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Laughs Unlimited _ Week 8 _ Comedian Mike E. Winfield · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Getting to Know Podcast, Laughs Unlimited, Sacramento. We
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  Speaker 1: are here with Mike E. Winfield. How you doing, Mike?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look, I'm incredible.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like when you think about all these
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  Speaker 3: years that have passed and I still get to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: tell jokes and they'll hand me $ 50.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a dream come true.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I have, it's so funny because there's a
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  Speaker 1: few comics that were at Laughs Unlimited before I took
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  Speaker 1: over Laughs Unlimited that are still around. And that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I feel like that we've all grown up together.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like you and Ellis, cause you were
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  Speaker 1: at laughs unlimited before. Well, you didn't know me cause
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  Speaker 1: I was in the office and quiet and nobody knew me,
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  Speaker 1: but you were, uh, you, you know, you were on,
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, you were on one Oh two five
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  Speaker 1: and you were hosting shows and working with Steve way
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  Speaker 1: back when.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, man. Steve and Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The previous owners.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, but look at this.
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  Speaker 3: I know about the previous owners before Steve and Eve. And, um, Man,
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  Speaker 3: I always get mixed up in a little bit of like,
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  Speaker 3: I had to free myself from little controversies that I
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  Speaker 3: would just dive into. And it was all from the
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  Speaker 3: love of just wanting to do more stand-up.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Those were really great days.
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  Speaker 1: So you knew the original owner, Scott, too?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. It was Scott Edwards, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Some people wear their energy. Like when you can see
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  Speaker 3: them and you just know how they are. That's old Scott, man.
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  Speaker 3: Those are really great times as well.
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  Speaker 1: That is a great description. What's funny is you want
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  Speaker 1: to hear a funny story about Scott is I met
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  Speaker 1: Scott once and I didn't know who he was and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know who I was.
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  Speaker 2: Were you guys on a blind date?
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. So he's an insurance person. He
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  Speaker 1: works in insurance now. And I was at one of
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  Speaker 1: his clients. I was working out at a gym. And
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  Speaker 1: he was their insurance guy. And I was helping them
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  Speaker 1: out with some computer stuff. And it was Brad Bonner.
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  Speaker 1: And then so I was just like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: insurance guy, whatever. I ignored him. He wasn't there to
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  Speaker 1: talk to me. And after he left, Brad goes crazy.
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  Speaker 1: you know who that was, don't you? And I go,
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  Speaker 1: your insurance guy? I have no idea what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, that was Scott Edwards. And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 1: But he had never like met me in person. I
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  Speaker 1: had never met him. So we were just, it was
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  Speaker 1: like being in two different lives because we weren't at
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  Speaker 1: the club. So I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Those are like those photos when they show them when
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  Speaker 3: you were like at Disneyland and someone's in the background.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Later on, you find out, oh, wow, we actually met before.
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  Speaker 2: We had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's exactly it's exactly how it was. And
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  Speaker 1: it was such a trip because and he was like,
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  Speaker 1: you want me to call him back in here? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, no, it's OK. I don't need you.
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  Speaker 1: We're done. No, it's cool to know that I ran
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  Speaker 1: into him once.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: He's actually he's actually reached out a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: because he. you know, still has a lot of love
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  Speaker 1: for comedy and a lot of love for standup. I
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  Speaker 1: think he has like a podcast and some stuff that
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  Speaker 1: he does. And when the 45th anniversary came around, I
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  Speaker 1: asked him and he sent over a lot of pictures
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  Speaker 1: and memorabilia, like the original flyers from opening weekend and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's really great.
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  Speaker 3: Like what I found over time is, you know, everyone
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  Speaker 3: has a different experience with the next person. You know,
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  Speaker 3: and there's people that'll rave about a person. There's people that'll, like,
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  Speaker 3: say terrible things. But everyone's experience is different to each individual.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and I found that to be very relevant.
