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A Conversation with Comedian Marcus Mangham · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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All right, y'all. So yeah, we're about to get into it. We're about to get to
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this episode of the Yeah Buddy Podcast.
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The Yeah Buddy Podcast. Like every episode, I always try to bring in some of
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my friends in the entertainment business so we can just chop it up,
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see what we got going on, see what we've been through, just talk about our journeys
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in this entertainment business because it's so crazy.
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And this episode is like no other. This episode, man, I got my friend, he's host, man.
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He hosts shows all around the town from the Bay Area and Napa all the way to
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the Punchline callback bar.
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He's toured with Lance Woods and he was in this movie called Ball Busters.
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But right now, watch out again. We're going to get into that too.
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But right now, man, We about to get it in, man. Make some noise for my good
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friend, Mr. Marcus Manningham. How you doing, bro?
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Good. I'm good. What up, buddy? Yes, sir. We'll get that right.
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Yeah, we're black. We got to do better than that.
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Let's close it out. We'll get it done. This is some tea and tequila.
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That's what it is. That's what's up.
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So, Marcus, man, how you doing, bro? I'm good. I'm good, bro.
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Appreciate you having me on here. Appreciate it.
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I appreciate you being on and stuff like that. So you, you're not originally
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from California. You from, was it North Carolina?
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Yeah. Small town, Salisbury, North Carolina. That was my hometown.
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Nice, nice, nice. And what was it like being up there in Salisbury?
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It's cool. Like, I'm from a small town. So, you know, like, what do you mean?
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You know, like everybody knows each other, kind of like an industrial town where
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everybody worked at a warehouse pretty much. Like even my dad,
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pretty much most of my family were all warehouse workers or they either worked
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at a warehouse or the VA hospital.
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That was about it. Nice. You had to be a Salisbury steak for dinner.
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Totally different song. My bad. My bad. So what brought you out here to California?
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I had a friend that played basketball back in the day, Bobby Jackson.
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And I used to come out here and visit all the time. I would visit, I would visit.
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And then I just asked him one day, what do you think about me living out here?
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He was like, hell, I don't care. Like, I don't have no family out here.
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So I gave it a try. Probably maybe about a year into me living here,
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he ended up getting traded. So then I went back to North Carolina.
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And then I realized, I don't want
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to be here anymore. So now I'm back in Sacramento on the Buddy Podcast.
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Yeah, California is definitely different than North Carolina,
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man. So what got you into doing, were you doing stand-up comedy when you were in North Carolina?
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Dude, I didn't touch a microphone or do any kind of comedy until...
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Age 37, I had already been here for a while. Honestly, I never had any training
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or had thoughts of doing comedy.
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I hated doing book reports in front of the classroom, much less trying to make people laugh.
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But it's just something I wanted to get out of my system. I did one open mic at Laughs Unlimited.
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Okay. One three-minute set, and something about that just bit me,
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and I just kept coming back and kept coming back.
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And now, funny business. yeah that's
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that's how it goes that's that's funny so what made you want to just say
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like all right man it's time for me to just get on
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the mic i think i just wanted to see
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if i could do it because people would be like man you're
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funny you should try and i'm like man i can't do that like especially like i
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wasn't a stand-up guy i was more of like a tv guy like i watched every damn
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show coming up growing up like 227 nightcore like all that stuff i watched everything
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so i I would watch that and I'd be like, that's funny. Or I feel like I can do that.
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But then it's like actually doing it. Like, I don't know what I'm doing.
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So just one day I said I wanted to try. And I told maybe two people I was going to do open mic.
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I was not going to have 45 people up there watching me eat it. Hell no.
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It's not an option. So I did that. I did that little three minutes and I survived it.
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So I was just like, all right, well, let's keep seeing how far you can go with it.
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That's it. But yeah, I had no ambition at all of ever doing stand up.
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Because you're kind of more so like a just a reserved guy
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in general yeah i'm more i'm more of a laid back
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and watch you do a bunch of silly shit i'm not the kind of act
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like i don't start the
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party but if it gets going you know i'll jump in there i'll do my little two-step
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every now and then i feel like that's how it is like could be really like you're
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going to just get two or two of the other one of the others they're going to
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be like in real life they're just super reserved just chill like man only time
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i really want to talk is when i'm on the microphone well you're You're going
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to get the other comedian that's just an intention whore like 24-7.
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It's a very different dichotomy of what goes on up here. But the crowd,
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they think we all act like Krusty the Clown.
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Yeah. That's funny. We got our own personalities.
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Like, yeah, everybody's different.
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And so with that, you probably get a lot of people that like when you tell them
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that you're a stand-up comedian, you're like, oh, yeah. Tell me a joke. Oh, yeah, all the time.
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Yeah. Make me laugh, funny man. I'm like, now I'm definitely not telling you a joke. Yeah, I know.
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But I will tell you is that you can come to my comedy show. You really want
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to get these out. You got to pay. Yeah, I want to pay.
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I'm going to tell you all the jokes you want. Till your money runs out. Yeah.
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Too out of minimum. Too out of minimum.
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So when did you start? So you say you started off like hit open mic.
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When did you start like producing shows? Because you've been producing a lot of shows, bro.
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Let me say, I probably...
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Maybe a year into my stand-up career, Robert Berry offered me a show at Comedy Spot.
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I didn't know anything about producing shows. But I did know that,
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like, talking to Lance and a lot of those guys coming up, that's what they were doing.
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It's like, you want to get stage time, produce your own show.
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You can have all the time you want then.
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You don't have to fuss at anybody or, can I get on, man? You got your own stuff going.
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So I was like, that's the route. So I just started producing shows at Comedy Spot.
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Spot and that led to other stuff because with the comedy spot i got that i remember we had our show,
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after that show we drove down to check out the pink martini for food and we
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just got in conversation with
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a guy and he was like well what do you think about doing the show here
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so then all of a sudden now i'm running two shows and then that's just how it
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you know word of mouth and other people i want to i want comedy in my place
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too and that's how it is but it's it's seldom we even go searching for it.
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They just word of mouth like it's a good product, apparently,
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so they keep bringing us back.
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So how long have you been doing the shows at the Pink Martini,
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then? I think at least probably, what, six years, maybe, at this point.
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Six years? Five or six years.
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Damn, okay, for sure. So you've been ready to burn coal, baby.
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Yeah, even during the pandemic. Keep that on the low.
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Yeah, keep that on the low. We had the little outdoor shows, little patio shows.
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That was out in Rockland, though, right? Yeah, they don't have a lot.
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Yeah, they don't give a fuck. There you go. There's no laws in Rockland.
