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- 0:25Hello. And welcome to another episode
- 0:27of the Christian. We've podcast today's guests.
- 0:30That's right. Guests with the plural is a
- 0:33two-piece comedy band all the way from Pennsylvania.
- 0:36They go by the name, the noise noodles.
- 0:38Welcome to the show, guys. How's it going?
- 0:42Going pretty good. Yep, going pretty well.
- 0:45How are you doing? Yeah, not bad.
- 0:46Not bad. I was worried that I wasn't
- 0:49gonna get a response and we just sit there, awkwardly for like a
- 0:51minute, go then. Let's let's jump straight into
- 0:59it guys. How did you actually get into
- 1:01comedy? Where did it begin for you guys?
- 1:08I guess it. Mainly we just wanted to do some
- 1:10sort of project whether it be film or music or something and
- 1:14we just stumbled upon the idea of making just songs with just
- 1:18these goofy lyrics that just worked with the Styles we played
- 1:23and stuff. Yeah, so I Joe guys most of our
- 1:31like musical Aspect he plays most of the instruments on our
- 1:37recordings. I do a lot of vocals and I write
- 1:41a lot of our lyrics I'm DJ and so I can speak a little bit more
- 1:48on that. I don't know.
- 1:49I always have loved comedy and it's always been something I've
- 1:55loved doing and they're just some bands.
- 1:59Like The Lonely Island hearing like things.
- 2:04The South Park movie soundtrack? Just like inspired me to like,
- 2:08bring more comedy to the music world.
- 2:14It's an interesting kind of area really?
- 2:16Because, well, there are obviously, like, you know, big
- 2:20names out there like the first band I thought of when I was
- 2:22sort of doing research and you guys was Tenacious D.
- 2:25And yeah, I mean, I think it's is a combination of two things
- 2:29because it's like, you know, it's one thing being a comedy
- 2:31act in a music, former base. Another thing being, you know,
- 2:34musicians as well, you know, it's kind of too kind of spheres
- 2:38so to speak. But as far as like, I don't
- 2:40know, if you could say they like, the genre comedy music,
- 2:44like, I don't see like loads and loads of bands, General.
- 2:47I mean, it's kind of almost still Niche even though there's
- 2:50these big breakthrough acts like The Lonely Island and Tenacious
- 2:53D. It's like it's still kind of
- 2:55feels Niche which is kind of interesting to me, you know?
- 2:59Yeah, it's fun. I've been able to find a couple
- 3:03other Really good bands through like trying to research some of
- 3:08that I was recently into one called King Missile that I liked
- 3:15a lot and they're like we're like comedy.
- 3:19And we like if we fit into another genre more closely, it's
- 3:23like rock and so there's similar to that which was pretty cool to
- 3:26see. And like, see you mentioned
- 3:30before about how the sort of General Starr Is that Joe does
- 3:34like the more musical elements and I presume then that you do
- 3:37the lyrics. Is that right?
- 3:39Yeah, that's right. Okay.
- 3:41So like when you guys come together and you kind of
- 3:43approach songwriting like how does it go like do you do you
- 3:46kind of come with stuff prepared or do you kind of like jam on
- 3:49the spot like what's the songwriting process though?
- 3:55I guess it usually depends on what song were doing.
- 3:57Sometimes we'll have an idea in our head and I want to know what
- 4:02it sounds like musical. He'll have an idea of like what
- 4:05we want to do lyrically. So I'll try to put the Rhythm
- 4:10Rhythm down and see if he can find a way to write lyrics on
- 4:14top of that. And just go from there and work
- 4:16with what we have is always interesting to me because
- 4:19there's like different kind of like Styles, you can sorry, not
- 4:23different styles, different orders you can do it.
- 4:24You can do it that way, which is actually how I used to write
- 4:27songs as well, but I've actually flipped and done the other way
- 4:29now. So like I start kind of like
- 4:32jamming, And then writing as I go, which is a really
- 4:36ineffective way to do it. But you know, whatever works,
- 4:40right? I think Danny was going to say
- 4:41something as well. Did you have some time?
- 4:46Yeah. It's kind of fun because a lot
- 4:50of our songs start with one of us texting.
- 4:55The other one we should write a song about this and then the
- 4:58other person just like taking it from there.
- 5:01A lot of the time when I write out the Eric's to something,
- 5:05when we go to record, I'll just go to Joe and I'll be like, hey,
- 5:10I think it should sound like this genre of music, like, maybe
- 5:14like this song. Song a little bit and then he's
- 5:18able to just kind of pick it up and we have like a good
- 5:22shorthand between us because like we're cousins, we grew up
- 5:26together. So it's like we can just say
- 5:29something and the other person can just pick it up and know
- 5:32what we're talking about from there.
- 5:33Which is really nice. It's cool.
- 5:36Yeah, almost like intuitive in a sense, it's good.
- 5:39I think a lot of the time when you're in a band it's kind of It
- 5:44was all about the chemistry, isn't it?
- 5:46You know, I know obviously this is a two-part element in its
- 5:49about the comedy as much as it is about the music but like
- 5:52still when you're when you're writing music, you need people
- 5:54that you have chemistry with so makes sense.
- 5:56Obviously, you guys being a family, you've got that sort of
- 5:58connection right there and that kind of just makes things a
- 6:01little bit easier and okay. So this next question is very
- 6:07subjective. I don't think there are any
- 6:08right or wrong answers, but in your opinion, what makes good
- 6:12comedy That's a hard one, I know, I know it's because I
- 6:21thought about it when I was writing the question, I think is
- 6:26relative, isn't it? Your humor might not be my human
- 6:28and vice versa but it's I don't know.
- 6:30I think it's still interesting to know.
- 6:38Yeah, I think so. I also on top of like, the band
- 6:41stuff I've started writing and trying to perform stand-up,
- 6:47okay? And so I think like, if there's
- 6:51if there's a Common Thread through like the music and the
- 6:56stand-up, it's that it takes, I think comedy takes a lot of
- 7:02things. It could be an ordinary thing or
- 7:05something. That's already odd.
- 7:06And it just Except to its extreme a lot of the time.
- 7:12I think that's a pretty Common Thread through it.
- 7:14And I think a lot of it is based in like something real, like our
- 7:19first EP, some of my favorite lines are like there.
- 7:24A lot of our character we do like store a story-based EP and
- 7:30a lot of the characters are super like just out there and
- 7:34weird but then I'll have lines that it's like something super A
- 7:37real. And it's like something that
- 7:40like about like a detail about their life that you wouldn't
- 7:44expect from that kind of Goofy character.
- 7:47I was just something like really like maybe serious from someone
- 7:50who's always just cracking jokes all the time.
- 7:53Yeah, exactly. You can see that.
- 7:56This is my topic. You may already know she's what,
- 8:00since we're talking about that log, where do you guys actually
- 8:01draw the line? When it comes to that, like you
- 8:04said, you mentioned before, like obviously you're trying to kind
- 8:06of reach to Of to an extreme. And I think there are many
- 8:10comedians out there especially like stand-up comedians.
- 8:13Such as Frankie Boyle Ricky. Gervais sand said, sure.
- 8:16They always seem to be trying to push the envelope.
- 8:18Like, where is the line? Where's the Line, like, where is
- 8:22too far? And I do wonder about this
- 8:24sometimes, like, is there too far?
- 8:26You know, there's some people that say like, you shouldn't
- 8:28make for instance, jokes about war or the Holocaust or
- 8:32something stuff like that. And then there are other people
- 8:34that say, wow, you know, I mean you should in theory Be able to
- 8:38make comedy about anything. There should be no limits and
- 8:41it's kind of almost like similar to the whole Free Speech debate.
- 8:45But like, for you guys, personally, where do you draw
- 8:48the line? Where's too far?
- 8:52Who is there to fall? I know as far as like our music
- 9:00personally, I don't really want to get.
- 9:02I like it's just goofy. Stupid humor.
- 9:05I don't want to get like political or real with people.
- 9:08Hmm. I'd much prefer to stick to
- 9:10something. That's just like sort of a here.
- 9:14Where have we're here too. I have a good time.
- 9:18Kind of vibe if that makes sense.
- 9:20Yeah, I know I'm getting like too real or to serious that were
- 9:23joking about just, hey, here's something funny.
- 9:26I think it gives you more Universal appeal as well because
- 9:29like obviously a lot of time when you are being more
- 9:31offensive or you know just appealing to certain parts of
- 9:35the audience. It just enolates you from other
- 9:37people. So like if you think of
- 9:39something like mr. Bean as an example like that,
- 9:42that's just applicable anywhere. You don't even have to know
- 9:45English to understand. That because obviously, it's
- 9:48more like slapstick and whatnot. Yeah, I get that man.
- 9:52And of course yet from the perspective of just wanted to
- 9:55have fun as well. I obviously yeah yeah.
- 10:00One thing I want to know. Have you have you guys actually
- 10:03performed this live obviously pre covid or whatever.
- 10:06Like have you had a chance to do this life?
- 10:11We want to, it's just hard because we both live three hours
- 10:16away, right? You know, I get a lot of the
- 10:19stuff we do recording one. Yeah, a lot of the stuff we do.
- 10:22Music wise is remote, hmm. We're be it.
- 10:25Sending files to each other with different instruments, stuff
- 10:28like that either also writing lyrics, like obviously three
- 10:32hours away. So Yeah, no, I get that.
- 10:36And I guess what I'm asking is, as far as that live performance
- 10:39is concerned. Obviously, Daniel mentioned
- 10:41earlier about, you know, he's sort of experimenting with
- 10:44stand-up comedy and stuff like that.
- 10:45And I wonder like when you guys play Live is eventually, like
- 10:50when covid isn't an issue anymore, is there the plan to
- 10:53kind of just come on? Treat it almost like a standard
- 10:56music show and just perform the songs and have fun that way or
- 11:00do you want to kind of structure it in a way where it's like, The
- 11:04songs are part of it, but it's part of like a comedy show where
- 11:07you have like stand-up in between and stuff like that,
- 11:11because there are many musicians out there that do that there's
- 11:13an Australian musician by the name of Tim Minchin.
- 11:18Believe his name is, who does something like that?
- 11:22Bill Bailey from the UK does. The same thing?
- 11:25Is that kind of what you're going for?
- 11:26You going to go for something different.
- 11:29So we've thought about this a little bit, there's like Bo.
- 11:34Is another. Yes, I like him a lot but I kind
- 11:40of so Jo doesn't do stand-up. And I kind of separated a little
- 11:45bit. What I thought of that I think
- 11:48would be cool is for me to be like our opener.
- 11:51So like I open with stand up and then later on, we get into the
- 11:55music. I would hate though, for like
- 11:59Joe to just be like, standing on stage doing nothing.
- 12:04Well, I'm just like talking. You don't waste his Stone.
- 12:07Just like, look cool at the side of the road, just gonna be like,
- 12:11yeah, you do the work. I don't give a fuck.
- 12:17Here's a funny thing as well. But ways, I just on a late.
- 12:19Now, I read this story recently, so you'll notice every now and
- 12:22again, when they, when they played live back in the day that
- 12:25obviously Liam would go off stage and I know would just play
- 12:29the songs and then would be doing something.
- 12:31And apparently, in the beginning, the reason that Liam
- 12:33did that Is that he needed a break to rest his voice.
- 12:37That's what he told null, but then he would go and basically
- 12:40Juggalo the beer smoke and do everything that you shouldn't do
- 12:44before you go and perform a song.
