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Joe Newcomer | Life Beyond Regret | Only Bombs! 41 · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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So today is Joe Newcomer. Joe is a very well
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-known face here in Austin. He's always everywhere.
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Last week, what you did, you said like 23? 23
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stages, yeah. Tour shows, 19 mics. Man, that's
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crazy. And you were telling me last year, over
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a thousand stages. Yeah. Man, that is wild. So
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he's one of the hardest -working people here
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in Austin. One of the most recognizable faces.
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Everybody knows you for your positivity. just
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your really outgoing demeanor. Like you were
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just, you're just so much fun. I'm so happy to
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have you, dude. Welcome to Only Ballons, man.
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I am so happy to be here. Hell yeah, dude. I
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wouldn't have had any, you know, the Drew Nickens
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mention is something I want to thank him for.
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He's helped me a lot and he's a really good friend
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and I just wanted to shout out Drew a little
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bit right at the beginning, yeah. Hell yeah,
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dude. Yeah, I love that guy. That was really
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awesome just having him on, like period. Oh,
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yeah. And then, yeah, when we were just talking
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and he mentioned you and everything, I was like,
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I immediately got excited because I was like,
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even during then, I wanted to get you on because
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you're just everywhere, man. So where does that
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work ethic come from for you and your comedy?
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Well, the work ethic comes from my father was
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a Marine. Your father was a Marine. And he had
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a lot of different sayings. But, you know, one
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of the funniest ones I always enjoyed when he
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would go, hey, I don't mind if you're fucking
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around, but don't fuck around while you're fucking
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around. Get back here and get it done. You know,
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like, yeah, you know, don't don't lollygag while
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you're fucking around. Get it done. Right. Yeah.
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So at every moment of my life, I was I'm always
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saying, I've got to get something done here.
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Yeah. Something productive and. I'm addicted
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to the chaos again, you know what I mean? For
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a long time I was recovering from things and
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didn't really have a social life for six years.
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And then the last seven years I've been chasing
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this. So it fills my time and I say chaos, but
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I'm really just talking about just trying to
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fit as much stuff as I can in every single moment
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of every single day. Yeah, I feel like when people
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are really like talking about the grind of being
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a stand -up comedian that like yeah, people sometimes
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talk about it, but I feel like you are living
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him. I am in the middle of that and I've seen
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a lot of great comics tap this year with tap
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and go home basically is what that means. Yeah.
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We call it tapping and when guys have had enough
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and they got to get they got to get out of here,
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you know, it drives them crazy a little bit,
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but I don't do drugs anymore. You know, for the
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last 13 years, I haven't done any hard drugs.
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So that kind of keeps me out of the mess on 6th
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Street. It can suck you in. That street is a
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little bit like, you know, the party can suck
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you in and spit you out. Oh, yeah, dude. I know
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it, man. Yeah. Because I'm being... from New
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Orleans, you know, like I used to work out in
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a quarter. And it's just, dude, like that is,
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that is a well -known thing, like back there
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that you, you can get like sucked in to that
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life for sure, man. But like when, so like, what
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kind of advice would you have for somebody who
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is coming in to like Austin, like not realizing
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how crazy the grind was going to be? Oh, it's
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an opportunity. It's an opportunity to get on.
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more stages than you can anywhere else in the
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world. And without having to wear a car out.
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That's true. This is an opportunity that I couldn't
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pass up. I came here three January's ago on a
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vacation with a friend of mine. And thank God
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for Ashley. brought me here, showed me Austin,
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and I did everything I could to go back to California
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and sell everything and move back. So what brought
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you out here just to begin with? Were you just
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trying to get a fresh start or something? Well,
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I was doing comedy in California and having a
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lot of shows up and down the West Coast there
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for the last 10 months to a year before I left.
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But in January of 24, my friend Ashley, she brought
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me here and I fell in love with Austin and spent
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five months working my ass off to get back here.
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What are some differences that you found between
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California and Austin comedy scenes? I think
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in Austin, it's easier for the cream to rise
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to the top. Really? I think there are things
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that in California, it's, uh, it's a little different
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in the structure on how they do things. And I
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came here because I thought Joe Rogan had made
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a place that comics can come to and, and if they're
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the cream, they rise to the top. Mm -hmm. You
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know, in other places, there's a lot more politics
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and things of this nature that, uh, prevent certain
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people from progressing in the order they should
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be, uh, in other places. And I think it's, closer
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to true honesty and closer to anybody can make
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it here. If you come here and anybody can work
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hard enough and make it. Yeah. You know what
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I mean? That opportunity isn't everywhere else.
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Yeah. So you have an idea, like, I mean, you
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completely, like, you see what you have to put
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into it. Oh my God. I've been number one at a...
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at other things in my life. I'm a mechanical
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engineer, and I'm a tool die maker, and I was
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number one on the West Coast for about 15 years
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at one point, and I know the kind of dedication
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it takes to become number one at other things.
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And I know that if I just do one thing, I have
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no hobbies, and I tell women I'm not treating
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sleep for sex, and I'm not playing no more games.
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This is a serious time, you know. one of my,
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maybe my last opportunity to do something serious
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in this world. And people want to, oh, tell me,
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take a break or take a day off or whatever. And
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I just look at them and I go, I've had enough
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days off. Thank you. Nice. Nice. So like why
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comedy to begin with? When I was drug dealing,
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there would always be, you know, somebody across
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the table and they'd be like, They'd be laughing
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at something I said, and they would go, hey,
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dude, you should be one of those, one of those,
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and I'd be like, comedian? They're like, yeah,
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bro, one of those. You should be one of those,
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man. And, you know, in drug -dealing period,
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it became something I used as a weapon, comedy
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-wise, because when people are cracking up laughing,
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nobody pulls their guns out. Nobody robs you,
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nobody, nothing bad happens. When they're cracking
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up laughing, they're not able to do anything
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to me. I used it, used comedy as a weapon when
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it was, meant my ass that the joke didn't hit.
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And that's way more pressure than this stuff.
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Yeah. Man, can I ask like, what were you like
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dealing? Like, what was that drug life like?
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It was a secret life. A secret life. totally
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divulge to people what I was doing. You know,
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there was a lot of dangerous people and serious
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about what they did. And if I was letting people
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in on all the information that was happening
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in my life, then would have put them at risk.
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Gotcha. So like a lot of like burner phones and
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things like that? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know,
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I mean, whatever I had to use, I didn't like
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to be on the phone. I never was on the phone.