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You do what you want. They like, find us.
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We don't care. We keep our bars open. We get people drunk. Ain't nothing to
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do. We just at home with this depression.
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Let us get drunk. Yeah, they got their own set of rules in politics down there.
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But thank you, Rockland. Thank you. Shout out to Rockland.
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Said never by black people. Never. Never. We get our check in that we dip.
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We've been to those shows.
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Rockland, Placerville. Yeah. Yeah, we, the borders of Roseville.
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We get our chicken. We go out.
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So what's it like? What's your process like? Like actually like producing shows,
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going out there, finding comedians and then just the promotion aspect of it.
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When it comes to picking comedians, it's random that I book anybody I've never seen before.
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Just because I feel like it's my reputation on the line.
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And even though I can't tell them
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what to say, I don't even know how it's going to work half of the time.
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Because you can say, yeah, this guy has funny jokes and that might be the one
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night he wants to try some new stuff.
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Yeah. Yeah. But I try to get people that I've already seen before.
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And i don't know i would just say i try
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to get people i've seen before and then i try to get people that
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are that's cool and not gonna start any trouble at
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the spot you know i'm saying yeah because like i say it's
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my reputation like i don't look at it it's just well i'm
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making a couple dollars so who cares what they say as long
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as i close it out and i have a good set no that matters because
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that's your product out there yeah yeah one thing that we definitely
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do get confused few some time as as is the fact that this is
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called like the entertainment business yeah you know
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and so we forget or show business and you know business is the
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longer word so that's kind of like the most important
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thing that you got to really understand about that that this is a business man
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you gotta like say protect your reputation man you've been running the show
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for six years that's what you want to do is man lock up your paycheck yeah a
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lot of things i don't think a lot of comics understand like it is a business
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and you could be the funniest person in the world But if it doesn't fit the venue,
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they might not want sexual type of jokes or whatever it is.
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If they're hiring me and they say, absolutely not.
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I'm not going to book somebody. I know that's all they do is the opposite of
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what you. But then they take it personal. Like, well, you won't book me.
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It would be terrible for me to book you. I'm not going to lose my business for
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you to have five minutes set. Yeah.
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I've done that a couple of times. On accident. On accident. They would come
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back up to me. I'm like, well, you know what?
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Weigh down the rules to me. Just explain to me what type of comedy is something.
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What do you want? What is your audience and stuff like that?
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Because, yeah, it can get, um, comedy is subjective.
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It is very subjective. And sometimes, you know, saying what's funny to one comedian
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is not going to be funny to a hundred other people in the audience. Yeah.
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What the fuck? And everybody loves the unpredictability of a comedian until
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it goes wrong. Yeah, until it becomes unpredictable.
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It's crazy, guys, until then. Shit.
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That's hilarious. And so now, not only are you doing the shows up in Rockland,
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you also have the show out in Napa.
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Yeah. So I do a monthly show.
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Every third Thursday, we do a show out in Rockland.
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I mean, not in Rockland, in Napa, at B-Bubbly. it's a tasting room in downtown
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and we do the comedy behind the bar yeah yeah yeah yeah so I'll be to that show
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that's a good show man that's a good show cause people drunk off of wine is
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different than people drunk off of like Hennessy or yeah,
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or a wine bottle thrown in my head or people just drunk off of beer it's two
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it's three totally different audiences you get like the sophisticated people
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like ha ha ha ha ha or they're just laid back and they're sleepy so yeah But
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nothing really pops off at the tasting rooms in Napa.
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Yeah, that's a fun room. I've been to that room before and stuff like that. So that's always a...
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Honestly, though, it is a difficult room sometimes just because you have people from everywhere.
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You know, Napa's kind of like a tourist town. Yeah. So you might be like,
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oh, yeah, I got this joke about Vacaville.
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And it's like, this guy's like, I'm from Michigan. What the hell's Vacaville?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm from Yuba City. I'm from Yuba City. They're like, what?
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Where's that at? What is that? that they're uh yuba city where you say the punchline
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and they just stare at you because they have no idea what you're talking about
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huh it's like i guess it was funny he's laughing the comedian's laughing so
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i guess it's funny wherever truck he's at yeah so yeah we got a truck.
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Man and then you've also been so you've been um doing that show you also got
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the show at the uh The Punchline.
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Yeah. So you're also the open mic. Yeah. So every fourth Wednesday,
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I do open mic at Punchline.
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And I think in April, every Wednesday, I think we're going to have open mic.
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So basically, it's going to be for sure every fourth Wednesday.
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But when they have open Wednesdays, I just go ahead and do open mic just to
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feel rather than just have a room sitting there. Yeah. Yeah.
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What was the process like? How did you get hooked up with hosting the open mic at the Punchline?
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Honestly, I think it was either a referral. Nobody officially told me.
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I just got an email that said a couple people thought you would be a good fit
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for doing open mic. Are you interested?
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And I was just like, let's give it a shot because I know we needed one.
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I'm like, how many years did we, me and you, run around from this bar to this bar to that bar?
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Can we not just have one night? night yeah yeah
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i mean yeah you know exactly you know exactly what it's talking about
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that's why i was producing so many shows last year just
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because i was like man i need this stage time man wherever wherever
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i could get a room at to open up a room to tell these jokes man yeah let me
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do it because i mean we got a at one point we had a lot of open mics it felt
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like yeah like we had a lot like at one point like probably like pre-pandemic
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we was having like three comedy open mics a night at least and then like different
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like music open mics that they would be friendly And then, like,
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the comedians go up and tell jokes.
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But then after the pandemic, it kind of slowed down.
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And I feel like it started even, like, we're at a point right now where it's
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kind of, like, I mean, we have a lot of open mics compared to,
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like, other cities and stuff like that.
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But, like, it's still not enough for, like, for Sacramento because we got a
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lot of comedians up here.
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We got a lot. I don't think I realized how many rooms and shows we had until the world shut down.
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Like, a lot of stuff didn't come back. Yeah. Yeah. But like I remember that
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even back then, I mean, I knew what I was doing a little bit in comedy,
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but I was doing three shows a week.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like I don't even know what I'm doing. Yeah. But if I've been on
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that track now, I've probably been on 12 shows a week. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
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I was like, I remember I was even just doing a show out of out of a bookstore
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just because we had so many rooms.
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Shout out to Carol's books. It's not around. I got shut down because the damn
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pandemic. But like that's just how it was. I went anywhere.
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There was a it wasn't it. It didn't have to be a comedy room.
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I was like, if there was four walls, we had a comedy room. We was doing shows up here and shit.
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Yeah, your old room. I'm like, can I even talk loud in here?
