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3CM- George Zilla, Lavetti Vegas, & Terrance Gawith · Caught on the Mike...

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SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer.
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SPEAKER_00: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent, listening or description is advised.
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SPEAKER_00: When spreading the waters of the highly competitive entertainment industry, it also easy to feel like you're swimming upstream by yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Whether you're in this music art or so many, sometimes it's great in numbers of growth is the only answer.
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SPEAKER_00: Joining me today is a collective known as 3CM 3 Comics Mafia, Terrence Gowitt from Venice Vegas.
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SPEAKER_00: And joining us later in the episode is George Zilla.
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SPEAKER_00: Based out of a place near and dear to my heart, Omaha, Nebraska.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of fun, and this is a great conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Ah! Ladies and gentlemen, joining me on the podcast today are my two friends Terrence Gawath and Lavetti Vegas, two-thirds of the 3CM 3 Comic Mafia.
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SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, number three jumps on at some point in this podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: But we're just gonna clown no matter what.
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SPEAKER_00: How you guys doing?
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SPEAKER_00: Man, thank you for having us.
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SPEAKER_00: We're rolling, man.
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SPEAKER_01: We're rolling.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: Let's take that quick moment, though, to acknowledge uh the third member of the CM is uh a little more advanced than age, so that's probably explicit explaining a little bit of the technological difficulties.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell George I said that.
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SPEAKER_01: He's gonna hear it anyway.
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SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a fact.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know, man.
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SPEAKER_00: And every anytime I see Levetti post something, he does that hashtag no fumbles.
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SPEAKER_00: Hashtag that was a fumble.
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SPEAKER_00: No fumbles.
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SPEAKER_00: So I've had Levetti on the show before, and this is his second time around.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna give you an opportunity to Terrence.
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SPEAKER_00: Introduce yourself and kind of tell my audience a little bit about who you are.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, one again, Mike, thank you for having me.
2:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, that's number one.
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SPEAKER_01: Two, yeah, um, my name is Terrence Gall with um uh nobody from a nobody town in the middle of Kansas that had an aspiration but was too chicken shit really to pursue it at first.
2:47
SPEAKER_01: So I kind of joined the military um to search for kind of you know something different and chase a girl and uh you know, just just weird choices that you make and finally ended up working up the gumption, you know, as like parts of my life started falling apart, you know, that kind of really pushed me to stage and I started out in DC.
3:06
SPEAKER_01: And then from there it just kind of built, and and then I build kind of a family on the side and move out to Omaha to keep pursuing that dream.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: And man, it's just been it's been crazy.
3:18
SPEAKER_01: It's cool though.
3:19
SPEAKER_00: So what really compelled you to make the choice to make that move to Omaha?
3:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh, the time with the the my son, period point blank.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: Like, um, I love the city, I love my people in the city that I've I've worked with, like I still outreach with them constantly, but spinning an hour-ish one way in traffic a day is just not fitting for a family, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Like my wife and I were high-fiving on the way in and out to where she'd go to her nighttime thing, I'd go and hit the gym, I'd go do my nighttime thing because she does, you know, photography, other things, and it's just we just constantly on the go.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, we gotta we gotta do something.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I wasn't getting a job elsewhere that could have afforded that, so it was like time to move somewhere cheaper.
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SPEAKER_00: So, did comedy make any sort of or have any sort of effect in your decision to move?
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SPEAKER_01: Man, I was so hesitant.
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SPEAKER_01: I I actually posted about this the other day, Lavetti probably saw it, but I was ab I was so hesitant because I felt like leaving DC was gonna absolutely be a demotion.
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SPEAKER_01: And maybe in some ways it has, but I think I've I've grown in ways I couldn't have without the move.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, I think I got my feet wet in probably honestly the mecca of comedy.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody can talk about New York and LA all they want, but DC is genuinely, I think, the mecca of comedy.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at the bangers that come out of there.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows about the Dave Chappelle's and Martin Lawrence's, but people don't talk about the the Whitney Cummings, they don't talk about the Patton Oswalds, they don't talk about you know the others that the Tony Woods that mentored Dave Chappelle, that goes without saying, and that's in the mainstream.
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SPEAKER_01: Then you got killers that you don't even know about it there, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Like the Alex Scott's, you got Eddie Bryant's out there, the Chevits with Charge, you got you know, my guy Eddie Lyles out there that's killing up there in New York, like it's it's killer, and so I was afraid, but it gave me so much experience to come out here and take that here and and use some of those lessons going forward.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that, I love that.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Levetti, how did you two first connect on the comic scene?
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SPEAKER_02: Oh man, me and Terrence, yeah, we um man, I think it was at comedy no one comedy society, it was the clash.
5:30
SPEAKER_02: It was the clash or the comedy.
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SPEAKER_02: It was either the comedy society taping or the clash.
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SPEAKER_02: I forgot.
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SPEAKER_02: It's our first time seeing each other in the clash.
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SPEAKER_02: He was like, damn man, you should have won, man.
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SPEAKER_02: You killed that shit.
5:41
SPEAKER_02: Okay, he didn't say that.
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SPEAKER_02: But I that's how I felt.
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SPEAKER_02: I felt I I felt I won this one.
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SPEAKER_02: But um he did well.
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SPEAKER_02: He did very well.
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SPEAKER_02: I did I did pretty well, man.
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SPEAKER_02: But um, we we you know connected from there, man, and then he came to this taping when I did Comedy Society.
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SPEAKER_02: He came to the taping, did a taping at Comedy Society, man, and we've been um shit, we've been doing shit ever since, man.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome, that's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: So, having been in a place like DC, and you know, probably within the vicinity of Kansas City, uh, larger markets than Omaha, um, what is your perspective of Omaha like having been entrenched in the scene for a while, Terrence?
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SPEAKER_01: I think honestly, it's the same as any other scene, it's just it's the issues are more glaring because more people know you, more people know the scene, right?
6:29
SPEAKER_01: And this scene is odd in the fact that it's open to the public too, and so like people can publicly see that.
6:35
SPEAKER_01: Like, like if I comment on something, my friends and friends will see that stuff, right?
6:40
SPEAKER_01: And so I'm like, uh, like I when when things pop off in it, I I don't really get involved in that stuff, anyways.
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SPEAKER_01: Levetti will tell you he kind of laughs at it that like when him and George go at it, I just get quiet.
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SPEAKER_02: He don't say nothing, he I don't say I he don't even look at it.
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SPEAKER_02: He just if he sees a long message, yeah, I really go down and says he read it, that means he's seen it, and he ain't trying to get in the middle of the shit, and he ain't gonna say nothing for like an hour, maybe a half hour, and then change the subject.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I'm gonna usually let cooler heads prevail and then I'll come back and revisit it or something like that.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I don't I don't get involved in so like as far as how the scene goes, like it's the same as any other.
7:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean, when the COVID was out, there uh there was the New York comedy scenes, open mic scenes, kind of the pages like we have.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, they were posting out lists of comics that they were saying were racist and you should not book them because somebody would make a racist joker thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And so it's like you've got that stuff happens everywhere, man.