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I would have a phone just to be able to call
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somebody or whatever, but I never used it for
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any of that, any of the drug stuff was not on
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the phone. Gotcha, yeah. We did it the old fashioned
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way where I'll meet you on this date at this
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time, in a month, okay? We don't talk about it
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in between. So you're like, uh, like kind of
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like in those sort of like slums kind of thing,
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like owner. Um, so I was somebody that could
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deal with a lot of people that had it, but I
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was also a white guy that I could go to, you
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know, big parties, charge white people money
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on the, on the, you know, make really good profit
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and whatnot, because I could go from, you know,
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dealing with, uh, any of the number of different
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people I've dealt drugs with on the business
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end of things, I could take that and go to a
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party where people had so much money. Man, that
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life is like, it's always been like just, I guess
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like interesting to see that like sort of perspective
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and like how people got into that and then what
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that life like came about, you know. And so the
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fact that you're coming from that and then you
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go into Comedy is pretty admirable, like kind
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of turning things around completely. Yes. Yes,
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for me it is turning things around and I'm starting
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to find out, you know, all my life I've been
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one guy or another guy depending on the situation
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and I was, I don't think I ever became my true
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self. And I think this this version of Joe is
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closer to my real self and I'm more than interested
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in finding out what happens in this life as this
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Joe and not the other things that I've had to
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do, you know what I mean? Like, it's really intriguing
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and fun and I'm always curious when I wake up
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like what's gonna happen today, bro? The sick
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-ass shit that's been in my life just in the
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last few months, but in the two and a half years
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I've lived here, you know what I mean? It's been
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quite a ride and the education on who I am is
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becoming really, really riveting. I don't watch
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TV. I don't need to. I'm living a drama. Yeah,
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man, that's, that's a really truly amazing cause
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like I love what you're saying about how this
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is like your, your true self. And then you feel
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like this is more like the person that you want
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to be, you know, that's, that's, that's really
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awesome that like just something like comedy
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could pull that out of you, you know? And I love
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that you're waking up every day now and you're
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finding like, you know, you can tell you're happy
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because like, when I see you out, like I've seen
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you out, man. And I'm like, I'm always like,
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dude, this guy is like, just. the happiest person
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in the room, but it feels like actual, legitimate
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happiness. Oh, yeah. Yeah? And that's how you
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feel, huh? You know, I ended the Kill Tony episode
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with one of my favorite mantras. After I meditate
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every day, I say, I'm not sure I'm worried or
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care about whether I deserve to be happy anymore.
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I'm just gonna do it today because I'm capable
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of it. That's beautiful, man. And it got a really
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great reaction at the end of that show. And I
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feel like if there was a message that I want
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to stick with people, it's that. It's you are
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your own person that can decide I'm going to
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be happy today. And the past, if you add up all
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my past, I might not deserve to be happy today,
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but I don't... I didn't care about it anymore.
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I found the trick pony. I found how to circumvent
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the system. The days of me worrying about whether
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I deserve to be happy or not are over. I'm seven
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years into this mode. Into this mode. So what
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was the transition like for you? If you can paint
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a picture about like the polarization of it like,
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you know before you're kind of trying to figure
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things out and Then you're going to this right
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here. So like how did you become this no new
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Joe? well, I It all that kind of started when
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I died 13 years ago when you died 13 years Yeah,
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and I covered that on yeah, I covered that on
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kiltoni as well being a hospital and the truth
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is I spent six years of basic seclusion where
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I didn't have a social life or friends and I
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was just in recovery mode. And that's when I
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was trying, that's when I was finding out what
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do I do now? Now that I'm gonna live and I'm
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like going, what the fuck am I gonna do now?
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For a couple of years, I felt mad at the doctors
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for saving me. Like why saving me for what now,
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you know? Everything's over. You know, I lost
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everything and dug and was in the deepest hole
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I could ever put myself in. And what do I do
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now? So I just kind of didn't I kind of disobeyed
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what the doctors wanted me to do and I got one
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of these fit bits and I started just working
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out like a madman going, well, if I'm going to
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live, I'm going to just get to where I can physically
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do whatever I want whenever I want to do it.
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And the total of time of six years is, I was
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recovering that whole time. Wow. It took six
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years before I could have any money to be able
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to stand up and walk into a bar or have a drink
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or do anything social like a normal person. It
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took a long time. And the first job that I had
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gotten that gave me that kind of money was I
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started moving furniture again. I'm pretty good
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at moving furniture and I've worked for Mayflower
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off and on a bunch of different times. that kind
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of physical shape is what this kind of grind
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needs. If I hadn't, I didn't know at that time
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I would end up here, but I'm looking back, I'm
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very thankful that I was trying to push myself
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to another physical level every day and just
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recovering, recovering, recovering. And, you
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know, it's good that I died because that part
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of being me, In my mind, that's all dead, too,
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and I have a bunch of regrets. Things that could
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have went better that didn't. You know what I
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mean? Like, so many things. I've disappointed
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so many people. Yeah, I could have been a better
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person in so many different ways. You know, it's
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very frustrating to be my friend back then, I'm
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sure, because it's very disappointing most of
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the time, yeah. Uh, there was great times. Don't
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get me wrong. I've always been able to have fun
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and I was the life of the party too much. But
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the truth is, you know, they, they, the people
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that friends of mine, they kind of just clocked
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out. They went, I had enough, Joe. You know,
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it wasn't, they didn't leave me as much as, you
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know, they had to. I would have sucked them down
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with me, you know? Yeah. You just were spiraling,
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huh? I was spiraling in a completely controlled
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way, I thought, at the time. But I was also accomplishing
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a great many things at work and or doing everything
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I could at all times. But I was a real failure
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as a father. Yeah. Serious failure. Was it do
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you think that it was because of you know drugs
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and things like that? Oh, yeah, but I had it
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in my mind at the time that That that wasn't
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the problem. Yeah, but I was wrong, you know,
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I was yeah always trying to tell people and or
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think it in my mind that Yeah, no matter what
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drugs I'm on. It doesn't matter. This is who
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I am and this is what I'm doing and right and
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the people who are looking at my drug habit as
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the main focal point for them. Oh, they were
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all wrong, but they were never wrong. They had
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it right. I was the one that was living a fantasy,
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living a fantasy. Sure. Yeah. And I get that,
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man. Like, cause it's, it's kind of like when
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you're, when you're in like that self -destructive
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mode, you're just, it's, you know, like I think
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you literally just said it right. Before we started
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recording it, you know, you said it's like you
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were just Like how'd you word it? Like basically
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like, you know If you if you don't like this
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life, you could just get the fuck out, you know,
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that's kind of yeah How I treated people who
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would tell me back then they would go Oh Joe,
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you shouldn't be doing drugs and stuff and you
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should stop and whatnot and then I would go.