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It's like a library. It's like, shh.
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I'm going to tell the joke. Yeah, that was why we had like, especially, oh, my God.
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Because that was off of Del Paso. It was bad then, too, because the homeless situation was bad.
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So we got a lot of homeless bums.
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We got a whole lot of homeless bums.
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They didn't even come for comedy. They just came for shelter.
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We ain't even here for no jokes we just we just
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we just here for a seat and a heater that's it
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man we oh my word yeah but yeah now we backed out in the pandemics over with
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and stuff like that trying to get these rooms back up but it feels like they're
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coming up and then they get to shut down get it open up they shut it back down
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it is just kind of like yeah i don't know like i feel I feel like the whole dynamic has changed,
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like what people used to do or they don't have the money that they used to.
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Like, I just feel like we used to do a lot of extra stuff that you can't really do now.
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And it reflect like you better have a great product to get a bunch of people in any room now.
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Yeah. Like, look at the movie theater. I don't care what comes out. They ain't going.
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No, hell no. Hell no, man.
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That's another thing I was going to bring up, too, because I was reading this
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article the other day from this casting director.
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And she was just talking about how like just he would
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just try to break into like like the film side right now is
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social media is very heavy you gotta have like that huge
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huge huge like social media phone but i'm not really the type
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of comedian that like yeah it's gonna be on like my
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like instagram every day just be like yeah look at me
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yeah brushing my teeth yeah yeah or
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like like like doing skits and stuff like
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that like oh yeah if i do it it's gotta be i don't
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want to say for a purpose because you know building up a fan base build up
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an audience on on social media is a purpose but they're
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like for me i just feel like there's like there's just
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gotta be something something more to probably because like when
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i was when i got started into trying to pursue this entertainment
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stuff like the like social media was not a thing
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at all so it was always like in the back of my mind about stuff like that do
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you think about that type of stuff no i definitely i get what you're saying
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because i think it just comes down to personality like Like some people have
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it and they like to do the skits and they like to walk around with the camera
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and that's on them. I'm not. That's not my personality.
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Like I feel weird doing that. Yeah. Like it's just not. Now,
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I know sometimes you just have to do certain stuff or whatever.
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Might be shooting a skit or whatever with some people. So you might have to.
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But me personally, like how I actually feel, it feels weird to just get up and
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walk around places with my phone in my hand and be like, look at me doing fun
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stuff. Wish you were here. Yeah.
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But you know who has made it? who kind of like does
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have the blueprint down for that the whole social media thing and just being
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interactive with people is Lance oh yeah Lance is great with it yeah but I don't
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I don't even think that's an act when I go to the mall with Lance he's the same
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guy he is on social media I'm like will you leave that person alone you don't
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know them I don't know I don't know.
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What is wrong with you? It's funny. No, yeah, but, yeah, shout out to Lance
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Woods, though, because Lance Woods actually helped me launch this podcast.
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That's cool. Because, yeah, he was the very first guest that I had.
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I was like, man, I'm just trying something new out, bro. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
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So, I know it's all good, bro. I'll slide through. So, yeah,
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no. Yeah, definitely shout out to Lance Woods, for sure.
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Nah, Lance, that's my dog, for real. I have no idea why he even took me under
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his wing, but he was one of the first people when I started.
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Because I remember I was going to do a comedy class.
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He was like, man, you don't need that. just meet me at the club so so
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i met him at uh strikes yeah he had a
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show down there one night and i'm bowling alley yeah okay drew burke
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show was down there and i went down there and i think it was uh him and it was
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j rich drew and i can't remember who all else was on the show but i didn't know
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anybody in comedy but he uh i kept running into the land so and then i went
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to that show and then i anything after that i think maybe two days later we
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went to san francisco and he was He was like, you can roll with me.
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I'm sitting there chilling in the back. He was like, good news, bro. I got you some time.
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I'm like, I don't want no time. I've done one open mic, and that was two days ago.
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Oh, shit. I ended up going on stage. How did that set go?
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Honestly, it went way better than I thought. Because I thought I was set up big time.
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Because when he got me, he was like, I got you some time, bro.
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I'm like, I'm back there pacing back and forth.
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It's packed in this place. He's pacing back and forth.
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And then he has Brian Hicks brings me out. And so it's Brian's room.
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And he's like, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to love this guy.
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He's been crushing it all over the country.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up and put your hands together.
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And in my head, I'm like, why did you put these expectations on me?
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I've done three minutes, period.
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But I went out there. I remember I did some hip hop joke I had back then.
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And I did something else about when people in the club, when they step on your
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shoes, And that's like, it's like hopscotch trying to go through the club,
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not to step when you're in a black club.
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And they loved that. And I was like, God bless. Good night. And I remember I was like, thank God.
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Yeah, that's always bad, especially with like your, like you first start getting into stand up.
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And like, like I said, with the, like, with the, like the, I call it like the
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next class, the next class up.
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Like whenever they like give you like that time, you're like,
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bro, I don't know if I'm ready for this.
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It's always that kind of like that, that antsy feeling. I have no idea how this
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is going to go and shit like that. Cause I think, um, so one comedian,
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uh, Dave Gaskins, I don't even think he does stand up anymore,
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but I ran into him like last week and stuff like that. But like, yeah, like I went to go.
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Sacramento punchline bro just to go just to check it out just to
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support the show and comedy and stuff all like that he's like
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bro i'm gonna get you some stage time i'm like no that's okay don't worry about it he's like
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you play with me bro you play no i'm gonna get you some stage i'm gonna get
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you some stage time i'm like nah bro you play you play it so i
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went downstairs to those smoke with andre bailey and shit like that we just spoke
21:01
and then they still somebody's like just like hey buddy they looking for you
21:03
they look at me like well what did i do i didn't
21:06
pay my check i didn't do nothing like nah
21:09
man you about to go up on stage bro you got like a minute to get up up here
21:11
so i'm over here got over here fucking smoking so i'm over running up as fast
21:15
as i can bro i'm over here jump on stage but i still got like the smoke in my
21:19
lungs i'm over here i'm over like coughing people just see the smoke they think
21:24
the capitol building on fire yeah it looks like.
21:27
Like a monster was attacking like but i was
21:31
like this is not good at all man this is not good at all
21:34
but y'all learn from there always be prepared if somebody tells you to get
21:36
a stage time time yeah stage time so be
21:39
prepared for that oh yeah i think it was tony roberts he told
21:42
me if you show up at the club just be prepared just
21:45
in case so anytime i go to a club i at least go through a couple jokes in my
21:49
head just in case because it's been a couple times it's like somebody didn't
21:53
show up you're here like yeah all right let's do it yeah that's also a important
21:57
thing too man just showing up just showing up to support because you never know
22:00
what that could turn into and like you You say you have a brother.