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SPEAKER_00: It happens more in other scenes as well.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've been entrenched in the music scene.
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SPEAKER_00: I have a lot of friends that are in the fight scene, uh like MMA and pro wrestling, and it seems like anytime somebody gets bored, their thing to do is create conflict and stoke it up.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: You know, but the thing is, is Gene Simmons of KISS had this line back in the day where he said there's no such thing as bad publicity.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: Publicity is publicity, right?
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SPEAKER_00: It's just it's just different size markets, has it has a different effect, you know, it has a different ripple effect all the way down.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: So you guys put this group together, 3CM, 3 Comic Mafia.
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SPEAKER_00: Lavetti, tell me about how that kind of came together and what the genesis of that was and what your goals are as a as a group.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, it came together, man.
8:35
SPEAKER_02: If I'm if I'm being completely honest, I was um always had I I had a a group called Comedy Mafia that I used to do, and that was just too too early.
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SPEAKER_02: Like my son's mom tell me all the time, she was like, You you do something with somebody and then you want to create a group or a product, and then next thing you know, you're working with them, and then then it don't work, and I'm like, all right, all right, all right, I'm gonna slow it down.
8:55
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
8:56
SPEAKER_02: And um, I was actually rolling with two other comics, and we were doing like remote stuff, and I'm like, yo, man, we should start a group.
9:03
SPEAKER_02: And then one of them was like, Man, no, man, I'm a superstar.
9:06
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, okay, all right, that's that's fine.
9:09
SPEAKER_02: And the other one was like, I'm my own brand, I'm my own man.
9:12
SPEAKER_02: I was like, damn, like, all right, because I thought it'd be nice to just have you know, people you travel, and it and and I probably could have still had been, but I didn't think they seen the bigger picture, you know what I mean?
9:22
SPEAKER_02: And I was just um I was just booking like I normally do, man.
9:26
SPEAKER_02: And Glenn Wood had booked me, and I said, Hey guys, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm not a 45 minute to an hour comic.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna need some help.
9:34
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm not this ain't my thing.
9:37
SPEAKER_02: This was last last year on Father's Day as Gwen Wood um at Perea.
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SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Adrian for booking us, man.
9:43
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I said, I'm just not that, you know, I'm gonna be honest, it's just not my my my type of thing.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: And it was like, well, you can bring two other comics, but we gotta meet them, let's talk, let's sit.
9:53
SPEAKER_02: And um, I hit up, I think I'm pretty sure I hit up Terrence first before I hit up George.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: And I told him, I was like, hey man, you want to go to you know Glenwood, man, and you know, do do a do a show, but we gotta sit down and talk to these guys.
10:07
SPEAKER_02: He's like, Oh, that's cool.
10:08
SPEAKER_02: I talked to George.
10:09
SPEAKER_02: George was like, Let me think about it.
10:10
SPEAKER_02: I said, Hey man, I need to answer today.
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SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
10:13
SPEAKER_02: And that's how we ended up knowing it, man.
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SPEAKER_02: We did it last year on Father's Day, man, and and we we had a good time doing it, and and we had fun, man.
10:22
SPEAKER_02: And and I I thought, like, hey man, maybe we should just keep rolling with this, man.
10:26
SPEAKER_02: And I I felt like I love Terry's energy, his drive, he works.
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SPEAKER_02: Zilla, he does his thing too.
10:32
SPEAKER_02: And I I we we was doing just a couple things um together, and it's been rolling pretty, pretty now.
10:39
SPEAKER_02: I think we we've been on a roll a little bit more lately now, but than at first, but we're just trying to take it to new heights and work together, man.
10:46
SPEAKER_02: And we ain't even together on a podcast, though.
10:48
SPEAKER_02: But I'm trying to work together.
10:52
SPEAKER_02: Technological issues, yeah.
10:55
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but you know, we we all got different personalities.
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SPEAKER_02: Like Terrence, he's the he's the level headed one.
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SPEAKER_02: Me, I'm all like the business savvy one, and and I I could say Zilla is the more angry one sometime, you know what I mean?
11:06
SPEAKER_02: But we all we all mesh well together, and we all george is our George is our salesman, man.
11:12
SPEAKER_01: Like Levetis got our business smarts, George has got the selling points, like he can talk us up a damn tree.
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SPEAKER_01: He will sell ice to an Eskimo to get them to book us, and Levety's got the ability to get the outreach and get the videos and everything going.
11:29
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just kind of you know, making sure, you know, we kind of keep on that same like level playing field, and and we all work.
11:37
SPEAKER_01: I think that's what made it work from the beginning was we didn't really know each other like that when we did the Glenn Wood show.
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SPEAKER_01: Like we had been kind of familiar and seen each other around on a couple of different things, but never really like that to where we rode to the show together, we rode back as we did it, we were talking about it, we were kind of in the works planning it, and then it just it it the energy from the show went well, and then you know the pre and post-show was very positive too, and it just kind of built from there.
12:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: I love hearing this conversation with you guys and hearing this story.
12:10
SPEAKER_00: This episode is clearly all about you guys, but I'm gonna kind of draw some personal contrast to this for just a moment.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, I was in your same exact position to an extent, Terrence.
12:23
SPEAKER_00: I lived in small town Iowa.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: I was like Stone's throw to Des Moines, but I was also equal Stone's throw to Omaha back in the day when I was doing bands.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, okay, I can move to Des Moines and I can be an X brand over here, or I could move to Omaha and I can be in this type of band here, and I'd have a lot more, a lot more diversity.
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SPEAKER_00: So, of course, thankfully, I chose Omaha.
12:48
SPEAKER_00: A few years later, I'm well entrenched in the music scene, and I ended up starting a co-op or a collective known as No Pride Records.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: And the point of all of that was a strength in numbers approach to align yourself with people that share the same kind of goals, the same kind of values, the same a similar level of talent, because that's how people migrate to things in our market.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: That's how people pay attention to things in both Lincoln and Omaha.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: Is I hate to say this, but people need to be told what's cool, people need to be told what's funny, people need to be told what's entertaining.
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SPEAKER_00: They're not going to find that on their own.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: So if you can take a strength in numbers approach, very similar to what you guys are doing with 3CM, you can increase your potential 10, 20 fold like instantly.
13:47
SPEAKER_00: So, tirade over.
13:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I think that's what we're doing, man.
13:51
SPEAKER_02: I've seen a um, not to put our personal conversation out, but Terrence had made a post.
13:56
SPEAKER_02: I was in Atlanta for a show.
13:57
SPEAKER_02: Terrence had made a post.
13:59
SPEAKER_02: You know, it was just not he not getting booked and stuff.
14:02
SPEAKER_02: And I was just thinking, like, man, we ain't really did anything together in a while, but I hit him up, like, man, what you want to do, man?
14:08
SPEAKER_02: Because I can get us on to Denver, I can get us on on this, I can get on, you know what I mean?
14:12
SPEAKER_02: I just start thinking, like, man, I got connects.
14:14
SPEAKER_02: Look, I can just start making calls.