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Oh, well, thank you for the your advice and everything.
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And I go, oh, by the way, you're going to have
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to leave now. And they'd be like, what do you
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mean? Why do I have to leave? I go, well, I'm
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going to do some drugs and you're a buzzkill.
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And you just killed my $150 buzz they just put
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on this morning. And then just what you said
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right now completely killed my buzz. And now
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I need some more drugs. And so you're going to
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have to go. Unless you want to come up with the
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300 bucks you just wasted. Buzz killing me. I
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give them shit, but the truth is they had it
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right. I was wrong that whole time. I guess it's
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all a part of growing up in a way. Yeah. I don't
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know if I'll ever be able to consider myself
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a full fledged grown up, but yeah. Yeah, it's
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a, you know, it's, it's kind of like something
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that, like I said, like I, you know, I kind of
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dealt with too. And I understand like, you know,
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like being, being kind of like really like deep
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in it and trying to change your life and turn
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yourself around and everything. So like, you
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know, like it took something as dramatic as you
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like literally dying to kind of like shed that
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old skin, you know? And so like, in what ways,
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like did, like what things did you introduce
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into your life to? to get more happiness into
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it and to change it around. Oh my god, there's
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been so many little formulas and mind tricks
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that I've played with myself that, you know,
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like a couple of the ones that I love, you know,
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like no hurting, no hating, no Satan, that'll
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change your perspective in certain situations,
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you know. Every obstacle is an opportunity in
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disguise. Oh, nice. It's our fourth president,
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Hamilton, who was his motivational, he was a
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motivational speaker. So I'm kind of lifting
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that off of him, but it was his mantra as a motivational
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speaker. He wrote around the country with the
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presidents on the trains doing motivational speeches
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while they were campaigning. And that's when
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they talked him into being the fourth president.
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I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
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that's a little history lesson for you. To look
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at me, you wouldn't think I've done any sort
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of research or whatever, but I've written a thesis.
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I've graduated from college. I have a mechanical
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engineering equivalency, but it's almost better
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than... the mechanical engineering schools because
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I was doing it on the job. I was doing, I had
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a job while I was going to school and applying
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everything I was learning as it was going. And
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I think that's a better way to do any sort of,
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especially trade school, which most of them,
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that's the way they're, the operation and the
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protocol as to how your training is to be using
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it right then that day, you know, like, and get
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it. get it right, you know. And I use a lot of
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the research and development type of aspects
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that I would use in mechanical engineering. I
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use it in joke writing and I use it in structure.
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I use it in efficiency to the ends, which is
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I wrote a joke. I got on stage and performed
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it. I saw what their reaction was. This is what
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I'm doing with it. I'm either scrapping it, working
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on it. I think it's great as is, you know what
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I mean? Like all of these things are structures
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to efficiency in any sort of manufacturing way
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can be applied to manufacturing and building
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a joke, you know? This is building, this is joke
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building, this was metal building, you know what
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I mean? The protocols stay the same. Yes. Can
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stay the same. You calculate everything. Yes.
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That's really cool. I kind of ask this all the
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time. What's your process for writing from thought
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to page? How do you do it? I sometimes write
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in between, but two, three times a week only
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where I'm writing outside of this one time that
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I write. What I do is I go to a mic, I go, and
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put my name up seventh or eighth or something
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like that where I see a few artists before me
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and I write, I write, I tag, I write, and then
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I go right up and perform. I prefer this method
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because if you're writing hours and hours before
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you're about to go up, something gets lost in
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between that time where you didn't do it quite
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the way you were thinking of it while you were
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writing it. So when I'm writing it and then immediately
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going up minutes later, it makes all the difference
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and it takes a whole big step out of possibly
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forgetting some of the premise that I had written
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down hours before where I've written it down
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right before I go up and do it. And so at this
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point, I'm probably in the 250 to 300 jokes written
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and performed each month. Wow. At this point,
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this is the highest level of joke writing efficiency,
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which, you know, so out of the 250, you know,
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if you write, if you write 250 jokes, you know
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what? 25 of them are going to be pretty good.
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Yeah. I mean, that does make sense. That's how
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you get great jokes. If you want 100, Great jokes,
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you got to write it and perform a thousand. That's
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how I look at it. Yeah, it's just statistics,
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right? It's like, it's basically like it's gonna
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happen. You're a numbers guy, you know? You're
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a numbers guy. Even the things we're saying is
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a bunch of zeros and ones. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I
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love that calculation that you do in your joke
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writing. I can see how it pays off because the
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thing was, you and me hadn't actually officially
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met for a while, but I would always see you at
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the mics and I knew who you were. I would see
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you either hosting or you were just, I saw where
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it was, what year did you get here again? Like
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January of 2024 was the first month I was here.
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Okay, so I started here in 23 and so I think
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I kind of remember just starting to see you around
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like I kind of just because Now that out my memory
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serves. I'm just like I'm like, oh, yeah, dude.
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I remember because when you came out I was almost
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like taken back by like like your energy Oh.
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Because you have like a lot of energy. Yeah.
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I've gotten a lot of great positive feedback
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from a lot of people. Yeah. And, you know, I
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just appreciate the back and forth with the positivity
25:51
and how much, you know, it's a big reason me
25:56
and Drew have become closer and several other
25:59
comics that I appreciate in this town. I have
26:04
so many young guys that want to kind of call
26:10
me dad sometimes you know and The thing that
26:14
the thing that that makes me kind of feel like
26:16
is you know I get to use some of the dad juice
26:20
that I had Thought I was going to use as a father,
26:24
but I never really got I never gave myself I
26:30
never gave myself the full chance, and now I'm
26:33
getting the full chance with so many young guys
26:37
that I depend on them just as much as they depend
26:42
on me. It's more of a friendship than a bother
26:45
-son thing, but I feel like they all want to
26:48
call me dad, and I appreciate it. And the thing
26:53
that it makes me feel like is, you know, I've
27:02
apologized to my son personally enough times,
27:05
but that's the way I feel when they're trying
27:07
to appreciate me. I'm always thinking, I wish
27:12
I could have been this when I was a dad. If I
27:16
could go back and change something where I didn't
27:20
end up being a failed father. Well, not completely
27:23
failed, but, you know, in the overall sense of
27:26
the word, yeah. I'm not a successful father,
27:31
put it that way. I understand. I remember one
27:34
of my favorite jokes I think you did tell was,
27:38
it was one where you spoke about your son is
27:41
not a drug addict or anything like that. Oh,
27:43
yeah. That's one of my favies. Yeah. It always
27:46
makes me feel good coming off a stage, which
27:48
is this, you know. So my son, he has never done
27:54
drugs and he is never going to do drugs and that's
28:00
all because of me, you know, and my bad situation.