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  Speaker 3: And what I try to do is the people who
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  Speaker 3: are close to me, especially when I find out, like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: were they treated a certain way? Yeah, I'm probably viewing
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  Speaker 3: differently because I trust the people closest to me.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. Well, and, and, and I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a lot about a lot, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: Scott Edwards days. I know a little bit more. There
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  Speaker 1: was some things that I had to overcome being the
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  Speaker 1: new owner of laughs from Steve. Cause there was some
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  Speaker 1: things that happened in his era, but you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: there's not, I mean, there's always going to be stories
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  Speaker 1: of how somebody is done wrong by whatever I've, I've
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  Speaker 1: been told that I'm, I'm one of those D club
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  Speaker 1: owners that I didn't know who I knew that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be famous back in the day and who I
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  Speaker 1: kept down. I don't know. I've gotten many letters and
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  Speaker 1: emails of hatred.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of it. You're in a hater power position.
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  Speaker 3: That's really great.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. Luckily, I don't take it personally because I
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  Speaker 1: have gotten some pretty... I did get a letter once
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  Speaker 1: telling me to kill myself. Only once? Only once. Only
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  Speaker 1: once that went to that extreme. It's not the only
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  Speaker 1: one that told me that they didn't give two rats
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  Speaker 1: what happens to me in the universe, but only once
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  Speaker 1: that was like, literally kill yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Congrats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Have you gotten more than one?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, comments are crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Over the course of the years, someone will not
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  Speaker 3: like a joke and tell you what to do with
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  Speaker 3: your existence. It's like, man, I wrote that on the toilet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people will really be affected. And, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: it just helps me understand the power of words. Like
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  Speaker 3: we're just out here thinking we're just funny, but we're
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  Speaker 3: saying things that are really impacting people.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's interesting if we can stir up
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  Speaker 2: that much emotion. I think that's really great. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, either way, it's an impact no matter what
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  Speaker 1: the impact is. I mean, you're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: a positive impact on every single person. But like you said,
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  Speaker 1: some of these stuff you wrote on the toilet, you
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  Speaker 1: weren't writing to hurt a singular person individually that time.
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  Speaker 2: But look at this. This is interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So wouldn't you just naturally have hurtful energy? inside of
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  Speaker 3: you so everything you write is just ruining people but
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  Speaker 3: you don't even know about you like that's but if
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  Speaker 3: you know that's intense but if.
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  Speaker 1: It's your but if it's your I don't know path
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  Speaker 1: to write do you stop writing just because you know
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  Speaker 1: that it's negative maybe.
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  Speaker 2: You become a plumber you know like.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you there you go Maybe it's something else.
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  Speaker 2: For you instead of ruining people's lives because you have
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  Speaker 2: a natural. I don't know. I'm here for it all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I like seeing like every angle and I know that
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  Speaker 3: we're all different and I actually accept that we're all different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I know some people are like kind and people
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  Speaker 3: are naturally assholes and people say things like, well, they're famous.
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  Speaker 3: How could they be an asshole after, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: like they always were. Nothing ever changed. I appreciate kindness
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  Speaker 3: and I appreciate assholes. It's just like I see a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things in people that I couldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I wanted to. I don't know. I admire
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  Speaker 2: it even in a way.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's easier to become an asshole after you're
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  Speaker 1: famous just because so much the public thinks that you
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  Speaker 1: belong to them in some way. Like That you owe
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  Speaker 1: them or that, you know, like I'm still, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not that I'm famous, but I'm saying you would probably
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  Speaker 1: know this better than, you know, people think you owe
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  Speaker 1: them or even that you owe them an explanation.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I don't owe them anything. Right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times it's not always the artists.
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  Speaker 3: It's the people around them that change. And now they're
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  Speaker 3: like expectations of you.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Different.
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  Speaker 3: And so therefore, if you're not meeting up to their expectations,
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  Speaker 3: they're like, see.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you're different now.
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  Speaker 3: Now that you get to headline a whole weekend, you're different.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they say it's lonely at the top. Because it's, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, it's not you that changes. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: the people around you that change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it goes both ways, I bet.
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  Speaker 1: You just said something funny because you said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: words matter. One of, I, I quote you on this,
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  Speaker 1: all the, well, especially when we were doing it, you
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  Speaker 1: remember when we were doing the outdoor comedy with the
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  Speaker 1: headphones when.
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  Speaker 2: We were doing COVID? Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, you were the one that said, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was the best description because everybody had headphones
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  Speaker 1: and you were like, you, it, cause it did change.