22:03
I see you a lot on top of you hang out with like Lance and Tony Roberts and stuff like that.
22:08
I feel like that's like when I, just from my eyes, from my perspective,
22:11
I see like those are like the two like mentors or influences that really like kind of like.
22:16
You know, say somebody to take you under the wing and like teach you things
22:18
and stuff like that. Yeah.
22:20
So I told you me and Lance were cool. And then that just happened by association,
22:24
with Tony because Tony and Lance are like best friends.
22:27
So then we would all just end up hanging out or whatever. And he thought I was pretty funny.
22:32
So then he, he invited me to do a weekend with him.
22:35
It was all guest sets, but it was at a Tommy T's and a Rancho.
22:40
And I did pretty good that weekend and I
22:43
was that time I was only six months into comedy and I
22:47
forgot the lady's name they used to run it maybe you remember they used
22:50
to run they used to run the Tommy T's yeah so the white lady she
22:53
had them glasses but I don't remember her name it wasn't it sounds I feel like
22:56
it was like just like a two-letter name like in syllable like AJ or JD or something
22:59
I don't know I can't remember but yeah but yeah so she she saw me that weekend
23:04
and so she was like she hit me up maybe that Monday afterwards and I remember
23:08
I was at my job and she was like do you you want to do a weekend?
23:11
She's like, next weekend, we got Marsha Warfield coming in. So maybe you can
23:15
just open up for somebody. Hell yeah, let's do it.
23:17
So then I go, I do, I do it. But then I get there. She don't know how young I am in the game.
23:23
She's like, just go up there and do maybe 12 minutes and then we'll bring Marsha
23:28
up. I got seven minutes to my name. Yeah.
23:32
So I go up there and I play it cool in front of her. I go upstairs and I'm just
23:36
trying to put any notes or anything together. What was that one thing I thought about?
23:40
I saw some kind of way I powered through and got through that and made it through
23:44
the next line. And luckily, the second show got canceled.
23:49
So luckily, but I survived it. But yeah, it was it was rough at first.
23:53
But yeah, I don't know why Tony took a liking to me, but he did.
23:58
So that's like Lance and Tony. Those are both my homies for real.
24:01
Yeah. So what's it like having those two type of guys?
24:05
Mentors uh influences in the game just like could
24:08
constantly be in your ear somebody that you could text to for advice on
24:11
how to handle the business because like i said as as as much
24:14
like the comedy scene up here is fucking strong like
24:17
there's a strong ass comedy scene for the aspect of just how many
24:20
comedians there are and they're just how many like hitters
24:23
there are just like making moves but to have like probably like
24:26
the two the two biggest ones oh you know
24:29
in the city what's it to like having those two as like as i
24:31
said mentors people that you could like talk to
24:34
about shit and not even on the comedy team you just talk to about life yeah
24:38
no it's i say it's
24:41
cool because like with lance i feel like they're both at
24:43
two totally different stages you know like tony isn't that like legend
24:46
status so he's been he's seen he's
24:49
done everything but lance is on his ass like
24:52
lance is coming up in the game big time so it's kind of
24:55
like i get to see what he would like the the finished product
24:58
and what you what it takes to get to that product but
25:01
at the same time man like i'm more laid back
25:04
and quiet but we're all just clowns like when we
25:07
get together it's random we even talk about comedy we either cracking jokes
25:11
on each other talking about something totally unrelated to what we got going
25:14
on yeah and lance and tony is like herding cats they are they're all over the
25:18
place they're like they are best buddies we got like i'm on the road with them I'm like,
25:25
good Lord, I'm taking care of children.
25:30
But those are the type of relationships that you want, like,
25:33
because you want to have those type of relationships with like comedians where
25:35
you don't have to be a comedian.
25:37
Like, OK, I could just be like I could just be Marcus right now or I could just
25:40
I could just sit back and be buddy around this person. I don't worry about being the fucking comedian.
25:44
Because I'm sure you've experienced like maybe a newer comic and he knows who
25:48
you are, but he's putting on a show.
25:51
He's not being himself like that's annoying. annoying like yeah stop
25:54
trying to make me laugh just be funny naturally but
25:57
yeah i was thinking about that look at that guy huh
26:00
yeah yeah yeah
26:03
no yeah most definitely yeah yeah especially yeah especially when i was doing
26:06
the brooms last year what about this i might bro
26:09
just go up to you what about this premise yeah
26:12
all these people saying in the audience those are the people you got to worry
26:15
about don't worry about my being bro just man you come up make sure
26:17
you're doing good make sure your head is on your shoulders bro and other than that
26:20
we could be cool and stuff like like that so you got
26:23
it so you went on you've been on the road with them you got any any interest
26:26
in any stories about being on the road with them that you could talk about or
26:29
just being on the road in general i've been done many many
26:32
days but the one thing that did stick out tony gave
26:34
me an opportunity to go back to north carolina and perform in
26:38
front of my family and people i hadn't seen since i graduated high school when
26:42
they actually came out which was weird because you know i was a quiet dude in
26:45
school so i'm like it might be five people but nah probably maybe 30 to of 40
26:51
people throughout the weekend came through and checked me out. And it was cool though.
26:55
I was like, for me, that was kind of like a dream because it's just like.
26:59
Being from a small town, go all the way to California and then get to come back with Lance and Tony.
27:04
You're not just like, hey, well, I got to do that one bar that one night.
27:07
That was fun. It's like, no, I'm coming back to a comedy club with two monsters.
27:11
So for me, that was great. So they was looking at you like, OK, that's that bar.
27:16
Yeah, he's not full of shit. I thought it was live. I swear I did. It's California, boy.
27:21
That was Eddie Murphy. No idea. I've never seen it. That's how it is.
27:26
We don't do that up here. That's one thing I will say. When I say California,
27:31
it doesn't matter where.
27:32
They think I run into damn Britney Spears and Eddie Murphy and damn Kim Kardashian, that Rite Aid.
27:38
I've never seen any of these people. I live in Sacramento. I see Slamson.
27:42
Yeah, I might be lucky. I might be lucky to run into one of the G League players.
27:49
Maybe a radio DJ, maybe somebody from 1025 if I'm lucky.