28:04
He is mortified and embarrassed by me in a certain
28:09
ways to the point where I just know he's never
28:12
going to do any drugs. And then I get to the
28:14
point where I'm telling people, oh, even good
28:17
mothers and fathers today can't keep their sons
28:19
and daughters off of drugs. I go, so in a certain
28:22
way, I might be a good father now. I don't know.
28:26
Man, I really think just the fact that you're
28:30
saying this makes you a good father. I'll tell
28:33
you why, man, because when I was... You know,
28:35
when I was growing up, I used to be like really
28:37
angry with my mom and especially like my dad,
28:40
because I didn't grow up with a dad at all. And
28:42
I used to be like really, really angry with them.
28:46
And my dad, my dad was also a drug addict as
28:49
well. And and then I kind of I kind of learned,
28:53
like, you know, dude, like people, they're human,
28:56
man, like your parents, they're going to they're
28:58
going to fuck up and they're growing just like.
29:01
Just like the rest of us man and they're learning
29:04
and things and it's like You know, the thing
29:07
is is the terrible thing about having kids is
29:10
like, you know when you have kids especially
29:11
with your first kid You're still you're just
29:13
learning man. Like you're still learning to be
29:15
yourself. You're learning what a father is You
29:18
know, you're learning what a parent is, you know,
29:21
and it's like, you know and now the fact that
29:24
you comprehend and you understand that I can
29:28
be better. I am. I want to be better. I am better.
29:31
It's like that's testament to your character
29:33
that you're, you know, that you calculate things
29:36
like you were doing. And it does say that there's
29:38
something wrong in my binary. I need to fix these
29:42
zeros and ones. Right. Right. And the fact that
29:45
you're saying that it shows growth and at least
29:48
you're not stuck in that spiral. Oh, yeah. You
29:52
know, I'm definitely pulled myself out of the
29:55
deep dark hole and the spiral that that life
29:58
was. Yeah, do you have a good relationship with
30:00
your son? Is that story still working on that?
30:02
I think, well, I had been talking to him on the
30:06
regular before this year, but I think he's, I
30:12
think he's, I don't know, I think the election
30:17
has got, I'm not sure that he's, in the mode
30:26
of talking to me because his mother's election
30:29
in California. That's part of why I think he's
30:32
talking to me. Or answering, I was going to try
30:37
to go to New Jersey to do a show and he didn't
30:42
end up getting back with me. And before this
30:45
year, we had been talking on the regular, but
30:47
I think it's just an election year and my ex
30:52
-wife, I think I'm just a wild card that, you
30:56
know, They don't necessarily want me all possibly.
31:01
So okay and your ex -wife Can we say her name
31:05
or like yeah, her name is Rhonda shader Rhonda
31:10
and she is running for California State Senate
31:14
Yeah, I remember you I remember you telling me
31:16
that I kind of was like I just I remember you
31:20
telling me that I remember being like blown away
31:22
that you know, yeah, that was the thing I was
31:25
like, wow, that's That's insane. That must feel
31:28
kind of crazy, huh? It does feel crazy. I'm more
31:33
than proud of her. She's obviously working hard
31:36
and doing well. And I wish nothing but the best
31:41
for any of her effort. I'm sure she's going to
31:44
be an amazing politician and or senator because
31:49
she is a workhorse type of person that gets a
31:55
lot done in a particular day. We were a lot matched
32:00
that way. I was able to accomplish a lot and
32:04
get a lot of things done. So that's part of why
32:08
we were matched up to begin with. But the nightmares
32:13
she went through as far as how bad of a husband
32:18
I turned into. All of it turns into something
32:24
where I'm going, yeah, she just needs to do her
32:27
own stuff and maybe my son's gonna call me after
32:30
the election's over or whatever. I don't know
32:34
what the motive he's in to have him not be calling
32:40
me back. But for a couple years before that,
32:45
we had been really... doing well on communicating
32:48
and whatnot. And I did talk to him on January
32:50
1st is his birthday. I did talk to him on that
32:53
day this year, but I'm, I'm hoping that at some
32:59
point me and him get to really spend some time
33:02
together at some point. That's why I wanted to
33:04
go to New Jersey when the shows were being offered
33:08
to me. And then I ended up turning them down
33:11
and not even going when he didn't even go and
33:15
do the shows. What would be something that I
33:18
guess like they would be shocked to know about
33:21
this new version of Joe? That I realized that
33:31
I was always my own worst enemy and even though
33:35
I looked at people like they were my enemy and
33:38
and they were the cause of things that weren't
33:41
going right in my life. I realized that all of
33:44
it was my own doing and I'm sure there's a bunch
33:52
of people in California that when they saw my
33:55
Kill Tony episode, they were like, Joe's still
33:59
alive? No! Look, oh my God, right? To all those
34:07
people and friends of mine that I've had in California,
34:12
you know, my deepest apologies on not living
34:17
up to the friendship that we had and that I could
34:22
have been a better person. And I just, uh, I'm
34:26
trying to do right by all of that now in my situation.
34:32
Uh, and, uh, if I, if I get the chance to with
34:36
any one of them individually to, uh, give this,
34:41
uh, my heartfelt, uh, sorry and we can continue
34:48
as friends. A lot of people clocked out on me,
34:51
bro. They went, I'm not doing this anymore. And
34:56
I've got to go, Joe. And I understand that now.
35:01
It's fine. But I also know that I don't dislike
35:08
any of those people and I certainly don't hate.
35:12
any of those people and I think there was times
35:15
where I I may have I may have sounded like that
35:18
a bunch of times with these people and so I I
35:20
don't I want all those people to know that uh
35:25
I'm I'm good and I don't and I don't have any
35:29
ill feelings about anybody from past I I know
35:34
that most of everything that happened to me bad
35:38
in my life was my own doing and not theirs But
35:44
I blamed him a lot back in the day, you know.