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  Speaker 1: It changed the comedy and I think it changed in
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  Speaker 1: a good way. I really tried to bring the headphones
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  Speaker 1: with us when we went back inside because you were
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  Speaker 1: the one that said they hear every word like they
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  Speaker 1: hear the nuance of the jokes because they were because
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  Speaker 1: they had the headphones like there it was limited to
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  Speaker 1: distractions but they like every word battered.
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  Speaker 3: I stand by that a hundred and thousand percent you
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  Speaker 3: know it's almost like when you're in big crowds, you're
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  Speaker 3: just laughing. Then you're laughing at other people laughing and
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  Speaker 3: it's all these other things happening.
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  Speaker 2: When the words are directly in your ear, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Hearing the ands and the thes and the emphasis. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's even more powerful for what an individual receives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I really loved it. I loved that part of
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  Speaker 1: it was just, It was concentrated. It was just so
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  Speaker 1: comedy raw. And you got every sentence, every word, every
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  Speaker 1: syllable out of it because it was coming direct to you.
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  Speaker 1: I really did try to get the headphones to move
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  Speaker 1: inside with us. Nobody would go for it.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't going for it.
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  Speaker 3: There were elements during that time that I thought I
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  Speaker 3: would never go away from. I thought like, oh man,
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  Speaker 3: this is great. And then I just got a taste
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  Speaker 3: of outside again.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I was like, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I actually signed up for.
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  Speaker 3: But there were those moments when I thought, Oh, this
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  Speaker 3: is great. This is, no one was doing some of
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  Speaker 3: the things you were doing, you know? So it was
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch like you be innovative during that time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what is the creativity and the innovation,
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  Speaker 1: even the, that businesses had to come up with and
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  Speaker 1: that people just, you know, how, how you moved in
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  Speaker 1: the world's just changed and some of it should have stayed,
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  Speaker 1: but we definitely fell back into the old habits of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what do you mean the world was shut
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  Speaker 1: down for two years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that doesn't mean it, it doesn't, uh, happen again.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. We just cannot. That was an indication
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  Speaker 3: that anything's possible.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, will we be better prepared for it
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  Speaker 1: next time?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, we don't learn. Never, never.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for some trivia?
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  Speaker 2: I love trivia.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That was actually, I don't share this a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: that was actually sarcasm. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't let people on to know if I'm ever
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  Speaker 3: sarcastic because normally I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: He just looks that way for that particular time. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the opposite. If you think it's sarcasm, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: probably was.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. You wear it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But, you know, if you didn't think it was,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, too. I'll let you. Well, I'm terrible at trivia,
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  Speaker 1: so there's no pressure here. And you can get them
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  Speaker 1: all wrong. And guess what? Nothing happens. It's just for fun.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk smack about how terrible Carlos's questions are.
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  Speaker 1: Cause that's, that's been my theme.
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  Speaker 3: My only issue is I'm competitive. I just like to win.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just, that's my thing on there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not playing against anybody. So you technically win anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Winfield.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so funny. You know, my last name's Canfield. Oh, Oh, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: So my brother tells my niece all the time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are you a Canfield or a Can'tfield? So Winfield, Canfield. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so question number one. What does P.S. stand for?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it means, what does that stand for? Oh, that's easy.
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  Speaker 3: That means, hey, I know I said a lot up here,
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  Speaker 3: but now I'm about to tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what it stands for. But what do
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  Speaker 1: the letters stand for?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Pricing sentiments.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's close. Close. Yeah. It's postscript. Right.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many PSs. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: PlayStation. All right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: PlayStation.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. All right. Here's some geography for you. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about geography?
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: What is the capital of New Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: Trenton.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. All right. All right. Yay. One and one. You're
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  Speaker 1: on your way. Who won the last World Cup in 2022?
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  Speaker 2: Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: So close. Argentina. Argentina. I was like, I was reading
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  Speaker 1: it like, why was the last World Cup in 2022?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they don't have them every year. I don't know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's some music trivia.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to nail this one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, where was Tupac shot the first time?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I don't think we'll ever know because he
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  Speaker 3: may not have even told us the times he got
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  Speaker 3: shot when he was living in Baltimore. Because if you
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  Speaker 3: live in Baltimore, chances are you probably got shot. But
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  Speaker 3: the time we know about, I would say New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it was in New York. And where was
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  Speaker 1: he shot for the last time?
