WEBVTT - What If Jesus Saw You Doing That? | John Crist 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.440 Dude, thank you, thank you for coming out here. 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.200 Honored to be here, brother, honored to be here. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.560 It's been so fun to like take the deep dive 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:11.320 with you before you come. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:18.960 You know, when did you first realize you were funny? Oh? 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:19.279 Man? 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.120 Did you know that? Or did someone tell you? 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:26.520 Or I mean, well, I mean guess somebody's people still 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.280 have to tell me now, Like my girlfriend or like 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.080 anybody in the relationship with me is like, dude, you're 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.400 like the top the top twenty touring comedian for like 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.000 the last ten years. I'm like, yeah, I don't know 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:39.720 if we want to do it next year. You know 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:40.120 what I'm saying. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:40.960 Does that make sense? Yes? 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.279 When did I start. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.839 Knowing I was funny? I mean probably? 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.479 I remember in college I was working in journalism at 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.080 that I was doing the news. I would do like 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.800 the TV news for the school and they would they 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.360 would have to do it on the teleprompter. They'd have 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.600 to type everything. This morning, three people were involved in 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.399 a wreck and he needed to read it exactly, and 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.319 I was like, let me just like I go, just 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.399 put the bullet points on it, and I like riff, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.440 and they're like, no, you can't guess that's not how 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.800 the news works. And somebody's like, you should if you 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.280 like to do that, you should try comedy. Should I 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.000 stand up comedy? 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.600 Now? Is that the first time you heard that? 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.480 That's the first time ever. I mean I like comedy 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.200 growing up. I like loved Kings of Comedy, of Kat Williams, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.440 all all those guys, Tim Hawkins, Brian Reagan, but I 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.080 never thought about to do it to Like I liked 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.040 to watch Jay Leno, and I asked my dad when 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.840 he took me to tour colleges. He just, what do 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.160 you want to do? And I go, if I could 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.959 do anything, I go, I want to be Jay Leno. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:44.920 What do you say? 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.760 I mean, He's like, well, let's look into let's look 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.920 into pre law. Yeah, they're like I remember I called 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.960 my parents and told him Mike was quitting my job 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.640 to become a comedian. That wasn't that wasn't there proud 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.280 as day that we're not happy about that? 0:01:59.480 --> 0:01:59.680 Man? 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.240 So many questions, I guess, first, how did you even 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.640 learn about those guys? I mean, you grew up a 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.480 pretty pretty strict household, Arry, right, so how did you 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.200 even learn. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.560 About Jay Leno? 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.880 Okay, well, yeah, that's the only I guess I didn't 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.080 want to. I don't want to host a late night show. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.840 But that was the only guy I knew that was 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.200 doing comedy for a job. Sure, I got that well 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.360 cause I heard he would be like in high school, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.560 Like towards the end of high school, we got a TV. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:28.600 It's like we didn't have it. We were homes school. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.080 We have a TV growing up in eighth grade I 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.560 went to private school, and then probably tenth grade, we 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.240 got a TV. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:34.600 In my house. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.760 So then, I mean I didn't live on a rock. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.360 I knew about things. But I go that guy does 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.800 that every year about you know Bill Cosby or you 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.120 know Cedric the entertainer. Like, I don't think they do 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.360 it for a job. I've seen their like comedy, I 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.239 don't know what I've seen them their VHS tapes or whatever. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.679 That's not it can't be a job. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:02:59.840 It's like letting off steam. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.520 Aside from yeah, he probably has like a nine to 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.839 five and then he goes to the thing yeah yeah, yeah, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.200 or like but I didn't know that was even impossible. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.520 And then I remember going, I if I could do anything, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.080 I could be a stand up comedian. And then it 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.919 was kind of comedy. It's weird now that comedy is such. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.520 It was it's so like mainstream like you see comics 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.240 at like the Inauguration is wild. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:27.520 Is wild? 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.600 Comedy was and always still kind of is like a 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.640 like an outside of like these guys don't fit in, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:41.160 these guys are critiquing, these guys aren't part of the culture. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.600 It's always like kind of a like an underground type 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.680 situation like I would. I remember I saw The Kings 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.840 of Comedy. First of all, me my high school best friend, 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.080 snuck into the theater to see Martin Lawrence run till 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.120 that it was like his comedy special in two thousand 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.080 and two. We had to sneak out to see it 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.480 was it was r rated because it language. And then 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:08.600 my college roommate he snuck The Kings of Comedy in 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.920 two our and we watch that on DVD. And then 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.640 Kat Williams again, somebody like snuck. It was always it 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.240 was always comedy was always kind of like that, yeah, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.919 or like comedy is not I never knew about anyone 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.960 doing it for a family or like that didn't make 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.160 sense to me. I never heard of that. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.719 Well, it's weird because you you mentioned in your book 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.360 that like when that people need comedy only when they're 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.200 trying to forget about the problems in their life. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:37.520 Basically is what you said. Yeah. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.520 Yeah, and so if comedy now you're making the argument 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.719 that it's becoming more mainstream, then you're also kind of 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.200 implying that lives are getting worse, right, Yeah, you know 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:48.600 what I mean? 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.760 Again, Say that again, let me think think about that. Yeah, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:51.400 say that again. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:57.159 So if it once upon a time comedians only existed 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.240 in a world where people needed to hear them to 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.720 forget things, they were kind of niche. But as it 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.440 grows and it's it's at the inauguration, yeah, then that 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.479 would mean that more and more people need to forget 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:07.919 about the problem. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:10.120 Yeah. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.960 Well yeah, well that's not a good sign. I guess 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.320 it's like alcohol, it's like a session proof. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.240 Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.880 I think I think like the idea that like comedians, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:29.040 you like comedians are famous is is weird? Like that 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.160 there's I mean not even like the eighties nineties you 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.040 go like Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Fox, where the 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.440 Jay Leno, like the guys there wasn't you would just 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.440 go even in the early two thousands. You would just 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.960 go to the comedy club. You wouldn't look up who 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.360 was there. You would just go. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.160 Yeah, you wouldn't. It wouldn't right. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.080 You would just go to comedy. Comedy was for everyone, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.039 so there was no You would just go to the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.599 comedy club. And this guy was joking about everything, just 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.000 like the Tonight Show is everybody now the Tonight Show is, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.960 you know, diminished in viewership, and there's like half a 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.120 million Tonight shows and podcasts. So people go, they rock 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.320 with you, they go instead of watching Jimmy fallon, I'm 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.160 gonna come here for an hour. Yeah, and everybody, all 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.800 of us have like a little one five hundredth of it. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.520 That's right. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.000 And then people you walk through the airport, most people, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.839 I would say, don't know who you are with. The 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.839 people that do are like, oh Mike, yeah, they're saying 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.600 with me, yeah, They're like, I can't believe because in 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.200 their algorithm or world, you're the biggest thing. So it's 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.839 weird because it's very strange. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.680 And we have Samsung TV. Yeah, and so Amber and 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.400 I we're gonna watch a show at night, and when 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.080 you first turn it on, it like advertises itself and 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.560 comes up with whether Samsung TV has its own programming. Sure, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.960 right now they're running Letterman, like old reruns from eighties 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.560 and nineties, over and over and over, highlights, And so 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.279 I would turn it on. It would come on and 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.040 I would find a shit. But then I would turn 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.240 on and kind of wait a little bit, find a show. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.240 And now I'm like turning on and just sit there 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.120 and watch Letterman and they see what's going on here 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.680 and just remember Man. I like, it's such a flashback 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.720 to you know, to when I was younger, and that's 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.320 a different kind of comedy. And the guys that he 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.440 has on and they come, like when he has another 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.440 late night guy come on and sit next to him. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.800 You could tell he said, you know, how, how's your day? 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.960 She was pretty good? You know Mom called this morning. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.800 And you're like, oh, this is a bit. Oh he's 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:28.280 doing a thing. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:29.960 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.720 It's like, have you done any vacations lately, Letterman says, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.240 and the guest goes, yeah, you know, we went to 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:35.040 Disney World. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.840 You know what's crazy about Disney. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.640 Like, oh oh the comics would go into the thing. Yeah. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:44.040 I think the that era of I think that's why 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.920 that era of like comedy is like people don't rock 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.800 with it anymore because you now a regular person. It's 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.680 kind of like that's a he's doing a thing. He's 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.920 doing a thing, and I probably I bet if you know, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.120 Tom Cruise or whatever would come on, he's probably same, Yeah, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.680 but what's been going on? He goes, oh, yeah, they 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.880 go prompt me with three or four things. Now the 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.640 pros if he had one of his best buddies on there, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.600 they were like, we got it, we can just yeah, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.200 we got it. But or like Martin Short has been 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.880 on that show probably a thousand times. Yeah, he goes, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.520 we got it for someone brand new, They're like, you 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:24.480 got to help us. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.360 Yeah. It would be like you and you show up 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.280 and I go, John, how would your trip in? 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.160 You go landed in the Austin Airport, Man, I got 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.320 some tacos and and and there would just. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:33.679 Be a thing. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.840 You just sit quietly like I was just doing this bit. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.199 Yeah. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.840 I think that era of comedy is like the I mean, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.280 I bet you probably saw it. No, I bet you 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.839 do see it in country where like the era of 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.080 like and he's one of my favorites of like like 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.880 the Brad Paisley era of like joke, you know, like 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:02.160 early two thousand that was awesome that and now country 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.079 is more like in its feelings a little bit, a 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.520 little bit more like you know, you got Zach Bryan Morgan, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.400 guys talking about not their mental health but struggles in. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:12.920 A little ego. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.000 I feel like I know this guy versus the Keith 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.240 Urbans versus, Like that guy's a character. Maybe does that 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:20.600 make sense? 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.720 That makes sense? It does. I watched today this morning. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.680 I watched to refresh myself on the transfer portal, the 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.640 Country Music Transfer portal. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.400 Yeah, oh I should have put you in there. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.960 Yeah we lost are transferred out. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:35.199 that we transferred out. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:35.640 Yeah. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.120 I think he's doing well. Yeah, he's transferred. He's transferred 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:40.960 into Christianity. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.520 Bro. Well yeah, so speaking up, there's like vividly remember 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:50.439 one time finding you as as the church planner in the. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.680 South to shovel. Oh yeah, planting a church. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.240 You're like planting a church like this town really needs it. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.200 And then you clearly see that there's a church. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 Right behind you. No, no, you know, pan the camera 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.120 this way and clearly there's a church over here. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:05.640 There's like three churches. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.960 Yeah, there's never really needs that they're impoverished. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.440 And clearly there's a million doll neighborhood right right, and 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:12.120 that is. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:12.920 The South Man. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.200 Yeah, dude, well all of my I feel like when 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:24.559 I everybody sometimes, I mean for me, that's like a joke, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.800 but not no, it's not. Yes, it's funny, but it's 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:33.439 like framed in humor, but it's something that I all 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.320 my comedy is that I lay in bed at night 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:40.160 ago this doesn't make sense and all and all the 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.920 three of those churches probably hate each other too, like 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.200 you're going over to Yeah. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.240 Where do you stand with that? 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:49.360 Man? 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.040 I say in my shows. I mean, my dad's a 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.440 pastor for thirty years. I grew up in a Pentecostal church. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.800 I say for this country that I have said this 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.160 from the beginning, that the local churches our only hope. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.120 I said, And I one time I had an idea. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:09.120 I go, everybody should just GPS their church, and then 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.800 all the people that live if you GPS the other 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.080 one right in the middle, whichever one you're closest to, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.000 you're in charge of them. So I go mental health groceries, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.280 kids rides to school, if there's a single parent house 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.439 helping with the kid. That church is in charge of 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.440 that radius until it gets to the other one and 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:31.640 then you go to them. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:32.199 Mhm. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.079 And I was like, maybe that would save the world. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:35.240 But I don't know. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.440 There's a lot of fighting, a lot of with the 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.480 with the churches, you know. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.040 I mean, I don't disagree with you that that's how 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.600 a church should be operating. I always agree with your 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.720 your jokes about it. So where does John Chris go 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.200 to church? 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.600 Now? Do you go to church? Yeah? 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.559 Yeah, me and my girlfriend go to Ethos? 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.040 Is your pastor like better better our pastor? 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.199 It's it's one of those churches that he wouldn't No, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.800 I mean he knows of me. I think. I don't know. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.920 But is Ethos or shop or a church? 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.600 Yeh, We're gonna play a fun game today. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.200 Is this a church or a weed shop? 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.400 We are in the parking lot of Higher Path Church 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.600 or a weed shop? I gotta get out for this path, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:17.520 ladies and gentlemen. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.240 Is a dispensary? 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:19.840 Come on? 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.439 Puff puff give? Is that the name of their building? Fund? 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:24.280 Nice? 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:24.800 Yeah, it's. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.360 It's probably both Ethos. It probably is a dispensary, probably 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.080 in Portland. There's a dispensery called Ethos for sure. Oh yeah, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.559 that is funny. I never thought of all that. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:37.480 Yeah, it is. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.720 It is kind of we we rent, they rent, uh 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:41.280 Marathon Music Works. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.280 Oh yeah, yeah. It's a good building. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:44.200 Yeah, great building. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:44.560 Yeah. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.080 So we're kind of in there and it's kind of 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.840 a yeah. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.200 I don't know. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.800 I guess I don't really if the pastor was like, hey, dude, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.360 let's get up and, you know, have coffee or something, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.160 and then I heard about someone else in the church 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.959 that was trying to meet up with him and couldn't. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.559 I wouldn't want to be shown favoritism or something like that. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.400 You know. I just had to kind of go when 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.280 our Bible study is unbelievable. We go every Monday night. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.960 And yeah, but because you want to have coffee with him, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.240 because you want to talk about something, wouldn't be favoritism. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:14.840 You know what. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.839 That's a fair point range or I didn't think about that. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, well he was asking anything from him 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.960 besides what he's actually supposed to do. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.839 Shepherd, Oh, that is what he's supposed to do. You know. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.920 That's a good point. Yeah, I guess you see a 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.600 lot of yeah, I think we like it. But he 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.319 has like my our pastor has like a flip phone, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.280 doesn't have a doesn't have the internet, doesn't have a 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.079 you know, he's not cutting up his sermons and putting 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.320 captions on him for TikTok, and that it really wasn't 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.240 supposed to be a joke. But yeah, I think that 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:50.440 that like when I was when I was starting. I 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.120 started comedy when I was twenty five. I'm forty now, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:54.280 so I think. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.760 I was kind of it. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.720 You know, I just come from you know, my dad 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.560 being a past a lot of the joke because I 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.559 think the where the where the Christian I guess comedy 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:12.559 started is my dad was a preacher. So I would see, yeah, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:18.080 him kind of bring home some of this, like hey, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.800 we are like kind of behind on this mortgage. We 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.600 need to do like a sermon series on money, you know, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.480 like I would, I would kind of see and then 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.360 I would see behind, and then I go, well, or 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.080 like there's a better example, or like the worship pastor 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.320 was a buddy of ours, and he would tell me 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.960 and the worship pastor son about how he like mutes 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.560 one of the mics for one of the singer women 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.480 because she's not good. But they like yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.240 but they like kind of kind of very yeah, they 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.760 kind of like are very involved in the church and 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.080 maybe