- 12:46That's a just wanted. He's just lazy.
- 12:54Yeah. So what are your kind of main
- 12:57goals and aspirations within the sphere of Comedy?
- 13:06We often think Weston's here on the Christian re podcast.
- 13:14I think, I think for me, It's just like getting people to
- 13:21laugh, is the goal. Like whether that a few people,
- 13:27like, I know, like, some of our songs have become like memes
- 13:32within just my friend group and just even being able to see that
- 13:35has been really fun, and then there's, there's a podcast by an
- 13:45American football player and then a I fell player who played
- 13:50our music on his podcast and like he gets like 300,000 views
- 13:56and episode. So we've had like a decent run
- 13:59off from that and just like seeing that and seeing a bunch
- 14:02of people come from him and common just like going along
- 14:07with the joke on our channel has been really cool.
- 14:12So yeah, just like being able to see people like get the joke is
- 14:16a fun thing in and of itself. That's awesome.
- 14:21Yeah, I mean congratulations, first of all and secondly yeah,
- 14:25that mean that that's all it takes really, isn't it?
- 14:27Like, sometimes I lie? What, I hope the same thing with
- 14:30regards to what I do because it's like all it takes is for
- 14:34one person that big following to Showcase you and boom.
- 14:38You start building something, you know, and that's the kind of
- 14:40the key, isn't it? I mean, you mentioned yeah about
- 14:42sort of having like these sort of like meme style drugs to
- 14:46obviously at this point would be like more like inside.
- 14:48With your friends. But obviously, once you start
- 14:50building that community and they track you from the beginning,
- 14:53you can kind of like follow that progression onwards, and then
- 14:56kind of be part of the joke. So you like you want to be
- 14:59included so that you're in on the jokes and you get them like
- 15:02it's funny. Like sometimes I'll watch some
- 15:04of my favorite YouTubers and they do like, you know, I ready
- 15:06videos and stuff. And without any context, if you
- 15:09never watch their content, you have no idea why a lot of that
- 15:12stuff is funny. Obviously, once you keep up with
- 15:16them, it's like now you get the jokes.
- 15:18So it's almost like more incentive to actually, keep up
- 15:21to date with what's going on in that sense.
- 15:24Because, like, you know, I've always just, you won't know what
- 15:26the jokes are. It's kind of fun because like
- 15:32we've had the song that got played on that podcast, was like
- 15:36the first single we released. And it's called, I am caveman.
- 15:42And the entire joke of the song is that it's just a song written
- 15:46in caveman, speak. And it's the first song we had
- 15:52ever written. But we like like Joe said, meet
- 15:58me at different points, just different like remixes that he
- 16:02made of it and like stuff like usually like like four other
- 16:08songs, it see, like fans of the band making these remixes of it,
- 16:12but it was just Joe making it, which is kind of fun.
- 16:15And it's like that's just like Like we were just like having
- 16:20fun with it and like meeting our own song, which was pretty fun.
- 16:26I got to say and I don't take this the wrong way but like when
- 16:29I first heard the first song because because I had no
- 16:33context, I thought you were just like musicians or something.
- 16:35So I heard the first song and I was like, what the fuck is?
- 16:39This is and then I started like listening to because I always
- 16:43give something a chance. That's something I learned from
- 16:45years ago, just with music in general.
- 16:48Always get something a proper chance before you kind of go.
- 16:51Okay, I'm done with this. And then I started listening to
- 16:54the rest of the The songs and I was like, there's something
- 16:57here. I don't know what it is, but
- 16:59there's something here and I think it's because the thing is
- 17:02you can you can try and be funny in life.
- 17:05You can try and be, you know, comedian but like only some
- 17:08people get it. Some people don't have it.
- 17:10Like I've said, quite often on my streams and podcasts that,
- 17:13like, I would never do comedy. The most I would ever do is
- 17:16maybe like sketch now and again, because I don't consider myself
- 17:19to be a funny person. I think there's a particular
- 17:21mindset that you have to have and You know, it's not easy.
- 17:25People think like, I just messing around fucking around,
- 17:28but not there has to be some structure within it as well.
- 17:31And when I was listening to that to your music, I did kind of
- 17:34hear that here and there and particularly the kind of Insider
- 17:37joke aspect as well. I could tell, obviously, if
- 17:39you're continuing member of your of your of your work, then
- 17:43there's that kind of Likelihood. That you going to find it?
- 17:47Much funnier? Basically.
- 17:49Yeah, it's so we have an album coming out February 14th and we
- 17:59so a lot of the songs on there are just like like we have a
- 18:03song about a character named Short Round from Indiana Jones
- 18:09and the Temple of Doom just because like we think he's a
- 18:13really funny character and we've been making It's about him for a
- 18:16while and it's just like it would be fun if like these like
- 18:24inside jokes that we've been joking about for like 5-10 years
- 18:28just like Ken like other people can joke with us about it.
- 18:33Yeah I guess I gotta there's something that I heard years ago
- 18:38which I think perfectly kind of describes comedy.
- 18:40Is that like the funniest person you'll ever meet is like you
- 18:44know, in a bar Or like your uncle or something like that.
- 18:48But like actually, when you're trying to do what you like what
- 18:51you guys are doing, which is, you know, extend your humor to
- 18:54an audience. It's much harder to do that to
- 18:56capture that, that funniness of like probably like for example
- 18:59the first time that you guys sat down and like, wrote one of
- 19:02these songs I would wager, nine times out of ten.
- 19:05He probably pissing yourselves laughing for, like a good half
- 19:07an hour before you go. Okay, now let's actually turn
- 19:11this into something and that's good.
- 19:13That's what you want to share. Isn't it with that audience?
- 19:16It's it's funny because I can remember the first time we wrote
- 19:20a song because we were sitting at a table at a Taco Bell and we
- 19:25wrote it on a napkin and we had this idea like, I don't know, it
- 19:32was the timing, whatever, but we're sitting there and we're
- 19:35like, all right, we have this idea for a song.
- 19:36We have to write this down now or we're going to forget
- 19:38everything. So I call right?
- 19:40Talk about napkin. Let's do it.
- 19:43Some reason that reminds me of spying on you guys seen that
- 19:47movie, right? Yeah, yeah.
- 19:50Like Sox playing for the viewers at home.
- 19:51So basically there's this movie called spinal tap.
- 19:54I think it was released in the 80s and it's a mockumentary
- 19:57about a band. Fictional band who actually
- 20:00could actually play the instruments, I found out later
- 20:02which was weird but basically they're all actors and the story
- 20:07is it's like a band that's like their career has gone to the
- 20:10shits and this is like a reunions tour.
- 20:13Blah, blah blah. And it's just a series of just
- 20:15iconic jokes after iconic Jose slam.
- 20:18For instance, there's the famous joke of, you know, the
- 20:21interviewer kind of saying like oh why don't they just make, you
- 20:24know, the 10, the loudest on the amp and then that I just have 10
- 20:28as the as the highest volume and then the guys just kind of the
- 20:32guitarist is blankly just staring at it.
- 20:35And goes. He's goes up to 11 by that which
- 20:42to buy, maybe, I don't know, maybe it's just that sort of
- 20:45deadpan British humor that I find in it.
- 20:47But anyway, the thing that reminded me based on your story
- 20:52was, there's a bit where they're actually sitting in the bar or
- 20:56some sort of area and there. Basically, they want to have,
- 21:00they have this song called Stonehenge, and they want to
- 21:03have like a gigantic Stonehenge Monument on stage that they can,
- 21:09you know, add as part of the background, and they draw out
- 21:14the dimensions on a napkin, and they give it to.
- 21:16I don't know, whoever their props guy or whatever.
- 21:19And so, then it comes to the day of the show.
- 21:23And instead of delivering an actual, you know, to scale
- 21:29Stonehenge Monument. They deliver exactly what was on
- 21:33that napkin. The exact dimensions, which is
- 21:36probably not what like meat a meat along.
- 21:39Now, if that, that probably like 50 cm, I don't know tiny and
- 21:43they put it on stage and then I don't know what you could add
- 21:46dwarf, a little person starts, sort of dancing around it and
- 21:50they all just looking on stage, but will It going, what the fuck
- 21:54is going on? And then the best bit, I think
- 21:57is afterwards when they're all shouting at each other going ape
- 22:00shit about the fact that they don't have this brother
- 22:03Stonehenge Monument. The like I gave you the exact
- 22:07dimensions on this napkin and it's like, yeah.
- 22:09But we followed them exactly. The dimensions 5x5 like meters
- 22:14or whatever it is that, you know.
- 22:15It's supposed to be like, 50, what have you seen Stonehenge?
- 22:19It's like this gigantic. I love.
- 22:24I've never really thought about comparing like us to spinal tap
- 22:28before, but it's like, I kind of like that because it's like, we
- 22:33have some one of the jokes in that movie.
- 22:36Is that like the drummer keeps dying?
- 22:40Oh, yeah. Forgot.
- 22:42And we like, we have a joke where it's like, neither of us,
- 22:47plays drums. All of our drums are like,
- 22:51electronic through go. Raj band.
- 22:54And so we had a joke for a little bit where we were like,
- 23:00doing credits of who played what on each song.
- 23:04And then, for the drums, we came up with a fake name and their
- 23:08nickname was the robot and their their initials were GB, which is
- 23:14the same initials as GarageBand. Nice, you could have a run it.
- 23:21I mean, this is just Stressed. You can have a running joke that
- 23:24like you're actually haunted and this drama, but he's a ghost.
- 23:29You don't know who he is, but he's haunting you and somehow
- 23:31every time you finish these songs miraculously, the drum
- 23:35track just appears out of nowhere.
- 23:38It is shows, I've been all the sudden while mixing.
- 23:40There's just a drum track there in the middle.
- 23:45I've had a lot of different ideas.
- 23:52I want us to do for drums to. I've had some, I've had some fun
- 23:57ideas with that. I think that's where this this
- 24:02will really come into its element when you when you get
- 24:04that kind of live show going because I think that's Sir with
- 24:07comedy, a lot of it. I mean, it depends and we'll get
- 24:10on to like what you guys do on YouTube in a second.
- 24:12But like I do think that live shows for most performers for
- 24:17especially for comedians is like the ultimate isn't it?
- 24:20They often say like in the sphere of comedy in general.
- 24:22Neural stand-up comedy is like the best thing to do and I think
- 24:25it's because that audience interaction, like you don't know
- 24:27what you're going to get, maybe they're just sit and listen to
- 24:29the jokes. Maybe they'll become part of the
- 24:30show. You just don't know but I I love
- 24:37improv as well as of that and I've played around a little bit
- 24:41with that and I want to get more into it in the future it's like
- 24:46and that's even more like, whatever the crowds giving you
- 24:49you just run with it. So I think improvs really fun in
- 24:56that way as well. Yeah, I think it's a solid
- 24:58whenever musician like as a musician it just playing live
- 25:02shows us something I always wanted to do and if fans are
- 25:05into it and there with the music, I want to try to get them
- 25:09pumped up throughout the entirety of the show and just
- 25:12keep them going. Absolutely.
- 25:14I mean, I think that look I'll give you an example, it's
- 25:16partially related, but with the audience interaction thing, it
- 25:20can often kind of give you content that you wouldn't have
- 25:24otherwise come up with. So like I have a friend who does
- 25:27freestyle rapping, right? And it's amazing.
- 25:30He's so rapper from South Africa.
