that's, you know, doing the same thing that we
• 37:52
  are because it does take balls to do this. But
• 37:55
  it's also I mean, like no one's fucking from
• 37:57
  here either. So it's like we all made the majority
• 38:00
  of us made this pilgrimage here, you know, to
• 38:03
  do it. Yeah. You know, it's so crazy about that,
• 38:05
  too, because then you like you like meet somebody
• 38:08
  who's from here and you almost look at them like
• 38:10
  they were forming. Yeah. You know what I mean?
• 38:13
  It's so weird. I respect the hell out of somebody
• 38:15
  who was like, they're like, yeah, I started to
• 38:16
  stand up here. I'm like, oh, you from here? Yeah.
• 38:19
  Holy shit. Whoa. What the fuck? That's so cool.
• 38:21
  God, I would kill to be from here. You know,
• 38:24
  some people are like, oh my God. Yeah. Really?
• 38:27
  Oh, you're like Courtney. I think simply Courtney,
• 38:29
  he's from here. Yeah, exactly. It's got to be
• 38:31
  nuts to see how the scene has exploded, you know?
• 38:34
  Yeah. Yeah. Because I think about New Orleans,
• 38:36
  you know, and I just, I never. I don't know the
• 38:40
  comedy scene in New Orleans, but that's where
• 38:43
  I'm from and I don't know it at all. So I don't
• 38:48
  know how it's grown or anything like that, but
• 38:50
  when I think about what I'm used to here in Austin,
• 38:53
  I think about that. I don't know if that makes
• 38:56
  any sense. I try to commiserate with them. If
• 39:00
  I saw that happen in New Orleans, it would just
• 39:03
  be crazy if Kil Tony was in New Orleans. No,
• 39:06
  exactly. That would be fucking nuts. Then you
• 39:08
  have some people that are like, I had to ruin
• 39:09
  the scene. I'm like, eh, whatever. I don't have
• 39:12
  an opinion because I'm not from here. Sure. So
• 39:14
  it's just like, I look at it as I go, it's created
• 39:17
  more opportunity for stage time besides the side
• 39:23
  skill, tell me. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh,
• 39:25
  I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead, go ahead. I was
• 39:27
  going to ask, what prompted you to even start
• 39:29
  to begin with? To sound insanely corny, I've
• 39:33
  always wanted to do it. No, like as a like as
• 39:36
  a kid like I was very like drawn to Like a lot
• 39:42
  of like just anything funny like comedy movies
• 39:44
  and stuff. My dad was my dad's a big movie guy
• 39:46
  So like growing up he would just show me the
• 39:49
  stuff He grew up on like what I like a lot of
• 39:52
  like old like Eddie Murphy movies like Jim Carrey
• 39:55
  movies Like like Jim Carrey is like a personal
• 39:57
  like I love that guy so much and just hearing
• 40:00
  like his story him starting out Doing comedy
• 40:03
  is like young as he did kind of like sparked
• 40:06
  something in me going like, okay Well, I can
• 40:07
  do the same thing. I can start very young and
• 40:10
  I did like oh, yeah, like I was like, all right
• 40:14
  Well like in high school like I was like, okay
• 40:15
  I want to do stand -up and it's like was kind
• 40:18
  of embarrassing to tell tell somebody at the
• 40:20
  time Say like as a freshman high school that
• 40:23
  was like 2011 for me and telling somebody in
• 40:25
  2011 that you want to stand up is like Like what
• 40:27
  the fuck like you like really? Yeah, like that's
• 40:31
  what I wanna do. But I did like the closest thing
• 40:33
  I could at that time was like I did theater,
• 40:35
  like all throughout high school. Sure, yeah.
• 40:37
  So I was like, I'm not the biggest like theater
• 40:39
  nerd ever, but it's like, all right, this is
• 40:42
  stage time for me. I get to be on stage and I
• 40:46
  get to do something. And that kind of like satiated
• 40:49
  me for a little bit. And then I was like, all
• 40:51
  right, well, once I become of age, like as an
• 40:53
  adult, I'll be able to go do standup. And I remember,
• 40:56
  like, yeah, I started when I was, like, just
• 40:59
  about to turn 19. Like, at a really little, tiny,
• 41:02
  like, variety open mic in, like, my hometown
• 41:05
  in Los Banos. Oh, wow. I got off, like, of my
• 41:08
  shift at Target. I was still in my red shirt.
• 41:12
  Yeah, dude. It's really fucking hilarious, dude,
• 41:14
  because the open mic was taking place at a women's
• 41:17
  gym. Nice like a like a curves or you know it
• 41:20
  but it was like a like a local gym like downtown
• 41:23
  somewhere and downtown Los Banos No, yeah, it's
• 41:27
  like I was like, alright, let's go try this out
• 41:29
  and like I did it and like, you know people chuckled
• 41:33
  This is heroin And like it was like very like
• 41:38
  off and on Until like I decided to go live with
• 41:42
  my mom who lives in the East Bay area And I was
• 41:45
  like I was doing shitty like labor plumbing work
• 41:48
  at the time and I was like, all right Well, there's
• 41:51
  a BART station There so I can just take the train
• 41:54
  into San Francisco and just go find an open mic
• 41:56
  So like that's what I would do. Like I was like
• 41:58
  I was 19. I would get I would get on this fucking
• 42:01
  train, and it would take like 30 minutes to get
• 42:03
  into the city. I'd go, I'd walk around, I'd find
• 42:06
  an open mic. Shout out to, it doesn't exist anymore,
• 42:09
  but the Brainwash was an open mic that happened
• 42:12
  in San Francisco every single night. And it was
• 42:15
  a cafe, like a coffee shop, and it was also a
• 42:20
  laundry mat. Oh, beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:24
  That's amazing. It was so sick. It was like...
• 42:27
  It was like the open mic there like it was the
• 42:30
  everyone hung out there everyone went there like
• 42:33
  Thursdays were the days that were advertised
• 42:34
  so like I thought they only happened Thursdays
• 42:37
  So like when I did go there was like 40 comedians
• 42:39
  trying to sign up. Oh, and I was like, whoa Everybody
• 42:43
  does stand up here. Well, like you know, I was
• 42:45
  like, yeah, I was a kid still, you know Yeah,
• 42:49
  I I remember doing like when I did the open mic
• 42:51
  there I like, you know people laugh and I was
• 42:54
  like, oh shit Oh shit, oh shit, this is real.