14:16
SPEAKER_02: And because what I do is I I personally, I'll be like, hey, they booked me, hey, we like you, whatever.
14:22
SPEAKER_02: I said, hey man, I know two other guys.
14:24
SPEAKER_02: I do it every time.
14:25
SPEAKER_02: I know two other guys.
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SPEAKER_02: And they either gonna say yay or they're gonna say nay.
14:28
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
14:29
SPEAKER_02: And it's just it just works like that because a lot of people want to see those other guys too.
14:34
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
14:35
SPEAKER_02: But like I had a and not the two more horn, I had a great performance in Denver to where, like, when I told the dude, hey man, I I got I could break some other comics.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: He didn't even need no video.
14:45
SPEAKER_01: No, fuck that.
14:46
SPEAKER_01: Toot your own horn.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: You did a damn good job.
14:49
SPEAKER_01: And it built the like like that's the thing, is like if we're gonna call it and make the sale, we gotta make the fucking sell.
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SPEAKER_01: And then on top of that, on top of that, the thing I'm most proud of is like I know I I only know what I know from my perspective on the outside, and so to see that you made a connection too with a former Omaha comic, and it seemed to be positive from there, as well as it being a connect in Denver, it's it's a great thing all the way around, man.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: And so, like that that deserves its kudos, man.
15:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, damn that you did well.
15:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I did, I did pretty I did pretty damn well, man.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: Because I got a vouch from Omaha comic, and then they made me, I was I went from being an opener to being a feature.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, hey man, we're gonna let you feature because we don't want you just coming in here like that.
15:33
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna let you feature.
15:34
SPEAKER_02: And and I did it, and I did it so damn.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: This dude was like, Man, whenever you want to come back, man, you can come back.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, man, I could come here next week.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
15:43
SPEAKER_02: I ain't gonna lie to you.
15:44
SPEAKER_02: I'll be here next week if you want me to.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: But you know, for real, and he said, you know, I held him to his word.
15:50
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, well, shit, man.
15:51
SPEAKER_02: Terrence, he wants to do more.
15:53
SPEAKER_02: He's talking about he wants to get booked.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: He, you know, we sort of, you know, I wouldn't say down, but you know, I could just from the post, I was just like, man, this is some bullshit.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: Cause this dude's pushing and he's funny, and you know, these people ain't giving him a chance, man.
16:05
SPEAKER_02: And that ain't right.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: So let's let's let's see what we can do outside the city.
16:09
SPEAKER_02: And I mean, it says, damn, man, I mean, shit, we we got we got some shit coming up.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: We don't got to tell everything we got coming up, but we we got some shit coming up to where like I was like, I've been doing it.
16:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, Des Moines did it.
16:21
SPEAKER_02: I hey he he told me, he said, hey man, it's not a no, it's just uh not right now.
16:26
SPEAKER_02: And Des Moines, I just was like, man, this dude, you know, I was like, wonder what's going on with him because he, you know, he wasn't feeling good.
16:32
SPEAKER_02: He was like, hey man, senior tape, senior tape, you can bring the other guy.
16:35
SPEAKER_02: He didn't even need it with a tape after that.
16:37
SPEAKER_02: He's just like, hey, see your tape, seeing Terrence tape, come on down, you know, same with Abilene, Kansas, come on down.
16:43
SPEAKER_02: Same with Denver, come on down, you know what I mean?
16:46
SPEAKER_02: So we're we're we're we're expanding out there, you know.
16:48
SPEAKER_02: And in some of it is, hey man, we know Levetti, so if Levetti's funny, he ain't about to bring nobody else who ain't funny.
16:55
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
16:56
SPEAKER_02: He downs perform, then it gotta be good.
16:58
SPEAKER_02: Because I just I just go down the list of anybody who's ever booked me, and I just call them and I email them.
17:03
SPEAKER_02: And I even sometimes I'm right now, I got my EPK, so I'm sending that like, hey, this is what I've been doing, this is how I am now.
17:10
SPEAKER_02: I know you seen me then, this is how I am now, just in case, you know, try to make it a even a better selling point.
17:16
SPEAKER_02: Like, hey, this is my comedy now, and people will be looking like, man, like one booker was like, Hey man, last time you was here, you was you know, nothing against your crowd work, but you was crowd working, you know, a lot.
17:25
SPEAKER_02: This video you sent me, you just told this dude to shut the fuck up, and then he just kept going.
17:30
SPEAKER_02: He was like, You didn't even crowd work, but this is a good video, like it's gross, you know what I mean?
17:34
SPEAKER_02: And when he when he told me that, it made me feel good, like, all right, I feel great, man, because you know, he liked the jokes, and I he didn't just he didn't fall in love with the crowd work, you know what I mean, or you know, maybe that's what he was expecting, but he got he got the you know, the actual jokes.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: He he said he was gonna book me anyway, but he still wanted to see the videos since I sent it to him, you know what I mean.
17:54
SPEAKER_02: So we we grind it.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: The whole entertainment industry, whether people want to acknowledge it or not, is built on one person being the spark to another person's fire.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: Like, and you can look at everything through movies, through uh TV, comedy, music, all of it, and you can you can point out that moment in time where somebody that's a big star now got propped up by somebody else at an earlier point in time.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: You shared a quote not too long ago, LeVetti, that I ended up stealing and I used for one of my my viral videos, and it's competition happens at the bottom, collaboration is what happens at the top because there's room for fucking everybody, right?
18:38
SPEAKER_00: So, how has this collaboration kind of changed your perspective, Terrence, in regard to all of this?
18:44
SPEAKER_01: I I think it's it's one of those things, it's kind of like going back to what you said is it's that strength in numbers approach, right?
18:51
SPEAKER_01: I've I've always tried to be the sole funny man and be like, I'm gonna do it based on my own merit.
18:57
SPEAKER_01: I don't need nobody to prop me up and everything.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: I think it's part of how I was raised, I think it's part of my own competitive attitude, and probably some of my own faults too, you know, because I'm not the type to, you know, really ask for help as well.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Like I'll sit in a struggle pit pissed off a little bit longer than I should because I don't ask for somebody to just, you know, grab my hand right quick.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, and so kind of swallowing my pride a lot over the last few years really helped me kind of see the beauty in that, right?
19:26
SPEAKER_01: Because I've been a part of a couple other groups before that fizzled.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm an inactive member of one of my DC uh family teams out there, uh, the funny team.
19:36
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to my guys out that way.
19:38
SPEAKER_01: Um and we were doing big things, but it's just, you know, the move takes it away.
19:42
SPEAKER_01: So when you come into a group like this that's able to move well together, we've been able to resolve conflict relatively well for being so nascent in our journey that I feel very excited about our potential, man.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: Like, you've got funny people that give a shit about the funny and then give a shit about each other.
20:04
SPEAKER_01: Like, you can tell with Levetti, he's like, hey, I'm I'm I appreciate you booking me, but what about my guys?
20:11
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's pretty damn dope.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: So now that we've got all the warm and fuzzies and the kumbaya moments out of the way, let's talk some shit.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: Um let's talk some shit.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: What are some of the armpit areas of your guys' industry?