- 25:32Shout out to Buck MasterCard in. This is like the fifth time of
- 25:35shortage on the podcast now. But anyway, so he does these
- 25:38Instagram, he calls it freestyle relay and he basically it puts a
- 25:42beat on and he goes right. Send me a word or a topic and I
- 25:48just like to fuck with him. So I'll just put like, really
- 25:51weird Scenarios like, oh, I want you to rap about the guy who
- 25:56farts in the lift or like, you know, rap about what it's like
- 26:01to, you know, eat cereal when there's like, you know, you've
- 26:05just had toothpaste in your mouth and just like really weird
- 26:08stuff and like, just see how I can test it and he always knocks
- 26:12it out of the park. But that that kind of element of
- 26:15having that person who, who froze you that stuff, like
- 26:18that's something that you only get from my sort of a live
- 26:20interaction, you know, beer. online or all yeah fruit through
- 26:24a live show and I think that with you guys that would be like
- 26:27a really good kind of thing that you can incorporate into your
- 26:30act and have fun with potentially The moving it
- 26:35Forward, I mentioned YouTube. Yes, you also produce other
- 26:38forms of content such as Vlogs podcasts and comedy sketches,
- 26:43which types of content? Do you like to sort of produce
- 26:47the most out of all of those? We've had a lot of fun with the
- 26:51sketches more. Recently, we both are.
- 26:56I mean, obviously, like the pantheon of sketch.
- 26:59Comedy is like a Chanel. And we both love that and had
- 27:04been talking about that. I, I took acting classes for
- 27:09about eight years in my youth, and so I kind of had that
- 27:15background with it. And so, for a while I had been
- 27:18like, oh, we should Next. Other than just music and then
- 27:24eventually, Joe came along with that idea.
- 27:28And so, that's, I think that's what I've had.
- 27:31The most fun with outside the bar music.
- 27:34Yeah. Me too.
- 27:35I because I'm a huge fan of sketch comedy.
- 27:38I love watching SNL and I've always been interested in it and
- 27:41wanted to try to get into it and being that were comedy band and
- 27:44we wanted to do other forms of entertainment.
- 27:47I think noise did those was a great way to start trying to
- 27:50write sketches and get into that.
- 27:52So yeah. Are you looking to build like
- 27:53more of a brand than? So it's not just going to be a
- 27:55music act, it's going to be like you know, that like music will
- 27:59be a big part of it obviously but it's not going to be you
- 28:03know, the the be saw the end of your kind of Offering so to
- 28:09speak. Yeah, exactly.
- 28:12Yeah. Like to think, first and
- 28:13foremost were a band, but the other stuff kind of brings it
- 28:18together in a way. Hmm, gives us other outlets to
- 28:22put our comedy into a be interesting to see how you guys
- 28:26develop that. I mean, that was one of the
- 28:27first things that I noticed when I was looking at the YouTube, I
- 28:29was like, there's there's legs with this, I think, and
- 28:32especially, within within comedy.
- 28:34There's like so many different things that you can do.
- 28:36And if, if you are funny I There you go.
- 28:39That's all you really needed. You know, that and like a degree
- 28:43of creativity I suppose as far as like coming up with different
- 28:46types of ideas and such. Yeah.
- 28:49And want to like one of my favorite things.
- 28:52Like whenever I find a new comedian that I'm really into,
- 28:56I'll look up like all of their like late night, TV appearances,
- 29:00all of their interviews and stuff.
- 29:02And so, I think it's a, it's cool for us to be able to like,
- 29:09Like we don't have to like, do any of that kind of stuff for
- 29:14any of, like potential fans to see who we are, like bull can
- 29:19just right away. Go to our Channel.
- 29:21And right there they have like they can look at our Vlogs and
- 29:25see us and our natural lives like they can see sketches and
- 29:30see other ideas, see more of like us like acting so I like
- 29:38That's something I had as a goal for us was to like, just be
- 29:42really open as creators right off the bat.
- 29:46Absolutely what kind of new types of content or just I don't
- 29:52know what, what is your 2021? Look like.
- 29:54What's the plan? So you mentioned the album
- 29:59that's coming out in February but what else?
- 30:01Yeah. So after the album we already
- 30:04have a couple sketches, a couple more sketches that we've written
- 30:08and we just need to find time to record.
- 30:12I think we've decided like the album took a lot of time.
- 30:16And as being, like we said, three hours apart from each
- 30:20other, like, was very taxing to be able to record.
- 30:25So we're looking at a lot more shorter projects, probably a few
- 30:29singles and some covers and we're trying to get we recorded
- 30:37one episode of a podcast and we're hoping to do a little bit
- 30:41more of that we're both in University right now.
- 30:45So, That's a bit difficult with like trying to find time but
- 30:51that's that's a lot of what we're looking to do this year.
- 30:55What are you guys studying? We're both psych Majors, right?
- 31:00Yep. We're both studying psychology.
- 31:04Okay? Cool, cool.
- 31:06And yeah you how far you guys into that first year?
- 31:09Second year I'm graduating in May I was a it's gonna be a good
- 31:18fight. I gradually in the fall and then
- 31:21I plan on trying to go get my masters and move onto my side e
- 31:26after that. That's not being like a
- 31:29psychologist and a comedian. That's gotta fuck with people's
- 31:32heads that way and yeah. His idea is, there's a there's a
- 31:40comedian. I really like named Ben Schwartz
- 31:42who like has acted in a lot of stuff and it's done a lot of
- 31:45improv who he, he also graduated with a psychology degree and so
- 31:52I saw that and I was pretty pretty hype about that.
- 31:56Someone hasn't already taken the mantle of like doctor comedy.
- 32:00I'll be very amazed because that's just sitting there right
- 32:04there too. Just waiting to be grabbed by
- 32:07come on, you mentioned a podcast there.
- 32:11Is that something just between you guys because as well as
- 32:16another thing that I think would be interesting to hear is this
- 32:19you guys fucking around having a laugh like I think surely
- 32:22that's, that's something that you should be doing.
- 32:25Yeah, a podcast is right now. It's just us to just kind of
- 32:30talk in about whatever we can think of.
- 32:33Okay. Personally I'd like to get gas
- 32:35On at some point because I think having more people could lead to
- 32:39funnier and better conversations.
- 32:42Do you think it will be just having like just a little chats
- 32:46in general? Maybe just sharing stories.
- 32:49Like I had a podcast or on here recently, who's also a comedian
- 32:52as well as funny how these things work out.
- 32:54And she had this idea of basically people talking about
- 32:58like they're wild nights out, which I think, you know, that's
- 33:01right there. You've got.
- 33:02It could potentially be really bad, really good, really funny,
- 33:04you know. Or no, like do you have
- 33:06something in mind like that? Or is it just kind of more like
- 33:09let's just have a laugh. Let's just have a chat.
- 33:10See what happens. Yeah, I think we're a lot.
- 33:14We're very just like conversational and I know
- 33:18definitely for me I have a personality where most of the
- 33:24time I can just sit down in a zoom call and I Just Vibe with
- 33:28the people that are in it and like I like just being able to
- 33:32talk to people and like, like really See like really just feel
- 33:38who they are through conversation.
- 33:41Hmm, absolutely, yeah. Now I have to say, actually
- 33:45throughout the course of this podcast, I do especially because
- 33:49it didn't always used to be a video podcast that used to be or
- 33:52the, or only, which I thought was more preferable preferable.
- 33:56But now I've realized like actually, no, it's much better
- 33:58when you can see the people, because you can see how they're
- 34:00reacting, you'll also see if they're comfortable as well.
- 34:02That's something that isn't always the case.
- 34:05You know, it's like something something that I really try hard
- 34:07to do, is to make my guests for as comfortable as possible
- 34:10because it is an uncomfortable situation is sitting there.
- 34:13You don't know what the person is going to ask.
- 34:15You don't know what to expect and like, sometimes people have
- 34:18like an agenda or they have like, it has to be like this.
- 34:22You don't know if you can talk a lot or a little but you don't
- 34:24know, you just don't know. And like, I've been a guest on
- 34:28other people's shows as well and I think obviously I feel more
- 34:33comfortable when it's my podcast.
- 34:35You know when I'm on other people's shows, it's a bit like
- 34:38yeah that first that first five minutes is like very telling
- 34:42like we'll see how this goes, you know, and I've never I've
- 34:45never had like a bad experience per se but there have been times
- 34:48when I've been on people's shows where you know, maybe I would
- 34:50have liked to have talked more about certain thing or pack 5
- 34:55times. When people interrupt me a lot,
- 34:57which I can't stand that shit. I don't know about you guys but
- 35:01you know, if one person is talking, you shut the fuck up
- 35:04and let speak you listen and then you have your turn like
- 35:08tennis, you know, it's I've had some good ones because I so I
- 35:16have been both of us have been trying to guest on like, as many
- 35:19podcasts as we can because we're like, obviously we're a small
- 35:24band, we don't have a publicist and we don't have like a pressed
- 35:28toward announce our album, but I basically, I do a lot of like
- 35:33our business is business. And we don't make money.
- 35:36We run a loss every year, but I run like our business and, and
- 35:43like, have been appearing on a bunch of podcasts.
- 35:46And it's like interesting to see just everyone's different style
- 35:51of like interviewing and like I have the most fun on them when
- 35:56it's just like a conversation and it's not like they're
- 36:01willing to just kind of roll with whatever we're and up and
- 36:07they're not like tied to their questions, like the questions
- 36:10are in Avenue to get us to talk about stuff and have a
- 36:12conversation with them. Yeah and I think that's a very
- 36:16important element. You do have to kind of I got to
- 36:20be kind of like water. Do you know what I mean?
- 36:22Like, I don't know. That sounds like a weird analogy
- 36:23but like go with like what your guest is is giving you.
- 36:27You know, like it's very frustrating with like you're a
- 36:30particular person, you're a particular way and this other
- 36:33person is trying to get you to like no no you go in my box and
- 36:37you do what I want you to do and it's like fine.
- 36:42I mean, I'm a guest on your show and, you know, that especially
- 36:46knowing that you're an Entertainer as well.
- 36:48It's like what? Can be more entertaining.
- 36:50If you just let me be entertaining posted, just like
- 36:55putting these fucking limits on me.
- 36:59I'm not renting at all guys. Anyway, let's talk about
- 37:06something a little bit serious. I just want to know like what
- 37:09the response has been to soar covid-19 in Pennsylvania, where
- 37:14you guys are from, like just, you know, how's it been for you?
- 37:17What's it been like over? Were there because I do find it
- 37:20interesting country by country and I've had guests from around
- 37:24the world on this podcast. But something is interesting
- 37:26about the states is that every single state is almost like a
- 37:29mini country and of itself to some places are more laid-back,
- 37:33some places are more restricted. What's it been like in
- 37:36Pennsylvania, I think is p has been a little bit more strict
- 37:46than certain States. I don't think we're the most
- 37:49strict State about things, but we've had a couple, like, we had
- 37:56the initial, like, everything was shut down for a while.
- 37:59And then like, about a month ago, we had all like restaurants
- 38:06and everything. Shut down again.
- 38:10So that's we've had a lot of like, it's been very like
- 38:15changing. It feels like every week.
- 38:18There's like a new rule that we have to pay attention to and
- 38:22it's getting to the point where I'm starting to lose track of
- 38:25all of it but we've had biggest thing.