• 42:57
  This is real. Like this can be like a thing that
• 42:59
  I could do. Wow. Yeah. And I remember like the
• 43:06
  host of the show, his name's Tony Sparks, he's
• 43:07
  still very active in San Francisco. He's the,
• 43:11
  honestly, that guy's the reason I'm still doing
• 43:13
  stand -up to this day. He's like a wizard, he's
• 43:15
  like an old wise wizard. Oh yeah. And I just
• 43:18
  remember like before the open mic happened, he
• 43:21
  was like, oh, like I do... Like I do comedy classes,
• 43:24
  you know, if you guys ever need pointers, come
• 43:26
  to me, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, all
• 43:28
  right, yeah, yeah. And I just, I had, was not,
• 43:31
  you know, I was still super fresh. I did my set
• 43:33
  and I remember walking up to him like, I'm like,
• 43:34
  hey, Mr. Tony Sparks, sir, do you have like any
• 43:39
  more openings for like your comedy class? He's
• 43:40
  like, don't do it. No way. Yeah, he's like, don't
• 43:43
  fucking do it. He's like, dude, listen to me,
• 43:45
  okay, I know. He's like, don't do a comedy class.
• 43:48
  It's how I make money. He said something to me
• 43:51
  that stuck with me forever, because he's like,
• 43:53
  you've been on stage before, right? I was like,
• 43:55
  yeah, I did theater. And he goes, good. You already
• 43:58
  know more than most people that are just starting.
• 44:00
  You know how to present yourself on stage. You
• 44:03
  know how to talk. You know how to enunciate.
• 44:04
  You know all these things. These are skills you
• 44:06
  already have. Oh, nice. Don't do this. Don't
• 44:10
  do a comedy class. Right. OK. I was like, oh,
• 44:13
  shit. I was like, OK. And like, you know, that
• 44:15
  gave me a lot of confidence to keep doing it,
• 44:19
  you know, and to kind of keep pursuing that.
• 44:22
  So like the San Francisco scene is very near
• 44:24
  and dear to my heart because it was like, it's
• 44:26
  where I like to say it's where I really, really
• 44:29
  started doing it. Oh, nice. And like this, it's
• 44:32
  where I, you know, met, you know, a lot of my,
• 44:34
  you know, close friends and it's where I've met
• 44:36
  people that I still talk to to this day. And,
• 44:38
  you know, just that whole scene in general is
• 44:39
  very welcoming to new people. And I remember
• 44:43
  doing their 18th anniversary show, like the Brainwash's
• 44:46
  18th anniversary show, and it's like, it was
• 44:48
  such a big community event. And I got invited
• 44:51
  to do a spot on that showcase, and I thought,
• 44:53
  I was like, I was so not ready to do it. Oh,
• 44:56
  really? I was like, can you do 10 minutes? I
• 44:57
  said, fucking yeah, I can do 10 minutes. Right.
• 45:00
  Like maybe a year in, maybe. Oh, really? I was
• 45:05
  like, more like, realistically, like eight months
• 45:07
  into comedy, and I was doing like three to five
• 45:10
  minute spots all the time. And Tony liked me
• 45:12
  so much. He was like, he was like, hey, like,
• 45:16
  come to the spot. Come do it. I was like, OK.
• 45:20
  How'd it go? Yeah. Bad. Bad. Bad. Oh, my God.
• 45:23
  What did you do? Like, what kind of how are your
• 45:25
  jokes? I can't even remember, dude. I'm not even
• 45:27
  going to lie. Like, my set is is so different
• 45:29
  than what it used to be. Sure. Like, I just remember,
• 45:34
  like, I was like super stoked that it was going
• 45:35
  to happen and I was just surrounded by fucking
• 45:38
  killers like. Just guys that have been doing
• 45:42
  it forever. Yeah guys that are probably working
• 45:45
  and like I invited my parents I thought oh I
• 45:49
  was like you gotta come to San Francisco and
• 45:51
  watch me do this and Like I remember like on
• 45:54
  the on the flyer was like comedians and special
• 45:56
  guests I was like, I wonder who the special guests
• 45:58
  are gonna be and like my parents are sitting
• 45:59
  like in the front My mom and my stepdad are right
• 46:02
  there in front. Yeah, I'm just bombing my fucking
• 46:05
  dick off and I was just like, okay I just ate
• 46:10
  it for like 10 minutes and then right after like
• 46:12
  that's when like the special guest came out and
• 46:14
  they were like themed burlesque dancers. Wait,
• 46:18
  what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it like a burlesque
• 46:20
  show too or something? I turned into one. So
• 46:24
  like one lady dressed up as like a big joint.
• 46:26
  She was like a big joint. She dressed up like
• 46:28
  a big joint? Yeah, she had like a table and she
• 46:31
  was like hitting different pieces. and like holding
• 46:34
  it all in at the end of her dance, she like blew
• 46:36
  it all into the crowd. And my parents are sitting
• 46:38
  fucking front row. And they're like, oh. And
• 46:42
  then the second lady came up and she was a clown
• 46:45
  and her entire outfit was balloon animals, like
• 46:49
  those balloons. And her name was Snatch Adams
• 46:52
  and was like popping balloons as she was dancing.
• 46:56
  And then like, I remember like the quiet car
• 46:58
  ride home. You were like. You know, the burlesque
• 47:02
  dancers were actually funnier than I was. It
• 47:03
  was actually not bad. Those were pretty good,
• 47:06
  actually. And like that's when they were like,
• 47:07
  okay, that's what you, yeah, for sure. That's
• 47:09
  what you want to do. Yeah, for sure. Awesome.
• 47:12
  Do they still like, are they supportive of you
• 47:14
  now? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I, you know, I feel
• 47:16
  like any parent when you tell them you want to
• 47:19
  do art for a career or you want to do something
• 47:23
  that's not normal, it's like, uh, my mom is supportive.
• 47:28
  Like she really is, but it's very like, I don't
• 47:32
  get it, you know? Like, she understands now.
• 47:35
  Like, she didn't really like that I was doing
• 47:37
  it back then, but I was like, I wanna be a comedian.
• 47:39
  She was like, oh, great. You're like, oh, that
• 47:41
  is a good joke. Like, that's a great, wow, wow.
• 47:45
  Okay, for like a living, okay. You know how much
• 47:49
  that's gonna suck, right? I was like, yeah, no,
• 47:51
  it's fine, I got this. Yeah, but if you were
• 47:53
  in theater, I feel like that would be, it would
• 47:55
  almost be like a normal thing if you're like
• 47:57
  a theater kid and you're just funny, you know?