20:31
SPEAKER_00: What sucks?
20:32
SPEAKER_00: Let's be honest.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Let her rip.
20:35
SPEAKER_01: Man, I think I think what you said is probably the the nail on the head, Mike.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: Like with my wife being in photography and other things, and then now with me having done, I've done a lot of weird shit, man.
20:47
SPEAKER_01: Like I said, I joined the military and it's kind of afforded me a whole bunch of different places to live, which is giving me a whole lot of different experiences.
20:53
SPEAKER_01: Like I've dabbled in strongman competitions, my wife does photography now with comedy.
20:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, I host music bingo and a whole bunch of other stuff.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: I say all that to say every one of their Facebook groups is shit.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: They all fucking shit on everybody, and they're all fucking terrible people because it's that it's just crabs in a bucket, and they're like, Oh, well, I hate the way that you had your fucking antiquity filter on your camera, and it's like, well, your lens was a 350 millimeter.
21:25
SPEAKER_01: Like, shut the fuck up, Richard.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: None of this matters.
21:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, none of us are getting booked, anyways.
21:31
SPEAKER_01: Fuck you.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: All right, your turn, Levetti.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: Talk some shit, man.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: Man, you know what, man?
21:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to keep it positive, man.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: Like, I ain't gonna love it, bro.
21:41
SPEAKER_02: I ain't even man, I've been I've been through the ringer, man, for the past couple years.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: This is this is shit talking, right?
21:48
SPEAKER_01: All right, I'm I'm gonna say this then.
21:49
SPEAKER_01: Levetti's only not talking shit to make up for the past.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: You know what, you know what's crazy, man, is just when I um he he's Going berserk right now.
22:01
SPEAKER_02: Shout out to my homie Kill DeAndre.
22:02
SPEAKER_02: But he's going a little berserk on the scenes.
22:05
SPEAKER_02: But me and him, and Zilla was part of that group.
22:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, I had a I just when I first started, I had a show, 180 people showed up.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: Like, we had to go get more chairs.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: Like, I couldn't believe it.
22:18
SPEAKER_02: And then I didn't do the best.
22:20
SPEAKER_02: But I mean, if you ask anybody there, they loved it, you know.
22:22
SPEAKER_02: So I posted a on a post, I said, man, 108 people last night, man.
22:27
SPEAKER_02: We doing it, man.
22:28
SPEAKER_02: It's comedy mafia, we taking over.
22:30
SPEAKER_02: Right?
22:31
SPEAKER_02: And people took that as you know, me being cocky and everything like that, man.
22:36
SPEAKER_02: But um it it and so I think I just started off wrong, you know.
22:40
SPEAKER_02: Like I started off hot, and you know, I was on my 50 cent give Richard Die try, and now I'm on the Curtis album.
22:46
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
22:47
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
22:49
SPEAKER_02: Like, man, he was hot, man.
22:51
SPEAKER_02: Like, damn, I'm in high school, you was the man.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: That's how I was feeling.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: But as far as like as far as like what I hate about the scene, I hate the clicks, man, but I feel like that's anything you do, man.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: I don't really like the clicks because I feel like everybody books the same people.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: And I and I and even with the guys, you know, we formed we formed 3CM, and I think I I even did two other shows and didn't even book them because I'm that type of guy that likes booking everybody, you know what I mean?
23:19
SPEAKER_02: And try to get everybody on the scene, try to put money in people's pockets, exposure, whatever the case.
23:24
SPEAKER_02: Even if I go broke, here I'm trying to give this to you.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: You see what I mean?
23:28
SPEAKER_01: Well, that was the that was the thing that we said in the beginning was like we we wanted to do that too.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: Like we wanted to keep like we didn't really say it together, but almost kind of make it like a Wu-Tang level thing, like build us up as a group, and then everybody can go off into their fingers and make their own brand, you know, because now you've been established and that we can keep building that.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's it's kind of like you said, like the the collaboration happens at the top because there really is room for growth on everyone.
23:57
SPEAKER_02: Yep, and I and I, you know, this is just to go on that point, like there's enough plates at the table, everybody can eat, you know what I mean?
24:03
SPEAKER_02: And but that's but this is such a small city to where like it just it just doesn't go like that.
24:09
SPEAKER_02: And it's it's not really any beef with anybody, man.
24:12
SPEAKER_02: But it's just you see the same flyers with the same people doing the same things and same venues only doing with the same people.
24:18
SPEAKER_02: So it's just sometimes it's just honestly, man, not even in a mad way, but it just sort of hurts because it's like, man, I'm working hard too.
24:25
SPEAKER_02: But you know, since I'm not at open mics every week, you know what I mean, or even if I go to an open mic, I want to open mic just to sit down and you know, see some people, but they don't really bring that up or anything.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Well, I go to shows of support before I go to open mic, but they don't really bring that up.
24:39
SPEAKER_02: It's it's I feel like they it's the same names on flyers doing the same thing, and I think that's what sort of sucks in the scene, man.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: If we work together, we'd be a lot better.
24:48
SPEAKER_02: But everybody wants to be that dog, right?
24:50
SPEAKER_02: Everybody wants to be, man, I'm the first one out of Omaha, but like, like, like just let's just work together.
24:55
SPEAKER_02: But that's just that's just not how it works, man.
24:57
SPEAKER_02: Comedy is a competition thing, man.
24:59
SPEAKER_02: So I just think the clickish clicks is what I hate.
25:03
SPEAKER_02: And um, I wish it could change, but you know, I I hate to say it, and I'm just playing the same game.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: Now I'm just I'm just I'm just booking the homies, man.
25:11
SPEAKER_02: Like, if that's if that's what we're gonna do, I hey I could play that game too.
25:15
SPEAKER_02: I it was a time, you know.
25:16
SPEAKER_02: It's some uh Ali Kareem in Denver to do that vouch for me when I was just in Denver.
25:21
SPEAKER_02: His first time ever performing in Denver was because of this guy, right?
25:26
SPEAKER_02: Here he'll tell you, man, Levette gave me a shot, gave me a vouch, and I didn't even go on a trip.
25:32
SPEAKER_02: I didn't even go on the trip.
25:33
SPEAKER_02: I didn't even I wasn't even on the show, wasn't on the show, and I booked four Omaha comedians for a Denver show that I wasn't even on or can make.
25:44
SPEAKER_02: That's crazy, you know what I mean?
25:45
SPEAKER_02: But that's that's that's love though.
25:47
SPEAKER_02: But look look how it came full circle.
25:50
SPEAKER_02: Two years later, I'm going to Denver.
25:52
SPEAKER_02: Hey man, I'm looking for open mic.
25:54
SPEAKER_02: Open mic, man.
25:55
SPEAKER_02: I got a show for you, and I can get you a spot.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: I said, Man, where?
25:58
SPEAKER_02: Man, this place called Grandma's House.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, all right, literally, I'm gonna be honest with you, man.
26:03
SPEAKER_02: It was like 10 minutes before showtime.