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  Speaker 2: The last time? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I drive by this place often, Vegas. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I almost know it to the street.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And they still have memorial stuff, like, right there. And
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  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, it was right there. It just brings
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  Speaker 3: things really close to home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems so weird. When I went to Vegas...
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even realize. And then I was, I think
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  Speaker 1: I watched the documentary or something. And like you said,
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  Speaker 1: there's memorials and stuff, but I wasn't looking for it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention. And then when I, I would
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  Speaker 1: watch the documentary, I was like, wait a minute. I
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  Speaker 1: know where that is. That's like right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was living at Luxor and I would just drive
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  Speaker 3: past that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was wild.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's right. You had a residency out there for,
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  Speaker 1: for how long?
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  Speaker 2: About a year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How was that? Vegas for a year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Love it or hate it?
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  Speaker 2: Incredible. It was incredible. Life changing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you lived at the Luxor? You just lived at
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  Speaker 1: a hotel for a year and a half?
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  Speaker 3: They offered me an apartment or a place. I was like, nah,
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  Speaker 3: I like walking downstairs to work.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that. That's why I like doing festivals
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  Speaker 1: and being right there in the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, too easy.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: As simple as possible. That's my goal.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Any, any future plans
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  Speaker 1: for Vegas or are you going to do another residency
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  Speaker 1: or anything there?
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  Speaker 2: Not so much a residency.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like next week I'm going to play a
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  Speaker 3: club out there starting like, yeah, actually like next Monday.
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  Speaker 3: And I just make regular trips out there to just
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  Speaker 3: stay active and do stand up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Grow the base.
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  Speaker 3: But, Vegas is interesting because you'll get some residents, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people are just popping in.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, it's a whole different crowd every night because
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  Speaker 1: it's just whoever's there.
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  Speaker 2: I love it every time, though.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a time that you don't love stand-up?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 1: witnessed or ever heard of... You always seem very... pro
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  Speaker 1: stand-up like just the experience I don't know you just
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  Speaker 1: you're an experienced person it seems yeah I mean just
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: living in the moment and happy with what's happening and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: yeah I.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Mean like there's you know I'm a purist in a
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: way and you know I don't like when it's not
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: treated right and things like that right but overall like
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I just still chase it yeah and I still want
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to write that joke that one You know, it's always
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: that one joke that, oh, no one's heard or comedians
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: were like, oh.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Man, I wish I would have wrote that. So I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: still chasing that, which keeps it interesting.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. I love that. Personally,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I like the you're chasing it and writing and because
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it's new stuff for me to see all the time, too.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Because I know how that can be for you. You know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: it gets repetitive sometimes. in ways, you know?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And that's really part of it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You know, it's just, we're in this evolution now where
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: guys are like turning over a bunch of stuff and listen,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to each his own is great.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: But then you're like, how great is it?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Because we've seen polished specials from elite artists that have
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: been doing it for years that have like a well
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: thought of concept and you know you got rappers back
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: in the day they dropped their album and they worked
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: on the album forever now you got a guy that
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: made a song today and just put it out that night.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know yeah they're just like this this is
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: my shower song i came up with it this morning.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. His fans love it. But, you know.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Right. But how much better could it be if it
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: got tried and tested and tagged and upgraded and, you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: put on stage more than, you know, and then put
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: out for the public, you know?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a well-crafted joke.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: My set is going to seem very fresh to you. Yeah? Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Something happened, I think, and I was just able to, like,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: reinvest and work again. Like, just writing again.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: It might have been my hypnotherapy. I got some hypnotherapy
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to help me refocus.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I like that. So it works. So you say it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a good thing.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Um, I've never, well, I've never done it that I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: know of. I could be on a whole hypnosis thing
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: now and who would know?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It's true. I never met a lady either.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: We, we speak on the phone and then she does
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: a script and I fall asleep to the script and
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the script has all these things.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: See, that's what I feel like. I feel like if
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I try to do hypno, I, uh, Don Barnhart, uh,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: used to, you know, he does hypnosis and he had
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: these like videos and stuff. And I just feel like
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I fall asleep to it. But I don't know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, see, I always thought I was doing it wrong.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: No, it feeds your subconscious while you're sleeping. So it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: talking to that other brain.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You ever hear a stand-up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Talk about we're on stage, there's like two brains working
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: at the same time. There's the autopilot one and then
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: there's the other one feeding it and, you know, giving
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: it doubts or giving it confidence.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: That one.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And it's doing something to the other one.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the one giving it doubts because when
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you guys get off stage, those are the ones that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I hear most about. They're like, I don't know. I'm like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that was great. Especially those Friday early shows now are
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the quiet show. It used to be the Friday late
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was the rowdy. And because we've switched it to an
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: hour earlier in time, it's like the quiet early shows
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: are people straight off of work. And they don't not
