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Mic Drop Comedy Chandler _ Comedian Kalea McNeill · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: And welcome to the Mic Drop Comedy Podcast. We are
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  Speaker 1: here at day two, again, of the Big Pine Comedy Festival.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host here in Chandler. I'm Sari Beliak, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited to be sitting here with my pal,
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  Speaker 1: Kalia McNeil. Hey. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: How are we feeling?
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling great. It feels good out here.
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  Speaker 2: It does. The sun went down. I feel like that's a.
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  Speaker 3: That helps in Phoenix Chandler adjacent.
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  Speaker 2: And you're visiting us from.
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Did you fly in?
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  Speaker 3: Did you drive? I drove. Okay. I'm a driver. I
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  Speaker 3: don't mind driving anything less than like 10. I'm okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you do on the drive? Are you music, podcast,
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  Speaker 2: zone out, listen to your own?
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of two. It's music. I'll either split it
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  Speaker 3: music and like a murder pod or straight music. This
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  Speaker 3: trip was straight music.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And by straight music, I mean not gay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what was on the playlist?
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  Speaker 1: Um.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be honest with you. I was in
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  Speaker 3: the car. There were white people present, so I tried
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  Speaker 3: my hardest not to play anything with the N-word because
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  Speaker 3: if they sang along, now I've got to slap the
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  Speaker 3: shit out of you. You've got to leave them in
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  Speaker 3: court sight or blight. So there was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Sabrina Carpenter. Okay. There was a lot of Chappelle Roan.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm calling her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that works.
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  Speaker 3: You know, stuff like that. Miss Rachel. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, some Miss Rachel.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, cute.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. For the kids.
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  Speaker 3: No, no kids. No kids.
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  Speaker 2: So you have.
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  Speaker 1: Been a favorite in a future here at the Big
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  Speaker 1: Pine Comedy Festival. Tell us about what you were doing
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  Speaker 1: today and what's going on at the festival.
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  Speaker 3: Today was a fun day. I am here technically as staff.
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  Speaker 3: So today I ran a trivia. I do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the comedy education. Like tomorrow I'm doing a panel
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  Speaker 3: on booking terms, how to understand your deals, how to
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  Speaker 3: get better deals, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I love Big Pine. I always have a good time here.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't hit the stage yet. This go around, I
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  Speaker 3: hit the stage tomorrow as far as performing. So very
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  Speaker 3: excited about that. It's been fun to sit back, but
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  Speaker 3: I also, I'm like a busy body. So it's also
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  Speaker 3: been very difficult for me to not just grab the
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  Speaker 3: mic and be like, I'll do it. And it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you're actually not doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like one of the first times I
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  Speaker 1: met you, it was maybe one of the comedy camps
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  Speaker 1: or at a panel.
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  Speaker 2: And I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I really like about the club and the
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  Speaker 1: festival is that it is very like education and sharing
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  Speaker 1: information and resources. But I remember one time you were like,
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  Speaker 1: are y'all paying attention? You like, you know, like, did
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  Speaker 1: you guys write that down to the comics that were
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't know, like looking at their phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, this is great information.
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  Speaker 3: You were guys like, you don't, I just, I don't
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  Speaker 3: do well with wasting people's time. And it's like, don't
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  Speaker 3: come out here just to show face. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: come out here. If you're going to come to the panels, um,
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  Speaker 3: then absorb the information that's being given from people who
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  Speaker 3: are actually doing it. It's always interesting. I participated in
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  Speaker 3: the festival as a participant back in 2021. But when
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  Speaker 3: I started coming back to help and doing comedy camps
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  Speaker 3: and came back as staff or whatever you want to
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  Speaker 3: call it, it's always interesting the way comics treat me
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  Speaker 3: because they just assume, oh, she's just the help or
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  Speaker 3: she's just this, she's just that. And then I'll do
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  Speaker 3: a show and it's like, oh, it's like, yeah, big oh.
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  Speaker 3: But you've already given me your first impression.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm cool.
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  Speaker 1: They've already shown themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. So speaking of you being a badass, can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us about your, you have a special.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a comedy special on Amazon Prime right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Smam. It's also an album, which was considered
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  Speaker 3: for a Grammy. Hell yeah. So very excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: My next special, I'll be shooting that. on Friday, May
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  Speaker 3: 8th as part of the Netflix is a joke festival.