• 48:00
  Because people used to tell me all the time,
• 48:01
  like, You know, I was in theater for a while,
• 48:03
  too. Yeah, yeah. I kept hearing, you know, oh,
• 48:06
  you should try stand up. You should try stand
• 48:07
  up. Exactly. You know, but then I very quickly
• 48:10
  learned that that is a whole different fucking.
• 48:12
  Oh, yeah. You know, it's it's it's it's way different.
• 48:15
  Like, I don't think I'd even I mean, I feel like
• 48:18
  I could go back and do theater. No problem. But
• 48:21
  like going in to stand up for the first time
• 48:23
  and be like, OK, it's like a big play. You're
• 48:24
  like, it's not a big play. No, it's fucking not.
• 48:26
  It's not a big play. Oh, my God. No, it's not.
• 48:30
  You want to feel how long five minutes is? Yeah,
• 48:32
  go up there. Yeah. Yeah. I want to say like five
• 48:37
  minutes or four and a half or something like
• 48:39
  last night. And I'm like three years in, I'm
• 48:43
  still sitting here in my head, I was still fishing.
• 48:46
  I still have a lot of challenges, a ton of learning
• 48:51
  to do. What has been some things that you've
• 48:53
  been trying to overcome? I know like the the
• 48:57
  biggest thing for me like when I cuz like it's
• 49:00
  kind of weird to say but like I've been doing
• 49:01
  this like ten years now Mm -hmm. And like the
• 49:04
  biggest thing for me was finding my voice To
• 49:08
  find your cadence, you know, yeah, that's like
• 49:11
  the that was the biggest thing for me is like,
• 49:14
  okay Like how do I want to present? How do I
• 49:16
  want to talk on stage? I know that's like Duh,
• 49:19
  like yeah, you got to talk. It's like it's I
• 49:21
  feel like it's so much more than that Like, you
• 49:23
  want to, like, how am I going to deliver what
• 49:25
  I've written down? Like, and that was the biggest
• 49:27
  challenge for me for the longest time. I feel
• 49:29
  like I haven't really hit, I didn't really hit
• 49:31
  that stride until I moved to Hawaii, actually.
• 49:34
  Like, you know, outside of comedy, like, I feel
• 49:37
  like I'm a different person. Like, you know,
• 49:38
  I'm a very, like, when I'm not being serious
• 49:41
  or whatever, like, I'm a very, just like, I'm
• 49:43
  an energetic person. Like, I'm a fun person.
• 49:45
  And I'm like, okay, I can do that on stage. No.
• 49:48
  No. Yeah, that's exactly it. I feel that. You're
• 49:52
  like, OK, like I'm a fun, goofy guy. Like, you
• 49:54
  know, I mean, like I am goofy, like on stage
• 49:55
  and stuff. But it's like, I don't know. It's
• 49:57
  like you kind of have to try and find like that
• 49:59
  balance. And like, I was very much like, I'm
• 50:01
  going to talk really fast. I'm just really fun.
• 50:03
  It's going to be this. It's going to be that.
• 50:04
  And I was like, no, that's this. That's not working.
• 50:06
  No, it's not. Yes, I work. No one can hear what
• 50:08
  the fuck you're saying. Yeah. So it's like I
• 50:10
  remember when I moved to Hawaii, I was like,
• 50:13
  all right, let's try and switch things up a bit.
• 50:14
  Let's try and, you know, do that. And I feel
• 50:17
  like I do like. Like those three years I spent
• 50:19
  in Hawaii really I think shaped me as a comedian
• 50:22
  in those three years because it's like I really
• 50:25
  was like in it. Like I was more in it than I
• 50:28
  was living in California because like I did live
• 50:31
  kind of far away from the city. So it was always
• 50:33
  kind of a mission to get to stand up. You know,
• 50:37
  it's like is it worth the hour and a half car
• 50:39
  ride? Is it worth the fucking train ticket? Is
• 50:41
  it worth this? Like so it was very off and on.
• 50:44
  You know what I mean? So it's just like when
• 50:45
  I finally like really dove into it and was really
• 50:48
  around people that, I guess, gave me that constructive
• 50:51
  criticism that I really needed. They were like,
• 50:54
  hey, this is good, but you need to say it like
• 50:56
  this. Or hey, you should try it this way. And
• 50:58
  I didn't really get that until I moved to a more
• 51:00
  tight -knit comedy community, which was really
• 51:03
  cool, because we would always bounce ideas off
• 51:04
  of each other. You see, that's wonderful. I wish
• 51:07
  that we had... Here, you know like yeah, and
• 51:09
  that's one thing I miss I miss that so much Yeah,
• 51:12
  I really wish that we had something like that
• 51:14
  here like I know I know that there's like a few
• 51:15
  like writers rooms and things like that But yeah,
• 51:18
  the ones that I've seen and the ones that I've
• 51:19
  like kind of been to yeah I've always just been
• 51:21
  like well, okay like this kind of isn't what
• 51:24
  I'm looking for Like I'm kind of looking for
• 51:26
  like you to look at my shit and be like, okay
• 51:28
  This is like, you know, like, yeah, this is what
• 51:31
  you know, this is why it's failing or like this
• 51:33
  is you know, hey, this is why it's working. Exactly.
• 51:36
  It's because with it being so oversaturated here,
• 51:40
  and it's kind of funny, I just had this conversation
• 51:42
  last night. Yeah. But with it being so oversaturated
• 51:45
  here, it's almost like it doesn't, you know,
• 51:48
  everybody's magicians and they all know the tricks.
• 51:51
  Exactly. And so like, they're entertained, but
• 51:54
  they're not like giving you the feedback of laughter.
• 51:57
  You know, they're like, oh, that was a good joke,
• 51:58
  respect. But they're not like, you know, ha ha
• 52:00
  ha. So you don't know. I kind of hate that. I
• 52:04
  don't know. I still love watching comedy. Yeah,
• 52:08
  same. And I still laugh at my friends' jokes.
• 52:12
  I don't know. I still think, you know, some of
• 52:14
  my friends are hilarious, right? And it's like,
• 52:16
  I love going to a comedy show and I love watching
• 52:18
  and I still laugh. You know what I mean? And
• 52:21
  that's one thing that I feel like some comedians
• 52:23
  need to just do more. Yeah. You know? I'm gonna
• 52:27
  be real. I love comedy so much, but honestly,
• 52:30
  When someone's like, I take comedy seriously.