- 38:33My yeah, my biggest thing is because I started Transfer it
- 38:37over to a new school in the fall and they switch to all online
- 38:42courses and stuff. And that's just, it's been
- 38:45extremely hard. Trying to start at a new school
- 38:47when you can't talk to any professors or anything in person
- 38:51and like I haven't even visited the campus yet for real.
- 38:55Yeah, wow. It's nuts course, but yes, but
- 38:59so your entire first year you haven't.
- 39:03Wow, fuck. That's mad to think about Yeah,
- 39:08and so that's that's having like my senior year, be like all
- 39:13online so far or for the most part.
- 39:17And it's like, I just can't hang out with all my friends all the
- 39:20time. A lot of them aren't even here
- 39:23at campus. The only reason I'm here is
- 39:25because I have an apartment with some of my friends and like,
- 39:33Yeah, so that's been pretty sucky.
- 39:35Yeah. It's the worst time to be a
- 39:37student right now. I mean, like when I think back
- 39:39to my degree, I'm just I feel so lucky that it happened when it
- 39:43happened, because right now, it's, it's a frustrating thing
- 39:47as well. Because it's like there's
- 39:48nothing anyone can do about it. It's like it would be
- 39:52irresponsible to have everyone together in one place.
- 39:55We all know this we hear it all the fucking time, but at the
- 39:58same time, it's like It's not really uni.
- 40:02If you can't be with people and dinner me like, especially, I
- 40:07really feel for like first-year students right now because it's
- 40:09like, you come into the university and the whole thing
- 40:12is, you know, your first year was one part of you.
- 40:14That's the whole point because the next two years of your life
- 40:16are going to be working your ass off and to not have that is
- 40:21like, I mean, it's almost like, well, give me my money, but then
- 40:25it's not really part of the deal, but then you can't really
- 40:27be angry. Anyone can you, because it's
- 40:29like, I mean, It's like okay if this was like an insurance
- 40:32situation, this counts under like an act of God or some shit.
- 40:36And I'm, it's like you can't really pay out on that basis.
- 40:40Like, in the UK, we've got a lot of people, arguing the
- 40:44government and stuff like that about while people should get
- 40:46their money back. You know, they should get
- 40:48subsidies and stuff and, you know, I don't know, really know
- 40:51where I sit on that, because I think that's fair for certain
- 40:54degrees, but maybe not so much for others, because a lot of
- 40:56stuff would be based on line anyway, but like, at the same
- 41:00time, I'm it really depends on your degree and some things.
- 41:03Yeah. You can't be being able to like,
- 41:05physically be with a professor and pick their brains or being
- 41:09in a seminar room and being able to talk to people that way.
- 41:11And it even just like human interaction in general.
- 41:15I learning from other people. And, you know, I could go on
- 41:18about this but you get what I'm trying to say.
- 41:20Yeah, it's just hard to be motivated for school when you
- 41:23can't be in a school setting and talk to Professor's and be with
- 41:27other students than just do it from your house.
- 41:29It's I don't know. I don't like it.
- 41:32Yeah. And like Westlake the like we
- 41:36had a couple music festivals that we were planning to try and
- 41:40play at and then got cancelled over the summer because it's
- 41:44like we were both going to be in the same place for the summer
- 41:47and so we were actually going to be able to go do live stuff and
- 41:50then that couldn't happen because it covid and then like
- 41:54I've had like two or three stand-up performances.
- 41:58I was going to do that. Got Pushed back as well.
- 42:01And it's just like like I it's hard because I want to sit at
- 42:06home and just keep writing stuff, but it's hard to be
- 42:08motivated to write stuff when it's just completely uncertain.
- 42:13When I'm going to get to perform and actually like test that
- 42:18material to an audience. Do you have?
- 42:21These because I had around certain places around the
- 42:24state's. You got all these socially
- 42:26distance events, like there was wrestling events where like
- 42:29maybe Only 10% capacity, same for spoiling of.
- 42:34I'm not sure if you've done it for sporting events actually
- 42:36here in the UK, I don't know if it's still the case now because
- 42:39we're in another lock down number three.
- 42:42But for a while the Premier League here we had, like, you
- 42:46know, 10% capacity. So safe is like a forty thousand
- 42:50seat Arena. Maybe a four thousand fans and
- 42:52it's doable. Like, you can do it sensibly.
- 42:55Do you have things like that? Because I've seen in America and
- 42:59also certain parts of UK for about the past year, there's
- 43:02been like things like Drive In Style things, if you want to see
- 43:06a movie, you can do it that way or or even just socially
- 43:10distance comedy. I think, didn't Dave, Chappelle
- 43:12do a show that was Outdoors or it was like socially this, its
- 43:16repeal all did he did a few shows in like parking lots in
- 43:21Ohio. He's like where he lives which
- 43:24is like no way. It's a weird Ohio's like a
- 43:28really like spread Population and like is like really
- 43:33interesting, but that's where he grew up.
- 43:36I think so that's like where he lives now.
- 43:39But yeah. And we've had that with sports
- 43:41to like they didn't have that back when the baseball season
- 43:45was happening. But now with the NFL it was
- 43:51going state-by-state. So like certain teams were
- 43:54allowed to have fans in certain ones.
- 43:58Warrant and it's the same thing with basketball with the NBA
- 44:02they have. I think there's like three or
- 44:04four teams allowing fans for that.
- 44:07But makes you think, like, when we're going to actually return
- 44:10to some resemblance of normality really.
- 44:14Does it mean I was just reading today that for the, for the NFL,
- 44:20with the Super Bowl, they're allowing like 7500, like
- 44:26Frontline, medical workers who have gotten the vaccine to go to
- 44:31the stadium. So, it's like interesting
- 44:35because like, we're starting to see the rollout of Vaccine here
- 44:39with first responding medical workers, and like, my, my dad's,
- 44:47an addictions counselor. So he like was classified with
- 44:50that. And he's gotten the vaccine now,
- 44:52as well. Then if, if you're able to talk
- 44:56about this, but as your dad sort of had more cases, more people,
- 45:02you know, because obviously with with a lockdown with
- 45:04restrictions, you know, it kind of increases the likelihood.
- 45:07We had people do drugs, you know people I know for instance here
- 45:10on are slightly related know we've had a massive increase in
- 45:14domestic violence. I think it's like 70% 80%.
- 45:18Something scary, like that dude. You know if that's increased
- 45:22during during that time or. Yeah, definitely.
- 45:25So we've Americas in the same thing with domestic violence
- 45:29going up, unfortunately, and then yeah, definitely with
- 45:36addiction as well. All those numbers have also gone
- 45:40up and like amount. I think we've also had like,
- 45:45attempted like suicide and like, other stuff like that is gone up
- 45:50as well. And like, depression.
- 45:54I know that like, I ended up going to counseling over the
- 46:01pandemic for a couple reasons, but like definitely being
- 46:04isolated was part of that. And it's just not been good for
- 46:09anybody's mental health. I don't imagine it has been very
- 46:13difficult for me. Actually, I've been because I
- 46:16might revise my choice but I chose to move to a different
- 46:19city in February of last year. So I don't know anyone here
- 46:23haven't been able to make friends or anything and I live
- 46:26in a house where I there's people coming and going all the
- 46:28time. So I I do see people from time
- 46:32to time but ultimately it people like for instance the other day
- 46:34someone moved out so there's like two more people.
- 46:37In the house, but it's mostly like, there's been times when
- 46:39there's been no one and staff and I think there's a certain
- 46:44degree of benefits of being fridge and single alone and all
- 46:49that. But at the same time, even for
- 46:51me, I never thought it would catch up with me, but it has in
- 46:54some respects and it's interesting to say the least, I
- 46:59know for a fact, if I didn't have this YouTube stuff to do, I
- 47:03would probably have lost my night Mind by this point, which
- 47:06is quite It's scary to think about it.
- 47:10Is what it is? Anyway, moving on, let's let's
- 47:16maybe talk about something a bit more funnier.
- 47:18Have there been any like crazy stories because we hear about
- 47:22this in the UK and we've had some in the UK as well.
- 47:26I know the beginning of the first lock down.
- 47:28There were people stockpiling on toilet tissue and salmon hand?
- 47:33Sanitizers, obviously there's been people stockpiling stuff
- 47:36with the Should have selling. It was some crazy shit that
- 47:39you've guys have seen. All right?
- 47:41So I worked retail for two years, like, I just recently,
- 47:46quit when yeah, I just, I went in retail, so I know that.
- 47:52That's a good feeling. When you when you do that,
- 47:55fantastic. I got a job where I don't have
- 47:57to deal with the general public and it is the best, it's so
- 48:01great success. But anyway, I like it.
- 48:05Got to the point at my store where we We were getting trucks
- 48:08like in the thousands, just fill the toilet paper and stuff like
- 48:13and I worked at a small little drugstore.
- 48:15So our stock room was just completely filled with toilet
- 48:18paper and all this stuff because we put it out one day.
- 48:22And the next day, just all gone and it was like that for weeks
- 48:25and it was nuts. But we had to limit people.
- 48:30And in our system, we couldn't scan more than one or two rolls
- 48:34of toilet paper. Because We just buy the entire
- 48:38store if they could do people reacts like really aggressive
- 48:42they just like any kind of situations on your hands or with
- 48:45people, right? For the most part people were
- 48:48cool. I mean, you get those people
- 48:50every once in a while where they're like, oh, that doesn't
- 48:52make sense. Why is that their Rule?
- 48:53And I'm like, I'm sorry like I don't make the rules if it's a
- 48:56corporate thing. I'm sorry, previously, all these
- 49:00that marbles, but that I got I made a video on this recently.
- 49:04My second Channel about, you know, how to get what you want
- 49:08from customer services and then can tell you it.
- 49:10Sure as shit isn't by being rude and attacking the guy behind the
- 49:14counter or the girl on the phone, it's like he's going to
- 49:16be calm. You know, and say stuff like,
- 49:19hey, I know it's not your problem.
- 49:21Hey, I know that there's something that can be done.
- 49:23You can even do the whole manager thing without being a
- 49:26dick, it's possible. Yeah.
- 49:29It's I've gotten Snappy with my parents about that since I I've
- 49:34also worked retail jobs and then like like other like serve it
- 49:38like food service jobs too. And so like my, my parents will
- 49:44get kind of snippy with people at point so I'll be like, hey,
- 49:46this is Not their problem. Now load of time, you'll be
- 49:50working for a place and it will have like some dumb fuck rule
- 49:54that you know is dumb. Fuck as thing like people assume
- 49:57like oh they're working in retail.
- 49:59They're working Hospitality they must be idiots.
- 50:01They must not understand. No on the contrary the people
- 50:04that tend to run the business, they actually ironically tend to
- 50:07be the idiots but the people actually working on the front
- 50:10lines are usually very intelligent people.
- 50:12You know, people studying people, you know, whatever like
- 50:15it's a frustrating job to be in like I'm When I was working in a
- 50:18hotel, he's a really good example, right?
- 50:23So, we had this four-star hotel that I worked at.
- 50:26Then you walk in and it's got a lounge area, right?
- 50:30And to the far left, you've got a la carte restaurant to the far
- 50:33right. You've got a buffet restaurant
- 50:36and then further on this, like a banqueting area, blah, blah
- 50:38blah. Right now, our main bar when I
- 50:41first joined was a standard by you know, has Pine cider bottle.
- 50:47Beers 15 million types of gin because apparently that's a
- 50:51thing. I don't know how people can
- 50:52stomach that takes a shit. But anyway, I hate gym and
- 50:57Cocktails right cocktails. It's a big thing.