26:04
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, man, there's only six people in here, but I'm gonna make the best out of it.
26:07
SPEAKER_02: Man, it ended up being like damn near like 60, 70 people.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: They can they didn't have no seats in there, like it was packed.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: I was like, all right, man, damn, that's that I was gonna do, man.
26:15
SPEAKER_02: I better come up with some shit now because it's some people in there, which I should have been prepared for anyway.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: But you know what I mean?
26:21
SPEAKER_02: When you see six to sixty people, you're like, oh, okay, shit, okay, it's serious.
26:25
SPEAKER_02: So we definitely have a fun time in.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: Like Levetti was saying, man, like that's that's kind of like my whole approach, though, now like how he was saying, like, look how it comes two years later.
26:35
SPEAKER_01: I've been more about those planting those seeds for those types of things, yeah, man.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: Like, because I'm very much of that welcoming dude.
26:43
SPEAKER_01: Like, we are all in this shit together, like we're gonna have interpersonal conflicts on every level, every scene's gonna have its bullshit.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: But like, I'm never gonna be the person that's gonna be sitting here gossiping about dumb shit and trying to perpetuate the rumors.
26:56
SPEAKER_01: I'm always gonna give you real feedback and I'm gonna try to give you like the the best tips I could possibly know if you ever come to me or even if you don't sometimes, because I I'll literally just trying to throw seeds out there, so maybe somebody will pick it up and grow.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, I think people should do that.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: Like, I think more people should kind of throw out the knowledge that they've gained, but you get a lot of people that don't want to do that, and so I'm hoping that like kind of with the way Levetti books other people um and gets them on the other shows, like he's had.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: I hope that we kind of do that same thing, a part like foster that positivity of like you don't have to be like, Well, I'm funnier than you, like you're funnier than me in that crowd, like I'm funnier than you in this crowd, and at that venue, like it's all subjective motherfucker.
27:37
SPEAKER_01: Like, we're it's different.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
27:40
SPEAKER_00: Like, and I just actually had a uh conversation the other day with a friend of mine where I said, you know, we don't know what happens after we die for sure.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: There's no proof, right?
27:51
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I respect everybody's, you know, spiritual being, but the one thing that I do believe in, undoubtedly, is karma.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Karma is real.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: Like your next day is built and perpetuated by your actions of the day before.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: So as much as I like joking around about all of us talking shit, I totally agree with you, Libetti, because I've been in that position too, you know.
28:18
SPEAKER_00: I remember getting on the slam Omaha message boards and talking all sorts of shit to other people, and I was just like, you know, it it never served, it didn't serve my interests, and it didn't help my business build until I became a community builder myself.
28:35
SPEAKER_02: Yep, and that's and that's when I um and that's that's that's why I like I you know it's crazy because we you know we always do on our show who you got beef with, you know what I mean?
28:44
SPEAKER_02: Like we we like to mess with people, but I just I'm at a stage to where like I'm rebuilding all the shit that I already went through.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: So it's like at this point, man, I'm apologizing to everybody, you know what I mean, or try to just be cool with everybody because one, it's just not worth it, man.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's one to be have playful beef and stuff, but it's better to have that that image, you know, sort of cleaned off, and just you can still be honest, and you might not like somebody, but it don't need to be known, it don't need to be public, you know.
29:13
SPEAKER_02: Because Bookers look at that.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: Bookers gonna be like, man, this this dude is this dude, look at this dude.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: He's beefing with all these people on here, and he's cussing people off, he's calling out being used.
29:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna book him.
29:24
SPEAKER_02: And it happened, it actually happened to, you know, um a comic told me, hey man, this ass is venue because this used to be me, and it's in you in Lincoln told me that you tagged them in something, and then it had nothing to do with the comedian you was mad at.
29:41
SPEAKER_02: Now they didn't want to book me.
29:42
SPEAKER_02: You see what I mean?
29:43
SPEAKER_02: I messed up because I was mad because these dudes, I was mad at a comedian who had a show at the venue, and it's like, hey man, I could come see you at this place.
29:51
SPEAKER_02: That looks bad for business, man.
29:52
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I I I just calm it down.
29:54
SPEAKER_02: People think I'm funny, cool.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: People think I'm not funny, still cool.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: Because a lot of people don't a lot of people think Kevin Hart ain't funny.
30:00
SPEAKER_02: And what happens?
30:01
SPEAKER_02: One of the biggest in the world, you know what I mean?
30:02
SPEAKER_02: A lot of people think Cat Williams ain't funny, one of the biggest in the world.
30:05
SPEAKER_02: People gonna somebody's gonna think you're not funny out there, and you're just gonna have to take it.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: You're gonna have to just eat it.
30:10
SPEAKER_02: Who cares?
30:11
SPEAKER_01: I just watched just watched Dave Chappelle live, and you saw that post that was shared multiple times here in the local area of that girl that went to CHIMA GO$400 tickets to go up close to see Dave Chappelle just to hate, and then to come to find out, she's like, he ain't never made me laugh in the first place.
30:32
SPEAKER_04: So why don't we even go?
30:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: It's like so that like there will always be that level, and so like I think it's been that that awesome thing, I think, to see Levetti kind of grow out of the the online, like, man, fuck y'all thing, like and kind of be like, all right, look, let's let's cool it, let's go.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: Because it is, man, like we're gonna see them, whether they're open mic level or whether they're professional level, we're gonna see them again at some point.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys think that if we were to actually put it in perspective of Omaha in general, um and I'll actually raise it a bar or two and say maybe it's a generational thing, but do you think we've gotten to a place in society where we're just so comfortable with being comfortable that that's why you see a lot of the same lineups over and over and over again?
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Because it does take a little bit extra work to like build the crow build the crowd and appeal to a new audience.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: People are just okay with being comfortable.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: You want to go first or you want me?
31:43
SPEAKER_02: Um I guess I go for you.
31:45
SPEAKER_02: Do I think people are meet are comfortable being with people?
31:47
SPEAKER_02: I think so.
31:48
SPEAKER_02: Honestly, I I think that's why people book the same people, because they're they're comfortable with this with this group and they know what they're gonna bring.
31:55
SPEAKER_02: So they're they don't want to try nobody new.
31:57
SPEAKER_02: They know what these people are gonna bring, which is fine.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: I'm not not knocking that, you know what I mean, to a point, but that's what they're gonna do.
32:03
SPEAKER_02: So when it's like, you know, I'm not gonna name anything, because then if I name stuff, people are gonna think I'm beefing and I'm not.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: Right.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: But it's all right, these people, they're doing this, they're comfortable.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: I know they're gonna bring it, I know they're gonna be good.
32:17
SPEAKER_02: So hey, I'm gonna book this person, and I'm only gonna book these people.
32:21
SPEAKER_02: So you see the same repetitiveness, because I think you're right.
32:24
SPEAKER_02: It's not a generational thing, it's a clickish thing.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, it's a clickish thing.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: It's a generational thing, it's a clickish thing.
32:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a click, it's it's it's hey, man, like it's a clickish thing.
32:35
SPEAKER_02: That's just that again, that's just me.