• 52:32
  That's an oxymoron, big dog. We're fucking clowns,
• 52:35
  guy. Like, let's be so, let's be so for it. We're
• 52:37
  fucking clowns. The whole time. And once you
• 52:39
  figure out that you're just a clown, that's okay.
• 52:43
  That's fine. So it's like, just laugh at a joke.
• 52:47
  Be like, be in that moment. Laugh and enjoy what
• 52:50
  you're doing or enjoy what your friends are doing
• 52:51
  and not be like. I'm gonna sit here and be really
• 52:53
  critical or over. Mm, you messed up that punch
• 52:56
  line, I think. Mm, or this or that. It's like
• 52:58
  fucking chill out. Or just be active listeners,
• 53:00
  you know? Yeah, and I feel like your friends
• 53:03
  would love you more for it, and you would honestly
• 53:07
  love your friends for it too, if you made them
• 53:10
  laugh, you know what I mean? I'm not saying fake
• 53:13
  a laugh, but really be involved in your friend's
• 53:16
  set or a colleague's set, and yeah, if it's funny,
• 53:19
  fucking laugh at it. I just feel like so many...
• 53:22
  Comics or like even like open mics with just
• 53:24
  comics in it. Just don't know they don't and
• 53:27
  I'm tired of like the I see this you like Yeah,
• 53:31
  exactly. This isn't a fucking coffee shop in
• 53:34
  Seattle where they're just like that's so sick.
• 53:36
  That was awesome. Yeah, that rips It's like fucking
• 53:39
  laugh at it. God damn it. What are we doing?
• 53:41
  I'm designing a shirt. I've said it on here like
• 53:43
  several times, but I'm designing it right now.
• 53:45
  It's going to be like an only bomb shirt, just
• 53:47
  a shameless plug. Yeah, there we go. But it's
• 53:49
  going to be like, it's going to say no one laughs
• 53:51
  in Austin. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, and it's just
• 53:54
  like, you know, as an open mic 'er, you know,
• 53:57
  or like, you know, as just somebody who does
• 53:58
  party here, I think you'll understand. I think
• 54:00
  you'll get it. Yeah. And like, and so that's,
• 54:02
  that's just something that I'm kind of like,
• 54:04
  I've always wanted to do because I was just like,
• 54:06
  I started getting frustrated, you know, I would
• 54:08
  go out and I was like, man, and there was sometimes
• 54:10
  it just wasn't fun. And then oddly enough, when
• 54:13
  I would get in front of like an actual crowd
• 54:14
  and do, you know, I was like, whoa, what's that
• 54:18
  sound coming from your mouth? Whoa, like I've
• 54:21
  never heard that before. Exactly. And that's
• 54:23
  the thing. It's like, it's like, dude, what the
• 54:25
  fuck? It's like the whole point of this is reaction.
• 54:27
  Like, that's why we do it, you know? And it's
• 54:29
  like when no one's laughing and they go, they
• 54:31
  walk up to you and go, that was awesome. Fuck
• 54:33
  you. What the fuck? Laugh at. What are we talking
• 54:34
  about? You're like, what do you mean, dude? What
• 54:35
  do you mean? That was awesome. How was it? You
• 54:37
  were staring at me. I was like, even deers don't
• 54:41
  stare that hard. Oh, that was good. That was
• 54:45
  a good joke. I like that joke. Yeah, I was like,
• 54:46
  you drooled. I mean, nowadays I feel like I'm
• 54:49
  a little lucky because of the friends that I've
• 54:52
  made here. We do laugh at each other. Wonderful.
• 54:55
  Which is so awesome. Because I work over at the
• 54:58
  Vulcan. I was gonna ask you about that. I didn't
• 55:01
  know if you wanted to get into it. I've been
• 55:05
  working there since November. Nice. And all the
• 55:10
  door guys there, we're all comics, you know?
• 55:12
  We sometimes get to do a staff show over there.
• 55:16
  Another Shamus Plug Best of Vulcan will happen
• 55:18
  sometimes. Just keep an eye out for it. It's
• 55:19
  a free show. So it's all the guys that work there,
• 55:23
  plus whoever else we get to bark for us and stuff.
• 55:26
  but we all laugh at each other. That's great.
• 55:29
  And it's so great. And I'm glad that I have that
• 55:32
  group of friends there because it feels like
• 55:35
  I'm back in Hawaii where I used to be where everyone's
• 55:39
  kind of like, we sit and we talk about it. We
• 55:41
  collaborate a little bit on it and we talk about
• 55:43
  this joke or that joke. Oh, that was cool. You
• 55:45
  know what I mean? Yeah. So I feel like I finally,
• 55:48
  after living here for a little bit, I've found
• 55:51
  that group of friends or that group of comics
• 55:53
  that are actually like, they run, we run bits
• 55:57
  by each other. We like, hey, we've seen each
• 55:59
  other do stand up enough to where we're like,
• 56:01
  oh, hey, like this works here, that works there.
• 56:03
  And I'm like, like I finally, I'm finally there.
• 56:06
  You know what I mean? Yeah. It's a great, great
• 56:08
  community. Just like, you know, like when you
• 56:10
  find that, when you find like that little like
• 56:11
  tightening sort of group, it's a great community,
• 56:13
  you know? Well, what are some like, like kind
• 56:15
  of like either lessons or just like observations
• 56:18
  that you made from watching like professional
• 56:20
  comedians versus like the newer ones or even
• 56:22
  yourself? Man. I get to see, yeah, because working
• 56:28
  there, I get to see a lot of it. And I honestly,
• 56:32
  I don't know if this is me being bitter, but
• 56:35
  when a comedian comes to Vulcan and they sell
• 56:38
  a lot of tickets, the people are there for him,
• 56:41
  they can breathe funny. And the whole fucking
• 56:44
  room erupts. You know what I mean? Like a motherfucker.
• 56:49
  The cynical part in my brain goes, this is so
• 56:51
  fucking easy. You can't make a room of 300 people
• 56:56
  who are here to see you laugh, get a different
• 56:58
  job. So in my head, I'm like, mother fucker.