27:55
Keith but yeah maybe slams in his centerfolds but
27:57
other than that yeah yeah stealing his mascot stealing
28:01
his mascot just get in a lap dance just hit no suit it's like this doesn't go
28:06
gotta relax even I need time shit that's funny man that was yeah this is just
28:14
a side story but like I used to be that I wasn't I used to be the mascot for
28:19
for golden one credit union,
28:21
union so not like you know not like the kings but like golden
28:24
one check stuff no i was a
28:28
golden retriever that's what's up but we but i used to work a lot with samson
28:32
he that boy pretty fucking wild and stuff like he he was stuff i got fired though
28:37
because i was wearing laker socks one time to one of the promo events they was
28:40
like buddy man get it to the mascot i was all right cool man so i'm over getting
28:44
they had no dress room for me or whatever so i'm like all right
28:47
this kid just right here. And I took him off. They was like, dude, Lakers socks?
28:50
I'm all like, well, yeah. Like, you know we're about to do some Kings promo,
28:54
right? I was like, I guess so. I was like, yeah.
28:57
But I'm a Lakers fan. I don't know what to do. That's what's up.
29:00
You're taking it too far. Took it too far. And they said, yeah, you can't come back.
29:04
He's repping the wrong set. They was all like, yeah, you got to keep that on.
29:07
Yeah, you got to set tripping.
29:09
It's like, keep that on the low,
29:11
low. But you had to work through with the Kings. But you said earlier.
29:14
Bobby Jackson was the person that brought you out here and stuff like that.
29:17
Yeah. So what was that connection like?
29:20
I see you doing, like, not necessarily work with the Kings, but up at the G
29:24
League, the Stockton Arena, and all that stuff.
29:27
Yeah, so basically him and my uncle were best friends in high school,
29:31
and I was just a kid on the sideline.
29:34
Like, I would watch them go play ball. They would play every day,
29:37
and they played on the same high school team together.
29:40
And Bobby told him, he said, if I ever make it,
29:43
actually make it, I'm gonna come back for you so
29:46
not me he told my uncle that I will come back for you so
29:49
once he got once he got to Sacramento my uncle
29:52
was just like kind of like in a rut in my life
29:55
I just want to start over completely and Bobby said I remember what I told you
30:00
I got you so he brought my uncle out my uncle was out here probably four years
30:04
before I even came to California and then I came out here to visit him and I
30:10
don't know it was just it was just I think Sacramento was the The first place I ever went to,
30:14
I wasn't like, I'm ready to go back home.
30:17
Because most of the time I would be like, yeah, I had fun in D.C.
30:19
I had fun in Atlanta. That was cool. But I'm going to get my ass back home.
30:22
This was like one of the first places I came to. I was like,
30:25
you know, I actually like it out here. Like, I might stay a couple extra days.
30:28
So I thought I just kept going back and forth, back and forth.
30:31
And I'm not going to lie. It didn't hurt having an NBA friend.
30:34
You know, they gave me all kind of perks.
30:36
I don't have on the right clothes. Who cares? Come in the club.
30:40
Now I got to wear a damn Easter suit to go in the right age.
30:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know, just being out here was different
30:48
in the vibe. And I was just like, let's give it a shot.
30:52
So that's when my uncle, he ended up going back because he still had his son back in North Carolina.
30:58
But for me, I was just like, this is a fresh start. I don't have any kids,
31:02
so let's do it. So that's why I'm here now.
31:05
Yeah. I go like, this is a true story. Like, I actually had a name drop you
31:09
one time and stuff like that because I ran into, well, Bobby Jackson likes to party.
31:14
Bobby Johnson likes to party.
31:18
And I ran into him. I ran into him at a... I can't remember what the name of
31:22
the bar was. Faces. No, not Faces. It was at Folsom.
31:27
Powerhouse, I think it was. Oh, yeah. I ran into him at Powerhouse.
31:30
I was like, Bobby, man, Bobby. He's like, yeah, yeah, it's Bobby.
31:35
It's like, man, you know my boy Marcus, man. That's my boy right there.
31:38
He's like, oh, yeah, for sure. Come party with us, bro. Come party with us. Oh, yeah.
31:41
You owe me a drink buddy I do owe you a drink me, Bobby, some drinks and some snow bunnies.
31:52
Folks, y'all trying to get killed. Get out of there. What are you doing?
31:56
Bobby's like six something, so ain't nobody attacking Bobby.
31:58
Then I was just pretending to be the security up until that point.
32:01
So once I got in, nobody was like, fuck, it would be a shoot.
32:04
But yeah, dude, I'll owe you a drink next time. I appreciate that.
32:07
I had to name drop you one time.
32:10
I was like, yeah, Bobby, man, Marcus is my dude right there.
32:13
He was like, oh yeah, for sure, man, come party with us, bro.
32:15
Come get some drinks. I was like, for sure. We up in here.
32:18
He was also up at Chris Webber. You know Chris Webber as well?
32:22
Yeah, but that just came from being with Bobby back in the day.
32:26
At that time, Bobby was married, but Webb wasn't.
32:31
So we were used to going out all the time, but then when Bobby and his lady
32:35
got serious, he stopped going out.
32:36
Webb was like, well, I ain't married, so if y'all want to go out, we can still go out.
32:40
So me and my uncle started going out with him, and we just ended up building
32:43
a friendship to how we ended up being cool.
32:46
But I feel like a lot of it is just like personality, because he's laid back, I'm laid back.
32:51
He's super into music. I am too. So we've just all had that connection.
32:55
And also, I've never been like, not trying to be arrogant about it,
32:59
but I've never just been like, oh, my God, it's Chris Webber.
33:02
I've just never had that in me.
33:03
If anything, I talk crazy to him, and that makes him like me more.
33:06
Like, you can't talk to me like that. Why not?
33:09
You treat him like a human and stuff like that. A lot of people are like,
33:12
oh, my God, it's a Sacramento legend, Chris Webber.
33:14
But he's just all like that. Yeah, then I'll be like, oh, look at me.
33:17
I'm here for Chris Webber. Who cares? Can we go? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:22
Which is, that's always cool when you could have that type of,
33:24
that dynamic with people. Because like I said, it could be just being somebody in that spotlight.
33:30
I can imagine it like a lot of people just trying to get something from you.
33:35
So when there's somebody that comes around you where they can be like,
33:38
oh, I can just genuinely connect with this person. I can sit back and chill.
33:40
This person don't want nothing from me except just good convo.
33:43
Those are the type of relationships that you want in this business.
33:46
I think that's something I learned from Bobby, though. Just being on the outside
33:50
and watching him, like coming up.
33:52
From the Kings to start and into retirement.
33:55
And just seeing how people treat you and how things go and how you can be on
33:59
top of the world and everybody loves you and as your popularity goes, so do they.
34:03
You get back popular, they come out of the wood where, hey, remember me?