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  Speaker 2: That is very exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm very excited about that. And I'm also on
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  Speaker 3: a new show on Netflix called funny as fuck with
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Hart, which is a standup competition series, which will
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  Speaker 3: premiere on four 20. Why not? Have a comedy show
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  Speaker 3: that premieres on the biggest day of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So if people didn't already have plans for 420,
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  Speaker 1: because this may come out around then. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now they have something else to do is to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Watch you kill it.
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  Speaker 1: Roll up.
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  Speaker 3: Watch it. Is this the camera? Roll up.
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  Speaker 2: Look at both of them.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm going to say it more than once so
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  Speaker 3: you can cut. I know how this works. I know
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  Speaker 3: how to cut. You roll up and you watch me
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  Speaker 3: on 420. Do you understand me? And you roll up
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  Speaker 3: and you watch me on 420. That's right. I'm bilingual, quattro, venti.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand me? I know how to speak it.
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  Speaker 3: Respect me. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I get very serious.
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  Speaker 1: No, we can cut that, I think, as a promo
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  Speaker 1: for you, too.
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I look everybody in the eye. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have some advice for comics that are maybe
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  Speaker 1: attending this festival for the first time?
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  Speaker 3: Soak it all up. If you're attending this festival for
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  Speaker 3: the first time, come to everything. Even if you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you know it already. Number one, there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 3: with reiterating. There's nothing wrong with refreshing. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying? But there's also nothing wrong with the people
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  Speaker 3: throwing this festival for the industry to see that, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you actually care because you're out and not out and
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  Speaker 3: texting and not out and looking off to the distance.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're out, you're attentive. Listen, I grew up in
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  Speaker 3: the black church. I can look very attentive and not
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  Speaker 3: give a damn. It's just about I am real good
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  Speaker 3: at the.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening.
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  Speaker 3: Ask me what I was thinking about just now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Not a damn thing.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good furrowed brow going on.
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  Speaker 2: Looking a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Furrowed brow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gazing deep into.
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  Speaker 2: Deep thought.
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  Speaker 3: And then in the middle as well.
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  Speaker 2: But you were elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Elsewhere. But you wouldn't have known that. Yeah. I do
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  Speaker 3: that all the time. That's why I'm in a successful relationship.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. Because she'll be like. That's the secret.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like. I'm looking. Deep furrowed. And every now
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  Speaker 3: and then I get a. Uh huh. And I'll be like. What?
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  Speaker 3: And you don't know what you agreed to. And I
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  Speaker 3: just pray that it's not like. Are you hungry? Are
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  Speaker 3: you hungry? and then I'm like what I'm so sorry
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  Speaker 3: I just had so much on my mind and you
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  Speaker 3: agreed to go.
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  Speaker 1: To like a Sabrina Carpenter concert.
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  Speaker 3: Like let's listen I'm not doing it okay but no
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  Speaker 3: all jokes aside come out soak up everything and meet
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  Speaker 3: people you know people always feel like you have to
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  Speaker 3: network up network laterally yeah agreed and so many comics
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  Speaker 3: that I've met through Big Pine run their own shows
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  Speaker 3: are bookers at different clubs and things like that so
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just like you never know who's next
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  Speaker 3: to you. Treat everybody kind. That part. Don't come here
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  Speaker 3: with those types of, oh, I'm going to get. Like,
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  Speaker 3: just treat everybody kind. Be funny. And everything will come
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  Speaker 3: to you that needs to come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed.
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  Speaker 2: Especially the be kind part.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a big part of it, too,
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  Speaker 1: just being here.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The networking feels more natural.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes, I know for me as a comic,
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  Speaker 1: it's like putting that word on it.
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  Speaker 2: It feels fake and stuffy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But just connecting with other comics and like, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be in your city. I would love to
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  Speaker 2: hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Or, oh, I can get you on a show.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you around.
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  Speaker 2: Super easy.
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  Speaker 1: It feels nice to have more of a natural... I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. Just putting the networking on it feels
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  Speaker 1: like we should be.
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  Speaker 3: On LinkedIn and stuffy for it. I understand what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed also you were a Just for Laughs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was a Just for Laughs New Face 2022.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that that came from... your experience or
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  Speaker 1: attending the festival here? Were you already on track?