• 57:01
  But obviously, I knew they had to work to get
• 57:03
  to that point. And it's still, I look at it as
• 57:07
  when they sell them any tickets, they come and
• 57:09
  they do their, and it's kind of crazy to see
• 57:11
  them work because it is very professional. You
• 57:14
  know what I mean? It's like seeing how effortless
• 57:18
  it is for them To just get through like a 30
• 57:22
  minute set is like kind of like it's enamoring
• 57:25
  really I'm just like holy shit. This is real
• 57:28
  like this is this motherfuckers a this guy's
• 57:30
  bad. This guy's badass. Yeah, you know Like it's
• 57:34
  just I don't know like I want to get to that
• 57:36
  point I want to get to where it just kind of
• 57:38
  flows out of me like water, you know And that's
• 57:40
  the one thing I do notice is like it just comes
• 57:42
  out of these these professionals so easily and
• 57:45
  it's like okay cool like I'm Like, you know,
• 57:48
  you think you're there until you realize there's
• 57:50
  more levels to this shit than you realize, you
• 57:53
  know? It's like, watching someone who does big
• 57:56
  rooms like this constantly, who does 30 minutes
• 57:58
  constantly, who does an hour constantly, it's
• 58:00
  like, oh shit, like, I have some fucking work
• 58:02
  to do. But it does kind of motivate me in a way
• 58:04
  to be like, all right, well, now I gotta write
• 58:07
  better, or now I gotta flow things better, or
• 58:09
  I gotta stop going, uh, and fucking, uh, you
• 58:11
  know what I mean? And you catch that about yourself,
• 58:14
  and I think it's really eye -opening. Seeing
• 58:16
  and also too. It's like Meeting somebody that
• 58:19
  you've seen on TV is really cool. But then you're
• 58:22
  like, oh, there's just a dude. There's just a
• 58:24
  dude Just a fucking dude. Yeah. Yeah, like I
• 58:26
  almost I did Shane Gillis at the creek and uh,
• 58:30
  yeah, and he was cool with it, you know, and
• 58:32
  uh, you know, but I was like, man I'm like, that's
• 58:35
  just it's just everybody is just so like normal.
• 58:37
  Yeah, like, you know, they're normal -looking
• 58:39
  Yeah, exactly energies and stuff like that. Like
• 58:42
  you just it's uh, it's kind of crazy man, but
• 58:45
  Yeah, dude, like it was kind of like the reason
• 58:46
  why I wanted to ask you about that was because
• 58:48
  I was like a sort of like we share the same thing
• 58:49
  because I work there Yeah, you know and so I
• 58:52
  was like I noticed just being around the community.
• 58:56
  It's like you just you get you do get in tight
• 58:58
  with them Oh, yeah, you know, oh, yeah, and I
• 59:00
  love all the comedians man And I know you're
• 59:03
  probably you're obviously gonna be seeing the
• 59:04
  same ones that I do and you know There's there's
• 59:07
  some of them that's like yeah, you're born to
• 59:09
  be a comedian And then some of them just like
• 59:11
  yep. I remember when I was there. Yeah, exactly
• 59:13
  Yeah, you know, but like what kind of like lessons
• 59:17
  have you kind of learned like within yourself
• 59:19
  as far as comedy goes? Um, it's definitely like,
• 59:23
  uh... I've... For me, it's like, uh, I think
• 59:26
  it's confidence. Like, I learned a lot, like,
• 59:29
  uh, like, and then just, like, a lot of humility,
• 59:31
  too, you know? Yeah, dude, yeah. It's such a
• 59:35
  individual art. It's really easy to kind of get
• 59:38
  lost in your own shit. Mm -hmm. You know, and
• 59:40
  I feel like a lot of some comics get it way into
• 59:43
  their own shit or up their own ass. And it's
• 59:46
  like, yes, you can, in a way. You know, there's,
• 59:48
  you can be like, yeah, I'm funny. but also like,
• 59:51
  you can't be like, oh, I'm funnier than everybody.
• 59:53
  I don't know, it's like, it's a weird, we're
• 59:56
  like in a weird gray area. It's like we have
• 59:57
  community, but it's also like, I still need to
• 59:59
  take care of my own shit. I don't know, it's
• 1:00:02
  gotten me, I guess to be a little bit more social,
• 1:00:06
  like I'm a very social person outside of comedy,
• 1:00:08
  but like during comedy, I'm not. Yeah. You know?
• 1:00:12
  Oh, I feel that. You know? And it's like... Yeah,
• 1:00:16
  absolutely confidence for me. The main thing,
• 1:00:19
  finding my voice is a big thing too. It's just
• 1:00:22
  like, I'm not, I don't know, I do it just because
• 1:00:25
  I like to. It's definitely given me that confidence
• 1:00:29
  to where it's like, okay, this isn't something
• 1:00:30
  everybody does, but I can still do it anyway.
• 1:00:35
  It's kind of freeing, I guess, to be like, this
• 1:00:38
  is what I like to do. This is what I'm going
• 1:00:40
  to do and going to pursue. You know, you have
• 1:00:43
  people trying to give you that advice, being
• 1:00:45
  like, oh, like, well, you know, it might not
• 1:00:47
  work. And I go, OK, like, so who cares? I don't
• 1:00:50
  care. Yeah. Yeah. Being a comic, how do you handle
• 1:00:53
  when people go like, oh, dude, you know, you
• 1:00:55
  should put that in your show. That was hilarious.
• 1:00:58
  You should go say that on stage. That was good.
• 1:01:01
  Oh, my god. I hate it. I really do hate it. I
• 1:01:04
  go like, uh. Dude, it's kind of like people were
• 1:01:06
  like being like, when they hear I'm in the Navy,
• 1:01:08
  and they're like, oh, thank you for your service.
• 1:01:10
  I was like, dude, I did paperwork, bro. Yeah,
• 1:01:14
  right. Thank you for your service. You're like,
• 1:01:16
  I signed documents, guy, I don't know. Paycheck
• 1:01:19
  to paycheck, bro. I think the one, like put it
• 1:01:23
  in your set or whatever, like that one's like,
• 1:01:25
  the one that gets me is like, again, I like to
• 1:01:29
  laugh. I'm a giggly guy, so when someone goes,
• 1:01:32
  oh, I made the comic laugh, maybe I should start
• 1:01:34
  comedy. That's good. Shut the fuck up, dude.
• 1:01:38
  Shut up. Dude, like, they go on the stage one
• 1:01:41
  fucking time and get off. Go, go, do it. And
• 1:01:43
  I go, go ahead. Go ahead. Go. Yeah, you'll do
• 1:01:46
  fine. You're gonna do great. Yeah. Hold on, made
• 1:01:48
  the comedian laugh? It's like, I'm still a person,
• 1:01:50
  you weirdo. Like, I'm not a fucking... That actually
• 1:01:53
  wasn't funny, because I know everything there
• 1:01:55
  is to know about being funny. Brother, you can
• 1:01:58
  fart weird. I'm gonna laugh at it, so what the
• 1:02:00
  fuck are you talking about? You know what I mean?