32:36
SPEAKER_02: Again, I'm not hating because like I said, we I'm playing, I'm just playing the game now, too, which I don't really want to say that these are my guys.
32:44
SPEAKER_02: These ain't this this ain't, you know, we all doing it, I'm doing it too.
32:47
SPEAKER_02: But it's it is, but it ain't.
32:49
SPEAKER_02: But it's like these are also my homies, too.
32:51
SPEAKER_02: Matt Matt Reif does the same thing.
32:53
SPEAKER_02: Kevin Hart does the same thing, you know.
32:55
SPEAKER_02: Um, Chris Rock does the same thing.
32:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, Gary Owens does the same thing.
32:58
SPEAKER_02: When they do these shows, they have the same openers and homies that go with them.
33:03
SPEAKER_02: Openers, or they might switch around, make them headliners, features.
33:06
SPEAKER_02: They bring these guys.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: What I got I know a guy that that's um with Jay Farrell.
33:11
SPEAKER_02: He opens up for Jay Farrell and sometimes he features for him.
33:13
SPEAKER_02: I I know I I know I met this guy when um like five years back when I was a food and beverage director, and he's been rolling with him ever since.
33:21
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
33:22
SPEAKER_02: That's that's his homie.
33:23
SPEAKER_02: So it it it it probably is a compatibility thing, but compatibility and clickish can be in the same, same, you know, the same sentence.
33:31
SPEAKER_02: Just my opinion.
33:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's kind of why like I always try to avoid the hate on the clicks because at the end of the day, we all click up, right?
33:38
SPEAKER_01: Right.
33:38
SPEAKER_01: You're only you only usually hate the click if you're not inside the click.
33:42
SPEAKER_01: Right.
33:42
SPEAKER_01: That's I mean, and so I always try and I always try to remind myself, like when I start to get mad about something, I'm getting pissed off or feeling a little jealous.
33:52
SPEAKER_01: I gotta remind myself it's it's an inadequacy within me.
33:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh yeah, I'm just I'm jealous right now.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: So good, good on you.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: Let me clap because it is a good thing, because the more people that can do it out of here, this more it's gonna raise eyes on Omaha, and that's never a bad thing.
34:07
SPEAKER_01: And so as long as we can keep at least on some level, being a little bit better about our personal conflicts, you know, the the Facebook drama stuff that keeps seeming to pop off, we keep our noses clean and shit.
34:20
SPEAKER_01: I think we can keep growing.
34:22
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
34:23
SPEAKER_00: So, all of this considered, and to kind of wrap this portion up, um how has comedy been different in the post-COVID world in light of all of these things?
34:38
SPEAKER_02: I don't think it um I don't really think it's changed, man.
34:42
SPEAKER_02: I I mean personally, it's if anything, man, it's it's making it made us known that anything can happen at any time.
34:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
34:52
SPEAKER_02: No, you can go ahead, Terry.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: No, I think a real real note on that.
34:56
SPEAKER_01: I think to to literally piggyback on that, man, uh yeah, it I think it brought more people out.
35:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:03
SPEAKER_01: Because of that.
35:03
SPEAKER_01: Like because of what you were saying, Lavinia.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: People realize, you know, we ain't we're on borrowed time, whatever.
35:08
SPEAKER_01: I think it's brought more people out.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: There's a fair argument to be made with that.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: Uh if you pay attention to what's happened in Omaha in particular the past year, how many more venues, entertainment venues, have opened up in Omaha for such a small scene to have that many entertainment options, like the Astro and all the new places that are opening up all over the place?
35:32
SPEAKER_00: It's yeah, people are coming out in force and supporting things, or even like Ticketmaster, like how Ticketmaster is able to charge an arm and a leg for shows now that they couldn't two years ago.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: When your ticket price price is$25 and your ticketmaster service fee is$48.
35:51
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
35:53
unknown: Fuck.
35:55
SPEAKER_02: Well, that's true.
35:57
SPEAKER_02: That's true, man.
35:58
SPEAKER_02: I I I honestly, yeah, I I just think people just they they they they're not taking life for granted no more, man.
36:05
SPEAKER_02: And so I think the support is there if you if you push and you promote the support is definitely there.
36:11
SPEAKER_02: I mean that's that's the only thing that's different.
36:12
SPEAKER_02: As far as people telling jokes, they still don't tell them.
36:15
SPEAKER_02: I mean, the only I mean just qu quit telling COVID jokes.
36:19
SPEAKER_02: I mean at this point, this that's getting that's just getting hackish, you know what I mean?
36:23
SPEAKER_02: And I ain't gonna lie, I was in that I was in that, I was in that category too.
36:27
SPEAKER_02: You know, I had a I had the same, you know, joke, and I'm had I had stuff that didn't even I'm like, man, I gotta switch this shit up.
36:34
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
36:35
SPEAKER_02: Because when when your jokes don't match your your life, you know, people gonna be like, what the hell?
36:41
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
36:42
SPEAKER_02: And I had the my you know, people call my my kid a COVID baby.
36:46
SPEAKER_02: I was still saying it last year, you know what I mean?
36:48
SPEAKER_02: And then it's like they get, you know, shit, I think I just said it fucking this year.
36:53
SPEAKER_02: Honestly, shit, I ain't gonna lie to you, you know what I mean?
36:56
SPEAKER_02: But you you gotta, you know, those jokes.
36:58
SPEAKER_02: I'm not telling people I ain't policing jokes, but you know, how some stuff I mean people still bring up OJ or something.
37:03
SPEAKER_02: It's like, damn man, like what is this, the 90s?
37:06
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
37:06
SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, they know what you're talking about, but man, have you been writing to bring up OJ?
37:11
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
37:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's it's again it's no shade, but I just think that they just people just support more.
37:16
SPEAKER_02: I think comedy is still pretty much the same, man.
37:19
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
37:19
SPEAKER_02: Like, honestly, that's just my opinion, though.
37:22
SPEAKER_00: Do do we do we have the one, the only George Zilla joining us now?
37:25
SPEAKER_00: What's up, man?
37:26
SPEAKER_00: Can y'all hear me?
37:27
SPEAKER_01: Yo, yeah, we're yeah, right at right at the end, George.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: You joined us just in time to say hello, we just about to leave.
37:36
SPEAKER_03: Hey man, hey, hey, I swear to god, I need a flip phone, man.
37:39
SPEAKER_03: That's this I'm like so fucking uh oh my god, this shit is crazy as how you doing, Mike.
37:46
SPEAKER_03: Good, how are you, man?
37:49
SPEAKER_03: Man, I'm technically man, I'm going through some shit today.
37:52
SPEAKER_03: How you doing, bro?
37:54
SPEAKER_01: Hey, that's amazing.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: You you look like you look like a truck driver pastor getting ready to break down Bible study for no reason.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: The way that phone kept moving around when he was trying to connect, I was like, oh shit, I hope he's got pants on.
38:10
SPEAKER_01: You can tell you can tell George, you can tell George is old by the angle of his camera.
38:21
SPEAKER_01: He's gonna old man post.