- 51:00Yeah, you can come to a four star hotel you want to do you
- 51:02want a cocktail? You know it's a enjoyable thing
- 51:04to have then at some point they decide and we also are important
- 51:08points of the story, we had another bar in the a la carte
- 51:11restaurant. However, that restaurant is not
- 51:13always open for certain poop here points of the day.
- 51:17I'll be important later. So, this main bar for about 8
- 51:22months is just a normal bar and then we decided to Rebrand.
- 51:26It's a gin cocktail bar and I was like it's a my managers I
- 51:30say that again gin cocktail. And I was like, is that a thing
- 51:33to people have gin cocktails and he's like, yeah, we've got this
- 51:36whole list put out. It's going to be gray.
- 51:38Oh, by the way, don't serve people regular cocktails and I
- 51:42was like what do you mean? And he's like if they say, they
- 51:47want to This cocktail say no, and I'm like you're creating
- 51:50problems for me right now, you're telling me I have to say
- 51:53no to people. And for a good four months, five
- 51:59months, I had to just tell, not only new customers who would get
- 52:03annoyed but regular clientele people that, you know, there's
- 52:07always people that come in that you have the same argument with
- 52:10and they're just, they just, they know what they're doing and
- 52:12you doesn't matter how many times you tell them, you know,
- 52:15they're just trying to like they're trying to That new
- 52:17person that doesn't know and then they can get what they
- 52:19want. That's what they're trying to
- 52:20do. So, anyway, after like four or
- 52:22five months of this ship, it got to the point where we had to
- 52:26start accepting cocktail orders again, but from the other bar.
- 52:30So, not the main bar. The other bar, which meant that
- 52:32you'd have to have a member of Staff.
- 52:33Go down to that other bar, open up the bar, then make the
- 52:37cocktail, then bring it back and then you would get a bunch of
- 52:39complaints from people about. Well, this is taking too long
- 52:42why can't I get it from the mange it like, you know, plays
- 52:45oh it's taken like half an hour and Bear in mind, we're always
- 52:48understaffed. It goes on and on and on and I
- 52:53thought why not just why not just fucking serve cocktails
- 52:57from the main bar and it got to a point where I was like, you
- 52:59know what, screw this management, I'm just going to
- 53:00just do it anyway, I have to stuff here, I can make it, so
- 53:03I'm going to make it screw you and that's kind of like how I
- 53:06would often kind of approach it. But point being that there will
- 53:11always be these like dumb, fuck rules to aren't the fault of the
- 53:13people working there. It's some sometimes it's because
- 53:17If you know, business press requirements that have made it
- 53:20that way, sometimes it's like a health and safety issue and
- 53:24sometimes it's like a policy issue and I think that's the
- 53:27major thing when it's not like a law or not.
- 53:29Something that's like etched in stone.
- 53:32When you say policy, that's basically your way of saying we
- 53:35could change this but we've decided to be difficult on
- 53:38purpose. Like just just a fucking you.
- 53:43Yeah. To run about stuff like that.
- 53:48I don't know. It's like, that's in my rearview
- 53:51mirror. You know, I stopped working in
- 53:54Hospitality about Pakistan, four years ago now, well, but and it
- 54:00wasn't. It wasn't bad.
- 54:01For the most part. It was, it was fairly enjoyable.
- 54:03I working a bar. If you haven't done that, that's
- 54:05a lot of fun, but actually just working customer service is
- 54:09brutal because of, yeah, the way people speak to you for the most
- 54:11part, like, I generally wouldn't have issues with my managers.
- 54:14It would always be those customers.
- 54:17And you try to be as accommodating as you can.
- 54:20But sometimes people are just unreasonable.
- 54:23You know? I mean that, that whole thing,
- 54:24if the customer is always right is bullshit.
- 54:27I don't know who came up with that but just, no, no.
- 54:32It's we even had. I worked in the kitchen at a bar
- 54:36for a little while, and we would have like, things happen between
- 54:41like, the kitchen staff and the waiting staff where it's like,
- 54:45there would be miscommunications there.
- 54:47And then everybody would be blaming everyone else.
- 54:50Then it's normally, I mean, this is my experience, it's normally
- 54:54that like someone in the waiting staff doesn't know what the fuck
- 54:58they're doing. And then so like, for example,
- 55:01something gets sent out from the kitchen and it's like, it needs
- 55:05to be like this. And you need to explain X, Y,
- 55:06and Z to the customer and then it gets sent back to the kitchen
- 55:09when it gets sent back to the kitchen.
- 55:11That's the worst because I don't know what it is about chefs,
- 55:14right? But like, maybe it's the stress
- 55:16there. I know it's a very stressful
- 55:17job, but when somebody gets sent back to the kitchen, you just
- 55:20see someone's face, turn from, like, naught 298 in the spit
- 55:24like they just go. They switched.
- 55:26Really aggressive. And if you're there, you're the
- 55:28one that's getting showered. Was it, your foot doesn't matter
- 55:31if it's your fucking sort of Alex, your feet never there.
- 55:34Therefore, it's always the customer being unreasonable and
- 55:37this is not me shitting on Chefs or anything.
- 55:40I think for the most part, I would lean on the side of the
- 55:43chef being, right? Because the amount of stuff I've
- 55:46heard Comfort, like I remember there was this one place I
- 55:49worked out where they would send through like this person sent
- 55:53kept sending back like a steak. Take and they wanted it.
- 55:57Like they said, they wanted the piping hot.
- 56:00I want this piping hot, it's not hot enough.
- 56:02It's so cold. And it's like you couldn't, you
- 56:06couldn't make it any hotter, unless you like, burnt it in
- 56:09like the fires of hell, you know, maybe maybe then it would
- 56:13be good enough but it just, you know, what I mean?
- 56:15And like, yeah, I had the same problem with, like, afternoon,
- 56:18teas. You get people just like, it's
- 56:20not hard enough, it's lukewarm. And it's like, what the fuck?
- 56:23I just boiled it like, how much hotter?
- 56:26You get, like, I don't understand like what what, what
- 56:29is wrong with your body that you can't acknowledge that?
- 56:32This is steaming hot. Like, literally, I showed it to
- 56:34my manager. It's like look, there's steam
- 56:36coming out of this pot. What is wrong with you?
- 56:44We would have. Yeah, we would have liked some
- 56:49of the waiters, we would have a lot of turnover with the waiting
- 56:52staff. And so we would have waiters or
- 56:54waitresses who are putting in in orders for like items we didn't
- 56:59have or like asked like customers would ask them if we
- 57:03could like prepare things in ways that we Like the equipment
- 57:08to make it that way. And so like my man, my the
- 57:14kitchen manager would have to call them up and be like we
- 57:16can't do this. You need to go tell the customer
- 57:19that and then see what they want us to do.
- 57:22And then it would take like significantly longer for us to
- 57:25make what we needed to make. The thing is, customers will
- 57:29complain about the stupidest thing, like I was, I was working
- 57:33one day, this lady comes in, she's like, Oh, I just want $200
- 57:37worth of stuff and I didn't get my 50 Cent coupon and the way
- 57:42our system was means we have to return all that stuff and
- 57:46rearing it back up just so she can get a fifty cents back.
- 57:51It's like how how are you that petty with money that you're
- 57:55going to make us waste half hour of our time to do that?
- 58:01Yeah I know I know what you mean.
- 58:03I'm I never forget this. I remember hearing about Story
- 58:06of like because I worked in this Supermarket, one time it was
- 58:10like a little to do Supermarket, you know, upmarket.
- 58:14So like everyone that came in is, you know, they live in like
- 58:17a 5,000,000 pound house or whatever.
- 58:19And we had David Tennant, come in, who was very famously,
- 58:23Doctor Who, or one point. And it's not even funny really
- 58:29basically, he came in and he shouted at this, like 16 year
- 58:33old cashier for like 20 minutes About yeah, a coupon or no, I
- 58:39wasn't even a coup. It was like, ah, he was buying
- 58:41some cheese or ham and it was like two pounds, more expensive
- 58:47and you know he just grilled this poor young 16 year old and
- 58:52it's like, dude, you're fucking rich.
- 58:55Like what the fuck do you care? It's always.
- 58:57Oh, it's wrong. It's like two pounds more.
- 58:59Get your fucking priority. Straight motherfucker.
- 59:03I don't know. It's I mean, sometimes people
- 59:07said like all people would just stressed and they just want
- 59:09stuff the way they are, but I put it down to pain or some
- 59:12other time. He's people being pay and this
- 59:15is the thing. When you're working in customer
- 59:16service, you've just got to take shit from people.
- 59:19You just have to smile nod, grit your teeth and be like, yeah,
- 59:22it's great. Yeah, I want to kill myself but
- 59:25it's great. Yeah, yeah, we're part of a team
- 59:28even though we're not and and like, I mean, I think, you know,
- 59:35you just got to kind of be resilient.
- 59:37I think that's the best thing you can do, but I will say one
- 59:40thing and defensive. Most most teams I work with is
- 59:42that normally the managers will have your back and, you know,
- 59:46there is always a line between. Okay, we need to do what we can
- 59:49for the customer versus know, that customers being
- 59:52unreasonable, will tell them where to go like that.
- 59:54There is, there is always a line and hopefully you have a manager
- 59:57that's like that that goes, that makes a judgment call because
- 59:59some managers don't some managers will do anything for
- 1:00:02the And then that's why you have those is like instances where
- 1:00:06people are being so unreasonable it's because you never said no.
- 1:00:10It's like when you're a kid like you can't give your kid
- 1:00:13everything they want and sometimes you have to say no and
- 1:00:17then you have to explain like why they're not getting what
- 1:00:20they want you know you can't just give someone what they want
- 1:00:2224/7. It's I I've come to realize like
- 1:00:30how relatable like doing Omer service things is and like we
- 1:00:35have thrown around the idea that like, at some point we want to
- 1:00:39write, like, a full, like EP or album about customer service
- 1:00:45because we have some sketch ideas for that, too.
- 1:00:50Because we've both, we've both probably worked different,
- 1:00:54customer service jobs for like five or six years each.
- 1:00:58And so, we both have enough like little anecdotes that we could
- 1:01:02probably write a full. Album about it.
- 1:01:05I think people would really enjoy listening to that.
- 1:01:07It's good. Like, for instance, I appeared
- 1:01:09on a podcast recently and we know I didn't really appear on
- 1:01:13it. I sort of recorded pre-recorded
- 1:01:15something for it was shout out to the Hotel, Hell podcast.
- 1:01:20It's literally just a podcast where you just took about, you
- 1:01:24know, your bad times working for hotels.
- 1:01:27And I was able to give a story about the place that I worked at
- 1:01:31very briefly and It's surprising that you don't hear more people
- 1:01:35talk about this because there's always people talking about our
- 1:01:38customer service, I received that was just terrible, a place
- 1:01:41that I worked there was terrible but there doesn't seem to be
- 1:01:43like people talking about it on an ongoing basis or like as you
- 1:01:47say like fire or project. I think that would be really
- 1:01:49cool to hear the glove people would would benefit from that
- 1:01:53and be able to relate to it. That's the thing most of us have
- 1:01:55worked in customer services are going to get for many of us.
- 1:01:59It's like a starting block. Isn't it's the easiest job you
- 1:02:01can do where, you know, You don't even necessarily have to
- 1:02:04have the full skill set. I will say this though there's a
- 1:02:09lot of people that work in customer services that can't do
- 1:02:12the job and because people think, oh, it's easy.