• 1:02:02
  I don't know. Just say the word, queef. It'll
• 1:02:06
  get me. It's like, yeah, I want to write jokes
• 1:02:11
  for a living, but someone can just be like, doo
• 1:02:13
  -doo fart. I go, that's pretty good. I like that.
• 1:02:15
  That's funny. That was awesome that that's fucking
• 1:02:18
  that that rules dude. It's so true, man Sometimes
• 1:02:20
  I just laugh at like some stupid shit myself,
• 1:02:22
  dude. Yeah, you're like I want to write jokes
• 1:02:24
  motherfucker Yeah, yeah, and dude sometimes I
• 1:02:27
  do like I'll just sit and I'll write down and
• 1:02:29
  be like hey This is something's funny and then
• 1:02:30
  I love going back and reading and I was like
• 1:02:33
  what the fuck was I thinking that's so stupid
• 1:02:36
  Yeah, I've been trying to write a bidet joke
• 1:02:38
  for like the longest time Because we have a bidet.
• 1:02:42
  Yeah, you know, and I'm just like every time
• 1:02:43
  like I'll just crank that fucker up. I'm like
• 1:02:46
  I know. How do I talk about this experience effectively?
• 1:02:51
  You know? Oh, yeah, man. Yeah. I was sitting
• 1:02:54
  there like, oh, well, all right, you know. I
• 1:02:56
  could talk about this. I could talk about this.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah. And then you go back in your reading, maybe
• 1:02:58
  I shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't. Yeah. It's like,
• 1:03:00
  you know, it's the next tier up from Toilet Huber.
• 1:03:03
  It's bidet humor. Yeah, right? Yeah, exactly,
• 1:03:07
  dude. I even tried some bidet jokes, dude. They
• 1:03:10
  have never done well. They're hilarious for me,
• 1:03:13
  but they never do well. Ever. You know what?
• 1:03:16
  That's another lesson I learned, I think, doing
• 1:03:17
  standup is killing your babies. Killing your
• 1:03:20
  babies. Yes. It's a term that I've used that,
• 1:03:24
  like, when you write a joke that you love so
• 1:03:28
  much. It's your baby. Yeah, you love that joke.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah, but you try to make it work You try and
• 1:03:35
  do it because you think it's so fucking funny.
• 1:03:37
  It just doesn't it just Every I feel like every
• 1:03:41
  comic has that joke that they they always probably
• 1:03:43
  have forever But like they they say it they they
• 1:03:46
  try and do it wait, then maybe it doesn't land
• 1:03:48
  and never lands But then they just got our just
• 1:03:51
  shelve it or kill it and like I was like I feel
• 1:03:52
  like that's a big lesson for me was like I may
• 1:03:55
  think something's really really really funny,
• 1:03:56
  right? Other people might not think it's funny.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah. So sometimes you gotta just, you gotta
• 1:04:02
  kill your babies, man. You just gotta let it
• 1:04:03
  go. You gotta let it go. Dude, I know, I had
• 1:04:05
  this one about a ferris wheel, right? And I tried
• 1:04:08
  so fucking hard to make this thing work, dude.
• 1:04:10
  And it just like, it just wouldn't. Like just,
• 1:04:14
  it just fucking won't. And one person, dude,
• 1:04:16
  it wasn't even a comic, one person was like,
• 1:04:18
  you should change that to carousel. And I was
• 1:04:20
  like, maybe I should change it to merry -go -round.
• 1:04:22
  Go fuck yourself. Yeah. Like, I wanted it to
• 1:04:24
  be a fucking... It's a Ferris wheel joke. It's
• 1:04:27
  a Ferris wheel, you prick. And he's like, what
• 1:04:28
  goes around comes around. I was like, that's
• 1:04:32
  better than my joke. You know? Oh, that's always
• 1:04:34
  so funny. Yeah, what about you? Have you had...
• 1:04:36
  I don't know. I normally don't be like, hey,
• 1:04:38
  you know, do the trick for me, but like, but
• 1:04:41
  do you have any jokes that you don't do on stage
• 1:04:43
  that you're, you know, like... Because of that
• 1:04:45
  you're like I do I love this joke, but it just
• 1:04:47
  never works Well, I mean like the ones I've killed
• 1:04:49
  I like legit killed and I just don't I don't
• 1:04:52
  They they're gone forever. Yeah. Um, there was
• 1:04:55
  one That I told it's a really it's fucked up.
• 1:04:59
  It's just fucked up not like really a fan like
• 1:05:02
  not super offensive, but like Like, I've gotten
• 1:05:06
  more of like a, ooh, I don't know that. It's
• 1:05:09
  not like crazy, but it's like, I'm, cause I'm
• 1:05:11
  from a small town and now I live like in a big
• 1:05:13
  city, right? So it's like, you know, I'm from
• 1:05:15
  a town with a lot of cows. And then now we live
• 1:05:17
  somewhere where there's like a lot of like homeless
• 1:05:18
  people. And I was just like, well, do you think,
• 1:05:21
  you know how like kids in the country go cow
• 1:05:22
  chipping? Do you think? You think kids in the
• 1:05:26
  city go, like, Fenton tipping? Like, do you think
• 1:05:27
  they... It's really horrible. It's so bad. But,
• 1:05:32
  like, I was like, this could be funny. And it
• 1:05:34
  just wasn't. It was just never funny. People
• 1:05:36
  were like, dude, that's a problem. Like, that's
• 1:05:38
  fucked up. You shouldn't do that. And I go, I'm
• 1:05:40
  not saying you should. It's just, you know...
• 1:05:43
  Yeah. And I've tried to make that joke work.
• 1:05:44
  And it's just, like, it's not... It's so, like,
• 1:05:47
  I guess, out of left field of what I usually
• 1:05:49
  say. Yeah. You know, I'm not, like, a really
• 1:05:52
  super edgy comedian. Same, yeah. So it's like,
• 1:05:55
  when I say something a little bit more like,
• 1:05:57
  oh god, they're like, oh what the fuck? I was
• 1:06:01
  like, what are you talking about? You don't push
• 1:06:02
  over tweakers? You know kids, they push cows,
• 1:06:07
  like you push, you know, you don't push over
• 1:06:09
  tweakers? Yeah, that's like, it just doesn't
• 1:06:11
  work. It just doesn't fit, I guess, my style.