38:23
SPEAKER_01: Mike quite here.
38:24
SPEAKER_01: He's saying, Can you see me?
38:25
SPEAKER_01: Can you see me?
38:27
SPEAKER_03: Hey man, oh shit, yeah.
38:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, man.
38:31
SPEAKER_03: How y'all doing, fellas, man?
38:32
SPEAKER_03: I'm just having a I'm just having a wonderful time right now.
38:36
SPEAKER_03: You hear me?
38:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: We're happy that you popped in at the end, man.
38:40
SPEAKER_03: What they say, better late than never, right?
38:43
SPEAKER_00: I tell you what, George, what we are gonna have to do is in a few weeks, we're just gonna have to schedule one where you just jump on by yourself.
38:53
SPEAKER_03: It's all good, man.
38:54
SPEAKER_03: I should have just as much as I took to get this motherfucker on, I should have just drove up there.
38:58
SPEAKER_03: Shit.
39:02
SPEAKER_01: Still would have been there in time.
39:04
SPEAKER_03: I swear I would have, man.
39:06
SPEAKER_03: I could have left now and made it, man.
39:07
SPEAKER_03: This man is so fucked up.
39:09
SPEAKER_03: Hey, I do apologize for the technical difficulties, man.
39:12
SPEAKER_00: You're good.
39:12
SPEAKER_03: I couldn't, I couldn't download Zoom, I couldn't do shit.
39:15
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, man, I you know you have problems.
39:17
SPEAKER_03: You gotta ask your kids to help your ass out.
39:19
SPEAKER_02: That's how old I'm gonna I saw the kid.
39:21
SPEAKER_02: See, but I know we recorded him, so I didn't I didn't want to say, like, oh, he's on again, and then you know what I mean.
39:26
SPEAKER_02: We recorded interrupted.
39:28
SPEAKER_02: I was like, man, I ain't gonna say nothing, man.
39:31
SPEAKER_03: Man.
39:32
SPEAKER_03: I didn't this story of my life, man.
39:34
SPEAKER_03: Story of my life.
39:35
SPEAKER_03: I'm I done missed such, I know these motherfuckers talking shit, so I done missed all some good shit tonight, but uh I just said I just said you was old and had technical difficulties because of it.
39:44
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
39:46
SPEAKER_03: Man, I stay with technical difficulties.
39:47
SPEAKER_03: Man, I'm I'm just waiting for this motherfucking spaceship to come pick me up and take me up off this bitch because I'm tired of being down here.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I feel that.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: Feel that.
39:59
SPEAKER_03: Where the alien bitches at?
40:00
SPEAKER_02: I just with them big ass headphones, you shouldn't be able to talk to them.
40:10
SPEAKER_03: Hey, I seen gaming.
40:13
SPEAKER_03: I seen gaming uh headphones on the thing.
40:15
SPEAKER_03: I said shit myself doesn't headphones.
40:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right.
40:20
SPEAKER_03: I might be playing them on the right now.
40:22
SPEAKER_02: You just never know.
40:27
SPEAKER_01: That was what makes it a bitch.
40:29
SPEAKER_01: That was why you could do it.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: He didn't pay for internet to be able to do that.
40:33
SPEAKER_03: You know what?
40:34
SPEAKER_03: You both wrong, motherfuckers.
40:36
SPEAKER_03: I'm playing duck hunt.
40:40
SPEAKER_02: You talking about a flip phone, he probably hoping he can play snake on it and shit.
40:47
SPEAKER_00: His internet is duck dial up, you hear the flipping chili winks and shit.
41:04
SPEAKER_03: Hey, hey, don't try to talk too much shit.
41:06
SPEAKER_03: You know, y'all we still live in the same city now.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: That's what we were just talking about.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: We were talking about talking shit in Omaha.
41:14
SPEAKER_00: Like what do you what do you love about it?
41:18
SPEAKER_00: What do you hate about it?
41:19
SPEAKER_03: I hate that I can't clap back all the time like I want to, man, because my words is this.
41:25
SPEAKER_03: They call me Zilla for the monster for a reason.
41:27
SPEAKER_03: I'm the mean one out the group.
41:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
41:31
SPEAKER_03: That's a sensitive one, Vivetti.
41:34
SPEAKER_03: Motherfucking Terrence is the uh the diplomatic one, and I'm the fucking monster.
41:38
SPEAKER_03: I'm the one that day I was at the comedy.
41:40
SPEAKER_01: Because you'll you'll see somebody something.
41:43
SPEAKER_01: Because you'll see somebody say something that George took issue with.
41:47
SPEAKER_01: And you see the just just it's that subtle, just the face.
41:52
SPEAKER_03: And it's almost like it's almost like he takes a quick breath in and then hey Mike, I'll be bringing that atomic smoke in.
42:00
SPEAKER_03: I'll be ready to let loose that fire, man.
42:02
SPEAKER_03: I don't play them games, I'm you know, but uh I will say I will say this, man, to my comedy brothers, man.
42:08
SPEAKER_03: On some real shit, man.
42:09
SPEAKER_03: These brothers, man, has definitely kept me grounded, man.
42:12
SPEAKER_03: And uh, like I said, I've been in the game for a long time, man.
42:15
SPEAKER_03: But without these brothers right now, man, to be honest, they really kept me on a calm, cool level, man.
42:20
SPEAKER_03: Which uh honestly, I could really say probably helping out my career more, man, because um a lot of people wouldn't get in my ear, man.
42:27
SPEAKER_03: But these motherfuckers ain't afraid to get in my ear, and that's why I love them because they got nuts.
42:31
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
42:32
SPEAKER_03: For real, man.
42:33
SPEAKER_03: You people need friends like that, and people like that, man.
42:36
SPEAKER_03: Dude, I really, I really appreciate them cats, man.
42:38
SPEAKER_03: On some real shit.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: I love that because the first half of the conversation before we started talking shit was us talking just about this the the strength in numbers, like propping people up, being the spark to another person's fire.
42:53
SPEAKER_00: How it's necessary.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, you have to have a good strong community.
42:57
SPEAKER_03: You really do, man.
42:59
SPEAKER_00: You're always gonna be better if you're running together.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: And and I tell you what, guys, I uh I hope unofficially I could be the 4CM just hiding in the wings.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: Man, this has been so much fun, man.
43:15
SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
43:16
SPEAKER_00: This is been so much fun.
43:17
SPEAKER_03: We can we can use one white guy in the group.
43:19
SPEAKER_03: We ain't got none.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: I've heard that before.
43:33
SPEAKER_03: I love that dude, man.
43:34
SPEAKER_03: He's the realest.
43:35
SPEAKER_03: I'm serious, man.
43:36
SPEAKER_03: He's the realest dude I know, man.
43:37
SPEAKER_03: Like, I got so much love for that dude, man.
43:39
SPEAKER_03: The Vetty man and the Vetty man, I'm telling you, man, he man, he be helping us together, man.
43:43
SPEAKER_03: The Vetty man is a cool dude, man.
43:46
SPEAKER_03: Um people got to, man, keep riding, man.