35:47
I yelled at him blaming him a lot. I'm not totally
35:53
proud of any of that either. I get it man. Do
35:57
you feel like that you carry this stuff with
36:00
you like daily? My trick here is this. I'm coming
36:08
closer and closer to being a hundred percent
36:10
present at all times. Nice. And the more I'm
36:16
100 % present at all times, then how could I
36:21
have any time in my life to worry about the past
36:25
or the future? And if I am worried about the
36:30
past or the future, then I've got to check myself
36:33
on that rule, which is I'm obviously not 100
36:36
% present right now, am I? Because if I was 100
36:39
% present, I wouldn't be fucking talking about
36:41
the past or the future. I'd be concentrating
36:44
on what's happening right now. And that's if
36:46
there's anything that I become very, very good
36:49
at is being here right now without my mind scattered
36:54
onto other bunch of other stuff while this is
36:57
happening. Yeah. Yeah. That was gonna be my next
37:00
question about whether or not this is like either
37:02
something that was holding you back or do you
37:05
think it's like launching you forward? Say that
37:09
again. Like, um, basically I was going to ask
37:12
if these kind of like thoughts that like, uh,
37:14
that you have, like, it sounds like to me, like
37:16
it's actually like you're using it to help launch
37:18
you forward as opposed to like the now, you know,
37:22
like sometimes maybe my questions come off weird,
37:24
but like, I launch myself or we're just like
37:28
you're saying on the daily. And there is no way
37:32
I'm leaving the house without a smile on my face.
37:35
And there's, I have every intention of keeping
37:37
that smile. all throughout every day. Hey, there's
37:41
a handful of days in every year recently in the
37:47
last two years since I've been here that I haven't
37:53
totally kept that to a hundred percentile. But
38:00
for the most part, you know, man, hey, when you're
38:04
on a roll in this life as a man, if you just
38:07
stay humble, If you just stay humble, you're
38:10
gonna probably stay on the roll. Yeah. You know,
38:14
and that's a great trick in this area, which
38:16
is, you know, get your momentum going in the
38:20
morning, get your momentum going out of the house,
38:23
and become great at keeping your momentum. Yeah.
38:26
You know, and your day's gonna be full of smiles
38:29
and, hey, if somebody comes by and they're bothered
38:33
by anything I'm doing, I'm, you know, because
38:36
some people in this world are like, hey, hey,
38:38
Mr. Happy, don't you kind of ruin my bad day.
38:41
I'm having a bad day and you being around with
38:43
your big smile is fucking up my bad day. You
38:46
know what I mean? And I'm like, oh, I'll be geologically
38:49
over there now. Yeah, misery loves comforting,
38:53
right? Yeah, and I don't want to be miserable.
38:55
miserable with them. If they're choosing it,
38:59
that's fine. If they want some help about getting
39:02
out of that mentality, sure, I'll talk to you
39:04
about that. But outside of that, I'm really not
39:07
interested in their content of why they're upset.
39:10
Because they're not really upset about the content.
39:14
They're probably just like I've been in my life,
39:17
which is, yeah, I'm more mad about my actions.
39:24
And I'm not upset with how people are. I like
39:28
to let people be who they are. You want to be
39:31
a certain way. I'm not going to complain about
39:34
how you're being or who you're being. More power
39:37
to you if it's making you happy. I think we're
39:42
all placed here to develop our own algorithm
39:44
as to how to be a happy person on a daily basis.
39:48
And maybe... Just maybe if we develop our algorithm
39:53
just right, it can be a very valuable tool for
39:56
God, let's say. If he's wanting to help a bunch
40:00
of other people that are of the like mind as
40:02
you, and you have a good solution, maybe this
40:06
algorithm you've developed could be useful. And
40:10
God's definitely not coming back and going, give
40:14
me your physically weak and mentally lazy. He's
40:16
not going to say those two things. Yeah, so if
40:21
you're acing yourself out of the game in this
40:23
life you maybe maybe maybe you need to Get yourself
40:28
into the right mode. You know what I mean? Yeah
40:31
positive move forward find a way to overcome
40:35
your obstacles and find the value in this world
40:42
is not because You're not gonna find great things
40:46
behind something that doesn't take any work to
40:48
get it If you've got something that's hard work
40:52
and an obstacle in front of you, most likely
40:54
that's going to benefit you in ways you never
40:56
even imagined if you get up and do the work it
41:01
takes. You're going to be feeling like you're
41:05
breaking your own arm, patting yourself on the
41:07
back, and you deserve to pat yourself on the
41:09
back. We all need to pat ourselves on the back
41:11
sometimes and go, hey, attaboy, because not every
41:16
time there's somebody in my life that's going
41:18
to be there to tell me. I don't have a significant
41:20
other, and I'm not sure I ever will. I may end
41:26
up in some sort of relationship in my life at
41:29
some point, but right now, I can't afford the
41:33
time, and I can't afford the mentality it might
41:36
take to have a relationship. When I have a relationship,
41:40
or a hobby, or whatever, again, it will be because
41:44
of some degree of success as to the comedy. I
41:50
don't have a fallback plan this time. I've always
41:52
had fallback plans. I don't know what I would
41:57
do if I don't have anything else. There's nothing,
42:01
I don't have anything to turn and go to on this
42:03
one. This is it. I will be doing this and making
42:09
an effort and I, God willing, I won't even take
42:16
another day off for the rest of my life. I don't.
42:18
really want to. The only day I've taken off this
42:21
year was when it froze in the snow on the ground.
42:24
That was in January. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy.
42:27
But yeah, no, man, like, your, yeah, your work
42:30
ethic is definitely is something that is recognizable
42:34
for sure because Like I said, I saw it. Every
42:37
time I was out, I always saw you. And then Drew
42:39
felt like it was so recognizable that he mentioned
42:43
it. And he mentioned the number of times you
42:46
signed up and everything. Oh, yeah. And I thought
42:49
at that point, actually when he said that, I
42:51
thought at that point that you guys were good
42:52
friends and you knew him and everything like
42:54
that. And I was like, oh my gosh. Just becoming
42:56
closer and closer through all this. Yeah, it's
43:00
really amazing. You signed up so much. You get
43:02
on. And then people see your positivity, which
43:05
is so wonderful. So you constantly have this
43:09
let's go, let's go mentality. So what next? Where
43:13
are you trying to get to? That's the frustrating
43:18
part in my life right now is I had a plan to
43:23
come here and get certain things accomplished.