34:07
Hey, I didn't forget about you.
34:09
And it made me realize none of it's real, man.
34:12
And I know Bobby has the same problems that everybody else. I watched him.
34:16
I was there with him all the time.
34:17
And same arguments, same everything.
34:20
You just got money now. You got the same problems. them so that's
34:23
why i look at them the same way like just you know before
34:26
that you would look at movie stars and be like man they got it made
34:29
whatever whatever they at work yeah they at work that is not fun they're like
34:34
leave me alone bro don't talk to me right now bro i'm over here trying to i
34:38
mean it looks like like i'm memorizing lies and it looks fun but like no this
34:41
is work or even even award shows like they think it's so great i'm working i'm
34:46
trying not to mess this up i'm
34:48
trying to not have a terrible look. I don't want to be a meme tomorrow.
34:51
Yeah. Because my shoulder sleeve came down or something stupid.
34:55
Like, it's a lot more than people don't even think about. Yeah.
34:59
No, yeah, I've seen some shit on some movie sets, man, where people just be,
35:03
like, stressing out, just yelling.
35:05
I'm all like, God damn, man, we're supposed to be making a movie.
35:08
I thought we were the jury, but no, we just at work.
35:12
And then soon as they say, cut, start the movie, there you go.
35:16
It's a totally different person.
35:17
Yeah, yeah, totally different people, man.
35:20
What are your goals and aspects? Do you want to, like, get to that level in the comedy game?
35:25
Like do you eventually want to like be in movies
35:28
and all that good jazz honestly it
35:31
sounds dumb but i i go back and forth because i do love comedy but sometimes
35:36
i feel like i probably want to get into writing and be more behind the scenes
35:40
because i do love the comedy but just sometimes it's a lot just because it's
35:44
just not my personality like we were talking about like i'm not the look at me guy.
35:49
And a lot of times you have to be that sometimes i don't feel like being that
35:53
guy but it's part of the job.
35:55
So it's kind of like, but I also think it's maybe a learning process for me.
35:59
Like it is a job, like just turn it on, do your 30 minutes or whatever you got
36:03
to do. And then you're done.
36:05
But people don't realize like, yeah, I'm only doing 30 minutes,
36:08
but I've been thinking about this 30 minutes since I opened my eyes this morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
36:13
And then once I get off the stage, I'm going to be thinking of that 30 minutes again.
36:16
It's going to be a whole different tone of voice. I'm like, man,
36:18
I missed this tagline. I could have done this better.
36:20
I could But it's definitely a lot that goes into the whole process of just trying
36:25
to knock out that 30 minutes. Yeah.
36:29
So, so you don't, so you, you go back forth, which I totally get, I totally get.
36:35
That's one reason why I started this whole podcast, just because I was all like,
36:39
man, I'm not like the social, like we were going back to like the whole social
36:44
media aspect and stuff like that.
36:45
But people are just all like, you got to have something, you got to do something.
36:49
So I was like, all right, shit, I guess I'll just, everybody else is doing a podcast.
36:53
Let me just start up this train and just see where it goes. But it's also been
36:55
beneficial for me, just like I say, from hearing the perspective of other people just like us.
37:01
Because like I said, we all like how you were just saying, like,
37:02
we all go through the same things in life outside of the comedy game.
37:06
It's all the same. So just seeing what other people's perspective is,
37:10
it helps put like that perspective in me too.
37:13
Just all like, okay, this whole entire like fame or whatever you may be.
37:18
Because I feel like a lot of times it's something that people outside of the business put on you.
37:23
They kind of put that aspect on you. And you're like, man, you got to be doing
37:25
this. You should be doing this. I'm like, no, I just got to be me.
37:28
I just got to be me. I just got to be chilling. And everybody has a bright idea
37:31
what you should do with your life.
37:33
Yeah. You don't do any of this stuff you tell me to do.
37:36
You should get up at 7 and do this. You don't do any of that.
37:41
But is that easy the way you're telling me you do it? Yeah.
37:44
You ain't never wrote a joke for you to give me a tag.
37:48
You ain't never been on an audition to tell me I shouldn't be in this movie.
37:51
Be you a i was like yeah let me just let me just do me because you know it's
37:55
it's this whole this whole idea like
37:58
being like this hollywood stuff and everything like that man it could be.
38:03
Hectic it could be a lot so no i definitely get where
38:05
you're talking about just doing the whole behind the scenes so that's why i
38:08
was trying to start it last year like just trying
38:11
to produce more just produce more produce more produce because i was like that
38:14
seems more like on the behind the scenes type of detail like even if i don't
38:17
want to have to host the show i mean at least producing it i'm still involved
38:22
in some type of aspect but i don't know gotta be in the limelight don't gotta
38:25
be in the spotlight to where now afterwards everybody's coming up to me like
38:29
oh And then they want that attention because, man,
38:31
my social battery be done after a while.
38:33
Yeah, I'll be honest. Like when I do weekends, I'm done because I'm just not
38:38
normal, like not speaking and being the mayor and shaking hands and kissing
38:42
babies. So when I'm done, I'm done.
38:44
Like Monday, I'm like, it's over. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah.
38:48
Yeah, I was going to ask that because like what, like after like doing like
38:50
so many shows, do you have like that kind of like, I want to say like that wind down period?
38:54
Like I'm just, I'm just like, I'm just not doing nothing today. day yeah
38:57
i will have those one day not not many but yeah
39:01
if we like on the road for a minute or something that one that
39:03
day after i'm chilling because i'm mentally i'm
39:06
done and i just want to get back focused and then the next day let's go get
39:10
them but i need me at least one day to chill but even after shows like i can't
39:14
just come home and get in the bed like i don't care if it was a good show or
39:17
a bad show like i can't just go to sleep like that adrenaline doesn't cut off
39:21
for a minute you just be you just be laying down you just eyes wide open and
39:24
then like the second you you close up,
39:26
you'd be thinking of something and then you just right back to being alerted. You'd be like, ah, damn.
39:30
I'd be feeling like I'd be like the laziest woke person ever.
39:35
I'd be wanting to not do anything, but then just the way my brain operates,
39:40
I'm like, I don't know, I gotta get up, I gotta do this, I gotta write this
39:42
tag that I just found out about this.
39:43
Or, you know, I'm like, now I gotta try to find the next job.
39:46
Where's the next gig coming from? It's just...
39:48
I begin to wind down and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm the same way, though, sometimes.
39:52
Like, I need to just chill for a second. Next thing I know, I'm knee-deep in
39:56
something on YouTube. I'm like, I didn't rest at all. Yeah. Yeah.