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  Speaker 2: How long have you.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what's... It's funny that you say that.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? I.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Broken Drift is the reason I got into Just
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  Speaker 3: for Laughs. So... In, like, September, August of 2021, I
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  Speaker 3: did a festival called the Sacktown Comedy Get Down, which
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  Speaker 3: is also put on by Broken Drift, based out of
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  Speaker 3: Laughs Unlimited. I grew up not far from Sacramento, and
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  Speaker 3: even though... I am a comedian from Northern California. I
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  Speaker 3: was not a Northern California comic. I started in Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: where I went to college, moved to LA. And around
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  Speaker 3: the time of the pandemic, I went back home for
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  Speaker 3: a while because who knew what the hell was going
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  Speaker 3: to happen. And I wanted to perform at Laughs. Prior
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  Speaker 3: to the pandemic, I had done a guest set on
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  Speaker 3: a show with Lance. And after that, the owner of Laughs, Jenny...
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  Speaker 3: You know, she was like, oh, send me your information.
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  Speaker 3: I waited a few days, sent it to her, waited
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  Speaker 3: a few days too long. By that point, I was
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  Speaker 3: out of her radar, wasn't thinking about me. Excuse me
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  Speaker 3: one moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay. Excuse me for that. I was off her radar.
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  Speaker 3: So when I went back home a few months later, pandemic,
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  Speaker 3: they started doing the outdoor shows. She was doing silent comedy, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, spread out outside on Front Street and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: So I did a few of those, and then I
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  Speaker 3: saw Sacktown Comedy Get Down. I had never even done
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  Speaker 3: a comedy festival before. I didn't know anything about comedy festivals.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm like, I want to get on this show
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  Speaker 3: because I'm tired of this lady not booking me after
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  Speaker 3: she told me she was going to book me.
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  Speaker 1: Called out, Janine.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, because there's a lesson in this. Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I do the Sacktown Comedy Get Down, and every show
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  Speaker 3: that she had me on, she had me close out
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  Speaker 3: the show. Oh, okay. And so I'm like, she obviously
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  Speaker 3: likes me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: And I asked her. I had the balls to ask her.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, you never... wrote me back after you
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  Speaker 3: told me to write you. Like, what's going on? And
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  Speaker 3: she was like, well, what did I tell you? I
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  Speaker 3: was like, you told me to write you. She was like,
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  Speaker 3: what did I tell you? I said, you told me
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  Speaker 3: to write you. She was like, when? I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you told me to write you. And I just kind
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  Speaker 3: of stopped. She's like, you got to understand, I'd never
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  Speaker 3: worked with you before. If you wait three, four days,
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  Speaker 3: that's six to eight shows and probably 20 comics.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to waste my time Googling you to
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  Speaker 3: remember if I really told you that or not and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: So I just took it as a loss. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: from that point forward, when somebody asked me to do something,
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  Speaker 3: I do it.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So Sacktown Comedy Get Down rolls around. A month later
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  Speaker 3: is Big Pine, which at the time was in House
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  Speaker 3: of Comedy, Phoenix.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This did not exist yet. Well, not as Mic Drop.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I sent Hillary an email because she wasn't
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  Speaker 3: at the Sacktown Comedy Get Down. I was just like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much. Wish I could have met you.
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  Speaker 3: She sends me a message back like, I have a
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  Speaker 3: feeling we'll be meeting each other. I come and do
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  Speaker 3: Big Pine. This is like October 2021. Jenny reaches out
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  Speaker 3: to me because I got Best of Fest and one
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  Speaker 3: of my prizes was a headlining night. And she was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen you do 45 yet. How about this?
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  Speaker 3: She was like, how about I have you feature... And
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  Speaker 3: then I have you come headline. That's two paid opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: I said, sure, why not? I go out and I
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  Speaker 3: feature at the top of 2020. World is still open.
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  Speaker 3: Or excuse me, 2022, top of 2022. Jenny sends me
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  Speaker 3: a message in like March, April of 22. And she's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I need you to send me a five minute set.