• 1:06:15
  Cause a lot of my stuff is very like, what if
• 1:06:18
  this happened? Or like, it's very like, it could,
• 1:06:21
  like. they could be skits, you know what I mean?
• 1:06:23
  They could be sketches, you know? Have you ever
• 1:06:25
  thought about doing that? Like, making them sketches?
• 1:06:27
  Yeah, but I have such like a... I don't know,
• 1:06:30
  like a block when it comes to that kind of thing.
• 1:06:34
  Like, I think that kind of ties into, like, my...
• 1:06:36
  Like, I hate... Like, I hate having to be a social
• 1:06:40
  media comedian. I know what you mean. Yeah. You
• 1:06:43
  know what I mean? And it's, like, so fucking
• 1:06:45
  crucial now. Because, like, I started... forever
• 1:06:48
  ago. Sure. You know what I mean? Like... Back
• 1:06:51
  in, like, 2016, like, yeah, people would post
• 1:06:53
  stand -up clips, but it wasn't as prevalent as
• 1:06:55
  it is now, you know? It's not as, like... It
• 1:06:58
  wasn't a need. You know what I mean? So it's
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  like, if I'm funny, I'll get shows. If I'm funny,
• 1:07:02
  I'll do this. If I'm funny, I can go get that.
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  But, you know, realistically, it's like, okay,
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  has your clip gotten a million views? We can
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  book you. Has your... You have a certain amount
• 1:07:12
  of followers, we'll book you, you know? Yeah.
• 1:07:14
  Because it's all about asses and seats. But it's
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  like, I have... It's so hard for me to be consistent...
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  in that, you know, and it's like, I've made like
• 1:07:23
  skits like on like TikTok or Instagram and like
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  they've done well, but it's just like, you know,
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  it'll like be like, I'm like, okay, like I just
• 1:07:29
  don't think a whole lot about it, you know, and
• 1:07:31
  it's like, I've had, like I've had, I've written
• 1:07:34
  down jokes that I've told on stage and just told
• 1:07:36
  them to the camera sometimes and they've done
• 1:07:37
  okay, but it's like, I don't know, it's just,
• 1:07:40
  it's like, it's like eating my vegetables, like
• 1:07:42
  I, knowing like that I have to like post on social
• 1:07:45
  media. Dude, I've made a few clips and. on an
• 1:07:48
  only bombs thing. Yeah, I've tried. I've made
• 1:07:51
  a few like sketches and shit and I'll go watch
• 1:07:54
  them and I think they're funny. But at the same
• 1:07:56
  time, I'm kind of like this. I don't know. It's
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  just not my thing, man. Yeah, no, I get it. There's
• 1:08:01
  nothing more demoralizing, I think, than putting
• 1:08:02
  in like work into a sketch that you think is
• 1:08:05
  really funny. And then like you look at like
• 1:08:07
  your Instagram real view is like three hundred
• 1:08:09
  views and like four likes. You're like, fuck
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  guys. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, you know, oh,
• 1:08:14
  why did that not get a million? Like maybe they
• 1:08:16
  didn't. Maybe I should stop. Maybe I should quit
• 1:08:19
  forever. Maybe I should not do this anymore.
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  Yeah. I used to do this one, like, because the
• 1:08:25
  whole tray -on -stage thing. Yeah, yeah. Like,
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  I had, like, a series of them, like, you know,
• 1:08:29
  like, tray at work, trade, you know, blah, blah.
• 1:08:31
  Oh, that's cool. I don't know why I just did
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  it, and so I would just do, like, stupid things,
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  but the thing is, is that I'm so, like, I'm fucking
• 1:08:37
  crazy, dude, and I'm sporadic, so all of my...
• 1:08:40
  All of my videos were just weird, just random
• 1:08:42
  fart noises, explosions. And then I would go
• 1:08:45
  back and watch it, and I'd be like, oh my god,
• 1:08:47
  that's hilarious. And then I'm just like, okay,
• 1:08:49
  those 30 people might have thought it was funny.
• 1:08:52
  And then I was like, oh no, that's 30 views,
• 1:08:53
  not likes. Yeah, dude. It was so fucking bad,
• 1:08:58
  dude. It's weird. It's also weird just seeing
• 1:09:00
  how the different, I guess, apps respond to different.
• 1:09:05
  stuff tiktok hates me dude oh my god dude tiktok
• 1:09:10
  hates me they're like no fuck you tiktok hates
• 1:09:14
  my stand -up oh yeah yeah they don't mind my
• 1:09:17
  skits like my sketch if i make a sketch or something
• 1:09:20
  on on tiktok they like it oh yeah no shit they
• 1:09:23
  hate my stand -up clips oh my god that's right
• 1:09:26
  now that you're saying that Cause I'm like, dude,
• 1:09:29
  my TikTok, I have the tray on stage where I posted
• 1:09:32
  the skits and they did all right. But the only
• 1:09:35
  bombs TikTok, like I think I got like 12 or 15
• 1:09:39
  followers. They hate me, dude. It's so weird.
• 1:09:42
  It's so weird. Like what, cause I feel like they
• 1:09:45
  like stick you like in a box depending on like
• 1:09:46
  what pops off. I've had things like pop off like
• 1:09:50
  on TikTok. Yes, let's talk about it. So like,
• 1:09:55
  okay, so this was like two years ago, before
• 1:09:58
  I moved here, I was like in the middle, yeah,
• 1:10:01
  I was like in the middle of growing my hair out
• 1:10:02
  still. Yeah. So it was like in that beabory stage.
• 1:10:05
  Oh yeah, you're looking like a little mushroom
• 1:10:06
  yourself. Yeah, a little bit, yeah, exactly.
• 1:10:09
  And I was like kind of stoned and I like, you
• 1:10:13
  know how you can like stitch videos on TikTok?
• 1:10:15
  Yeah. And like, so there was like a video, it
• 1:10:18
  was stupid, it was the stupidest thing. It's
• 1:10:21
  a frog, like a little blobby frog, and it was
• 1:10:25
  scratching its eye, but it looked like it was
• 1:10:28
  waving. So I stitched the video of me waving
• 1:10:32
  back at it. So it's like, and I'm like, hey.
• 1:10:38
  I wasn't thinking anything of it. Nine million
• 1:10:40
  views and a million likes later. No. No way.