43:29
But now I'm kind of in a mode where I've I've
43:33
gotten to those certain goals and I've gotten
43:36
to this point. And I'm, I'm through, through
43:42
Consolieri with people like Drew and you know,
43:46
Yonder, Yonder Wizard and Mumford and Colton
43:53
Jones and my younger friend Tyler Marsh are that's.
44:00
I'm kind of naming the people that are my consularies.
44:04
What do I do now? What should I do, guys? I don't
44:08
totally know. It's exciting. It's exciting that
44:12
I don't totally know, but it is also frustrating
44:15
because I've just spent the last two and a half
44:18
years knowing my plan. I knew what I was going,
44:22
you know, the goal being, you know, we're in
44:26
a business where You can be really, really funny,
44:30
but, you know, I compare it to a guy that is
44:35
having trouble getting his wife pregnant. You
44:38
got to slip one past the goalie somehow. You
44:40
know what I mean? Yeah. And I'm at that point
44:44
in this comedy, you know, call it a career, I
44:50
can't even call it that yet, but, you know, what
44:54
I'm heading towards and what I'm trying to accomplish,
44:58
is something that I don't even know anymore.
45:01
I don't know what the real next plan is. I've
45:06
talked to people in Dallas and San Antonio to
45:10
try to get to those places to do some shows.
45:14
But as far as what the overall plan is, I mean...
45:20
I'm happy about the plan we had today and the
45:23
fact that this is coming together. And I like
45:26
to just take my little accomplishments as I'm
45:30
going because, you know, when you've met a small
45:33
goal, that's good. Sometimes people set too many
45:38
big, giant goals that takes too long to get to
45:41
the realization of how much fun it would be if
45:46
you accomplished it. And I like to also have
45:48
those goals, but the small goals, which was get
45:51
here, get done, go to the ride and get some cigarettes
45:57
before I did that. And, you know, mash as far
46:03
as what we did to get prepared for this. And
46:06
the goal is being met. And I'm sure that when
46:10
this is all done, I will be feeling like... Wow,
46:14
I got that done and I'm going to get all of the
46:17
other things I'm going to get done. What a productive
46:20
day I'm having already. And I think that can
46:25
be derived out of any short -term little goal,
46:30
positive thing that you had. You accomplished
46:32
something in a particular day. You can just build
46:37
yourself up with that on the fly and get yourself
46:41
in a positive mode that I like to think these
46:45
days that I think people in my life are influenced
46:53
by my presence more than ever, where I'm not
47:00
worried about going to a place and not having
47:04
it be a happy thing. I know when I come in the
47:07
room, a lot of people in the room are going to
47:11
brighten their eyes and give me a smile and I'm
47:15
going to smile back and we're going to give each
47:17
other some positive energy. We're all going to
47:20
move, do what we were there to do and move on
47:23
and have great days. And that's my goal in this
47:28
life and if I can repair some of my own wreckage
47:33
from the past in my mind where I'm being positive
47:36
and good now and not causing any of that wreckage
47:40
is why it's a lot easier to be positive and stay
47:46
on stage. I'm not saying that all of what I did
47:53
in my younger life is something that is okay.
48:01
I just know that I'm okay with it now. And I'm
48:04
not spending my days going, I don't deserve to
48:08
be happy today because I was an asshole 30 years
48:12
ago. That's the mentality that this society will
48:17
tell you if you did these bad things, you have
48:22
no right to feel happy today. Well, guess what?
48:25
I do have that right. And I have that choice.
48:28
And I exercise that on a daily basis to the point
48:31
where I'm overcoming more things and feeling
48:38
positive and victorious. five or six different
48:43
small times every day. Yeah. Yeah, do you have
48:47
anything like not comedy related that you do
48:49
that really helps with that mentality? I know
48:55
you mentioned earlier that you meditate. I meditate.
48:58
Yeah, which I think is really cool. It's a really
49:01
good mode of mentality to keep yourself calm,
49:08
happy and calm going into it. a particular situation.
49:12
Do you know that there's several studies that
49:15
say our most intelligent mode is when we're smiling?
49:23
No, I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Everybody's
49:26
more intelligent while smiling than they were
49:29
when they weren't smiling. That's interesting.
49:32
And thousands and thousands of studies about
49:34
that. That's interesting. I like I laugh I smile
49:36
but for some reason like smiling always feels
49:38
like unnatural for me. I don't know why Well,
49:42
it might be something like, you know, like I
49:45
said society says Unless you're unless you're
49:48
weak weren't really good. Why the hell are you
49:50
smiling? Well wait, oh Wait a minute here. Even
49:54
with those degaratized society to tell me I deserve
49:58
to smile today Right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So
50:01
I've erased all that mentality with that one
50:03
statement. It sounds simple, but it's a complicated
50:07
little statement and I'm going to repeat it again.
50:12
I don't care if I deserve to be happy today.
50:15
I'm just going to do it because I'm capable of
50:18
it. Yeah. And the rest of the mentality is out
50:21
the window. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't have any
50:25
hobbies. And you said, you're asking, do I have
50:30
something in my life that is, this is it. This
50:35
is it. I get really great sleep, that helps.
50:41
That's awesome. I get really great rest all the
50:43
time and I do well to take care of myself. Exercise,
50:47
I do push -ups. I've worked out every day for
50:50
the last 13 years. That's a big help. as far
50:54
as getting positive mental juices that all comes
50:57
from us feeding our brain with muscle. Yeah.
51:02
Yeah, you probably like kind of zone out when
51:04
you walk, huh? I do. Yeah, because when I was
51:07
being in New Orleans, like it was very heavily
51:09
like walkable city. So I used to walk everywhere.
51:12
And if I missed the bus, well, I just started
51:14
walking until I catch the next one. And then,
51:16
but I would just remember that like I would zone
51:19
out like heavily, like I would be in like You
51:22
know, you mentioned like a mantra earlier. I
51:23
would be just zoned out, man. Like I could just
51:28
be walking on autopilot. You know, so I feel
51:30
like you have like all of this stuff that's like
51:32
kind of like pulling you like internal. Yeah.
51:35
You know, and then it's like, and then you is
51:37
like an externally positive person. Exactly.