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  Speaker 3: My first thought was I've already, why do you need
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  Speaker 3: me to send you a set? But I've learned from
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  Speaker 3: her in the past. I was like, okay, so I'm,
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  Speaker 3: Struggling trying to get this set down to five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: She said, just send me what you have. I sent
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  Speaker 3: it to her. Never heard anything back from her. The
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  Speaker 3: day I shot my special, June 30th, 2022, I get
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  Speaker 3: a phone call from Canada. Oh, my gosh. I ignore
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  Speaker 3: the call. The person calls me back because I'm about
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  Speaker 3: to shoot in an hour. I ignore the call.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Calls me back a third time. I pick up. I'm annoyed. hey,
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  Speaker 3: do you know Jennifer Canfield? And I'm thinking like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my God, is she dead? Like, what do you mean
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  Speaker 3: do I know Jennifer? You're saying first, like, am I
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  Speaker 3: next of kin? What's happening? And she's like, oh no,
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  Speaker 3: my name is such and such. I'm the booker for
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  Speaker 3: JFL New Faces. I was sitting next to Jenny a
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  Speaker 3: few months ago when you sent her that video. And
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  Speaker 3: because we all know who Jenny is and how she is,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't a recommendation that that lady took lightly. And
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  Speaker 3: she was like, if you'd like, I'm offering you the
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  Speaker 3: last spot on JFL. I had, I did not audition
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  Speaker 3: for JFL. I did not, I don't know anything. I
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  Speaker 3: did not even learn about the audition process for DFL
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  Speaker 3: until two years later when I started hosting the auditions.
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  Speaker 3: So a month later I was on a flight to
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  Speaker 3: Montreal and the rest was history.
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  Speaker 2: I love this story.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing I won't do for, for Jenny or broken drift.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like also a lot of great lessons
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  Speaker 1: and advice in there.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely. Cause I know they have stuff going like, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even at the end of this festival, when
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  Speaker 3: you go home, when you get back to your hotel,
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  Speaker 3: your Airbnb, whatever, send those thank you emails. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much. It was nice to meet you today. That's simple. Yes. Simple. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'll, like, freeze.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I got to wait until I get
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  Speaker 1: a better clip. I want to have the perfect. And it's, like,
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  Speaker 1: just a simple. It was so great talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the panel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hope to see you again.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So much good advice in there. And what a great story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. It's one of my favorite stories to
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  Speaker 3: tell because. Just, again, just do as you say and
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  Speaker 3: just do your job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Alison Cohn is somebody. That's who called. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is regularly. I don't know if she's here this year.
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  Speaker 3: She's not here this year.
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  Speaker 1: But regularly at the comedy camps here and at the festival.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, going back to, again, relationships. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Allison and I have been acquainted since 2022. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: since then, there have been other major festivals and opportunities
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  Speaker 3: that I've gotten because Allison just called me straight up.
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  Speaker 3: The show Funny As Fuck with Kevin Hart on Netflix.
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  Speaker 3: Allison reached out to me two weeks before the announcement
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  Speaker 3: went out that they were casting and was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: working on this new show for Netflix. Kevin Hart is involved.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want in before they announce? Not like I
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: got it, but send me your material. I sent it
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: to her. Here we are.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Man, that is a cool story. Yeah, you get an
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: applause over there from the producer. That's a cool-ass story.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: We love it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: And a lot of that, I feel like, comes from
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of the good advice that we get at
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: the comedy camps and the panels of, like, you don't
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: got to be bothering them, but to stay on their
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: mind and to be professional and.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: To have good-ass material.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Thousand percent.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: And to be a nice person.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, check, check, check.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: And I'm not even nice. You feel me?
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: You were trying to pick a fight with me earlier, but...
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: It is hot out there.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: For those listening, I'm looking at you.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: We're going to make a transition to the trivia, and
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I hope you're going to stay mostly nice with me.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I did pick out some good.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: I'm excited. Let's do it.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, Carlos wrote these questions, but I picked a week.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're going to like these. The 90s
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: R & B girl group, SWV. Yes. What do the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: letters SWV?
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: That is one point.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Ding, ding, ding. Use your heart and not your eyes. Baby,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: just relax.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're singing.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: We got the producers. Yeah.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got both producers singing along.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, shoot.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got a good stank face. Kalia, you do
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: have an excellent stank face.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Use your heart and not your.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Eyes.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Man.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you for complimenting my face?
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: No, the good, nasty stank face.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I mean that millennial.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: That's a compliment. I practice my facial contortions.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, it pays off.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: True story.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Another music-related question.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: In 1992, Whitney Houston went to the top of the
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: music charts with which Dolly Parton song?