• 1:10:45
  I swear to God. My god, dude, I'm gonna put that
• 1:10:48
  in this yeah, I know you can't I'll send it to
• 1:10:50
  you stupid the dumbest I was so fucking pissed
• 1:10:55
  right and then like, you know Every Instagram
• 1:10:58
  meme page is ripping it for like a month and
• 1:11:00
  like I have my friends sending it to me to do
• 1:11:02
  what the fuck that's you Yeah, man. Yeah, you
• 1:11:06
  know, it's really fucking crazy. I legitimately
• 1:11:08
  think that I've seen that I legitimately think
• 1:11:12
  That I've seen that, too. Because I was like,
• 1:11:14
  wait a minute. Because now that I've thought
• 1:11:16
  about it, I was like, wait a minute. Yeah, I
• 1:11:17
  do think I remember that ablerious little wave.
• 1:11:20
  So dumb. I remember I made it, and then I went
• 1:11:24
  to sleep right after, and I woke up in my just
• 1:11:27
  notification city. Dude. And I was like, holy
• 1:11:31
  fuck. That's the most I've ever blown up on anything.
• 1:11:33
  I think I had a tweet blow up on Twitter one
• 1:11:35
  time back when it was still called Twitter. But
• 1:11:38
  from there, I was like, OK. Okay, I guess we're
• 1:11:43
  in it now. Okay. Well, I've done its change now.
• 1:11:46
  Okay, so I'm super famous now I'm the frog wave
• 1:11:49
  guy that I Do stand -up also by the way a rivet?
• 1:11:55
  No for all and I'd be like I'll post like a stand
• 1:11:56
  -up clip. I'm like Right you started going out
• 1:11:59
  on stage. You're like and it's like a hunt But
• 1:12:01
  I'll pose like a stand -up clip was like a hundred
• 1:12:02
  views ago. How was that? We're touching nine
• 1:12:04
  milli. What the fuck is this about right? But
• 1:12:07
  it's just one of those things where I guess it
• 1:12:08
  just caught the algorithm and it was harmless
• 1:12:10
  enough that people thought it was funny or thought
• 1:12:12
  it was cute or whatever. It's so weird how that
• 1:12:15
  works. I don't get it. I don't get it either.
• 1:12:16
  I don't get it. Dude, there's like a science
• 1:12:18
  behind it that I just can't get, dude. No, neither
• 1:12:20
  do I. And I know some people that can hit that
• 1:12:21
  constantly. Yeah. And they're just like, boom,
• 1:12:24
  boom, boom, boom. Every time I have some friends
• 1:12:26
  like that, I'm just like, how the fuck do you
• 1:12:27
  do that? Yeah, I'm like... I just can't. It is
• 1:12:31
  just what they put out, you know? Yeah. And people
• 1:12:33
  are like, you got to post three or four times
• 1:12:35
  a day. And I go... That sounds exhausting. It
• 1:12:39
  is, I do one clip a day and it's like, it's fucking
• 1:12:42
  exhausting. Yeah, and that's the thing I noticed
• 1:12:44
  about you, I was like, dude, he's really consistent,
• 1:12:46
  that's rad. And it's like one a day. Yeah. God,
• 1:12:50
  when I was doing it, we were doing that too,
• 1:12:52
  we were doing like one a day. Yeah, it's just
• 1:12:53
  one a day. This sucks. Yeah, because it's all
• 1:12:56
  like, it's just piecing it together and then
• 1:12:57
  trying to appease the algorithm gods. You know,
• 1:13:02
  my content, I know it's gonna be like a slow
• 1:13:04
  growth. You know, like, and, but I, I wasn't
• 1:13:08
  surprised. I mean, I wasn't like, um, like, prepared
• 1:13:11
  for like when Jamie Lee's clip went to a million.
• 1:13:15
  I was like, cause I did the same thing. Like
• 1:13:17
  I woke up and then she'd, she'd wrote me and
• 1:13:19
  she was like, Whoa, you see what's going on with
• 1:13:21
  it? And I was like, no. And I looked and I was
• 1:13:24
  like, Whoa. And then it just kept going and going
• 1:13:26
  and going. And then I was like, man, that's incredible.
• 1:13:29
  You know, so I couldn't imagine like that times
• 1:13:31
  like nine, like that's insane. Like the first
• 1:13:36
  one, the first million, I was like, man, this
• 1:13:38
  is amazing. Like this is great. It feels great.
• 1:13:40
  So I couldn't imagine all of a sudden like nine
• 1:13:42
  million. It was like in the course of like two
• 1:13:45
  days. It was just like boom, boom, boom, boom,
• 1:13:47
  boom, boom. And like, yeah, I remember like my
• 1:13:49
  comedian friends back in Hawaii were like sending
• 1:13:51
  me like my own meme, I guess, that happened.
• 1:13:54
  And they were just like, they go, this is your
• 1:13:55
  legacy now, by the way. I'm like, fuck you, man.
• 1:13:58
  Me and a frog, baby. That's just me, I guess.
• 1:14:00
  Shit. That's it. Well, dude, we're gonna wrap
• 1:14:02
  it up. I'm sorry. I don't mean to, because this
• 1:14:05
  is one of those wonderful conversations that
• 1:14:06
  I'm like, I don't want to wrap up. No, that's
• 1:14:08
  fine. Yeah, of course. I literally have said
• 1:14:12
  this so many times on this show. I'm like, I
• 1:14:13
  have to fucking get better memory or bigger memory
• 1:14:15
  cards. Yeah, yeah, no, you're chilling. Because
• 1:14:17
  I was like, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Yeah, no, no,
• 1:14:20
  no. But before we wrap it up, man, this is your
• 1:14:23
  camera. Is there anything you want to put out?
• 1:14:26
  Shit, no, you can follow me on Instagram at that
• 1:14:31
  funny dude AJ. You can follow me on TikTok at
• 1:14:34
  AJNist209. You can come see me at Vulcan. I work
• 1:14:38
  there almost every night. I'm your friendly neighborhood
• 1:14:40
  door guy. Come on by and come see me, but yeah,
• 1:14:43
  man. Hell yeah, dude. Man, thank you so much
• 1:14:45
  for coming on, dude. Of course, thanks for having
• 1:14:47
  me. That was awesome. That was a lot of fun.
• 1:14:48
  So much fun, dude. Fuck yeah. Thank you. I love
• 1:14:49
  that, dude. I love that. That's it. Alright,
• 1:14:54
  well cool. Thank you guys so much and tune in
• 1:14:56
  next week. All that good stuff. Oh, that's it.
• 1:14:58
  That's a wrap. Adios. Boom.