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: enjoy the show. They just don't have a lot of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: energy for it because they're just straight from work. So
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they're the smile and nod type.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I always... I.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Always say they watch comedy like I do. Oh, that's clever.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Right. And, you know, you would think that I would
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: understand that after all.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: These years, but there's still times when I'm like, they
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: not feeling me.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: What's up with y'all?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What y'all been? What y'all been? You know, do all
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: these jokes. Meanwhile, they're a great crowd.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Right. You get off stage and they're buying all the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: merch and they love you and they're telling you how
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: great you were and you were like, Were you at
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the same show?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We're supposed to know better.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: It's such a comics perception. Like, if you're not getting
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that visible energy, it's so hard for you guys to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: accept that it's still great.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I need people falling out of chairs or else
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: they hated me.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: That's pretty... Yep, that's pretty standard. All right, all right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Back to this trivia. How many... Mission Impossible movies are there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: That's the easy one. That's what I actually know. Seven. Oh, no.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It's eight.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Carlos? We blame Carlos.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: It's really eight?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Is there really eight, Carlos? Are you right? Are you wrong?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, there is really eight. Okay, here's the real truth. Okay.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen any of them. That just felt like
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: a very wise number to guess.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you guessed so close because I believe
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that they could have been wrong. I haven't seen any
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of them either, so I didn't know.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I'm very psychological, right?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: So I figure you're only asking this question because there's
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: more than anyone would expect it to be. So that
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: means it automatically has to be more than four. That's
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: what it puts it over. But I would have known
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: if there was like 12. I know Tom Cruise... hasn't
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: done that many stunts. So I was like, okay, so
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: then it's under 10.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: What is the most logical answer from five to 10?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: And I went with seven. That's how I came to
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that conclusion.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I like it. And you said it with confidence too.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Like you knew.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I know. You're so close.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Okay. Number six. Are we ready? Starbucks originated in what city?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I hope it's Seattle.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It is Seattle.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yes. I didn't want it to be one of the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: suburbs near Seattle. I'm like, that's a whack question.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Right? That's okay. If it's a whack question, that's why
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: we blame Carlos. It's fine. Okay. What is Philadelphia's nickname?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Okay. That's easy. That's easy. Hold on. Oh,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Brotherly Love. City of Brotherly Love. Yes.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I was about to offend people from Chicago because I
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: was about to speak on the wind, but I'm glad
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I got that one.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Nope, you got it. You didn't have to offend anybody.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: You got it. For all parties involved. Okay, this one is,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: what is the guitarist's name in the band U2?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Hilarious. Okay, so that's hilarious. Hilarious. I'm not even going
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to say why. But, okay, I'm just guessing because why
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: couldn't he pick, like, the Fugees? All right, I'm going
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to go with somebody I knew. What about, is it Bono? No.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And really, this is something you never would guess anyway
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: because when I read it, I even said, that's his name?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: His name is The Edge.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, let me tell you why I know The Edge,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and I'm not going to tell you. But The Edge
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: also plays with other guitarists and like a own little
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: section of just hanging out and doing things. And I
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: just learned about The Edge, I'm serious, in the last
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: three weeks.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't remember the name because I just, I don't
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: have a good memory. Yeah.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: But I did. And The Edge performs, I mean, They're
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: still performing. I think they've been doing it for like
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: 59 years or something crazy.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: A lot. A lot of years. It really would have
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: been funny if he was also the guitarist for the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Fugees though. Okay. How many cards are in a standard
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: deck of playing cards? No jokers.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: 52.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yes. There we go. All right. You are on a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: winning streak. So you have five points. This is the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: last question. Do you want to wager any of your points?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah? All of them.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: All of them. I love that. Okay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Let it ride.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Because I know that now I'm equipped to answer any questions.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Unless you're picking between. Like, is the question already there?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Or can you change it?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: No, the question's already there.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, then I'll wager them all.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: The last question for five points. What is the name
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: for the plastic or metal tube found on the ends
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of shoelaces?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I can't use a lifeline like Google, right? I actually
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: know that one, you guys, and I was just messing
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: with you. It is called. The plastic thing.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no. With confidence, though, it's called the aglet.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What question is this?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: What is it called? The aglet. A-G-L-E-T. Aglet. That's why
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: we call this Blame Carlos.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: That's world changing.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I've ruined a lot of aglets in the past.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I think the aglets are made to be ruined. Usually
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the aglets on my shoe gets ruined before the shoe does. Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just too aggressive.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Gotta relax. Yeah, need to chill out more. That's why
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: they have shoes that you don't even tie anymore. You
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: just step into them.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Right, too many aglets got ruined.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the aglet fails. Right. Well, let's see, when
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: are you, you're at Laughs Unlimited, April 17th and 18th? Absolutely.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Back to Sacktown, back to Cali.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Very exciting.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Are you in LA now?