give and volunteer. So he goes, I'm not gonna 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:58.720 so me younger. Me goes, right, these we really want 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.400 to encourage people to sing and use their gifts for 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.160 the Lord. But I go, well, you we heard, so 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.200 I think that was kind of where it all and 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.880 a lot of when I was starting twenty five youth group, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.280 lots of those kind of jokes. And I'm forty now, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.640 I think the maybe a lot of my like thoughts 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.360 about like those huge megachurches and the money and the 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.440 private jets I've kind of I don't know, maybe I 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.840 just think it's maybe like a little silly, like I 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.200 don't feel the need to like we gotta uncover them 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.080 like I used to. I think I'm just are you 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.920 used to, yeah, Or that those jokes would would come 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.440 out of a place of anger oh wow yeah yeah yeah, 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.040 And when I would miss on comedy, people would be like, dude, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.320 this is like if this wasn't so true, this would 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.440 be funny. Like it was a little too like a 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.320 knife because I was very angry. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.400 How in the world do you find the balance when 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.000 you're writing, Yeah, this is too true to be funny, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.160 Like usually things are funny. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.000 Are actually true. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.560 Yeah, and but you have to wrap it enough in 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.880 humor to let it carry or like people's not gonna 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.880 share it, like if you are very angry about One 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.760 of my first jokes that I remember when viral was 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:16.880 a sketch called Christian Girl Instagram, So two thousand and 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.280 what eleven or twelve, people would post photos of their 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.840 Bible and be like love it, like not helping anyone 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.200 understand scripture, or just be like there's a Bible highlighter, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.280 a girl with a purity ring, two beth More books 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:37.320 in the back, a sunrise fresh cut like fruit and oatmeal. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:43.040 And I was like, this photo took an hour. You 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.080 didn't read the Bible, And I go, Now, if you're 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.040 posting the Bible and saying I read Joshua six and 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.840 I really learned it, that's great. But I posted that 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.120 and it was it was funny enough. I was like, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.920 put all, move all the US weeklies and the you know, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.280 the Gatoray because you're drunk. Last I moved those out 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.400 of the photo and just put and everybody was like, dude, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.280 this is and that went huge. But I was angry 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.920 at that. I was angry at That's what was led 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:18.120 to that expression of it. I think when I met 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.240 I never missed because I'm like too zany or too 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.240 like quirky. I always miss because it's too it's too angry, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.560 or like I'm too I'm so frustrated. But I can't 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.119 like all the darkness that I watched the news, social media, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.440 the airport, the traveler, and it's I try to get 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.359 it to come out as a rainbow, and sometimes it 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.119 it's stuck in there. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.720 It's got to be a thing. Right with other. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.840 Comics, yeah, that everybody. Every comic is very very sensitive 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:56.720 to the world too, injustice to you know, so you 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.800 can my girlfriend can just let stuff go. I go, no, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.080 we gotta, we gotta go talk to him. I can't, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.720 Like I wanted to go confront a guy in the 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.640 street because he had a loud muffler where else sitting 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.040 out there. She's like, no, just let it. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:08.240 I go. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.200 I'm going to talk to him. She's like, no, dude, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.080 you're gonna get killed. You're not gonna talk to him 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.480 because I can't drives me crazy. It drives me like, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.240 that's what's funny. Yes, that is also what's funny. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.600 Michael likestance in your in your your latest special, you 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.200 you start talking about the fourth or drive because of 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.600 the neighborhood apps, and you're like the people getting on 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.280 the neighborhood apps talking about the dogs. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:29.480 You know. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:30.800 Yeah, I start. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.640 Laughing because that's that's our day, that's this area, and 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.199 and it's my dogs. A lock up my dogs. They 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:39.560 get scared of the fourth of July. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:45.959 Yeah. But if you if you you get something in 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.640 your head and you go, I think other people think 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.560 this and the ones to go viral. Is that hit y'all? 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.600 And you go, yep, this is us. We know this 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.480 scenario or where whatever side you're on the protect the 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.040