- 1:02:14You just serve people there. No problem but no, no, you've
- 1:02:17got it. You've got to have many
- 1:02:18different skills, you got to be a Salesman, you've got to be
- 1:02:22able to handle pressure, you got to be able to work very, very
- 1:02:25fast. You need to go to be reasonably
- 1:02:27fit to do the job. And yeah, you kind of gotta
- 1:02:30like, Be able to just do everything at once even though
- 1:02:35you don't have enough time. Like I think that was the first
- 1:02:37time that I learned that a lot of the time when you when you
- 1:02:40work in a job you don't have enough time to do all the work.
- 1:02:43So you have to find a way to kind of like I look at it like
- 1:02:47balancing plates like on on a walk.
- 1:02:51What was that thing spinning plates?
- 1:02:52You know, when you got the sticks and shit and you like
- 1:02:55that's basically what working in customer services.
- 1:02:59And yeah, I don't think every One could do it.
- 1:03:02You know, I've worked with people that would crack under
- 1:03:05pressure or you know, just just wouldn't be able to hack it and
- 1:03:09it kind of reinforce that belief in my mind that like it, it's
- 1:03:12not for everyone even though it's the easiest one of the
- 1:03:15easiest forms of work it you know not everyone can do it,
- 1:03:18which is interesting. It's like the place I worked at
- 1:03:21wasn't. I wasn't just a cashier like
- 1:03:23they had a photo department. I was on the floor like stocking
- 1:03:26shelves. I was unloading trucks every
- 1:03:28Thursday and Friday so it's like every day is like working in new
- 1:03:31job. Bob, I thought the funny thing
- 1:03:33about that I remember when I first started working at the
- 1:03:38supermarket place because you obviously you never to be end up
- 1:03:40getting cross trained everywhere and for ages they tried to stop
- 1:03:44me from getting crushed rained on the checkouts.
- 1:03:47And the reason for that was that whenever the store was busy,
- 1:03:51which was often, they would just call you on the checkouts and
- 1:03:54this other section had the ability to do that.
- 1:03:56So didn't matter that you were doing your work, you would just
- 1:03:59get pulled away. So this delivery Supposed to do
- 1:04:02within the course of say an hour, an hour and a half, would
- 1:04:04then get pushed back and then you will be delayed by many
- 1:04:07hours because you have to go on that.
- 1:04:09Check out and who's to say, hello, you going to be on there,
- 1:04:12maybe 20 minutes, maybe an hour, I'm a boys on there for like an
- 1:04:15hour and a half one time. Let's just like this is all
- 1:04:18good. Why did you get that done?
- 1:04:20Was some checkouts right now and a half?
- 1:04:22God damn it. It's true.
- 1:04:26And like it's almost like the more you can do.
- 1:04:29The more hassle. It is for you as well.
- 1:04:31Because It's like you end up just going everywhere and in a
- 1:04:35way it's kind of cool I suppose because you get to work at
- 1:04:38different places but at the same time it's like that away.
- 1:04:42You're going to end up. You don't know like it's much
- 1:04:45easier when you're in just in one place because then you can
- 1:04:47kind of know everything that's going on in that particular
- 1:04:50area, whereas if you're in everywhere, you don't have like
- 1:04:53a fool. Kind of understanding or you
- 1:04:57don't know, it's overwhelming. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:05:00Yeah. You know, I'm driving on.
- 1:05:01Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got you.
- 1:05:04Anyway, that's move it forward. What do you guys actually doing
- 1:05:08for a living right now is are you kind of do stuff online?
- 1:05:12Or what's the deal? Yeah, you go first.
- 1:05:18Okay, lines will all more complicated.
- 1:05:22I'm just like in school right now.
- 1:05:25And then I feel like last semester of school, I was
- 1:05:30working at the bar, but I have a heavier semester this semester,
- 1:05:35so I'm going to quit but I've been doing like the Livery
- 1:05:38driving. I've just been doing a lot of
- 1:05:41just like odd jobs. I collect Baseball cards and
- 1:05:48stuff. And so I have like a lot of like
- 1:05:52built up like stock of stuff that I've been selling to make a
- 1:05:55little bit of money and then like, doing the delivery stuff
- 1:06:00but I guess, technically, I'm unemployed right now.
- 1:06:04Yeah, me, too. There's nothing shameful about
- 1:06:07that employed since February last year, which blows my mind
- 1:06:15because Does have a degree have free years experience in my
- 1:06:18field. I mean, I am freelancing in
- 1:06:21marketing but yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't, that is not often
- 1:06:26enough and doesn't pay enough. So, here I am doing this.
- 1:06:31Yeah. I after like I never quit a job
- 1:06:36before and then in the past year I've quit three jobs.
- 1:06:42I worked. I worked in a dining hall at my
- 1:06:44University. And then I quit and over the
- 1:06:47summer, I worked at a Goodwill, which is a thrift store, and
- 1:06:52then I quit there at the end of the summer, because I didn't
- 1:06:56have enough time to work during the semester and then I worked
- 1:06:59at the bar and now I quit there, it's kind of fun.
- 1:07:03So, in a way, I'm going drive, please.
- 1:07:08I worked retail for a good, two, three years and then I don't
- 1:07:13know. So I was supposed to get
- 1:07:16promoted to a manager and they're like, oh yeah, it can go
- 1:07:20through and then all of a sudden, they're like, oh yeah,
- 1:07:24by the way, you're not becoming a manager anymore.
- 1:07:27Yes. I was like, well, screw this.
- 1:07:29Then I'm not gonna work here. If you guys are going to keep
- 1:07:32working with it that's and I'll give me any sort of promotion or
- 1:07:35anything. So I quit that job and worked
- 1:07:38with my friend in. I'm working in agriculture right
- 1:07:40now. Decors on the bug Farm, Cricket
- 1:07:46Farm, okay, you've got this, what kind of cricket fun I work
- 1:07:53on a cricket Farm which they breed and produce crickets to
- 1:07:58sell the pet stores and stuff, okay.
- 1:08:01To for, you know, like different reptiles and stuff.
- 1:08:04So I don't work in the production part which is what my
- 1:08:07friend does. I work in shipping which is
- 1:08:10folding and making the boxes to put the bugs in.
- 1:08:14Then I actually like put the Crickets themselves in boxes and
- 1:08:18ship them out to different stores.
- 1:08:21Okay. And how are you?
- 1:08:23How are you finding that so far? It's not bad.
- 1:08:27I mean, it's definitely an odd job and everyone I tell about is
- 1:08:31like dude that's actually a thing.
- 1:08:36Yeah, yeah. I'm like I had to go to my boss
- 1:08:39and be like, I promise you, I'm not making this up.
- 1:08:42I have to quit because I work at a cricket Farm, it's definitely
- 1:08:47an odd job, but it's not bad. Tedious.
- 1:08:52But it's not a bad job at all. I just plug in my headphones or
- 1:08:55talk to my coworkers and that's it.
- 1:08:57I'm pretty sure who she asks idea where it isn't it?
- 1:09:00I'm not sure if this is the first time I've ever heard.
- 1:09:03You describe it as working in agriculture and I think that's
- 1:09:06hilarious. I mean, it's technically what it
- 1:09:09is. Oh no, he's not.
- 1:09:22It's a farm I guess you could say you're a farmer.
- 1:09:50that stuff has been there for but yeah, they No, no hate
- 1:09:56towards our staff. I just know your sandwich artist
- 1:10:00that implies that there's actually some Talent involved in
- 1:10:03making the sandwiches. And there's not, I've seen it.
- 1:10:06Anyone can do that. It'll mean, at least with if
- 1:10:09you're a fucking Barista there's like you do have to learn like
- 1:10:12how to make the coffee, it's a major making drinks and there's
- 1:10:15a good way to do it and then there's the wrong way to do it.
- 1:10:16You know what I mean? Whereas with sandwich, how do
- 1:10:19you fuck making up a sandwich? Like, well I So, part of my job
- 1:10:25at the dining hall, there was like a section of it that I had
- 1:10:29to know how to do both. I had to know how to like, make
- 1:10:32coffee as it, like, kind of a barista.
- 1:10:35And then there was another section where I had to make
- 1:10:38sandwiches. There's a surprising amount of
- 1:10:41ways that you can mess up people sandwiches and they'll complain
- 1:10:44to you about it. Shoot through some examples to
- 1:10:47me, come on. Um, there's definitely like you
- 1:10:52can forget to toast it if they tell you to To it's a lot of
- 1:10:55just like you forget to do stuff.
- 1:10:57Like, you'll forget to put one thing on and then if a person is
- 1:11:01like neurotic enough, they'll come complain to you about it.
- 1:11:06The one time I was like this, like this was like three years
- 1:11:11ago but I was like, the slightest bit under the weather.
- 1:11:15It wasn't even like I was like, fine, but I like went off to the
- 1:11:20side and I like cough in my elbow.
- 1:11:23Yeah. And Yeah, and it's not like I
- 1:11:28like changed my gloves and then like somebody complain to my
- 1:11:32manager about that. Oh man, I'm like, all of my,
- 1:11:43like, we had like student managers and then they'll like,
- 1:11:47head manager and so like, they complain to the head manager
- 1:11:51about it. And, like, all of the student
- 1:11:54managers that were there, one over to the main manager and
- 1:11:57we're like, yeah, he did nothing wrong like, this is like this
- 1:12:01person is complaining about nothing.
- 1:12:06It's kind of scary to think, as well, like how things are
- 1:12:09changed. Where like, before, if you
- 1:12:10coughed it's like oh the, where is now?
- 1:12:13If you cough it's like he's got the virus committed a crime,
- 1:12:18he's cute. He's gonna kill us.
- 1:12:20All that's that's why it's like I wanted to clarify it was like
- 1:12:25two or three years ago because it's like that would be like if
- 1:12:28I like that out, if I went to work a little bit under the
- 1:12:32weather. Now, like that is Doctor
- 1:12:36anymore. Yeah, it's the new normal is and
- 1:12:39I think things have changed. I mean, just one thing I made a
- 1:12:43video recently, kind of feel like, I'm fucking plugging
- 1:12:46myself 24/7 in this podcast about, like the benefits of the
- 1:12:51pandemic. Which sounds like, what the
- 1:12:53fuck, how can I be benefits? But I do actually think there
- 1:12:55will be a few things pertaining to hygiene, that will actually
- 1:12:59improve for the better. And one of them is like how
- 1:13:02especially in customer service jobs, you can't be ill.
- 1:13:05Like, God, forbid, you're ill and you have a day off because
- 1:13:08they're just fire your ass. And I think now, if you say
- 1:13:13you're ill, it's like all, oh no, you stay home.
- 1:13:16Like, you take care of yourself. Be safe, be well, and that's a
- 1:13:19good thing. I think if we can somehow keep
- 1:13:22that element of like, you know, they're actually taken sickness
- 1:13:25seriously because don't get me wrong.
- 1:13:26People, do exploit the system, but you can tell there's a
- 1:13:31difference between when someone has the flu versus while someone
- 1:13:34was drinking last night. And now that too drunk, I'm a
- 1:13:37cop be bothered to come to work. There is a clear difference and
- 1:13:39you can always tell the difference.