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in LA. Yeah.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: And I just can't wait. I can't wait. You know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: it should be incredible. Like I said, I'm like, I'm
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: rocking with a lot of just new energy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. New comedic efforts. And I'm actually a comic again.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Because what happens when you're like recording a special is
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: that you're just like doing the same thing and you're
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: trying to get this thing right for recording. Right now,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like literally just whatever comes to mind, I write
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: and I work on it. And it just makes for
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: a organic show yeah i love that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Well your shows i would never say that your shows
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: are were ever predictable um because there are some comics
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like i know they're material because i've and still good
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: shows and the audience has never seen it so you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: know it's it's new to them but you're one of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the comics that i can't i you know i can't
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: say your jokes i can't repeat any of your punchlines
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: You know, there's concepts. Obviously, Stepman is, you know, a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: huge thing. And but I can't say that, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that I quote your comedy or, you know, it's just
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: not not a thing like that. It's always something new.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: As far as I can tell, there's still some jokes
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that you tell, but it's nothing like, oh, well, I
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: know this is just closer or this is, you know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I never know where you're at in your set.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope to be that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You know, I hope to be that, like, that it
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: feels some element of fresh, you know, or that's what
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: working on it is about.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think you're a great comic. I enjoy
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: your comedy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. That helps with getting booked at your club,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: so I appreciate that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: It actually does. Yes. I don't, I don't book many
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: people that I don't like to work with because I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: do have that option.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I would say.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yes. Anything, anything new or exciting coming up for you
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: other than obviously laughs unlimited.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: No, I'm, I got, I'm shooting something with, um, Nate Land. So, like,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Nate Bargatze's.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Company.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: And the same– oh, I'm pitching a game show right now,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: and I got some fun names attached to it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that might be my energy. But now this
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: is what I'm thinking about doing, right? Okay.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I'm going to sell them the whole game show. Like,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: not just the concept, but who I'm going to be
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: in the game show.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. You know what I'm talking about?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You're an actor on a TV show.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be an actor in my game show.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: So elements of like Richard Dawson. And, uh, if anyone
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: knows that it's like the craziest reference, but I was.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Going to say, you're going to be out there kissing
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: all the female contestants.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Is that not so much that, but that's.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: What I remember about Richard Dawson. He kissed just damn
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: near every female contestant that was on that show.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: This is a TV show that I was creating, but
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: now I'm going to make it a game show, but
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: I'm going to really be the guy. So then it
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: turns into a documentary afterwards, and this footage may come
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: back to be a part of it at some point.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much I like that. We should
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: withdraw that potentially. Steve Harvey. Yeah, it would be like
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Steve Harvey. There you go.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: There you go. There are definitely some game show hosts
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: out there to emulate.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Very cool. Well, I'm excited. I'm always excited to see
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you and I'm always excited to see the things that
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you're doing and loved, loved watching you on AGT and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: rooting for you. I'm always rooting for you to win Mikey.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, well, thank you. And I feel that energy. I
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: get that from you and thank you. I'm always, it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: always a great place. I can't wait to get there
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: and I can't wait to just have four great shows.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yep. Well, you look forward to it and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: we will see you soon then. All right.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Thanks for your time.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you. I'll see you soon. Okay.