51:40
It's like, this is very, I love it. It's very
51:42
interesting. You know, I like getting like a
51:44
peek into who you are, you know. It's like almost
51:50
having a a part -time job or a service that you
51:55
do as far as the extra work and the non -mental
52:01
laziness about the extra work on keeping myself
52:05
happy, right? At certain moments, especially
52:08
when there's something frustrating in front of
52:10
me that is so bad that I want to blame the frustrating
52:14
person. No matter what ends up happening if something's
52:20
frustrating in front of me and or hurts me I
52:23
also had the choice to be geologically over there
52:27
My bad for being here, you know what I'm saying?
52:30
Like and that's if I have anything in my life
52:34
to tell you look Your life is not upsetting you
52:39
the fact that you were there for that person
52:42
to be able to have the opportunity to hurt you,
52:46
it's on you, not them. Mmm, yeah, yeah. Stop
52:53
blaming other people. Stop blaming other people.
52:54
Where you're at. Yeah, sure, yeah. You're the
52:57
one that got yourself there. Oh, show me the
53:00
two guys that forced you into this room with
53:02
this person for them to hurt you. Show me these
53:06
two big guys that forced you into that room,
53:08
because there isn't any. Right. So the mission
53:11
these days for you is just living a fulfilling,
53:15
happy life. Yes. Man, that's great. The smile.
53:18
Smile. If we smile more than the billionaires
53:21
today, we win. Yeah. Yeah. Go, go, go dry your
53:27
tears with a bunch of hundreds. Yeah. Because
53:31
my day went great. Right. Exactly. Yeah. You
53:34
can't let them bring you down, man. You know,
53:37
so what is a, what's something that's like a,
53:39
that like For the rest of the day, what do you
53:41
think that you're going to do for the rest of
53:43
the day? You have four or five mics you're going
53:45
to be doing tonight? Well, one of my favorite
53:47
ones of the week is the tag mic at Sunset. That's
53:54
a great workshop mic where all we're doing is
53:58
writing tags for each other, trying to help each
54:00
other tag up certain premises that we think is
54:04
good. Yeah. It's a great workshop. I love Alden
54:09
Schaub. He runs that, and he is one of my favorite
54:13
people in this whole world. He's such a positive
54:15
guy. I love the guy. Yes, and he's also a great
54:18
book writer. By the way, this is Alden Schaub's
54:20
from when Alden Schaub was on the show. There
54:22
you go. Yeah. No, I love Alden too. He's such
54:27
a great... Great dude. I have probably seven
54:30
of his pins that he gives out for free in my
54:33
bag right now. And now because of you, I've got
54:35
one too. I know this is probably going to be
54:38
a difficult question because of the amount of
54:41
mics that you do and everything, but do you have
54:42
like a favorite one? Well, that particular one
54:49
is one of my favorite ones because I got a lot
54:51
of work done at it. The more I can get done work
54:55
wise as far as keeping my level of productivity
55:02
as far as pumping out jokes at an all -time high.
55:08
The other ones I love, like the Wednesday mic
55:11
at Creaking Cave, my friend Tyler runs that,
55:14
and that's a riff mic. And my saying is, the
55:18
riff can giveth and the riff can taketh away.
55:22
I don't know how it's gonna go, but here we go,
55:24
right? Yeah. And the beauty part about riff mics
55:28
is you can always walk away, even if whatever
55:30
you did bombed ass, you can always walk away
55:34
going, hey, it was just a riff mic, blip on the
55:37
radar. I can't count that as far as having a
55:40
bad mic. But you could think of something in
55:43
the moment. Oh, yeah. Yeah, where it wouldn't
55:47
have came to me any other way. Yeah, that is
55:49
so cool. So yeah, that's a really great one.
55:53
Any type of riff or tag kind of operation in
55:58
mic, I'm probably really enjoying that part of
56:02
the workshop. Where was the first place that
56:05
you went to when you got here to do a mic? Like
56:08
the first stage you got here in Austin? I believe
56:10
it was Creaking Cave. It was the Sunday night.
56:12
It was a Sunday mic in early January of 2024.
56:19
And I did my ugly feet set. Okay. And it went
56:27
well. It got a lot of pop. And I was thrilled
56:33
about it and couldn't believe that this city
56:37
existed by then. And we ended up spending three
56:40
more weeks here before we left. And we went to
56:43
New Orleans. Oh, hell yeah. Me and Ashley. We
56:48
were traveling with, uh, it was Ariel, Wes and
56:53
Lori were all, uh, with us. It was a kind of
56:57
a five person group. Oh, hell yeah. Vacation
57:01
thing that. Oh, what a great place to go to.
57:04
And then we ended up, uh, in, uh, Alabama on
57:08
the old coast. The golf coast? Golf coast. But
57:12
I think right there is called gold coast or something.
57:15
Oh, golf shores. Golf shores. That's what it
57:17
is. Yeah. uh, is where we went after that. And,
57:21
uh, you know, then as soon as we got home, all
57:25
I did was work, work my ass off to get back here.
57:28
That's it. When we drove away in the car that
57:30
first time, uh, to go to New Orleans, I was just
57:33
looking out the back window in tears. I'm like
57:36
going, fuck, I got to get back here, man. This
57:39
city impressed me so much that it's just a comedy
57:43
frenzy. And, uh, the energy. everybody has here
57:50
in a positive way. I've just always appreciated
57:55
Austin in a bunch of different ways, but it in
58:00
some ways allows a person to have a little happier
58:06
existence here in Texas. It's a free place. It
58:15
just feels freer here than in other places in
58:19
the country maybe because I just feel like Austin,
58:22
Texas is keeping it weird. You know what I mean?
58:25
This is where acceptance, there's a lot of great
58:30
acceptance in this city where whoever you are,
58:33
whatever you're doing, Austin opens its arms
58:37
and accepts you. Oh, yeah. No, it really does.
58:39
I think that this podcast, I probably couldn't
58:43
have started Anywhere else it's just like it's
58:46
almost like as soon as soon as I said that I
58:49
wanted to do something I started to build it
58:51
It's just like the entire community You know
58:56
like you know has like hit me up to be a part
58:58
of it And that's what I love is like you know
59:00
just the fact that Austin is so Like it's just
59:03
it is a community of people and it does grow
59:06
and then over the years I've seen people come
59:08
and go But the ones that stay like you, you know,
59:11
like the ones that stay and they've been doing
59:12
it for a couple of years and things like that.
59:14
It's like, and you know, they're here, you know,
59:16
it's like, it's a comforting thing, man. It's
59:19
like, you know, it becomes like a home. It is.