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I Will Always Love You.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yes. Are we going to get this one, too?
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Doom. And I will always love you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure where you were going to pick it
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: up from.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: You can't tell, but my jaw is trembling.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Because that's what Whitney did.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure where you were going to pick it
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: up from. If I should stay.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Hey! I still.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Regularly play that soundtrack.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: It is so good. Hey!
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: You know my favorite song from that soundtrack?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I almost got the Holy Spirit, Black Moment. Go ahead.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Queen of the Night is mine. I love that song.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Sing it then. No, I can't.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I got too shy.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, fine. But that's like before, if I need to
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: get hyped up before I go on stage.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Queen of the Night? Queen of the Night.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, what's the next? Throw them out.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I'm two for two.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Another music-related question.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: These are easy peasy. Before embarking on a solo career,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Beyonce was part of which group? If you get this wrong, Kalia...
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: We're sending you home.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: You're kicked out of the festival. She wasn't an adult.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: She wasn't an adolescent. She was a child, honey, and
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: a child of destiny. You understand me? Destiny's child. All
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: my women. Independent. Throw your hands up at me. Is
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: my vibe too vibalacious for your babe? Pay my bills, bills, bills.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Fuck you talking about?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have done if you got.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Anybody had gotten that question wrong.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Kick them out.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: You're off the festival. I'd be like, Hillary, I need
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to talk to you.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Right now.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Casey, we need to ban them from the club. They
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: need to quit comedy.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: From life, quite honestly.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, here we got one for you. Living in California,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I believe you're from the Bay Area. You live in,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you told me, Inglewood. What is California's state animal?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: The bear.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Do you know what kind of bear?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: The golden bear.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: The grizzly bear.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: The grizzly bear. Cal, UC Berkeley.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he is golden on the flag. Eureka! Eureka!
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom. Arnold Schwarzenegger from one time.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Gray Davis.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I love the variety of questions.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: So Carlos either goes super difficult and obscure, like weird
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: sports questions.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Or here we go. Number five is how often are
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the Summer Olympics held?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Every quattro years. C. Cuatro Años. I actually just got
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: tickets to the 2028 LA Games. I'm very excited about that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I'm going to a couple of women's basketball games.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Are you a big WNBA fan?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I'm alright. I've been losing weight, so I'm not that
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: big of a WNBA fan. Thanks for bringing that up.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: We got a good team here, the Mercury. They're really good.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm getting into the WNBA.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I do go to Sparks games from time to time.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I'm a huge, absurdly huge Laker fan, though.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: True story.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm talking about calm down. You're not on
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the court.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: What franchise?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: What year are we talking? Or just through and through?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, I am through and through, and it's difficult
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: being that. I feel that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I'm a Suns fan, I know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: You get me.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: It hurts sometimes.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: My favorite era, you know, we got Robert Ori, Derek Fisher,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: of course, Kobe, Shaq, Rick Fox, fine ass.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: He is beautiful.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Are you listening? Or are you watching? Because you fine
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: as hell, Rick Fox. Rick is a fox. Phil Jackson
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: type shit.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Did you watch, what was the Lakers show on HBO? Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Winning Time. Winning Time. I did. It was very good.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: It was really good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: It was very good. It sucks that it ended so abruptly.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: It was very good.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I did enjoy that. So you're talking, you mentioned Shaq.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We're talking, that's probably like mid to early 2000s, I think.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Because we're here in Phoenix and the sun's gone. Shaq
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: later in his career. Correct.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: The Diesel.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Shaq, as a little girl, I don't know how this happened,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: but Shaq was my favorite NBA player for a moment.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I had an Orlando Magic Shaq doll that I used
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: to sleep with and left it. At the hotel when
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: we went on Disney trip. Change the subject and change
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: it quickly.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to go to the next question.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Change the subject, change it quickly.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: The Hollywood sign originally spelled out what word?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Ho-wood.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: No, not that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Holly-land. Hollywood-land. Yeah, we got it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: We got it. Applause from the producers.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Please calm down. Thank you.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Question number seven.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: She's killing it. The actor, this actor, notably starred in
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the TV sitcoms How I Met Your Mother and Doogie Howser, M.D.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. What is his name?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I know him.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I know Doogie. I'm picturing his face. That was a
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: cute show.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I wonder if you can stream that anywhere. That was