43:50
SPEAKER_03: Because um, I'm telling you, man, uh, if this brother believes in you, man, he'll definitely help you.
43:54
SPEAKER_03: You know, if you you gotta put in the work, you definitely gotta put in work first and foremost, man.
43:58
SPEAKER_03: And this brother see you working, man.
43:59
SPEAKER_03: He'll definitely Help you along the way, man.
44:01
SPEAKER_03: Even like an old man like me.
44:03
SPEAKER_03: I've been in the game for a long time, but shit, I'll be the first one to admit I need help all the fucking time.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: We all do.
44:10
SPEAKER_03: And I love my bros, man.
44:11
SPEAKER_03: Real talk.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: I tell you what, man, it's it's a hard thing for dudes to actually ask for help.
44:17
SPEAKER_00: And and you know, Terrence kind of uh, you know, talked about that a little bit, and I I think that's really important.
44:23
SPEAKER_00: And I I love the fact that you guys all have each other's back, because that's something that's definitely needed.
44:30
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm only laughing at because, man, the background hey, don't it ain't always peach and cream, man.
44:37
SPEAKER_03: But hey, the love is there though, man.
44:39
SPEAKER_03: I mean, shit, me and Betty, we bum heads a lot, man.
44:42
SPEAKER_03: But it's just because we just strong personalities and we believe in each other, man.
44:45
SPEAKER_03: But uh, like I said, a lot of times, man, that's little bro.
44:49
SPEAKER_03: I'm big, bro, but little bro, sometimes I gotta tell big bro, hey man, chill out, man.
44:53
SPEAKER_03: Let's go to the bigger picture, man.
44:54
SPEAKER_03: And uh for me, the Eli Betty is real talk, man.
44:57
SPEAKER_03: I appreciate you, bro.
44:58
SPEAKER_03: On some real shit.
44:58
SPEAKER_03: Ain't no problem, man.
44:59
SPEAKER_03: Ain't no problem, man.
45:00
SPEAKER_03: Real talk, man.
45:01
SPEAKER_03: That's why we three CDM, baby.
45:02
SPEAKER_00: Yep, yeah, keep going.
45:04
SPEAKER_00: Real quick, each of you to give me a real short answer.
45:07
SPEAKER_00: What's your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today?
45:11
SPEAKER_00: Terrence, you go first.
45:12
SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I think uh it's it's um going back to that stupid cliche um treating people the way you would want to be treated, right?
45:23
SPEAKER_01: Because if you do that, you would recognize how many different missteps you make in life when you just talk to simple people.
45:29
SPEAKER_01: Even the people you love, like your wife or your mom or your dad, something, you'd be like, damn, I just spoke a little too harsh over something dumb.
45:37
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't like that.
45:38
SPEAKER_01: Maybe I should rethink about this.
45:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
45:42
SPEAKER_03: Zilla, what's your advice?
45:44
SPEAKER_03: My advice is man, get plenty of ass.
45:49
SPEAKER_04: Yes!
45:58
SPEAKER_03: I'm not uh yeah, I'm not gonna give you the PGG version because Terrence already did that.
46:01
SPEAKER_03: Uh you know, um smoke one if you smoke one, you know what I'm saying?
46:05
SPEAKER_03: Chill the fuck out.
46:07
SPEAKER_03: Just just live like to the fullest, man, but just live it, live it, live it, live it to the fullest, but also live it cautiously.
46:14
SPEAKER_03: Yes, you know what I'm saying?
46:15
SPEAKER_03: Uh, you know, don't be afraid to live, but just just you know, beware of your surroundings, you know what I'm saying?
46:20
SPEAKER_03: Uh you only live one life, man, so you better enjoy that motherfucker while you're here.
46:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
46:26
SPEAKER_02: How about you, Lavetti?
46:28
SPEAKER_02: Book motherfucking 3cm.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: That's how you can make the book that's the real answer.
46:36
SPEAKER_04: There it is at the end.
46:37
SPEAKER_04: You're gonna laugh.
46:39
SPEAKER_04: You're gonna laugh.
46:40
SPEAKER_04: You're going to fell down and you're gonna have a good time laughing.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: I know you don't have a bad thing.
46:52
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we we we definitely we comedy, baby.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, this is this has been so much fun.
47:02
SPEAKER_00: Terrence Gowert, George Zilla, Levetti Vegas, Three Comic Mafia, 3CM.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, find them online, do a social media search, follow their comedy pages.
47:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: Hold on, hold on, man.
47:16
SPEAKER_02: Hold on, hold on.
47:17
SPEAKER_02: Shameless look, man.
47:18
SPEAKER_02: You know, we host food and laughter, man.
47:21
SPEAKER_02: Food and laughter, you know what I mean?
47:23
SPEAKER_02: It's on local television, it's on Roku TV, it's on YouTube TV, it's on Apple TV, um, it's on KPAO, it's on channel 22.cox, um, it's on channel.
47:36
SPEAKER_02: I don't know what channel is on Century Link because you're watching us on Cisury Link, you don't got no money.
47:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, but we everywhere, baby.
47:42
SPEAKER_02: We everywhere, man.
47:43
SPEAKER_02: And don't say man, three CM, we everywhere.
47:46
SPEAKER_02: Denver, October 21st, yeah, Kansas, November 25th.
47:52
SPEAKER_02: Um Des Moines, November 30th.
47:54
SPEAKER_02: Me and Terrence, George Zilla didn't send this video, so he ain't going on December.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: It was a technical difficulty.
48:04
SPEAKER_04: He's still trying, he's still trying to send me this tape right now.
48:09
SPEAKER_00: Flatbone battery was dead.
48:14
SPEAKER_02: And our next episode of Food and Laughter is October 2nd.
48:17
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if this is gonna drop before them, but our next episode of Food and Laughter is October 2nd, so we're doing the damn thing, and you already know what time it is, man.
48:24
SPEAKER_02: No fumbles, man.
48:25
SPEAKER_03: I'm telling that's gonna be live too, bro.
48:28
SPEAKER_02: Yep, and it's gonna be live.
48:29
SPEAKER_02: And Zilla don't gotta do no technical support there, man.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: They already got it all connected for them, and everybody will be on time because George isn't a part of the tech team.
48:39
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus, for that.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, thank you guys so much for doing the podcast.
48:46
SPEAKER_00: The world's a better place is you guys than it, for real.
48:49
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, man.
48:50
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me.
48:50
SPEAKER_00: Likewise, man.
48:51
SPEAKER_00: Likewise, but oh my gosh, that episode was a lot of fun to record.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: I want to give a special thanks to my friends, Lavetti Vegas, Terrence Gawath, and George Zilla for being on the show 3CM3 Comic Mafia.
49:07
SPEAKER_00: Check them out whenever they come to your town or near you and check out their show, Food and Laughter, wherever you can.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Make sure you also seek them all out on social media and give them a follow.
49:22
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49:43
SPEAKER_00: This has been Caught on the Mic with Michael Clark.
49:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm Michael Clark.
49:47
SPEAKER_00: Until next time, thank you.