59:25
I'm not sure. There's a, there's a great saying
59:31
in a movie called the mission to Mars. And I
59:35
love it, but. He's talking to the class after
59:38
he gets back from Mars on Earth. People have
59:42
seen it, but I love it when he says, this life
59:46
is like this. Your problem solved, your problem
59:49
solved, your problem solved, your problem solved,
59:51
and your problem solved again, and your new problem
59:53
solved again, and then someday you might find
59:55
your way home. They go, where is that? I don't
1:00:02
know where that is. You find your way home. Is
1:00:06
that Project Hail Mary? Is that from Project
1:00:08
Hail Mary? No, it's from the movie Mission to
1:00:11
Mars with Matt Damon. Oh! Oh! Or Mars, or something.
1:00:18
It's the thing where he gets trapped on Mars.
1:00:21
Yeah, we gotta science the shit out of this thing.
1:00:22
Yeah, and science the shit out of it, and he
1:00:25
was problem -solving to save his own life. But
1:00:28
what he's seen, I'm talking about, is at the
1:00:31
end of the movie when he's talking to the class
1:00:33
after he's back on Earth. Yeah. just tells them,
1:00:38
you know, that saying about the problem -solve,
1:00:42
problem -solve, problem -solve, and then you
1:00:44
find your way where you're home. Yeah. That's
1:00:47
pretty profound. I didn't even think about that.
1:00:49
And I really enjoyed that movie, but the biggest
1:00:55
take I got out of that movie was that one saying.
1:00:59
It's a simple saying, and he's... You know, he's
1:01:01
only saying two things, which is problem, solve,
1:01:03
problem, solve, problem, solve, problem, solve.
1:01:05
And then you find your way home. Oh, it's so
1:01:09
profound and so simple. He said, I thought, wow,
1:01:13
that that's, that's a good one. And, and with
1:01:15
my mechanical engineering background, I, I see
1:01:19
how he was using that. And, you know, in the
1:01:23
movie, he obviously gets off of Mars and gets
1:01:26
back home or to earth, but even back on earth.
1:01:30
I felt like he was also in the movie, it's like,
1:01:36
I still don't even know where home is, even though
1:01:38
I'm back here. I've got more problem solving
1:01:41
to find out, more algorithm of my own happiness
1:01:44
to build. And I have so much work to do and not
1:01:51
enough time to get it done unless you encapsulate
1:01:54
each day and say, this is what I'm going to get
1:01:57
done today and I've accomplished it today. I've
1:02:00
met my goals, even though the big goal may, I'm
1:02:04
still climbing through several other goals, but
1:02:07
I like immediate daily goals that I can pat myself
1:02:11
on the back about and go, yeah, let's go. Yeah.
1:02:14
You know what I mean? Like, alls we have to do
1:02:18
is set them up for ourselves. You know, okay,
1:02:21
one of the greatest things just out of the house,
1:02:24
getting out of the house, I can't, I can't smoke
1:02:27
anything in my house. uh, uh, smoking weed or
1:02:32
whatever. Uh, uh, as soon as I wake up, I'm like
1:02:37
going, well, as soon as I'm ready and out of
1:02:39
the house, I can get high. I can smoke some weed,
1:02:42
right? So that's a dang, I'm dangling that carrot.
1:02:45
I'm going, oh, boom, boom, boom. I'm getting
1:02:48
ready fast because I know I'm going to get out
1:02:50
of the house and I'm going to be able to smoke
1:02:52
and cruise on with my day. And so we can also
1:02:59
use things in our lives that we know we want,
1:03:03
you know? A care, a proverbial care can be anything,
1:03:07
you know? Yeah, yeah. You know, once I'm done
1:03:11
getting ready, I can have my cup of coffee, even
1:03:14
if it's, you know, something that's not, you
1:03:17
know, drug or marijuana based or whatever, you
1:03:19
know, you don't have to... You're just making
1:03:21
small goals. Just small goals with, you know,
1:03:24
dangling carrots and hitting them and getting
1:03:27
them. Hitting them and getting them, dude. That's
1:03:29
it. That's it, man. Well, we're gonna go ahead
1:03:32
and wrap this up, dude. Okay, cool. But this
1:03:33
is your camera if you want to put out anything.
1:03:36
The one thing I do want to say to all the people
1:03:39
out there that are in a very deep hole of some
1:03:43
sort, and you can't see your way out of it, and
1:03:45
you want to think about suicide or anything of
1:03:49
that nature, listen to me. I've crawled out of
1:03:53
the deepest hole there ever was. And if I can
1:03:57
do it, anybody can do it. If I stop doing drugs,
1:04:01
anybody can stop doing drugs. You have to realize
1:04:06
that alls it takes is for you to get up and do
1:04:11
the things that you think are gonna make you
1:04:13
happy. Nothing can stop you except for yourself.
1:04:21
Obstacles are opportunities in disguise, like
1:04:24
I said before. Do not... Find a way to make an
1:04:29
excuse to be lazy that day. Stop it with that.
1:04:35
Just get it done. Just do it. You know, like
1:04:38
the Nike saying, you know, we're here to just
1:04:40
do it. Anybody being lazy and anybody thinking
1:04:45
that that's going to be a productive day of rest,
1:04:49
you might be wrong. You could have accomplished
1:04:53
things that would have helped you. You can get
1:04:57
rest along the way. I've rested right now. I'm
1:05:01
physical rest. I'm resting kind of, you know
1:05:03
what I mean? And as far as getting whole days
1:05:07
of rest, I don't need them anymore. I've had
1:05:09
enough rest. Let's just go. You ready to do it,
1:05:13
man? That's it. That's it, brother. That's what
1:05:15
I want. Oh, yeah. Well, thank you so much, man.
1:05:17
I really appreciate you coming on. Yeah, yeah,
1:05:19
yeah. It means the world. And, you know, if I
1:05:21
had to, you know, because of this discussion,
1:05:23
if I had to, like, sum this whole thing up in,
1:05:25
like, one quote, I think I would think it was
1:05:27
Charlie Chaplin. He said, a day without laughter
1:05:29
is a day wasted. Yeah. And I think it's one of
1:05:31
my favorite quotes. I love that. I love that.
1:05:34
That's a great quote. That's a good one. But
1:05:36
thank you so much for coming. Guys, thank you
1:05:39
for tuning in. Please get the tickets for December
1:05:42
11th show. Once again, they're coming. I'm going
1:05:45
to release everything soon. But thank you guys
1:05:48
for watching. It always means the world. Thanks,
1:05:49
Joe, again. And that's it. That's a wrap. Adios.