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: a cute show. And he's gay. He was also in
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Starship Troopers. Love Starship Troopers.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Doogie Howser. He's gay.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: We're doing a phone the friend. Here we got Hillary.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Looking stylish as always.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Because it's not Neil Patrick Harris.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It is Neil Patrick Harris.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Neil Patrick Harris.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: We got the assist from Hillary.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: We said it at the same time, though. I just
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: needed Hillary's energy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: No, you crushed it. I'm very generous with points here.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I'll get good for effort.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I've been killing it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: We're crushing it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I feel good. Here we go.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Another film question for you. Actor Jim Carrey first made
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a name for himself on which comedy show?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: In Living Color. You can do what you want to do.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: In Living Color.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: In Living Color.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Everybody here is equally fine. Use your heart and not
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: your mind. Live in color.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: These are all questions had you got them wrong.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: If you're listening, you're missing out because I'm hip thrusting.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: She's throwing ass.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I was just popping pussy just now. She was. Hello.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Put that on the YouTube. Put it on the YouTube.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, then blur out the word pussy.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: No, we've been saying it all day.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I was popping pee.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Are you out of breath?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: You're good. I feel like you could go.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: This one's a little tricky.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: This is a different one from Carlos Rodriguez.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Shout out to him.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: What do you call a group of porcupines?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: A bustle.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: A bustle.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I like a bustle.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: A bustle.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: A smorgasbord.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I'm stressed now. Okay. Okay. You want to finally make
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: me get one wrong. Okay. It's not a bustle. A
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: group of porcupines.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I did not know this one.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Hella porcupines. Is it called hella porcupines?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, it could be.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Heck of porcupines.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I do think, I mean, the question is worded, what
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: do you call a group of porcupines?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: If I saw a group of porcupines, I'd be like,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: god damn, really?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Hella porcupines.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: You know, the real answer is a prickle.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But I feel like.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I feel, okay, our producer Eliana was going to come
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: up with that one.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: A prickle of porcupines.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: The question is worded. To be fair, it says, what
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: do you call a group of porcupines?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Hella porcupines. I mean, I'll give her. Hella prickles.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Some prickly motherfuckers.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Hella prickles. I say that.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Question number 10. Which number does every major league baseball
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: player wear on April 15th?
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: On Jackie Robinson Day.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: What was Jackie Robinson's number? Fuck. I'm going to lose
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: a black card for this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: No, these are all.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I'm very aware. I immediately knew it was Jackie Robinson Day.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: From the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: How many points does Kalia have right now?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I've gotten all but one.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: We're very generous with points.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you tried hard.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson wasn't 21.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: No.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Shit, man.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't remember Jackie Robinson's number. It was 21. No.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But, like, double that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: 42?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 42.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Excuse me. My Kobe wore 8. I'm going to come
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: over this table on you right now.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: We just gave a shout-out to the early 2000s Lakers.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Kobe Bryant. She's starting fights.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Put your arm up because I'm about to jump on
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: this man.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Um... So I think that's the first time anybody's gotten,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I would say, 11 out of 10.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: We're making Mic Drop Comedy Podcast history here at Big
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Pine Comedy Fest.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I am Mic Drop.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Kalia, this has been very nice getting to chat with you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I should be. It was nice to chat with you all, too.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Where can people keep up with what you're doing?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Kaliamcneil.com. Spell it with two L's. Kaliamcneil has two L's
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: at the end. Kaliamcneil.com. At whatever, Kalia, across all platforms.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Join my email list. And I'm telling you this, I'm
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: not a spammer. I don't have time for it. Punchup.live
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: slash Kalia McNeil gives you if I'm in your area.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: You only hear from me if I'm in your area.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And it's just a quick, I'm in your area.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: This is the link.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: You can't even respond. Because I don't want to answer it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Remind everybody what is going down on 420.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: 420.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Funny as fuck with Kevin Hart on Netflix.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: If you're in the Los Angeles area, May 8th, come
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: out to my Netflix is a Joke show at the
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Westside Comedy Theater where I will be taping my second special.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Second special.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: This is so cool.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: We will see you guys next time.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: In La Vagada. You can do what you want.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Bye. Bye.