- 1:13:41Like I remember getting really pissed off, working my fucking
- 1:13:44ass off and I was in a similar position to you Joe where, you
- 1:13:47know, I was in the Runnings to get a promotion for this job,
- 1:13:52and, you know, I mean, I didn't want to work in a supermarket, I
- 1:13:55hated it. But, like, I wanted to, at least
- 1:13:58get that that promotion before I left and kind of just have
- 1:14:01something to string in my bones before I kind of moved on with
- 1:14:04my life. And it was promised to me and
- 1:14:08you know I worked hard enough. I had the right attitude for
- 1:14:11like at least like a year and a half.
- 1:14:12I was in the running for it and then it just never came and the
- 1:14:16longer I was there the more I realized how things really work
- 1:14:20and then you know, my attitude just went, mmm.
- 1:14:23Because why should you give a fuck about place?
- 1:14:25That doesn't give a fuck about you when it came to those days,
- 1:14:28where, you know, you were sick and I genuinely was sick.
- 1:14:31My rule was always if I feel like death.
- 1:14:35And I can't move out of my bed. I'm taking the day off and I had
- 1:14:38to commute quite fire to commute about an hour and a half to get
- 1:14:42their back and forth. So I really meant it when I was
- 1:14:47sick and I can't count how many times they just gave me.
- 1:14:52He'll for that. And I just when I think about
- 1:14:55the day that I Quit, It Was Not only was it satisfying as far as
- 1:15:00just never having to go back to that place but it was three
- 1:15:03years of that shit, three years I've never been Entrusted, three
- 1:15:07years working my ass off for nothing for years of people
- 1:15:11talking to you. Like, you're a little bit of
- 1:15:12shit on the floor. Like, people don't realize this,
- 1:15:14but working in customer services.
- 1:15:16When it comes to these things like takes its toll on you like
- 1:15:20mentally physically everything and so, yeah.
- 1:15:23That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I would come home from
- 1:15:26work, mentally, and physically drained, and it's awful and you
- 1:15:31should not do like that. Ever going to work exactly.
- 1:15:34It's like when I was enough, Nice job.
- 1:15:36I was younger. Like I'm 27 now but back then I
- 1:15:38was between the ages of 18 to 21 and I was in this metal band at
- 1:15:43the time. And so I work like 40 hours a
- 1:15:46week, often something like 6:30 till 3:30 3:53, you know,
- 1:15:52sometimes later, and then I would go and play a fucking
- 1:15:54Heavy Metal Show somewhere in London.
- 1:15:57And you know, lug around heavy equipment more this.
- 1:15:59And I'm thinking, how did that have the energy?
- 1:16:02Like, how I could never do that now?
- 1:16:05Exhausted. After a day's.
- 1:16:07I mean, I do volunteering right now once a week on a Monday and
- 1:16:12it can be anything from like delivering heavy Furniture to
- 1:16:15like serving in their shop and giving food to the homeless and
- 1:16:17stuff. But like I come home after like,
- 1:16:23Was it like 3:51 exhausted? Sometimes the day sure if it's
- 1:16:27in the shop, it's like 1:51 and I'm like a zombie afterwards.
- 1:16:33I'm like, how the fuck did I do that?
- 1:16:35I guess. Is this guy playing is?
- 1:16:38I'm in another band to so sometimes like I would go to
- 1:16:41work and immediately after go to practices and stuff and play
- 1:16:45live shows with that band and it's like that's exhausting and
- 1:16:51now it's on The point after doing that for a while, we still
- 1:16:54do it. But now it's at the point where
- 1:16:56I'll get home from work and like 10:00 or hit, and I'm like, I'm
- 1:16:59done for the day like out, whereas I used to be up till
- 1:17:03like 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.
- 1:17:04It's like, how did I do that for so long?
- 1:17:07Yeah. No, I'm totally the same.
- 1:17:10Like I, yeah, I used to especially my teen years.
- 1:17:13I used to like, you know, do gaming up until like 3:00 4:00
- 1:17:17a.m. and then go to bed. Wake up like 2 p.m. and then the
- 1:17:21next day Day or whatever. And like these days I feel like
- 1:17:25an old man. I go to bed at like 11:00
- 1:17:28sometimes earlier than that. Wake up at like 8:00 a.m.
- 1:17:31without an alarm like my body, just wakes me up at that time.
- 1:17:34Like my Gout motherfucker, I don't want to have a lay-in.
- 1:17:37I'm unemployed. I may never be unemployed again
- 1:17:40in my life. I want to enjoy being able to
- 1:17:41wake up whenever the fuck I want.
- 1:17:43No, no, you're going to get the fuck up.
- 1:17:45This is like, yeah, I know I I did like high school sports, I
- 1:17:51played Ball like American football, I wrestled, and I
- 1:17:56threw shot, put and discus, but like, I would like get like five
- 1:18:02hours of sleep and then go to school from like, 7:00 a.m.
- 1:18:06until 2:30. And then I would go to practice
- 1:18:09afterwards and I don't know how I did any of that because I
- 1:18:13couldn't do like one of those things.
- 1:18:15Now, Know how basic and obvious those have sound, but I think
- 1:18:20it's just a case of like when you have to do shit.
- 1:18:22You just, you just make it work somehow, and then you think
- 1:18:26about it afterwards and you're like, what I could never do, but
- 1:18:29let's be real. Even right now.
- 1:18:31I could I could do it, somehow, I'd find a way, it would
- 1:18:35probably be with a lot of hell of a lot more caffeine because I
- 1:18:37think when you're younger, you just have more energy.
- 1:18:40But when you get older, you need to like it constantly inject
- 1:18:42like coughing into your veins and shit, okay?
- 1:18:44Coffee I said, coffee and caffeine, that's Seeing stuff,
- 1:18:48that's why I was drinking coffee for like the first half of this
- 1:18:51podcast. I need so much in the mornings.
- 1:18:58Honestly, I just drink it all the old, a bet even has an
- 1:19:00effect on me. Now, most of the time I have to
- 1:19:02have like espresso coffee or something to stay awake, I
- 1:19:05really strong stuff. And yeah.
- 1:19:09Anyway, moving on, what are the best and worst things about
- 1:19:14living in Pennsylvania? Forget about the covid-19, it
- 1:19:17doesn't exist, sell me Pennsylvania, the good and the
- 1:19:20bad. I'm going to start - it gets
- 1:19:28pretty cold here in the winters and it snows a lot.
- 1:19:33I know that's something that Joe hates to, I live on the hill.
- 1:19:38So, I live on a hill and I have a front wheel drive car.
- 1:19:41So when it snows, hmm, it is Hell.
- 1:19:44Absolute hell? Oh, okay.
- 1:19:47I know what the worst thing is, though, the weather's pretty bad
- 1:19:51but the roads are awful here. Whole city.
- 1:19:56Yeah, the potholes people drive really stupid.
- 1:20:03I wrote. I have a stand-up bit about how
- 1:20:05bad PA Drivers. Are the other day.
- 1:20:10I was driving it. This has happened to me for the
- 1:20:12past like month. I've been driving.
- 1:20:14Its pitch black at night and just nobody has their lights on
- 1:20:17all of a sudden. People just don't want to put
- 1:20:20their lights on. It's like, how can you drive
- 1:20:23your car? Not seeing anything and expect
- 1:20:26other people to be able to see you.
- 1:20:29When I lived in Europe, funnily enough, I experienced the same
- 1:20:32thing and I lived in this country called dystonia, which
- 1:20:36is quite close to Russia and Finland Latvia.
- 1:20:44And they're often times when I would commute in, from the city,
- 1:20:49to the country side of Vice Versa, and in the winter
- 1:20:52Jaeger's, really dark really quickly.
- 1:20:54So I'll be on a bus And it's just pitch black.
- 1:20:56There's no fucking light anywhere.
- 1:20:58And it's like, once in a blue moon, you'll see, like, a street
- 1:21:01light or something, but I noticed quite quickly that.
- 1:21:06Yeah, cars just wouldn't have their lights on or the did the
- 1:21:10worst thing where they don't have their lights on until the
- 1:21:12last minute and then they put not only their standard lights
- 1:21:15on, but the Blinder lights we're like lights up like a fucking
- 1:21:17Christmas tree. It says like.
- 1:21:20So like if you're driving in a car or a bus or whatever and you
- 1:21:23get that at the last minute, it can blind you.
- 1:21:24And then You could fucking crash or something, but they just seem
- 1:21:27to all be like, really chill about it.
- 1:21:29La la, whatever I do. This everyday, blah, blah, blah.
- 1:21:32Yeah, it's nice to have your lights on.
- 1:21:34Make everyone's lives easier including your own, like I don't
- 1:21:37understand that. Yeah, I have I have a bit in
- 1:21:43where I'm talking about like the roads themselves to, and like,
- 1:21:48like the drivers are very bad. And I hate a lot of people who
- 1:21:51drive in Pennsylvania but I There's a bit where I say, like
- 1:22:02PA roads are worse than New Jersey, and New Jersey is
- 1:22:06considered the armpit of America.
- 1:22:09So if you're worse than New Jersey at anything, other than
- 1:22:14being bad at things, you need to re-evaluate.
- 1:22:17How you're running your state. Yeah, let's keep talking about
- 1:22:25Vania but I want to Circle back to that the good things, good
- 1:22:31things. So it's kinda it's funny cuz
- 1:22:36both of us want to move out of Pennsylvania soon but we don't
- 1:22:42want to be here. I know around this area at least
- 1:22:48some of the more Force. T kind of like nature side of
- 1:22:52Pennsylvania. There's a lot of really nice
- 1:22:54hike. Entrails and just views and
- 1:22:56stuff around here. That is it's always nice to just
- 1:23:02relax and go to these places especially with friends and just
- 1:23:09experience nature itself. So I think that is a nice place
- 1:23:14where and I thought I definitely agree with that and something
- 1:23:17along with that is that like it's very like diverse in like
- 1:23:22the landscape. I mean like the Tape and like,
- 1:23:26demographically, like there. It's like a lot of people move
- 1:23:32from like New York to Pennsylvania, or like a lot of
- 1:23:35people did when New York, was like the hub for immigration.
- 1:23:40So like it. That's one nice thing I like
- 1:23:42about it is there are just a lot of different kinds of people and
- 1:23:47you get to interact with people from all kinds of backgrounds.
- 1:23:51But then, on top of that, like, the area, That I grew up in and
- 1:23:57that Joe lives in. Currently, there's like
- 1:24:00different. It's like a gathering of a lot
- 1:24:04of different cities that like is classified together at times and
- 1:24:09like one, I grew up in a more, like, kind of industrialized,
- 1:24:13like the biggest city out of that grouping.
- 1:24:17And so like, it's more, like, there's like, an Arts District
- 1:24:21and some other stuff there and there's like, one or two.
- 1:24:25Or to other cities like that. But then there's a one nearby
- 1:24:28that's like mostly farmland. And then there are a couple
- 1:24:32cities nearby that are like mixes and so there's just like,
- 1:24:35a lot of different stuff to be able to do.
- 1:24:39I will sit The city I'm from to has just a lot of like mix of
- 1:24:47like high income low income middle income.
- 1:24:50And so, like there's just a lot of different.
- 1:24:53Like areas. Yeah, what's going to say it is
- 1:24:57nice being able to go from like I'm in a sort of a city right
- 1:25:01now and then you drive 20 minutes a half hour and there's
- 1:25:05just like nature and like kind of Countryside like any
- 1:25:09direction you go. Thanks for sharing guys.