40:02
And that especially do with this, because, like, whatever I talk to,
40:06
like, most people, I'm like, well, what do y'all do to, like,
40:09
you know, just to relax and wind down?
40:10
But, oh, I watch TV and stuff like that. I was like, well, shit,
40:13
I can't really just sit back and watch TV or watch anything,
40:16
because that still just puts my
40:17
mind right back into the whole aspect of entertainers and stuff like that.
40:22
I'm all like, now I'm over here studying the actor, the way they're working,
40:25
or if I just want to sit back and watch a comedy show or just watch some jokes
40:31
or just hear somebody tell some jokes on YouTube, I'm all like,
40:34
damn, that's a good tag. I could do this.
40:36
Analyzing it. Yeah, it's totally different. So the whole wind down, it can get tricky.
40:40
So I just got to do nothing. And I don't smoke weed no more either,
40:44
so then that's the other aspect of it too. So now I'm just really like, just staring.
40:49
Yeah, just staring up into the world. I'm like, why he did it and stuff like that.
40:54
And then so, oh, yeah, one thing I wanted to talk to you about and stuff was the movie Ballbusters.
41:00
Yeah. Was that your first time working on like a movie? It was. It was. Yeah. Okay.
41:05
So how that even came about, my boy, Chris Michael Hawley, he had hit me up randomly.
41:10
I was at my job at the time at Lexus. It was like, hey, man,
41:14
they got these auditions at Comedy Spot.
41:16
If you want in, you better come down here. And I'm like, I got to at least try.
41:20
But I'm like, I never acted at all. Like, I didn't know anything.
41:23
So I come down there and they ask me, they just say, do stand up.
41:27
They do maybe 10 minutes of stand up. So I do stand up.
41:30
And they had me do a couple of scenes or whatever to see if I would work out
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for this role or that role. A couple of them I did terribly on.
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Oh, and Lance came with me. So we both went out there.
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And basically I just did my set or
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whatever Lance did a couple things and it was
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kind of like kind of like a little mini talent show they were
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doing yeah yeah so some of them were like real deal actors I could tell I'm
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like why am I even in this they got headshots they got a resume they got a monologue
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what is this super proper I'm like I don't know what's happening right now but
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it was cool I honestly I just did that I did a couple minutes of stand-up and
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maybe two minutes I mean Two days later,
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I just get a call and it was like, hey, can you come do the such and such at McClellan Airport?
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I was like, all right, let's do it. Even when I got there, I had no idea what
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was going on. Here's the makeup chair.
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I'm like, okay. It's like makeup. No, no, no.
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I don't do makeup. What do you know about makeup? I'm like Paul's,
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but I want to make the movie.
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So, yeah, that's pretty much how it came about, man. He just looked,
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um, Holly looked out for me and it ended up working out, you know.
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And so what did you do on the, um, on the movie set? Oh, I was a security guard. Okay.
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So, uh, I just got to, I got to toss a couple of people out the door. That was about it.
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But I don't know. It was cool though. It was like just being on the scene,
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just seeing how, like how many times you have to shoot and trying to make it
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look natural when it's not natural.
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And like Jerry O'Connell was like, good job. because I actually tossed his ass out the door.
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So way to throw me around. It's like, make it look real. I was like,
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all right, get your ass out of here. I'm going to kick his ass real quickly.
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But yeah, I just thought the whole experience was good. You know,
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like it was funny just being on set and seeing how everything actually works.
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The guy with the boom mic, he dropped the shit accidentally.
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So then we had to reshoot the scene again. It was just like,
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I don't know. It was just cool for me to experience of it.
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Did y'all have lunch on set? uh afterward we
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had to wrap uh dinner i guess oh oh
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y'all had to after yeah that's that's that's one thing i know whenever
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i'm like i determine what a good movie set is by the lunch like if it's a good
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lunch you should i'm like all right cool we could i don't care what goes wrong
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whatever may be wrong as long as they got good lunch and a good craft service
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i'm like we can we could chill i'll be out here eating it's all good and stuff
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like that but no shout out to christopher michael Hawley,
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because funny story is Christopher,
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or Chris, he actually cast me in my very first movie.
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It was a movie called, what was it called? Oh, Left and Loose in the Lock.
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It was this definitely looking at uh yeah.
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Left and loose but i'm getting naked out here left and loose in the line it was just.
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It's like a truck stop movie oh my word it
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was a lot close close no it was this it was a stoner movie it was a stoner movie
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man it started like at the time it was the two biggest djs that was on uh one
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one oh two five so it was the specialist then waney wayne and they was just
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basically So there was two stoner security guards at this parking lot complex.
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And I was just one of the stoner kids or whatever. We were just chilling.
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And they ended up stealing like our snacks and shit like that.
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But that was, that was, that was, man, that was, I remember like,
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because he gave me my very first lines in a movie.
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He was like, is that your hand shaped like a gun?
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And like, that was my first line in a movie.
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But like, we went to, went to go check out the movie premiere.
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And I brought like my folks and a couple of my friends and we watched that shit.
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I was like, damn, buddy, you in a movie and shit. That's dope as shit.
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And then when, and then once it came out on DVD, I had like a big,
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like, like a house party to like watch that shit.
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And the whole entire scene that I was in got cut out.
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So you was at a house party. So I was just at a house party just watching this shit in the building.
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And I knew it too because like the scene where I was in where I was supposed
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to, where I was supposed to come up, it just like jumped and then I went to
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something else and I was just all like, got me. I was like, I got to get out of here.
45:28
I put my mom to the side and I'm like, hey, I'm leaving. I was like,
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we're at your party. We're watching your movie. I'm like, no,
45:33
I'm not in it. That's what's up. She's like, what do you mean? I'm like, I'm not in it.
45:36
I was like, I'm not in the movie, man. They cut me out. They cut me out.
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So I just took off pissed. I was mad. They going to be like,
45:42
that was a good-ass movie. I'm like, shut up.
45:45
But yeah, no, shout out to Christopher Hawley because, yeah,
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he put me on first movie. And we're both alumni from Wheatland High School as well. Okay. Yeah.
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He used to have a little party animal in him back in the day. He used to cut a rug.
45:57
I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it. Yeah. I've seen some of the pictures
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from him in high school and stuff like that. I was like, yeah,
46:02
he probably, yeah, he used to get me. Shout out to.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, in fact, because I did an open mic out in Yuba City,
46:10
and somebody had just said, oh, man, you look like Christopher Hollis. I'm like, no, I don't.
46:14
You just think all black people look alike. It's all good. No, not at all.
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Oh, yeah, I used to party. We partied. All right, cool.