- 1:25:13I often ask my guests about this when they're from somewhere.
- 1:25:16That's you know what? I just in general.
- 1:25:18I don't know. I like to ask this question.
- 1:25:21That's definitely the most detailed answer I've ever
- 1:25:23received. Normally people go like, hey,
- 1:25:25you know, there's this and that and it's great in the fall.
- 1:25:28And yeah, that'll be like the end of it.
- 1:25:30But yeah, that's actually a very comprehensive detailed answer.
- 1:25:34So thank you for that now. What's your beef with New
- 1:25:38Jersey? What's the problem there?
- 1:25:43I feel like it's like a Jersey. New Jersey is one of those
- 1:25:46States like New Jersey and Florida are probably the most
- 1:25:51like notorious States. And they have like the most
- 1:25:54widespread like reputation out of any other states because
- 1:26:00Florida is known for just being like insane and just like
- 1:26:04whatever happens there and new Jersey is notorious for just
- 1:26:09being the worst at everything. Like you would you be like,
- 1:26:15sports the economy? Stuff like that, kind of what
- 1:26:19you mean? Like just just not performing.
- 1:26:21Well it's just kind of a rundown state in a larger.
- 1:26:28We're like you go into New Jersey.
- 1:26:29Like I have to go there later today and you go in the jersey
- 1:26:33and you just get this like a media sense of.
- 1:26:35Oh God, I'm in New Jersey. Everywhere you look.
- 1:26:39It's just kind of Gray and Bland and boring.
- 1:26:44I think. Yeah, I mean for some parts,
- 1:26:47there are some like they're a couple nice beaches.
- 1:26:50There are also a couple pretty crappy beaches compared to some
- 1:26:55other states. So, like there are some nice
- 1:27:00Parts, I think it probably gets a were strapped, then it's do.
- 1:27:04But I also think it's really funny to make fun of it.
- 1:27:08Do you know what? Grew up in Jersey so, okay.
- 1:27:11So there's a bit of a person vested interests are Jersey,
- 1:27:17okay? So you're always born there and
- 1:27:23the both of our parents grew up there.
- 1:27:29Like, both of both of our dads grew up there, okay?
- 1:27:32Yeah, and everyone was just quick to get out.
- 1:27:34Basically, it's the same night. Here's the thing for me.
- 1:27:41Obviously, I I don't know much about it.
- 1:27:43The things that I know about about New Jersey's.
- 1:27:46This, I know that it's next to New York.
- 1:27:49I know that for instance, WWE always chooses to do you know,
- 1:27:54like WrestleMania when they want to do like a big one?
- 1:27:58Like WrestleMania, 45, something like that.
- 1:28:00They choose to do it in New Jersey, and say that it's New
- 1:28:03York because it's cheaper to do that than actually hold the
- 1:28:06event in New York. So that that says more on them,
- 1:28:10than then it doesn't need. The, but whenever they say that
- 1:28:14people were quick to remind them, that New Jersey is not New
- 1:28:17York. I also remember watching this,
- 1:28:20this program, How I Met Your Mother That was supposed to be
- 1:28:23set in New York and there were constant jokes particular from
- 1:28:26the character Ted about how shit apparently New Jersey was.
- 1:28:31And I felt like it's the sort of thing that I guess you could
- 1:28:34only really know unless you live in New York or New Jersey and
- 1:28:37could have like that kind of, that point of reference.
- 1:28:41But yeah, Don't know? Just just, can you comment on
- 1:28:43that? Like, what's the deal?
- 1:28:44Why does apparently New York hate New Jersey?
- 1:28:47And why is there a rivalry there?
- 1:28:48And what's the deal there? Please explain this to me.
- 1:28:54I love you bring of How I Met Your Mother because I love that
- 1:28:56show. And I watched it like three
- 1:28:57times in the past two years. But yeah, I mean like that show
- 1:29:02is in New York City and start especially like New York City.
- 1:29:09Probably looks at New Jersey as like It's New York light like
- 1:29:15the same thing as what you are saying with like the WWE stuff.
- 1:29:18Like the NFL has the New York Jets and the New York Giants,
- 1:29:24both of which their stadium is in New Jersey.
- 1:29:30They they both started like they both were created.
- 1:29:36They were in New York City and then they moved to New Jersey
- 1:29:39because like you said, it's cheaper.
- 1:29:43But kept the New York branding because that would be like if
- 1:29:47Manchester United was based in Liverpool like because
- 1:29:52technically Manchester is, I think about an hour from some
- 1:29:55level boards. There's not snot snot far by
- 1:29:57car, but like, that's the same thing because there's a
- 1:30:00understand, New York is right next to New Jersey.
- 1:30:02There's okay. It's a bit distance travel, but
- 1:30:04you can get there within a reasonable time, but it's a
- 1:30:07different place. So, how can you say?
- 1:30:09Oh, you know with with the New York Jets But we're in New
- 1:30:12Jersey, what I mean like they like guy they got their
- 1:30:18grounding in New York actually but it's kind of disease within
- 1:30:24New York, isn't it? As far as like this day?
- 1:30:27Is concerned. Is that right?
- 1:30:30No, it's okay. Yeah.
- 1:30:33So New Jersey is like right next to New York, the state and it's
- 1:30:39probably like what, like 40 minutes hour car ride from New
- 1:30:44York City because this is why I get confused by Sony.
- 1:30:48New York, New York City in the state, but it was you're saying,
- 1:30:52New Jersey is not within the state of New York.
- 1:30:54Is that correct? No New Jersey is its own state.
- 1:30:59Okay, now I understand see that makes a bit more sense, but also
- 1:31:05makes it a bit confusing about. Okay.
- 1:31:08This is just because they're like, they're so close together
- 1:31:10but at the same time it is a different states.
- 1:31:12Different state can't really. That's why I get confused about
- 1:31:15the whole WWE things. It's like they say, oh, we ruin,
- 1:31:18we're in New York and it's like, but you're not, you're not like,
- 1:31:23it's in the same way to a lot of people will, like live in New
- 1:31:29Jersey, but work with York and like take the train to New York
- 1:31:34every yay. What is it?
- 1:31:37That makes sense, though. If it's, if it's not that far
- 1:31:39away, I mean, there's the people did the same thing in London.
- 1:31:41There's people that travel from the Middle, the Midlands to
- 1:31:45places, like, knotting them down into London, which is like two
- 1:31:49hours, maybe, or more, but it's cheaper to do that and pay for
- 1:31:53the rail fair and do it that way than it is to actually live in.
- 1:31:56London - your thanks for sharing.
- 1:32:03I think we've all learned a bit, a little bit more about that.
- 1:32:07As we draw things to a close today.
- 1:32:09Is there any kind of like final thoughts you'd like to share
- 1:32:12with us or maybe some upcoming projects and things you miss the
- 1:32:15whatever, now's your chance to plug.
- 1:32:16Go go, go, go. Yeah.
- 1:32:19So I'm just going to run through everything.
- 1:32:22We have to plug you can follow us on Instagram at the noises
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- 1:32:37Apple music any streaming platform.
- 1:32:40You can imagine these are title just like everything I do still.
- 1:32:46Yeah, title does still exist. We're on tic toc even people
- 1:32:52make tick-tocks with our music sometimes which is interesting.
- 1:32:56Have you guys had a lot of success there actually?
- 1:32:59Surprising couple. We've had a couple covers that
- 1:33:02the original song isn't on Tick-Tock.
- 1:33:04So people use our cover of it surprises me because we never
- 1:33:09even really advertised over on Tick-Tock.
- 1:33:12No. We never have.
- 1:33:14So you should push that. That's a good platform, my God.
- 1:33:17I think Fifi young people like yourselves is to get us a good
- 1:33:19platform to be on. I think it's the reaches insane.
- 1:33:22There's people that get like upwards of like 4 million
- 1:33:26followers and then that they basically don't do anything.
- 1:33:29German philosopher, comedians is perfect.
- 1:33:33We've, we've had some people like, make some pretty big
- 1:33:38creators or not. Pretty big.
- 1:33:39We've had some people with, like, a few hundred thousand
- 1:33:42followers on Tick, Tock, make stuff with our music looks cool.
- 1:33:47But yeah, Big projects we have coming up.
- 1:33:52Like we said, we have an album entitled shoulder, bones and
- 1:33:56kidney stones, releasing on February. 14th.
- 1:34:00It's our first album, It's ten tracks.
- 1:34:05It is intentional that we're releasing on Valentine's Day
- 1:34:07because we think that's funny to the world.
- 1:34:13So if you're lonely on Valentine's Day, follow us on
- 1:34:18your favorite streaming platform and have some fun listening to
- 1:34:22our album. I'll listen and cry because I'm
- 1:34:25like, yeah, I wanted to have a Then to pop some champagne on
- 1:34:31Valentine's Day and I don't have a significant other.
- 1:34:34So there's my reason it on the enough that play fair play.
- 1:34:37There should be a singles day. I hate to sound like better, but
- 1:34:40there should be a fucking singles day, like maybe the
- 1:34:42directly afterwards or even the same day just to fuck with them.
- 1:34:45I don't know. This is because the thing is
- 1:34:49like the thing that's most pissed me off about Valentine's
- 1:34:51Day. Is that?
- 1:34:51It's just like this. Silly holiday where it's made by
- 1:34:57car companies. As we all know and you should
- 1:35:00love your significant other regardless, didn't.
- 1:35:03I mean, it shouldn't be the sort of thing that you have to prove
- 1:35:05it one day. And this is the thing I've been
- 1:35:07in relationships, right? Where it becomes like a fucking
- 1:35:11contest. Well, I guess I got what well,
- 1:35:14you did this? Well, I did this, I bought a
- 1:35:17bouquet and a string, quartet and flowers and we're going on
- 1:35:20holiday to fucking Hawaii and it's like a fucking So that
- 1:35:24doesn't that doesn't say shit. You probably be broken up like
- 1:35:26some more like, come on. Yeah, it's a lie, it's a fast,
- 1:35:31fuck you Valentine's. And it's not because I'm single.
- 1:35:34I feel the same when I'm in a relationship.
- 1:35:36If anything, I get more pissed off because I do Loki, I'll take
- 1:35:39that. I won't be a cheap-ass.
- 1:35:40Will take them out, but I'm not gonna, like, roll out the red
- 1:35:43carpet, because as far as I'm concerned, you should do that
- 1:35:46all the time. It should be sponsored.
- 1:35:47Yeah, it's more romantic to do it like spontaneous.
- 1:35:50Like, you know, you say to a girl, your significant other
- 1:35:53like, Oh what's this innate in? You know, what was the occasion?
- 1:35:57And you go? Because I love you, you know, it
- 1:35:58just writes itself. Whereas Valentine's Day, it's
- 1:36:01like if anything required to do something.
- 1:36:04Yeah, it's like okay I've ticked the Box.
- 1:36:07Yeah, okay, we've done something.
- 1:36:11Yeah. Anyway, so you record releases
- 1:36:16on February 14th, best of luck with that.
- 1:36:19And yeah, just in general guys. Thank you very much for being on
- 1:36:22the show. It's been an absolute pleasure
- 1:36:24getting to know you and hearing about all your different
- 1:36:26projects. I wish you all the best of luck
- 1:36:29in the world with this and yeah, thank you.
- 1:36:32Thank you for being on the show. Yeah, absolutely.
- 1:36:34And thank you so much. Thank you so much for having us
- 1:36:36on it was a really good time. I really appreciate it.
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