46:24
We could party, but I'm not him. I mean, nothing close to him.
46:28
It's just like that. But, oh, yeah, speaking of Yuba City, man, shout out to Paul.
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He'll love that. Paul Nixon he loves
46:36
attention no yeah every time every time we link up and
46:38
brother it's a show or whatever we gotta do we gotta you know for Paul so shout
46:42
out to Paul or even when I did your show out in Napa he just pulled up out of
46:45
nowhere I'm sorry Paul and you're not even surprised not even surprised at all
46:50
but yeah so shout out to Paul just for shout out to Paul just for being Paul
46:53
for being you Paul shout out to you I remember,
46:57
first time I met Paul was at was at how's this happening.
47:03
We gonna do a whole segment on Paul real quick shut up first time I met Paul
47:08
was at we was doing the comedy burger show,
47:11
oh okay at Ongayo's thing and I did a joke about Yuba City and he just pulled
47:16
me to the side like he was like the mafia and shit he's like so you from Yuba City huh,
47:21
I'm like no maybe I don't know it's like nah man it's all good I'm from Yuba
47:27
City too man you do your thing you do your thing Oh, yeah. So shout out to Paul.
47:32
You just made his life. Yeah. Shout out to Paul. I'll try to bring Paul on,
47:36
too. He'll bring a guest on this. Oh, my God.
47:41
That's the homie right there, for sure. But, oh, yes.
47:44
Before we do wrap up the whole podcast and all that good jazz,
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one thing that I always do when I bring people on is we do what was called the
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Mount Rushmore, which is basically your Mount Rushmore of comedians.
47:56
And then, so yeah, I'll try to put you on the spot, but yeah,
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no, I'm trying to think as soon as you said that.
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I'd say for sure Pryor, he's on there. Pryor's on there.
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Eddie's on there. People get mad at me for saying that, but it's my life.
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Chris Tucker's on there for me. Okay.
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Because I would say he's a huge influence on me. Just that movie Rush Hour.
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I'm not an outgoing person, but I felt like if I was, that would be me.
48:24
I would talk as much shit as he did in that movie. And I feel like that is me. That's me.
48:30
Let me see. Who else? Who else? I don't know.
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Honestly, I got to put Tony Roberts on there. Yeah, I have to.
48:38
Like, stage or at home watching TV. He's one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life.
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He said some of the craziest stuff for no reason that I've ever heard.
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So he's definitely going to be up there.
48:52
Am I in my cross? I got one more? You got one more. Let me see. Let me see.
48:58
Oh uh it's more
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i would say it's more tv than stand up but
49:04
i have to say red fox okay i think sanford
49:08
the sun is one of the greatest tv shows i've ever witnessed because
49:11
for it to be made in the 70s and be
49:14
funny right now is amazing and i
49:16
don't mean just like little giggle like i can watch episodes now
49:19
and be like that's hilarious real so that has
49:22
he's he's my last member of the the top all right
49:25
no i ain't mad at that list what do you sound about like with chris tucker i definitely
49:29
get what you're saying as far as like there's always like
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that one comedian that we look at it would be all like that
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makes us look at it it would be like oh okay i can do that i could definitely
49:38
do that as shit so you know i definitely get what you're saying with chris tucker
49:41
and then one thing that i always find interesting which is why i always do like
49:44
this whole mount rushmore thing is when i like especially like with comedians
49:47
there's always like some somebody always names drop like a comedian that is
49:52
like i don't want to say like like local, but like somebody that's like within our atmosphere,
49:55
like how you say like with Tony Roberts and stuff like that,
49:57
that accessibility and stuff like that, which again speaks to just the whole aspect of.
50:03
Man, how strong the comedy scene is up here because it's not,
50:06
because it's a legit, it's a legit top four.
50:07
Like, putting Tony Roberts up there with those people, it's a legit thing, you know?
50:12
But then, like, say, to be able to, like, they, like, they, like, they, like, right here.
50:17
Like, we ain't got no choice but to grow and, like, if you have the opportunity
50:20
to grow, learn from them because then eventually, man, 10, 15,
50:24
20 years from now, shit, you're going to be on somebody's Mount Rushmore.
50:27
But, like, with Tony, like, most people wouldn't even have paid attention to it.
50:32
It was one of the first shows I did with him at Cobb's and it was mostly white
50:36
and I could tell like he wasn't nervous but I know Tony mostly does black crowds
50:41
so Tony goes out there and it was the shortest joke but it made everybody fall
50:46
out he said I saw a white lady with yellow teeth she looked like a devil egg,
50:51
the whole place fell out from that short
50:54
little joke and from there he killed the rest of the
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night but it's just like something that little short like you can have dudes
51:01
to write an hour our joke and don't get that laugh that he got from that one
51:04
joke yeah because white people love like i get it i get it you're right you
51:13
might be all of a sudden dude talk about barge yeah.
51:16
You know her shit yeah no you don't so that's um no that's definitely what's
51:21
up man that's definitely cool so so yeah so we had you said it was was it eddie
51:25
murk no richard pryor yeah And then it was Murphy.
51:29
Was it Murphy? No, it wasn't Murphy. No, it was Murphy. You said Murphy.
51:32
So did you do five people?
51:33
So I was like, well, you were looking at me. I'm like, OK, well,
51:36
my bad. So, yeah, well, the black route rush for me.
51:40
Somebody else. So, yeah. OK. Yes. Oh, yeah. You always bring one person extra.
51:44
They don't tell you. Oh, yeah. So I brought my homeboy.
51:47
You got a girl. You got a girl for my homie.
51:52
All right the show all right cool so yeah
51:54
so yeah we are gonna wrap up this episode like i said this episode was
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brought to you again by the comedy cash cow competition so
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right now it takes place may 25th at vacaville california did you sign up for
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it yet uh not yet not yet okay i'll send you the link after we all right hopefully
52:19
Hopefully I got the inside track.
52:20
Yeah, yeah. I know the guy putting it on. Yeah. Who is that? Who is that?
52:26
But yeah, yeah. So yeah, the Comedy Cash Cow competition is going down May 25th.
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Where can people find you at?
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I'm going to be at the Pink Martini April 10th. And I'm going to be at Be Bubbly
52:37
April 18th. That's in Napa.
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So if you can make the Pink Martini that's in Rockland, come check me out April
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10th. And April 18th in Napa, Be Bubbly Tasting Room. Come check me out.
52:48
And then any social media links where they can follow you at?
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Instagram, follow me at Marcus Mangum Comedy.
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Or on Facebook, the same, Marcus Mangum Comedy. All right, cool.
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